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In reply to the discussion: Magical thinking [View all]LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"and I don't recall Kennedy beating the war drums like Obama is...
Not publicly (however, there was the address to the nation he gave which was startlingly militaristic in tone and tenor), however both he and XCOM were resigned that it would in fact, end in war.
" presented the nation with photographs clearly showing sites for medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles ..."
My analogy is clearly not focused on PR, format, presentation or direct response, but simply on the *mechanisms* (underline, italicize and bold) of communications used during the crisis, and the responses to those mechanisms-- the threat of military action, back-channel diplomatic communiques (use of John Scali, the reporter for NY Times who sat down with an aide to Khrushchev), attempting to interpret Diplo-State speak into reality (the wires from Moscow were so odd that XCOM initially thought a coup had happened and they were no longer communicating with Khrushchev), and the behind-the-scenes deal-making (US removing our Tridents from Turkey, et. al.) that the public had zero knowledge of.
See: An Unfinished Life by Robert Dallek and the rather new (yet very insightful) Fourteenth Day by Dave Coleman.