Ronald Reagan actually said...

It's in our own vital interest to help our Caribbean friends to protect themselves from hostile, foreign-inspired forces that would impose an alien ideology through the use of violence and terrorism.

Context

Remarks on the Caribbean Basin Initiative at a White House Briefing for Chief Executive Officers of United States...

04/27/1982

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