John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Mr. President, we want to welcome you here and I want to assure you tonight that you are among friends.”

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 regard it as serious.

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 know who they are going to blame.