The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour.

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.

It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest half hour.

That was probably his finest hour.

In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time: the massive Kennedy terror operation against Cuba, the first attacks on Vietnam in 1962, the imposition of national security states in South America.