John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I want to express my warm thanks to Mayor Brandt for his generous welcome.”

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

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.

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…

I regard it as serious.