【正文】 he seminar and some research was was asked to try to get the information and did attempt to do was another call about another possible conference in the July of August of 1987, I was in Washington, I did call Diane the course of this conversation, she asked me how long I was going to be in town and I told is recorded in the message as August was, in fact, August told me about Judge Thomas39。ve said before these last few days have been very trying and very hard for me, and it hasn39。 s our duty to speak in this place of I must confess, we’re drawn here by other things as well。by the beauty of the Grunewald and the Tiergarten。here, cutting across your city, where the news photo and the television screen have imprinted this brutal division of a continent upon the mind of the before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German separated from his fellow man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a Von Weizs228。ve been toldGeorge Marshall announced the creation of what would bee known as the Marshall precisely 40 years ago this month, he said: “Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.”In the Reichstag a few moments ago, I saw a display memorating this 40th anniversary of the Marshall was struck by a signthe sign on a burntout, gutted structure that was being understand that Berliners of my own generation can remember seeing signs like it dotted throughout the western sectors of the sign read simply: “The Marshall Plan is helping here to strengthen the free world.” A strong, free world in the Westthat dream became rose from ruin to bee an economic , France, Belgiumvirtually every nation in Western Europe saw political and economic rebirth。s culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities, orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and there was want, today there39。 From devastation, from utter ruin, you Berliners have, in freedom, rebuilt a city that once again ranks as one of the greatest on the Soviets may have had other my friends, there were a few things the Soviets didn39。]In the 1950sIn the 1950s Khrushchev predicted: “We will bury you.”But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and wellbeing unprecedented in all human the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kindtoo little today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with ity and is the nownow the Soviets themselves may, in a limited way, be ing to understand the importance of hear much from Moscow about a new policy of reform and political prisoners have been foreign news broadcasts are no longer being economic enterprises have been permitted to operate with greater freedom from state these the beginnings of profound changes in the Soviet state? Or are they token gestures intended to raise false hopes in the West, or to strengthen the Soviet system without changing it? We wele change and openness。s efforts to help overe these be sure, we in the West must resist Soviet , we must maintain defenses of unassailable we seek peace。and the Soviets later walked away from the through it all, the alliance held I invite those who protested thenI invite those who protest todayto mark this fact: Because we remained strong, the Soviets came back to the we remained strong, today we have within reach the possibility, not merely of limiting the growth of arms, but of eliminating, for the first time, an entire class of nuclear weapons from the face of the I speak, NATO ministers are meeting in Iceland to review the progress of our proposals for eliminating these the talks in Geneva, we have also proposed deep cuts in strategic offensive the Western allies have likewise made farreaching proposals to reduce the danger of conventional war and to place a total ban on chemical we pursue these arms reductions, I pledge to you that we will maintain the capacity to deter Soviet aggression at any level at which it might in cooperation with many of our allies, the United States is pursuing the Strategic Defense Initiativeresearch to base deterrence not on the threat of offensive retaliation, but on defenses that truly defend。we are armed because we mistrust each our differences are not about weapons but about President Kennedy spoke at the City Hall those 24 years ago, freedom was encircled。m certain, will do the it39。ve done so in spite of threatsthe Soviet attempts to impose the Eastmark, the the city thrives in spite of the challenges implicit in the very presence of this keeps you here? Certainly there39。s something deeper, something that involves Berlin39。s one major flaw: treating the glass sphere at the top with paints and chemicals of every even today when the sun strikes that sphere, that sphere that towers over all Berlin, the light makes the sign of the in Berlin, like the city itself, symbols of love, symbols of worship, cannot be I looked out a moment ago from the Reichstag, that embodiment of German unity, I noticed words crudely spraypainted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner(quote):“This wall will bee reality.”Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall, for it cannot withstand faith。ve been here about certain demonstrations against my I would like to say just one thing, and to those who demonstrate wonder if they have ever asked themselves that if they should have the kind of government they apparently seek, no one would ever be able to do what they39。citizens in the building going about their daily business。s words seem small beside the loss you have I found a few I wanted to share