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“... of Kennedy and his advisers, published for the first time in The Kennedy Tapes. Ernest May and Philip Zelikow have convincingly placed the White House deliberations within the political and military context of the missile crisis itself. To this they have added a brilliant account of the shared assumptions which Kennedy and his advisers brought to ...”

“... In Arthur Schlesinger’s court history, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, which might without unfairness be called the founding breviary of the cult of JFK, there appears the following vignette. Schlesinger had been asked to carpenter a ‘White Paper’ justifying Washington’s destabilisation of Cuba, in which the high-flown rhetoric of the New Frontier might form a sort of scab over the fouler business of empire ...”

“... in 2004 it was said to be the most readable report in years, its writing presided over by Philip Zelikow, who now works for Condoleezza Rice at the State Department. That report made no mention of a meeting between Rice and George Tenet, the head of the CIA, in early July 2001, at which Tenet expressed his concern about a forthcoming al-Qaida ...”

“... Instead, the war was motivated in good part by a desire to make Israel more secure. According to Philip Zelikow, a former member of the president’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, and now a counsellor to Condoleezza Rice, the ‘real threat’ from Iraq was not a threat to the United States. The ...”