Ronald Reagan actually said...

I am convinced that our policies, now that they are in place, are the appropriate response to our current difficulties.

Message to the Congress Transmitting the Annual Economic Report of the President

02/09/1982

More Ronald Reagan Quotes

The men of Vietnam answered the call of their country.

We will never ever forget them.

But we can forgive each other and ourselves for those things that we now recognize may have been wrong, and I think it's time we did.

I believe that in the decade since Vietnam the healing has begun.