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Ray Siller
March 28, 1990
1. I want to thank the Secret Service
...
who were here
earlier this afternoon with their electronic equipment sweeping
the room for broccoli.
2. Why this preoccupation with my diet? I follow
nutritional guidelines. Each morning at breakfast I eat
something from the four major food groups: pork rinds, pork
rinds, pork rinds, and tobasco sauce.
3. This has gone unreported, but a few weeks ago we had an
engine go out on AF I. Our pilot told me he had to dump some
fuel. I said, " Could you substitute broccoli?"
4. Some members of the Senate welcome the broccoli caper.
They're relieved that now when the press writes about "long
green" they're not referring to Charles Keating.
5. I have a new method to dispose of the broccoli. I hand
John Sununu a chain saw and tell him they're miniature redwoods.
I
6. California sent us 10,000 tons of broccoli. Just my
luck the medfly attacks fruit not veggies.
7. I should count my blessings. So far there are no
California dancing broccoli heads.
8. I'm tired of the press criticizing what they call "Bush-
speak" They say I use phrases like "the vision thing" ...
"the environment thing" and now "the broccoli thing". Well
just for the record, I don't talk like that and frankly I resent
the inference. So can we please now drop this thing thing.
9. John Sununu feels it should be legal to perform
laboratory experiments on fake fur salesmen.
10. I enjoy press conferences
those Maalox moments.
3 weeks ЛӀ was talk of boycotting puns - now said
11. may be holding too many press conferences. The press
may be tired of seeing me. There are subtle clues. Like lately
they ve been facing the back of the room
...
When I say "And now I'll take your questions,"
and
Helen President." Thomas leaps to her feet and shouts, "Thank you, Mr.
12. It doesn't do much for my self esteem when I look out
and spot Brit Hume wearing a Sony walkman.
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13. Or when you see Charles Bierbauer doing a lambada with
Sarah McClendon.
14. Down in Texas the candidates who have done well have
favored capital punishment. Let's put it this way: when Clayton
Williams Sanders. refers to extra crispy, he's not talking about Colonel
15. I received a phone call from a very upset Lech Walesa.
He heard me say, "I have no faith in polls."
NO
16. The judge gave Capt. Joseph Hazelwood his choice of
sentence
a thousand hours either cleaning up the oil spill on
the Alaskan beaches or the wine stains on this Gridiron dinner's
tablecloths.
17. We're focusing on the illiteracy problem within
Congress. Not enough Members can read my lips.
18. I predict this year I'll have Congress eating out of my
hand. When I say jump, they'll say how high. If you buy that,
you'll believe Andy Rooney does the lambada with Louis Farrakhan
(or Lee Iacócca with PM Kaifu).
19. After a busy day Barbara and I like to relax up in the
family quarters, take off our shoes, curl up by the fireplace and
read my lips.
20. They still have no leads in that Gardner museum art
heist. Because of the works of art not taken, they're
7
speculating the thieves knew very little about art. I hate to
point a finger, but yesterday Jesse Helms showed up in the Senate
dressed as a rent-a-cop.
21. Did you all watch the Oscars? We don't have anything
xx
like that here in Washington. Around here, when you hear someone
say "the envelope please,' it's a Senator talking to Charles
3
Keating.
22. They're filming a sequel to the movie "Field of Dreams"
...
set in Washington. This time Shoeless Joe Jackson comes back
and accepts a bribe from Charles Keating.
23. I'm excited. A major movie studio wants to film my
biography. They're going to call it, "My Silver Foot."
STEVE SKROVAN
Watching everyone perform tonight gave me a great idea. Let's
eliminate political campaigns altogether and just compete on
"Star Search".
of course Tom (Foley), that would change the order of succession:
President, Vice President, and then Ed McMahon.
What do you call an evening of political singing, dancing and
acting? The French have a name for it: "Les Miserables".
And to think I came here when I could have been the Grand Marshal
of the Broccoli Festival.
I got a kick out of the Democrats' skit. By the way, I have a
message from Joseph Papp (or Andrew Lloyd Weber): Don't quit
your day job!
Tonight's entertainment proves one thing. Congressmen are
definitely not diverting campaign funds for acting lessons.
I especially enjoyed the song parodies. Those are the kind of
songs that make me wish I could declare martial law.
I love
's voice. I haven't heard a sound like that
since Millie was in heat!
Personally, I don't even sing in the shower anymore. My daughter
once told me I sang like one of the Beatles. Which I thought was
a compliment until I found out that Yoko Ono technically wasn't a
Beatle.
Singing and dancing? Not for me. Personally, I'd rather eat
broccoli.
is quite a dancer. If politics doesn't work out, the
Bullets are always looking for new cheerleaders.
is quite a dancer. I haven't seen footwork like that
since I tried to board the ship at Malta.
I'm certainly no dancer. And if you don't believe it, you didn't
see me trying to board the ship at Malta.
The decks were so slippery I was afraid if I shook hands with
Gorbachev, we'd end up dancing the Lambada.
We've heard some very moving speeches tonight. The kind of
speeches that make you want to tear up the First Amendment.
After what's been said tonight, I'm ready to propose a hot air
bill.
I've been bothered by hay fever lately. I found out that every
time you sneeze, your heart stops. I guess that explains why
every morning the Vice President sends me lovely bouquet of
ragweed.
And I notice at our morning breakfasts, he's constantly offering
me the pepper.
I want to commend
for the fine job he's been doing. In
this administration, the only person working harder is Marlin
Fitzwater's tailor.
Marlin looks great. And his whole attitude has changed. I
remember the day Pinochet stepped down. I said, "Finally, Chile
is free." He said, "Great, when do we eat?"
I'm jealous. Dan gave Marlin a handcarved wooden doll from South
America. He gave me a "Virginia Is For Lovers" pencil sharpener
from the airport.
I want to commend Dan Rostenkowski for his creative ideas for
reducing the budget deficit. But, Dan, were you really serious
about that White House Bake Sale?
Well, after a year in this office, I have come to realize I am
only the second most powerful man in the free world. Next to
Judge Wapner.
I was this close to intervening in the baseball negotiations. I
told my son George that if they didn't reach a settlement soon, I
was going to surround the bargaining table with troops and play
loud rock music.
I was just about to call the chairman of the Joint Chiefs
you
know
what's his name
Gee, it's right on the tip of my
tongue
you know, the black guy
no, not Sullivan
PATRICK J.
BUCHANAN
FROM THE RIGHT
THE BELLWETHER OF CONSERVATIVE THINKING
Vol. 1, No. 3, Spring 1990
Quarterly Report
From: PyB
As events began unfolding in Eastern Europe and inside the Soviet Union, it became clear to
me that a new American foreign-policy agenda was critical. I told the FTR staff that our first
quarterly would center on foreign policy. As my thinking was evolving, The National Interest
published Charles Krauthammer's defense of a "new universalism," and TNI asked me to give
my own view of America's national purpose. This piece is the result, and I thank TNI editor
Owen Harries for this opportunity to redefine Conservative foreign policy. The piece is due in
their issue later this month; From The Right readers get it first.
A NEW NATIONALISM
On the birthday of Thomas Jefferson, dead half a decade, President Andrew Jackson raised his glass and
gave us, in a six-word toast, our national purpose: "The Union," Old Hickory said, "it must be pre-
served."
It was to "create a more perfect Union" that the great men came to Philadelphia in 1787; it was to per-
mit the Republic to grow to its natural size that James K. Polk seized Texas and California; it was to pre-
serve the Union - not end slavery - that Lincoln invaded and subjugated the Confederate states.
"A Republic if you can keep it," Franklin told the lady in Philadelphia. Surely, preservation of the Repub-
lic, defense of its Constitution, living up to its ideals, that is our national purpose. "America does not go
abroad in search of monsters to destroy," John Quincy Adams said. "She is the well-wisher of the free-
dom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own."
Yet, when the question is posed, "What is America's national purpose?," answers vary widely. To Randall
Robinson of TransAfrica, it is the overthrow of South Africa; to Jesse Jackson, it is to advance "justice"
by restoring the wealth the white race has robbed from the colored peoples of the earth; to AIPAC, it is
to keep Israel secure and inviolate; to Ben Wattenberg, America's "mission" is a crusade to "wage de-
mocracy" around the world.
Each substitutes an extra-national ideal for the national interest; each
sees our national purpose in another continent or country; each
treats our Republic as a means to some larger end. "National pur-
pose" has become a vessel, emptied of original content, into which
ideologues of all shades and hues are invited to pour their own
causes, their own visions.
In Charles Krauthammer's "vision" (December's National Inter-
est), the "wish and work" of our nation should be to "integrate"
with Europe and Japan inside a "super-sovereign" entity that is "eco-
A nation's purpose is
nomically, culturally and politically hegemonic in the world." This
"new universalism," he writes, "would require the conscious depre-
discovered not by
ciation not only of American sovereignty but of the notion of sover-
consulting ideologies,
eignty in general. This is not as outrageous as it sounds."
but by reviewing its
While the Krauthammer superstate may set off onanistic rejoicing in-
history, by searching
side the Trilateral Commission, it should set off alarm bells in more
the hearts of its
precincts than Belmont, Mass. As national purpose, or national inter-
est, like all of the above, it fails the fundamental test: Americans will
people.
not fight for it.
Long ago, Lord Macauley wrote:
"And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods."
A nation's purpose is discovered not by consulting ideologies, but by
reviewing its history, by searching the hearts of its people. What is it
for which Americans have always been willing to fight? Well, let us
go back to a time when the Establishment wanted war, but the
American people did not want to fight.
Historical Reflection
In the fall of 1941, Europe from the Pyrenees to Moscow, from the
Arctic to North Africa, was ruled by Hitler's Third Reich; east of
Moscow, Stalin's gulag extended across Asia to Manchuria, where it
met the belligerent Empire of the Rising Sun, whose domain ran to
mid-Pacific. England was in her darkest hour. Yet, still, America
wanted to stay out; we saw, in the world's bloody conflict, no cause
why our soldiers should be sent overseas to spill a single drop of
American blood. Pearl Harbor, not FDR, convinced America to go
to war.
The isolationism of our fathers is today condemned, and FDR is ad-
judged a great visionary, because he sought early involvement in
Britain's war with Hitler. But, even the interventionists' arguments
were, and are, couched in terms of American national interest.
Perhaps we did not see it, we are told, but our freedom, our security,
our homes, our way of life, our Republic, were at risk. Thus do even
the acolytes of interventionism pay tribute to the true national inter-
2 FROM THE RIGHT SPRING 1990
ests of the United States, which are not to be found in some he-
gemonic and utopian world order.
When Adams spoke, he was echoing Washington's Farewell Address
that warned his fickle countrymen against "inveterate antipathies
against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others
The nation, which indulges toward another an habitual hatred, or an
habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its ani-
mosities or to its affections, either of which is sufficient to lead it
astray from its duty and its interest."
For a century after Washington's death, we resisted the siren's call of
empire. Then, Kipling's call, to "Take up the white man's burden,"
fell upon the receptive ears of President William McKinley, who
came down from a sleepless night of consulting the Almighty to tell
the press: "God told me to take the Philippines." We were launched.
Two decades later, 100,000 Americans lay dead in France in a Euro-
pean war begun, as Bismarck predicted it would begin, "because of
some damn fool thing in the Balkans."
"To make the world safe for democracy," we joined an alliance of
empires, British, French and Russian, that held most of mankind in
colonial captivity. Washington's warning proved prophetic. Dough-
boys fell in places like the Argonne and Belleau Wood, in no small
measure to vindicate the Germanophobia and Anglophilia of a reg-
nant Yankee elite. When the great "war to end war" had fertilized
the seed bed that produced Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin, Americans,
by 1941, had concluded a blunder had been made in ignoring the
wise counsel of their Founding Father.
After V-E Day and V-J Day, all America wanted to "bring the boys
home," and we did. Then, they were sent back, back to Europe and
back to Asia, because Americans were persuaded - by Joseph Stalin
"The nation, which in-
- that the Cold War must be waged, because Lenin's Party had
dulges toward another
made the United States the "main enemy" in its war against the
West. As the old saw goes, you can refuse almost any invitation, but
an habitual hatred, or
when a man wants to fight, you have got to oblige him.
an habitual fondness,
is in some degree a
End of the Cold War?
slave. It is a slave to its
If the Cold War is ending, what are the terms of honorable peace
animosities or to its
that will permit us to go home? Withdrawal of the Red Army back
affections
within its own frontiers, liberation of Central Europe and the Baltic
republics, reunification of Germany, and de-Leninization of Moscow,
- George Washington
i.e. overthrow of the imperialist party that has prosecuted the 70
Years War against the West.
Once Russia is rescued from Leninism, its distant colonies Cuba and
Nicaragua must eventually fall, just as the outposts of Japan's Em-
pire, cut off from the home islands, fell like ripe apples into the lap of
General MacArthur. Withdrawal of the Red Army from Europe
would remove from the hand of Gorbachev's successor the military
instrument of Marxist restoration.
SPRING 1990 FROM THE RIGHT 3
The compensating concession we should offer: Total withdrawal of
U.S. troops from Europe. If Moscow will get out, we will get out.
Once the Red Army goes home, the reason for keeping a U.S. army
in Europe vanishes. Forty years after the Marshall Plan, it is time Eu-
rope conscripted the soldiers for its own defense.
As the 1955 Austrian peace treaty demonstrates, troop withdrawals
are the most enduring and easily verifiable form of arms control. If
we negotiate the 600,000 troops of the Red Army out of Central
Europe, they cannot return, short of launching a new European war.
There is another argument for disengagement. When the cheering
stops, there is going to be a calling to account for the crimes of
Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam, where the Great Men acceded to Stalin's
demand he be made cartographer of Europe. In the coming con-
flicts, over Poland's frontiers east and west, over Transylvania, Kare-
lia, Moldavia, the breakup of Yugoslavia, our role is diplomatic and
moral, not military.
"Who would be free,
themselves must strike
In 1956, at the high-water mark of American power, the U.S. stood
aside as Soviet tanks crushed the Hungarian revolution. With that
the blow."
decision, Eisenhower and Dulles told the world that, while we sup-
- Lord Byron
port freedom in Central Europe, America will not go to war with
Russia over it. The year of revolution, 1989, revealed the logical cor-
ollary: From Berlin to Bucharest to Beijing, as Lord Byron observed,
"Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow."
Would America be leaving our NATO allies in the lurch? Hardly.
NATO Europe contains 14 states, which together are more populous
than, and three times as wealthy as, a Soviet Union deep in eco-
nomic, social and political crisis. Moreover, NATO would have a
new buffer zone of free, neutral, anti-Communist nations between
the Soviet and German frontiers. Our job will have been done.
To conquer Germany, the Red Army would have to cross a free Po-
land of 500 miles and 40 million, before reaching the frontier of a
united Reich of 80 millions, whose tradition is not wholly pacifist. In
the first hours of invasion, Moscow would see her economic ties to
the West severed, and a global coalition forming up against her, in-
cluding Germany, France, Britain, China, Japan and the United
States. As the Red Army advanced, it would risk atomic attack. To
what end? So the Kremlin can recapture what the Kremlin is today
giving up as an unwanted and unmanageable empire?
The day of the realpoliticians, with their Metternichian "new archi-
tectures," and balance-of-power strategems, and hidden fear of a
world where their op-ed articles and televised advice are about as
relevant as white papers from Her Majesty's Colonial Office, is over.
Agonizing Reappraisal
Why seek a united Germany? Because it is consistent with our values,
our promise to the German people, and our national interest. More-
over, the Germans desire it, and will attain it. "Conditions" set down
4 FROM THE RIGHT SPRING 1990
by President Bush and Secretary Baker will prove as ineffectual as
they are insulting. (If the Germans decide to unite, what, exactly,
would we do to stop them: Occupy Munich, until they yield to our
demand that they stay in NATO?)
A free, united Germany in the heart of Europe, inoculated against
Marxism by 45 years of the disease, would be a triumph of American
policy, a pillar of Western capitalism, and the first line of defense
against a resurgent Russian imperialism. For the United States to
permit itself to be used by London, Paris and Moscow to impede
No arms-control
reunification is to re-enact, 70 years later, the folly of Versailles.
Deny Germans the unity they rightly seek, and we shall awake one
agreement is worth
morning to find the Russians have granted it.
trading away SDI.
But, disengagement does not mean disarmament.
Still the greatest trading nation on earth, the U.S. depends for its
prosperity on freedom of the seas. The strength of the U.S. Navy
should be non-negotiable; and, when the President is invited to enter
naval arms control negotiations, the answer should be no, even if it
means Moscow walks out.
With the acquisition of ballistic missiles by China, Iran, Iraq, Syria
and Libya, with atomic-weapons work being done in half a dozen
countries of the Third World, the United States needs, nay requires,
a crash research-and-development program for missile defense, to
protect our homeland, our warships, our bases. No arms-control
agreement is worth trading away SDI.
An island-continent, America should use her economic and techno-
logical superiority to keep herself permanent mistress of the seas, first
in air power, first in space. Nor is the cost beyond our capacity. For it
is not warships and weapons that consume half our defense budget;
it is manpower and benefits. When defense cuts are made, they
should come in army bases, no longer needed for homeland defense,
and in ground troops no longer needed on foreign soil.
The Monroe Doctrine
As U.S. bases close down in Europe, we should inform Moscow we
should be made again
want all Soviet bases closed in the Caribbean and Central America,
the cornerstone of
all Soviet troops out of the Western hemisphere. They have no busi-
ness here. This is our hemisphere; and the Monroe Doctrine should
U.S. foreign policy.
be made again the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy.
As the U.S. moves off the mainland of Europe, we should move our
troops as well off the mainland of Asia. South Korea has twice the
population, five times the economic might of North Korea. She can
be sold the planes, guns, missiles and ships to give her decisive supe-
riority; then, U.S. troops should be taken out of the front line.
We are not going to fight another land war in Asia; no vital interest
justifies it; our people will not permit it. Why, then, keep 30,000
ground troops on the DMZ? If Kim Il Sung attacks, why should
Americans be first to die? If we must intervene, we can do so with air
and sea power, without thousands of Army and Marine dead. It is
SPRING 1990 FROM THE RIGHT 5
time we began uprooting the global network of "tripwires," planted
on foreign soil, to ensnare the United States in the wars of other na-
tions, to back commitments made and treaties signed before this
generation of American soldiers was even born.
The late Barbara Tuchman wrote of the Kaiser that he could not
stand it if, somewhere in the world, a quarrel was going on, and he
was not a party to it. Blessed by Providence with pacific neighbors
north and south, and vast oceans east and west, to protect us, why
seek permanent entanglement in other people's quarrels?
The beginning of the end of the Cold War is surely time for that
"agonizing reappraisal" of which Dulles only spoke. As Chesterton
said, one ought not tear down a wall until you know why it was put
up. But we must begin asking why some walls were built, and
whether maintaining them any longer serves our interests.
America's New Century
As we ascend the staircase to the 21st century, America is uniquely
situated to lead the world.
Japan has a population older and not half so large as ours; her land
and resources cannot match California's. Even united, the two Ger-
manies have but a third of our population, a fifth of our GNP, and a
land area smaller than Oregon and Washington. Neither Japan nor
Germany is a nuclear power; neither has a Navy or Air Force to rival
ours; even their combined GNP is dwarfed by ours. While the Soviet
Union has the size, resources and population to challenge us as a
world power, she is a prison house of nations whose ethnic hatreds
and unworkable system mean a decade of turmoil. Who is left? The
Nakasone was right:
corrupt, bankrupt China of Deng Tsaio-ping? It will not survive the
decade. Nakasone was right: The 20th Century was the American
The 20th Century was
century. The 21st Century will be the American Century.
the American century.
But America can only lead the world into the 21st century if she is
The 21st Century will
not saddled down by all the baggage piled up in the 20th.
be the American Cen-
tury.
For 50 years, the United States has been drained of wealth and
power by wars, cold and hot. Much of that expenditure of blood and
treasure was a necessary investment. Much was not.
We cannot forever defend wealthy nations that refuse to defend
themselves; we cannot permit endless transfusions of the life blood of
American capitalism into the mendicant countries and economic
corpses of socialism, without bleeding ourselves to death. Foreign aid
is an idea whose time has passed. The Communist and socialist world
now owe the West a thousand billion dollars and more, exclusive of
hundreds of billions we simply gave away. Our going-away gift to the
globalist ideologues should be to tell the Third World we are not
sending the gunboats to collect our debts, but, nor are we sending
more money. The children are on their own.
6 FROM THE RIGHT SPRING 1990
Americans are the most generous people in history. But our altruism
has been exploited by the guilt-and-pity crowd. At home, a mon-
strous welfare state of tens of thousands of drones and millions of
dependents consumes huge slices of the national income. Abroad,
regiments of global bureaucrats siphon off billions for themselves,
their institutions, their client regimes.
With the Cold War ending, we should look, too, with a cold eye on
Like all idolatries, de-
the internationalist set, never at a loss for new ideas to divert U.S.
mocratism substitutes
wealth and power into crusades and causes having little or nothing to
a false god for the real,
do with the true national interest of the United States.
a love of process for a
High among these is the democratist temptation, the worship of de-
love of country.
mocracy as a form of governance and the concomitant ambition to
see all mankind embrace it, or explain why not. Like all idolatries, de-
mocratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a
love of country.
When we call a country "democratic," we say nothing about whether
its rulers are wise or good, or friendly or hostile; we only describe
how they were chosen, a process that produced Olaf Palme, Lopez
Portillo, Pierre Trudeau, Sam Nujoma, Kurt Waldheim, and the
Papandreous, pere et fils, as well as Ronald Reagan.
Raul Alfonsin, elected President, led Argentina to ruin; while Gen-
eral Pinochet, who seized power in a coup, rescued Chile from Cas-
troism, and leaves her secure, prosperous, and on the road to free-
dom. Why celebrate Alfonsin, and subvert Pinochet?
As cultural traditions leave many countries unsuited to U.S.-style de-
mocracy, any globalist crusade to bring its blessings to the natives
everywhere must end in frustration; and will surely be marked by hy-
pocrisy. While the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
meddles in the affairs of South Africa, the State Department props up
General Mobutu. Where is the consistency?
Democracies, too, place their own selfish interests first. India, the
world's largest, supported Moscow's genocidal war of annexation in
Afghanistan, while General Zia, an autocrat, died aiding the resis-
tance. Who was the true friend of liberty?
In 1936, Franco rescued Spain from a corrupt "democracy;" in
1937, Hitler received a "democratic" mandate from the German
people; in 1941, Britain declared war on Finland, a democracy, at the
behest of Stalin; in 1942, we deprived our own fighting men of
needed weapons to send them to the USSR, the most contemptuous
enemy democracy has ever known.
How other people rule themselves is their own business. To call it a
vital interest of the United States is contradict history and common
sense. And, for the Republic to seek to dictate to 160 nations what
kind of regime each should have, is a formula for interminable med-
SPRING 1990 FROM THE RIGHT 7
dling and endless conflict; it is a textbook example of that "messianic
globaloney" against which Dean Acheson warned; it is, in scholar
Clyde Wilson's phrase, a globalization of that degenerate form of
Protestantism known as the Social Gospel.
"We must consider first and last," Walter Lippmann wrote in 1943,
"the American national interest. If we do not, if we construct our
foreign policy on some kind of abstract theory of rights and duties,
we shall build castles in the air. We shall formulate policies which in
fact the nation will not support with its blood, its sweat, and its
America First, and not
tears." Exactly.
only first, but second
What do Tibetans, Mujahedeen, UNITA rebels and Contras have in
and third as well.
common? Not belief in a bicameral legislature, or in separation of
church and state, but love of liberty and a hatred of Communism. Is
it not that spirit of patriotism that brought down the vassal regimes
of Central Europe, and which today threatens to tear apart the Soviet
Empire?
"Enlightened nationalism" was Mr. Lippmann's idea of a foreign
policy to protect America's true national interest. What we need is a
new nationalism, a new patriotism, a new foreign policy that puts
America First, and not only first, but second and third as well.
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8 FROM THE RIGHT SPRING 1990
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SCHEDULE OF THE PRESIDENT AND MRS. BUSH
FOR
WASHINGTON, D.C.
THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1990
EVENT:
VIP Reception
Radio-T.V. Correspondents Association's 46th Annual Dinner
DRESS:
Men
-Black Tie
Women
-Cocktail Dress
CONTACTS:
Presidential Advance Office
John G. Keller, Jr.
- 202/456-7565
Trip Coordinator
Patricia L. Conrad
- 202/456-7565
ADVANCE:
Don Mains
-LEAD
Bobby Carr
-PRESS
B.J. Moravek
-USSS
Jim Hamby
-WHCA
Sean Byrne
-MIL AIDE
BLACK
WEATHER:
Chance of Rain/Low 40's
TIE
SCHEDULE OF THE PRESIDENT AND MRS. BUSH
FOR
WASHINGTON, D.C.
THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1990
7:35 pm
THE PRESIDENT boards Motorcade and departs White
House en route Washington Hilton Hotel.
MOTORCADE ASSIGNMENTS:
Lead
Spare
T. McBride
Doctor
Follow Up
LIMO
THE PRESIDENT
Control
Gov. Sununu
Gen. Scowcroft
Mil. Aide
Support
M. Fitzwater
J. Swift
Official Photographer
Medic
Staff Van
All Remaining Staff
Press Van I
J. Herrick
Press Van II
(Drive Time: 10 Minutes)
7:45 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Washington Hilton Hotel and
proceeds to Cabinet Room.
Met by:
Mr. Bill Edwards
General Manager, Washington Hilton Hotel
EVENT:
VIP RECEPTION
CLOSED PRESS
7:50 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Cabinet Room and begins
participation in Mix and Mingle.
Met by:
Ms. Linda Taira
CBS Correspondent and Chairman of the Dinner
8:05 pm
THE PRESIDENT concludes participation in Mix
and Mingle, departs Cabinet Room and proceeds to
Holding Room.
8:06 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Holding Room.
NOTE: Mrs. Bush will join THE PRESIDENT at this
time.
8:16 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush depart Holding Room
and proceed to Off-Stage Announcement Area,
Ballroom.
8:18 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush arrive Off-Stage
Announcement Area and hold briefly.
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EVENT:
RADIO-T.V. CORRESPONDENTS ASSOCIATION'S 46TH
ANNUAL DINNER
POOL COVERAGE
RUFFLES AND FLOURISHES
OFF-STAGE ANNOUNCEMENT
HAIL TO THE CHIEF
PRESENTATION OF COLORS
NATIONAL ANTHEM
BRIEF REMARKS
8:20 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush, accompanied by Ms.
Linda Taira, are announced onto Dais and take
Seats.
8:22 pm
Presentation of Colors
8:24 pm National Anthem
8:25 pm Dinner is served
9:25 pm
Toasts to THE PRESIDENT and
101st Congress
9:30 pm
Head Table introduction
9:45 pm
THE PRESIDENT is introduced for Brief Remarks
by Linda Taira, Chairman of the Dinner.
9:46 pm
THE PRESIDENT gives Brief Remarks.
9:52 pm
THE PRESIDENT concludes Brief Remarks and, with
Mrs. Bush, departs Dais and proceeds to Holding
Room.
9:55 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush arrive Holding Room.
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9:57 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush depart Holding Room
and proceed to Motorcade.
10:00 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush board Motorcade and
depart Washington Hilton Hotel en route White
House.
MOTORCADE ASSIGNMENTS:
Same as on Arrival.
(Drive Time: 10 Minutes)
10:10 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush arrive White House.
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RADIO & TELEVISION CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION
46TH ANNUAL DINNER
quests (ab facials sources
WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL
THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1990
1700
SCENARIO
825-7000
3:00 p.m.
Ivan Goldberg arrives Hilton to oversee setup.
Reviews evening with Linda Taira.
Andrews Bartlett arrives hotel to install pipe and
draping for head table and entertainment areas: head
table area on hotel stage - 60 X 14.9 blue velour
drape, entertainment area directly across ballroom
from stage - 16 X 14.9 blue velour drape. Hotel
to set head table for twenty (20) persons - White
House to provide Presidential podium to be
positioned in center of head table with ten (10)
Sinner
place settings on either side of podium utilizing
deep peach dinner linens.
Cong
Hotel to have short step available for Linda Tiara's
use.
Entertainment stage to contain two (2) hotel
podiums.
Hotel to place thirty-two (32) chairs utilizing
three rows on the entertainment stage for use of the
Marine Band during the official opening of the
dinner. Chairs are to be removed once band departs
after the presentation of colors at approximately
8:30 p.m.
Botannical Decorators arrives hotel - places sixteen
(16) ficus trees with lights on International
Terrace.
5:30 p.m.
Barbara Boggs and WashingtonInc staff arrive hotel.
6:00 p.m.
WI social aides Ed Usher, Bill Kennedy and Paul
Brygider arrive hotel and report to Barbara Boggs
in ballroom - staff members briefed on evening's
scenario.
RTCA Dinner Scenario
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7:00 p.m.
WI staff Susan Knox and Suzanne Orndorff assume
position at RTCA dinner "will call" desk located
on Terrace level next to coat check. WI staff to
place three (3) directional signs on easels provided
by hotel: 1 sign at T street entrance of hotel, 1
sign on Concourse Level, 1 sign near elevator banks
on Terrace Level. RTCA "Will Call" tent sign placed
on registration table.
Two (2) WI social aides, Paul Brygider and Bill
Kennedy positioned at desk to escort VIP guests
to the Cabinet Room. VIP reception begins in the
Cabinet Room. WI staff Valerie Bayle positioned at
entrance of room with VIP guest list. Barbara Boggs
and WI social aide Ed Usher located in the Cabinet
Room during Head Table Reception.
WI staff Michael O Connell to work with White House
Press Advance. Note: Linda Taira, Chair, RTCA, has
established that event will be closed to media
coverage with exception of one network camera (tight
pool) only. Only White House travel pool and
one camera (tight pool) will be covering dinner.
Contact - Monica Newton, CBS Pool at 457-4444.
General reception begins in the International
Terrace. Hotel to provide seventeen (17) bartenders
Approximately 45 members of the Joint Armed Forces
Color Guard and Marine Band arrive hotel and proceed
to Military Room. Hotel to provide soft drinks,
potato chips & pretzels for the group. Group to be
met by secret service who will perform sweep of
group and instruments in Military Room. * Note:
arrival time TBD by Secret Service.
7:30 p.m.
WI social aide Paul Brygider to escort Marine Band
and Joint Armed Forces Color Guard to Ballroom
Ballroom for placement. WI staff to remain with
7:45
band and will cue them of entrance of head table and
President and First Lady introduction.
8:00 p.m.
Ballroom doors open.
Marine Band positioned on stage begins playing.
RTCA Dinner Scenario
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8:10 p.m.
Lights flash-all bars except one are closed, last
bar closed at 8:15 p.m.
Barbara Boggs and WI social aide Ed Usher line up
Head Table guests in Cabinet Room. WI staff
Valerie Bayle and Susan Knox escort guests seated
at Chairman and Barone tables to the Ballroom and
assist with seating.
8:20 p.m.
WI staff escorts head table into ballroom. Brian
Wilson assumes place at podium and asks audience to
take their seats. (gavel located on shelf of podium)
WI staff cues Marine Band for entrance of President
and Mrs. Bush and White House voiceover announces
entrance of President and Mrs. Bush who will be
escorted by RTCA Chair, Linda Taira. Linda assumes
place at podium and asks audience to rise for
Presentation of the Colors by Joint Armed Forces
Color Guard and to remain standing for the National
Anthem by the United States Marine Band.
Lights dim - Spotlight on Color Guard
Color Guard marches up center aisle - to area
in front of head table and presents colors.
Marine Band plays the National Anthem and the
Color Guard marches out- Band plays them out
Marine Band exits stage and hotel removes chairs.
Linda Taira thanks the United States Marine Band
for their performance as they are exiting.
8:35 p.m.
Dinner service begins
9:30 p.m.
Linda Taira assumes podium and asks audience to rise
and toast to the President & to the 101st Congress
of the United States.
Audience is seated.
WI social aide Ed Usher cues Larry King and Jim
Morris re impending performance. Talent is escorted
to Cabinet Room for holding room.
9:35 p.m.
Linda Taira introduces Head Table and asks audience
to hold applause until final guest is introduced.
Spotlight follows each guest as they rise and
remain standing.
Entertainment sits NCross bollroom
from NOTUS on 8x8 phttork
RTCA Dinner Scenario
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9:40 p.m.
Linda Taira introduces Barone Award Judges.
Judges rise to be recognized-spotlighted
Spotlight on table # - Christine Basham, table
# - Bruce Morton, table #122 Jim Snyder.
Linda
introduces Marvin Kalb who assumes position at
podium to present award. (Award is to be placed
under on shelf of podium at start of dinner)
Spotlight on winner at table #82
Winner proceeds to podium to accept award and makes
brief remarks.
9:45 p.m.
White House Press Advance escorts press into buffer
zone for President's remarks.
WI social aide Ed Usher cues talent to prepare for
entertainment.
9:50 p.m.
Linda Taira introduces President and Mrs. Bush.
President Bush makes remarks.
10:00 p.m.
Linda Taira introduces Larry King and Jim Morris
Entertainment begins.
Forether for 5-8minates his own
the
Jim
Marris
on
10:30 p.m.
Linda thanks entertainment and thanks the President
and First Lady for attending dinner.
Next year's dinner chairman, Brian Wilson presents
appreciation plaque to Linda Taira. Brian makes
brief remarks and asks audience to remain in room
to allow President and Mrs. Bush to depart.
Suite Parties begin!
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SCHEDULE OF THE PRESIDENT AND MRS. BUSH
FOR
WASHINGTON, D.C.
THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1990
EVENT:
VIP Reception
Radio-T.V. Correspondents Association's 46th Annual Dinner
DRESS:
Men
-Black Tie
Women
-Cocktail Dress
CONTACTS:
Presidential Advance Office
John G. Keller, Jr.
- 202/456-7565
Trip Coordinator
Patricia L. Conrad
- 202/456-7565
ADVANCE:
Don Mains
-LEAD
Bobby Carr
-PRESS
B.J. Moravek
-USSS
Jim Hamby
-WHCA
Sean Byrne
-MIL AIDE
BLACK
WEATHER:
Chance of Rain/Low 40's
TIE
SCHEDULE OF THE PRESIDENT AND MRS. BUSH
FOR
WASHINGTON, D.C.
THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1990
7:35 pm
THE PRESIDENT boards Motorcade and departs White
House en route Washington Hilton Hotel.
MOTORCADE ASSIGNMENTS:
Lead
Spare
T. McBride
Doctor
Follow Up
LIMO
THE PRESIDENT
Control
Gov. Sununu
Gen. Scowcroft
Mil. Aide
Support
M. Fitzwater
J. Swift
Official Photographer
Medic
Staff Van
All Remaining Staff
Press Van I
J. Herrick
Press Van II
(Drive Time: 10 Minutes)
7:45 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Washington Hilton Hotel and
proceeds to Cabinet Room.
Met by:
Mr. Bill Edwards
General Manager, Washington Hilton Hotel
EVENT:
VIP RECEPTION
CLOSED PRESS
7:50 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Cabinet Room and begins
participation in Mix and Mingle.
Met by:
Ms. Linda Taira
CBS Correspondent and Chairman of the Dinner
8:05 pm
THE PRESIDENT concludes participation in Mix
and Mingle, departs Cabinet Room and proceeds to
Holding Room.
8:06 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Holding Room.
NOTE: Mrs. Bush will join THE PRESIDENT at this
time.
8:16 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush depart Holding Room
and proceed to Off-Stage Announcement Area,
Ballroom.
8:18 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush arrive Off-Stage
Announcement Area and hold briefly.
Page Two
EVENT:
RADIO-T.V. CORRESPONDENTS ASSOCIATION'S 46TH
ANNUAL DINNER
POOL COVERAGE
RUFFLES AND FLOURISHES
OFF-STAGE ANNOUNCEMENT
HAIL TO THE CHIEF
PRESENTATION OF COLORS
NATIONAL ANTHEM
BRIEF REMARKS
8:20 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush, accompanied by Ms.
Linda Taira, are announced onto Dais and take
Seats.
8:22 pm Presentation of Colors
8:24 pm National Anthem
8:25 pm Dinner is served
9:25 pm Toasts to THE PRESIDENT and
101st Congress
9:30 pm
Head Table introduction
9:45 pm
THE PRESIDENT is introduced for Brief Remarks
by Linda Taira, Chairman of the Dinner.
9:46 pm
THE PRESIDENT gives Brief Remarks.
9:52 pm
THE PRESIDENT concludes Brief Remarks and, with
Mrs. Bush, departs Dais and proceeds to Holding
Room.
9:55 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush arrive Holding Room.
Page Three
9:57 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush depart Holding Room
and proceed to Motorcade.
10:00 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush board Motorcade and
depart Washington Hilton Hotel en route White
House.
MOTORCADE ASSIGNMENTS:
Same as on Arrival.
(Drive Time: 10 Minutes)
10:10 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush arrive White House.
Page Four
HEAD TABLE LINEUP: Ed Usher will assemble guests at 8:10 p.m.
Mara Liasson - National Public Radio
Ed Connors - UPI Radio
Larry Janezich - Superintendent Senate Radio-TV Gallery
Virginia Nicholaidis-Bonneville News
John Bisney - Unistar Radio Networks
Ernest Hollings-Chairman, Commerce, Science & Transportation
Cokie Roberts-ABC News and National Public Radio
Thomas Foley -: Speaker of the House of Representatives
Mrs. Barbara Bush - First Lady*
Brian Wilson - WTTG, Fox Television
Linda Taira-CBS News
President Bush*
Sheilah Kast - ABC News
George Mitchell - Senate Majority Leader
Thelma Lebrecht - AP Broadcast
Newt Gingrich - Representative from Georgia
Leslie Sewell-NBC News
Marlin Fitzwater - Assistant to the President and Press Secretary
Tina Tate - Superintendent House Radio-TV Gallery
Al Freeman - Westwood One
*Not in lineup
RTCA DINNER - VIP RECEPTION - CABINET ROOM
Bascom, Jon
Basham, Christie
Biggs, Jeffrey
Bisney, John
Cochran, John
Connors, Edward
Durkan, Kathleen
Fitzwater, Marlin
Foley, Thomas
Freeman, Al
Gibson, Charlie
Gingrich, Newt
Haddad, Tammy
Hart, Florence
Hart, Peter
Hays, Carol Shorenstein
Hollings, Ernest
Hume, Ellen
Janezich, Larry
Jones, Phil
Kalb, Marvin
Kast, Sheilah
King, Julie
King, Larry
Lauer, Joe
Lebrecht, Thelma
VIP RECEPTION
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Leibner, Richard
Liasson, Mara
Mitchell, George
Morris, Jim
Morton, Bruce
Nicolaidis, Virginia
Roberts, Cokie
Scanlan, Dan
Sewell, Leslie
Shorenstein, Phyllis
Shorenstein, Sarah
Shorenstein, Walter
Simpson, Carol
Synder, Jim
Tate, Tina
Wilson, Brian
McGroarty/Gridiron
Gang/Siller
March 27, 1990
11:00 am
[TVradio]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RADIO-TV CORRESPONDENTS DINNER
WASHINGTON HILTON
MARCH 29, 1990
X:XX P.M.
7:45
It's a pleasure to be here tonight. //
I had the Secret Service come over this afternoon. Do
the usual security sweep before a Presidential visit. Place
was clean. /// No broccoli.
You all saw the other day they trucked in 10 tons of
broccoli to Washington from California. I'm happy to announce
tonight that -- just moments before I arrived, off the coast of
Virginia -- the U.S. Coast Guard intercepted // a boatload of
Hollandaise sauce
Just had a brainstorm. Wonder what Dick Cheney did with all
those leaf-eating caterpillars?
We've got a lot to learn about the foods we eat -- which
ones are healthy, which one's aren't. But health researchers are
working on it. Take all those people living to be 100 years old
in Soviet Georgia. Medical researchers are crawling all over,
trying to find out their secret to living so long. // I heard
2
some researchers snuck up on an old man eating lunch the other
day. // Scared him so bad, he dropped his baq of pork rinds.
You know, I had a little scare a while back with a phone
call -- a guy claiming to be Rafsanjani, who wasn't. We're a
little more cautious now. // Phone rang the other day. Must
have been a prank call. // It was some guy who wanted to send
the peace dividend to the Soviet Union.
But I did get Rafsanjani back. // Called him today and
asked him if he had Prince Albert in a can. /// (( Just wish I
knew how to say, "Then let him out" in Farsi. ))
But this whole phone call thing has gone too far. //
I mean, when I heard Judge Webster got a call from Dick
Cheney -- // pretending to be Gorbachev.
But that won't happen again. // Now, CIA's got Caller ID.
This is an exciting time to be in the news business -- all
the changes in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union. Now
there's even a McDonald's franchise in Moscow. // And that's
just the first fast-food restaurant. I just heard about a new
one started by two of our top foreign policy experts. I can't
reveal the names. But I can tell you what's on the menu: the
Zbig Mac and McEagleburger.
3
Then there's the food scares -- seems like a new one every
week. I know the TV and radio correspondents are a tough bunch.
// I don't think the Perrier scare affected anyone in this room.
// Most of you drink your benzene straight.
And cigarettes have been in the news, too. Manufacturers
have taken some flak for targeting specific groups. In fact,
they've got a new cigarette called "Capitol Hill" -- aimed at
people who live like they've got money to burn.
But of course the big news in the world is that
democracy's on the march. And I assure you: we're going to do
all we can to end oppression, and the dark days of one-party
rule. // In fact, just before I came here, I sent one of my
senior advisors on a secret mission -- to meet with a group of
leaders who rule with an iron grip, in one of the last bastions
of one-party rule. // That's right -- // Brent Scowcroft's up
on Capitol Hill.
But Brent's not the only one of my advisors who's been in
the news a lot lately. You all know my Chief of Staff, John
Sununu -- or, as he's called by the Sierra Club: the Great
Satan.
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You know how much I love baseball. The other day, John
Sununu was out on the White House lawn swinging a baseball bat,
hitting pop flies. I said, "John, I didn't know you played
ball." He said, "I don't. I'm trying to punch a hole in the
ozone layer."
Actually, I'm surprised the press hasn't caught on to John
yet. // If there's a 10 degree increase in the temperature in
the next 25 years, we'll all be vacationing in a tropical
paradise // called New Hampshire.
But I am serious about the environment. There's no doubt in
my mind: The fact that this dinner is held indoors is the only
thing that keeps me from planting a tree. /////
Thank you all for an entertaining evening. // You know, we
share a privileged position. Every day, our jobs -- yours and
mine -- put us at the center of what's happening in the world.
All the wonder -- and some days -- all the weight of the world.
// That's why I'm so happy to share this evening with all of
you, and prove once more that it's possible to take the world
seriously -- and still laugh at ourselves. // God bless you
all.
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