RADIO ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT TO THE NATION

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• Document Release Date: October 26, 2010
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• Publication Date: December 14, 1985
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Office of the Press Secretary
]Pat ate Release
RADIO ADDRESS
Ot Tax PRESIDENT
TO TIE NATION
The Oval Office
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12 s O4 P.I. EST
Till PRESIDENT: My Fellow Americans, I'have two subjeata
to speak about today. First, taxes. I think you now how strongly I
want to improve our unfair and complicated tax . A problem
that's grown so monstrous over the years isn't eas to correct. but
we're on the edge of a breakthrough that can being personal income
tax rates down to the lowest level in over SO year .
This past week the Souse began final siberation of
crucial reform legislation. But because of a parl amentary impasse.
the House was unable to vote. Unless it's overtur , the result can
only be a defeat for all Americans who know taxes to too high and
the system is hopelessly unfair.
Today I'd like to make a personal requ at of the House of
Representatives. You have the opportunity to prow de the relief
millions of Americans demand. If together Republi an* and Democrats
would agrot to a format for considering this vote, I believe there
will be sufficient bipartisan support for tax refom to pass. This
is one time politics must be put aside on both sid s of the aisle.
There are ways to permit this such needed reform to go forward.
There are ample excuses for not going forward -- ere will be no
justification if it does not.
Now, I must address recent disturbing invents in a country
close to our borders -- the communist dictatorship in Nicaragua.
Nicaragua today is an imprisoned nation; it is a nsti.aa condemned to
unrelenting cruelty by a clique of very cruel men= by a dictator to
designer glasses and his comrades, drunk with power and all its
brutal applications. They stripped the Nicaraguan people of their
rights by a state decree last October 15th. Yet that decree only
made official, and by their reckoning permissible,) the theft of
liberty that took place years ago.
No institution more deeply embodies orl glorifies or seeks
to perfect the moral and spiritual goodness of mangy than the Church in
all of its denominations. Yet, in Nicaragua, the Church is the
enemy. Protestant ministers and lay people have en arrested,
interrogated, and tormented at secret police head uarters -- some
forced to stand naked in very cold rooms for long,periods. A tiny
population of Jews was bullied and driven out.
Cardinal Obando y Bravo, a great hero of truth and
courage, is prevented from speaking freely to his flock. The State
Police have expelled foreign priests and drafted eminarians who are
virtual poisoners in the Sandinistas' armed forces.
And the Catholic Church's newspaper s been seized and
Radio Catolica censored, sometimes shut down enti ely. The same
dictators who insulted Pope John Paul II, also stopped Radio Catolica
from broadcasting a letter from the Pope and this Beatitude:
'Blessed are those who are persecuted for righted sness sake, for
theirs is the kingdom of )leaven.' The truth is, here men ace
nothing but thugs, a gang of hard-core communists to whoa the word of
God is a declaration of liberation that must be :Damped out.
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Their denial of rights, their trampling of human dignity,
their wrecking of an economy with suffocating socialist controls, all
hurt and deeply attend us. But there's a cause tat beeper oowcern the spectre of Nicaragua transformed into an international aggressor
nation, a base for subversion and terror.
Some 3,000 Cuban military personnel now lead and advise
the Nicaraguan forces down to the smallest combat its. The Cubans
fly the Soviet assault helicopters that gun down Ni araguan freedom
fighters. Over 7,000 Cubans, Soviets, East Germans, Bulgarians,
Libyans, PLO and other bloc and terror groups are t ruing Managua
into a breeding ground for subversion. A delegati of Nicaraguan*
is now in Iran; Nicaragua's border violations again t Honduras and
Costa Rica continue; and Nicaragua's connection wit the recent
terrorist attack against Columbia's Supreme art i~ s- cleat.
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What are we to do about such aggression? What are we to
do about Cuba`s willful disregard of the 2112 Re ltutbche,
understanding of which president Kennedy said, ?... t Cabs is net
used for the export of aggressive communist purpose , there will be
Well, the answer is, more than we're do ng now. If
Nicaragua can get material support from communist s ates and
terrorist regimen and prop up a bated communist dic atorship, should
not the forces fighting for liberation, now numbers g over 20,000, be
entitled to more effective help in their struggle fpr freedom?
Yes; and to reinforce this message. I sent my new
National Security Advisor, John Poindexter, this ~retk to visit the
Central American democracies and make clear our coitwent to a
democratic outcome in Nicaragua.
Those who struggle for freedom look to 4serica. if we
fail them in their hour of need, we fail ourselves *s the last, best
hope of liberty.
Until next week, thanks for listening. 'God bless you.
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