Ronald Reagan: “It would be impossible for me to give up in the face of a lynch mob.”

On the recordOctober 7, 1987

It would be impossible for me to give up in the face of a lynch mob.

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Republican · California

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Informal Exchange With Reporters on the Supreme Court Nomination of Robert H. Bork

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