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Ronald Reagan: “My own personal reaction is that because I stressed negotiations as the settlement to many of these troublesome issues…”

On the recordSeptember 7, 1982
My own personal reaction is that because I stressed negotiations as the settlement to many of these troublesome issues there, I think that we have to understand sometimes that maybe positions are being staked out with those negotiations in mind.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Remarks to Reporters on Lebanon and the Middle East

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