Playing Telephone with the Historical Record
In December 1962, the situation in the Congo was deteriorating. Moise Tshombe was leading a secessionist movement for the Katanga, an area rich in natural resources and the base of massive European...
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JFK Discusses his Plans for his Presidential Library
What the JFK Library looks like today on its eventual site on Columbia Point. JFK, of course, never got to visit his presidential library. But that doesn’t mean he hadn’t already given the topic some...
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The Most Dangerous Moment in Human History
A quote by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. is often used in talking about the Cuban Missile Crisis. And it’s easy to see why–it’s a pithy, evocative quote. He described the crisis as “the most dangerous...
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U Thant’s Appointment as Secretary General of the United Nations
U Thant, Adlai Stevenson, and President Kennedy outside UN Headquarters in New York. On November 30, 1962, the United Nations voted unanimously to appoint 53-year-old Burmese diplomat U Thant to a full...
View ArticleNehru Appeals for JFK’s Help in Fighting China
While much of the world was focused on the Cuban Missile Crisis, half-way around the world two countries, with a combined total of a billion people–or about a third of the world’s population–were at...
View ArticleMembers of the United States Intelligence Board 1962-63
The United States Intelligence Board was set up by President Eisenhower in 1957. It’s purpose was to provide a consolidated channel for all intelligence chiefs across the various intelligence bodies in...
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Castro’s Five Points
Fidel Castro had been not been consulted by Nikita Khrushchev when the Soviet premier agreed to remove the nuclear missiles that had sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis. Geography aside, Cuba had been...
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Australian America’s Cup Yacht Buzzed by the US Navy during the Cuban Missile...
The 1962 America’s Cup was held just a month before the Cuban missile crisis at Newport, Rhode Island. The Australian challenger yacht Gretel went up against the yacht from the New York Yacht Club, the...
View ArticleWest Coast Culture Shock: An Englishman in Los Angeles, 1964
If you were to put together a list of diplomatic hardship postings in the early 1960s, some places are candidates. South Yemen wasn’t a lot of fun in that period, nor was the Congo or Laos. But one...
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Playing Golf with JFK
Eisenhower decked out in his golfing attire. Golfing summits are nothing new. In June 2011, President Obama and Speaker John Boehner famously tried to break the economic policy deadlock (even if it...
View ArticleMikoyan’s Visit to Cuba after the Cuban Missile Crisis
It was Sergo Mikoyan’s second visit to Havana. His first had made quite an impression. The tropical air. Celebrity revolutionaries–Fidel Castro and Che Guevara–mixing easily with the crowd. The charm...
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