12/12/1983
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"Many well-intentioned people would rather not accept these facts."
"America will maintain deterrence by modernizing our strategic forces."
"U.S. support for the freedom fighters is morally right and intimately linked to our own security."
"I want it clearly understood today that if we fall to meet this obligation, then history will hold us fully accountable to the consequences."