Ronald Reagan: “I want to be sure that the Congress and the American people fully understand the reasons for the planned budget savings.”

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

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

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.

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