Curtis LeMay to JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis
"This is almost as bad as the appeasement at Munich."
— Air Force General Curtis LeMay to JFK upon being told that the U.S. would respond to Soviet missiles in Cuba with a blockade, not an invasion. The reference to British Prime Minister Chamberlain's attempts to get along with Hitler was a special dig given that JFK's father Joseph Kennedy had opposed…
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