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I prefer diplomacy.
:12:04
Yes.
:12:07
Khrushchev would welcome a summit.
:12:09
But while he's constructing those bases,
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there's absolutely nothing
for me to negotiate
:12:14
but American strength and
American interest.
:12:16
I think you should release the evidence,
:12:18
prove to the world that
those bases and missiles exist.
:12:21
The evidence is in aerial photographs.
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Publish them.
:12:24
I can't.
:12:27
I'd compromise our
intelligence operations.
:12:30
Mr. President, without
ill-informed public opinion
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on your side,
:12:36
without the world knowing that
those bases and missiles exist,
:12:39
you increase the chances for
conflict, you don't diminish them.
:12:45
There mustn't be the slightest suspicion
:12:47
that you are provoking a crisis
:12:49
because there's an election
here next month.
:12:54
Good evening, Mr. President.
:12:55
David, how are you?
:12:56
Missed you at dinner, Robert.
:12:57
Sit down.
:12:58
How are you?
:12:59
Very hungry.
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What about Dobrynin?
:13:03
I have no secrets from
David at the moment.
:13:09
Dobrynin insists he knows nothing
about the missiles in Cuba.
:13:13
And the ships?
:13:17
According to him,
they're going to run the blockade.
:13:22
Whas your impression, Bobby?
:13:27
Well, I think Dobrynin is
telling the truth.
:13:29
I think he's in the dark
about the missiles.
:13:30
And he's frightened,
events are moving too fast,
:13:32
he's not receiving
up to the minute instructions.
:13:34
Then is possible that Khrushchev
hasn't made up his mind?
:13:37
Is possible, yes.
:13:40
Or that he's not running the show
over there any more.
:13:42
That makes the situation
even more difficult.
:13:44
I know that, David.
:13:47
There are 25 or so Soviet ships
that are going to hit
:13:49
our blockade line in the morning and
I can't control them.
:13:52
Khrushchev might not be able to, either.
:13:54
He needs time.
:13:56
Possibly.
:13:58
You drew the quarantine line,
what, 800 miles from Cuba,