A wonderful day

Tuesday, 12th June 2007

Today is the twentieth anniversary of Ronald Reagan's seminal speech by the Berlin Wall:

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this Wall!


Do have a read of this article by Peter Robinson, the man who drafted the speech:

The key phrase came from a woman I met at a dinner party, and the phrase remained in the speech solely because of Ronald Reagan.

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