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(488 posts)I heard it as a child long before Reagan was president in a different context. Living on a reservation, it was a parody of someone from the Bureau of Indian Affairs introducing himself. This introduction was also used as a punchline to various jokes involving the BIA.
In case you aren't aware of that particular agency, let's just say American Indians don't have a particularly high level of trust. Neither did any non Indians. While the line is not a direct quote from any one specific individual, it is sort of a catch-all for any number of lies from almost every treaty signed by the US government with the Indians. To this day, I think of that line in that context, regardless of whether or not Republicans have improperly attributed it to Reagan as an original statement.
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