And Kennedy defended himself limply. Timothy Naftali, Historian: Khrushchev wanted Vienna to be humiliating for the American president. That was the goal. There was nothing that Kennedy could say ...

A veteran correspondent’s memoir reveals the humanity and misjudgment of the Soviet leader who sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Miracles being unavailable, the meeting in Vienna produced perhaps the next ... might be made in the procedure next time Mr Kennedy and Mr Khrushchev meet would be to dissuade such vast numbers ...

Kennedy felt buildup of a military arsenal ... having sort of lost the debate, so to speak, in Vienna with Khrushchev, being under the gun in relation to Berlin, he feels he can't step aside ...

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