Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade
08/30/1985
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Today I reaffirm that support, still confident in my belief that statehood would benefit both the people of Puerto Rico and their fellow Ame...
Together-and that's the only way, together-we can make it happen.
The status of Puerto Rico is an issue to be settled by the peoples of Puerto Rico and the United States.
By the authority vested in me as President of the United States of America by Section 402(e) of Title 37, United States Code, and in order t...