Ronald Reagan actually said...

I believe that we have preserved the safety net as we've always said we would.

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters on Domestic and Foreign Policy Issues

02/03/1983

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

Well, that wasn't a proposal. That was a decision that has been made.

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

We've only heard the same as you've heard: that he has been suggesting doing something of this kind.