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Mr. President,
is going to be impossible
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to keep this under wraps for very long.
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We don't have very long, 10 days.
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Yes, I can answer the question,
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I know President Kennedy.
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You remember, we spent many hours
together in Vienna,
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just over a year ago.
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In those hours I told him clearly
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that while we adhere to the policy of
peaceful coexistence,
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we intended to fully defend
and pursue our national
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and socialist interests.
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How did Kennedy respond.
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He told me that he was anxious
to reach an accommodation.
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He admitted that the Americans supported
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invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs
was a mistake,
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the result of his only recently
having taken power.
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In other words,
the result of his inexperience.
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He suggested that we should
stabilize the world order,
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in order to avoid future conflict,
:14:19
a proposal to which I said
I would never agree.
:14:22
I was firm with Kennedy in Vienna,
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as we had been firm in Berlin,
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where our wall symbolizes
that determination.
:14:29
We have been firm in resuming our
nuclear tests
:14:32
and our rocket,
missiles and space program.
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We have been firm in our support
of the just struggles
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for national liberation against the
capitalist imperialist forces.
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There's the story of a father who
in the cold of winter
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was forced to move his cow
into the farmhouse with him.
:14:50
The farmer didn't like
the cow in the house,
:14:51
didn't like the smell, but in time,
in order to survive,
:14:55
he grew used to it.
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You ask how Kennedy will respond
when in a few weeks