Ronald Reagan: “You have performed both of these tasks with unexcelled competence and compassion.”

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

The strength of our nation has never been with the Washington colony but with the American people.

I'm sure they'll—as we will—they'll take it for what it is.