Ronald Reagan actually said...

I think we would have lost prestige if we had not been willing to undertake this job of trying to broker an agreement between these two parties and forestall violence.

Context

Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters on Domestic and Foreign Policy Issues

04/19/1982

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