John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Let me say that I think you ought to be commended for admitting it.”

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.

The United States, in fact all of us, love, I suppose, in a sense, lost causes, and on occasion the history of Scotland has been a lost cause.

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.

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