Ronald Reagan: “We can help our neighbors in their struggle for freedom, or, by doing…”

On the recordJune 8, 1986

We can help our neighbors in their struggle for freedom, or, by doing nothing, we can abandon them to a Communist dictatorship.

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Republican · California

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Remarks to the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies on United States Assistance for the...

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