Ronald Reagan actually said...

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.

Address to the Nation on the Situation in Nicaragua

03/15/1986

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Because that story, according to the transcript which I've read, is a complete distortion of the truth.

It didn't happen that way.

This land should not be added to the Wilderness System.

I just have to believe the Americans can still outdesign, outproduce, outsell, outinnovate, and outcompete anybody on Earth.