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Ronald Reagan: “No, it seems a little overdignified to call what's going to happen surgery.”

On the recordJuly 30, 1987
No, it seems a little overdignified to call what's going to happen surgery.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Informal Exchange With Reporters

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