“If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; It is merely a conspiracy to seize power.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States and a member of the Republican Party, during a speech at the 4th Annual Republican Women’s Conference on 6 March 1956.

What might President Eisenhower have concluded after listening to the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump?

In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower delineated the difference between a political party and a conspiracy to seize power. www.walled-in-berlin.com

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Walled-In is my story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War. Juxtaposing the events that engulfed Berlin during the Berlin Blockade, the Berlin Airlift, the Berlin Wall and Kennedy’s Berlin visit with the struggle against my equally insurmountable parental walls, Walled-In is about freedom vs. conformity, conflict vs. harmony, domination vs. submission, loyalty vs. betrayal.