Radio Address to the Nation on the Quality of Life in America
10/14/1983
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In a violent world, Your Holiness, you have been a minister of peace and love.
You've got to remember that this has been a great change in the leadership and a change in the last 12 years in their position towards us.
We would rather negotiate agreements with the Soviets than build new weapons, but we cannot negotiate with empty chairs.
We strongly condemn the current Soviet escalation of warfare in the Panjshir Valley of Afghanistan.