JFK: “Ich bin ein Berliner”—near Berlin Wall, 55 years ago today: #JFKLibrary pic.twitter.com/OSb4GdWenm
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) June 26, 2018
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Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Ich War Noch Nicht Da
Today is the anniversary of JFK's "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" speech. A few notes--he was not saying he was a jelly donut. Germans don't call them Berliners. He was saying he was one of them...a resident of Berlin (A Berliner). Secondly, the headline above is translated as: "I was not around yet". That's because I was born one month and two days after this famous JFK speech. Hittin' double-nickles this next birthday.