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A Tale of Four Berlin Speeches: JFK, Reagan and Obama

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, June 20 2013

Four presidential speeches in Berlin manifest the worrisome trajectory of American vigor, the contrasting stature of three presidents and the miniaturization of Barack Obama. In June 1963, John F. Kennedy stood near a Berlin Wall erected two years earlier and defiantly proclaimed, “All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words, ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!” In June 1987, Ronald Reagan stood before the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin and commanded, “Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr.…

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