10/08/1985
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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."
"We were just a sentence or two away from agreeing to new talks on nuclear testing."
"Now, the Soviets have made a strategic defense program for years."
"I said that our objective must be reducing the number of nuclear weapons, that we had to work to make the world safer, not just control the pace at which it became more dangerous."