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...notion as far-fetched. "It's a great speech line," Reagan's National Security Adviser, Frank Carlucci, remembers thinking. "But it will never happen." When the Wall came down, however, Reagan's speech entered American lore. "You look for one line you remember a President by," says Ken Duberstein, a former White House chief of staff who accompanied Reagan on the day of his Berlin speech. "FDR is easy. Bill Clinton is easy: 'I did not have sex with that woman.' What is Ronald Reagan going to be remembered by? One line: 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this Wall.'" (Watch TIME...
...Duberstein offered some general advice for the administration...
Sorensen and Duberstein, both former White House heavyweights, answered questions from David Gergen, the director of the Center for Public Leadership, a Harvard professor, and former presidential adviser himself, on a variety of subjects...
Besides discussing the current administration, both Sorensen and Duberstein addressed major obstacles they had to face during their times in the White House...
Sorensen spoke about the Kennedy administration’s handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, while Duberstein, who took over after the Iran-Contra scandal, told the audience about how he worked to help recover Reagan’s then deflated image...