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Chris Smith: “Had Congress threatened to block President Kennedy's strategy to militarily quarantine Cuba from receiving Soviet ICBMs…”

On the recordApril 1, 2019
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.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Reflecting on historical military strategies and their impact on negotiations.

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