Ronald Reagan: “Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and…”

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.

Naturally, I heartily approve.

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

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