 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - 1986 - 96 pages
...political life of Angola; and Whereas President Reagan in his 1986 State of the Union Message said: ". . . we must not break faith with those who are risking...(S)upport for freedom fighters is self-defense.": Now, therefore, be it 1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Repre2 sentatives that — *... | |
 | Robert A. Pastor - 1987 - 432 pages
...address, President Reagan transformed his contra program into a policy on national liberation movements: "We must not break faith with those who are risking...which have been ours from birth. . . . Support for freedom-fighters is self-defense." At a press conference on February 21, 1985, Reagan described his... | |
 | Jeane J. Kirkpatrick - 1988 - 462 pages
...must be our role to help others protect their freedom. Certainly, this is the President's position: We must not break faith with those who are risking...been ours from birth. Support for freedom fighters is self defense. Confronted with the expansion of the Soviet empire to the shores of the US, President... | |
 | Morris H. Morley - 1988 - 272 pages
...called a "doctrine" or even a policy. In his 1985 State of the Union Address, the president declared: "We must not break faith with those who are risking...which have been ours from birth. . . . Support for [such] freedom fighters is self-defense." Reagan seemed to be pledging US support for anticommunist... | |
 | Jeane J. Kirkpatrick - 1988 - 524 pages
...the Union message and his Bitburg Air Force Base speech. In the State of the Union message, he said, We must not break faith with those who are risking...continent, from Afghanistan to Nicaragua, to defy Soviet supported aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth. Support for freedom... | |
 | Jeane J. Kirkpatrick - 1988 - 514 pages
...are risking their lives on every continent. from Afghanistan to Nicaragua. to defy Soviet supported aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth. Support for freedom fighters is self defense. In his speech at the Bitburg Air Force Base. the President was even clearer. He said.... | |
 | Eugene R. Wittkopf - 1990 - 426 pages
...application of the Reagan Doctrine. As the president urged in his 1985 State of the Union message, "We must not break faith with those who are risking...every continent from Afghanistan to Nicaragua to defy Soviet supported aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth. . . . Support for freedom... | |
 | Cynthia Arnson - 1993 - 390 pages
...was subsequently dubbed the "Reagan Doctrine." In early February President Reagan told the Congress: "We must not break faith with those who are risking.... . Support for freedom fighters is self-defense. . . . The struggle [of democratic forces] is tied to our own security."10 In other words, anti-Soviet... | |
 | H. W. Brands - 1993 - 260 pages
...guerrillas waging war on leftist governmcnts. As the president got around to summarizing it in 1985, "We must not break faith with those who are risking...and secure rights which have been ours from birth." Employing his favorite euphemism for anti-communist rebels, he declared, "Support for freedom fighters... | |
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Our mission is to nourish and defend freedom and democracy and to communicate these ideals everywhere we can. We must stand by all our democratic allies. And we must not break faith with those who are risking their lives on every continent, from Afghanistan... 
