economically, would impact our national security, and something that we've always fought against throughout our history. So the stakes here are incredibly high. So all these are all things that we're going to discuss. I want to push back against the conclusion that you draw around the Cold Warriors of the First Cold War and the Cold Warriors of the day, because it's one of, I've also drawn and I'm pushing back against myself here too, because when I look back on that period, I mean, you're completely correct. John Kennedy's experience in World War II and subsequently his experience from the Cuban Missile Crisis terrified Kennedy. I mean, he became a big proponent of peace after that. But at the same time, many of his top generals, as well as the top brass within the CIA, were willing to take enormous risks with respect to instigating a nuclear war. And though I'm less familiar with the equivalent Soviet history, Khrushchev expressed similar concerns about hardliners within his own (42/57)
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