:59:08
I have been with the
State Department people for hours.
:59:11
Foreman, what the hell
is going on in the Kremlin?
:59:13
Khrushchev's proposal today reneges
:59:14
on everything you suggested yesterday.
:59:17
Did you set me up to divert attention
:59:18
while your friends arranged
for the double-cross?
:59:22
Honestly, Skally, I am puzzled, too.
:59:25
My offer was genuine and in good faith.
:59:27
Then you're being used, too.
:59:28
I don't believe that.
:59:29
Whas the explanation?
:59:31
I think is a matter of
bad communications.
:59:33
The offer I submitted is
the latest offer.
:59:38
The other was drafted first
and delayed in the transmission.
:59:41
I don't believe that you people
:59:42
have brought the world to the brink
:59:44
because some teletype operator
screwed up.
:59:46
This is a dirty, stinking, double-cross,
:59:48
and one of the most colossal
misjudgments in history.
:59:51
We're going to get those missiles
out of Cuba,
:59:54
your time has run out.
:59:55
You killed one of our men,
and we think your military
:59:57
has given your people in Cuba
new instructions.
1:00:00
There is no double-cross.
1:00:04
The idea of trading our base in Cuba
for your base in Turkey
1:00:07
is not unreasonable.
1:00:10
Your own Walter Lipman
made the proposal three -
1:00:12
I want to make this as clear as I can.
1:00:15
I don't give a damn
who mentioned what unofficially.
1:00:17
You have to understand that
the idea of trading bases
1:00:20
is completely, totally,
and perpetually unacceptable.
1:00:23
It was unacceptable yesterday,
is unacceptable today,
1:00:25
it will be unacceptable tomorrow,
1:00:27
and eternally unacceptable.
1:00:31
Any questions?
1:00:36
None, Skally, no questions.
1:00:38
Mr. President, we just had reliable word
that one of our U-2s
1:00:40
has intruded on Soviet airspace.
1:00:43
Where?
1:00:44
Over the Shoque Peninsula.
1:00:45
The plane was on an air sampling
mission and went off course.
1:00:47
But the Soviets might interpret it
as a preparation by us
1:00:49
for a nuclear first strike.
1:00:51
I thought we grounded all U-2 flights
1:00:54
everywhere except over Cuba?
1:00:56
We did.
1:00:57
Get me Maxwell Taylor.
1:00:59
There's always some so and so
never gets the word.