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MEETING OF THE PRESIDENT WITH
HUGH SIDEY OF TIME MAGAZINE
FEBRUARY 8, 1967
This was a general discussion on American involvement in Vietnam.
The President said that President Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson
had done everything possible
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to our children, to our forebears and our posterity, to prevent
such an holocaust. Eut the proliferation of nuclear weapons
immensely increases the chances that the world might stumble
into catastrophe .
President Kennedy saw this clearly. He said
- Kennedy's Address to the Nation of October 22, 1962,
concerning
Addreast
the presence
the President
of Soviet missiles
in Cubao In that
said:
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"It shall be the policy of this Nation to
regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba
against any nation b
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The President said he was astounded
to find that there were several groups of people who were working
to get Congressmen who are in agreement with our policies to
make a reassessment. In this case, Senator Teddy Kennedy had
approached Congressman O'Neal
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the Use of Nuclear Weapons^ 19 61-196 7 (Disarmament Document
Series, Ref 516).
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SUMJIARY AND ANALYSIS OF PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
The U.S. Arms Control and Disarmanient Agency (ACDA) ,
established under the Kennedy
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appointed by President Kennedy the same day the
enabling Act was signed into law.
The Director
is also the chief U.S. negotiator in the field of
arms control, and much of the time he or the Deputy
Director is away at Geneva or New York
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■After the Cuban missile crisis
(1962), Premier Khrushchev
offered President Kennedy two or three on-site inspections
a year as a political concession.
The Soviet Union also
^See Review of International Negotiations on the
Cessation of Nuclear Weapon
- not participate in the ENDC, vjhich they had not been
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invited
to join.-^
Since Eisenhower, the United States had had general and
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complete disarmament as its ultimate goal, and the Kennedy
Administration introduced an elaborate plan for general and
complete