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ISBN-10: 084202297X

ISBN-13: 9780842022972

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Did missiles in Cuba really alter the balance of power? Or was Kennedy's response a personal one? Schlesinger: I think that McNamara was wrong in saying that it would not change the balance of power. It might not change it according to technical calculations, in terms of a missile exchange, but it would have changed the political balance of power immeasurably, as Khrushchev asserts in his memoirs. If the Soviet Unionwith impunityhad been able to install missiles in an area the world regarded as the American sphere of influence, it would have had considerable effect on the political balance of power.

Kennedy read Harrington and that made him feel stronger than ever that here was a problem that was not going to be solved simply by economic growth. He used to say that a rising tide lifts all the boats, but he knew as a matter of fact that in a rising tide some boats were so mired in the mud that they could not move. Snyder: Did he really see the structural problems associated with poverty and the class structure we have in this country? Schlesinger: Yes, he did, and that is why he instructed Walter Heller and the Council of Economic Advisers in 1963 to come up with an antipoverty program.

Copyright 1987 by William H. Chafe. " Copyright 1987 by Ardith L. Maney. " Copyright 1987 by Philip A. Grant, Jr. " Copyright 1983 by the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association. Reprinted by permission. " Copyright 1987 by Allen J. Matusow. "John F. " Copyright 1978 by the Virginia Quarterly Review. Reprinted by permission. Page vii Contents Introduction ix Acknowledgments xv About the Contributors xvii Interview with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. 1 Kennedy and the New Generation William E.

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