On September 19, Germany will honor a speech, delivered 25 years ago, with a permanent plaque on the very spot where President Reagan gave it in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate.

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

In his speech Reagan said dismantling the Berlin Wall would be a powerful gesture for peace. Two-and-a-half years later the wall fell after East German authorities granted their citizens the right ...

Former President Ronald Reagan's 1987 speech urging Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin Wall has resurfaced following the death of Gorbachev.

But the president liked it. After several drafts, Robinson told Reagan, at a meeting to review the speech, that his words would be broadcast on the other side of wall, in East Berlin.

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 ...

It was President Ronald Reagan – provocative to some, strong to others – who looked at the Soviet Union straight in the eye, and did not blink.

President Ronald Reagan’s speech in June 1987, delivered in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, is immortalized because of the exhortation, “Mr. Gobachev, tear down this wall.” ...

With the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the tape of Ronald Reagan’s famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate is likely to be played and replayed. “Mr.

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't ...