Ronald Reagan: “It is a day when men and women of good will reflect on all the aspects of the situation of Jewry in the U.S.S.R.”

I think he recognizes that their massive buildup has been responsible for the great economic crisis that he faces there in the Soviet Union.

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

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.

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.