During her research visit this week at the Reagan library in Simi Valley,
Claire P. Potter, an historian at Wesleyan University, heard a volunteer docent tell a group of children, as they gazed at a piece of the Berlin wall:
When President Reagan ended communism, the bureaucrats talked and talked about how to take the Berlin Wall down and give the people back their freedoms. But they couldn't figure it out. So you know what? One day the people just went and got their little hammers and they took it down themselves!
Hat tip to Maarja Krusten
During her research visit this week at the Reagan library in Simi Valley, Claire P. Potter, an historian at Wesleyan University, heard a volunteer docent tell a group of children, as they gazed at a piece of the Berlin wall:
