John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I propose that we create a new and vital partnership between the National Government and the communities of America.”

I regard it as serious.

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

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.

They may be facts which some would prefer to forget, but if the United States of America, and particularly the Northeast United States, these 15 States, are going to move ahead and provide a better life for the people of Delaware and the…