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LeMay, the more accomplished and visible of the two, rose to become Air Force chief of staff after commanding Strategic Air Command and leading the strategic bombing campaign against Japan in World War II. He was constantly at odds with McNamara, President John F. Kennedy and Joint Chiefs Chairman Maxwell Taylor over the Cuban missile crisis and the war in Vietnam.

There are TV news segments like the Cuban Missile Crisis, as well as personal politics, such as the letters between Johnny Cash and Dylan, that emphasize social change.

Sylvie had gone away on this art trip, and he was alone in this apartment during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Their tryst starts off explosively: After their first night together, they rise to learn the Cuban missile crisis has thankfully ended.

Consider what John F. Kennedy had to say, eight months after the Cuban missile crisis, in his historic speech at American University: “Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war. To adopt that kind of course in the nuclear age would be evidence only of the bankruptcy of our policy, or of a collective death wish for the world.”