It is therefore the position of the United States that as an urgent preliminary to consideration of any proposals work on the Cuban bases must stop; offensive weapons must be rendered inoperable; and further shipment of offensive weapons to Cuba must cease--all under effective international verification.
White House Statement on Soviet Proposals Relating to International Security.
Share
More from John Fitzgerald Kennedy
No, we are going to bring back several hundred before the end of the year.
This is the worst attack on foreign aid that we have seen since the beginning of the Marshall plan.
I just say that there's no sense having a program if a man who is innocent of any intelligence mission, which is true in this case, is subjected to arrest without means of defense.
It symbolizes, I believe, this highway, first of all, the partnership between the Federal Government and the States, which is essential to the progress of all of our people.
Other voices in this conversation
