Reagan's Berlin-Wall Speech Analysis

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The speech given by President Ronald Wilson Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987, was an invigorating speech. Mr. Reagan provided hope to West and East Germans to those who lost all hope of reunification through the words he chose and the way he delivered those words. Mr. Reagan connected with the people who had lost hope by using uplifting words. He made sure that they understood that all hope was not lost with terms such as, “Yet I do not come here to lament. For I find in Berlin a message of hope, even in this shadow of a wall, a message of triumph (New York Times, June 13, 1987, EXCERPTS FROM REAGAN'S TALK AT THE BERLIN WALL, http://www.nytimes.com/,August 16, 2017, From http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/13/world/excerpts-from-reagan-s-talk-at-the-Berlin-wall.html).”

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