News at Eleven: [Nikita] Khrushchev, of course, assumes

that [Robert] Frost has been personally sent by John F. Kennedy. Somewhat baffled by the poet's meanderings on virtue and metaphor, he even wonders whether the old man may have forgotten to deliver the president's real message. Whatever the value of the encounter, Frost squanders it on his return. Meeting with a crowd of reporters at the airport, he unwisely relays Khrushchev's intimation that the West, in its dotage, is now too impotent to act. Kennedy, furious, becomes the more determined to prove the United States' vigor. Thus Frost, far from saving the world, may unwittingly have contributed to the near catastrophe of the Cuban missile crisis.

from The St. Petersburg Times: Poetic license

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