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The deal that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis in the fall of '62 involved the US agreeing to quietly remove their own missile's from Turkey, as well as promises to not try and kill Castro any longer. At the time this was kept from the public due to the fact that Kennedy didn't want to be viewed as soft by the electorate.

But what would have happened had the tit for tat trade been made public, would Kennedy be seen by the American people as giving in to Soviet Aggression? Would this damage his chances in 1964 enough to turn him into a lame duck? I like to ask questions at the end of these in three's so what if I'd thought of another?

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