GERMANY: President John F. Kennedy's words "Ich bin ein Berliner" have rung out from Schoneberg town hall again, 40 years after he first delivered his famous speech to an ecstatic crowd, writes Ben Aris in Berlin.
Berliners' love affair with America has long since ended, and President Bush got a chilly reception when he visited the city earlier this year, with anti-war protesters waving banners saying: "You are no Berliner."
But the speech, relayed by loudspeakers during yesterday's opening of a Kennedy exhibition, was a reminder of when the president visited the city on June 26th, 1963.
When Kennedy arrived for his stopover in Berlin during a European goodwill tour, the Berlin wall was freshly built, Russian and US tanks had faced off at Checkpoint Charlie and the Cuban missile crisis was fresh in everyone's mind.
More than a million packed into the square at Schoneberg.
Caught up in the atmosphere, Kennedy delivered an impassioned speech: "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner'."
The crowd roared with approval.