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- President John F. Kennedy weighed a blockade versus an air strike on Soviet missiles in Cuba.
- Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy and Chairman Maxwell Taylor argued for an air strike.
- Attorney General Robert Kennedy opposed the strike, warning it would give Cuba and the USSR high ground.
- Attorney General Robert Kennedy noted the U.S. had not launched a Pearl Harbor-type attack in 175 years.