John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “We are educating a greater proportion of our youth to a higher degree of competency than any other country on earth.”

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

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.

I think it would be unwise to attempt to negotiate it out here.

They may be facts which some would prefer to forget, but if the United States of America, and particularly the Northeast United States, these 15 States, are going to move ahead and provide a better life for the people of Delaware and the…