Whakaotihia te rerenga kōrero e whai ake nei: I te marama o Hanuere 1961, i kī te kaiārahi o te Soviet, a Nikita Khrushchev, e tautoko ana ia i ngā pakanga whakaoranga ā-motu. I whakamāramatia e Kennedy tēnei taahiraa hei whakawehi hāngai ki te "ao herekore". I te 15 o Hui-tanguru, 1961, i tono te Perehitini ki nga Soviets kia kaua e uru atu ki te whakaoranga a te United Nations o te
Te Pakanga o Kongo. I whakaarohia e Khrushchev te whakarereke i te Ture o te United Nations ma te whakakapi i te tuunga o te Hekeretari-Tianara me te kaiwhakahaere e toru-tangata e kiia ana ko te Troyka (Russian: "rōpū o te tokotoru"). I te Mahuru 25, 1961, i korero a Kennedy ki te United Nations General Assembly, e whakaatu ana i tana pono ki te aukati i te mahere Troyka. I te 27 o Hui-tanguru o taua tau, i roto i tana reta ki a Khrushchev, ka tukuna e te Perehitini he hui hui wawe. I whakaae a Khrushchev ki te hui ki te taone nui o Austria o Vienna. Ko te hui o Vienna i muri mai i pangia e te whakaekenga o te Bay of Pigs. Heoi anō, ko Khrushchev, i whakaaro, ehara i a Kennedy te kawenga mō te whakaekenga, engari ki ōna kaitohutohu.