Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fresh from his own trip to Europe to attend Konrad Adenauer's funeral, the President decided not to ignore the newly revived tempest over Viet Nam. Departing from the text of a speech to a group of physicists, he declared: "I want to negotiate a political settlement. But I can't just negotiate with myself. Maybe somewhere, somehow, some day, someone will sit down and want to talk instead of kill. If they do, I'll be the first one at the table...
Scores of high-ranking guests attending the funeral of Konrad Adenauer were posing for pictures outside Bonn's Villa Hammerschmidt, the official home of German Presidents. Suddenly a photographer asked Lyndon Johnson to shake hands with Charles de Gaulle. A moment of embarrassed silence. Then Johnson instinctively smiled and reached out his hand. The imperious French President, whose relations with the U.S. have been steadily cooling, did likewise, and the two hands hovered in a brief clasp. The two men had just started to withdraw their hands when West German President Heinrich Lübke, as if alarmed that...
...state, twelve prime ministers, 18 foreign ministers and delegations from 53 other countries had come primarily to honor the man whom West Germany buried with the pomp and glory that his achievements warranted. Flanked by flowers, rows of his decorations and a military honor guard, the body of Konrad Adenauer lay in state in Cologne's soaring cathedral. As the country observed seven days of mourning, thousands of Germans, many in black, some weeping, filed past his bier in final tribute...
After more than two hours of talks, the two men parted, and Johnson boarded Air Force One to return to Washington. He left Bonn somewhat sobered by the new independence and shifting attitudes of Western Europe. Konrad Adenauer, with his love of getting down to the cold facts, would have been pleased that his funeral brought the President face to face with the changing realities of U.S.-European relations...
...Died. Konrad Adenauer, 91, the man who made a new Germany; of influenza and bronchitis; in RhÖndorf, West Germany (see THE WORLD...