What is forgotten is that had Richard Nixon been rightly elevated to the Presidency in 1960 (after having the election stolen by ‘Rat vote fraud in Illinois and Texas), the entire Cuban Missile Crisis may very well have never taken place.
As it was, the Soviets considered JFK to be a relatively young and inexperienced leader, Khrushchev was looking to throw his weight around, especially after the embarrassment of the 1960 shoot down of Francis Gary Powers U-2 over the Soviet Union, and while that might only be a passing consideration in Nikita’s mind, his gambit in placing nuclear missiles in Cuba, had it been undetected until the missiles were fully operational as a fait accompli’, it would have radically changed the balance of power overnight in favor of Moscow.
The truth of the matter is, we got lucky in 1962, and while we would very likely have won a nuclear contest with the Soviets, the cost would have been enormous to say the least.
If it had been President Richard M. Nixon in the White House in 1960, Khrushchev would have thought twice because he was faced down by Nixon in the famous ‘56 ‘Kitchen Debate’ in Moscow, and Khrushchev knew that Nixon was nobody to eff with.
Nixon had his flaws to be sure, he was not a conservative in the mold of Goldwater or Reagan, but he was an avowed anti-Communist, and his role in our eventual victory in the Cold War was not insignificant.
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” Nixon had his flaws to be sure, he was not a conservative in the mold of Goldwater or Reagan, but he was an avowed anti-Communist, and his role in our eventual victory in the Cold War was not insignificant “
Nixon made bad policy on the domestic front, but his patriotism ran deep, and he was a warrior.