John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “It is a constant source of pride to me that I come from this State, that I represented Massachusetts, that I am…”

I regard it as serious.

I know who they are going to blame.

And I think that--the governmental standards, let me say, on the whole I think compare favorably with those in Washington, with those in some other parts of America.

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.