We're all Keynesians now -- ("Ich bin ein Berliner")

[Ben Zimmer]

For debunkings, see:

http://www.watzmann.net/scg/faq-25.html
http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/jfk_berliner.htm
http://tafkac.org/language/kennedy_berliner_quote.html


On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>
> Please do. My 13 years in Germany lead me to the jelly doughnut interpretation.
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:
> >
> > I assume this is a joke.  If not, I'll dig out Reinhold Aman's article in which he (in his inimitable Reinhold Aman style)
> > rebuts the jelly-doughnut-myth.
> >
> > Message from James A. Landau (JJJRLandau at netscape.com), Wed 11/30/2011 9:22 AM:
> >
> > And who can forget President Kennedy's immortal line in a speech he gave in West Berlin:
> >
> > "I am a jelly doughnut"

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