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A 7 page paper which examines the intense negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis, specifically concentrating on the conflict within the President’s own advisors, known as Executive Committee of the National Security Council, as to how best to respond to the two letters sent my Premier Nikita Khruschev regarding the resolution of the situation. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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File: TG15_TGthirteen.rtf
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was faced with the most dangerous crisis in the history of his administration - the Soviet stockpiling of missiles in Cuba, located a mere ninety miles from the coast of
Florida. The President assembled a group of his most trusted advisors, including his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk,
and various members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. For thirteen excruciating days, members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council were sequestered behind closed doors in
the Oval Office at the White House, desperately seeking a tenable solution that would save the world from a gross miscalculation that would result in nuclear annihilation. It was
these series of meetings, considered entirely from the U.S. point of view, that set the dramatic stage for Roger Donaldsons 2001 film, Thirteen Days.
In a climactic conflict, several days into the crisis, negotiations were rapidly becoming very much like a chess game, in which most of the tactics consisted of one side
seeking to outmaneuver the other. To this point, President Kennedy was torn between taking a strong and aggressive stand, which might escalate into World War III; if he did
nothing or offered a weak response, the balance of power would clearly shift in the direction of the Soviet Union, which would place the United States and the rest of
the free world under a serious Communist threat (Bartos and Wehr, 2002). Unfortunately, the Presidents leaders were frequently divided, and constantly argued between options ranging from an all-out invasion
of Cuba and taking out the missile sites by force (which, of course, was favored by the Joint Chiefs), and lodging a formal protest through diplomatic channels that demanded immediate
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