John Kennedy actually said...

"I was just looking over--and I apologize to you for keeping you waiting--we were just looking over the areas that you are going to and the functions that you are going to perform."

"I hope that it will be possible for people to be assigned to each of the companies who have the responsibility."

"We recognize they are dependent upon the finest shifts in international trade whether there is going to be prosperity or not."

"All of you go to a continent about which we know very little."