President Bush said the past year brought enormous changes to the world. In what used to be the Soviet Union, a failed coup brought an end to a failed communist system. No longer does the United States have an avowed enemy that is a superpower.
Children can go to school and study history and how plants grow.
No longer do they need to have air raid drills in which they crawl under their desks and cover their heads in case of nuclear war. But the long, drawn-out dread is over. President Bush also gave credit to U.S. taxpayers. Now that the Soviet communist threat is gone, the United States can accelerate its cuts in military expenditures. President Bush said the United States will limit the production of the B-2 bomber and cancel the small ICBM program.