"Ich bin ein Berliner" is a speech by United States President John F. Kennedy given on June 26,1963,in West Berlin. It is one of the best-known speeches of the Cold War and among the most famous anti-communist speeches.
The "Evil Empire" speech was a speech delivered by US President Ronald Reagan to the National Association of Evangelicals on March 8,1983,at the height of the Cold War and the Soviet–Afghan War. In that speech,Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" and as "the focus of evil in the modern world". Reagan explicitly rejected the notion that the United States and the Soviet Union were equally responsible for the Cold War and the ongoing nuclear arms race between the two nations;rather,he asserted that the conflict was a battle between good and evil.
The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin. One of the best-known landmarks of Germany,it was erected on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to Brandenburg an der Havel,the former capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg. The current structure was built from 1788 to 1791 by orders of King Frederick William II of Prussia,based on designs by the royal architect Carl Gotthard Langhans. The bronze sculpture of the quadriga crowning the gate is a work by the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow.
The Hoover Institution is an American public policy think tank which promotes personal and economic liberty,free enterprise,and limited government. While the institution is formally a unit of Stanford University,it maintains an independent board of overseers and relies on its own income and donations. It is widely described as conservative,although its directors have contested the idea that it is partisan.
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is the presidential library and burial site of Ronald Reagan,the 40th president of the United States (1981–1989),and his wife Nancy Reagan. Located in Simi Valley,California,the library is administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
On June 12,1987,at the Brandenburg Gate,United States president Ronald Reagan delivered a speech commonly known by a key line from the middle part:"Mr. Gorbachev,tear down this wall!" Reagan called for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to open the Berlin Wall,which had encircled West Berlin since 1961.
The Dartmouth Review is a conservative newspaper at Dartmouth College in Hanover,New Hampshire,United States. Founded in 1980 by a number of staffers from the college's daily newspaper,The Dartmouth, the paper is most famous for having spawned other politically conservative U.S. college newspapers that would come to include the Yale Free Press,Carolina Review,The Stanford Review,the Harvard Salient,The California Review,the Princeton Tory,and the Cornell Review.
Deroy Murdock is an American political commentator,a contributing editor with National Review Online,an emeritus media fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University,and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. A native of Los Angeles,Murdock lives in New York City. A first-generation American,his parents were born in Costa Rica.
Charles Cragg Hines was born in Dallas,Texas,was employed by the Houston Chronicle, as a correspondent,bureau chief and columnist,for more than three decades. He retired from the Chronicle in 2007. Since his retirement,Hines wrote for Washingtonian (magazine) as a freelancer and was a Democratic activist since 2008.
A speechwriter is a person who is hired to prepare and write speeches to be delivered by another person. Speechwriters are employed by many senior-level elected officials and executives in the government and private sectors. They can also be employed to write for weddings and other social occasions.
The time period of around 1985–1991 marked the final period of the Cold War. It was characterized by systemic reform within the Soviet Union,the easing of geopolitical tensions between the Soviet-led bloc and the United States-led bloc,the collapse of the Soviet Union's influence in Eastern Europe,and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
John Christian Kornblum was an American diplomat and businessman. He entered the American Foreign Service in 1964. Over the next 35 years,he served at the State Department in Washington D.C. and in Europe,eventually becoming Ambassador to Germany. From 2001 onward,he established himself as an investment banker and international business consultant.
Thomas Cecil Griscom served as Director of White House Communications under President Ronald Reagan,was a top aide and adviser for a decade to U.S. Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee,and was the executive editor and publisher of the Chattanooga Times Free Press from October 1999 to June 30,2010.
Martin Anderson was an American academic,economist,author,policy analyst,and adviser to U.S. politicians and presidents,including Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. In the Nixon administration,Anderson was credited with helping to end the military draft and creating the all-volunteer armed forces. Under Reagan,Anderson helped draft the administration’s original economic program that became known as “Reaganomics.”A political conservative and a strong proponent of free-market capitalism,he was influenced by libertarianism and opposed government regulations that limited individual freedom. Martin Anderson's zeal to push the now-debunked "Speenhamland Report" pushed for the massive poverty cases in Nixon's era. Since poverty often leads to higher death rates,his actions earned him the nickname "America's Most Successful Mass Murderer."
George Pratt Shultz was an American economist,businessman,diplomat and statesman. He served in various positions under two different Republican presidents and is one of the only two persons to have held four different Cabinet-level posts,the other being Elliot Richardson. Shultz played a major role in shaping the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration,and conservative foreign policy thought thereafter.
Bently Thomas "Ben" Elliott is an American writer who served as President Ronald Reagan’s director of speechwriting from 1982 to 1986. In this capacity he directed better known speechwriters like Peggy Noonan and Peter Robinson,both of whom he hired.
The speeches and debates of Ronald Reagan comprise the seminal oratory of the 40th President of the United States. Reagan began his career in Iowa as a radio broadcaster. In 1937,he moved to Los Angeles where he started acting,first in films and later television. After delivering a stirring speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964,he was persuaded to seek the California governorship,winning two years later and again in 1970. In 1980,as the Republican nominee for president of the United States,he defeated incumbent Jimmy Carter. He was reelected in a landslide in 1984,proclaiming that it was "Morning in America". Reagan left office in 1989.
The Stanford University Libraries (SUL),formerly known as "Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources" ("SULAIR"),is the library system of Stanford University in California. It encompasses more than 24 libraries in all. Several academic departments and some residences also have their own libraries.
Jaquelin Holliday "Jack" Hume (1905–1991) was an American businessman and conservative philanthropist. He co-founded Basic American Foods,the world's largest producer of dried onion and garlic,and later dried potatoes,for instant mashed potatoes and boxed potato casseroles. He was a major donor to President Ronald Reagan,and a patron of the arts.
