John Kennedy actually said...

"There is no precedent for the simultaneous appearance of so many publications so vital to historical research and public understanding of our past."

"His introduction in Volume I is a literary model for any archival publication."

"Well, I think it would seem to me that if anybody bothered to read the pact in detail--we made several offers to the British."

"In any case, I felt that the offer we made to the British was in keeping with both our technical and moral obligations to them."