:09:00
and Kennedy won't commit
American power now.
:09:03
How do we convince him?
:09:06
I want you to have a private talk
:09:08
with your friend the Russian ambassador.
:09:11
Dobrynin, tonight?
:09:13
We're going to miss you at dinner.
:09:32
Mr. Attorney General,
in the past I've told you
:09:34
precisely what Chairman Khrushchev
told me.
:09:37
I believed him then,
and I believe him now.
:09:39
I assure you, that as far as I know,
:09:42
there are no offensive missiles in Cuba.
:09:44
But Mr. Ambassador, we have the proof,
:09:46
there are offensive missiles in Cuba.
:09:48
Why didn't the President accuse us
:09:50
when Gromyko and I sat with him
:09:52
in his office just two days ago?
:09:54
There was nothing the President
could tell Gromyko that,
:09:56
Gromyko didn't already know.
:09:58
And Gromyko didn't bring it up
because evidently
:09:59
your government was determined
to deceive us.
:10:01
I cannot accept that.
:10:02
You must accept the fact, Mr. Dobrynin,
:10:04
that the missiles are there,
:10:06
and President Kennedy would never allow
those bases to stand in Cuba.
:10:08
There's no threat to peaceful
relations between us.
:10:11
There is, and the President
will not tolerate
:10:13
this breach of trust, this act of war,
:10:16
taken at the very moment
when men we've come to trust,
:10:18
men like yourself have been insuring us
:10:20
of your peaceful intentions.
:10:22
I was not my intention to
mislead President Kennedy.
:10:25
And now, can you communicate
Chairman Khrushchev's
:10:29
intentions now without, misleading us?
:10:32
All I can say now is that my government,
:10:34
my government considers
the blockade illegal,
:10:39
and unwarranted.
:10:41
I can assure you the blockade was
the most moderate,
:10:43
response we could devise.
:10:45
A act of war, we're attempting to react
:10:48
as sensibly as possible.
:10:50
Let me ask you this question directly,
Mr. Dobrynin,
:10:54
are your ships going to try
to get through to Cuba?
:10:57
Yes, the captains have received
those instructions.