Video: 'N Special Report: Reagan Presents Congressional Gold Medal to Elie Wiesel'

(Friday, April 19, 1985) — U.S. President Ronald Reagan listened intently today as Elie Wiesel, chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, implored him to cancel a visit to a German cemetery where Nazi war dead are buried.

“That place, Mr. President, is not your place,” Wiesel told Reagan at White House ceremonies honoring the 56-year-old writer. “Your place is with the victims of the SS.”