U.S. President Kennedy and Soviet leader Khrushchev meet for two days of informal talks in Vienna, Austria. The talks do not go well, particularly from the American point of view: "He just beat the hell out of me," Kennedy would later say. On a range of issues -- Laos, nuclear testing and particularly Berlin -- Khrushchev was the aggressor, trying to take advantage of what he saw as American weakness in the wake of the failed Bay of Pigs operation in Cuba.
* The Summit Conference at Vienna (from "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-1963"): @
* Memo of June 3 talks (from JFK library): @
* Newsreel (from C-SPAN): @
* Transcript of Kennedy's televised speech, June 6: @
* Excerpt from "The Cold War: The essential readings": @
* Excerpt from "Khrushchev: The Man and His Era": @
* Excerpt from "Kennedy's Kitchen Cabinet and the Pursuit of Peace": @
* "Berlin 1961": @
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