d the roles of these two presidents been switched. These were two people who shared a common bond of politics who never knew each other, yet both faced similar situations and managed to pull America out of a crisis. Had Jefferson been president in 1962 and faced with the Cuban Missile Crisis he would have opened negotiations, then threatened war, but only as a last resort; But John F. Kennedy who was there responded by using navel blockades and threatening the entire globe with nuclear war, that would have been unheard of to Jefferson....
