Had Congress threatened to block President Kennedy's strategy to militarily quarantine Cuba from receiving Soviet ICBMs during the Cuban missile crisis and use military force, if necessary, to protect our Nation, I do not know if our negotiations would have gone as well as they did.
Chris Smith: “Had Congress threatened to block President Kennedy's strategy to militarily quarantine Cuba from receiving Soviet ICBMs…”
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Reflecting on historical military strategies and their impact on negotiations.
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