We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked.
On the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 24th, 1962.
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Rusk, Dean. Quoted in "In Time of Crisis." Written by Stewart Alsop and Charles Bartlett. The Saturday Evening Post, 8 Dec. 1962. Originally spoken during a private conversation with McGeorge Bundy. ExComm meeting. 14 Oct. 1962, Cabinet Room, West Wing, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.