Basic Information
Name: Peter Robinson
Nickname: Pete (go figure)
Born: April 18, 1957
Died: N/A
Nationality: American
Hometown: Vestal, New York
WORK & EDUCATION
Occupation: Author, TV host, former presidential speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and then-Veep George HW Bush, currently a research fellow at the Hoover Institution
Education: 1979: English degree from Dartmouth College; 1982: BA in philosophy, politics, and economics; 1990: MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business
FAMILY & FRIENDS
Spouse: Edita
Children: He has five children
Friends: Ronald Reagan, fellow conservatives, childhood buds Steven and Josh, peeps from his MBA program
Foes: Quantitative studies
Analysis
Peter became a White House speechwriter pretty quickly after his college graduation. He started out just writing speeches for VP Bush, but was quickly drafted to help out President Reagan as well.
He's the guy who actually wrote the Berlin Wall speech for President Reagan—so that's pretty awesome.
This speech could have been a lot less awesome, though; Robinson was initially told to keep references to the Berlin Wall out of the speech. But after talking to some Berliners at a dinner party, he went ahead and ignored that advice, as did Reagan, who ultimately decided to leave in the now-infamous line: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" (63).