The President's News Conference
09/30/1958
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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.
The human spirit that must be free is the thing that brings 213 nationalities finally into one single nation.
I feel now it would be futile for me to attempt anything else in the way of words.
We must not be either patronizing, resentful, or treat them as a stranger or enemy.