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...West. Cargo planes, known as "raisin bombers," ferried in supplies - from potatoes to Hershey's chocolate bars - every three minutes around the clock for 15 months. The place became a symbol for the West's cold war resolve, which for Berliners culminated in John F. Kennedy's 1963 declaration: "Ich bin ein Berliner...
...have heard about John F. Kennedy's pronouncement at the Berlin Wall, "Ich bin ein Berliner" - which some people insisted could have been understood as, "I am a jelly doughnut...
...grim Wall nonetheless provided a dramatic backdrop for Reagan's attempt to reassert leadership of the Western alliance. Before an audience estimated at 20,000, the President rose to the occasion. Referring to the city's division and deliberately inviting comparison with John F. Kennedy's famed "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in 1963, Reagan expressed "this unalterable belief: es gibt nur ein Berlin" (there is only one Berlin). Taking note of the violent demonstrations against U.S. foreign policy that swirled through West Berlin before his arrival, Reagan asserted, "I invite those who protest today to mark this fact: because...
...quiet, Reagan began his address with signature folksiness. The main speechwriter, Peter Robinson, wanted Reagan to disarm the audience at the start, so he slipped a German line into the speech's opening. "Like many Presidents before me, I come here today because wherever I go, whatever I do: Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin." I still have a suitcase in Berlin...
...Stale Doughnut Myth "Wall-to-wall Kennedy" [Jan. 22] acknowledged that giggles over John F. Kennedy's "supposed gaffe" "Ich bin ein Berliner!" may not be warranted. Only in western Germany is a jelly doughnut called a Berliner. Here in Berlin a jelly doughnut is a Pfannkuchen. So the ignorant West German journalists misunderstood, as did their American colleagues based in West Germany. The Berliners knew perfectly well Kennedy didn't say, "I am a Pfannkuchen!" but, as he also said, "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin." And they loved him for it. Chris McLarren...