Did anyone else think the following seemed implausible? > Thinking it was a real folk song—and the Austrian national anthem to boot—Reagan famously played ["Ed

Did anyone else think the following seemed implausible? > Thinking it was a real folk song—and the Austrian national anthem to boot—Reagan famously played ["Edelweiss"] for the Austrian president at a White House state dinner in 1984. It turns out this is at least a gross exaggeration, as Reagan's remarks at that dinner show: > Your visit is a celebration of something real, tangible, and enduring: the friendship between the people of Austria and the people of the United States. At one point in "The Sound of Music," the character who plays Baron von Trapp sings a song about the edelweiss, an Austrian flower. And before the song ends, the lyrics become a prayer for Austria itself. It is a prayer Americans join in—"Blossom of snow, may you bloom and grow—and bless your homeland forever." - http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=39575 http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=39575