Posted on 06/12/2024 7:11:58 AM PDT by joesbucks
On this date in 1987, then President Reagan made his famous Tear Down This Wall Speech.
“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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Just waiting for Bidet to got to boarder and rip off another Reagan speech.
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I dunno. Maybe we needed the constant threat of complete nuclear annihilation to prevent our culture from ending up where it is now.
Agree with both comments.
4 min video highlight
President Ronald Reagan delivers this memorable speech at the Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987
https://rumble.com/vkkviw-ronald-reagan-mr.-gorbachev-tear-down-this-wall.html
You are right on target with those comments. I do still believe that Reagan was best leader this country has had my lifetime. He was the first one I ever voted for.
still the best president in my life time.
still the best president in my life time.
The best president is the one who is trying to put up a wall.
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That’s been debunked. It was Biden who said that!
I remember how gaga the media was for Gorbachev and hated Reagan.
‘Tear down this wall’: On this day in history, Reagan challenges Gorbachev
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Too bad this statement could easily be hijacked by the political Left to attack border security.
Rather than talking about putting up a fence, why don’t we work out some recognition of our mutual problems, make it possible for them to come here legally with a work permit?” Reagan said in a 1980 presidential debate. “And then while they’re working and earning here, they pay taxes here. And when they want to go back, they can go back.”
I was stationed in Berlin when President Reagan visited and my wife was in the audience at the Brandenburg Gate. She said the atmosphere in the audience was electric, everybody knew that President Reagan was going to say something momentous.
That would have been a once in a lifetime experience. I really would have lived to have seen Reagan in person.
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