10/14/1981
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"I am pleased today to sign into law H.R. 5688, a bill that will increase certain benefits paid to veterans and make other improvements in veterans' programs."
"Let us honor him as he would have wished, by keeping faith with the policy of peace and deterrence that assures the survival of our freedom."
"My generation, and a few generations between mine and yours—we were born into an America where we grew up just taking it for granted that you could dream and make your dreams come true."
"Abe Lincoln said that we must disenthrall ourselves with the past—and then we will save our country."