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Ronald Reagan: “Why should the Federal Government think it can do what all the rest of us don't have to do in our private lives?”

On the recordAugust 10, 1982
Why should the Federal Government think it can do what all the rest of us don't have to do in our private lives?
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at a Fund-raising Luncheon in Billings, Montana, for United States Senate Candidate Larry Williams

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