Ronald Reagan actually said...

Let me read the citation and present the medal to each recipient who will then, we hope, say a few words to us.

Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the Presidential Medal of Freedom

10/08/1981

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The American people are beginning to fit it all together.

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I cannot approve S. 1259.

Now, that's being true to our Republican philosophy, I'm proud to say.