S2 [14] THE MARVELOUS MRS. MERKEL

What Really Happened?

Andrew Jenks

Society & Culture

4.5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Jenks saw Angela Merkel on TV at George H. W. Bush's funeral. Then, he remembered that Donald Trump wouldn't shake her hand when the two first met. What could be learned from Merkel’s relationships with Presidents Clinton, W. Bush, and Obama? As it turned out, a specific, largely unknown meeting Merkel had in the Oval Office, before she became the leader of Germany, held the answer to what really happened. Guests: Dr. Jonathan Olsen (Department Chair and Professor of Government at Texas Woman’s University), Dr. Joyce Mushaben (Professor of Global Studies and Curators' Professor of Comparative Politics & Gender Policies at University Missouri-St. Louis), and Dr. Manfred Konukiewitz (former official under Chancellor Angela Merkel) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.0	George R. W. L. once said, in a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
0:51.2	A curious little girl, about six or seven years old, is running around in a peaceful and big
0:57.2	backyard. It's a forest really, and it's beautiful. As some would say, it's not literally an island,
1:04.4	but it has that blissful feel, at least in the eyes of this little girl. There's the green
1:10.0	lawns and vegetable gardens, the canals and streams cascading gently down the hills,
1:15.9	a nearby lake full of colorful aquatic plants. Now this little girl wasn't running around in the
1:22.9	future Olympian does, not so much because as this little girl would later say, she was, quote,
1:29.4	a little movement idiot. When she was five years old, she found the courage to try walking down
1:35.6	the hills in her backyard, but would inevitably fall and thus tumble down. She said, and this is
1:42.9	important to remember, what a normal person knows automatically I had to first figure out mentally,
1:49.8	followed by exhausting exercise. But she would try nonetheless, and her curiosity always had her
1:58.8	observing. Her forest as a backyard was run by the Protestant Church, where her dad was a pastor.
2:06.4	Horst Casner, the girl's father, went to set up an educational program, a college of sorts,
2:12.7	for the church. Pastor Casner was the lead teacher. In fact, he was in charge of the entire
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