Bush Gets Memento of Liberty: His Own Berlin Wall Brick
Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the West German foreign minister, today brought President Bush a piece of the Berlin Wall as well as the thanks of the German people for helping to bring the barrier down.
“I will treasure this,” Bush told Genscher as they posed for photographers at the outset of an Oval Office meeting.
Genscher replied: “It is an expression of the strength of freedom and democracy all over Germany that our Germans . . . were in a position, by peaceful means,” to open the wall.
“It’s the result of a very clear policy of the West advocating freedom and democracy all over Europe,” he said as Bush admired the nearly foot-long gray brick that the minister had given him.
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