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to the so-called ''Fourth' countries, or do you still look upon the test
ban negotiations as a way to do this? Are you prepared to keep on
with the moratorium ?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, of course, if you had real test bans that
applied to all nations, then the only way other nations could get weapons
would be through gale, transfer or gift.
Now frankly, of course, it concerns any thoughtful individual as to the
problem of the spread of these weapons to smaller and other nations,
as the process of their manufacture may become more simple and just
through, you might say, the method of absorption, and the necessary
know-how becomes more widespread,
I am of the belief that if you could have now a ban on all testing that
everybody could have confidence in, it would be a very, very fine thing
to stop this, for this very reason, if no other: It's a very expensive
business, to begin with. The very first bomb we produced I think cost
America two billion dollars or more before we ever had the very first
one, And since-that time I don't believe that our -- although you'd have.-“+
to look this up -- but I think our appropriations have never been below: *
two billion dollars a year. So itis an expensive business,
O. (Roberts) Could Task, sir, are you prepared, in face of the
difficulties at Geneva, to keep our negotiator there more or less
indefinitely? You put the moratorium on sort of a day-to-day basis a
month ago.
THE PREGID.INT: I want to keep him up as long as there is the slightest
chance of success, We should get this kind of agreement as soon as we
can,
©. Burd, Chicago Tribune. Mr. President, where do you expect tu be
and what do you expect to be doing one year from now?
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TH PRESIDENT: I hope out on the desert or down shooting quail in
Georgia, Or maybe just sitting in a rocking chair.
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Have you decided yet, Mr.
resident, in connection with the Panama Canal, what form of visible
“vidence of titular sovereignty should be displayed over the Canal?
Tn PRESIDENT: Well, I'll tell you, Mr. Belair. Here is a question
" at, if it had been answered -- or asked to me three years, I'd have
_nown exactly what I would have said. Cne of the earliest tours I had in