Peter Mark Robinson (born April 18, 1957 ) is an American author, research fellow , television host and former speechwriter for then-Vice President George H. W. Bush and President Ronald Reagan . He is currently the host of Uncommon Knowledge , an interview show by Stanford 's Hoover Institution . He is also a research fellow at the Hoover Institution , and a co-founder of the Ricochet website.
14-2629: Peter Robinson may refer to: Entertainment [ edit ] Peter Robinson (sideshow artist) (1873–1947), American actor and sideshow performer, known for his appearance in film Freaks (1932) J. Peter Robinson (born 1945), British musician and film score composer Peter Robinson (conductor) (born 1949), British conductor Peter Robinson (novelist) (1950–2022), British-born Canadian crime writer. Peter Charles Robinson or Pete McCarthy (1951–2004), British comedian Peter Robinson (poet) (born 1953), British poet and professor Peter Robinson (New Zealand musician) (1958–2016), New Zealand musician Peter Robinson (artist) (born 1966), New Zealand artist of Maori descent Peter Robinson (Australian musician) , founder of Australian band The Strangers Peter Manning Robinson , film score composer, see The Maddening Peter Robinson or Marilyn (singer) (born 1962), British pop singer Politics [ edit ] Peter Robinson (Canadian politician) (1785–1838) Peter Robinson (speaker) (1791–1841), American politician in New York state Peter Robinson (Northern Ireland politician) (born 1948), Northern Irish politician Pete Robinson (Georgia state politician) , in 138th to 140th Georgia General Assembly (1985–90) Sports [ edit ] Peter Robinson (Australian footballer) (born 1953), Australian rules footballer Peter Robinson (cricketer, born 1929) , English cricketer Peter Robinson (cricketer, born 1943) , English cricketer Pete Robinson (drag racer) (1933–1971), American drag racer Peter Robinson (footballer, born 1922) (1922–2000), English footballer Peter Robinson (footballer, born 1957) , English footballer Peter Robinson (rugby league) (born 1976), Australian rugby league footballer and commentator Other professions [ edit ] Peter D. Robinson (born 1969), English bishop Peter Frederick Robinson (1776–1858), British architect Peter Robinson (chancellor) , Canadian academic, see List of Canadian university leaders Peter Robinson (computer scientist) (born 1952), English academic and computer scientist Peter Robinson (journalist) (born 1977), British music journalist Peter Robinson (lawyer) (born 1953), American lawyer Peter Robinson (priest) (born 1961), Archdeacon of Lindisfarne Peter Robinson (speechwriter) (born 1957), American speechwriter and interviewer Peter Robinson (1804–1874), British founder of
28-526: A Master of Business Administration in 1990. The journal he kept of his two-year experience there was the basis for his book Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA , published in 1994, which details the considerable difficulty he encountered during the first year of business school due to his lack of a "quantitative background". In the early 1990s, Robinson joined the News Corporation run by Rupert Murdoch , and then served as press secretary to
42-546: A lengthy career in the carnival circus circuit at Coney Island and with Ringling Bros . He also appeared briefly in Broadway. He worked as a carnival sideshow entertainer, weighing in at 58 pounds (26 kg). He had a career in that genre in the vein of circus thin man Isaac W. Sprague and Artie Atherton . He was married to fellow sideshow entertainer Baby Bunny Smith , a 467-pound (212 kg), circus fat lady. He married her numerous times for promotional purposes. He
56-469: A position at the White House . In an event he describes as a "fluke", he was given a job as the chief speechwriter for Vice President Bush. In what he calls a "second fluke", he was then transferred to President Reagan's staff as a special assistant and speechwriter, where he wrote the famed 1987 " Tear down this wall " address. Referencing Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev 's refusal to remove
70-804: A second bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and graduating in 1982. Robinson also attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business . He graduated with an MBA in 1990. Robinson is the host of Uncommon Knowledge , a political podcast at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University . The show has featured guests like Thomas Sowell , Benjamin Netanyahu , and Henry Kissinger , and it delves into topics such as public policy , history , geopolitics , and economics . After Oxford, Robinson applied for
84-539: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Peter Robinson (sideshow artist) Peter Robinson (born April 8, 1873; credited professionally as The Living Skeleton or as The Cigarette Fiend , and The Thin Man ) was an American theater and sideshow art performer, perhaps best known for his only film appearance in the Tod Browning cult film Freaks , with
98-700: The Berlin Wall , the speech, delivered by Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin on 12 June 1987, contained the sentence: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" On arrival in the city before writing the speech, Robinson was warned by US diplomats to avoid Cold War rhetoric and that Berliners had adjusted to the presence of the Berlin Wall. However, after consultation with local Berliners, he found them deeply wounded and concerned about
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126-806: The Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission . In 1993, Robinson became a research fellow at the Hoover Institution , Stanford's conservative research center. In addition to writing about business and politics, he also edits the Hoover Digest and hosted a PBS public affairs television program Uncommon Knowledge , later re-branded as a Web cast at hoover.org, and then arranged to be released semiweekly on National Review Online . He has written How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life and It’s My Party: A Republican's Messy Love Affair with
140-573: The GOP , a study of the Republican Party . He served on the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College from 2005 to 2013. Robinson lives in northern California with his wife, Edita, and their five children. Edita's parents left Cuba in 1959 and she was born about 18 months later. In 2003, he published his third book, How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life . He has stated that it is "nothing less than
154-665: The United States, but were of Canadian ancestry. He said that he had a normal childhood and appearance until his early teens, when his weight began to drop precipitously. Peter Robinson (speechwriter) Robinson grew up in Vestal, New York . He attended Dartmouth College from 1975 to 1979, where he was a member of Tri-Kap , and wrote for The Dartmouth . He majored in English and graduated summa cum laude , then continued his studies at Christ Church, Oxford , pursuing
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#1732781097984168-509: The other side of the wall. Reagan went so far as to say "yes, this wall will fall", and that "As long as this gate is closed, as long as this scar of a wall is permitted to stand, it is not the German question alone that remains open, but the question of freedom for all mankind." Robinson wrote more than 300 speeches during his White House tenure. After serving for six years, Robinson attended business school at Stanford University where he earned
182-610: The wall; in many instances it had separated families and represented an intrusion of a police state into daily life. Returning to Washington D.C., Robinson's phrase became controversial with the State Department and other staff members, including Chief of Staff Howard Baker and National Security Advisor Colin Powell . Repeated attempts were made to remove it from the speech, but Reagan overruled them, wishing to communicate not only with West Berliners but with East Germans on
196-458: Was also purported to be an expert harmonica player. Robinson was born in Chicopee, Massachusetts , on April 8, 1873. He was the son of Abraham Robinson, a native of Vermont, and Canadian Victoria Hebert. In later records he used April 6 as his birthday and gave Springfield, Massachusetts as his place of birth, but the birth registry gives the former date and location. His parents were born in
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