Radio Address to the Nation on the American Family
12/02/1983
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Let me emphasize that we are taking these economic measures only after repeated but unsuccessful attempts to reduce tensions with Iran.
In Thomas Jefferson's words, the States are 'the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against an...
The measures I am initiating are a direct result of the Iranian Government's own actions, including its unprovoked attacks on U.S. forces an...
we certainly will not be pushed into sacrificing essential interests just to have a meeting.