What more fitting close to 1989 than a party at the berlin wall. Thousands of people have gathered at the wall, many of them armed with hammers and chisels to chip away at the remnants of a communist system that seemed to collapse overnight. This enormous celebration which was spontaneous overshadowed the official ceremony attended by the leaders of both east and west germany. President bush sent a signal to Mikhail Gorbachev today, there will be no gloating from the white house over the developments in east germany. I was in the oval office as part of a pool when the wall came down. You dont seem elated and im wondering if youre thinking of the problems. Im not an emotional kind of guy. Bush basically said in effect, im not going to poke gorbachev in the eye. President george h. W. Bush did come into his presidency in the shadow of Ronald Reagan but maybe we had elected the right man at the right time because he was as internationalist. You had had 50 years of the cold war, two vision