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...most dramatic appeal came in April 1985, on the eve of President Reagan's controversial trip to the Bitburg military cemetery in West Germany, where members of Hitler's SS are buried. At a ceremony to receive the Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement, Wiesel, standing on the same podium as the President, implored him to call off the visit. "That place, Mr. President, is not your place," he said. "Your place is with the victims of the SS." Reagan went to Bitburg despite the protests, but Wiesel's plea had a lasting resonance...
...years later it is too easy to forget the horrors that Naziism visited on hundreds of millions of people throughout the world. No doubt it is unpleasant to cast aspersions on a much beloved world statesman or to raise a fuss over a short visit to a cemetary at Bitburg. There is a temptation to resent what German Chancellor Helmut Kohl called, "an arrogance of the late-born," but there is no excuse for not facing the truth--as ugly...
...Brokaw and ABC's Jennings were in the country three weeks earlier for the presidential elections. All three anchors were in Geneva last November for the summit and in Mexico City in September to report on the earthquake. Jennings anchored 19 newscasts from foreign locations last year, including Paris, Bitburg and Hiroshima...
...staff last January, the normally discreet McFarlane began grumbling about his job. He first felt shunted aside by Regan at the European economic summit last spring in Bonn. The National Security Adviser had opposed the President's visit on the same trip to a German military cemetery at Bitburg, where Nazi SS officers were buried, but Reagan went ahead with it. When Reagan was hospitalized for cancer surgery in July, the chief of staff had McFarlane present his daily security briefings to the President in writing, rather than orally. At the same time, Regan visited the President's bedside regularly...
...directions. Instead of revitalizing his capable team of advisers, Reagan let it break up, and then lost more time as Donald Regan settled in as the new chief of staff. The President stirred a storm of controversy in May by insisting on visiting a German military cemetery at Bitburg where SS officers were buried. He and his Administration were also diverted by situations beyond their control: the hostage crisis in Beirut, the operation to remove a cancerous polyp from his colon...