03/22/1982
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"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'm going to continue to be optimistic."
"I think the first thing that's important to do is to put these talks and what occurred into perspective."
"The significance of that meeting at Reykjavik is not that we didn't sign agreements in the end; the significance is that we got as close as we did."