Ronald Reagan actually said...

this national minerals policy recognizes the critical role of minerals to our economy, national defense, and standard of living

Message to the Congress Submitting the National Materials and Minerals Program Plan and Report

04/04/1982

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The U.S. autoworkers are still the greatest autoworkers in the world, bar none.

If you can find a better program than that, you buy it.

America is strong enough to remain free and at peace.

I believe that we've laid that kind of a foundation.