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...primary focus is on the lopsided, bittersweet love story of Jack and Jackie, but she finds time to document in exhaustive detail Kennedy's many infidelities--yes, she digs up a few new ones--as well as Jackie's exceptional grasp of tactical flirtation, cutting off Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev mid-lecture by saying, "Oh, Mr. Chairman, don't bore me with statistics." Somewhere in the background, we glimpse Jack's political evolution from the hothead of the Bay of Pigs to the cool hand of the Cuban missile crisis...
...scheduled unveiling date of May 29, speedy coordination between the City and the Kennedy Corporation over the design is necessary. Without this planning, the Kennedy Library will be just a collection of fond trivia -- a valentine from Caroline, a coconut shell from PT 109, an ivory model boat from Nikita Khrushchev -- within a Harvard Square disrupted by tourists clicking their Instamatics...
...scheduled unveiling date of May 29, speedy coordination between the City and the Kennedy Corporation over the design is necessary. Without this planning, the Kennedy Library will be just a collection of fond trivia -- a valentine from Caroline, a coconut shell from PT 109, an ivory model boat from Nikita Khrushchev -- within a Harvard Square disrupted by tourists clicking their Instamatics...
When the Soviet ship Baltika throbbed into New York harbor one morning in September 1960, demonstrators on a chartered sightseeing boat waved placards: ROSES ARE RED, VIOLETS ARE BLUE; STALIN DROPPED DEAD. HOW ABOUT YOU? Nikita Khrushchev laughed and pointed. A few weeks later at the United Nations, a Philippine delegate gave a speech complaining about the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe. Khrushchev astonished the General Assembly by taking off his brown loafer and banging it on the table as if it were a spoon on an infant's high chair, except that in this case the banging...
...strike would be 1,080 sorties. This would be followed by an invasion; we had 180,000 troops mobilized in southeastern U.S. ports. We didn't learn until 30 years later that the Soviets already had 162 warheads in Cuba, and Fidel Castro had already recommended to Nikita Khrushchev that nuclear weapons be used if the U.S. invaded. That's how close we came. Events were slipping out of control...