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On the recordOctober 26, 1962
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.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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White House Statement on Soviet Proposals Relating to International Security.

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