"Trust but verify" was President [[Ronald Reagan]]'s favorite approach towards the communist Soviet Union. He repeated his phrase again in his farewell address to the nation in 1989:<ref>http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/speeches/farewell.asp</ref> | "Trust but verify" was President [[Ronald Reagan]]'s favorite approach towards the communist Soviet Union. He repeated his phrase again in his farewell address to the nation in 1989:<ref>http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/speeches/farewell.asp</ref> |