Dean Rusk

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We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked.

Dean Rusk

On the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 24th, 1962.

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Cuban Missile Crisis Nuclear weapons Brinkmanship Cold War

Author

Dean Rusk

Source

Saturday Evening Post

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Rusk, Dean. Quoted in "In Time of Crisis." Written by Stewart Alsop and Charles Bartlett. The Saturday Evening Post, 8 Dec. 1962. Originally spoken during a private conversation with McGeorge Bundy. ExComm meeting. 14 Oct. 1962, Cabinet Room, West Wing, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.

Dean Rusk

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Roundness of the world

Speaker

Dean Rusk

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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Rusk, Dean. Speech to American Bar Association. 22 Oct. 1964, Atlanta, GA, USA.