Talk politics.

To be blunt anyone who read a more modern take on that narrative would have known this kind of thing, including the blatant lies about the missile gap. In fact I've used this as one of my major clubs to beat Kennedy over the head with in terms of his legacy and made unfavorable comparisons of this and Bush's fearmongering about non-existent weapons and making a non-threat into greatest threat ever. The real JFK was a more interesting man than his caricature, but he was also rather as much an epic fail as Fransisco Solano Lopez (the guy who single-handedly was the worst dictator in human history).