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WOW...25 years ago today...Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate
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Posted on 06/12/2012 6:10:03 AM PDT by rottndog
President Reagan's remarks on East-West relations at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, Germany on June 12, 1987.
TOPICS: Free Republic; Germany; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: anniversary; coldwar; generationreagan; genx; reagan; reaganyouth; teardownthiswall
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posted on
06/12/2012 6:10:09 AM PDT
by
rottndog
To: rottndog
I wish we had another Reagan.
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posted on
06/12/2012 6:29:26 AM PDT
by
rfreedom4u
(I have a copy of the Constitution! And I'm not afraid to use it!)
To: rottndog
I forget who wrote the story about the speech, but it was amazing how many White House staffers were trying to remove the "tear down this wall" section as overly provocative. Reagan kept on putting it back in.
Consider that you really start remembering things and connecting them together around ten years old (I clearly remember Carter's term in office, not so much with Ford or Nixon). That means anyone thirty-five or under only knows about this speech as history instead of as part of their lives. Excuse me while I go shake my cane at some whippersnappers who are on my lawn.
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posted on
06/12/2012 6:29:50 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
To: KarlInOhio
I was in the Navy at the time, just finishing boot camp. I ended up on a submarine out hunting the Soviets. By the time I got out, the Soviet/Russian threat had largely subsided, thanks to RR.
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posted on
06/12/2012 6:34:46 AM PDT
by
rottndog
(Be Prepared....for what's coming AFTER America...)
To: rottndog
The speech that Colon Bowell did not want him to give.
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posted on
06/12/2012 6:36:33 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
To: KarlInOhio
I forget who wrote the story about the speech, but it was amazing how many White House staffers were trying to remove the "tear down this wall" section as overly provocative. Reagan kept on putting it back in. Peggy Noonan's excellent biography of Reagan has a good recounting of the battle over including this in the speech.
That means anyone thirty-five or under only knows about this speech as history instead of as part of their lives.
This speech happened on the day I graduated from high school so, unfortunately, it is really just history for me too.
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posted on
06/12/2012 6:36:52 AM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: Perdogg
I wonder about many of those dems-in-disguise....so timid they were actually pro-Soviet.
Boy was Reagan the man of the hour...
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posted on
06/12/2012 6:44:43 AM PDT
by
rottndog
(Be Prepared....for what's coming AFTER America...)
To: rottndog
I’m starting to wonder if I’ll ever see another President of Reagan’s caliber in my lifetime. All we seem to get stuck with anymore are Bushes and Romneys :(
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posted on
06/12/2012 6:47:30 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Worst. President. Ever.)
To: rottndog
I remember hearing about the speech. At the time, I thought “That Reagan is so naive and simplistic. As if you could just ask for the wall to be torn down.”
Over the years, I have learned that there is a dearth of plain speaking about right and wrong in our world and when it happens, it is a blast of fresh air.
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posted on
06/12/2012 6:56:10 AM PDT
by
married21
(As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
To: reagan_fanatic
Although he's come up as a legislator, Tom McClintock comes to mind. Very knowledgeable, plain spoken, and unwavering in his convictions. Very few can debate him on substance, so he is basically ignored by the national media. I'm hoping he has higher aspirations than merely congress.
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posted on
06/12/2012 6:57:23 AM PDT
by
rottndog
(Be Prepared....for what's coming AFTER America...)
To: rfreedom4u
I wish we had another Reagan. We do ... in Sarah Palin.
To: Straight Vermonter
Peggy Noonan's excellent biography of Reagan has a good recounting of the battle over including this in the speech. Thanks. That does sound familiar and I've seen her on TV enough that she could have been the one telling it.
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posted on
06/12/2012 7:04:50 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
To: married21
It’s a shame so many people have to go out of their way to hate him. All politics aside, he was just a good and decent man.
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posted on
06/12/2012 7:06:21 AM PDT
by
rottndog
(Be Prepared....for what's coming AFTER America...)
To: rfreedom4u
From a Giant to a pygmy as president in 1 generation.
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posted on
06/12/2012 7:40:10 AM PDT
by
Kozak
(The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home JM)
To: KarlInOhio
Peter Robinson wrote the speech, one of the junior speech writers at the time. EVERY senior aid to the president wanted that line removed. The president stuck to his guns and the rest is history. By the way checkout the Ricochet.com web site, it’s run by Robinson.
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posted on
06/12/2012 7:44:30 AM PDT
by
Kozak
(The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home JM)
To: rottndog
I don’t get it - where’s the teleprompter??
To: rottndog
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posted on
06/12/2012 8:13:42 AM PDT
by
Fast Moving Angel
(A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
To: rottndog
His speech was about 4 months before I was stationed there.
Here's a pic taken just before the start of East Germany's last parade which commemorated the DDR's 40th anniversary. The parade was in East Berlin. A small group of us went over to "observe" the proceedings. Gorbachev was there and pretty sure Gaddafi and Arafat were too. Of course just a short month later the DDR was no more. "Tear down this wall" indeed!!
This East German officer was none too happy that a couple of US Army types were photographing his equipment. You can see my buddy in the background getting upclose and personal :-)
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posted on
06/12/2012 8:22:22 AM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Congrats to Ted Kennedy! He's been sober for two years now!!)
To: Fast Moving Angel
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posted on
06/12/2012 8:23:16 AM PDT
by
rottndog
(Be Prepared....for what's coming AFTER America...)
To: VeniVidiVici
Gorbachev, Gaddafi, and Arafat...nice company.
Funny how hard the left tries to glorify Gorby, all the while demonizing Reagan.
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posted on
06/12/2012 8:28:09 AM PDT
by
rottndog
(Be Prepared....for what's coming AFTER America...)
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