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Ronald Reagan: “Well, someone else would buy the oil and finance his activities, and so we wouldn't be gaining anything there.”

On the recordOctober 11, 1981
Well, someone else would buy the oil and finance his activities, and so we wouldn't be gaining anything there.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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