June 13, 1962
CONGRATULATIONS on your decisive primary victory. Confidence demonstrated by so great a number of South Carolinians is a great source of satisfaction to all of those who work with you here in the Capital for South Carolina and the country.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
[Honorable Olin D. Johnston, Wade Hampton Hotel, Columbia, South Carolina]
John F. Kennedy, Telegram to Senator Johnston following His Victory in the South Carolina Primary. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/235854