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...Finally, do you think there is anything more you can do personally to ease the controversy over the ceremony at Bitburg...
Before the Bitburg controversy broke, White House aides saw Ronald Reagan's trip to Europe as a pleasant presidential peregrination filled with photo opportunities. His ten-day itinerary includes both statecraft and diplomatic theater: a state visit to West Germany, the economic summit meeting in Bonn, a royal fete in Spain, a speech before the European Parliament in Strasbourg, high-level meetings in friendly Portugal. Reagan's theme will be "accentuate the positive," and in his remarks and speeches he will emphasize the 40 years of peace, amity and (relative) prosperity since...
...Hammerschmidt and partake of an intimate dinner with Chancellor Helmut Kohl and other foreign leaders at Schloss Falkenlust. Reagan's meetings with the summit participants at the Palais Schaumburg will include a working lunch to consider political issues. After visiting BergenBelsen on Sunday, Reagan and Kohl will fly to Bitburg, 300 miles to the southwest...
...have been Ronald Reagan's worst week in the Oval Office. His deft touch at manipulating political symbols faltered; the continuing storm over his planned visit to the German cemetery at Bitburg on Sunday put the President in a painful predicament with no graceful way out. His vaunted powers of persuasion could not avert a stinging defeat in the House, which killed all proposals for U.S. aid to the Nicaraguan contras for now. The Soviets turned more than normally truculent, and the U.S. economy developed some worrisome rumbles. Reagan's eternally sunny optimism for once clouded over...
Reagan's chances of winning the budget struggle have not been enhanced by last week's reverses. The uproar over Bitburg seems to be perceptibly, if perhaps temporarily, lowering the President's popularity. In a Washington Post-ABC News poll published last week, 52% of respondents wished Reagan would cancel his visit to the Bitburg cemetery, which contains the graves of 2,000 German soldiers, most of them killed during World War II, including 49 members of the Waffen SS, the combat branch of Hitler's murderous elite guard. Reagan's overall job-approval rating in the same poll dropped...