The President's News Conference
06/26/1989
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Let me help you with the difference, Miss Ferraro, between Iran and the embassy in Lebanon.
I know this, that Laura and I gave the presidency eight years of our lives. We gave it our all.
No, it was never strained. That's -- I think that's the mythology that's -- that we've escaped.
Then Governor George W. Bush famously warned about that, quote, 'soft bigotry of low expectations.'