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114 - In
Memory:
Gorbachev,
tear down this wall
Sunday, June 6, 2004 -- Former
Chancellor Helmut Kohl praised Ronald Reagan on
Sunday as "a great friend of the Germans" for his
role in bringing down communism and ending Europe's
Cold War division.
-----Kohl said he would never forget
standing next to the U.S. president in 1987 when
Reagan challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
to "tear down this wall," the last high point of
Cold War rhetoric in West
Berlin.
----"Ronald Reagan was a man who achieved
great things for his country," Kohl said in a
statement. "He was a stroke of luck for the world,
especially for Europe."
----Reagan stood before the wall's concrete
and barbed wire on June 12, 1987, and delivered a
speech at the Brandenburg Gate that dared the
reform-minded Gorbachev to pressure East Germany's
Stalinist regime.
----By the summer of 1989, communism was
crumbling in eastern Europe and East Germans
started fleeing to the West via other Soviet bloc
countries.
----On Nov. 9, East Germany threw open the
wall under pressure from massive pro-democracy
protests, allowing people to go west once again
without fear of being shot at the border. On Oct.
3, 1990, Germany - and with it, Berlin - reunited,
the communist east merging with the capitalist
west.
----"His determined support for freedom
contributed decisively to overcoming the division
of Europe and of Germany," Kohl said. "We Germans
have a lot to thank Ronald Reagan
for."
----The two leaders' 1985 visit to a German
war cemetery in Bitburg - highly controversial at
the time because SS soldiers are buried there - was
a "great gesture of friendship" and reconciliation
40 years after the end of World War II, Kohl
said.
----Reagan was "a dependable,
straightforward and loyal friend," he
said.
----German President Johannes Rau expressed
"respect and gratitude" for Reagan's part in ending
the division of Europe and Germany, saying his
death would sadden many
Germans.
----"With Ronald Reagan departs a man who
was a loyal friend and ally to Germany in difficult
times," Rau, whose post is largely ceremonial, said
in a statement.
----"In a divided world he always upheld our
common vision of a united and peaceful
Europe."
----In 1987, the wall erected by East
Germany to keep its citizens from fleeing to the
West had been in place for 26 years, stretching 160
kilometers (100 miles) around West Berlin, its
barriers reinforced by electric fences, dog runs
and watchtowers.
----West Berlin was a capitalist island
encircled by Soviet-backed East Germany and its
capital, East Berlin.
----Reagan, like John F. Kennedy more than
two decades before, made his critical point in
German in his 1987 speech, expressing "this
unalterable belief: 'Es gibt nur ein Berlin' -
There is only one
Berlin."
----"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you
seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet
Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek
liberalization, come here to this gate," Reagan
said.
----"Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate.
Gorbachev,
tear down this Wall
Rau said Reagan provided active proof of the
U.S. commitment to
Berlin.
----"We will not forget that," Rau
said.
----Few traces of the Berlin Wall remain
today, though a museum at the famed Checkpoint
Charlie, the former border crossing from West
Berlin's American sector into East Berlin, reminds
visitors of daring and desperate escape attempts by
East Germans between 1961 and 1989.
June
6, 2004 RONALD WILSON REAGAN / 1911-
2004
Reagan
Dies at 93
He created the Republican Inter-circle
Ronald
Reagan / White House
At the end of his two terms
in office, Ronald Reagan viewed with satisfaction
the achievements of his innovative program known as
the Reagan Revolution, which aimed to reinvigorate
the American people and reduce their reliance upon
Government. He felt he had fulfilled his campaign
pledge of 1980 to restore "the great, confident
roar of American progress and growth and
optimism."
----On
February 6, 1911, Ronald Wilson Reagan was born to
Nelle and John Reagan in Tampico, Illinois. He
attended high school in nearby Dixon and then
worked his way through Eureka College. There, he
studied economics and sociology, played on the
football team, and acted in school plays. Upon
graduation, he became a radio sports announcer. A
screen test in 1937 won him a contract in
Hollywood. During the next two decades he appeared
in 53 films.
----From
his first marriage to actress Jane Wyman, he had
two children, Maureen and Michael. Maureen passed
away in 2001. In 1952 he married Nancy Davis, who
was also an actress, and they had two children,
Patricia Ann and Ronald
Prescott.
----As
president of the Screen Actors Guild, Reagan became
embroiled in disputes over the issue of Communism
in the film industry; his political views shifted
from liberal to conservative. He toured the country
as a television host, becoming a spokesman for
conservatism. In 1966 he was elected Governor of
California by a margin of a million votes; he was
re-elected in 1970.
----Ronald
Reagan won the Republican Presidential nomination
in 1980 and chose as his running mate former Texas
Congressman and United Nations Ambassador George
Bush. Voters troubled by inflation and by the
year-long confinement of Americans in Iran swept
the Republican ticket into office. Reagan won 489
electoral votes to 49 for President Jimmy
Carter.
----On
January 20, 1981, Reagan took office. Only 69 days
later he was shot by a would-be assassin, but
quickly recovered and returned to duty. His grace
and wit during the dangerous incident caused his
popularity to soar.
----Dealing
skillfully with Congress, Reagan obtained
legislation to stimulate economic growth, curb
inflation, increase employment, and strengthen
national defense. He embarked upon a course of
cutting taxes and Government expenditures, refusing
to deviate from it when the strengthening of
defense forces led to a large
deficit.
----A
renewal of national self-confidence by 1984 helped
Reagan and Bush win a second term with an
unprecedented number of electoral votes. Their
victory turned away Democratic challengers Walter
F. Mondale and Geraldine
Ferraro.
----In
1986 Reagan obtained an overhaul of the income tax
code, which eliminated many deductions and exempted
millions of people with low incomes. At the end of
his administration, the Nation was enjoying its
longest recorded period of peacetime prosperity
without recession or
depression.
----In
foreign policy, Reagan sought to achieve "peace
through strength." During his two terms he
increased defense spending 35 percent, but sought
to improve relations with the Soviet Union. In
dramatic meetings with Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev, he negotiated a treaty that would
eliminate intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
Reagan declared war against international
terrorism, sending American bombers against Libya
after evidence came out that Libya was involved in
an attack on American soldiers in a West Berlin
nightclub.
----By
ordering naval escorts in the Persian Gulf, he
maintained the free flow of oil during the
Iran-Iraq war. In keeping with the Reagan Doctrine,
he gave support to anti-Communist insurgencies in
Central America, Asia, and
Africa.
----Overall,
the Reagan years saw a restoration of prosperity,
and the goal of peace through strength seemed to be
within grasp.
///
Farewell
Address
Broadcast Jan. 11, 1989, from the Oval
Office
///
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