President Obama will deliver a speech to Berlin at Brandenburg Gate; Ronald Reagan delivered his famous %22tear down this wall%22 speech in 1987 at the gate ...

On September 19, Germany will honor a speech, delivered 25 years ago, with a permanent plaque on the very spot where President Reagan gave it in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate.

CBS News Senior White House Correspondent Bill Plante recalls covering Reagan's famous remarks in Berlin on June 12, 1987. At left, watch Plante's report from that day on the "CBS Evening News." ...

John F. Kennedy made history with a speech that began 'Ich bin ein Berliner' in 1963 when he addressed a crowd of 120,000 West Berliners in front of the Schöneberg Rathaus.

When Ronald Reagan left the White House in 1989 he did so as the most popular US president since Eisenhower and the most ...

The rest, as they say, is history. Two and half years later, the wall was down and a new chapter begun. It’s always worth recalling Reagan’s courageous act and words of that time. But we ...

Before it was delivered, Reagan's Berlin Wall speech was seen as controversial. There were officials in the White House who called it excessive, inflammatory, and unpresidential, but as you'll ...

Kenneth Duberstein, White House deputy chief of staff in 1987, says that after Reagan's speech, "it was inevitable the wall would come down.'' Historians say the speeches were not as pivotal as ...

So the National Security Council (NSC) staff and State Department had argued for many weeks to get Reagan's now famous line removed from his June 12, 1987, Berlin speech.

On June 12, 1987, former President Reagan called on Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin wall. CBS News looks back at the now-iconic speech - and how its most powerful line almost didn&#039 ...