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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Collection: Correspondence, White House Office of:
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Folder Title: 750th Anniversary of Berlin
Box: 82 (1987)
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THE OF THE UNITED
OF
750th Anniversary of Berlin, 1987
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Berlin, one of the world's great cities and the largest German city, this year
observes its 750th anniversary. This is cause for celebration for Berliners and
for all Germans, and also for the people of the United States and the rest of
the world.
The history and character of Berlin and its people give powerful testimony
about human nature and its capabilities. After three-quarters of a millennium
and many shocks and reversals through the ages, Berlin is yet a young city-
young with all the capacity of the human spirit to renew itself, to strive and to
seek, to build anew and create, and, most of all, to hope. Time and again,
Berlin has overcome desolation and isolation with will, energy, and courage.
Even now, its spirit towers over the wall that presently divides the city.
Today Berlin remains close to the spiritual center of the Western world.
Americans have a special affinity for Berlin that goes beyond formal political
or economic ties, because we feel a kinship with its spirit of strength and
creativity and because we see our own hopes and ideals mirrored in the deep
attachment of its people to freedom and its blessings. Thousands of Ameri-
cans-scholars, service men and women and their families, business people,
diplomatic personnel, and so on-live in Berlin and make vital contributions
to the life of the city. We have helped Berlin grow, and we have shared its
spirit.
As we near the end of the 20th century, we see that Berlin, though ancient, is a
city of the future. We know that the courageous and freedom-loving spirit that
has guided so much of Berlin's past will help ensure a future of freedom for all
mankind in the years to come. "Berlin bleibt doch Berlin-Berlin is still
Berlin."
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of
America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws
of the United States, do hereby recognize Berlin's 750th Anniversary, 1987. I
call upon the people of the United States to join in celebrating and honoring
Berlin's 750th anniversary with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eighth day of June,
in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and eleventh.
Ronald Reagon