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Ronald Reagan: “Oh, I wish they'd have behaved differently, but then everyone makes mistakes.”

On the recordSeptember 9, 1982
Oh, I wish they'd have behaved differently, but then everyone makes mistakes.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters on the Senate Override of a Fiscal Year 1982 Supplemental Appropriations Bill

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