John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “It is increasingly clear that the United States and Western Europe are tightly bound by shared goals and mutual respect.”

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

I regard it as serious.

And I think that--the governmental standards, let me say, on the whole I think compare favorably with those in Washington, with those in some other parts of America.

I think it would be unwise to attempt to negotiate it out here.