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Ronald Reagan: “It's a travesty that we should be engaged in what was called mutual assured destruction.”

On the recordOctober 27, 1986
It's a travesty that we should be engaged in what was called mutual assured destruction.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at a Campaign Rally for Senator Jeremiah A. Denton in Birmingham, Alabama

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