Berlin Quote by Gore Vidal

“It’s not a very nice solution,” Kennedy acknowledged, “but a wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.”54 The president could…

— John Lewis Gaddis

From the moment he took office in January of 1961, Kennedy had been eager to settle the Cuban problem without overt military action by…

— Robert Dallek

President Kennedy visited once, but that was in Switzerland and I remember the Secret Service men dressed in black swarming about the house.

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

President John F. Kennedy demonstrated the value of presidential credibility at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, when he sent emissaries to America's…

— Antony Blinken

Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of…

— Wally Schirra

“Seriously, did I miss something? Did John F. Kennedy walk into the Oval Office one day, only to find Fidel Castro lighting his Cohiba…

— It Books

Kennedy was trying to keep us out of war. I was trying to help him keep us out of war. And General Curtis LeMay,…

— Robert McNamara

“When Kennedy took over from Eisenhower, the CIA spelled out much the same concerns. In July 1961 the CIA observed that “The extensive influence…

— Keith Bolender

“There was enough intimidation, witness tampering and foul play to go around. Many books have been published about this subject, witnesses have died, some…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba

“One crisis, in Cuba, mounted quickly after Fidel Castro staged a successful revolution against a corrupt pro-American dictatorship and triumphantly took power in January…

— James T. Patterson

“In Moscow, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, fearing that Kennedy’s popularity would lead to an erosion of support in East Berlin, quickly flew to that…

— Bill O'Reilly

In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed…

— Tariq Ali