Speechwriter Peter Robinson and former U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Burt recall President Reagan's Berlin Wall speech and trip to West Berlin. 2017 is the 30th anniversary of… ...

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.

Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan is pictured during his "tear down this wall" speech in West Berlin, Germany, on June 12, 1987. The speech resurfaced on Tuesday with news of the death of former ...

For Reagan, the speech was 20 years in the making. As early as 1967 when Ronald Reagan was Governor of California, he began asking for the destruction of the wall.

When Ronald Reagan left the White House in 1989 he did so as the most popular US president since Eisenhower and the most influential president since F D Roosevelt.

Biden used as a model of behavior the late President Ronald Reagan’s famous speech wherein the Gipper, in Berlin, said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Recommended Stories Ford Motor ...