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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum

President Kennedy meets with Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko in the Oval Office. The President does not reveal that he is now aware of the missile build-up.

VAN STOCKUM: Brigadier General of Marines: Part 1, New rank, new crisis

In June 1961, while serving as director of the 4th Marine Reserve and Recruitment District based in Philadelphia, I was selected for promotion to the rank of brigadier general. In the Marine Corps promotion is based upon the recommendations of selection boards composed of about seven officers senior in rank to those officers in the selection zone.