○  ich bin ein berliner (i am a berliner)  ○

john f. kennedy: "ich bin ein berliner" ("i am a 'berliner'")

i am proud to come to this city as the guest of your distinguished mayor, who has symbolized throughout the world the fighting spirit of west berlin. and i am proud to visit the federal republic with your distinguished chancellor who for so many years has committed germany to democracy and freedom and progress, and to come here in the company of my fellow american, general clay, who has been in this city during its great moments of crisis and will come again if ever needed.

two thousand years ago, two thousand years ago, the proudest boast was "civis romanus sum." today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "ich bin ein berliner."

(i appreciate my interpreter translating my german.)

there are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the communist world.

let them come to berlin.

there are some who say that communism is the wave of the future.

let them come to berlin.

and there are some who say, in europe and elsewhere, we can work with the communists.

let them come

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