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Thirty years after the Reagan speech, video of that zinger — “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” — has become shorthand for a version of history in which the U.S. vanquishes what Reagan ...
Former President Ronald Reagan's 1987 speech urging Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin Wall has resurfaced following the death of Gorbachev.
Reagan's 'tear down this wall' speech is turns 35 today but it has new relevance. Our leaders should learn from his lessons how to deal with powerful enemies.
The most famous four words of the Cold War almost went unsaid. When President Ronald Reagan stood at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987, and demanded “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this ...
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 didn't ...
(CBS News) Tuesday marks 25 years since President Ronald Reagan's famous "tear down this wall" speech at the Berlin Wall. At that time, Mr. Reagan was at a low point in his second term, but there ...
President Ronald Reagan’s speech in June 1987, delivered in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, is immortalized because of the exhortation, “Mr. Gobachev, tear down this wall.” ...
Description This lesson plan explores President Ronald Reagan's June 12, 1987 speech in Berlin, Germany, where he called for Russian General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
It's true that Reagan demanded the destruction of a wall. It's also true that he helped construct something greater -- the global economic prosperity we have enjoyed ever since.
Twenty-five years after President Ronald Reagan delivered his Brandenburg Gate speech, debate persists over the meaning and true impact of his words that day. Conservatives, including former ...
Media Whoopi incorrectly says Reagan's 'Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall' was directed at Germans, not Soviets 'We knew where the enemies were,' Goldberg said, after unknowingly mixing up Germany ...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, June 18 -- I'm in Europe to join the Reagan Legacy Foundation in observing the 21st anniversary of my dad Ronald Reagan's immortal words spoken at the Berlin Wall on June ...