Welcome to uncommon knowledge. And then to host with the Ronald Reagan institute with the speechwriter in general mcmaster has ordered me to tell the story of the speech. With the first page of the speaking copy. And first for some historical background after a portion of berlin itself with the british and french control even with east berlin and all of the surrounding east germany and with a communist regime its important to grasp that west berlin is completely surrounded and you can see it is a little. Insight east germany. Again, after the war, thousands of these germans flee the communist music regime east germany to the democratic west. How do they do this . Very often they do it just by stepping across the street and then they could get on the train to cross the german territory to the west. So by 1960, one fifth of the entire population of east germany just that. They fled. So to stop the enormous exodus these germans proposed a physical barrier and moscow agreed and in the midd
Cspan now app. A healthy democracy does not just look like this. It looks like. This where americans can see democracy at war. And citizens are truly informed. A republic drive. Get informed straight from the source on cspan. Unfiltered, unbiased, word for word from the Nations Capital to wherever you are. It is the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is for democracy, this is what democracy looks. Like cspan, powered by cable. Welcome to uncommon. All i am peter robinson. Today a conversation hosted with the Ronald Reagan institute, and in a moment jamie fly and hr mcmaster will join me and discussing president reagans june, 12th 1987 tear down this wall speech. But since i was a speech writer who wrote the speech i have been asked and general mcmaster has ordered me to tell the story of this speech. Right there by the way is the first page of president reagans speaking copy. You can see my name as a speech writer in the upper left hand corner. First is some historical bac
The speechwriter in general mcmaster has ordered me to tell the story of the speech. With the first page of the speaking copy. And first for some historical background after a portion of berlin itself with the british and french control even with east berlin and all of the surrounding east germany and with a communist regime its important to grasp that west berlin is completely surrounded and you can see it is a little. Insight east germany. Again, after the war, thousands of these germans flee the communist music regime east germany to the democratic west. How do they do this . Very often they do it just by stepping across the street and then they could get on the train to cross the german territory to the west. So by 1960, one fifth of the entire population of east germany just that. They fled. So to stop the enormous exodus these germans proposed a physical barrier and moscow agreed and in the middle of the night august 13, 1961, the east germans strong barbed wire all the way aroun
A healthy democracy doesnt just look like this. It looks like this. Where americans can see democracy at work, where citizens are truly inspired, and the public thrives. Get informed, straight from the source, on cspan. Unfiltered, unbiased, word for word. From the nations capital, to wherever you are. It is the opinion that matters the most. This, its what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. Welcome to uncommon knowledge, im peter robinson. Today, a conversation hosted with the Ronald Reagan institute. In a moment jamie will and a charming master, will join me in discussing president reagans june 12th 1987, tear down this wall speech. But, since i was a speech writer who wrote the speech, i have been asked actually, general mcmaster has ordered me, to tell the story of the speech. Right there by the way is the first page president reagans copy. And you could see my name as the speech writer in the upper left hand corner. First, some historical background. After the second w
Graham wilson discuss the relationships between president reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as the relationship between george h. W. Bush and mr. Gorbachev. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. We have a great panel. And so Philip Zelikow is going to chair the panel. I think Everybody Knows philip. He has written a terrific book on the end of the cold war, principal author of 9 11 Commission Report and many other books. And he is now in the midst of writing a terrific book on sort of decisions for war. And in ways that illuminate old crises and old decisions like going to war in 1898 or wilsons decision for war in world war i. Hes sort of brilliantly reassessing these decisions. Were all looking forward to philips next book. At the same time, hes doing about a dozen other things that none of us can keep track of. Sometimes we dont know about. Philip, thank you. Thank you. I actually am sorry to say, we need to wait for james wilson to show up. So he is probably out there somewhere