DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: "CNN 20" today, Ronald Reagan journeys to what he called "the evil empire."</s>FRANK SESNO, CNN WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF: When Reagan went to Moscow that first time, it was really quite a remarkable journey. For him to go into the clutches of what he had called "the evil empire" was extraordinary, and he used that trip to rather publicly address arms race, nuclear annihilation, and human rights. Reagan presented Soviet leaders with a list of dissidents and demanded that they be allowed to emigrate, because there had been a lot of controls that had been placed on that. He took his message to the heart of the evil empire, and yet, when he did so, he did it with a fairly jovial face. His stroll through Red Square was a remarkable moment, where he was in effect reaching out, trying to humanize himself and the country. It's hard to appreciate today the symbolism and the distance that that visit represented.</s>RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.</s>SESNO: "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this well," seemed like a quaint little sound bite when he stood at the Berlin Wall and uttered that comment. And where he is visiting the wall or visiting the Soviet union, itself, you were aware that this was America's implacable foe. There were nuclear weapons aimed across the Atlantic.
CNN 20: Reagan's First Soviet Union Trip, May 29, 1988