Ronald Reagan: “I do hereby proclaim the week beginning March 4, 1984, as Women's History Week.”

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

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