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Ronald Reagan: “To our mothers we owe our highest esteem, for it is from their gift of life that the flow of events begins that shapes…”

On the recordApril 5, 1983
To our mothers we owe our highest esteem, for it is from their gift of life that the flow of events begins that shapes our destiny.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Proclamation 5042—Mother's Day, 1983

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