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In speeches and lectures (including seven presidential libraries), I'm ofteh asked to tell a story to illustrate just how @RealDonaldtrump differs from his predecessors. One story from October 1962 comes to mind
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In speeches and lectures (including seven presidential libraries), I'm ofteh asked to tell a story to illustrate just how @RealDonaldtrump differs from his predecessors. One story from October 1962 comes to mind
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Some 100 million Americans—then more than half the population—would have been killed. And it came very close to happening. That’s the estimate often given about the Cuban Missile Crisis, the dangerous showdown that nearly led to nuclear war with the Soviet Union in 1962
Some 100 million Americans—then more than half the population—would have been killed. And it came very close to happening. That’s the estimate often given about the Cuban Missile Crisis, the dangerous showdown that nearly led to nuclear war with the Soviet Union in 1962
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The Kennedy administration had the goods on the Soviets. U.S. spy planes had reconnaissance photos of missile sites in Cuba—just 90 miles from Florida—their nuclear tipped missiles nearly ready to be fired.
The Kennedy administration had the goods on the Soviets. U.S. spy planes had reconnaissance photos of missile sites in Cuba—just 90 miles from Florida—their nuclear tipped missiles nearly ready to be fired.
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As part of his effort to rally global support, President Kennedy sent former Secretary of State Dean Acheson to Paris to show that proof to one of America’s allies, French President Charles de Gaulle
As part of his effort to rally global support, President Kennedy sent former Secretary of State Dean Acheson to Paris to show that proof to one of America’s allies, French President Charles de Gaulle
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But the normally aloof de Gaulle waved off Acheson, saying he didn’t need to see the photos. The French president said:
But the normally aloof de Gaulle waved off Acheson, saying he didn’t need to see the photos. The French president said:
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Given the thousands of lies and exaggerations that @RealDonaldTrump has told, and global surveys showing that U.S. allies have little confidence and trust in him, could such a story be told today? Trust in American leadership counts. And that’s why Trump is different
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Given the thousands of lies and exaggerations that @RealDonaldTrump has told, and global surveys showing that U.S. allies have little confidence and trust in him, could such a story be told today? Trust in American leadership counts. And that’s why Trump is different
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