andy-hughes
/// Youu don't have a monooply on living through unpleasant unpleasant and frightening history - ///
Where have I said that I do, it's not a competition?
You also mentioned The Bay Of Pigs:
This makes good reading:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/15/cuban-missile-crisis-russian-roulette
/// As the ExComm meetings were drawing to a close at 6pm on the 26 October, a letter arrived from Prime Minister Khrushchev, directly to President Kennedy. Khrushchev's "message seemed clear," Stern writes: ///
/// "The missiles would be removed if the US promised not to invade Cuba." ///
The next day, at 10am, the president again turned on the secret tape. He read aloud a wire service report that had just been handed to him:
/// "Premier Khrushchev told President Kennedy in a message today he would withdraw offensive weapons from Cuba if the United States withdrew its rockets from Turkey." ///