One June 10, 1963, at the inauguration address to the graduating class of American University, President John F. Kennedy outlined his call for an end to the Cold War, a lasting peace and the end to the nuclear arms race and testing. This put him directly at odds with the hard-line Cold Warriors in the Joint Chiefs and the CIA. This quote is prescient.
John F. Kennedy, “A Thousand Days,” by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965] Quotations
US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)
“If I am to die, this is the week for it. — John F. Kennedy (to aide John McClone in response to a CIA report about rumours of an assassination plot), June 1962.”
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