Ronald Reagan: “Times are still hard, but I'm convinced that a more prosperous future for our farms is beginning to take shape at last.”

It was a message of peace.

If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.

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

I think he recognizes that their massive buildup has been responsible for the great economic crisis that he faces there in the Soviet Union.