The Cuban Missile Crisis, Part 1 of 2
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
Kennedy's tenure will go down as one of the most high stakes and headline grabbing of any president in U.S. history. His administration was swept up in a crisis on a scaled at few if any presidents before or since have ever had to face. Kennedy acknowledges that the nuclear world is an extraordinarily dangerous place. In his inauguration speech, Nestle permits the optimism, but behind it is a chilling message.
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