Ronald Reagan: “There's so much more to America than government on the one hand and individuals with nowhere to turn for help but to…”

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.

I do hereby proclaim December 17, 1988, as Wright Brothers Day.

I can't be late for my luncheon.

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