his aide ted clifton, a wonderful man, briefed him on what was going on, kennedy said, okay. that's all right. didn't do anything about it. but he got word from a couple of people that he'd better do something about it. one of them was margaret reit higgins. most of you don't know she was a great reporter for the old herald tribune. a wonderful woman. the other person, of course, was the man who we owl know who was in the director, whose name i can't think of. i'll come back to it in a minute. they said to kennedy, this is something we cannot toll rat. we have to do something about it. he sent a message to kennedy saying what is dying here is that precious quality called hope. this made kennedy come up alert because these were the kind of people he respected. he respected them much more than the state department people. and if they were getting nervous and saying that he had to do something, then maybe he did. then he also found out that the white house press room and the white house mail room was receiving lots of black umbrellas reminiscent of chamberlain's yielding at mun