[Also on the tapes, Dean Rusk, Kennedy's secretary of state, counsels that the use of nuclear weapons would have to have support from America's allies.] I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it, ... We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises. |
Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations. |
I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it. We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises. |
I wouldn't make the slightest concession for moral leadership. It's much overrated. |
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something. |
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something. |
The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them. |
The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them. |
The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake. |
We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old crow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks |
We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked. |
We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked. |
While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in |
While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in |