John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I do not propose also to ask Cardinal Cushing to ask the Vatican to take some action.”

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.

I regard it as serious.

But don't make it impossible for us to function by legislative restraints or inadequate appropriations.