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Tear Down this Wall!! The story of Ronald Reagan's speech at the Berlin Wall (Special Edition)
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In this episode we do a deep dive on one of the most famous speeches ever given by an American President. It was when Ronald Reagan went to the Berlin Wall, just as Mikhail Gorbachev had loosened up restrictions on the Soviet and Communist world, and demanded that Gorbachev prove he was serious about change and tear down the wall that divided the people of East and West Germany.
We found a lecture from the Ashbrook Center with Reagan Speech writer Peter Robinson where he tells the story of how the speech came to be, and how the famous line "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down this…
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