"In my seven years as Secretary [of Defense], we came within a hair’s breadth of war with the Soviet Union on three different occasions.McNamara identified those three occasions in CNN's 1998-1999 Cold War documentary: 'One was the Soviet attempt to take West Berlin in August of '61. Another was the Soviet introduction of missiles into Cuba, which nearly led to a nuclear war in October '62. And a third was the Soviet support of Egypt's attempt to eradicate Israel from the face of the earth in June of '67, which led ultimately to the first use of the Hot Line. And one of the messages sent by Kosygin to Johnson, in June of '67, was: "If you want war, you'll get war."'<!--"