: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.
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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,
:29:00
but it shouldn't have happened.
:29:04
Yes.
:29:06
Yes, well, thas very useful, Tom.
:29:13
Yes, thank you very much.
:29:15
Good-bye.
:29:19
It wasn't Hughes' fault,
:29:21
some Congressman shot his mouth off.
:29:24
No sense of sitting on the story now.
:29:26
Pierre,
release the details about the ships
:29:28
we turned back and the,
ships we permitted through.
:29:30
Ted?
:29:31
Yes, sir.
:29:32
Now is the time to respond to
Yuton's latest appeal publicly.
:29:35
Draft a statement saying that
we have done
:29:38
and will continue to do
everything possible
:29:40
to avoid a confrontation at sea.
:29:43
But make it clear that
the threat to the peace
:29:45
was created by the Soviet weapons,
:29:47
and the only answer is
in the removal of those weapons.
:29:49
Mr. President, Khrushchev still denies
:29:50
that there are offensive missiles
in Cuba.
:29:52
We're well aware of that, Pierre.
:29:53
Well, judging by the press I read,
:29:55
most of the world believes Khrushchev.
:29:56
This isn't the moment to
take a poll, Pierre.
:29:58
All I know is what I read
in the newspapers.
:29:59
American flags have been torn down
from embassies