John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “use the full power of the executive branch of the Government to assure the early enactment of District home-rule…”

I know who they are going to blame.

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

I just say that there's no sense having a program if a man who is innocent of any intelligence mission, which is true in this case, is subjected to arrest without means of defense.

I think that by the time this Congress goes home, in the sense of next summer, that in the fields of education, mental health, taxes, civil rights, this is going to be a record that is going to be--however dark it looks now, I think that…