10/09/1989
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"I'm pleased that Tom Clancy, the esteemed author, my friend, involved in this project."
"What a marvelous contribution he's made to our literary world and, I also would like to think, to the national security interests of the United States by his writings."
"The establishment of a Commission for International Cooperation in Planetary Exploration unnecessarily duplicates the function of the National Space Council."
"All Americans believe in liberty, for the evidence of its power lights the world."