Ronald Reagan actually said...

The history of our time will undoubtedly include a footnote about how, during this decade and the last, the voice of retreat and hopelessness reached a crescendo in the West.

Context

Remarks to Members of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London

06/02/1988

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