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The Ich bin ein Berliner speech is in part derived from a speech Kennedy gave at a Civic Reception on May 4, 1962, in New Orleans ; there also he used the phrase civis Romanus sum by saying " Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was to say, " I am a citizen of Rome.

" Today, I believe, in 1962 the proudest boast is to say, " I am a citizen of the United States.

" And it is not enough to merely say it ; we must live it.

Anyone can say it.

But Americans who serve today in West Berlin -- your sons and brothers --[...] are the Americans who are bearing the great burden.

" The phrases " I am a Berliner " and " I am proud to be in Berlin " were typed already a week before the speech on a list of expressions to be used, including a phonetic transcription of the German translation.

Such transcriptions are also found in the third draft of the speech ( in Kennedy's own handwriting ), from June 25.

The final typed version of the speech does not contain the transcriptions, which are added by hand by Kennedy himself.