:27:01
Admiral, tomorrow morning,
:27:03
the Soviet tanker Bucharest
is going to be at that line.
:27:05
Now that ship is not to be sunk.
:27:07
It is not to be boarded
if it responds to our request
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to identify itself and its cargo.
:27:11
We are aware of the Bucharest,
Mr. Secretary,
:27:14
as we are also aware of
six Soviet submarines
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spread out over the Caribbean.
:27:19
Do you have a Russian-speaking officer
on each destroyer
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on that blockade line?
:27:23
I don't know.
:27:24
Find out.
:27:26
What are you going to do if
the Soviet captain refuses
:27:28
to discuss his cargo?
:27:30
Mr. Secretary,
this is a manual of naval regulations
:27:34
evolved continuously over
our entire history.
:27:37
It covers every contingency.
:27:38
There's a copy of this book
on every ship in the Navy.
:27:40
Admiral, I don't give a damn
what John Paul Jones would have done.
:27:43
I want to know what you are going to do.
:27:46
I'm going to follow my orders, sir.
:27:49
And now if you'll go back to
your offices, Mr. Secretary,
:27:51
the Navy will run the blockade.
:27:54
The tenth day of the Missiles of October.
:27:57
Excuse me, Mr. President.
:27:59
Yes, Pierre.
:28:00
The news services have
just released the story
:28:02
that we've let the Bucharest through
the quarantine.
:28:05
How did they get it?
:28:06
It leaked after a briefing.
:28:09
Who gave the briefing?
:28:10
Tom Hughes, sir.
:28:13
I want to speak with him.
:28:15
We've left word,
paged him at the airport,
:28:17
but he can't be reached.
:28:18
What good is it to set strategy and
make decisions
:28:20
and then have it planted
all over the newspapers.
:28:30
Yes?
:28:31
Mr. President, Tom Hughes.
:28:45
This is the President,
:28:47
what the hell is going on there, Hughes?
:28:49
We set up briefings to
take Congress into our confidence,
:28:51
not to blow our strategy.
:28:54
Anything about the Bucharest
:28:55
should have come from this Pentagon.
:28:57
I was specific on that very point.
:28:59
Yes, I know all about that,