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Attitude flexible
At the same time the President took pains not to rule out an eventual meeting with the Soviet leader.
Ideally, he knew, it should be preceded by concrete progress at lower levels.
But Mr. Kennedy saw value even in an informal meeting, provided that undue hopes were not raised in connection with it.
It would give him an opportunity to take the measure of his chief adversary in the cold war, to try to probe Mr. Khrushchev's intentions and to make clear his own views.
Moreover, an eventual meeting was desirable if for no other reason than to satisfy world opinion that the U. S. was not inflexible and was sparing no effort to ease international tensions.
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