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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• 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