Ronald Reagan actually said...

I will tell him the United States not only has the right to go forward with research for a strategic missile defense, but in light of the scale of their program we'd be the greatest fools on Earth not to do so.

Context

Radio Address to the Nation on the Strategic Defense Initiative

07/12/1985

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