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...but Highly Placed Sources Within The Kennedy Administration Disagreed: "[t]he Assumption That The Strategic Nuclear Balance Mattered In Any Way Was Wrong... As Far As I Am Concerned, It Made No Difference... If My Memory Serves Me Correctly, We Had Some Five Thousand Strategic Nuclear Warheads As Against T Heir Three Hundred. Can Anyone Seriously Tell Me That Their Having Three Hundred And Forty Would Have Made Any Difference? The Military Balance Wasn't Changed. I Didn't Believe It Then, And I Don't Believe It Now..."

Management Is The Gate Through Which Social And Economic And Political Change, Indeed Change In Every Direction, Is Diffused Though Society.

The Picture Of The World's Greatest Superpower Killing Or Seriously Injuring 1,000 Noncombatants A Week, While Trying To Pound A Tiny Backward Nation Into Submission On An Issue Whose Merits Are Hotly Disputed, Is Not A Pretty One.

It Was A Perfectly Beautiful Night, As Fall Nights Are In Washington. I Walked Out Of The President's Oval Office, And As I Walked Out, I Thought I Might Never Live To See Another Saturday Night.

I Want To Say, And This Is Very Important: At The End We Lucked Out. It Was Luck That Prevented Nuclear War. We Came That Close To Nuclear War At The End. Rational Individuals: Kennedy Was Rational; Khrushchev Was Rational; Castro Was Rational. Rational Individuals Came That Close To Total Destruction Of Their Societies. And That Danger Exists Today.