John Kennedy actually said...

And he is, therefore, one of the great explorers of an entirely new dimension.

I can imagine his satisfaction in having opened up the ocean floor to man and to science.

The Captain has given us a possibility that some day we may swim as well as the fish--or at least deeper.

Therefore I present the National Geographic Society Gold Medal Award to Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, undersea pioneer to earth-bound man, ...