:37:03
You see, to put it perfectly accurately,
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we believe that you will bury yourselves.
:37:12
Gentlemen, a blockade is a first step.
:37:15
If it succeeds, we've avoided war.
:37:17
If it fails, the other options
are still open to us.
:37:21
If we attack by air,
we kill Russian technicians.
:37:25
All right,
I'll go along on humanitarian grounds
:37:28
with giving Castro 24 hours notice
and then bombing.
:37:33
ntlemen, this country is supposed to stand for someth
:37:37
Is supposed to be a symbol
of morals and values and fair play.
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Now, how the hell will bombing
a tiny country into submission
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help establish us as a leader
in the free world,
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what kind of a victory would it be?
:37:49
Better than a defeat, I would say.
:37:51
Yes.
:37:53
And when the smoke clears,
:37:54
and the corpses are dragged
from the rubble,
:37:56
what do we answer when the world
asks why, where is your proof,
:38:00
what gives you the right?
:38:04
I think we can hit Cuba by air
and get away with it.
:38:07
The Russians aren't prepared
to go to nuclear war with us.
:38:11
But I have to say that
your moral arguments
:38:15
have never occurred to me,
Bobby, but you're right,
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we have to remember who we are.
:38:22
We have to take the risk.
:38:24
And we have to put aside
the air attack option,
:38:28
at least for now.
:38:30
I'm prepared to go along
with the blockade.
:38:33
Gentlemen, the President is waiting.
:38:36
Oh, incidentally, Dean Rusk
called to say we should all go over
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to the White House in the same limousine
:38:40
to avoid tipping off the press corp.
:38:42
One car for all of us?
:38:43
Yeah.
:38:44
Pity for the government
if we get into an accident.
:38:46
I think we'll be safe,
none of us is driving.
:38:48
I'm attracted to your concept
of a blockade.
:38:51
It should give Khrushchev
time to respond thoughtfully.
:38:56
And it certainly avoids
the shock of a surprise attack.