John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I know that you all join me in welcoming our distinguished visitor back here to the United States, back to Washington.”

No industry has a greater impact upon the Nation and no industry has a greater opportunity to affect our economic progress.

The recommendations are likewise acceptable to me, and will be included in my budget recommendations to the Congress in January.

We are proud to have them here also because they are a Scottish Regiment, and that green and misty country has sent hundreds and thousands of Scottish men and women to the United States and they have been among our finest citizens.

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.