They could kill 80 million Americans Well, it's clear we cannot permit Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba we have to get those missiles out The Soviet understands only one language action respects only one word force I Got a bad feeling about what's going on in there, sir I think we have to issue pre-invasion orders for our forces.

No choice is gonna cost lives.

Anyway, we go We're talking about possible nuclear war.

We've got a bunch of smart guys We lock them in a room that they come up with some solutions The whole spectrum of airstrikes is a minimum response the Joint Chiefs will accept.

No, no There is more than one option here You're in a pretty bad fix.

Mr. President.

Well, maybe you haven't noticed you're in it with me I was dead Kennedy's are gonna destroy this country if we don't do something about this a Lot of things are going wrong today It's making everyone nervous When what things go wrong people will become more nervous and it will be very hard to avoid going to war three two One good evening my fellow citizens This is a setup they want a war Jack and they're arranging things to get one What happens to you?

I'll be evacuated with the president and while you're under a rock somewhere What am I supposed to do with your five children?

Sometimes there is only one right choice and you thank God when it's so clear Live right to my face Teddy We need you to talk to them and nobody plays us off each other and nobody ever ever gets between us Which for a second somebody else's president you mean that I said for a second First airstrike start in 28 hours The world's watching everything we're doing I'm prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over I am the commander-in-chief of the United States and I say when we go to war