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Why The President's Trip To Berlin
Berlin is one old historic and beautiful place that is 500 years older than our nation. There are more reasons that the president's visit Berlin than just to give a speech. There were three other presidents that have made a trip to Berlin to talk to the citizens of Berlin. This is Reagan’s second time going to Berlin and he is going to talk about the Brandenburg Gate to Western Europe. The reason that Reagan is talking to the citizens is because he wants the Brandenburg Gate to be open. He was trying to persuade Mr. Gorbachev to open the gate and tear down the wall. He just wants to see Western and Eastern Europe become open to each other again.
Reagan was was hoping that he could get the gate to be open that way all of Europe would be one

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