We're going forward with research on a new Orient Express that could, by the end of the decade, take off from Dulles Airport, accelerate up to 25 times the speed of sound, attaining low Earth orbit or flying to Tokyo within two hours.

State of the Union address, 1986-02-26, quoted in Michael Kilian (1986-03-05). "Hypersonic flight just a hyperbolic Reagan rhapsody". The Evening Independent.