John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I want to express my special thanks to my countrymen who serve the United States over 3,500 miles from our own shores.”

It symbolizes, I believe, this highway, first of all, the partnership between the Federal Government and the States, which is essential to the progress of all of our people.

I regard it as serious.

No, we are going to bring back several hundred before the end of the year.

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.