John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I want you to know that we are solidly behind you.”

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.

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

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

I regard it as serious.