The President's News Conference
09/29/1953
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We are both members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an alliance that seeks only security and peace.
No petty differences of any kind can ever tear apart these two great countries.
Our entire history since the birth of my Nation has been that of friendship.
It never even occurred to me to make that as one of the basic issues--what to do with Mr. Khrushchev.