You are entirely correct....and have well-clarified the situ..
..my mention of calling the phone should have been stated more figuratively, which as you said, was created post-crisis
.yes back channel negotiations, but the main point is that JFK read TUchman and saw the need to talk to avoid a catastrophe that would undoubtedly have been worse than the slaughter of WW1
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