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Ronald Reagan: “I was kind of thinking it was pretty funny that an ex-officer of horse cavalry was here standing, handing out medals to…”

On the recordDecember 28, 1986
I was kind of thinking it was pretty funny that an ex-officer of horse cavalry was here standing, handing out medals to somebody that had flown around the world on a single tank of gas.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Remarks on Presenting Presidential Citizens Medals to the Designer and Crew of the Voyager in Los Angeles, California

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