#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

1508.404 - 1533.471 Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

During the Bay of Pigs, when they said, you've got to send in the Essex, the aircraft carrier, and he said no, even though he'd only been two months in office. He was able to stand up to them because he was able to put himself in the shoes of both Castro and Khrushchev and understand there's got to be another solution to this. And then during the Cuban Missile Crisis, he was able to do it.