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Ronald Reagan: We were simply trying to respond to the charges, the raucous charges, from some that he was some kind of a radical.

On the recordSeptember 30, 1987
We were simply trying to respond to the charges, the raucous charges, from some that he was some kind of a radical.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Informal Exchange With Reporters on the Supreme Court Nomination of Robert H. Bork

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