John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I think it is appropriate that we begin the 1960 campaign right here in the State of California.”

The United States, in fact all of us, love, I suppose, in a sense, lost causes, and on occasion the history of Scotland has been a lost cause.

It is a great pleasure for Mrs. Kennedy and myself to welcome the Black Watch to the White House.

I think she is very formidable, if that is the appropriate word to use about a very fine lady.

I think that by the time this Congress goes home, in the sense of next summer, that in the fields of education, mental health, taxes, civil rights, this is going to be a record that is going to be--however dark it looks now, I think that…