Let me then jog your faulty memory. When you say "Democrats" you really should say JFK. When JFK met with Khrushchev in Vienna ...
This was just after JFK's ill-advised Bay of Pigs fiasco from which, in the moment, JFK flinched on the follow through. Khrushchev reached the conclusion that JFK could be pushed around, leading Khrushchev to the conclusion that he could put nuclear missiles in Cuba and JFK would do nothing about it. JFK created the problem of nuclear missiles in Cuba in the first place.
JFK's weakness and inexperience got us as close to nuclear armageddon as we have ever been. No credit is due to JFK for avoiding the result of his own blundering before he nearly got us all killed.
In the end, in exchange for the Soviets agreeing to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba, JFK trashed the Monroe doctrine and agreed to let Cuba be a perpetual Soviet client state without any further opposition from the U.S. This left Soviet-supported Castro free to try and foment revolution throughout central and south America.
As it turned out JFK had Addison's disease. JFK had a back injury as well. Because of these two conditions JFK spend most of his adult life gorked up on a variety of medications which also led to his poor performance at Vienna. His condition was hidden from the public by a compliant and worshipful media. (See also Joe Biden.)
JFK's "Best and Brightest" democrat eggheads were inherited by LBJ and promptly got the U.S. into a mess in Vietnam.
No faulty memory. I meant JFK when I said Democrats, as he was in charge. I saved articles from the time. As well as the debacle in the Bay of Pigs, and his mishandling of our pullout from Cuba. And the mess in Vietnam where we propped up dictators with our advisors before Johnson made a bigger mess, which is why we need to generalize on pointing fingers at "Democrats". Kennedy's back problems were well known back in the 1950's, I also read articles back then on it. His family was a mess. His brother Joe was being groomed for the presidency by their ambassador father, by money and connections, except Joe died in WWII and then John was positioned for the presidency. They got in the White House by election fraud, similar to how Biden got in by fraud. The Democrats are bad news, have been for a long time. Russia now is another thing, it's not about communism, it's a civil war (Ukraine means borderland). As much as people cry about helping Ukrainians, we risk nuclear war and should tread carefully.