![]() ![]() You know, at the beginning of his term he wants to rein in the military, who control nuclear weapons, or the local commanders. It will go down in history as John Kennedy, the Cold Warrior who killed hundreds of millions of people. And he becomes more mindful of this idea he’ll be the one who’ll be responsible if there’s a nuclear war. Because he had begun as a Cold Warrior, you see. ![]() Indeed he says to this young mistress, this Mimi Beardsley who spends one night with him at the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis - he says to Mimi: “I’d rather my kids be Red than dead.” He never could have said that in public, but that was his, one might say, revisionist thinking. ![]() Kennedy is so leery of the possibility that there could be a nuclear conflict. Robert Dallek on Three Last Questions about JFK ![]()
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