Onto Berlin
The Berlin Wall has been down 18 years today, but America never tires of the old concrete chunks left over. Pieces grace all your finer Presidential Libraries, no matter how strained their relationship is to the Wall.
And we usually display them West side out with all the pretty graffiti.
Roosevelt: only link is this hideous sculpture made by a Churchill Granddaughter from Wall.
Truman: see where she got the semi-human shapes above? Still more Churchill relative art at Westminster College where Truman invited Churchill to let rip.
Eisenhower: none – Wall but a gleam in Walter Ulbrecht’s eye then.
Kennedy: because it was built on his watch?
Johnson: sadly, no.
Nixon: because it existed simultaneously with his Presidency?
Ford: same as above, and US established diplomatic relations with DDR.
Carter: none.
Reagan: leapt into the future and tore down his own-self.
Plus at the Ronald Reagan Building in DC:
Plus one at the “Reagan Ranch” [downhill from it in Santa Barbara]:
Other Americans have different ways of displaying the Wall: