Posted on 08/17/2017 1:02:12 PM PDT by HarleyLady27
Declaring that “the final word has been spoken as far as I am concerned,” President Reagan defended his planned visit Sunday to the German military cemetery at Bitburg, telling foreign reporters yesterday that “I think it is morally right to do what I am doing and I am not going to change my mind about that.”
Vice President George Bush, meanwhile, who has refrained from public statements on the Bitburg controversy, told a United States Chamber of Commerce meeting in Washington yesterday that “Ronald Reagan has not changed on his abhorrence of the Holocaust — he never will. But the time has come for understanding and support for the President.”
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Reagan’s Final Solution to His Bitburg Visit: ‘it is Morally Right What I Am Doing and I Am Not Going to change my mind about that.
And thanks to FReeper: dfwgator for article...
Ping...
Morality is a rare earth element in the swamp.
This just goes to show the communist goals for America hadn’t quite taken over the leadership of both parties just yet during Ronald Reagan’s Presidency.
What Charlottesville demonstrated with an all out coordinated false-flag effort by both parties, and their media, just shows how far they’ve come in taking over the leadership of both parties.
May God keep President Donald Trump safe while all this long-term corruption gets exposed.
CGato
A friend that I played football and graduated from high school with was in the Secret Service and guarded Nancy Reagan during the Bitburg visit.
Recently there was an article, of how five year old Chelsea Clinton wrote to Reagan at the time, protesting his visit to Bitburg cemetery. At age five, she was knowledgeable enough about history and the issues involved, to condemn Ronald Reagan.
At age six, Chelsea also claims she left her church over the abortion issue. But that’s a separate story.
Thanks for posting it.
My brother served 2 years in the Secret Service at the White House under Nixon. He got out because he said it was worse than pulling guard duty in the Army
They expected Reagan not to honor the rest of dead buried there because of that?
Yes, that’s correct. The left had a hissy fit that Reagan would go there due to some SS officers buried there. They made it sound as if it were a Nazi only cemetery, which was not what it was.
My friend didn’t stay long either and eventually ended up becoming a US Marshall.
I was part of the President’s advance team at Bitburg. I was there a month setting up the visit. We made numerous changes almost up to the last minute to mute the various criticisms that were directed against the visit to the cemetery. Lots of memories and stories.
The daughter of the Mayor of Bitburg was married to a US serviceman. Every year there was a ceremony at the cemetery with the US base commander participating with the mayor and local authorities. There was tremendous good will between the US military personnel stationed there and the local community. The controversy over the Reagan visit did not help our relations with the local community.
“But the time has come for understanding and support for the President.”
Does this seem like a little weak statement by the Vice President? It doesn’t say he agrees.
The ONLY reason G.H.W.Bush was near Former President Ronald Reagan is because Bush tried every other way to get to where he wanted to be: POTUS...ever wonder who really was behind the shooting of Reagan that day???
Hinkley...who was having dinner in Denver Colorado that week BEFORE Former President Ronald Reagan was shot??? G.H.W. Bush and the HINKLEY FAMILY!!!
Naturally, pop culture had to chime in. A punk rock band, the Ramones, put out a single titled Bonzo Goes to Bitburg:
Bonzo goes to Bitburg
then goes out for a cup of tea
As I watched it on TV
somehow it really bothered me
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It was quite similar to the current Left's reaction to DJT's remarks on Charlottesville.
I loved Reagan.
Got to personally meet both He and His Wife once.
He never told the German people: ‘I am a jelly donut.’
Not once.
Wow, that’s a startling revelation.
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