Republican (fascist/socialist) delivers his “Evil Empire” speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, in Orlando, florida.  Reagan denounces the atheistic Soviet Union as “the focus of evil in the modern world.”

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Subsequent Events:

9/1/1983                   12/12/1983                    3/4/1987

References:

James Carroll, House of War: The Pentagon and the disastrous rise of American power, (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 389.

Miller Center.htm
millercenter.org/president/speeches/speech-3409

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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