Ronald Reagan: “I have appointed Robert C. McFarlane as my Personal Representative in the Middle East.”

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

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.

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.

Yes, always has been.