Ronald Reagan actually said...

I think there has been a sizable improvement, and we still are going to continue doing that.

For the first time in history, an entire class of U.S.-Soviet nuclear missiles is eliminated.

Where people have the right to speak, write, travel, and worship freely, creative energies are released.

I think that a great deal of it is due to the General Secretary, who I have found different than previous Soviet leaders have been.