Informal Exchange With Reporters
11/13/1989
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I think this is a time, as Abraham Lincoln once said in our history, to think anew.
This is not a U.S. effort by itself.
I am hereby transmitting my report that finds that substantial progress has been made in telecommunications trade talks.
I have publicly said, and I'll repeat it -- we want better relations with Iran.