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Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he previously held the office of governor of California from 1967 to 1975. Reagan's presidency is noted for significant tax cuts, a strong anti-communist foreign policy, and the deregulation of various industries. His administration also faced challenges such as the Iran-Contra affair and economic issues, including inflation and unemployment.

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Jan 8, 1985

I believe a more stable peace is achievable through these negotiations.

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Jan 8, 1985

Defense is not a program in which we can determine what we want to spend.

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Jan 8, 1985

I would resist anything that would reduce the payments and the benefits.

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Jan 7, 1985

I think whoever that individual was referring to was someplace here in our own meetings.

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Jan 7, 1985

I intend to nominate James A. Baker III to become Secretary of the Treasury.

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Jan 7, 1985

No, no. I'll tell you, we knew personally, Nancy and I, the gentleman out in California that did this for the Los Angeles Times.

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Jan 7, 1985

I think we're going to see meetings that will be arranged shortly, meetings to negotiate nuclear weapons and space and all.

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Jan 7, 1985

I think it's been one of the best tax studies that's ever been made.

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Jan 7, 1985

It's never been any thought on the part of any of us that after 50 years of built-in, structural deficit spending, there’s no way that you can gear segments of the society to government doing many of these things and then just pull the rug…

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Jan 7, 1985

The true believer in the White House is sitting here in the Oval Office.

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Jan 7, 1985

Being my Attorney General does not remove him from my being able to seek his counsel whenever I feel like doing so.

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Jan 7, 1985

Jim Baker is a proven, successful member of our national security, legislative, and economic policy-making teams.

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Jan 7, 1985

This is all this meeting was supposed to do is to establish procedures for negotiations.

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Jan 7, 1985

I wish that they would have an ethic in which they would check that out with us to see whether it, in some way, might be harmful to our national security.

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Jan 7, 1985

No, I feel committed to what I said about Social Security before:

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Jan 3, 1985

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, and in order to create a coordinated process for developing on an annual basis the Administration's Regulatory Program, establish…

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Jan 3, 1985

I believe that the United States should become a party to the 1983 Partial Revision as soon as possible.

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Jan 2, 1985

The United States Government will thus implement a new food aid policy to be called Food for Progress.

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Jan 2, 1985

Mike has rendered 18 years of loyal and outstanding service to me and to the First Lady both in California and in Washington.

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Jan 2, 1985

Hunger and extreme malnutrition now threaten over 14 million people in Africa through the end of 1985.

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Jan 2, 1985

I am today with deep regret accepting the resignation of Michael K. Deaver as Deputy Chief of the White House Staff.

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Jan 2, 1985

I have also today approved a $25 million drawdown from the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund to finance urgent humanitarian assistance needs in Africa.

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