Reagan Speechwriter Recalls ‘Tear Down This Wall’ And Comments On GOP, Josh Hawley
St. Louis on the Air · St. Louis Public Radio
November 5, 201920m 33s
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Show Notes
Peter Robinson had just turned 30 years old when, as Ronald Reagan’s speechwriter in 1987, he was tasked with crafting what would become one of the world’s most famous presidential speeches. “I spent six years in the Reagan White House and I wrote tens of thousands of words, and nobody remembers anything except six of them — and one of them is ‘mister,’” said Robinson, referring to the memorable “tear down this wall” line that Reagan directed at Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev before a crowd of thousands at the Berlin Wall. In this episode, Robinson joins host Sarah Fenske in light of the 30-year commemoration of the fall of that wall.