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Ronald Reagan: “No, I think that it was high time that we got some realism and got people thinking.”

On the recordDecember 5, 1983
No, I think that it was high time that we got some realism and got people thinking.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Interview With Garry Clifford and Patricia Ryan of People Magazine

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