08/18/1983
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"Seriously, though, to maximize our benefits, we must look beyond short-term steps to develop long-term goals for our national civilian space enterprise."
"I can assure you that Mr. Gorbachev and his colleagues in the Soviet leadership will find America to be a willing partner in the search for true peace."
"What could be more moral than a system designed to save lives rather than to avenge them?"
"Let history record that in our day America's best scientific minds sought to develop technology that helped mankind ease away from the nuclear parapet."