The President's News Conference
03/20/1985
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Please accept my condolences on the death of President Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev.
Sometimes I wonder—just seeing some of the results of your flights, the pictures and all—I wonder if more of us could see it from that angle...
I have faith in our technology and the level of that technology, and I know that we have been markedly increasing our defensive capability.
Our two nations bear a tremendous responsibility for peace in a dangerous time—a responsibility that we don't take lightly.