Speechwriter Peter Robinson and former U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Burt recall President Reagan's Berlin Wall speech and trip to West Berlin. 2017 is the 30th anniversary of President ...

On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan urged Soviet Premier Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. What follows were his full remarks. On June 12, 1987, ...

He was of course talking about the Berlin Wall, which did indeed come crumbling down two years later, taking with it the entire Soviet Empire. For Reagan, the speech was 20 years in the making.

BERLIN (AP) -- Berlin's mayor has unveiled a plaque commemorating the 25th anniversary of U.S. President Ronald Reagan's call to the Soviets to "tear down" the wall that then divided the German city.

For an entire generation of millennials, it is difficult to imagine that there was once a time when, in words Ronald Reagan spoke from Berlin on June 12, 1987, “a gash of barbed wire, concrete ...

The rest, as they say, is history. Two and half years later, the wall was down and a new chapter begun. It’s always worth recalling Reagan’s courageous act and words of that time. But we ...

The Berlin Wall speech produced an intense fight within the Reagan administration. The speech was drafted by a young White House speechwriter, Peter Robinson, and was cleared by Reagan’s ...

For years, Berlin resisted putting up a statue of Ronald Reagan to honor his famous 1987 speech calling for the Berlin Wall to be torn down. The U.S. Embassy instead is erecting a Reagan replica ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, paving the way for German reunification in 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

On June 12, 1987, former President Reagan called on Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin wall. CBS News looks back at the now-iconic speech - and how its most powerful line almost didn&#039 ...