Ronald Reagan: “We are asking only to be permitted to switch a small part of our…”

On the recordMarch 15, 1986

We are asking only to be permitted to switch a small part of our present defense budget to the defense of our own southern frontier.

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Republican · California

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Address to the Nation on the Situation in Nicaragua

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