Seymour Weiss would push back against any efforts to remove the Jupiters, but he and others realized that President Kennedy had a âkeen interestâ in the matter and that Secretary of Defense McNamara had ordered that action be taken (assigning his General Counsel John McNaughton to take the lead). Nevertheless Weiss and Assistant Secretary of State William Tyler presented Secretary of State Rusk with a memorandum making the case against action on the Jupiters or at least postponing their removal until a âlater time.â Paralleling arguments made during the crisis by Ambassadors Hare and Reinhardt, Tyler pointed to the âsymbolic and psychological importanceâ of the Jupiter deployments. While Tyler noted parenthetically that the Italians had âgiven indications of a disposition to work toward the eventual removal of the Jupiters,â the U.S. could not phase them out âwithout general Alliance agreement,â including Italy and Turkeyâs consent, âunless we are prepared to lay ourselves open to the charge of abrogation of specific or implied agreements.â Rusk was in the know on the secret deal, but his reference to a âlater timeâ was consistent with it and signing the memo would have placated Tyler and Weiss.