The President's News Conference
11/02/1954
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Of course we do--we want Nixon and Lodge.
No petty differences of any kind can ever tear apart these two great countries.
I have no reason to believe that it would now be easy to achieve a treaty.
It never even occurred to me to make that as one of the basic issues--what to do with Mr. Khrushchev.