Ronald Reagan: “By working together to promote peace in Lebanon, we are strengthening the forces for peace throughout the Middle East.”

These unilateral reductions would, however, give a long-awaited encouragement for our efforts to achieve the genuine balance in conventional forces that would assure greater security and stability in Europe.

Let us remember that the Soviet preponderance in military power in Europe remains, an asymmetry that offends our Jeffersonian senses.

If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.

The objective of the United States remains, as always, a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.