The Hoover Institution and the Ronald Reagan Institute co-host “Tear Down This Wall”: Reflecting on President Reagan’s 1987 Berlin Wall Speech on Friday, June 11, 2021 at 8:00am PT.
The virtual event will celebrate President Reagan’s 1987 Berlin Wall speech, in which he famously called for Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.” The panel conversation will reflect on the speech 34 years later and discuss its continuing relevance to the challenges we face today.
Featuring Jamie Fly, Dr. Will Inboden, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, and Peter Robinson.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
H. R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He was the 26th assistant to the president for National Security Affairs. Upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1984, McMaster served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army for thirty-four years before retiring as a Lieutenant General in June 2018. He is host of Hoover Institution’s podcast series Battlegrounds: International Perspectives on Crucial Challenges to Security and Prosperity.
Jamie Fly is President and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). He served as Senior Fellow and Senior Advisor to the President of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), Director of GMF’s Future of Geopolitics and Asia programs and Co-Director of its Alliance for Securing Democracy. Fly has previously worked as a senior staffer in the U.S. Congress, on the National Security Council staff, and at the U.S. Department of Defense.
William Inboden is Executive Director and William Powers, Jr. Chair at the William P. Clements, Jr. Center for National Security at the University of Texas-Austin. He also serves as Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and Editor-in-Chief of the Texas National Security Review. Previously he served as Senior Director for Strategic Planning on the National Security Council at the White House and Member of the Policy Planning Staff and a Special Advisor in the Office of International Religious Freedom at the Department of State. Inboden has worked as a staff member in both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives.
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