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May 1, 2018 · On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan stood just 100 yards away from the concrete barrier dividing East and West Berlin and uttered some of the most unforgettable words of his presidency:...
- Sarah Pruitt
The speech is commonly known by a key line from the middle part: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Reagan called for the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open the Berlin Wall, which had encircled West Berlin since 1961.
- Variety
Dennis Quaid Becomes ‘Reagan’ and Tells Mr. Gorbachev to Tear Down This Wall in First Trailer for Biopic
Well, the first trailer for Dennis Quaid‘s Ronald Reagan biopic has debuted. The actor plays the 40th President of the United States in the feature, which promises to span the major events of ...
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Dennis Quaid’s uncanny transformation in Reagan trailer
The newly released trailer of the upcoming biopic Reagan has Dennis Quaid playing Ronald Reagan, the 40th US president.
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Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” East Germany’s hard-line communist leadership was forced from power less than two years later during the wave of democratization that swept through eastern Europe, which had been catalyzed in part by warming relations between Reagan and Gorbachev (and thus between the governments of the U.S. and the Soviet ...
- John P. Rafferty
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Jun 12, 2012 · On June 12, 1987, former President Reagan called on Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin wall. CBS News looks back at the now-iconic speech - and how its most powerful line almost...
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Feb 9, 2023 · Ronald Reagan speaking at the Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987. (Ronald Reagan Library) View in National Archives Catalog. Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, part of a vast system of barriers that divides the entire continent of Europe. . . .
Nov 6, 2019 · Video by Kurt Hickman. On the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ronald Reagan’s former speechwriter and current Hoover Institution fellow Peter M. Robinson shares what inspired those now famous words – “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” – and how they were almost cut from the speech.
Ronald Reagan: ‘Tear down this wall’ (1987) On June 12th 1987, Ronald Reagan addressed a crowd in front of the Brandenburg Gates, West Berlin. During this speech he challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall”:
