John Kennedy actually said...

"Would you pass this letter to the Commanding Officers of all units involved with my personal thanks for their outstanding performance."

"They merit a resounding 'Well Done' from a grateful Nation."

"If you should fail, if the accord at Geneva should turn out to be merely paper, then, of course, relations all over the world would become more difficult, and the belief in negotiation would be subjec..."

"Chairman Khrushchev and I, at Vienna, and other countries have committed themselves to the goal of the maintenance of a neutral and independent Laos."