John Kennedy actually said...

This started out, as Mrs. Kennedy tells in her foreword, to be, in a sense, a book for boys and girls so that they would get more out of the...

The White House, it seems to me, is becoming of greater and greater interest to Americans.

It was hoped that they would go over the book at home and read more about the Presidents who interested them most.

So I am grateful to all those who participated in a very important public service, and they are to be congratulated.