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Ronald Reagan: The measure the House will consider tomorrow… would give the Sandinistas and the Soviet Union what they seek most: time.

On the recordJune 23, 1986
The measure the House will consider tomorrow… would give the Sandinistas and the Soviet Union what they seek most: time.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Address to the Nation on United States Assistance for the Nicaraguan Democratic Resistance

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