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We can forgive Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev if he has a hard time understanding the case of Billie Boggs, the famous homeless New York woman. A lot of us Americans have a tough time understanding it, too.
In a press conference at the end of the Moscow summit, President Reagan said he thought Gorbachev had an incorrect view of the progress Americans had made with such domestic humanitarian problems as prejudice and the homeless.
In particular, the President said, Gorbachev had a tough time understanding ”a young lady living on the sidewalks of New York” whose involuntary commitment to a hospital was overturned.
”She took her case to court and won her case in court that she should be allowed to go back and sleep on the sidewalk where she had been because that`s what she preferred to do,” Reagan said. ”Well, when you have a free country, how far can we go in impinging on the freedom of someone who says this is the way I want to live? I think we could straighten him (Gorbachev) out if he saw what we did in our country.”
In a press conference at the end of the Moscow summit, President Reagan said he thought Gorbachev had an incorrect view of the progress Americans had made with such domestic humanitarian problems as prejudice and the homeless.
In particular, the President said, Gorbachev had a tough time understanding ”a young lady living on the sidewalks of New York” whose involuntary commitment to a hospital was overturned.
”She took her case to court and won her case in court that she should be allowed to go back and sleep on the sidewalk where she had been because that`s what she preferred to do,” Reagan said. ”Well, when you have a free country, how far can we go in impinging on the freedom of someone who says this is the way I want to live? I think we could straighten him (Gorbachev) out if he saw what we did in our country.”