The President's News Conference
08/23/1960
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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.
The day that we don't have to work, that's the day you will have to call the United States second rate.