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| | The Avalon Project : The Cuban Missile Crisis |
 | | On January 8, 1963, President Kennedy, Vice President Johnson, Secretary of State Rusk, Secretary of Defense McNamara, and Director of Central Intelligence McCone met with the bipartisan Congressional leadership from 5:30 to 6:35 p.m. |
 | | Attending were Senators Mike Mansfield, Hubert H. Humphrey, George Smathers, Richard Russell, Everett Dirkson, Thomas Kuchel, Leverett Saltonstall and Bourke Hickenlooper and from the House of Representatives were Speaker John McCormack, Representatives Carl Albert, Hale Boggs, Carl Vinson, Thomas Morgan, Charles Halleck, Leslie Arends, and Frances Bolton. |
 | | McCone drafted a brief memorandum for the record of the meeting, noting that McNamara gave a briefing on South Vietnam "expressing an optimistic point of view"; Rusk briefed the Congressional leaders on the Cuban negotiations at the United Nations and on the Congo; and McCone briefed them on Cuba. |
| www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/forrel/cuba/cuba265.htm (291 words) |
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