JFK & JACKIE ARRIVE IN LONDON
London, U.K. (JFK+50) On June 4, 1961, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy arrived here in London. Air Force One landed at London Airport North at 8:20 p.m. London time after the flight from Vienna. They were welcomed by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
President Kennedy said, in a short speech at the airport...
"It is a great pleasure to come to this ancient country from which so many of our great traditions in my own country have sprung. I come not to Great Britain as a stranger. I spent many months here in the days before the Second World War. Two of my sisters had the good judgment to marry citizens of Great Britain, and tomorrow I am ... to become the god-father of a new English citizen.*"
*JFK was referring to his scheduled attendance at the baptism of Jacqueline Kennedy's sister Princess Lee Radziwill's child.
SOURCE
"Remarks Upon Arrival at the London Airport," June 4, 1961, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, John F. Kennedy, January 20 to December 31, 1961, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1961.
JFK and Harold Macmillan
