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Ronald Reagan: “If I wasn't [optimistic] I'd never have left the ranch to come here in the first place.”

On the recordJanuary 19, 1982
If I wasn't [optimistic] I'd never have left the ranch to come here in the first place.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Remarks to the Reagan Administration Executive Forum

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