The President's News Conference
05/10/1960
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For over six decades we have worked together to create and maintain strong democratic institutions.
I do not foreclose any kind of statement that in the future may be necessary.
Of course we do--we want Nixon and Lodge.
It never even occurred to me to make that as one of the basic issues--what to do with Mr. Khrushchev.