July 23, 2017
Schedule
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Join us on Sunday, July 23rd for a conversation between Peter Robinson and Pat Sajak as they discuss the 30th anniversary of President Reagan’s “Tear Down This Wall” speech. The conversation is part of the Hoover Institution’s “Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson,” a series hosted by Hoover fellow Peter Robinson as an outlet for political leaders, scholars, journalists, and today’s big thinkers to share their views with the world.
On July 23rd, in a special edition of the show, Pat Sajak will interview Peter Robinson to discuss President Reagan’s “Tear Down This Wall” speech – the process of writing it and how it was ultimately delivered on June 12, 1987.
The program is free to attend, however reservations are required.
Peter M. Robinson spent six years in the White House, serving from 1982 to 1983 as chief speechwriter to Vice President George Bush and from 1983 to 1988 as special assistant and speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan. He wrote the historic Berlin Wall address in which President Reagan called on General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!" Robinson is currently a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's video series program, Uncommon Knowledge.
Pat Sajak is an American television personality, former weatherman, and talk show host, best known as the host of the American television game show Wheel of Fortune.
