AMERICA'S LONG LOST WEEKEND.

The article discusses the Berlin wall concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 as well as encircling and separating West Berlin from East German territory. Topics include the migration of people into West Berlin amid chaos and the confusion at the Berlin Wall; Bush biographer Jon Meacham recounts in Destiny and Power, "Borrowing a phrase from Scowcroft, Bush was determined not to ‘gloat, meeting with reporters in the Oval Office.