"Tear down this wall"

This is a clip from Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech we discussed in class today. Gould writes, "Reagan used the techniques of the celebrity presidency to sharpen the contrast with the Soviets. His famous reference to the USSR as the "evil empire" and his injunction to Mikhail Gorbachev during a speech in Berlin to "tear down this wall" demonstrated Regan's skill at dramatizing the moral issue, as he saw it, of the Cold War" (200).