Ronald Reagan: “The strength of the ties between our two countries helped us to put in motion long-needed changes in our trade…”

I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.

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

I do hereby proclaim December 17, 1988, as Wright Brothers Day.

But there's nothing I can say that would make the situation right.