Reagan Won’t ‘Sit on Sidelines’ During ’88 Races
WASHINGTON — President Reagan served warning today that he does not “intend to sit on the sidelines” during next year’s elections and declared, “We must hold the White House in 1988.”
At a meeting of his longtime political supporters, Reagan said he will be campaigning next year for the Republican presidential candidate as well as for GOP gubernatorial and congressional hopefuls.
“We must hold the White House in 1988,” Reagan said. “I don’t intend to sit on the sidelines. I plan to campaign for the (party’s) presidential candidate, and for the gubernatorial and congressional candidates.”
“All those who talk about lame ducks in the Reagan era are dead wrong,” Reagan told the gathering in the Executive Office Building auditorium. “There will be no end of Reagan era because there has been no Reagan era. . . . This has been the era of the American people.”
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