Ronald Reagan: “We must encourage the roots of confidence to grow strong and deep by protecting the recovery from a new burst of runaway…”

I am delighted that later today I'll have the opportunity to welcome President Gorbachev to the United States and extend to him the hospitality and good wishes of the American people.

We have not come this far through lack of strength or any weakness in our resolve, nor has there been anything inevitable about what we've achieved.

I'm sure they'll—as we will—they'll take it for what it is.

I expressed to President Gorbachev my confidence that the work we began together at Geneva in 1985 will continue under the Bush administration.