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On the recordOctober 13, 1987
I'm doing this because what's now at stake in this battle must never in our land of freedom become a lost cause.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Address to the Nation on the Supreme Court Nomination of Robert H. Bork

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