Photograph of a Meeting with the Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs
10/18/1962
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This is a photograph of President John F. Kennedy meeting with the Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Oval Office. Shown in the picture are left to right: Vladimir Semenov, Soviet Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; Anatoly F. Dobrynin, Ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) to the United States; Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs; President of the United States John F. Kennedy; photographers.
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Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko visited President John F. Kennedy on October 18, 1961. After discussing the situation in Berlin, Gromyko finally turned the conversation to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Gromyko claimed that the weapons in Cuba were there only to protect the Cubans from another invasion.
This primary source comes from the Collection JFK-WHP: White House Photographs.
National Archives Identifier: 595953
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