Ronald Reagan actually said...

the relations of the United States with the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands shall, in all matters not the program responsibility of another Federal department or agency, be under the general administrative supervision of the Secretary of the Interior.

Context

Executive Order 12572—Relations With the Northern Mariana Islands

11/02/1986

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