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...fact could hardly have been further from the hope. Mikoyan flew from New York to Washington, spent more than three hours with Kennedy, who was flanked by State Secretary Dean Rusk and former Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn ("Tommy'') Thompson. Kennedy found himself enjoying the matching of wits with Mikoyan, and the dueling went straight on without the coffee break that has become customary during such afternoon sessions in the President's office. But when the two were done, they were still where they had started...
President Kennedy said that world affairs, in a not very resounding phrase, were entering into "a rather climactic period." Secretary of State Dean Rusk, appearing before the Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan, put it another way. "I suspect that we are," he said, "on the front edge of significant and perhaps unpredictable events, a period in which some of the customary patterns of thought will have to be reviewed and perhaps revised...
Pressed for specifics, both Kennedy and Rusk wandered off into generalities. Yet, for all their inadequacy in verbalizing their feelings, both men were, in fact, reflecting a growing sense of change in the balances of the cold war. For years, cold-war relationships had seemed drawn up along a sort of Maginot line, with fixed sides, fixed positions and fixed personalities. Now that line was breached, and with its breaching had come a period of fluidity and flexibility. There were hazards ahead, but also opportunity...
Aware of these shifting tides and of things undone, President Kennedy called top members of his National Security Council executive committee into conference at Hyannisport. One by one and two by two they arrived-Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Joint Chiefs Chairman Maxwell Taylor, Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric, Under Secretary of State George Ball, Bobby Kennedy, White House Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Special Counsel Ted Sorensen, Kremlinologist Llewellyn E. Thompson
...reassure the worried Latin American nations, Secretary of State Dean Rusk had to call a hasty briefing of their ambassadors in Washington, declared that the U.S. had no intention of underwriting Castro's future. Continuing U.S. policy, he said, is to squeeze Castro to death with political and economic pressures. Moreover, Rusk explained that the "no invasion" pledge applied only to a satisfactory settlement of the missile crisis. If Castro tries to export Communism by force, the U.S. will still feel free to invade the island...