President Kennedy: I think this can be an asset, this program. I think in time, it’s like a lot of things, this is mid journey and therefore everybody says ‘what the hell are we making this trip for but at the end of the thing they may be glad we made it. But we’ve got to defend ourselves now and I think that at least its occurred to me that unless the Russians do something spectacular, the only way we can defend ourselves is if we put a national security rather than a prestige label on this.