Ronald Reagan: “Our aim is to prevent, not to provoke, wider conflict, to save the…”

On the recordMay 21, 1987

Our aim is to prevent, not to provoke, wider conflict, to save the many lives that further conflict would cost us.

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Republican · California

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Remarks at a Memorial Service for Crewmembers of the U.S.S. Stark in Jacksonville, Florida

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Ronald Reagan: “Our aim is to prevent, not to provoke, wider conflict, to save the many lives that further conflict would cost us.”