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Ronald Reagan: As a banking and financial center, an important ship-repair port and site of international petrochemical and metallurgic…

On the recordJuly 18, 1983
As a banking and financial center, an important ship-repair port and site of international petrochemical and metallurgic cooperative ventures, your country is an open and inviting land of growth and opportunity.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Toasts of the President and Amir Isa bin Sulman Al Khalifa of Bahrain at the State Dinner

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