2.5 quotes
U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk
"We were eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked."
September 13, Kennedy wrote
"If at any time the Communist build-up in Cuba were to … become an offensive military base of significant capacity for the Soviet Union, then this country will do whatever must be done to protect its own security and that of its allies."
historian quote – national archives
‘With the October 14 photographs, the United States had caught the Soviet Union building offensive nuclear missile bases in its backyard, and the two superpowers were now joined in the first direct nuclear confrontation in history.’