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-ge Bush, 1992
Administration of George Bush, 1992 / July 28
1343
The
Remarks to Hispanic Business
The economy is growing, albeit too slowly.
iceship
Leaders
Hispanic-owned businesses are in the van-
July 28, 1992
guard of this growth, in the forefront of creat-
ing new, good jobs for Americans. And we
Nice to see you all. Thank you, and wel-
need to grow faster. And we know what's
.nded Wiscon-
come to the Rose Garden. May I just say
holding us back. Let me sum it up in a simple
son for his ef-
a word at the beginning of the great con-
sentence: Government is too big. The Gov-
youth appren-
fidence I have in Secretary Barbara Franklin,
ernment side is too big, and it spends too
isin youth ap-
our new Secretary of Commerce, and in our
much. An old guard of tax-and-spend politi-
very able Ambassador, Carla Hills, who is
aken in part-
cians has controlled Congress for most of 40
ent of Labor,
doing a superb job hammering out the de-
years. And believe me, that is a fact. Already
eed money to
tails, trying to achieve this NAFTA agree-
this year I've given Congress a choice be-
egrated state-
ment; also continuing to work, both of them,
tween economic growth and big Govern-
and job train-
on the need to get a worldwide agreement
ment. And Congress sided with the big Gov-
out the State.
on successful conclusion to the Uruguay
ernment.
round of GATT. But we are very, very fortu-
Here's what happened. And I recite this
nate in this country to have this kind of lead-
history because I think it's important you
rican students
ership in these two terribly important jobs.
have it in mind when you go up to Capitol
xperience dif-
May I say to Jesus Chavarria, the editor
Hill. In January I proposed a commonsense,
employment.
and publisher of Hispanic Business, thank
comprehensive plan to get this economy
hable them to
you for your leadership in bringing together
moving faster, right then. The plan includes
he rapid pace
so many dynamic men and women from the
tax incentives to encourage businesses to hire
nds not only
Hispanic-owned businesses. Frankly-you
new workers and breaks for young families
levels of edu-
want to hear it for him? Okay, let's do it.
who want to buy a first home. Half a million
[Applause] Why don't you stand up?
jobs would have been created if the Congress
drop out view
But it's a wonderful thing that you do, and
had acted right away.
ration for col-
I'm sure everybody here would agree with
That didn't happen. Instead Congress
gh school rel-
that. But people across the country ought to
passed a package of new Government spend-
in the future.
know of this and ought to agree because,
ing and new taxes. They knew I would have
ich in many
really, you enliven this country. You're keep-
to veto that package. And SO I did. And I
tween school
ing America great, all these businesspeople
sent the plan back, and I'm still waiting al-
vailable as an
here. And we salute you.
most 200 days later. This economic recovery
We do believe in the future, and we know
nts.
plan is being held hostage, and the ransom
how to get there. Obviously, our future de-
note reads, I think we all know this, "Wait
pends on freedom. Freedom works, and free-
until after the election."
outh Appren-
dom is right. And as I see this free economic
We need that first-time credit. We need
d to Congress
system working with you at the helms, you
the investment tax allowance. We need to
te developing
are the heroes of the economy because you
change these IRA's. We need to move on
The Federal
create jobs, you meet a payroll. The only peo-
capital gains to create more small businesses.
ition and seed
ple with a tougher challenge might be either
The party that controls Congress is holding
roposed legis-
one of two people: the coach of the Angolan
jobs and free enterprise hostage. They talk
1992, White
basketball team-[laughter]-or maybe,
about class warfare, about squeezing more
really, the guy that shot the arrow to light
from the rich. What they don't say is that
's directive to
the torch. You talk about courage. Brent
more than half of those affected by the pro-
to work with
Scowcroft said, "I think somebody was up
posed hike in individual tax rates are family
ceship initia-
there with a cigarette lighter just in case it
farmers, small business men and women,
research and
missed." [Laughter] But nevertheless-hey,
people just like yourselves. So you are out
en initiated in
wait a minute, we've got to be serious here.
there trying to create jobs, and you need a
You have come to Washington at a tough
pat on the back, not $100 billion in new taxes
time, too late for the cherry blossoms, just
and Federal mandates on your shoulders.
the Office of
in time for the humidity. And today I'd like
I do understand that you're going up to
ed a detailed
to add a little heat because I really have
Capitol Hill later, and I'd ask you to take
gram.
something that's on my mind.
a message up there with you: Tell the Mem-
1344
July 28 / Administration of George Bush, 1992
bers we need quicker growth now, and tell
We've consulted closely with the Congress
them to approve these growth initiatives that
and with business leaders every step of the
are still up there without delay. Tell them
way in these negotiations. Again, I just can't
to release the economy and approve the jobs
tell you the number of hours that Carla Hills
program and put America back to work right
and her team has spent, properly so, in my
now.
view, but with the various business and labor
We're together today because we also
and environmental interests all across our
share a vision for the long term. We want
country, keeping them informed, getting
to build a solid future, a future for our coun-
their suggestions, bringing them along. We
try in the world economy. And one of the
made commitments to Congress last year,
most exciting developments in our Nation's
and we are going to meet each and every
history is coming now to fruition. You've
one of them. And when we wrap up the
heard about it here this morning. I'm talking,
agreement, it's going to be a good deal for
obviously, about the North American free
American consumers and businesses and es-
trade agreement. Our negotiators reported
pecially for American workers.
solid progress from meetings in Mexico last
To me, ideas like free trade are worth
weekend. And they're going to meet again,
fighting for because, really, you've got to put
I think, in just a few days; we're very close
it in the broad context. We're fighting for
to completing an agreement. And that agree-
our children's futures. I know that's not po-
ment will mean more jobs, more growth,
litically popular in all places. I know there's
more opportunity for American workers.
an awful lot of special interests that are lined
Look at the numbers. During the recent
up against a potential free trade agreement;
partial opening of the Mexican market since
we understand that.
1986, U.S. exports to Mexico have almost tri-
Too many of us in national politics often
pled. They have almost tripled. More than
act like an old South Carolina Senator some
600,000 American workers now owe their
of you may remember, Olin Johnston. He
jobs to trade with Mexico. We enjoy a robust
didn't like to cover anything controversial in
trade surplus with Mexico, $2.1 billion last
these newsletters that he sent out to his con-
year. And it's estimated that we'll achieve a
stituents. He told his aide, "Just put in a col-
surplus of more than $8 billion this year. The
umn about communism." The aide complied,
new jobs created by trade with Mexico are
writing a crackerjack column exposing the
to be found not only in the border States
evils of communism, putting the good Sen-
but all across the country. Our top 10 States
ator squarely on the side of America. The
exporting to Mexico, let me just click off
Senator read the draft, and he said, "Son,
some, include Michigan, Illinois, New York,
how many Communists do you think we have
Pennsylvania, and Florida. They don't exactly
in South Carolina? The aide answered,
border the Rio Grande.
"Well, I suppose maybe five or six." And the
When the trade agreement goes to Con-
Senator replied, "Well, just make sure they
gress, not if but when, we are going to need
don't get this newsletter." [Laughter]
the utmost help from each and every one
Well, I guess Carla knows and Barbara
of you. Please don't have any illusions that
knows and I know that more than five or
this is going to be an easy fight. The leader-
six people are going to stand against free
ship of Hispanic business men and women
trade. But I'm not going to back down. You
was crucial, crucial in winning that Fast
know it's right, and I know it's right. And
Track effort that I heard Carla discussing just
just on this one, trust me to do what is right
before I came out here. This new round of
for America and to do what's right for the
the battle will make Fast Track seem easy
future.
by comparison; we know that. But we are
So I hope you'll agree with me. And inas-
ready, and we've got to be sure we keep—
much as NAFTA, we're talking about mainly
the battle itself for this must be nonpartisan
Mexico today, I might peripherally say I am
or bipartisan or however you want to look
very proud that we have such a good bilateral
at it. We need support from everybody to
relationship with that important republic to
get this done.
our south. It's never been better. And once
leorge Bush, 1992
Administration of George Bush, 1992 / July 29
1345
with the Congress
again, I'd like to salute President Carlos Sali-
Message to the Senate Transmitting
every step of the
nas, the President of Mexico, who's working
the Russia-United States Investment
Again, I just can't
very closely with us to bring this agreement
Treaty
*S that Carla Hills
to fulfillment.
July 28, 1992
roperly so, in my
And one last point I want to make. There
usiness and labor
isn't any political timing on this. Carla ex-
To the Senate of the United States:
ts all across our
plained to you the timing, the realities of the
With a view to receiving the advice and
nformed, getting
law and what we must comply with and how
consent of the Senate to ratification, I trans-
them along. We
we must do it. But in spite of opposition,
mit herewith the Treaty Between the United
ongress last year,
nobody is going to turn this one into a politi-
States of America and the Russian Federa-
[ each and every
cal football because we're going forward to
tion Concerning the Encouragement and Re-
we wrap up the
do something what is right for the United
ciprocal Protection of Investment, with Pro-
: a good deal for
States.
tocol and related exchanges of letters, signed
businesses and es-
So thank you all very much for what the
at Washington on June 17, 1992. I transmit
rs.
Hispanic businessmen and businesswomen
also, for the information of the Senate, the
trade are worth
are doing to build a very solid foundation for
report of the Department of State with re-
you've got to put
Ve're fighting for
the future. And on this very beautiful day,
spect to this treaty.
ow that's not po-
may God bless you all and the United States
of America.
S. I know there's
This treaty creates a favorable legal frame-
ests that are lined
Thank you very, very much.
work for U.S. investment in Russia. By adopt-
trade agreement;
Note: The President spoke at 9:35 a.m. in
ing the treaty's high standards for protection
the Rose Garden at the White House.
of U.S. investment, Russia seeks to encour-
onal politics often
age the U.S. private sector to invest in Russia.
ina Senator some
Statement by Press Secretary
For the United States Government, the trea-
lin Johnston. He
Fitzwater on the President's Meeting
ty serves the goals of aiding Russia's transi-
g controversial in
With President-Elect Sixto Duran-
tion to a market economy and of strengthen-
ent out to his con-
Ballen of Ecuador
ing our bilateral economic ties.
"Just put in a col-
July 28, 1992
he aide complied,
In addition, the treaty is fully consistent
mn exposing the
The President met this afternoon with
with U.S. policy toward international invest-
ng the good Sen-
President-elect Sixto Duran of Ecuador. The
ment. A specific tenet, reflected in this trea-
of America. The
President congratulated President-elect
ty, is that U.S. investment abroad and foreign
d he said, "Son,
Duran on his election to the Presidency of
investment in the United States should re-
you think we have
Ecuador and commended the people of Ec-
ceive fair, equitable, and nondiscriminatory
aide answered,
uador for the peaceful, democratic way they
treatment. Under this treaty, the Parties also
ve or six." And the
have chosen their leaders in three Presi-
agree to international law standards for ex-
st make sure they
dential elections since 1979. The President
propriation and expropriation compensation;
Laughter]
assured Mr. Duran that the United States
free transfers of funds associated with invest-
OWS and Barbara
hore than five or
wants to maintain excellent relations with his
ments; and the option of the investor to re-
tand against free
country and support Ecuador's efforts at eco-
solve disputes with the host government
) back down. You
nomic reform and regional narcotics co-
through international arbitration.
w it's right. And
operation.
I recommend that the Senate consider this
o do what is right
President-elect Duran will be inaugurated
at's right for the
on August 10, 1992. The United States will
treaty as soon as possible, and give its advice
be represented by a special Presidential mis-
and consent to ratification of the treaty, with
sion.
protocol and related exchanges of letters, at
ith me. And inas-
President Bush last met President-elect
an early date.
king about mainly
"pherally say I am
Duran in March of 1987, when he visited
George Bush
ch a good bilateral
Ecuador in the aftermath of a major earth-
The White House,
ortant republic to
quake.
better. And once
July 28, 1992.
Document No. 340344ss
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
7/27/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: ---
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
SUBJECT:
TUESDAY, 7/28/92 - 9:30 a.m.
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
FINDLAY
GRAY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
FIRESTONE
REMARKS:
The attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
2 JUL 27 P5: 10
July 27, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
STEVE PROVOST Martasp
FROM:
JOSEPH P. DUGGAN P.
SUBJECT:
PROPOSED REMARKS FOR HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
I. SUMMARY
On Tuesday, July 28, at 9:30 a.m., you will address
approximately 250 Hispanic business leaders in the Rose Garden.
II. DISCUSSION
Your remarks (approximately 9 minutes / cards), highlight
the Administration's growth package still awaiting action in
Congress, and they outline the benefits of NAFTA to small
businesses.
(Duggan/Walters/Nix)
July 27, 1992
Draft Five
2 JUL 27 P5: 09
HB
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
THE ROSE GARDEN
THE WHITE HOUSE
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1992
9:30 A.M.
[Acknowledgments] Welcome to the White House. Jesus
[Chavarria, editor and publisher of Hispanic Business], thanks
for your leadership in bringing together so many dynamic women
and men from Hispanic-owned businesses. You enliven this
country, you're keeping America great -- each one of you. 11
We're together today because we believe in the future -- and
we know how to get there. Our future depends on freedom.
Freedom works. Freedom is right. 11
You've come to Washington at a tough time: Too late for the
cherry blossoms, just in time for the humidity. And today, for
the next few minutes, I just might add a little heat. 11
The economy is growing -- Hispanic-owned businesses are in
the vanguard of this growth, in the forefront of creating good
new jobs for Americans. We need to grow faster, and we know
what's holding us back. Let me sum it up in a single sentence:
Government is too big -- and it spends too much. 11
An old guard of tax-and-spend politicians has controlled
Congress for most of the past 40 years. Already this year, I've
given Congress a choice between economic growth and big
government. Congress took sides with big government.
Here's what happened: In January, I proposed a common-
sense, comprehensive plan to get this economy moving faster,
2
right now. The plan includes tax incentives to encourage
businesses to hire new workers and breaks for young families who
want to buy a first home. Half a million jobs would have been
created, if
if Congress had acted right away.
But they didn't. Instead, Congress passed a package of new
government spending and new taxes. A package they knew I'd veto.
So I sent their plan back. I'm still waiting
almost
200 days later. This economic recovery plan is being held
hostage, and the ransom note reads: "wait till after the
election."
The party that controls the Congress is holding jobs and
free enterprise hostage to their hopes that they can elect a tax-
and-spend partisan of their very own to the White House. The
other party talks about "class warfare"
about squeezing
more from the so-called "rich." What they don't say is that more
than half of those affected by their proposed hike in individual
tax rates are family farmers
small business men and women
people like yourselves. \ You're trying to create jobs.
You need a pat on the back
not $100 billion in new taxes
and federal mandates on your shoulders. 11
I understand you're going up to Capitol Hill later in the
day. I'd ask you to take a message up there with you: Tell your
members of Congress we need quicker growth now. Tell them to
approve my growth initiatives -- without delay. Tell them to
release this economy, \ approve my jobs program, and put America
back to work
now.
3
You and I are together today because we also share a vision
for the long term: We want to build a solid foundation for
America's future in the world economy. And one of the most
exciting developments in our nation's history is coming now to
fruition. I'm talking about the North American Free Trade
Agreement. Our negotiators reported solid progress from the
meetings in Mexico City last weekend. They'll meet again [date
and place]. We're very close to completing an agreement that
will mean more jobs / more growth /more opportunity for American
workers.
Look at the numbers: During the recent, partial opening of
the Mexican markets since 1986, U.S. exports to Mexico have
almost tripled. More than 600,000 American workers now owe their
jobs to trade with Mexico. We enjoy a robust trade surplus with
Mexico -- $2.1 billion last year, and it's estimated we'll
achieve a surplus of more than $8 billion this year. The new
jobs created by trade with Mexico are to be found not only in the
border states, but all across the country. Our top ten states
exporting to Mexico now include Michigan, Illinois, New York,
Pennsylvania and Florida.
When the trade agreement goes to Congress -- not if, but
when -- I'll need the utmost help from each and every one of you.
Please don't have any illusions this will be an easy fight.
The leadership of Hispanic business men and women was crucial in
winning our fast-track effort last year. This new round of the
battle will make fast-track seem easy by comparison. Very
4
frankly I'm worried about my opponent. He pays lip service to
open trade -- but when it comes to a real decision, I'm worried
he'll put his proxy in the pockets of the big unions, the
ideological interest groups, and the protectionist faction in
Congress.
We've consulted closely with Congress and with business
leaders every step of the way in these negotiations. We made
commitments to Congress last year, and we will meet each one of
them. And when we wrap up the North American Free Trade
Agreement, it will be a good deal for American consumers and
businesses -- and especially American workers. 11
America faces a choice this year between starkly different
philosophies. The other side doesn't trust the American people
with their own earnings, with their own property, with their own
plans and dreams for the future.
I'm going to stand up for something different. Something
that's right for America. Even if it's not politically popular.
To me ideas like free trade are worth fighting for -- because
we're fighting for our children's future.
So don't let the pessimists faze you. Don't let political
smoke and mirrors obscure your vision of the prize that's ahead
for our kids and grandchildren. Our future is as bright as it
has ever been.
For my part, I'm leading the campaign to elect a new
Congress. I'm determined to break the logjam of the old
politics. Next year, with a radically different Congress --
a
5
Congress that's ready to act -- we'll work to restore government
that lives within limits. \ Government that respects people's
labor and property. \ Government that has faith in our ability
to compete in foreign markets. \ Government that trusts the
American people.
11
Thank you for joining me here today. I understand your next
stop is the Commerce Department, where Barbara Franklin and her
experts will load you up on facts. Dispassionately, I'm sure.
What's more
Barbara's building has air-conditioning. 11
Thanks again for all that Hispanic businessmen and women are
doing to build a solid foundation for our future. May God bless
all of you.
#
#
#
HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS \ THE ROSE GARDEN
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1992 \ 9:30 A.M.
SECRETARY OF COMMERCE BARBARA FRANKLIN, U.S. TRADE
REPRESENTATIVE CARLA HILLS, THANK YOU. To ALL OF YOU,
WELCOME TO THE WHITE HOUSE. JESUS [CHAVARRIA, EDITOR
AND PUBLISHER OF HISPANIC BUSINESS], THANKS FOR YOUR
LEADERSHIP IN BRINGING TOGETHER so MANY DYNAMIC WOMEN
AND MEN FROM HISPANIC-OWNED BUSINESSES. You ENLIVEN
THIS COUNTRY, YOU'RE KEEPING AMERICA GREAT -- EACH ONE
OF YOU. 11
- 2 -
WE'RE TOGETHER TODAY BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IN THE
FUTURE -- AND WE KNOW HOW To GET THERE. OUR FUTURE
DEPENDS ON FREEDOM. FREEDOM WORKS. FREEDOM IS RIGHT.
11
YOU'RE THE HEROES OF OUR ECONOMY. You CREATE JOBS,
YOU MEET A PAYROLL. THE ONLY PEOPLE WITH A TOUGHER
CHALLENGE MIGHT BE THE COACH OF THE ANGOLAN BASKETBALL
TEAM
OR THAT GUY WHO SHOT THE ARROW TO LIGHT THE
...
OLYMPIC TORCH.
- 3 -
You've COME TO WASHINGTON AT A TOUGH TIME: Too
LATE FOR THE CHERRY BLOSSOMS, JUST IN TIME FOR THE
HUMIDITY. AND TODAY, FOR THE NEXT FEW MINUTES, IF YOU
DON'T MIND, I'D LIKE TO ADD A LITTLE HEAT. \ 'CAUSE
I'VE GOT SOMETHING ON MY MIND.
\
THE ECONOMY IS GROWING - -- HISPANIC-OWNED BUSINESSES
ARE IN THE VANGUARD OF THIS GROWTH, IN THE FOREFRONT OF
CREATING GOOD NEW JOBS FOR AMERICANS. WE NEED TO GROW
FASTER, AND WE KNOW WHAT'S HOLDING US BACK.
TT
- 4 -
LET ME SUM IT UP IN A SINGLE SENTENCE: GOVERNMENT IS
TOO BIG -- AND IT SPENDS TOO MUCH.
11
AN OLD GUARD OF TAX-AND-SPEND POLITICIANS HAS
CONTROLLED CONGRESS FOR MOST OF THE PAST 40 YEARS.
((AND BELIEVE ME, THIS IS NOT A BROKEN RECORD: \ IT'S
THE SAME OLD TUNE -- IT'S CALLED THE MIDDLE CLASS
BLUES.)) 11 ALREADY THIS YEAR, I'VE GIVEN CONGRESS A
CHOICE BETWEEN ECONOMIC GROWTH AND BIG GOVERNMENT.
CONGRESS TOOK SIDES WITH BIG GOVERNMENT.
- 5 -
HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED: IN JANUARY, I PROPOSED A
COMMON-SENSE, COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO GET THIS ECONOMY
MOVING FASTER, RIGHT NOW. THE PLAN INCLUDES TAX
INCENTIVES TO ENCOURAGE BUSINESSES TO HIRE NEW WORKERS
AND BREAKS FOR YOUNG FAMILIES WHO WANT TO BUY A FIRST
HOME. HALF A MILLION JOBS WOULD HAVE BEEN CREATED, IF
IF CONGRESS HAD ACTED RIGHT AWAY.
- 6 -
BUT THEY DIDN'T. INSTEAD, CONGRESS PASSED A
PACKAGE OF NEW GOVERNMENT SPENDING AND NEW TAXES. A
PACKAGE THEY KNEW I'D VETO.
So I SENT THEIR PLAN BACK. I'M STILL WAITING.
ALMOST 200 DAYS LATER. THIS ECONOMIC RECOVERY PLAN IS
BEING HELD HOSTAGE, AND THE RANSOM NOTE READS: "WAIT
TILL AFTER THE ELECTION."
- 7 -
THE PARTY THAT CONTROLS THE CONGRESS IS HOLDING
JOBS AND FREE ENTERPRISE HOSTAGE TO THEIR HOPES THAT
THEY CAN ELECT A TAX-AND-SPEND PARTISAN OF THEIR VERY
OWN TO THE WHITE HOUSE. THE OTHER PARTY TALKS ABOUT
"CLASS WARFARE"
ABOUT SQUEEZING MORE FROM THE so-
...
CALLED "RICH." WHAT THEY DON'T SAY IS THAT MORE THAN
HALF OF THOSE AFFECTED BY THEIR PROPOSED HIKE IN
INDIVIDUAL TAX RATES ARE FAMILY FARMERS
...
SMALL
BUSINESS MEN AND WOMEN
...
PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELVES.
\
- 8 -
You're TRYING TO CREATE JOBS. You NEED A PAT ON THE
BACK
...
NOT $100 BILLION IN NEW TAXES AND FEDERAL
MANDATES ON YOUR SHOULDERS. 11
I UNDERSTAND YOU'RE GOING UP TO CAPITOL HILL LATER
IN THE DAY. I'D ASK YOU TO TAKE A MESSAGE UP THERE
WITH YOU: TELL YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WE NEED
QUICKER GROWTH NOW. TELL THEM TO APPROVE MY GROWTH
INITIATIVES -- WITHOUT DELAY. 11
- 9 -
TELL THEM TO RELEASE THIS ECONOMY, \ APPROVE MY JOBS
PROGRAM, AND PUT AMERICA BACK TO WORK
...
NOW. 11
You AND I ARE TOGETHER TODAY BECAUSE WE ALSO SHARE
A VISION FOR THE LONG TERM: WE WANT To BUILD A SOLID
FOUNDATION FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE IN THE WORLD ECONOMY.
AND ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING DEVELOPMENTS IN OUR
NATION'S HISTORY IS COMING NOW To FRUITION. I'M
TALKING ABOUT THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT.
- 10 -
OUR NEGOTIATORS REPORTED SOLID PROGRESS FROM THE
MEETINGS IN MEXICO CITY LAST WEEKEND. THEY LL MEET
AGAIN IN A FEW DAYS. WE'RE VERY CLOSE TO COMPLETING AN
AGREEMENT THAT WILL MEAN MORE JOBS / MORE GROWTH /MORE
OPPORTUNITY FOR AMERICAN WORKERS.
LOOK AT THE NUMBERS: DURING THE RECENT, PARTIAL
OPENING OF THE MEXICAN MARKETS SINCE 1986, U.S. EXPORTS
TO MEXICO HAVE ALMOST TRIPLED.
- 11 -
MORE THAN 600,000 AMERICAN WORKERS NOW OWE THEIR JOBS
TO TRADE WITH MEXICO. WE ENJOY A ROBUST TRADE SURPLUS
WITH MEXICO -- $2.1 BILLION LAST YEAR, AND IT'S
ESTIMATED WE'LL ACHIEVE A SURPLUS OF MORE THAN $8
BILLION THIS YEAR. THE NEW JOBS CREATED BY TRADE WITH
MEXICO ARE TO BE FOUND NOT ONLY IN THE BORDER STATES,
BUT ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY. OUR TOP TEN STATES
EXPORTING TO MEXICO NOW INCLUDE MICHIGAN, ILLINOIS, NEW
YORK, PENNSYLVANIA AND FLORIDA.
- 12 -
WHEN THE TRADE AGREEMENT GOES To CONGRESS -- NOT
IF, BUT WHEN -- I'LL NEED THE UTMOST HELP FROM EACH AND
EVERY ONE OF YOU.
PLEASE DON'T HAVE ANY ILLUSIONS THIS WILL BE AN
EASY FIGHT. THE LEADERSHIP OF HISPANIC BUSINESS MEN
AND WOMEN WAS CRUCIAL IN WINNING OUR FAST-TRACK EFFORT
LAST YEAR. THIS NEW ROUND OF THE BATTLE WILL MAKE
FAST-TRACK SEEM EASY BY COMPARISON.
- 13 -
VERY FRANKLY I'M WORRIED ABOUT MY OPPONENT. HE PAYS
LIP SERVICE TO OPEN TRADE -- BUT WHEN IT COMES TO A
REAL DECISION, I'M WORRIED HE'LL PUT HIS PROXY IN THE
POCKETS OF THE BIG UNIONS, THE IDEOLOGICAL INTEREST
GROUPS, AND THE PROTECTIONIST FACTION IN CONGRESS. \\
WE'VE CONSULTED CLOSELY WITH CONGRESS AND WITH
BUSINESS LEADERS EVERY STEP OF THE WAY IN THESE
NEGOTIATIONS. WE MADE COMMITMENTS TO CONGRESS LAST
YEAR, AND WE WILL MEET EACH ONE OF THEM.
- 14 -
AND WHEN WE WRAP UP THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE
AGREEMENT, IT WILL BE A GOOD DEAL FOR AMERICAN
CONSUMERS AND BUSINESSES -- AND ESPECIALLY AMERICAN
WORKERS. 11
AMERICA FACES A CHOICE THIS YEAR BETWEEN STARKLY
DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHIES. THE OTHER SIDE DOESN'T TRUST
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WITH THEIR OWN EARNINGS, WITH THEIR
OWN PROPERTY, WITH THEIR OWN PLANS AND DREAMS FOR THE
FUTURE.
- 15 -
I'M GOING TO STAND UP FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
SOMETHING THAT'S RIGHT FOR AMERICA. To ME IDEAS LIKE
FREE TRADE ARE WORTH FIGHTING FOR -- BECAUSE WE'RE
FIGHTING FOR OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE. I KNOW THAT'S NOT
POLITICALLY POPULAR IN ALL PLACES. Too MANY OF US IN
NATIONAL POLITICS TOO OFTEN ACT LIKE AN OLD SOUTH
CAROLINA SENATOR, OLIN JOHNSTON. THE SENATOR DIDN'T
LIKE TO COVER ANYTHING CONTROVERSIAL IN HIS NEWSLETTER
TO HIS CONSTITUENTS.
- 16 -
HE TOLD HIS AIDE, JUST PUT IN A COLUMN ABOUT COMMUNISM.
THE AIDE COMPLIED, WRITING A CRACKERJACK COLUMN
EXPOSING THE EVILS OF COMMUNISM AND PUTTING THE GOOD
SENATOR SQUARELY ON THE SIDE OF AMERICA. THE SENATOR
READ THE DRAFT AND ASKED, "SON, HOW MANY COMMUNISTS DO
YOU THINK WE HAVE IN SOUTH CAROLINA?"
THE AIDE ANSWERED, "I SUPPOSE FIVE OR SIX."
SENATOR JOHNSTON REPLIED, "JUST MAKE SURE THEY
DON'T GET THIS NEWSLETTER."
- 17 -
WELL, I KNOW THAT MORE THAN FIVE OR SIX PEOPLE ARE
GOING TO STAND AGAINST FREE TRADE. BUT I'M NOT GOING
TO BACK DOWN. You KNOW IT'S RIGHT, AND I KNOW IT'S
RIGHT. LET'S DO WHAT IS RIGHT FOR AMERICA -- LET'S DO
WHAT'S RIGHT FOR THE FUTURE.
I HOPE YOU'LL AGREE WITH ME.
THANKS AGAIN FOR ALL THAT HISPANIC BUSINESSMEN AND
WOMEN ARE DOING TO BUILD A SOLID FOUNDATION FOR OUR
FUTURE. MAY GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU.
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
July 27, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR DAN McGROARTY
FROM:
ROGER B. PORTER
RBP
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks: Hispanic Business Leaders
We have reviewed the attached presidential remarks and
have noted a few suggested changes on the draft.
If you have any questions or we can be of further
assistance, please let us know.
CC: Phillip D. Brady
92 JUL 28 JUL 28 49:3
Document No. 340344ss
JMH
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
wm
TA
DATE: 7/24/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: MON. 7/27/92 10:00 am
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
SUBJECT:
THE ROSE GARDEN - 7/28/92 - 9:30
am
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
FINDLAY
GRAY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
FIRESTONE
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, RM. 122,
x2930, no later than 10:00 a.m., MONDAY, JULY 27, with a copy to
this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President.
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Duggan/Walters/Nix)
July 23, 1992
2 2 JUL.24 P1:11
Draft Two
HB.
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
THE ROSE GARDEN
THE WHITE HOUSE
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1992
9:30 A.M.
[Acknowledgments] Welcome to the White House. Jesus
[Chavarria, editor and publisher of Hispanic Business], thanks
for your leadership in bringing together so many dynamic women
and men from Hispanic-owned businesses. You enliven this
country, you're keeping America great -- each one of you. 11
Your dreams and your hard work animate every kind of
industry all across this country. There's Irma Elder from
Michigan whose thriving business is -- what else -- selling cars.
There's Frank Flores from the printing industry in New York. And
Benjamin Acevedo, with a lumber company in California. And
executives from the largest minority-owned bank in the United
States -- the Sanchez family's IBC in Laredo, Texas.
We're together today because we believe in the future -- and
we know how to get there. Our future depends on freedom.
Freedom works. Freedom is right. 11
All around the world, dictatorships are giving way to
democracy. Command-and-control economies are falling on the ash:
heap. As never before in the history of the world, people are
free to think and to speak -- free to live and work and worship
as they wish. They're choosing new governments that respect
people's freedom to buy and to sell and to create. 11
In the Western Hemisphere, freedom's tide has never been
2
higher. If I may make a prediction, that tide will soon drown
Latin America's last dictatorship -- the Castro regime. And on.
the crest of that tide will rise a new democracy in Cuba. 11
It used to be that one of the great certainties in our lives
was the East-West struggle, the Cold War. Now that we've won
SOME
that long battle to change the world around us, people are going
through a little period of pondering and questioning our future
here at home.
Let me just say that each one of us has cause to be
confident. Don't let the pessimists faze you -- don't let the
political haze we're passing through obscure your vision of the
prize that's ahead for our kids and grandchildren. America's
OTHERS
future has never been brighter -- because you and people like
7
yourselves are fully joined in the domestic battle to keep
America free.
?
Right now, we're renewing the freedoms that foster new
thinking and create new jobs. I'm overhauling the entire system
of federal government regulation. This year alone, I've directed
an unprecedented cutback of controls and red tape that have no
place in a free society. [details with impact on jobs and
consumers]
I'm fighting to halt the epidemic of lawsuits -- a hidden
tax on your business. It's time we sued each other less and
helped each other more.
I'm fighting the old politics of tax and spend. I'm
battling to spur new investment and job creation by cutting the
3
tax on capital gains. 11
When I sent my legal reform bill to Capitol Hill, our
opponents said no. They and their friends in the trial lawyers'
lobby circled the wagons, closed ranks, and hung tough to protect
the status quo. 11
When I I asked for tax breaks for young homeowners, when AND
I
asked J for the capital gains cut we need so urgently --Vour
IN RESPONSE
opponents passed a bill to raise your taxes by a hundred billion
dollars. This time, I said no -- I cast my veto. 11
Next year we'll see a change. Next year we'll have a
dramatically different Congress. Next year, I am confident,
we'll break the logjam of the old politics. We'll win legal
reform and tax relief. We'll restore government that lives
within limits. \ Government that respects people's labor and
property. \ Government that trusts the American people. 11
One the most exciting developments in our nation's history
is coming to fruition right now -- the North American Free Trade
Agreement. [report latest status of NAFTA]
Everyone wins through open trade with Mexico and Canada.
Open trade will make each of us better neighbors and closer
friends. Open trade will offer tremendous new opportunities for
people to invent, and I produce and take MARKET new goods and services, to to
market 2/ [export STET examples]
Open trade will fuel the growth of jobs. in the United States
of America. During the recent, partial opening of the Mexican
markets since 1986, U.S. exports to Mexico have almost tripled.
4
That has meant the creation of more than 300,000 new jobs. We
enjoy a robust trade surplus with Mexico -- $2.1 billion last
year. And the new jobs created by trade with Mexico are to be
found not only in the border states, but all across the country.
Our top ten states exporting to Mexico now include Michigan,
Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida.
When the trade agreement goes to Congress -- not if, but
when -- I'll need the utmost help from each and every one of you.
Please don't have any illusions this will be an easy fight.
Don't count on candor from our opponents. Some politicians pay
lip service to open trade -- but when it's time for a real
decision, they put their proxies in the pockets of the big unions
and the ideological interest groups.
And I scarcely need to tell this audience about this
ugliness we've heard. I don't like to think this kind of thing
still happens in America, but we've heard it. We've heard the
whispering campaign that doesn't even pretend to address
economics. It's the old appeal to prejudice. 11
You know, I've spent my entire adult life -- starting
businesses in west Texas and on the Gulf of Mexico, later in
public service -- pursuing better understanding between Americans
and our neighbors. I like to think I've made a contribution to
peace and prosperity certainly in our hemisphere, but also around
the world. So when these old attitudes of prejudice begin to
stir, I will stand against them. 11 I'll stand against any
attempt to turn back the clock. 11 I'll stand against
5
intolerance and nativism in any form.
In the next century, our kids -- and indeed, some of you
younger entrepreneurs -- will help make commonplace things that
now exist only in dreams: faster travel, cultural progress,
cures for diseases. The dream of open trade and strong,
respectful ties between the workers \ the business people \ and
the families \ of Mexico, Canada and the United States is so near
it's almost palpable. Let's resolve together, today, to make
that dream real -- to make it a solid foundation for our future.
Thank you, and may God bless all the people of the Americas.
#
#
#
Document No. 340344ss
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
7/27/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: ---
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
SUBJECT:
TUESDAY, 7/28/92 - 9:30 a.m.
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
FINDLAY
GRAY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
FIRESTONE
REMARKS:
The attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
2 JUL 27 P5: 10
July 27, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
STEVE PROVOST Martasp
FROM:
JOSEPH P. DUGGAN P.
SUBJECT:
PROPOSED REMARKS FOR HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
I. SUMMARY
On Tuesday, July 28, at 9:30 a.m., you will address
approximately 250 Hispanic business leaders in the Rose Garden.
II. DISCUSSION
Your remarks (approximately 9 minutes / cards), highlight
the Administration's growth package still awaiting action in
Congress, and they outline the benefits of NAFTA to small
businesses.
T-
(Duggan/Walters/Nix)
Steves changes
July 27, 1992
Draft Five
HB
(doa if overlook
ANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
ROSE GARDEN
long john a back of
WHITE HOUSE
DAY, JULY 28, 1992
A.M.
[Ac]
P.4. Duely
White House. Jesus
[Chavarria,
spanic Business], thanks
for your leadership in bringing together so many dynamic women
and men from Hispanic-owned businesses. You enliven this
country, you're keeping America great -- each one of you. 11
We're together today because we believe in the future -- and
we know how to get there. Our future depends on freedom.
Freedom works. Freedom is right.
You've come to Washington at a tough time: Too late for the
cherry blossoms, just in time for the humidity. And today for
the next few minutes, I just might add a little heat.
Van are the
you
heror, of
The economy is growing -- Hispahic-owned businesses are in
as
econom/
the vanguard of this growth, in the forefront of creating good
Curvi
You ereate
new jobs for Americans. We need to grow faster, and we know
job, you
what's holding us back. Let me sum it up in a single sentence:
meet 4 payrolle Government is too big -- and it spends too much. 11
gat an I've n somethin " JUME
The only are
An old guard of tax-and-spend politicians has controlled
with a tougher
juint
Congress for most of the past 40 years. Already this year, I've
Hage
given Congress a choice between economic growth and big
in
government. Congress took sides with big government.
Here's what happened: In January, I proposed a common-
couch
sense, comprehensive plan to get this economy moving faster,
Angolien barkilfull team
or that guy who shot that
arton to light He torch attle olympits.
2
right now. The plan includes tax incentives to encourage
businesses to hire new workers and breaks for young families who
want to buy a first home. Half a million jobs would have been
created, if
if Congress had acted right away.
But they didn't. Instead, Congress passed a package of new
government spending and new taxes. A package they knew I'd veto.
So I sent their plan back. I'm still waiting.
almost
200 days later. This economic recovery plan is being held
hostage, and the ransom note reads: "wait till after the
election."
The party that controls the Congress is holding jobs and
free enterprise hostage to their hopes that they can elect a tax-
and-spend partisan of their very own to the White House. The
other party talks about "class warfare"
about squeezing
more from the so-called "rich. "/ What they don't say is that more
than half of those affected by their proposed hike in individual
tax rates are family farmers
small business men and women
people like yourselves.
You're trying to create jobs.
You need a pat on the back
not $100 billion in new taxes
and federal mandates on your shoulders. 11
I understand you're going up to Capitol Hill later in the
day. I'd ask you to take a message up there with you: Tell your
members of Congress we need quicker growth now. Tell them to
approve my growth initiatives -- without delay. Tell them to
release this economy, \ approve my jobs program, and put America
back to work
now.
3
You and I are together today because we also share a vision
for the long term: We want to build a solid foundation for
America's future in the world economy. And one of the most
exciting developments in our nation's history is coming now to
fruition. I'm talking about the North American Free Trade
Agreement. Our negotiators reported solid progress from the
meetings in Mexico City last weekend. They'll meet again [date
and place]. We're very close to completing an agreement that
will mean more jobs / more growth /more opportunity for American
workers.
Look at the numbers: During the recent, partial opening of
the Mexican markets since 1986, U.S. exports to Mexico have
almost tripled. More than 600,000 American workers now owe their
jobs to trade with Mexico. We enjoy a robust trade surplus with
Mexico -- $2.1 billion last year, and it's estimated we'll
achieve a surplus of more than $8 billion this year. The new
jobs created by trade with Mexico are to be found not only in the
border states, but all across the country. Our top ten states
exporting to Mexico now include Michigan, Illinois, New York,
Pennsylvania and Florida.
When the trade agreement goes to Congress -- not if, but
when -- I'll need the utmost help from each and every one of you.
Please don't have any illusions this will be an easy fight.
The leadership of Hispanic business men and women was crucial in
winning our fast-track effort last year. This new round of the
battle will make fast-track seem easy by comparison. Very
I know more tha five or sit people
are going tootad against tice tracle.
$ But I'm not going to back
down, You Know its right, act. I
know, i/s right. Lets do what is
right far America, lets do what's
right for the future.
4
frankly I'm worried about my opponent. He pays lip service to
open trade but when it comes to a real decision, I'm worried
he'll put his proxy in the pockets of the big unions, the
ideological interest groups, and the protectionist faction in
Congress. 11
We've consulted closely with Congress and with business
leaders every step of the way in these negotiations. We made
commitments to Congress last year, and we will meet each one of
them. And when we wrap up the North American Free Trade
Agreement, it will be a good deal for American consumers and
businesses -- and especially American workers.
America faces a choice this year between starkly different
philosophies. The other side doesn't trust the American people
with their own earnings, with their own property, with their own
plans and dreams for the future.
I'm going to stand up for something different. Something
that's right for America. Even if it's not politically popular.
To me ideas like free trade are worth fighting for -- because
we're fighting for our children's future.
So don't let the pessimists faze you. Don't let political
smoke and mirrors obsoure your vision of the prize that's ahead
for our kids and grandchildren. Our future is as bright as it
has ever been.
For my part, I'm leading the campaign to elect a new
Congress. I'm determined to break the logjam of the old
politics. Next year, with a radically different Congress --
a
I know this if not politically popular in all planes.
Two May of urih national
politier tou after act
like an oldsouth Carolina
Serator, Oliver Johnstan
Johnstan didn Hike to cover
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hame to his contituent. and He
told his add just a cclumn about
communism. The aid complied writing
a crajuact column exparing the
evit ofcommurary adputity the
good saator squarely a the side
at Amorica. Johson read the draft
and said, "son how may communists
you think we have in South Grolina.
The aide said, five arout.
Johren repliced jurtmake rum there
they don get this
5
Congress that's ready to act -- we'll work to restore government
that lives within limits \ covernment that respects people's
labor and property. \ Government that has faith in our ability
to compete in foreign markets. \ Government that trusts the
American people.
Thank you for joining me here today. I understand your next
stop is the Commerce Department, where Barbara Franklin and her
experts will load you up on facts. Dispassionately, I'm sure.
What's more
Barbara's building has air-conditioning. 11
Thanks again for all that Hispanic businessmen and women are
doing to build a solid foundation for our future. May God bless
all of you.
#
#
#
I ho,pe you agree with me.
Document No. 340344ss
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
92 JUL 27 A10: 10
DATE: 7/24/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: MON. 7/27/92 10:00 am
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
SUBJECT:
THE ROSE GARDEN - 7/28/92 - 9:30 am
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
FINDLAY
GRAY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
FIRESTONE
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, RM. 122,
x2930, no later than 10:00 a.m., MONDAY, JULY 27, with a copy to
this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
See comments
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Duggan/Walters/Nix)
July 23, 1992
=2 JUL 24 P1:11
Draft Two
HB
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
THE ROSE GARDEN
THE WHITE HOUSE
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1992
9:30 A.M.
[Acknowledgments] Welcome to the White House. Jesus
[Chavarria, editor and publisher of Hispanic Business], thanks
for your leadership in bringing together so many dynamic women
and men from Hispanic-owned businesses. You enliven this
country, you're keeping America great -- each one of you. 11
Your dreams and your hard work animate every kind of
industry all across this country. There's Irma Elder from
Michigan whose thriving business is -- what else -- selling cars
There's Frank Flores from the printing industry in New York. And
Benjamin Acevedo, with a lumber company in California. And
executives from the largest minority-owned bank in the United
States -- the Sanchez family's IBC in Laredo, Texas.
We're together today because we believe in the future -- and
we know how to get there. Our future depends on freedom.
Freedom works. Freedom is right.
All around the world, dictatorships are giving way to
democracy. Command-and-control economies are falling on the ash
heap. As never before in the history of the world, people are
free to think and to speak -- free to live and work and worship
as they wish. They're choosing new governments that respect
people's freedom to buy and to sell and to create. 11
In the Western Hemisphere, freedom's tide has never been
2
higher. If I may make a prediction, that tide will soon drown
Latin America's last dictatorship -- the Castro regime. And on
the crest of that tide will rise a new democracy in Cuba. 11
It used to be that one of the great certainties in our lives
was the East-West struggle, the Cold War. Now that we've won
that long battle to change the world around us, people are going
through a little period of pondering and questioning our future
here at home.
Let me just say that each one of us has cause to be
confident. Don't let the pessimists faze you -- don't let the
political haze we're passing through obscure your vision of the
prize that's ahead for our kids and grandchildren. America's
future has never been brighter -- because you and people like
yourselves are fully joined in the domestic battle to keep.
America free.
Right now, we're renewing the freedoms that foster new
thinking and create new jobs. I'm overhauling the entire system
of federal government regulation. This year alone, I've directed
an unprecedented cutback of controls and red tape that have no
place in a free society. [details with impact on jobs and
consumers]
I'm fighting to halt the epidemic of lawsuits -- a hidden
tax on your business. It's time we sued each other less and
helped each other more. 11
I'm fighting the old politics of tax and spend. I'm
battling to spur new investment and job creation by cutting the
3
tax on capital gains. 11
When I sent my legal reform bill to Capitol Hill, our
opponents said no. They and their friends in the trial lawyers'
lobby circled the wagons, closed ranks, and hung tough to protect
the status quo.
When I asked for tax breaks for young homeowners, when I
asked for the capital gains cut we need so urgently -- our
opponents passed a bill to raise your taxes by a hundred billion
dollars. This time, I said no -- I cast my veto. 11
Next year we'll see a change. Next year we'll have a
dramatically different Congress. Next year, I am confident,
we'll break the Togjam of the old politics. We'll win legal
reform and tax relief. We'll restore government that lives
within limits. \ Government that respects people's labor and
property. \ Government that trusts the American people. 11
One the most exciting developments in our nation's history
is coming to fruition right now -- the North American Free Trade
Agreement. [report latest status of NAFTA]
Everyone wins through open trade with Mexico and Canada.
Open trade will make each of us better neighbors and closer
friends. Open trade will offer tremendous new opportunities for
people to invent and produce and take new goods and services to
market. [export examples]
Open trade will fuel the growth of jobs in the United States
of America. During the recent, partial opening of the Mexican
markets since 1986, U.S. exports to Mexico have almost tripled.
Seenites next
4
page
That has meant the creation of more than 300,000 new jobs. We
enjoy a robust trade surplus with Mexico -- $2.1 billion last
year. And the new jobs created by trade with Mexico are to be
found not only in the border states, but all across the country.
Our top ten states exporting to Mexico now include Michigan,
Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida.
When the trade agreement goes to Congress -- not if, but
when -- I'll need the utmost help from each and every one of you.
Please don't have any illusions this will be an easy fight.
Don't count on candor from our opponents. Some politicians pay
lip service to open trade -- but when it's time for a real
decision, they put their proxies in the pockets of the big unions
and the ideological interest groups. 11
And I scarcely need to tell this audience about this
ugliness we've heard. I don't like to think this kind of thing
still happens in America, but we've heard it. We've heard the
whispering campaign that doesn't even pretend to address
economics. It's the old appeal to prejudice. 11
You know, I've spent my entire adult life -- starting
businesses in west Texas and on the Gulf of Mexico, later in
public service -- pursuing better understanding between Americans
and our neighbors. I like to think I've made a contribution to
peace and prosperity certainly in our hemisphere, but also around
the world. So when these old attitudes of prejudice begin to
stir, I will stand against them. 11 I'll stand against any
attempt to turn back the clock. 11 I'll stand against
07/27/92
09:47
001
(Larry Matlack 3262)
Page 4, the numbers are not consistent with the numbers
submitted earlier. Earlier documents say --
600,000 workes owe their jobs to trade with Mexico
USTR estimates 624,000 jobs generated through 1991 by exports to
Mexico
$2.1B trade surplus -- also, a much larger estimate (8-9B) for
'92.
5
intolerance and nativism in any form. 11
In the next century, our kids -- and indeed, some of you
younger entrepreneurs -- will help make commonplace things that
now exist only in dreams: faster travel, cultural progress,
cures for diseases. The dream of open trade and strong,
respectful ties between the workers \ the business people \ and
the families \ of Mexico, Canada and the United States is so near
it's almost palpable. Let's resolve together, today, to make
that dream real -- to make it a solid foundation for our future.
Thank you, and may God bless all the people of the Americas.
#
#
#
Document No. 340344ss
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 7/24/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: MON. 7/27/92 10:00 am
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
SUBJECT:
THE ROSE GARDEN 7/28/92 - 9:30 am
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and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Duggan/Walters/Nix)
July 23, 1992
2 JUL 24 P1:11
Draft Two
HB
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
THE ROSE GARDEN
THE WHITE HOUSE
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1992
9:30 A.M.
[Acknowledgments] Welcome to the White House. Jesus
[Chavarria, editor and publisher of Hispanic Business], thanks
for your leadership in bringing together so many dynamic women
and men from Hispanic-owned businesses. You enliven this
country, you're keeping America great -- each one of you. 11
Your dreams and your hard work animate every kind of
industry all across this country. There's Irma Elder from
Michigan whose thriving business is -- what else -- selling cars.
There's Frank Flores from the printing industry in New York. And
Benjamin Acevedo, with a lumber company in California. And
executives from the largest minority-owned bank in the United
States -- the Sanchez family's IBC in Laredo, Texas.
We're together today because we believe in the future -- and
we know how to get there. Our future depends on freedom.
Freedom works. Freedom is right. 11
All around the world, dictatorships are giving way to
democracy. Command-and-control economies are falling on the ash
heap. As never before in the history of the world, people are
free to think and to speak -- free to live and work and worship
as they wish. They're choosing new governments that respect
people's freedom to buy and to sell and to create. 11
In the Western Hemisphere, freedom's tide has never been
2
higher. If I may make a prediction, that tide will soon drown
Latin America's last dictatorship -- the Castro regime. And on
the crest of that tide will rise a new democracy in Cuba.
It used to be that one of the great certainties in our lives
was the East-West struggle, the Cold War. Now that we've won
that long battle to change the world around us, people are going
through a little period of pondering and questioning our future
here at home.
Let me just say that each one of us has cause to be
confident. Don't let the pessimists faze you -- don't let the
political haze we're passing through obscure your vision of the
prize that's ahead for our kids and grandchildren. America's
future has never been brighter -- because you and people like
yourselves are fully joined in the domestic battle to keep.
America free.
Right now, we're renewing the freedoms that foster new
thinking and create new jobs. I'm overhauling the entire system
of federal government regulation. This year alone, I've directed
an unprecedented cutback of controls and red tape that have no
place in a free society. [details with impact on jobs and
consumers]
I'm fighting to halt the epidemic of lawsuits -- a hidden
tax on your business. It's time we sued each other less and
helped each other more.
I'm fighting the old politics of tax and spend. I'm
battling to spur new investment and job creation by cutting the
3
tax on capital gains.
When I sent my legal reform bill to Capitol Hill, our
opponents said no. They and their friends in the trial lawyers'
lobby circled the wagons, closed ranks, and hung tough to protect
the status quo.
When I asked for tax breaks for young homeowners, when I
asked for the capital gains cut we need so urgently -- our
opponents passed a bill to raise your taxes by a hundred billion
dollars. This time, I said no. -- I cast my veto. 11
Next year we'll see a change. Next year we'll have a
dramatically different Congress. Next year, I am confident,
we'll break the logjam of the old politics. We'll win legal
reform and tax relief. We'll restore government that lives
within limits. \ Government that respects people's labor and
property. \ Government that trusts the American people. 11
One the most exciting developments in our nation's history
is coming to fruition right now -- the North American Free Trade
Agreement. [report latest status of NAFTA]
Everyone wins through open trade with Mexico and Canada.
Open trade will make each of us better neighbors and closer
friends. Open trade will offer tremendous new opportunities for
people to invent and produce and take new goods and services to
market. [export examples]
Open trade will fuel the growth of jobs in the United States
of America. During the recent, partial opening of the Mexican
markets since 1986, U.S. exports to Mexico have almost tripled.
4
That has meant the creation of more than 300,000 new jobs. We
enjoy a robust trade surplus with Mexico -- $2.1 billion last
year. And the new jobs created by trade with Mexico are to be
found not only in the border states, but all across the country.
Our top ten states exporting to Mexico now include Michigan,
Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida.
When the trade agreement goes to Congress --- not if, but
when -- I'll need the utmost help from each and every one of you.
Please don't have any illusions this will be an easy fight.
Don't count on candor from our opponents. Some politicians pay
lip service to open trade -- but when it's time for a real
decision, they put their proxies in the pockets of the big unions
and the ideological interest groups. 11
And I scarcely need to tell this audience about this
ugliness we've heard. I don't like to think this kind of thing
still happens in America, but we've heard it. We've heard the
whispering campaign that doesn't even pretend to address
economics. It's the old appeal to prejudice. 11
You know, I've spent my entire adult life -- starting
businesses in west Texas and on the Gulf of Mexico, later in
public service -- pursuing better understanding between Americans
and our neighbors. I like to think I've made a contribution to
peace and prosperity certainly in our hemisphere, but also around
the world. So when these old attitudes of prejudice begin to
stir, I will stand against them. 11 I'll stand against any
attempt to turn back the clock. 11 I'll stand against
5
intolerance and nativism in any form.
In the next century, our kids -- and indeed, some of you
younger entrepreneurs -- will help make commonplace things that
now exist only in dreams: faster travel, cultural progress,
cures for diseases. The dream of open trade and strong,
respectful ties between the workers \ the business people \ and
the families \ of Mexico, Canada and the United States is so near
it's almost palpable. Let's resolve together, today, to make
that dream real -- to make it a solid foundation for our future.
Thank you, and may God bless all the people of the Americas.
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
July 27, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
STEVE PROVOST
Dhertorsp
FROM:
JOSEPH P. DUGGAN
2
SUBJECT:
PROPOSED REMARKS FOR HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
I. SUMMARY
On Tuesday, July 28, at 9:30 a.m., you will address
approximately 250 Hispanic business leaders in the Rose Garden.
II. DISCUSSION
Your remarks (approximately 9 minutes / cards) , highlight
the Administration's growth package still awaiting action in
Congress, and they outline the benefits of NAFTA to small
businesses.
(Duggan/Walters/Nix)
July 27, 1992
Draft Five
HB
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
THE ROSE GARDEN
THE WHITE HOUSE
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1992
9:30 A.M.
[Acknowledgments] Welcome to the White House. Jesus
[Chavarria, editor and publisher of Hispanic Business], thanks
for your leadership in bringing together so many dynamic women
and men from Hispanic-owned businesses. You enliven this
country, you're keeping America great -- each one of you. 11
We're together today because we believe in the future -- and
we know how to get there. Our future depends on freedom.
Freedom works. Freedom is right.
You've come to Washington at a tough time: Too late for the
cherry blossoms, just in time for the humidity. And today, for
the next few minutes, I just might add a little heat. 11
The economy is growing -- Hispanic-owned businesses are in
the vanguard of this growth, in the forefront of creating good
new jobs for Americans. We need to grow faster, and we know
what's holding us back. Let me sum it up in a single sentence:
Government is too big -- and it spends too much. 11
An old guard of tax-and-spend politicians has controlled
Congress for most of the past 40 years. Already this year, I've
given Congress a choice between economic growth and big
government. Congress took sides with big government.
Here's what happened: In January, I proposed a common-
sense, comprehensive plan to get this economy moving faster,
2
right now. The plan includes tax incentives to encourage
businesses to hire new workers and breaks for young families who
want to buy a first home. Half a million jobs would have been
created, if
if Congress had acted right away.
But they didn't. Instead, Congress passed a package of new
government spending and new taxes. A package they knew I'd veto.
So I sent their plan back. I'm still waiting.
almost
200 days later. This economic recovery plan is being held
hostage, and the ransom note reads: "wait till after the
election. "
The party that controls the Congress is holding jobs and
free enterprise hostage to their hopes that they can elect a tax-
and-spend partisan of their very own to the White House. The
other party talks about "class warfare"
about squeezing
more from the so-called "rich." What they don't say is that more
than half of those affected by their proposed hike in individual
tax rates are family farmers
small business men and women
people like yourselves. \ You're trying to create jobs.
You need a pat on the back
not $100 billion in new taxes
and federal mandates on your shoulders. 11
I understand you're going up to Capitol Hill later in the
day. I'd ask you to take a message up there with you: Tell your
members of Congress we need quicker growth now. Tell them to
approve my growth initiatives -- without delay. 11 Tell them to
release this economy, \ approve my jobs program, and put America
back to work
now.
3
You and I are together today because we also share a vision
for the long term: We want to build a solid foundation for
America's future in the world economy. And one of the most
exciting developments in our nation's history is coming now to
fruition. I'm talking about the North American Free Trade
Agreement. Our negotiators reported solid progress from the
meetings in Mexico City last weekend. They'll meet again [date
and place]. We're very close to completing an agreement that
will mean more jobs / more growth /more opportunity for American
workers.
Look at the numbers: During the recent, partial opening of
the Mexican markets since 1986, U.S. exports to Mexico have
almost tripled. More than 600,000 American workers now owe their
jobs to trade with Mexico. We enjoy a robust trade surplus with
Mexico -- $2.1 billion last year, and it's estimated we'll
achieve a surplus of more than $8 billion this year. The new
jobs created by trade with Mexico are to be found not only in the
border states, but all across the country. Our top ten states
exporting to Mexico now include Michigan, Illinois, New York,
Pennsylvania and Florida.
When the trade agreement goes to Congress -- not if, but
when -- I'll need the utmost help from each and every one of you.
Please don't have any illusions this will be an easy fight.
The leadership of Hispanic business men and women was crucial in
winning our fast-track effort last year. This new round of the
battle will make fast-track seem easy by comparison. Very
4
frankly I'm worried about my opponent. He pays lip service to
open trade -- but when it comes to a real decision, I'm worried
he'll put his proxy in the pockets of the big unions, the
ideological interest groups, and the protectionist faction in
Congress.
We've consulted closely with Congress and with business
leaders every step of the way in these negotiations. We made
commitments to Congress last year, and we will meet each one of
them. And when we wrap up the North American Free Trade
Agreement, it will be a good deal for American consumers and
businesses -- and especially American workers.
America faces a choice this year between starkly different
philosophies. The other side doesn't trust the American people
with their own earnings, with their own property, with their own
plans and dreams for the future.
I'm going to stand up for something different. Something
that's right for America. Even if it's not politically popular.
To me ideas like free trade are worth fighting for -- because
we're fighting for our children's future.
So don't let the pessimists faze you. Don't let political
smoke and mirrors obscure your vision of the prize that's ahead
for our kids and grandchildren. Our future is as bright as it
has ever been.
For my part, I'm leading the campaign to elect a new
Congress. I'm determined to break the logjam of the old
politics. Next year, with a radically different Congress -- a
5
Congress that's ready to act -- we'll work to restore government
that lives within limits.
\
Government that respects people's
labor and property. \ Government that has faith in our ability
to compete in foreign markets. \ Government that trusts the
American people.
11
Thank you for joining me here today. I understand your next
stop is the Commerce Department, where Barbara Franklin and her
experts will load you up on facts. Dispassionately, I'm sure.
What's more
Barbara's building has air-conditioning. 11
Thanks again for all that Hispanic businessmen and women are
doing to build a solid foundation for our future. May God bless
all of you.
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
July 27, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
STEVE PROVOST Dhertorsp
FROM:
JOSEPH P. DUGGAN P.
SUBJECT:
PROPOSED REMARKS FOR HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
I. SUMMARY
On Tuesday, July 28, at 9:30 a.m., you will address
approximately 250 Hispanic business leaders in the Rose Garden.
II. DISCUSSION
Your remarks (approximately 9 minutes / cards), highlight
the Administration's growth package still awaiting action in
Congress, and they outline, the benefits of NAFTA to small
businesses.
(Duggan/Walters/Nix)
July 27, 1992
Draft Five
HB
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
THE ROSE GARDEN
THE WHITE HOUSE
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1992
9:30 A.M.
[Acknowledgments] Welcome to the White House. Jesus
[Chavarria, editor and publisher of Hispanic Business], thanks
for your leadership in bringing together so many dynamic women
and men from Hispanic-owned businesses. You enliven this
country, you're keeping America great -- each one of you. 11
We're together today because we believe in the future -- and
we know how to get there. Our future depends on freedom.
Freedom works. Freedom is right. 11
You've come to Washington at a tough time: Too late for the
cherry blossoms, just in time for the humidity. And today, for
the next few minutes, I just might add a little heat. 11
The economy is growing -- Hispanic-owned businesses are in
the vanguard of this growth, in the forefront of creating good
new jobs for Americans. We need to grow faster, and we know
what's holding us back. Let me sum it up in a single sentence:
Government is too big -- and it spends too much. 11
An old guard of tax-and-spend politicians has controlled
Congress for most of the past 40 years. Already this year, I've
given Congress a choice between economic growth and big
government. Congress took sides with big government.
Here's what happened: In January, I proposed a common-
sense, comprehensive plan to get this economy moving faster,
2
right now. The plan includes tax incentives to encourage
businesses to hire new workers and breaks for young families who
want to buy a first home. Half a million jobs would have been
created, if
if Congress had acted right away.
But they didn't. Instead, Congress passed a package of new
government spending and new taxes. A package they knew I'd veto.
So I sent their plan back. I'm still waiting.
almost
200 days later. This economic recovery plan is being held
hostage, and the ransom note reads: "wait till after the
election. "
The party that controls the Congress is holding jobs and
free enterprise hostage to their hopes that they can elect a tax-
and-spend partisan of their very own to the White House. The
other party talks about "class warfare"
about squeezing
more from the so-called "rich. " What they don't say is that more
than half of those affected by their proposed hike in individual
tax rates are family farmers
small business men and women
people like yourselves.
You're trying to create jobs.
You need a pat on the back
not $100 billion in new taxes
and federal mandates on your shoulders. 11
I understand you're going up to Capitol Hill later in the
day. I'd ask you to take a message up there with you: Tell your
members of Congress we need quicker growth now. Tell them to
approve my growth initiatives -- without delay. 11 Tell them to
release this economy, \ approve my jobs program, and put America
back to work
now.
3
You and I are together today because we also share a vision
for the long term: We want to build a solid foundation for
America's future in the world economy. And one of the most
exciting developments in our nation's history is coming now to
fruition. I'm talking about the North American Free Trade
Agreement. Our negotiators reported solid progress from the
meetings in Mexico City last weekend. They'll meet again [date
and place]. We're very close to completing an agreement that
will mean more jobs / more growth /more opportunity for American
workers.
Look at the numbers: During the recent, partial opening of
the Mexican markets since 1986, U.S. exports to Mexico have
almost tripled. More than 600,000 American workers now owe their
jobs to trade with Mexico. We enjoy a robust trade surplus with
Mexico -- $2.1 billion last year, and it's estimated we'll
achieve a surplus of more than $8 billion this year. The new
jobs created by trade with Mexico are to be found not only in the
border states, but all across the country. Our top ten states
exporting to Mexico now include Michigan, Illinois, New York,
Pennsylvania and Florida.
When the trade agreement goes to Congress -- not if, but
when -- I'll need the utmost help from each and every one of you.
Please don't have any illusions this will be an easy fight.
The leadership of Hispanic business men and women was crucial in
winning our fast-track effort last year. This new round of the
battle will make fast-track seem easy by comparison. Very
4
frankly I'm worried about my opponent. He pays lip service to
open trade -- but when it comes to a real decision, I'm worried
he'll put his proxy in the pockets of the big unions, the
ideological interest groups, and the protectionist faction in
Congress. 11
We've consulted closely with Congress and with business
leaders every step of the way in these negotiations. We made
commitments to Congress last year, and we will meet each one of
them. And when we wrap up the North American Free Trade
Agreement, it will be a good deal for American consumers and
businesses -- and especially American workers.
America faces a choice this year between starkly different
philosophies. The other side doesn't trust the American people
with their own earnings, with their own property, with their own
plans and dreams for the future.
I'm going to stand up for something different. Something
that's right for America. Even if it's not politically popular.
To me ideas like free trade are worth fighting for -- because
we're fighting for our children's future.
So don't let the pessimists faze you. Don't let political
smoke and mirrors obscure your vision of the prize that's ahead
for our kids and grandchildren. Our future is as bright as it
has ever been.
For my part, I'm leading the campaign to elect a new
Congress. I'm determined to break the logjam of the old
politics. Next year, with a radically different Congress -- a
5
Congress that's ready to act -- we'll work to restore government
that lives within limits. \ Government that respects people's
labor and property. \ Government that has faith in our ability
to compete in foreign markets. \ Government that trusts the
American people.
11
Thank you for joining me here today. I understand your next
stop is the Commerce Department, where Barbara Franklin and her
experts will load you up on facts. Dispassionately, I'm sure.
What's more
Barbara's building has air-conditioning. 11
Thanks again for all that Hispanic businessmen and women are
doing to build a solid foundation for our future. May God bless
all of you.
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
(Duggan/Walters/Nix)
WASHINGTON
July 27, 1992
Draft Five
HB
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
THE ROSE GARDEN
THE WHITE HOUSE
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1992
9:30 A.M.
Secretary of Commerce Barbara Franklin, U.S. Trade
Representative Carla Hills, thank you. To all of you, welcome to
the White House. Jesus [Chavarria, editor and publisher of
Hispanic Business], thanks for your leadership in bringing
together so many dynamic women and men from Hispanic-owned
businesses. You enliven this country, you're keeping America
great -- each one of you. 11
We're together today because we believe in the future -- and
we know how to get there. Our future depends on freedom.
Freedom works. Freedom is right. 11
You're the heroes of our economy. You create jobs, you meet
a payroll. The only people with a tougher challenge might be the
coach of the Angolan basketball team
...
or that guy who shot
the arrow to light the Olympic torch.
You've come to Washington at a tough time: Too late for the
cherry blossoms, just in time for the humidity. And today, for
the next few minutes, If you don't mind, I'd like to add a little
heat. \ 'Cause I've got something on my mind. \
The economy is growing -- Hispanic-owned businesses are in
the vanguard of this growth, in the forefront of creating good
new jobs for Americans. We need to grow faster, and we know
what's holding us back. Let me sum it up in a single sentence:
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Government is too big -- and it spends too much. 11
An old guard of tax-and-spend politicians has controlled
Congress for most of the past 40 years. ((And believe me, this
is not a broken record: \ It's the same old tune -- it's called
the Middle Class Blues. )) Already this year, I've given
Congress a choice between economic growth and big government.
Congress took sides with big government.
Here's what happened: In January, I proposed a common-
sense, comprehensive plan to get this economy moving faster,
right now. The plan includes tax incentives to encourage
businesses to hire new workers and breaks for young families who
want to buy a first home. Half a million jobs would have been
created, if
if Congress had acted right away.
But they didn't. Instead, Congress passed a package of new
government spending and new taxes. A package they knew I'd veto.
So I sent their plan back. I'm still waiting.
almost
200 days later. This economic recovery plan is being held
hostage, and the ransom note reads: "wait till after the
election."
The party that controls the Congress is holding jobs and
free enterprise hostage to their hopes that they can elect a tax-
and-spend partisan of their very own to the White House. The
other party talks about "class warfare"
about squeezing
more from the so-called "rich." What they don't say is that more
than half of those affected by their proposed hike in individual
tax rates are family farmers
small business men and women
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
border states, but all across the country. Our top ten states
exporting to Mexico now include Michigan, Illinois, New York,
Pennsylvania and Florida.
When the trade agreement goes to Congress -- not if, but
when -- I'll need the utmost help from each and every one of you.
Please don't have any illusions this will be an easy fight.
The leadership of Hispanic business men and women was crucial in
winning our fast-track effort last year. This new round of the
battle will make fast-track seem easy by comparison. Very
frankly I'm worried about my opponent. He pays lip service to
open trade -- but when it comes to a real decision, I'm worried
he'll put his proxy in the pockets of the big unions, the
ideological interest groups, and the protectionist faction in
Congress. 11
We've consulted closely with Congress and with business
leaders every step of the way in these negotiations. We made
commitments to Congress last year, and we will meet each one of
them. And when we wrap up the North American Free Trade
Agreement, it will be a good deal for American consumers and
businesses -- and especially American workers.
America faces a choice this year between starkly different
philosophies. The other side doesn't trust the American people
with their own earnings, with their own property, with their own
plans and dreams for the future.
I'm going to stand up for something different. Something
that's right for America. To me ideas like free trade are worth
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
You've come to Washington at a tough time: Too late for the
Cherry Blossoms, just in time for the humidity. And today, for
the next few minutes, I just might add a little heat.
(Duggan/Walters/Nix)
July 27, 1992
Draft Three
HB
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
THE ROSE GARDEN
THE WHITE HOUSE
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1992
9:30 A.M.
[Acknowledgments] Welcome to the White House. Jesus
[Chavarria, editor and publisher of Hispanic Business], thanks
for your leadership in bringing together so many dynamic women
and men from Hispanic-owned businesses. You enliven this
country, you're keeping America great -- each one of you. 11
We're together today because we believe in the future -- and
we know how to get there. Our future depends on freedom.
Freedom works. Freedom is right. 11
johe:
The economy is growing -- Hispanic-owned businesses are in
the vanguard of this growth. We need to grow faster, and we know
what's holding us back. Let me sum it up in a single sentence:
Government is too big -- and it spends too much. 11
An old guard of tax-and-spend politicians has controlled
Congress for most of the past 40 years. Already this year, I've
given Congress a choice between economic growth and big
government. Congress took sides with big government.
Here's what happened: In January, I proposed a common-
sense, comprehensive plan to get this economy moving faster,
right now. The plan includes tax incentives to encourage
businesses to hire new workers and breaks for young families who
want to buy a first home. Half a million jobs would have been
created, if
if Congress had acted right away.
2
But they didn't. Instead, Congress passed a package of new
government spending and new taxes. A package they knew I'd veto.
So I sent their plan back. I'm still waiting.
almost
200 days later. This economic recovery plan is being held
hostage, and the ransom note reads: "wait till after the
election.'
The party that controls the Congress is holding jobs and
free enterprise hostage to their hopes that they can elect a tax-
and-spend partisan of their very own to the White House. The
Democrats! candidate President wants to raise taxes on
other for party talks about
American business. He pushes the old "class warfare" line about
about
so -called
dow it
squeezing more from the 1 "rich." What he doesn to say is that more
than half of those affected by Their his proposed hike in individual
tax rates are family farmers
small business men and women
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people
like
yourselves.
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(All told, my opponent
you're tryng to crease
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wants to saddle American businesses with more than $100 billion on
your houlders in new taxes and federal mandates. )
you need a pat
on The back
I understand you're going up to Capitol Hill later in the
not
day. I'd ask you to take a message up there with you: Tell your
members of Congress my plan will speed up growth now. Tell them
we Need quesher
they'll have a price to pay if they continue to hold our economy
hostage to election year politics. Tell them to approve my
growth initiatives -- without delay. 11 Tell them to release
this economy, \ approve my jobs program, and put America back to
work
now.
You and I are together today because we also share a vision
3
for the long term: We want to build a solid foundation for
America's future in the world economy. And one of the most
exciting developments in our nation's history is coming now to
fruition. I'm talking about the North American Free Trade
Agreement. Our negotiators reported solid progress from the
meetings in Mexico City last weekend. They'll meet again [date
and place]. We're very close to completing an agreement that
will mean more jobs / more growth /more opportunity for American
workers.
Everyone wins through open trade with Mexico and Canada.
Open trade will make each of us better neighbors and closer
friends. Open trade will offer new opportunities for people to
invent and produce and take new goods and services to market.
Look at the numbers: During the recent, partial opening of
the Mexican markets since 1986, U.S. exports to Mexico have
almost tripled. That has meant the creation of more than 300,000
new American jobs. We enjoy a robust trade surplus with Mexico -
- $2.1 billion last year. And the new jobs created by trade with
Mexico are to be found not only in the border states, but all
across the country. Our top ten states exporting to Mexico now
include Michigan, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida.
When the trade agreement goes to Congress -- not if, but
when -- I'll need the utmost help from each and every one of you.
Please don't have any illusions this will be an easy fight.
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leaders every step of the way in these negotiations. And when we
wrap up the North American Free Trade Agreement, it will be a
American
good deal for American workers and consumers and businesses. It
will be overwhelmingly in our interest to approve this agreement.
especully
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other sidex
philosophies. The old guard on Capitol Hill and their standard-
bearers in the Presidential race believe that more taxes and more
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interest groups in the way of our vision of open new markets for
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Congress that's ready to act -- we'll work to restore government
that lives within limits. \ Government that respects people's
labor and property. \ Government that has faith in our ability
to compete in foreign markets. \ Government that trusts the
American people. 11
Thank you for joining me here today. Thanks for all that
Hispanic businessmen and women are doing to build a solid
foundation for our future. May God bless all of you.
#
#
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July 27, 1992
Draft Three
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
THE ROSE GARDEN
THE WHITE HOUSE
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1992
9:30 A.M.
[Acknowledgments] Welcome to the White House. Jesus
[Chavarria, editor and publisher of Hispanic Business], thanks
for your leadership in bringing together so many dynamic women
and men from Hispanic-owned businesses. You enliven this
country, you're keeping America great -- each one of you.
We're together today because we believe in the future -- and
we know how to get there. Our future depends on freedom.
Freedom works. Freedom is right. 11
The economy is growing -- Hispanic-owned businesses are in
the vanguard of this growth. We need to grow faster, and we know
what's holding us back. Let me sum it up in a single sentence:
Government is too big -- and it spends too much. 11
An old guard of tax-and-spend politicians has controlled
Congress for most of the past 40 years. Already this year, I've
given Congress a choice between economic growth and big
government. Congress took sides with big government.
Here's what happened: In January, I proposed a common-
sense, comprehensive plan to get this economy moving faster,
right now. The plan includes tax incentives to encourage
businesses to hire new workers and breaks for young families who
want to buy a first home. Half a million jobs would have been
created, if
if Congress had acted right away.
2
But they didn't. Instead, Congress passed a package of new
government spending and new taxes. A package they knew I'd veto.
So I sent their plan back. I'm still waiting.
almost
200 days later. This economic recovery plan is being held
hostage, and the ransom note reads: "wait till after the
election."
The party that controls the Congress is holding jobs and
free enterprise hostage to their hopes that they can elect a tax-
and-spend partisan of their very own to the White House. The
Democrats' candidate for President wants to raise taxes on
American business. He pushes the old "class warfare" line about
squeezing more from the "rich." What he doesn't say is that more
than half of those affected by his proposed hike in individual
tax rates are family farmers
small business men and women
maybe people like yourselves. \ All told, my opponent
wants to saddle American businesses with more than $100 billion
in new taxes and federal mandates.
I understand you're going up to Capitol Hill later in the
day. I'd ask you to take a message up there with you: Tell your
members of Congress my plan will speed up growth now. Tell them
they'll have a price to pay if they continue to hold our economy
hostage to election year politics. Tell them to approve my
growth initiatives -- without delay. 11 Tell them to release
this economy, \ approve my jobs program, and put America back to
work
now.
11
You and I are together today because we also share a vision
3
for the long term: We want to build a solid foundation for
America's future in the world economy. And one of the most
exciting developments in our nation's history is coming now to
fruition. I'm talking about the North American Free Trade
Agreement. Our negotiators reported solid progress from the
meetings in Mexico City last weekend. They'll meet again [date
and place]. We're very close to completing an agreement that
will mean more jobs / more growth /more opportunity for American
workers.
Everyone wins through open trade with Mexico and Canada.
Open trade will make each of us better neighbors and closer
friends. Open trade will offer new opportunities for people to
invent and produce and take new goods and services to market.
Look at the numbers: During the recent, partial opening of
the Mexican markets since 1986, U.S. exports to Mexico have
almost tripled. That has meant the creation of more than 300,000
new American jobs. We enjoy a robust trade surplus with Mexico -
- $2.1 billion last year. And the new jobs created by trade with
Mexico are to be found not only in the border states, but all
across the country. Our top ten states exporting to Mexico now
include Michigan, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida.
When the trade agreement goes to Congress -- not if, but
when -- I'll need the utmost help from each and every one of you.
Please don't have any illusions this will be an easy fight.
Yesterday the head of the protectionist wing of the Congress, the
House Majority Leader, gave his latest signals of opposition to
4
an agreement he hasn't even seen. And meanwhile my opponent in
this race for the White House pays lip service to open trade --
but when it comes to a real decision, it seems he's put his proxy
in the pockets of the big unions, the ideological interest
groups, and the protectionist faction in Congress. 11
We've consulted closely with Congress and with business
leaders every step of the way in these negotiations. And when we
wrap up the North American Free Trade Agreement, it will be a
good deal for American workers and consumers and businesses. It
will be overwhelmingly in our interest to approve this agreement.
America faces a choice this year between starkly different
philosophies. The old guard on Capitol Hill and their standard-
bearers in the Presidential race believe that more taxes and more
government spending can create jobs and prosperity. They put
their cozy relationships with the big unions and the special
interest groups in the way of our vision of open new markets for
American goods and services. Fundamentally, they don't trust the
American people with their earnings, with their property, with
their plans and dreams for the future. They're pessimists -- and
their policies are designed to make their pessimism a self-
fulfilling prophecy.
Well, don't let the pessimists faze you. Don't let
political smoke and mirrors obscure your vision of the prize
that's ahead for our kids and grandchildren. Our future is as
bright as it has ever been.
For my part, I'm leading the campaign to elect a new
5
Congress. I'm determined to break the logjam of the old
politics. Next year, with a radically different Congress -- a
Congress that's ready to act -- we'll work to restore government
that lives within limits. \ Government that respects people's
labor and property. \ Government that has faith in our ability
to compete in foreign markets. \ Government that trusts the
American people.
11
Thank you for joining me here today. Thanks for all that
Hispanic businessmen and women are doing to build a solid
foundation for our future. May God bless all of you.
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Dan:
I think that it would be a mistake to
label NAFTA opponents as rascists.
We ought to grab the high ground.
The attached insert tries to make a similar
point in a more indirect way.
'
Warren Maruyama
x2929
Document No. 340344ss
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
WARREN
DATE:
7/24/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: MON. 7/27/92 10:00 an
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
SUBJECT:
THE ROSE GARDEN - 7/28/92 - 9:30 am
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
FINDLAY
GRAY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
FIRESTONE
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, RM. 122,
x2930, no later than 10:00 a.m., MONDAY, JULY 27, with a copy to
this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Duggan/Walters/Nix)
July 23, 1992
2 JUL 24 P1:11
Draft Two
HB
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
THE ROSE GARDEN
THE WHITE HOUSE
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1992
9:30 A.M.
[Acknowledgments] Welcome to the White House. Jesus
[Chavarria, editor and publisher of Hispanic Business], thanks
for your leadership in bringing together so many dynamic women
and men from Hispanic-owned businesses. You enliven this
country, you're keeping America great -- each one of you. 11
Your dreams and your hard work animate every kind of
industry all across this country. There's Irma Elder from
Michigan whose thriving business is -- what else -- selling cars.
There's Frank Flores from the printing industry in New York. And
Benjamin Acevedo, with a lumber company in California. And
executives from the largest minority-owned bank in the United
States -- the Sanchez family's IBC in Laredo, Texas.
We're together today because we believe in the future -- and
we know how to get there. Our future depends on freedom.
Freedom works. Freedom is right. 11
All around the world, dictatorships are giving way to
democracy. Command-and-control economies are falling on the ash
heap. As never before in the history of the world, people are
free to think and to speak -- free to live and work and worship
as they wish. They're choosing new governments that respect
people's freedom to buy and to sell and to create. 11
In the Western Hemisphere, freedom's tide has never been
2
higher. If I may make a prediction, that tide will soon drown
Latin America's last dictatorship -- the Castro regime. And on
the crest of that tide will rise a new democracy in Cuba. 11
It used to be that one of the great certainties in our lives
was the East-West struggle, the Cold War. Now that we've won
that long battle to change the world around us, people are going
through a little period of pondering and questioning our future
here at home.
Let me just say that each one of us has cause to be
confident. Don't let the pessimists faze you -- don't let the
political haze we're passing through obscure your vision of the
prize that's ahead for our kids and grandchildren. America's
future has never been brighter -- because you and people like
yourselves are fully joined in the domestic battle to keep
America free.
Right now, we're renewing the freedoms that foster new
thinking and create new jobs. I'm overhauling the entire system
of federal government regulation. This year alone, I've directed
an unprecedented cutback of controls and red tape that have no:
place in a free society. [details with impact on jobs and
consumers]
I'm fighting to halt the epidemic of lawsuits -- a hidden
tax on your business. It's time we sued each other less and
helped each other more.
I'm fighting the old politics of tax and spend. I'm
battling to spur new investment and job creation by cutting the
3
tax on capital gains.
When I sent my legal reform bill to Capitol Hill, our
opponents said no. They and their friends in the trial lawyers'
lobby circled the wagons, closed ranks, and hung tough to protect
the status quo. 11
When I asked for tax breaks for young homeowners, when I
asked for the capital gains cut we need so urgently -- our
opponents passed a bill to raise your taxes by a hundred billion
dollars. This time, I said no -- I cast my veto. 11
Next year we'll see a change. Next year we'll have a
dramatically different Congress. Next year, I am confident,
we'll break the logjam of the old politics. We'll win legal
reform and tax relief. We'll restore government that lives
within limits. \ Government that respects people's labor and
property. \ Government that trusts the American people. 11
One the most exciting developments in our nation's history
is coming to fruition right now -- the North American Free Trade
Agreement. [report latest status of NAFTA]
Everyone wins through open trade with Mexico and Canada.
Open trade will make each of us better neighbors and closer
friends. Open trade will offer tremendous new opportunities for
people to invent and produce and take new goods and services to
market. [export examples]
Open trade will fuel the growth of jobs in the United States
of America. During the recent, partial opening of the Mexican
markets since 1986, U.S. exports to Mexico have almost tripled.
4
That has meant the creation of more than 300,000 new jobs. We
enjoy a robust trade surplus with Mexico -- $2.1 billion last
year. And the new jobs created by trade with Mexico are to be
found not only in the border states, but all across the country.
Our top ten states exporting to Mexico now include Michigan,
Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida.
When the trade agreement goes to Congress -- not if, but
when -- I'll need the utmost help from each and every one of you.
Please don't have any illusions this will be an easy fight.
Don't count on candor from our opponents. Some politicians pay
lip service to open trade -- but when it's time for a real
decision, they put their proxies in the pockets of the big unions
and the ideological interest groups. 11
And I scarcely need to tell this audience about this
ugliness we've heard. I don't like to think this kind of thing
still happens in America, but we've heard it. We've heard the
whispering campaign that doesn't even pretend to address
economics. It's the old appeal to prejudice. 11
You know, I've spent my entire adult life -- starting
businesses in west Texas and on the Gulf of Mexico, later in
public service -- pursuing better understanding between Americans
and our neighbors. I like to think I've made a contribution to
peace and prosperity certainly in our hemisphere, but also around
the world. So when these old attitudes of prejudice begin to
stir, I will stand against them. 11 I'll stand against any
attempt to turn back the clock. 11 I'll stand against
5
intolerance and nativism in any form. 11
In the next century, our kids -- and indeed, some of you
younger entrepreneurs -- will help make commonplace things that
now exist only in dreams: faster travel, cultural progress,
cures for diseases. The dream of open trade and strong,
respectful ties between the workers \ the business people \ and
the families \ of Mexico, Canada and the United States is so near
it's almost palpable. Let's resolve together, today, to make
that dream real -- to make it a solid foundation for our future.
Thank you, and may God bless all the people of the Americas.
#
#
#
The United States and Mexico are on the verge of something
that would have been inconceivable just 5 years ago.
In history of international trading system, it is doubtful
that any nation has ever changed so much -- put trade and
economic reforms of this extent into place -- in such a short
period of time.
Free trade will be good for both countries. It will be a
catalyst for economic growth on the border, jobs, and a cleaner
environment.
In the NAFTA, we are talking about history. Not about
incremental change, but about change that comes once-in-
lifetime.
We are talking about an article of faith between the
United States and Mexico, between the American and Mexican
peoples, and between the United States and Hispanic-Americans.
It is faith that free trade is win-win proposition that
helps both nations. That trade can be a force for addressing
environmental and border concerns. It is faith in President
Salinas and his vision for Mexico, for a new Mexican
revolution, and that a strong Mexico is good for America.
Finally, it faith by Americans and Mexicans that we can
overcome past stereotypes and historical grievances, and move
on to something new, with free trade as the catalyst for
economic growth, jobs, and change for both nations.
Document No. 340344ss
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
92 JUL 27 All: 19
DATE:
7/24/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: MON. 7/27/92 10:00 am
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
SUBJECT:
THE ROSE GARDEN - 7/28/92 - 9:30 am
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
FINDLAY
GRAY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
FIRESTONE
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, RM. 122,
x2930, no later than 10:00 a.m., MONDAY, JULY 27, with a copy to
this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
TO: Dan McGroarty
July 27, 1992
The NSC Concurs without changes.
PHILLIP D. BRADY
And Brent Scowcroft
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
CC: CC Phillip Brady
Ext. 2702
(Duggan/Walters/Nix)
July 23, 1992
2 JUL 24 P|:||
Draft Two
HB
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
THE ROSE GARDEN
THE WHITE HOUSE
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1992
9:30 A.M.
[Acknowledgments] Welcome to the White House. Jesus
[Chavarria, editor and publisher of Hispanic Business], thanks
for your leadership in bringing together so many dynamic women
and men from Hispanic-owned businesses. You enliven this
country, you're keeping America great -- each one of you. 11
Your dreams and your hard work animate every kind of
industry all across this country. There's Irma Elder from
Michigan whose thriving business is -- what else -- selling cars.
There's Frank Flores from the printing industry in New York. And
Benjamin Acevedo, with a lumber company in California. And
executives from the largest minority-owned bank in the United
States -- the Sanchez family's IBC in Laredo, Texas.
We're together today because we believe in the future -- and
we know how to get there. Our future depends on freedom.
Freedom works. Freedom is right. 11
All around the world, dictatorships are giving way to
democracy. Command-and-control economies are falling on the ash
heap. As never before in the history of the world, people are
free to think and to speak -- free to live and work and worship
as they wish. They're choosing new governments that respect
people's freedom to buy and to sell and to create. 11
In the Western Hemisphere, freedom's tide has never been
2
higher. If I may make a prediction, that tide will soon drown
Latin America's last dictatorship -- the Castro regime. And on
the crest of that tide will rise a new democracy in Cuba.
It used to be that one of the great certainties in our lives
was the East-West struggle, the Cold War. Now that we've won
that long battle to change the world around us, people are going
through a little period of pondering and questioning our future
here at home.
Let me just say that each one of us has cause to be
confident. Don't let the pessimists faze you -- don't let the
political haze we're passing through obscure your vision of the
prize that's ahead for our kids and grandchildren. America's
future has never been brighter -- because you and people like
yourselves are fully joined in the domestic battle to keep
America free.
Right now, we're renewing the freedoms that foster new
thinking and create new jobs. I'm overhauling the entire system
of federal government regulation. This year alone, I've directed
an unprecedented cutback of controls and red tape that have no
place in a free society. [details with impact on jobs and
consumers]
I'm fighting to halt the epidemic of lawsuits -- a hidden
tax on your business. It's time we sued each other less and
helped each other more.
I'm fighting the old politics of tax and spend. I'm
battling to spur new investment and job creation by cutting the
3
tax on capital gains. 11
When I sent my legal reform bill to Capitol Hill, our
opponents said no. They and their friends in the trial lawyers'
lobby circled the wagons, closed ranks, and hung tough to protect
the status quo. 11
When I asked for tax breaks for young homeowners, when I
asked for the capital gains cut we need so urgently -- our
opponents passed a bill to raise your taxes by a hundred billion
dollars. This time, I said no -- I cast my veto. 11
Next year we'll see a change. Next year we'll have a
dramatically different Congress. Next year, I am confident,
we'll break the logjam of the old politics. We'll win legal
reform and tax relief. We'll restore government that lives
within limits. \ Government that respects people's labor and
property. \ Government that trusts the American people. 11
One the most exciting developments in our nation's history
is coming to fruition right now -- the North American Free Trade
Agreement. [report latest status of NAFTA]
Everyone wins through open trade with Mexico and Canada.
Open trade will make each of us better neighbors and closer
friends. Open trade will offer tremendous new opportunities for
people to invent and produce and take new goods and services to
market. [export examples]
Open trade will fuel the growth of jobs in the United States
of America. During the recent, partial opening of the Mexican
markets since 1986, U.S. exports to Mexico have almost tripled.
4
That has meant the creation of more than 300,000 new jobs. We
enjoy a robust trade surplus with Mexico -- $2.1 billion last
year. And the new jobs created by trade with Mexico are to be
found not only in the border states, but all across the country.
Our top ten states exporting to Mexico now include Michigan,
Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida.
When the trade agreement goes to Congress -- not if, but
when -- I'll need the utmost help from each and every one of you.
Please don't have any illusions this will be an easy fight.
Don't count on candor from our opponents. Some politicians pay
lip service to open trade -- but when it's time for a real
decision, they put their proxies in the pockets of the big unions
and the ideological interest groups. 11
And I scarcely need to tell this audience about this
ugliness we've heard. I don't like to think this kind of thing
still happens in America, but we've heard it. We've heard the
whispering campaign that doesn't even pretend to address
economics. It's the old appeal to prejudice. 11
You know, I've spent my entire adult life -- starting
businesses in west Texas and on the Gulf of Mexico, later in
public service -- pursuing better understanding between Americans
and our neighbors. I like to think I've made a contribution to
peace and prosperity certainly in our hemisphere, but also around
the world. So when these old attitudes of prejudice begin to
stir, I will stand against them. 11 I'll stand against any
attempt to turn back the clock. 11 I'll stand against
5
intolerance and nativism in any form. 11
In the next century, our kids -- and indeed, some of you
younger entrepreneurs -- will help make commonplace things that
now exist only in dreams: faster travel, cultural progress,
cures for diseases. The dream of open trade and strong,
respectful ties between the workers \ the business people \ and
the families \ of Mexico, Canada and the United States is so near
it's almost palpable. Let's resolve together, today, to make
that dream real -- to make it a solid foundation for our future.
Thank you, and may God bless all the people of the Americas.
#
#
#
Document No. 340344ss
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
7/24/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: MON. 7/27/92 10:00 am
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
SUBJECT:
THE ROSE GARDEN - 7/28/92 - 9:30 am
ACTION - FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
FINDLAY
GRAY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
FIRESTONE
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, RM. 122,
x2930, no later than 10:00 a.m., MONDAY, JULY 27, with a copy to
this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
00 : Olv Patrage comments see
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Thank you.
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Duggan/Walters/Nix)
July 23, 1992
2 JUL 24 PI:11
Draft Two
HB
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
THE ROSE GARDEN
THE WHITE HOUSE
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1992
9:30 A.M.
[Acknowledgments] Welcome to the White House. Jesus
[Chavarria, editor and publisher of Hispanic Business], thanks
for your leadership in bringing together so many dynamic women
and men from Hispanic-owned businesses. You enliven this
country, you're keeping America great -- each one of you.
Your dreams and your hard work animate every kind of
industry all across this country. There's Irma Elder from
Michigan whose thriving business is -- what else -- selling cars.
There's Frank Flores from the printing industry in New York. And
Benjamin Acevedo, with a lumber company in California. And
executives from the largest minority-owned bank in the United
States -- the Sanchez family's IBC in Laredo, Texas.
We're together today because we believe in the future -- and
we know how to get there. Our future depends on freedom.
Freedom works. Freedom is right.
All around the world, dictatorships are giving way to
democracy. Command-and-control economies are falling on the ash
heap. As never before in the history of the world, people are
free to think and to speak -- free to live and work and worship
as they wish. They're choosing new governments that respect
people's freedom to buy and to sell and to create. 11
In the Western Hemisphere, freedom's tide has never been
2
higher. If I may make a prediction, that tide will soon drown
Latin America's last dictatorship -- the Castro regime. And on
the crest of that tide will rise a new democracy in Cuba. 11
It used to be that one of the great certainties in our lives
was the East-West struggle, the Cold War. Now that we've won
that long battle to change the world around us, people are going
through a little period of pondering and questioning our future
here at home.
Let me just say that each one of us has cause to be
confident Don't let the pessimists faze you -- don't let the
Ne
lave changed political haze we're passing through obscure your vision of the
he world,
and now
prize that's ahead for our kids and grandchildren. America's
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future has never been brighter -- because you and people like
0 change
America
yourselves are fully joined in the domestic battle to keep
America free.
Right now, we're renewing the freedoms that foster new
thinking and create new jobs. I'm overhauling the entire system
of federal government regulation. This year alone, I've directed
an unprecedented cutback of controls and red tape that have no
place in a free society. [details with impact on jobs and
consumers]
I'm fighting to halt the epidemic of lawsuits -- a hidden
tax on your business. It's time we sued each other less and
helped each other more. 11
I'm fighting the old politics of tax and spend. I'm
battling to spur new investment and job creation by cutting the
3
tax on capital gains. 11
When I sent my legal reform bill to Capitol Hill, our
opponents said no. They and their friends in the trial lawyers'
lobby circled the wagons, closed ranks, and hung tough to protect
the status quo. 11
When I asked for tax breaks for young homeowners, when I
legislation to Spur investment.
asked for the capital gains cut we need so urgently -- our
opponents passed a bill to raise your taxes by a hundred billion
dollars. This time, I said no -- I cast my veto. 11
Next year we'll see a change. Next year we'll have a
dramatically different Congress. Next year, I am confident,
we'll break the logjam of the old politics. We'll win legal
Ine way reform and tax relief. We'll restore government that lives
- which
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markets since 1986, U.S. exports to Mexico have almost tripled.
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That has meant the creation of more than 300,000 new jobs. We
enjoy a robust trade surplus with Mexico -- $2.1 billion last
year. And the new jobs created by trade with Mexico are to be
found not only in the border states, but all across the country.
Our top ten states exporting to Mexico now include Michigan,
Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida.
When the trade agreement goes to Congress -- not if, but
when -- I'll need the utmost help from each and every one of you.
Please don't have any illusions this will be an easy fight.
Don't count on candor from our opponents. Some politicians pay
lip service to open trade -- but when it's time for a real
decision, they put their proxies in the pockets of the big unions
and the ideological interest groups. 11
And I scarcely need to tell this audience about this
ugliness we've heard. I don't like to think this kind of thing
still happens in America, but we've heard it. We've heard the
whispering campaign that doesn't even pretend to address
economics. It's the old appeal to prejudice. 11
You know, I've spent my entire adult life -- starting
businesses in west Texas and on the Gulf of Mexico, later in
public service -- pursuing better understanding between Americans
and our neighbors. I like to think I've made a contribution to
peace and prosperity certainly in our hemisphere, but also around
the world. So when these old attitudes of prejudice begin to
stir, I will stand against them. 11 I'll stand against any
attempt to turn back the clock. 11 I'll stand against
5
intolerance and nativism in any form.
In the next century, our kids -- and indeed, some of you
younger entrepreneurs -- will help make commonplace things that
now exist only in dreams: faster travel, cultural progress,
cures for diseases. The dream of open trade and strong,
respectful ties between the workers \ the business people \ and
the families \ of Mexico, Canada and the United States is so near
it's almost palpable. Let's resolve together, today, to make
that dream real -- to make it a solid foundation for our future.
Thank you, and may God bless all the people of the Americas.
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Document No. 340344ss
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
7/24/92
92 JUL
DUE BY: MON. 7/27/92 10:00am
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
SUBJECT:
THE ROSE GARDEN - 7/28/92 - 9:30 am
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VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
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GRAY
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HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
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REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, RM. 122,
x2930, no later than 10:00 a.m., MONDAY, JULY 27, with a copy to
this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
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PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Duggan/Walters/Nix)
July 23, 1992
2 JUL 24 P1:11
Draft Two
HB
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
THE ROSE GARDEN
THE WHITE HOUSE
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1992
9:30 A.M.
[Acknowledgments] Welcome to the White House. Jesus
[Chavarria, editor and publisher of Hispanic Business], thanks
for your leadership in bringing together so many dynamic women
and men from Hispanic-owned businesses. You enliven this
country, you're keeping America great -- each one of you.
Your dreams and your hard work animate every kind of
industry all across this country. There's Irma Elder from
Michigan whose thriving business is -- what else -- selling cars.
There's Frank Flores from the printing industry in New York. And
Benjamin Acevedo, with a lumber company in California. And
executives from the largest minority-owned bank in the United
States -- the Sanchez family's IBC in Laredo, Texas.
We're together today because we believe in the future -- and
we know how to get there. Our future depends on freedom.
Freedom works. Freedom is right. 11
All around the world, dictatorships are giving way to
democracy. Command-and-control economies are falling on the ash
heap. As never before in the history of the world, people are
free to think and to speak -- free to live and work and worship
as they wish. They're choosing new governments that respect
people's freedom to buy and to sell and to create. 11
In the Western Hemisphere, freedom's tide has never been
2
higher. If I may make a prediction, that tide will soon drown
Latin America's last dictatorship -- the Castro regime. And on
the crest of that tide will rise a new democracy in Cuba. 11
It used to be that one of the great certainties in our lives
was the East-West struggle, the Cold War. - Now that we've won
that long battle to change the world around us, people are going
through a little period of pondering and questioning our future
here at home.
Let me just say that each one of us has cause to be
confident. Don't let the pessimists faze you -- don't let the
political haze we're passing through obscure your vision of the
prize that's ahead for our kids and grandchildren. America's
future has never been brighter -- because you and people like
yourselves are fully joined in the domestic battle to keep
America free.
Right now, we're renewing the freedoms that foster new
thinking and create new jobs. I'm overhauling the entire system
of federal government regulation. This year alone, I've directed
an unprecedented cutback of controls and red tape that have no
place in a free society. [details with impact on jobs and
consumers]
I'm fighting to halt the epidemic of lawsuits -- a hidden
tax on your business. It's time we sued each other less and
helped each other more.
I'm fighting the old politics of tax and spend. I'm
battling to spur new investment and job creation by cutting the
3
tax on capital gains.
When I sent my legal reform bill to Capitol Hill, our
opponents said no. They and their friends in the trial lawyers'
lobby circled the wagons, closed ranks, and hung tough to protect
the status quo. 11
When I asked for tax breaks for young homeowners, when I
asked for the capital gains cut we need so urgently -- our
opponents passed a bill to raise your taxes by a hundred billion
dollars. This time, I said no -- I cast my veto. 11
Next year we'll see a change. Next year we'll have a
dramatically different Congress. Next year, I am confident,
we'll break the logjam of the old politics. We'll win legal
reform and tax relief. We'll restore government that lives
within limits. \ Government that respects people's labor and
property. \ Government that trusts the American people. 11
One the most exciting developments in our nation's history
is coming to fruition right now -- the North American Free Trade
Agreement. [report latest status of NAFTA]
Everyone wins through open trade with Mexico and Canada.
Open trade will make each of us better neighbors and closer
friends. Open trade will offer tremendous new opportunities for
people to invent and produce and take new goods and services to
market. [export examples]
Open trade will fuel the growth of jobs in the United States
of America. During the recent, partial opening of the Mexican
markets since 1986, U.S. exports to Mexico have almost tripled.
4
That has meant the creation of more than 300,000 new jobs. We
enjoy a robust trade surplus with Mexico -- $2.1 billion last
year. And the new jobs created by trade with Mexico are to be
found not only in the border states, but all across the country.
Our top ten states exporting to Mexico now include Michigan,
Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida.
When the trade agreement goes to Congress -- not if, but
when -- I'll need the utmost help from each and every one of you.
Please don't have any illusions this will be an easy fight.
Don't count on candor from our opponents. Some politicians pay
lip service to open trade -- but when it's time for a real
decision, they put their proxies in the pockets of the big unions
and the ideological interest groups. 11
What does
And I scarcely need to tell this audience about this
this mean?
ugliness we've heard. I don't like to think this kind of thing
He better
still happens in America, but we've heard it. We've heard the
beable
whispering campaign that doesn't even pretend to address
to explain
We're Sularable
economics. It's the old appeal to prejudice.
11
on this issue!!
You know, I've spent my entire adult life -- starting
businesses in west Texas and on the Gulf of Mexico, later in
public service -- pursuing better understanding between Americans
and our neighbors. I like to think I've made a contribution to
peace and prosperity certainly in our hemisphere, but also around
the world. So when these old attitudes of prejudice begin to
stir, I will stand against them. 11 I'll stand against any
attempt to turn back the clock. I'll stand against
5
intolerance and nativism in any form. 11
In the next century, our kids -- and indeed, some of you
younger entrepreneurs -- will help make commonplace things that
now exist only in dreams: faster travel, cultural progress,
cures for diseases. The dream of open trade and strong,
respectful ties between the workers \ the business people \ and
the families \ of Mexico, Canada and the United States is so near
it's almost palpable. Let's resolve together, today, to make
that dream real -- to make it a solid foundation for our future.
Thank you, and may God bless all the people of the Americas.
#
#
#
(Duggan/Walters/Nix)
July 27, 1992
Draft Four
HB
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HISPANIC BUSINESS LEADERS
THE ROSE GARDEN
THE WHITE HOUSE
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1992
9:30 A.M.
[Acknowledgments] Welcome to the White House. Jesus
[Chavarria, editor and publisher of Hispanic Business], thanks
for your leadership in bringing together so many dynamic women
and men from Hispanic-owned businesses. You enliven this
country, you're keeping America great -- each one of you. 11
We're together today because we believe in the future -- and
we know how to get there. Our future depends on freedom.
Freedom works. Freedom is right. 11
The economy is growing -- Hispanic-owned businesses are in
the vanguard of this growth, in the forefront of creating good
new jobs for Americans. We need to grow faster, and we know
what's holding us back. Let me sum it up in a single sentence:
Government is too big -- and it spends too much. 11
An old guard of tax-and-spend politicians has controlled
Congress for most of the past 40 years. Already this year, I've
given Congress a choice between economic growth and big
government. Congress took sides with big government.
Here's what happened: In January, I proposed a common-
sense, comprehensive plan to get this economy moving faster,
right now. The plan includes tax incentives to encourage
businesses to hire new workers and breaks for young families who
want to buy a first home. Half a million jobs would have been
2
created, if
if Congress had acted right away.
But they didn't. Instead, Congress passed a package of new
government spending and new taxes. A package they knew I'd veto.
So I sent their plan back. I'm still waiting.
almost
200 days later. This economic recovery plan is being held
hostage, and the ransom note reads: "wait till after the
election."
The party that controls the Congress is holding jobs and
free enterprise hostage to their hopes that they can elect a tax-
and-spend partisan of their very own to the White House. The
Democrats' candidate for President wants to raise taxes on
American business. He pushes the old "class warfare" line about
squeezing more from the "rich." What he doesn't say is that more
than half of those affected by his proposed hike in individual
tax rates are family farmers
small business men and women
maybe people like yourselves. \ All told, my opponent
wants to saddle American businesses with more than $100 billion
in new taxes and federal mandates.
I understand you're going up to Capitol Hill later in the
day. I'd ask you to take a message up there with you: Tell your
members of Congress my plan will speed up growth now. Tell them
they'll have a price to pay if they continue to hold our economy
hostage to election year politics. Tell them to approve my
growth initiatives -- without delay. Tell them to release
this economy, \ approve my jobs program, and put America back to
work
now.
11