Ronald Reagan: “I have ordered the flags of the United States flown at half staff at all Federal installations and U.S. military bases…”

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

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

But there's nothing I can say that would make the situation right.

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.