John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “You represent the best of our country, and I know they will welcome you.”

The concurrence of the Board of Commissioners in those recommendations should assure that the entire District Highway Program can now move forward.

I hope in the year 1963 we will again take stock of the needs of the country over the next decade and we will begin today, this year, this decade, the things which will make this country a better place to live in for the rest of this…

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

I know who they are going to blame.