09/25/1985
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"I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Monday, October 10, 1988, as Columbus Day."
"I hope that welcome was for Christopher Columbus."
"Today, nearly 500 years after his epochal discoveries, Columbus remains for us a giant of exploration and of the human spirit."
"I've said if all the young people of the world could get to know each other, there'd never be another war."