Ronald Reagan: “Our meeting today has sent a powerful signal to the world of the value the United States places on Kuwait's friendship.”

I do hereby proclaim December 17, 1988, as Wright Brothers Day.

I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.

I expressed to President Gorbachev my confidence that the work we began together at Geneva in 1985 will continue under the Bush administration.

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