John Kerry: “I want to address the Senator from Pennsylvania. He asked a good question. I want to answer that. The Senator from New…”

“I want to address the Senator from Pennsylvania. He asked a good question. I want to answer that. The Senator from New Hampshire said you take a risk if you lift this. I would answer him by saying it is exactly the opposite. It is no risk to lift it. You take a risk to keep it. The risk to keep it is that whatever cooperation we can get stops because we made an arrangement with the Vietnamese. The policy of two Presidents has been if you cooperate on this, this is the way you lift the embargo. That is the policy of the United States. The Vietnamese have done everything. I will say to the Senator that they have done every single thing that I asked or our committee asked the entire time we were there. They did not refuse to go one place. They did not refuse access to one person. Nor has the team that is there said they refused anything. The Senator from New Hampshire is correct. Have we been everywhere? No, it will take 10 years or more for us to get everywhere. Have we been in every prison? No. Have we excavated every site? No. But the Senator from New Hampshire, I know, cannot apply the same standard that he is applying to Vietnam that they be fully forthcoming, to our own DIA, CIA, or Defense Department.”