Series of John F. Kennedy handwritten notes etched during an ultra-tense, high-stakes Cabinet Room meeting at the Oval Office during the height of the 13-day Cuban Missile Crisis, a time when the fate of the world teetered in the balance stemming from a take-no-prisoners showdown with the Soviet Union. On creme-colored official White House stationery, Kennedy has penciled the words: "NATO," "Blockade Cuba" and "money" twice. The President has also written the name of Cuban President "Fidel Castro" twice on the page and sketched a drawing of a small sailboat with the number "62" stenciled across its sail. Numerous other doodles present. Preserved in a silver-trimmed 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 frame.