HAVANA (AP) — The world stood at the brink of Armageddon for 13 days in October 1962 when President John F. Kennedy drew a symbolic line in the Atlantic and warned of dire consequences if Soviet ...

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev ... to President John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962 and sought to de-escalate the standoff. Putin, in contrast, has talked ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/jfk-red-threat/ Kennedy believed his first diplomatic meeting with Nikita Khrushchev would be a lesson in ...

10, 2002 — -- Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev ... was a 13-day standoff in October 1962 that brought the United States and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war. Kennedy believed that ...

Kennedy and Khrushchev.” “He wasn’t prepared for the brutality of Khrushchev’s presentation.… Khrushchev was trying to act like a bully to this young President of the United States.” ...

In "A Different Russia: Khrushchev and Kennedy on a Collision Course" (BookBaby), veteran journalist Marvin Kalb writes about the 1963 Cold War summit between President John F. Kennedy and Soviet ...

A Different Russia: Khrushchev and Kennedy on a Collision Course by Marvin Kalb BookBaby, 532 pp. The idea of normal, even friendly contact between Americans and the Russian premier during the ...