The President's News Conference
10/21/1987
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Defense spending is not the cause of our economic problems.
We must seek agreements that involve substantial and militarily significant reductions on both sides.
I think the fact that it had come down to that and left that other lower average is something that we can focus on as offering a little hope...
One of the great pleasures of this office is that I often have a chance to do something unabashedly positive in nature.