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We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked. — Dean Rusk

We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked.

Dean Rusk
1962
★ 3.5

On the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 24th, 1962.

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Cuban Missile CrisisNuclear weaponsBrinkmanshipCold War
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1962
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Dean Rusk
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Rusk, Dean. Quoted in "In Time of Crisis." Written by Stewart Alsop and Charles Bartlett. The Saturday Evening Post, 8 Dec. 1962. Originally spoken during a private conversation with McGeorge Bundy. ExComm meeting. 14 Oct. 1962, Cabinet Room, West Wing, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

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