Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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And my uncle later said, he told Arthur Schlesinger and Kenny O'Donnell, he said, those guys, he called them the salad brass, the guys with all of this stuff on their chest. And he said, those guys, they don't care because they know that if it happens... that they're going to be in the charge of everything. They're the ones who are going to be running the world after that.
And my uncle later said, he told Arthur Schlesinger and Kenny O'Donnell, he said, those guys, he called them the salad brass, the guys with all of this stuff on their chest. And he said, those guys, they don't care because they know that if it happens... that they're going to be in the charge of everything. They're the ones who are going to be running the world after that.
And my uncle later said, he told Arthur Schlesinger and Kenny O'Donnell, he said, those guys, he called them the salad brass, the guys with all of this stuff on their chest. And he said, those guys, they don't care because they know that if it happens... that they're going to be in the charge of everything. They're the ones who are going to be running the world after that.
So for them, there was an incentive to kill 130 million Russians and 30 million Americans by my uncle. He had this correspondence with Khrushchev. They were secretly corresponding with each other. And that is what saved the world, is that both of them had been men of war. Eisenhower famously said, it will not be a man of war
So for them, there was an incentive to kill 130 million Russians and 30 million Americans by my uncle. He had this correspondence with Khrushchev. They were secretly corresponding with each other. And that is what saved the world, is that both of them had been men of war. Eisenhower famously said, it will not be a man of war
So for them, there was an incentive to kill 130 million Russians and 30 million Americans by my uncle. He had this correspondence with Khrushchev. They were secretly corresponding with each other. And that is what saved the world, is that both of them had been men of war. Eisenhower famously said, it will not be a man of war
There will not be a soldier who starts World War III because a guy who's actually seen it knows how bad it is. And my uncle, you know, had been in the heat of the South Pacific. His boat had been cut in two by a Japanese destroyer. Three of his crewmen had been killed, one of them badly burned. He pulled that guy with a lanyard in his teeth.
There will not be a soldier who starts World War III because a guy who's actually seen it knows how bad it is. And my uncle, you know, had been in the heat of the South Pacific. His boat had been cut in two by a Japanese destroyer. Three of his crewmen had been killed, one of them badly burned. He pulled that guy with a lanyard in his teeth.
There will not be a soldier who starts World War III because a guy who's actually seen it knows how bad it is. And my uncle, you know, had been in the heat of the South Pacific. His boat had been cut in two by a Japanese destroyer. Three of his crewmen had been killed, one of them badly burned. He pulled that guy with a lanyard in his teeth.
six miles to the island in the middle of the night and then they hit out there for ten days you know and uh... and you know he came back like i said he was the only uh... president united states that are in the purple heart uh... meanwhile khrushchev had been at stalingrad which was the worst place to be on the planet you know probably in the twentieth century others and you know and al schwitzer one of the death camps
six miles to the island in the middle of the night and then they hit out there for ten days you know and uh... and you know he came back like i said he was the only uh... president united states that are in the purple heart uh... meanwhile khrushchev had been at stalingrad which was the worst place to be on the planet you know probably in the twentieth century others and you know and al schwitzer one of the death camps
six miles to the island in the middle of the night and then they hit out there for ten days you know and uh... and you know he came back like i said he was the only uh... president united states that are in the purple heart uh... meanwhile khrushchev had been at stalingrad which was the worst place to be on the planet you know probably in the twentieth century others and you know and al schwitzer one of the death camps
It was the most ferocious, horrific war with people starving. People committed cannibalism, eating the dogs, the cats, eating their shoe leather, freezing to death by the thousands, etc. Khrushchev did not want... The last thing he wanted was a war. And the last thing my uncle wanted was a war. But the CIA did not know anything about Khrushchev. And the reason for that is...
It was the most ferocious, horrific war with people starving. People committed cannibalism, eating the dogs, the cats, eating their shoe leather, freezing to death by the thousands, etc. Khrushchev did not want... The last thing he wanted was a war. And the last thing my uncle wanted was a war. But the CIA did not know anything about Khrushchev. And the reason for that is...
It was the most ferocious, horrific war with people starving. People committed cannibalism, eating the dogs, the cats, eating their shoe leather, freezing to death by the thousands, etc. Khrushchev did not want... The last thing he wanted was a war. And the last thing my uncle wanted was a war. But the CIA did not know anything about Khrushchev. And the reason for that is...
There was a mole at Langley. So that every time the CIA got a spy in the Kremlin, he would immediately be killed. So they had no eyes in the Kremlin. You know, there were literally hundreds of Russian spies who had defected to the United States and were in the Kremlin who were killed during that period.
There was a mole at Langley. So that every time the CIA got a spy in the Kremlin, he would immediately be killed. So they had no eyes in the Kremlin. You know, there were literally hundreds of Russian spies who had defected to the United States and were in the Kremlin who were killed during that period.
There was a mole at Langley. So that every time the CIA got a spy in the Kremlin, he would immediately be killed. So they had no eyes in the Kremlin. You know, there were literally hundreds of Russian spies who had defected to the United States and were in the Kremlin who were killed during that period.
They had no idea anything about Khrushchev, about how he saw the world, and they saw the Kremlin itself as a monolith, you know, that it's... It's kind of the same way that we look at Putin today. They have this ambition of world conquest, and it's driving them, and there's nothing else they think about. They're absolutely single-minded about it. But actually, there was a big division going on.
They had no idea anything about Khrushchev, about how he saw the world, and they saw the Kremlin itself as a monolith, you know, that it's... It's kind of the same way that we look at Putin today. They have this ambition of world conquest, and it's driving them, and there's nothing else they think about. They're absolutely single-minded about it. But actually, there was a big division going on.