To lower our defenses at home or abroad without assuring ourselves that corresponding steps toward a lower armed profile are being taken by the Soviets is both wishful thinking and bad negotiating. I believe that pursuit of the policy of detente is a sortie worth making, just as long as we remember the military maxim that no competent leader makes a sortie without insuring the invulnerability of his base.
Discussing the policy of detente with the Soviet Union.
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