The President's News Conference
10/20/1953
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Our two nations, despite obstacles set in our paths by others, will continue the march towards peace and freedom.
We are both members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an alliance that seeks only security and peace.
It never even occurred to me to make that as one of the basic issues--what to do with Mr. Khrushchev.
I have no reason to believe that it would now be easy to achieve a treaty.