John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “It is a great pleasure to welcome you and Madame Betancourt to Washington and especially here at the White House.”

It is a pleasure for me to join the citizens of Delaware and Maryland in opening this new highway.

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.

Our goal is the development of the most efficient, economic, and the safest transportation system for all of our people.

This highway has been built by the dedicated effort of the citizens of these two States.