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TIL staunch Republican actor John Wayne sent an angry letter to Ronald Reagan in 1972 accusing him of spreading falsehoods about the Carter treaty with Panama to return the Canal. “I’ll show you point by goddamn point in the treaty where you are misinforming people.”

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