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Arnold Beichman ’34, ’67 GSAS, ’73 GSAS
was invited to the White House to meet President Bush on February
27, 2005. “I had met him earlier, when he was governor of Texas,” says
Beichman, a journalist, author and fellow at Stanford’s Hoover
Institution public policy research center. “In the Oval Office,
we talked about his ambition to globalize democracy. No two democracies
(since 1789) have ever gone to war with each other. (Britain was not
a democracy in 1812). Therefore, President Bush said, a world of democracies
would be a world at peace.”
The visit was a return to the White House for Beichman,
who met President Truman in 1950 as part of a delegation of
the International Labor Press Association. He returned in
1961 to meet President John F. Kennedy (Beichman is in the
right foreground), whom he saw again in New York the week
before his assassination. “I also saw him
on June 26, 1963, in West Berlin, when he made his famous Ich
bin ein Berliner speech; I was on the balcony at the Berlin City Hall during
the speech. I noticed a couple of German auditors, journalists, who
smiled at that expression. It seems that ‘Berliner’ is
German slang for a jelly doughnut.”
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