NORMANDY, France, June 8 -- President Biden on issued the following remarks on June 7, 2024, on democracy and freedom at the Pointe du Hoc D-Day memorial: * * * THE PRESIDENT: John, how are you? Please, sit down. (Applause.) At last, the hour had come. Dawn, 6th of June, 1944. The wind was pounding, as it is today and always has against these cliffs. Two hundred and twenty-five American Rangers arrived by ship, jumped into the waves, and stormed the beach. They could see -- all they could s  more