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In the summer of 1961, President John F. Kennedy was sailing his yacht, the Honey Fitz, in the waters off Hyannis Port. His guests on-board that day included Adlai Stevenson and Harlan Cleveland, both of whom were there to discuss the United States’ position on disarmament ahead of the reopening of the United Nations General Assembly. On the campaign trail the previous year, then-Senator Kennedy had repeatedly championed a new, more earnest approach to disarmament. Kennedy attacked President Eisenhower for his “lack of a concrete plan for disarmament,” while telling the annual conference of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE) that arms control would be “an obligation of the highest priority in the next administration.”
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