Ronald Reagan actually said...

The policies of this Administration have spurred and sustained a record economic expansion—the longest in U.S. peacetime.

Message to the Congress Transmitting the Annual Economic Report of the President

02/18/1988

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

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.

I think it impinges on their right to vote for whoever they want to vote for as many times as they want to vote for them.

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