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On the recordJune 22, 1963
As a citizen of Boston, which takes pride in being the oldest city in the United States, I find it sobering to come to Cologne where the Romans marched when the Bostonians were in skins.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Rathaus in Cologne After Signing the Golden Book.

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