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Moments In Time
Moments In Time takes you back to historical events that have shaped the world and changes our lives.
Jun 12 2007
Jun 12 2007
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Moments In Time presents events that changed the world,
President Kennedy arrived in Berlin on June 26, 1963, following appearances in Bonn, Cologne and Frankfurt, wherehe had given speeches to huge, wildly cheering crowds. In Berlin, an immense crowd gathered in the Rudolph Wilde Platz near the Berlin Wall to listen to the President who delivered this memorable speech above all the noise, concluding with the now famous ending.
Twenty four years laster President Reagan come to Berlin and delivers the speech that changed the world for ever.
"Tear down this wall" was the famous challenge from United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall.
In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate, by the Berlin Wall, on June 12, 1987, Reagan challenged Gorbachev, who then was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to tear it down as a symbol of his desire for increasing freedom in the Soviet bloc. Although the wall was technically the responsibility of the East German government, the United States considered East Germany to be a Soviet puppet state.
Reagan delivered the "Tear down this wall" speech, written by presidential speech writer Peter Robinson, despite objections from both the State Department and the National Security Council. Deputy National Security Advisor (and future Secretary of State) Colin Powell was one of the administration's major opponents of the speech. The most famous words of the speech were:
Ãïï General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
President Kennedy arrived in Berlin on June 26, 1963, following appearances in Bonn, Cologne and Frankfurt, wherehe had given speeches to huge, wildly cheering crowds. In Berlin, an immense crowd gathered in the Rudolph Wilde Platz near the Berlin Wall to listen to the President who delivered this memorable speech above all the noise, concluding with the now famous ending.
Twenty four years laster President Reagan come to Berlin and delivers the speech that changed the world for ever.
"Tear down this wall" was the famous challenge from United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall.
In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate, by the Berlin Wall, on June 12, 1987, Reagan challenged Gorbachev, who then was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to tear it down as a symbol of his desire for increasing freedom in the Soviet bloc. Although the wall was technically the responsibility of the East German government, the United States considered East Germany to be a Soviet puppet state.
Reagan delivered the "Tear down this wall" speech, written by presidential speech writer Peter Robinson, despite objections from both the State Department and the National Security Council. Deputy National Security Advisor (and future Secretary of State) Colin Powell was one of the administration's major opponents of the speech. The most famous words of the speech were:
Ãïï General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
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