Quote Originally Posted by Kralizec
How would that have comforted any American living then? And the American public didn't know about the missiles in Turkey at that point)
Kruschev's backing off at the end of the missile crises was thus interpreted as a factual US victory, the truth was that as an exchange the missiles in Turkey were dismantled and/or moved.
Only some - there was still a nuclear weapons storage site maintained in Turkey until all battlefield nuclear weapons were removed from the inventory after the fall of the Soviet Union. In fact in the 1970's the Turks wanted access to the weapons and a potential crisis developed between the United States and Turkey over the issue.

Kenedy did a good job handling the crisis. Mcnamera wanted to bomb Cuba back to the stone age till Kenedy dissuaded him. A I remember from a documentary that years later a Russian general told Mcnamera that the USSR had operating missiles at that point and would have retaliated. According to the documentary Mcnameras face went entirely pale
The Cuban Missle Crisis and the Speech at the Berlin Wall are the two main history lessons of the Kennedy Adminstration