Arnold Schwarzenegger apologized for a 1986 wedding toast to Kurt Waldheim. “It was a mistake,” the California candidate for governor told the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angles last week about his toast to his Austrian compatriot Waldheim, the former U.N. secretary-general who covered up having served in a pro-Nazi unit during World War II.
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