REAGAN SPELLS OUT SECOND-TERM AGENDA

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 22, 1984
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Exclusive Interview with the President
. Reagan: Spells
Out Seond-Tu
HUiiAiQ EVENTS
22 December 1984
(On December::6 -HUMAN EVENTS
Editor Thomas S.- Winter and Associ-
ate Editor Joseph Baldacchino inter-,
viewed President Reagan in the Oval
"Office.)
0. What plans does the Administra-
tion have now to try to get some aid go-
ing back to the Contras?
A. Oh, we're going to try. I think that
Congress - or that portion of it that's
been blocking us has been very
irresponsible. The Contras are veterans
of the revolution that put the Sandi-
nistas in power. And it was a total rev-
olutionary effort aimed at democracy.
You only have to look at the prom-
ises the Sandinistas made to the Organi-
zation of American States, none of
which have been kept. And what we're
supporting are the people of Nicaragua
who have now been subjected to a
totalitarian, Marxist-Leninist state.
Q. But is there. any realistic chance
that such aid can get through Con-
gress?
A. We're going to do ,)ur.best.
Q. Would you go to the people, go on
television to make the case?
A. Yes.
Q. Since covert aid seems to bother a
lot of people, including the likely new
head of the Senate Intelligence Com-
mittee, Minnesota GOP Senator Dave
Durenberger;. one suggestion has been
to recognize -a government-in-exile
which we,-could then aid overtly. Have
you thought about that?:
Q. Well, this would give us something
that we would have to look at very
closely, because right now we can
honestly say that what -we're trying to
do is simply modify the existing situ-
ation and return to the principles that
all of the parties and elements opposed.
to Som.oza, including the Sandinistas,
were fighting for, according to what
they said.
Now, it's been revealed that they
didn't mean it when they said it. Recog-
nition of a government-in-exile would
probably present some problems -
very definite problems for us.
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