Ronald Reagan: “Only Congress can determine how big the deficit will be, or if we're to have a deficit at all.”

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

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.

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