Council on Foreign Relations

President John F. Kennedy Prepares to Tell the Nation About Soviet Missiles in Cuba—Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Six

JFK and his advisors wordsmithed the speech he would give revealing the escalating Cuban Missile Crisis to the public for the ...
Council on Foreign Relations

John F. Kennedy Solicits Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Advice—The Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Two

McCone and National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy left the meeting early to head over to the White House to brief the ...

John F. Kennedy’s Mistresses Reveal Heartbreak of Secret Affairs With President: ‘Irresistible’

A new book is shedding light on the emotional toll of the affairs that several women allegedly had with late President John F ...

Was the True Love of John F. Kennedy’s Life a Secret Nazi Spy?

A new biography of the women in Kennedy’s life investigates what really went on between the 35th President of the United ...