Don't confuse oyster shell with grit. Grit is insoluble. It stays in the gizzard and it's used to grind food. Oyster shell dissolves in the gut and its job is to add calcium to the diet of laying hens.
Kennedy's strategy of flexible response, managed by Robert McNamara, was aimed to reduce the possibility of war by miscalculation. Kennedy's administration contributed to the peaceful resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis and refrained from further escalation of the 1961 Berlin Crisis.everal of them were from the foreign policy think tanks. Kennedy had been interested in the issues of war and peace since his youth. In his inaugural address Kennedy encapsulated his Cold War stance as following: Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
In his authoritative history of the Great Depression era, David Kennedy admiringly wrote that Hooverâs 1932 program of activist policies helped âlay the groundwork for a broader restructuring of governmentâs role in many other sectors of American life, a restructuring known as the New Deal.â 17 In a later discussion of the beginning of the Roosevelt administration, Kennedy observed (emphasis added):