Bobby at The Brink

摘要

Shortly after he arrived at his justice Department office on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 16, 1962, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy received a phone call from his brother at the White House. "We have some big trouble," said President John F. Kennedy. "I want you over here." At about 9 a.m., RFK burst into the small, cluttered office of national-security adviser McGeorge Bundy. A CIA man handed the attorney general some blown-up aerial-reconnaissance photographs and explained that the images revealed Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba. Robert Kennedy rarely used expletives, but he did now. "Oh, s---. S---, s---," he exclaimed, pounding his fist into his palm. "Those sons-a-bitches Russians."