“Every Federal program which has contributed to the development of the West—irrigation, power, reclamation—bears his mark, and the great Federal highway program which binds this country, together, which permits this State to be competitive east and west, north and south, this in large measure is his creation.”

—  Carl Hayden

John F. Kennedy
Kennedy, John F. (November 17, 1961). Remarks in Phoenix at the 50th Anniversary Dinner Honoring Senator Hayden. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=8451 The American Presidency Project. John Woolley and Gerhard Peters.
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