John Kennedy actually said...

"So, General, it is an honor to come and visit you today."

"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 associated together in the climactic moment in the defense of free..."

"It is a particular source of satisfaction to me as President of the United States that we should be associated with President de Gaulle."

"In my office, in recent weeks, I've received many envoys of new countries. Many of them spoke French, the language of free men."