Transcript Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis
Who was Who?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• President of US
• Has overall decision
over policy
• Under pressure to act
strong
Robert Kennedy
• US attorney General
• Deals with legal
affairs
• Chief law
enforcement for US
Robert McNamara
• Secretary of Defence
• Head of the U.S.
Department of
Defence (DoD),
concerned with the
armed services and
military matters
• Principal defence
policy advisor to the
President
Dean Rusk
• Secretary of State
• Concerned with
Foreign Affairs
• Highest ranking
secretary
McGeorge Bundy
• National Security
Advisor
• Chief advisor on
national security
affairs
Lyndon B. Johnson
• Vice President of the
United States
John McCone
• Director of CIA (DCI)
• The DCI was
coordinating
intelligence activities
among and between
the various United
States intelligence
agencies
General Maxwell D. Taylor
• Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff
• highest ranking
military officer in the
United States armed
forces, and the
principal military
adviser to the
President of the
United States
General Curtis LeMay
• Head of the United
States Air Force
• Part of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff
Admiral George Anderson
• Chief of Naval
Operations
• Part of Joint Chiefs of
Staff
Adlai Stevenson
• Ambassador to the
United Nations
Ted Sorenson
• Special Council to the
President
• To advise the
President on all legal
issues concerning the
President and the
White House
• Writing Speeches and
correspondences
Kenneth O’Donnell
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Special Assistant to the President
The roles of the Chief of Staff are
both managerial and advisory and
can include the following
Select key White House staff and
supervise them
Structure the White House staff
system
Control the flow of people into the
Oval Office
Manage the flow of information
Protect the interests of the
President
Negotiate with Congress, other
members of the executive branch,
and extra governmental political
groups to implement the
President's agenda