Inaugural visit to Trump
Merz takes book to German immigrants to Washington
Chancellor Merz spends the night before his meeting with US President Trump in the president’s guest house opposite the White House. It is a tradition to bring something there.
Anyone who stays in the US President’s guest house leaves a book there. This is a tradition that Chancellor Friedrich Merz also adheres to. According to a government spokesman, the CDU politician brought a collection of letters from German immigrants to the Blair House, which Walter Kamphoefner put together in 1988 under the title “News from the Land of Freedom. German Immigrants Write Home” (News from the Land of Freedom. German Immigrants Home). The letters come from farmers, workers or home employees between 1830 and 1900.
The German delegation sees the fact that Merz can spend the night in the Blair House as a special honor. In the building built in 1824, guests of the US President have been housed since 1942 – among other things, the former French President Charles de Gaulle and Queen Elisabeth II have been there. The house has 120 rooms, including 14 guest rooms and 18 employees.
It is only a few meters over the Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. There, Merz is welcomed by US President Donald Trump in the late afternoon.
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Source: Stern
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