TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kennedy,Robert F.
TI  - Thirteen days: a memoir of the Cuban missile crisis
SN  - 0393098966
AV  - E183.8.R9 K43 1971
U1  - 327.730 22
PY  - 1971///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Norton
KW  - Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
KW  - Military bases, Soviet
KW  - Cuba
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Soviet Union
N1  - include bibliography,index; Bibliography: p. 179-180; Tuesday morning, October 16, 1962 -- The President knew he would have to act -- A majority opinion for a blockade -- It was now up to one single man -- The important meeting of the OAS -- I met with Dobrynin -- The danger was anything but over -- There were almost daily communications with Khrushchev -- Expect very heavy casualties in an invasion -- This would mean war -- Those hours in the cabinet room -- The President ordered the ex comm -- Some of the things we learned -- The importance of placing ourselves in the other country's shoes
N2  - Robert Kennedy recounts the details of his brother's direction of the American response to the Cuban missile crisis
ER  -