John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I do not believe that the American people in 1960, faced with the most serious challenge in our long history, are going…”

I regard it as serious.

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

It symbolizes, I believe, this highway, first of all, the partnership between the Federal Government and the States, which is essential to the progress of all of our people.

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.