Ronald Reagan: “We ask you to reinforce the bilateral and multilateral arms control negotiations between members of NATO and the Warsaw…”

Well, that wasn't a proposal. That was a decision that has been made.

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

We understood the key to prosperity was low-inflationary growth, and we achieved it.

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.