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There is no double-cross.
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The idea of trading our base in Cuba
for your base in Turkey
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is not unreasonable.
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Your own Walter Lipman
made the proposal three -
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I want to make this as clear as I can.
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I don't give a damn
who mentioned what unofficially.
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You have to understand that
the idea of trading bases
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is completely, totally,
and perpetually unacceptable.
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It was unacceptable yesterday,
is unacceptable today,
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it will be unacceptable tomorrow,
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and eternally unacceptable.
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Any questions?
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None, Skally, no questions.
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Mr. President, we just had reliable word
that one of our U-2s
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has intruded on Soviet airspace.
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Where?
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Over the Shoque Peninsula.
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The plane was on an air sampling
mission and went off course.
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But the Soviets might interpret it
as a preparation by us
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for a nuclear first strike.
1:00:51
I thought we grounded all U-2 flights
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everywhere except over Cuba?
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We did.
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Get me Maxwell Taylor.
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There's always some so and so
never gets the word.
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If the Americans want nuclear war,
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they can have it at any time.
1:01:06
They don't require a pretext,
neither do we.
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I have ordered our fighters to track down
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the American U-2 and to send it home.
1:01:15
But I've also ordered them
not to fire upon it,
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a direct order.
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In the time since we dispatched
the second letter
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you so fervently desired,
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nuclear war has
nearly been triggered twice.
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Once because we cannot control
every action
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of our forces around the world,
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and once because Kennedy has
the same limitation.
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And why did we take this risk?
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To force America to
remove obsolete weapons
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under humiliating circumstances.
1:01:46
Alexander Foreman has reported
to me personally
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that Kennedy will never agree
to those conditions.
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Do you want to further test
Kennedy's nerve?
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Are you prepared for war?
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Are you prepared for total destruction?