Governor Reagan Peace Speech

Presidential Candidate Ronald Reagan discusses his plan for strategic arms reduction, saying that he will make it a high priority. Reagan will sit down with the Soviet Union for as long as it takes to create a balanced and equitable arms limitation agreement, designed to improve the prospects for peace. To succeed at arms control, Reagan says we must first be honest with ourselves; we must face the facts of the arms competition. We must have a consistent view of these facts, that doesn’t change to fit certain audiences. U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s administration has long been telling Congress that the Soviet Union has been investing three times as much as we have in strategic arms, and is expected to keep doing so with or without SALT II. Reagan says the Democratic Controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee came out in a narrow vote in favor of SALT II, but only after more than 20 changes had been made. On December 20th 1979, the Democratic controlled Senate Arms Services Committee adopted a report that concluded that the SALT II treaty, is not in the national security interests of the United States. President Carter could not pass his SALT II treaty in the U.S. Senate, controlled by a Democratic majority, even before the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Reagan says it appears that even members of Carter’s own party are telling him that his approach is flawed.
Presidential Candidate Ronald Reagan discusses his plan for strategic arms reduction, saying that he will make it a high priority. Reagan will sit down with the Soviet Union for as long as it takes to create a balanced and equitable arms limitation agreement, designed to improve the prospects for peace. To succeed at arms control, Reagan says we must first be honest with ourselves; we must face the facts of the arms competition. We must have a consistent view of these facts, that doesn’t change to fit certain audiences. U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s administration has long been telling Congress that the Soviet Union has been investing three times as much as we have in strategic arms, and is expected to keep doing so with or without SALT II. Reagan says the Democratic Controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee came out in a narrow vote in favor of SALT II, but only after more than 20 changes had been made. On December 20th 1979, the Democratic controlled Senate Arms Services Committee adopted a report that concluded that the SALT II treaty, is not in the national security interests of the United States. President Carter could not pass his SALT II treaty in the U.S. Senate, controlled by a Democratic majority, even before the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Reagan says it appears that even members of Carter’s own party are telling him that his approach is flawed.
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Editorial #:
1262702867
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Archive Films: Editorial
Date created:
29 October, 1980
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00:01:59:23
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United States
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Archive Films Editorial
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