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I am delighted that later today I'll have the opportunity to welcome President Gorbachev to the United States and extend to him the hospitality and good wishes of the American people.

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.

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

We have walked a long way together to clear a path for peace.