Adventures in Finance 37 - Hours from Oblivion: Inside the White House During The Cuban Missile Crisis

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🗓️ 13 October 2017

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Dr. Harald Malmgren, senior advisor to four US Presidents (Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon & Ford) joins Grant to recount his experiences in the White House and Pentagon during the thirteen days of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 – a period where the world came within hours of a full-scale nuclear war. Harald explains how he and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara’s famous ‘Whizz Kids’ were tasked with not only helping find a solution to the biggest diplomatic crisis of the Cold War, but design a strategic plan for conflict should the unthinkable happen. From the confusion caused in Congress by the concept of Megadeaths to the people who stepped up behind the scenes, Harald takes us inside the Kennedy White House at its most fraught and shares how today’s tensions on the Korean Peninsula look to a man who has stood on the edge of oblivion. In our “Things I Got Wrong” segment, Forest For The Trees Founder and President, Luke Gromen, shares a pair of mistakes he made either side of the 2008 Credit Crisis and outlines how they changed the way he invests today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:07.3	Cheers. Good evening my fellow citizens.
1:21.0	my fellow citizens. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of
1:27.5	offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island.
1:34.0	The purpose of these bases can be none other
1:38.0	than to provide a nuclear strike capability
1:41.0	against the Western Hemisphere.
1:43.0	On receiving the first preliminary...
1:46.0	55 years ago, in October of 1962, mankind found itself on the precipice of a nuclear confrontation between the world's two
1:54.0	superpowers as the United States and the USSR faced off over the Soviet's decision
1:58.9	to place nuclear missiles in Cuba just 90 miles off the coast of Florida.
2:04.0	It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against
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