- “Figure out what’s at stake! It’s remarkable how little agreement there was on this here this weekend. And second, don’t have a process that creates a crisis unless you want one. The crisis was caused by the United States because of the way it reacted to the missiles in Cuba. The fact there was a time deadline…was entirely self-generated.” (p. 104)
Lesson: Figure out what’s at stake and don’t start a process that creates crisis.
Cited in James G. Blight and David Welch, On the Brink: Americans and Soviets reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis (New York: Hill and Wang, 1989)..