Ronald Reagan: “We must and will continue to reach out for arms reduction agreements.”

But there's nothing I can say that would make the situation right.

The pursuit of peace is, of course, always in season.

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.

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