Ronald Reagan: “I pledge to do my utmost to carry out what must have been their wish—that no other generation of young men would ever…”

It was a message of peace.

Yes, I would be deeply disappointed.

Let us remember that the Soviet preponderance in military power in Europe remains, an asymmetry that offends our Jeffersonian senses.

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