AM SHOW HR 1 | A Look Back At the "Tear Down This Wall" Speech By Reagan
The Michael Berry Show
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🗓️ 12 July 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 1:00.0 | good morning to you it was 36 years ago I was finishing my sophomore year of |
| 1:27.4 | high school getting ready to begin my junior year of high school and I remember |
| 1:37.9 | watching this now I don't think I watched it live because you didn't have we |
| 1:43.3 | didn't have cable TV we didn't have the ability to watch very many things live |
| 1:50.8 | but I recall this being played on the evening news president Ronald Reagan had |
| 1:58.4 | gone to the Berlin Wall and with European leaders flanking him behind him he |
| 2:07.8 | gave a speech and I watched this speech several times again last night and |
| 2:14.7 | and it's easy to forget his comportment is his delivery style he had the |
| 2:24.4 | perfect frame he was out of central casting literally and he would slightly |
| 2:33.4 | turn his head to the side and look down and it made a very dramatic gesture |
| 2:39.4 | when he would look up to deliver his line every hair in place and we reduced |
| 2:49.2 | it down to just a two-minute clip but you'll remember the line in the moment it |
| 2:58.9 | goes to show that words matter ideas matter give it a go Roman behind me stands |
| 3:08.3 | a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city part of a vast system of |
| 3:14.3 | barriers that divides the entire continent of Europe standing before the |
| 3:19.9 | Brandon Bergate every man is a German separated from his fellow men every man is |
| 3:37.1 | a burlinner forced to look upon a scar today I say as long as this gate is |
| 3:43.5 | closed as long as this scar of a wall is permitted to stand it is not the |
| 3:50.2 | German question alone that remains open but the question of freedom for all |
| 3:55.8 | mankind general secretary Gorbachev if you seek peace if you seek prosperity for |
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