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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 wouldn't help. wouldn't reagan be raising false expectations? >> you don't call for tearing down a wall that is permanence. we thought it would come down in our lifetime. >> he didn't 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 you seek peace, if you speak prosperity for the soviet union and eastern europe. if you seek liber...

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. don't have ronald reagan come here and sound like some anti-communist cowboy. don't 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 you've used to the wall? one man r raised his arm and pointed and said my sister lives a few kilometers in that direction...

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, well, there's that passage on tearing down the wall, that's what i want to say. that has to come dow...

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. it wasn'tca scripted. there were people around them. reagan was saying hello. it was very informal, ...

♪ 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 communism's 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 the crests of change of history. the berlin speech is a good example. >> he was assigned to draft hi...