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  2. Tear down this wall! - Wikipedia

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    On the day before Reagan's 1987 visit, 50,000 people had demonstrated against the presence of the American president in West Berlin. The city saw the largest police deployment in its history after World War II. [8] During the visit itself, wide swaths of Berlin were closed off to prevent further anti-Reagan protests.

  3. Reagan Doctrine - Wikipedia

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    Reagan and other conservative advocates of the Reagan Doctrine advocates also argued that the doctrine served U.S. foreign policy and strategic objectives and was a moral imperative against the former Soviet Union, which Reagan, his advisers, and supporters labeled an "evil empire".

  4. Foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration - Wikipedia

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    The New York Times reported in 1985, "White House aides have acknowledged that (Reagan's) Bitburg visit is probably the biggest fiasco of Mr. Reagan's Presidency." [190] They described Reagan's decision to go through with the Bitburg visit was a "blunder", and one of the few times that Reagan lost a confrontation in the court of public opinion ...

  5. Speeches and debates of Ronald Reagan - Wikipedia

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    Reagan preparing for his farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office, 1989. Reagan's effectiveness as a public speaker earned him the moniker, "Great Communicator." ." Former Reagan speechwriter Ken Khachigian wrote, "What made him the Great Communicator was Ronald Reagan's determination and ability to educate his audience, to bring his ideas to life by using illustrations and word ...

  6. Revolutions of 1989 - Wikipedia

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    Madagascar – Socialist President Didier Ratsiraka was ousted in 1991. Mali – Moussa Traoré was ousted, Mali adopted a new constitution; held multi-party elections. Rebellion in 1990 and coup d'état in 1991. Mozambique – The Mozambican Civil War between the socialist FRELIMO and the RENAMO conservatives was ended via treaty in 1992.

  7. 1987 State of the Union Address - Wikipedia

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    It was Reagan's sixth State of the Union Address and his seventh speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker, Jim Wright, accompanied by George H. W. Bush, the vice president.

  8. Opinion: The ideas in Project 2025? Reagan tried them, and ...

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    President Reagan, shown in 1981, based many of his policies on ideas from the Heritage Foundation publication "The Mandate for Leadership." Project 2025 makes up a majority of the latest edition ...

  9. Evil Empire speech - Wikipedia

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    The "Evil Empire" speech was a speech delivered by US President Ronald Reagan to the National Association of Evangelicals on March 8, 1983, at the height of the Cold War and the Soviet–Afghan War. In that speech, Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" and as "the focus of evil in the modern world".