On
22 October 1962, President John F. Kennedy delivered a televised speech,
arguably “the most serious speech delivered in his lifetime” and the
“most frightening presidential address” in U.S. history.’ Soviet
missile-launch sites had been discovered under construction in Cuba.
The response resuIted from deliberations among the President and his ad
hoc Executive Committee (ExCom).
Its
final draft was improved significantly by an unlikely person: the Chief
of Naval Operations (CNO), Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr.H/T to Naval History Blog
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