John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I believe the people of this country are strong enough and tough enough and courageous enough to know the truth.”

I regard it as serious.

We are not planning to trade with Red China in view of the policy that Red China pursues.

I think it would be unwise to attempt to negotiate it out here.

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.