Newton's Eisenhower.
Khrushchev threatened to overrun West Berlin.
Eisenhower made it clear to everyone America's response would be a nuclear attack.
Macmillan of Britain wanted to surrender.
IKE was having none of it.
IKE won the standoff, but this was when Newton should surely have asked what the Hell he was doing, risking the deaths of half our people and the destruction of American and European civilization for a Europe that did not want to be defended at such risk, and could not have been defended otherwise.
The question would arise again in Reagan's time.
No one ever had a good enough answer, IMHO.
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