00:00What do you think the endgame here is with that type of rhetoric?
00:05Well, I think the difference, again, looking to President Kennedy's rhetoric and actions in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis,
00:16I think a difference is that he always had an endpoint in mind.
00:20He had an objective in mind, and he spoke very deliberately.
00:23And there's a sense in which, again, as a Republican president, Theodore Roosevelt once said,
00:31speak softly and carry a big stick.
00:33But sometimes restrained and deliberate rhetoric really conveys strength better than reckless rhetoric.
00:42And what's scary when you compare President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev in 1962 with the United States and Iran,
00:53in 2026, and that is not to equate the United States and Iran.
00:57But when you compare their rhetoric and actions now, the world was, I think,
01:03while the Cuban Missile Crisis was a much more serious situation,
01:07the world, I think, was in better hands, sadly, in 1962 than we are now.
01:12See you next time.
01:13See you next time.
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