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Of russian leader. he was building new urges for the west. >> he was younger, he was smarter, better read. he was more willing to engage in arguments. he is also the last true believer. >> a true believer and marxist leninist ideology. he still thought communism would bury the west. and while the casting ordered up a new style leader, the wardrobe department didnt get the memo. gorbachev pulled up, although he is a younger man by quite a bit, he looks older. >> he is wearing an extremely heavy r...

>> i could be looking out at an american student body, just as i am looking out here, i would not be able to tell the difference. >> by taking the q&as, he had open peoples eyes. he exposed the people, he exposed himself. he came willing to have a conversation, willing to go directly to them and talk to them, talk about their future. their future affected ours as well. while the students perception of the president may have changed -- >> s resolve to do whatever it took t to defeat communism did...

Sometimes do act is to act. that was his other line. the moscow summit come it was a summation. reagan was always true to his beliefs. >> he truly believed this much, that for all the talk about, gorbachev was kidding himself if he thought he could reform the soviets union into a productive society. soviet sense that the unions were not ready for real change, the people were. he intended to make his case to them. its impaired that the president wanted to send a message. not just to america, but ...

Question, he knew it was coming. do you still think we are an evil empire? y >> know. that was no time at another era. he put his arm around gorbachev. as a news man, doesnt get any better than that. >> he wanted to do that walk to say i g know longer believe in this evil empire. i believe in good people who want a better life. but had his mind changed? certainly not as much of the soviet leadership had hoped. gorbachev would learn that on on the climactic third day and moscow. ♪ liberty mutua...

Although much younger, looks older. the american system produced a guy, much older, far more full of life. that image was put out around the world. >> the old man, people are doubting, could he keep up? >> he stole the first scene. left back >> it away from the cameras he was ready to play hardball. >> he doesnt come to geneva ready to say look i think we soviets had made a terrible mistake, lets wrap this up. not at all, the first thing he wants to do is push. >> he pushed especially hard again...

Wall. it would i put him in a difficut position. >> plus the world had come to admire gorbachev as a man of peace. reagan was to widely seen as a warmonger. this wouldnt help. wouldnt reagan be raising false expectations? >> you dont call for tearing down a wall that is permanence. we thought it would come down in our lifetime. >> he didnt know how or when, he thought it was coming. so, reagan kept the line. telling and age, the boy is at stake will kill me, it is the right thing to do. >> if yo...

Might provoke gorbachev. his own state department word two. >> he was there in west berlin, he was full of ideas of what reagan should not say. dont have ronald reagan come here and sound like some anti-communist cowboy. dont make a big deal out of the wall, they have gotten used to it. >> may be the government had, he discovered, the german people had not. >> in the evening i went out to a suburb, to still there where i met about a dozen german in spirit i sit as it sure youve used to the wall?...

This man gorbachev is serious with his talk, if he is serious he can come here and take down that wall. >> he saw that positively reagan. he went back to the wise andlt built a speech around this call to tear down the wall.es i said mr. president i learned in berlin that on the communist side of the wall, they will be able to hear the speech as well. as i think you want to say to the people on the other side of the wall. they communist side of the wall. he thought for a moment and then he said, ...

Mrs. reagan said, what did you think of that? o she said well, we just missed our last best chance to get rid of helen thomas. [laughter] the president made his point. it was golden. >> on day two, reagan went on another walk. this time, through red square with gorbachev. >> there was a metaphor for the extraordinary journey that he had taken personally and the jury that the u.s. on the soviet union had taken in terms of their relationship. >> it turned out to beon the hih point to the summits. ...

♪ in 1987, the anniversary of berlin. germany invited world leaders to the city to mark the occasion. reagan saw an opportunity to challenge gorbachev from communisms most symbolic platform, the berlin wall. >> the berlin wall, the barricade that more vividly that it purged illustrates communism. not at least one break forne freedom. expressions of man determination to defy tyranny in any form. >> one of the things that i think made to reagan a historical figure, he had this ability to catch t...