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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “It is in this spirit that I come to Cologne to see the best of the past, and the most promising of the future.”

On the recordJune 22, 1963
It is in this spirit that I come to Cologne to see the best of the past, and the most promising of the future.
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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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