Ronald Reagan: “It was the heroic work of men like John McCloy during the difficult postwar period that did much to preserve world…”

That is, again, one of those things I should have said to your question.

These unilateral reductions would, however, give a long-awaited encouragement for our efforts to achieve the genuine balance in conventional forces that would assure greater security and stability in Europe.

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.

Neither treaty has been ratified because they were not verifiable in their original form.