06/12/1989
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"Education is our most enduring legacy, vital to everything we are and can become."
"We've got to prevail, and we will."
"All executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty for the last half of the scheduled workday on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1990."
"It's very clear to the world that that's what the objective is."