Ronald Reagan: “The physical and mental health of the child prepares the way for the physical and mental health of the adult.”

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.

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

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