Ronald Reagan: “You're so much a part of our national past, and because you stand for growth and energy, you stand for the best in our…”

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.

I'm sure they'll—as we will—they'll take it for what it is.

The objective of the United States remains, as always, a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.

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