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Document No. 311448
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
92 FEB 28 P3: 34
DATE: 02/27/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 5:00 p.m. 02/28
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: GOP DINNER, MIAMI, FL, 03/04
(02/26 draft two)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
ROGICH
CALIO
ROLLINS
DEMAREST
SMITH
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
FINDLAY
GRAY
MCGROARTY
HOLIDAY
KAUFMAN
BOSKIN
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments directly to the Speechwriters
office no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, 02/28, with a
copy to this office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
Main Sheel for DS.
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
February 26, 1992
02 FEB27 P7:15
Draft Two
MIAMI
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: GOP DINNER
MIAMI, FLORIDA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1992
[ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS] ((When I found out what Jeb was going
to say, I told him it was one of the nicest introductions I've
received in quite awhile. He said, "Dad, it's all relative. "))
((I'm always reluctant to begin a speech when the audience
still has food on its plates that it can throw -- but I'll take a
chance. )) //
( (First, a confession. My one disappointment here is that I
won't get a chance on this visit to drop by "Esquina de Tejas."
[Es KEE nah dey TEH hass] I have to admit that eating at that
wonderful Cuban restaurant is my Miami Vice. )) //
My pleasure is being here tonight. We've much to do these
next few months -- because we've much to do these next few years.
// Together, we can finish what we've started and move our
country forward. / To do that, I need your support. Help me win
the Presidency for four more years. //
I ask your support for the simplest reason. We believe in
the same things -- jobs, family, peace -- the important things.
We know that taxes are too high -- because our government is
too big and it costs too much. / We believe in a strong defense.
We believe in faith and family -- responsibility and respect --
community and country. / We know that we put America first when
we put America's families first. //
2
So often today politicians do the easy thing -- the popular
thing. / But it's the tough decisions that tell you something
important about character and principle. / For I believe in
things that don't change from one election to the next. Things
that guide each and every one of us -- each day of every year. //
I believe in the things which have led us to a new era in
America's history. My friends, the Cold War is over -- and
America won. // The Soviet Union collapsed -- and Imperial
Communism is finished. //
Next comes an island not far from here. Last week marked a
special birthday: The battle of Grito de Baire [BYE rey] in
Cuba's war of independence. / We support independence. We want
-- and I'm confident will see ---- freedom and prosperity for the
Cuban people and an end to Fidel Castro's totalitarian regime. //
Castro has become the "Maytag Repairman" of Communist
dictators -- he's very lonely. // He is not a leader -- he's a
warden. His beaches are not borders -- they're walls. / For
years, the Cuban community has energized Miami. Someday freedom-
loving people will change your homeland -- just like America has
changed the world. Tonight, I want to talk about how Republican
leadership can change America. //
We can change it by making right what is simply on the wrong
track of our country. Take our courts, for example. //
When the rights of the criminal are more important than the
rights of the victim, that's wrong. / I'm proud of our tough
3
stand on crime. And I'm proud of our judicial appointments --
judges who interpret, not legislate. 11
When kids can't say a voluntary prayer in school -- or when
fathers stop coaching Little League because they're afraid of
liability lawsuits -- that, too, is wrong. //
or when doctors stop delivering babies because they fear a
malpractice lawsuit -- or when people stop volunteering to help
each other because they fear ambulance-chasing lawyers. // This
is not the America we want. //
These days a sharp lawyer would tell the Good Samaritan --
keep on walking. I want to change that -- so I've proposed
reforms to our system to reduce the number of frivolous lawsuits.
( (I don't want to get into trouble with the Bar Association,
but I once quoted to someone that line, "An apple a day keeps the
doctor away. " / He said, "What works for lawyers?") ) Legal
reform will help our legal process work. But, you know, the real
answer for solving problems is to be more concerned with helping
each other than suing each other. //
But we can't stop there -- not till we reform our health
care system. Not because it doesn't offer the world's best
quality care, it does. We must reform it because too many people
don't have access to health insurance. Too many people worry
that they'll lose their insurance if they change jobs or worse
still, if they lose their job. And anybody who's had even minor
surgery knows that health care costs are going through the roof. /
4
What's the solution? Not to go down the road of socialized
medicine. All that means is long lines and impersonal service. /
We can get that at the Department of Motor Vehicles. / My idea
is to make insurance available to all -- keep the quality high,
the bureaucracy low -- and preserve choice. / The last thing we
want is the government telling you who your doctor's going to be.
Health care reform means improving the system. / There's
another area where reform means changing the system. // I'm
talking about welfare. Let's face it: Too often the welfare
system perpetuates dependency instead of personal responsibility
and the dignity of a job. / So I've asked my departments and
agencies to make it easier for state and local government to
reform policies that promote broken families. // We need to help
make families whole -- help bring dignity back into their lives
and go after dead-beat fathers who run out on their children. //
This leads me to the number one issue on the minds of all
Americans is -- the economy. People worried about their jobs --
providing for their families / meeting the challenges of paying
the bills, buying a home, and setting aside for our retirement. / /
The American people want this economy to work. So in my
State of the Union, I unveiled a two-part plan. The first part
gets business growing again -- upgrading plant and equipment
again -- hiring workers again. / It uses incentives like an
investment tax allowance -- and calls for Congress to wake up and
understand how the real world works, and cut the tax on capital
gains. /
5
And to get housing back on its feet I unveiled several
common sense proposals to get people buying and building homes.
// Perhaps the most easily understood proposal is a $5,000 tax
credit for first-time homebuyers. / It's easy to understand the
Democrats' plan for first-time homebuyers, too -- there isn't
one. / But with our plan, young people almost able to buy that
first home could do it with the extra $5,000 in their pocket. /
((203 years ago on this very date the United States Congress
met for the first time. Wonder what they would think today about
the House Democrats' so-called "plan. ) ) Here's the Democrat
deal: 25 cents a day in temporary tax relief for two years --
paid for -- typical of them --- by a large permanent tax increase.
/ Over in the Senate, the Democrats are in a bidding war -- but
to pay for that they'd hike tax rates for the middle class --
people making $35,000 a year -- people like teachers, factory
workers, and everyday Floridians. /
We drew a line in the Sand in the Persian Gulf and kept our
word. I'll draw another line in the sand right now. If the
Democrats send me this nonsense they're talking about, I'll send
it right back. I will veto it the minute it hits my desk. //
Instead of their phony maneuvers, Congress ought to pass my plan
to make America more competitive. Here's the deadline: March
20, the first day of spring. / Here's the challenge: Give
American workers a spring break. / No more games / no more empty
gestures / just pass my plan and get this economy moving. /
6
Some question the need to act now. Well, let me repeat the
story of a little boy who asked why his friend's grandmother read
the Bible so much. "I'm not sure," said his friend, "but I think
it's because she's cramming for her finals. " / Urgency counts in
any world. / So I'm asking Congress to also pass the second part
of my plan this year. It's a road map to make us competitive.
Our plan revolutionizes America's education system. I was
reading that the average 8th-grader spends four times as much
time watching TV as doing homework. // There are some wonderful
educational programs on TV -- no question. But TV shouldn't be
America's baby-sitter. We can change that by making our
education system demand responsibility. // Our plan will get the
billions of dollars of government research and development more
quickly to private sector businesses and workers. / And our plan
provides tax relief to strengthen the family. / We raise the tax
deduction for children by $500 dollars. Make no mistake, I want
this plan passed in this session of Congress. //
Behind all of this is an idea vital to America: To succeed
economically at home, we have to lead economically abroad. /
Some don't want us to lead -- think we should shut out the rest
of the world. / They're dead wrong. The way to create jobs is
not to cut and run -- but to open markets for our exports
everywhere in the world. I am going to fight hard in every
foreign market to do just that. / /
I'm also going to fight hard in the Florida Primary -- for
you and I -- for what is right, and good. // I saw in the eight
7
years my friend Ronald Reagan led America how leadership matters.
/ Last year, we saw America stand tall again in the Persian
Gulf. / I believe the next five years are just too important to
entrust to the inexperienced. // So I ask for your help to keep
our party strong and united so we can win this fall. //
I believe the American people want to hear about how we're
going to address our country's challenges. They want to hear
solutions, not just a lot of running this country down. //
Solutions that will keep inflation low / our confidence high /
and protect the savings of our elderly. / Solutions that will
win the war on drugs -- and we are winning: Witness the massive
seizure of drugs in South Florida over the past several months.
Yes, we have much to do. But I guarantee you we'll get the
job done. Not through Washington's phony-balonies. But through
people like you'll see two days from now in Carnival Miami.
People like the Cubans who came to this country -- who work and
save and teach and pray. / People who know that America is
number one -- make no mistake about it. //
Yes, we have many challenges before us. And I guarantee
you, we will meet them -- each and every one of them -- meet them
from the great Panhandle to the tip of the Florida Keys.
Yes, there's an election in November -- and I guarantee you,
we will win it. I want to be your president for another four
years. Thank you and God bless the United States of America.
# # #
(Smith/Grossman)
92
FEB
February 26, 1992
28
P2:
Draft Two
MIAMI
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: GOP DINNER
MIAMI, FLORIDA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1992
[[ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS]]. ((When I found out what Jeb was going
to say, I told him it was one of the nicest introductions I've
received in quite awhile. He said, "Dad, it's all relative. "))
((I'm always reluctant to begin a speech when the audience
still has food on its plates that it can throw -- but I'll take a
chance. )) //
( (First, a confession. My one disappointment here is that I
won't get a chance on this visit to drop by "Esquina de Tejas."
[Es KEE nah dey TEH hass] I have to admit that eating at that
wonderful Cuban restaurant is my Miami Vice. )) //
My pleasure is being here tonight. We've much to do these
next few months -- because we've much to do these next few years.
// Together, we can finish what we've started and move our
country forward. / To do that, I need your support. Help me win
the Presidency for four more years. //
I ask your support for the simplest reason. We believe in
the same things -- jobs, family, peace -- the important things.
We know that taxes are too high -- because our government is
too big and it costs too much. / We believe in a strong defense.
We believe in faith and family -- responsibility and respect --
community and country. / We know that we put America first when
we put America's families first. //
2
So often today politicians do the easy thing -- the popular
thing. / But it's the tough decisions that tell you something
important about character and principle. / For I believe in
things that don't change from one election to the next. Things
that guide each and every one of us -- each day of every year. //
I believe in the things which have led us to a new era in
America's history. My friends, the Cold War is over -- and
America won. // The Soviet Union collapsed -- and Imperial
Communism is finished. //
Next comes an island not far from here. Last week marked a
special birthday: The battle of Grito de Baire [BYE rey] in
Cuba's war of independence. / We support independence. We want
-- and I'm confident will see --- freedom and prosperity for the
Cuban people and an end to Fidel Castro's totalitarian regime. //
Castro has become the "Maytag Repairman" of Communist
dictators -- he's very lonely. // He is not a leader -- he's a
warden. His beaches are not borders -- they're walls. / For
years, the Cuban community has energized Miami. Someday freedom-
loving people will change your homeland -- just like America has
changed the world. Tonight, I want to talk about how Republican
leadership can change America. //
We can change it by making right what is simply on the wrong
track of our country. Take our courts, for example. //
When the rights of the criminal are more important than the
rights of the victim, that's wrong. / I'm proud of our tough
3
stand on crime. And I'm proud of our judicial appointments --
judges who interpret, not legislate. //
When kids can't say a voluntary prayer in school -- or when
fathers stop coaching Little League because they're afraid of
liability lawsuits -- that, too, is wrong. //
Or when doctors stop delivering babies because they fear a
malpractice lawsuit -- or when people stop volunteering to help
each other because they fear ambulance-chasing lawyers. // This
is not the America we want. //
These days a sharp lawyer would tell the Good Samaritan --
keep on walking. I want to change that -- so I've proposed
reforms to our system to reduce the number of frivolous lawsuits.
((I don't want to get into trouble with the Bar Association,
but I once quoted to someone that line, "An apple a day keeps the
doctor away. " / He said, "What works for lawyers?") ) Legal
reform will help our legal process work. But, you know, the real
answer for solving problems is to be more concerned with helping
each other than suing each other. //
But we can't stop there -- not till we reform our health
care system. Not because it doesn't offer the world's best
quality care, it does. We must reform it because too many people
don't have access to health insurance. Too many people worry
that they'll lose their insurance if they change jobs or worse
still, if they lose their job. And anybody who's had even minor
surgery knows that health care costs are going through the roof. /
4
What's the solution? Not to go down the road of socialized
medicine. All that means is long lines and impersonal service. /
We can get that at the Department of Motor Vehicles. / My idea
is to make insurance available to all -- keep the quality high,
the bureaucracy low -- and preserve choice. / The last thing we
want is the government telling you who your doctor's going to be.
Health care reform means improving the system. / There's
another area where reform means changing the system. // I'm
talking about welfare. Let's face it: Too often the welfare
system perpetuates dependency instead of personal responsibility
and the dignity of a job. / So I've asked my departments and
agencies to make it easier for state and local government to
reform policies that promote & broken families. // We need to help
help
make families whole -- help bring dignity back into their lives
and go after dead-beat fathers who run out on their children. //
This leads me to the number one issue on the minds of all
Americans is -- the economy. People worried about their jobs --
providing for their families / meeting the challenges of paying
the bills, buying a home, and setting aside for our retirement. //
The American people want this economy to work. So in my
State of the Union, I unveiled a two-part plan. The first part
gets business growing again -- upgrading plant and equipment
again -- hiring workers again. / It uses incentives like an
investment tax allowance -- and calls for Congress to wake up and
understand how the real world works, and cut the tax on capital
gains. /
5
And to get housing back on its feet I unveiled several
common sense proposals to get people buying and building homes.
// Perhaps the most easily understood proposal is a $5,000 tax
credit for first-time homebuyers. / It's easy to understand the
Democrats' plan for first-time homebuyers, too -- there isn't
one. / But with our plan, young people almost able to buy that
first home could do it with the extra $5,000 in their pocket. /
( (203 years ago on this very date the United States Congress
met for the first time. Wonder what they would think today about
the House Democrats' so-called "plan.") Here's the Democrat
deal: 25 cents a day in temporary tax relief for two years --
paid for -- typical of them -- by a large permanent tax increase.
/ Over in the Senate, the Democrats are in a bidding war -- but
to pay for that they'd hike tax rates for the middle class --
people making $35,000 a year -- people like teachers, factory
workers, and everyday Floridians. /
We drew a line in the Sand in the Persian Gulf and kept our
word. I'll draw another line in the sand right now. If the
Democrats send me this nonsense they're talking about, I'll send
it right back. I will veto it the minute it hits my desk. / /
Instead of their phony maneuvers, Congress ought to pass my plan
to make America more competitive. Here's the deadline: March
20, the first day of spring. / Here's the challenge: Give
American workers a spring break. / No more games / no more empty
gestures / just pass my plan and get this economy moving. /
6
Some question the need to act now. Well, let me repeat the
story of a little boy who asked why his friend's grandmother read
the Bible so much. "I'm not sure," said his friend, "but I think
it's because she's cramming for her finals." / Urgency counts in
any world. / So I'm asking Congress to also pass the second part
of my plan this year. It's a road map to make us competitive.
Our plan revolutionizes America's education system. I was
reading that the average 8th-grader spends four times as much
time watching TV as doing homework. 11 There are some wonderful
educational programs on TV -- no question. But TV shouldn't be
America's baby-sitter. We can change that by making our
education system demand responsibility. // Our plan will get the
billions of dollars of government research and development more
quickly to private sector businesses and workers. / And our plan
provides tax relief to strengthen the family. / We raise the tax
deduction for children by $500 dollars. Make no mistake, I want
this plan passed in this session of Congress. //
Behind all of this is an idea vital to America: To succeed
economically at home, we have to lead economically abroad. /
Some don't want us to lead --- think we should shut out the rest
of the world. / They're dead wrong. The way to create jobs is
not to cut and run -- but to open markets for our exports
everywhere in the world. I am going to fight hard in every
foreign market to do just that. //
I'm also going to fight hard in the Florida Primary -- for
you and I -- for what is right, and good. // I saw in the eight
7
years my friend Ronald Reagan led America how leadership matters.
/ Last year, we saw America stand tall again in the Persian
Gulf. / I believe the next five years are just too important to
entrust to the inexperienced. // So I ask for your help to keep
our party strong and united so we can win this fall. //
I believe the American people want to hear about how we're
going to address our country's challenges. They want to hear
solutions, not just a lot of running this country down. / /
Solutions that will keep inflation low / our confidence high /
and protect the savings of our elderly. / Solutions that will
win the war on drugs -- and we are winning: Witness the massive
seizure of drugs in South Florida over the past several months.
Yes, we have much to do. But I guarantee you we'll get the
job done. Not through Washington's phony-balonies. But through
people like you'll see two days from now in Carnival Miami.
People like the Cubans who came to this country -- who work and
save and teach and pray. / People who know that America is
number one -- make no mistake about it. //
Yes, we have many challenges before us. And I guarantee
you, we will meet them -- each and every one of them -- meet them
from the great Panhandle to the tip of the Florida Keys.
Yes, there's an election in November -- and I guarantee you,
we will win it. I want to be your president for another four
years. Thank you and God bless the United States of America.
# # #
Document No: 311448
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
1
92 FEB 28 P2: 30
DATE: 02/27/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 5:00 p.m. 02/28
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: GOP DINNER, MIAMI, FL, 03/04
(02/26 draft two)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
ROGICH
CALIO
ROLLINS
DEMAREST
SMITH
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
FINDLAY
GRAY
MCGROARTY
HOLIDAY
KAUFMAN
BOSKIN
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments directly to the Speechwriters
office no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, 02/28, with a
copy to this office. Thanks.
-
RESPONSE:
Good- 9 few suggestion.
Be for SR
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
February 26, 1992
C2 FEB27 P7: 15
Draft Two
MIAMI
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: GOP DINNER
MIAMI, FLORIDA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1992
[[ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS] ((When I found out what Jeb was going
to say, I told him it was one of the nicest introductions I've
received in quite awhile. He said, "Dad, it's all relative. "))
((I'm always reluctant to begin a speech when the audience
still has food on its plates that it can throw -- but I'll take a
chance.)) //
((First, a confession. My one disappointment here is that I
won't get a chance on this visit to drop by "Esquina de Tejas."
[Es KEE nah dey TEH hass] I have to admit that eating at that
wonderful Cuban restaurant is my Miami Vice.) ) //
My pleasure is being here tonight. We've much to do these
next few months -- because we've much to do these next few years.
// Together, we can finish what we've started and move our
country forward. / To do that, I need your support. Help me win
the Presidency for four more years. //
I ask your support for the simplest reason. We believe in
the same things -- jobs, family, peace -- the important things.
We know that taxes are too high -- because our government is
too big and it costs too much. / We believe in a strong defense.
We believe in faith and family -- responsibility and respect --
community and country. / We know that we put America first when
we put America's families first. //
-good
2
So often today politicians do the easy thing -- the popular
thing. / But it's the tough decisions that tell you something
important about character and principle. / For I believe in
things that don't change from one election to the next. Things
that guide each and every one of us -- each day of every year. //
I believe in the things which have led us to a new era in
America's history. My friends, the Cold War is over -- and
America won. // The Soviet Union collapsed -- and Imperial
Communism is finished. //
Next comes an island not far from here. Last week marked a
special birthday: The battle of Grito de Baire [BYE rey] in
Cuba's war of independence. / We support independence. We want
-- and I'm confident will see -- freedom and prosperity for the
Cuban people and an end to Fidel Castro's totalitarian regime. //
Castro has become the "Maytag Repairman" of Communist
dictators -- he's very lonely. // He is not a leader -- he's a
warden. His beaches are not borders -- they're walls. / For
years, the Cuban community has energized Miami. Someday freedom-
loving people will change your homeland -- just like America has
changed the world. Tonight, I want to talk about how Republican
leadership can change America. //
We can change it by making right what is simply on the wrong
track of our country. Take our courts, for example. //
When the rights of the criminal are more important than the
rights of the victim, that's wrong. / I'm proud of our tough
3
stand on crime. And I'm proud of our judicial appointments --
judges who interpret, not legislate. //
When kids can't say a voluntary prayer in school -- or when
fathers stop coaching Little League because they're afraid of
liability lawsuits -- that, too, is wrong. //
Or when doctors stop delivering babies because they fear a
malpractice lawsuit -- or when people stop volunteering to help
each other because they fear ambulance-chasing lawyers. // This
is not the America we want. //
These days a sharp lawyer would tell the Good Samaritan --
keep on walking. I want to change that -- so I've proposed
reforms to our system to reduce the number of frivolous lawsuits.
((I don't want to get into trouble with the Bar Association
but
I once quoted to someone that line, "An apple a day keeps the
doctor away. " / He said, "What works for lawyers?") ) Legal
reform will help our legal process work. But, you know, the real
answer for solving problems is to be more concerned with helping
each other than suing each other. //
But we can't stop there -- not till we reform our health
care system. Not because it. doesn't offer the world's best
quality care, it does. We must reform it because too many people
don't have access to health insurance. Too many people worry
that they'll lose their insurance if they change jobs or worse
still, if they lose their job. And anybody who's had even minor
surgery knows that health care costs are going through the roof. /
4
What's the solution? Not to go down the road of socialized
medicine. All that means is long lines and impersonal service. /
We can get that at the Department of Motor Vehicles. / My idea
is to make insurance available to all -- keep the quality high,
the bureaucracy low -- and preserve choice. / The last thing we
want is the government telling you who your doctor's going to be.
Health care reform means improving the system. / There's
another area where reform means changing the system. // I'm
talking about welfare. Let's face it: Too often the welfare
system perpetuates dependency instead of personal responsibility
and the dignity of a job. / So I've asked my departments and
agencies to make it easier for state and local government to
reform policies that promote broken families. // We need to help
make families whole -- help bring dignity back into their lives
and go after dead-beat fathers who run out on their children. //
This leads me to the number one issue on the minds of all
Americans 18 the economy. People worried about their jobs --
providing for their families / meeting the challenges of paying
the bills, buying a home, and setting aside for our retirement. / /
The American people want this economy to grow. work. So in my
State of the Union, I unveiled a two-part plan. The first part
MOV
gets business growing again -- upgrading plant and equipment
again -- hiring workers again. / It uses incentives like an
investment tax allowance -- and calls for Congress to wake up and
understand how the real world works, and cut the tax on capital
gains. /
5
And to get housing back on its feet I unveiled several
common sense proposals to get people buying and building homes.
Popular
// Perhaps the most easily understood proposal is a $5,000 tax
credit for first-time homebuyers. / It's easy to understand the
Democrats' plan for first-time homebuyers, too -- there isn't
one. / But with our plan, young people almost able to buy that
first home could do it with the extra $5,000 in their pocket. /
( (203 years ago on this very date the United States Congress
met for the first time. Wonder what they would think today about
the House Democrats' so-called "plan. ")) Here's the Democrat
deal: 25 cents a day in temporary tax relief for two years --
paid for -- typical of them -- by a large permanent tax increase.
/ Over in the Senate, the Democrats are in a bidding war -- but
to pay for that they'd hike tax rates for the middle class --
people making $35,000 a year -- people like teachers, factory
workers, and everyday Floridians. /
We drew a line in the Sand in the Persian Gulf and kept our
word. I'll draw another line in the sand right now. If the
Democrats send me this nonsense they're talking about, I'll send
it right back. I will veto it the minute it hits my desk. //
Instead of their phony maneuvers, Congress ought to pass my plan
to make America more competitive. Here's the deadline: March
20, the first day of spring. / Here's the challenge: Give
American workers a spring break. / No more games / no more empty
gestures / just pass my plan and get this economy moving. /
6
Some question the need to act now. Well, let me repeat the
story of a little boy who asked why his friend's grandmother read
the Bible so much. "I'm not sure, " said his friend, "but I think
it's because she's cramming for her finals." / Urgency counts in
any world. / So I'm asking Congress to also pass the second part
of my plan this year. It's a road map to make us competitive.
Our plan revolutionizes America's education system. I was
reading that the average 8th-grader spends four times as much
time watching TV as doing homework. // There are some wonderful
educational programs on TV -- no question. But TV shouldn't be
America's baby-sitter. We can change that by making our
education system demand responsibility. // Our plan will get the
billions of dollars of government research and development more
quickly to private sector businesses and workers. / And our plan
provides tax relief to strengthen the family. / We raise the tax
deduction for children by $500 dollars. Make no mistake, I want
this plan passed in this session of Congress. / /
Behind all of this is an idea vital to America: To succeed
economically at home, we have to lead economically abroad. /
Some don't want us to lead -- think we should shut out the rest
of the world. / They're dead wrong. The way to create jobs is
not to cut and run -- but to open markets for our exports
everywhere in the world. I am going to fight hard in every
foreign market to do just that. / /
I'm also going to fight hard in the Florida Primary -- for
you and I -- for what is right, and good. // I saw in the eight
7
years my friend Ronald Reagan led America how leadership matters.
/ Last year, we saw America stand tall again in the Persian
Gulf. / I believe the next five years are just too important to
entrust to the inexperienced. // So I ask for your help to keep
our party strong and united so we can win this fall. //
I believe the American people want to hear about how we're
going to address our country's challenges. They want to hear
solutions, not just a lot of running this country down. //
Solutions that will keep inflation low / our confidence high /
and protect the savings of our elderly. / Solutions that will
win the war on drugs -- and we are winning: Witness the massive
seizure of drugs in South Florida over the past several months.
Yes, we have much to do. But I guarantee you we'll get the
job done. Not through Washington's phony-balonies. But through
people like you'll see two days from now in Carnival Miami.
People like the Cubans who came to this country -- who work and
save and teach and pray. / People who know that America is
number one -- make no mistake about it. //
Yes, we have many challenges before us. And I guarantee
you, we will meet them -- each and every one of them -- meet them
from the great Panhandle to the tip of the Florida Keys.
Yes, there's an election in November -- and I guarantee you,
we will win it. I want to be your president for another four
years. Thank you and God bless the United States of America.
# # #
Dob
Memorandum for Speechwriting Staff
From:
Dan McGroarty
Regarding: Miami 6 OP
Please return your comments to Room
122 by:
3pm
Today's Date:
FEB 28 1992
(Smith/Grossman)
February 26, 1992
Draft Two
MIAMI
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: GOP DINNER
MIAMI, FLORIDA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1992
[[ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS]]. ((When I found out what Jeb was going
to say, I told him it was one of the nicest introductions I've
received in quite awhile. He said, "Dad, it's all relative. "))
( (I'm always reluctant to begin a speech when the audience
still has food on its plates that it can throw -- but I'll take a
chance. )) //
why take a chance? somethe might.
( (First, a confession. My one disappointment here is that I
won't get a chance on this visit to drop by "Esquina de Tejas."
[Es KEE nah dey TEH hass] I have to admit that eating at that
wonderful Cuban restaurant is my Miami Vice. )) //
My pleasure is being here tonight. We've much to do these
next few months -- because we've much to do these next few years.
// Together, we can finish what we've started and move our
country forward. / To do that, I need your support. Help me win
the Presidency for four more years. //
I ask your support for the simplest reason. We believe in
the same things --- jobs, family, peace -- the important things.
We know that taxes are too high -- because our government is
too big and it costs too much. / We believe in a strong defense.
We believe in faith and family -- responsibility and respect --
community and country. / We know that we put America first when
we put America's families first. //
2
So often today politicians do the easy thing -- the popular
thing. / But it's the tough decisions that tell you something
important about character and principle. / For I believe in
things that don't change from one election to the next. Things
that guide each and every one of us -- each day of every year. //
I believe in the things which have led us to a new era in
America's history. My friends, the Cold War is over -- and
America won. // The Soviet Union collapsed -- and Imperial
Communism is finished. //
Next comes an island not far from here. Last week marked a
special birthday: The battle of Grito de Baire [BYE rey] in
Cuba's war of independence. / We support independence. We want
-- and I'm confident will see -- freedom and prosperity for the
Cuban people and an end to Fidel Castro's totalitarian regime. //
Castro has become the "Maytag Repairman" of Communist
dictators -- he's very lonely. // He is not a leader -- he's a
warden. His beaches are not borders -- they're walls. / For
years, the Cuban community has energized Miami. Someday freedom-
loving people will change your homeland -- just like America has
changed the world. Tonight, I want to talk about how Republican
leadership can change America. //
We can change it by making right what is simply on the wrong
in this
track of our country. Take our courts, for example. //
When the rights of the criminal are more important than the
rights of the victim, that's wrong. / I'm proud of our tough
3
stand on crime. And I'm proud of our judicial appointments --
judges who interpret, not legislate. //
When kids can't say a voluntary prayer in school -- or when
fathers stop coaching Little League because they're afraid of
liability lawsuits -- that, too, is wrong. //
Or when doctors stop delivering babies because they fear a
malpractice lawsuit -- or when people stop volunteering to help
each other because they fear ambulance-chasing lawyers. // This
is not the America we want. //
These days a sharp lawyer would tell the Good Samaritan --
keep on walking. I want to change that -- so I've proposed
reforms to our system to reduce the number of frivolous lawsuits.
( (I don't want to get into trouble with the Bar Association,
but I once quoted to someone that line, "An apple a day keeps the
doctor away. " / He said, "What works for lawyers?") ) Legal
reform will help our legal process work. But, you know, the real
answer for solving problems is to be more concerned with helping
each other than suing each other. //
But we can't stop there -- not till we reform our health
care system. Not because it doesn't offer the world's best
quality care, it does. We must reform it because too many people
don't have access to health insurance. Too many people worry
that they'll lose their insurance if they change jobs or worse
still, if they lose their job. And anybody who's had even minor
surgery knows that health care costs are going through the roof. /
4
What's the solution? Not to go down the road of socialized
medicine. All that means is long lines and impersonal service. /
We can get that at the Department of Motor Vehicles. / My idea
is to make insurance available to all -- keep the quality high,
the bureaucracy low -- and preserve choice. / The last thing we
want is the government telling you who your doctor's going to be.
Health care reform means improving the system. / There's
another area where reform means changing the system. // I'm
talking about welfare. Let's face it: Too often the welfare
system perpetuates dependency instead of personal responsibility
and the dignity of a job. / So I've asked my departments and
agencies to make it easier for state and local government to
reform policies that promote broken families. // We need to help
make families whole -- help bring dignity back into their lives
and go after dead-beat fathers who run out on their children. //
This leads me to the number one issue on the minds of all
Americans! mm the economy. People worried about their jobs --
providing for their families / meeting the challenges of paying
something
the bills, buying a home, and setting aside for love our retirement. / /
The American people want this economy to work. So in my
State of the Union, I unveiled a two-part plan. The first part
gets business growing again -- upgrading plant and equipment
again -- hiring workers again. / It uses incentives like an
investment tax allowance -- and calls for Congress to wake up and
understand how the real world works, and cut the tax on capital
gains /
5
And to get housing back on its feet I unveiled several
common sense proposals to get people buying and building homes.
// Perhaps the most easily understood proposal is a $5,000 tax
credit for first-time homebuyers. / It's easy to understand the
Democrats' plan for first-time homebuyers, too -- there isn't
one. / But with our plan, young people almost able to buy that
first home could do it with the extra $5,000 in their pocket. /
( (203 years ago on this very date the United States Congress
met for the first time. Wonder what they would think today about
the House Democrats' so-called "plan. ) Here's the Democrat
deal: 25 cents a day in temporary tax relief for two years --
paid for -- typical of them -- by a large permanent tax increase.
/ Over in the Senate, the Democrats are in a bidding war -- but
to pay for that they'd hike tax rates for the middle class --
people making $35,000 a year -- people like teachers, factory
workers, and everyday Floridians. /
We drew a line in the Sand in the Persian Gulf and kept our
word. I'll draw another line in the sand right now. If the
Democrats send me this nonsense they're talking about, I'll send
it right back. I will veto it the minute it hits my desk. //
Instead of their phony maneuvers, Congress ought to pass my plan
to make America more competitive. Here's the deadline: March
20, the first day of spring. / Here's the challenge: Give
American workers a spring break. / No more games / no more empty
gestures / just pass my plan and get this economy moving. /
6
Some question the need to act now. Well, let me repeat the
story of a little boy who asked why his friend's grandmother read
the Bible so much. "I'm not sure," said his friend, "but I think
it's because she's cramming for her finals." / Urgency counts in
any world. / So I'm asking Congress to also pass the second part
of my plan this year. It's a road map to make us competitive.
Our plan revolutionizes America's education system. I was
reading that the average 8th-grader spends four times as much
time watching TV as doing homework. // There are some wonderful
educational programs on TV -- no question. But TV shouldn't be
America's baby-sitter. We can change that by making our
education system demand responsibility. // Our plan will get the
billions of dollars of government research and development more
quickly to private sector businesses and workers. / And our plan
provides tax relief to strengthen the family. / We raise the tax
deduction for children by $500 dollars. Make no mistake, I want
this plan passed in this session of Congress. //
Behind all of this is an idea vital to America: To succeed
economically at home, we have to lead economically abroad. /
Some don't want us to lead -- think we should shut out the rest
of the world. / They're dead wrong. The way to create jobs is
not to cut and run --- but to open markets for our exports
everywhere in the world. I am going to fight hard in every
foreign market to do just that. //
I'm also going to fight hard in the Florida Primary -- for
you and I -- for what is right, and good. // I saw in the eight
7
years my friend Ronald Reagan led America how leadership matters.
/ Last year, we saw America stand tall again in the Persian
Gulf. / I believe the next five years are just too important to
entrust to the inexperienced. // So I ask for your help to keep
our party strong and united so we can win this fall. //
I believe the American people want to hear about how we're
going to address our country's challenges. They want to hear
solutions, not just a lot of running this country down. //
Solutions that will keep inflation low / our confidence high /
and protect the savings of our elderly. / Solutions that will
win the war on drugs -- and we are winning: Witness the massive
seizure of drugs in South Florida over the past several months.
Yes, we have much to do. But I guarantee you we'll get the
job done. Not through Washington's phony-balonies. But through
people like you'll see two days from now in Carnival Miami.
People like the Cubans who came to this country -- who work and
save and teach and pray. / People who know that America is
number one -- make no mistake about H
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Yes, we have many challenges before us. And I guarantee
you, we will meet them -- each and every one of them -- meet them
from the great Panhandle to the tip of the Florida Keys.
Yes, there's an election in November -- and I guarantee you,
we will win it. I want to be your president for another four
years. Thank you and God bless the United States of America.
# # #
gory
Memorandum for Speechwriting Staff
From:
Dan McGroarty
Regarding: Miami GOP
Please return your comments to
Room 122 by:
3pm
FEB 81992
Today's Date:
(Smith/Grossman)
February 26, 1992
Draft Two
MIAMI
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: GOP DINNER
MIAMI, FLORIDA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1992
[[ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS] ((When I found out what Jeb was going
to say, I told him it was one of the nicest introductions I've
received in quite awhile. He said, "Dad, it's all relative. "))
((I'm always reluctant to begin a speech when the audience
still has food on its plates that it can throw -- but I'll take a
chance. )) //
( (First, a confession. My one disappointment here is that I
won't get a chance on this visit to drop by "Esquina de Tejas."
[Es KEE nah dey TEH hass] I have to admit that eating at that
wonderful Cuban restaurant is my Miami Vice. )) //
My pleasure is being here tonight. We've much to do these
next few months -- because we've much to do these next few years.
// Together, we can finish what we've started and move our
country forward. / To do that, I need your support. Help me win
the Presidency for four more years. //
I ask your support for the simplest reason. We believe in
the same things -- jobs, family, peace -- the important things.
We know that taxes are too high -- because our government is
too big and it costs too much. / We believe in a strong defense.
We believe in faith and family -- responsibility and respect --
community and country. / We know that we put America first when
we put America's families first. //
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2
So often today politicians do the easy thing -- the popular
thing. / But it's the tough decisions that tell you something
important about character and principle. / For I believe in
things that don't change from one election to the next. Things
that guide each and every one of us -- each day of every year. //
I believe in the things which have led us to a new era in
America's history. My friends, the Cold War is over -- and
America won. // The Soviet Union collapsed -- and Imperial
Communism is finished. //
Next comes an island not far from here. Last week marked a
special birthday: The battle of Grito de Baire [BYE rey] in
Cuba's war of independence. / We support independence. We want
-- and I'm confident will see -- freedom and prosperity for the
Cuban people and an end to Fidel Castro's totalitarian regime. //
Castro has become the "Maytag Repairman" of Communist
dictators --- he's very lonely. // He is not a leader -- he's a
warden. His beaches are not borders -- they're walls. / For
years, the Cuban community has energized Miami. Someday freedom-
loving people will change your homeland -- just like America has
changed the world. Tonight, I want to talk about how Republican
leadership can change America. //
We can change it by making right what is simply on the wrong
track of our country. Take our courts, for example. //
When the rights of the criminal are more important than the
rights of the victim, that's wrong. / I'm proud of our tough
3
stand on crime. And I'm proud of our judicial appointments --
judges who interpret, not legislate. //
When kids can't say a voluntary prayer in school -- or when
fathers stop coaching Little League because they're afraid of
liability lawsuits -- that, too, is wrong. //
or when doctors stop delivering babies because they fear a
malpractice lawsuit -- or when people stop volunteering to help
each other because they fear ambulance-chasing lawyers. // This
is not the America we want. //
These days a sharp lawyer would tell the Good Samaritan --
keep on walking. I want to change that -- so I've proposed
reforms to our system to reduce the number of frivolous lawsuits.
((I don't want to get into trouble with the Bar Association,
but I once quoted to someone that line, "An apple a day keeps the
doctor away. " / He said, "What works for lawyers?") ) Legal
reform will help our legal process work. But, you know, the real
answer for solving problems is to be more concerned with helping
each other than suing each other. //
But we can't stop there -- not till we reform our health
care system. Not because it doesn't offer the world's best
quality care, it does. We must reform it because too many people
don't have access to health insurance. Too many people worry
that they'll lose their insurance if they change jobs or worse
still, if they lose their job. And anybody who's had even minor
surgery knows that health care costs are going through the roof./
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We can get that at the Department of Motor Vehicles. / My idea
is to make insurance available to all -- keep the quality high,
the bureaucracy low -- and preserve choice. / The last thing we
want is the government telling you who your doctor's going to be.
Health care reform means improving the system. / There's
another area where reform means changing the system. // I'm
talking about welfare. Let's face it: Too often the welfare
system perpetuates dependency instead of personal responsibility
and the dignity of a job. / So I've asked my departments and
agencies to make it easier for state and local government to
reform policies that promote broken families. // We need to help
make families whole -- help bring dignity back into their lives
and go after dead-beat fathers who run out on their children. //
This leads me to the number one issue on the minds of all
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The American people want this economy to work. So in my
State of the Union, I unveiled a two-part plan. The first part
gets business growing again -- upgrading plant and equipment
again -- hiring workers again. / It uses incentives like an
investment tax allowance -- and calls for Congress to wake up and
understand how the real world works, and cut the tax on capital
gains. /
5
And to get housing back on its feet I unveiled several
common sense proposals to get people buying and building homes.
// Perhaps the most easily understood proposal is a $5,000 tax
credit for first-time homebuyers. / It's easy to understand the
Democrats' plan for first-time homebuyers, too -- there isn't
one. / But with our plan, young people almost able to buy that
first home could do it with the extra $5,000 in their pocket. /
( (203 years ago on this very date the United States Congress
met for the first time. Wonder what they would think today about
the House Democrats' so-called "plan. ")) Here's the Democrat
deal: 25 cents a day in temporary tax relief for two years --
paid for -- typical of them -- by a large permanent tax increase.
/ Over in the Senate, the Democrats are in a bidding war -- but
to pay for that they'd hike tax rates for the middle class --
people making $35,000 a year -- people like teachers, factory
workers, and everyday Floridians. /
We drew a line in the Sand in the Persian Gulf and kept our
word. I'll draw another line in the sand right now. If the
Democrats send me this nonsense they're talking about, I'll send
it right back. I will veto it the minute it hits my desk. //
Instead of their phony maneuvers, Congress ought to pass my plan
to make America more competitive. Here's the deadline: March
20, the first day of spring. / Here's the challenge: Give
American workers a spring break. / No more games / no more empty
gestures / just pass my plan and get this economy moving./
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reading that the average 8th-grader spends four times as much
time watching TV as doing homework. // There are some wonderful
educational programs on TV -- no question. But TV shouldn't be
America's baby-sitter. We can change that by making our
education system demand responsibility. // Our plan will get the
billions of dollars of government research and development more
quickly to private sector businesses and workers. / And our plan
provides tax relief to strengthen the family. / We raise the tax
deduction for children by $500 dollars. Make no mistake, I want
this plan passed in this session of Congress. //
Behind all of this is an idea vital to America: To succeed
economically at home, we have to lead economically abroad. /
Some don't want us to lead -- think we should shut out the rest
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not to cut and run -- but to open markets for our exports
everywhere in the world. I am going to fight hard in every
foreign market to do just that. //
I'm also going to fight hard in the Florida Primary -- for
you and I -- for what is right, and good. // I saw in the eight
7
years my friend Ronald Reagan led America how leadership matters.
/ Last year, we saw America stand tall again in the Persian
Gulf. / I believe the next five years are just too important to
entrust to the inexperienced. // So I ask for your help to keep
our party strong and united so we can win this fall. //
I believe the American people want to hear about how we're
going to address our country's challenges. They want to hear
solutions, not just a lot of running this country down. / /
Solutions that will keep inflation low / our confidence high /
and protect the savings of our elderly. / Solutions that will
win the war on drugs -- and we are winning: Witness the massive
seizure of drugs in South Florida over the past several months.
Yes, we have much to do. But I guarantee you we'll get the
job done. Not through Washington's phony-balonies. But through
people like you'll see two days from now in Carnival Miami.
People like the Cubans who came to this country -- who work and
save and teach and pray. / People who know that America is
number one -- make no mistake about it. //
Yes, we have many challenges before us. And I guarantee
you, we will meet them -- each and every one of them -- meet them
from the great Panhandle to the tip of the Florida Keys.
Yes, there's an election in November -- and I guarantee you,
we will win it. I want to be your president for another four
years. Thank you and God bless the United States of America.
# # #
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Memorandum for Speechwriting Staff
From:
Dan McGroarty
Regarding: Miami GOP
Please return your comments to Room
122 by:
3pm
FEB 28 1992
Today's Date:
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February 26, 1992
Draft Two
MIAMI
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: GOP DINNER
MIAMI, FLORIDA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1992
[[ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS] ( (When I found out what Jeb was going
to say, I told him it was one of the nicest introductions I've
received in quite awhile. He said, "Dad, it's all relative. "))
((I'm always reluctant to begin a speech when the audience
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My pleasure is being here tonight. We've much to do these
next few months -- because we've much to do these next few years.
// Together, we can finish what we've started and move our
country forward. / To do that, I need your support. Help me win
the Presidency for four more years. //
I ask your support for the simplest reason. We believe in
the same things -- jobs, family, peace -- the important things.
We know that taxes are too high -- because our government is
too big and it costs too much. / We believe in a strong defense.
We believe in faith and family -- responsibility and respect --
community and country. / We know that we put America first when
we put America's families first. //
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So Today's often today politicians do the easy thing -- the popular
thing. / But it's the tough decisions that tell you something
important about character and principle. / For I believe in
things that don't change from one election to the next. Things
that guide each and every one of us -- each day of every year. //
I believe in the things which have led us to a new era in
America's history. My friends, the Cold War is over -- and
America won. // The Soviet Union collapsed -- and Imperial
Communism is finished. / /
Next comes an island not far from here. Last week marked a
special birthday: The battle of Grito de Baire [BYE rey] in
Cuba's war of independence. / We support independence. We want
and I'm confident will see freedom and prosperity for the
Cuban people and an end to Fidel Castro's totalitarian regime. //
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We can change it by making right what is simply on the wrong
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reforms to our system to reduce the number of frivolous lawsuits.
((I don't want to get into trouble with the Bar Association,
but I once quoted to someone that line, "An apple a day keeps the
doctor away. " / He said, "What works for lawyers?") ) Legal
reform will help our legal process work. But, you know, the real
answer for solving problems is to be more concerned with helping
each other than suing each other. //
until
But we can't stop there -- not till we reform our health
care system. Not because it doesn't offer the world's best
quality care, it does. We must reform it because too many people
don't have access to health insurance. Too many people worry
that they'll lose their insurance if they change jobs or worse
still, if they lose their job. And anybody who's had even minor
acheckup
surgery knows that health care costs are going through the roof. /
4
What's the solution? Not to go down the road of socialized
medicine. All that means is long lines and impersonal service. /
We can get that at the Department of Motor Vehicles. / My idea plan
is will to make insurance available to all -- keep the quality high,
healthcare?
the bureaucracy low -- and preserve choice. / The last thing we
want is the government telling you who your doctor's going to be
assigning you a doctor.
Health care reform means improving the system. / There's
another area where reform means changing the system. // I'm
talking about welfare. Let's face it: Too often the welfare
system perpetuates encourages dependency instead of personal responsibility
and the dignity of a job. / So I've asked my departments and
agencies to make it easier for state and local government to
reform policies that promote broken families. // We need to help
make families whole -- help bring dignity back into their lives
parents?
and go after dead-beat fathers who run out on their children. //
thing. do
This leads me to the number one issue on the minds of all
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Americans is -- the economy. People worried about their jobs
providing for their families / meeting the challenges of paying
the bills, buying a home, and setting aside for our retirement.//
The American people want this our economy to work. So in my January
State of the Union, I unveiled a two-part plan. The first part
gets business growing again -- upgrading plant and equipment
again and hiring workers, again. / It uses incentives like an
investment tax allowance -- and calls for Congress to wake up and
and
understand how the real world works, and cut the tax on capital
gains. /
5
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And to get housing back on its feet I unveiled several
common sense proposals to get people buying and building homes.
// Perhaps the most easily understood proposal is a $5,000 tax
credit for first-time homebuyers. / It's easy to understand the
Democrats' plan for first-time homebuyers, too -- there isn't
one. / But with our plan, young people almost able to buy that
first home could do it with the extra $5,000 in their pocket. /
( (203 years ago on this very date the United States Congress
1.
met for the first time. Wonder what they would think today about
the House Democrats' so-called "plan. ")) Here's the Democrat
deal: 25 cents a day in temporary tax relief for two years --
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more
people making $35,000 a year -- people like teachers, factory
policemen
workers, and everyday Floridians. /
We drew a line in the Sand in the Persian Gulf and kept our
word. I'll draw another line in the sand right now. If the
Democrats send me this nonsense they're talking about, I'll send
it right back. I will veto it the minute it hits my desk. //
Instead of their phony maneuvers, Congress ought to pass my plan
to make put America more competitive. Here's the deadline: March
backonherfeet.
20, the first day of spring. / Here's the challenge: Give
American workers a spring break. / No more games / no more empty
gestures / just pass my plan and get this economy moving. /
6
Some question the need to act now. Well, let me repeat the
story of a little boy who asked why his friend's grandmother read
the Bible so much. "I'm not sure, " said his friend, "but I think
it's because she's cramming for her finals. " / Urgency counts in
any world. / So I'm asking Congress to also pass the second part
of my plan this year. It's a road map to make us competitive.
Our plan revolutionizes America's education system. I was
reading that the average 8th-grader spends four times as much
time watching TV as doing homework. // There are some wonderful
educational programs on TV -- no question. But TV shouldn't be
America's baby-sitter. We can change that by making our schools
education system demand responsibility. // Our plan will get the
billions of dollars of government research and development more
quickly to private sector businesses and workers. / And our plan
want to
provides tax relief to strengthen the family. / We raise the tax
deduction for children by $500 dollars. Make no mistake, I want
this plan passed in this session of Congress. //
Behind all of this is an idea vital to America: To succeed
economically at home, we have to lead economically abroad. /
Some don't want us to lead they think we should just shut out the rest
of the world. / They're dead wrong. The way to create jobs is
not to cut and run -- but to open markets for our exports
everywhere in the world. I am going to fight hard in every
foreign market to do just that. // insert
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here
I'm also going to fight hard in the Florida Primary --- for
you and I -- for what is right, and good. // I saw in the eight
7
years my friend Ronald Reagan led America how leadership matters.
/ Last year, we saw America stand tall again in the Persian
Gulf. / I believe the next five years are just too important to
entrust to the inexperienced. // So I ask for your help to keep
our party strong and united SO we will win this fall
in November
A
I believe the American people want to hear about how we re
going to address our country's challenges. They want to hear
solutions; not just a lot of running this country down. //
Solutions that will keep inflation low / our confidence high /
and protect the savings of our elderly. / Solutions that will
win the war on drugs -- and we are winning: Witness the massive
seizure of drugs in South Florida over the past several months.
examples?
Yes, we have much to do. But I guarantee you we'll get the
job done. Not through Washington's phony-balonies. But through
There are Miami. monthan in
people like you'll see two days from now in Carnival Miami.
stet
People like the Cubans who came to this country -who work and
save and teach and pray. / People who know that America is
number one -- make no mistake about it. //
we have many challenges before us. And I guarantee
you, we will meet each and every one of them
meet them
from the great Panhandle to the tip of the Florida Keys.
Yes, there's an election in November -- and I guarantee you,
we will win it. I want to be your president for another four
years. Thank you and God bless the United States of America.
# # #
(Smith/Grossman)
February 26, 1992
Draft Two
MIAMI
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: GOP DINNER
MIAMI, FLORIDA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1992
[[ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS]] ((When I found out what Jeb was going
to say, I told him it was one of the nicest introductions I've
received in quite awhile. He said, "Dad, it's all relative. "))
((I'm always reluctant to begin a speech when the audience
still has food on its plates that it can throw -- but I'll take a
chance. )) //
( (First, a confession. My one disappointment here is that I
won't get a chance on this visit to drop by "Esquina de Tejas."
[Es KEE nah dey TEH hass] I have to admit that eating at that
wonderful Cuban restaurant is my Miami Vice.) ) //
My pleasure is being here tonight. We've much to do these
next few months -- because we've much to do these next few years.
// Together, we can finish what we've started and move our
country forward. / To do that, I need your support. Help me win
the Presidency for four more years. //
I ask your support for the simplest reason. We believe in
the same things -- jobs, family, peace -- the important things.
We know that taxes are too high -- because our government is
too big and it costs too much. / We believe in a strong defense.
We believe in faith and family -- responsibility and respect --
community and country. / We know that we put America first when
we put America's families first. //
2
So often today politicians do the easy thing -- the popular
thing. / But it's the tough decisions that tell you something
important about character and principle. / For I believe in
things that don't change from one election to the next. Things
that guide each and every one of us -- each day of every year. //
I believe in the things which have led us to a new era in
America's history. My friends, the Cold War is over -- and
America won. // The Soviet Union collapsed -- and Imperial
Communism is finished. //
Next comes an island not far from here. Last week marked a
special birthday: The battle of Grito de Baire [BYE rey] in
Cuba's war of independence. / We support independence. We want
-- and I'm confident will see -- freedom and prosperity for the
Cuban people and an end to Fidel Castro's totalitarian regime. //
Castro has become the "Maytag Repairman" of Communist
dictators -- he's very lonely. // He is not a leader -- he's a
warden. His beaches are not borders -- they're walls. / For
years, the Cuban community has energized Miami. Someday freedom-
loving people will change your homeland -- just like America has
changed the world. Tonight, I want to talk about how Republican
leadership can change America. //
We can change it by making right what is simply on the wrong
track of our country. Take our courts, for example. //
When the rights of the criminal are more important than the
rights of the victim, that's wrong. / I'm proud of our tough
3
stand on crime. And I'm proud of our judicial appointments --
judges who interpret, not legislate. //
When kids can't say a voluntary prayer in school -- or when
fathers stop coaching Little League because they're afraid of
liability lawsuits -- that, too, is wrong. //
Or when doctors stop delivering babies because they fear a
malpractice lawsuit -- or when people stop volunteering to help
each other because they fear ambulance-chasing lawyers. // This
is not the America we want. //
These days a sharp lawyer would tell the Good Samaritan --
keep on walking. I want to change that -- so I've proposed
reforms to our system to reduce the number of frivolous lawsuits.
( (I don't want to get into trouble with the Bar Association,
but I once quoted to someone that line, "An apple a day keeps the
doctor away. " / He said, "What works for lawyers?")) Legal
reform will help our legal process work. But, you know, the real
answer for solving problems is to be more concerned with helping
each other than suing each other. //
But we can't stop there -- not till we reform our health
care system. Not because it doesn't offer the world's best
quality care, it does. We must reform it because too many people
don't have access to health insurance. Too many people worry
that they'll lose their insurance if they change jobs or worse
still, if they lose their job. And anybody who's had even minor
surgery knows that health care costs are going through the roof. /
4
What's the solution? Not to go down the road of socialized
medicine. All that means is long lines and impersonal service. /
We can get that at the Department of Motor Vehicles. / My idea
is to make insurance available to all -- keep the quality high,
the bureaucracy low -- and preserve choice. / The last thing we
want is the government telling you who your doctor's going to be.
Health care reform means improving the system. / There's
another area where reform means changing the system. // I'm
talking about welfare. Let's face it: Too often the welfare
system perpetuates dependency instead of personal responsibility
and the dignity of a job. / So I've asked my departments and
agencies to make it easier for state and local government to
reform policies that promote broken families. // We need to help
make families whole -- help bring dignity back into their lives
and go after dead-beat fathers who run out on their children. //
This leads me to the number one issue on the minds of all
Americans is -- the economy. People worried about their jobs --
providing for their families / meeting the challenges of paying
the bills, buying a home, and setting aside for our retirement. / /
The American people want this economy to work. So in my
State of the Union, I unveiled a two-part plan. The first part
gets business growing again -- upgrading plant and equipment
again -- hiring workers again. / It uses incentives like an
investment tax allowance -- and calls for Congress to wake up and
understand how the real world works, and cut the tax on capital
gains /
5
And to get housing back on its feet I unveiled several
common sense proposals to get people buying and building homes.
// Perhaps the most easily understood proposal is a $5,000 tax
credit for first-time homebuyers. / It's easy to understand the
Democrats' plan for first-time homebuyers, too -- there isn't
one. / But with our plan, young people almost able to buy that
first home could do it with the extra $5,000 in their pocket. /
( (203 years ago on this very date the United States Congress
met for the first time. Wonder what they would think today about
the House Democrats' so-called "plan. ) Here's the Democrat
deal: 25 cents a. day in temporary tax relief for two years --
paid for -- typical of them -- by a large permanent tax increase.
/ Over in the Senate, the Democrats are in a bidding war -- but
to pay for that they'd hike tax rates for the middle class --
people making $35,000 a year -- people like teachers, factory
workers, and everyday Floridians. /
We drew a line in the Sand in the Persian Gulf and kept our
word. I'll draw another line in the sand right now. If the
Democrats send me this nonsense they're talking about, I'll send
it right back. I will veto it the minute it hits my desk. //
Instead of their phony maneuvers, Congress ought to pass my plan
to make America more competitive. Here's the deadline: March
20, the first day of spring. / Here's the challenge: Give
American workers a spring break. / No more games / no more empty
gestures / just pass my plan and get this economy moving. /
6
Some question the need to act now. Well, let me repeat the
story of a little boy who asked why his friend's grandmother read
the Bible so much. "I'm not sure," said his friend, "but I think
it's because she's cramming for her finals." / Urgency counts in
any world. / So I'm asking Congress to also pass the second part
of my plan this year. It's a road map to make us competitive.
Our plan revolutionizes America's education system. I was
reading that the average 8th-grader spends four times as much
time watching TV as doing homework. // There are some wonderful
educational programs on TV -- no question. But TV shouldn't be
America's baby-sitter. We can change that by making our
education system demand responsibility. // Our plan will get the
billions of dollars of government research and development more
quickly to private sector businesses and workers. / And our plan
provides tax relief to strengthen the family. / We raise the tax
deduction for children by $500 dollars. Make no mistake, I want
this plan passed in this session of Congress. //
Behind all of this is an idea vital to America: To succeed
economically at home, we have to lead economically abroad. /
Some don't want us to lead -- think we should shut out the rest
of the world. / They're dead wrong. The way to create jobs is
not to cut and run -- but to open markets for our exports
everywhere in the world. I am going to fight hard in every
foreign market to do just that. //
I'm also going to fight hard in the Florida Primary -- for
you and I -- for what is right, and good. // I saw in the eight
7
years my friend Ronald Reagan led America how leadership matters.
/ Last year, we saw America stand tall again in the Persian
Gulf. / I believe the next five years are just too important to
entrust to the inexperienced. // So I ask for your help to keep
our party strong and united so we can win this fall. //
I believe the American people want to hear about how we're
going to address our country's challenges. They want to hear
solutions, not just a lot of running this country down. //
Solutions that will keep inflation low / our confidence high /
and protect the savings of our elderly. / Solutions that will
win the war on drugs -- and we are winning: Witness the massive
seizure of drugs in South Florida over the past several months.
Yes, we have much to do. But I guarantee you we'll get the
job done. Not through Washington's phony-balonies. But through
people like you 11 see two days from now in Carnival Miami.
People like the Cubans who came to this country -- who work and
save and teach and pray. / People who know that America is
number one -- make no mistake about it. 11
Yes, we have many challenges before us. And I guarantee
you, we will meet them -- each and every one of them -- meet them
from the great Panhandle to the tip of the Florida Keys.
Yes, there's an election in November -- and I guarantee you,
we will win it. I want to be your president for another four
years. Thank you and God bless the United States of America.
# # #
(Smith/Grossman)
February 26, 1992
Draft Two
MIAMI
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: GOP DINNER
MIAMI, FLORIDA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1992
[ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS) ((When I found out what Jeb was going
to say, I told him it was one of the nicest introductions I've
received in quite awhile. He said, "Dad, it's all relative. )
((I'm always reluctant to begin a speech when the audience
still has food on its plates that it can throw -- but I'll take a
chance. )) //
((First, a confession. My one disappointment here is that I
won't get a chance on this visit to drop by "Esquina de Tejas."
[Es KEE nah dey TEH hass] I have to admit that eating at that
wonderful Cuban restaurant is my Miami Vice. )) //
My pleasure is being here tonight. We've much to do these
next few months -- because we've much to do these next few years.
// Together, we can finish what we've started and move our
country forward. / To do that, I need your support. Help me win
the Presidency for four more years. //
I ask your support for the simplest reason. We believe in
the same things -- jobs, family, peace -- the important things.
We know that taxes are too high -- because our government is
too big and it costs too much. / We believe in a strong defense.
We believe in faith and family -- responsibility and respect --
community and country. / We know that we put America first when
we put America's families first. //
2
So often today politicians do the easy thing -- the popular
thing. / But it's the tough decisions that tell you something
important about character and principle. / For I believe in
things that don't change from one election to the next. Things
that guide each and every one of us -- each day of every year. //
I believe in the things which have led us to a new era in
America's history. My friends, the Cold War is over -- and
America won. // The Soviet Union collapsed -- and Imperial
Communism is finished. //
Next comes an island not far from here. Last week marked a
special birthday: The battle of Grito de Baire [BYE rey] in
Cuba's war of independence. / We support independence. We want
-- and I'm confident will see -- freedom and prosperity for the
Cuban people and an end to Fidel Castro's totalitarian regime. //
Castro has become the "Maytag Repairman" of Communist
dictators -- he's very lonely. // He is not a leader -- he's a
warden. His beaches are not borders -- they're walls. / For
years, the Cuban community has energized Miami. Someday freedom-
loving people will change your homeland -- just like America has
changed the world. Tonight, I want to talk about how Republican
leadership can change America. //
We can change it by making right what is simply on the wrong
track of our country. Take our courts, for example. //
When the rights of the criminal are more important than the
rights of the victim, that's wrong. / I'm proud of our tough
3
stand on crime. And I'm proud of our judicial appointments --
judges who interpret, not legislate. //
When kids can't say a voluntary prayer in school -- or when
fathers stop coaching Little League because they're afraid of
liability lawsuits -- that, too, is wrong. //
Or when doctors stop delivering babies because they fear a
malpractice lawsuit -- or when people stop volunteering to help
each other because they fear ambulance-chasing lawyers. // This
is not the America we want. 11
These days a sharp lawyer would tell the Good Samaritan --
keep on walking. I want to change that -- so I've proposed
reforms to our system to reduce the number of frivolous lawsuits.
((I don't want to get into trouble with the Bar Association,
but I once quoted to someone that line, "An apple a day keeps the
doctor away. " / He said, "What works for lawyers?") ) Legal
reform will help our legal process work. But, you know, the real
answer for solving problems is to be more concerned with helping
each other than suing each other. //
But we can't stop there -- not till we reform our health
care system. Not because it doesn't offer the world's best
quality care, it does. We must reform it because too many people
don't have access to health insurance. Too many people worry
that they'll lose their insurance if they change jobs or worse
still, if they lose their job. And anybody who's had even minor
surgery knows that health care costs are going through the roof. /
4
What's the solution? Not to go down the road of socialized
medicine. All that means is long lines and impersonal service. /
We can get that at the Department of Motor Vehicles. / My idea
is to make insurance available to all -- keep the quality high,
the bureaucracy low -- and preserve choice. / The last thing we
want is the government telling you who your doctor's going to be.
Health care reform means improving the system. / There's
another area where reform means changing the system. // I'm
talking about welfare. Let's face it: Too often the welfare
system perpetuates dependency instead of personal responsibility
and the dignity of a job. / So I've asked my departments and
agencies to make it easier for state and local government to
reform policies that promote broken families. // We need to help
make families whole -- help bring dignity back into their lives
and go after dead-beat fathers who run out on their children. //
This leads me to the number one issue on the minds of all
Americans is -- the economy. People worried about their jobs --
providing for their families / meeting the challenges of paying
the bills, buying a home, and setting aside for our retirement. / /
The American people want this economy to work. So in my
State of the Union, I unveiled a two-part plan. The first part
gets business growing again -- upgrading plant and equipment
again -- hiring workers again. / It uses incentives like an
investment tax allowance -- and calls for Congress to wake up and
understand how the real world works, and cut the tax on capital
gains. /
5
And to get housing back on its feet I unveiled several
common sense proposals to get people buying and building homes.
// Perhaps the most easily understood proposal is a $5,000 tax
credit for first-time homebuyers. / It's easy to understand the
Democrats' plan for first-time homebuyers, too -- there isn't
one. / But with our plan, young people almost able to buy that
first home could do it with the extra $5,000 in their pocket. /
( (203 years ago on this very date the United States Congress
met for the first time. Wonder what they would think today about
the House Democrats' so-called "plan. ")) Here's the Democrat
deal: 25 cents a day in temporary tax relief for two years --
paid for -- typical of them -- by a large permanent tax increase.
/ Over in the Senate, the Democrats are in a bidding war -- but
to pay for that they'd hike tax rates for the middle class --
people making $35,000 a year -- people like teachers, factory
workers, and everyday Floridians. /
We drew a line in the Sand in the Persian Gulf and kept our
word. I'll draw another line in the sand right now. If the
Democrats send me this nonsense they're talking about, I'll send
it right back. I will veto it the minute it hits my desk. //
Instead of their phony maneuvers, Congress ought to pass my plan
to make America more competitive. Here's the deadline: March
20, the first day of spring. / Here's the challenge: Give
American workers a spring break. / No more games / no more empty
gestures / just pass my plan and get this economy moving./
6
Some question the need to act now. Well, let me repeat the
story of a little boy who asked why his friend's grandmother read
the Bible so much. "I'm not sure," said his friend, "but I think
it's because she's cramming for her finals." / Urgency counts in
any world. / So I'm asking Congress to also pass the second part
of my plan this year. It's a road map to make us competitive.
Our plan revolutionizes America's education system. I was
reading that the average 8th-grader spends four times as much
time watching TV as doing homework. // There are some wonderful
educational programs on TV -- no question. But TV shouldn't be
America's baby-sitter. We can change that by making our
education system demand responsibility. // Our plan will get the
billions of dollars of government research and development more
quickly to private sector businesses and workers. / And our plan
provides tax relief to strengthen the family. / We raise the tax
deduction for children by $500 dollars. Make no mistake, I want
this plan passed in this session of Congress. //
Behind all of this is an idea vital to America: To succeed
economically at home, we have to lead economically abroad. /
Some don't want us to lead -- think we should shut out the rest
of the world. / They're dead wrong. The way to create jobs is
not to cut and run -- but to open markets for our exports
everywhere in the world. I am going to fight hard in every
foreign market to do just that. //
I'm also going to fight hard in the Florida Primary -- for
you and I -- for what is right, and good. // I saw in the eight
7
years my friend Ronald Reagan led America how leadership matters.
/ Last year, we saw America stand tall again in the Persian
Gulf. / I believe the next five years are just too important to
entrust to the inexperienced. // So I ask for your help to keep
our party strong and united so we can win this fall. //
I believe the American people want to hear about how we're
going to address our country's challenges. They want to hear
solutions, not just a lot of running this country down. //
Solutions that will keep inflation low / our confidence high /
and protect the savings of our elderly. / Solutions that will
win the war on drugs -- and we are winning: Witness the massive
seizure of drugs in South Florida over the past several months.
Yes, we have much to do. But I guarantee you we'll get the
job done. Not through Washington's phony-balonies. But through
people like you'll see two days from now in Carnival Miami.
People like the Cubans who came to this country -- who work and
save and teach and pray. / People who know that America is
number one -- make no mistake about it. //
Yes, we have many challenges before us. And I guarantee
you, we will meet them -- each and every one of them -- meet them
from the great Panhandle to the tip of the Florida Keys.
Yes, there's an election in November -- and I guarantee you,
we will win it. I want to be your president for another four
years. Thank you and God bless the United States of America.
# # #
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WASHINGTON
February 29, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR DAN MCGROARTY
FROM:
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RBP
SUBJECT:
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assistance, please let us know.
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SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: GOP DINNER, MIAMI, FL, 03/04
(02/26 draft two)
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SKINNER
MCBRIDE
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BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
ROGICH
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ROLLINS
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REMARKS:
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C2 FEB 27 P7:15
Draft Two
MIAMI
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: GOP DINNER
MIAMI, FLORIDA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1992
[[ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS]]. ((When I found out what Jeb was going
to say, I told him it was one of the nicest introductions I've
received in quite awhile. He said, "Dad, it's all relative. "))
((I'm always reluctant to begin a speech when the audience
still has food on its plates that it can throw -- but I'll take a
chance. " 11
((First, a confession. My one disappointment here is that I
won't get a chance on this visit to drop by "Esquina de Tejas."
[Es KEE nah dey TEH hass] I have to admit that eating at that
wonderful Cuban restaurant is my Miami Vice.) ) 11
My pleasure is being here tonight. We've much to do these
AND
next few months much to do these next few years.
WILL
11 Together, we can finish what we've started and move our
country forward. / To do that, I need your support. Help me win
the Presidency for four more years. 11
I ask your support for the simplest reason. We believe in
the same things -- jobs, family, peace -- the important things.
We know that taxes are too high - -- because our government is
too bia and it costs too much. / We believe in a strong defense.
We believe in faith and family -- responsibility and respect --
community and country. / We know that we put America first when
we put America's families first. 11
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So often today politicians do the easy thing the popular
thing. / But it's the tough decisions that tell you something
important about character and principle. / For I believe in
things that don't change from one election to the next. Things
that guide each and every one of us -- each day of every year. //
OUR NATION
I believe in the things which have led MD to a new era in
America's history. My friends, the Cold War is over -- and
America won. // The Soviet Union collapsed -- and Imperial
Communism is finished. 11
Next comes an island not far from here. Last week marked a
ANNIVERSARY
special
birthday
The battle of Grito de Baire [BYE rey] in
Cuba's war of independence. / We support independence. We want
WD RP and I'm confident will see -- freedom and prosperity for the
Cuban people and an end to Fidel Castro's totalitarian regime. 11
Castro has become the "Maytag Repairman" of Communist
dictators --- he's very lonely. 11 He is not a leader --- he's a
warden. His beaches are not borders -- they're walls. / For
years, the Cuban community has energized Miami. Someday freedom-
HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO
loving people will change your homeland -- just like America has
changed the world. Tonight, I want to talk about how Republican
leadership can change America. //
We can change it by making right what is simply on the wrong
track of our country. Take our courts, for example. //
When the rights of the criminal are more important than the
my ADMINISTRATION'S
rights of the victim, that's wrong. / I'm proud of our tough
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stand on crime. And I'm proud of our judicial appointments --
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judges who interpret, not legislate. 11
When kids can't say a voluntary prayer in school -- or when
fathers stop coaching Little League because they're afraid of
liability lawsuits -- that, too, is wrong. 11
or when doctors stop delivering babies because they fear as
malpractice lawsuit - or when people stop volunteering to help
each other because they fear ambulance-chasing lawyers. // This
is not the America we want. 11
These days a sharp lawyer would tell the Good Samaritan --
keep on walking. I want to change that -- so I've proposed
reforms to our system to reduce the number of frivolous lawsuits.
((I don't want to get into trouble with the Bar Association,
but I once quoted to someone that line, "An apple a day keeps the
doctor away." / He said, "What works for lawyers?") ) Legal
reform will help our legal process work. But, you know, the real
answer for solving problems is to be more concerned with helping
each other than suing each other. 11
But we can't stop there -- not till we reform our health
care system. Not because it doesn't offer the world's best
quality care, it does. We must reform it because too many people
don't have access to health insurance. Too many people worry
that they'll lose their insurance if they change jobs or worse
still, if they lose their job. And anybody who's had even minor
surgery knows that health care costs are going through the roof./
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What's the solution? Not to go down the road of socialized
medicine. All that means is long lines and impersonal service. /
We can get that at the Department of Motor Vehicles. / My idea
is to make insurance available to all -- keep the quality high,
the bureaucracy low -- and preserve choice. / The last thing we
want is the government telling you who your doctor's going to be.
Health care reform means improving the system. / There's
another area where reform means changing the system. 11 I'm
talking about welfare. Let's face-it: Too often the welfare
system perpetuates dependency instead of personal responsibility
and the dignity of a job. / So I've asked my departments and
agencies to make it easier for state and local government to
refere PROMOTE policies that promote beeken families. 11 We need to help
PROTECT & STRENGTHEN
make families whole -- help bring dignity back into their lives
and go after dead-beat fathers who run out on their children. 11
This leads me to the number one issue on the minds of all
Americans is --- the economy. People worried about their jobs --
providing for their families / meeting the challenges of paying
the bills, buying a home, and setting aside for our retirement. 11
The American people Went this secrety work. So in my
State of the Union, I unveiled a two-part plan. The first part
gets business growing august - upgrading plant and equipment
hiring workers annin. / It uses incentives like an
investment tax allowance -- and calls for Congress to wake up and
understand how the real world works, and cut the tax on capital
gains./ /
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And to get housing back on its feet I unveiled several
common sense proposals to get people buying and building homes.
11 Perhaps the most easily understood proposal is a $5,000 tax
credit for first-time homebuyers. / It's easy to understand the
Democrats' plan for first-time homebuyers, too - there isn't
one. / But with our plan, young people almost able to buy that
first home could do it with the extra $5,000 in their pocket. /
( (203 years ago on this very date the United States Congress
met for the first time. Wonder what they would think today about
the House Democrats' so-called "plan. ")) Here's the Democrat
deal: 25 cents a day in temporary tax relief for two years --
paid for -- typical of them - by a large permanent tax increase.
/ Over in the Senate, the Democrats are in a bidding war -- but
to pay for that they'd hike tax rates for the middle class --
people making $35,000 a year - people like teachers, factory
workers, and everyday Floridians. /
ACCOMPLISHED
We drew a line in the Sand in the Persian Gulf and OUR
OUR MISSION
word. I'll draw another line in the sand right now. If the
DESATING IN COMERESS.
Democrate send me this nonsense they're balking when I'll send
it right back. I will veto it the minute it hits my desk. 11
IRRESPONSIBLE POSTURING
Instead of their phany management, Congress ought to pass my plan
my
to make America more competitive. Here's my the deadline: March
20, the first day of spring. / Here's the challenge: Give
American workers a spring break. / No more games / no more empty
gestures / just pass my plan and get this economy moving. /
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some question the need to act now. Well, let me repeat the
story of a little boy who asked why his friend's grandmother read
the Bible so much. "I'm not sure," said his friend, "but I think
it's because she's cramming for her finals." / Urgency counts in
any world. / So I'm asking Congress to also pass the second part
of my plan this year. It's a road map to make us competitive.
Our plan revolutionizes America's education system. I was
reading that the average 8th-grader spends four times as much
time watching TV as doing homework. // There are some wonderful
educational programs on TV -- no question. But TV shouldn't be
America's baby-sitter. We can change that by making our
education system demand responsibility. 11 Our plan will get the
billions of dollars of government research and development more
quickly to private sector businesses and workers. / And our plan
provides tax relief to strengthen the family. / We raise the tax
deduction for children by $500 dollars. Make no mistake, I want
this plan passed in this session of Congress. 11
Behind all of this is an idea vital to America: To succeed
economically at home, we have to lead economically abroad. /
AND BELIEVE
Some don't want us to lead think we should shut out the rest
of the world. / They're dead wrong. The way to create jobs is
not to cut and run -- but to open markets for our exports
everywhere in the world. I am going to fight in eyery
foreign market to do just that. 11
I'm also going to fight word in the Florida Primary
H
for what is right, and good. 11
include
eight
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years my friend Ronald Reagan ted America how leader
/ Last year, we saw America stand tall again in the Persian
Gulf. / I believe the next five years are just too important to
entrust to the inexperienced. // So I ask for your help to keep
our party strong and united SO we can win this fall. 11
absideve the American people want to hear about how we're
going to address our country's challenges. They want to hear
solutions, not just a lot of running this country down. 11
Solutions that will keep inflation low / our confidence high /
and protect the savings of our elderly. / Solutions that will
win the war on drugs -- and we are winning: Witness the massive
seizure of drugs in South Florida over the past several months.
Yes, we have much to do. But I guarantee you we'll get the
BACK Room Dates
job done. Not through Washington phony balonies. But through
people like you'll see two days from now in Carnival Miami.
People like the Cubans who came to this country - who work and
save and teach and pray. / People who know that America is
number oneo make no mistake about I. //
we have many challenges before us. And I guarantee
you, We will meet them --- each and every one of them -- meet them
from the great Panhandle to the tip of the Florida Keys.
Yes, there's an election in November -- and I guarantee you,
we will win it. I want to be your president for another four
years. Thank you and God bless the United States of America.
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100
8.10
pm
(Smith/Grossman)
March 3, 1992
MIAMI
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: GOP DINNER
MIAMI, FLORIDA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1992
Dr. Zach Zachariah, thank you for that introduction.
National Finance Co-Chairs Alec Courtelis and Jack Laughery (LAW
curry). Jeb Bush. Congresswoman Ileana Ross-Lehtinen (LEY ten
en). Van Poole, state GOP Chairman. Our Dade County Chairman
Armando Codina. ((First, a confession. My one disappointment
&
here is that I won't get a chance on this visit to drop by
Fromall I've heards
"Esquina de Tejas." [Es KEE nah dey TEH hass] I have to admit
would become
that eating at that wonderful Cuban restaurant dem my Miami
Vice.)) //
It's a pleasure to be here tonight. We've much to do these
next few months -- because we've much to do these next few years.
// Together, we can finish what we've started and move our
country forward. / To do that, I need your support. Help me win
the Presidency for four more years. //
I ask your support for the simplest reason. We believe in
the same things -- jobs, family, peace -- the important things.
We know that taxes are too high -- because our government is
too big and it spends too much. / We believe in a strong
defense. We believe in faith and family -- responsibility and
respect -- community and country. / We know that we put America
first when we put America's families first. //
2
So often today's politicians do the easy thing -- the
popular thing. But it's the tough decisions that tell you
something important about character and principle. For I believe
in things that don't change from one election to the next.
Things that guide each one of us -- each day of every year. //
During my Presidency I've been blessed to take part in a new
era in America's history. My friends, the Cold War is over --
and America won. // The Soviet Union collapsed -- and Imperial
Communism is dead. //
Last week marked a special birthday: The battle of Grito de
Baire [BYE rey] in Cuba's war of independence. / We support
independence. We want freedom and prosperity for the Cuban
people and an end to Fidel Castro's totalitarian regime. //
Castro has become an outcast even among dictators. // His
beaches are not borders -- they're the confines of freedom. /
For years, the Cuban community has energized Miami. Someday
freedom-loving people will change that island for the better --
just like America has changed the world. Tonight, I want to talk
about how Republican leadership is changing America. //
We are changing it by setting right what is simply on the
wrong track in our country. Take our courts, for example. //
There's something wrong when the rights of the criminal are
more important than the rights of the victim. / I'm proud of our
tough stand on crime -- although if Congress passed my crime bill
we could be even tougher. And I'm proud of our judicial
appointments -- judges who interpret, not legislate. /
3
When kids can't say a voluntary prayer in school -- or when
fathers stop coaching Little League because they're afraid of
liability lawsuits -- that, too, is wrong. / So is when people
stop volunteering to help each other because they fear ambulance-
chasing lawyers. 11 This is not the America we want. //
These days a sharp lawyer would tell the Good Samaritan --
keep on walking. I want to change that -- so I've proposed
reforms to our system to reduce the number of frivolous lawsuits.
((I don't want to get into trouble with the Bar Association,
but I once quoted to someone that line, "An apple a day keeps the
doctor away. " / He said, "What works for lawyers?") ) Legal
reform will help our legal process work. But, you know, the real
answer for solving problems is to be more concerned with helping
each other than suing each other. //
But we can't stop there -- not until we reform our health
care system. Not because it doesn't offer the world's highest
quality care it does. We must reform it because too many people
don't have access to health insurance. Too many people worry
that they'll lose their insurance if they change jobs or worse
still, if they lose their job. And anybody who's had even minor
surgery knows that health care costs are going through the roof. /
What's the solution? Not to go down the road of socialized
medicine. All that means is long lines and impersonal service. /
now
We can get that at the Department of Motor Vehicles. / My idea
is to make insurance available to all -- keep the quality high,
4
the bureaucracy low -- and preserve choice. / The last thing we
want is the government assigning you a doctor. 11
Health care reform means improving the system. / There's
another area where reform means changing the system. // I'm
talking about welfare. Let's face it: Too often welfare
encourages dependency instead of personal responsibility and the
dignity of a job. / So I've asked my departments and agencies to
make it easier for state and local government to reform policies
and help broken families. // We need to help make families whole
-- help bring dignity back into their lives and go after dead-
beat fathers who run out on their children. //
This leads me to the number one issue on the minds of all
Americans: the economy -- jobs. People worried about their jobs
-- providing for their families / meeting the challenges of
paying the bills, buying a home, and setting aside for
retirement. / /
The American people want this economy to grow -- to create
and preserve jobs. So in January, I unveiled a two-part plan.
The first part gets business moving again -- upgrading plant and
equipment again -- hiring workers again. / It uses incentives
like an investment tax allowance -- and calls for Congress to
wake up and understand how jobs are created, and cut the tax on
capital gains. /
To get housing back on its feet I unveiled several common
sense proposals to get people buying and building homes. These
proposals will create in Florida alone an estimated 26,500
5
additional housing starts and 51,000 new construction jobs. / /
Perhaps the most easily understood proposal is a $5,000 tax
credit for first-time homebuyers. / With our plan, people almost
able to buy that first home could do it with the extra $5,000 in
their pocket. /
( (203 years ago on this very date the United States Congress
met for the first time. )) [[Wonder what they would think today
about the House Democrats' so-called "plan." Here's the Democrat
deal: 25 cents a day in temporary tax relief for two years --
paid for -- typical of them -- by a large permanent tax increase.
Over in the Senate, the bill the Democrats are working on is not
much better than the one in the House. It's centerpiece is a
huge tax hike.
"- tax like.
We drew a line in the Sand in the Persian Gulf and kept our
word. I'll draw another line in the sand right now. If the
Democrats send me nonsense like the bill passed through the
House, I'll send it right back. I will veto it the minute it
hits my desk. // Instead of their phony maneuvers, Congress
ought to pass my plan to make America more competitive. Here's
the deadline: March 20, the first day of spring. / Here's the
challenge: Give American workers a spring break. / No more
games / no more empty gestures / just pass my plan and get this
economy moving. /
Some question the need to act now. Well, let me repeat the
story of a little boy who asked why his friend's grandmother read
the Bible so much. "I'm not sure," said his friend, "but I think
6
it's because she's cramming for her finals." / Urgency counts in
any world. / So I'm asking Congress to also pass the second part
of my plan this year. It's a road map to make us competitive.
Our plan revolutionizes America's education system. I was
reading that the average 8th-grader spends four times as much
time watching TV as doing homework. / TV shouldn't be America's
baby-sitter. We can change that by making our schools
accountable, and demand "excellence. // Our plan will get the
billions of dollars of government research and development more
quickly to private sector businesses and workers. / We have a
commitment to children and strong families -- and our plan
provides tax relief to strengthen the family. / We want to raise
the tax deduction for children by $500 dollars. Make no mistake,
I want this plan passed now. //
Behind all of this is an idea vital to America: To succeed
economically at home, we have to lead economically abroad. / Some
don't want us to lead -- they think we should just shut out the
rest of the world. They're dead wrong. More than 200,000 jobs
in Florida stem from manufactured exports. Last year more than
$13 billion in exports went out through the Miami Customs
District. // You know that the way to create jobs is not to cut
and run -- but to open markets for our exports everywhere in the
world. I am going to fight hard in every foreign market to do
just that. // And it's working -- our overall trade imbalance is
down. Look at the figures: In 1988 the trade deficit stood at
119 billion. Today it's dropped to 66 billion -- a 44% drop.
7
I believe the American people want to hear about how we're
going to address our country's challenges. They want to hear
solutions, not just a lot of running this country down. //
Solutions that will keep inflation low / our confidence high /
and protect the savings of our elderly. / Solutions that will
win the war on drugs -- and we are winning: Witness the massive
seizure of drugs in South Florida over the past several months.
Yes, we have much to do. But I guarantee you we'll get the
job done. I'm going to fight hard in the Florida Primary for
these people -- fight for what is right, and good. / I saw in
the eight years my friend Ronald Reagan led America how
leadership matters. / Last year, we saw America stand tall again
in the Persian Gulf. / I believe the next five years are just
too important to entrust to the inexperienced. / So I ask for
your help to keep our party strong and united so we can win this
fall.
Yes, we have many challenges before us. And I guarantee
you, we will meet them -- each and every one of them -- meet them
from the great Panhandle to the tip of the Florida Keys.
Yes, there's an election in November -- and I guarantee you,
we will win it. I want to be your president for another four
years. Thank you and God bless the United States of America.
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