Uncommon Knowledge | 17 June 2021 | 1h 06m | Listen Later | iTunes
In June 1987 Ronald Reagen urged Mikhail Gorbechev to tear down the Berlin Wall. Peter Robinson, the author of Reagan’s speech, discusses it with Jamie Fly, president and CEO of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty; William Inboden, chair of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin; and H. R. McMaster, former national security advisor to President Trump and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Delves into the history and provenance of the speech, the reaction of the Soviets and the world to the speech, and its place in history looking back three decades later.