Helmut Kohl

President Joe Biden has, for the second time this week, recalled engaging in conversations with dead European leaders and reignited debate about his age. What Happened: In a series of Wednesday fundraisers in New York, Biden spoke of his discussions during the 2021 Group of Seven meeting in the U....

(Author Mark Fritz was East Berlin correspondent for the Associated Press from 1990–1993; as an editor on the Foreign Desk, he filed the bulletin on the fall of the Berlin Wall.) History handed West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl an epic opening, and he hurled his hulking frame right through...