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Ronald Reagan: “If a foreign nation had done to our schools what we ourselves have done to them, we would be justified in calling it an…”

On the recordMay 10, 1984
If a foreign nation had done to our schools what we ourselves have done to them, we would be justified in calling it an act of war.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Remarks at a White House Ceremony Marking the First Anniversary of the Report of the National Commission on Excellence in...

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