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Robert C. Byrd: “Our country has no duty to turn tail and run if it is attacked in international waters. It has a duty to withstand those…”

On the recordMarch 25, 1986
Our country has no duty to turn tail and run if it is attacked in international waters. It has a duty to withstand those attacks, and it has done so.
Said by
Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
govinfo.gov
Mar 25, 1986

Editor's note · Context

Discussing attacks by Libya on U.S. ships and planes in international waters.

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