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...Johnson talked most with Kurt Kiesinger. It was the President's first chance to meet the new West German Chancellor, and he found the tall Swabian a far more formidable conferee than the compliant Ludwig Erhard had been. The first meeting was supposed to be only a 15-minute hello session; it lasted eight times that long. Kiesinger brought up the nettlesome matter of U.S.-German consultations; he was upset that when the U.S. recently decided to pull out of Germany 20,000 troops and 144 F-105 fighter-bombers, he had learned of the moves in the press...
...wanted the U.S. to withdraw from Viet Nam, believing that it was diluting Washington's interest in Bonn and Europe. Every fresh move toward détente with Russia added to his unease about the course of Atlantic affairs. Much of his unseemly sniping at his successor, Ludwig Erhard, stemmed from his worry that Erhard was too uncritically-and undemandingly-pro-American...
...policies of the Kiesinger government, in contrast to the policies of the Adenauer-Erhard era, are motivated by humanitarian, rather than political, considerations. The Kiesinger government does want reunification; but its proposals for negotiations are not primarily aimed at reunification. They are attempts to find ways to help the East German people...
Kiesinger believes that reunification will come about only after a European detente and not as a first step toward such a detente, as Adenauer and Erhard had maintained. Nor is the government totally opposed to the idea of recognizing the East German regime. Herbert Wether, one of the top leaders of the SPD and Kiesinger's Minister for All German Affairs, has already gone on record as favoring recognition, if such a step could bring about an easing of present restrictions. There is a totally new spirit in Bonn today which Mr. Rosberg has failed to depict. Gebhard Schweigler...
While former Chancellor Ludwig Erhard is known as the architect of the postwar economic recovery that West Germans refer to as the Wirtschaftswunder, a slight, self-assured man named Heinz Nordhoff is certainly one of the nation's master builders. Because he had run wartime Germany's biggest military truck plant, U.S. occupation authorities restricted him to manual labor. The more pragmatic British tapped him to revive a Wolfsburg auto factory which had been so badly bombed that, Nordhoff was later to recall, it "didn't even smell good enough for the Russians." That plant had once...