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this gate! Mr Gorbachev, open this gate.’ Then, reaching his climax, and to growing cheers from the Berlin crowd, Reagan, with his actor’s sense of timing, called out, ‘Mr Gorbachev, Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!’23 The speech did much to revive his reputation as a Cold War warrior. And it forever linked
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to the gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!’’56 The speech was the most impressive since John Kennedy confronted the Soviet Union at the same place, but this time the United States stood poised to vanquish its adversary. Reagan seemed to have the momentum in negotiations as well as
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out, “Mr. Gorbachev,” paused, and then repeated the name for emphasis—“Mr. Gorbachev—tear down this Wall!” It had an electrifying effect that day, and was evoked again when the Wall fell two years later. (Ronald Reagan Library) Raisa Gorbachev and Nancy Reagan were mostly just tolerating each other by the time of the welcoming ceremonies
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doubters—“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this Wall!” The crowd erupted in wild cheers and shouts. Everyone there knew they had just witnessed something special, something memorable. The rest of the speech, subsequently overshadowed by that powerful passage, was likewise hard-hitting. Having long believed that the Cold War would end soon, Reagan asserted that the
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Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State, makes no mention of Reagan’s speech that day. Nor does Jack Matlock in his book, Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended. Nor did Paul Nitze in his five-hundred-page memoir. Nonetheless, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this Wall” became the hallmark, if not the highlight, of
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Even more exciting, though, was all that was happening in the geostrategic realm. Reagan’s speech at the Brandenburg Gate had taken the sheen off Gorbachev’s star quality, once everyone realized that he was not about to “tear down this Wall.” Nonetheless, he pushed for glasnost and perestroika harder than before, despite their having
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like to exchange pens. “Let’s keep these pens for memory’s sake,” he said. Reagan considered this a fine idea and smiled as they traded pens. LIKE MANY THINGS AFTER Reykjavik—including Reagan’s exhortation to “tear down this Wall” and the completion of the treaty itself—this East Room ceremony nearly didn’t happen
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later, looking out the window of the tilted chopper circling the White House grounds, Ronald Reagan pulled Nancy closer to him, pointed down, and said, “Look, honey! That was our little bungalow.” MR. GORBACHEV DID NOT “tear down this Wall,” but it still came down in November 1989. That happened—as so much happened in
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urged that we must “keep up our guard” when dealing with Communists. Reagan intended to create a safer world by developing SDI, sharing it with the Soviets, building up America’s strength, building down nuclear arsenals, and having Gorbachev “tear down this Wall.” He would end his predecessors’ policy of détente, considering it piecemeal at
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“With a fervor and relentlessness”: Ibid. 233 Twenty years later: Romesh Ratnesar, “20 Years after ‘Tear Down This Wall,’ ” Time, June 11, 2007. 233 “It’s the right thing to do”: Ibid. 235 Chancellor Helmut Kohl: Jason Keyser, “Reagan Remembered Worldwide for His Role in Ending Cold War Division,” USA Today, June 7, 2004. 235
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moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”63 President Reagan defined the future of a unified Germany: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Martin Luther King had a dream and marched on the nation’s capital to make it a reality. We have
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