And that turned out to not exactly be the case.https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-04-28-8501250722-story,amp.html
‘ . . . According to several accounts from Americans involved in planning Reagan’s visit, Chancellor Helmut Kohl [Germany] and his aides have assured the U.S. Embassy that there is nothing about the cemetery that could embarrass the President. . . ’
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Still, it can be argued that Reagan made the best of a bad situation, and some good came of it.