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 ...

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 ...

Gorbachev is proud of the role he played in bringing down the Berlin Wall. MOSCOW, Nov. 8, 2009 — -- In June 1987, President Reagan came to the Berlin Wall and make a famous appeal to Soviet ...

On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan stood before the Brandenburg Gate in West Germany and voiced his now-famous challenge to the Soviet leader: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." ...