Sheldon M. Stern

“Their intuitive capacity to communicate often transcended the limits of conventional oral discourse. They always understood each other.”
― Sheldon Stern, The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths versus Reality

“President Kennedy used his intellectual and political skill to steer his advisers and the two superpowers away from an apocalyptic nuclear conflict. His experience in the South Pacific had convinced him that war, even without atomic weapons, was too unpredictable and destructive to be successfully controlled by any leader or government. A Cold War hawk in public, he distrusted the military, was skeptical about military solutions to political problems, and horrified by the prospect of global nuclear war.”
― Sheldon M. Stern, The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths versus Reality