06/10/1981
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"This letter will serve as my consent for the purpose of allowing you to form this Committee."
"The work of your Committee will be of great help to me at such time as I may make a formal decision to seek a second term as President."
"We're going to continue."
"Because I think it is vitally important to the security of the United States and the Western World that we do everything we can to further the peace process in the Middle East."