[Straight Vermonter]

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.

[KarlInOhio]

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.