He penned or had a hand in some of the greatest speeches of the 20th century, serving as President Ronald Reagan's chief speechwriter. The "Ash Heap of History" speech. The "Tear Down This Wall ...

“If by the 1980s Ronald Reagan often seemed like a remnant ... that Reagan had a strategy to get the Soviets to “tear down ...

View of a clip of President Reagan's famous 1987 Berlin Wall speech in which he asks Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." Video courtesy of Reagan Presidential Library.