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Ronald Reagan: “Drug abuse is more offensive to our fundamental values and national sense of purpose than anything in our nation's…”

On the recordSeptember 24, 1986
Drug abuse is more offensive to our fundamental values and national sense of purpose than anything in our nation's history.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Remarks to Members of the National Fraternal Congress of America

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