[lbo-talk] I don't get it..

[Charles Brown]

But the deal was that (a) Khrushchev would take the missiles out of
Cuba, (b) Kennedy would--a bit later--take the missiles out of
Turkey, and (c) in order to help Kennedy with his domestic political
situation, nobody would claim that this was a deal.

Of course, it turned out that it was Khrushchev rather than
Kennedy-Johnson who needed help staying in power beyond 1964...

Brad DeLong
^^^^^^^
CB: Actually, Kennedy's problem with staying in power beyond 1963 turned out
to be more severe than Khrushchev's beyond 1964...