2.5 quotes
The white house
the hotline would “help reduce the risk of war occurring by accident or miscalculation.”
President Kennedy
“This age of fast-moving events requires quick, dependable communication in time of emergency.”
Bernd Greiner - historian
"It was an external signal to reassure the world that they had understood the value of bilateral emergency communication and that they didn't want to let things go as far as they had in that perilous situation in the fall of 1962."