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Ronald Reagan: “We cannot think of this program as a one-time injection of U.S. interest and effort.”

On the recordMarch 16, 1982
We cannot think of this program as a one-time injection of U.S. interest and effort.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Message to the Congress Transmitting Proposed Caribbean Basin Initiative Legislation

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