John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I want to express my very strong appreciation to all of you this morning on behalf of the people of this country.”

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 regard it as serious.

No, we are going to bring back several hundred before the end of the year.

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.