PHOTOS: Obama and visiting Chancellor Merkel trade pledges of partnership
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Germany’s first female chancellor has traveled the world as a global leader, but will make an official Washington visit on June 7.
Feb. 3, 1992Angela Merkel, pictured here on Feb. 3, 1992, during her tenure as German Women and Youth Minister, takes part in a meeting of the Christian Democratic Union party chairmanship in Bonn, Germany. Despite breaking her leg three weeks earlier, Merkel showed up for the meeting and resumed her work.Roberto Pfeil/AP