If Nixon Beat Kennedy In 1960 would there have been a Cuban Missile Crisis?

Question

Krushchev thought Kennedy was a punk. I doubt he would have felt the same about Nixon (I neither hate Kennedy or ignore Nixon"s fatal flaws as a man)

Answer 1

Probably not.  Kruschev thought he could pull it off because of Kennedy's apparent weakness.  Luckily for us, Kruschev was wrong.

Nixon was much more anti-communist, and stronger-willed.

Answer 2

I don't think it mattered who the president was.  If Krushchev wanted to place nukes in Cuba, he would have done so either way.  I doubt Nixon would have been that intimidating to the Soviets.

Answer 3

we wouldn't be here today.

and Krushev got owned by Kennedy and didn't last long after the crisis.

Answer 4

I suspect that Nixon would have backed Kruschev down a lot faster without all the melodrama and without giving away our missiles in Turkey.

You are correct in that Kruschebv, rightly so, had no respect for Kennedy.

Answer 5

Yes.

Answer 6

Perhaps not but there certainly wouldn't have been the Bay of Pigs fiasco.