Kennedy's Speech on the Cuban Missile Crisis

Kennedy's poll numbers were slipping before the Cuban Missile Crisis. But much like his recovery after the failure of the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy's numbers shot up to the mid-70s following the crisis. He doubled down on the same outlook and policy that led to the crisis in the first place. These two tracks, the war track and the peace track, will coexist in the coming months of 1963 but they cannot coexistence forever.