As an old man he only had nightmares about two things: the trenches in the Great War and what would have happened if the Cuban Missile Crisis had gone wrong.


As reported by his grandson, Lord Stockton. Quoted in: The Prime Minister: the Office and its Holders since 1945 (2000) by Peter Hennessy

Harold Macmillan Quotes

As an old man he only had nightmares about two things: the trenches in the Great War and what would have happened if the Cuban Missile Crisis had...

As an old man he only had nightmares about two things: the trenches in the Great War and what would have happened if the Cuban Missile Crisis had...

As an old man he only had nightmares about two things: the trenches in the Great War and what would have happened if the Cuban Missile Crisis had...

As an old man he only had nightmares about two things: the trenches in the Great War and what would have happened if the Cuban Missile Crisis had...