1982

>> President Rios Montt is a man of great personal integrity and commitment who wants to improve the quality of life for all Guatemalans, and is getting a "bum rap" on human rights.<<

- praising Guatemala's military dictator, Rios Montt. During 17 months of

Montt's counterinsurgency campaign (1982-83), 400 villages were destroyed,

10,000-20,000 Indians were killed, and over 100,000 were forced to flee to Mexico

1983

>> One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all.<<

- on the US invasion of Grenada

1985

The White House announces that President Reagan will lay a wreath at the Bitburg, West Germany, military cemetery housing the graves of both American and Nazi soldiers. It is quickly noted that there are, in fact, no Americans buried there. President Reagan defends his visit to Bitburg by claiming the German soldiers "were victims, just as surely as the victims in the

concentration camps." Reagan defends the Bitburg visit as "morally right," adding, "I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform for four years myself." Reagan had spent his time during World War Two in Hollywood, making training films.