08/01/1982
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"Without the Peacekeeper our chances of reaching an equitable agreement with the Soviet Union to reduce significantly the size of our nuclear arsenals are substantially lowered."
"The continued procurement and deployment of the Peacekeeper are essential to national security."
"It seems incredible that the chief executives of 43 States and many of your own county executives have line-item veto authority, but the President of the United States does not."
"Come deployment time if the research yields such a weapon, come deployment, then you sit down."