nationaljournal.com
25-Jul-2008
NBC's Williams spoke with Barack Obama before and after his speech in Berlin. Obama, on the view from the stage: "It was a nice view." Williams: "When an American politician comes to Berlin, we've had some iconic utterances in the past. We've had 'Ich bin ein,' we had, 'Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.'" Obama: "I don't rate that high." Williams: "Is the phraseology that you would like remembered is 'People of Berlin, people of the world, this is our moment, this is our time'?" Obama: "You know, I think if that captures what I was trying to communicate, which is that here in Berlin where, essentially, the west was forged out of World War II, we have now the opportunity to join not only with Germany but with all of Europe and countries of good will to try to reach out and do for the world what we did for Berlin." After the...
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