Ronald Reagan actually said...

A country's right to decide for itself how best to achieve its sovereign objectives, free of occupation, threat, and blackmail—that is what the goal must be.

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Remarks at a Reception for the Heads of Delegation to the 38th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York,...

09/24/1983

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