On October 28, 1962, Kennedy and Khrushchev reached a secret deal about the Cuban Missile Crisis: the US would remove its nuclear missiles in Turkey if the Soviets removed their missiles in Cuba. JFK called President Eisenhower to brief him on the developments, though he did not mention the US’s side of the bargain. Revisit our special podcast Atomic Gambit and learn how the Crisis wound down: https://www.jfklibrary.org/about-us/social-media-podcasts-and-apps/atomic-gambit/episode-5-uneasy-peace