PRESIDENT REAGAN IN WEST BERLIN;`This Wall Will Fall'

From: The Washington Post | Date: June 13, 1987 | Copyright information

Here are excerpts from the transcript of President Reagan's speech today at the Berlin wall:

Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, part of a vast system of barriers that divides the entire continent of Europe. From the Baltic south, those barriers cut across Germany in a gash of barbed wire, concrete, dog runs and guard towers. Farther south, there may be no visible, no obvious wall. But there remain armed guards and checkpoints all the same-still a restriction on the right to travel, still an instrument to impose upon ordinary men and women the will of a ...

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