John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “This will permit us to make maximum use of our agricultural productivity to further economic development, peace and…”

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.

I think it would be unwise to attempt to negotiate it out here.

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