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The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis » (Concise Edition)

Book cover image of The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis by Ernest R. May

Authors: Ernest R. May (Editor), Philip D. Zelikow
ISBN-13: 9780393322590, ISBN-10: 0393322599
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: March 2002
Edition: Concise Edition

Author Biography: Ernest R. May

Ernest R. May is Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard University

Philip D. Zelikow is director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

Book Synopsis

The closest most of us will ever come to being inside the Oval Office at a moment of crisis.

Richard J. Tofel

Gripping history. —Wall Street Journal

	Preface to the Concise Edition
	A Note on Sources
	Introduction
	Tuesday, September 4, 1962	3
	12:35 P.M. - Meeting on Soviet Arms Shipments to Cuba	3
	4:00 P.M. - Drafting Meeting on the Press Statement	9
	5:00 P.M. - Meeting With Congressional Leadership	12
	5:55 P.M. - Meeting on the Congressional Resolution	16
	Saturday, September 29, 1962	20
	11:00 A.M. - Meeting on the Soviet Union	20
	Tuesday, October 16, 1962	30
	11:50 A.M. - Meeting on the Cuban Missile Crisis	32
	6:30 P.M. - Meeting on the Cuban Missile Crisis	53
	Thursday, October 18, 1962	73
	11:10 A.M. - Meeting on the Cuban Missile Crisis	73
	Near Midnight. Kennedy Summarizes a Late-Night Meeting	106
	Friday, October 19, 1962	109
	9:45 A.M. - Meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff	109
	Saturday, October 20, 1962	124
	2:30 P.M. - National Security Council Meeting	125
	Monday, October 22, 1962	138
	10:40 A.M. - Conversation with Dwight Eisenhower	142
	11:00 A.M. - Meeting on Diplomatic Plans	146
	11:47 A.M. - Meeting of Berlin Group	149
	3:00 P.M. - National Security Council Meeting	152
	5:30 P.M. - Meeting with the Congressional Leadership	163
	Tuesday, October 23, 1962	194
	10:00 - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council	194
	12:25 P.M. - Conversation with Lucius Clay	202
	3:52 P.M. - Conversation with Roswell Gilpatric	204
	6:00 P.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council	206
	7:10 P.M. - Discussion between President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy	218
	Wednesday, October 24, 1962	224
	10:00 A.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council	224
	5:05 P.M. - Meetings with Staff and Congressional Leadership	234
	Thursday, October 25, 1962	245
	10:00 A.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council	245
	5:25 P.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council	260
	Friday, October 26, 1962	269
	10:10 A.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council	269
	12:00 P.M. - Meeting with Intelligence Officials	288
	4:30 P.M. - Conversation with Dean Rusk	292
	7:31 P.M. - Conversation with Lincoln White	295
	Saturday, October 27, 1962	301
	10:05 A.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council	301
	4:00 P.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council	324
	9:00 P.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council	391
	Sunday, October 28, 1962	402
	11:05 A.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council	404
	12:08 P.M. - Conversations with Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, and Herbert Hoover	405
	Conclusion	411
	Notes	451
	Index	491