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Ronald Reagan: What can the world think of leaders who fear that their own people will flee their homeland at the first opportunity?

On the recordAugust 12, 1981
What can the world think of leaders who fear that their own people will flee their homeland at the first opportunity?
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Statement on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Berlin Wall

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