Image: On October 11 last week, certain documents from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy’s personal papers about the Cuban Missile Crisis were declassified. As secretary of defense, McNamara faced many challenges, including 1962's Cuban Missile Crisis, which brought the country to brink of war with the Soviet Union. "Possibly tomorrow." Interesting article about this meeting and the professor who arranged it. Robert McNamara & the Cuban Missile Crisis; Communism and the Cuban … However, McNamara’s account of his role in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, an event which was far more likely than Vietnam to lead to an all-out nuclear war, has received far less attention. He remembers President Kennedy being admired for his cool handling of the Cuban crisis and solidifying his reputation.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the Robert McNamara (1916–2009) was an American business executive, statesman, and diplomat. "The expectation was a military confrontation by Tuesday," Robert Kennedy would later write in his book, Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. ... A key adviser to the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis, McNamara is most famous—or infamous—today as the prime architect of the disastrous American intervention in the Vietnam War. Robert McNamara recalls the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Robert McNamara and Fidel Castro met in Cuba last October at a conference on the anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. But in Moscow, Khrushchev was every bit as terrified as the Americans. Robert Strange McNamara June 9 1916 July 6 2009 was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense serving from 1961 to 1968 under Related Lessons. Ask students to research and report on Cuba from the time of the missile crisis to today. "Possibly tomorrow." posted by staggernation (7 comments total)