Most listeners at the time viewed Reagan’s speech as a dramatic appeal to Gorbachev to renew negotiations on nuclear arms reductions. When Reagan issued his famous challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev in Berlin, the speech earned mixed reviews. But in 1989, the Berlin Wall was demolished, and today the address is remembered, in the words of the German newspaper Bild, as a speech that "changed the world." The Berlin Wall, referred to by the President, was built by Communists in August 1961 to keep Germans from escaping Communist-dominated East Berlin into Democratic West Berlin. This speech by President Ronald Reagan to the people of West Berlin contains one of the most memorable lines spoken during his presidency. Reagan’s speech echoed the message of another famous American at the Berlin Wall some 24 years before. In 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy uttered four famous words— Ich bin ein Berliner (”I am a Berliner”)—in a similar show of defiance in the face of Soviet oppression. In his book Great Speeches for Better Speaking, author Michael E. Eidenmuller describes the situation: “In addressing the American people on an event of national scope, Reagan would play the role of national eulogist. Even members of the President's own team were lukewarm on it. Full Text "Tear down this wall", also known as the Berlin Wall Speech, was a speech delivered by United States President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987. President Ronald Reagan in front of the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin on June 12, 1987 to make his famous speech saying, “Mr. Reagan called for the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open the Berlin Wall, which had separated West and East Berlin since 1961.

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