John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “This commitment, I believe, is essential to a strong and forward-looking Nation, and indicates the future of the manned…”

And I think that--the governmental standards, let me say, on the whole I think compare favorably with those in Washington, with those in some other parts of America.

I just say that there's no sense having a program if a man who is innocent of any intelligence mission, which is true in this case, is subjected to arrest without means of defense.

This is the worst attack on foreign aid that we have seen since the beginning of the Marshall plan.

I regard it as serious.