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TIL Ronald Reagan's speechwriter Peter Robinson originally intended for him to deliver the famous line "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" in German. Robinson thought the big line should be about opening the Brandenburg Gate because he argued that is an even bigger symbol to the Germans

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