John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “If the Soviet Union desired to see this matter settled peacefully, it would seem to me that all sides, both sides…”

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.

I regard it as serious.