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According to the most famous anecdote, in 1962 he addressed a crowd in Liberia: " Ladies and Gentlemen, dear Negroes ...".

This quote has never been verified, however, and is most likely an urban legend ( according to the weekly newspaper Die Zeit ).

Various other slips are well documented, though.

His word-for-word translations of German into English ( see Lübke English ) were also the subject of much mockery.