Thirteen Days (book)
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- See also: Thirteen Days (film)
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis is Robert F. Kennedy's account of the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. The book was released in 1969, a year after RFK's assassination.
Thirteen Days describes the meetings of US President John F. Kennedy's cabinet and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which together formed the Executive Committee (ExComm), during the tense period following the discovery of Soviet missiles on Cuba, 90 miles from the coast of Florida. RFK, who was the US Attorney General at the time of the crisis, describes his brother's leadership style as involved but not controlling. RFK explains, for example, that his brother would often withhold his views in meetings, knowing that others would tend to parrot his ideas rather than offer honest appraisals. RFK viewed the military leaders on the council sympathetically — a lifetime confronting war was difficult for these men to set aside.
