05/19/1977
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"We will not be the first supplier to introduce into a region newly developed, advanced weapons systems."
"But in the future the burden of persuasion will be on those who favor a particular arms sale, rather than those who oppose it."
"I will nominate Robert L. Nelson, of Washington, D.C., to be Assistant Secretary of the Army."
"The United States will henceforth view arms transfers as an exceptional foreign policy implement."