Thirteen Days2000

[EXCOM meets in discussion]

Robert Kennedy:
No, no, NO! Now there is more than one option here, and if one isn't occurring to us, it's because we haven't thought hard enough.

Dean Rusk:
Bobby, sometimes there is only one right choice, and you thank God when it's so clear!

Kennedy:
You're talking a sneak attack. How will that make us look? A big country blasting a little country to the Stone Age. Yeah, we'll be everyone's favorites.

Dean Acheson:
Come on Bobby, that's naive. This is the real world. You know that better than anybody.

John McCone:
And you weren't so ethically particular when we were talking about options for removing Castro over at CIA.