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OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
Washington, D.C. 20500
September 1, 1989
FAX TRANSMISSION TO:
Chriss Winston
Office of Communications
FROM:
David Tell
at
ONDCP
SUBJECT:
The President's 9/5/89 Address
PAGES:
Twenty-one (21), including this
Attached is a copy of a memo Director Bennett has sent to
Dave Demarest. Please call if you'd like to discuss any of this.
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OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
Washington, D.C. 20500
September 1, 1989
MEMORANDUM TO:
David Demarest
Assistant to the President and
Director of Communications
FROM:
William J. Bennett
WJB
Director, ONDCP
SUBJECT:
The President's 9/5/89 Address
Good. I have a number of remaining suggestions and warnings
about the text, in page order:
Page Two, First Full Paragraph, Final Sentence
The drug itself is not the enemy. The page before correctly says
that the enemy is "anyone who uses, sells, or looks the other
way." saying that crack itself is the enemy means that the
solution is going after drugs in bulk -=through interdiction --
which is exactly what we are in fact deemphasizing. Strike this
line. This section will parse just fine without it.
Page TWO, Second Full Paragraph, Third Sentence
Please be extremely careful with medical analogies like "creeping
malignancy." We don't want to suggest that drug use is something
you just catch, like a common cold. There is a moral message
about behavior implicit in the President's speech. We can't make
this point too heavily, because there's of course more to it than
just that. But we should avoid saying anything that seems to
contradict it. I suggest you say "Drugs are a poison," and leave
it at that.
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Page Two, Third Full Paragraph, second Sentence
The AIDS testing example here is trouble. It will get you
crossways of AIDS activists who will accuse the President of only
being concerned with "innocent" AIDS victims -- and not
homosexuals. Drug activists will say that the President isn't
concerned with AIDS victims who get sick through actual IV drug
use. And public health advocates -- some of them in the
Department of HHS -- will want to argue that clean needle
distribution is the solution to this anecdotal problem. Steer
clear of AIDS. Substitute this language: "When four-year-olds
play in playgrounds strewn with discarded hypodermic needles and
crack vials -- to tell you the truth, it breaks my heart.'
Page Two, Third Full Paragraph, Fourth Sentence
The vast majority of babies born to drug-using mothers do not
know the agony of withdrawal. That's wrong. It isn't clear that
"cocaine babies" are physically addicted. In place of that
clause, substitute this: II -- babies born desperately sick,
weeks or months premature
--
"
Page Three, First Paragraph, Third Sentence
Carlos and Maria Hernandez didn't just confront local drug
dealers once; they had "spent months confronting" them.
Page Four, Final Paragraph
The President has got to make clear that these aren't just his
latest thoughts about drugs -- they are a piece of a concrete
plan he has actually sent to Congress for funding and
implementation. We should politely put Congress on the
defensive. In place of the first sentence in this paragraph,
insert this: "Earlier today, I sent our first such National
Strategy to the Congress."
And before the President starts to talk about "the result"
(fourth sentence), he has to indicate his break with past
practice. We've studied the problem. We've learned about it.
And things are going to change. President Bush is finally the
man who's on top of the problem for real. If we don't make this
clear, then the Administration will be open to "same old stuff"
criticism from the Democrats.
Insert this sentence before "The result 1s": "We also took a
long, hard look at all that the Federal government has done about
drugs in the past: all that's been good and effective, and some
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-- let's be honest -- some that hasn't." After all, there is a
huge Federal component in our package.
Page Five, First Full Paragraph, Final Sentence
There's a small grammatical problem here. You should change "--
to more than double --" to more than double the current level
-- of."
Page Five, Third Full Paragraph, Final Sentence
"You will do time" is an inaccurate account of the President's
strategy. Jail or prison time isn't the issue by itself --
that's why we emphasize creative alternatives to incarceration.
Punishment is the issue. Make it "you will be punished."
Page Five, Fourth Full Paragraph, Final Sentence
Some budget number confusion has crept in here. The $1.4 billion
figure includes the $200 million in state and local law
enforcement assistance mentioned previously. The line should
read: "So tonight, I am requesting -- altogether --- a $1.4
billion increase," etc.
Page 6, Second Full Paragraph, Third Sentence
"Crack the international drug rings" is an unfortunate pun. I
suggest you change the work "crack" to "break."
Page 6, Third Full Paragraph, First Sentence
"Is a just" should be "is just a." Also, it's not "the cocaine
cartel"; there 1s more than one of them. It should be "the
cocaine cartels" -- plural.
Page 7, First Full Paragraph, Last Line
"Narcotics" is the wrong word. Narcotics are downers -- like
heroin and barbituates. Cocaine is not a narcotic, and these are
cocaine cartels we're talking about. Use the word "drugs."
Page 7, Second Full Paragraph, Third Sentence
The final version of the strategy actually calls only for a
review of the "rules of engagement." This sentence should be
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modified to read: "We must adopt tougher measures against
smugglers."
Page 7, Second Full Paragraph, Last Sentence
The drug cartel middle-managers we're talking about here are not
"white-collar criminals" like Ivan Boesky. That's a missed
nuance. I suggest the sentence read as follows: "We should
bring in the drug cartel's middle-managers the same way we bring
in street dealers: in handcuffs."
Page 7, Third Full Paragraph, Third Sentence
Please don't have the President refer to "the help they need."
That way we fall into the "treatment on demand" hoax. Most
people who need treatment won't seek it anyway -- as the
President explains in the next paragraph. He should say "could
use" instead of "need."
Page 8, Second Line
There's a factual inaccuracy here. It's "six times as many
problem cocaine users." There are tons more cocaine users of all
kinds. We're talking cocaine users for whom treatment is an
appropriate response.
Page 8, Fourth Line (end of paragraph)
A very important point made in the treatment section of the
strategy is that coordination of treatment services is very poor.
Sometimes courts send cocaine addicts to methadone programs.
Matching of programs to patients must improve. You need a
sentence at the end of this paragraph that says: "And many
programs can't provide services that are well-matched to
individual patients' problems.'
Page 8, First Full Paragraph, First Line
This language implies that there's distinction between "our"
(i.e., Federal) treatment facilities, and everything else. There
isn't. It also suggests that all we're going to do is "improve"
things. In fact, we're going to improve, expand, and so on down
the line. Strike the first few words, and begin the paragraph
with: "Tonight I am proposing a 53 percent," etc.
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Page 8, Third Full Paragraph, Fourth and Fifth Sentences
These sentences are wrong. Kids don't try drugs on a dare. The
very important point here is that the President is going after
"casual drug use" for a reason: casual drug use is the kind of
drug use that is contagious. He has to explain this point, or
Democrats will criticize him for going after yuppies. Substitute
the following three sentences for the current ones: "More often,
they get them for free from friends or acquaintances who think
casual drug use is harmless fun. Peer pressure is what spreads
drug use. Fighting peer pressure is what stops it from
starting."
Page 9, Fourth Full Paragraph
Add the words "As you can tell" to the beginning of this
paragraph. The President has already set up the strategy's
budget increases by citing specific line items.
Also, the budget numbers in this paragraph are wrong. The
February number is $700 million. The "strategy" number is $1.5
billion on top of that. (It's $2.2 billion altogether.)
Page 10, First Two Full Paragraphs
These paragraphs are bad. It's much too defensive about money.
Ours is the largest serious drug budget proposal anywhere -- no
one in Congress expected us to go as high as $8 billion. We have
absolutely nothing to be ashamed of on this score. The challenge
to Congress isn't "shut up about money." The challenge to
Congress is "help us find this phenomenal amount of money."
What's more, we can't say that money isn't the answer --
attitudes and determination are -- because we've already
(correctly) pointed out that American attitudes and determination
are now just what they have to be.
Strike these paragraphs and substitute something like this:
Let me tell you how important this is. We need this program
r
fully implemented -- and the money to pay for it -- right
away. The next fiscal year begins just 26 days from now.
So tonight I am asking the Congress -- which has helped us
formulate this plan -- to help us fund it, as well.
My budget director, Dick Darman, has sent a letter to the
Congress detailing precisely how we can fully fund this drug
strategy within the limits of our bipartisan budget
agreement. If the drug problem is our highest domestic
priority -- and we all agree that it is -- then we must act
I hnow
Some
so
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accordingly. The drug war is not a political issue. It is
an urgent national concern. And I intend to work with
Congress -- beginning immediately -- to see that our fight
against drugs gets the full federal attention it needs and
deserves.
I ask your help as well. Join me. Urge your local leaders
and national representatives to take our strategy to heart.
Page 11, First Paragraph
Assuming the above changes, this paragraph becomes redundant and
can be omitted.
Page 12, First Paragraph
The "pretend drug dealing" anecdote in Dooney's neighborhood
cannot be substantiated. It is not in the Post story; it comes
from a story about a middle-class neighborhood in Western
Pennsylvania. Also, the big point here is that treatment and
education can't work in a Beirut-like environment. so you should
replace from "In Dooney's neighborhood" to the end of the
paragraph with:
He has seen his addicted mother doused with boiling water by
drug dealers. He has heard so much gunfire he no longer
flinches. Social service agencies were aware of him, but it
was unsafe to enter his neighborhood to offer him help.
A marked-up copy of the speech follows this memo for reference.
I like this speech. Please keep me informed as soon as a new
draft 1s produced.
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Davis/Nartin
August 30, 1989
Title: Bismark
Draft: Eight
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ON DRUGS: All Networks
Tuesday, Sept. 5/9 p.m.
Good evening. Yesterday marked the unofficial end of
summer, a time of family vacations, away from work and away from
school. America has known many such peaceful and prosperous
summers. But now yellow school buses are back on the streets;
America's children are back in class; and our thoughts turn to
the future.
This is the first time since taking the oath of office that
I felt an issue was so important, so threatening, that it
warranted directly talking with you, the American people. You,
your friends, your neighbors and I agree that the gravest
domestic threat facing our nation today is drugs.
Turn on the evening news, or pick up the morning paper and
you'll see what some Americans know just by stepping out their
front door: the most serious problem today is cocaine, and in
particular, crack.
Who's responsible? Let me tell you.
Anyone who uses drugs.
Anyone who sells drugs.
And anyone who looks the other way.
Tonight, I. will tell you how many Americans are using
illegal drugs. I will present to you our national plan for
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dealing with this threat. And I will ask for your help in what
promises to be a difficult fight.
((Pick up vial)) This is crack cocaine seized last night by
Drug Enforcement Administration agents just ten blocks from where
I'm sitting now. It could just as easily have been heroin or
PCP. It's as innocent-looking as candy, but it is turning our
cities into battle zones and it is murdering our children by the
thousands. Lot these be mistake, is the ((Set
vial down, out of camera range.))
Some used to call drugs just a benign form of recreation.
They' re not. Drugs are a preeping poison malignancy, a direct and
terribly dangerous threat to our neighborhoods, to our homes and
to our families and friends. Many of us have seen first hand the
damage drugs do. All of us know that this has got to stop. And
that's why this country has made a fundamental decision: we are
ready, as never before, to go on a war-focting against drugs.
four- year- olds
No one among us is out of harm's way. When & 3-year old
play in playgrounds strewn with discarded hy podermic needles and
Seattle boy, while picnicking with his parents, finds a dirty
crack vials.
needle
and
stichs
himself
and
now
endure
MDS
tenting
/
to tell you the truth, it breaks my heart. When cocaine -- one
of the most deadly and addictive illegal drugs -- is available to
school kids, it makes me furious. And when as many as 200,000
born
/
babies are born each year to mothers who use drugs -- babies who
desperately sick, weeks or months premature
know the ageny of withdrawal as they draw their first breath, -
/
then I know this is a war we must win.
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Many citizens, and many communities, are already in the
thick of it. Some Americans have even paid with their lives.
Corporal Charles Hill, a Virginia policeman, father of two, was
gunned down while trying to persuade a violent crack addict to
release a hostage. Maria Hernandez, a New York woman, was shot
in her bedroom one morning while getting ready for work, after
spent months confronting
she and her husband had/confronted local drug dealers. These are
American heroes -- heroes who struggled to save the future, the
very soul, of America. We mourn their loss. And as a nation, we
VOW that they have not died in vain.
But what are we up against? Let me share with you the
results of the recently completed Household Survey of the
National Institute on Drug Abuse. It compares recent drug use to
three years before. It tells us some very good news
and
some very bad news. First, the good. ((Camera cuts to Slide
One. " ((PAUSE))
In 1985, the government estimated that 23 million Americans
were using drugs on a "current" basis -- that is, at least once
in the preceding 30 days. Last year, that number fell by 37
percent to 14.5 million. That means that almost nine million
Americans have given up so-called casual drug use. ((Cut to
Slide Two.
Current use of the two most common, illegal substances --
marijuana and cocaine -- is down 36 and 48 percent respectively.
A change in attitude led to this decline in casual drug use,
and there are many to thank for this: our brave law-enforcement
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officers, parents, teachers, community activists, and business
and labor leaders. I want to thank the media -- television,
radio and the press -- for their exhaustive news and editorial
coverage; and advertisers for their anti-drug campaign. Finally,
I especially want to thank a President and a First Lady by the
name of Reagan. All of these good people told the truth -- that
drug use is wrong and dangerous.
But, as much comfort as we can draw from these dramatic
declines in usage, there is also bad news -- very bad news.
((Cut to Slide Three.)
Among the more than eight million people who used cocaine at
all in the past year, almost one million of them used it once a
week or more.
What this means is that, in spite of the fact that overall
cocaine use is down, habitual cocaine use has almost doubled.
And habitual cocaine use -- especially crack use -- is our most
pressing, immediate drug problem. ((PAUSE))
Make no mistake. There are no easy answers, no magic-bullet
solutions. To win the war against addictive drugs like crack
will take a national strategy all Americans can support.
Earlier today, 1 sent our first such National Strategy to Congress.'
Tonight, I want to announce America's first such strategy
As it was prepared, we talked with state, local and community
leaders, law enforcement officials and rehabilitation experts.
We talked with parents and kids. They all had a lot to say,
We also took
a long, hard wisdom to share. The result is a new comprehensive strategy, a
look at all
that the
coordinated strategy, and a new determination. Our weapons are
Federal government
has done about drugs
in the past: all that's been good and effective, and some -- let's
be honest -- some that hasn't.
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many: our laws and criminal justice system; our foreign policy;
our treatment systems, and schools and drug prevention programs.
Each element of our plan is important, vital, necessary.
First, comes our determination to enforce the law, to
make our streets and neighborhoods safe. Americans have a right
to safety in and around their homes. To help you secure that
safety, I am proposing an additional $200 million -- more than
the current level
of
double (federal assistance to state and local law enforcement.
We have to be tough on drug crime -- much tougher than we
are now. Sometimes that means tougher penalties. But more often
it just means penalties that are swift and certain. We've all
heard stories about drug dealers who are caught and arrested --
again and again -- but never punished. They should get what they
deserve -- justice.
So our enforcement strategy is based on a simple philosophy:
If you commit a drug crime, you will be caught. And if caught,
be punished
you will be prosecuted. And if convicted, you will de time.
I am proposing that we enlarge our criminal justice system
across the board -- at the local, state and federal levels alike.
We need more prisons, more jails, more courts, more prosecutors.
altogether
So tonight, I am requesting $1.4 billion increase in drug-
related federal spending on law enforcement.
I also want to acknowledge a special problem. While illegal
drug use is found in every community, nowhere is it worse than in
our inner cities. The poor have always borne a disproportionate
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share of suffering. But in America's past, their children didn't
have to dodge bullets on the way to school. And their parents
weren't mugged by crack gangs on the way home from work. These
Americans deserve compassion. And they will be the first to tell
you that in this case, compassion means getting tough.
Enough is enough. We cannot, we will not, turn our backs on
any of our neighbors in trouble, especially those who must live
in drug-infested public housing projects. That is why I am
seeking $50 million through the Department of Housing and Urban
Development to restore order -- by kicking the dealers out for
good.
*** The second element of our strategy looks beyond our
borders, where all the cocaine and crack sold on America's street
is grown and processed; and where drug gangsters have slaughtered
brave statesmen and honest judges. In Colombia alone, cocaine
killers have murdered 178 judges, seven members of the supreme
court and a justice minister. The besieged governments of the
break
drug-producing countries are ready to fight back, to help crack
the international drug rings. We must not leave them to fight
alone.
The $65 million emergency assistance announced two weeks ago
is
just
first step in assisting some South American countries,
S
the Andean nations, in their fight against the cocaine cartel
/
We have seen the government of Colombia, under the leadership of
President Barco, set an example of heroism for the world. The
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Colombians have arrested suppliers, seized tons of cocaine and
confiscated the palatial homes of the drug lords. But Colombia
faces a long, uphill battle, so we must be ready to do more.
Tonight I am seeking an additional $260 million in military
and law enforcement assistance for the three Andean nations of
Colombia, Bolivia and Peru. And I will ask Congress to assist
these governments with a five-year, $2 billion program to counter
drugs
the producers, traffickers and smugglers of
Later, I will hold a drug summit with the countries of our
Hemisphere to develop an Inter-American strategy against the
cartels. We need to send a message to the drug cartels: the
measures,
rules have changed. We must adopt tougher ABUICO of engagemento
against smugglers in the skies and on the high seas: We must
reach international agreements to make it easier to follow the
trail of drug money back to the front-men and financiers. We
the drug cartel's middle managers
should bring in white collar criminal the same way we bring in
dealers
street thugs -- with handcuffs.
*** The third part of our plan concerns drug treatment.
Experts believe that there are two million American drug users
who stand a reasonable chance of improvement in well-designed,
existing programs. But right now, only 40 percent of them are
could use
actually getting the help they/meed. This is simply not good
enough.
Many people who need treatment won't seek it on their own.
And some who do seek it are put on a waiting list. Most of our
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And iragrams many
programs were set up to deal with heroin addicts, but today we
an't provide
problem
iervices that
have six times as many many/\cocaine cocaine users. What's more, many
ive well-
natched to
treatment centers are not located in the towns or urban
individual
atients'
neighborhoods where they are most needed.
problems.
Tonighty)
To improve our treatment facilities I am proposing a 53
percent increase in federal spending on drug treatment -- or an
increase of $321 million.
We will work with the states to improve their treatment
systems. We will encourage employers to establish Employee
Assistance Programs that cover drug use. And, because addiction
is a cruel inheritance, we will intensify our search for ways to
identify, reach and treat expectant mothers who use drugs.
*** Fourth, we must stop illegal drug use before it starts.
More often,
hey get them
Unfortunately, it usually begins early -- in the first years of
or free
rom friends
adolescence. But it usually doesn't start the way you might
Y acquaintances
who think
think, with a dealer or addict furtively hanging around a school
asual drug
Ase is
harmless fun.
playground. More eften, kids first try drugo as a dare from
their friends so to keep drug use from starting is largely &
Peer pressure is what spreads drug use. Fighting peer pressure 15.
what stops it from starting-
matter of fighting peer pressure
Tonight, I am proposing a $233 million increase in federal
funds for school and community prevention programs that help
young people -- and adults -- reject enticements to try drugs.
And because words alone are not enough, I am proposing something
else. I call on every school, college and university -- and
every workplace -- to adopt tough but fair policies about drug
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use by students and employees. Those that will not adopt such
policies will not get federal funds. Period.
The private sector also has a role to play. A businessman
by the name of Jim Burke told me he was haunted by the thought --
a nightmare really -- that somewhere in America, at any given
moment, there is a teen-age girl giving birth to a child addicted
to cocaine. So Jim did something. He and other businessmen and
-women raised hundreds of millions of dollars for a national ad
campaign against drugs. And now they are determined to raise a
million dollars a day for the next three years, a billion dollars
total, all to promote the anti-drug message.
Next week I will take this same message to the children of
America in a special television address, one that I hope will
reach every school, every teen-ager. But drug education doesn't
begin in class or on T.V. It must begin at home. Parents must
set the first example of a drug-free life.
These are the most important elements in my plan to fight
drugs. They are all designed to mesh into a powerful whole, to
draw strength from one another. To mount an aggressive attack on
the problem from every angle. To sustain a national effort, a
winning effort.
As you can,telly
such an approach will not come cheaply. Last February, I
700
asked for a $635 million increase in the drug budget for the
coming year. Now, after six months of careful study, we have
$1.5 billion on top of that
identified an immediate need for two billion dollars more. I am
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proposing a 1990 drug-budget totaling almost eight billion
dollars -- the largest single increase in history.
INSERT A
Crill, some will say that we are not spending enough money.
But those who measure the quality of our plan by its price tag
simply don't understand the problem There is not enough money
in the Treasury - and in all the family bank accounts of America
to pay for an end to this scourge
Yes, dollars are vital. But a sense of national
determination, born of anger, is the key. Letworn outrage unite
us and bring us together behind this one plan of action, an
assuult on every front.
We must summon our national will, from the White House, to
the statehouse, to the courthouse, from the boardroom to the
pulpit, from every workplace to every classroom in America.
Wherever Americans work, study, play or pray, we must join
together for this single purpose.
I challenge the newspapers of this country to print the
names of those arrested for selling -- and for using -- drugs.
I challenge the states to revoke the driver's licenses of
any one who sells, or uses drugs.
I challenge our doctors and health professionals to give,
when they can, pro bono work in drug counseling and
rehabilitation.
I challenge every citizen who knows someone who is using
drugs to encourage them to get help.
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INSERT A
Let me tell you how important this is. We need this program
fully implemented -- and the money to pay for it -- right
away. The next fiscal year begins just 26 days from now.
so tonight I am asking the Congress -- which has helped us
formulate this plan -- to help us fund it, as well.
My budget director, Dick Darman, has sent a letter to the
Congress detailing precisely how we can fully fund this drug
strategy within the limits of our bipartisan budget
agreement. If the drug problem is our highest domestic
priority -- and we all agree that it is -- then we must act
accordingly. The drug war is not a political issue. It is
an urgent national concern. And I intend to work with
Congress -- beginning immediately -- to see that our fight
against drugs gets the full federal attention it needs and
deserves.
I ask your help as well. Join me. Urge your local leaders
and national representatives to take our strategy to heart.
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my
part.
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your
help
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important, the children of America need your help Today
sight now
You can make a unique contribution. Call your local drug
prevention program. Be at Big Brother or Sister to a child in
need. Pitch in with your local Neighborhood Watch program.
Whether you donate your time, serve as a counselor, or
participate in a fundraising drive, there are no mundane tasks in
the war on drugs. Every volunteer counts.
From the schools of Los Angeles to Bowling Green, Kentucky,
armies of volunteers are taking up the fight against drugs. What
can one person do? Consider Dr. Lorraine Hale who was driving
through Harlem, only to see a young mother -- an addict --
holding a baby in her lap. On impulse, Dr. Hale parked, and
asked the woman to take the baby to the home of Clara Hale, her
mother. From this simple beginning, Lorraine and Clara Hale, and
a team of helpers, now nurse hundreds of drug-addicted babies
back to health.
So there are solutions. People like the Hales. Any parent
who talks to a child about the dangers of drugs.
Any employer who bans drugs from the workplace.
Any school that takes a hardnosed stance.
Any neighborhood in which drugs are not welcome.
And finally, anyone who refuses to look the other way.
Of course, victory will take hard work and many years. But
we must not relent -- too many young lives are at stake.
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Not long ago, I read a newspaper story about a little boy
named Dooney, who, until recently, lived in a crack house in a
He has seen his addicted mother doused with
suburb of Washington, D.C. in Dooney neighborhood, children
boiling water by drug dealers. He has heard so much gunfire he no longer flinches.
Social service agencies were aware of him, but it was unsafe to enter his
don't flinch at the sound of gunfire. And when they play, they
neighborhood to offer him help.
pretend to sell to each other small white rocks they call crack.
Life at home was so dismal that Dooney begged his teachers
to let him sleep on the floor at school. And, when asked about
his future, 6-year-old Dooney says this : "I don't want to sell
drugs, but I will probably have to." ((PAUSE))
Dooney doesn't have to sell drugs. No child in America
should have to face such a future, or endure such a home.
Together, as a people, we can save these children of despair. We
have already saved countless lives. We have already transformed
a national attitude of tolerance into intolerance. But the war
on drugs will be hard-won, kid by kid, block by block,
neighborhood by neighborhood.
This is the toughest domestic challenge we've faced in
decades. And it is a challenge we must face -- not as Democrats
or Republicans, liberals or conservatives -- but as Americans.
The key is a coordinated, united effort. We have responded
faithfully to the mandate of the Congress to produce our nation's
first such national strategy. In just a few minutes, you will
hear from Congressman Tom Foley and Senator George Mitchell, the
Democratic leaders of Congress. I will be looking to George and
Tom for leadership and bipartisan support. And I am sure they
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will agree that we need cooperation, not competition; a national
effort, not a partisan bidding war.
If we fight this war as a divided nation, then the war is
lost. ((Pick up vial, hold it in front of you)) But, if we face
this evil as a nation united, our children will have a brighter
future, and this will be nothing but a vial of useless chemicals.
((Set vial down, off camera)) Victory
...
((PAUSE)) victory
over drugs is our cause, at just cause, and with your help,
justice will prevail.
Thank you, God bless you and good night.
#
#
Davis/Martin
August 25, 1989
Title: Drug
Draft: Two
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ON DRUGS: All Networks
Tuesday, Sept. 5/9 p.m.
I. A War Footing: Good evening.
Yesterday marked the unofficial end of summer, a time of
family vacations, away from work and away from school. America
has known many summers of peace and prosperity. But now yellow
school buses are back on the streets; America's children are back
in class; and our thoughts turn to the future.
This is the first time since taking the oath of office that
I felt an issue was so important, so threatening, that it
warranted directly talking with you, the American people. You,
your friends, your neighbors and I agree that the gravest
domestic threat facing our nation today is drugs.
Turn on the evening news, or pick up the morning paper and
you'll see what some Americans know just by stepping out their
front door: the most serious problem today is cocaine, and in
particular, crack.
Who's responsible? Let me tell you.
Anyone who uses drugs.
Anyone who sells drugs.
And anyone who looks the other way.
((Pick up vial)) This is crack cocaine seized last night by
Drug Enforcement Administration agents just ten blocks from where
2
I'm sitting now. It could just as easily have been heroin or
PCP. It's as innocent-looking as candy, but it is turning our
cities into battle zones and it is murdering our children by the
thousands. Let there be no mistake, this is the enemy. ( (Set
vial down, out of camera range.) )
Some used to call drugs just a benign form of recreation.
They're not. Drugs are a creeping malignancy that threaten our
neighborhoods, our homes and our families. And it is because of
this threat, that we have made a decision in this country.
Americans are ready, as never before, to go on a war-footing against
drugs.
It doesn't matter where you live. It doesn't matter what
your race or background is. It doesn't matter if you are rich or
poor. No one is safe from this threat. No one is too young or
too innocent to be out of harm's way. When a 3-year-old Seattle
boy steps on a needle while picnicking with his parents, and must
to breaks my heart.
now endure AIDS testing, no one is safe. When crack -- one of
A
the most powerfully addictive substances known to Man -- is
it makes meangry and outrased.
available to school kids, no one is safe. When 200,000 babies
are born each year to mothers who use drugs -- babies who know
the agony of withdrawal as they draw their first breath, Isuy we know
that this is a war we must win.
In the inner-city, in the small town, in the suburbs,
America is under siege. And Americans must fight to take back
our streets.
3
Many citizens, and many communities, already are in the
thick of it. Some brave souls have even paid with their lives.
Corporal Charles Hill, a suburban Virginia policeman, was gunned
down while trying to persuade a crack-crazed junkie to release a
hostage. ( (first name) ) Wilson, the owner of a New York
restaurant, was killed because he refused to allow drug deals
under his roof. These are American heroes. But you shouldn't
have to be a hero today just to be on the side of the law. It's
our duty, our responsibility, to join in this struggle for the
future, the very soul, of America.
II. Some Good News: Let me share a few facts with you.
Since 1985, the frequent use of cocaine in all forms has risen by
there's something else gong
a third. ( (Camera cuts to graphic. )) Yet we should also note
on in Ameuca- - something something hypesal.
our successes. While frequent secaine and crack use is
That's that
expleding, the number of Americans using any illegal drugs from
1985 to 1987 has declined by more than a third -- proving that in
just two years, almost ten million Americans have dropped so-
called casual drug use for good. Most promising of all, a survey
from 1986 through 1987, showed that cocaine use among high school
seniors has also dropped by a third. ( (Camera cuts back. ))
There's no one reason why -- it is a combination of efforts
from police, parents, teachers, community activists, the media
and, a President and First Lady by the name of Reagan -- who
inspired so many to say "no" to drugs.
4
But to win the war against addictive drugs like crack will
take more than a change in attitude. It will take a national
support
strategy all Americans can back.
III. A Drug Strategy: Tonight, I want to announce
America's first such strategy. As it was prepared Bill Bennett,
we
our nation's first drug policy director, and $ talked with
community leaders, law enforcement officials and rehabilitation
we talked with parents and kids.
experts. They all had a lot to say, wisdom to share. The coordinated result of
our discussions is a new comprehensive strategy to fight drugs,
strategy
a
stratesy based on prevention, treatment, tougher laws and interdiction.
*** First, we must stop drug abuse before it starts. I am
proposing more than a ((dollar)) increase for education and
prevention programs. We must discard the failed approach of meek
advice-giving, and replace it with bold confrontation the best
But let's face it
approach from grade school to graduate school.
When it comes to and
both
drug education, we don't need compromise, we need values.)
know
that
We will also look to the private sector for continued
leadership in drug education. A businessman by the name of Jim
the mightmare, really,
Burke told me he was haunted by the thought that, at any given
moment, somewhere in America there is a teen-age girl giving
birth to a child addicted to cocaine. So Jim did something. He
and other businessmen and -women raised hundreds of millions of
dollars for a national ad campaign against drugs. And now they
are determined
5
expect to raise a million dollars a day for the next three years
abillion dollars
a
all to promote the anti-drug message.
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hope to make a modest contribution by taking this same message
Next week I will
that
to the kids of America in a special television address
But
drug
hogerfully
every
education doesn't begin in class or on T.V. It must begin at
teenager
home. Parents must set the just example of dung
will his hear
at
lives.
or her
non
*** The second part of our plan seeks to help addicts who
school
want to go clean. They don't just need treatment programs, they
need programs that work. That's why I'm proposing a ((number))
million-dollar increase for the most effective programs. I am
also proposing research into ways to treat cocaine and crack
addiction. Most of all, because drug addiction is a cruel
inheritance, our treatment efforts will focus on expectant
mothers.
*** Third, our enforcement strategy is based on a simple
philosophy: If you commit a drug crime, you will be caught. And
if caught, you will be prosecuted. And if convicted, you will do
time. Congress must pass this Administration's crime package to
toughen sentences, and to provide more federal law enforcers,
prosecutors and prisons. And then we must increase funding for
state and local law enforcers. In return, I expect the states to
match tougher federal laws with stiffer bail, probation, parole
and sentencing. I especially urge the governors to punish drug
6
offenders by taking away their driver's licenses. This may sound
harsh, but for many young people, leniency is harsher.
States should also sentence first-time non-violent drug
offenders to alternative programs, like house arrest and boot
camps; and test criminals for drugs, from sentencing straight
through to parole.
Finally, we must make room for the dealers of death -- room
in our prisons. And as for their bosses, the drug lords, we can
raise the cost of doing business to the stiffest price possible -
- life in prison, no parole.
When it comes to enforcing the law, drug abuse is a problem
in every community. But nowhere are drug traders as brazen as in
our public housing projects. The majority of public housing
tenants want nothing to do with these thugs, fear for their lives
and the future of their children. I seek to empower these
communities to restore order, to kick out the dealers -- and to
keep them out.
*** And finally, the fourth element of our strategy looks
beyond our borders, where drug gangsters have murdered brave
statesmen and slaughtered honest judges. These besieged
governments are ready to fight back, to help us crack the
international drug rings. And I am pleased to note
( (Late
news item from Colombia to be added. ))
Next month, I will build on this progress by going to a
summit in Costa Rica to present my plan to assist foreign
7
Sight
governments in eradicating drug crops, and to help them repel the
violence
vengeance of drug terrorists. On the high seas and in the skies,
we will adopt tougher rules of engagement against smugglers. And
on land, we will be no less vigilant in following the trail of
drug money back to the front-men and financiers. I will seek
international agreements to put these pinstriped money-launderers
into prison stripes.
Our strategy is comprehensive. The programs within it are
intended but to mesh; not to draw strength from one
another, but to support a sustained national effort.
We relax
on any front in the war against drugs. we If
is
aggressively attack the problem from every angle,
we
will
start
A
see progress.
COME
Such an approach will not cheap Last February, I asked for
a $625 million increase in the drug budget for the coming year.
Now, after six months of careful study, we have identified an
immediate need for two billion dollars more. I am proposing a
1990 drug-budget totaling seven and a half billion dollars -- the
largest single increase in history.
Yes, these dollars are vital. But a sense of national
determination, born of anger, is even more important. Let our
outrage unite us, and bring us together behind this one plan of
action, an assault on every front.
8
IV. Call to Action: We must summon our national will, from
the White House, to the statehouse, to the courthouse, from the
boardroom to the pulpit, from every workplace to every classroom
in America. Wherever Americans work, study, play or pray, we
must join together for this single purpose.
I pledge to do my part. But I need your help. More
important, every child in America needs your help. Today --
right now.
Every American has a special contribution to make. Call
your local drug prevention program. Whether you serve as a
counselor, or participate in a fundraising drive, there are no
mundane tasks in the war on drugs. Every volunteer counts. Be a
big brother or sister to a child in need. Pitch in with your
local Neighborhood Watch program.
From the schools of Los Angeles to Bowling Green, Kentucky,
armies of volunteers are taking the fight against drugs to the
classroom. What can one person do? Consider Dr. Lorraine Hale
who was driving through Harlem, only to see a young mother, high
on heroin, holding a baby in her lap. On impulse, Dr. Hale
parked, and asked the woman to take the baby to the home of Clara
Hale, her mother. From this simple beginning, Lorraine and Clara
Hale, and a team of helpers, now nurse hundreds of drug-addicted
babies back to health.
So who's providing a solution? Let me tell you.
Any parent who talks to a child about drugs.
Any employer who bans drugs from the workplace.
Any school-
Amy neughborhood
finally
9
And anyone who refuses to look the other way. We
are
the
problem, and only we can be the solution.
V. Conclusion: Of course, despite our best efforts,
victory is years away. But we must not relent, too many young
lives are at stake.
When I think of the devastation of drugs, I think of a
little boy named Dooney, who, until recently, lived in a crack
house in a suburb of Washington, D.C. In Dooney's neighborhood,
children don't flinch at the sound of gunfire. And when they
play, they pretend to sell to each other small white rocks they
call crack.
Life at home is so dismal that Dooney begged his teachers to
let him sleep on the floor of his school. And 6-year-old Dooney
says: "I don't want to sell drugs, but I probably have to."
( (PAUSE) )
Dooney doesn't have to sell drugs. No child in America
should have to face such a future, or endure such a home.
Together, as a people, we can save these children of despair. We
have already saved countless lives. We have already transformed
a national attitude of tolerance into intolerance. But the war
on drugs will be hard-won, kid by kid, block by block,
neighborhood by neighborhood.
This is the toughest domestic challenge we've faced in
decades. If we fight this war as a nation of isolated
individuals, we are lost. ((Pick up vial, hold it in front of
10
you) ) But if we face this evil as a nation united, then the drug
lords will be toppled and this will be nothing but a vial of
useless chemicals. ( (Set vial down, off camera) ) Victory
( (PAUSE) ) victory over drugs is our cause, our cause is just, and
with your help, justice will prevail.
Thank you, God bless you and good night.
#
#
#
Davis/Martin
August 17, 1989
Title: Drug
Draft: Five
ROUGH DRAFT/PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ON DRUGS
I. A War Footing: Good evening.
Yesterday marked the unofficial end of summer, a time of
family vacations, away from work and away from school. America
has known many summers of peace and prosperity. But with our
children returning to school, our thoughts must turn to the
future.
This is the first time since taking the oath of office that
I felt an issue was so important, so threatening, that it
warranted directly talking with you, the American people. You,
your friends, your neighbors and I agree that the gravest
domestic threat facing our nation today is drugs.
We are losing ground every day in the war against chronic
drug use. Turn on your evening news, or pick up the morning
paper and see, in an instant, what some Americans know just by
stepping out their front door: the most serious problem today is
cocaine, and in particular, crack.
((Pick up vial) ) This is the menace, a sample of crack
cocaine seized last night by Drug Enforcement Administration
agents just ten blocks from where I'm sitting now. It could just
as easily have been heroin or PCP. It's as innocent-looking as
candy, but it is turning our cities into battle zones and it is
and Cools way,
your
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murdering children by the thousands. Let there be no mistake,
this is the enemy. ( (Set vial down, out of camera range. ))
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creeping malignancy that threaten our neighborhoods, our homes
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doing to us, that Americans are willing, as never before, to go
on a war-footing against drugs.
It doesn't matter where you live. It doesn't matter if you
are white, black, yellow or brown. No one is safe from this
threat. No one is too young or too innocent to be out of harm's
way. When a 3-year-old Seattle boy steps on a needle while
picnicking with his parents, and must now endure AIDS testing no
one is safe. When crack -- one of the most powerfully addictive
substances known to Man -- is available to school kids no one is
safe.
When 200,000 babies are born each year to mothers who use
drugs -- babies who know the agony of withdrawal as they draw
their first breath, we know that this is a war we must win.
In the inner-city, in the small town, in the suburbs,
America is under siege. And America must fight to take back the
streets.
Many individuals, and many communities, already are. Some
brave souls have even paid with their lives. Corporal Charles
Hill, a suburban Virginia policeman, was gunned down while trying
to persuade a crack-crazed junkie to release a hostage. ( (first
name) ) Wilson, the owner of a New York restaurant, was shot to
death because he refused to allow drug deals under his roof.
3
These are American heroes. But you shouldn't have to be a hero
today just to be on the side of the law. It is the duty of
everyone to join in this struggle for the future, the very soul,
of America.
gausing facing
II. Some Good News: But while gauging the extent of this
dralene we should also note our successes. There is good news I
can share with you tonight. Although cocaine use has doubled, a
recent federally sponsored survey estimates that from 1985 to
1987 the number of Americans ЖАШИМ using ,ANY illegal drugs
has declined by more than a third -- proving that in just two
years, millions of Americans have dropped so-called casual drug
use for good. There's no one reason why -- it is a combination
of efforts from police, parents, teachers, community activists,
the media and, a President and First Lady by the name of Reagan
--- who first inspired so many to Bow say "no" to drugs.
But to win the war against addictive drugs will take more
than a change in attitude. It will take a comprehensive national
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strategy all Americans can support.
III. A Drug Strategy: Tonight, I want to present America's
first such strategy drafted for me by Bill Bennett, our nation's
first drug policy director. Bill and I talked with community
leaders who deal with the drug crisis at every stage. They had a
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lot to say. The result of our discussions is this new strategy
4
against drugs, based on prevention, treatment, tougher laws and
interdiction.
*** First, we must stop drug abuse before it starts.
Education and prevention efforts must be redoubled, discarding
the failed approach of meek advice-giving, and replacing it with
bold confrontation -- the best approach from grade school to
graduate school. When it comes to drug education, we don't need
compromise, we need values.
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6
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billion dollars more. I am now proposing a 1990 drug-budget
totaling seven and a half billion dollars -- the largest single
increase in history. Yes, these dollars are vital. But a sense
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in America. Wherever Americans work, study, play or pray, we
must join together in for this single purpose.
I pledge to do my part. But I need your help. More
important, every child in America needs your help. Today --
right now.
Every American has a special contribution to make. Call
your local drug program. Whether you serve as a counselor, or
participate in a fundraising drive, there are no mundane tasks in
the war on drugs. Every volunteer, every effort, counts. Be a
big brother or sister to a child in need. Pitch in with your
local Neighborhood Watch program.
From the schools of Los Angeles to Bowling Green, Kentucky,
armies of volunteers have wetnking taken the fight against drugs to the
7
classroom. What can one person do? Consider Dr. Lorraine Hale
who was driving through Harlem, only to see a young mother, high
on heroin, holding a baby in her lap. On impulse, Dr. Hale
parked, and asked the woman to take the baby to the home of Clara
Hale, her mother. From this simple beginning, Lorraine and Clara
Hale, and a team of helpers, now nurse hundreds of drug-addicted
HALL
babies to health.
V. Conclusion: Of course, despite our best efforts,
victory is years away. But we must not relent, too many young
lives are at stake.
When I think of the devastation of drugs, I think of a
little boy named Dooney, who, until recently lived, in a crack
house in a suburb of Washington, D.C. In Dooney's neighborhood,
children don't flinch at the sound of gunfire. And when they
play, they pretend to sell to each other small white rocks they
call crack.
Life at home is so dismal that Dooney begged his teachers to
let him sleep on the floor of his school. And 6-year-old Dooney
says: "I don't want to sell drugs, but I probably have to."
((PAUSE))
Dooney doesn't have to sell drugs. No child in America
should have to face such a future, or endure such a home.
Together, as a people, we can save these children of despair. We
have already saved countless lives through the efforts of recent
year
We have already transformed a national attitude of
8
tolerance into intolerance. But the war on drugs will be hard-
won, kid by kid, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood.
This is the toughest domestic challenge we have faced in decades.
As a nation of isolated individuals, we are lost. ( (Pick up
vial, hold it in front of you) ) But if we face this evil as a
nation united, then the drug lords will be toppled and this will
be nothing but a vial of useless chemicals. ( (Set vial down, off
w/your
camera) ) Victory over drugs is our cause, our just cause, and
help
justice will prevail.
Thank you, God bless you and good night.
#
#
#
Davis/Martin
August 17, 1989
Title: Drug
Draft: Five
ROUGH DRAFT/PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ON DRUGS
I. A War Footing: Good evening.
Yesterday marked the unofficial end of summer, a time of
family vacations, away from work and away from school. America
has known many summers of peace and prosperity. But with our
children returning to school, our thoughts must turn to the
future.
This is the first time since taking the oath of office that
I felt an issue was so important, so threatening, that it
warranted directly talking with you, the American people. You,
your friends, your neighbors and I agree that the gravest
domestic threat facing our nation today is drugs.
We are losing ground every day in the war against chronic
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drug use. Turn on your evening news, or pick up a newspaper and
see, in an instant, what some Americans know just by stepping out
their front door: the most serious problem today is cocaine, and
in particular, crack.
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picnicking with his parents, and who must now endure AIDS
testing, we know Lhat no one is safe. When we think that crack
one of the most powerfully addictive substances known to Man -
- is available to school kids, we know that no one is safe. When
we think of the 200,000 babies born each year to mothers who use
drugs -- babies who know the agony of withdrawal as they draw
their first breath, we know that this is a war we must win.
In the inner-city, in the small town, in the suburbs,
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fight to take back the streets.
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communities, already have. Some brave souls have even paid with
their lives. Corporal Charles Hill, a suburban Virginia
policeman, was gunned down while trying to persuade a crack-
crazed junkie to release a hostage. ((first name) ) Wilson, the
owner of a New York restaurant, was shot to death because he
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refused to allow drug deals under his roof. These are American
heroes. But you shouldn't have to be a hero today just to be on
the side of the law.
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justice to join in this struggle for the future, the very soul,
of America.
But
II. Some Good News: While gauging the extent of this
also
problem, we should, note our successes. There is some good news I
can share with you tonight. Although cocaine use has doubled, a
recent federally sponsored survey estimates that from 1985 to
1987 the number of Americans currently using all illegal drugs
has declined by more than a third -- proving that in just two
years, millions of Americans have dropped so-called casual drug
use for good. There's no one reason why -- it is a combination
of efforts from police, parents, teachers, community activists,
a President and First Lody by the nome of
the media and most of all the Reagan who first inspired so
many to say "no" to drugs.
to win the wards
But further progress against addictive drugs will take more
than a change in attitude. It will take a comprehensive national
strategy all Americans can support.
III. A Drug Strategy: Tonight, I want to present America's
first such strategy drafted for me by Bill Bennett, our nation's
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first drug policy director. Bill consulted with community
leaders who deal with the drug crisis at every stage. The result
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our discussions
of his interactions is this new strategy against drugs, based on
prevention, treatment, tougher laws and interdiction.
*** First, we must stop drug abuse before it starts.
Education and prevention efforts must be redoubled, discarding
the failed approach of meek advice-giving, and replacing it with
bold confrontation -- the best approach from grade school to
wedontemedd
graduate school. When it comes to drug education, instead of
compromise, we need values, HEL values taught by parents, values
imparted by teachers and values that uplift whole communities.
*** The second part of our strategy involves addicts who
want to go clean. For them we must have drug treatment programs
that work. And we must do more. We must search for effective
ways to treat cocaine and crack addiction. Most of all, because
drug addiction is a cruel inheritance, our treatment efforts
should focus on expectant mothers.
*** Third, for those who refuse to learn, we will increase
funding for states and localities to clean up the streets. I
renew my call on Congress to enact this Administration's crime
legislation. We will encourage states to sentence non-violent
drug offenders to alternative programs, like house arrest and
boot camps; and expand drug testing for criminals, as they move
from arrest straight through to parole. We will encourage every
state in America to match tougher federal laws with stiffer bail,
5
probation, parole and sentencing for these merchants of death
called pushers. In short, there must be room in our system for
drug dealers -- room in our prisons.
When it comes to enforcing the law, drug abuse is a problem
in every community. But nowhere is the drug trade as brazen as
in our public housing projects. We must help the overwhelming
majority of public housing tenants who want nothing to do with
drugs, who fear for their lives and the future of their children.
Our plan will enable these communities to restore order, to kick
out the dealers -- and to keep them out.
*** And finally, the fourth element of our strategy looks
beyond our borders. We must be ready to take advantage of a
strengthened commitment from other governments to assist us in
disrupting, dismantling and eliminating drug-trafficking
organizations. Next month, I will go to Costa Rica to present my
plan to assist foreign governments in eradicating drug crops, and
to help them repel the vengeance of drug terrorists. On the high
seas and in the skies, we will adopt tougher rules of engagement
against smugglers. And on land, we will be no less vigilant in
hunting down drug financiers. In all, with increased
interdiction and foreign cooperation, we can raise the cost of
doing business for drug lords to the stiffest price possible --
life in prison, no parole.
6
Last February, we requested $625 million in new drug budget
authority for the coming year. Now, after six months of careful
study, we have identified an immediate need for more than a
billion dollars more. I am now proposing a 1990 drug-budget
totaling seven and a half billion dollars -- the largest single
increase in history. Yes, these dollars are vital. But a sense
of determination, born of anger and distress, is even more
important. Let our outrage unite us, and bring us together
behind this one plan of action.
IV. Call to Action: Our drug strategy is an all-out
assault on every front. But as complex as it is, there is one
underlying principle: We must summon our national will, from the
White House, to the statehouse, to the courthouse, from the
boardroom to the pulpit, from every workplace to every classroom
in America. Wherever Americans work, study, play or pray, we
must join together in this single purpose.
I pledge to do my part. But I need your help. More
important, every child in America needs your help. Today --
right now.
Every American has a special contribution to make. Call
your local drug program. Whether you serve as a counselor, or
participate in a fundraising drive, there are no mundane tasks in
the war on drugs. Every volunteer, every effort, counts. Be a
big brother or sister to a child in need. Pitch in with your
local Neighborhood Watch program.
7
From the schools of Los Angeles to Bowling Green, Kentucky,
armies of volunteers have taken the fight against drugs to the
classroom. What can one person do? Consider Dr. Lorraine Hale
who was driving through Harlem, only to see a young mother, high
on heroin, holding a baby in her lap. On impulse, Dr. Hale
parked, and asked the woman to take the baby to the home of Clara
Hale, her mother. From this simple beginning, Lorraine and Clara
Hale, and a team of helpers, now nurse hundreds of drug-addicted
babies to health.
V. Conclusion: Of course, despite our best efforts,
victory is years away. But we must not relent, too many young
lives are at stake.
When I think of the devastation of drugs, I think of a
little boy named Dooney, who, until recently lived, in a crack
house in a suburb of Washington, D.C. In Dooney's neighborhood,
children don't flinch at the sound of gunfire. And when they
play, they pretend to sell to each other small white rocks they
call crack.
Life at home is so dismal that Dooney begged his teachers to
let him sleep on the floor of his school. And 6-year-old Dooney
says: "I don't want to sell drugs, but I probably have to."
( (PAUSE) )
Dooney doesn't have to sell drugs. No child in America
should have to face such a future, or endure such a home.
Together, as a people, we can save these children of despair. We
8
have already saved countless lives through the efforts of recent
years. We have already transformed a national attitude of
tolerance into intolerance. But the war on drugs will be hard-
won, kid by kid, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood.
This is the toughest domestic challenge we have faced in decades.
As a nation of isolated individuals, we are lost. ( (Pick up
vial, hold it in front of you) ) But if we face this evil as a
nation united, then the drug lords will be toppled and this will
be nothing but a vial of useless chemicals. ((Set vial down, off
camera)) Victory over drugs is our cause, our just cause, and in
time justice will prevail.
Thank you, God bless you and good night.
#
#
#
Davis/Martin
August 17, 1989
Title: Drug
Draft: Six
ROUGH DRAFT/PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ON DRUGS
I. A War Footing: Good evening.
Yesterday marked the unofficial end of summer, a time of
family vacations, away from work and away from school. America
has known many summers of peace and prosperity. But now yellow
school buses are back on the streets; America's children are back
in class; and our thoughts turn to the future.
This is the first time since taking the oath of office that
I felt an issue was so important, so threatening, that it
warranted directly talking with you, the American people. You,
your friends, your neighbors and I agree that the gravest
domestic threat facing our nation today is drugs.
We are losing ground every day in the war against chronic
drug abuse. Turn on your evening news, or pick up the morning
paper and you'll see what some Americans know just by stepping
out their front door: the most serious problem today is cocaine,
and in particular, crack.
Who's responsible? Let me tell you.
Anyone who uses drugs.
Anyone who sells drugs.
And anyone who looks the other way
2
this
( (Pick up vial)) This is the menace, a sample of crack
cocaine seized last night by Drug Enforcement Administration
agents just ten blocks from where I'm sitting now. It could just
as easily have been heroin or PCP. It's as innocent-looking as
candy, but it is turning our cities into battle zones and it is
murdering our children by the thousands. Let there be no
mistake, this is the enemy. ( (Set vial down, out of camera
range. ))
some used to call
Once touted as-a benign form of recreation, drugs are a
creeping malignancy that threaten our neighborhoods, our homes
this
and our families. And it is because of what these substances are
doing CO us, that Americans are willing, as never before, to go
on a war-footing against drugs.
It doesn't matter where you live. It doesn't matter if you
are white, black, yellow or brown. No one is safe from this
threat. No one is too young or too innocent to be out of harm's
way. When a 3-year-old Seattle boy steps on a needle while
picnicking with his parents, and must now endure AIDS testing, no
one is safe. When crack -- one of the most powerfully addictive
substances known to Man -- is available to school kids, no one is
safe. When 200,000 babies are born each year to mothers who use
drugs -- babies who know the agony of withdrawal as they draw
their first breath, we know that this is a war we must win.
In the inner-city, in the small town, in the suburbs,
America is under siege. And America must fight to take back the
STET
streets:
3
in the theck
Many citizens, and many communities, already are fighting
of
Some brave souls have even paid with their lives.
Corporal Charles Hill, a suburban Virginia policeman, was gunned
down while trying to persuade a crack-crazed junkie to release a
hostage. ( (first name)) Wilson, the owner of a New York
restaurant, was shot to death because he refused to allow drug
deals under his roof. These are American heroes. But you
shouldn't have to be a hero today just to be on the side of the
our responsibity
law. It's our duty to join in this struggle for the future, the
very soul, of America.
II. Some Good News: But while facing this challenge, we
should also note our successes. There is good news I can share
with you tonight. Although cocaine use has doubled, a recent
federally sponsored survey estimates that from 1985 to 1987 the
number of Americans using any illegal drugs has declined by more
than a third -- proving that in just two years, millions of
Americans have dropped so-called casual drug use for good.
There's no one reason why -- it is a combination of efforts from
police, parents, teachers, community activists, the media and, a
President and First Lady by the name of Reagan -- who first
inspired so many to say "no" to drugs.
But to win the war against addictive drugs will take more
than a change in attitude. It will take a comprehensive national,
strategy all Americans can back.
4
III. A Drug Strategy: Tonight, I want to present America's
first such strategy. drafted for me by Bill Bennett, our nation's
first drug policy director. Bill and I. talked with community
law enforcemen@otficicels rehablitation
leaders, who deal with the drug crisis at every stage. They had a
lot to say, wisdom to share. The result of our discussions is
for
this new strategy against drugs, based on prevention, treatment,
tougher laws and interdiction.
*** First, we must stop drug abuse before it starts.
Education and prevention efforts must be redoubled, discarding
the failed approach of meek advice-giving, and replacing it with
bold confrontation -- the best approach from grade school to
graduate school. When it comes to drug education, we don't need
compromise, we need values.
*** Second, our plan must help addicts who want to go
clean. They don't just need treatment programs, they need
programs that work. And we must do more. We must search for
effective ways to treat cocaine and crack addiction. Most of
all, because drug addiction is a cruel inheritance, our treatment
efforts will focus on expectant mothers.
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for drugs, from sentencing straight through to parole.
Congress
must enact this Administration's crime legislation. And then
every state in America must match tougher federal laws with
stiffer bail, probation, parole and sentencing for these dealers
of death. In short, we must make room in our system for pushers
-- room in our prisons.
When it comes to enforcing the law, drug abuse is a problem
in every community. But nowhere are drug traders as brazen as in
our public housing projects. We must help the overwhelming
majority of public housing tenants who want nothing to do with
these thugs, who fear for their lives and the future of their
children. We must help these communities restore order, to kick
out the dealers -- and keep them out.
*** And finally, the fourth element of our strategy looks
beyond our borders. We must be ready to take advantage of a
strengthened commitment from other governments to assist us in
cracking international drug rings. Next month, I will go to a
summit in Costa Rica to present my plan to assist foreign
governments in eradicating drug crops, and to help them repel the
vengeance of drug terrorists. On the high seas and in the skies,
Pinstripez &
we will adopt tougher rules of engagement against smugglers. And
on land, we will be no less vigilant in hunting down the front-
men and financiers who launder drug money.
We can raise the cost
of doing business for drug lords to the stiffest price possible -
- life in prison, no parole.
6
Last February, we asked for a $625 million increase in the
drug budget for the coming year. Now, after six months of
careful study, we have identified an immediate need for more than
a billion dollars more. I am proposing a 1990 drug-budget
totaling seven and a half billion dollars -- the largest single
increase in history. Yes, these dollars are vital. But a sense
of determination, born of anger and distress, is even more
important. Let our outrage unite us, and bring us together
behind this one plan of action, an assault on every front.
IV. Call to Action: We must summon our national will, from
the White House, to the statehouse, to the courthouse, from the
boardroom to the pulpit, from every workplace to every classroom
in America. Wherever Americans work, study, play or pray, we
must join together for this single purpose.
I pledge to do my part. But I need your help. More
important, every child in America needs your help. Today --
right now.
Every American has a special contribution to make. Call
your local drug program. Whether you serve as a counselor, or
participate in a fundraising drive, there are no mundane tasks in
the war on drugs. Every volunteer counts. Be a big brother or
sister to a child in need. Pitch in with your local Neighborhood
Watch program.
7
From the schools of Los Angeles to Bowling Green, Kentucky,
armies of volunteers are taking the fight against drugs to the
classroom. What can one person do? Consider Dr. Lorraine Hale
who was driving through Harlem, only to see a young mother, high
on heroin, holding a baby in her lap. On impulse, Dr. Hale
parked, and asked the woman to take the baby to the home of Clara
Hale, her mother. From this simple beginning, Lorraine and Clara
Hale, and a team of helpers, now nurse hundreds of drug-addicted
babies back to health.
V. Conclusion: Of course, despite our best efforts,
victory is years away. But we must not relent, too many young
lives are at stake.
When I think of the devastation of drugs, I think of a
little boy named Dooney, who, until recently, lived in a crack
house in a suburb of Washington, D.C. In Dooney's neighborhood,
children don't flinch at the sound of gunfire. And when they
play, they pretend to sell to each other small white rocks they
call crack.
Life at home is so dismal that Dooney begged his teachers to
let him sleep on the floor of his school. And 6-year-old Dooney
says: "I don't want to sell drugs, but I probably have to."
( (PAUSE))
Dooney doesn't have to sell drugs. No child in America
should have to face such a future, or endure such a home.
Together, as a people, we can save these children of despair. We
8
have already saved countless lives. We have already transformed
a national attitude of tolerance into intolerance. But the war
on drugs will be hard-won, kid by kid, block by block,
neighborhood by neighborhood.
This is the toughest domestic challenge we've faced in
decades. As a nation of isolated individuals, we are lost.
( (Pick up vial, hold it in front of you) ) But if we face this
evil as a nation united, then the drug lords will be toppled and
this will be nothing but a vial of useless chemicals. ( (Set vial
down, off camera) ) Victory over drugs is our cause, our just
cause, and with your help, justice will prevail.
Thank you, God bless you and good night.
#
#
#
JimBunle- - meeting of T.B. for $100m
with-day.
Davis/Martin
August 17, 1989
Title: Drug
Draft: Six
ROUGH DRAFT/PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ON DRUGS
I. A War Footing: Good evening.
Yesterday marked the unofficial end of summer, a time of
family vacations, away from work and away from school. America
has known many summers of peace and prosperity. But now yellow
school buses are back on the streets; America's children are back
in class; and our thoughts turn to the future.
This is the first time since taking the oath of office that
I felt an issue was so important, so threatening, that it
warranted directly talking with you, the American people. You,
your friends, your neighbors and I agree that the gravest
domestic threat facing our nation today is drugs.
We are losing ground every day in the war against chronic
drug abuse. Turn on your evening news, or pick up the morning
paper and you'll see what some Americans know just by stepping
out their front door: the most serious problem today is cocaine,
and in particular, crack.
Who's responsible? Let me tell you.
Anyone who uses drugs.
Anyone who sells drugs.
And anyone who looks the other way.
2
This is is
( (Pick up vial)) This is the menace, a sample of crack
cocaine seized last night by Drug Enforcement Administration
agents just ten blocks from where I'm sitting now. It could just
as easily have been heroin or PCP. It's as innocent-looking as
candy, but it is turning our cities into battle zones and it is
murdering our children by the thousands. Let there be no
mistake, this is the enemy. ((Set vial down, out of camera
range. )
They is not.
Some used to call drugs just a
11
Once touted as a benign form of recreation, drugs are a
creeping malignancy that threaten our neighborhoods, our homes
and our families. And it is because of what these substances are
monnest
doing to us, that Americans are willing, as never before, go
on a war-footing against drugs.
It doesn't matter where you live. It doesn't matter if you
It doesn't matter if you are rechd
are white, black, yellow or brown. No one is safe from this
poor,
threat. No one is too young or too innocent to be out of harm's
way. When a 3-year-old Seattle boy steps on a needle while
picnicking with his parents, and must now endure AIDS testing, no
one is safe. When crack -- one of the most powerfully addictive
substances known to Man -- is available to school kids, no one is
safe. When 200,000 babies are born each year to mothers who use
drugs -- babies who know the agony of withdrawal as they draw
their first breath, we know that this is a war we must win.
In the inner-city, in the small town, in the suburbs,
America is under siege. And America must fight to take back the
streets.
3
Many citizens, and many communities, already are fighting
back. Some brave souls have even paid with their lives.
Corporal Charles Hill, a suburban Virginia policeman, was gunned
down while trying to persuade a crack-crazed junkie to release a
hostage. ((first name)) Wilson, the owner of a New York
restaurant, was shot to death because he refused to allow drug
deals under his roof. These are American heroes. But you
shouldn't have to be a hero today just to be on the side of the
law. It's our duty to join in this struggle for the future, the
very soul, of America.
II. Some Good News: But while facing this challenge, we
should also note our successes. There is good news I can share
with you tonight. Although cocaine use has doubled, a recent
federally sponsored survey estimates that from 1985 to 1987 the
number of Americans using any illegal drugs has declined by more
than a third -- proving that in just two years, millions of
Americans have dropped so-called casual drug use for good.
There's no one reason why -- it is a combination of efforts from
police, parents, teachers, community activists, the media and, a
President and First Lady by the name of Reagan -- who first
inspired so many to say "no" to drugs.
But to win the war against addictive drugs will take more
than a change in attitude. It will take a comprehensive national
strategy all Americans can back.
4
III. A Drug Strategy: Tonight, I want to present America's
first such strategy drafted for me by Bill Bennett, our nation's
first drug policy director. Bill and I talked with community
leaders who deal with the drug crisis at every stage. They had a
lot to say, wisdom to share. The result of our discussions is
this new strategy against drugs, based on prevention, treatment,
tougher laws and interdiction.
*** First, we must stop drug abuse before it starts.
Education and prevention efforts must be redoubled, discarding
the failed approach of meek advice-giving, and replacing it with
bold confrontation -- the best approach from grade school to
graduate school. When it comes to drug education, we don't need
compromise, we need values.
*** Second, our plan must help addicts who want to go
clean. They don't just need treatment programs, they need
programs that work. And we must do more. We must search for
effective ways to treat cocaine and crack addiction. Most of
all, because drug addiction is a cruel inheritance, our treatment
efforts will focus on expectant mothers.
our shaksof- un
*** Third, for those who refuse to learn, we will increase
enforcement
funding for states and localities to clean up the streets,
States must sentence non-violent drug offenders to alternative
programs, like house arrest and boot camps and test criminals
and pet area affenders where
they becomg jail and for
tough
to
5
for drugs, from sentencing straight through to parole. Congress
must enact this Administration's crime legislation. And then
every state in America must match tougher federal laws with
stiffer bail, probation, parole and sentencing for these dealers
of death. In-short, Fundly we must make room in our system for pushers
room in our prisonsx and the shategy
When it comes to enforcing the law, drug abuse is a problem
in every community. But nowhere are drug traders as brazen as in
our public housing projects. We must help the overwhelming
majority of public housing tenants who want nothing to do with
these thugs, who fear for their lives and the future of their
children. We must help these communities restore order, to kick
out the dealers -- and keep them out.
*** And finally, the fourth element of our strategy looks
beyond our borders. We must be ready to take advantage of a
strengthened commitment from other governments to assist us in
cracking international drug rings. Next month, I will go to a
summit in Costa Rica to present my plan to assist foreign
governments in eradicating drug crops, and to help them repel the
vengeance of drug terrorists. On the high seas and in the skies,
we will adopt tougher rules of engagement against smugglers. And
on land, we will be no less vigilant in hunting down the front-
men and financiers who launder drug money.
We can raise the cost
of doing business for drug lords to the stiffest price possible -
- life in prison, no parole.
pinotripes othipes
6
Last February, we asked for a $625 million increase in the
drug budget for the coming year. Now, after six months of
careful study, we have identified an immediate need for more than
a billion dollars more. I am proposing a 1990 drug-budget
totaling seven and a half billion dollars -- the largest single
increase in history.
Yes, these dollars are vital. But a sense
of determination, born of anger and distress, is even more
important. Let our outrage unite us, and bring us together
behind this one plan of action, an assault on every front.
IV. Call to Action: We must summon our national will, from
the White House, to the statehouse, to the courthouse, from the
boardroom to the pulpit, from every workplace to every classroom
in America. Wherever Americans work, study, play or pray, we
must join together for this single purpose.
I pledge to do my part. But I need your help. More
important, every child in America needs your help. Today --
right now.
Every American has a special contribution to make. Call
your local drug program. Whether you serve as a counselor, or
participate in a fundraising drive, there are no mundane tasks in
the war on drugs. Every volunteer counts. Be a big brother or
sister to a child in need. Pitch in with your local Neighborhood
Watch program.
7
From the schools of Los Angeles to Bowling Green, Kentucky,
armies of volunteers are taking the fight against drugs to the
classroom. What can one person do? Consider Dr. Lorraine Hale
who was driving through Harlem, only to see a young mother, high
on heroin, holding a baby in her lap. On impulse, Dr. Hale
parked, and asked the woman to take the baby to the home of Clara
Hale, her mother. From this simple beginning, Lorraine and Clara
Hale, and a team of helpers, now nurse hundreds of drug-addicted
babies back to health.
V. Conclusion: Of course, despite our best efforts,
victory is years away. But we must not relent, too many young
lives are at stake.
When I think of the devastation of drugs, I think of a
little boy named Dooney, who, until recently, lived in a crack
house in a suburb of Washington, D.C. In Dooney's neighborhood,
children don't flinch at the sound of gunfire. And when they
play, they pretend to sell to each other small white rocks they
call crack.
Life at home is so dismal that Dooney begged his teachers to
let him sleep on the floor of his school. And 6-year-old Dooney
says: "I don't want to sell drugs, but I probably have to."
((PAUSE))
Dooney doesn't have to sell drugs. No child in America
should have to face such a future, or endure such a home.
Together, as a people, we can save these children of despair. We
8
have already saved countless lives. We have already transformed
a national attitude of tolerance into intolerance. But the war
on drugs will be hard-won, kid by kid, block by block,
neighborhood by neighborhood.
This is the toughest domestic challenge we've faced in
If we fight this was
decades. As a nation of isolated individuals, we are lost.
( (Pick up vial, hold it in front of you) ) But if we face this
evil as a nation united, then the drug lords will be toppled and
this will be nothing but a vial of useless chemicals. ( (Set vial
down, off camera) ) Victory over drugs is our cause, our Cruse is just
ctory
cause, and with your help, justice will prevail.
Thank you, God bless you and good night.
#
#
#
Davis/Martin
August 17, 1989
Title: Drug
Draft: Six
ROUGH DRAFT/PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ON DRUGS
I. A War Footing: Good evening.
Yesterday marked the unofficial end of summer, a time of
family vacations, away from work and away from school. America
has known many summers of peace and prosperity. But with our
children returning to school, our thoughts must turn to the
future.
This is the first time since taking the oath of office that
I felt an issue was so important, so threatening, that it
warranted directly talking with you, the American people. You,
your friends, your neighbors and I agree that the gravest
domestic threat facing our nation today is drugs.
We are losing ground every day in the war against chronic
AD
drug
use
Turn on your evening news, or pick up the morning
paper and you'll see in an instant, what some Americans know just by
stepping out their front door: the most serious problem today is
cocaine, and in particular, crack.
LET metellyou
Who's responsible? I'll tell you who's responsible.
Anyone who uses drugs.
Anyone who sells drugs.
And anyone who looks the other way.
2
((Pick up vial)) This is the menace, a sample of crack
cocaine seized last night by Drug Enforcement Administration
agents just ten blocks from where I'm sitting now. It could just
as easily have been heroin or PCP. It's as innocent-looking as
candy, but it is turning our cities into battle zones and it is
murdering our children by the thousands. Let there be no
mistake, this is the enemy. ((Set vial down, out of camera
range. ))
believe
Once touted as a benign form of recreation, drugs are a
creeping malignancy that threaten our neighborhoods, our homes
and our families. And it is because of what these substances are
doing to us, that Americans are willing, as never before, to go
on a war-footing against drugs.
It doesn't matter where you live. It doesn't matter if you
are white, black, yellow or brown. No one is safe from this
threat. No one is too young or too innocent to be out of harm's
way. When a 3-year-old Seattle boy steps on a needle while
picnicking with his parents, and must now endure AIDS testing, no
one is safe. When crack -- one of the most powerfully addictive
substances known to Man -- is available to school kids, no one is
safe. When 200,000 babies are born each year to mothers who use
drugs -- babies who know the agony of withdrawal as they draw
their first breath, we know that this is a war we must win.
In the inner-city, in the small town, in the suburbs,
America is under siege. And America must fight to take back the
streets.
3
Many citizens, and many communities, already are. Some
brave souls have even paid with their lives. Corporal Charles
Hill, a suburban Virginia policeman, was gunned down while trying
to persuade a crack-crazed junkie to release a hostage. ( (first
name)) Wilson, the owner of a New York restaurant, was shot to
death because he refused to allow drug deals under his roof.
These are American heroes. But you shouldn't have to be a hero
our
today just to be on the side of the law. It is the duty
USAH
to join in this struggle for the future, the very soul,
of America.
II. Some Good News: But while facing this challenge, we
should also note our successes. There is good news I can share
with you tonight. Although cocaine use has doubled, a recent
federally sponsored survey estimates that from 1985 to 1987 the
number of Americans using any illegal drugs has declined by more
than a third -- proving that in just two years, millions of
Americans have dropped so-called casual drug use for good.
There's no one reason why -- it is a combination of efforts from
police, parents, teachers, community activists, the media and, a
President and First Lady by the name of Reagan -- who first
inspired so many to say "no" to drugs.
But to win the war against addictive drugs will take more
than a change in attitude. It will take a comprehensive national
strategy all Americans can back.
4
III. A Drug Strategy: Tonight, I want to present America's
first such strategy drafted for me by Bill Bennett, our nation's
first drug policy director. Bill and I talked with community
leaders who deal with the drug crisis at every stage. They had a
lot to say AND wisdom to share. The result of our discussions is
this new strategy against drugs, based on prevention, treatment,
tougher laws and interdiction.
*** First, we must stop drug abuse before it starts.
Education and prevention efforts must be redoubled, discarding
the failed approach of meek advice-giving, and replacing it with
bold confrontation -- the best approach from grade school to
graduate school. When it comes to drug education, we don't need
compromise, we need values.
*** Second, our plan must help addicts who want to go
clean. They don't just need treatment programs, they need
programs that work. And we must do more. We must search for
effective ways to treat cocaine and crack addiction. Most of
all, because drug addiction is a cruel inheritance, our treatment
efforts will focus on expectant mothers.
*** Third, for those who refuse to learn, we will increase
funding for states and localities to clean up the streets.
States must sentence non-violent drug offenders to alternative
programs, like house arrest and boot camps; and drug test
5
criminals from arrest straight through to parole. Congress must
enact this Administration's crime legislation. And then every
state in America must match tougher federal laws with stiffer
bail, probation, parole and sentencing for these dealers of death
we
were
called pushers. In short, there must be room in our system for
dealers -- room in our prisons.
When it comes to enforcing the law, drug abuse is a problem
in every community. But nowhere are drug traders as brazen as in
our public housing projects. We must help the overwhelming
majority of public housing tenants who want nothing to do with
these thugs, who fear for their lives and the future of their
children. Our plan will enable these communities to restore
order, to kick out the dealers -- and keep them out.
*** And finally, the fourth element of our strategy looks
beyond our borders. We must be ready to take advantage of a
strengthened commitment from other governments to assist us in
asmit
cracking international drug rings. Next month, I will go to
Costa Rica to present my plan to assist foreign governments in
eradicating drug crops, and to help them repel the vengeance of
drug terrorists. On the high seas and in the skies, we will
adopt tougher rules of engagement against smugglers. And on
land, we will be no less vigilant in hunting down the front-men
and financiers who launder drug money. By beefing up
interdiction and of foreign cooperation, we can raise the cost of
6
doing business for drug lords to the stiffest price possible --
life in prison, no parole.
Last February, we asked for a $625 million increase in the
drug budget for the coming year. Now, after six months of
careful study, we have identified an immediate need for more than
a billion dollars more. I am now proposing a 1990 drug-budget
totaling seven and a half billion dollars -- the largest single
increase in history. Yes, these dollars are vital. But a sense
of determination, born of anger and distress, is even more
important. Let our outrage unite us, and bring us together
behind this one plan of action, an assault on every front.
IV. Call to Action: as complex as our strategy is
there is one underlying principle: We must summon our national
will, from the White House, to the statehouse, to the courthouse,
from the boardroom to the pulpit, from every workplace to every
classroom in America. Wherever Americans work, study, play or
pray, we must join together for this single purpose.
I pledge to do my part. But I need your help. More
important, every child in America needs your help. Today -
right now.
Every American has a special contribution to make. Call
your local drug program. Whether you serve as a counselor, or
participate in a fundraising drive, there are no mundane tasks in
the war on drugs. Every volunteer, every effort, counts. Be a
7
big brother or sister to a child in need. Pitch in with your
local Neighborhood Watch program.
From the schools of Los Angeles to Bowling Green, Kentucky,
armies of volunteers are taking the fight against drugs to the
classroom. What can one person do? Consider Dr. Lorraine Hale
who was driving through Harlem, only to see a young mother, high
on heroin, holding a baby in her lap. On impulse, Dr. Hale
parked, and asked the woman to take the baby to the home of Clara
Hale, her mother. From this simple beginning, Lorraine and Clara
Hale, and a team of helpers, now nurse hundreds of drug-addicted
babies back to health.
the Hales, despite)
V. Conclusion: Of course, despite our best efforts,
victory is years away. But we must not relent, too many young
lives are at stake.
When I think of the devastation of drugs, I think of a
little boy named Dooney, who, until recently lived, in a crack
house in a suburb of Washington, D.C. In Dooney's neighborhood,
children don't flinch at the sound of gunfire. And when they
play, they pretend to sell to each other small white rocks they
call crack.
Life at home is so dismal that Dooney begged his teachers to
let him sleep on the floor of his school. And 6-year-old Dooney
says: "I don't want to sell drugs, but I probably have to."
((PAUSE))
8
Dooney doesn't have to sell drugs. No child in America
should have to face such a future, or endure such a home.
Together, as a people, we can save these children of despair. We
have already saved countless lives. We have already transformed
a national attitude of tolerance into intolerance. But the war
on drugs will be hard-won, kid by kid, block by block,
neighborhood by neighborhood. This is the toughest domestic
challenge we've faced in decades. As a nation of isolated
individuals, we are lost. ((Pick up vial, hold it in front of
you) ) But if we face this evil as a nation united, then the drug
lords will be toppled and this will be nothing but a vial of
useless chemicals. ((Set vial down, off camera) ) Victory over
drugs is our cause, our just cause, and with your help, justice
will prevail.
Thank you, God bless you and good night.
#
#
#
Davis/Martin
August 17, 1989
Title: Drug
Draft: Five
ROUGH DRAFT/PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ON DRUGS
I. A War Footing: Good evening.
Yesterday marked the unofficial end of summer, a time of
family vacations, away from work and away from school. America
has now known many summers of peace and prosperity. But with our
children returning to school, our thoughts must turn to the
future.
This is the first time since taking the oath of office that
I felt an issue was so important, so serious, that it warranted
directly talking with you, the American people. You, your
friends, your neighbors and I agree that the most serious problem
facing our nation today is drugs.
We are losing ground every day in the war against chronic
drug use. Turn on your T.V., or pick up a newspaper and see, in
an instant, what some Americans know just by stepping out their
front door: the most serious problem today is cocaine, and in
particular, crack.
( (Pick up vial)) This is the menace, a sample of crack
cocaine from the Drug Enforcement Administration, seized last
night, just ten blocks from where I'm sitting now. It could just
as easily be heroin or PCP. It's as innocent-looking as candy,
2
and yet it is murdering thousands of our fellow Americans. ( (Set
vial down, out of camera range. ))
Once touted as a benign form of recreation, drugs are
proving to be a creeping malignancy that threatens our
neighborhoods, our homes and our children. And it is because of
S
what this substance is doing to us, that Americans are willing,
as never before, to go on a war-footing against drugs.
Regardless of where you live, whether you are black, brown
or white, no one is is safe from this threat. Nor is any one too
young or too innocent to be out of harm's way. When we think of
the 3-year-old Seattle boy who stepped on a needle while
picnicking with his parents, and who must now endure AIDS
testing, we know that no one is safe. When we think that crack -
- one of the most powerfully addictive substances known to Man --
is available to school kids, we know that no one is safe. When
we think of the 200,000 babies born each year to mothers who use
drugs -- babies who know the agony of withdrawal as they draw
their first breath, we know that this is a war we must win.
In the inner-city, in the small town, in the suburbs,
America is under seige. That is why we, as a nation, are ready
to fight to take back the streets. Many individuals, and many
communities, already have. Some brave souls have even paid with
their lives. Corporal Charles Hill, a suburban Virginia
policeman, was gunned down while trying to persuade a crack-
crazed junkie to release a hostage. ( (first name) ) Wilson, the
owner of a New York restaurant, was shot to death because he
3
refused to allow drug deals under his roof. These are American
heroes. But you shouldn't have to be a hero today just to be on
the side of the law. It is the civic. duty of everyone to support
justice, to join in this struggle for the future, the very soul,
of America.
II. Some Good News: While gauging the extent of this
problem, we should note our successes. There is some good news I
can share with you tonight. Although cocaine use has doubled, a
recent federally sponsored survey estimates that from 1985 to
1987 the number of Americans currently using any illegal drug has
declined by more than a third -- proving that in just two years,
millions of Americans have dropped so-called casual drug use for
good. There's no one reason why -- it is a combination of
efforts from police, parents, teachers, community activists, the
media and, most of all, the Reagans -- who first inspired so many
to say "no" to drugs.
But to make progress against addictive drugs will take more
than a change in attitude. It will take a national strategy
against drugs.
III. A Drug Strategy: Tonight, I want to present America's
first such strategy from Bill Bennett, our nation's first drug
policy director. Bill consulted with community leaders who deal
with the drug crisis at every stage. The result of his
4
interactions is a new strategy against drugs, based on
prevention, treatment, tougher laws and interdiction.
*** First, we must stop drug abuse before it starts.
Education and prevention efforts must be renewed, discarding the
failed approach of meek advice-giving, and replacing it with bold
confrontation -- the best approach from grade school to graduate
school. When it comes to drug education, instead of compromise,
we need values -- values taught by parents, values imparted by
teachers and values that uplift whole communities.
*** The second part of our strategy involves addicts who
want to go clean. For them we must have drug treatment programs
that work. And we must do more. We must search for effective
ways to treat cocaine and crack addiction. Most of all, because
drug addiction is a cruel inheritance, our treatment efforts will
focus on expectant mothers.
*** Third, for those who refuse to learn, we will increase
funding for states and localities to clean up the streets. I
renew my call on Congress to enact this Administration's crime
legislation, and I call on every state in America to match
tougher federal laws with stiffer bail, probation, parole and
sentencing for these merchants of death called pushers. We will
also encourage states to sentence non-violent drug offenders to
alternative programs, like house arrest and boot camps; and
5
expand drug testing for criminals, as they move from arrest
straight through to parole. And there must also be room in our
system for drug dealers -- room in our prisons.
When it comes to enforcing the law, drug abuse is a problem
in every community. But nowhere is the drug trade as brazen as
in our public housing projects. We must help the overwhelming
majority of public housing tenants who want nothing to do with
drugs. Our plan will enable these communities to restore order,
to kick out the dealers -- and to keep them out.
*** And finally, the fourth element of our strategy is to
fight outside our borders. We must be ready to take advantage of
a strengthened commitment from other governments to assist us in
disrupting, dismantling and eliminating drug-trafficking
organizations. Next month, I will go to Costa Rica to present my
plan to assist foreign governments in eradicating drug crops, and
to help them repel the vengeance of drug terrorists. On the high
seas and in the skies, we will adopt tougher rules of engagement
against smugglers. And on land, we will be no less vigilant in
hunting down drug financiers. In all, with increased
interdiction and foreign cooperation, we can raise the cost of
doing business for drug lords to the stiffest price possible --
life in prison, no parole.
Last February, we requested $625 million in new drug budget
authority for the coming year. Now, after six months of careful
6
study, we have identified an immediate need for more than a
billion dollars more. I am now proposing a 1990 drug-budget
totaling seven and a half billion dollars -- the largest single
increase in history. Yes, these dollars are important. But a
sense of determination, born of anger and distress, is even more
important. We need this determination to unite us, to bring us
together behind this one plan of action.
IV. Call to Action: Our drug strategy is an all-out
assault on every front. But as complex as it is, there is one
underlying principle: We must summon our national will, from the
White House, to the statehouse, to the courthouse, from the
boardroom to the pulpit, from every workplace to every classroom
in America. Wherever Americans work, study, play or pray, we
must join together in this single purpose.
I pledge to do my part. But I need your help. More
important, every child in America needs your help. Today --
right now.
Every American has a special contribution to make. Call
your local drug program. Whether you serve as a counselor, or
participate in a fundraising drive, there are no mundane tasks in
the war on drugs. Every volunteer, every effort, counts. Be a
big brother or sister to a child in need. Pitch in with your
local Neighborhood Watch program.
From the schools of Los Angeles to Bowling Green, Kentucky,
armies of volunteers have taken the fight against drugs to the
7
classroom. What can one person do? Consider Dr. Lorraine Hale
who was driving through Harlem, only to see a young mother, high
on heroin, holding a baby in her lap. On impulse, Dr. Hale
parked, and asked the woman to take the baby to the home of Clara
Hale, her mother. From this simple beginning, Lorraine and Clara
Hale, and a team of helpers, now nurse hundreds of drug-addicted
babies to health.
V. Conclusion: Of course, despite our best efforts,
victory is years away. But we must not relent, too many young
lives are at stake.
When I think of the devastation of drugs, I think of a
little boy named Dooney, who, until recently lived, in a crack
house in a suburb of Washington, D.C. In Dooney's neighborhood,
children don't flinch at the sound of gunfire. And when they
play, they pretend to sell to each other little white rocks they
call crack.
Life at home is so bad that Dooney begged his teachers to
let him sleep on the floor of his school. And 6-year-old Dooney
says: "I don't want to sell drugs, but I probably have to."
((PAUSE))
Dooney doesn't have to sell drugs. No child in America
should have to face such a future, or endure such a home.
Together, as a people, we can save these children of despair. We
have already saved countless lives through the efforts of recent
years. We have already transformed a national attitude of
8
tolerance into intolerance. But the war on drugs will be hard-
won, kid by kid, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood.
This is the toughest domestic challenge we have faced in decades.
( (Pick up vial, hold it in front of you) ) As a nation of
isolated individuals, we are lost. But if we face this evil as a
nation united, then the drug lords will be toppled and this will
be nothing but a vial of useless chemicals. Victory over drugs
is our cause, our just cause, and in time justice will prevail.
( (Set vial down, off camera))
Thank you, God bless you and good night.
#
#
#
Davis/Martin
August 17, 1989
Title: Drug
Draft: One
ROUGH DRAFT/PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ON DRUGS
I. A War Footing: Good evening.
Yesterday marked the unofficial end of summer, a time of
family vacations, away from work and away from school. America
has known many summers of peace and prosperity. But now yellow
school buses are back on the streets; America's children are back
in class; and our thoughts turn to the future.
This is the first time since taking the oath of office that
I felt an issue was so important, so threatening, that it
warranted directly talking with you, the American people. You,
your friends, your neighbors and I agree that the gravest
domestic threat facing our nation today is drugs.
We are waging nothing less than a war against chronic drug
the
abuse. Turn on your evening news, or pick up the morning paper
and you'll see what some Americans know just by stepping out
their front door: the most serious problem today is cocaine, and
in particular, crack.
Who's responsible? Let me tell you.
Anyone who uses drugs.
Anyone who sells drugs.
And anyone who looks the other way.
2
( (Pick up vial) )
This is the menace.
This is crack cocaine
seized last night by Drug Enforcement Administration agents just
ten blocks from where I'm sitting now. It could just as easily
have been heroin or PCP. It's as innocent-looking as candy, but
it is turning our cities into battle zones and it is murdering
our children by the thousands. Let there be no mistake, this is
the enemy. ( (Set vial down, out of camera range. ))
Some used to call drugs just a benign form of recreation.
They're not. Drugs are a creeping malignancy that threaten our
neighborhoods, our homes and our families. And it is because of
this that Americans must, as never before, go on a war-footing
against drugs.
It doesn't matter where you live. It doesn't matter if you
are white, black, yellow or brown. It doesn't matter if you are
rich or poor. No one is safe from this threat. No one is too
young or too innocent to be out of harm's way. When a 3-year-old
Seattle boy steps on a needle while picnicking with his parents,
and must now endure AIDS testing, no one is safe. When crack --
one of the most powerfully addictive substances known to Man --
is available to school kids, no one is safe. When 200,000 babies
are born each year to mothers who use drugs -- babies who know
the agony of withdrawal as they draw their first breath, we know
that this is a war we must win.
In the inner-city, in the small town, in the suburbs,
America is under siege. And America must fight to take back the
streets.
3
Many citizens, and many communities, already are in the
thick of it. Some brave souls have even paid with their lives.
Corporal Charles Hill, a suburban Virginia policeman, was gunned
down while trying to persuade a crack-crazed junkie to release a
hostage. ((first name)) Wilson, the owner of a New York
restaurant, was shot to death because he refused to allow drug
deals under his roof. These are American heroes. But you
shouldn't have to be a hero today just to be on the side of the
law. It's our duty, our responsibility, to join in this struggle
for the future, the very soul, of America.
II. Some Good News: But while facing this challenge, we
should also note our successes. There is good news I can share
with you tonight. Although cocaine use has doubled, a recent
federally sponsored survey estimates that from 1985 to 1987 the
number of Americans using any illegal drugs has declined by more
than a third -- proving that in just two years, millions of
Americans have dropped so-called casual drug use for good.
There's no one reason why -- it is a combination of efforts from
police, parents, teachers, community activists, the media and, a
President and First Lady by the name of Reagan -- who first
inspired so many to say "no" to drugs.
But to win the war against addictive drugs will take more
than a change in attitude. It will take a comprehensive national
strategy all Americans can back.
4
III. A Drug Strategy: Tonight, I want to present America's
first such strategy. As this strategy was prepared, Bill
Bennett, our nation's first drug policy director, and I talked
with community leaders, law enforcement officials and
rehabilitation experts. They had a lot to say, wisdom to share.
The result of our discussions is this new strategy against drugs,
based on prevention, treatment, tougher laws and interdiction.
my
we
my
*** First, we must stop drug abuse before it starts.
Education and prevention efforts must be redoubled, discarding
the failed approach of meek advice-giving, and replacing it with
2
bold confrontation -- the best approach from grade school to
51th
Jelp
graduate school. When it comes to drug education, we don't need
groups
compromise, we need values.
*** Second, our plan must help addicts who want to go
clean. They don't just need treatment programs, they need
programs that work. And we must do more. We must search for
effective ways to treat cocaine and crack addiction. Most of
all, because drug addiction is a cruel inheritance, our treatment
efforts will focus on expectant mothers.
*** Third, our enforcement strategy is based on a simple
philosophy: If you commit a drug crime, you will be caught. And
if caught, you will be prosecuted. And if convicted, you will do
time. Washington must pass this Administration's crime package
5
to toughen sentences, and to provide more federal law enforcers.
And then we must give state and local enforcers more police,
prosecutors and prisons. In return, the states must match
tougher federal laws with stiffer bail, probation, parole and
sentencing. Finally, we must make room in our system for dealers
of death -- room in our prisons. And as for their bosses, the
drug lords, we can raise the cost of doing business to the
stiffest price possible -- life in prison, no parole.
States should also sentence first-time non-violent drug
offenders to alternative programs, like house arrest and boot
camps; and test criminals for drugs, from sentencing straight
through to parole.
When it comes to enforcing the law, drug abuse is a problem
in every community. But nowhere are drug traders as brazen as in
our public housing projects. We must help the overwhelming
majority of public housing tenants who want nothing to do with
these thugs, who fear for their lives and the future of their
children. We must help these communities restore order, to kick
out the dealers -- and keep them out.
*** And finally, the fourth element of our strategy looks
beyond our borders. We must be ready to take advantage of a
strengthened commitment from other governments to assist us in
cracking international drug rings. Next month, I will go to a
summit in Costa Rica to present my plan to assist foreign
governments in eradicating drug crops, and to help them repel the
6
vengeance of drug terrorists. On the high seas and in the skies,
we will adopt tougher rules of engagement against smugglers. And
on land, we will be no less vigilant in hunting down the front-
men and financiers who launder drug money. It's time they traded
in their pinstripes for prison stripes.
Last February, we asked for a $625 million increase in the
drug budget for the coming year. Now, after six months of
careful study, we have identified an immediate need for more than
a billion dollars more. I am proposing a 1990 drug-budget
totaling seven and a half billion dollars -- the largest single
increase in history.
Yes, these dollars are vital. But a sense of determination,
born of anger and distress, is even more important. Let our
outrage unite us, and bring us together behind this one plan of
action, an assault on every front.
IV. Call to Action: We must summon our national will, from
the White House, to the statehouse, to the courthouse, from the
boardroom to the pulpit, from every workplace to every classroom
in America. Wherever Americans work, study, play or pray, we
must join together for this single purpose.
I pledge to do my part. But I need your help. More
important, every child in America needs your help. Today --
right now.
7
Every American has a special contribution to make. Call
prevenhon 0 - wealment
your local drug program. Whether you serve as a counselor, or
participate in a fundraising drive, there are no mundane tasks in
the war on drugs. Every volunteer counts. Be a big brother or
sister to a child in need. Pitch in with your local Neighborhood
Watch program.
From the schools of Los Angeles to Bowling Green, Kentucky,
armies of volunteers are taking the fight against drugs to the
classroom. What can one person do? Consider Dr. Lorraine Hale
who was driving through Harlem, only to see a young mother, high
on heroin, holding a baby in her lap. On impulse, Dr. Hale
parked, and asked the woman to take the baby to the home of Clara
Hale, her mother. From this simple beginning, Lorraine and Clara
Hale, and a team of helpers, now nurse hundreds of drug-addicted
babies back to health.
V. Conclusion: Of course, despite our best efforts,
victory is years away. But we must not relent, too many young
lives are at stake.
When I think of the devastation of drugs, I think of a
little boy named Dooney, who, until recently, lived in a crack
house in a suburb of Washington, D.C. In Dooney's neighborhood,
children don't flinch at the sound of gunfire. And when they
play, they pretend to sell to each other small white rocks they
call crack.
8
Life at home is so dismal that Dooney begged his teachers to
let him sleep on the floor of his school. And 6-year-old Dooney
says: "I don't want to sell drugs, but I probably have to."
( (PAUSE) )
Dooney doesn't have to sell drugs. No child in America
should have to face such a future, or endure such a home.
Together, as a people, we can save these children of despair. We
have already saved countless lives. We have already transformed
a national attitude of tolerance into intolerance. But the war
on drugs will be hard-won, kid by kid, block by block,
neighborhood by neighborhood.
This is the toughest domestic challenge we've faced in
decades. If we fight this war as a nation of isolated
individuals, we are lost. ( (Pick up vial, hold it in front of
you) ) But if we face this evil as a nation united, then the drug
lords will be toppled and this will be nothing but a vial of
useless chemicals. ( (Set vial down, off camera) ) Victory
victory over drugs is our cause, our cause is just, and with your
we
help, justice will prevail.
Thank you, God bless you and good night.
#
#
#
Davis/Martin
August 16, 1989
Title: Drug
Draft: Three
ROUGH DRAFT/PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ON DRUGS
I. Battles Won: Good evening. We need to talk tonight
about what we all agree is the most serious problem facing our
nation today -- drugs.
While we've won some battles in the war against drugs, we're
a long way from winning the war. Have we made progress? Yes.
Can we draw a bead on where the problem is most acute? Yes.
Most important, can we ultimately win the war? Well, if we work
together -- if we take the time to understand the problem -- if
we pitch the politics, partisanship and turf battles that have
to
plagued every previous effort -- then yes, absolutely, we can win
the war on drugs.
In fact, we've already made progress
You might ask: What
the
progress? It seems drug violence is on the nightly news every
evening. But I do have some very good news to share with you
tonight.
"
A recent federally sponsored survey estimates that the
number of Americans currently using any illegal drugs has
declined by more than a third. In short, casual use is
dramatically down. Thousands of dealers have been put in jail,
and millions of Americans have dropped drugs for good. In just
two years, the nation has turned against casual drug use.
2
II. A War Yet to Win: But there is another drug war, one
in which we are losing ground every day -- the war against drug
addiction. All you need to do is turn on your T.V., or pick up
your newspaper to see in an instant what the experts have already
topay
concluded: the problem is cocaine, and in particular, crack.
overall
While all drug abuse is down, estimated frequent use of
cocaine in all forms has doubled since 1985 When I think of the
200,000 babies born each year to mothers who use drugs -- 200,000
babies who know the agony of withdrawal as they draw their first
breath, I know that we are at war. When I think that crack
smoked form of cocaine, one of the most powerfully addictive
substances known to Man -- is available to school kids, I know
that we are at war.
Thisk awnenemustwin (Seattle
when I think of a Scalte way
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who must AIDS weake
we stupped
Crack, heroin or P.C.P.
it doesn't matter. They are
all poisons. They all destroy lives and they all tear
communities apart. In the inner-city in the small town, in the
AMERICANS ARE READY to
suburbs, we must fight back. Some have already fought back and
paid with their lives. Look at Corporal Charles Hill, a suburban
Virginia policeman who was gunned down while trying to coax a
crack-crazed junkie to release a hostage. ((Another two
examples) ) These are American heroes. But why did these heroes
die? Because of drugs. HOPPICER Charles Hill was doing his job. He was
fulfilling his civic duty.
Once touted as a benign form of recreation, cocaine has
proven to be a creeping malignancy that threatens our
neighborhoods, our homes and our children. We are engaged in
3
nothing less than a struggle for the very future, the very tood soul,
itis
MICIUIC
Duty
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Ann't
of America. Like Officer Charles Hill, we must all fight back
every citizen, every American.
Let's not kid ourselves, there is no secret weapon that will
win this war. There is no one answer. But we must have a single
purpose. And the American people are willing, as never before,
to go on a war-footing against addictive drugs, especially
cocaine and cocaine and crack.
III. A Drug Strategy: Last February, this Administration
requested $625 million in new drug budget authority for Fiscal
Year 1990. Now, after six months of careful study, we have
identified an immediate need for almost $1.3 billion more. I am
now proposing a 1990 drug-budget totaling $7.5 billion -- the
largest single increase in history. Yes, dollars are important.
But A SENSE OF
But reform must be born of anger. Determination, born of anger, one
we needthis
mow
will mobilize us as a nation. And this spirit of angry
to moblize,+
bainst
determination must unite us behind a single plan of action planofation.
Bill Bennett, Director of the Office of National Drug
Control Policy, has consulted with leaders in the fields of law
enforcement, drug prevention, drug education and treatment. And,
on this basis, Dr. Bennett has done a masterful job in devising a
Inimplem this st,,
comprehensive national drug-control strategy. I look to Congress
pol.
for advice and support. We must not be adversaries in a bidding
war for political gain, but allies in a war against drugs.
4
Cocaine not only wrecks the lives of users, but leaves
bloodshed and random violence in its wake. Last May, I proposed
CRime
a four part plan to toughen laws, to provide more police to
5
arrest, more prosecutors to convict and more prison to hold,
merchants of death called pushers. I call on Congress to enact
this legislation, and I call on every state in America to match
the toughness of federal laws with stiffer bail, probation,
parole and sentencing.
*** To keep drugs off the streets, we will increase funding
for states and localities to enforce the law; to sentence non-
violent drug offenders to alternative programs, like house arrest
AAD
and boot camps; to eradicate the domestic marijuana crop. We
must expand drug testing -- particularly for criminals, as they
move from arrest straight through to parole. And there must also
be room in our system for incorrigible drug dealers -- room in
our prisons.
*** Drug abuse is a problem in every community. But
nowhere is the drug trade as bold as in our public housing
projects. The vast majority of public housing tenants want
nothing to do with drugs, fear for their lives and for the future
of their children. To keep drugs out of public housing, we must
establish security systems, kick out the dealers, and keep them
out.
5
*** To keep drugs outside our borders, we must be ready to
take advantage of a strengthened commitment from other
governments to assist us in disrupting, dismantling and
eliminating drug-trafficking organizations. Next month, I will
go to Costa Rica to present my plan to assist foreign governments
in eradicating crops and withstanding the onslaught of drug
terrorism. We will also adopt tougher rules of engagement on the
high seas and in the skies. We will XXXX to hunt down the drug
financiers. With increased interdiction and foreign cooperation,
we can raise the cost of doing business for drug lords to the
highest price possible -- life in prison without parole.
*** To keep former addicts off of drugs, we must have drug
treatment programs that work. And we must do more. We must
search for effective ways to treat cocaine and crack addiction.
Most of all, our treatment efforts should focus on expectant
mothers, because drug addiction is a cruel inheritance.
I
propose to double the funds allocated to treatment
*** But prevention is best of all solutions. Education and
prevention efforts must be renewed, discarding the failed
approach of meek advice-giving, and replacing it with bold
The
west
confrontation This should be our approach from grade school to
graduate school. When it comes to drug education, instead of
compromise, we need values -- values taught by parents, values
imparted by teachers and values that uplift whole communities.
Threeison
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an all -out
our
assaucton strating may fronts. But as
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is
6
Complex as it p, there is one
indulin putriple.
IV. Call to Action: If we are to turn the tide of drug
abuse, we must summon our national will, from the White House to
thE boaroroom to
the statehouse to the court house, from leaders of business to
thrpulpit
leaders of religion, from principals to teachers, from parents to
students. Wherever Americans work, study, play or pray, we must
join together in this single purpose.
I pledge to do my part. In February, with the advice of
Congress and the American people, we will refine our proposals.
And this Administration will report back in the February after
thE TIDE ha turned
that, and the year after that, until we have turned the tide.
V. Conclusion: Victory will only come slowly. But we must
not relent, for the sake of so many young lives.
When I think of the devastation of drugs, I think of a
little boy named Dooney, who until recently lived in a crack
house in a suburb of Washington, D.C. In Dooney's neighborhood,
children no longer flinch at the sound of gunfire. And when they
play, they pretend to sell to each other little white rocks they
call crack.
Life at home is so bad that Dooney begged his teachers to
let him sleep on the floor of his school. And then this little
boy told a reporter: "I don't want to sell drugs, but I probably
have to."
He doesn't have to. No child in America should have to face
such a future, or endure such a home. By working together, as a
people, we can save these children of despair. We have already
7
saved countless lives through the efforts of recent years. We
have already transformed a national attitude of drug tolerance
into drug intolerance. Further progress will be hard-won, kid by
kid, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood. This is the
DECADES
toughest domestic challenge we have faced in our lifetimes. But
we are tougher, for we are, after all, Americans,
Thank you, God bless you and good night.
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Davis/Martin
August 16, 1989
Title: Drug
Draft: Two
ROUGH OUTLINE FOR PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ON DRUGS
I. Battles Won: Good evening. I wish to speak to you
tonight about a problem that you, the American people, have
identified as the most serious facing our nation today -- the
scourge of illegal narcotics.
alested
America is already responding to the drug menace. A recent
federally sponsored survey estimates that the number of Americans
MORE A thiRD
currently using any illegal drugs has declined by 37 percent.
Thousands of dealers have been put in jail, thousands of addicts
have stayed clean and millions of Americans have pushed drugs out
of their lives for good. ((Examples to come. ))
II. A War Yet to Win: Yet this good news is outweighed by
the bad. While most of us have adopted a hard attitude toward
An EPIDEMIC OFCOCAINRUSE 1/3 Tup UP SINCE 1985
drug abuse, the drug epidemic is still spreading, causing
unprecedented human suffering in America today.
As many as 200,000 babies are born each year to mothers who
use drugs -- 200,000 babies who know the agony of withdrawal as
they draw their first breath. And while drug use is down over
all, estimated frequent use of cocaine in all forms has doubled
since 1985. Crack, a smoked form of cocaine, is one of the most
powerfully addictive substances known to Man, and it is the most
TIGHTER
2
obvious menace today; while other dangerous drugs, like smoked
heroin, also loom as ever-present alternatives.
Tighten bail,
But crack or heroin
it doesn't matter. They are all
seductive poisons that destroy lives and lay waste to whole
communities. Look to the inner-city neighborhoods, where
DRUG University invoice Prosecte
multiple arrests are no deterrent to drug dealers who brazenly
conduct their business in the open. Look to the small towns,
where the drug trade thrives unseen. Look to Corporal Charles
Hill, a suburban Virginia policeman who was gunned down while
trying to coax a crack-crazed junkie to release a hostage. Or
consider Maria Hernandez, a wife and mother who for four years
waged a lonely campaign against drug dealers in a Brooklyn
neighborhood, only to be assassinated in her bedroom. Why must
you be a hero to simply enforce or support the law in America
today? Because of drugs. Why did these heroes die? Again,
because of drugs.
Once touted as a benign form of recreation, drugs have
proven to be a creeping malignancy that threatens our
neighborhoods, our homes and our children. We are engaged in
nothing less than a struggle for the very future, the very soul,
of America.
In this struggle, there is no secret weapon or single tactic
that will bring success. But we must have a single purpose. The
American people are willing, as never before, to go on a war-
footing against drugs.
3
III. A Drug Strategy: Last February, this Administration
requested $625 million in new drug budget authority for Fiscal
Year 1990. Now, after six months of careful study, we have
identified an immediate need for almost $1.3 billion more. I am
now proposing a 1990 drug-budget totaling $7.5 billion -- the
largest single increase in history. Yet spending alone is not
enough. To mobilize as a nation, we must unite behind a single
plan of action.
Bill Bennett, Director of the Office of National Drug
Control Policy, has consulted with leaders in the fields of law
enforcement, drug prevention, drug education and treatment. And,
on this basis, we have devised a comprehensive national drug-
control strategy. I look to Congress for advice and support. We
must not be adversaries in a bidding war for political gain, but
allies in a war against drugs.
*** To keep drugs off the streets, we will increase funding
for states and localities to enforce the law; to sentence non-
violent drug offenders to alternative programs, like house arrest
and boot camps; to eradicate the domestic marijuana crop; to
expand drug testing -- particularly for criminals, from arrest to
parole. But there must also be room in our system for
incorrigible drug dealers -- room in our prisons. And to send
them there, we must also recruit more prosecutors and police.
4
*** Drug abuse is a problem in every community. But
coca
nowhere is the drug trade as bold as in our public housing
projects. The vast majority of public housing tenants want
nothing to do with drugs, fear for their lives and for the future
of their children. To keep drugs out of public housing, we must
establish security systems, kick out the dealers, and keep them
out.
*** To keep drugs away from our borders, we must be ready
to take advantage of a strengthened commitment from other
governments to assist us in disrupting, dismantling and
eliminating drug-trafficking organizations. We will also adopt
tougher rules of engagement on the high seas and in the skies.
With increased interdiction and foreign cooperation, we can raise
the cost of doing business for drug lords to the highest price
aconomi,
possible -- life imprisonment.
*** To keep former addicts off of drugs, we must have drug
treatment programs that work. And we must do more. We must
search for effective ways to treat cocaine and crack addiction.
Most of all, our treatment efforts should focus on expectant
mothers, because drug addiction is a cruel inheritance. I
propose to double the funds allocated to treatment.
*** But prevention is best of all solutions. Education and
prevention efforts must be renewed, discarding the failed
schools, free Collegua approach rumunda
5
of meek advice-giving, and replacing it with bold
confrontation. When it comes to drug education, instead of
compromise, we need values -- values taught by parents, values
imparted by teachers and values that uplift whole communities.
IV. Call to Action: If we are to turn the tide of drug
abuse, we must summon our national will, from President to
governors and mayors, from leaders of business to leaders of
religion, from principals to teachers, from parents to students.
Wherever Americans work, study, play or pray, we must join
together in this single purpose.
I pledge to do my part. In February, with the advice of
Congress and the American people, we will refine our proposals.
And this Administration will report back in the February after
that, and the year after that, until we have turned the tide.
V. Conclusion: Victory will only come slowly. But we must
not relent, for the sake of so many young lives.
When I think of the devastation of drugs, I think of a
little boy named Dooney, who until recently lived in a crack
house in a suburb of Washington, D.C. In Dooney's neighborhood,
children no longer flinch at the sound of gunfire. And when they
play, they pretend to sell to each other little white rocks they
call crack.
Life at home is so bad that Dooney begged his teachers to
let him sleep on the floor of his school. And then this little
6
boy told a reporter: "I don't want to sell drugs, but I probably
have to."
He doesn't have to. No child in America should have to face
such a future, or endure such a home. By working together, as a
people, we can save these children of despair. We have already
saved countless lives through the efforts of recent years. We
have already transformed a national attitude of drug tolerance
into drug intolerance. Further progress will be hard-won, kid by
of
kid, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood. This is the
toughest domestic challenge we have faced. in our lifetimes. But
we are tougher, for we are after all Americans.
Thank you, God bless you and good night.
#
#
#
Davis/Martin
August 16, 1989
Title: Drug
Draft: Two
ROUGH OUTLINE FOR PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ON DRUGS
we need to talk
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federally sponsored survey estimates that the number of Americans way
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neighborhood, only to be assassinated in her bedroom Why must
you be a hero to simply enforce or support the law in America
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proven to be a creeping malignancy that threatens our
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In this struggle, there is no secret weapon or single tactic was
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that will bring success. But we must have a single purpose. The
American people are willing, as never before, to go on a war-
footing against drugs.
3
III. A Drug Strategy: Last February, this Administration
requested $625 million in new drug budget authority for Fiscal
Year 1990. Now, after six months of careful study, we have
identified an immediate need for almost $1.3 billion more. I am
now proposing a 1990 drug-budget totaling $7.5 billion -- the
largest single increase in history. Yes, dollars spending alone are is important not
But determation will Determination will
enough. TO mobilize as a nation, we must unite behind a single
&
plan of action.
Bill Bennett, Director of the Office of National Drug
Control Policy, has consulted with leaders in the fields of law
enforcement, drug prevention, drug education and treatment. And,
on this basis, we have devised a comprehensive national drug-
control strategy. I look to Congress for advice and support. We
must not be adversaries in a bidding war for political gain, but
allies in a war against drugs.
*** To keep drugs off the streets, we will increase funding
for states and localities to enforce the law; to sentence non-
violent drug offenders to alternative programs, like house arrest
and boot camps; to eradicate the domestic marijuana crop; to
expand drug testing -- particularly for criminals, from arrest to
parole. But there must also be room in our system for
incorrigible drug dealers -- room in our prisons. And to send
them there, we must also recruit more prosecutors and police.
4
*** Drug abuse is a problem in every community. But
nowhere is the drug trade as bold as in our public housing
projects. The vast majority of public housing tenants want
nothing to do with drugs, fear for their lives and for the future
of their children. To keep drugs out of public housing, we must
establish security systems, kick out the dealers, and keep them
out.
*** To keep drugs away from our borders, we must be ready
to take advantage of a strengthened commitment from other
governments to assist us in disrupting, dismantling and
eliminating drug-trafficking organizations. We will also adopt
tougher rules of engagement on the high seas and in the skies.
With increased interdiction and foreign cooperation, we can raise
the cost of doing business for drug lords to the highest price
possible -- life imprisonment.
*** To keep former addicts off of drugs, we must have drug
treatment programs that work. And we must do more. We must
search for effective ways to treat cocaine and crack addiction.
Most of all, our treatment efforts should focus on expectant
mothers, because drug addiction is a cruel inheritance. I
propose to double the funds allocated to treatment.
*** But prevention is best of all solutions. Education and
prevention efforts must be renewed, discarding the failed
5
approach of meek advice-giving, and replacing it with bold
confrontation. When it comes to drug education, instead of
compromise, we need values -- values taught by parents, values
imparted by teachers and values that uplift whole communities.
IV. Call to Action: If we are to turn the tide of drug
the
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abuse, we must summon our national will, from to the
to
genernors and mayors, from leaders of business to leaders of
there
religion, from principals to teachers, from parents to students.
Wherever Americans work, study, play or pray, we must join
together in this single purpose.
I pledge to do my part. In February, with the advice of
Congress and the American people, we will refine our proposals.
And this Administration will report back in the February after
that, and the year after that, until we have turned the tide.
V. Conclusion: Victory will only come slowly. But we must
not relent, for the sake of so many young lives.
When I think of the devastation of drugs, I think of a
little boy named Dooney, who until recently lived in a crack
house in a suburb of Washington, D.C. In Dooney's neighborhood,
children no longer flinch at the sound of gunfire. And when they
play, they pretend to sell to each other little white rocks they
call crack.
Life at home is so bad that Dooney begged his teachers to
let him sleep on the floor of his school. And then this little
6
boy told a reporter: "I don't want to sell drugs, but I probably
have to."
He doesn't have to. No child in America should have to face
such a future, or endure such a home. By working together, as a
people, we can save these children of despair. We have already
saved countless lives through the efforts of recent years. We
have already transformed a national attitude of drug tolerance
into drug intolerance. Further progress will be hard-won, kid by
kid, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood. This is the
toughest domestic challenge we have faced in our lifetimes. But
we are tougher, for we are, after all, Americans.
Thank you, God bless you and good night.
#
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#
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Davis/Martin
August 16, 1989
Title: Drug
Draft: Three
ROUGH DRAFT/PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ON DRUGS
This is the first Time since
taking the oath of office that H have
you, your friends and your neighbors that and I
I. Battles Won: Good evening. ^ We need to talk tonight
wrought an insue dreatly people America
(over)
about what we all agree the most serious problem facing our
nation today is drugs.
While we've won some battles in the war against drugs, we're
a long way from winning the war. Have we made progress? Yes.
((Can we draw a bead on where the problem is most acute? Yes. But the
grestion
S
Most important can we ultimately win the war? Well, if we work
together if we take the time to understand the problem -- if
end
posturiag
the
we pitch the partisanship, the political bidding wars and turf
(
battles then yes, absolutely, we can win the war on drugs.
-
Isaid
In fact, we've already made progress. After seeing the
with son many stories about drugs and durs related rolence
evening news, you might ask: What progress? BILL- P de have some
Ican
n The answer m
very good news to share with you tonight. )) A recent federally
from 1985- 1988
sponsored survey estimates that ^ the number of Americans currently
using any illegal drug has declined by more than a third --
proving that in just two years, millions of Americans have
dropped so-called casual drug use for good. There's no one reason-
its a combination ofthings -7 parents teachers, Nancy Reagon
the nedia more cops etc.
II. A War Yet to Win: But there is another drug war, one
in which we are losing ground every day -- the war against drug
chionic
use
addiction
Some Americans need only to turn on the T.V., or pick
I telt an issue was so important,
So Alrious, dhat it warranted talking with you, de
American people, directly - through the medium of television.
2
up a newspaper to see in an instant what the experts have already
concluded: the most serious problem today is cocaine, and in
particular, crack. To know this same sad truth, other Americans
need only to step out their front door. ( (Policeman's ghetto
quote. ))
While overall, drug abuse is down, estimated frequent use of
cocaine in all forms has doubled since 1985. No one is too young
or too innocent to be safe from drugs. When we think of the 3-
year-old Seattle boy who stepped on a needle in a park while on a
picnic with his parents, and must now endure AIDS testing, we
know that no one is safe. When we think that crack -- one of the
most powerfully addictive substances known to Man -- is available
to school kids, we know no one is safe. When we think of the
200,000 babies born each year to mothers who use drugs -- 200,000
babies who know the agony of withdrawal as they draw their first
breath, we know that this is a war we must win.
Whether it is crack, heroin or P.C.P., it doesn't matter.
They are all deadly poisons. They all destroy lives and they all
tear communities apart. In the inner-city, in the small town, in
It is timethat we, as a nation
the suburbs, America is under seige, and Americans are ready to
donger back. Many have already have. Some bring even paid with
individuals, many communities brave souls have
their lives. Look at Corporal Charles Hill, a suburban Virginia
policeman who was gunned down while trying to coax a crack-crazed
junkie to release a hostage. Look at ( (first name) ) Wilson, a
New York restauranteur who refused to serve drug dealers, and was
shot to death. These are American heroes. But why must you be a
3
hero today to be on the side of the law? Because of drugs.
Once touted as a benign form of recreation, cocaine has proven to
be a creeping malignancy that threatens our neighborhoods, our
homes and our children. It is the civic duty of everyone to join
in this struggle for the future, the very soul, of America.
Of course, we must not fool ourselves, there is no secret
weapon that will win this war. There is no one answer. But we
must
must have a single purpose
The American people
are
willing,
as never before, to go on a war-footing against drugs.
III. A Drug Strategy: Tonight, I want to share with you my
Administration's strategy to fight drugs. Last February, we
requested $625 million in new drug budget authority for Fiscal
Year 1990. Now, after six months of careful study, we have
identified an immediate need for almost $1.3 billion more. I am
now proposing a 1990 drug-budget totaling $7.5 billion -- the
largest single increase in history. Yes, these dollars are
important. But a sense of determination, born of anger and
distress, is even more important. We need this spirit of angry
determination to mobilize us, to unite us, to bring us together
behind a plan of action.
We now have such a plan, thanks to Bill Bennett, our drug
1st
policy director, who has consulted with leaders in the fields of
law enforcement, drug prevention, education and treatment. And,
drawing on their wisdom, Bill has done a masterful job in
devising a comprehensive national drug-control strategy.
4
Last May, I proposed tougher laws, more police, more
prosecutors and more prisons to cope with the bloodshed and
random violence of the drug wars. I now call on Congress to
enact this legislation, and I call on every state in America to
match tougher federal laws with stiffer bail, probation, parole
and sentencing for these merchants of death called pushers. But
understand, in making these proposals to Congress, my purpose is
to enlist allies, not to set off another political bidding war.
*** To keep drugs off the streets, we will increase funding
for states and localities to enforce the law; to sentence non-
violent drug offenders to alternative programs, like house arrest
and boot camps. We must expand drug testing -- particularly for
criminals, as they move from arrest straight through to parole.
And there must also be room in our system for drug dealers --
room in our prisons.
*** Drug abuse is a problem in every community. But
nowhere is the drug trade as brazen as in our public housing
projects. The vast majority of public housing tenants want
nothing to do with drugs, fearing for their lives and for the
future of their children. To keep drugs out of public housing,
we must restore order, kick out the dealers -- and keep them out.
*** To keep drugs outside our borders, we must be ready to
take advantage of a strengthened commitment from other
5
governments to assist us in disrupting, dismantling and
eliminating drug-trafficking organizations. Next month, I will
go to Costa Rica to present my plan to assist foreign governments
in eradicating drug crops, and to help them repel the vengeance
of drug terrorists. On the high seas and in the skies, we will
adopt tougher rules of engagement against smugglers. And on
land, we will be no less vigilant in hunting down drug
financiers. In all, with increased interdiction and foreign
cooperation, we can raise the cost of doing business for drug
lords to the stiffest price possible -- life in prison, no
parole.
*** To keep former addicts off of drugs, we must have drug
treatment programs that work. And we must do more. We must
search for effective ways to treat cocaine and crack addiction.
Most of all, because drug addiction is a cruel inheritance, our
treatment efforts should focus on expectant mothers.
*** But prevention is best of all solutions. Education and
prevention efforts must be renewed, discarding the failed
approach of meek advice-giving, and replacing it with bold
confrontation -- the best approach from grade school to graduate
school. When it comes to drug education, instead of compromise,
we need values -- values taught by parents, values imparted by
teachers and values that uplift whole communities.
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IV. Call to Action: Our drug strategy is an all-out
assault on every front. But as complex as it is, there is one
underlying principle: We must summon our national will, from the
White House to the statehouse to the courthouse, from the
boardroom to the pulpit, from every workplace to every classroom
in America. Wherever Americans work, study, play or pray, we
must join together in this single purpose.
I pledge to do part. NUM In February, But with I need the advice your of help -
more insportantly my every child in America needs your help.
Congress and the American people, we will refine our proposals.
Today - night now.
And this Administration will report back in the February after
that, and the year after that, until the tide has turned.
But very American has a special contribution to make.
Call your
and volunteer
Every local drug program needs your help. Whether you serve as a
counselor, or participate in a fundraising drive, there are no
mundane tasks in the war on drug. Every volunteer, every effort,
counts. Be a big boother or by sister to a child in need.
Set up a block watch - organge your community. Help local you
From the schools of Los Angeles to Bowling Green, Kentucky,
cops.
armies of volunteers have taken the fight against drugs to the
classroom. But what can one person do? Consider Dr. Lorraine
Hale who was driving through Harlem, only to see a young mother,
high on heroin, holding a baby in her lap. On impulse, Dr. Hale
parked, and asked the woman if she would take the baby to her
mother's house. From this beginning, Dr. Hale, her mother Clara
and a team of helpers at Hale House now nurse hundreds of drug-
addicted babies to health.
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V. Conclusion: Of course, despite our best efforts,
victory will only come slowly. But we must not relent, for the
sake of so many young lives.
When I think of the devastation of drugs, I think of a
little boy named Dooney, who until recently lived in a crack
house in a suburb of Washington, D.C. In Dooney's neighborhood,
children no longer flinch at the sound of gunfire. And when they
play, they pretend to sell to each other little white rocks they
call crack.
Life at home is SO bad that Dooney begged his teachers to
let him sleep on the floor of his school. And then this little
boy told a reporter: "I don't want to sell drugs, but I probably
have to."
He doesn't have to. No child in America should have to face
such a future, or endure such a home. By working together, as a
people, we can save these children of despair. We have already
saved countless lives through the efforts of recent years. We
have already transformed a national attitude of tolerance into
intolerance. Further progress will be hard-won, kid by kid,
block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood. This is the
toughest domestic challenge we have faced in decades. As a
nation of isolated individuals, we are helpless to do anything
about it. But as a nation united, we are more than a match for
the drug menance. Thank you, God bless you and good night.
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Davis/Martin
August 15, 1989
Title: Drug
Draft: One
ROUGH OUTLINE FOR PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ON DRUGS
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I. Introduction: Good evening. I wish to speak to you
tonight about a problem that you, the American people, have
identified as the most serious facing our nation today -- the
scourge of illegal narcotics.
ICIDS off
America is already responding to the drug menace. A recent
federal survey estimates that the number of Americans currently
using any illegal drugs has declined by 37 percent. ((quotes Kies) from
A WAR yet to Fight:
II.
War Footing: Yet this good news is outweighed by the
bad. While most of us have adopted a hard attitude toward drug
abuse, the drug epidemic is still spreading, causing
unprecedented human suffering in America today.
As many as 200,000 babies are born each year to mothers who
use drugs -- 200,000 babies who know the agony of withdrawal as
they draw their first breath. And while drug use is down over
all, estimated frequent use of cocaine in all forms has doubled
since 1985. Crack, a smoked form of cocaine, is one of the most
powerfully addictive substances known to Man, and it is the most
obvious menace today; while other dangerous drugs, like smoked
A
Hernatives
heroin, also loom as ever-present substitutes.
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But crack or heroin
it doesn't matter. They are all
seductive poisons that destroy lives and lay waste to whole
communities. Look to the inner-city neighborhoods, where
multiple arrests are no deterrent to drug dealers who brazenly
conduct their business in the open. Look to the small towns,
where the drug trade thrives unseen. Look to Corporal Charles
Hill, a suburban Virginia policeman who was gunned down while
trying to coax a crack-crazed junkie to let go of a hostage. Or
CONSIDER
look to Maria Hernandez, a wife and mother who for four years
waged a lonely campaign against drug dealers in a Brooklyn
neighborhood, only to be assassinated in her bedroom. Why must
you be a hero to simply enforce or support the law in America
today? Because of drugs. Why did these heroes die? Again,
because of drugs.
Once touted as a benign form of recreation, drugs have
proven to be a creeping malignancy that threatens our
neighborhoods, our homes and our children. We are engaged in
Future, very
nothing less than a struggle for the very soul of America.
In this struggle, there is no secret weapon or single tactic
bring
MUST
that will guarantee success. But we have a single purpose. We
are ready to mobilize as a nation. The American people are
willing, as never before, to go on a war-footing against drugs.
III. A Drug Strategy: Last February, this Administration
requested $625 million in new drug budget authority for Fiscal
Year 1990. Now, after six months of careful study, we have
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identified an immediate need for almost $1.3 billion more. I am
now proposing a 1990 drug-budget totaling $7.5 billion -- the
largest single increase in history. Yet spending alone is not
enough. To mobilize as a nation, we must unite behind a single
plan of action.
Bill Bennett, Director of the Office of National Drug
Control Policy, has consulted with leaders in the fields of law
enforcement, drug prevention, drug education and treatment. And,
on this basis, we have devised a comprehensive national drug-
control strategy.
*** To keep drugs off the streets, we will increase funding
for states and localities to enforce the law; to sentence non-
violent drug offenders to alternative programs, like house arrest
and boot camps; to eradicate the domestic marijuana crop; to
expand drug testing -- particularly for criminals, as they move
from arrest to prosecution to parole. But there must also be
room in our system for the incorrigible drug dealer -- room in
our prisons. And to send them there, we must also recruit more
prosecutors and police.
*** Drug abuse is a problem in every community. But
the DRUG TRADE
nowhere is it conducted as audacious ly as in our public housing
projects. The vast majority of public housing tenants want
nothing to do with drugs, fear for their lives and for the future
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of their children. We owe it to them to establish security
systems, to kick out the dealers, and keep them out.
*** To keep drugs away from our borders, we must be ready
structured
From
to take advantage of a stronger commitment among other
governments to assist us in disrupting, dismantling and
eliminating drug-trafficking organizations. We will also adopt
tougher rules of engagement on the high seas and in the skies.
With increased interdiction and foreign cooperation, we can raise
the cost of doing business for drug lords to the highest price
possible ---- life imprisonment.
*** To keep former addicts off of drugs, we must have drug
AnD
treatment programs that work. But we must do more. We must
search for effective ways to treat cocaine and crack addiction.
And, most of all, because drug addiction is a cruel inheritance,
our treatment efforts should focus on expectant mothers.
*** But prevention is best of all solutions. Education and
VALUES
prevention efforts must be renewed, discarding the failed
approach of meek advice-giving, and replacing it with bold
confrontation. When it comes to drug education, there is no room
for
compromise. Parental + community VALUES.
IV CAll to Action.
IV. Conclusion: If we are to turn the tide of drug abuse,
we must summon our national will, from President to governors and
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mayors, from leaders of business to leaders of religion, from
principals to teachers, from parents to students. Wherever
Americans work, study, play or pray, we must join together in
this single purpose.
I pledge to do my part. In February, with the advice of
Congress and the American people, we will refine our proposals.
And this Administration will report back in the February after
that, and the year after that, until we have turned the tide.
H
CONCLUSION
Victory will only come slowly. But we must not relent, for
the sake of so many young lives.
When I think of the devastation of drugs, I think of a
little boy named Dooney, who until recently lived in a crack
house in a suburb of Washington, D.C. In Dooney's neighborhood,
children no longer flinch at the sound of gunfire. And when they
play, they pretend to sell to each other little white rocks they
call crack.
Life at home is so bad that Dooney begged his teachers to
let him sleep on the floor of his school. And then this little
boy told a reporter: "I don't want to sell drugs, but I probably
have to."
He doesn't have to. No child in America should have to face
37%
such a future, or endure such a home. By working together, as a
people, we can save these children of despair. The challenge is
SUCCESSI
tough, the odds are stacked against us. But we will eventually
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prevail, for we are, after all, Americans.
Thank you, God bless you and good night.
Kiplike
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AND EVEN in THE DARKEST CORNER of THE
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of the 37 million users in 1985, approximately 12 million
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had used cocaine, and that had dropped by one-third to 8 million
users in 1988.
And there's even more. when people were asked about drug
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use in the last month, the decline was even greater a
37
percent decline for the use of any illicit drug
How much comfort can we take from these dramatic declines in
usage? i will come back to that later
but remember 28 million
Americans used illegal drugs last year
every single one of those
people are a part of our problem that is bad news, but it gets
worse. Each year a significant number of so-called recreational
drug users become abusers and eventually addicts enslaved by
their habit
Threeyears ago 5% of the 12 million cocaine users
were using it more frequently than once a week
over half of
those were using it daily--600,000 abusers! Last year even though
cocaine usage was down , the number of abusers was up to a startling
900,000:
11% of the 8 million users!
What all this means is, that in spite of the fact that cocaine use
is down over the last three years by one-third, habitual cocaine
abusers are up by at least 50 percent.
And our estimates are probably overly optimistic, since they
do not include the transient population the people on the streets
and in our jails. Most experts believe that we have at least one
million frequent users of cocaine over half of them crack addicts
and many with the potential for violence!
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III. A Drug Strategy: Tonight, I want to announce
America's first such strategy. As it was prepared, we talked
with state, local and community leaders, law enforcement
officials and rehabilitation experts. We talked with parents and
kids. They all had effot to say, wisdom to share. The result of
our discussions is a new comprehensive strategy, a coordinated
strategy, to fight drugs with passession, recommen's, tougher laws
and interdiction, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION
First
*** Third, our enforcement strategy is based on a simple
philosophy: If you commit a drug crime, you will be caught. And
if caught, you will be prosecuted. And if convicted, you will do
time. Congress must pass this Administration's crime package to
toughen sentences, and to provide more federal law enforcers,
prosecutors and prisons. And then we must increase funding for
state and local law enforcers. In return, I expect the states to
match tougher federal laws with stiffer bail, probation, parole
and sentencing. I especially urge the governors to punish drug
offenders by taking away their driver's licenses. This may sound
harsh, but for many young people, leniency is the harshest & policy
of. all.
States should also sentence first-time non-violent drug
offenders to alternative programs, like house arrest and boot
camps; and test criminals for drugs, from sentencing straight
through to parole.
Finally, we must make room for the dealers of death -- room
in our prisons. And as for their bosses, the drug lords, we can
raise the cost of doing business to the stiffest price possible -
4b life in prison, no parole.
AUG 28 '89 16:10 JE BURKE
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When it comes to enforcing the law, drug abuse is a problem
in every community. But nowhere are drug traders as brazen as in
our public housing projects. The overwhelming majority of public
housing tenants want nothing to do with these thugs. They fear
for their lives and the safety of their children. We cannot, we
will not, turn our backs on any of our neighbors in trouble. I
seek to empower these communities to restore order, to kick out
the dealers -- and to keep them out.
THE SECOND
*** And Linably, the fourth element of our strategy looks
beyond our borders, where drug gangsters have slaughtered brave
statesmen and honest judges. The besieged governments of the
drug-producing countries are ready to fight back, to help us
crack the international drug rings. And I am pleased to note
( (Late news item from Colombia to be added.) )
Next month, I will build on this progress by going to a
summit in Costa Rica to present my plan to assist foreign
governments in eradicating drug crops, and to help them fight the
violence of drug terrorists. On the high seas and in the skies,
we will adopt tougher rules of engagement against smugglers. And
on land, we will seek international agreements to make it easier
to follow the trail of drug money back to the front-men and
financiers. We will put these pinstriped money-launderers where
they belong -- in prison stripes.
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The third part of our plan is to help those who are addicted to
drugs who want to get well. We don't know nearly enough about
chemical dependency and we must learn a lot more if we are to
deal effectively with this crisis. We must carefully evaluate
treatment programs so we can identify what works and what doesn't
and then provide support for those that prove effective. I am
proposing
million dollars of increase for the most
effective treatments.
We will especially focus on America's worst nightmare - expectant
mothers about to give birth to babies who are addicted. The
cruelest of all inheritances.
And finally, I would like to turn to the most important part of
this problem - the demand side of illegal drug abuse. First of
all we must put aside the notion that the real enemy is a
chemical or even a foreign country.
pruention (last)
But before all of this we do cighter
else, to treatly start the problem
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LETME REPEAT.
so WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS EPIDEMIC?
ANYONE WHO USES DRUGS
ANYONE WHO SELLS DRUGS
AND ANYONE WHO LOOKS THE OTHER WAY.
THOSE SIMPLE TRUTHS WILL BE THE BASIS OF OUR PROGRAMS ON EDUCATION
AND PREVENTION, AND WE WILL WORK TO REPLACE THE FAILED APPROACHES OF THE
PAST WITH
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CONFRONTATION WHEN THE LAWS AND THE VALUES OF OUR SOCIETY
ARE BEING COMPROMISED.
WHILE WE IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CAN HAVE AN AFFECT ON THE DEMAND
FOR DRUGS, IN TRUTH YOU, THE PUBLIC, ARE THE KEY TO OUR NATION'S
SUCCESS. AND THAT IS WHY YOUR PRESIDENT IS CONVINCED THAT THIS SCOURGE
WILL END.
LET US RETURN TO THE EXTRAORDINARY RESULTS THAT WE LEARNED FROM OUR
LAST SURVEY OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE - 37% FEWER AMERICANS
BETWEEN THE AGES OF 12 TO 54 REPORTED USING DRUGS THE MONTH BEFORE THE
SURVEY WAS TAKEN THAN THREE YEARS BEFORE!
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outrage unite us, and bring us together behind this one plan of
action, an assault on every front.
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That we have seen some progress against such odds is due
to a national change in attitude. I want to thank all of you
who have done so much: our brave police officers across
on
America. parents, teachers
community activists
and busi
ness and labor leaders who have assumed responsibility in the
workplace. I particularily want to thank the media-- television,
radio and the press
for their exhaustive news and editorial
coverage, and for generously supplying so much time and space
for the educational advertising efforts
And finally I want to thank a ###
President and a first Lady by the name of Reagan. All of them
helped to accelerate the change that we are witnessing in this
country today.
AGAINST THIS BACKGROUND OF CHANGING Attitudes
AND CHANGING BEHAUTOR ANEW Stratega FOR DEALING
WITH THE WAR ON DRUGS IS EMERGING
Our strategy is comprehensive. The programs within it are
intended to mesh, to draw strength from one another, to sustain a
national effort. We cannot relax on any front in the war against
drugs. That means aggressively attacking the problem from every
angle.
Such an approach will not come cheaply. Last February, I
asked for a $625 million increase in the drug budget for the
coming year. Now, after six months of careful study, we have
identified an immediate need for two billion dollars more. I am
proposing a 1990 drug-budget totaling seven and a half billion
dollars -- the largest single increase in history.
Yes, these dollars are vital. But a sense of national
determination, born of anger, is even more important. Let our
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IV. Call to Action: We must summon our national will, from
the White House, to the statehouse, to the courthouse, from the
boardroom to the pulpit, from every workplace to every classroom
in America. Wherever Americans work, study, play or pray, we
must join together for this single purpose.
I pledge to do my part. But I need your help. More
important, the children of America need your help. Today --
right now.
Next week I will take this same message to the kids of
America in a special television address, one that I hope will
reach every school, every teen-ager. But drug education doesn't
begin in class or on T.V. It must begin at home. Parents must
set the first example of a drug-free life.
Every American can make a special contribution. Call your
local drug prevention program. Be a big brother or sister to a
child in need. Pitch in with your local Neighborhood Watch
program. Whether you donate your time, serve as a counselor, or
participate in a fundraising drive, there are no mundane tasks in
the war on drugs. Every volunteer counts.
From the schools of Los Angeles to Bowling Green, Kentucky,
armies of volunteers are taking up the fight against drugs. What
can one person do? Consider Dr. Lorraine Hale who was driving
through Harlem, only to see a young mother, high on heroin,
holding a baby in her lap. On impulse, Dr. Hale parked, and
asked the woman to take the baby to the home of Clara Hale, her
mother. From this simple beginning, Lorraine and Clara Hale, and
a team of helpers, now nurse hundreds of drug-addicted babies
back to health.
So there are solutions. People like the Hales. Or any
parent who talks to a child about the dangers of drugs, also
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Any employer who bans drugs from the workplace.
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Any school that takes a hardnosed stance.
Any neighborhood in which drugs are not welcome.
And finally, anyone who refuses to look the other way.
V. Conclusion: Of course, even with our best efforts,
victory is years away. But we must not relent, too many young
lives are at stake.
I WILL BE REPORTING TO THE NATION FREQUENTLY ON THIS PROBLEM so
THE
THAT WE WILL ALL BE AWARE OF WHERE AND WHY WE ARE WINNING OR LOSING THAT
MANY BATLES it WILL TAKE to - FINALLY
THIS WAR. WE WILL BE MEASURING THE RESULTS OF OUR COLLECTIVE ESPORTO MATIONALE EFFORTS
EACH AND EVERY YEAR
ANNUAL BASIS DURING MY TERM AS YOUR PRESIDENT.
When I think of the devastation of drugs, I think of a
little boy named Dooney, who, until recently, lived in a crack
house in a suburb of Washington, D.C. In Dooney's neighborhood,
children don't flinch at the sound of gunfire. And when they
play, they pretend to sell to each other small white rocks they
call crack.
Life at home is so dismal that Dooney begged his teachers to
let him sleep on the floor of his school. And 6-year-old Dooney
says: "I don't want to sell drugs, but I probably have to."
((FAUSE))
Dooney doesn't have to sell drugs. No child in America
should have to face such a future, or endure such a home.
Together, as a people, we can save these children of despair. We
have already saved countless lives. We have already transformed
a national attitude of tolerance into intolerance. But the war
on drugs will be hard-won, kid by kid, block by block,
neighborhood by neighborhood.
SENI
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This is the toughest domestic challenge we've faced in
decades. If we fight this war as a nation of isolated
individuals, the war is lost. ( (Pick up vial, hold it in front
of you) ) But if we face this evil as a nation united, our
children will have a brighter future, and this will be nothing
but a vial of useless chemicals. ((Set vial down, off camera) )
Victory
...
((PAUSE)) victory over drugs is our cause, a just
cause, and with your help, justice will prevail.
Thank you, God bless you and good night.
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Revision by Jim Burke regarding the paragraph related to his drug
efforts.
There is a teenage girl who should be in school
giving birth to a child addicted to cocaine. So Jim did
something. He took over the chairmanship of an organization
started two years ago
The Partnership For a Drug Free
America.
Financed by private funds, and working with the advertising
and media businesses, they have created educational messages that
have already had a measurable effect on reducing the demand of
drugs. The partnership is committed to deliver advertising worth
$1 million a day for the next three years
over a billion
dollars worth in total
all to help reduce the demand for
drug (and promote the anti-drug message).
** Mr. Burke thinks the Democrats main complaint will be
what is the Administration's lack of funds on the demand-side.
This paragraph gives them dollar values and can be backed up by
recent studies that prove these messages are having a positive
effect of society in terms of changing the way people view the
drug situation.
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a billion dollars worth in total
all to promote the anti-
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