Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sometimes White House newsmen got annoyed with Pierre's ways, thought he was considerably less than fastidious with facts. But by and large they came to admire him as a real pro, one who was calm, cool and correct in moments of real emergency, such as the Cuba missile crisis...
...strongest point of his campaign. He freely dispenses the impression that he took an intimate part in the play of historical events. He punctuates his speeches with phrases like "I remember when President Kennedy . . ." He frequently alludes to the time that "we looked down the nuclear barrel" during the Cuba crisis, and he implies that it is a good thing, too, for the U.S. that he was there...
...chief deputy of the President he involved himself in both national and international problems. During the Cuban missile crisis, according to Averell Harriman, Robert Kennedy's was the single most responsible voice. When others in the National Security Council favored a full-scale bombing of Cuba, Kennedy strongly favored the eventually successful blockade...
...Moscow was well aware of the large peril to peace that would be created by an attempt at destruction of NATO's power balance in that crucial region of the Mediterranean. Neither Turkey nor Greece nor NATO nor the U.S. would sit quietly by to watch a new Cuba being constructed in the lake between Europe and Africa...
...private talks, Leoni made it clear that the major disequilibrium concerning him was Communist subversion around the hemisphere, and that Venezuela is disturbed by French trade with Cuba. The joint communiqué was limited to bland assurances of mutual esteem and wishes for world peace. French loans for Venezuelan development? There was little talk of that. "They need experts more than money," sniffed one high-ranking Gaullist...