The President's News Conference
06/26/1989
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
I, George Walker Bush...
The President is considering various policy options right now to help because as you said a disorderly collapse would be bad for the economy...
A lot of people in Washington were saying, let's get out now. And I obviously chose not to do that but that was a very difficult period.
And I listened very carefully to them. And obviously, came to a different conclusion.