John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I say the verdict of history will be that Mr. Benson has been a disaster.”

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

As you know, the American Ambassador--the United States Embassy has made six protests to the Soviet Government in the last 48 hours.

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.

We are proud to have them here also because they are a Scottish Regiment, and that green and misty country has sent hundreds and thousands of Scottish men and women to the United States and they have been among our finest citizens.