John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I am asking the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to be of every possible help to the District in this…”

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.

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

I have great confidence in General Harkins.

I hope in the year 1963 we will again take stock of the needs of the country over the next decade and we will begin today, this year, this decade, the things which will make this country a better place to live in for the rest of this…