The President's News Conference
10/21/1987
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We've only heard the same as you've heard: that he has been suggesting doing something of this kind.
I do hereby proclaim December 17, 1988, as Wright Brothers Day.
I think the other way would have sent out a wrong signal that we were patsies.
We have walked a long way together to clear a path for peace.