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Peter Robinson on the Art of Writing Ronald Reagan’s Speeches

The Secrets of Statecraft

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What Happened to That Speech?

"i was assigned that speech just because it was my turn to write the next big one. I'd written a lot of little stuff, ok? Not because you were a fon policy experts, or goods yors maon germy," he says. "I flew over the wall in a us Army helicopter so i could see what id as you will know, from t air, the wall looked even worse than it did from inside west berlin." He then had dinner with people who hated the wall and asked them why they didn't talk about it every day. 'It was clear that they had stopped talking about it to each other every day, but if you askd them,

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