Ronald Reagan: “Our duty is to make sure that you have the same America of opportunity and hope and dreams and future that we had when…”

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

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.

It was a message of peace.

I think he recognizes that their massive buildup has been responsible for the great economic crisis that he faces there in the Soviet Union.