: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
:30:01
in a half a dozen capitols.
:30:03
People are marching against us
in London, Paris,
:30:05
Hong Kong, Tokyo.
:30:07
Not to mention the communist countries,
most American cities,
:30:09
and also a couple of hundred -
:30:11
It is a frustrating situation here.
:30:13
Dammit.
:30:15
Go ahead, Pierre.
:30:18
Go ahead.
:30:22
The feeling runs deep
that we're not telling the truth.
:30:25
Good people suspect that
we're provoking this crisis,
:30:27
and I think we have an obligation
to answer.
:30:35
Mr. President, is Stevenson and
Rusk on a conference call.
:30:38
I'll need John McCoy, also.
:30:40
Yes Sir.
:30:41
Pierre, where do you think you're going?
:30:44
Sit down, light up a cigar.
:30:48
Hello, Adlai.
:30:51
President Kennedy claimed to have
incontrovertible information
:30:54
that offensive weapon sites were
in preparation in Cuba.
:30:57
He claimed to have incontrovertible
facts in his hands,