The Death of Kennedy

In the tensest moments, Kennedy sought solitude in the White House Rose Garden afterward. He would go for long swims both to clear his mind and to think he sat in his specially made rocking chair in the Oval Office. It was actually scarier and more dire than anyone knew some of the Soviet missiles, which had been previously thought to be only piloting. The space Kennedy gave Khrushchev to breathe paid off just in time.