The President's News Conference
03/09/1989
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
The great outdoors is precious, but fragile.
With just a small effort, we can help our own employees and, just as importantly, we can provide national leadership in support of adoption.
I strongly support what we've sent up there to the Hill.
The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient lifeless tree.