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How did the Cuban Missile Crisis change President Kennedy’s view of foreign policy?

He no longer believed peace with the Soviet Union was possible.

His focus was still on using every available means to defeat communism

His focus was on peace with the communists rather than on defeating them.
We must conduct our affairs in such a way that it becomes in the Communists' interest to agree on a genuine peace. Above all, while defending our vital interest, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.

–President John F. Kennedy
June 10, 1963

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His focus was on peace with the communists rather than on defeating them.

Explanation: The quote shows Kennedy wanted to avoid confrontations that could force an adversary into a humiliating retreat or nuclear war and to make peace attractive to the Communists — a shift toward managing rivalry and preventing nuclear conflict, not simply trying to defeat communism by any means.