05/22/1988
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"It's time for the Federal Government to admit to what it doesn't know and start listening to creative Governors like Tom Kean and Booth Gardner, Jim Martin."
"We must not and will not abandon them."
"Rebuilding our defenses would come first."
"We take this job seriously because we know the truth of some other words that Teddy Roosevelt spoke."