John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I remember there is a picture of Abraham Lincoln welcoming your predecessors to the East Room and I am delighted to…”

I regard it as serious.

I know who they are going to blame.

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