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So quarantine or air strike

I don't think that's possible, Adlai

Thirteen Days • 2000

President Kennedy:
[summarizing their options]
So quarantine, or air strike? Adlai Stevenson:
[clears throat]
There, uh, there is a third option. With either course we undertake the risk of nuclear war, so it seems to me that maybe one of us in this room should be a coward... so, I guess I'll be. A third course is to strike a deal: We trade Guantanamo and our missiles in Turkey; get them to pull their missiles out. We employ a back channel; we attribute the idea to U Thant. U Thant then raises it at the UN. President Kennedy:
I don't think that's possible, Adlai

Full Transcript

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So quarantine or air strike

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Ahem There is a third option

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With either course

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we undertake the risk of nuclear war

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So it seems to me that maybe one of us in this room

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should be a coward

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So I guess I'll be

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A third course is to strike a deal

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We trade Guantanamo and our missiles in Turkey

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get them to pull their missiles out

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We employ a back channel

Duration

34 seconds

Views

580

Timestamp in Movie

00:42:25

Uploaded

Apr 01, 2022

Genres

drama, history, thriller

Production

N/A

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Movie Summary

In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Actors

Adlai Stevenson

Michael Fairman

Kenny O'donnell