John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “These projects will provide major benefits to the West, and to the Nation as well as to the communities directly…”

It symbolizes, I believe, this highway, first of all, the partnership between the Federal Government and the States, which is essential to the progress of all of our people.

I regard it as serious.

I congratulate you, the people of Delaware, the people of Maryland, and the people of the United States.

This is the worst attack on foreign aid that we have seen since the beginning of the Marshall plan.