The President's News Conference
02/20/1989
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No, it was never strained. That's -- I think that's the mythology that's -- that we've escaped.
Michael Dukakis has opposed virtually every defense system we've developed.
President George H. W. Bush signed it.
We do not need someone in the Oval Office who mirrors and inflames our anger and frustration.