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Ronald Reagan - Speech at the Brandenburg Gate. R onald R eagan. Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate. delivered 12 June 1987, West Berlin. Video Purchase. Audio mp3 of Address. click for pdf. [AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio. (2)] Thank you. Thank you, very much.
Remarks at Brandenburg Gate Berlin, Germany June 12, 1987 . Copy provided by the National Archives and Record Administration of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum 40 Presidential Drive, Simi Valley, CA 93065
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Download speech. Video Length: 26:42. The Brandenburg Gate and the Berlin Wall separate Berlin into East and West. In spite of the changes that are going on in Communist countries, especially the Soviet Union, that wall is a reminder of the difference between freedom and totalitarianism.
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Feb 9, 2023 · “Tear Down This Wall” How Top Advisers Opposed Reagan's Challenge to Gorbachev—But Lost. Summer 2007, Vol. 39, No. 2. By Peter Robinson. © 2007 by Peter Robinson. Enlarge. Ronald Reagan speaking at the Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987. (Ronald Reagan Library) View in National Archives Catalog.
Reagan then gave his speech at the Brandenburg Gate at 2:00 p.m., in front of two panes of bulletproof glass shielding him from East Berlin. Among the spectators were West German president Richard von Weizsäcker, chancellor Helmut Kohl, and West Berlin mayor Eberhard Diepgen. In the speech, he said:
