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NBC Notes 25th Anniversary of Reagan’s ‘Tear Down This Wall’ Speech

[Newsbusters.org]

By Brad Wilmouth | June 12, 2012

Uniquely among the broadcast network evening newscasts, on Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams noted that today is the 25th anniversary of President Reagan calling on Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to demolish the Berlin Wall, as Reagan stood in Berlin on June 12, 1987, and delivered his famous “Tear down this wall” speech. Williams read the brief item.

Hard to believe it’s been 25 years, but it was one of the signature moments of the Reagan presidency in the waning months of the Cold War with the old Eastern Block. June 12, 1987, when Ronald Reagan stood in Berlin and said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” It eventually did come down just over two years later.


On the Ground in Iowa

[PJMedia.com]

The situation is fluid, but Iowa Republicans know which candidate they don’t want.

by Ari J. Kaufman

Bio  December 19, 2011 – 6:58 pm

Iowa is in the spotlight again as America’s first presidential caucus on January 3 nears. Coincidentally, my day job found me traveling across various portions of President Herbert Hoover’s home state on a bi-weekly basis the past four months, and I was able to gather views from a diverse group of people while making these treks.

In January 2008, Mike Huckabee won the state’s Republican caucus, and Barack Obama took the Democratic caucus. Ten months later in the general election, the former Illinois senator prevailed by ten points over John McCain. Though that was the same margin as traditionally liberal Minnesota, the Hawkeye State has a more regional voting bloc. The rural west toward the Missouri River is more conservative, while the larger cities and Mississippi River towns to the east lean Democrat.

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