George Bush actually said...

I congratulate Chancellor Kohl and the German people in both East and West Germany and in Berlin, so long divided, for keeping their dream of national self-determination ever alive.

Context

Remarks on Signing the Message to the Senate Transmitting the Treaty on the Reunification of Germany

09/24/1990

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