[ApplegateRanch]

He says what if we (all the nations of the world) faced a threat from outside this world. He said that we would all come together then.

He was alluding to Global Warming: "It's the sun, stupid!"

He couldn't say it plainly, because everyody was still worried about Global Cooling.

[Star Traveler]

Are you sure he wasn’t one of those aliens... :-)

[endthematrix]

President Reagan 9/21/87 UN - “Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?”