Ronald Reagan actually said...

I indicated my opposition to the curb on sales, because American farmers had been unfairly singled out to bear the burden of this ineffective national policy.

Context

Statement on Terminating United States Restrictions on Agricultural Sales to the Soviet Union

04/23/1981

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