This is CBSI on the World. I'm John Batches, who is Sarah H. Ploky. Professor Sarah H. Ploky's

new book is Nuclear Folly, a history of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He has transcripts from

the tapes made by President Kennedy in his consultation with his counselors before and

after the XCOM Committee of the NSC begins on the 23rd. We have notes from the Presidium

Meeting. Cosegans there, Breznefs there, McCoyan is there and we will come to McCoyan

because he, like Adley Stevenson, is a man who represents diplomacy and not war fighting.

During the week of following the revelations on the 19th brainstorming, I'm following

the professor's reporting, on the 20th, Rust brings in Gromico and they have a confrontational

meeting with President Kennedy. Gromico has excuses claiming the R12s and R14s are defensive

missiles. On the 20th again, later that night, the committee comes together and they vote

for a blockade. However, during the course of that day, the Joint Chiefs have spoken

out. They're ready for invasion, upland 312. Professor, who says Munich to the President

of the United States and why does he say it?

General LeMay of course is leading opposition to President Kennedy and he is really quite

brutal and disrespectful in doing that. He's challenging him in front of other chiefs

and accusing him of abysment. Abysment was something that was really very offensive for

Jack Kennedy because his father, of course, Joseph Kennedy, who was US ambassador in

UK, was accused of abysment of Hitler before Munich agreement in 1938. So, Kennedy has

to fight back. But in Smot and just Portus LeMay, who is in opposition to the President,

achieves the majority of them, considering him to be unexperienced, not ready to be

the President. And they point, finder at him for the disaster of the Bay of Piz disaster

one year earlier in April of 1961, when the President Kennedy gave a K or go ahead for

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