09/25/1983
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"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.'"
"Parents are, after all, our first and most important teachers."