11/11/1983
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"I invite the Governors of the fifty States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the appropriate officials of all other areas under the United States flag to issue similar proclamations."
"I also ask that health care professionals, the communications industry, and all other interested persons and groups unite during this appointed time to reaffirm publicly our Nation's continuing commit..."
"Today that vision of our Founding Fathers of a federal system of States is as viable, if not more so, than at any time in our history."
"Our Federal system of sovereign States is today as vital to the preservation of freedom as it was in the time of Jefferson and Adams."