The President's News Conference
10/27/1953
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It never even occurred to me to make that as one of the basic issues--what to do with Mr. Khrushchev.
I think politics ends at the water's edge.
We are both members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an alliance that seeks only security and peace.
I would say this: it should not be an issue.