
The Cuban Missile Crisis: the road to resolution
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Kennedy JFK's Influence on the World War II Crisis
Kennedy responded to Khrushchev's first letter by saying, basically, really like your letter on the 26th. Two offers are on the table. How does Kennedy choose to respond? So famously, the way that the Kennedy administration responds is by answering the first one and not the second. He sends Robert Kennedy to speak to Natalie DeBrena, the Soviet ambassador in D.C., privately off the record. And Bobby Kennedy tells her we will remove within a few months, remove US missiles from Turkey.
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