Bitburg

Reporters were calling the Bitburg controversy the worst blunder of the Reagan administration.

Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993

Reporters were calling the Bitburg controversy the worst blunder of the Reagan administration.

Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993

But then there was that day in May, 1985, when some genius in the West Wing, Mike Deaver, I think, arranged for Reagan to lay a wreath at the cemetery in a place called Bitburg, where the Waffen SS were buried.

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I had a Berlin friend who I popped over to visit for a weekend in 1985 while I was working in London — it was the same weekend Reagan spoke at Bitburg, coincidentally.

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Cancellation of the president ' s scheduled visit to the Bitburg cemetery, he argued, would be fateful.

At Reagan George P. Shultz 2010

Now that that's out of the way, allow me to offer some advice, advice originally offered by Elie Wiesel to Ronald Reagan in an unsuccessful attempt to dissuade the Gipper from going to Bitburg, Germany in 1985, to pay his respects to a bunch of dead SS officers.

Alfred Gingold: A LETTER TO JAMIE DIMON 2010

Warren Kozak, in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, has attacked the Obama move, equating it with President Reagan going to Bitburg and laying a wreath at graves belonging to SS members.

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Now that that's out of the way, allow me to offer some advice, advice originally offered by Elie Wiesel to Ronald Reagan in an unsuccessful attempt to dissuade the Gipper from going to Bitburg, Germany in 1985, to pay his respects to a bunch of dead SS officers.

Alfred Gingold: A LETTER TO JAMIE DIMON 2010

There were difficult moments along the way -- from Bitburg to German-manufactured chemicals in Saddam Hussein's hands, from attacks on so-called foreigners to anti-Semitic incidents.

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I puzzled long and hard over President Reagan ' s visit to the German military cemetery in Bitburg and its implications.

At Reagan George P. Shultz 2010