USSR: Vienna meeting: Background documents, 1953-1961: General

This file contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Soviet Union. Materials in this file include newspaper articles, background papers on nuclear science and possible cooperative space exploration projec...

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AD LIBBING POINTS: 1. Hit hard on theme of interdependence. Every one of the Allies on this North Atlantic Treaty Organization is necessary to the others. 2. Repeat the theme of confidence in the West - anti-Spenglerism. The West is on the rise. All we have to do is hold together. NATO is the fundamental organization for this holding together. 3. Note of confidence in the future of the North Atlantic Alliance. 4. It is appropriate that the North Atlantic Council be located in Paris. My visit with President de Gaulle - about which I am very much pleased - has as one main purpose: the strengthen- ing of the Alliance, of our bonds with France. For I am convinced that the strength of the relations between my country and France and the strengthening of the Alliance are in the same direc- tion. 5. The President might reassure the Council that if Mr. Rusk does not get here next Monday, a responsible officer will brief the Council on the President's meeting with Khrushchev. 6 Scientific discussion WILL Khruschev