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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 Mickael 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 Wall!!" was placed in the speech and the efforts of the State Department and several of Reagan's closest advisors to remove it even though Reagan himself was determined to leave it in the speech. 

Then you can listen to President Ronald Reagan as he addresses Berlin in one of histories most consequential addresses in its entirety. A speech that laid the foundation for the story to come and the fall of communism around the world. 

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