Peter Robinson, Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former presidential speechwriter, and Jeffrey Engel, Founding Director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, discuss 1989 and the lessons from that fateful year.

Recorded at Georgetown University on November 6, 2019, as part of the BMW Center event, "30 Years Later: Lessons from the Fall of the Berlin Wall": http://guevents.georgetown.edu/event/30_years_later_lessons_from_the_fall_of_the_berlin_wall .

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Communications by Charlie Fritz and Laura Rodriguez

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1989: Lessons from the Fall of the Berlin Wall