John Kennedy actually said...

France and the United States have been associated in the past in many great causes, but I can think of no more happy cause than to be associ...

I ask you to drink to the great Captain of the West, your President, General de Gaulle.

I come from America, 'the daughter of Europe,' to France, which is America's oldest friend.

Toasts of the President and President de Gaulle at the Formal Dinner in the Elysee Palace