Ronald Reagan: “Each generation must feel the spur of competition, share the commitment to excellence, and receive the rewards for a job…”

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

The objective of the United States remains, as always, a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.

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.

I am delighted that later today I'll have the opportunity to welcome President Gorbachev to the United States and extend to him the hospitality and good wishes of the American people.