THE SECOND REAGAN-MONDALE DEBATE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: October 21, 1984
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WASHINGTON POST
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THE SECOND REAGAN-MONDALE DEBATE
INTELLIGENCE
U "We're feeling the effects today of the
near destruction of our intelligence
capability in recent years-before we came
here, the effort that somehow to say, well,
spying is somehow dishonest and let's get
rid of our intelligence agents, and we did
that to a large extent .... [Now we're]
trying to rebuild our intelligence to where
you'll ... know in advance what the target
might be-and be prepared for it."
-President Reagan,
Bowling Green State University,
Sept. 26, 1984
M "It is not true that the Central
Intelligence Agency was weakened during
the late 1970s, as Mr. Reagan's own vice
president and CIA director have
admitted .... It is reckless to announce
that American intelligence is so weak that
we cannot protect ourselves from terrorists.
That invites further assaults. It jeopardizes
the security of our personnel and
installations-abroad."
-Walter F. Mondale,
response to Reagan remarks,
CENTRAL AMERICA
? "Central America is a region of
great importance to the United
States .... It is at our doorstep.
And it has become the stage for a
bo!d attempt by the Soviet Union,
Cuba and Nicaragua to install
communism by force throughout
the hemisphere .... Communist
subversion is not an irreversible
tide. We have seen it rolled back
in Venezuala and, most recently, in
Grenada .... The tide of the
future can be a freedom tide. All it
takes is the will and resources to
get the job done .... Let us show
the world that we want no hostile,
communist colonies here in the
Americas: South, Central or
North."
-President Reagan,
address on Central America,
May 9, 1984
Sept. 30, 1984
E "Mr. Reagan's strategy has region is much more unstab!e.
failed. Instead of pursuing instead of working with the
negotiation, he sought Coritadora group, he gave them lip
confrontation-and today, the service and a brushoff-and
today, the hemisphere is more
hostile to us .... Instead of
conditioning our aid on human
rights, he has given a blank check
to the military-and last night he
asked for a larger one .... We
should terminate our aid to the
Contras and other covert activities
toward Nicaragua-while
continuing efforts to stop the flow
of arms across national
borders'.... Negotiations may not
succeed. But how can'we know -
unless we try?"
-Walter F. Mondale,
American Society
of Newspaper Editors,
May 10, 1984
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