07/22/1982
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"The Reykjavik meeting may have set the stage for a major advance in the U.S.-Soviet relationship."
"I offered to put off deployment for a decade, and I coupled that with a 10-year plan for eliminating all Soviet and American ballistic missiles from the face of the Earth."
"I think the first thing that's important to do is to put these talks and what occurred into perspective."
"I'm going to continue to be optimistic."