Ronald Reagan actually said...

He urged funding only these programs, plus a few new initiatives, rather than dissipating the effects of scarce Federal resources by scattering funding among the many other lower priority, narrow-purpose programs.

Context

White House Statement on the 1989 Federal Education Budget Amendments

05/23/1988

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