Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan is pictured during his "tear down this wall" speech in West Berlin, Germany, on June 12, 1987.

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.

Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany and an 18-year diplomat, has always been a fan and student of former President Ronald Reagan, ever since his first vote for president in 1984.It has ...

Demolishing the Berlin Wall was among Reagan’s specific goals. Allen, in his Hoover Digest article, describes a visit Reagan made to Berlin in 1978, while still governor of California.

President Reagan implored the Soviets in a June 12, 1987, Berlin speech to "tear down this wall." The Hoover Institution and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute hosted a look ...

BERLIN (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Berlin unveiled a statue of Ronald Reagan on Friday at a site overlooking the location of the former president’s iconic speech imploring the Soviet Union to … ...

On This Day: President Reagan Demands Demolition of the Berlin Wall "Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for ...

True story: when my wife and I visited the Berlin Wall in 1986, about three years before it came down, we found ourselves standing in the American sector, on free soil, just west of the infamous ...

And just 2½ years after Reagan spoke them, that wall came down. We speak now of the “fall” of the Berlin Wall, but in truth the wall did not just fall. It was pushed.

Reagan spoke 100 yards from the wall, bulletproof glass at his back. He said later that he saw East German police pushing people away from loudspeakers to prevent them from hearing his speech.

For conservatives and Republicans who are wondering what in the world happened to their party, we should recall June 12, 1987. That day, 21 years ago, President Ronald Reagan stood ...

In June of that year, at the height of the Cold War, U.S. President Ronald Reagan visited Berlin, delivering his now famous “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” speech in the shadow of the Brandenburg ...