10/14/1986
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"This deployment of United States Armed Forces is being undertaken pursuant to my constitutional authority with respect to the conduct of foreign relations and as Commander-in-Chief of the United State..."
"American lives are at stake."
"We have taken this decisive action for three reasons."
"It is that constitutional power of appointment, so long a part of the American political tradition, that is at stake here."