John F. Kennedy Quotes
He surprised me. I need a day to surprise him.
In what became the Cuban missile crises, American intelligence and President Kennedy had been surprised to discover that the Russians had established operational missiles in Cuba. New York Times had also discovered the fact and was going to print the story The President was trying to put a naval blockade into place and didn’t want Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev to know what had been discovered and the countermeasures that were being planned until he could present the Soviets with a fait a complait. He asked the Times editors not to print the story. They agreed.
John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, 35th President of the United States (Democrat, MA), Request for publication delay of the New York Times in the 1963 Cuban missile Crisis
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Haldeman had actually called the network executives on several occasions regarding Cavett’s show. Nixon was particularly furious when Cavett interviewed John Kerry, the decorated soldier who had thrown his medals away in protest to the handling of the Vietnam War. Nixon wanted some stronger actions taken.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his work as president concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Congress prior to becoming president.
