But the first ingredient, let me emphasize, is the cessation of work on missile sites in Cuba and measures to render such weapons inoperable, under effective international guarantees.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “But the first ingredient, let me emphasize, is the cessation of work on missile sites in Cuba and measures to render…”
On the recordOctober 26, 1962
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Message to Chairman Khrushchev Calling for Removal of Soviet Missiles From Cuba
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