A story about an old man…
When Konrad Adenauer, the first Chancellor of West Germany, was born, Ulysses S. Grant was serving as the 18th President of the United States.
When Adenauer made his eleventh trip to the US on November 14, 1962, to meet with the 35th US President, John F. Kennedy, Adenauer was then 86.
The Germans called him “Der Alte" [the old on…