Kennedy's XCOM Meeting: A Dry Joke From McGeorge Bundy

When JFK began the XCOM meeting at 11 a.m., D&Rusk delivered a lecture with no clear point, which Robert McNamara promptly ignored. After Kennedy had left for his scheduled afternoon meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gremiko, the secret tape recorder in the room kept rolling. That alone, and Spoke allowed his thoughts on the day.