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The Cuban Missile Crisis: The Events Before, During, and After

Let the record show that our restraint is not inexhaustible. Should it ever appear that
the inter-American doctrine of noninterference merely conceals or excuses a policy of
nonaction - if the nations of this hemisphere should fail to meet their commitments
against outside Communist penetration - then I want it clearly understood that this
Government will not hesitate in meeting its primary obligations, which are to the
security of our Nation. Should the time ever come, we do not intend to be lectured
on " intervention " by those whose character was stamped for all time on the bloody
streets of Budapest. ( Address by President Kennedy, 20 April 1961, " The Lesson
of Cuba, " Department of State Publication No. 7185. )
During the post World War II years, the United States was involved in a......

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