NEW YORK (AP) — A silver paperweight that President John F. Kennedy gave to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara after the Cuban missile crisis sold for $95,500 at an auction Tuesday of McNamara’s personal effects, Sotheby’s said.

McNamara, who died in 2009, served as the head of the Pentagon from 1961 to 1968, first for JFK and then for President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was part of that decade’s major events — including the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961, the missile crisis, and the escalation of the Vietnam War.

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