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Could Trump apply JFK's Cuban missile crisis playbook to Iran?
At a decisive moment in the Cuban missile crisis, when some top officials were urging John F. Kennedy to bomb Soviet military sites on the island, the president decided to take a break for dinner.
'Everybody get a bite to eat and then come back and see,' he told his advisers, according to a transcript of the Oct. 27, 1962, meeting of the top-level group known as the Excomm. JFK used the time to discuss with his brother the unconventional strategy that ultimately resolved the crisis and averted nuclear disaster.
