the+Cold+warlb

===//JFK, to be sure, did make efforts to reduce direct tensions with USSR following the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the installation of a teletype Hot Line was seen as essential to preventing the slowness of communication that had hampered talks during the crisis from happening again. it was JFK who authorized the coup that resulted in Diem's overthrow and assassination on November 1, 1963. He was ambivalent about what he'd do in the future, but still determined to hold the line and not see the war lost if he could help it, the motive behind the "fascist coup'd'etat" goes completely out the window. He noted that "it is dependant on the idea that JFk was naive enough to think he could get away with seeing Vietnam fall without being subjected to the same kind of backlash that he had taken part in as a Congressman.//===