Ronald Reagan: “A good-faith effort on both sides is all that's needed.”

These unilateral reductions would, however, give a long-awaited encouragement for our efforts to achieve the genuine balance in conventional forces that would assure greater security and stability in Europe.

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

Rather than making them or talking about putting up a fence, why don’t we work out some recognition of our mutual problems, make it possible for them to come here legally with a work permit, and then, while they’re working and earning…

Neither treaty has been ratified because they were not verifiable in their original form.