COMMENTARY: Since the first presidential speaker at spring commencement in 1960, seven of the 12 presidents in office have ...

A classical 12-column gateway, the Brandenburg Gate has stood ... It was within earshot of the gate that, in 1987, Ronald Reagan gave a famous speech, shouting: 'Open this gate, Mr Gorbachev ...

He also oversaw the speech his assistant, Peter Robinson, wrote in which Reagan, at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in 1987, challenged the Soviet leader: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." ...

What despots and dictators, jammers and competitors, had not managed to do in 83 years -- what the Soviet Union had failed to ...

Anthony R. Dolan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist-turned-chief-speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan who used insights into what ...

And then there’s 1987, when President Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate and demanded, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” A crystal-clear objective, a defined outcome, and ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, talks with President Donald Trump, right, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Feb. 28, 2025. They failed to reach a deal after a ...

At 29, he won a Pulitzer for investigative reporting. He later became a conservative speechwriter, supplying memorable phrases for the country’s 40th president.