10/16/1989
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"Diga no a drogas."
"Rhode Island is and will always be personified by the statue atop your capitol, the very image of the independent man."
"And society also deserves a chance, by sending the drug dealers where they belong -- to do time, hard time."
"I'm here today, as your principal alluded to, because you, the students of Pickard Elementary, cared enough about the problem of drugs in your community to write the President of the United States."