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On Monday, October 22, 1962, President Kennedy gave an address to the nation that began with the following words: Good evening my fellow citizens:

This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere.

How did President Kennedy respond to the situation he described in this address?

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by setting up a quarantine of Cuban ports to prevent Soviet missiles from being delivered

by using the "hot line" to persuade Soviet leaders to stop sending missiles to Cuba

by bombing the Soviet missile sites in Cuba before they could be completed

by organizing a summit meeting with Soviet leaders to discuss their missiles in Cuba

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