NIXON CITES KENNEDY'S U-2 QUOTE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500450125-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 125
• Publication Date: January 1, 2000
• Content Type: NSPR

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H !CA G0,Jule30-Vice
I'r,?s;uent Richard M. Nixon
I lay threw Sen John F. Ken-
a ?ds'~ u' n words back at him
gize" to Soviet -)jea*1er Ni;cfta
S. Khrusbc her e r : ,
~ ixon's press secretatY~e
berg Klein. told swat ~N
Nixon had based tt ,;; *ceep
in the argument on whetherlanee speesfi_
nominee once suggested that Ihad placed in the Co
President Eisenhower "apolo- sional Record.
Nixon told' ttte QOP
vention here Thursday
that Kennedy had made
could have apologized or oft
regrets" to Khrushchev 'for
the U-2 flight which was
downed is the Soviet Unlqu
v Kennedy said yesterday at
fyannis Port, Mau., that he
Ihad suggested at the time 'of
the Summit Conference ool-
"it might have been
lapse that
Ibetter to exprem regret toga
tell the lie that emb
srrasse
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indicated that
another
did riot use the wOrd''apolo.
gize, " Salinger said:)
Today Klein read?ftota the
which clearly' shdv~a that he' 4
in the Con essiona1 tdecord.1
["Mr. Klein fails'to mention
that there's a full transcript
Kennedy for the red el .eta
campaign " ' '
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responsible' for the flight.' We
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i Iii been aub~
t3terefore that was a coadf
rushchev knew,
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ifeeet and the
indlcated- that he wanted .
brea* (it) up. If he had mere-
y asked? that the U
States should express r'egret';
boll Nixon and former . New tben that , would have beef' ?i.
sble term. Q?
ryr those fro
t had said . he had p ~ed those tha! t-be
1 apologizing, both Repnbllc
were iC r~epp,~ b jIVe butt.
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