Ronald Reagan: “We want to be out as quickly as possible, because our purpose in being…”

On the recordOctober 24, 1983

We want to be out as quickly as possible, because our purpose in being there is only for them to enable—to take over their own affairs.

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Remarks of the President and Prime Minister Eugenia Charles of Dominica Announcing the Deployment of United States Forces in...

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