Office of the Historian

107. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the Soviet Union0

Washington, June 19, 1963, 11:14 p.m.

2818. Deliver following message to Khrushchev from the President.

“Dear Mr. Chairman:

I congratulate you and the Soviet people on the successful flights of Col. Bykovsky and Lt. Tereshkova, and on their record-breaking length. These latest successes stir the imaginations of all people. They are warmly acclaimed in this country, and especially by American space flyers.

John F. Kennedy”

Rusk
  1. Source: Department of State, Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 204. Unclassified; Operational Immediate. Drafted by Bundy and approved by Weiner (S/S). Another copy of this message is in the Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Countries Series, USSR, Khrushchev Correspondence.↩