FOUR LITTLE WORDS -- BY ANTHONY R. DOLAN, The Wall Street Journal

Reagan deliberately confronted criminal regimes with what they fear most: the publicly spoken truth about their moral weakness.

Ronald Reagan would embarrass himself and the country by asking Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, which was going to be there for decades. 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.

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