Remarks by Telephone to Crewmembers on Board the Space Shuttle Discovery
11/14/1984
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We've only heard the same as you've heard: that he has been suggesting doing something of this kind.
Well, that wasn't a proposal. That was a decision that has been made.
America's freedom does not belong to just one nation.
The strength of our nation has never been with the Washington colony but with the American people.