Ronald Reagan: “Credit for this must go to the hard-working people of the United States.”

It was a message of peace.

We have walked a long way together to clear a path for peace.

We have not come this far through lack of strength or any weakness in our resolve, nor has there been anything inevitable about what we've achieved.

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.