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Cary

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9. I didn't say I disliked him, mind you.

Thu Jan 17, 2013, 03:56 PM

Jan 2013

It is my understanding that Bobby saved the day by ignoring the subsequent offer from Khrushchev and accepting the one where they took their missiles out of Cuba while we were to take ours out of Turkey.

Actually it might even be more appropriate to say that Khrushchev saved us at the last minute. Fortunately he wasn't as insane as one might have gathered.

The Soviet ships had nuclear torpedoes. It is better to be lucky than smart and Kennedy got lucky here. It is true that what actually happens, or doesn't happen, counts. However as I said I think he took us way too close to this brink. He might have proven to be a better president had he lived.

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I didn't say I disliked him, mind you. Cary Jan 2013 #9

I'm Sorry Dpm12 Jan 2013 #13

Not on this post and clearly I was wrong on the other one, as noted below. Cary Jan 2013 #50

And yet, when Lincoln was president, there was a 4-year civil war Art_from_Ark Jan 2013 #111

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