John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I hope that you will think well of this country and recognize what we are trying to do.”

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

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.

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