Kennedy apparently read Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August, which kept him mindful of doing Stupid Things during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Not escalating the crisis and possibly preventing a nuclear World War III would easily make him the greatest President, ever, IMHO. Of course, you can't prove a negative, etc.
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