John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I hope to set before the people our unfinished agenda - to indicate their obligations - and not simply follow their…”

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.

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.