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Daily Files
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01. Diagram
Seating Diagram of VH-3D, Re: South Lawn to Andrews AFB.
10/23/92
(b)(7)(c),
(1 pp.)
(b)(7)(e), (b)(7)(f)
02. Diagram
VC25A-28000 Passenger Seating Arrangement, Re: Andrews
10/23/92
(b)(7)(c),
AFB to Lexington, KY. (1 pp.)
(b)(7)(e), (b)(7)(f)
03. Diagram
Seating Diagram of VH-3D, Re: Lexington, KY to London, KY
10/23/92
(b)(7)(c),
L.Z. (1 pp.)
(b)(7)(e), (b)(7)(f)
04. Diagram
Seating Diagram of VH-3D, Re: London, KY L.Z. to Lexington,
10/23/92
(b)(7)(c),
KY. (1 pp.)
(b)(7)(e), (b)(7)(f)
05. Diagram
VC25A-28000 Passenger Seating Arrangement, Re: Lexington,
10/23/92
(b)(7)(c),
KY to Ft. Lauderdale, FL. (1 pp.)
(b)(7)(e), (b)(7)(f)
06. Diagram
VC25A-28000 Passenger Seating Arrangement, Re: Miami, FL to
10/23/92
(b)(7)(c),
Montgomery, AL. (1 pp.)
(b)(7)(e), (b)(7)(f)
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
PRESIDENT BUSH
OCTOBER 23rd , 19 92
TIME
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7:28 AM
CONGRESSMAN JOHN PAUL HAMMERSCHMIDT
TLKD WITH MRS. ROSE
RES: ARLINGTON, VA.
M. ZAMARIA 7:29 A.M.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
SIGNAL SWITCHBOARD
October 23, 1992
TIME
NAME
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9:51 AM
9:57
General Brent Scowcroft
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Office, Washington, D.C.
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10:30
Congressman John P. Hammerschmidt
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Residence, Arlington, Virginia
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10:27 AM
10:35
Governor John Symington
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Conference Call:
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
SIGNAL SWITCHBOARD
October 23, 1992
TIME
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PRESIDENTIAL MOVEMENTS
Washington, D.C.
Lexington, Kentucky
LOCATION
London, Kentucky
DATE 23 October 1992
TIME
MOVEMENTS
0653
South Grounds
0700
Oval Office
0753
South Grounds
0804
Oval Office
0826
South Grounds
0832
Depart South Grounds via Marine One
0838
Arrive Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland
0843
Depart Andrews Air Force Base via Motorcade
0849
Arrive Veterans of Foreign Wars Building, Morningside, Maryland
0945
Depart Veterans of Foreign Wars Building via Motorcade
0950
Arrive Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland
0956
Depart Andrews Air Force Base via Air Force One
1055
Arrive Lexington Bluegrass Airport, Lexington, Kentucky
1117
Depart Lexington Bluegrass Airport via Marine One
1154
Arrive South Laurel High School Landing Zone, London, Kentucky
1159
Depart South Laurel High School Landing Zone via Motorcade
1204
Arrive South Laurel High School Football Stadium
1208
Depart South. Laurel High School Football Stadium via Motorcade
1230
Arrive South Laurel High School Landing Zone
1232
Depart South Laurel High School Landing Zone via Marine One
PRESIDENTIAL MOVEMENTS
Lexington, Kentucky
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Miami, Florida
LOCATION
Montgomery, Alabama
DATE 23 October 1992
TIME
MOVEMENTS
1310
Arrive Lexington Bluegrass Airport, Lexington, Kentucky
1328
Depart Lexington Bluegrass Airport via Air Force One
1524
Arrive Fort Lauderdale International Airport, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1543
Depart Fort Lauderdale International Airport via Motorcade
1607
Arrive Zacharia Residence
1700
Depart Zacharia Residence via Motorcade
1741
Arrive Omni Hotel, Miami, Florida
1938
Depart Omni Hotel via Motorcade
1943
Arrive WPLG-10
2115
Depart WPLG-10 via Motorcade
2132
Arrive Miami International Airport
2141
Depart Miami International Airport via Air Force One
CDT
2149
Arrive Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama
2203
Depart Maxwell Air Force Base via Motorcade
2219
Arrive Marriott Courtyard Hotel
Fol.
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Mr. Ray Scott, Jr.
Bass Publications
5845 Carmichael
Montgomery, Alabama 36117
D
10-23-92
Ray-
See you tomowar
I hope. I've tabled to
Jim Bahr DLL you
offer to "tonget" Yes
we until min Hartly,
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TO 12024502307
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President's
personal fax.
RAY SCOTT
10/22
October 21, 1992
we JAB have blews his
Bif Alabar
PERSONAL
President George Bush
The White House
Washington DC 20500
Dear George,
I received the enclosed letter from Bob Teeter.
I
have not heard from anyone in the advance office yet.
list
I presume that the judgement may be to go wall-to-
wall television. If television is the best route, then
15tood
so be it. We've got to win! we will win !
I have over 500,000 names that can be selectively
picked for a specific targeted mailing Lo specific target
states. These would be pesonal letters from Ray Scott
to each member of B.A.S.S., telling them that we must
vote, and we must vote for George Bush.
The hour is late, but I am a "Minute Man!"
With great respect and affection,
Ray Ray Scott
Keep out-but the spirit pel ! you're strung
getting the job done
Hang on for 12 more days and
the we'll go fishing!
R
10/22/1992 13:47 FROM ANY SCOTT
BUSH92
October 6, 1992
Mr. Ray Scott, Jr.
Dass Publications
5845 Carmichael
Montgomeery, Alabama 36117
Dear Mr. Scott:
The President let us know of your good offer to help rally support
at his campaign stops across the country. This sounds like an
excellent idea and although we were not able Lu pul the "Bass Tour"
on the road this summer, I hope we will be able to take advantage
of this opportunity during the last four weeks.
I've shared your idea with our advance office and have asked them
to be in touch with you and see if it would be possible to tap into
your great B.A.S.S. organization.
Thanks so much for your offer and for all you are doing in support
of President Bush.
Best regards,
Bh Tach
Robert M. Teeter
Campaign Chairman
1030 15th St. NW, Washington, DC 20005
Paid for by Bush-Quayle '92 General Committee, Inc.
Printed on Recycled Paper
TOTAL 9.64
10/22/1992 13:45 FROM DAY SCOTT
Ray Scott
ROUTE ONE, Box 527
PHONE (205) 281-3661
PINTLALA, AL 36043
FAX (205) 286-9186
TO: Rose Zamaria
FROM: Ray Scott
DATE: 10/22/92
MESSAGE
Thanks, Rose.
(Hard copy of this letter will IE mailed)
NUMBER OF PAGES 4 (INCLUDING COVER)
10/22/1992 13:45 FROM RAS CC011
TO 12024562397
0.02
RAY SCOTT
October 21, 1992
Ms. Rose Zamaria
Office of The President
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Rose,
I know the kitchon is hot! Please allow the boss
to see my note. Thank you.
Kindest regards,
Pay Lond
Ray SCOLL
P.S. George Buch is such a great
man - and you know it better
than most !
Thruh
R
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON D.C.
Mr. Carmine Zozzora
2443 Solar Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90046
1]
10.23.92
Dear Camine
Thank for the
suggestions !!
I'm aslig Tim
Bahn to take a look. warn
Regards. But to Bruce- by Be
Mr. President:
Carmine Zozzora -- Bruce Willis'
partner called in today. He
was all excited. Wants to help
in any way. He watched a
documentary called "Choice 92"
last night. It compared your
and Clinton's record. He stated
what people said about Clinton.
Thinks we should cuts some ads
and use what his own people of
Arkansas are saying about him.
Mr. President:
Carmine Zozzora -- Bruce Willis'
partner called in today. He
was all excited. Wants to help
in any way. He watched a
"PUSH FOR BUSH" 92
documentary called "Choice 92"
last night. It compared your
and Clinton's record. He stated
what people said about Clinton.
October 22, 1992
Thinks we should cuts some ads
and use what his own people of
Rose Zamaria
Arkansas are saying about him.
The White House
Rose:
This correspondence is pursuant to our telephone conversation this
morning. Last night I viewed a documentary called "Choice 92, a special
episode of FRONTLINE that aired here in L.A. on KCET -TV, one of the
local PBS stations. It also aired on the Washington, D.C. local PBS station
WETA/TV last night from 9-11 pm. It compared George Bush and Bill
Clinton from the seventies to the present. In it, interviews with Arkansas
Legislators, working class and the very poor. Following are some
examples:
1) Arkansas Legislators saying: "Bill Clinton will say and do whatever it
takes to please people or get elected."; "Bill Clinton will always be on both
sides of any issue, for fear of not being liked." Bill Clinton has never, and
will never take a stand on anything."; "When he took office, we thought we
might have a whis kid, hut hy the third day we wanted to impeach him".
2) Interviews with working class and the very poor, detailing how
Clinton's tax increases have hit them the hardest, not the rich. And how
Clinton has not kept his promises.
3) Stories detailing: Bill Clinton's deal (costing taxpayers millions)
with a giant chicken farmer, knowingly causing 97% of Arkansas' streams
to become unfit for human use, due to the chicken's feces; Bill Clinton's
deal with a timber company (again costing taxpayer's millions), that
prevented the company from relocating to another state, when in fact it
never intended to move in the first place.
4) An Arkansas Legislator detailing Clinton's scheme (costing tax payers
millions) to create the thousands of jobs he has been boasting about
throughout the campaign (Arkansas #1 in job growth), only 80 he could use
the statistic in his quest for the Presidency. "A costly and self-serving
scheme at the taxpayer's expense", as one Legislator put it.
In short, these interviews give us the ammunition we need for a "hit him
where it hurts" advertising campaign, depicting Bill Clinton as the
"Snake Oil Salesman" he really is. It's just we need in this the final hour.
Bill Clinton can run, but hc can't hid from the facts.
101
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FROM : CARMINE-ZOZZORA
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BILL CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT
(beat)
Are you kidding...?
If I can he of any assistance in this matter, please do not hesitate to call on
me. It would be my pleasure. After all, influencing people is what I love,
and do for a living. I come highly recomended. I remain at your service.
Warm regards,
Carmine Zozzora
20d
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FROM : CARMINE-ZOZZORA
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
The Honorable Orrin G. Hatch
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
THE PRESIDENT
October 23, 1992
Dear Orrin,
Thanks for your letter of October 14. Barbara and I
are grateful to have people like you and Elaine out
there, working on our side. I appreciate your
suggestions and will keep them in mind.
Less than two weeks left in this tough race and I am
confident of a victory in November. Thanks, too,
for your continued support -- we will win.
Warmest regards to you and Elaine.
Sincerely,
as
CC: R.Zamaria
1 copy
in/out
UNITED STATES SENATE
WASHINGTON, D. C.
ORRIN G. HATCH
UTAH
10-14-92
Dear President Bush,
I just got back from my his surrogate
trip for you. We went to Cincinnati, Dayton,
Kettering, Troy, Lima, Elida, Finally, and
Bowling Green, ending in Toledo and number we
went, we were well received and a goodly
of bigthe support for you a
people clearly support you. Barbara I was uplifted
in the debate. Everywhere I went in Chis,
thought Dan did a superb job
the people thought he won.
a number of people wanted me to
at $3 or $ 4 (gallon. Had you not
for Epsolene prices not getting out of taken
suggest to you that you should take control credit
the Secisive action you did, we would have
that tough economic problem to deal with.
them in the future bbates. Thess our superts,
The briefing materials were great! Upe
low interest rates + less than 3% inflation
rate. Elains & I are pulling for you.
Waymest Quin Figards,
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10/23/92
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AFB. (1 pp.)
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Collection:
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Daily Files
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1/15/2025
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02. Diagram
VC25A-28000 Passenger Seating Arrangement, Re: Andrews
10/23/92
(b)(7)(c), (b)(7)(e),
AFB to Lexington, KY. (1 pp.)
(b)(7)(f)
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gift.
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(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
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03. Diagram
Seating Diagram of VH-3D, Re: Lexington, KY to London,
10/23/92
(b)(7)(c), (b)(7)(e),
KY L.Z. (1 pp.)
(b)(7)(f)
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20730-001
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C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
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gift.
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(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
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04. Diagram
Seating Diagram of VH-3D, Re: London, KY L.Z. to
10/23/92
(b)(7)(c), (b)(7)(e),
Lexington, KY. (1 pp.)
(b)(7)(f)
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Bush Presidential Records
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Office of the President
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Daily Files
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Friday, October 23, 1992 [1]
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
RZ
DATE: 10/22/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VESSEY POW-MIA REMARKS, 10/23
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCBRIDE
BAKER
MOORE
SCOWCROFT
MULLINS
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BATES
PORTER
BRADY
PROVOST
>
BROMLEY
ROSS
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
GRAY
\
McGROARTY
HOLIDAY
HORNER
REMARKS:
The Attached have been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
CLOSE HOLD
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
12 GOT 22 P6: 40
October 22, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
DAN MC GROARTY DM9
SUBJECT:
VESSEY POW-MIA REMARKS
Friday morning at 7:30 a.m., you meet with General Vessey,
Senator McCain and others to receive a report on their just-
completed mission to Hanoi.
Following that meeting, you make a short statement in the
Rose Garden. You will be joined there by members of POW/MIA
families.
Draft 5
October 22, 1992
5:00 pm
[VESSEY]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VESSEY COMMISSION
THE ROSE GARDEN
OCTOBER 23, 1992
7:30 A.M.
General Vessey. Senators McCain, Kerry and Smith.
Distinguished guests. Good morning, and welcome to the Rose
Garden.
Finally, let me welcome representatives of a brave group of
Americans -- the families of those still missing in Indochina.
I've spoken to many of you. I've read your letters -- listened
to your stories: the powerful mixture of pride and fear, proud
of your warrior's service -- but fearful you will never know his
fate. Knowing your anguish, I made a solemn pledge: I would not
rest without the fullest possible accounting of those who never
came home. //
And so, early in my Administration, I told Hanoi we would
pursue a policy that left behind the bitterness of the war -- but
not the men who fought it. Our approach -- the "roadmap" -- was
designed to gain the fullest possible accounting of our MIAs. It
has been a tough road to follow. Some told us the MIAs should be
swept aside for commercial opportunities in Vietnam. Others just
wanted to pretend Vietnam never happened. They told us to
"forget the war" -- and just "move on."
But we can never forget the men who answered this country's
call. / You see, for me, the POW/MIA issue is a question of
honor: Of oaths sworn -- commitments kept. It is a nation's
test of its own worth -- measured in the life of one, lone
individual.
To help me gain the fullest possible accounting, I asked
General John Vessey -- former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff -- to continue to serve as my personal representative to
Hanoi. General Vessey has many years of distinguished service.
But of all his many missions -- he'd probably tell you this is
the toughest task he's ever faced.
He's worked countless hours, and travelled endless miles,
but we were persistent, and steadfast, and our policy began to
work. Hanoi has yielded the remains of 269 American servicemen.
We secured the right to go anywhere in Vietnam to investigate
reports of live Americans. We began excavating the battlegrounds
of Indochina, searching for the remains of our servicemen. In
these searches, we never found anyone alive, but we vowed to
follow every lead.
Then, late last summer, we got our first glimpse of
Vietnam's vast set of wartime archives. With proof of the
archives' existence in hand, I once again asked General Vessey to
undertake a mission to Hanoi. And I called on a man I greatly
admire, Senator John McCain, himself a former POW, to accompany
the General. The Vietnamese have tremendous respect for Senator
McCain -- a respect that transcends country and culture. Because
of this, he was critical to the mission's success.
General Vessey and Senator McCain have just now reported to
me on their mission. And I am pleased to announce this morning
that our policy has achieved a real breakthrough. // Hanoi has
agreed to provide us with all -- I repeat all -- information they
have collected on American POWs and MIAs. This includes
photographs, artifacts, and detailed records on Americans who
fell into their hands. Hanoi's records will at last enable us to
determine the fate of many of our men. We still await the return
of their remains -- but already, my representatives have begun to
provide answers to families who have waited and prayed for
decades.
It pains me beyond words to say -- we may never know what
happened to each and every American. But we will spare no effort
to learn the truth.
Early in my term, I initiated worldwide investigations to
determine the fate of our missing men, not only in Vietnam, but
in all the battles of the Cold War. Along the way, we've also
had help from Senators Kerry and Smith, who head the Select
POW/MIA Committee. From Russia, we've begun to learn the fate of
Americans missing since Stalin's reign, and North Korea has
returned the first American remains in over forty years.
Today, finally, I am convinced that we can begin writing the
last chapter of the Vietnam War. It was a bitter conflict, but
Hanoi knows today that we seek only answers, without threat of
retribution for the past. As we cooperate in bringing that
painful era to a close, Vietnam and the United States can begin
to look towards the future.
To begin that process, we have extended modest disaster
assistance to flood ravaged areas of Vietnam. I have also
directed my Administration to work with Hanoi in developing ways
to help identify Vietnam's own MIAs and increase humanitarian
assistance to disabled Vietnamese veterans of the war.
Today is a day of significance to all Americans. It is so
because today we again honor those who chose to serve, and who
gave themselves in the supreme measure of devotion to their
country. Today we are honoring them by at long last approaching
a point where we can fully keep faith with their loved ones and
bring them peace.
Let me close on a personal note. This is an emotional
moment for me. My family never had to go through what you've
gone through. But I do remember a day, almost 50 years ago:
Paddling against the tide. Alone. At sea. When I wasn't
wondering if anyone would find me at all -- worrying who might
find me first.
All I had to go on was the knowledge that -- for this
country, for America, even one / single / serviceman's / life /
mattered. It should be that way always.
Thank you all, and may God Bless America.
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
10/22/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CUBA DEMOCRACY ACT SIGNING, MIAMI, FL - 10/23
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCBRIDE
BAKER
MOORE
SCOWCROFT
MULLINS
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BATES
PORTER
BRADY
PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
GRAY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
GROOMES
MCGROARTY
HORNER
REMARKS:
The Attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
CLOSE HOLD
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
2 03) 22 P7:47
October 22, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
DAN MC GROARTY Dr.r
SUBJECT:
CUBAN DEMOCRACY ACT SIGNING
Tomorrow, at 5:45 p.m., you will deliver remarks (6 minutes,
on cards) to approximately 700 people gathered at the Omni
International Hotel in Miami, Florida for the signing of the
Cuban Democracy Act. The remarks have been prepared with input
by Jeb.
(Smith)
Draft One
October 22, 1992
CUBA
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CUBA STATEMENT
MIAMI, FLORIDA
FRIDAY, OCT. 23, 1992
[[ACKNOWLEDGMENTS]]. It's great to be among so many
friends. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Her new counterpart -- Lincoln
Diaz Belart. / I salute the veterans of the 2506 Brigade --
heroes in America and, yes, in your homeland. //
Let me recognize Carlos Salmon. Al Cardenas. Jorge Mas --
one of the key forces behind the Cuban Democracy Act. And let me
offer a special recognition to the representatives of the [United
Front for Democracy] -- champions of a free Cuba. 11
We share a history -- a commitment to struggle. We've
worked for years toward a single goal -- a common dream. We want
a free and democratic Cuba. /
Today I am delighted to take the next step toward that dream
with the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992.
Our policies and principles rest on a single belief: For
freedom to rise in Cuba -- Fidel Castro must fall.
In today's democratic world, communist governments no longer
hold sway. Cuba's special relationship with the former Soviet
Union has ended. And we've worked to ensure that no other
government helps this cruelest of regimes.
2
The result: Castro has become an outcast even among
dictators. He is not a leader -- he's a warden. His beaches are
not borders -- but his confines of freedom. //
But the tide is running out. For years, the Cuban community
has energized Miami. Someday freedom-loving people will change
that island for the better -- just like America has changed the
world.
We will not rest until we stop those who mock the rights we
treasure: Rights of speech, religion, assembly, and economic
freedom. / That means: Mr. Castro -- we want you going, going,
gone. //
years ago the Abraham Lincoln of Cuba, that great patriot
-
Jose Marti [Mar-TEE], said simply, "To beautify life is to give
it an object." I agree.
Our object is human liberty -- the liberty that people all
over the world are choosing by their votes. The Cuban people
deserve no less. That is why the Cuban Democracy Act strengthens
our embargo. It will speed the inevitable demise of the Castro
dictatorship.
The legislation I sign today reflects my determination that
the Cuban government will not benefit from U.S. trade or aid
until the Cuban people are free. And it reflects another belief.
I'm not going to let other governments prop up Castro with aid or
sweetheart trade deals. //
All of this is not designed to hurt the Cuban people. I am
saddened by their suffering and loss of freedom
by families
3
split apart. Sons and daughters lost at sea. But let's make it
clear: Cuba suffers because Castro refuses to change. /
Our policy and this bill allow for humanitarian donations of
food and medicine to nongovernment organizations in Cuba -- help
that will get to the Cuban people. And it allows for improved
communications between the United States and Cuba -- so that all
of you can maintain contact with family members.
I wish there were another way -- but there's not. Our
policy is the only way to put it plain and simple: "Democracy,
Mr. Castro -- not some time, not some day, but now. //
We will not provide life support to a dictatorship which
should be dead. 11
There will never be normal relations with Cuba as long as
Castro sustains his illegitimate regime -- as long as he
intimidates and does violence to a brave and courageous people.
I have challenged Fidel Castro before, and now I challenge
him again.
Mr. Castro, let a United Nations human rights representative
come to your island nation.
Mr. Castro, put your leadership to the test of the ballot
box. Let your people decide.
Mr. Castro, call off your secret police -- and let the Cuban
people choose their leaders and their future. / Let your people
live in freedom. Let Cuba be free. //
When Cuba is free, a million free Cuban-Americans will be
united with their long-suffering Cuban brothers. Nowhere has the
4
pain and anguish of family separation been more eloquently stated
than in a letter Barbara received from Major Orestes Lorenzo. /
As all of you know, Major Lorenzo heroically escaped from
Cuba a year and a half ago -- but he could not free his family.
Despite humanitarian pleas from the world over, Castro keeps
Major Lorenzo's wife, Vicky, and their two young sons hostage in
Cuba.
I want to say to Major Lorenzo today, and to all of you,
that I will not rest until all Cuban families are united again in
freedom. I call on Fidel Castro to let Vicky Lorenzo and the
children leave Cuba without delay.
I'm not a Johnny-come-lately to the fight for Cuba's
freedom. I won't waffle on that commitment, and I won't quit
until it is achieved.
I'm the President who pressed the Soviets and Russians to
cut their support, pull out their troops, and send an
unmistakable signal to Cuba of its complete isolation. And I'm
proud that I did. /
I'm the President who urged our friends in Latin America to
let Castro know he's a has-been. And I'm proud that I did. /
It is my firm belief that during my second term as
President, you will be reunited with your loved ones. And that I
will be the first President to set foot on the soil of a free and
independent Cuba.
I know there's a Spanish saying about the Castro regime that
is true -- in any language: "In las noventas, se revienta." / I
5
guarantee you -- freedom will come to Cuba. The Cuban people
have suffered enough. Change must come -- and it will. Cuba
must -- and will -- be free. //
Thank you and God Bless the people of Cuba and the United
States of America. [[Now, I will sign the Defense Authorization
Act -- giving force of law to the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992.]]
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Duest923
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN 10/23
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
DATE: 10/22/92
TO:
THE PRESIDENT
FROM: SHIRLEY M. GREEN smg
Deputy Assistant to the President for
Presidential Messages and Correspondence
Room 94, OEOB, x7610
We are not sending a Mail Sample this
week from the general public because we
know you have too much to do.
However, I thought you would still be
interested in the report of the mail
and phone calls, which are attached.
You're doing great !
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
19/23
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 21, 1992
2 OCT 22 P12 : 17
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
SHIRLEY GREEN
SUBJECT:
Mail Summary, October 14 through October 20, 1992
CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED
Year to Date
2,035,310
Presidential
25,115
" " "
123,464
Staff
7,387
WEEK TOTAL
32,502
YEAR TOTAL
2,158,774
TOP ISSUES OF THE WEEK
Pro
Con
Comments
Cum.Total(Pro/Con/Comments)
S.12 Cable TV
954
19
0
7,133/68/1
0
0
794
0/0/23,875
Hardship Cases
H.R. 429/Central Valley
209
491
0
246/785/0
Project
H.R. 11/Revenue Act
458
5
0
2,004/5/8
of 1992
Economic Concerns
0
0
371
0/0/39,443
Abortion Issue
(Including Freedom of
67
110
3
32,745/35,820/1,463
Choice Act)
PROPAGANDA MAIL
PERIOD TOTAL
Major Issue:
Pro: 5,094 Approve Agreement between U.S. Air and
British Airways
Volume:
461
CORRESPONDENCE PROCESSED
Presidential (Period Total)
24,909
Year to Date
2,064,462
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
SHIRLEY M. GREEN
sg
OCTOBER 14, 1992
DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
FOR PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGES AND CORRESPONDENCE
FROM:
C. DIAN MOORE
com
DIRECTOR OF PRESIDENTIAL INQUIRIES
SUBJECT:
REPORT, SEPTEMBER 30, 1992 - OCTOBER 13, 1992
The Comments Office received a total of 16,756 calls during this
period, making a total of 278,939 since January 20, 1992. 412
calls were requests for Presidential greetings; 256 calls were
referred to other federal, state and local government offices;
396 were of a personal or nonsubstantive nature and 318 requested
information which we were able to provide; 1,819 favorables for
the President and 784 negatives, 67 favorables for Mrs. Bush.
The major issues were:
PRO
CON
TOTAL
Sign Cable T.V. Bill H-12
3,866
58
3,924
Sign HR-11 Tax Bill
2,038
64
2,102
Potus/Larry King comments on Clinton
271
830
1,101
U.S. Air/British Air alliance
413
239
652
Valid issue/Clinton draft/Moscow trip
232
250
482
Sign HR 4323/S-2-Education bill
8
443
451
Sign HR 429 (Water Bills Ca. & Utah)
63
342
405
Vice-President's debate of 10/13/92
337
50
387
Potus debate of 10/11/92
341
45
386
Sign HR 5334-Housing Bill
347
3
350
No Fly zone in Bosnia/aid Bosnia
240
58
298
Media is biased against Potus
233
0
233
Support for Vice President Quayle
164
35
199
Repeal HR 2152-Boat User/Luxury Tax
198
0
198
Potus four debate offer
85
90
175
"AID" funding factories to leave U.S.
0
167
167
Women in Combat
8
146
154
Potus must talk about issues/economy
152
0
152
Pro Life/Pro Choice
90
39
129
SR 1216-Chinese Student Protection Act
95
13
108
Potus Press briefings/speeches
58
32
90
Miscellaneous
-
-
2,041
During this period our office assigned 40 volunteers to the First
Lady's offices, 160 volunteers to offices throughout
correspondence and the Visitors Office.
(Continued)
Page 2 - Presidential Inquires Bi-Weekly Report 10/14/92
The Greetings Office received 9,633 pieces of incoming mail and
mailed the following:
Birthdays
11,852
Retirement
3
Anniversaries
3,172
Graduation
0
100th Birthdays
584
Eagle Scouts
763
Photographs
144
Girl Scouts
70
Condolence
20
Marriage
622
Birth
128
First Lady Mail
125
Religious
20
Illness
42
Miscellaneous
634
Royal Rangers
14
Joyous Occasion
23
TOTAL
18,216
Since January 20, 1992, Greetings addressed and mailed 489,241
pieces of correspondence.
Darly 10/23
Dr
ck
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Dear Lieutenant Burney:
Barbara and I were deeply saddened to learn of
your tragic loss, and we extend our heartfelt
condolences to you and Marsha's family.
When we met at your graduation from West Point
last year, you impressed me greatly as a young
man of fine character. I hope that the inner
strength that I sensed in you that day will
sustain you through this difficult time and
that the support of your loved ones will be
a comfort to you.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Sincerely,
GBl
2LT Richard L. Burney, USA
301 Bibb Avenue
Auburn, Alabama 36830
Mr. President:
This young man graduated from West Point
in 1991. You presented him with several
awards and spent some time talking with
him afterward. His wife of 71 days was
killed in an automobile accident on 9/20.
eysa
827373
RICHARD B DAUS, INC.
OCT. / 1992
Es
The office of:
P.5
September 28, 1992
President
thickentz THE WHITE HOUSE
Dear Lt.Burney: Dear Burney:
RE:
2nd Lt. Richard L. Burney
will
301 Bibb Avenue
Auburn, Alabama 36830
to:
Tel: 205-887-3712
Washington, DC
Dear President Bush:
In 1991 while you were at the West Point Academy handing out to the
cadets their awards for graduation, you awarded to 2nd Lt. Richard L.
Burney, several awards that he had set while at the academy. Shortly after
graduation he went to Oxford, England, to continue his education in the
Army, under a scholarship.
In July of this year, he returned to Auburn, Alabama, to be married
to his high school sweetheart, for which they were married on July 11, 1992.
He and his new bride, Marsha Burns Burney, then returned to England for
him to continue his education.
On September 20, 1992, he and his wife were returning home from
visiting some friends, 10 miles south of Oxford, England, and were
involved in a serious accident, and his wife of 71 days was killed. She
was 22 years old, and 2nd Lt. Richard L. Burney is 24.
During your visit to West Point Academy, you were so impressed with
this young man, you spent sometime talking with him, after the awards
were handed out.
The Burney family has a long history of military service to our
country, none of which has retired from service below the rank of Colonel!
A11 so far have been in the Army. However, one of their sons is currently
attending the Air Force Academy, being his freshman year. In short, we
have a family of long history of service to our country.
I am a long time friend of the family, and was hoping you could
find sometime to send a personal letter of condolences to 2nd Lt. Richard
L. Burney, at his parents's home in Auburn, Alabama, where he is currently
on special leave for 30 days I know it would be of tremendous value to
this young man, at this very sad and tragic time in his life.
Our country's future depends on high quality young men, such as
2nd Lt. Richard L. Burney. I know he will continue following in his family's
tradition, with dedication and service to our country.
May God continue to Bless you and your family,
P.O. RRD/K1 Box 62345, Cincinnati, Onio 45262-0345 Lution B. your
(513) 779-9999 Office
779-1111 Home
Richard B. Daus
535-3800 Air-Marine
(okted. Stevena)
366-0192 Pager
646-3100 Car
OCT
3
1992
777-7777 Fax Line
Daey 1923 1923
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 22, 1992
Mr. President:
The U.S. Trade Representative has
recommended modifications to the
U.S. -Canada Free Trade Agreement.
You are required to notify the House
and Senate of these changes.
The modifications have been approved
by OMB, NSC, the Offices of the Chief
of Staff, Cabinet Affairs, Legislative
Affairs, Policy Planning, Domestic
Policy, Political Affairs, and Public
objection. Liaison. Counsel had no legal
Thank you.
Phil
Phillip D. Brady
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 9, 1992
PO: 25
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
EDE HOLIDAY
SUBJECT:
Modifications to Rules of Origin in U.S.-Canada
Free Trade Agreement
The United States Trade Representative (USTR) has
recommended that you notify the Congress of proposed
modifications to the rules of origin in the U.S.-Canada Free
Trade Agreement (CFTA).
By law, you must notify the Congress before the
modifications are put into effect. The modifications are
supported by U.S. industry. They have been approved by all
relevant agencies. Assuming there are no objections from the
Congress, USTR will prepare an implementing proclamation for your
signature 60 days after the attached report is transmitted.
Recommendation
That you approve Ambassador Hills' recommendation and sign
the attached letters to the Senator Bentsen and Congressman
Rostenkowski.
Approve
Disapprove
Let's Discuss
Attachments
Tab A Congressional Letters
Tab B Incoming from Ambassador Hills
THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE
Executive Office of the President
Washington, D.C. 20506
OCT 9 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
Carla A. Hills
CAF
SUBJECT:
Modifications of the U.S. - Canada Free Trade
Agreement (CFTA) Rules of Origin
I recommend that you sign the attached letters transmitting to
the Congressional Committees the attached report. This step is
required to implement an agreement with Canada to modify the CFTA
rules of origin affecting certain manufactured goods.
In order to put the modifications into effect, we must first
report to the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate
Finance Committee on the action we are proposing and on the
advice we have received from the private sector advisory
committees and the U.S. International Trade Commission. This
step is required by section 103 (a) (2) of the United States -
Canada Free-Trade Agreement Implementation Act of 1988, P.L. 100-
449. We will be sending to you a proclamation to implement these
agreed modifications sixty days from the submission of this
report to the two Congressional Committees.
The proposed modifications of the CFTA rules of origin have wide
support in the U.S. business community. We are only required to
consult with Congress, not to obtain Congressional approval,
before proclaiming the rules of origin modifications. Through
informal consultations with Congress, we understand that the
report will be favorably received.
Attachments
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Dear Mr. Chairman:
Pursuant to section 103 of the United States-Canada Free-Trade
Agreement Implementation Act of 1988 (Public Law 100-449), I am
pleased to submit the attached report and related documents
pertaining to a proposed action to amend Annex 301.2, which
pertains to rules of origin.
Sincerely,
CyBel
Bel
The Honorable Dan Rostenkowski
Chairman
Committee on Ways and Means
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Dear Mr. Chairman:
Pursuant to section 103 of the United States-Canada Free-Trade
Agreement Implementation Act of 1988 (Public Law 100-449), I am
pleased to submit the attached report and related documents
pertaining to a proposed action to amend Annex 301.2, which
pertains to rules of origin.
Sincerely,
GBl
The Honorable Lloyd Bentsen
Chairman
Committee on Finance
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
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Date October 20, 1992
TO: ADDRESSEE Robin MacLean
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COMMENTS: Dear Robin,
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Please find enclosed Burlington Free Press article in which
Swindle says, "If you can not vote for Perot, vote for Bush over
Clinton.'
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very, well. llc needs to say, however, that he has appointed
more women to office than any President in U.S. history.
The Rinehart's did get their letter yesterday, thanks for
all your help.
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Bush for president Daily 1923 92
Americans are angry, sure, but they must not strike
out blindly
THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
Savings and loans. Rubber checks.
cated foreign policy maneuvers. It
PACS. Gridlock. Perks. All the dark ele-
changed the balance of power in the Mid-
10/23
ments that make us believe government
dle East and opened dialogues between
is a thing that goes bump in the night.
longtime adversaries that give us the best
Americans are mad, frustrated and
hope for a lasting peace in the region in
ready to strike back. But they're taking it
half a century.
out on the wrong guy. You can't blame
Domestically, Clinton wants a national
any president for things beyond any presi-
industrial policy, with Washington trying
14
dent's control.
to help create jobs through targeted tax
For several solid reasons, George Bush
cuts. He wants to invest billions in new
deserves another term in office, and The
research and development, education and
News endorses him for one.
infrastructure.
The polls say the No. 1 issue in the
But that approach boils down to an
election is "the economy." That's because
overarching philosophy that's already
the economy is the most readily identifia-
ble sore point on the body politic.
been disproven: Washington knows best.
Washington would tell business where to
Our slow growth rate is distressing, but
invest. Washington would channel tax dol-
far from catastrophic.
lars into new spending programs.
Inflation is at about 3 percent, one of its
Doesn't it make more sense to let
lowest points in a quarter of a century. In-
terest rates are at a 20-year low. The
Americans make their own choices,
misery index, the sum of the inflation and
whether it is in economic investment, ed-
unemployment rates, is half what it was
ucation or research? To give the job mak-
in Jimmy Carter's last year.
ers breathing room from the smothering
The economic problem is global. Our
legal fees and over-regulation they face
that the rest of the world does not?
economy is still outperforming most of
the rest of the world's, including Japan's.
How do you separate foreign policy
Forget the anger for a moment, and
from economic policy, as Clinton would
make a clinical comparison of George
do? The world is breaking up into new
Bush and Bill Clinton. Ross Perot is a dis-
trading patterns. We'd better have some-
traction, not a candidate.
one who knows what he's doing pushing
for our fair share.
Bush has more foreign policy creden-
tials in his little finger than Clinton has in
Bush understands where government is
whole entourage. Clinton concedes that.
an aid and where government is a hin-
He's made no attempt to turn this cam-
drance. It's right to give children a fair
paign into a foreign policy referendum.
chance to compete through programs like
Several presidents helped fight the
Head Start. It's wrong to make them de-
Cold War. Ronald Reagan and George
pendent on handouts.
Bush recognized that new technologies
It' right to help Americans afford
and new means of communication gave us
health care. It's wrong to set up another
the chance to accelerate
huge bureaucracy to manage it.
its end. They pushed
Clinton would break the gridlock be-
it. Then Bush did
tween a Democratic Congress and a Re-
a remarkable
publican executive branch in the same
job of holding
way that destroying a dam removes an
the West to-
obstacle. It's not for the better.
gether as
In a second term, Bush would be in
the com-
a better position to tackle some of
munist
the nation's tough problems with
world
tough solutions. He would continue
flew
to make moderately conservative
apart.
appointments to the Supreme Court
Opera-
to make sure it interprets law and
tion Desert
doesn't make law.
Storm
Americans are mad. They're frus-
showed an im-
trated. Their government, with its
pressive knack
perks and PACs, rubber checks and ri-
for handling
diculous deficit, has become a thing
impossibly
that goes bump in the night.
compli-
Bush thinks the cure is some old-
fashioned American values, coupled with
high-tech innovations. Clinton thinks the
cure is even more government.
That above all else makes George Bush
the better choice
VESSEY COMISSION / THE ROSE GARDEN
OCTOBER 23, 1992 / 7:30 A.M.
REVISED.
GENERAL VESSEY. SENATORS McCAIN, KERRY
AND SMITH. DISTINGUISHED GUESTS. GOOD
MORNING, AND WELCOME TO THE ROSE GARDEN.
- 2 -
FINALLY, LET ME WELCOME REPRESENTATIVES
OF A BRAVE GROUP OF AMERICANS -- THE FAMILIES
OF THOSE STILL MISSING IN INDOCHINA.
I'VE
SPOKEN TO MANY OF YOU.
20.00.221022
- 3 -
I'VE READ YOUR LETTERS -- LISTENED TO YOUR
STORIES: THE POWERFUL MIXTURE OF PRIDE AND
FEAR, PROUD OF YOUR WARRIOR'S SERVICE -- BUT
FEARFUL YOU WILL NEVER KNOW HIS FATE.
- 4 -
EARLY IN OUR ADMINISTRATION, I TOLD HANOI
WE WOULD PURSUE A POLICY THAT LEFT BEHIND THE
BITTERNESS OF THE WAR -- BUT NOT THE MEN WHO
FOUGHT IT. OUR APPROACH -- THE "ROADMAP" --
WAS DESIGNED TO GAIN THE FULLEST POSSIBLE
ACCOUNTING OF OUR MIAs.
- 5 -
IT HAS BEEN A TOUGH ROAD TO FOLLOW. You SEE,
FOR ME, AS IT IS FOR YOU, THE POW/MIA ISSUE
IS A QUESTION OF HONOR: OF OATHS SWORN --
COMMITMENTS KEPT. IT IS A NATION'S TEST OF
ITS OWN WORTH -- MEASURED IN THE LIFE OF ONE,
LONE INDIVIDUAL.
- 6 -
To HELP GAIN THE FULLEST POSSIBLE
ACCOUNTING, I ASKED GENERAL JOHN VESSEY --
FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
-- TO CONTINUE TO SERVE AS MY PERSONAL
REPRESENTATIVE TO HANOI. GENERAL VESSEY HAS
MANY YEARS OF DISTINGUISHED SERVICE.
- 7 -
BUT OF ALL HIS MANY MISSIONS -- HE'D PROBABLY
TELL YOU THIS IS THE TOUGHEST TASK HE'S EVER
FACED.
- 8 -
HE'S WORKED COUNTLESS HOURS, AND
TRAVELLED ENDLESS MILES, BUT WE HAVE BEEN
PERSISTENT, AND STEADFAST. UNDER HIS
LEADERSHIP, OUR POLICY BEGAN TO WORK. HANOI
HAS YIELDED THE REMAINS OF 269 AMERICAN
SERVICEMEN.
- 9 -
WE SECURED THE RIGHT TO GO ANYWHERE IN
VIETNAM TO INVESTIGATE REPORTS OF LIVE
AMERICANS. WE BEGAN EXCAVATING THE
BATTLEGROUNDS OF INDOCHINA, SEARCHING FOR THE
REMAINS OF OUR SERVICEMEN.
- 10 -
IN THESE SEARCHES, WE NEVER FOUND ANYONE
ALIVE, BUT WE VOWED TO FOLLOW EVERY LEAD.
THEN, LATE LAST SUMMER, WE GOT OUR FIRST
GLIMPSE OF VIETNAM'S VAST SET OF WARTIME
ARCHIVES.
- 11 -
WITH PROOF OF THE ARCHIVES' EXISTENCE IN
HAND, I ONCE AGAIN ASKED GENERAL VESSEY TO
UNDERTAKE A MISSION TO HANOI. AND I CALLED
ON A MAN I GREATLY ADMIRE, SENATOR JOHN
MCCAIN, HIMSELF A FORMER POW, TO ACCOMPANY
THE GENERAL.
- 12 -
THE VIETNAMESE HAVE TREMENDOUS RESPECT FOR
SENATOR MCCAIN -- A RESPECT THAT TRANSCENDS
COUNTRY AND CULTURE. BECAUSE OF THIS, HE WAS
CRITICAL To THE MISSION'S SUCCESS.
GENERAL VESSEY AND SENATOR McCAIN HAVE
JUST NOW REPORTED TO ME ON THEIR MISSION.
- 13 -
AND I AM PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THIS MORNING
THAT OUR POLICY HAS ACHIEVED A REAL
BREAKTHROUGH. // HANOI HAS AGREED TO
PROVIDE US WITH ALL -- I REPEAT ALL --
INFORMATION THEY HAVE COLLECTED ON AMERICAN
POWs AND MIAs.
- 14 -
THIS INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS, ARTIFACTS, AND
DETAILED RECORDS ON AMERICANS WHO FELL INTO
VIETNAM'S HANDS. HANOI'S RECORDS WILL AT
LAST ENABLE US TO DETERMINE THE FATE OF MANY
OF OUR MEN.
- 15 -
WE STILL AWAIT THE RETURN OF THEIR REMAINS
-- BUT ALREADY, MY REPRESENTATIVES HAVE BEGUN
TO PROVIDE ANSWERS TO FAMILIES WHO HAVE
WAITED AND PRAYED FOR DECADES.
- 16 -
IT PAINS ME BEYOND WORDS TO SAY -- WE MAY
NEVER KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO EACH AND EVERY
AMERICAN. BUT WE WILL SPARE NO EFFORT...' TO
LEARN THE TRUTH.
- 17 -
EARLY IN MY TERM, WE INITIATED WORLDWIDE
INVESTIGATIONS TO DETERMINE THE FATE OF OUR
MISSING MEN, NOT ONLY IN VIETNAM, BUT IN ALL
THE BATTLES OF THE COLD WAR.
- 18 -
ALONG THE WAY, WE'VE ALSO HAD HELP FROM
SENATORS KERRY AND SMITH, WHO HEAD THE SELECT
POW/MIA COMMITTEE.
- 19 -
FROM RUSSIA WITH PRESIDENT YELTSIN PLEDGING
FULL COOPERATION, WE'VE BEGUN TO LEARN THE
FATE OF AMERICANS MISSING SINCE STALIN'S
REIGN, AND NORTH KOREA HAS RETURNED THE FIRST
AMERICAN REMAINS IN OVER FORTY YEARS.
- 20 -
TODAY, FINALLY, I AM CONVINCED THAT WE
CAN BEGIN WRITING THE LAST CHAPTER OF THE
VIETNAM WAR. IT WAS A BITTER CONFLICT, BUT
HANOI KNOWS TODAY THAT WE SEEK ONLY ANSWERS,
WITHOUT THREAT OF RETRIBUTION FOR THE PAST.
- 21 -
As WE COOPERATE IN BRINGING THAT PAINFUL ERA
TO A CLOSE, VIETNAM AND THE UNITED STATES CAN
BEGIN TO LOOK TOWARDS THE FUTURE.
To BEGIN THAT PROCESS, WE HAVE EXTENDED
MODEST DISASTER ASSISTANCE TO FLOOD RAVAGED
AREAS OF VIETNAM.
- 22 -
I HAVE ALSO DIRECTED MY ADMINISTRATION TO
WORK WITH HANOI IN DEVELOPING WAYS TO HELP
IDENTIFY VIETNAM'S MIAs AND INCREASE
HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO DISABLED
VIETNAMESE VETERANS OF THE WAR.
- 23 -
TODAY IS A DAY OF SIGNIFICANCE TO ALL
AMERICANS. IT IS so BECAUSE TODAY WE AGAIN
HONOR THOSE WHO CHOSE TO SERVE, AND WHO GAVE
THEMSELVES IN THE SUPREME MEASURE OF DEVOTION
TO THEIR COUNTRY.
- 24 -
TODAY WE ARE HONORING THEM BY AT LONG LAST
APPROACHING A POINT WHERE WE CAN FULLY KEEP
FAITH WITH THEIR LOVED ONES AND BRING THEM
PEACE.
THANK YOU ALL, AND MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA.
# # #
UMI IDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
7941
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 22, 1992
MEETING FOR
THE SIGNING OF THE CUBAN DEMOCRACY ACT
DATE: October 23, 1992
LOCATION: Miami, Florida
TIME: 5:45 pm
FROM: BRENT SCOWCROFT
I. PURPOSE
To announce the signing into law of the Cuban Democracy Act
of 1992 and your strong support of it, and to stress your
longtime commitment to a free and democratic Cuba.
II. BACKGROUND
Key points to be made:
:
Emphasize that the Cuban Democracy Act embodies many
measures that you have taken over the last four years
to pressure Castro and bring about a peaceful
transition to democracy in Cuba.
-- Reiterate that there will never be normal relations
with Cuba as long as Castro denies the Cuban people's
human rights, economic opportunity, and the freedom to
elect their leaders.
-- Challenge Castro to hold free and fair elections, and
put his leadership to the test of the ballot box.
-- Highlight the suffering of Major Orestes Lorenzo (Cuban
Air Force defector) and of all Cubans separated from
family members, and call for Castro to release
Lorenzo's wife, Vicky, and their two children.
The Cuban Democracy Act is a strong statement condemning the
Castro regime for consistently disregarding human rights and
democratic values, and for its harsh suppression of dissent.
The Administration has worked on the bill with the sponsors
over the last several months--toughening it in several
spots. It is very consistent with your policy of the last
four years a point that you make in your statement.
Administration policy has been to seek a peaceful transition
to democracy and resumption of economic growth in Cuba
through sanctions directed at the Castro government and
through support for the Cuban people. We have actively
sought the cooperation of other democratic countries in this
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policy, encouraging countries to restrict trade with Cuba
and to end all assistance to the Castro regime. The
legislation is entirely consistent with this policy.
You emphasize in your statement, however, that your policy
and this bill are not designed to hurt the Cuban people--it
is designed to liberate them. You make the point that the
bill allows donations of food to nongovernmental
organizations or individuals in Cuba, and the law also
permits "efficient and adequate" telecommunications between
the United States and Cuba--something you applaud in your
statement because it will help Cuban-Americans maintain
contact with family members.
Sanctions
It is in the area of sanctions where the legislation
introduces some new measures that impose penalties for
certain types of trade and aid relationships with Cuba.
The bill toughens our embargo by banning trade by U.S.
subsidiaries located in third countries (except for
contracts entered into before the date of the enactment of
the Act). This is the so-called Mack Amendment provision
that has upset our allies. They view it as an extension of
U.S. law to their countries. Canada and the U.K. have
implemented blocking legislation to stop U.S. subsidiaries
from complying with this measure.
The bill prohibits commercial vessels which have entered
Cuban ports from loading or unloading any freight in the
U.S. for 180 days, except pursuant to a license issued by
Treasury--a measure that is very close to the steps on
shipping you already took last April. The bill also holds
that the President may apply (a nonbinding measure)
sanctions against any country that provides assistance to
Cuba, including terminating U.S. foreign assistance and debt
forgiveness or reduction programs to that country.
Your statement is tough on maintaining the embargo, and you
note that in strengthening the embarga, the Cuban Democracy
Act will speed Castro's demise. You reiterate that there
will never be normal relations with Cuba as long as Castro's
dictatorship remains in place, and you challenge Castro to
hold free and fair elections--to submit his leadership to a
vote.
Help to Democratic Cuba
You emphasize in your statement that an important part of
your policy toward Cuba is your position that if the Cuban
Government holds free and fair elections, and respects its
citizens' civil liberties and human rights, you will take
steps to end the U.S. trade embargo. And you make clear
that the United States will be ready to help a free and
democratic Cuba with aid and investment.
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Major Orestes Lorenzo Perez
In your statement you talk about the case of Major Lorenzo.
He is a former Cuban Air Force pilot who defected in March
1991 to the United States by flying a Cuban MIG 23 to
Florida. Major Lorenzo has been very cooperative with U.S.
officials, and he has been an active spokesman for human
rights in Cuba. He is popular in the Cuban-American
community.
When he defected, Major Lorenzo left his wife, Vicky, and
their two young children, Reyniel and Alejandro, in Cuba.
The United States has granted visas for his family to come
to the United States, but Castro will not allow it.
According to Major Lorenzo, his wife has been told that they
will never be allowed to leave Cuba. In your statement you
call on Castro to release his family.
Major Lorenzo wrote to Mrs. Bush earlier this year. A copy
of his letter and her reply are attached at Tab E.
You
mention the letter in your statement.
III. PARTICIPANTS
Advance is handling.
IV. PRESS PLAN
Advance is handling.
V.
SEQUENCE
Advance is handling.
Attachments
Tab A
Background on Key Provisions of the Cuban Democracy Act
Tab B
Questions and Answers on the Cuban Democracy Act
Tab C
Correspondence Between Mrs. Bush and Major Orestes
Lorenzo Perez
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Background Paper on the Key Provisions of
the Cuban Democracy Act
The legislation states that:
--
The Cuban government has consistently disregarded human
rights and democratic values.
The Castro regime shows no willingness to make significant
concessions to democracy, and has accelerated its efforts to
suppress dissent.
Cuba's external support has been dramatically reduced with
the dissolution of the former Soviet Union and Eastern
Europe, and that this situation presents the United States
and the international democratic community with an
unprecedented opportunity to promote a peaceful transition
to democracy in Cuba.
The legislation states that it should be the policy of the United
States:
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To seek a peaceful transition to democracy and resumption of
economic growth in Cuba through sanctions directed at the
Castro government and through support for the Cuban people.
--
To seek the cooperation of other democratic countries in
this policy.
:
To continue to oppose Cuban human rights violations.
--
To maintain sanctions against the Castro regime so long as
it continues to reject democracy and human rights.
--
To prepare to reduce sanctions in response to positive
developments in Cuba, and to initiate development of a
comprehensive U.S. post-Castro Cuba policy.
Gaining International Support
The bill suggests that the President encourage countries that
trade with Cuba to restrict their trade in -a manner consistent
with U.S. policy. It states that the President may apply
sanctions against any country that provides assistance to Cuba,
including terminating U.S. foreign assistance and debt
forgiveness or reduction programs to that country.
Humanitarian Aid
The bill allows donations of food to nongovernmental
organizations or individuals in Cuba, and the export (i.e. sale)
of medicine and medical supplies when licensed by the Department
of Commerce.
The law also permits "efficient and adequate" telecommunications
between the United States and Cuba. The bill lets the President
decide whether to issue licenses for full or partial remittances
to Cuba of its share of earnings from telecommunications, but no
funds held in blocked accounts may be remitted to Cuba.
2
The bill allows for direct mail delivery to Cuba, although Cuba
has turned this down. It also permits the United States to
provide assistance through appropriate nongovernmental
organizations, to individuals and organizations promoting
nonviolent democratic change in Cuba.
Sanctions
The legislation contains sanctions for certain types of trade
relationships with Cuba.
--
It bans trade by U.S. subsidiaries located in third
countries except for contracts entered into before the date
of the enactment of the Act.
It prohibits commercial vessels which have entered Cuban
ports from loading or unloading any freight in the U.S. for
180 days, except pursuant to a license issued by Treasury.
It bans vessels carrying goods or passengers in which Cuba
or a Cuban national has any interest from entering a United
States port.
It gives the President authority to strictly limit
remittances to Cuba by U.S. persons for the purpose of
financing Cuban travel to the United States.
Help to Democratic Cuba
The bill gives the President authority to waive those sanctions
if the Cuban Government has held free and fair elections and
shown respect for Cuban civil liberties and human rights.
Under such circumstances, the President shall also encourage
the admission of Cuba into international organizations and
international financial institutions, provide emergency
relief, and take steps to end the U.S. trade embargo.
Questions and Answers on the Cuban Democracy Act
Q.
Why is the legislation necessary now?
--
This is an important bill because the Cuban regime is facing
its most serious crisis, and this is a strong statement to
Castro and the Cuban leadership that my policy toward Cuba
of promoting a peaceful transition to democracy enjoys the
full support of the American people and strong bipartisan
support in the Congress.
We worked with the Congress on the bill to toughen the
embargo to pressure Castro to hold free and fair elections
and let the Cuban people choose their leadership.
--
I want to emphasize that a very important part of my policy
and this legislation is the incentives it gives to promote
change in Cuba. This makes it clear that we stand ready to
help the Cuban people rebuild their economy and restore
their democratic traditions, once free and fair elections
are held and representative democracy is established.
Q.
Does the Cuban Democracy Act represent a major shift in
Administration policy?
--
No, this legislation is very consistent with a policy toward
Cuba that I've pursued over the last four years. The first
and foremost objective of my Cuba policy is to encourage a
peaceful transition to a democratic government, and the
Cuban Democracy Act reflects this objective. It embodies
many of the measures my Administration has taken to bring
about a peaceful democratic transition in Cuba.
Q.
Why should we strengthen the embargo now?
-- The U.S. embargo remains a key element of our national
policy of economically and politically isolating the Castro
government to pressure it to hold free and fair elections,
to respect the human rights of Cuban citizens, and to
restore representative democracy.
The Cuban Democracy Act reflects our policy that the Cuban
Government should not benefit from U.S. trade or aid until
there is a democratic opening in Cuba. The bill's strong
support in Congress and popular support for the legislation
demonstrate that the U.S. embargo of Cuba is a bipartisan
policy.
To go the other route -- to allow economic ties with Cuba
would only serve to breathe lite into a failed and
repressive regime.
2
Q.
Won't the embargo hurt the Cuban people?
The embargo is not designed to hurt the Cuban people. Our
policy and this bill allow for humanitarian donations of
food and medicines to nongovernmental organizations in Cuba.
We will also allow Cuba to purchase medicines and medical
supplies directly from the United States, with certain
restrictions. And back in April, I authorized the shipment
of humanitarian packages valued at up to $100 directly to
Cuba on the charter flights between Miami and Havana. But
Castro is not allowing these packages, depriving the Cuban
people of this potential relief.
The legislation also allows for improvement in
telecommunications between the U.S. and Cuba, so that family
members divided over the years can maintain contact with one
another. But here again Castro has refused to permit better
communications.
Q.
How does the Cuban Democracy Act help promote democracy in
Cuba?
The heart of the Cuban Democracy Act is the incentives it
offers to encourage a transition to representative democracy
in Cuba.
It includes steps to end the embargo once Cuba carries out
free and fair elections, respects basic human rights, and.
takes the steps necessary to ensure representative
democracy.
And it provides a plan for helping a free and democratic
Cuba to get a promising start by encouraging U.S. trade and
investment. When Castro goes, and Cuba is free and
democratic, we stand ready and willing to help the Cuban
people rebuild their crippled economy and become a full and
prosperous member of the world community.
Q.
Don't some of our allies object to the Cuban Democracy Act?
Some of our allies are worried about certain provisions of
the Act, particularly the one that bans trade between Cuba
and U.S. subsidiaries operating in their countries.
Some allies also are concerned about our prohibition on
vessels entering the United States within 180 days of their
departure from Cuba.
We are sensitive to their concerns and will try to implement
these provisions fairly, but we will also continue to ask
our friends and allies to minimize their trade with Cuba and
not to provide help to the Cuban dictatorship. I am very
pleased with the support we have received--no country has
moved to replace Cuba's lost trade and aid with the former
Soviet Union, for example.
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Q.
How Does the bill affect U.S. foreign assistance?
A longstanding aspect of our policy and the intention of the
Cuban Democracy Act is to discourage direct aid to Cuba.
We' ve discouraged countries from aiding Castro during my
entire term in office.
I'm glad to say that Russia is no longer propping up Castro
with its economic and military aid. It was recently
announced that Russia is stopping its help on the nuclear
energy facility in Cuba and also will be removing its
brigade from Cuba. Castro is on his own.
The legislation asks me to determine whether to apply
sanctions against any country that provides assistance to
Cuba, but this should have no affect on U.S. relations with
Latin America or the newly independent states of the former
Soviet Union, unless they begin providing Cuba with economic
or military assistance.
The legislation does not affect ordinary commercial trade or
debt restructuring with Cuba on the part of other countries.
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October 2, 1992
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Dear Mr. Perez,
I was very moved by your letter and I want to tell you that I
know how very difficult it must be to be separated so unjustly
from your wife Vicky and your boys Reynial and Alejandro. The
actions of the Cuban Government are unspeakably cruel and
vindictive, and it is truly inspiring that you and your wife
have such faith and strength in face of such inhumanity.
I am heartened to hear of the ware reception that you have
received here in the United States and that you have found
so many friends and caring people to support you during this
most difficult time. I am glad that you are sharing your
personal trial with so many others in our schools, churches,
and humanitarian organizations. Here, too, I am sure you
will find comfort and solace that can help sustain you and
your family.
I know we have granted your wife and children visas to come
to the United States whenever the Cuban Government permits
it. I have faith that the reunification of your family will
be soon. My thoughts and prayers are with you, and with your
wife and children.
Warmly,
BARBANA Doorl
Mr. Orestes Lorenzo Perez
Post Office Box 52-0302
CHOPY
Miami, Florida 33152
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ORESTES LORENZO PEREZ
P.O. BOX 52-0302
MIAMI, FL 33152
January 15, 1992
Mrs. Barbara Bush
office of the First Lady
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mrs. Bush:
My name is Orestes Lorenzo Perez. I am thirty five
years a Mig-23 fighter on March 20th, 1991, served as a Major
old and, until my defection to the United States aboard in
the Cuban Air Force.
difficult decision I have ever had to make as this would
My defection from Cuba was categorically the most
result in my having to abandon my homeland, leaving behind my
family and loved ones.
Since my childhood, I was indoctrinated by a
totalitarian government which sought to replace my religion
as well as my parents with distrust for mankind. This system
also replaced faith and love with treachery, hate, and
resentment toward the people of the United States. We were
prohibited from believing in God, and robbed of our souls.
The words "faith" and "forgiveness" were abolished from our
thoughts and from our hearts.
Today, however, I am grateful to the Lord for having
guided me toward the path of truth and love. As a result, have
those who indoctrinated me since the day I was born,
opted to avenge my decision to no longer serve Castro's
dictatorship, holding hostage my wife Vicky and my two young
sons Reyniel (age 10) and Alejandro (age 5) 14.
Although the United States authorities granted visas for
vicky and my sons to come to the U.S. as of June of 1991,
Castro himself has decided that he will retain my family in
Cuba against their will. Shortly after my defection to
freedom, my wife was summoned to the office of Armed Forces
Minister Raul Castro Ruz, where she was informed that neither
she or the children would ever be permitted to leave the
country.
Neither my wife's innumerable petitions before the Cuban
government or the pleas made by myself and international
human rights organizations to allow the reunification of my
family have been recognized by the Cuban authorities. My
wife and children, who have no political affiliation
whatsoever, are being deprived of the fundamental right to
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live with their husband and father as a family. Their only
crime has been to refuse to denounce me, and to refuse to
reject the love which holds our family together despite the
many miles that keep us apart. For this reason they are
being punished, obligated to live in constant fear not
knowing what tomorrow may bring.
Today, my wife and children have found in God the faith
which they so much need, and in another gesture considered
unforgivable disobedience by the Cuban government, Vicky and
the children attend mass each day.
This country, the United States, which the Castro
government wanted to make me hate since I was a young boy has
today greeted me with open arms, as it has so many Cubans
seeking liberty. In the American people I have found only
love and compassion for my family. Many people whom I have
met in this country, and who have come to know my family's
tragedy, have joined hands with me in prayer for Vicky,
Reyniel and Alejandro. This has given me the faith and
conviction that the forces of evil will not impede that soon
I will be reunited with my family, and that Vicky and I will
be able to provide our children an education based on the
principles of love, compassion, faith and forgiveness.
It is for this reason that I have decided to begin
visiting schools and churches to ask of all good people a
prayer for Vicky, Reyniel and Alejandro. A letter, a message
of love and faith, will comfort my family and give them
strength, reminding them that outside of the world of hate
which surrounds them there is a another world of love in
solidarity with their plight. Only such an expression of
human solidarity and love could, with God's help, allow my
family's reunification.
That is why I am appealing to you, Mrs. Bush, asking
that you pray for my wife and my children; your prayers, as a
mother and a wife, and your intervention in whatever manner
you may consider appropriate to achieve the dream of liberty
and reunification for my family.
Vicky, Reyniel, Alejandro and I will be eternally
grateful to you and to the American people for demonstrating
to us that a world of faith, love, and compassion doesn't
only exist in dreams. It is one that lives in the hearts of
all free men, and one which has already opened its arms for
us.
May God bless you!
Orestes July Lorenzo Perez
CONFIDENTIAL
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 22, 1992
MEETING WITH
GENERAL VESSEY AND SENATOR MCCAIN
DATE: October 23, 1992
LOCATION: Oval Office/RcoeGanden
TIME: 7:30 - 8:00am
FROM: BRENT SCOWCROFT grafer
I. PURPOSE
To receive General Vessey's report on his final POW/MIA trip
to Hanoi, and make a Rose Garden press statement.
II. BACKGROUND
General John Vessey, the Presidential Emissary to Hanoi for
POW/MIA matters, and Senator John McCain went to Vietnam
October 17-19. Hanoi agreed to allow us access to all
POW/MIA photographs, documents, and other material they
possess. We believe this breakthrough will help determine
the fate of many POWs/MIAs. Following the briefing, you
will announce the agreement to the press in the Rose Garden.
KEY POINTS TO BE MADE -- OVAL OFFICE
-- Effusive thanks to General Vessey
-- Leaving job after five years
-- Great step forward in accounting for MIAs
-- Need to decide how to respond to increased cooperation
After five and a half years as POW/MIA envoy, this was
General Vessey's final trip to Vietnam. At the beginning of
Vessey's tenure, there was little Vietnamese MIA
cooperation. Today, we have a U.S. manned office in Hanoi
that conducts joint crash site and battlefield excavations,
questions Vietnamese in areas where Americans were last
known alive, and searches the country at will to investigate
reports of live Americans.
This summer, Vietnamese archive photographs of dead
Americans previously carried as missing were passed to us.
On this trip, General Vessey gained U.S. access to the
Vietnam's POW/MIA archives, which contain photographs,
documents, artifacts (ID cards, flight helmets, etc.) and
other material. We believe access to Vietnam's records will
help in determining the fate of MIAs.
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While we still await the return of their remains, we believe
this access is an important breakthrough in accounting for
the missing. Already, four families have been notified of
their relative's fate. In the coming weeks, we will need to
decide how to respond to Vietnam's increased cooperation,
including the possibility of further steps in our "roadmap",
which details the path to normalization with Hanoi.
III. PARTICIPANTS
See Participants List at Tab B.
Your Rose Garden appearance will also be attended by a
number of MIA family members, and U.S. government officials
who helped bring about the agreement.
IV. PRESS PLAN
Oval Office meeting: White House Photographer
Rose Garden remarks: Open Press
V.
SEQUENCE
General Vessey and Senator McCain will brief you. Following
the meeting, you will make brief remarks in the Rose Garden
announcing the breakthrough to the press. These remarks
will be provided by the speechwriters.
Attachments
Tab A
Points to be Made for Oval Office meeting
Tab B
Participants List for Oval Office meeting
Tab C
Invited Guests for Rose Garden
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POINTS TO BE MADE FOR MEETING WITH
GENERAL VESSEY AND SENATOR MCCAIN
Welcome to the White House. I'm pleased that we could meet
today. I'm very interested in the new agreement with Hanoi.
--
Before we start, I want to express my personal gratitude
to General Vessey for his long years of service on this
issue.
You' ve accomplished an enormous amount in the years since
you took the job as Special Envoy, and I know that not only
the MIA families, but all Americans are grateful for your
achievements.
Senator McCain, thank you also for taking the time out to
accompany the General to Hanoi.
-- Please tell me what you learned.
Response
-- This is obviously an important step in accounting for our
MIAs.
|
We'll have to decide, in the coming weeks, how to respond to
Vietnam's increased cooperation. What are your views on
this, including steps in the "roadmap"?
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PARTICIPANTS
The President
The Vice President
Lawrence Eagleburger, Acting Secretary of State
Donald Atwood, Acting Secretary of Defense
Senator John Kerry
Senator John McCain
Senator Robert Smith
James A. Baker, III, Chief of Staff
Brent Scowcroft, Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs
Robert Gates, Director, Central Intelligence Agency
General Colin Powell, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
General John W. Vessey, Jr., United States Army, Retired
Douglas H. Paal, Special Assistant to the President and Senior
Director for Asian Affairs, NSC Staff, Notetaker
INVITED GUESTS FOR ROSE GARDEN
State Department
William Clark, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and
Pacific Affairs
Kenneth Quinn, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian
and Pacific Affairs
Richard Armitage, Deputy to the Coordinator for U.S. Assistance
to the New Independent States
Christopher LaFleur, Office Director, East Asian and Pacific
Affairs
Department of Defense
Al Ptak, Deputy Assistant Secretary, POW/MIA Affairs
Ed Ross, Deputy to the Assistant Secretary for POW/MIA Affairs
Bob Sheetz, Chief, Special Office for POW/MIA Affairs, DIA
Colonel William Jordan, Staff Director, POW/MIA Affairs
Captain John P. Gay, Executive Officer to General Vessey
Lieutenant Colonel James Caswell, Joint Staff, POW/MIA Affairs
Lieutenant John Russ, III, Aide to General Vessey
Lieutenant Tom Doughty, Assistant on Southeast Asia, POW/MIA
Affairs, Department of Defense
Dr. Lewis Stern, Office Director, Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs
Congressional
Francis Zwenig, Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on
POW/MIA Affairs
Mark Salter, Legislative Affairs Assistant to Senator McCain
League of Families
Ann Mills Griffiths, Executive Director, National League of
POW/MIA Families
Mary Backley
Mary Dzaugis
Colleen Shine
Theodore G. Schweitzer, Scholar
Robert Kingston, General, US Army Retired
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WASHINGTON
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
DAVID DEMAREST
FROM:
JEFF VOGT you
SUBJECT:
HIGH-TECH INDUSTRY EXECUTIVES SUPPORTING YOUR
RE-ELECTION
Attached is the press release and list of high-tech industry CEOs
announcing their endorsement for your candidacy last week. Dr.
Gil Amelio, Chairman of National Semiconductor, staged the event
at his headquarters in Santa Clara, California, joined by some 20
other valley CEOs as well as Secretary Franklin and Admiral
Watkins.
This impressive, nationwide group of CEOs can be used to rebut
Clinton's constant reference to his "legion" of high-tech
supporters, including John Young and John Sculley. Moreover, the
credibility of Clinton's list of supporters can be questioned, as
Gil Amelio was mistakenly listed as supporting Clinton. Amelio
wished to set the record straight in announcing his support for
you at his headquarters. Also, Hewlett-Packard Chairman, David
Packard, also issued a statement expressing his support for you.
10/23
Yes. Per David Demarest's office,
the campaign is sending everyone
on the list an autopenned letter
thanking them for their support.
NEWS RELEASE
BUSHO2
OCTOBER 15, 1992
CONTACT: DIDI BLACKWOOD
NEWS RELEASE
(202) 336-7900
EMBARGOED UNTIL 5PM EDT
RUTH MANKIN
(202) 336-7900
HIGH-TECH INDUSTRY EXECS ENDORSE BUSH,
SAY CLINTON'S HIGHER TAXES WOULD STIFLE GROWTH
(Santa Clara, CA.) -- Praising George Bush for his
leadership and commitment, over seventy five leaders of the high-
tech industry joined forces today to endorse the President's re-
election bid. At a news conference at the offices of National
Semiconductor, the names of the members of the Bush/Quayle '92
High-Tech Coalition were announced by Secretary of Commerce
Barbara Franklin and Secretary of Energy, Admiral James Watkins.
citing the President's record of vigorous support for high
technology, Dr. Gilbert F. Amalio, Procident and CEO of National
Semiconductor said, "The growth and development of high-
technology is vital to the U.S. economy and standard of living.
After carefully reviewing the positions of both major party
presidential candidates, I am convinced that high-technology
industries will flourish only under the investment-based economy
embraced by the principles of the Bush Administration. in
contrast to the Clinton position, the President's economic
policies are in line with his high-technology policies. I have
decided at this time to publicly support the re-election of
President George Bush." Amelio had been incorrectly cited as
endorsing clinton.
David Packard, Chairman, Hewlett Packard Company, Palo Alto,
California had this to say, "We've got to keep our country on the
cutting edge of technology. President Bush has backed federal
funding for research and development. President Bush knows that
in our global economy, it will be the innovators who own the
future. Clinton talks about the future, but his ideas come from
the past -- and his tax proposals will kill America's technology
companies.
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The list of personal endorsements includes:
Dr. Gilbert F. Amelio, President & CEO, National
Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
David Packard, Chairman, Hewlett Packard Company,
Palo Alto, CA
James A. Abrahamson, Chairman of the Board, Oracle Corp.,
Redwood city, CA
John Akers, Chairman & CEO, IBM, Armonk, NY
Robert E. Allen, chairman & CEO, AT&T, Basking Kidge, NJ
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C. M. Armstrong, Chairman, Hughes Aircraft Company,
Los Angeles, CA
Norman Augustine, Chairman & CEO, Martin Marietta,
Bethesda, MD
Andres B. Bande, President, Ameritech International, Inc.,
Chicago, IL
Donald Beall, Chairman & CEO, Rockwell International
Corporation, Seal Beach, CA
Gordon Binder, CEO, AMGEN, Thousand Oaks, CA
David Bossen, President & CEO, Measurex Corporation,
Cuppertino, CA
Lawrence A. Bossidy, CEO, Allied-Signal, Morristown, NJ
Bobby Chao, CEO, Ocron, Inc., Santa Clara, CA
Dr. Winston Chen, CEO, Solectron, San Jose, CA
Dr. Koun-Ping Cheng, President & CEO, Intelligent Modeler,
San Diego, CA
Dr. Richard T. Cheng, President & CEO, Eastern Computers,
Inc., virginia Beach, VA
Dr. Theodore Cooper, CEO, Upjohn, Kalamazoo, MI
Joe Coors, Jr., Chairman & CEO, Coors Porcelian Co.,
Golden, CO
Dr. Gilbert Decker, President & CEO, Acurex Environmental
Corporation, Mountain View, CA
B. F. Dolan, Chairman and CEO, Textron, Inc., Providence, RI
William T. Esrey, Chairman & CEO, Sprint, Kansas city, MO
George M.C. Fisher, Chairman & CEO, Motorola, Inc.,
Schaumburg, IL
Donald Fites, Chairman & CEO, Caterpiller, Inc., Peoria, IL
Bob Galvin, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Motorola,
Inc., Schaumburg, IL
James Geier, Chairman, Cincinatti Milacron, Inc.,
Cincinatti, OH
Richard Gelb, Chairman & CEO, Brictol-Mycrs squibb,
New York, NY
Robert G. Gilbertson, Chairman Ex-Officio, American
Electronics Association, Shelton, CT
Sheldon Gilgore, Chairman & CEO, Searle, Skokie, IL
Joseph T. Gorman, Chairman & CEO, TRW, Inc., Cleveland, OH
VanBuren N. Hansford Jr., Chairman & CEO, Hansford
Manufacturing Co., Inc., Rochester, NY
Earle Harbison, President & coo, Monsanto Company,
St. Louis, MO
John T. Hartley, Chairman, President & CEO, Harris
Corporation, Melbourne, FL
Donald F. Hastings, Chairman, National Electric
Manufacturing Association, Cleveland, OH
Gavin Herbert, Chairman, Allergan, Inc., Irvine, CA
James R. Houghton, CEO, Corning, Inc., Corning, NY
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PAGE THREE -- BUSH/QUAYLE HIGH-TECH COALITION
J. Richard Iverson, President & CEO, American Electronics
Association, Washington, DC
Jerry Junkins, Chairman, President & CEO, Texas Instruments,
Inc., Dallas, TX
Ed Kientz, President, Benner-Nawman, Inc., Benicia, CA
Ben Koether, CEO, Fast, Inc, Stratford, CT
Richard J. Kogan, President & CEO, Schering-Plough
Corporation, Madison, NJ
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Hon. Melvin R. Laird, Chairman of the Board, COMSAT,
Washington, DC
Robert B. Laurence, Chairman, Information Technology
Association of America, Santa Ana, CA
Danny Lee, Chairman, Wellex, Fremont, CA
David Lee, Chairman, Qume Corporation, Los Altos Hills, CA
Jimmy Lee, President, Integrated Silicon solutions, Inc.,
Sunnyvale, CA
Lester Lee, President & CEO, Recortec, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
P.E. Lego, Chairman & CEO, Westinghouse Electric
Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA
Catherine Liu, President, Applied Export Systems, Inc.,
Redwood, CA
Jerry Liu, President, Knights Technology, Inc.,
santa Clara, CA
Kenny Liu, President, OPTI, Inc., Santa Clara, CA
Richard Mahoney, Chairman & CEO, Monsanto Company,
St. Louis, MO
Robert Mallott, Chairman, Executive committee, FMC,
Chicago, IL
Jim Marley, President & COO, AMP, Inc., Harrisburg, PA
Ray Marlow, CEO, Marlow Industries, Dallas, TX
Peter McCloskey, President, Electronic Industries
Association, Washington, DC
Dr. Gordon Moore, Chairman, Intel Corporation,
Santa Clara, CA
Jim Morgan, Chairman & CEO, Applied Materials, Inc.,
Santa Clara, CA
J. Tracy O'Rourke, Chairman & CEO, Varian Associates,
Palo Alto, CA
John Ong, CEO, B.F. Goodrich, Akron, OH
Raj Panjwani, President & CEO, General Therapeutic
Corporation, St. Louis, MO
Joseph L. Parkinson, Chairman and CEO, Micron Technology,
Inc., Boise, ID
Tom Phillips, Chairman & CEO, Raytheon Company,
Lexington, MA
John Pickitt, President, CBEMA, Washington, DC
J.J. Renier, CEO, Honeywell, Inc., Minneapolis, MN
T.J. Rodgers, President & CEO, Cypress Semiconductor,
San Jose, CA
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Don Rumsfeld, Chairman & CEO, General Instrument
Corporation, Chicago, ILW.
J. Sanders, III, Chairman & CEO, Advanced Micro Devices,
Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Bob Shaw, President, International Jensen, Inc.,
Lincolnshire, IL
Raymond W. Smith, Chairman & CEO, Boll Atlantic Corporation,
Philadelphia, PA
Edmund Sun, CEO, C-Cube Microsystems, Inc., Milpitas, CA
Dr. Wayne Teng, Chairman, Teng and Associates, Chicago, IL
Ping Tom, CEO, Mah Chena Corporation, Chicago, IL
Charles R. Trimble, CEO, Trimble Navigation, Ltd.,
Sunnyvale, CA
Chen Wang, Chairman, EIC Group, Redwood city, CA
Chi Shin Wang, President, IIT, Santa Clara, CA
Stanley Wang, President & CEO, Pantronix, Inc., San Jose, CA
John F. -Welch, Jr., chairman & CEO, General Electric
Company, Fairfield, CT
Joseph wu, President, TFT, Inc., Santa Clara, CA
David Yen, President, Dyna Mechtronics, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Tony Yu, President, Microcomp, Santa Clara, CA
Hon. Ed Zschau, President & CEO, Censtor Corporation,
San Jose, CA
At the announcement, Secretary Franklin said, "We've been
hearing in the press that the high-tech industry overwhelmingly
supports Bill Clinton. Clinton makes claims that he alone
understands high-tech and he alone has the plan to develop our
high-tech base. His facts don't compute. While Governor Clinton
has been talking, President Bush has been working with high-tech
industries for four years, getting technology out of the labs and
into the consumers' hands. While Bill Clinton talks about
partnerships between business and government, our national labs
have created over 1400 such cooperative agreements. That's why
these leaders are here today to endorse George Bush."
She also cited increased trade and export growth in the
high-tech sector, "Advanced technology exports last year were
$100 billion, which yields a surplus of $40 billion to our
current account. George Bush knows that getting the goods to
market is an important part of the action and the North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) opens new markets for high- tech.
Clinton continues to waffle on NAFTA -- we can count on George
Bush to create new American high-tech jobs here at home by
selling our products across the border."
Admiral Watkins added, "The President's Agenda for American
Renewal places heavy emphasis on Research and Development
technology. Included in the Agenda are proposals for a 30%
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increase in civilian R & D, a cut in the capital gains tax, a
permanent R & D tax credit, easier access to credit, and improved
education and training for tomorrow's scientists and engineers.
Fortune Magazine, in its November 2 issue, notes that the
President has already begun to move federal research spending
from defense to civilian projects and that Clinton would
concentrate civilian research grants in a new government agency,
while Bush would keep the current decentralizied system."
The same article pointed out that in a July Fortune poll of
184 CEOs, 85% supported Bush and only 9% backed Clinton. Fortune
also reported that the Boston Co. Economic Advisors, "a
respected, non-partisan forecasting firm" said that growth would
initially spurt under Clinton, but the price of that spurt,
"would be a significantly larger budget deficit under Clinton,
which would leave long-term interest rates about a point higher
than under Bush:"
Watkins noted that the Bush Administration, beginning in
1988, agreed to provide $100 million annually in funding for
SEMATECH, a public-private consortium, to promote research and
development in semi-conductors, major components in both defense
and consumer electronics.
In addition to Secretary Watkins and Secretary Franklin,
D. Allan Bromley, Assistant to the President and Director, Office
of Science and Policy Technology, Rep. Tom Campbell (R-CA) and
State Senator Becky Morgan attended the coalition announcement.
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Dear Mr. Scott:
The President let us know of your good offer to help rally support
at his campaign stops across the country. This sounds like an
excellent idea and although we were not able Lo put the "Bass Tour"
on the road this summer, I hope we will be able to take advantage
of this opportunity during the last four weeks.
I've shared your idea with our advance office and have asked them
to be in touch with you and see if it would be possible to tap into
your great B.A.S.S. organization.
Thanks SO much for your offer and for all you are doing in support
of President Bush.
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DATE: 10/22/92
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RAY SCOTT
October 21, 1992
Ms. Rose Zamaria
Office of The President
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
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to see my note. Thank you.
Kindest regards,
Ray SCOLL
P.S. George Buch is such a great
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White House News Summary
Friday, October 23, 1992 -- 1
5:00 P.M. NEWS UPDATE
CAMPAIGN/KENTUCKY (London, Ky./Gene Gibbons, Reuter) -- President
Bush headed back south, struggling to reclaim states he carried
easily four years ago as new polls showed him still lagging far
behind Bill Clinton 11 days from the finish of the campaign. At
a rally in a high school football stadium in London in southeastern
Kentucky, Bush hammered away at his contention that a Clinton
victory Nov. 3 would mean higher taxes for the people. Bush also
took off after Al Gore, ridiculing his preoccupation with
environmental problems. Bush also lambasted Clinton's explanation
of how he avoided the draft during Vietnam. "A lot of people
opposed the war but they didn't change their story," he said.
AP SURVEY (AP) -- Bill Clinton is angling for an overwhelming
victory that would give one party comfortable control of the White
House and Congress for the first time in a dozen years, according
to an AP survey of all 50 states. AP's survey of political
leaders, politicians and academicians across the country shows
Clinton comfortably ahead in 27 states and D.C. They account for
330 electoral votes, well above the 270 needed for victory.
Clinton holds shakier leads in eight other states, with an
additional 69 electoral votes. Bush leads in eight states, with
61 votes.
CLINTON/NEVADA (Las Vegas/UPI) -- Bill Clinton steered clear of
issues and resorted to an anecdotal campaign style that sought to
extend his coattails to local Democratic candidates. "I know that
most people out west can't imagine voting for a Democrat for
president," Clinton told an audience at the University of Nevada-
Las Vegas. "I know that a lot of you feel that way, but let me
tell you, in times of change, Americans have to go beyond the
bounds of party," he said. Clinton criticized recent disclosures
that State Department officials have gone through his and his
mother's passport files. "If this crowd in Washington had spent
half as much time investigating the lives of the American people
as they had their political opponents, this would be a better
country," he said.
CLINTON PLAN/ECONOMISTS (Boston/Reuter) -- Bill Clinton's economic
program will create the most jobs in the short-run, but it will
lift interest rates and stifle growth by 1996, a non-partisan
economic consulting firm said. DRI-McGraw Hill Inc., based in
Lexington, Mass., released a study of the economic proposals of all
three presidential candidates. "In the short run, the cyclical
strength of the economy would be greater under Clinton," the firm
said. "DRI assumes, however, that the stronger growth causes the
inflation-adverse Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, and
squeezes the growth out of the economy by 1996.
ECONOMY (Reuter) -- The nation's economy has hobbled out of
recovery and started expanding, economists say, although it has
been at such a feeble gait that anxious consumers probably haven't
noticed. Economists surveyed by Reuter think the nation's GDP
expanded at a 1.5% annual rate between July and September, the same
as during the second quarter. That scale of growth would push the
real, inflation-adjusted value of all the goods and services made
in the U.S. above the peak it touched more than two years ago.
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White House News Summary
Friday, October 23, 1992 -- 2
ENVIRONMENTAL RULES (AP) -- The White House is trying to unleash
up to a half dozen long-delayed clean air regulations before the
election in the hope of boosting President Bush's environmental
standing, Administration sources say. The regulations are among
dozens that have been held up by the Bush Administration amid
squabbling between EPA and Vice President Quayle's Competitiveness
Council. "The White House now wants to push them out," said one
official. This official said the move is being orchestrated by
James Baker and over the objections of Quayle's council.
T.V. AD (AP) -- Floyd Brown, the producer of the Willie Horton ad
four years ago is back with an anti-Bill Clinton spot that shows
an admittedly faked photo of Sen. Kennedy with Clinton. The 30-
second television ad, quickly denounced by Clinton's admaker as
"sleazy, trashy," speculates on who might get important posts under
a Clinton presidency and says Kennedy could end up in charge "of
roads and bridges."
PEROT/SCHEDULE (Dallas/UPI) -- Ross Perot will step away from
television and radio appearances for the first time since he re-
entered the race Oct. 1 to attend rallies Sunday in New Jersey and
Pennsylvania. At the daily briefing, spokeswoman Sharon Holman
and Orson Swindle told reporters the Bush campaign is trying to
mislead the voters about the importance of their campaign. The
Perot campaign also criticized an ABC News report aired Thursday
that charged there was no corroboration to a Perot statement to a
congressional committee that he was the target of an assassination
attempt in 1970 because of his involvement in the POW-MIA issue.
GORE/MEDICARE (Melbourne, Fla./AP) --- Al Gore told Florida voters
that Medicare recipients should be concerned that their benefits
could be trimmed to pay for the tax cut President Bush has
proposed. Gore said Medicare participants should be concerned
about increases in out-of-pocket expenses and cuts in benefits.
Gore said also that the U.S. should begin preparing for the end of
the Castro regime in Cuba. "I think the day is coming real soon
when Castro will be gone," Gore said.
VIETNAM/MIA (U.N./AP) -- A Vietnamese envoy accused the U.S. of
playing politics with the MIA issue and contended his nation has
cooperated for years in the search for Americans missing since
Vietnam. U.N. Amb. Trinh Xuan Lang, in a telephone interview,
said, "We never link the MIA issue with political issues. But it
seems to me that on the U.S. side, you are not doing the same
thing. The MIA issue has been turned into a political issue and
you are linking it with normalization of relations."
V.P./OSPREY (Ridley Park, Pa.,/Reuter) -- Vice President Quayle
announced a $550 million contract for Boeing Co. and Textron Inc.
to develop the controversial V-22 Osprey aircraft. Secretary
Cheney had three times dropped the aircraft from his proposed
budget. But each time, Congress had voted to authorize research
and development money for the aircraft. Bill Clinton said the V-
22 is an important part of a strategy to strengthen the military
and questioned the White House's motives. "It's hard to trust
Bush's conversion less than two weeks before Election Day. If he
can so easily reverse course, what prevents him from doubling back
if re-elected" the Clinton campaign said in a statement.
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF
FROM:
Marlin Fitzwat
SUBJECT:
Television Appearances, Sunday, October 25, 1992
ABC "This Week with David Brinkley": 11:30 am Channel 7
The topic will be: Wisconsin and California senate races. The
guests will be: Senator Bob Kasten (R-WI), democratic candidate
Russell Finegold, Representative Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and
republican candidate Bruce Herschensohn.
CBS "Face the Nation": 10:30 am Channel 9
The topic will be: politics. The guests will be: Democratic
National Committee Chairman Ron Brown and Senator Bob Dole (R-
KS) or Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY).
NBC "Meet the Press": 9:00 am Channel 4
The topic will be: politics. The guests will be: Mickey
Kantor, Clinton-Gore campaign manager, Orson Swindle, Perot-
Stockdale campaign manager and an invitation has been extended to
Mary Matalin, Bush-Quayle deputy campaign manager. (note: she
has not accepted at this time.)
CNN "Newsmaker" 1:30 pm and 5:30 pm (Saturday)
10:30 am (Sunday)
Saturday: The topic will be: the campaign.
The guest will be: President George
Bush.
Sunday: The topic will be: Richmond debate
participants.
The guests will be: TBA.
CNN "Evans & Novak": 12:30 pm (Saturday)
The topic will be: politics. The guests will be: Robert
Teeter, Bush-Quayle campaign chairman and George Stephanopolos,
Clinton-Gore communications director.
McLaughlin One-on-One: 12:30 pm (Sunday)
The topic will be: politics. The guest will be: Charlie Black,
Bush-Quayle senior political advisor.
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FUN FOIA THE WHOLE FAMILY
SPOTLIGHT
As angry Clinton blasts State
search of momma's records (#3),
TAKE THE BUS AND
WSJ sees "fine line" between
LEAVE THE DRIVING TO
...
Jeb & Neil Bush business and
THE POLLSTERS
use of their name. (#2) And
Perot brings the family in
SCHEDULE: Perot eating
tonight's half-hour. (#7)
into Clinton in "Pioneer
GOP FAMILY: Kemp hit for
Country" and Bush in NJ, so
Bush "betrayal" in letter. (#2)
guess where the candidates
go. (Perot stays home.)
PEROT NABS FIRST ENDORSEMENT
THE ADS: Bush widely seen
Bridgeport CONNECTICUT POST:
running more negative
"You do have a choice.' (#6)
campaign. (Is he driving
"NUTTY" CRUNCHED: Perot
votes to Perot? Does it
responds to Bush hits. (#5)
give Clinton and Perot
ANSWERING THE CALL: Media
chance to swell turnout
re-exam begins (again) with ABC
with uplifting finish?)
piece on terrorist claims. (#6)
ISSUES: 65% not satisfied
with (or have major doubts
IRAN-IRAQ: BOMBS FOR HOSTAGES?
about) Bush 2nd term goals.
Forthcoming NEW YORKER story
A CLINCHER? By 55%/15%,
alleges VP Bush, well in the
Clinton seen best on equal
loop, lobbied Saddam for Iran
rights for women, while by
bombing -- encouraging arms/
53/14 women candidates are
hostages deal. "Doonesbury"
seen better for change than
runs with it next week. (#9)
men. (See women candidate
list, #13).
HOTLINE SENATE SCOREBOARD
Latest polls show few races
SEE POLLS: NBC/WSJ (#24),
within margin/error. (#14)
TIMES-MIRROR (#25), three
Open seats tight in NH (#16),
tracking polls (#26-#28).
WA (#18), and ID.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"To a front-running presidential candidate
with nearly 300 hours to kill before Election Day,
it was just what the spin doctors ordered."
-- Nicholas Goldberg on the Tamposi search party, NEWSDAY, 10/23.
THE APN BULLETIN BOARD
FROM TODAY'S GREENWIRE: President Bush to sign energy bill
tomorrow in Louisiana.
FROM TODAY'S DAILY REPORT CARD: Trustees of Miss U. system
propose controversial plan to desegregate higher ed.
FROM TODAY'S ABORTION REPORT: In a "sharp turnabout," pro-
choicer Stokes (R) pushes abortion issue in race V. Mazzoli.
FROM TODAY'S AMERICAN HEALTH LINE: SEIU study: worker take-
home pay decreased 5.3% this year due to health care costs.
HOTLINE/DATABASE INDEX
WHITE HOUSE '92
BUSH: Announces MIA agreement with Hanoi. (#1)
BUSH: Slams Clinton and Perot in Jersey. (#2)
CLINTON: Messin' with mama (cont'd). (#3)
CLINTON: "The Orange Curtain falls. (#4)
FRETTING THREE-WAY: "Clinton, Bush turn on Perot." (#5)
PEROT: Media answering cry for renewed focus. (#6)
AD WATCH: New ads for Clinton and Perot. (#7)
PRIME TIME FLOYD: Donaldson grills indie ad-maker Brown. (#8)
IRAN-CONTRA: NEW YORKER, Doonesbury probing the "loop." (#9)
THE TOP TEN
CALIFORNIA (54) 11 million voters predicted. (#10)
NEW JERSEY (15) You're next with George Bush. (#11)
CANDIDATE SCHEDULES (#12)
ISSUES: WOMEN CANDIDATES: Women to watch. (#13)
SENATE WATCH
SCOREBOARD: Newest look at Senate polls. (#14)
IL (#15)
NH (#16)
OH (#17)
WA (#18)
WI (#19).
HOUSE RACE BRIEFINGS (#20)
GOVERNORS '92:
NH (#21)
WA (#22)
"GROUNDUP" (#23)
POLL UPDATE:
NBC/WSJ (#24)
TIMES MIRROR (#25)
ABC (#26),
CNN/USA (#27)
BATTLEGROUND (#28)
TV MONITOR (#29)
???? OVERLOOKED ????
While appearing before 33 undecided voters assembled by WSB-
; TV in Atlanta this week, Bush answered a question about the
economy by a college senior worried about her job prospects: "I
wouldn't be sitting here probably if the economy was growing at
3.5 or 4 percent" (courtesy Raleigh NEWS & OBSERVER's Ferrel
Guillory, 10/23).
WHITE HOUSE '92
*1 BUSH: ANNOUNCES MIA AGREEMENT WITH HANOI
In a WH press conference, Bush detailed a memorandum of
understanding drafted last weekend between the U.S. and Vietnam.
Bush: "Hanoi has agreed to provide us with all, I repeat all,
information they have collected on American POWs and MIAs. This
includes photographs, artifacts and detailed records on Americans
that fell to Vietnam hands. Hanoi's records will at last enable
us to determine the fate of many of our men" ("GMA," ABC, 10/23).
"The agreement, if fully implemented, would break an impasse
between the U.S. and Vietnam over Hanoi's ongoing claims that it
had no information that would help to account for 2,266 missing
servicemen since U.S. troops withdrew in 1973" (Royce, NEWSDAY,
10/23). ABC's Compton: "What Pres. Bush did not say is anything
about future U.S. policy towards Vietnam. In the last few months
he has made some tiny incremental approaches towards Vietnam
...
but he made it very clear he was going to look at this
information first before he decides anything about lifting what
has been a long estrangement with Vietnam" ("GMA," ABC, 10/23).
GOOD MORNING, BAR: Barbara Bush on "GMA" live from the WH:
"I think we're finally getting the picture out of the difference
between what Bill Clinton says and Bill Clinton's Arkansas, which
is the only thing we can judge him by. His record is politics;
he never built a business." On AR: "They're absolutely the
bottom of everything." On Bush economic policies: "Compare it to
the rest of the world, George Bush has kept us stable and
steady." On possibility Bush loses: "It'not going to happen,
because America can't afford to have it happen. Don't worry
about us we'll be fine, but America won't" ("GMA," ABC, 10/23).
*2 BUSH: SLAMS CLINTON AND PEROT IN JERSEY
In NJ, Bush launched "his toughest attacks yet" on Clinton
and "slammed" Perot for his "nutty ideas." Bush "seemed to adopt
a what-have-I-got-to-lose strategy, taking shots at both
challengers and jokingly inviting those who want to vote for them
to consider skipping the election and taking a family vacation to
Wyoming. Bush took his waffling charge against Clinton a bit
further, saying as president, "you cannot lie" (Warren/Enda,
PHILA. INQUIRER, 10/23). Waving and giving a thumbs-up to mostly
GOP crowds, Bush "seemed a dynamo compared to his somewhat
listless pre-debate visit" to NJ last week. At a Robinsville
Airport rally, Bush got the endorsement of former hostage Joseph
Cicippio (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 10/23). "Bush drew cheers" as he
linked Clinton with NJ Gov. Jim Florio (D). But his "penchant
for the occasional malapropism got the best of him. Bush: "I
don't want to run the risk of ruining a lovely recession, er, a
lovely reception" (W. POST, 10/23). Bush held up his favorite
bumper sticker -- "Annoy the Media: Re-elect Bush" -- and noted
new claims for unemployment benefits had just fallen to a two-
year low: "We'll see how they play it tonight on the news" (N.Y.
TIMES, 10/23). ABC's Bruno: "Bush was in [NJ] because it is a
must win state and it's gotten closer there and part of the
reason is Perot's taking something away from Clinton perhaps"
("GMA," 10/23).
FINAL STRETCH: Bush starts a two-day trip to KY, FL, AL and
LA today. Beginning 10/25, he will embark on a non-stop tour of
the country that won't end until election night in Houston, TX.
WH pol. dir. Ron Kaufman said the campaign will remain flexible
and "go wherever we have to go, whenever we have to, to make sure
we get the electoral votes" (Malone/Shepard, COX NEWS, 10/23).
MY TWO SONS: Under header, "Bush Sons Jeb and Neil Have
Walked a Fine Line Between Business Career, Exploitation of
Name," W.S. JOURNAL's Petzinger & Pound detail transactions by
the two with foreign govts. that "illuminate" a fine line and
"suggest a willingness to tolerate at least the appearance of
trading on that name." The JOURNAL traces one transaction -- a
contract negotiated by Jeb with Nigeria on behalf of the M&W Pump
Corp., for which Jeb consults. Nigeria agreed to purchase $74.3
million of giant, hydraulically driven agricultural pumps from
M&W. The contract puts "U.S. taxpayers on the hook if default-
prone Nigeria fails to make its payments." Such "dealings by Jeb
Bush and other family members raise the most serious questions
overseas, where the public officials they contact in their
commercial capacities may be seeking aid, debt relief, military
protection and other benefits from the U.S." (10/23).
DISLOYALTY RUNNING RAMPANT? Critics, including an RNC
member, "angrily accused" HUD Sec. Jack Kemp of betraying Bush
"by signing a fund-raising letter that pronounces Bush's
candidacy all but dead." The Kemp letter, sent to 500,000
potential donors, "gives the impression that he has launched" his
1996 pres. race and has formed a "pre-campaign organization." The
letter bears the logo, "Republican Conservative Leadership
Caucus,' and features Kemp's name "prominently" at the top. Kemp
begins: "We conservatives are a family and a team.
But unless
we pull together right now, we could lose more than an election
-- we could lose our voice in government." The letter never
states that the donations will go to the RNC. One letter
recipient, who passed it on to the W. TIMES, said they received
it three days ago. An RNC official confirmed it will be
distributed to all GOP candidates. The letter mentions Bush only
once and does not mention, Quayle, Sen. Phil Gramm (R-TX), or
other likely '96 candidates. "Some critics see the omissions as
no accident and the timing as amounting to self-serving
disloyalty." A GOPer close to Gramm: "This letter is another
monumental act of betrayal by Jack Kemp, who couldn't even wait
till the body was cold to start his own election campaign."
Kemp, through an aide, declined questions "as to whether the
leading conservatives mentioned in the letter -- including
[Reagan] -- had given permission to use their names or whether he
had read and approved the letter's wording" (Hallow, W. TIMES,
10/23). Germond & Witcover write, "Reports are rife of job
resumes circulating madly around Washington and the country from
Bush administration officeholders at fairly high levels" (Balto.
SUN, 10/21). '80 Reagan manager John Sears describes a call he
got from a GOP Rep. who is afraid he will lose his election
because his challenger is effectively linking him to Bush: "He
mildly suggested that maybe he should denounce Bush, but he
won't. He's one of the better ones, who understands that loyalty
is still and important part of politics" (L.A. TIMES, 10/23).
CHARACTER: NBC's "America Close Up" examined Bush's
character. NBC's Myers: "Would Bush be different in a second
term? Historians say, probably not. Friends say, freed from
having to get re-elected, Bush might be truer to his own
principles. They emphasize might" (10/22).
MISCELLANY: WH CoS James Baker's planned domestic policy
speech has been scrapped for fear that if Baker gave such a
speech, "it would only raise questions why Mr. Bush was not doing
it himself" (Freidman, N.Y. TIMES, 10/23).
*3 CLINTON: MESSIN' WITH MAMA (CONT'D)
The Clinton campaign reacted angrily to the story the State
Dept. searched the passport files of Clinton's mother, Virginia
Kelley. The story was first reported in the W. POST (see HOTLINE
10/22) and was subject of a staff memo by the House Foreign
Affairs Cmte. The search was conducted over two nights at the
Nat'l Records Center of the Nat'l Archives in Suitland, MD. State
Dept. officials, "including two political appointees," took part.
The "Tamposi search party" consisted of three political
appointees and two career State employees. Political: Asst.
Sec/State for consular affairs Betty Tamposi, Tamposi assts.
Steve Moheban and Michael Brennan. Career: asst Sec. for
passport services Carmen DiPlacido and Office of Program Support
Services chief Richard McClevey. The searchers were so
"disappointed" at how little they could find "and suggested that
documents may have been removed improperly," according to sources
at the National Archives (Pincus/Isikoff, W. POST, 10/23). The
House cmte memo "also raises some doubts about [State's] claims
that it turned Gov. Clinton's files over to the [FBI] because of
suspicions that the files had been tampered with" (Greenberger,
W.S. JOURNAL, 10/23). Acting Sec/State Lawrence Eagleburger
ordered an expansion of the probe by his inspector general, which
began earlier in the week over the FOIA search into Clinton's
files. There was no FOIA request for information on Mrs. Kelley.
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA), who chair
the Congress subcmtes on international operations, in a joint
statement, asked the GAO to conduct its own probe: "The
appearance of pervasive political influence in this case casts
doubt on the department's ability to investigate itself" (mult.,
10/23). Clinton, in his Seattle speech: "Look at this
administration. Now it turns out the State [Dept.] was not only
rifling through my files, but actually investigating my mother, a
well-known subversive. It would be funny if it's not so
pathetic" (mult., 10/23). Clinton's Stephanopoulos said State
violated the federal Privacy Act: "This is the smoking gun proof
of a taxpayer-funded dirty tricks campaign. Not since the Nixon
campaign of 1972 has there been such a pattern of misuse of
government agencies to smear an opponent" (GLOBE, 10/23). The WH
"kept its distance from the controversy." Marlin Fitzwater: "I
don't know a thing about it" (L.A. TIMES, 10/23). NEWSDAY's
Friedman reports GOP officials have said "the Bush campaign
encouraged reporters to inquire into the purposes of Clinton's
travels" (Friedman, N.Y. NEWSDAY, 10/23).
COVERAGE: "Clinton woke up yesterday morning to a gift from
heaven
...
To most people, that might not seem like such good
news. But to a front-running presidential candidate with nearly
300 hours to kill before Election Day, it was just what the spin
doctors ordered" (Goldberg, N.Y. NEWSDAY, 10/23). Kelley: "I'm
insulted, I'm indignant, you know I'm at the age that I lived
through Hitler and his Gestapo, I lived through the police state,
I do not want this to happen to my country. Every American alive
ought to be insulted by this behavior.
...
Another thing that
insults me is, people like that can sit in judgment of a fine man
like Bill Clinton, it's disgusting." On rumors that Clinton
tried to change his citizenship: "This is the most ridiculous
thing I've ever heard of in my life -- but what can you expect
from an administration that's produced nothing productive"
("GMA," ABC, 10/23). Gore called on Bush to phone Mrs. Kelley
and apologize. Kelley: "He could save his dime" (W. POST,
10/23) CBS' Spencer: "The Democrats are doubly suspicious
because the new Deputy Asst. Sec. for Passport Services -- one
Brett Wacker -- knows a lot about digging up dirt on the
opposition. He worked briefly for the Bush-Quayle campaign this
year, and in 1988, knowledgeable sources say, he helped do the
research on Willie Horton" (10/22).
*4 CLINTON: "THE ORANGE CURTAIN FALLS"
Clinton "swept into the GOP's most heavily occupied
fortress" of Orange Co., CA and went "behind enemy lines ...
to
energize the troops for an assault on the White House."
Appearing with Senate candidates Dianne Feinstein and Barbara
Boxer and a few celebrities, Clinton "easily drew" more than
20,000 people -- "four times the number of supporters who turned
out" for Bush and Reagan last month. 10,000 more people listened
to his speech from the parking lot of the amphitheater. Clinton
danced with Whoopi Goldberg and the "Sister Act" nuns and "seemed
barely able to contain his delight" when supporters chanted
"Twelve more days." OC Dem chair Howard Adler: "Oct. 22 1992,
the Orange Curtain falls" (Trounstine, S.J. MERCURY NEWS, 10/23).
Clinton and his aides "had difficulty hiding their good cheer"
but they "tried to solemnly declare the race was still tight"
(Lauter, L.A. TIMES, 10/23). Clinton strategist James Carville
said he "expects Clinton's lead to narrow": "They'll close up
quite a bit. We have a lot of work left to do" (ARKANSAS
DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE, 10/23) Before CA, Clinton spoke in WA,
flanked by Dem candidates for Senate, House and Gov. "Although
he is ahead by 15 to 20 points in state polls, Clinton was out to
make even more converts" and delivered "what has become his
standard 'different kind of Democrat' stump talk" (Connelly,
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, 10/23). Between 15,000 and 20,000
people turned out to see Clinton in Seattle (P-I, 10/23). W.
TIMES' Moss reports Clinton "failed to deliver a major speech" on
AIDS in Eugene, OR, although he did publicly state his opposition
to OR's anti-gay rights ballot measure for the first time. Moss
notes that he did so without using the words "gay," "homosexual"
or "sexual orientation." Although Clinton promised gay activists
last summer to make an address on the issue, aides said "wording
held up the AIDS message" and they "could not guarantee" the
address would be made before the election (10/23) N.Y. POST
header: "Clinton set to blast Bush on AIDS fight and call for
special czar" (10/23).
DRAFT: In a letter sent to the Clinton camp "and circulated
to the national media by the Bush campaign," 50 former generals
and admirals including Gen. Wm Westmoreland cited "a disturbing
pattern of divergent and contradictory stories" and asked Clinton
to "tell the truth" about his Vietnam draft status. The letter
"centers" on a promise made by Clinton 4/92 to make a full
disclosure of his draft records. None of the "promised
documents" have been turned over (Seper, W. TIMES, 10/23).
LIP READING: Evans & Novak predict Clinton's statement
during the 3rd debate that he would not raise taxes on the middle
class to pay for his programs "could come back to haunt" him
because he "finally succumbed to [GOP] pressure and took a tax
pledge." Because the middle class means everybody with a joint
adjusted gross income of less than $200,000, "he seems to be
protecting more than 99% of all American taxpayers.
...
Several
Clinton lieutenants" were asked "whether they would guarantee no
tax increase for people with joint returns under $200,000" and
"all refused" (W. POST, 10/23).
*5 FRETTING THREE-WAY: "CLINTON, BUSH TURN ON PEROT"
That's the Balto. SUN header. Subhead: "Both become edgy
over rise in polls" (10/23). Morning TV remarks by Bush and Gore
taking on Perot (see HOTLINE 10/22) set the tone for much of the
day's coverage. Bush called some of Perot's ideas "nutty" and
Perot himself "from the fringe"; both Bush and Gore labeled a
vote for Perot "wasted." RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH header: "Foes
agree on one thing: Dump Perot" (10/23). N.Y. POST front-page
screamer: "BUSH & CLINTON RUNNING SCARED OF PEROT" (10/23). W.
POST: "Perot Causing Jitters in Bush, Clinton Camps" (10/23).
PHILA. DAILY NEWS: "Perot has Bush, Clinton edgy" (10/23)
PEROT RESPONDS: He told the L.A. TIMES, people who stay in
DC too long, "lose touch with reality, and reality looks like the
fringe to them.
One of my nutty ideas is everybody needs a
job to make a living. If that's a nutty idea, put me away.
Having people go to do public service in Washington and not serve
themselves, if that's a nutty idea, put me away." He did not
dispute Bush's forceful denial of his Iraq allegations made
during the debate (see HOTLINE 10/20) "He should have brought it
up when we debated." More: "Creating Manuel Noreiga, creating
Saddam Hussein, that's the fringe? [According to Bush, anybody
who tries to stay on the issues looks like they are on the
fringe" (Nelson, 10/23).
CLINTON: He told reporters on the press plane: "I do think
he [Perot] takes away more from me than Bush. Just don't write
that till the election is over" (10/23). NBC's Mitchell:
Clinton "took a shot at Perot's tough economic plan.' Clinton:
"If you do this right now, as weak as the economy is, it will
drive unemployment up by over 400,000 for over three years."
Mitchell: "The Perot campaign said today it is now a two-man
race. Perot and Clinton. Bush's spokesman called that
delusionary, but the fact is Perot is now closer to Bush than
Bush is to Clinton" (10/22). Clinton press sec. Dee Dee Myers:
"At some point I think he does take votes away from Bill Clinton
I'm not sure what point that is." CNN's Randall: "Of
particular concern [is] the West, where Clinton hopes to do
better than any other [Dem] in decades." CO Gov. Roy Romer (D)
"Perot takes from Clinton.
...
There is no doubt about it."
Randall: "Romer insists the erosion is temporary. If that is so,
is all of this a Clinton tactic as a hedge against complacency?
The Ross Perot scare, real or created fits that plan"
(10/22). At a Clinton event in CA, comedian Paula Poundstone
rapped Stockdale as "Mr. I Turned Down My Hearing Aid,' and said
Perot "couldn't be owned by the special interests because he is
the special interests" (S.J. MERCURY NEWS, 10/23). Press sec.
Myers: "The guy's spending $100 million, he's participated in
three nationally televised debates and the press isn't treating
him as if he's a serious candidate." After "nervously debating
whether [Clinton] should directly challenge Perot, Clinton aides
decided "they shouldn't overreact. They concluded it was more
important for Clinton to stay focused on his own message." One
aide: "The last thing Clinton wants is to turn it into a
Clinton-Perot race.' But Perot press sec. Sharon Holman said
just that, calling it a "two-man race" (W. POST, 10/23).
BUSH: Senior Bush aide James Lake, asked why Bush "decided
to risk offending Perot supporters by using the term 'nutty'":
"I don't think there was any strategic design behind it. That's
the way he talks" (Hosler, Balto. SUN, 10/23). L.A. TIMES' Jehl
notes WH aides "acknowledged that Perot was now clearly stealing
votes from Bush as well as from Clinton" (10/23). CBS'
Lagattuta: Perot "could conceivably deliver the final death blow
to President Bush" (10/22).
TUNE IN TONIGHT: Perot is on for another half-hour tonight
where he will respond to one argument against his campaign: "You
are going to be told that if you vote for me you are throwing
your vote away. You are throwing your vote away unless you vote
your conscience. Don't waste your vote on traditional
politicians who promise you anything to get elected but never
deliver" (mult., 10/23).
*6 PEROT: MEDIA ANSWERING CRY FOR RENEWED FOCUS
ABC's Sawyer on Perot's claim to have been targeted by
terrorist death squads: "It's a story Mr. Perot has told often,
not just in the debates." ABC's Dean: "It is part of Perot
folklore,' his account of the FBI warning him in '69 that he was
targeted for assassination by the Black Panthers, at the request
of the North Vietnamese. Video of Perot testifying before a Sen.
cmte hearing 9/11: "The most significant effort they had one
night is five people coming across my frontyard with rifles."
Dean: "Perot told ABC News he can't remember exactly when that
happened," it was either '70 or '71. Ex-Dallas Police
Intelligence chief Paul McKarron: "Listen to me, it didn't
happen. It did not happen. There were only eight people here
who belonged to the Black Panther Party. Two of those people
worked for us and they told us every day what was happening."
Asked if it could have been a different group: "If five members
of the First Baptist Church with rifles had come onto his lawn,
we would have found out about it. Dean: "Perot says he did not
tell the police or the FBI about the attack, even though Dallas
police records obtained by ABC News show that on at least 14
occasions" from '70-71, "Perot and his security team had asked
for police help investigating minor incidents,' like vandals
throwing bricks at his mailbox. Perot said he "preferred to have
his own security men handle the terrorists." Video of Perot from
the Sen. hearing talking about one of his guards. Perot "refused
to identify him, but Harold Burkett," a Perot employee '70-79
"fits [the] description." Burkett: "As far as somebody coming
aboard the property with ill-intent, I neither saw it on my watch
or even heard about it on somebody else's watch" (10/22).
FIRST NEWSPAPER ENDORSEMENT: The Bridgeport CONNECTICUT
POST backs Perot: "Vote for
...
Perot and you will be voting to
change the course of America's history.
...
Bankruptcy's Chapter
11 must not be the final installment in America's story" (10/22).
"DISSENT IN THE RANKS OF PEROT'S VOLUNTEERS": USA TODAY's
Howletts reports "at least nine state leaders
...
have quit or
been fired since helping create United We Stand" after Perot's
initial 7/92 no-go: "The loss of nine state leaders in so short a
time, for any reason, would be a sign of disarray in a mainstream
candidate's organization" (10/23).
STIRRING THE POT: NBC's Mitchell noted Perot could hurt
Bush in TX, FL, GA and NC and could "cost Clinton his lead" in
CO, WI, MI, OH and NJ (10/22). HOTLINE publisher Doug Bailey:
"He's making both sides a little nervous. He's making it more
difficult, in my judgement, for [Bush] to catch up, but is also
making it more difficult for Clinton, even if he wins, to win
with a mandate." Dem pollster Peter Hart: "In the end, people
want to vote for a president and not a protest. And in that
respect, they're going to have to choose between Clinton and Bush
because one of the two is going to be the next president" (FOX,
10/22). CNN's Clark notes Perot has spent $25.7 million this
month. HOTLINE's Bailey: "The perception fed by the media, fed
by the polls is that this race is over, and if people sense that
Bill Clinton is going to win it then Ross Perot is an absolutely
safe protest vote.
If he turns his appeal in the last week to
a kind of advertising or campaign appeal that says 'regardless of
who you are going to vote for, come out and vote. The only way
we can take our country back is by starting to vote Tuesday. He
could swell turn-out in a significant way.
...
That is a wild
card, because I'm not sure that the pollsters understand who
really is going to vote." Eleanor Clift: "It feels as though
[Clinton has] already been elected and people are starting to
look around for a change, and Ross Perot could be that change"
(CNN, 10/22). CBS' Lagattuta: "Both campaigns worry that
undecided voters are only seeing Perot's good side.' His paid
media doesn't "show how temperamental, thin-skinned or downright
mean Perot can be" (10/22).
SQUIRES: Ex-Perot press sec. James Squires told a New
England press dinner Perot "has no desire to win the presidency":
"Being president was never what the Perot movement was all about.
Most Americans still don't know that it's about sending a
message.
Only two kinds of people can now be president:
People who are very rich, or those capable of selling themselves
and selling out. On Perot's manner since the debates: "He seems
much more comfortable now that the prospect of getting to
Washington is greatly diminished." Looking back: "He fired us
all and quit. In retrospect, he would have been better off
firing us and not quitting" (BOSTON GLOBE, 10/23). Squires told
the DALLAS MORNING NEWS: "My hope would be that the day after
this election, Perot announces as a candidate for 1996" (10/23).
STOCKDALE: SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER's Goldsmith chats
with Perot's VP pick: "Facing a print journalist, Stockdale
crisply fielded -- and deflected -- questions on MIAs, campaign
strategy, and George Bush. He acted not at all like the lost
newcomer of the debate" (10/23).
*7 AD WATCH: NEW ADS FOR CLINTON AND PEROT
FEC: Bush-Quayle reports cash-on-hand as of 10/14/92:
$23,740,699.49. Total disbursements 10/1-14: $12,337,115.77.
Clinton-Gore cash-on-hand as of 10/14/92: $14,505,786. Total
disbursements 10/1-14: $11,850,818 (Bush-Quayle release, 10/23).
PEROT: Health care reform is the focus of a new :60 second
Perot ad. Against a background visual of an EKG line, and to the
sound of a heartbeat, growing louder and stronger, the following
select bites of text scroll across the screen: "Health care in
America is in critical condition. We are pumping more money into
it than any other nation, yet 3 million Americans have no
coverage
But health care can still be saved, if we act now.
There is no instant remedy. But the first step in the
recovery process is November 3rd. This is no time to waste our
votes on politics as usual. It is time for a candidate who will
get down to business." Voiceover: Perot For President logo:
"It is time for Ross Perot" (10/22) Perot will be airing a 30-
min "televised conversation with Ross Perot" tonight on NBC at
8:00p EDT entitled "Business Success, Leadership and His Life."
In the spot Perot is questioned by adman Murphy Martin about his
experiences building EDS, his efforts to find POW/MIAs in
Southeast Asia, the rescue of two EDS employees from Iran and his
experience with education reform (release, 10/22). Tonight's
spot is the second in the "conservation with Ross Perot" series
that is part of "an 'informercial' blitz that will continue
between now and Nov. 3." The camp has bought time for a spot
Saturday night on CBS at 8:00p EDT, and three election night.
"New campaign finance reports filed in Washington showed that
Perot has spent more than $46 million of his own fortune on the
campaign, including $30 million in the last six weeks" (Richter,
L.A. TIMES, 10/22). HOUSTON CHRONICLE reports Perot is "spending
heavily on radio ads in at least nine states": CT, FL, IA, ME,
MI, MN, PA, TX and WI (Freemantle, 10/23). DALLAS MORNING NEWS
reports Perot has purchased one hour of time on ABC 10/26, paying
$940,000 to preempt ABC's "Young Indiana Jones" (Bark, 10/23).
A.M. TV: Ross Perot Jr. appeared on "Today." Perot Jr. on
infomercials: "These commercials allow people to see Ross Perot
directly. There will be many more [ads] between now and [11/3].
I believe the debates got it started, the commercials are going
to get it finished and Ross Perot is going to win this race."
Possibility of Perot going on the campaign trail: "Conventional
style is not something my father likes to follow.
...
We only
have ten to eleven days left, so those days are precious days and
we have to be as productive as possible on each of those days.
Sometimes going out on the road burns up a lot of time and energy
we think it might be better to work on commercials and do a lot
of direct interviews here in the studios talking to a lot of
different groups around the United States. [You'll see him on
the campaign trail] as soon as he gets his work done, and he's
working very hard on his latest series of commercials." On
"wasted votes" Bush statement: "First of all this is America,
this is a Democracy. Every vote that you cast in an election is
never a wasted vote. I think it's a shame that some of the
professional politicians want to try to herd the American people"
(10/23).
GO FIGURE: People viewing Long Island's Cablevision Cable-
TV system the night of 10/20 saw Ross Perot's name appear on the
screen during Ch. 5's broadcast of "Beverly Hills 90120."
Cablevision asst. mngr. Glenn Brown: "We suspect it was cross-
modulation, that is, some other's channel's commercials for Perot
spilled onto Channel 5. It could be one of fifty other channels
on our system. It was either deviation of the video signal or
over-modulation." About a year ago during an HBO broadcast of
the movie "The Hunt for Red October,' similar circumstances
caused McDonald's golden arches to appear on Sean Connery's shirt
pocket (Kubasic, NEWSDAY, 10/23).
CLINTON: The Democrats are on the air with two new ads, the
first, paid for by the DNC "but produced and approved by the
Clinton-Gore campaign," is a :15 second spot called "Remember."
BUSH: "Read my lips." ANCR: "Remember." BUSH: "You will be
better off four years from now than you are today. " ANCR: "Well
it's four years later
How're you doing?" ANALYSIS: The ad
"continues the strategy of using Bush's own words against him
Although the ad is only 15 seconds long, there is an
effective use of silence at the end that gives viewers time to
think over the question: 'How am I doing?'" (Loth, B. GLOBE,
10/22). The second ad is a :30 second spot that began airing in
selected markets yesterday. Over video of foreign cars being
unloaded, the ad charges Bush with supporting "tax loopholes for
foreign companies operating here. " The begins by charging
foreign companies made $825B in one year but "72 percent of them
didn't pay a dime in taxes.' ANALYSIS: "As the Clinton campaign
emphasizes the sour economy as the main issue in the is election,
the image of foreigners not paying their taxes is a powerful one
Republicans attack the ads as playing to xenophobia in the
electorate" (Berke, N.Y. TIMES, 10/23). W. POST: "While the ad
says Bush supports 'loopholes' for foreign companies, and Clinton
campaign acknowledges that it is really calling for tougher
enforcement of existing laws. Still, Bush has complained that
Clinton's threatened crackdown would make foreign companies 'pack
their bags'" (10/23).
*8 PRIME TIME FLOYD: DONALDSON GRILLS IND. AD-MAKER BROWN
ABC's "PrimeTime Live" examined conservative ad-maker Floyd
Brown and his independent expenditure involvement in the '92
campaign. ABC's Donaldson: "The man who is the king of negative
advertising. Now he's out to top himself" and his '88 Willie
Horton ad. Donaldson examined the new Brown ad which links
Clinton "with people Brown thinks will turn-off conservative and
middle-of-the-road voters" -- Mario Cuomo, Jesse Jackson and Ted
Kennedy (for full TEXT, see HOTLINE, 10/22). Donaldson to Brown:
"You say that Ted Kennedy's going to be Sec. of Transportation.
Where did you get that?" Brown: "Sam, you've got to lighten up a
little. We have some levity, there's a little humor in our
spot. Donaldson: "Talking about Kennedy being in charge of
bridges is your idea of a joke?" Brown: "You were in the studio.
You saw people get a chuckle out of that line. It's a very
effective line.' Donaldson: "It's a low blow." Brown: "It is
true that Bill Clinton has adopted Ted Kennedy's policies."
Donaldson: "I think you said it because of Chappaquiddick."
Brown: "You're absolutely right. Donaldson then asked if it was
"honest" to place Kennedy's head on Gore's body in the ad.
Brown: "Absolutely." Donaldson: "What if I put your head on
Adolf Hitler's body?" Brown: "You can do that." Donaldson:
"And that would be honest?" Brown: "No. There's a very big
difference I don't support the policies of Adolf Hitler.
Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy have the same policies." Clinton comm.
dir. George Stephanopoulos: "The voters are pretty sick of
negative politics. They're pretty sick of attack politics. So
this won't work at all." Donaldson: "What do you want on your
gravestone: 'He was the great attack dog of American politics?'
'He was the Willie Horton guy?'" Brown: "I want people to have
on my gravestone or whatever, that I was honest, truthful and
that I told it like it is. Donaldson: "Maybe, but the
Republicans say they don't like Brown's work either, a Bush
campaign spokesperson telling us, 'Anything about or by Floyd
Brown has nothing to do with our campaign or the [GOP]. We
denounce his activities" (ABC, 10/22).
*9 IRAN-CONTRA: NEW YORKER, DOONESBURY PROBING THE "LOOP"
COX NEWS' Scott Shepard reports next week Garry Trudeau's
"Doonesbury" comic strip will "suggest that President Bush
enlisted Iraq's President Saddam Hussein as a part of U.S.
efforts to sell arms to Iran in exchange for American hostages."
The strips are based on article to be published in next week's
NEW YORKER examining Bush's role in Iran-Contra and Iraqgate.
The article, "as interpreted" by Trudeau, "cites an internal
White House memo to contradict Bush's repeated assertions that he
was 'out of the loop' in the Reagan administration's arms-for-
hostages deals with Iran." The article alleges Bush, then-VP,
flew to the Mideast in '86 on a "secret mission" at the behest of
CIA dir. Wm Casey and met with Jordan's King Hussein and Egyptian
Pres. Hosni Mubarak "and asked them to persuade Saddam, who was
then waging war on Iran, to begin bombing 'deep in Iran.'
Reportedly, within 48 hours of the meeting Saddam complied,
thereby applying deadly pressure on Iran to seek air defense
systems" from the U.S. The memo "describes the Bush trip as an
attempt to get the arms-for-hostages negotiations with Iran 'back
on track. COX's Shepard notes the events "did take place, but
apparently not in the chronological order presented in the
strip." Bush traveled in the region from 7/25-8/5. On 7/23,
Iraq ended its bombing "lull" and hit an arms factory near
Tehran. On 8/3, U.S.-made arms arrived in Tehran. NEW YORKER
spokesperson Maurie Pearl said the article was "in progress." A
senior WH official said only of "Doonesbury": "It's a cartoon.
Cartoons are fiction" (ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, 10/23). N.Y. TIMES'
Johnston reports a classified WH memo dated 11/26/85 prepared for
John Poindexter and Oliver North "was written to familiarize"
then-VP Bush with Church of England envoy Terry Waite's "hostage-
release activities in advance" of a Bush meeting with Waite. The
memo is "significant because it shows that White House aides gave
Mr. Bush a wealth of details about their secret efforts to free
the hostages, raising more questions about Mr. Bush's recent
assertions that he was 'not in the loop'" (10/23).
IRAQGATE: L.A. TIMES' Frantz reports Jordanian businessman
Wafai Dajani, a "key middleman in the Iraqi bank loan scandal,"
told senior Ag. Dept atty Kevin Brosch in 4/90 that executives of
BNL's Rome HQ "had known" that BNL's Atlanta branch "provided
secret loans to Baghdad." Federal investigators "turned down the
chance" to question Dajani, which, according to Sen. Ag. Cmte
chair Patrick Leahy (D-VT), "raises serious questions about an
Administration cover-up" (10/23). ATLANTA CONSTITUTION's Peter
Mantius reports Federal Reserve officials warned Italy's central
bank before the FBI raid on BNL's Atlanta branch. "The Italian
central bank, in turn, informed BNL executives in Rome shortly
before the raid.' NY Fed. official Peter Bakstansky said BNL
officials in Rome "didn't learn about the impending raid until it
was under way -- or moments before. The tip was meant to avert a
worldwide run on the bank's deposits." In other BNL news,
attorneys for two other defendants awaiting sentencing "demanded
to see classified CIA reports indicating that BNL-Rome knew that
[BNL-Atlanta branch manager Christopher] Drogoul was lending huge
sums to Europe." U.S. Dist. Judge Marvin Shoob, who had recused
himself from Drogoul's case, then postponed sentencing of the
two. Two other sentencings were postponed and the attorney for
another defendant said his client planned to withdraw his guilty
plea" (10/23). Senate Ag Cmte is probing whether the Bush admin.
"knuckled under to threats by Saddam Hussein's Iraq that it would
default on massive debts to the U.S. if the government didn't
provide new loans" (Fialka, W.S. JOURNAL, 10/23).
THE TOP TEN
*10 CALIFORNIA (54) : 11 MILLION VOTERS PREDICTED
of CA's 15.1 million voters, 7.4M are Dems and 6M are
GOPers, according to figures released by Sec/State March Fong Eu.
Requests for absentee ballots are running 100,000 beyond the 1988
rate and one expert predicts 11 million voters -- one million
more than the 1988 record (Stall, L.A. TIMES, 10/23). Clinton
spoke to more than 18,000 people in Orange Co. -- the Alamo, the
Maginot Line and the Fort Knox" of the GOP (Morrison, L.A. TIMES,
10/23). An additional 10,000 people listened to his speech from
the parking lot of the amphitheater. Neither Bush nor Clinton
had been to CA since mid-Sept. and Clinton's visit is "designed
to nail down the state" and "provide a wedge in the West." The
Bush camp "is hard pressed to argue, especially since they don't
expect to see Bush" in CA before 11/3. Bush CA manager Marty
Wilson: "I assume he's not coming back." Although Bush
officials in CA "publicly
...
profess confidence
...
privately,
they are grim." A "top" Bush-Quayle operative: "The party's
over.
[CA] never made it on the electoral screen"
(Trounstine, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 10/23).
*11 NEW JERSEY (15) YOU'RE NEXT WITH GEORGE BUSH
Bush appeared live on WWOR's "America Again," a town meeting
with 175 NJ voters and hosted by WWOR's Rolland Smith. The
method of selection of the audience was not disclosed, but it
seemed generally favorable for Bush. Bush took questions from the
audience and Smith asked questions viewers had phoned in. As
Bush walked onto the set, he was greeted with a standing ovation.
Bush stayed in his chair during the early part of the show, but,
as time went on, he seemed to warm up a bit and began to roam
the stage more -- moving toward the questioners, speaking
directly to them, asking them questions, etc.
ECONOMY: "We're in what's called a global slowdown, or a
global recession. I'll take my share of the blame, but when you
look at Germany and Canada and France and the European countries,
it's hard to believe we're doing better than they are. And it's
the U.S. that's going to lead the way out." On the deficit:
"The balanced budget amendment would have to be phased in,
there's no way you can balance it in one year, everybody concedes
that. But I have submitted four straight years to the Congress,
it's printed -- you'd get a, [remembering the questioner is a
woman], I'd get a hernia lifting it.
The balanced budget
amendment would discipline not only the Congress, but the
executive branch.
It's not magic, but it will discipline the
government. So will a line-item veto. So will a check-off I've
proposed."
ABORTION: "I don't agree with everything in the platform
and I don't agree with every spokesman at our convention.
...
I'm
against this wanton abortion, but I favor rape, incest and the
life of the mother as exceptions to it. And so I'm not going to
necessarily be bound, I'm the president."
NAFTA: "If the labor union bosses in Washington are right
and we're going to ship a lot of jobs abroad, why is Haiti not
the manufacturing capital of the world today? They've got the
lowest wages. Why is American business not pouring into Haiti?"
REVIEW: Clinton appears on WWOR 10/29 at 8 p.m. WWOR's
Chuck Gomez, on the Bush show: "It was an effort to try to wipe
out Bill Clinton's lead in a state considered a must-win for
[Bush]
...
In the next ten days, [Bush] say's he'll try to
hammer home the trust issue in an all out effort to close the gap
with Bill Clinton" (10/22).
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ISSUES '92
*13 WOMEN CANDIDATES: THE LIST
SENATE: 11 women are running for Senate; 3 are open seats,
7 are challengers, 1 is an incumbent, 10 are Dems, 1 GOPer.
WOMEN SENATE CANDIDATES AND THEIR OPPONENTS:
Clare Sargent (D-AZ)
Sen. John McCain (R)
Rep. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Bruce Herschensohn (R)
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
Sen. John Seymour (R)
Jean Lloyd-Jones (D-IA)
Sen. Charles Grassley (R)
Carol Moseley Braun (D-IL)
Rich Williamson (R)
Gloria O'Dell (D-KS)
Sen. Bob Dole (R)
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
Alan Keyes (R)
Geri Rothman-Serot (D-MO)
Sen. Chris Bond (R)
Lynn Yeakel (D-PA)
Sen. Arlen Specter (R)
Charlene Haar (R-SD)
Sen. Tom Daschle (D)
Patty Murray (D-WA)
Rep. Rod Chandler (R)
HOUSE: 108 women are running for House seats; 38 are new or
open seats, 43 are challengers, 27 are incumbents, 71 Dems, 37
GOPers. 5 races have women running against women.
WOMEN INCUMBENTS
SEEKING REELECTION:
Pelosi (D-CA-08)
Long (D-IN-04)
Molinari (R-NY-13)
Waters (D-CA-35)
Meyers (R-KS-03)
Lowey (D-NY-18)
Schroeder (D-CO-01)
Snowe (R-ME-02)
Slaughter (D-NY-28)
Kennelly (D-CT-01)
Bentley (R-MD-02)
Kaptur (D-OH-09)
DeLauro (D-CT-03)
Morella (R-MD-08)
Oakar (D-OH-10)
Johnson (R-CT-06)
Collins (D-MI-13)
Patterson (D-SC-04)
RosLehtinen (R-FL-18)
Horn (D-MO-02)
Lloyd (D-TN-03)
Mink (D-HI-02)
Vucanovich (R-NV-02)
Unsoeld (D-WA-03)
Collins (D-IL-07)
Roukema (R-NJ-05)
WOMEN CHALLENGERS TO WATCH:
Malberg (D-CA-04)
Gilbert (R-ID-01)
Norman (R-NY-21)
Ferguson (D-CA-23)
Smith (D-IL-08)
Blackburn (R-TN-06)
Gastil (D-CA-52)
Baxter (D-IA-03)
Peterson (R-TX-02)
Knapp (D-FL-09)
Stokes (R-KY-03)
McKenna (R-TX-25)
Moffitt (D-FL-10)
Bean (R-ME-02)
Deer (D-WI-02)
Davis (D-FL-18)
O'Neil (R-MI-09)
Lautnschlger (D-WI-06)
Margolis (D-FL-22)
Danner (D-MO-06)
WOMEN TO WATCH IN OPEN SEATS:
English (D-AZ-06)
Fowler (R-FL-04)
Clayton (D-NC-01)
Lambert (D-AK-01)
Thurman (D-FL-05)
Pryce (R-OH-15)
Woolsey (D-CA-06)
Meek (D-FL-17)
Williams (D-OK-05)
Garamendi (D-CA-11)
Christmas (D-GA-01)
Furse (D-OR-01)
Eshoo (D-CA-14)
Steinberg (D-GA-04)
Mezvinsky (D-PA-13)
Ochoa (D-CA-22)
McKinney (D-GA-11)
Byrne (D-VA-11)
RoyblAllard (D-CA-33) Velasquez (D-NY-12)
Cantwell (D-WA-01)
Brown (D-FL-03)
Dunn (R-WA-08)
WOMEN V. WOMEN HOUSE RACES:
Harman/Flores (CA-36) Ros-Lehtinen/Davis (FL-18)
Schenk/Jarvis (CA-49) Johnson/Cain (TX-30) Shephrd/Greene (UT-02)
SENATE WATCH
*14 SCOREBOARD: NEWEST UPDATE ON SENATE POLLS
There are 36 Senate seats up in '92. 34 take place 11/3;
ND "B" is 12/4. NOTE: INCUMBENTS are in full caps; Open Seats
have a D/R indicating current party; ++ = lead outside poll's
margin of error; + = lead within margin. Ex-Gov. Evan Mecham (I)
receives 11% in AZ. Green Party's Mary Jordon gets 5% in AK.
DEM
of
GOP
% SURVEY SOURCE
AK
Smith
38
MURKOWSKI
++51 ANCH. DLY NWS, 10/17-18
AL
SHELBY
++69
Sellers
18 BIRM. PST-HER, 10/12-14
AR
BUMPERS
++61
Huckabee
29 AR DEM-GAZETTE, 9/3-5
AZ
Sargent
25
MCCAIN
++54 Behav. Res. Ctr, 10/3-8
CA D Boxer
++47
Herschensohn
36 Field Poll, 10/3-10
CA
Feinstein
++51
SEYMOUR
35 Field Poll, 10/3-10
CO
D
Campbell
++51
Considine
35 D. POST/TV-4, 10/4
CT DODD
++51
Johnson
30 HART. COURANT, 10/16-20
FL
GRAHAM
++55
Grant
25 Mason-Dixon, 9/10-12
GA
FOWLER
++56
Coverdell
32 ATLANTA CONST., 10/6-7
HI
INOUYE
++56
Reed
34 HON STAR/PMR, 9/21-25
ID R Stallings
42
Kempthorne
+45 KIVI-TV, 9/30-10/3
IL D Braun
++52
Williamson
33 CBS/NYT, 10/14-15
IN
Hogsett
36
COATS
++56 INDNPLS STAR, 10/4-7
IA
Jones
24
GRASSLEY
++67 D.M. REGISTER, 10/4-9
KS
O'Dell
24
DOLE
++55 K.C. STAR, 9/21-10/1
KY
FORD
++60
Williams
19 WKRC/Mas-Dix, 9/23-27
LA BREAUX reelected 10/3.
MD
MIKULSKI
++60
Keyes
29 Mason-Dixon, 8/28-30
MO
Rothmn-Serot 36
BOND
++44 KMOV-TV, 10/19-20
NV
REID
++51
Dahl
33 NRSC, 9/2-3
NH R Rauh
36
Gregg
+44 ARG, 10/19-21
Rauh
+36
Gregg
32 Bannon Res. (D) 10/15-16
NY
Abrams
++43
D'AMATO
31 Zogby Group, 10/16-20
NC
SANFORD
++48
Faircloth
34 Greensboro N&R, 10/9-10
ND D Dorgan
++65
Sydness
28 Univ. of ND, 10/6-7
ND D Conrad
++68
Dalrymple
23 Univ. of ND, 10/9-10
OH
GLENN
++53
DeWine
38 PLAIN DEALER, 10/5-7
OK
Lewis
35
NICKLES
++49 Kielhorn (D), 10/8-11
OR
AuCoin
41
PACKWOOD
+48 KATU-TV 2, 9/30-10/4
PA Yeakel
42
SPECTER
+49 PITT. POST-GAZ, 10/8-11
SC
HOLLINGS
++51
Hartnett
39 Columbia STATE, 9-26-29
SD
DASCHLE
++65
Haar
23 KELO-TV, 10/5-9
UT R Owens
37
Bennett
++57 DESERET NEWS, 9-29-30
VT
LEAHY
++60
Douglas
29 RUTLD HERALD, 10/17-18
WA D Murray
+45
Chandler
40 Tac.NEWS TRIB, 10/12-16
WI
Feingold
++48
KASTEN
38 WISC-TV, 10/16-17
*15 ILLINOIS: FINAL DEBATE HAS "FAMILIAR RING"
Atty Rich Williamson (R) opened his final debate with Cook
Co. Recorder of Deeds Carole Moseley Braun (D) "in a familiar
position: on the defensive and acknowledging he has a lot of
ground to make up if he hopes to win." Williamson "quickly
shifted to offense, trying to paint Braun as a tool-liberal
politician prone to ethical lapses, but making few new charges"
against Braun. His "sharpest attack" came on crime issues, but
Braun "deflected the blow," saying the NRA had hosted a reception
for Williamson "on the same day that 7-year-old Dantrell Davis
was killed by a sniper as he walked to school" from his public
housing apartment" (Hardy/Johnson, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 10/23).
WAITING GAME: The IL Public Aid Dept. said 10/21 it is
"still waiting for" Braun's "lawyers to turn over some documents
in the Medicaid controversy." Public Aid spokesperson Dean
Schott said the agency had made "repeated verbal requests" for
the documents, and "followed those up with a written request. "
Braun "has been asserting that she had made full disclosure" on
the issue. Braun spokesperson David Eichenbaum: "There is no
stonewalling going on, if that's the implication." Eichenbaum
added Braun "complied" with the first request, "then they came
back with a new request. It takes time to put that stuff
together" (Brown, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 10/22).
WOMEN: While Williamson worked 10/19 to "halt the defection
of GOP women" to Braun, TX Gov. Ann Richards (D) "urged women" to
vote for Braun "to combat what she called a double standard
between men and women in politics." In a speech to the Junior
League, Williamson "made a counterappeal
that gender should
not be an issue. Williamson noted his mother had been
"victimized by gender discrimination in hiring": "My mom made
sure that we heard that story and knew it because she wanted
us to hate discrimination and be committed to fight against it
just like she did" (Pearson/James, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 10/20).
*16 NEW HAMPSHIRE: POLL GIVES GREGG WIDER LEAD
An American Research Group poll surveyed 600 likely voters
10/19-21; margin of error, +/- 4%. Tested: Gov. Judd Gregg (R),
businessman John Rauh (D) and '90 House candidate Larry Brady (I)
(ARG release, 10/22; Manchester UNION LEADER, 10/23). Bannon
Research surveyed 400 likely voters 10/15-16 for the Rauh
campaign; margin of error +/- 5%. See HOTLINE 10/22.
ARG
RAUH
Gregg
44%
36%
Rauh
36
32
Brady
8
Undec.
13
ROUGH BUSINESS: Rauh spokesperson Martin Murray 10/21
"derided" a Gregg campaign commercial that says, "When John Rauh
was head of Clopay Corp., earnings went down, profits went down
and hundreds lost their jobs, including John Rauh. John Rauh:
Bad for business, Bad for New Hampshire." Rauh was CEO of the
OH-based Clopay between '75 and '85, and "has touted his
business experience" in campaign speeches. Gregg "insists Rauh
had a poor record" in business: "At Clopay, Rauh's performance
was so weak he was relieved by the board. That's not, from my
perspective, a very successful business career" (UNION LEADER,
10/22). UNION LEADER header: "Co-Workers Blast Rauh On Business
Experience." John Strauss, Clopay's CEO when Rauh was "number
two," said he "can't believe" Rauh is running for Senate on his
business record: "John Rauh didn't do a very good job at Clopay
and he's saying he did." Rauh: "Obviously, John Strauss and I
had our differences." Ex-Clopay VP Henry Trounstine charged
Rauh's interest "was always in self-glorification. Rauh noted
he removed Trounstine when he took over as CEO (10/23).
MORE: Brady is filing suit with the FCC to be included in
Sunday night's WMUR-TV debate (CONCORD MONITOR, 10/23). UNION
LEADER's Tibbetts reports total spendfing in the race has hit
$1.2 million -- Gregg $634,440; Rauh $526,265 (10/23).
*17 OHIO: GLENN CAMP FINDS DEWINE AD "UTTERLY NAUSEATING"
LG Mike DeWine's (R) "cartoonish depiction" of Sen. John
Glenn (D) "wearing a spacesuit and tramping across the TV screen
like the Energizer Bunny" drew "anger" from Glenn's campaign
10/21. Glenn manager Dale Butland: "John Glenn fought in two
wars for this country and risked his life for America as an
astronaut. For Mike DeWine to demean and ridicule what most
Ohioans still regard as a patriotic act is utterly nauseating,
particularly since the only thing Mike DeWine has ever risked is
a filing fee." DeWine manager Curt Steiner "denied that ad
ridiculed Glenn's space exploits, and said DeWine has always
praised Glenn's heroism." Steiner: "There's room in political
discourse humor and that's what this is" (Lane, Cleveland PLAIN-
DEALER, 10/22). Glenn, after being introduced in Akron with a
tape played the transmission of his Friendship 7 voyage: "In all
my years of campaigning, I've never seen anything like this --
the lies, deceit, smears and innuendos.
...
It's the big lie
technique. He keeps saying I could pay off my presidential
campaign debts if, I wanted to, but he knows it is a committee
debt and and I'm prohibited by law from paying it off personally"
(Akron BEACON JOURNAL, 10/23).
ENDORSEMENT: Akron BEACON JOURNAL endorses Glenn: "After
listening to Mike DeWine, we're convinced he doesn't have the
strength's that Glenn brings to the job" (10/20).
*18 WASHINGTON: MURRAY LEAD WITHIN MARGIN
A Tacoma NEWS TRIBUNE poll surveyed 640 likely voters 10/12-
16; margin of error +/- 5.4% (10/22). Tested: Rep. Rod Chandler
(R-08) and state Sen. Patty Murray (D). Elway poll surveyed 403
registered voters 10/14-15; margin +/- 5%. See HOTLINE 10/23.
NEWS TRIB ELWAY
Murray
45%
38%
Chandler 40
36
Undec.
15
27
DEBATE: Murray and Chandler met in Spokane for their third
debate, sponsored by the AARP. "Two unusual things happened":
They "largely abandoned slashing attacks in favor of a discussion
of the issues.' Audience members "responded by staying after the
debate to talk among themselves with the candidates." The crowd
"divided their applause about equally between Chandler and
Murray" (Boren, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, 10/23).
ADS: "The negative advertising war" between Chandler and
Murray "seemed to come full circle" with Murray "airing negative
television ads that blast Chandler for airing negative television
ads." The Murray ad quotes editorials from the SEATTLE TIMES and
the SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER "that took Chandler to task for
some of his broadcast allegations." Both campaigns have "pledged
to return to positive spots before Election Day. Murray on why
she ran the ads: "I was a punching bag for 10 straight days. I
finally said to my staff, 'I want an ad on the air. I want it
absolutely accurate, I want every statistic correct and I'm not
going to sit here and be a punching bag anymore. Chandler: "A
punching bag for 10 days? What was it that caused her to attack
Don Bonker in the primary when he hadn't run any ads at all"
(Callaghan, Tacoma NEWS TRIBUNE, 10/22). Spokane SPOKESMAN-
REVIEW's Lynch reports Murray "felt so strongly about cleaning up
dirty politics last year she tried to outlaw dubious campaign
ploys like using 'altered photographs' to damage an opponent."
But Murray's latest ad "superimposes an animated bag of money
into Rod Chandler's eager hand." Murray's bill was defeated, and
Murray spokesperson Jada Berteaux said the ad "wouldn't have
violated the spirit of the law" because "the bags of money
Chandler grabs in the ad are so clearly animated the footage
can't be viewed as 'altered'" (10/22).
ENDORSEMENT: Walla Walla UNION-BULLETIN endorses Murray:
"Who is the candidate who will bring about change? We believe it
is Murray. Chandler tries to paint Murray as inexperienced
and lacking any real grasp of the issues. While she may be less
experienced than Chandler, she does have a clear understanding of
the problems facing this country" (10/21).
CLINTON VISIT: Murray, who appeared yesterday with Clinton
before an estimate crowd of 25,000 in Seattle: "People will know
that when I go back to (Washington D.C.), I will have a president
I can work with" (SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, 10/23).
*19 WISCONSIN: FEINGOLD UP 10 PTS; KASTEN WITH NET NEGATIVE
A WISC-TV poll, conducted 10/16-17 by Political/Media
Research, surveyed 821 likely voters; margin of error +/- 3.5%
(10/22). Candidates: Sen. Bob Kasten (R), state Sen. Russ
Feingold (D).
9/92
NOW
9/92
ALL
MEN
WOMEN
ALL
FAV/UNFAV
FAV/UNFAV
Feingold
48%
49%
47%
47%
44%/ 19%
36%/ 13%
Kasten
38
39
37
38
34 / 42
39 / 34
Undec.
14
12
15
15
ON THE HOUSE
*20 HOUSE RACE BRIEFINGS
AR 03: Mason-Dixon Opinion-Research surveyed 411 likely
voters from 10/17-19; margin of error +/- 5% (ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-
GAZETTE, 10/23). Tested: Ex-Judge John VanWinkle (D), state
Rep. Tim Hutchinson (R).
VanWinkle
44%
Hutchinson
37%
DK/Other
19
ME 01: Businesswomen/L.I Bean granddaughter Linda Bean (R)
has "invested" $938,000 to unseat Rep. Tom Andrews (D). As of
10/14, the Bean campaign "spent more than" $1.1 million, $218,000
coming from contributors. Bean set a new record for the 1st CD,
breaking Andrews' 1990 record of 700,000 (PORTLAND PRESS-HERALD,
10/22). As of 9/30, Andrews raised $461,878 and spent $419,570
(BANGOR DAILY NEWS, 10/21).
NE 02: A Public Opinion Strategies poll surveyed 300 likely
voters 10/18-19; margin of error +/- 5.7% (POS release, 10/20).
An OMAHA WORLD HERALD poll surveyed 300 RVs 10/6-8; margin of
error +/- 5.5% (HERALD, 10/16). Tested: Rep. Peter Hoagland (D-
02) and ex-DA/'90 House candidate Ron Staskiewicz (R).
POS
HERALD
Hoagland
49%
52%
Staskiewicz
38
32
Undec.
13
16
NH 01/02: American Research Group surveyed 300 likely
voters in each CD 10/19-21; margin +/- 6% (ARG release, 10/22).
1st CD: Ex-Sen. Min. Leader Robert Preston (D), Rep. Bill Zeliff
(R). 2nd CD: Rep. Dick Swett (R), businessman Bill Hatch (D).
1ST CD
2ND CD
Zeliff
42%
Swett
58%
Preston 40
Hatch
28
Undec.
18
Undec.
14
VT At Large: RUTLAND DAILY HERALD/Ch. 5 News poll,
conducted 10/17-18 by Political/Media Research, surveyed 629
likely voters; margin of error +/- 4% (10/23). Tested: Rep.
Bernard Sanders (I), Timothy Philbin (R), Lewis Young (D).
Sanders
45%
Philbin
23
Young
11
Undec.
21
WI 01: WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL header: "Les Aspin Ponders
Pentagon." In a interview with STATE JOURNAL's Andy Hall, House
Arms Services chair Les Aspin (D) said "I don't want to be"
Sec/Defense in a Clinton Admin. But later, he adds "a lot
depends on how" Clinton "would ask." Hall notes, "Aspin said he
intends to discuss" being Sec/Defense "if Clinton wins." Aspin
"claims he's cool to leaving" Congress, but adds: "Let's face it
the job is not as much fun as it used to be." Aspin faces Home
builder Mark Neumann (R). Nuemann's spokesman Dick Leggitt
"reacted with glee" to Aspin's statements (10/22).
GOVERNORS '92
*21 NEW HAMPSHIRE: MERRILL OVER ARNESEN IN NEW POLL
The New Hampshire Poll, conducted 10/19-21 by American
Research Group, Inc., surveyed 600 likely voters; margin of error
+/- 4% (release, 10/22). Tested: State Rep. Deborah "Arnie"
Arnesen (D) and ex-AG Steve Merrill (R).
ALL
Merrill
48%
Arnesen
39
Undec.
12
Nashua TELEGRAPH's Landrigan: NH-NARAL "is already making
good on its promise to try to convert supportive Republicans and
independent voters into legions" for Arnesen. Political
observers "are wondering what is taking the Arnesen campaign so
long to 'drop' the abortion bomb on the head of" GOPer Merrill.
"Informed sources say there's been an anti-Merrill ad regarding
his strong opposition to abortion in the can for some time yet it
still wasn't in the living rooms of New Hampshire homes with only
two weeks to go" (10/21). Arnesen "new television ad claims
misleading statements in one of [Merrill's] ads are proof her
[GOP] opponent can't be trusted": "If Steve Merrill misleads us
and distorts the truth now, does he have the character to be
governor?" Merrill spokesperson Lorine Card: "I think it's very
interesting that while she's talking about our ads she's not even
talking about her 6-percent income tax" (Manchester UNION LEADER,
10/17). Teamsters Union Local 633 has endorsed Merrill saying he
is "committed to improving and expanding job opportunities" in NH
(Manchester UNION LEADER, 10/16).
*22 WASHINGTON: TWO POLLS, TWO LEADERS
The Elway Poll, conducted 10/14-15 by Stuart Elway, surveyed
403 registered voters; margin of error +/- 5% (Release, 10/20).
Tacoma NEWS TRIBUNE poll surveyed 640 likely voters 10/12-16;
margin of error +/- 5.4% (10/22).
Tested: AG Ken Eikenberry
(R), ex-Rep. Mike Lowry (D).
ELWAY POLL
NOW
9/92
NEWS-TRIB
WORRIED NEW GOVERNOR WILL
Eikenberry
42%
45%
43%
Cut Needed Programs
45%
Lowry
38
33
47
Raise Taxes
31
Undec.
20
22
10
No Difference
24
DA BATES: Lowry and Eikenberry 10/21 "clashed over taxing
and spending
in a debate that featured some of the sharpest
exchanges of the campaign." Eikenberry "opened the debate not by
talking about his policies but trying to denigrate Lowry": "When
Mike went to Congress in 1978, the national debt was at $621
million. When he left in 1988, the national debt was $2
trillion. Now he's come back to Washington state a tax-and-spend
congressman that would be tax-and-spend governor." Lowry "said
balancing the budget without tax increases and without cuts in
constitutionally required financing of kindergarten through 12th
grade, bond holders and pensions would mean a 16% cut in the rest
of state services." Eikenberry does not "believe that analysis":
"You know it's one thing to stand here and pop these numbers
around and try to pick out a parade of horribles to say here's
what would happen. I think that's about as phony as standing on
a box when you're making a speech." His response to Lowry "drew
groans, because TV crews "had put a box behind Lowry for him to
stand on" (Sunde, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, 10/22).
HUSKIE POWER: U-WA Board of Regents pres. Samuel Stroum
charges Eikenberry's campaign "offered to re-appoint him" to the
board "in return for a $50,000 campaign contribution." Stroum,
who along with a majority of the nine member board has endorsed
Lowry: "I said I wouldn't pay for my seat as a regent."
Eikenberry manager Susan Brady: "As far as I know, nobody in this
campaign has ever talked to San Stroum" (Boren, SEATTLE POST-
INTELLIGENCER, 10/21). Eikenberry "declared war on the entire"
U/WA board, denying the charge made by Stroum. He announced "he
intends to replace the board that governs the UW as its members'
terms expire." He also "accused" the regents of supporting Lowry
in retaliation for lawsuits filed "against their individual
business interests on behalf of consumers by Eikenberry."
Eikenberry's "charges drew a stinging response" from Gov. Booth
Gardner (D) "Today's attack by Ken Eikenberry isn't too
surprising. He's merely adhering to the advice recommended in
his 1980 campaign manual: (1) defend yourself by claiming 'I
didn't do it' or the person who says I did it is a scoundrel,'
and (2) attack, attack, attack" (POST-INTELLIGENCER, 10/22).
*23 GOV ROUNDUP: POLLS IN VT AND WV
VERMONT: RUTLAND DAILY HERALD/Ch. 5 News poll, conducted
10/17-18 by Political Media Research, surveyed 629 likely voters;
margin of error +/- 4% (10/21). Tested: Gov. Howard Dean (D), -
state Sen. John McClaughry (R).
NOW
FAV/UNFAV
Dean
67%
64/14%
McClaughry
22
24/15
Undec.
11
WEST VIRGINIA: WCHS-TV poll, conducted 10/19-20 by
Political Media Research, surveyed 811 likely voters; margin of
error +/- 3.5% (10/22). Tested: Gov. Gaston Caperton (D),
Sec/Ag Cleve Benedict (R), state Sen. Charlotte Pritt (D), who
lost the Dem primary and is now waging a write-in campaign.
ALL
DEM
GOP
IND
MEN
WOM
FAV/UNFAV
Caperton
49%
63%
23%
52%
48%
50%
43/31%
Benedict
33
19
62
26
35
31
30/39
Pritt (vol.)
9
9
8
7
8
10
29/37
Undec.
9
9
7
15
9
9
POLL UPDATE
*24 NBC/WALL STREET JOURNAL: CLINTON 47%, BUSH 28%, PEROT 19%
1008 registered voters surveyed 10/20-21 (post-debate) by
the polling organizations of Peter Hart (D) and Vince Breglio
(R), margin of error +/- 3.2%, WALL STREET JOURNAL 10/23.
PARTY
GENDER
18- 35- 50-
REGION
ALL
DEM
GOP
IND
MEN
WOM
34
39
64
65+
NE
MW
so
WE
CLINTON
47%
79%
10%
36%
44%
49%
43%
46%
45%
55%
50
53
43
42
BUSH
28
6
63
22
29
28
27
29
30
27
27
23
34
27
PEROT
19
11
20
32
22
16
24
18
18
12
16
16
21
23
NOTE: When asked with VP candidates mentioned, it was:
CLINTON-GORE 49%, BUSH-QUAYLE 28%, PEROT-STOCKDALE 18%
HOW LIKELY TO CHANGE VOTE? 2ND CHOICE: ALL CLINTON BUSH PEROT
VOTERS FOR: CLIN BUSH PERO
VOTERS
VOTERS
VOTERS
Good chance
3%
5%
8%
CLINTON
17%
--
26%
46%
Some chance 21
30
46
BUSH
21
26%
i
41
No chance
76
65
45
PEROT
46
58
57
---
RATINGS POSITIVE
NEGATIVE
POSITIVE
NEGATIVE
VERY
SOME
NEUT
VERY
SOME
VERY
SOME
NEUT
VERY
SOME
BUSH
14%
20%
14%
22%
30%
STOCK.
3%
10%
29%
15%
12%
CLINTON
22
29
14
17
17.
H.CLIN.
16
22
23
12
12
PEROT
17
30
24
12
13
GOPers
10
21
19
23
24
QUAYLE
7
19
16
22
34
DEMS
19
29
22
15
12
GORE
25
27
17
13
11
BUSH
JOB
OVERALL
9/92
8/92
ECONOMY
9/92
8/92
FOR.POL.
9/92
8/92
Approve
32%
40%
34%
17%
23%
19%
62%
60%
53%
Disapprove 63
53
60
77
71
76
31
33
39
YOUR TAXES UNDER
ECO IMPROVE UNDER WHICH IS BIGGER DANGER?
CLIN BUSH
CLIN BUSH
Clinton doing too much 32%
Up lot
35%
20%
A lot
15%
4%
Bush doing too little 52
Up little 41
37
A little
40
32
Not go up 16
33
None
36
59
SATISFIED
MAJOR DOUBTS
Bush explanation on pre-war Saddam aid
26%
68%
Bush goals for what he'd do in 2nd term
31
65
Clinton's explanation for draft
54
38
Clinton's explanation for '68 Moscow trip
51
31
CLINTON "TAX/SPEND" DEM
35% CAMP. MORE POSITIVE NEGATIVE
CLINTON "DIFFERENT KIND OF DEM" 56
CLINTON
64%
28%
BUSH
23
69
WOULD DO BEST AT
CLIN
BUSH
PERO
ECO NEXT YEAR
9/92
Dealing with economy
34%
15%
36%
Get better
39%
35%
Protecting family values
31
30
13
Get worse
13
16
Prmoting equal rts for women
55
15
7
No change
38
42
Dealing with taxes
33
23
26
COUNTRY GOING
9/92
Dealing with abortion issue
46
18
8
Rt. direct.
16
18
Handling foreign crisis
17
60
7
Wrong track
69
67
Being someone you can trust
29
26
21
ALSO: 53% think female candidates more likely to achieve change,
14% male; by 70% to 25% voters believe Clinton's demonstrating on
foreign soil don't raise doubts about his as president.
*25 TIMES MIRROR: 34% "FLUNK" BUSH ON TV ADS
802 registered voters surveyed from 10/14-18; margin of
error +/- 4% (TIMES MIRROR, 10/22).
SEEN TV ADS 10/14-18? YES NO GRADE THEM: A B C D E
BUSH
60% 38%
5% 21% 21% 17% 34%
CLINTON
57%
40%
17% 35% 24% 8% 14%
PEROT
62% 37%
19% 28% 26% 11% 12%
*26 ABC TRACKING: CLINTON 43%, BUSH 32%, PEROT 17%
909 likely voters surveyed 10/20-21; margin of error +/- 4%.
(ABC release, 10/22). Final survey date shown.
HONESTY TO
BE PREZ?
10/21
20
19
18
17
15
14
13
12
11
10
YES NO
Clinton
43%
44%
46%
49%
49%
44%
44%
45%
46%
49%
49%
51%
41%
Bush
32
32
30
30
31
34
37
35
34
35
35
53
43
Perot
17
16
15
13
12
12
11
11
11
7
6
56
34
*27 CNN/USA TODAY TRACKING: CLINTON 44%, BUSH 32%, PEROT 17%
1,035 registered voters surveyed 10/20-21 (post-debate) by
Gallup, margin of error +/- 3%. Rest is from 1000 registered
voters, with 333 surveyed nightly for rolling 3-day sample; date
shown the final of survey dates (CNN, 10/22; USA TODAY, 10/23).
3-WAY 10/21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8
Clinton 44% 45% 47% 48% 46% 47% 47% 47% 46% 48% 50% 51% 50% 49%
Bush
32
32
29
30
34
34
34
32
34
33
33
33
34
34
Perot
17
15
15
15
14
14
13
15
13
12
11
10
10
10
BEFORE AND AFTER THE 10/19 DEBATE
WHITE VOTERS
EAST
MIDWEST
SOUTH
WEST
PRE POST
PRE POST
PRE POST
PRE POST
PRE POST
CLINTON
48%
39%
52%
47%
49%
42%
58%
42%
47%
45%
BUSH
35
36
31
33
36
30
32
36
35
27
PEROT
11
18
12
15
10
17
8
15
13
20
*28 BATTLEGROUND '92 TRACKING: CLINTON 46%, BUSH 31%, PEROT 18%
1,000 registered voters, surveyed 10/15-20 by The Tarrance
Group, with analysis by Ed Goeas (R) and Celinda Lake (D); margin
of error +/- 3%. Battleground surveys 250 RVs nightly to provide
a rolling 4-day sample. No polling is done on Friday or Saturday
nights. Date shown is final of 4 survey dates. NOTE TO MEDIA:
Please cite as "Battleground Poll." This is not a HOTLINE poll.
3-WAY
10/21
20
19
18
15
14
13
12
11
8
7
6
FAV/UNF
Clinton
46%
46%
45%
45%
43%
41%
43%
45%
47%
49%
49%
48%
51%
41%
Bush
31
32
33
32
33
35
34
34
34
34
35
36
42
55
Perot
18
17
16
14
15
14
13
13
10
9
8
8
56
33
TV MONITOR
*29 THIS MORNING: ABC's "GMA" hosted Clinton's mother Virginia
Kelley, Barbara Bush and ABC's Hal Bruno. NBC's "Today" hosted
Dan Quayle, Gallup's Frank Newport and Ross Perot Jr. "CBS This
Morning" hosted CBS' John Roberts on pres. campaign in NJ.
LAST NIGHT: ABC led with Perot's claims to have been
targeted by death squads. NBC led with Bush's attack on Perot.
PBS' "MacNeil/Lehrer" the Perot surge in the polls. CNN led with
the POW/MIAs. CBS led with State Dept. investigation of
Clinton's mother. "M/L" focused on the possible banking crisis
with Treasury Dept's Jerome Powell, Rep. Charles Schumer (D-NY),
Southern Finance Projects Director Tom Schlesinger and atty H.
Rodgin Cohen. CNN's "Crossfire" hosted George Will and Rep.
Henry Hyde (R-IL) on term limits. "Larry King Live" hosted
Margot Perot and Sen. Phil Gramm (D-TX), Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
and Perot counsel Clay Mulford on the candidates and the economy.
ABC's "Nightline" re-examined the L.A. riots (10/22).
TERM LIMITS: George Will, in support of term limits: "To
re-establish constitutional distance between the represented and
the representatives in order to make possible deliberative
democracy, so that Congress will not be simply a seismograph
trembling at every little appetite in the country." Rep. Henry
Hyde (R-IL), in opposition: "The notion of term limits is a
depravation of freedom for people who ought to have the right
every two years to send somebody back to Congress. ... I don't
want to take over the control of Congress at the experience of
telling people they can't vote for people they want to vote for"
("Crossfire," CNN, 10/22).
TV SOUNDBITE
"Don't worry about us we'll be fine, but America won't."
-- Barbara Bush, "GMA," ABC, 10/23.
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White House News Summary
Friday, October 23, 1992
1:30 P.M. NEWS UPDATE
CAMPAIGN TRAIL (Robert Burns, AP) -- President Bush appealed for
votes in states he won easily four years ago, linking his
presidency with the late Col. Sanders in Kentucky before moving on
to Alabama and Florida. Bush said Clinton should know what Col.
Sanders knew: "The bucket stops here." Clinton, in Las Vegas,
said he was encouraged by word that Vietnam was releasing more
information on Americans killed or taken prisoner. But he said
there must be a full accounting before there is any thought of
normalizing relations.
QUAYLE AIDE/FLOWERS (Arlington/AP) -- Vice President Quayle's chief
of staff, Bill Kristol, read to a Republican group from tapes made
by Gennifer Flowers, trying to revive controversy about her
allegations of an affair with Clinton. Kristol, in a breakfast
address, read excerpts from the taped telephone conversations that
Flowers played last January as she was publicizing her contention.
"A lot of it's circumstantial. A lot of it's hearsay," said
Kristol. But he added, "The veracity of these tapes has never been
challenged by Bill Clinton."
POLL/MAINE (Portland, Maine/Reuter) -- Voters in this traditionally
Republican state where President Bush owns a summer estate favor
Bill Clinton by a nearly two-to-one margin, according to a new
newspaper poll. The survey published by the Guy Gannet Publishing
Co. found Clinton is the current choice of 40% of eligible voters
while Bush netted 21% and 14% said they backed Perot. Twenty-two
percent of the voters said they were still undecided.
PEROT/TRAVEL (Dallas/AP) -- Ross Perot will appear at East Coast
rallies on Sunday, aides said, breaking out of his TV-only campaign
with just over a week to go until the election. Perot will speak
at rallies in Flemington, N.J., and in Pittsburgh, the aides said.
He also will accelerate his television campaign, buying an hour
commercial on ABC Monday night preceding the highly rated "Monday
Night Football." Vice President Quayle, speaking on NBC's "Today"
show, said "it's a two-man race" and added that Americans would be
throwing their votes away if they opted for Perot. He expressed
hope that Perot's supporters would switch to Bush as a way of
blocking Clinton.
CHENEY/YUGOSLAVIA (Aboard the John F. Kennedy/Reuter) -- Secretary
Cheney, aboard an aircraft carrier 30 miles off Bosnia, said the
U.S. was determined to ensure that relief aid reached the former
Yugoslav republic. "We are committed to use air and naval assets
to support the humanitarian aid mission," he told Reuter during a
visit to a U.S. naval force stationed off Bosnia-Hercegovina.
HOTEL (Houston/Reuter) -- The top official at the Houston hotel
that President Bush calls home has resigned after he was indicted
last week in a savings and loan fraud case. Joe Russo, chairman
of the HFund Inc., the group that manages the Houstonian Hotel,
resigned for personal reasons and also because the hotel is about
to be sold, according to a written statement issued by the hotel.
Russo, 60, was indicted for allegedly making illegal loans while
he was chairman of the Ameriway Saving Association, which has since
failed.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
BULLETIN
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MEMORANDUM FOR HON. JAMES BAKER III
CHIEF OF STAFF
THE WHITE HOUSE
SUBJECT:
TODAY'S BRIEFING
DATE:
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1992 - 11:45 AM EDT
SINCE THE MORNING PAPERS:
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Emperor Akihito of Japan today set foot on Chinese soil to conduct diplomatic meetings with the
Beijing government. Akihito is the first Japanese emperor to visit China in 2,000 years.
0
Financial news as of 11:45 AM EDT:
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DOW (30 industrials): Up 2 points at 3203 on a volume of 85 million shares.
IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND AROUND TOWN:
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Hanoi has agreed to turn over all records it has collected on American POWs and MIAs in return
for modest disaster relief and other humanitarian assistance, President Bush announced from the
Rose Garden this morning. The President earlier this morning met with a committee, including Sen.
John McCain (R-AZ), Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), Sen. Robert Smith (R-NH) and Gen. John Vessey, which
hammered out the agreement with Vietnamese officials. immediately following the meeting, President
Bush emerged to report the committee's successful efforts, saying: "General Vessey and Senator
McCain have just now reported to me and to others here on their mission, and I'm pleased to announce
this morning that our policy has achieved a significant, a real breakthrough. Hanoi has agreed to provide
us with all -- -- and I repeat, all - - information they have collected on American POWs and MIAs. This
includes photographs, artifacts, detailed records on Americans who fell into Vietnam's hands. Hanoi's
records will at last enable us to determine the fate of many of our men, and we still await the return of
their remains, but already my representatives have begun to provide answers to families who have waited
and prayed for decades. And today, finally, I am convinced that we can begin writing the last chapter
of the Vietnam, War." The President also announced that in return for their willingness to open their
books to American eyes, the US has agreed to provide humanitarian assistance to Vietnamese disaster
victims and veterans, saying: "And as we cooperate in bringing that painful era to a close, Vietnam and
the United States can begin to look towards the future, and to begin that process, we've extended a very
modest disaster assistance to flood-ravaged areas of Vietnam, to those that have been hurt the most by
the floods. I have also directed my Administration to work with Hanoi in developing ways to help identify
Vietnam's MIAs and increased humanitarian assistance to the disabled Vietnamese veterans of the war."
The White House Bulletin is a fax-delivered bulletin board covering policy, political and personnel developments in the
federal government and Washington. The Bulletin welcomes information from those in Washington. (Tel.) 703-684-2020
Paul Roellig, Publisher and Editor
William Armistead, Managing Editor
Richard Reed, Political Editor
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President Bush will criticize Governor Clinton today for the Governor's statement during the final
debate which implied he has changed his position and would now approve means testing for
Social Security benefits, although a top Clinton aide says such a move by Bush will be
"hypocritical." Bush is expected to raise the issue in a Florida news radio broadcast, after which a radio
ad campaign will air in the state on the issue. The criticism of Clinton's stance on Social Security
appears to be two-pronged, hitting both the theme that the Governor is less committed to the integrity of
the Social Security system than Bush, and that Clinton has taken differing positions on the issue.
According to one Administration official: "Clinton said in July that he would maintain the sanctity and
integrity of the Social Security system, and that he was against means testing. During Monday night's
debate, in response to a question about pain, he used the example of Social Security, for those who get
more out of Social Security than they put in. Well, 70 percent of Social Security beneficiaries, or 25
million Americans who are on Social Security today, have paid in less than they are now taking out."
Bush supporters are reporting that, in a July 13 NBC News broadcast, Clinton said: "We'll make a
clear commitment to the integrity and sanctity of the Social Security system. Means testing would take
benefits away from people who have paid into Social Security. I'm opposed to that." In the third and final
presidential debate on Monday night, Clinton was asked if he could point to any pain that would result
from his economic plan, to which he replied in part. "Should people pay more for Medicare if they can?
Yes. Should they pay more for Social Security if they get more out of it than they paid in, if they're upper
income people? Yes." These statements, according to Bush campaign and Administration officials,
demonstrates that Clinton is "trying to have it both ways" and that he will either tax or reduce benefits for
Social Security beneficiaries in order to help finance his other programs. According to one Bush aide:
"The President has been on the record for years saying 'don't mess with Social Security.' It's the third
rail of American politics, and [Clinton] has stretched his entire body across it. Naturally, the press hasn't
picked up on it, but we're going to try and work on that." According to a Bush campaign official: "He
is basically threatening every Social Security beneficiary with either increased taxes or decreased
benefits. [Bush] is going to point out two things. First, that Clinton owes a very thorough explanation as
to exactly which Social Security beneficiaries would have added taxes or decreased benefits. Secondly,
he will point out that over 70 percent of beneficiaries today receive benefits in excess of what they
contributed." Perot, who has stated that he favors taxing Social Security benefits for wealthier Americans,
will not be a target of either the President's remarks or the radio ads. according to the official.
Asked about the Social Security assault, Clinton deputy campaign manager George Stephanopoulos
told the Bulletin this morning that the President is being "hypocritical" on the issue, adding that Clinton
has called for "considering increasing the percentage of Social Security that is taxed for people making
over $125,000 a year. This is something [the Bush Administration] proposed throughout the budget
summit." Stephanopouios said of Clinton's position: "There is absolutely no means testing of Social
Security benefits," adding that "if you look at George Bush's support of the balanced budget amendment
- the Charlie Stenholm amendment which he supported it does not exempt Social Security and would
have led to far greater cuts in Social Security."
0
Vice President Quayle this morning said a vote for Ross Perot is a wasted vote. During an
interview, when asked if he thought a vote for Perot was a wasted vote, Quayle said: "Yes, I do, because
it's a two-man race between the President and Bill Clinton. Ross Perot is a third candidate. He and his
supporters have added a lot of interest to the campaign. I do congratulate them for bringing the issue
of the national deficit and the debt to the front burner. And George Bush wants to balance the budget.
And I do believe that the Ross Perot supporters, when it's finally - when they finally go in to vote, they
like Ross Perot but they also can identify with George Bush. George Bush is a businessman; Ross Perot
is a businessman. George Bush is the one that can reduce the deficit. And I think that they're going to
vote for George Bush rather than Ross Perot when the final vote is taken." Quayle added: "[T]he Perot
supporters out there are going to have to think long and hard about whether they want to really throw
their vote away. I don't think that the Ross Perot supporters really want Bill Clinton in the White House."
Quayle made his remarks during an interview on NBC's "Today" show.
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Quayle's remarks would indicate the Bush camp may feel Perot could pull support from the President,
although most campaign officials in both the Bush and Clinton campaigns profess they have no idea how
the Perot factor will influence the vote on November 3. When asked this morning about the issue, Clinton
advisor George Stephanopoulos told the Bulletin Perot's rise in the polls "is something to watch, but I
don't know if it IS something to be concerned about." Stephanopoulos pointed to today's NBC News/Wall
Street Journal poll, which shows his candidate with an overwhelming lead in the three-way race, as a
reason to doubt Clinton will be troubled by either Perot or Bush.
0
The Clinton campaign is continuing to hammer the President and his Administration for the State
Department's search of Bill Clinton's and his mother's passport files. A Clinton advisor told the
Bulletin this morning that Governor Clinton will likely continue to attack the Bush Administration for "abuse
of power," and that their candidate finds the whole issue to be one which personally offends him. During
an interview shown on this morning's ABC "Good Morning America" show, Clinton's mother, Virginia
Kelly. said: "I'm insulted, I'm indignant. You know, I'm of the age that I lived through Hitler and his
Gestapo. I lived through the police state. I do not want this to happen to my country. Every American
alive ought to be insulted by this behavior. We had a homecoming celebration in Hot Springs on
September the sixih. In Bill's speech, he mentioned that soon we could expect attacks on his mother
and his child, and i thought that truly he must be joking. He was not joking at all. Another thing that
insults me is people like this that can sit in judgment of a fine man like Bill Clinton. It's disgusting, and
that's just about all I have to say about this."
0
Supporters of the tax and urban aid bill are feeling betrayed by the White House in the wake of
strong signals from top aides to George Bush that the President will veto the measure - either
before or after the election. While the President himself has yet to make a definitive statement on his
intentions, Vice President Quayle this morning said that, while the President liked the urban aid
components of the bill, "he does not like the tax increases there that really hurt small businesses." In an
interview on NBC's "Today" Show, Quayle suggested such conflicting interests could be dealt with if the
President had line-item veto authority, saying: "Another good reason to have the line-item veto, because
the President could take his pen, strike out the things that he doesn't like, accept the things that he does,
and send the things he doesn't like back to Congress and let them deal with it."
Backers of the bill, including over 200 trade associations and corporate interest groups, sponsored
a full-page ad in yesterday's USA Today claiming the bill would preserve and create 1,000,000 jobs
annually and urged the President to sign it because, among other reasons, "it is not a tax increase, it's
revenue-neutral" and because "it fulfills [the President's] promise to help rebuild Los Angeles and other
distressed urban and rural communities through enterprise zones." Supporters also insist the President's
failure to sign the bill will result in a de facto tax increase of $7.4 billion, since failure to sign will result
in expirations of eleven tax provisions. Backers say organizations publicly supporting the measure
represent between 20-30 million members. "The bill in fact, contains most of the provisions the President
asked for in terms of his economic growth incentives," Steve Dreisler, the chief lobbyist for the National
Association of Realtors one of the bill's most ardent supporters, told the Bulletin. "It contains a
fulfillment of his efforts to help rebuild L.A. and other blighted economic areas both in rural and urban
America. It was and is consistent with many of the President's efforts advanced in his Agenda For
American Renewal," Dreisler said. "The revenue raisers in there are many of the same revenue raisers
the President himself proposed back in January. The two items that he had signaled that were
unacceptable. making permanent PEP [the personal-exemption phase-out] and PEESE [a provision that
takes back 3 percent of specific itemized deductions for certain high-income taxpayers], were dropped.
Those were the only things prior to conference the White House said were unacceptable to them."
Other supporters of the bill agree that pains were taken to draft a bill acceptable to a White House,
whose only public insistence was that the bill contain offsets for any tax increases. A Statement of
Administration's Policy, issued just after the Senate Finance Committee had marked up the bill last July,
included the following: "In addition, if HR 11 were presented to the President without offsetting pay as
3
you go offsets, his senior advisors would recommend a veto because its revenue losses are not fully
offset for purposes of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990." Former Transportation Secretary
James Burnley, now lobbying for the bill's passage, told the Bulletin: "When [the President] is beating
Clinton to death - and properly SO about waffling, this is a 180-degree turn. The level of political idiocy
[at the White House] is breathtaking."
Meanwhile, other supporters wonder how the White House will defend its position after the President
signs the Energy Bill tomorrow. "The energy bill actually raises a net $1 billion in new revenue," said
another supporter. "The tax bill is revenue neutral. What are they going to say when the Washington
Post has a front page headline that says: Tax Increase Okay to Bail Out Oil and Gas Industry But Not
For Low-Income Housing Credits? Because that's going to be the theme."
0
Senior Bush advisors believe there are a number of reasons the media have been unfair to their
candidate this year. While the campaign of an incumbent President who is far behind in the polls with
less than two weeks to go can be expected to point fingers elsewhere for its lack of success, this year,
a number of observers. including some in the media, are wondering whether the campaign coverage has
been fair. Over the last week or so, President Bush himself has started to publicly state what many of
his aides have been saying all year: the media is against George Bush, wants to elect Bill Clinton, and
has no shame. When asked about the subject yesterday morning during an interview on CBS, Bush
responded: "I think the press has been a little strange. Why do people why are you having shows
saying, 'Have we been fair?' I've been in politics a while. You guys have been around it. I don't
remember a lot of shows saying 'Have we been fair?' And you're doing it. You know darn well the
answer." The President, not trying to appear too defensive on the issue, however, usually tries to use
humor to highlight what he sees as media bias. During the last debate, Bush brought up the subject by
saying his favorite bumper sticker is one that reads: "Annoy the media: Re-elect Bush." Also, over the
last few days Bush has been showing off a political cartoon which shows a ring announcer saying: "In
this corner, CBS, ABC, NBC, Hollywood, New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, public
radio," et cetera. et cetera. And all by himself on the other side of the ring is the President of the United
States.
Over the last few days, however, a number of Bush advisors told the Bulletin it is not a laughing
matter. These Bush supporters claim that since the end of the Gulf War, the media have been
undercutting the President's re-election bid in three ways: one, being unduly tough on the President and
his Administration: two, treating the Democratic nominee with kid gloves; and three, possibly the most
important of all, making the nation's economy appear to be much worse than it really is.
According to a just-released study by the non-partisan, non-profit Center for Media and Public Affairs,
the network news evaluations of the economy have in fact been amazingly negative. The two-year study
of 2,531 stories found the economy was the number-one domestic story and that 91 percent of the
sources interviewed evaluated the economy negatively. Also, during the important political period of July
to September of this year, 96 percent of the sources provided negative assessments. While Bush
advisors agree that the last five quarters of slow economic growth is not something to crow about, they
believe the media have helped create the impression among voters that the country is actually still in a
recession.
"There is no doubt in anyone's mind that the media have played a significant role in this year's
campaign," said one top Bush aide. "A significant portion of reporters clearly believe the nation needs
a change in the White House and believe it is their job to make sure il happens." The aide added:
"When questioned about their negative assessments of the Bush Administration, they never disagree.
Their only defense has been, 'Well, we were also very tough on Clinton and his personal problems earlier
this year.' What they don't say, however, is that while they did give the Governor a tough time, it was
during the Democratic primary process that they hit Clinton. This was a period when there were more
liberal candidates still in the race, and arguably, they went after the most conservative Democrat. As
soon as Clinton won the nomination and became the most libera! candidate left in the race, they stopped
hammering him."
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According to another Bush advisor: "Before this campaign, I thought a lot of these media-bias
charges by our guys were probably overplayed. It is not. If anything, it is underplayed." The advisor said
he believes there are a number of reasons for this behavior. "One is that, after 12 years of Republican
rule, they really would like to see some change because that would present a new set of personalities
to write about. Secondly, there is the traditional reason that most of them are more liberal and more
Democratic. Thirdly, journalists are overwhelmingly pro-Clinton, especially those covering the Clinton
campaign. They have a vested interest in seeing him get elected, because if he does, they become
White House corespondents." Another Bush advisor said: "There is no question in our minds, and any
neutral observer would agree, that in fact the coverage Clinton is getting is extra favorable. And most
reporters in their quiet moments will tell you that." Asked why, the advisor responded: "For one thing,
there is no news factor left after 12 years [of Reagan and Bush Administrations]. They are bored, they
want something new." The advisor added: "Without being a press basher, I think it is fair to say most
people in the press are more liberal than they are.conservative, SO [their coverage) reflects their own bias.
It is not so much that they are hard on George Bush, as it is they continue to overlook Bill Clinton's
major flaws. That is harder for them to explain." Another Bush aide agreed the media has played a
significant role in pulling down President Bush from the 90 percent favorable ratings he enjoyed following
the Gulf War to his current dismal ratings, saying: "They have been pretty tough. They hate Bush.
They think he sold out to the far right and that everything he does is sort of a lie. They are still writing
about Iran-Contra." The aide also said the reason Clinton is enjoying favorable press is that "Clinton is
one of them. Clinton is the first baby-boom candidate, and most reporters are baby boomers and are
thrilled to have one of their own running."
While Bush and his advisors provide their reasons for their perceived media bias, one thing is clear:
most voters themselves are receptive to the news coverage they see and hear, and pointing the finger
at those in the press is unlikely to change voters' opinions of the President and his campaign in time for
it to effect the election. "When this is all over, we are bound to see a few months of soul-searching
stories from the media about the media and their poor performance during this cycle," said a Bush
advisor. "But the operative words here are, when it is all over."
0
The Bush campaign would appear to have a sizable advantage over the Clinton effort in cash
available in these last ten days. According to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, the
Bush campaign had $23.7 million on hand as of October 14, while the Clinton campaign reported it had
$14.5 million on hand. The reports do not refiect, however, how much of the $10 million that each
political party is allowed to spend on their respective nominee is still available.
0
Today, President Bush meets with US emissaries to Hanoi on POW/MIA affairs; travels to Fort
Lauderdale to sign the Cuban Democracy Act; participates in an "Ask George Bush" event; and travels
to Montgomery. Alabama. Today. Governor Clinton campaigns in Las Vegas; Fayetteville, Arkansas;
and Springfield, Missouri.
POLL WATCH:
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The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll, in which 1,008 registered voters were surveyed
October 20-21, shows:
--
Bill Clinton leads George Bush 47 percent to 28 percent, with Ross Perot receiving 19 percent
of the vote.
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76 percent of Clinton voters say there is "no chance" they will change their minds before Election
Day, while 65 percent of Bush voters say their decision is final.
41 percent are "extremely confident" or "quite confident" Clinton "has the right personal
characteristics to be president," while 38 percent think Bush has the right characteristics.
33 percent are "extremely confident" or "quite confident" Clinton "has the right set of goals and
policies to be president," while 25 percent believe Bush has the right goals and policies.
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Clinton's economic plan is favored over Bush's by 49 percent to 25 percent.
-
52 percent believe Bush would hurt the country by doing "too little" in a second term, while 32
percent believe Clinton would hurt the country by doing "too much."
76 percent believe Clinton would raise their taxes, while 57 percent believe Bush would do the
same.
0
The latest ABC News tracking poll, in which 1,017 registered voters, including 909 likely voters,
were surveyed October 20-21, shows:
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Among likely voters (including leaners), Bill Clinton leads George Bush 43 percent to 32 percent,
with Ross Perot receiving 17 percent of the vote.
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Among likely voters, 53 percent are satisfied that Bush has the honesty and integrity to serve
as president, while 43 percent are not.
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Among likely voters, 51 percent are satisfied that Clinton has the honesty and integrity to serve
as president, while 41 percent are not.
--
Among likely voters, 56 percent are satisfied that Perot has the honesty and integrity to serve
as president, while 34 percent are not.
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The CNN/USA TODAY/Gallup daily tracking poll as of October 21 shows:
--
Bill Clinton leads George Bush 44 percent to 32 percent, with Ross Perot receiving 17 percent
of the vote.
LAST LAUGHS:
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Jay Leno: "George Bush was on the Nashville Network the other day where he said, 'I respect the
values that you talk about in country music.' Well, I can understand that. I guess in a couple of weeks
he figures he'll be gettin' drunk, sittin' in his pickup truck, wonderin' how he lost his job, too." (NBC The
Tonight Show, 10/2/92)
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David Letterman: Five suggestions for Ross Perot's new campaign theme.
1)
Vote quick! Before he drops out again!
2)
Vote for Peroll He'll buy everyone a pony!
3)
Hey, America, let's pull Ross's lever.
4)
He's short! He's short! He's really, really short!
5)
Come on, it'll be funny! [contest winner]
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wonderful support in this tough campaign year.
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November. We will win! With best wishes,
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SINCE THE MORNING PAPERS:
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UN relief airlifts to Sarajevo have resumed today after being halted for 24 hours due to severe fighting,
some of it between the Muslim and Croatian allies.
Financial news as of 11:45 AM EDT:
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DOW (30 Industrials): Down 8 points to 3179 on a volume of 101 million shares.
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First-time jobless claims fell 15,000 to 368,000 during the week ending October 10.
IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND AROUND TOWN:
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President Bush this morning set out to clear up questions surrounding American nuclear
technology and equipment which might have entered Iraq before the Gulf War. The issue entered
the spotlight yesterday when David Kay, an American member of the UN inspection team which
investigated Iraq's nuclear capabilities following the war, said President Bush was mistaken in his claim
made during Monday night's presidential debate that "[there is absolutely no evidence] that any US
weapons were on that battlefield, and the nuclear capability has been searched by the United Nations,
and there hasn't been one, single scintilla of evidence that there's any US technology involved in it." Kay
specifically referred to US-built electron-beam welding machines, part of a class of nuclear equipment
referred to as "dual-use," which had been found in Iraq. Following Kay's remark, the State Department
reversed its initial position backing the President, and said the atomic-related welding equipment was
liscensed by the US government. Responding to an interviewer's question concerning the issue during
this morning's CBS "Good Morning" show, President Bush said: "Maybe I overstated it a little bit, but
there has been proved what they call dual-use technology. And I think some of that obviously ends up
over there. What I'm talking about is something that really furthered their nuclear capability. Send a
computer over, and if it has dual use, it could end up in a nuclear facility of some sort. But the stuff that
was cleared was dual use. Now, if somebody illegally has moved some without the knowledge of the US
government, some foreign country or something, why, that would be an offense. But 1 don't believe
anything other than dual-use technology has been found."
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Bush advisors claim to be pleased with tracking polls showing their candidate on the rebound.
"It is a significant bounce," said one advisor. "We really bottomed out after that second debate where
his performance was obviously not good and when we were virtually dark for three or four days." The
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advisor added: "One of the things we have seen consistently throughout this election is that people are
being driven by the free media and if they don't see George Bush on the news then they tend to either
forget about him or just listen to the commentators. We are now heading back in the right direction
and have surpassed where we were before SO there is a great deal of optimism." The advisor
concluded: "We are in single digits and headed in the right direction. I don't know if it is a trend or not,
but there has been a significant bump for us after this last debate." Another Bush advisor told the Bulletin
this morning the Bush internal overnight tracking poll showed only an 8 point lead for Clinton over Bush,
saying it was a "pretty good-sized sample." The advisor added: "What you have to look at too is the
others that are tracking. ABC and CNN polls both narrowed a fair amount, and those are not one-
nighters. Therefore, their most recent night must have been pretty strong for us for [the polls] to have
narrowed that much."
One advisor also said the Perot factor is likely effecting these polls, although it is hard to say in what
way, adding: "What he does nationally is not going to be nearly SO important as what he does state by
state. So far, there is not any state where he has taken from us in his rise in the polls. He is not
hurting us in Texas, he is not hurting us in Florida. In Texas, they are not forgiving him for having left
the race in the first place. and in Florida, all we have to do is say, 'Social Security," and all of a sudden
that Perot enthusiasm evaporates." Other Republican analysts say their numbers indicate that Perot's
current rise in the tracking polls is coming mostly (around 80%) at the expense of Clinton support,
although their is no certainty this trend will continue.
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Ross Perot plans to run a half-hour advertisement tomorrow night which will profile him through
the eyes of his family. The segment will air on NBC at 8:00 p.m. EDT. Tonight, the second half of an
interview with Mr. Perot will be aired on ABC at 8:30 p.m.. During this segment, Perot will discuss his
support of POW's and MIA's during the Vietnam War, the rescue of EDS employees from Iran, and his
involvement in school-reform issues. Pero! will also air a half-hour program on CBS this Saturday.
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Although many Bush loyalists are hoping for the "British model" electoral win for the President
in the style of Prime Minister John Major's come-from-behind win, Bush himself seems more
focused on the Canadian model. Asked this morning about his chances for victory during an interview
on CBS's "Good Morning" show, Bush said: "You know, just before I came in [the CBS studio I talked
to Brian Mulroney. the Prime Minister of Canada, a great friend of the United States he told me
something of great interest to me, and i hope to you. This time exactly before his election, he was 11
points behind in the polls. And i saw a tracking poll this morning having us 12. And he won by 11 points.
And it was exactly this far, whatever it is. 12 days before the election. And that's why I am absolutely
convinced I'm going to win."
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Bush "newsmakers" are being advised by the campaign to send the message the nation's
economy is not as bad as Governor Clinton or the media say it is. A fax sent out this morning to
"All BQ-92 Key Newsmakers" alerted them 10 the fact that over each of the next four news days they will
receive "Backgrounders," and that the message "you should be emphasizing in connection with these four
documents is: 1) Bill Clinton is lying about the strength of the economy in an effort to scare the
American people to gain political advantage. 2) The true state of the economy is far stronger than he
and the liberal media would have us think."
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The Bush campaign has decided to stop running an advertisement featuring a TIME Magazine
cover, even though a Federal Judge found a TIME lawsuit to be most likely without merit. The
Bush television advertisement userl the TIME cover, which stated "Why Voters Don't Trust Clinton," to
drive home its message of "trust." TIME sued the Bush campaign claiming the use of its cover infringed
on its trademark and other laws. and distorted its "journalism." The suit angered many in the Bush
campaign and White House who thought TIME was clearly acting "political," especially because it is a
common practice in political campaigns to use visuals of press stories and headlines in political
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commercials. According to Bush advisors, further evidence of TIME's anti-Bush position was the fact that
after filing the law suit against the campaign. TIME sent press releases to other media organizations in
an attempt to turn the law suit into a campaign issue. Adding to Bush suspicions, TIME sent out another
press release last night which began: "TIME Magazine has succeeded in getting the Bush/Quayle '92
campaign to agree to withdraw a television commercial that makes unauthorized use of a TIME cover
featuring Democratic Presidential nominee Bill Clinton.
'We
are
pleased
that
the
Bush/Quayle
campaign has declared unequivocally in open court not to run the ad again,' said Henry Muller, TIME's
Managing Editor. 'We have won what We wanted from the outset, which is an assurance that the ad
would be taken off the air. This commercia was a serious distortion of our journalism and left viewers
with the mistaken impression that TIME was taking sides in the campaign;' he added."
The TIME press release never mentions what Federal District Judge Gerhard Gesell actually said in
court yesterday. According to Gesell. TIME would likely have lost its suit. and a temporary restraining
order against the Bush campaign would probably not have been granted on the basis it would have
violated the First Amendment. Gesell said the fair-use doctrine gives the campaign the right to show the
magazine cover in its ad, and added, playing on the words of songwriter Johnny Mercer: "It's my
impression that most news organization accentuate the negative and eliminate the positive."
A Bush advisor told the Bulletin this morning that the campaign planed on taking the ad off the air
anyway, and that the lawsuit did not affect this decision. "It was only supposed to run for a week,
anyway," said the advisor. "For TIME Magazine, it was a big deal because they have been spending all
of their editorial energy trying to elect Bill Clinton."
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While Clinton is trying build a sense of momentum in the final two weeks of the campaign,
President Bush is still trying to get his message across to the voters, report Bush officials.
Governor Clinton is effectively using his commanding lead in the public polls to reinforce the sense that
his is the bandwagon worth jumping on. As part of this strategy, Clinton is campaigning in traditionally
Republican states. "Clinton has now gone into the final stage where he wants to just develop a sense
a momentum, and if you look at his schedule. it is rally after rally after rally," said one advisor. "What we
have decided to do with Bush is to do a serious overlay of talk shows, longer interviews, in addition to
rallies. Our gamble is that is going to help us a lot. When people hear George Bush speak for himself,
it is much more positive than when they hear George Bush as relayed through the media filter."
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The Perot campaign is keeping mum this morning about their candidate's campaign schedule over
the next two weeks. "At this point he hasn't decided what he is going to do, if he is going to do
anything," a Perct campaign source told the Bulletin this morning. When asked about reports in this
morning's papers saying Perot will announce plans today concerning a schedule of campaign
appearances, the source responded: "That is the press saying that, not us."
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If President Bush ventures into Arkansas to hit Clinton's record, there is no way he can avoid
some confrontation with Clinton campaign official Betsey Wright's "truth squad," according to a
Bush campaign official. When Bush surrogates have travelled to Arkansas in the past, Wright, who has
amassed volumes of rebuttal material to match Bush campaign charges against Clinton's record as
Governor in Arkansas, has been there to dog them until they are safely out of range. Asked how Bush
could avoid that kind of treatment, a Bush campaign official said: "You can't. But that doesn't worry us
too much. We are perfectly satisfied to have Betsey Wright devote time and resources following us
around in a charter plane if she chooses to do so." The official would not, however, confirm that Bush
is scheduled for a trip to Arkansas and, in fact, a Bush advisor downplayed the chance of such a visit,
saying the consideration was largely "just people having a good time."
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President Bush said this morning that he thinks it would be a good idea to reorganize the White
House to "ride close herd" on domestic issues in a more visible manner. Speaking on CBS's "Good
Morning" show, Bush said "[T]he concept of having the White House ride close herd, which I frankly
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think we've done, but with a maybe higher visibility over all the domestic economic side and the domestic
social program side, is a good concept. It's been tried. If you go I don't want to be boring and kind
of political science 101, but you go back into earlier administrations, they have an economic coordinator;
an international economic coordinator under the Nixon time. They tried reorganization. We will
reorganize. We will have a point man for all the domestic side. We have that in the White House in
General Scowcroft for national security, working with strong secretaries in Defense and State. In this last
administration, I think Jim Baker served as the coordinator for the foreign policy. And there's a lot of
agencies [that] touch on it."
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Bush said this morning he now regrets Ross Perot's presence in the third debate. Appearing on
CBS's "Good Morning" show, Bush explained his regrets by saying: "Well, you know, kind of coming in
from the fringe, making these statements. And then 1 think it kind of clouded things. But he's entitled
to do that. But when he said that we gave permission to take the northern part of Kuwait, I mean, that
is absolutely absurd. And no hearing after hearing in the Congress and witness after witness, and if
anybody had ever said that or any piece of paper would evidence that or any witness evidence that, you
know, I'd have been thoroughly raked over by the Congress, and that hasn't happened."
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With only two weeks to go, the political environment is arguably less stable than it has been all
year especially with respect to contests for the US Senate. At least nine seats could still go either
way, and several others could still hold surprises. To the extent there is any discernible trend, however,
there are signs that GOP candidates, both incumbents and challengers, are faring better in these closing
days. All but one of the GOP's four most vulnerable incumbents are essentially dead-even with their
Democratic challengers, according to public and private polls (D'Amato-NY, Packwood-OR. and Kasten-
WI). Only John Seymour in California appears out of position to mount a political comeback. Most
analysts agree that the Republicans. for example, could experience anywhere from a net-loss of three
seats to a net-gain of seven. Since the GOP now controls 43 seats, this consensus points to Republican
control of between 40 and 50 Senate seats when the 103rd Congress convenes in January. To a large
degree, such views are shaped by history that would suggest any incumbent below 50 percent at this
point, against a credible challenger, is in serious troubie.
At least three Democratic incumbents are also fighting for their political lives in contests where their
GOP challengers have drawn to within a few percentage points in the polls: Wyche Fowler (GA), Terry
Sanford (NC), and Emest Hollings (SC). in Georgia, GOP tracking through October 15 shows Fowler
leading Republican Paul Coverdell 45 percent to 39 percent. Just two weeks ago, Fowler's lead was 21-
points in the same tracking poll. Fowler has been the victim of some creative Coverdell campaign
advertisments dramatizing Fowler's support for a congressional pay raise and his contradictory statements
on his relationship with the check-kiting issue when he was a Member of the House. Fowler, meanwhile,
is attacking Coverdell for campaigning for the Senate seat while he was still the Director of the Peace
Corps and for using Peace Corps funds to finance his travel back to Georgia for campaign purposes.
In North Carolina, early October polls show Democrat Terry Sanford also leading his GOP opponent
Lauch Faircloth 45 percent to 39 percent. And GOP sources today report the race is slightly closer.
Sanford has been forced to suspend active campaigning in the wake of heart-valve surgery. In South
Carolina, polls released two weeks ago showed GOP challenger Tommy Hartnett dead-even with
incumbent Ernest Hollings. Democrats must also worry about holding onto Connecticut, where incumbent
Chris Dodd faces a strong challenge from political newcomer Brook Johnson. Polls show Dodd still
generating less than 50 percent support, a historically dangerous position for an incumbent this close to
the election. A Hartford Courant poll two weeks ago showed Dodd leading 47 percent to 31 percent.
Perhaps, more significant, of the five open-seats currently held by Democrats, at least three appear
headed down to the wire. California - where GOP tracking shows Bruce Herschensohn now leading
Democrat Barbara Boxer among likely voters; Colorado, where polls show Terry Considine trailing by only
single-digits; and Washington, where two public polls now show GOP Rep. Rod Chandler running even
with Democrat Patty Murray (a survey of 403 registered voters by Seattle pollster Stuart Elway, conducted
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October 14-15, shows Murray leading 38 percent to 36 percent. In mid-September, Elway's poll showed
Murray with a 9-point lead. Another poll, conducted by the Morning News Tribune, October 12-16, shows
Murray leading 45 percent to 40 percent.) In Illinois, a slew of ethics charges have muddled the
prospects of Democrat Carol Mosely Braun. She and Rich Williamson, her GOP challenger, face off in
the final debate of the campaign tonight. By all accounts, Braun still maintain's a double-digit lead. As
for open seats now controlied by the GOP, the Republicans must worry about the ability of Governor Judd
Gregg in New Hampshire to hold onto the seat being vacated by the retiring Warren Rudman. Gregg is
facing a tough challenge from Democrat John Rauh and many GOP strategists suspect Rauh will win.
POLL WATCH:
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The latest ABC News/Washington Post Poll, in which 1,026 registered voters, including 894 likely
voters, were surveyed October 19-20, shows:
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Among likely voters (including leaners). Bill Clinton leads George Bush 44 percent to 32 percent,
with Ross Perot receiving 16 percent of the vote.
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Among all registered voters (including leaners). Bill Clinton leads George Bush 42 percent to 32
percent, with Ross Perot receiving 17 percent of the vote.
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The CNN/USA TODAY/Gallup daily tracking poll, as of October 20, shows:
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Bill Clinton leads George Bush 45 percent to 32 percent, while Ross Perot follows with 15
percent. These numbers refiect the effect of only one day of polling subsequent to the final
presidential debate (out of the three-day, rolling survey period).
LAST LAUGHS:
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Jay Leno: "President Bush has asked for a letter of resignation from each of his Cabinet Members. Is
that fair -- making them resign? The only ten people in the world who believe in his economic plan, and
he's gonna fire 'em. You've gotta feel sorry for those guys. Can you imagine trying to get another job
with your resume saying you were Bush's economic advisor?" (NBC The Tonight Show, 10/14/92)
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David Letterman: "I found this fascinating. I'm reading in the paper this morning that since the
presidential debates that Ross Perot is gaining such unbelievable momentum, and he's rising so
rapidly in the polls and things are going SO well for him and his campaign organization, that he's actually
considering dropping out again." (NBC Late Night with David Letterman, 10/14/92)
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The Honorable J. Alex McMillan
U. S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
GEORGE BUSH
WASHINGTON
October 23, 1992
Dear Alex,
Just a quick note of thanks for your kind intro-
duction in North Carolina on Wednesday. I loved
being with that enthusiastic crowd and appreciated
such a wonderful warm welcome.
My sincere thanks for your support in this tough
campaign year. Barbara and I are grateful to have
people like you on our side. Only 11 more days to
go and I am confident of victory in November.
/
With best wishes,
Sincerely,
CyBul
But
The Honorable James G. Martin
Governor
State of North Carolina
State Capital
Raleigh, North Carolina 27603
GEORGE BUSH
WASHINGTON
October 23, 1992
Dear Jim,
It was great having you at my side on that wonderful
whistle-stop tour through North Carolina. I loved the
enthusiastic people and am grateful for their support and
warm welcome.
Thanks, Jim, for all you've done for Barbara and me in
this tough campaign year. Your support means a lot to US.
Only 11 more days to go and I am confident we will win.
Now, hastily off to Kentucky, Florida, Alabama and
Louisiana.
All my best to you and Dottie.
Sincerely
07
The Honorable Carroll Campbell, Jr.
Governor
State of South Carolina
State House
Main Street
Columbia South Carolina 29211
GEORGE BUSH
WASHINGTON
October 23, 1992
Dear Carroll,
I enjoyed seeing you on Tuesday and having you with us on
that fun whistle-stop tour of Georgia and South Carolina.
Thanks so much for your kind introduction and especially
for all you have done for Barbara and me in this tough
campaign year. We are grateful to have supporters and
friends like you on our side.
Only 11 more days to go and I'm confident we will win.
Now, hastily off to Kentucky, Florida, Alabama and
Louisiana. Warm regards to you and Iris.
Sincerely,
any
The Honorable Strom Thurmond
United States Senate
Washington. D.C. 20510
GEORGE BUSH
WASHINGTON
October 23, 1992
Dear Strom,
I loved having you with me and at my side on that
wonderful train trip through Georgia, South Carolina and
North Carolina. The enthusiasm of the crowds was
contagious and kept me upbeat and confident.
Thanks, Strom, for your support in this tough campaign
year. Barbara and I are grateful to have people like you
on our side. Only 11 more days to go until victory in
November!
With warmest wishes,
Sincerely,
as
News Summary
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WASHINGTON
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1992
6:00 A.M. EDT EDITION
TRIP NEWS
STUMPING THROUGH NEW JERSEY, RIDGEWOOD ROARS -- A reinvigorated
President Bush was greeted Thursday in Ridgewood by nearly 20,000
people, who flooded Veterans Park and overflowed into nearby
streets and parking lots.
(The Hackensack Record)
BUSH SLAMS CLINTON IN JERSEY COPTER TOUR -- President Bush
barnstormed across New Jersey Thursday, dismissing polls showing
he is trailing Bill Clinton and warning taxpayers that Clinton
would wallop them in the wallet.
(Newark Star Ledger, New York Times, Knight-Ridder)
NATIONAL NEWS
PEROT CAUSING JITTERS IN BUSH, CLINTON CAMPS -- President Bush
Thursday accused Ross Perot of "nutty ideas" and "crazy statements"
as campaign strategists for both Bush and Bill Clinton reacted
nervously to signs that Perot is having a renewed impact on the
race.
(Washington Post, AP)
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
BUSH SAYS NORMAL RELATIONS WITH VIETNAM AREN'T NEAR -- President
Bush on Thursday praised Vietnam's willingness to cooperate in
accounting for missing American servicemen but said he doesn't see
normal relations with Hanoi in the near future.
(AP)
NETWORK NEWS (Thursday evening)
CLINTON FILES -- Was someone
at State trying to help the
TRIP NEWS
A-1
Bush-Quayle campaign by digging
up dirt on Bill Clinton and his
NATIONAL NEWS
A-4
mother?
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
A-12
HEALTH CARE/CLINTON -- Bill
Clinton criticized the Presi-
NETWORK NEWS
B-1
dent for not addressing the
rising cost of health care.
EDITORIALS
C-1
PRESIDENT/INTERVIEW -- In an
interview today, the President
said Americans would be wasting
their votes if they vote for
Perot.
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TRIP NEWS
STUMPING THROUGH NEW JERSEY, RIDGEWOOD ROARS
HACKENSACK -- A reinvigorated President Bush was greeted
Thursday in Ridgewood by nearly 20,000 people, who flooded Veterans
Park and overflowed into nearby streets and parking lots.
The largest and most enthusiastic crowd the President has
drawn in his seven campaign visits to New Jersey seemed to fire up
the President and restore the optimism of Bergen County Republican
leaders.
"People were standing in line this morning at 8 o'clock to get
tickets," said county Republican chairman John Schepisi, who had
10,000 tickets to distribute. "We gave them away and by 10 o'clock
there wasn't a ticket left. And outside the gate, they estimated
there were 9,000 more."
The appearance came as some national polls showed the gap
between Bush and Bill Clinton narrowing slightly. The same polls
show support for Ross Perot rising.
(Paul Hendrie, The Hackensack Record)
CAMPAIGNING IN VINELAND
VINELAND -- Above a sea of red, white and blue banners and
flags, President Bush told a crowd of more than 15,000 in center
city Thursday that he is looking forward to four more years.
"I'm going to win this election, Bush said toward the end of
his 19-minute address. "Don't listen to those nutty pollsters
trying to tell you how to vote."
The crowd started gathering around the rally site at Seventh
Street and Landis Avenue at sunrise
The majority of the crowd was in place by about 10:30 p.m.;
their anticipation generated a charged atmosphere throughout the
area.
At 11:55 p.m., one of six helicopters in the presidential
entourage flew over the crowd, which responded with screams and a
flag-waving frenzy. The crowd chanted "Bush, Bush" and "Four More
Years" during the 15 minutes it took the President to travel from
the landing site at Vineland Development Center to the elevated
podium at the rally site. (Deborah Marko, Vineland Daily Journal)
BUSH BLITZES NEW JERSEY IN CAMPAIGN SWING
RIDGEWOOD -- President Bush packed his campaign into six
helicopters Thursday and blitzed New Jersey from depressed Vineland
in the south to middle-class, suburban Bergen County in the north.
On his sixth trip to the Garden State since the Republican
convention, Bush courted the election battleground's 15 electoral
votes largely by assailing Bill Clinton's character and bashing the
news media for what he considered skimpy reporting of positive
economic news. A slip of the tongue may have revealed how much
the President was thinking about the economy. Before listing
Arkansas' rankings on health, education and crime, he told a huge
crowd in Ridegewood park, "I don't want to run the risk of ruining
what is a lovely recession." Bush quickly corrected himself to say
"a lovely reception."
() Martin Kasindorf, New York Newsday)
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White House News Summary
Friday, October 23, 1992 -- A-2
Bush Blitzes New Jersey, Says He's Gaining Strength
RIDGEWOOD -- President Bush said Thursday his come-from-
behind candidacy was picking up ground lost to Bill Clinton as he
whirled around New Jersey on a hectic helicopter blitz.
"I come into this state feeling good," Bush said in his final
campaign rally of the day, on grassy ground in Ridgewood.
"Something's happening out across this country. Something is
happening. We're moving up on this guy. "
At his rallies, all of them lively and well attended, Bush
pressed his campaign theme that an indecisive Clinton lacks the
character to be trusted as president.
(Steve Holland, Reuter)
BUSH TRIES TO WIN UNDECIDED VOTERS IN N.J. TRIP
SEACAUCUS -- President Bush helicoptered through the must-
win state of New Jersey Thursday, trying to win back the embrace
of voters who tell pollsters they're jilting him.
Down by 10-12 points in a state that usually votes for
Republican presidential candidates, Bush is encouraged because he
has been down by as much as 16 points in New jersey in recent days.
The volatility of the polls is Bush's best hope of wresting
the Nov. 3 election from Bill Clinton, who is running about 45%
nationwide to Bush's 32%
As part of his new strategy, Bush is attacking the media at
every stop, holding aloft an "Annoy the media, Re-elect George
Bush" bumper sticker.
The crowds cheer in agreement. At a Ridgewood rally that drew
about 10,000, people started holding their noses and chanting
"What's that smell?" when the press corps accompanying Bush
arrived.
(Ann McFeatters, Scripps Howard)
BUSH SAYS 'SOMETHING' WILL BRING HIM VICTORY
Clinton Opposes Gay Restrictions Effort
Heartened by large and enthusiastic crowds in recent days,
President Bush came to the key state of New Jersey Thursday to tell
voters "something is happening in this country" that will propel
him to a second term on election day.
That "something" did not seem to be concerning Bush's
Democratic rival, campaigning across the country. A confident-
sounding Bill Clinton urged Oregon voters to reject a ballot
measure to restrict homosexual rights and to support other
Democratic candidates as he campaigned in western states.
Bush, in contrast, kept his focus on Bill Clinton, continuing
to hammer Clinton for what the President charged was a fatal
tendency to "waffle" on key decisions. "This election boils down
to two things," Bush told a crowd of about 7,000 in Vineland, N.J.,
"character and trust."
He skirted close to accusing Clinton of lying: "My argument
with Bill Clinton is he tries to be all things to all people. In
the Oval Office you cannot do that
You cannot lie and you
can't be all things to all people."
(Tom Kenworthy and Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, A14)
White House News Summary
Friday, October 23, 1992 -- A-3
BUSH SLAMS CLINTON IN JERSEY COPTER TOUR
NEWARK -- President Bush barnstormed across New Jersey
Thursday, dismissing polls showing he is trailing Bill Clinton and
warning taxpayers that Clinton would wallop them in the wallet.
Bush made a helicopter tour of the state, savaging Clinton
before crowds in Mercer County, Vineland and Bergen County and
appearing on a TV show in Secaucus, hoping to whip up support and
win the state's 15 electoral votes.
The President's message at each stop was that Clinton had
failed to govern effectively in his home state and that the
Democrat would drain middle-class taxpayers' purses to pay for his
spending plans.
At least 10,000 people crowded onto the vast field at
Ridgewood's Veterans Memorial Park, and thousands more lined up
outside to hear Bush repeatedly slam Clinton's record in Arkansas.
(David Wald, Dan Weissman and Joe McCaffrey, Newark Star Ledger)
Bush, Campaigning in Jersey, Assails Clinton And Perot
RIDGEWOOD -- President Bush worked New Jersey bottom to top
Thursday, straining to erase Bill Clinton's lead in a vital state
with more roundhouse attacks on Clinton's record and tax proposals.
But the President aimed equally harsh invective at the rival he had
treated, until now, like eggshells: Ross Perot.
In a TV interview in Raleigh before flying north, Bush said
Perot had "some nutty ideas" about the economy and had made "crazy
statements" about White House dealings with Saddam Hussein.
"I don't want people to waste their vote, and that's
undoubtedly what it will be" if voters support Perot in November,
he said on "This Morning."
In his trek through New Jersey Thursday, Bush warned
repeatedly that Clinton was "going right after your wallet, man"
with proposals for $150 billion in new federal taxes and $220
billion in additional federal spending.
(Michael Wines, New York Times, A1)
Bush Calls Clinton A 'Liar,' Perot 'Nutty'
With Election Day closing in on him, President Bush Thursday
launched his toughest attacks yet on both Bill Clinton and Ross
Perot, accusing Clinton of lying and Perot of having "nutty ideas."
After weeks of accusing Clinton of the lesser sins of
deception, waffling, flip-flopping and trying to have it both ways,
Bush finally used the harsh accusation of lying at a downtown rally
here.
Responded Paul Begala: "If they ever build a monument to
presidential lying -- 'Mount Liesmore" -- George Bush's 'read my
lips' will be right under Richard Nixon's 'I am not a crook.
In his sharpest attack on Clinton, Bush declared, "My argument
with Bill Clinton is he tries to be all things to all people. In
the Oval Office you cannot do that
You cannot lie and you
can't be all things to all people." (Ellen Warren, Knight-Ridder)
EDITOR'S NOTE: "The Little Engine That Could," regarding the
recent train trip, by Anne Gowen, appears in the Washington Times,
page E1.
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NATIONAL NEWS
PEROT CAUSING JITTERS IN BUSH, CLINTON CAMPS
President Bush Thursday accused Ross Perot of "nutty ideas"
and "crazy statements" as campaign strategists for both Bush and
Bill Clinton reacted nervously to signs that Perot is having a
renewed impact on the race.
With Perot edging up slightly in several polls and airing the
first of three-half hour commercials on network TV, top aides to
his two opponents complained that the press has failed to give the
independent candidate the same scrutiny Bush and Clinton are
receiving, particularly on his plans to raise taxes and cut federal
benefits.
The candidates have clearly taken notice [to Perot's rise in
the polls]. On "CBS This Morning," Bush said of Perot: "I don't
think people want to waste their vote
I don't think he can
possibly win. I think he knows that. I think most people
supporting him know that They want to make a statement, a
statement of anger or a statement of support for a guy that'll
stand up, open a hood, fix it
He's got some good ideas and
some nutty ideas."
(Howard Kurtz and Dan Balz, Washington Post, A1)
Perot Uptick Draws Bush, Clinton Attention: A Wasted Vote Or Not?
President Bush and Al Gore on Thursday urged Ross Perot's
supporters not to waste their votes, trying to stall a modest post-
debate resurgence in support for the independent candidate.
Campaign and industry sources said that in addition to network
television buys, Perot is airing TV ads in 23 states around the
country. Any Perot stirring is viewed warily by a Clinton camp
trying to retain its strong lead in the campaign's final says.
"It's a problem," said George Stephanopoulos. "Obviously, the
higher he goes, the more he takes from us." Perot's movement also
is viewed with alarm by the Bush campaign, which faces a daunting
challenge in overtaking Clinton and can ill afford taking time to
fend off Perot or losing coveted media coverage to the independent.
In nationally televised interviews Thursday, Bush and Gore
said Perot cannot win and predicted his supporters would look
elsewhere. "When they go into the booth they're going to say, 'I'm
not going to waste my vote, " Bush said on CBS's "This Morning."
Gore, speaking on NBC's "Today," said Americans are "especially
eager not to waste their vote, not to cast a vote that will not
materially affect the outcome of the race."
(John King, AP)
PEROT CAMPAIGN DISMISSES BUSH COMMENT, BUOYED BY POLLS
DALLAS -- A spokeswoman for Ross Perot Thursday dismissed
President Bush's remark that a vote for the Perot would be a wasted
one and said support for her candidate is mounting.
"Absolutely it is not a waste of vote," Sharon Holman said in
a telephone interview. "He (Bush) is seeing a rise in public
support for Mr. Perot's outstanding performance in the debates and
the overwhelming positive reaction to the shows (Perot's
"infomercials") that lay out the problems and solutions.
(UPI)
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White House News Summary
Friday, October 23, 1992 -- A-5
MEASURING THE PEROT FACTOR
Clinton, Bush Both Spooked
There's growing talk about a Ross Perot surge, but until it
happens, the race for president remains a two-man affair: Bill
Clinton and President Bush....
The latest USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll shows that Perot received
a bump from 15% before the debate to 17% after [after debate:
Clinton -- 44%, Bush -- 32%].
His biggest gains came in the Midwest and West. But in the
West he seems to be hurting Bush more than Clinton.
Yet, there's plenty of reason for Clinton to be concerned.
The poll shows he's lost support among whites, independents and
Southerners -- all key groups Bush needs if he's going to stage a
comeback.
Clinton still leads in the South, but Bush has cut the gap
from 16 points to six.
(Richard Benedetto, USA Today, 8A)
CLINTON AIDES SAY PEROT THREATENS TO TIP ELECTION TO BUSH IN WEST
DENVER -- Strategists for Bill Clinton say Ross Perot's
rehabilitated candidacy threatens to tip the election to President
Bush in Colorado and much of the West.
Bolstering this fear are polls in traditionally conservative
independent-minded states such as Colorado showing that Perot's
gains in the past week have come at Clinton's expense.
Polls cited by Gov. Romer show Perot with 18 percent of the
vote in Colorado, up from single-digit figures during the time he
dropped out of the race. Clinton's support has diminished, his 14-
point lead over Bush "cut in half."
"The movement in the polls is now between Clinton and Perot,"
said Romer. "A bounce for Perot tends to come off Clinton's
numbers."
(Thaddeus Herrick, Scripps Howard)
CAMPAIGN INTENSITY BUILDS
A weekend of hard-nosed campaigning -- on the road and on TV
-- starts today as the latest polls put pressure on all three major
candidates. With 12 days to go, the USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll
finds Bill Clinton slipping a bit, and Ross Perot on an upswing
after Monday's final debate. Clinton's sizeable lead is 44%-32%
over Bush. Perot is a distant third at 17%. Perot didn't
campaign, but aides pushed the idea that he's about to pass Bush.
"This is a Clinton-Perot race," Perot spokeswoman Sharon
Holman said.
(Richard Benedetto, USA Today, 1A)
BUSH AIMS TO RECAPTURE JUST ENOUGH OF '88 TURF
RIDGEWOOD -- With just 12 days to go, the White House has
settled on a come-back strategy that will take President Bush and
his surrogates to regions where the race with Bill Clinton is close
and states that total enough Electoral College votes to win
reelection. But that game plan is being kept flexible while the
reelection campaign, like the Democrats, keeps a watchful eye on
the surging candidacy of Ross Perot, Administration officials said.
(Paul Bedard, Washington Times, A4)
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White House News Summary
Friday, October 23, 1992 -- A-6
BUSH HAS $9 MILLION EDGE IN CAMPAIGN FUNDS
President Bush is going into the homestretch of the
presidential campaign with dramatic $9 million financial edge over
Bill Clinton, according to reports filed last Thursday. Bush's
financial superiority may be slight consolation to the beleaguered
president, a bright spot in a sea of sagging polls and deserting
supporters. Nevertheless, it is prompting cries of foul play from
Democratic quarters. The Clinton campaign alleges they believe
the only reason the President has so much money left is that he has
been able to subsidize his campaign from the public trough.
"They have been using taxpayers' money beyond what they were
allocated to run the campaign with, Tony Harrington, a lawyer for
the Clinton campaign said late Thursday.
(Barbara Demick, Knight-Ridder)
LETTER APPALLS PARTY
Et Tu, Kemp? Republicans Ask
Critics who included a member of the RNC Thursday angrily
accused Secretary Kemp of betraying President Bush by signing a
fund-raising letter that pronounces Bush's candidacy all but dead.
The Kemp letter, sent to 500,000 potential donors, gives the
impression that he has launched his 1996 presidential race and has
formed a pre-campaign organization, critics say.
In the four-page letter bearing the logo of the "Republican
Conservative Leadership Caucus," with Kemp's name prominently at
the top, Kemp begins:
"We conservatives are a family and a team
But unless we
pull together right now, we could lose more than an election -- we
could lose our voice in government."
"This letter is another monumental act of betrayal by Jack
Kemp, who couldn't even wait till the body was cold to start his
own election campaign," said a Republican close to Sen. Gramm.
(Ralph Hallow, Washington Times, A1)
FACTOIDS
For the first time since 1964, it appears likely a Democratic
candidate for president will receive more newspaper endorsements
than his GOP opponent. Editor & Publisher, the industry journal,
finds 149 endorsements for Bill Clinton and 121 for President Bush.
("Inside the Beltway," Washington Times, A6)
STATE EXPANDS PROBE INTO CLINTON FILES CONTROVERSY
The controversy over the State Department search into Bill
Clinton files took a new twist Thursday with a report that
department officials also looked for records under his mother's
name.
After reading the account in the Washington Post, Lawrence
Eagleburger ordered the State Department inspector general to
investigate.
Eagleburger had already asked, on Monday, for an investigation
into reports that department officials may have mishandled news
media requests for files on Clinton's travel activities in the late
1960s.
(George Gedda, AP)
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White House News Summary
Friday, October 23, 1992 -- A-7
FILE SEARCHERS 'DISAPPOINTED," MEMO SAYS
Little Is Turned Up On Clinton's Mother
During a nighttime search of old passport files for material
on Bill Clinton, State Department officials, including two
political appointees, were "disappointed" at how little information
they turned up and suggested that documents may have been removed
improperly, according to National Archives sources.
A National Archives memo of the incident, described by sources
to the Washington Post, offers new details about a two-day search
at the National Records Center, run by the National Archives in
Suitland, for politically damaging information on Clinton. The
search was directed by senior officials in the State Department's
Bureau of Consular Affairs and included a foray into files on
Clinton's mother.
"Look at this Administration," Clinton told a crowd while
campaigning in Seattle. "Now it turns out the State (Department)
was not only rifting through my files, but actually investigating
my mother, a well-known subversive. It would be funny if it's not
so pathetic." Al Gore described the search as "absolutely
despicable tactics" and called on President Bush to apologize to
Clinton's mother. Clinton's mother, Virginia Dell Kelley, said:
"He (Bush) could save his dime. I have never been so insulted in
my life. I do remember Hitler, the Gestapo and the police states.
This is absolutely unforgivable."
One department official involved in the incident said on
Wednesday night that the search for the passport records on Kelley
was part of a "routine" effort to determine if any material on
Clinton had been misfiled under her name.
(Walter Pincus and Michael Isikoff, Washington Post, A1)
CLINTON IS SOLIDIFYING GRIP ON ELECTORATE, POLL AND INTERVIEWS SHOW
KALAMAZOO
--
Results of a new nationwide Wall Street
Journal/NBC News poll show Bill Clinton riding a wave of support
that appears likely to carry him into the presidency. The survey,
conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, shows Clinton
favored by 47% of the 1,008 registered voters surveyed, President
Bush by 28% and Ross Perot by 19%
Seventy-six percent of the Clinton backers say there is "no
chance" they will change their minds before Election Day, compared
with 65% of Bush's backers.
More than one-third of voters say there are no circumstances
under which they would vote for the President, compared with about
one voter in five who feel that way about Clinton and Perot.
(Rich Jaroslovsky, Wall Street Journal, A1)
CLINTON STILL HOLD COMMANDING LEAD IN POLLS
NEW YORK -- The latest national polls show Bill Clinton
maintaining a commanding lead over President Bush, with Ross Perot
surging to his strongest third-place showing since he re-entered
the race
The ABC News poll combining interviews with 909 likely voters
Tuesday and Wednesday put Clinton at 43%, Bush at 32%, Perot at
17%, with a 4% margin of error.
(AP)
White House News Summary
Friday, October 23, 1992 -- A-8
CLINTON ON BUSH ECONOMICS: 'HOW MUCH MORE EVIDENCE DO YOU NEED'
EUGENE, Ore. -- Bill Clinton denigrated anew at Republican
economics Thursday as he made a final swing through the West,
saying President Bush was leading the "things could be worse
crowd."
"This country is hurt by trickle down
How much more
evidence do you need?" Clinton shouted to a thunderous crowd at the
University of Oregon as he tried to solidify support up and down
the West Coast, campaigning from Seattle to southern California's
Orange County.
Clinton rattled off gloomy statistics on jobs, Americans'
incomes and health coverage
Clinton ribbed the Bush Administration for not having a better
defense conversion plan. Clinton said defense savings now were
being squandered on the savings and loan bailout and higher health
care costs.
At a huge rally in earlier in Seattle, Clinton said the
election was "between the courage to change and being stuck in the
status quo, between the things-can-be-better crowd and the things-
could-be-worse crowd."
Clinton said Bush was wrong to veto measures such as a bill
to provide $300 billion for women's health research
"Why? Because he caved in to the far right and was afraid that
things could be worse, Clinton said. Bush vetoed the bill because
it included funding for fetal tissue research.
"Every time Mr. Bush steps up to the plate, he's part of the
things-could-be-worse crowd," Clinton said, noting Bush had vetoed
a family leave bill.
(Karen Ball, AP)
CLINTON MAY ADOPT MEASURES TO JOLT ECONOMY
PITTSBURGH -- A senior adviser to Bill Clinton left open the
possibility Thursday that Clinton might adopt short-term measures
to jolt the economy back to life if he's elected next month.
"The answer will depend to some extent on economic
conditions themselves over the next three to four months," Roger
Altman, vice chairman of the Blackstone Group investment bank, told
a dinner meeting of the National Association of Manufactures.
(Rich Miller, Reuter)
BUSINESS LEADERS TO URGE CLINTON
TO REVERSE STANCE ON CHINA TRADE
PITTSBURGH -- American business leaders aren't waiting for the
results of the Nov. 3 election to begin pressuring Bill Clinton to
abandon his threat to link U.S. trade with China to the Beijing
government's progress on human rights and other issues.
Directors of the National Association of Manufacturers, the
leading lobbying group for the manufacturing industry, will come
out this week in favor of MFN status for China, with no conditions
attached, at a board meeting in Pittsburgh.
(Daniel Southerland, Washington Post, B1)
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White House News Summary
Friday, October 23, 1992 -- A-9
RETIRED BRASS DEMAND TRUTH ON DRAFT
Fifty former generals and admirals, citing "a disturbing
pattern of divergent and contradictory stories,' Thursday asked
Bill Clinton to "tell the truth" about his avoiding the draft
during the Vietnam War.
The former officers, including Gen. Westmoreland, called on
Clinton to "live up to" a promise he made in April to make pubic
"all records and documents in your possession or available to you"
showing his draft activities, they said in a letter to Clinton.
(Jerry Seper, Washington Time, A1)
COLLEGE OFFICIALS SIGN CLINTON ENDORSEMENT
More than 200 university presidents, deans and other college
officials have endorsed Bill Clinton's candidacy in an unusual show
of political involvement by academia.
In a sharp departure from past campaigns where university
officials stayed on the political sidelines, a large group of
college officials has signed a glowing letter of support for
Clinton to be published Monday in the Chronicle of Higher
Education.
In an open letter to the American public called "A Summons to
Leadership, the educators cite "flagging morale" in the university
research field and say they believe Clinton would "reinvigorate"
American education. They praise the former Rhodes scholar's
"vision," "boldness of mind," and education record, and applaud his
plan to dismantle the current college financial aid system.
(Mary Jordan, Washington Post, A22)
CLINTON OPPOSES EARLY PROJECTION OF WINNER
LOS ANGELES -- Bill Clinton, in a California TV interview
Thursday night, asked TV networks to delay projecting a
presidential winner on election night until the polls close on the
West Coast. And he promised he won't make any early forecasts
either.
(Steven Komarow, AP)
DEMOCRATS MAKE GAINS IN VOTER REGISTRATION, ESPECIALLY OUT WEST
The Democratic Party is making substantial gains in voter
registration -- a key indicator of political strength -- in almost
every section of the country except the South.
The most dramatic Democratic gains have been in the West Coast
states and Rocky Mountain states, where the GOP has held sway for
two decades. In addition, for the first time in a generation,
Democratic voter registration gains were based on large numbers of
new white voters to bolster the party's expanding base among blacks
and Hispanic constituencies. (Thomas Edsall, Washington Post, A15)
White House News Summary
Friday, October 23, 1992 -- A-10
CONSERVATIVE TALK SHOW HOST 'BACKS' CLINTON IN ON-AIR GAG
NEW YORK -- Did Rush Limbaugh actually endorse Bill Clinton?
Say it ain't so, his fans cried.
It wasn't.
Limbaugh staged a gag of presidential proportions Thursday
when he opened his radio show with an endorsement for Clinton.
Then he denied making the statement as shocked listeners begged for
an explanation.
"Rush makes a statement on the air, denies making it and
catches all sorts of grief from his listeners. There is a governor
running for president who has done this for 20 years and is leading
in the polls," said a statement from Limbaugh after the show
"So you'll still help us get Bush re-elected?" asked one
caller.
"I'll do everything in my power," Limbaugh told her.
(AP)
EDITOR'S NOTES: "In Donating $230 Million, Interests Favored Bush,
Hill Democrats," by Charles Babcock, appears in the Washington
Post, page A19.
"One Day In The Life Of The Campaign," regarding a day with all the
candidates, President Bush at Waffle House, appears in the
Washington Post, page C1.
TAX BILL ON WAY TO BUSH TODAY
Congress, which intentionally slowed its processing of the $27
billion tax bill in hopes President Bush might sign it after the
election, will submit the bill to the White House today, according
to a Senate aide.
By waiting until today to submit the bill, congressional
leaders have given Bush until the day after the Nov. 3 election to
decide whether to sign or "pocket veto" the measure.
(Washington Post, A8)
BUSH OFFICIALS TRYING TO REASSURE MINORITIES ABOUT VIOLENCE STUDY
The Bush Administration is trying to reassure minorities that
its plan to research the causes of violence as a public health
problem is not racist. But critics say killing is a social ill,
not a medical one.
Secretary Sullivan said Thursday he was appointing a special
commission to monitor the research.
"We want to be looked at," Sullivan said. "We want these
efforts to be examined, scrubbed down, critiqued, and ultimately
understood by the communities we are seeking to help."
But critics remained unconvinced.
Rep. Conyers asked the GAO to audit the research to see if it
was "an attempt to link race and-or socioeconomic class with
violence and aggression."
And Ronald Walter, dean of political science at Howard
University, said, "The fact that people die doesn't make it a
public health problem, because health is not the thing that
precipitated the death." Despite criticism, Sullivan said in an
interview with the AP that the study will begin in the next few
weeks.
(Richard Vernaci, AP)
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White House News Summary
Friday, October 23, 1992 -- A-11
DELAY ON ASPIRIN WARNING LABEL COST CHILDREN'S LIVES, STUDY SAYS
A five-year government delay in requiring warning labels on
aspirin led to the needless deaths of 1,470 children from Reye's
syndrome, researchers contend in a new analysis
"The Reagan and Bush Administration have been marked by a
commitment to deregulation," said Dr. Patricia Buffler, dean of
the School of Public Health at the University of California,
Berkeley. "When it occurs in an area where it has a health impact,
the consequences are profound -- profoundly adverse."
The report by Dr. Bubbler and R. Davis of the National Academy
of Sciences is in Saturday's issue of the British Medical Journal
The Lancet.
Doctors had already reached a consensus in 1982 that the use
of aspirin to treat flu and chicken pox could cause Reye's
syndrome, Dr. Buffler and Dr. Davis said.
(AP, New York Times, A12)
HEALTH CARE COSTS OUTSTRIPPING WAGE HIKES, STUDY SAYS
The average American family suffered a 5.3%, or $893, drop in
take-home pay this year, because health care costs have outstripped
general economic growth by 50%, according to a "damage report"
released Thursday by the Service Employees International Union.
The lost wages would add up to more than $4,000 since 1980,
the assessment said.
Health care costs are to blame for a 4.4% decline in the
average American's hourly wage since 1980, the analysis said.
Although the report takes no position on which reform plan
should be enacted, John Sweeney, president of the group, said
proposals that rely on "the private marketplace" to control costs,
such as President Bush's plan, are likely to fail. He favors a
plan, such as one advocated by Bill Clinton, that would set an
annual limit on national health expenditures pegged to growth in
the gross national product, with allowances for demographic changes
and new technology.
(Richard Knox, Boston Globe)
DOUBTS ON WOMEN IN COMBAT
Panelists Place Effectiveness First
A majority of members of a presidential commission Thursday
expressed strong doubts about removing all Defense Department
barriers to putting women in direct combat.
It was the first time the 15 members of the Presidential
Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces were
called on to officially express their views. Eight voiced
disapproval of lifting the barriers.
(Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times, A1)
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS
BUSH SAYS NORMAL RELATIONS WITH VIETNAM AREN'T NEAR
President Bush on Thursday praised Vietnam's willingness to
cooperate in accounting for missing American servicemen but said
he doesn't see normal relations with Hanoi in the near future.
Bush left the impression in an interview with CBS that there
will be no decision on normalizing relations before his term is
finished -- meaning a decision may fall to Bill Clinton if Bush is
defeated. The President reaffirmed that normalizing relations with
Vietnam will be linked to Hanoi's cooperation in accounting for the
MIA's and hinted that an exchange of ambassadors could depend on
whether Hanoi moves toward democracy. "I must be satisfied as
president that all obstacles about POWs and MIAs have been
removed," Bush said in explaining his requirements for extending
diplomatic recognition. Bush was upbeat for the most part about
the fruits of the recent mission to Hanoi by retired Gen. Vessey.
"This is a major breakthrough, the President said of the
Vessey mission and the release to the U.S. authorities of some
4,000 MIA-related photos. "But I need to know exactly how major,"
Bush added.
(George Gedda, AP)
POW-MIA ENVOY URGES RELAXING VIETNAM EMBARGO, OFFICIAL SAYS
A special presidential envoy to Vietnam has recommended
relaxing a decades-old U.S. trade embargo in response to Hanoi's
release of photos that may clear up the fate of some missing U.S.
servicemen, an unidentified Administration official said Thursday
night. John Vessey favors ending the embargo as early as January
if Hanoi follows through fully on cases of missing Americans he
believes it can help resolve, the official said. Vessey is to
brief Bush on his trip in the Oval Office Friday morning, and Bush
is scheduled to make an announcement to reporters after the
meeting. Administration officials said Bush would announce no
major shift in U.S. policy, but would applaud the turnover of the
cache of pictures as a positive step that could lead to better
ties.
(Jim Wolf, Reuter)
BUSH SAYS VIETNAM TO BROADEN MIA EFFORT
President Bush was to take time out from the campaign Friday
to announce that Vietnam, in an encouraging move, has agreed to
broaden its effort significantly to investigate information of
missing U.S. servicemen from the Vietnam War. The President will
also likely say that some families of Americans missing in
Indochina have been given new information about the fate of their
loved ones. Asked whether any families had been notified, Pentagon
spokesman Bob Hall told reporters Thursday: "I can't give you a
precise number. I can only say that so far, it's a limited number
of people." However some families have reportedly told news
organizations inquiring about the new evidence that the
Administration requested they not divulge the information until
after Bush's Friday announcement.
(UPI)
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Friday, October 23, 1992 -- A-13
BOSNIAN ENVOY CRITICIZES BUSH POLICY ON YUGOSLAV WAR
Bosnia's ambassador to the U.N. said Thursday he felt let down
by President Bush and expressed hope that Bill Clinton would offer
better answers to the Yugoslav war if he wins the election.
Muhamed Sacirbey said Bush has not followed through on a
promise he made to use whatever means necessary to ensure relief
gets through to the people trapped in the yugoslav civil war.
"It is clear that people within the Administration know the
promise has not been kept," Sacirbey told the American Jewish
Committee.
(Reuter)
ALLEGED MASSACRE SITE IS DISCOVERED IN CROATIA
U.N. Team Probes Purported Serb Atrocity
ZAGREB -- A U.N.-sponsored human rights panel said here
Thursday it has discovered what appears to be a mass grave near the
Croatian city of Vukovar, scene of a three-month battle last year
between Croatian defense forces and besieging Serb nationalists.
Tadeusz Mazowiecki, a former Polish premier who heads the U.N.
panel, told reporters that the area of the grave measured about 30
square yards, but he declined to give additional details.
In Washington, however, Administration officials told
Washington Post staff writer Barton Gellman that there is good
evidence the grave near Vukovar had been used to conceal a
massacre, not merely to bury casualties of the lengthy Serb
bombardment of the city.
(AP, Washington Post, A25)
U.S. GIVES U.N. WAR CRIMES REPORT IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
The U.S. submitted to the U.N. War Crimes Commission a
compendium of human rights abuses in Bosnia-Hercegovina that
includes such atrocities as mass castrations of young men and human
organ pilfering by a Serbian physician, the State Department says.
Richard Boucher said Thursday the submission, the
Administration's second since the commission was established by
U.N. resolution last month, will be used to prosecute war crimes
committed in the former Yugoslavia. He said the reports were
extracted from interviews with refugees, witnesses to atrocities,
intelligence sources and reports by journalists. (Sid Balman, UPI)
SARAJEVO AID FLIGHTS RESUME; MUSLIM-CROAT FEUD CONTINUES
SARAJEVO -- Bosnian Croat and Slavic Muslim factions continued
to battle each other in towns northwest of Sarajevo today, but the
U.N. humanitarian airlift to the Bosnian capital resumed this
afternoon following a one-day suspension because of the fighting.
(AP, Washington Post, A25)
E.C. SCRAMBLE TO REVIVE TRADE TALKS
BRUSSELS -- Talks between the E.C. and the U.S. crucial to the
future of world trade were in crisis Thursday, but Britain, the
current E.C. president, said it would do all in its power to revive
them. And Arthur Dunkel, head of the GATT, said Washington and
Brussels held the global trading system in their hands and begged
them to reconcile their differences in view of a looming world
recession.
(Reuter, Washington Post, B2)
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TIMES SAYS MEMO PREPARED FOR BUSH ON WAIT'S EFFORTS
NEW YORK -- White House aides prepared a detailed memo for
then-Vice President Bush in 1985 about the efforts of Terry Waite
to win the release of American hostages in Lebanon, the New York
Times reported Friday. The memo was prepared for John Poindexter
by Oliver North, the paper said. It was written to familiarize
Bush with Waite's hostage release activities in advance of the Vice
President's hastily arranged meeting with Waite on Nov. 26, 1985.
The contents of the memo are not in conflict with Bush's past
statements that he was aware of the efforts to free the hostages.
But the Times said it was significant because it shows that aides
gave Bush a wealth of details about the secret efforts, raising
more questions about Bush's assertion that he was "not in the loop"
about the Iran-contra arms-for-hostages affair. While the memo
did not refer to the arms-for-hostages deal then in the works, it
did request Bush to raise with Waite some of the ancillary demands
the Iranians had made as part of hostage negotiations, the Times
said. The Times said the memo was among documents sent anonymously
to the newspaper.
(AP)
ISRAEL INDICATES FLEXIBILITY ON WITHDRAWAL FROM GOLAN
Israel sent a new signal Thursday of its willingness to be
flexible in Middle East peace talks on the key issue of withdrawal
from the Golan Heights, provided Syria satisfied Israeli desires
for full peace. Signs of Israeli flexibility came in a statement
from its chief negotiator, Itamar Rabinovich, who told reporters
at the end of the meeting: "They want full withdrawal, and we have
our own notion of the territorial issue. And we have also
indicated to the Syrians that this notion is not necessarily rigid,
and our view could be affected by what the Syrians will tell us on
the issues that are of interest to #Reuter, Washington Post, A27)
U.S. SENSITIVE TO RUMORS OF COUP AGAINST YELTSIN
Rumblings of a coup and mounting opposition to the reform
program of President Yeltsin are being watched closely by Bush
Administration policy-makers and intelligence officials
Russian Foreign Minister Kozyrev told the Supreme Soviet on
Wednesday that anti-Yeltsin forces posed "a danger" to economic
reforms. He sounded the alarm about a possible conservative coup
against the Yeltsin government. A State Department official said
that alarm and several unusual incidents in Moscow this week -- a
grenade attack near a McDonald's and a shootout between
parliamentary guards and Russian police -- were troubling signs.
Several neo-fascist, nationalist groups also have become more
active recently, the official said.
(Bill Gertz, Washington Times, A5)
U.S. AUTHORIZES EVACUATION OF GOVERNMENT WORKERS IN SOUTHERN SUDAN
The Bush Administration has authorized the evacuation of nine
U.S. government employees in Sudan following the execution of one
and possibly two of their colleagues by the Sudanese government,
an official said Thursday. James Kinder, head of the U.S. Office
of Foreign Disaster Assistance, said the nine were given documents
authorizing their transfer to Khartoum.
(George Gedda, AP)
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NETWORK NEWS
(Thursday evening, Oct. 22)
CAMPAIGN/CLINTON FILES
CBS's Dan Rather: The case of Gov. Bill Clinton's passport file
has taken a new turn. The question now is whether someone in the
State Department was trying to help the Bush-Quayle reelection
campaign by digging up dirt not only on Clinton, but on a member
of his family.
CBS's Susan Spencer: The Administration's zealous search for Gov.
Clinton's passport files became more mysterious today with a report
that the State Department researched not only Clinton's files, but
also those of this woman. This woman is his mother.
(TV coverage: Clinton waving to crowd.)
(Virginia Kelley: "As an American citizen, I am outraged,
outraged.")
Rumors of something fishy in Clinton's anti-war days prompted the
original request for the files. The State Department jumped on it,
perhaps improperly, it later said, but nothing was found and nobody
said anything about Clinton's mother. Today's Washington Post
reported that the search did include her under past married names:
Virginia Dell Blythe and Virginia Dell Clinton.
(Clinton: "Now it turns out that the State Department was not only
rifling through my files, but actually investigated my mother, a
well-known subversive. Funny? It would be funny if it's not so
pathetic.")
The report prompted calls for an independent investigation.
(Sen. Kerry: "We are asking for this investigation because the
State Department should not be an arm of the negative-research team
of the Republican National Committee or the Bush campaign.")
Democrats are doubly suspicious because the new deputy assistant
secretary for passport services, one Brett Wacker [phonetic], knows
a lot about digging up dirt on the opposition. He worked briefly
for the Bush-Quayle campaign this year, and in 1988, knowledgeable
sources say, he helped do the research on Willie Horton. Today,
the State Department was turning aside questions.
(Richard Boucher, State Department: "The inspector general is
looking into it for us. He will do a full, comprehensive report.
He's been asked to do this as expeditiously as possible.")
(TV coverage: President Bush greeting supporters.)
Bush campaign spokesmen had nothing to add. As the President
struggles these last two weeks, reports of an investigation of Bill
Clinton's mother would seem the last thing he needs.
(NBC-10, ABC-5, CBS-Lead)
Rather reports Clinton was in Seattle today. He criticized
President Bush for failing to address the rising cost of health
care. Clinton said Bush is, "Out of energy, out of ideas and
should be run out of town."
(TV coverage: President Bush, Clinton waving to crowds.)
Bush campaigned for suburban votes in New Jersey. He repeated one
of his familiar themes, warning middle-income taxpayers that
Clinton is "after your wallet."
(CBS-2)
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CAMPAIGN/BUSH CHARACTER
NBC's Tom Brokaw: George Bush is trying to make an issue of Bill
Clinton's character in this campaign, but our poll today shows
slightly higher voter confidence in Clinton's personal
characteristics.
NBC's Lisa Myers reports that even critics concede that on a
personal level, Bush is an ineherently decent man.
(President Bush, in Oval Office: "Oh my Lord, it was Wilbur's
[phonetic] son that was killed? We ought to call him. Let's call
him.")
(Barbara Kellerman, presidential historian: "This man has gone
through a series of tests and a series of professions that suggest
certain characterological things about him, such as a certain level
of competence and capacity; such as a certain level of stability;
such as a certain level of intelligence; such as a certain level
of perseverance and persistence.")
Bush is deeply loyal to those he serves and to his own staff, even
when things go wrong.
(TV coverage: President Bush with Reagan at meeting.)
(Jonathan Bush: "Well, I think you'll never see the President with
any recriminations. He never blames anybody but himself.")
But in periods of political adversity, Bush can be testy and look
frantic, even silly. And at times, he has seemed unable to fully
grasp the magnitude of problems facing the country.
(TV coverage: President Bush touring plant, campaigning, meeting
troops in Persian Gulf.)
But when a foreign crisis occurs, Bush's best traits kick in. He
is steady, stable and resolute. Although instinctively cautious,
Bush has the courage of his convictions. He fights for what he
believes is right, despite the political risk.
(Bruce Mazlish, presidential historian: "The Persian Gulf was his
moment of glory. Now, there he did not waffle. I mean, he put
together a coalition, [inaudible] extremely well, and pushed that
war.")
(President Bush: "And thank God I didn't have to listen to these
carpers telling me how to run that war.")
When it comes to politics, though, Bush's basic decency and
moderation sometimes give way to expediency. Take civil rights.
On a personal level, Bush has always opposed racial injustice. But
in 1964, he sounded like a segregationist, opposing the landmark
civil-rights bill. Afterward, Bush told his friend Rev. John
Stevens [phonetic] that what he did was wrong.
(TV coverage: Film of Bush campaigning in 1964.)
(Stevens: "He said, 'I'm sorry.' He said, 'I went against my best
instincts, but I was so -- this was what I had to do to get elected
and this is what would sell, especially in Houston and I intend
never to do it again.'
But in 1990, Bush did seem to do it again. Under heavy pressure
from conservatives, he became the first president to veto a civil-
rights bill.
(President Bush: "I want to sign a civil-rights bill. But I will
not sign a quota bill.")
A year later, when the political equation shifted, he signed
virtually the same bill.
(TV coverage: President Bush signing Civil Rights Act.)
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Myers continues:
At this year's convention, Bush's personal beliefs again gave way
to politics. Friends say Bush was bothered by some of the gay
bashing and meanness, but shrugged it off as the price of winning
back his party's right wing. And who can forget these?
(President Bush, 1980: "What I call a voodoo economic policy.")
(President Bush, 1988: "Read my lips.")
(Mazlish: "He too had ideals. But he has traded them and retrades
them, and there's a limit on -- you can just go so far. So I think
most people will credit him with good aspirations, but no
backbone."
There also is the Iran-Contra scandal. Growing evidence suggests
Bush may not have told the truth when he claimed to have been out
of the loop.
(TV coverage: President Bush with Reagan at airport.)
(Kellerman: "We've had far more honest politicians, far more
responsible politicians, far more accountable politicians. But I
also think we've had worse politicians.")
Would Bush be different in a second term? Historians say probably
not. Friends say freed from having to get reelected, Bush might
be truer to his own principles. They emphasize "might." (NBC-7)
CAMPAIGN/PEROT
ABC's Diane Sawyer reports Perot was on Bush's mind today. In an
interview on "CBS This Morning,' the President said Americans would
be wasting their votes if they vote for Perot. Bush said Perot
offers some nutty ideas as well as good ones and makes crazy
statements.
(TV coverage: President Bush appearing on "CBS This Morning."
Clinton continued his swing through the West today, shoring up
support in Washington and Oregon. Then, trying to take support
away from Bush, he campaigned in Orange County, California.
(TV coverage: Clinton waving to crowd and greeting supporters.)
(ABC-2)
CBS's Bill Lagattuta reports that in his latest TV blitz, Perot
answers the charge that he's just your average third-party
candidate.
(President Bush, "CBS This Morning": "I don't think he can
possibly win. I think he knows that. I think most people
supporting him know that.")
While publicly writing Perot off, the Bush campaign is clearly
worried. With good performances in the debates, Perot bought
himself six points in the polls, hardly an explosion in popularity,
but enough to cause Bush to dust off his Perot impression. [CBS
News-New York Times Poll: Clinton 48 percent, Bush 33, Perot 16.]
(President Bush: "Open up the hood, fix it, you know. I mean,
people like that kind of thing. But when they go into that booth,
they're going to say, 'I'm not going to waste my vote. '")
In the Clinton camp, they're getting antsy too. Their own private
polls show Perot may have already taken all the votes he can from
the President and could soon cut into their lead.
(TV coverage: President Bush with Clinton and Perot in debate.)
(George Stephanopolous, Clinton campaign: "No, we're not there
yet. Obviously, we could get there if Perot continues to move."
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Lagattuta continues:
And both campaigns worry that undecided voters are only seeing
Perot's good side. Perot is clearly having fun and raising hell
now that he can smell blood. He could conceivably deliver the
final death blow to President Bush. And the Clinton campaign is
worried that their lead is so big that voters won't be afraid of
wasting a vote for Perot. And in states where Perot's lead is
growing, they're concerned that Perot could tighten up the race
significantly --bad news for Clinton.
(CBS-3)
Brokaw: All the polls we're seeing agree on the bottom line: Bill
Clinton's lead remains in double digits and Ross Perot is moving
steadily up. President Bush -- he's stuck in the middle. Here's
the latest NBC News-Wall Street Journal survey of more than a
thousand voters this week. Clinton has a 19-point lead on the
President and Perot is now just under 20 percent. That's very high
for a third-party candidate. [Clinton 47 percent, Bush 28, Perot
19.] The latest CNN-USA Today Poll shows Perot at 17 percent and
only a 12-point lead for Clinton. Perot is not expected to win,
of course, but he is causing some worry these days.
NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports Perot's gain is making it impossible
for Bush to catch up. So today, Bush lashed out at Perot, and
Clinton was also taking Perot seriously.
(TV coverage: President Bush with Clinton and Perot in debate.)
In the latest poll, twice as many voters now like Perot as dislike
him [47 percent favorable, 25 unfavorable]. They were 2-to-1
against him only a month ago. Perot is hurting Bush. One in five
Republicans said they are backing Perot. But overall, Perot's
support is soft. More than half his backers said they might switch
by election day. Bush went after Perot today to try to reach those
voters.
(TV coverage: President Bush waving to supporters.)
(President Bush, "CBS This Morning": "When they go into that
booth, they're going to say, 'I'm not going to waste my vote.' And
it's a little more complicated than opening the hood, sticking your
head in there and saying I'll fix it. I mean, it's a little more
difficult in the real world. And he's got some good ideas and he's
got some nutty ideas.")
Clinton has been riding high, but Perot could shake up the race
enough to hurt him in key states. Clinton today took a shot at
Perot's tough economic plan.
(TV coverage: Clinton waving to supporters.)
(Clinton: "[Inaudible] if we do this right now, it would weaken
the economy. It will drive unemployment up by over 400,000 over
three years. In 1995, unemployment will be higher than it is now.
So when the American people look at it, I think they're going to
vote for me.")
(Paul Begala, Clinton campaign: "If you gave me $100 million, you
let me participate in three national debates and then exempted me
from any criticism of my plan, I'd be doing pretty well too.")
This week, Perot said more on TV and radio than either Bush or
Clinton, trying to convince voters that a vote for him is not
wasted. His campaign said he would announce a real campaign
schedule today. But today, no plan.
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Mitchell continues:
(Sharon Holman, Perot campaign: "We're not willing to make any
statement about what our next plans are until we hear directly from
Mr. Perot.'
The Perot campaign said today it is now a two-man race -- Perot and
Clinton. Bush's spokesmen called that delusionary. But the fact
is, Perot is now closer to Bush than Bush is to Clinton. And Perot
still has millions more to spend on selling himself to voters.
(NBC-Lead)
Brokaw does a rundown on Perot's various proposals.
(NBC-2)
CAMPAIGN/PEROT DEATH THREAT
ABC's Diane Sawyer: Twelve days before the election, there is new
evidence of Ross Perot's popularity, as well as a new question
about something he has said. Our latest ABC News-Washington Post
Poll shows Gov. Clinton leading President Bush by 11 points, 43 to
32. It also shows Mr. Perot's numbers continuing to rise. He's
at 17 percent, a number helped by his performance in the debates.
In the last debate, Americans heard Mr. Perot tell of an incident
which he says not only shows his devotion to the search for MIAs
from the Vietnam War, but also proves he's not a quitter. Mr.
Perot says he continued the search, even though the Vietnamese were
so infuriated they tried to have him killed. It's a story Mr.
Perot has told often, not just in the debates.
ABC's Morton Dean reports on Perot's claim.
(Perot, Oct. 19: "The Vietnamese had sent people into Canada to
make arrangements to have me and my family killed.")
He says that in 1969, the FBI warned him he was on a hit list: The
North Vietnamese asked the Black Panthers to kill him. And sure
enough, he says, the terrorists struck.
(Perot, Aug. 11: "The most significant effort they had one night
is five people coming across my front yard with rifles.")
Perot told ABC News he can't remember exactly when it happened,
1970 or 1971. Paul McCarron [phonetic] headed the Dallas Police
Department's intelligence operations back then.
(McCarron: "Listen to me: It didn't happen. It did not happen."
Why is he so sure?
(McCarron: "Well, there were only about eight people here that
belonged to the Black Panther party. Two of those people worked
for us, and they told us everyday what was happening.")
Could it have been a different group?
(McCarron: "If five members of the First Baptist Church with
rifles had come onto his lawn, we would have found out about it.")
Perot says he did not tell police or the FBI about the attack, even
though Dallas police records show that on at least 14 occasions
during 1970 and 1971, Perot and his security team had asked for
police help with minor incidents. Perot told ABC News he preferred
to have his own security men handle the terrorists. Perot claims
the five armed men were chased away by a guard dog.
(Perot, Aug. 11: "He worked them like a sheepdog. He worked all
five and bit a big piece out of the seat of one of the guys who
went over the fence.")
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Dean continues:
In a telephone interview, he praised the dog's handler, but refused
to identify him. But Harold Verket [phonetic], who worked for
Perot from 1970 to 1979, fits the description.
(Verket: "As far as somebody coming aboard the property with ill
intent, I neither saw it on my watch or even heard about it on
somebody else's watch.")
Perot insists his security men searched hospitals to find the
bitten terrorists.
(Perot: "We thought we would be able to find that person because
if you take a tremendous hit to your seat, you bleed profusely.")
But he was not found, and neither were the other armed men -- not
by Perot or anyone else.
(ABC-Lead)
CAMPAIGN/WELFARE POLICY
ABC's Rebecca Chase reports on the candidates' welfare policies.
(President Bush: "We've got to reform our welfare system. Get
people to work and to learn and avoid the indignity of welfare.")
(Clinton: "If we value work, empowerment and family values and
personal responsibility, let's change the welfare system. Let's
make it a second chance, not a way of life.")
Both President Bush and Gov. Clinton agree that the welfare system
needs to be reformed. But their approaches are considerably
different. In the 1980s, Clinton was experimenting in Arkansas
with programs that move people off welfare and into jobs. And he
began lobbying for national reforms. In fact, Clinton helped write
the landmark legislation signed in 1988.
(TV coverage: Clinton speaking to legislature; at Rose Garden for
Family Support Act signing ceremony.)
Arkansas was one of the first states to implement the new program.
But limited federal funding has meant only 15 percent of those on
welfare are enrolled. Still, one study found that 58 percent of
those who moved off welfare were still off a year later. As
president, Clinton says he would go beyond the Family Support Act.
(Clinton: "The problem with the law is it's never been fully
implemented and it didn't go far enough.")
Clinton says he would eventually spend $6 billion a year for
training and support services, which could get as many as 1 million
people a year off welfare, saving money in the long run. His most
controversial program is a two-year limit on welfare.
(Clinton: "You cannot stay on welfare if there's a job available,
once we have supported your children and empowered you to go to
work. ")
But critics question whether it will be possible to implement and
enforce and two-year limit. Throughout his campaigns in the 1980s,
Bush never emphasized welfare. He praises the Family Support Act,
but he has never asked Congress for the $3 billion needed to fully
implement it. And he addressed welfare for the first time in his
presidency only this election year.
(TV coverage: President Bush greeting supporters; delivering State
of the Union address; speaking in Rose Garden.)
(President Bush: "I don't think we've done absolutely nothing.
But now we're moving forward.")
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Chase continues:
Bush's focus is now on encouraging states to continue their
experiments with reform. Since last April, he has granted nine
states waivers from federal rules.
(President Bush: "Now, in making these changes, I put my trust in
the states more than Washington. That's a philosophical
underpinning of our approach to welfare.")
Both candidates say they want to change welfare as we know it.
Bush is looking for answers in small state experiments. Clinton
is offering a blueprint that could dramatically change the system
across the whole country.
(ABC-14)
CAMPAIGN/NEW MEXICO
CBS's Mark Phillips reports New Mexico has become a battleground
state. It is not rich in electoral votes, but it is notable for
being the most accurate bellwether state. Only once since
statehood in 1912 has New Mexico not voted for the winner. The
polls show Clinton with a 12-point lead here.
(Frank Bond, New Mexico B-Q chairman: "I think we'll see a very
close race and I think we, as supporters of President Bush, have
a lot of work to do.")
(TV coverage: President Bush, Clinton greeting supporters.)
(Bond: "If the Republicans lose in New Mexico, I'm afraid that we
might lose nationwide.")
(CBS-4)
CAMPAIGN/TEXAS
ABC's John McWethy reports polls have already opened in Texas. The
early-voting program is very popular. Officials predict up to one-
third of eligible Texans will vote before election day. (ABC-3)
VIETNAM/MIA
NBC's John Cochran: A lot of people have long suspected that in
the final days of this political campaign, George Bush just might
spring a foreign-policy surprise. But the October surprise has
come from Hanoi, not from Washington.
(TV coverage: President bush waving to supporters.)
Bush was out campaigning today, but he made no mention of Vietnam's
new eagerness to share information about missing Americans. Bush
says it's too early to normalize relations, but he is encouraged.
(President Bush, "CBS This Morning": "This is
a
major
breakthrough, what's happened over there. But I need to know
exactly how major, but we're not going to do this until I can say
in total conscience, clear conscience to the missing-in-action
families and POW families: Here is a full accounting.")
Bush will get a briefing tomorrow from retired Gen. John Vessey,
who brought back thousands of documents and grisly pictures from
Hanoi this week. A former POW, Sen. McCain, returned with a
picture of himself in captivity. Vietnam seems eager to do
whatever it takes to get American economic help. The U.S. has
vetoed loans from international organizations, loans that Vietnam
needs for almost everything: roads, sewers, you name it. Some
relatives want Bush to go very slow.
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Cochran continues:
(Beth Stewart, MIA daughter: "The President should not lift trade
embargo based on pictures of dead bodies. We are willing to pay
the price for live American prisoners of war.")
This summer, Bush was reminded that emotions run high on this issue
when he got into a shouting match with relatives of missing
servicemen.
(TV coverage: President Bush listening to chanting audience.)
(President Bush: "Would you please shut up and sit down.")
The League of POW and MIA Families later apologized to Bush. But
relatives will demand that he keep up the pressure on Vietnam
despite Hanoi's new attitude.
(Deborah Robertson Bardslay, MIA daughter: "We need to send a very
clear message to them about exactly what we want from them, and
that's information on live Americans as well as men who have
died.")
Between Nov. 3 and Jan. 20, George Bush will either be a reelected
president or lame duck. Either way, it will be a lot easier for
him politically to deal with the touchy issue of Vietnam. (NBC-3)
UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
Sawyer reports 368,000 Americans filed new claims for unemployment
benefits last week, a drop of 15,000 from the week before and the
lowest number in two years.
(ABC-4)
BOSNIA/ATROCITIES
ABC's Barrie Dunsmore reports on a State Department study drawn in
part from interviews with eyewitnesses. It documents murders,
rapes and torture, mainly by Serbian forces.
(Richard Boucher, State Department: "Frankly, a lot of the things
in there make your blood boil and stomach turn.")
(ABC-11)
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EDITORIALS/COLUMNISTS
CAMPAIGN/ENDORSEMENTS
Reelect President Bush -- "In the field of foreign policy,
President Bush has been an outstanding leader, and in domestic
politics he has been blamed for economic conditions that no
president could control. We do not consider foreign policy more
important than domestic policy. Instead, we believe that both must
be addressed so that neither will adversely affect the other. We
believe that George Bush understands this
If there had never
been a draft issue, and if there had never been any argument about
character and family values, the incumbent still would have the
edge in our estimation."
(Savannah Morning News, 9/27)
For President Bush -- "Of the two, the Tulsa World believes
President Bush is the better choice. If this endorsement sounds
less than enthusiastic, so be it. It reflects a frustration heard
often in Tulsa and across the country
President Bush has a
known record. He has vetoed 36 bills, most of which would have
been supported by Clinton. The measures fall generally into a
familiar patter -- more government regulation, more government
spending and more government interference in private business."
(Tulsa World, 10/9)
The Case For Clinton -- "Four years ago, this newspaper endorsed
George Bush for president because we believed he would keep his
promises. He didn't. We believe Bill Clinton will prove himself
to be the leader Bush has not been. Clinton is no social engineer,
nor is he a knee-jerk tax-and-spend Democrat. As we have learned,
he is a hard-core moderate. In fact, Clinton's common-sense
policies have convinced many corporate executives that he, not
Bush, is the leader who can turn the economic tide
He
recognizes our country's greatest asset is its industrious people."
(San Francisco Examiner, 10/18)
Clinton For President -- "If Mr. Bush had shown half the vigor and
commitment in confronting domestic problems as he showed in
confronting Saddam Hussein, he'd be a shoo-in for reelection.
Instead, he has seemed a prisoner of the status quo. Although he
talks of leading America into a new world order, he offers no
compelling vision of how to do it Changing horses in midstream
may be risky, but it's even riskier to cling to a horse that has
no sense of direction and is sinking fast. We think Bill Clinton
can do better."
(Charlotte Observer, 10/11)
Clinton For President -- "George Bush is out of ideas, out of
initiative and out of his element in a world without the Cold War.
Bill Clinton has a plan and a purpose for his presidency
Coming from Bush, the attempt to paint Clinton as slick is
preposterous. Check Bush's statements on the Iran-Contra
affair
or his evasiveness on U.S. dealings with Iraq before the
war
Clinton's strengths would make him a credible candidate
in any matchup for the presidency. Measured against Bush's
weaknesses, they seal the case."
(San Jose Mercury, 10/4)
White House News Summary
Friday, October 23, 1992 -- C-2
Reelect President Bush -- "There cannot be many Americans who are
satisfied with George Bush's term as president
Even so, this
election is not a referendum on the past, as some are claiming.
It is a choice between alternative policies and teams to steer the
first full presidential term of the post-Cold War age
We note
that Bush's record is far more respectable than the caricature
Though hardly infallible, Bush has lived his commitment to family
and country. If his recent beating in public opinion has taught
him to hold fast to his rediscovered principles of limited
government, he can perform more than presentably in a second term."
(Cincinnati Post, 10/12)
Reelect The President -- "George Bush has been a better president
than his principle opponent is likely to be. The President
possesses the experience, character, and values for the job. His
presence in the White House remains important, even crucial, to the
nation's future. We are pleased to endorse his reelection. Here's
why: He is generally right philosophically
He is generally
right on the issues
In checking the Democratic Congress, while
at the same time seeking to have it pass his own initiatives,
George Bush has done perhaps as well as any president could. The
case for reelecting him is both imperative and clear."
(Richmond Times-Leader, 10/18)
For President: George Bush -- "It is tempting to conclude, after
four years of George Herbert Walker Bush, that things can't get any
worse and that it's time for a clean sweep. Alas, history teaches
us that things can get worse. For that reason, we endorse
President Bush for reelection, not with great enthusiasm but out
of solid conviction that he is the best available choice for the
job
Four more years of George Bush may not be pretty. But
four years of Bill Clinton, with Al Gore on one side urging an end
to the internal combustion engine, and a Congress on the other
urging higher taxes and spending, could be even less appealing."
(Detroit News, 10/11)
Clinton-Gore: The Best of A New Generation -- "Clinton may be an
inch too glib, but he is articulate; he may be two inches too
mechanical, but he is knowledgeable; he may very well have been
tied in a knot over the prospect of military service in Vietnam,
but he was grappling with one of the most emotional conundrums of
personal morality and public policy this nation ever faced. In
short, he is a man of imperfections who is still learning how to
deal with their amplification under the public glare. We believe,
and hope, that his trial by fire will lead him to a chastened, more
candid maturity. Clinton's is the presidency likely to see us to
the close of the 20th century. Pass the torch." (Newsday, 10/18)
Bill Clinton For President -- "Bill Clinton offers this country
direction; George Bush has brought it none
What has won our
vote for Clinton is the focus he has kept, throughout his campaign,
on job creation, the economy, education, the environment and all
the other problems bedeviling domestic tranquility. Also, his plan
to bring down the deficit -- but not so fast as to threaten a
recovery -- strikes us as prudent, effective and credible.
Clinton's direction might not be the way all people want to go, but
we will, with him, no longer be where we are, rudderless and
drifting, moved only by the tides."
(Chicago Sun-Times, 10/18)
-end of News Summary-
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30
STATES
Aboard I'm Force One
October 23, 1992
(En route Montgomery, Alabama)
Dear Spencer:
Thank you for the nice note and for your support.
I loved my visit to Florida today. The people were
warm and friendly and I hope to come back soon.
Good luck in school and best wishes for a happy
and bright future.
Sincerely,
CyBl
Spencer O.Neal
P.O. Box 9154
Jupiter, Florida 33468
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STATES
Aboard Air Force One
October 23, 1992
(En route Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)
Dear Velma:
Thanks so much for your kind note and words of
encouragement. It was a true delight seeing you
today at the airport in Lexington. The welcome
was warm and the visit was a great success.
With only 11 more days to go, I remain confident.
Barbara joins me in sending our warmest best wishes
to you and Masten. We'll miss you in Houston.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Masten Childers, Sr.
P.O. Box 18
of
Pikeville, Kentucky 41502-0018
From the desk of
George Bush
Robin
Thail her
Nice seeiy you
at aropout today
AF I paper
10/23/92
my dear mr. President,
am so happy you're in Kentucky again.
There is no way the liberal news media is
going to defeat you It know days down in my "mended
heart you are going to win this election an nov. 32.
masten has never felt any different-he has always
said, The President is going to win. and & know you are
mr. President, america has never had a
more qualified Presidention the and office and
the people of this cauntry are gaing to turned are that you're
re-olected. I think d would die if it ant any
ather way - So, good luck, mr. President ( are, and it was
Vilma
Mrs. Masten Childers, Sr.
wonderful seeing you again Please tell Borbara,
it possible for me to see you today.
in Ran Kauffmonis office I thank her for making
yne. President, for health reasons & will not
be able to come to Hauston on election might
nov 3rd, my Doctor has already told me I can
not make the flight I will miss -the jubliant
time - but rest assured my heart and thoughts
will be there. That is why it was so very important
for me to see you today, in Lexington.
God Bless you, mr. President, in a real special
way and I Pray for a big Victory for you on Nor.32d
Give Ins. Bush my love. Masten sends his best. your Velma friend,
FLORIDA POLICE BENEVOLENT
THEY
ASSOCIATION ENDORSEMENT
*
THANK YOU BoB SHEEHAN (STATE TREASURER OF
FLORIDA PBA)
*
PROUD TO HAVE EARNED YOUR TRUST (GROUP
ENDORSED DUKAKIS IN 88)
*
PROUD OF OUR RECORD -- 60 PERCENT
INCREASE IN FEDERAL FUNDS, DOUBLE FEDERAL
PRISON CAPACITY, GIVEN $200 MILLION TO
CRIME VICTIMS. WEED AND SEED.
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Mr. President:
Mr. Greenspan is doing fine. They were going to
keep him overnight for observation. Expected to
go home today. HE DOES NOT WANT IT PUBLICIZED THAT
no need call
HE WAS IN HOSPITAL. I told his office you would not
to
say anything.
If you wanted to call him later today, he will probably
be at home.
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8:30 or 9, after which he'll be in the office. Please
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