June 12th, 1987, in West Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate.
"The advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace -- if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization -- come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
President Reagan 1987 at the Brandenburg Gate
Two years later the Wall fell..... Germany Celebrated today at the Brandenburg Gate and no one mentioned him......
Yet obama mentions himself..
"Even as we celebrate these values, even as we mark this day, we know the work of freedom is never finished. In a Berlin under siege, President Kennedy said, "Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free." Few would have foreseen on that day that a united Germany would be led by a woman from Brandenburg or that their American ally would be led by a man of African descent. But human destiny is what human beings make of it."
Excerpt taken for obama's Berlin Wall taped speech
He's still working on that Nobel Peace Prize.....
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