What did Kennedy mean by saying that the United S
mean by saying that the United States "made every effort...to give our adversary
room to move"?

JFK stated that after using all their known tactics (excluding the launch of nuclear missiles) the US was going to begin to become more persuasive toward the soviets and cuba by being less hostile and more talkative and reasonable.

Explanation:

special interest groups must step back and let the process work itself out a representative can amend it at several points in the congressional staffers must do homework and report to the floor on what they 've learned

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation: