John Kennedy actually said...

I think, as you pointed out, flights of over four thousand miles an hour, at two hundred and fifteen or twenty thousand feet, all this I think is an extraordinary achievement.

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Remarks Upon Presenting the Harmon Trophy to Three Test Pilots of the X-15 Rocket Plane

11/27/1961

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