02/20/1983
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"SDI, our Strategic Defense Initiative, could prove crucial to guarding security and peace for America and her allies."
"It's better to protect lives than to avenge them."
"A nonnuclear strategic defense makes good sense."
"I have determined and it is my intention and direction that Vice President George Bush shall discharge those powers and duties in my stead."