10/06/1985
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"I urge the Congress to enact this needed reform in order to avoid the experience of the 1988 Continuing Resolution."
"I urge prompt passage of such legislation."
"I do hereby proclaim Friday, April 29, 1988, as National Arbor Day."
"We have begun to turn back what our education commission 5 years ago called 'a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.'"