John Kennedy actually said...

I am grateful for your invitation and I am happy to be here.

It is in this spirit that I come to Cologne to see the best of the past, and the most promising of the future.

My stay in this country will be all too brief, but in a larger sense the United States is here on this continent to stay.

Our Alliance was founded to deter a new war; it must now find the way to a new peace.