From the Reagan Diaries:
Thursday, June 11 [1981]
I feel like I’ve spent the day in the U.N. The morning was pretty well taken with a labor leader meeting…. Then it was the Ec. Advisory Council. Art Laffer dropped a grenade on his colleagues when he said we weren’t going to solve the fiscal program until we returned to convertibility of money for gold. I would like to have heard the discussion among those economists after I left.
Then after lunch the U.N. phase started: 5 Arab St. Ambassadors, followed by the Israeli Amb. The 5 of course protested we hadn’t been hard enough on Israel. The Israeli deplored the harsh action we’d taken.
…The truth is the Arab indignation on behalf of Iraq is a waste. Saddam Hussein is a “no good nut” and I think he was trying to build a nuclear weapon. He has called for the destruction of Israel & he wants to be the leader of the Arab world — that’s why he invaded Iran.
–Ronald Reagan
Wow. Thanks for the Reagan QOTD’s.