The President's News Conference
06/26/1989
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No, it was never strained. That's -- I think that's the mythology that's -- that we've escaped.
We went to Africa and saw people dying, needlessly dying. There's nothing more important, I think, and Laura thinks, as ...
History has a long march to it. Societies change, and relationships can constantly be altered to the good.
We are here today, together, to strengthen and reform U.N. peacekeeping because our common security demands it.