09/17/1989
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"No, I don't believe he should resign."
"It's time to get a government in place that can start leading this nation and listening to the will of the people."
"If I didn't think we would succeed, I would pull our troops out. I cannot look mothers and dads in the eye... I can't ask this good Marine to go into harm's way, if I didn't believe, one, we're going ..."
"I'm going to spend a lot of time answering questions and just explaining."