John Kennedy actually said...

In many ways, the experience of Europe in the last 10 years has confounded all of those who believed that the tide of history was running ag...

I am grateful for your invitation to be here today.

I want to restate again the strong commitment of my country to the defense of Western Europe.

This desire for freedom, this desire for liberty, wherever it may be on the globe, in my opinion is the strongest tide of the 20th century.