Address at the Free University of Berlin
06/25/1963
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American prestige, essential to our influence and our security, has declined these last 8 years even more sharply than we realized.
I do not detect any note of urgency in the speeches of the Vice President.
I run for the office of the Presidency after 14 years in the Congress with full recognition of the responsibilities of that office.
This is a great country and I have unlimited confidence in it, and I have served it for 18 years.