Tue Aug 29, 2017, 05:49 PM
Star Member CTyankee (50,311 posts)
Just watched the movie "Thirteen Days' on a movie channel.
It was riveting. It involves the time when JFK and the country was experiencing the Cuban Missile Crisis. Bobby Kennedy negotiated a deal with the Russian ambassador to take our missiles out of Turkey if the Russians would take their missiles out of Cuba. What a dicey time it was.
If you can watch it I recommend it. It reminds me that now we have a president who would probably let all hell get loose before he would do what Jack and Bobby Kennedy and the President's assistant Kenny O'Donnell were able to do. My husband was in the navy stationed at Guantanimo Bay at the time so he has a special appreciation for this movie.
Nobody knew at the time that we were so close to a war with Russia.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029530996Nobody knew at the time that we were so close to a war with Russia?
It guess it wasn't until after the Hollywood movie Thirteen Days came out that they started referring to it as the Cuban Missile
Crisis.
Hell, I think I can remember it and I was only three years old.
Response to CTyankee (Original post)Tue Aug 29, 2017, 06:02 PM
Star Member Docreed2003 (3,717 posts)
1. Fantastic movie...
Much of the dialogue in the White House was taken from the actual tape archives!
Busted! Caught red-handed with evidence of their collusion. With the RUSSIANS!!!
Response to CTyankee (Original post)Tue Aug 29, 2017, 06:06 PM
Moostache (3,964 posts)
3. None of us would be here if POTUS at the time was as unqualified as #45...
Scary to think that we are seriously playing brinkmanship games with North Korea and the ultimate authority for launch or no launch is STILL in the hands of one man...I just got a very sick pit in my stomach thinking about that...
BS. Ivan never would have tried pulling that crap on President Trump. They almost got away with playing Bad Back Jack for the punk playboy he was.
Now if Barry had president, that would be another story.
