Ronald Reagan actually said...

History will record that one of the turning points came on a small island in the Caribbean where America went to take care of her own and to rescue a neighboring nation from a growing tyranny.

Context

Remarks at a White House Ceremony Marking the First Anniversary of the Grenada Rescue Mission

10/23/1984

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