Reply #23: Who Needs Soviet Airbrushes: With U. Va's Miller Center Its Always History's Miller Time.

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There is more to learn about the Cuban Missile Crisis in six pages of JFK and the Unsepeakable, than in the entire book on that topic
by Official Court historian Timothy Naftali's book One Hell of A Gamble: The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Check out this historiography offered up in footnote 82, Chapter1. (By the way the footnotes alone in this book are worth the cost of ten copies of this book; Chapter six alone has 906 footnotes, and these are not cheapies but are often fascinating pools of light in terms of historiographical overview) A contrast of Naftali and Douglass' books is essential for those who believe that official historians were only found in the USSR. No, the boys at UVas Miller Center could do the Commintern proud when it comes to groveling at the feet of intelligence agencies!

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This foot note relates to ZeliKow-- he of the 9/11 Commission and colleague of Naftali at the University of Va Miller Center, May and Nftali's INTERESTING EDITING OF THE JFK TAPES! PERHAPS THIS IS WHAT QUALIFIED ZELIKOW FOR HIS LATER WORK ON THE 4 million dollar 9/11 Commission. Recall that Clinton's Wall Mart penis got 60 million worth of investigation from our dilligent bicamerals!


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83. In 1997 Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow edited and published transcripts of the Cuban Missile Crisis tapes in their book
The Kennedy Tapes (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997) In 2000 the accuracy of their transcripts was challenged
in two articles by Sheldon M. Stern, historian at the JFK Library from 1977 to 1999: "What JFK Really Said," Atlintic Monthly 285
(May 2000): pp. 122-28, and "Source material: The 1997 Published Transcripts of the JFK Cuban missile Crisis Tapes: Too Good
to Be True?" Presidential Studies Quarterly 30 (September 2000): pp. 586-93. When Zelikow, May and Timothy Naftali brought out
a revised set of Missile Crisis Transcripts, The Presidential Recording: John F. Kennedy: Volumes 1-3, The Great Crisis (New York:
W.W. Norton, 2001), Stern critiqued their revision for further inaccuracies in his article " The JFK Tapes: Round Two," Reviews in
American History 30 (2002): pp. 680-88. Sheldon M. Stern has written a comprehensie narrative acount of the missile crisis deliberations
of PResiden Kennedy and the Executive Commitee of the National Security Council (ExComm), citing his own transcripts of the tapes,
Averting "The Final failure": John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Mettings (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003).
My citations of the tapes are taken from Averting "The Final Failure."

A comparison of the Naftali book on the Missile Crisis with the account in JFK and the Unspeakable is educational. The DTs suffered by the
taperecorders at Miller Center had the effect of ALMOST COMPLETELY NEGATING the extremism of the JCS vis a vis Kennedy during the crisis.
The degree to which JFK faced a serous thread from the JCS is reduced to parnoia within the Politburo. Not so in JFK and the Unspeakable. Had been Zelikow's earlier boo boo been as well known as Rosemary's in 1973, we might even have had more faith in Kissinger as Lee Hamilton's cheap date.