- Powell: “President Kennedy didn’t negotiate out of the Cuban Missile Crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn’t have the cards. And President Kennedy had the power and had made it clear that he was not going to tolerate this.”
Lesson: Negotiate from a position of strength.
James Dao, “Threats and Responses: Congress; Powell Urges Strong Stand, Fast, for Move Against Iraq” New York Times, September 20, 2002.
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