Berlin 1961

Deep-dive into Russia-US relations in JFK's first year in office. The most interesting part was to realize that Russia was influencing our US elections even in 1960 (by withholding release of POWs, which could have given Nixon the 100,000 or so votes needed to prevail). I didn't learn much about the Berlin Wall that I did not know already, but I did learn more about the men involved in the US/Germany/France/Soviet Union and how Berlin and Cuba related, and it did seem very relevant to our current saga