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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Birmingham, Alabama)
For Immediate Release
April 20, 1990
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT BILL CABANISS FOR SENATE FUNDRAISING LUNCHEON
Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center
Birmingham, Alabama
12:22 P.M. CDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you for that welcome back. It is
not my intention to parade naked before you. (Laughter.) But I will
say that I was delighted to be introduced here by an old friend, a
guy that helped me so much to be standing here as President -- Ray
Scott. And I'm delighted he's with us today. And thank you for the
unique introduction.
And to another friend, Congressman Callahan -- Sonny
Callahan, from Mobile. He's running for office exactly the way one
should. He has no opponent at all. (Laughter and applause.) And
that shows you what a great job he's doing for the State of Alabama,
I might say. I see we have some people from Mobile back there.
I'm glad to see our chairman, Chairman Outlaw; and our
Natonal Committeewoman Jeannie Sullivan, and old-time, long-time
friend and supporter. And, of course, Jerry Denton, who did a great
job for this state in Washington, respected and admired as he is.
Mayor Arrington, it is most gracious of you, sir, to be here to
welcome me as President to your fine city. And thank you for coming.
I'm delighted to see my friend, Bart Starr again -- legend, of
course. And Randy Owen, of Alabama -- anybody that can take on a
song like our National Anthem and stand up here with no note and do
it that beautifully has got to be some special kind of talent. Thank
you very, very much. (Applause.)
And my special congratulations to Neil and Ann Berte and
the Birmingham Southern basketball team, which just won the NAIA
Championship. (Applause.)
And, of course, Senator Cabaniss -- and I'll get to him
in a minute.
And let me also mention Secretary of State Perry Hand.
Joan, I called Perry from Air Force One and I expect I spoke for
everyone here when I wished him a very speedy recovery and sent him
our warmest best wishes. And I think Reverend Claypool put it best
of all. So we're thinking of him.
A writer once said, "Each spring in Alabama is as
delicate as the wisteria in the rain and as gentle as falling in
love. Well, it's great to be here in this kinder, gentler time of
year -- way, way away from Washington, D.C. And it's also a
privilege to be in Birmingham on behalf of a man who truly is a very
dear friend. One of the great leaders in your State Senate. Soon to
be a great member of the United States Senate -- and I'm talking
about my long-time friend, Bill Cabaniss. (Applause.)
And I do a lot of these kinds of things, and I think it's
an important responsibility of a president, but it's a delight to be
back in this state to help elect a superb U.S. senator, someone this
state and my administration really need in Washington. A senator who
will make Alabama proud, a leader who will make the nation proud.
And I am absolutely certain Bill Cabaniss is that man. (Applause.)
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We go back a long way. We first met in the '70s; we've
been friends for years. We're so close that not long ago Barbara and
I invited ourselves, after we found that for dinner Bill and
Catherine were having Ollie's pork barbecue. (Laughter.) But you
know how it goes. Twenty Secret Service men went over and swept in
ahead of us. The good news is that by the time we got there they had
big smiles on their faces, and the bad news is all the barbecue was
gone. (Laughter.)
But this year, Bill Cabaniss has plenty to offer the
Alabama voters: a man of character, family man -- great wife, two
great kids. He values loyalty, and so do I -- he worked for me back
in 1980. In '88, he cast our first vote at the Republican National
Convention. Like me, he's a charismatic speaker. (Laughter.) And
he also keeps things in perspective. It's like he says -- he's got
this degree of frankness -- like he says, "It's fine that you're
here, Mr. President. But if you really want to WOW the crowd, bring
Barbara." (Applause.)
I will only say in that regard that the Silver Fox shares
the same views that I do about the Cabaniss family, and I'm sorry
she's not with us today.
Not surprisingly, these qualities that I've mentioned
have endeared Bill to the voters since his election to the State
Legislature. Just as they've impressed his peers. In 1987, Bill was
named the Outstanding State Legislator by colleagues in a body then
six-to-one Democratic. He's respected because he's a man of
experience and judgment. He knows that only new ideas can create the
new leadership needed for the decade of the 1990s.
These ideas are found at every level of our Republican
Party -- they're the reason you don't just mean Alabama football when
you refer to a Southern "Tide." Since the 1988 election, 215 former
Democrat elected officials and leaders have turned Republican -- 179
from the South -- (applause) -- 14 from Alabama. Churchill said,
"Some men change their principles for their party." These men and
women changed their party for their principles. (Applause.) They
joined us because they want to see an Alabama of growth in the '90s.
An Alabama of progress, prosperity, and new ideas. The Alabama that
Bill Cabaniss stands for.
One new idea is our belief that greater competitiveness
and incentives mean greater growth -- and one way to ensure continued
growth is through a lower capital gains tax. (Applause.) As a
businessman, Bill knows that lower taxes free more capital for
investment -- and that more investment means more jobs. And he knows
his geography. Japan has a much lower capital gains tax, as low as
one percent on stocks and bonds; while economies like Taiwan, Korea,
Singapore, and Hong Kong don't tax capital gains at all. And these
countries don't consider reducing capital gains a tax break for the
rich because they think of it as an incentive to invest and create
employment, create jobs -- and they are absolutely right. And Bill
Cabaniss supports my proposals on the capital gainst tax cut.
(Applause.)
Once again, I would take this opportunity to call on the
United States Congress to let the Senate and the House work their
will and to pass that bill. It's time that we stop giving the edge
to countries that we can match in ability and performance any day of
the week. (Applause.)
Bill also understands that only an educated work force
can be a competitive work force. Alabama needs him and I need him in
that Senate to back our Educational Excellence Act of 1990. Bill and
I know that there's nothing new about excellence. What is new is the
idea of demanding higher standards and greater accountability, and
more involvement by parents and communities to achieve it.
You know, Ray Scott says that the fish I catch aren't any
bigger than his -- but my stories about them are. (Laughter.) Let
me tell a story that's true. In 1961, Bill was at Airborne School in
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Fort Benning, Georgia. The sergeant called out, "Cah-BAN-ahs." Bill
corrected him; he said, "sir, my name is Cabaniss. II Not
surprisingly, at midnight he was still running laps and doing
pushups. (Laughter.) The next day, the sergeant again called,
"Cah-BAN-ahs." Bill replied, "Yes, sir." The point is this -- talk
about a quick study. That's what we need in the Senate. We need
that as this country faces enormous challenges in the decade of the
'90s. Like the fight against crime and drugs, our campaign for a
cleaner environment. And it's the Republicans who have the new ideas
to meet these challenges.
For instance, in January, we unveiled Phase II of our
National Drug Control Strategy to knock out drugs and crime. We've
got to toughen our laws and expand the death penalty for drug
kingpins. Capitol Hill doesn't need politicians who soft-pedal the
need to be hard on crime. It needs Bill Cabaniss, who believes that
the penalty should be just as tough as the crime. (Applause.)
And when it comes to the environment, here, too, we
Republicans have plenty of new ideas to make it clean and safe.
After all, it was a Republican, Teddy Roosevelt, who was our first
environmental president.
Teddy knew then what we know today -- that we can have a
sound environment and a strong economy. That means rejecting the
ideas of the extremists on both sides -- and we will. It means using
market forces in the service of the environment -- and we will.
Let's keep it in mind: We don't have to throw people out of work to
protect our environment.
But we must protect -- and protect it we will -- through
new ideas, from expanding our parks to planting over a billion trees
a year to banning asbestos to no net loss of wetlands. What's more,
earlier this year we proposed landmark legislation, rewriting the
Clean Air Act to cut smog and acid rain and toxic pollution. I'm
glad to say the Senate has now passed a clean air bill-- a bill that
was gridlocked through the 1980s. It's been 13 years in coming. But
no American should have to wait another day for cleaner air. So I
call on the House of Representatives to move promptly to produce a
bill consistent with the principles that I have stated for an
environmentally strong and economically sound new Clean Air Act.
In that spirit, this week is the 20th anniversary of
Earth Day. And I can't help thinking what a breath of fresh air Bill
Cabaniss would be in Washington, D.C. (Applause.) But we're
together on this. Like me, he hopes the House will act soon and
responsibly. As a staunch defender of the environment, there's one
thing Bill wants to make absolutely clear -- and that's Alabama.
Let me close with another issue which clearly shows the
gulf between new and old ideas -- I'm talking about child care.
Bill's child-care position rests on that historic 'Bama' trait,
common sense. Like me, he supports what works.
And that's why he backs our child care program which
gives parents the freedom to choose. It's a nearly $10-billion
program to help low-income working Americans by increasing choice in
child care through tax incentives, not federal intervention.
(Applause.) You see, we want to ensure that parents, not
bureaucrats, decide how to care for America's kids. And I will not
see the option of religious-based child care restricted or
eliminated. (Applause.)
Bill is right when he wants to protect religious child
care centers and parents' freedom to use them. But many liberals
back the child care legislation passed last month by the House and
supported by the Democratic leadership. Let's take a look at what
that bill would mean to this state and every state.
The House bill would cost almost $30 billion and force
many states to change their own rules. It would create a federal
committee -- really, a straitjacket -- to produce national child care
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standards, intended to replace local standards that reflect local
needs. And it would put federal funds into more endless paperwork --
creating 120 pages of new child care law. Now, who would be hurt the
most? Those who need help the most -- the parents and, indeed, the
kids.
The truth is that we don't need this bureaucracy. It
would be redundant, wasteful -- an invitation for Big Brother to get
involved in yet another part of our lives. We don't want to expand
the budget of the bureaucracy. We want to expand the horizons of our
kids and the child care options for the parents. So let's reject
those who measure progress simply by adding money to a proposal. Who
reject progress -- measure it by dollars spent. And instead give
families the help they need to solve the child care problem
themselves. The Democrat leadership says, the federal government
knows what's best for our children. Bill Cabaniss and I say, thank
you -- parent's do. (Applause.)
You can see, I hope, how much I think of Bill. How I
respect him and trust him, and how much we need him in the United
States Senate.
To some, new ideas mean another bureaucrat to pick your
pocket, but Bill knows better, because he knows the families, the
taxpayers, the working people of Alabama. His ideas will help those
people and reflect the values of this state he loves so much.
Bill Cabaniss, unashamedly, believes in patriotism, love
of country, love of God. He thinks like we do. And as a U.S.
senator, he will act on your behalf. I am absolutely confident that
he will stand up for a strong America, a free America, a safe America
-- a great America. He'll be the kind of senator this state needs
and deserves.
I came to Alabama to ask you to help this man. A public
servant I admire. A wonderful friend I rely on. Help him do for
America what he's already demonstrated he can do for Alabama.
Thank you for this occasion. God bless the United
States. And let's make Bill Cabaniss the next senator from the great
State of Alabama. Thank you all very much. (Applause.)
END
12:41 P.M. CDT
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
3000
DATE: 04/17/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2:00 p.m. 04/18/90
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
(04/17 5:00 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
>
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
PINKERTON
WRAY
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
BENNETT
HAGIN
DELAND
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, 04/18, with a copy to my
office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
April 18, 1990
TO: CHRISS WINSTON
NSC clears, with one correction on page 3.
Brent Return Scowcroft
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
CC: James W. Cicconi
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
RECEIVED
90 APR 18 A 9 : 10
(Smith/Blessey)
1990 APR 17 PM 5: 52
April 17, 1990
5 P.M.
ALA
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1990
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
12:00 P.M.
Thank you, Ray [Scott], for that introduction. Governor
Hunt, Congressmen Callahan and Dickinson, National Committeemen
Perry Hooper and Committeewoman Jean Sullivan, Senator Cabaniss,
ladies and gentlemen.
A writer once said, "Each spring in Alabama is as delicate
as wisteria in the rain and as gentle as falling in love." //
It's great to be here in this kinder, gentler time of year. //
It's also a privilege to be in Birmingham on behalf of a
very dear friend. One of the great leaders in the Alabama
Senate. Soon to be a great member of the United States Senate.
// My long-time friend, Bill Cabaniss. 11
( (As Bill tells it, this visit arose from a phone call.
John Sununu told him, "We've got a surprise for Birmingham that
will really excite people." // Bill replied, "You mean
Birmingham's finally getting an NFL franchise?") ) //
It is wonderful to be back in this State to help elect a
superb U.S. Senator. He is what this State and my Administration
need. // A Senator who will make Alabama proud. A leader who'll
make the Nation proud. Bill Cabaniss is that man. ///
Bill and I go back a long way. We first met in 1978 --
we've been summer neighbors for years. ((We're so close that not
2
long ago Barbara and I invited ourselves for dinner after we
smelled some good old 'Bama barbecue Bill and Katherine had
imported from home. // But you know how it goes. Twenty Secret
Service men went over ahead of us. The good news is that by the
time we got there, they had big smiles on their faces. The bad
news is all the barbecue was gone. )) //
This year, Bill Cabaniss has plenty to offer Alabama voters.
He is a man of character, a family man -- great wife, two great
kids. He values loyalty -- worked for me in 1980. In '88, he
cast our first vote at the Republican National Convention. //
( (Like me, he is a charismatic speaker. // Also, Bill keeps
things in perspective. It's like he says: "It's fine that
you're here, Mr. President. But if you really want to WOW the
crowd, bring Barbara. ) ) //
Not surprisingly, these qualities have endeared Bill to the
voters since his election to the Alabama Senate. Just as they've
impressed his peers. // In 1987, Bill was named Best State
Senator by colleagues in a body then 6-to-1 Democratic. He's
respected because he's a man of experience and judgment. // He
knows that only new ideas can create the new leadership needed
for the new decade of the 1990s.
These new ideas are found at every level of our Republican
Party -- they're the reason you don't just mean Alabama football
when you refer to a Southern "Tide." // Since the 1988
election, 215 former Democratic elected officials and leaders
have turned Republican -- 179 from the South and 14 from Alabama.
3
Churchill said, "Some men change their principles for their
party." These men changed their party for their principles. //
They joined us because they want to move beyond an Alabama of
status quo toward an Alabama of status grow. // An Alabama of
new ideas. // The Alabama of Bill Cabaniss. //
One new idea is our belief that greater competitiveness and
incentives mean greater growth. Look here at Birmingham -- often
called the "Pittsburgh of the South." So it once was with steel
and iron -- and is today with high tech and higher learning. //
Bill Cabaniss wants us to be more competitive. As a businessman,
he knows that a lower capital gains tax rate frees more capital
for investment -- and that more investment means more jobs. And
Taiwan
Bill knows his geography. Japan has a much lower capital gains
Hong King
economics
aren't
tax, while (countries) like Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong
"countries"
don't tax them at all. So Bill supports our capital gains tax
cut. // Once again I call on the Congress to pass that bill. //
It's time we stop giving the edge to countries we can out-think,
out-work, and out-perform any day of the week. ///
Bill also understands that only an educated work force can
be a competitive work force. Alabama needs him and I need him in
the Senate to back our Educational Excellence Act of 1990. //
Bill's opponent believes in the old and discredited idea that tax
and spend can make U.S. education Number One. Bill and I
disagree. There's nothing new about excellence. What is new is
the idea of demanding higher standards, greater accountability,
and more involvement by parents and communities to achieve it.
4
( (You know, Ray Scott says that the fish I catch aren't any
bigger than his -- but my stories about them are. // Let me tell
a story that's true. In 1961, Bill was at Airborne School in
Fort Benning, Georgia. The sergeant called out, "Cah-BAN-ahs."
Bill corrected him: "Sir, my name is Cabaniss." // Not
surprisingly, at midnight Bill was still running laps and doing
pushups. The next day, the sergeant again called, "Cah-BAN-
ahs." Bill replied, "YES, SIR. ) ) //
Talk about a quick study. // But that's just what we need
in the U.S. Senate, as this country faces enormous challenges in
the new decade of the '90s. 11 Like the fight against crime and
drugs, and our campaign for a cleaner environment. And it's the
Republicans who have the new ideas to meet these challenges. //
For instance, in January, we unveiled Phase II of our
National Drug Control Strategy to knock out crime and drugs. We
must toughen our laws and expand the death penalty for drug
kingpins. // Capitol Hill doesn't need politicians who soft-
pedal the need to be hard on crime. It needs a Bill Cabaniss who
believes the penalty should be just as tough as the crime. //
And when it comes to the environment, here too we
Republicans have plenty of new ideas to make it clean and safe.
From expanding our parks to planting one billion trees a year to
banning asbestos. // What's more, earlier this year we proposed
a major rewrite of the Clean Air Act to cut smog, acid rain, and
toxic pollution. // I'm glad to say the Senate has now passed a
clean air bill -- a bill that was gridlocked through the 1980s.
5
11 It's been 13 years coming. But no American should have to
wait another day for clean air. So I call on the House of
Representatives to move promptly to produce a bill consistent
with the principles I have stated for an environmentally strong
and economically sound new Clean Air Act. //
In that spirit, this week is the 20th anniversary of Earth
Day. And I can't help thinking what a breath of fresh air Bill
Cabaniss would be in Washington, D.C. 11 Like me, he hopes the
House will act soon, and responsibly. As a staunch defender of
the environment, there's one thing Bill wants to make absolutely
clear -- and that's Alabama. //
Let me close with the issue which perhaps most clearly shows
the gulf between new and old ideas. Child care. // Bill's
child-care position rests on that historic 'Bama trait: Common
sense. // Like me, Bill Cabaniss supports what works.
That's why he backs our child-care program which gives
parents the freedom to choose. It's a $10 billion program to
help low-income working Americans by increasing choice in child
care through tax incentives, not Federal intervention. // We
want to ensure that parents, not bureaucrats, decide how to care
for America's children. And I will not see the option of
religious-based child care restricted or eliminated. //
Bill Cabaniss wants to protect religious child-care
centers, and parents' freedom to use them. But many liberals
support the child-care legislation passed last month by the House
6
Democratic leadership. Let's take a look at what that bill would
mean to this State and every State. //
The House bill would cost $30 billion -- and force many
States to change their rules. // It would create a Federal
Committee -- really, a straitjacket -- to produce national child-
care standards, replacing local standards that reflect local
needs. 11 And it would put Federal funds into more endless
paperwork -- creating 120 pages of new child care law. Who would
be hurt the most? Those who need help the most. The parents.
The truth is that we don't need all this new bureaucracy.
It would be redundant, wasteful -- an invitation for Big Brother
to get involved in yet another part of our lives. We don't want
to expand the budget of the bureaucracy. We want to expand the
horizons of our kids. // So let's reject those who measure
progress made by dollars spent. // And instead give families the
help they need to solve the child-care problem themselves. 11
Liberals say, "The Federal government knows what's best for our
children." Bill Cabaniss and I say: "Parents do." //
You can see, I hope, how much I think of Bill. How I
respect him, trust him, and how much we need him in the United
States Senate. 11
To some, new ideas mean another new bureaucrat to pick your
pocket. // Bill Cabaniss knows better, because he knows the
familes, the taxpayers, the working people of Alabama. His ideas
will help those people. And reflect the spirit of Alabama -- the
spirit of America-Can, not Washington-Must. //
7
I came to this great State to ask you to help this man. A
public servant I admire. A wonderful friend I rely upon. Help
him do for America what he's done for Alabama. // Thank you for
this occasion. God bless the United States. And let's make Bill
Cabaniss the next Senator from the great State of Alabama.
# # #
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
04/17/90
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2:00 p.m. 04/18/90
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
(04/17 5:00 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
WRAY
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
BENNETT
HAGIN
DELAND
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, 04/18, with a copy to my
office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
1.
See comments mide
2.
Too may issues Cap Danis
3. Competative work fave
or : ld James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
4. Drugs /aml
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Emerit
6. 5. children - d soy only use 1.
2. Education
3. D Cup. Jamis
(Smith/Blessey)
1990 APR 17 PM 5: 52
April 17, 1990
5 P.M.
ALA
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1990
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
12:00 P.M.
St Party chairman
Thank you, Ray [Scott], for that introduction. Governor author
Outtan
Hunt, Congressmen Callahan and Dickinson, National Committeemen
Perry Hooper and Committeewoman Jean Sullivan, Senator Cabaniss,
ladies and gentlemen.
A writer once said, "Each spring in Alabama is as delicate
as wisteria in the rain and as gentle as falling in love." //
It's great to be here in this kinder, gentler time of year. //
It's also a privilege to be in Birmingham on behalf of a
very dear friend. One of the great leaders in the Alabama
Senate. Soon to be a great member of the United States Senate.
// My long-time friend, Bill Cabaniss. 11
( (As Bill tells it, this visit arose from a phone call.
John Sununu told him, "We've got a surprise for Birmingham that
will really excite people." 11 Bill replied, "You mean
Birmingham's finally getting an NFL franchise?") ) //
It is wonderful to be back in this State to help elect a
superb U.S. Senator. He is what this State and my Administration
need. // A Senator who will make Alabama proud. A leader who'll
make the Nation proud. Bill Cabaniss is that man. ///
Bill and I go back a long way. We first met in 1978 --
were we ve been summer neighbors for years. ( (We're so close that not
£
referrence This plut are
long ago Barbara and I invited ourselves for dinner after we
smelled some good old 'Bama barbecue Bill and Katherine had
imported from home. // But you know how it goes. Twenty Secret
Service men went over ahead of us. The good news is that by the
time we got there, they had big smiles on their faces. The bad
news is all the barbecue was gone. )) //
This year, Bill Cabaniss has plenty to offer Alabama voters.
He is a man of character, a family man great wife, two great
kids. He values loyalty -- worked for me in 1980. In '88, he
cast our first vote at the Republican National Convention. //
( (Like me, he is a charismatic speaker. 11 Also, Bill keeps
things in perspective. It's like he says: "It's fine that
you're here, Mr. President. But if you really want to WOW the
crowd, bring Barbara. ) ) //
Not surprisingly, these qualities have endeared Bill to the
voters since his election to the Alabama Senate. Just as they've
impressed his peers. // In 1987, Bill was named Best State
Senator by colleagues in a body then 6-to-1 Democratic. He's
respected because he's a man of experience and judgment. // He
knows that only new ideas can create the new leadership needed
for the new decade of the 1990s.
These new ideas are found at every level of our Republican
Party -- they're the reason you don't just mean Alabama football
when you refer to a Southern "Tide." // Since the 1988
election, 215 former Democratic elected officials and leaders
have turned Republican -- 179 from the South and 14 from Alabama.
3
Churchill said, "Some men change their principles for their
party." These men changed their party for their principles. //
They joined us because they want to move beyond an Alabama of
status quo toward an Alabama of status grow. // An Alabama of
new ideas. // The Alabama of Bill Cabaniss. //
One new idea is our belief that greater competitiveness and
no
incentives mean greater growth. Look here at Birmingham -- often
work
called the "Pittsburgh of the South So it once was with steel
and iron -- and is today with high tech and higher learning. //
Bill Cabaniss wants us to be more competitive. As a businessman,
he knows that a lower capital gains tax rate frees more capital
this
for investment -- and that more investment means more jobs. And
Bill knows his geography. Japan has a much lower capital gains
tax, while countries like Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong
don't tax them at all. So Bill supports our capital gains tax
cut. // Once again I call on the Congress to pass that bill. //
It's time we stop giving the edge to countries we can out-think,
out-work, and out-perform any day of the week. ///
Bill also understands that only an educated work force can
be a competitive work force. Alabama needs him and I need him in
the Senate to back our Educational Excellence Act of 1990. //
Bill's opponent believes in the old and discredited idea that tax
and spend can make U.S. education Number One. Bill and I
disagree. There's nothing new about excellence. What is new is
the idea of demanding higher standards, greater accountability,
and more involvement by parents and communities to achieve it.
4
( (You know, Ray Scott says that the fish I catch aren't any
bigger than his -- but my stories about them are. // Let me tell
a story that's true. In 1961, Bill was at Airborne School in
Fort Benning, Georgia. The sergeant called out, "Cah-BAN-ahs."
Bill corrected him: "Sir, my name is Cabaniss." // Not
surprisingly, at midnight Bill was still running laps and doing
pushups. The next day, the sergeant again called, "Cah-BAN-
ahs." Bill replied, "YES, SIR.") ) //
Talk about a quick study. // But that's just what we need
in the U.S. Senate, as this country faces enormous challenges in
the new decade of the '90s. 11 Like the fight against crime and
drugs, and our campaign for a cleaner environment. And it's the
Republicans who have the new ideas to meet these challenges. //
For instance, in January, we unveiled Phase II of our
National Drug Control Strategy to knock out crime and drugs. We
must toughen our laws and expand the death penalty for drug
kingpins. // Capitol Hill doesn't need politicians who soft-
pedal the need to be hard on crime. It needs a Bill Cabaniss who
believes the penalty should be just as tough as the crime. //
And when it comes to the environment, here too we
Republicans have plenty of new ideas to make it clean and safe.
From expanding our parks to planting one billion trees a year to
banning asbestos. // What's more, earlier this year we proposed
a major rewrite of the Clean Air Act to cut smog, acid rain, and
toxic pollution. // I'm glad to say the Senate has now passed a
clean air bill -- a bill that was gridlocked through the 1980s.
5
// It's been 13 years coming. But no American should have to
wait another day for clean air. So I call on the House of
Representatives to move promptly to produce a bill consistent
with the principles I have stated for an environmentally strong
and economically sound new Clean Air Act. //
In that spirit, this week is the 20th anniversary of Earth
Day. And I can't help thinking what a breath of fresh air Bill
Cabaniss would be in Washington, D.C. 11 Like me, he hopes the
House will act soon, and responsibly. As a staunch defender of
the environment, there's one thing Bill wants to make absolutely
This little my sun
clear -- and that's Alabama. 11
Let me close with the issue which perhaps most clearly shows
the gulf between new and old ideas. Child care 11 Bill's
d care positions rests on that historic 'Bama trait: Common
(sense. 11 Like me, Bill Cabaniss supports what works.
That's why he backs our child-care program which gives
is the be good-
parents the freedom to choose. It's a $10 billion program to
help low-income working Americans by increasing choice in child
care through tax incentives, not Federal intervention. // We
want to ensure that parents, not bureaucrats, decide how to care
for America's children. And I will not see the option of
religious-based child care restricted or eliminated. //
Bill Cabaniss wants to protect religious child-care
centers, and parents' freedom to use them. But many liberals
support the child-care legislation passed last month by the House
6
Democratic leadership. Let's take a look at what that bill would
mean to this State and every State. //
The House bill would cost $30 billion -- and force many
States to change their rules. // It would create a Federal
Committee -- really, a straitjacket -- to produce national child-
care standards, replacing local standards that reflect local
needs. 11 And it would put Federal funds into more endless
paperwork -- creating 120 pages of new child care law. Who would
be hurt the most? Those who need help the most. The parents.
The truth is that we don't need all this new bureaucracy.
It would be redundant, wasteful -- an invitation for Big Brother
to get involved in yet another part of our lives. We don't want
to expand the budget of the bureaucracy. We want to expand the
horizons of our kids. 11 So let's reject those who measure
progress made by dollars spent. // And instead give families the
help they need to solve the child-care problem themselves. 11
Liberals say, "The Federal government knows what's best for our
children." Bill Cabaniss and I say: "Parents do." //
You can see, I hope, how much I think of Bill. How I
respect him, trust him, and how much we need him in the United
States Senate. //
To some, new ideas mean another new bureaucrat to pick your
pocket. // Bill Cabaniss knows better, because he knows the
familes, the taxpayers, the working people of Alabama. His ideas
will help those people. And reflect the spirit of Alabama -- the
spirit of America-Can, not Washington-Must. //
7
I came to this great State to ask you to help this man. A
public servant I admire. A wonderful friend I rely upon. Help
him do for America what he's done for Alabama. // Thank you for
this occasion. God bless the United States. And let's make Bill
Cabaniss the next Senator from the great State of Alabama.
#
#
#
Document No.
/
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 04/17/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2:00 p.m. 04/18/90
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
(04/17 5:00 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD onway
ROGERS
CICCONI
PINKERTON
WRAY
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY N/C
BENNETT
HAGIN
DELAND
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, 04/18, with a copy to my
office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Blessey)
1990 APR 17 PH 5: 52
April 17, 1990
5 P.M.
ALA
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1990
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
12:00 P.M.
Thank you, Ray [Scott], for that introduction. Governor
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Chairman Outlaw
Hunt, Congressmen Callahan and Dickinson, / National Committeemen
Perry Hooper and Committeewoman Jean Sullivan, Senator Cabaniss,
ladies and gentlemen.
A writer once said, "Each spring in Alabama is as delicate
as wisteria in the rain and as gentle as falling in love." //
It's great to be here in this kinder, gentler time of year. //
It's also a privilege to be in Birmingham on behalf of a
very dear friend. One of the great leaders in the Alabama
Senate. Soon to be a great member of the United States Senate.
// My long-time friend, Bill Cabaniss. //
( (As Bill tells it, this visit arose from a phone call.
John Sununu told him, "We've got a surprise for Birmingham that
will really excite people." // Bill replied, "You mean
Birmingham's finally getting an NFL franchise?") ) //
It is wonderful to be back in this State to help elect a
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superb U.S. Senator. He is what this State and my Administration
in m washington washin aton
need. // A Senator who will make Alabama proud. A leader who'll
make the Nation proud. Bill Cabaniss is that man. / //
Bill and I go back a long way. We first met in 1978 --
friends
we've been summer neighbors for years. ( (We're so close that not
2
long ago Barbara and I invited ourselves for dinner after we
smelled some good old 'Bama barbecue Bill and Katherine had
imported from home. // But you know how it goes. Twenty Secret
Service men went over ahead of us. The good news is that by the
time we got there, they had big smiles on their faces. The bad
news is all the barbecue was gone. )) //
This year, Bill Cabaniss has plenty to offer Alabama voters.
He is a man of character, a family man -- great wife, two great
kids. He values loyalty -- worked for me in 1980. In '88, he
cast our first vote at the Republican National Convention. //
( (Like me, he is a charismatic speaker. // Also, Bill keeps
things in perspective. It's like he says: "It's fine that
you're here, Mr. President. But if you really want to WOW the
crowd, bring Barbara. ) ) //
Not surprisingly, these qualities have endeared Bill to the
voters since his election to the Alabama Senate. Just as they've
impressed his peers. // In 1987, Bill was named Best State
Senator by colleagues in a body then 6-to-1 Democratic. He's
respected because he's a man of experience and judgment. // He
knows that only new ideas can create the new leadership needed
for the new decade of the 1990s.
These new ideas are found at every level of our Republican
Party -- they're the reason you don't just mean Alabama football
when you refer to a Southern "Tide." // Since the 1988
election, 215 former Democratic elected officials and leaders
have turned Republican -- 179 from the South and 14 from Alabama.
see an Gla bama of new growth in a new decade.
an alabama of, new progress and prosperity,
3
Churchill said, "Some men change their principles for their
and women
party." These men, changed their party for their principles. //
Glabam
They joined us because they want to move beyond an Alabama of beyond
the status quo toward an Alabama of status grow // An Alabama of
new ideas. // The Alabama of Bill Cabaniss. //
One new idea is our belief that greater competitiveness and
incentives mean greater growthx Look here at Birmingham often
and one way to insure contenued
growth is through a lower capital gain tox.
called the "Pittsburgh of the South." So it once was with steel
and iron -- and is today with high tech and higher learning. 11
Bill Cabaniss wants us to be more competitive. As a businessman,
Bill Columess
he knows that a lower capital gains tax rate frees more capital
for investment -- and that more investment means more jobs. And
he
Bill knows his geography. Japan has a much lower capital gains
tax, while countries like Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong
don't tax them at all. So Bill supports our capital gains tax
cut. // Once again I call on the Congress to pass that bill. //
It's time we stop giving the edge to countries we can out-think,
out-work, and out-perform any day of the week. ///
Bill also understands that only an educated work force can
be a competitive work force. Alabama needs him and I need him in
the Senate to back our Educational Excellence Act. of 1990. //
Bill's opponent believes in the old and discredited idea that tax
and spend can make U.S. education Number One. Bill and I
with that notion.
disagree There's nothing new about excellence. What is new is
the idea of demanding higher standards, greater accountability,
and more involvement by parents and communities to achieve it.
4
( (You know, Ray Scott says that the fish I catch aren't any
bigger than his -- but my stories about them are. // Let me tell
a story that's true. In 1961, Bill was at Airborne School in
Fort Benning, Georgia. The sergeant called out, "Cah-BAN-ahs."
Bill corrected him: "Sir, my name is Cabaniss." // Not
surprisingly, at midnight Bill was still running laps and doing
pushups. The next day, the sergeant again called, "Cah-BAN-
ahs." Bill replied, "YES, SIR. ) ) //
Talk about a quick study. // But that's just what we need
in the U.S. Senate, as this country faces enormous challenges in
the new decade of the '90s. // Like the fight against crime and
drugs, and our campaign for a cleaner environment. And it's the
Republicans who have the new ideas to meet these challenges. //
For instance, in January, we unveiled Phase II of our
National Drug Control Strategy to knock out crime and drugs. We
must toughen our laws and expand the death penalty for drug
kingpins. // Capitol Hill doesn't need politicians who soft-
pedal the need to be hard on crime. It needs a Bill Cabaniss who
believes the penalty should be just as tough as the crime. //
And when it comes to the environment, here too we
Republicans have plenty of new ideas to make it clean and safe.
From expanding our parks to planting one billion trees a year to
banning asbestos. // What's more, earlier this year we proposed
landmark newlegisiation
a major rewrite ing of the Clean Air Act to cut smog, acid rain, and
toxic pollution. // I'm glad to say the Senate has now passed a
clean air bill -- a bill that was gridlocked through the 1980s.
5
// It's been 13 years coming. But no American should have to
wait another day for clean air. So I call on the House of
Representatives to move promptly to produce a bill consistent
with the principles I have stated for an environmentally strong
and economically sound new Clean Air Act. //
In that spirit, this week is the 20th anniversary of Earth
Day. And I can't help thinking what a breath of fresh air Bill
Cabaniss would be in Washington, D.C. // Like me, he hopes the
House will act soon, and responsibly. As a staunch defender of
the environment, there's one thing Bill wants to make absolutely
clear -- and that's Alabama. //
Let me close with the issue which perhaps most clearly shows
the gulf between new and old ideas. Child care. // Bill's
child-care position rests on that historic 'Bama trait: Common
sense. // Like me, Bill Cabaniss supports what works.
That's why he backs our child-care program which gives
parents the freedom to choose. It's ^ a $10 billion program to
help low-income working Americans by increasing choice in child
care through tax incentives, not Federal intervention. // We
want to ensure that parents, not bureaucrats, decide how to care
for America's children. And I will not see the option of
religious-based child care restricted or eliminated. //
Bill Cabaniss wants to protect religious child-care
centers, and parents' freedom to use them. But many liberals
support the child-care legislation passed last month by the House
and supported by The
Democratic leadership
6
Democratic leadership. Let's take a look at what that bill would
mean to this State and every State. //
The House bill would cost $30 billion -- and force many
States to change their rules. // It would create a Federal
Committee -- really, a straitjacket -- to produce national child-
ntended to
care standards, replacing local standards that reflect local
needs. // And it would put Federal funds into more endless
paperwork -- creating 120 pages of new child care law. Who would
be hurt the most? Those who need help the most. The parents.
The truth is that we don't need all this new bureaucracy.
It would be redundant, wasteful -- an invitation for Big Brother
to get involved in yet another part of our lives. We don't want
to expand the budget of the bureaucracy. We want to expand the
and the child care options for parents.
horizons of our kids. // So let's reject those who measure
progress made by dollars spent. // And instead give families the
help they need to solve the child-care problem themselves. //
The Domocrat. leadership
Liberals say, "The Federal government knows what's best for our
children." Bill Cabaniss and I say: "Parents do." //
You can see, I hope, how much I think of Bill. How I
respect him, trust him, and how much we need him in the United
States Senate. //
To some, new ideas mean another new bureaucrat to pick your
pocket. // Bill Cabaniss knows better, because he knows the
familes, the taxpayers, the working people of Alabama. His ideas
will help those people. And reflect the spirit of Alabama -- the
spirit of America-Can, not Washington-Must. //
7
I came to this great State to ask you to help this man. A
public servant I admire. A wonderful friend I rely upon. Help
him do for America what he's done for Alabama. // Thank you for
this occasion. God bless the United States. And let's make Bill
Cabaniss the next Senator from the great State of Alabama.
#
#
#
Document No. 133427
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 04/19/90
----
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
(04/18 7:00 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
WRAY
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
BENNETT
HAGIN
DELAND
REMARKS:
The attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
1990 APR 18 PM 7: 15
April 18, 1990
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
CHRISS WINSTON
FROM:
CURT SMITH
is
SUBJECT:
BILL CABANISS FUNDRAISER
I. SUMMARY
On Friday, April 20, at 12:22 p.m., you will address a
fundraising luncheon for Bill Cabaniss before about 2,000 people
at the Birmingham Jefferson Civic Center. Ray Scott will
introduce you. Congressman Callahan, former Senator Jeremiah
Denton, Bart Starr, Mayor Richard Arrington of Birmingham, Randy
Owen, lead singer of 'Alabama, ' State Party Chairman Arthur
Outlaw and National Committeewoman Jean Sullivan will also
attend.
II. DISCUSSION
The attached remarks (12 minutes, teleprompter) applaud
Bill Cabaniss for his achieves in the Alabama Senate and his
potential as a U.S. Senator. The text also discusses some of the
Adminstration's policy goals and the importance of having their
legislation passed on Capitol Hill.
(Smith/Blessey)
April 18, 1990
7 P.M.
ALAB
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1990
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
12:22 P.M.
Thank you, Ray [Scott], for that introduction. Congressman
Callahan, Chairman Outlaw, National Committeewoman Jean Sullivan,
Senator Denton, Mayor Arrington, Randy Owen, Bart Starr. And, of
course, Senator Cabaniss. And special congratulations to Neil
and Ann Berte [BUR-tee] and the Birmingham Southern basketball
team, which just won the NAIA championship. Ladies and gentlemen.
A writer once said, "Each spring in Alabama is as delicate
as wisteria in the rain and as gentle as falling in love. //
It's great to be here in this kinder, gentler, time of year. //
It's also a privilege to be in Birmingham on behalf of a
very dear friend. One of the great leaders in the Alabama
Senate. Soon to be a great member of the United States Senate.
// My long-time friend, Bill Cabaniss. //
( (As Bill tells it, this visit arose from a phone call.
John Sununu told him, "We've got a surprise for Birmingham that
will really excite people. // Bill replied, "You mean
Birmingham's finally getting a World League of American Football
franchise?")) //
It is wonderful that you'll have a team come 1991. And it's
a delight to be back in this State to help elect a superb U.S.
Senator. Someone this State and my Administration need in
2
Washington. // A Senator who will make Alabama proud. A leader
who'll make the Nation proud. Bill Cabaniss is that man. ///
Bill and I go back a long way. We first met in the late
'70s -- we've been friends for years. ((We're so close that not
long ago Barbara and I invited ourselves after we found that for
dinner Bill and Katherine were having Ollie's pork barbecue. //
But you know how it goes. Twenty Secret Service men went over
ahead of us. The good news is that by the time we got there,
they had big smiles on their faces. The bad news is all the
barbecue was gone. )) //
This year, Bill Cabaniss has plenty to offer Alabama voters.
He is a man of character, a family man -- great wife, two great
kids. He values loyalty -- worked for me in 1980. In '88, he
cast our first vote at the Republican National Convention. //
( (Like me, he is a charismatic speaker. // Also, Bill keeps
things in perspective. It's like he says: "It's fine that
you're here, Mr. President. But if you really want to WOW the
crowd, bring Barbara. ")) //
Not surprisingly, these qualities have endeared Bill to the
voters since his election to the Alabama Legislature. Just as
they've impressed his peers. // In 1987, Bill was named
Outstanding State Legislator by colleagues in a body then 6-to-1
Democratic. He's respected because he's a man of experience and
judgment. // He knows that only new ideas can create the new
leadership needed for the new decade of the 1990s.
3
These ideas are found at every level of our Republican Party
-- they're the reason you don't just mean Alabama football when
you refer to a Southern "Tide." 11 Since the 1988 election, 215
former Democrat elected officials and leaders have turned
Republican -- 179 from the South and 14 from Alabama. Churchill
said, "Some men change their principles for their party." These
men and women changed their party for their principles. 11 They
joined us because they want to see an Alabama of growth in the
'90s. // An Alabama of progress, prosperity, and new ideas. //
The Alabama of Bill Cabaniss. //
One new idea is our belief that greater competitiveness and
incentives mean greater growth -- and one way to ensure continued
growth is through a lower capital gains tax. As a businessman,
Bill Cabaniss knows that lower taxes free more capital for
investment -- and that more investment means more jobs. And he
knows his geography. Japan has a much lower capital gains tax,
while economies like Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong
don't tax them at all. So Bill supports our capital gains tax
cut. 11 Once again I call on the Congress to pass that bill. //
It's time we stop giving the edge to countries we can out-think,
out-work, and out-perform any day of the week. ///
Bill also understands that only an educated work force can
be a competitive work force. Alabama needs him and I need him in
the Senate to back our Educational Excellence Act of 1990. //
Bill's opponent believes in the old and discredited idea that tax
and spend can make U.S. education Number One. Bill and I
4
disagree with that notion. There's nothing new about excellence.
What is new is the idea of demanding higher standards, greater
accountability, and more involvement by parents and communities
to achieve it.
((You know, Ray Scott says that the fish I catch aren't any
bigger than his -- but my stories about them are. // Let me tell
a story that's true. In 1961, Bill was at Airborne School in
Fort Benning, Georgia. The sergeant called out, "Cah-BAN-ahs."
Bill corrected him: "Sir, my name is Cabaniss." // Not
surprisingly, at midnight Bill was still running laps and doing
pushups. The next day, the sergeant again called, "Cah-BAN-ahs."
Bill replied, "YES, SIR.")) //
Talk about a quick study. // But that's just what we need
in the U.S. Senate, as this country faces enormous challenges in
the new decade of the '90s. // Like the fight against crime and
drugs, and our campaign for a cleaner environment. And it's the
Republicans who have the new ideas to meet these challenges. //
For instance, in January, we unveiled Phase II of our
National Drug Control Strategy to knock out crime and drugs. We
must toughen our laws and expand the death penalty for drug
kingpins. // Capitol Hill doesn't need politicians who soft-
pedal the need to be hard on crime. It needs a Bill Cabaniss who
believes the penalty should be just as tough as the crime. / /
And when it comes to the environment, here too we
Republicans have plenty of new ideas to make it clean and safe.
5
After all, it was a Republican, Teddy Roosevelt, who was our
first environmental President.
Teddy knew then what we know today -- that we can have a
sound environment and strong economy. // That means rejecting
the ideas of extremists on both sides -- and we will. It means
using market forces in the service of the environment -- and we
will. Let's keep in mind: We don't have to throw people out of
work to protect our environment. //
Instead, we can protect it and we are through new ideas from
expanding our parks to planting over a billion trees a year to
banning asbestos. What's more, earlier this year we proposed
landmark legislation rewriting the Clean Air Act to cut smog,
acid rain, and toxic pollution. // I'm glad to say the Senate
has now passed a clean air bill -- a bill that was gridlocked
through the 1980s. // It's been 13 years coming. But no
American should have to wait another day for clean air. So I
call on the House of Representatives to move promptly to produce
a bill consistent with the principles I have stated for an
environmentally strong and economically sound new Clean Air Act.
In that spirit, this week is the 20th anniversary of Earth
Day. And I can't help thinking what a breath of fresh air Bill
Cabaniss would be in Washington, D.C. // Like me, he hopes the
House will act soon, and responsibly. As a staunch defender of
the environment, there's one thing Bill wants to make absolutely
clear -- and that's Alabama. 11
6
Let me close with another issue which clearly shows the gulf
between new and old ideas. Child care. // Bill's child-care
position rests on that historic 'Bama trait: Common sense. //
Like me, Bill Cabaniss supports what works.
That's why he backs our child-care program which gives
parents the freedom to choose. It's a nearly $10 billion program
to help low-income working Americans by increasing choice in
child care through tax incentives, not Federal intervention. //
We want to ensure that parents, not bureaucrats, decide how to
care for America's children. And I will not see the option of
religious-based child care restricted or eliminated. 11
Bill Cabaniss wants to protect religious child-care centers;
and parents' freedom to use them. But many liberals back the
child-care legislation passed last month by the House and
supported by the Democrat leadership. Let's take a look at what
that bill would mean to this State and every State. //
The House bill would cost almost $30 billion -- and force
many States to change their rules. // It would create a Federal
Committee -- really, a straitjacket -- to produce national child-
care standards, intended to replace local standards that reflect
local needs. 11 And it would put Federal funds into more endless
paperwork -- creating 120 pages of new child-care law. Who would
be hurt the most? Those who need help the most. The parents.
The truth is that we don't need this bureaucracy. It would
be redunant, wasteful -- an invitation for Big Brother to get
involved in yet another part of our lives. We don't want to
7
expand the budget of the bureaucracy. We want to expand the
horisons of our kids and the child-care options for parents. //
So let's reject those who measure progress made by dollars spent.
And instead give families the help they need to solve the child-
care problem themselves. // The Democrat leadership says, "The
Federal government knows what's best for our children." Bill
Cabaniss and I say: "Parents do." 11
You can see, I hope, how much I think of Bill. How I
respect him, trust him, and how much we need him in the United
States Senate. //
To some, new ideas mean another bureaucrat to pick your
pocket. // Bill Cabaniss knows better, because he knows the
families, the taxpayers, the working people of Alabama. His
ideas will help those people. And reflect the values of the
State he loves. 11
Bill Cabaniss belives in patriotism, love of country, and
love of God. He thinks like we do. As a U.S. Senator, he will
act on your behalf. He'll stand up for a strong America, a free
America, a safe America -- a great America. He'll be the kind of
Senator this State needs and deserves.
I came to Alabama to ask you to help this man. A public
servant I admire. A wonderful friend I rely upon. Help him do
for America what he's done for Alabama. // Thank you for this
occasion. God bless the United States. And let's make Bill
Cabaniss the next Senator from the great State of Alabama.
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
04/17/90
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2:00 p.m. 04/18/90
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
(04/17 5:00 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
go
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
PINKERTON
WRAY
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
WINSTON
BENNETT
GRAY
HAGIN
DELAND
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, 04/18, with a copy to my
office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
Please beef up environment
section / with sincerely GB of concern
by
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the extremes
Cicconi
President
in ein. movement
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
& environmentalism started
with Republicans - Rep Tradelior
Smith/Blessey)
1990 APR 17 PM 5: 52
April 17, 1990
5 P.M.
ALA
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1990
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
12:00 P.M.
Thank you, Ray [Scott], for that introduction. Governor
Hunt, Congressmen Callahan and Dickinson, National Committeemen
Perry Hooper and Committeewoman Jean Sullivan, Senator Cabaniss,
ladies and gentlemen.
A writer once said, "Each spring in Alabama is as delicate
as wisteria in the rain and as gentle as falling in love." 11
It's great to be here in this kinder, gentler time of year. //
It's also a privilege to be in Birmingham on behalf of a
very dear friend. One of the great leaders in the Alabama
Senate. Soon to be a great member of the United States Senate.
// My long-time friend, Bill Cabaniss. //
( (As Bill tells it, this visit arose from a phone call.
John Sununu told him, "We've got a surprise for Birmingham that
will really excite people." // Bill replied, "You mean
Birmingham's finally getting an NFL franchise?") ) 11
It is wonderful to be back in this State to help elect a
superb U.S. Senator. He is what this State and my Administration
need. // A Senator who will make Alabama proud. A leader who'll
make the Nation proud. Bill Cabaniss is that man. ///
Bill and I go back a long way. We first met in 1978 --
we've been summer neighbors for years. ( (We're so close that not
2
long ago Barbara and I invited ourselves for dinner after we
smelled some good old 'Bama barbecue Bill and Katherine had
imported from home. // But you know how it goes. Twenty Secret
Service men went over ahead of us. The good news is that by the
time we got there, they had big smiles on their faces. The bad
news is all the barbecue was gone. )) //
This year, Bill Cabaniss has plenty to offer Alabama voters.
He is a man of character, a family man -- great wife, two great
kids. He values loyalty -- worked for me in 1980. In '88, he
cast our first vote at the Republican National Convention. //
( (Like me, he is a charismatic speaker. // Also, Bill keeps
things in perspective. It's like he says: "It's fine that
you're here, Mr. President. But if you really want to WOW the
crowd, bring Barbara. ) ) 11
Not surprisingly, these qualities have endeared Bill to the
voters since his election to the Alabama Senate. Just as they've
impressed his peers. // In 1987, Bill was named Best State
Senator by colleagues in a body then 6-to-1 Democratic. He's
respected because he's a man of experience and judgment. // He
knows that only new ideas can create the new leadership needed
for the new decade of the 1990s.
These new ideas are found at every level of our Republican
Party -- they're the reason you don't just mean Alabama football
when you refer to a Southern "Tide." 11 Since the 1988
election, 215 former Democratic elected officials and leaders
have turned Republican -- 179 from the South and 14 from Alabama.
3
Churchill said, "Some men change their principles for their
party." These men changed their party for their principles. //
They joined us because they want to move beyond an Alabama of
status quo toward an Alabama of status grow. // An Alabama of
new ideas. // The Alabama of Bill Cabaniss. //
One new idea is our belief that greater competitiveness and
incentives mean greater growth. Look here at Birmingham -- often
called the "Pittsburgh of the South." So it once was with steel
and iron -- and is today with high tech and higher learning. //
Bill Cabaniss wants us to be more competitive. As a businessman,
he knows that a lower capital gains tax rate frees more capital
for investment -- and that more investment means more jobs. And
Bill knows his geography. Japan has a much lower capital gains
tax, while countries like Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong
don't tax them at all. So Bill supports our capital gains tax
cut. // Once again I call on the Congress to pass that bill. //
It's time we stop giving the edge to countries we can out-think,
out-work, and out-perform any day of the week. ///
Bill also understands that only an educated work force can
be a competitive work force. Alabama needs him and I need him in
the Senate to back our Educational Excellence Act of 1990. //
Bill's opponent believes in the old and discredited idea that tax
and spend can make U.S. education Number One. Bill and I
disagree. There's nothing new about excellence. What is new is
the idea of demanding higher standards, greater accountability,
and more involvement by parents and communities to achieve it.
4
((You know, Ray Scott says that the fish I catch aren't any
bigger than his -- but my stories about them are. // Let me tell
a story that's true. In 1961, Bill was at Airborne School in
Fort Benning, Georgia. The sergeant called out, "Cah-BAN-ahs."
Bill corrected him: "Sir, my name is Cabaniss." 11 Not
surprisingly, at midnight Bill was still running laps and doing
pushups. The next day, the sergeant again called, "Cah-BAN-
ahs." Bill replied, "YES, SIR.") ) 11
Talk about a quick study. 11 But that's just what we need
in the U.S. Senate, as this country faces enormous challenges in
the new decade of the '90s. // Like the fight against crime and
drugs, and our campaign for a cleaner environment. And it's the
Republicans who have the new ideas to meet these challenges. //
For instance, in January, we unveiled Phase II of our
National Drug Control Strategy to knock out crime and drugs. We
must toughen our laws and expand the death penalty for drug
kingpins. // Capitol Hill doesn't need politicians who soft-
pedal the need to be hard on crime. It needs a Bill Cabaniss who
believes the penalty should be just as tough as the crime. //
And when it comes to the environment, here too we
Republicans have plenty of new ideas to make it clean and safe.
From expanding our parks to planting one billion trees a year to
banning asbestos. 11 What's more, earlier this year we proposed
a major rewrite of the Clean Air Act to cut smog, acid rain, and
toxic pollution. // I'm glad to say the Senate has now passed a
clean air bill -- a bill that was gridlocked through the 1980s.
work
economy ao proviounnent President won't will & show many people out an the effort out forces to of proted mor.
5
// It's been 13 years coming. But no American should have to
wait another day for clean air. So I call on the House of
Representatives to move promptly to produce a bill consistent
with the principles I have stated for an environmentally strong
and economically sound new Clean Air Act. //
In that spirit, this week is the 20th anniversary of Earth
Day. And I can't help thinking what a breath of fresh air Bill
Cabaniss would be in Washington, D.C. 11 Like me, he hopes the
House will act soon, and responsibly. As a staunch defender of
the environment, there's one thing Bill wants to make absolutely
clear -- and that's Alabama. 11
Let me close with the issue which perhaps most clearly shows
the gulf between new and old ideas. Child care. 11 Bill's
child-care position rests on that historic 'Bama trait: Common
sense. // Like me, Bill Cabaniss supports what works.
That's why he backs our child-care program which gives
parents the freedom to choose. It's a $10 billion program to
help low-income working Americans by increasing choice in child
care through tax incentives, not Federal intervention. // We
want to ensure that parents, not bureaucrats, decide how to care
for America's children. And I will not see the option of
religious-based child care restricted or eliminated. //
Bill Cabaniss wants to protect religious child-care
centers, and parents' freedom to use them. But many liberals
support the child-care legislation passed last month by the House
6
Democratic leadership. Let's take a look at what that bill would
mean to this State and every State. //
The House bill would cost $30 billion -- and force many
States to change their rules. // It would create a Federal
Committee -- really, a straitjacket -- to produce national child-
care standards, replacing local standards that reflect local
needs. 11 And it would put Federal funds into more endless
paperwork -- creating 120 pages of new child care law. Who would
be hurt the most? Those who need help the most. The parents.
The truth is that we don't need all this new bureaucracy.
It would be redundant, wasteful -- an invitation for Big Brother
to get involved in yet another part of our lives. We don't want
to expand the budget of the bureaucracy. We want to expand the
horizons of our kids. // So let's reject those who measure
progress made by dollars spent. // And instead give families the
help they need to solve the child-care problem themselves. 11
Liberals say, "The Federal government knows what's best for our
children." Bill Cabaniss and I say: "Parents do." //
You can see, I hope, how much I think of Bill. How I
respect him, trust him, and how much we need him in the United
States Senate. 11
To some, new ideas mean another new bureaucrat to pick your
pocket. 11 Bill Cabaniss knows better, because he knows the
familes, the taxpayers, the working people of Alabama. His ideas
will help those people. And reflect the spirit of Alabama -- the
spirit of America-Can, not Washington-Must. 11
7
I came to this great State to ask you to help this man. A
public servant I admire. A wonderful friend I rely upon. Help
him do for America what he's done for Alabama. // Thank you for
this occasion. God bless the United States. And let's make Bill
Cabaniss the next Senator from the great State of Alabama.
#
#
#
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 04/17/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2:00 p.m. 04/18/90
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
(04/17 5:00 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
WRAY
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
BENNETT
HAGIN
DELAND
>
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, 04/18, with a copy to my
office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
sk- no comment AHC 4/18/90
66 :2d 81 MAR 06 James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Blessey)
1990 APR 17 PM 5: 52
April 17, 1990
5 P.M.
ALA
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1990
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
12:00 P.M.
Thank you, Ray [Scott], for that introduction. Governor
Hunt, Congressmen Callahan and Dickinson, National Committeemen
Perry Hooper and Committeewoman Jean Sullivan, Senator Cabaniss,
ladies and gentlemen.
A writer once said, "Each spring in Alabama is as delicate
as wisteria in the rain and as gentle as falling in love." //
It's great to be here in this kinder, gentler time of year. //
It's also a privilege to be in Birmingham on behalf of a
very dear friend. One of the great leaders in the Alabama
Senate. Soon to be a great member of the United States Senate.
// My long-time friend, Bill Cabaniss. //
( (As Bill tells it, this visit arose from a phone call.
John Sununu told him, "We've got a surprise for Birmingham that
will really excite people." 11 Bill replied, "You mean
Birmingham's finally getting an NFL franchise?") ) //
It is wonderful to be back in this State to help elect a
superb U.S. Senator. He is what this State and my Administration
need. // A Senator who will make Alabama proud. A leader who'll
make the Nation proud. Bill Cabaniss is that man. ///
Bill and I go back a long way. We first met in 1978 --
we've been summer neighbors for years. ( (We're so close that not
2
long ago Barbara and I invited ourselves for dinner after we
smelled some good old 'Bama barbecue Bill and.Katherine had
imported from home. // But you know how it goes. Twenty Secret
Service men went over ahead of us. The good news is that by the
time we got there, they had big smiles on their faces. The bad
news is all the barbecue was gone. )) //
This year, Bill Cabaniss has plenty to offer Alabama voters.
He is a man of character, a family man -- great wife, two great
kids. He values loyalty -- worked for me in 1980. In '88, he
cast our first vote at the Republican National Convention. 11
( (Like me, he is a charismatic speaker. 11 Also, Bill keeps
things in perspective. It's like he says: "It's fine that
you're here, Mr. President. But if you really want to WOW the
crowd, bring Barbara. ) ) 11
Not surprisingly, these qualities have endeared Bill to the
voters since his election to the Alabama Senate. Just as they've
impressed his peers. // In 1987, Bill was named Best State
Senator by colleagues in a body then 6-to-1 Democratic. He's
respected because he's a man of experience and judgment. // He
knows that only new ideas can create the new leadership needed
for the new decade of the 1990s.
These new ideas are found at every level of our Republican
Party -- they're the reason you don't just mean Alabama football
when you refer to a Southern "Tide." 11 Since the 1988
election, 215 former Democratic elected officials and leaders
have turned Republican -- 179 from the South and 14 from Alabama.
3
Churchill said, "Some men change their principles for their
party." These men changed their party for their principles. //
They joined us because they want to move beyond an Alabama of
status quo toward an Alabama of status grow. // An Alabama of
new ideas. // The Alabama of Bill Cabaniss. //
One new idea is our belief that greater competitiveness and
incentives mean greater growth. Look here at Birmingham -- often
called the "Pittsburgh of the South." So it once was with steel
and iron -- and is today with high tech and higher learning. //
Bill Cabaniss wants us to be more competitive. As a businessman,
he knows that a lower capital gains tax rate frees more capital
for investment -- and that more investment means more jobs. And
Bill knows his geography. Japan has a much lower capital gains
tax, while countries like Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong
don't tax them at all. So Bill supports our capital gains tax
cut. // Once again I call on the Congress to pass that bill. //
It's time we stop giving the edge to countries we can out-think,
out-work, and out-perform any day of the week. ///
Bill also understands that only an educated work force can
be a competitive work force. Alabama needs him and I need him in
the Senate to back our Educational Excellence Act of 1990. //
Bill's opponent believes in the old and discredited idea that tax
and spend can make U.S. education Number One. Bill and I
disagree. There's nothing new about excellence. What is new is
the idea of demanding higher standards, greater accountability,
and more involvement by parents and communities to achieve it.
4
( (You know, Ray Scott says that the fish I catch aren't any
bigger than his -- but my stories about them are. // Let me tell
a story that's true. In 1961, Bill was at Airborne School in
Fort Benning, Georgia. The sergeant called out, "Cah-BAN-ahs."
Bill corrected him: "Sir, my name is Cabaniss." // Not
surprisingly, at midnight Bill was still running laps and doing
pushups. The next day, the sergeant again called, "Cah-BAN-
ahs." Bill replied, "YES, SIR.")) //
Talk about a quick study. // But that's just what we need
in the U.S. Senate, as this country faces enormous challenges in
the new decade of the '90s. 11 Like the fight against crime and
drugs, and our campaign for a cleaner environment. And it's the
Republicans who have the new ideas to meet these challenges. //
For instance, in January, we unveiled Phase II of our
National Drug Control Strategy to knock out crime and drugs. We
must toughen our laws and expand the death penalty for drug
kingpins. // Capitol Hill doesn't need politicians who soft-
pedal the need to be hard on crime. It needs a Bill Cabaniss who
believes the penalty should be just as tough as the crime. //
And when it comes to the environment, here too we
Republicans have plenty of new ideas to make it clean and safe.
From expanding our parks to planting one billion trees a year to
banning asbestos. // What's more, earlier this year we proposed
a major rewrite of the Clean Air Act to cut smog, acid rain, and
toxic pollution. 11 I'm glad to say the Senate has now passed a
clean air bill -- a bill that was gridlocked through the 1980s.
5
11 It's been 13 years coming. But no American should have to
wait another day for clean air. So I call on the House of
Representatives to move promptly to produce a bill consistent
with the principles I have stated for an environmentally strong
and economically sound new Clean Air Act. //
In that spirit, this week is the 20th anniversary of Earth
Day. And I can't help thinking what a breath of fresh air Bill
Cabaniss would be in Washington, D.C. 11 Like me, he hopes the
House will act soon, and responsibly. As a staunch defender of
the environment, there's one thing Bill wants to make absolutely
clear -- and that's Alabama. //
Let me close with the issue which perhaps most clearly shows
the gulf between new and old ideas. Child care. 11 Bill's
child-care position rests on that historic 'Bama trait: Common
sense. 11 Like me, Bill Cabaniss supports what works.
That's why he backs our child-care program which gives
parents the freedom to choose. It's a $10 billion program to
help low-income working Americans by increasing choice in child
care through tax incentives, not Federal intervention. // We
want to ensure that parents, not bureaucrats, decide how to care
for America's children. And I will not see the option of
religious-based child care restricted or eliminated. //
Bill Cabaniss wants to protect religious child-care
centers, and parents' freedom to use them. But many liberals
support the child-care legislation passed last month by the House
6
Democratic leadership. Let's take a look at what that bill would
mean to this State and every State. //
The House bill would cost $30 billion -- and force many
States to change their rules. 11 It would create a Federal
Committee -- really, a straitjacket -- to produce national child-
care standards, replacing local standards that reflect local
needs. 11 And it would put Federal funds into more endless
paperwork -- creating 120 pages of new child care law. Who would
be hurt the most? Those who need help the most. The parents.
The truth is that we don't need all this new bureaucracy.
It would be redundant, wasteful -- an invitation for Big Brother
to get involved in yet another part of our lives. We don't want
to expand the budget of the bureaucracy. We want to expand the
horizons of our kids. // So let's reject those who measure
progress made by dollars spent. 11 And instead give families the
help they need to solve the child-care problem themselves. 11
Liberals say, "The Federal government knows what's best for our
children." Bill Cabaniss and I say: "Parents do." //
You can see, I hope, how much I think of Bill. How I
respect him, trust him, and how much we need him in the United
States Senate. //
To some, new ideas mean another new bureaucrat to pick your
pocket. // Bill Cabaniss knows better, because he knows the
familes, the taxpayers, the working people of Alabama. His ideas
will help those people. And reflect the spirit of Alabama -- the
spirit of America-Can, not Washington-Must. 11
7
I came to this great State to ask you to help this man. A
public servant I admire. A wonderful friend I rely upon. Help
him do for America what he's done for Alabama. // Thank you for
this occasion. God bless the United States. And let's make Bill
Cabaniss the next Senator from the great State of Alabama.
# # #
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
04/17/90
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2:00 p.m. 04/18/90
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
(04/17 5:00 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
PINKERTON
WRAY
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
WINSTON
BENNETT
GRAY
HAGIN
DELAND
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, 04/18, with a copy to my
office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
4/18 OnDep-
no comment - pu
Pite Wikner, June Baledrieri 2992
if
6E 20 81 MAR 06
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Blessey)
1990 APR 17 PM 5: 52
April 17, 1990
5 P.M.
ALA
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1990
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
12:00 P.M.
Thank you, Ray [Scott], for that introduction. Governor
Hunt, Congressmen Callahan and Dickinson, National Committeemen
Perry Hooper and Committeewoman Jean Sullivan, Senator Cabaniss,
ladies and gentlemen.
A writer once said, "Each spring in Alabama is as delicate
as wisteria in the rain and as gentle as falling in love." //
It's great to be here in this kinder, gentler time of year. //
It's also a privilege to be in Birmingham on behalf of a
very dear friend. One of the great leaders in the Alabama
Senate. Soon to be a great member of the United States Senate.
11 My long-time friend, Bill Cabaniss. //
( (As Bill tells it, this visit arose from a phone call.
John Sununu told him, "We've got a surprise for Birmingham that
will really excite people." 11 Bill replied, "You mean
Birmingham's finally getting an NFL franchise?") ) //
It is wonderful to be back in this State to help elect a
superb U.S. Senator. He is what this State and my Administration
need. // A Senator who will make Alabama proud. A leader who'll
make the Nation proud. Bill Cabaniss is that man. ///
Bill and I go back a long way. We first met in 1978 --
we've been summer neighbors for years. ( (We're so close that not
2
long ago Barbara and I invited ourselves for dinner after we
smelled some good old 'Bama barbecue Bill and Katherine had
imported from home. 11 But you know how it goes. Twenty Secret
Service men went over ahead of us. The good news is that by the
time we got there, they had big smiles on their faces. The bad
news is all the barbecue was gone. )) //
This year, Bill Cabaniss has plenty to offer Alabama voters.
He is a man of character, a family man -- great wife, two great
kids. He values loyalty -- worked for me in 1980. In '88, he
cast our first vote at the Republican National Convention. //
((Like me, he is a charismatic speaker. 11 Also, Bill keeps
things in perspective. It's like he says: "It's fine that
you're here, Mr. President. But if you really want to WOW the
crowd, bring Barbara. ) //
Not surprisingly, these qualities have endeared Bill to the
voters since his election to the Alabama Senate. Just as they've
impressed his peers. // In 1987, Bill was named Best State
Senator by colleagues in a body then 6-to-1 Democratic. He's
respected because he's a man of experience and judgment. // He
knows that only new ideas can create the new leadership needed
for the new decade of the 1990s.
These new ideas are found at every level of our Republican
Party -- they're the reason you don't just mean Alabama football
when you refer to a Southern "Tide." 11 Since the 1988
election, 215 former Democratic elected officials and leaders
have turned Republican -- 179 from the South and 14 from Alabama.
3
Churchill said, "Some men change their principles for their
party." These men changed their party for their principles. //
They joined us because they want to move beyond an Alabama of
status quo toward an Alabama of status grow. // An Alabama of
new ideas. // The Alabama of Bill Cabaniss. //
One new idea is our belief that greater competitiveness and
incentives mean greater growth. Look here at Birmingham -- often
called the "Pittsburgh of the South." So it once was with steel
and iron -- and is today with high tech and higher learning. //
Bill Cabaniss wants us to be more competitive. As a businessman,
he knows that a lower capital gains tax rate frees more capital
for investment -- and that more investment means more jobs. And
Bill knows his geography. Japan has a much lower capital gains
tax, while countries like Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong
don't tax them at all. So Bill supports our capital gains tax
cut. // Once again I call on the Congress to pass that bill. //
It's time we stop giving the edge to countries we can out-think,
out-work, and out-perform any day of the week. ///
Bill also understands that only an educated work force can
be a competitive work force. Alabama needs him and I need him in
the Senate to back our Educational Excellence Act of 1990. 11
Bill's opponent believes in the old and discredited idea that tax
and spend can make U.S. education Number One. Bill and I
disagree. There's nothing new about excellence. What is new is
the idea of demanding higher standards, greater accountability,
and more involvement by parents and communities to achieve it.
4
( (You know, Ray Scott says that the fish I catch aren't any
bigger than his -- but my stories about them are. // Let me tell
a story that's true. In 1961, Bill was at Airborne School in
Fort Benning, Georgia. The sergeant called out, "Cah-BAN-ahs."
Bill corrected him: "Sir, my name is Cabaniss." // Not
surprisingly, at midnight Bill was still running laps and doing
pushups. The next day, the sergeant again called, "Cah-BAN-
ahs." Bill replied, "YES, SIR.") ) //
Talk about a quick study. // But that's just what we need
in the U.S. Senate, as this country faces enormous challenges in
the new decade of the '90s. // Like the fight against crime and
drugs, and our campaign for a cleaner environment. And it's the
Republicans who have the new ideas to meet these challenges. //
For instance, in January, we unveiled Phase II of our
National Drug Control Strategy to knock out crime and drugs. We
must toughen our laws and expand the death penalty for drug
kingpins. // Capitol Hill doesn't need politicians who soft-
pedal the need to be hard on crime. It needs a Bill Cabaniss who
believes the penalty should be just as tough as the crime. //
And when it comes to the environment, here too we
Republicans have plenty of new ideas to make it clean and safe.
From expanding our parks to planting one billion trees a year to
banning asbestos. // What's more, earlier this year we proposed
a major rewrite of the Clean Air Act to cut smog, acid rain, and
toxic pollution. // I'm glad to say the Senate has now passed a
clean air bill -- a bill that was gridlocked through the 1980s.
5
// It's been 13 years coming. But no American should have to
wait another day for clean air. So I call on the House of
Representatives to move promptly to produce a bill consistent
with the principles I have stated for an environmentally strong
and economically sound new Clean Air Act. //
In that spirit, this week is the 20th anniversary of Earth
Day. And I can't help thinking what a breath of fresh air Bill
Cabaniss would be in Washington, D.C. 11 Like me, he hopes the
House will act soon, and responsibly. As a staunch defender of
the environment, there's one thing Bill wants to make absolutely
clear -- and that's Alabama. //
Let me close with the issue which perhaps most clearly shows
the gulf between new and old ideas. Child care. 11 Bill's
child-care position rests on that historic 'Bama trait: Common
sense. // Like me, Bill Cabaniss supports what works.
That's why he backs our child-care program which gives
parents the freedom to choose. It's a $10 billion program to
help low-income working Americans by increasing choice in child
care through tax incentives, not Federal intervention. // We
want to ensure that parents, not bureaucrats, decide how to care
for America's children. And I will not see the option of
religious-based child care restricted or eliminated. //
Bill Cabaniss wants to protect religious child-care
centers, and parents' freedom to use them. But many liberals
support the child-care legislation passed last month by the House
6
Democratic leadership. Let's take a look at what that bill would
mean to this State and every State. //
The House bill would cost $30 billion -- and force many
States to change their rules. // It would create a Federal
Committee -- really, a straitjacket -- to produce national child-
care standards, replacing local standards that reflect local
needs. 11 And it would put Federal funds into more endless
paperwork -- creating 120 pages of new child care law. Who would
be hurt the most? Those who need help the most. The parents.
The truth is that we don't need all this new bureaucracy.
It would be redundant, wasteful -- an invitation for Big Brother
to get involved in yet another part of our lives. We don't want
to expand the budget of the bureaucracy. We want to expand the
horizons of our kids. // So let's reject those who measure
progress made by dollars spent. // And instead give families the
help they need to solve the child-care problem themselves. //
Liberals say, "The Federal government knows what's best for our
children." Bill Cabaniss and I say: "Parents do." //
You can see, I hope, how much I think of Bill. How I
respect him, trust him, and how much we need him in the United
States Senate. 11
To some, new ideas mean another new bureaucrat to pick your
pocket. 11 Bill Cabaniss knows better, because he knows the
familes, the taxpayers, the working people of Alabama. His ideas
will help those people. And reflect the spirit of Alabama -- the
spirit of America-Can, not Washington-Must. //
7
I came to this great State to ask you to help this man. A
public servant I admire. A wonderful friend I rely upon. Help
him do for America what he's done for Alabama. // Thank you for
this occasion. God bless the United States. And let's make Bill
Cabaniss the next Senator from the great State of Alabama.
#
#
#
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Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 04/17/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2:00 p.m. 04/18/90
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
(04/17 5:00 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
PINKERTON
CICCONI
WRAY
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
>
WINSTON
BENNETT
GRAY
HAGIN
DELAND
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, 04/18, with a copy to my
office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
see comments p#1+3,
4-18-90
22:00 : 81 MAR 06
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
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1990 APR 17 PM 5: 52
April 17, 1990
5 P.M.
ALA
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1990
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
12:00 P.M.
secretary Mosbacher mayer
Thank you, Ray [Scott], for that introduction. Governor attending.
Hunt, Congressmen Callahan and Dickinson, National Committeemen Please
hech
Perry Hooper and Committeewoman Jean Sullivan, Senator Cabaniss,
u/us.
ladies and gentlemen.
HW
A writer once said, "Each spring in Alabama is as delicate
as wisteria in the rain and as gentle as falling in love." //
It's great to be here in this kinder, gentler time of year. //
It's also a privilege to be in Birmingham on behalf of a
very dear friend. One of the great leaders in the Alabama
Senate. Soon to be a great member of the United States Senate.
// My long-time friend, Bill Cabaniss. //
( (As Bill tells it, this visit arose from a phone call.
John Sununu told him, "We've got a surprise for Birmingham that
will really excite people." 11 Bill replied, "You mean
Birmingham's finally getting an NFL franchise?") ) 11
It is wonderful to be back in this State to help elect a
superb U.S. Senator. He is what this State and my Administration
need. 11 A Senator who will make Alabama proud. A leader who'll
make the Nation proud. Bill Cabaniss is that man. 111
Bill and I go back a long way. We first met in 1978 --
we've been summer neighbors for years. ( (We're so close that not
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2
long ago Barbara and I invited ourselves for dinner after we
smelled some good old 'Bama barbecue Bill and Katherine had
imported from home. 11 But you know how it goes. Twenty Secret
Service men went over ahead of us. The good news is that by the
time we got there, they had big smiles on their faces. The bad
news is all the barbecue was gone. )) 11
This year, Bill Cabaniss has plenty to offer Alabama voters.
He is a man of character, a family man -- great wife, two great
kids. He values loyalty - -- worked for me in 1980. In '88, he
cast our first vote at the Republican National Convention. 11
( (Like me, he is a charismatic speaker. 11 Also, Bill keeps
things in perspective. It's like he says: "It's fine that
you're here, Mr. President. But if you really want to WOW the
crowd, bring Barbara. ) 11
Not surprisingly, these qualities have endeared Bill to the
voters since his election to the Alabama Senate. Just as they've
impressed his peers. 11 In 1987, Bill was named Best State
Senator by colleagues in a body then 6-to-1 Democratic. He's
respected because he's a man of experience and judgment. 11 He
knows that only new ideas can create the new leadership needed
for the new decade of the 1990s.
These new ideas are found at every level of our Republican
Party -- they're the reason you don't just mean Alabama football
when you refer to a Southern "Tide." 11 Since the 1988
election, 215 former Democratic elected officials and leaders
have turned Republican -- 179 from the South and 14 from Alabama.
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3
Churchill said, "Some men change their principles for their
party." These men changed their party for their principles. 11
They joined us because they want to move beyond an Alabama of
status quo toward an Alabama of status grow. 11 An Alabama of
new ideas. 11 The Alabama of Bill Cabaniss. //
One new idea is our belief that greater competitiveness and
incentives mean greater growth. Look here at Birmingham -- often
called the "Pittsburgh of the South." so it once was with steel
and iron -- and is today with high tech and higher learning. //
Bill Cabaniss wants us to be more competitive. As a businessman,
he knows that a lower capital gains tax rate frees more capital
for investment -- and that more investment means more jobs. And
Bill knows his geography. Japan has a much lower capital gains
tax, while countries like Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong
don't tax them at all. So Bill supports our capital gains tax
cut. // Once again I call on the Congress to pass that bill. //
It's time we stop giving the edge to countries we can out-think,
out-work, and out-perform any day of the week. ///
Bill also understands that only an educated work force can
be a competitive work force. Alabama needs him and I need him in
the Senate to back our Educational Excellence Act of 1990. 11
Bill's opponent believes in the old and discredited idea that tax
Sounds like
and spend can make U.S. education Number One. Bill and I
they disagree
disagree. There's nothing new about excellence. What is new is
upone
another
the idea of demanding higher standards, greater accountability, rather
than
and more involvement by parents and communities to achieve it.
Bill's
opponent.
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1 (You know, Ray Scott says that the fish I catch aren't any
bigger than his :-- but my stories about them are. 11 Let me tell
a story that's true. In 1961, Bill was at Airborne School in
Fort Benning, Georgia. The sergeant called out, "Cah-BAN-ahs."
Bill corrected him: "Sir, my name is Cabaniss." 11 Not
surprisingly, at midnight Bill was still running laps and doing
pushups. The next day, the sergeant again called, "Cah-BAN-
ahs." Bill replied, "YES, SIR.")) 11
Talk about a quick study. 11 But that's just what we need
in the U.S. Senate, as this country faces enormous challenges in
the new decade of the '90s. 11 Like the fight against crime and
drugs, and our campaign for a cleaner environment. And it's the
Republicans who have the new ideas to meet these challenges. 11
For instance, in January, we unveiled Phase II of our
National Drug Control Strategy to knock out crime and drugs. We
must toughen our laws and expand the death penalty for drug
kingpins. 11 Capitol Hill doesn't need politicians who soft-
pedal the need to be hard on crime. It needs a Bill Cabaniss who
believes the penalty should be just as tough as the crime. 11
And when it comes to the environment, here too we
Republicans have plenty of new ideas to make it clean and safe.
From expanding our parks to planting one billion trees a year to
banning asbestos. 11 What's more, earlier this year we proposed
a major rewrite of the Clean Air Act to cut smog, acid rain, and
toxic pollution. 11 I'm glad to say the Senate has now passed a
clean air bill -- a bill that was gridlocked through the 1980s.
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11 It's been 13 years coming. But no American should have to
wait another day for clean air. So I call on the House of
Representatives to move promptly to produce a bill consistent
with the principles I have stated for an environmentally strong
and economically sound new Clean Air Act. //
In that spirit, this week is the 20th anniversary of Earth
Day. And I can't help thinking what a breath of fresh air Bill
Cabaniss would be in Washington, D.C. 11 Like me, he hopes the
House will act soon, and responsibly. As a staunch defender of
the environment, there's one thing Bill wants to make absolutely
clear -- and that's Alabama. 11
Let me close with the issue which perhaps most clearly shows
the gulf between new and old ideas. Child care. 11 Bill's
child-care position rests on that historic 'Bama trait: Common
sense. 11 Like me, Bill Cabaniss supports what works.
That's why he backs our child-care program which gives
parents the freedom to choose. It's a $10 billion program to
help low-income working Americans by increasing choice in child
care through tax incentives, not Federal intervention. 11 We
want to ensure that parents, not bureaucrats, decide how to care
for America's children. And I will not see the option of
religious-based child care restricted or eliminated. 11
Bill Cabaniss wants to protect religious child-care
centers, and parents' freedom to use them. But many liberals
support the child-care legislation passed last month by the House
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to
Democratic leadership. Let's take a look at what that bill would
mean to this State and every State. 11
The House bill would cost $30 billion -- and force many
States to change their rules. 11 It would create a Federal
Committee -- really, a straitjacket -- to produce national child-
care standards, replacing local standards that reflect local
needs. 11 And it would put Federal funds into more endless
paperwork -- creating 120 pages of new child care law. Who would
be hurt the most? Those who need help the most. The parents.
The truth is that we don't need all this new bureaucracy.
It would be redundant, wasteful -- an invitation for Big Brother
to get involved in yet another part of our lives. We don't want
to expand the budget of the bureaucracy. We want to expand the
horizons of our kids. 11 So let's reject those who measure
progress made by dollars spent. 11 And instead give families the
help they need to solve the child-care problem themselves. 11
Liberals say, "The Federal government knows what's best for our
children." Bill Cabaniss and I say: "Parents do." 11
You can see, I hope, how much I think of Bill. How I
respect him, trust him, and how much we need him in the United
States Senate. 11
To some, new ideas mean another new bureaucrat to pick your
pocket. 11 Bill Cabaniss knows better, because he knows the
familes, the taxpayers, the working people of Alabama. His ideas
will help those people. And reflect the spirit of Alabama -- the
spirit of America-Can, not Washington-Must. 11
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7
I came to this great State to ask you to help this man. A
public servant I: admire. A wonderful friend I rely upon. Help
him do for America what he's done for Alabama. 11 Thank you for
this occasion. God bless the United States. And let's make Bill
Cabaniss the next Senator from the great State of Alabama.
# # #
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
04/17/90
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2:00 p.m. 04/18/90
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
(04/17 5:00 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
PINKERTON
WRAY
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
BENNETT
HAGIN
DELAND
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, 04/18, with a copy to my
office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
Please see comments
4/18/90
12 : E 81 MAR 06 James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Blessey)
1990 APR 17 PM 5: 52
April 17, 1990
5 P.M.
ALA
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1990
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
12:00 P.M.
4/18
NOON
still
Thank you, Ray [Scott], for that introduction. Governor
Hunt, Congressmen Callahan and Dickinson, National Committeemen
Perry Hooper and Committeewoman Jean Sullivan, Senator Cabaniss,
ladies and gentlemen.
A writer once said, "Each spring in Alabama is as delicate
as wisteria in the rain and as gentle as falling in love." //
It's great to be here in this kinder, gentler time of year. //
It's also a privilege to be in Birmingham on behalf of a
very dear friend. One of the great leaders in the Alabama
Senate. Soon to be a great member of the United States Senate.
// My long-time friend, Bill Cabaniss. //
( (As Bill tells it, this visit arose from a phone call.
John Sununu told him, "We've got a surprise for Birmingham that
will really excite people." // Bill replied, "You mean
Birmingham's finally getting an NFL franchise?") ) //
It is wonderful to be back in this State to help elect a
someone
superb U.S. Senator. He is what this State and my Administration
need // A Senator who will make Alabama proud. A leader who'll
washington.
make the Nation proud. Bill Cabaniss is that man. / //
Bill and I go back a long way. We first met in 1978 -- and
friends wn since.
we've been summer neighbors for years. (We re so close that not
wolld Vime Lette
2
long ago Barbara and I invited ourselves for dinner after we
smelled some good old 'Bama barbecue Bill and Katherine had
imported from home. // But you know how it goes. Twenty Secret
Service men went over ahead of us. The good news is that by the
time we got there, they had big smiles on their faces. The bad
news is all the barbecue was gone. )) //
This year, Bill Cabaniss has plenty to offer Alabama voters.
He is a man of character, a family man -- great wife, two great
and has Stuck with me.
kids. He values loyalty -- worked for me in 1980 X In '88, he
cast our first vote at the Republican National Convention. //
( (Like me, he is a charismatic speaker. // Also, Bill keeps
things in perspective. It's like he says: "It's fine that
you're here, Mr. President. But if you really want to WOW the
crowd, bring Barbara. ")) //
Not surprisingly, these qualities have endeared Bill to the
voters since his election to the Alabama Senate. Just as they've
impressed his peers. // In 1987, Bill was named Best State
Senator by colleagues in a body then 6-to-1 Democratic. He's
respected because he's a man of experience and judgment. // He
knows that only new ideas can create the new leadership needed
for the new decade of the 1990s.
These new ideas are found at every level of our Republican
Party -- they're the reason you don't just mean Alabama football
when you refer to a Southern "Tide." // Since the 1988
election, 215 former Democratic elected officials and leaders
have turned Republican -- 179 from the South and 14 from Alabama.
3
Churchill said, "Some men change their principles for their
party." These men changed their party for their principles. //
They joined us because they want to move beyond an Alabama of
status quo toward an Alabama of status grow. // An Alabama of
new ideas. // The Alabama of Bill Cabaniss. //
One new idea is our belief that greater competitiveness and
incentives mean greater growth. Look here at Birmingham -- often
called the "Pittsburgh of the South." So it once was with steel
and iron -- and is today with high tech and higher learning. //
Bill Cabaniss wants us to be more competitive. As a businessman,
he knows that a lower capital gains tax rate frees more capital
for investment -- and that more investment means more jobs. And
Bill knows his geography. Japan has a much lower capital gains
tax, while countries like Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong
don't tax them at all. So Bill supports our capital gains tax
cut. // Once again I call on the Congress to pass that bill. //
It's time we stop giving the edge to countries we can out-think,
out-work, and out-perform any day of the week. ///
otherwise
Bill also understands that only an educated work force can
be a competitive work force. Alabama needs him and I need him in
the Senate to back our Educational Excellence Act of 1990. //
Bill's opponent believes in the old and discredited idea that tax
and spend can make U.S. education Number One. Bill and I
disagree. There's nothing new about excellence. What is new is
the idea of demanding higher standards, greater accountability,
and more involvement by parents and communities to achieve it.
4
( (You know, Ray Scott says that the fish I catch aren't any
bigger than his -- but my stories about them are. // Let me tell
a story that's true. In 1961, Bill was at Airborne School in
Fort Benning, Georgia. The sergeant called out, "Cah-BAN-ahs."
Bill corrected him: "Sir, my name is Cabaniss." // Not
surprisingly, at midnight Bill was still running laps and doing
pushups. The next day, the sergeant again called, "Cah-BAN-
ahs." Bill replied, "YES, SIR.") ) //
Talk about a quick study. // But that's just what we need
in the U.S. Senate, as this country faces enormous challenges in
the new decade of the '90s. // Like the fight against crime and
drugs, and our campaign for a cleaner environment. And it's the
Republicans who have the new ideas to meet these challenges. //
For instance, in January, we unveiled Phase II of our
National Drug Control Strategy to knock out crime and drugs. We
must toughen our laws and expand the death penalty for drug
kingpins. // Capitol Hill doesn't need politicians who soft-
pedal the need to be hard on crime. It needs a Bill Cabaniss who
believes the penalty should be just as tough as the crime. //
And when it comes to the environment, here too we
Republicans have plenty of new ideas to make it clean and safe.
From expanding our parks to planting one billion trees a year to
banning asbestos. 11 What's more, earlier this year we proposed
landmank new legislation rewriting
a major rewrite of the Clean Air Act to cut smog, acid rain, and
toxic pollution. // I'm glad to say the Senate has now passed a
clean air bill -- a bill that was gridlocked through the 1980s.
lunch
5
// It's been 13 years coming. But no American should have to
wait another day for clean air. So I call on the House of
Representatives to move promptly to produce a bill consistent
with the principles I have stated for an environmentally strong
and economically sound new Clean Air Act. //
In that spirit, this week is the 20th anniversary of Earth
Day. And I can't help thinking what a breath of fresh air Bill
Cabaniss would be in Washington, D.C. // Like me, he hopes the
House will act soon, and responsibly. As a staunch defender of
the environment, there's one thing Bill wants to make absolutely
?
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clear -- and that's Alabama. //
Let me close with the issue which perhaps most clearly shows
the gulf between new and old ideas. Child care. // Bill's
child-care position rests on that historic 'Bama trait: Common
sense. // Like me, Bill Cabaniss supports what works.
That's why he backs our child-care program which gives
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support the child-care legislation passed last month by the House
and supported by the
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Democratic leadership. Let's take a look at what that bill would
mean to this State and every State. //
The House bill would cost $30 billion -- and force many
States to change their rules. 11 It would create a Federal
Committee -- really, a straitjacket -- to produce national child-
care standards, replacing local standards that reflect local
needs. // And it would put Federal funds into more endless
paperwork -- creating 120 pages of new child care law. Who would
be hurt the most? Those who need help the most. The parents.
The truth is that we don't need all this new bureaucracy.
It would be redundant, wasteful -- an invitation for Big Brother
to get involved in yet another part of our lives. We don't want
or
to expand the budget of the bureaucracy. We want to expand the
and the child care options their parents have at
horizons of our kids. III So let's reject those who measure their disposal,
progress made by dollars spent. // And instead give families the
help they need to solve the child-care problem themselves. 11
Liberals say, "The Federal government knows what's best for our
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children." Bill Cabaniss and I say: "Parents do." //
hadnship
You can see, I hope, how much I think of Bill. How I
says,
respect him, trust him, and how much we need him in the United
States Senate. 11
To some, new ideas mean another new bureaucrat to pick your
pocket. // Bill Cabaniss knows better, because he knows the
familes, the taxpayers, the working people of Alabama. His ideas
will help those people. And reflect the spirit of Alabama -- the
spirit of America-Can, not Washington-Must. //
(Althought you this bad to CAN it the
to
7
I came to this great State to ask you to help this man. A
public servant I admire. A wonderful friend I rely upon. Help
him do for America what he's done for Alabama. // Thank you for
this occasion. God bless the United States. And let's make Bill
Cabaniss the next Senator from the great State of Alabama.
# # #
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
04/17/90
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2:00 p.m. 04/18/90
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
(04/17 5:00 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
>
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
>
ROGERS
>
CICCONI
PINKERTON
WRAY
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
BENNETT
HAGIN
DELAND
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, 04/18, with a copy to my
office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
See comments
22:38 81 MAR 06
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Blessey)
1990 APR 17 PM 5: 52
April 17, 1990
5 P.M.
ALA
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1990
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
12:00 P.M.
Thank you, Ray [Scott], for that introduction. Governor
Hunt, Congressmen Callahan and Dickinson, National Committeemen
Perry Hooper and Committeewoman Jean Sullivan, Senator Cabaniss,
ladies and gentlemen.
A writer once said, "Each spring in Alabama is as delicate
as wisteria in the rain and as gentle as falling in love." //
It's great to be here in this kinder, gentler time of year. //
It's also a privilege to be in Birmingham on behalf of a
very dear friend. One of the great leaders in the Alabama
Senate. Soon to be a great member of the United States Senate.
// My long-time friend, Bill Cabaniss. //
( (As Bill tells it, this visit arose from a phone call.
John Sununu told him, "We've got a surprise for Birmingham that
will really excite people." // Bill replied, "You mean
Birmingham's finally getting an NFL franchise?" )) //
It is wonderful to be back in this State to help elect a
superb U.S. Senator. He is what this State and my Administration
need. // A Senator who will make Alabama proud. A leader who'll
make the Nation proud. Bill Cabaniss is that man. ///
Bill and I go back a long way. We first met in 1978 --
we've been summer neighbors for years. ( (We're so close that not
2
long ago Barbara and I invited ourselves for dinner after we
smelled some good old 'Bama barbecue Bill and Katherine had
imported from home. // But you know how it goes. Twenty Secret
Service men went over ahead of us. The good news is that by the
time we got there, they had big smiles on their faces. The bad
news is all the barbecue was gone. )) 11
This year, Bill Cabaniss has plenty to offer Alabama voters.
He is a man of character, a family man -- great wife, two great
kids. He values loyalty -- worked for me in 1980. In '88, he
cast our first vote at the Republican National Convention. //
( (Like me, he is a charismatic speaker. // Also, Bill keeps
things in perspective. It's like he says: "It's fine that
you're here, Mr. President. But if you really want to WOW the
crowd, bring Barbara. ")) 11
Not surprisingly, these qualities have endeared Bill to the
voters since his election to the Alabama Senate. Just as they've
impressed his peers. // In 1987, Bill was named Best State
Senator by colleagues in a body then 6-to-1 Democratic. He's
respected because he's a man of experience and judgment. // He
knows that only new ideas can create the new leadership needed
for the new decade of the 1990s.
These new ideas are found at every level of our Republican
Party -- they're the reason you don't just mean Alabama football
when you refer to a Southern "Tide." // Since the 1988
election, 215 former Democratic elected officials and leaders
have turned Republican -- 179 from the South and 14 from Alabama.
3
Churchill said, "Some men change their principles for their
party." These men changed their party for their principles. //
They joined us because they want to move beyond an Alabama of
status quo toward an Alabama of status grow. // An Alabama of
new ideas. // The Alabama of Bill Cabaniss. //
One new idea is our belief that greater competitiveness and
incentives mean greater growth. Look here at Birmingham -- often
called the "Pittsburgh of the South." So it once was with steel
and iron -- and is today with high tech and higher learning. //
Bill Cabaniss wants us to be more competitive. As a businessman,
he knows that a lower capital gains tax rate frees more capital
for investment -- and that more investment means more jobs. And
Bill knows his geography. Japan has a much lower capital gains
tax, while countries like Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong
don't tax them at all. So Bill supports our capital gains tax
cut. // Once again I call on the Congress to pass that bill. //
It's time we stop giving the edge to countries we can out-think,
out-work, and out-perform any day of the week. ///
Bill also understands that only an educated work force can
be a competitive work force. Alabama needs him and I need him in
the Senate to back our Educational Excellence Act, of 1990. //
Murr
Bill's opponent believes in the old and discredited idea that tax
44864
and spend can make U.S. education Number One. Bill and I
disagree. There's nothing new about excellence. What is new is
the idea of demanding higher standards, greater accountability,
and more involvement by parents and communities to achieve it.
4
( (You know, Ray Scott says that the fish I catch aren't any
bigger than his -- but my stories about them are. // Let me tell
a story that's true. In 1961, Bill was at Airborne School in
Fort Benning, Georgia. The sergeant called out, "Cah-BAN-ahs."
Bill corrected him: "Sir, my name is Cabaniss." // Not
surprisingly, at midnight Bill was still running laps and doing
pushups. The next day, the sergeant again called, "Cah-BAN-
ahs." Bill replied, "YES, SIR.") ) //
Talk about a quick study. // But that's just what we need
in the U.S. Senate, as this country faces enormous challenges in
the new decade of the '90s. // Like the fight against crime and
drugs, and our campaign for a cleaner environment. And it's the
Republicans who have the new ideas to meet these challenges. //
For instance, in January, we unveiled Phase II of our
National Drug Control Strategy to knock out crime and drugs. We
must toughen our laws and expand the death penalty for drug
kingpins. // Capitol Hill doesn't need politicians who soft-
pedal the need to be hard on crime. It needs a Bill Cabaniss who
believes the penalty should be just as tough as the crime. //
And when it comes to the environment, here too we
Republicans have plenty of new ideas to make it clean and safe.
From expanding our parks to planting one billion trees a year to
banning asbestos. // What's more, earlier this year we proposed
a major rewrite of the Clean Air Act to cut smog, acid rain, and
toxic pollution. // I'm glad to say the Senate has now passed a
clean air bill -- a bill that was gridlocked through the 1980s.
5
// It's been 13 years coming. But no American should have to
wait another day for clean air. So I call on the House of
Representatives to move promptly to produce a bill consistent
with the principles I have stated for an environmentally strong
and economically sound new Clean Air Act. //
In that spirit, this week is the 20th anniversary of Earth
Day. And I can't help thinking what a breath of fresh air Bill
Cabaniss would be in Washington, D.C. 11 Like me, he hopes the
House will act soon, and responsibly. As a staunch defender of
the environment, there's one thing Bill wants to make absolutely
clear -- and that's Alabama. //
Let me close with the issue which perhaps most clearly shows
the gulf between new and old ideas. Child care. 11 Bill's
child-care position rests on that historic 'Bama trait: Common
sense. // Like me, Bill Cabaniss supports what works.
That's why he backs our child-care program which gives
parents the freedom to choose. It's a $10 billion program to
help low-income working Americans by increasing choice in child
care through tax incentives, not Federal intervention. // We
want to ensure that parents, not bureaucrats, decide how to care
for America's children. And I will not see the option of
religious-based child care restricted or eliminated. 11
Bill Cabaniss wants to protect religious child-care
centers, and parents' freedom to use them. But many liberals
support the child-care legislation passed last month by the House
6
Democratic leadership. Let's take a look at what that bill would
mean to this State and every State. //
The House bill would cost $30 billion -- and force many
States to change their rules. // It would create a Federal
Committee -- really a straitjacket -- to produce national child-
intended to
care standards, replacing local standards that reflect local
needs. // And it would put Federal funds into more endless
Y5128 Scully
paperwork -- creating 120 pages of new child care law. Who would
be hurt the most? Those who need help the most. The parents.
The truth is that we don't need all this new bureaucracy.
It would be redundant, wasteful -- an invitation for Big Brother
to get involved in yet another part of our lives. We don't want
to expand the budget of the bureaucracy. We want to expand the
horizons of our kids. // So let's reject those who measure
progress made by dollars spent. // And instead give families the
help they need to solve the child-care problem themselves. //
Liberals say, "The Federal government knows what's best for our
children." Bill Cabaniss and I say: "Parents do." //
You can see, I hope, how much I think of Bill. How I
respect him, trust him, and how much we need him in the United
States Senate. //
To some, new ideas mean another new bureaucrat to pick your
pocket. // Bill Cabaniss knows better, because he knows the
familes, the taxpayers, the working people of Alabama. His ideas
will help those people. And reflect the spirit of Alabama -- the
spirit of America-Can, not Washington-Must. //
7
I came to this great State to ask you to help this man. A
public servant I admire. A wonderful friend I rely upon. Help
him do for America what he's done for Alabama. // Thank you for
this occasion. God bless the United States. And let's make Bill
Cabaniss the next Senator from the great State of Alabama.
#
#
#
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
04/17/90
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2:00 p.m. 04/18/90
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
(04/17 5:00 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
PINKERTON
WRAY
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
BENNETT
HAGIN
DELAND
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, 04/18, with a copy to my
office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
4/18
See additions on page 1.
- gow
Also, we recommend deletion 81 MAR 06
James W. Cicconi
of "neighbore" joke on page 1-2.
Assistant to the President
This could come bach against
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
the candictate.
(Smith/Blessey)
1990 APR 17 PM 5: 52
April 17, 1990
5 P.M.
ALA
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1990
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
12:00 P.M.
Thank you, Ray [Scott], for that introduction. Governor
Hunt, Congressmen Callahan and Dickinson, National Committeemen
Perry Hooper and Committeewoman Jean Sullivan, Senator Cabaniss,
Stock Aethur GOB chm Outlaw
ladies and gentlemen.
A writer once said, "Each spring in Alabama is as delicate
as wisteria in the rain and as gentle as falling in love." //
It's great to be here in this kinder, gentler time of year. //
It's also a privilege to be in Birmingham on behalf of a
very dear friend. One of the great leaders in the Alabama
Senate. Soon to be a great member of the United States Senate.
// My long-time friend, Bill Cabaniss. //
( (As Bill tells it, this visit arose from a phone call.
John Sununu told him, "We've got a surprise for Birmingham that
will really excite people." // Bill replied, "You mean
Birmingham's finally getting an NFL franchise?" )) //
It is wonderful to be back in this State to help elect a
superb U.S. Senator. He is what this State and my Administration
need. // A Senator who will make Alabama proud. A leader who'll
make the Nation proud. Bill Cabaniss is that man. / //
Bill and I go back a long way. We first met in 1978 --
we've been summer neighbors for years. ( (We're so close that not
2
long ago Barbara and I invited ourselves for dinner after we
smelled some good old 'Bama barbecue Bill and Katherine had
imported from home. // But you know how it goes. Twenty Secret
Service men went over ahead of us. The good news is that by the
time we got there, they had big smiles on their faces. The bad
news is all the barbecue was gone. )) //
This year, Bill Cabaniss has plenty to offer Alabama voters.
He is a man of character, a family man -- great wife, two great
kids. He values loyalty -- worked for me in 1980. In '88, he
cast our first vote at the Republican National Convention. //
( (Like me, he is a charismatic speaker. // Also, Bill keeps
things in perspective. It's like he says: "It's fine that
you're here, Mr. President. But if you really want to WOW the
crowd, bring Barbara. ) ) //
Not surprisingly, these qualities have endeared Bill to the
voters since his election to the Alabama Senate. Just as they've
impressed his peers. // In 1987, Bill was named Best State
Senator by colleagues in a body then 6-to-1 Democratic. He's
respected because he's a man of experience and judgment. // He
knows that only new ideas can create the new leadership needed
for the new decade of the 1990s.
These new ideas are found at every level of our Republican
Party -- they're the reason you don't just mean Alabama football
when you refer to a Southern "Tide." // Since the 1988
election, 215 former Democratic elected officials and leaders
have turned Republican -- 179 from the South and 14 from Alabama.
3
Churchill said, "Some men change their principles for their
party." These men changed their party for their principles. //
They joined us because they want to move beyond an Alabama of
status quo toward an Alabama of status grow. // An Alabama of
new ideas. // The Alabama of Bill Cabaniss. //
One new idea is our belief that greater competitiveness and
incentives mean greater growth. Look here at Birmingham -- often
called the "Pittsburgh of the South." So it once was with steel
and iron -- and is today with high tech and higher learning. //
Bill Cabaniss wants us to be more competitive. As a businessman,
he knows that a lower capital gains tax rate frees more capital
for investment -- and that more investment means more jobs. And
Bill knows his geography. Japan has a much lower capital gains
tax, while countries like Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong
don't tax them at all. So Bill supports our capital gains tax
cut. // Once again I call on the Congress to pass that bill. //
It's time we stop giving the edge to countries we can out-think,
out-work, and out-perform any day of the week. ///
Bill also understands that only an educated work force can
be a competitive work force. Alabama needs him and I need him in
the Senate to back our Educational Excellence Act of 1990. 11
Bill's opponent believes in the old and discredited idea that tax
and spend can make U.S. education Number One. Bill and I
disagree. There's nothing new about excellence. What is new is
the idea of demanding higher standards, greater accountability,
and more involvement by parents and communities to achieve it.
4
( (You know, Ray Scott says that the fish I catch aren't any
bigger than his :- but my stories about them are. // Let me tell
a story that's true. In 1961, Bill was at Airborne School in
Fort Benning, Georgia. The sergeant called out, "Cah-BAN-ahs."
Bill corrected him: "Sir, my name is Cabaniss." // Not
surprisingly, at midnight Bill was still running laps and doing
pushups. The next day, the sergeant again called, "Cah-BAN-
ahs." Bill replied, "YES, SIR." ) ) //
Talk about a quick study. 11 But that's just what we need
in the U.S. Senate, as this country faces enormous challenges in
the new decade of the '90s. 11 Like the fight against crime and
drugs, and our campaign for a cleaner environment. And it's the
Republicans who have the new ideas to meet these challenges. //
For instance, in January, we unveiled Phase II of our
National Drug Control Strategy to knock out crime and drugs. We
must toughen our laws and expand the death penalty for drug
kingpins. // Capitol Hill doesn't need politicians who soft-
pedal the need to be hard on crime. It needs a Bill Cabaniss who
believes the penalty should be just as tough as the crime. //
And when it comes to the environment, here too we
Republicans have plenty of new ideas to make it clean and safe.
From expanding our parks to planting one billion trees a year to
banning asbestos. // What's more, earlier this year we proposed
a major rewrite of the Clean Air Act to cut smog, acid rain, and
toxic pollution. // I'm glad to say the Senate has now passed a
clean air bill -- a bill that was gridlocked through the 1980s.
5
// It's been 13 years coming. But no American should have to
wait another day for clean air. So I call on the House of
Representatives to move promptly to produce a bill consistent
with the principles I have stated for an environmentally strong
and economically sound new Clean Air Act. //
In that spirit, this week is the 20th anniversary of Earth
Day. And I can't help thinking what a breath of fresh air Bill
Cabaniss would be in Washington, D.C. 11 Like me, he hopes the
House will act soon, and responsibly. As a staunch defender of
the environment, there's one thing Bill wants to make absolutely
clear -- and that's Alabama. //
Let me close with the issue which perhaps most clearly shows
the gulf between new and old ideas. Child care. // Bill's
child-care position rests on that historic 'Bama trait: Common
sense. // Like me, Bill Cabaniss supports what works.
That's why he backs our child-care program which gives
parents the freedom to choose. It's a $10 billion program to
help low-income working Americans by increasing choice in child
care through tax incentives, not Federal intervention. // We
want to ensure that parents, not bureaucrats, decide how to care
for America's children. And I will not see the option of
religious-based child care restricted or eliminated. //
Bill Cabaniss wants to protect religious child-care
centers, and parents' freedom to use them. But many liberals
support the child-care legislation passed last month by the House
6
Democratic leadership. Let's take a look at what that bill would
mean to this State and every State. //
The House bill would cost $30 billion -- and force many
States to change their rules. // It would create a Federal
Committee -- really, a straitjacket -- to produce national child-
care standards, replacing local standards that reflect local
needs. 11 And it would put Federal funds into more endless
paperwork -- creating 120 pages of new child care law. Who would
be hurt the most? Those who need help the most. The parents.
The truth is that we don't need all this new bureaucracy.
It would be redundant, wasteful -- an invitation for Big Brother
to get involved in yet another part of our lives. We don't want
to expand the budget of the bureaucracy. We want to expand the
horizons of our kids. // So let's reject those who measure
progress made by dollars spent. // And instead give families the
help they need to solve the child-care problem themselves. 11
Liberals say, "The Federal government knows what's best for our
children." Bill Cabaniss and I say: "Parents do." 11
You can see, I hope, how much I think of Bill. How I
respect him, trust him, and how much we need him in the United
States Senate. //
To some, new ideas mean another new bureaucrat to pick your
pocket. 11 Bill Cabaniss knows better, because he knows the
familes, the taxpayers, the working people of Alabama. His ideas
will help those people. And reflect the spirit of Alabama -- the
spirit of America-Can, not Washington-Must. //
7
I came to this great State to ask you to help this man. A
public servant I admire. A wonderful friend I rely upon. Help
him do for America what he's done for Alabama. // Thank you for
this occasion. God bless the United States. And let's make Bill
Cabaniss the next Senator from the great State of Alabama.
# # #
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 04/17/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2:00 p.m. 04/18/90
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
(04/17 5:00 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
PINKERTON
WRAY
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
WINSTON
BENNETT
GRAY
HAGIN
DELAND
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, 04/18, with a copy to my
office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Blessey)
1990 APR 17 PH 5: 52
April 17, 1990
5 P.M.
ALA
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CABANISS FUNDRAISER
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1990
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
12:00 P.M.
Thank you, Ray [Scott], for that introduction. Governor
Hunt, Congressmen Callahan and Dickinson, National Committeemen
Perry Hooper and Committeewoman Jean Sullivan, Senator Cabaniss,
ladies and gentlemen.
A writer once said, "Each spring in Alabama is as delicate
as wisteria in the rain and as gentle as falling in love." 11
It's great to be here in this kinder, gentler time of year. //
It's also a privilege to be in Birmingham on behalf of a
very dear friend. One of the great leaders in the Alabama
Senate. Soon to be a great member of the United States Senate.
// My long-time friend, Bill Cabaniss. 11
( (As Bill tells it, this visit arose from a phone call.
John Sununu told him, "We've got a surprise for Birmingham that
will really excite people." // Bill replied, "You mean
Birmingham's finally getting an NFL franchise?") ) //
It is wonderful to be back in this State to help elect a
superb U.S. Senator. He is what this State and my Administration
need. // A Senator who will make Alabama proud. A leader who'll
make the Nation proud. Bill Cabaniss is that man. / ///
Bill and I go back a long way. We first met in 1978 --
we've been summer neighbors for years. ( (We're so close that not
2
long ago Barbara and I invited ourselves for dinner after we
smelled some good old 'Bama barbecue Bill and Katherine had
imported from home. // But you know how it goes. Twenty Secret
Service men went over ahead of us. The good news is that by the
time we got there, they had big smiles on their faces. The bad
news is all the barbecue was gone. )) 11
This year, Bill Cabaniss has plenty to offer Alabama voters.
He is a man of character, a family man -- great wife, two great
kids. He values loyalty -- worked for me in 1980. In '88, he
cast our first vote at the Republican National Convention. //
( (Like me, he is a charismatic speaker. 11 Also, Bill keeps
things in perspective. It's like he says: "It's fine that
you're here, Mr. President. But if you really want to WOW the
crowd, bring Barbara. ) ) //
Not surprisingly, these qualities have endeared Bill to the
voters since his election to the Alabama Senate. Just as they've
impressed his peers. // In 1987, Bill was named Best State
Senator by colleagues in a body then 6-to-1 Democratic. He's
respected because he's a man of experience and judgment. // He
knows that only new ideas can create the new leadership needed
for the new decade of the 1990s.
These new ideas are found at every level of our Republican
Party -- they're the reason you don't just mean Alabama football
when you refer to a Southern "Tide." 11 Since the 1988
election, 215 former Democratic elected officials and leaders
have turned Republican -- 179 from the South and 14 from Alabama.
3
Churchill said, "Some men change their principles for their
party." These men changed their party for their principles. //
They joined us because they want to move beyond an Alabama of
status quo toward an Alabama of status grow. // An Alabama of
new ideas. // The Alabama of Bill Cabaniss. //
One new idea is our belief that greater competitiveness and
incentives mean greater growth. Look here at Birmingham -- often
called the "Pittsburgh of the South." So it once was with steel
and iron -- and is today with high tech and higher learning. //
Bill Cabaniss wants us to be more competitive. As a businessman,
he knows that a lower capital gains tax rate frees more capital
for investment -- and that more investment means more jobs. And
Bill knows his geography. Japan has a much lower capital gains
tax, while countries like Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong
don't tax them at all. So Bill supports our capital gains tax
cut. // Once again I call on the Congress to pass that bill. //
It's time we stop giving the edge to countries we can out-think,
out-work, and out-perform any day of the week. ///
Bill also understands that only an educated work force can
be a competitive work force. Alabama needs him and I need him in
the Lises Senate to back our Educational Excellence Act of 1990. //
Bill's opponent believes in the old and discredited idea that tax
and spend can make U.S. education Number One. Bill and I
disagree. There's nothing new about excellence. What is new is
the idea of demanding higher standards, greater accountability,
and more involvement by parents and communities to achieve it.
4
( (You know, Ray Scott says that the fish I catch aren't any
bigger than his :- but my stories about them are. // Let me tell
a story that's true. In 1961, Bill was at Airborne School in
Fort Benning, Georgia. The sergeant called out, "Cah-BAN-ahs."
Bill corrected him: "Sir, my name is Cabaniss." // Not
surprisingly, at midnight Bill was still running laps and doing
pushups. The next day, the sergeant again called, "Cah-BAN-
ahs." Bill replied, "YES, SIR.") ) 11
Talk about a quick study. // But that's just what we need
in the U.S. Senate, as this country faces enormous challenges in
the new decade of the '90s. // Like the fight against crime and
drugs, and our campaign for a cleaner environment. And it's the
Republicans who have the new ideas to meet these challenges. //
For instance, in January, we unveiled Phase II of our
National Drug Control Strategy to knock out crime and drugs. We
must toughen our laws and expand the death penalty for drug
kingpins. // Capitol Hill doesn't need politicians who soft-
pedal the need to be hard on crime. It needs a Bill Cabaniss who
believes the penalty should be just as tough as the crime. //
And when it comes to the environment, here too we
Republicans have plenty of new ideas to make it clean and safe.
From expanding our parks to planting one billion trees a year to
banning asbestos. 11 What's more, earlier this year we proposed
a major rewrite of the Clean Air Act to cut smog, acid rain, and
toxic pollution. // I'm glad to say the Senate has now passed a
clean air bill -- a bill that was gridlocked through the 1980s.
5
// It's been 13 years coming. But no American should have to
wait another day for clean air. So I call on the House of
Representatives to move promptly to produce a bill consistent
with the principles I have stated for an environmentally strong
and economically sound new Clean Air Act. 11
In that spirit, this week is the 20th anniversary of Earth
Day. And I can't help thinking what a breath of fresh air Bill
Cabaniss would be in Washington, D.C. 11 Like me, he hopes the
House will act soon, and responsibly. As a staunch defender of
the environment, there's one thing Bill wants to make absolutely
clear -- and that's Alabama. //
Let me close with the issue which perhaps most clearly shows
the gulf between new and old ideas. Child care. 11 Bill's
child-care position rests on that historic 'Bama trait: Common
sense. 11 Like me, Bill Cabaniss supports what works.
That's why he backs our child-care program which gives
parents the freedom to choose. It's a $10 billion program to
help low-income working Americans by increasing choice in child
care through tax incentives, not Federal intervention. // We
want to ensure that parents, not bureaucrats, decide how to care
for America's children. And I will not see the option of
religious-based child care restricted or eliminated. //
Bill Cabaniss wants to protect religious child-care
centers, and parents' freedom to use them. But many liberals
support the child-care legislation passed last month by the House
6
Democratic leadership. Let's take a look at what that bill would
mean to this State and every State. 11
The House bill would cost $30 billion -- and force many
States to change their rules. // It would create a Federal
Committee -- really, a straitjacket -- to produce national child-
care standards, replacing local standards that reflect local
needs. 11 And it would put Federal funds into more endless
paperwork -- creating 120 pages of new child care law. Who would
be hurt the most? Those who need help the most. The parents.
The truth is that we don't need all this new bureaucracy.
It would be redundant, wasteful -- an invitation for Big Brother
to get involved in yet another part of our lives. We don't want
to expand the budget of the bureaucracy. We want to expand the
horizons of our kids. // So let's reject those who measure
progress made by dollars spent. // And instead give families the
help they need to solve the child-care problem themselves. //
Liberals say, "The Federal government knows what's best for our
children." Bill Cabaniss and I say: "Parents do." //
You can see, I hope, how much I think of Bill. How I
respect him, trust him, and how much we need him in the United
States Senate. 11
To some, new ideas mean another new bureaucrat to pick your
pocket. // Bill Cabaniss knows better, because he knows the
familes, the taxpayers, the working people of Alabama. His ideas
will help those people. And reflect the spirit of Alabama -- the
spirit of America-Can, not Washington-Must. //
7
I came to this great State to ask you to help this man. A
public servant I admire. A wonderful friend I rely upon. Help
him do for America what he's done for Alabama. // Thank you for
this occasion. God bless the United States. And let's make Bill
Cabaniss the next Senator from the great State of Alabama.
# # #