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- Following are excerpts from two press releases of the President of the United
- States. I recieved complete copies of these from John Lear and excerpted the
- portion of interest.
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- Jim Delton
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- December 4, 1985 - 10:17 AM - Remarks of the President To Fallston High School
- Students and Faculty. (Fallston, Maryland)
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- The President talked about his recent meeting with Gorbachev in Geneva, SDI,
- people-to-people exchanges, and having no illusions about the Soviets. The
- two paragraphs of the remarks are the following:
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- I couldn't but -- one point in our discussions privately with General
- Secretary Gorbachev -- when you stop to think that we're all God's children,
- wherever we may live in the world, I couldn't help but slay to him, just think
- how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly
- there was a threat to this from some other species from another planet outside
- in the universe. We'd forget all the little local differences that we have
- between our countries and we would find out once and for all that we really
- are all human beings here on this earth together.
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- Well I don't suppose we can wait for some alien race to come down and
- threaten us. But I think that between us we can bring about that realization.
- Thank you all. God bless you all. (Applause.)
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- September 21, 1987 - 11:05 am EDT -Text of Remarks by the President to the
- 42nd General Assembly of the United Nations. (New York, NY)
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- President talked about his vision for the future, recent change in leadership
- in the Philipines, benefits of freedom, the problems in the Middle East,
- Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Nuclear arms reductions, Human Rights, and in his
- third to the last paragraph said:
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- In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much
- unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal
- threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly
- our differences world-wide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from
- outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among
- us? What could be more alien than war and the threat of war?
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