Ronald Reagan actually said...

The funding authorized by this act will greatly assist in promoting the economic and political stability of that country and support the international effort to strengthen a sovereign and independent Lebanon.

Context

Statement on Signing the Lebanon Emergency Assistance Act of 1983

06/26/1983

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