02/01/1989
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"As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life."
"We know, as he always said, that America's best days are ahead of us, but with Ronald Reagan's passing some very fine days are behind us and that is worth our tears."
"Ronald Reagan belongs to the ages now but we preferred it when he belonged to us."
"When the sun sets tonight off the coast of California and we lay to rest our 40th president, a great American story will close."