Showing posts with label Cuba. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cuba. Show all posts
Saturday, October 22, 2022

Cuban Missile Crisis Speech

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Thursday, February 24, 2022

JFK Calls Out Russian Lies

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John F. Kennedy, Radio and Television Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. ...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

Castro: Arde in Regnum Phasmatis

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Four days before he died, JFK spoke about Castro to the Florida Chamber of Commerce : ... I do not think that there is any doubt that Fide...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

Cuba

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From Human Rights Watch: The government continues to rely on arbitrary detention to harass and intimidate individuals who exercise their ...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Cuba and the Constitution

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Does the president have power to reestablish full diplomatic relations with Cuba ? Article II, section 3 of the Constitution says that the...
Friday, January 4, 2013

Detainees and Signing Statements

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Previous posts have discussed presidential signing statements , which direct the executive branch how to carry out a new law. Presidents ha...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Cuban Missile Crisis: JFK Calls Former Presidents

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On October 28, 1962 , JFK called former president Hoover , Truman , and Eisenhower about the apparently successful resolution of the Cuban ...

Cuban Missile Crisis: October 28, 1962

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Fifty years ago today, the United States marked the final day of the Cuban Missile Crisis . Two years ago, Andrew Glass wrote at Politico ...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

Cuban Missile Crisis: October 27, 1962

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From the JFK Library: A second letter from Moscow demanding tougher terms, including the removal of obsolete Jupiter missiles from Turkey...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Cuban Missile Crisis: October 26, 1962

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From the JFK Library: A Soviet-chartered freighter is stopped at the quarantine line and searched for contraband military supplies. Non...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Cuban Missile Crisis: October 25, 1962

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From the JFK Library: Knowing that some missiles in Cuba were now operational, the president personally drafts a letter to Premier Khrushc...

Cuban Missile Crisis: Inside the Mind of a President

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This page of JFK's random notes during an October 25, 1962 EXCOMM meeting suggests what presidents think about: " decisions ...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Cuban Missile Crisis: October 24, 1962

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The Hollywood version: From the Nuclear Files: 10:00A.M.: The ExComm meets to consider the situation in Cuba . According t...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Cuban Missile Crisis: October 23, 1962

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Last night, Bob Schieffer opened the debate by mentioning the Cuban Missile Crisis . The JFK Library lays out the events of this day in 1...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Cuban Missile Crisis: AP Retrospective

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A retrospective from the Associated Press:

Cuban Missile Crisis: October 22, 1962 -- the Speech

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On this date in 1962 , John F. Kennedy made a national television broadcast announcing that the Soviets had placed offensive missiles in Cub...
Sunday, October 21, 2012

Cuban Missile Crisis: JFK Calls Eisenhower

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On October 22, 1962, just before going on television to reveal the Cuban Missile Crisis to the American people, JFK consulted with former ...

Cuban Missile Crisis: October 21, 1961

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On this date in 1962 -- a Sunday, like today -- the general public still did not know that the Cuban Missile Crisis was under way . At t...
Saturday, October 20, 2012

Cuban Missile Crisis: October 20, 1962

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 From the Nuclear Files timeline: 9:00A.M.: ExComm [the Executive Committee of the National Security Council, an ad hoc group formed to ma...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Cuban Missile Crisis: October 19, 1962

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In Springfield, Illinois, the Journal-Register reports on JFK' s effort to keep up the appearance of normality in the early days of the...