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MAGGIE WILLIAMS
FIRST HUNDRED
DAYS FILE
(Retived)
RECORDS MANAGEMENT
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
December 23, 1993
MEMORANDUM TO MAGGIE WILLIAMS
CHIEF OF STAFF FOR THE FIRST LADY
FROM:
JN
JAMIE WILLIAMS
DIRECTOR OF PRESIDENTIAL INQUIRIES
SUBJECT:
Comment Line Information
I believe the First Lady would like to know that on December 22,
the calls were 510 in support of the President. There were only
185 negative calls. Today, December 23, we received 441 positive
calls to only 84 negative calls. A nice Christmas gift for them!
Hundr
Days
Now that Hillary Rodham Clinton is inside the
White House, she can close the doors on the media that hounded
her throughout the campaign. But the First Lady's
new privacy has set off a string ofrumors about her marriage
-and her manners. MARGARET\CARLSON cuts through
the conjecture to offer atevealing diary of Hillary's efforts to
redefine the role of the president's wife
Hillar
PHOTOGRAPHS LEFT, BY JAMES COLBURN: RIGHT. BY ALLAN!
0
as
ever before has a
there is no evidence to support them and
First Lady inspired
no way to disprove them. But in the ab-
as much avid curi-
sence of good stories to push out the
osity as Hillary
bad, they persist. As Hillary concen-
Rodham Clinton,
trates on the fine print of policy. she
and never has it
seems to be ignoring the fact that poli-
gone so unsatisfied.
ties is as much a function of perception
Though Americans
as it is of merit. She embraces those
were moved by El-
demands that engage her brain. and
canor Roosevelt's
seems wary of those that might take a
purposeful human-
chunk of her soul. But for the next four
ity and enchant-
years. the country will be grabbing for
ed by Jacqueline
everything it can get, and she will have
Bouvier Kennedy's
to strike a balance between how much
youthful glamour,
she must give and how much she can
nothing has approached the fascination
hold back. Despite her attempts to keep
people feel toward the current First
herself under wraps. the public will
Lady, who is carving out for herself a
slowly find out who she really is. In
role that attempts to blend the work
fact, in her first hundred days in the
ethic of Roosevelt, the style of Kenne-
White House, Hillary has already re-
dy, and her own unprecedented politi-
vealed more than she knows.
cal ambitions. As the first working
mother in the White House, the first
WEEK ONE. Inauguration Day. It's the
unapologetic feminist, and arguably
wee hours when the Clintons return to
the most important woman in the world.
Blair House from the Michael Jackson-
she wants not just to have it all, but to
Barbra Streisand gala at the Capital
do it all.
Centre. Less than 12 hours from now.
Soon after the inauguration, the pres-
Bill Clinton will become the 42nd presi-
ident declared that his wife would be the
dent of the United States. In the upstairs
Bobby Kennedy of his administration,
library. where a replica of the swearing-
and assigned her the vital job of heading
in platform is set up. complete with
the National Task Force on Health Care
TelePrompTers. a small group of writ-
Reform-to amazingly few objections.
ers is working through the night so that
But since then Hillary has burrowed
the Clintons can have a new draft of the
deep underground. Her health-care task
inauguration address when they get up
force began operations in such secrecy
in the morning. As always, Hillary will
that she was sued in federal court and
have more influence over the text than
ordered to open the fact-finding meet-
any of the speechwriters-spokesmar
ings. White House aides have been
George Stephanopoulos, David Kusnet,
more forthcoming about sensitive rela-
Al Gore. media coach Michael Shee-
tions with Boris Yeltsin or Saddam
han. and Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer
Hussein than they have about where
Prize-winning historian and longtime
Hillary Rodham Clinton is and what
Clinton friend. "We don't want to throw
she's up to.
around words like 'love.' she warns,
The absence of real information has
always on patrol against flakiness. Hil-
created the perfect breeding ground for
lary likes precision in language-"Call
gossip. Washingtonians have come to
a sacrifice a sacrifice, a tax a tax," she
regard the White House as a version of
is always insisting-and she particularly
Clue. in which the latest rumor is al-
dislikes self-actualizing jargon that de-
ways a variation of Colonel Hillary in
bases emotions: no hugging, no "shar-
the Library with a Knife. The First Lady
ing." no confessing around her. If Hil-
has thrown (a) a vase, (b) a lamp, or (c)
lary catches on, the air kiss could be
a Bible; at (a) her husband, (b) a Secret
doomed. The vice president-elect is in
Service agent. or (c) a steward: (a) in
on the drafting of the inaugural address,
the private quarters. (b) at Blair House.
but demonstrates how it is possible to
or (c) in a limo. When the president
doze off while sitting up straight in a
comes downstairs one morning with
hard. wooden chair.
LADY FIRST
scratches on his face. reporters at the
At 6:30 in the morning, Hillary gets up
The Clintons take
next two press briefings are obsessed
and edits the speech with her husband as he
the stage at the
with wild. salacious speculation.
prepares to go downstairs to take delivery
National Ball on
As always in the case of wild rumors,
of the box of nuclear codes from National
Inauguration Day.
111
The Clintons inspire loyalty because they give it.
I would throw myself in front of a truck for them."
Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft. She
they met at the South Portico of the White
to get her hair done. Chelsea and her
puts on the round blue hat with the turned-
House for a tour of the private family quar-
friends streak down the hall in white
up brim, an afterthought that will get al-
ters. She was so impressed with Hillary, in
bathrobes, getting ready for the hot MTV
most as much attention as Jacqueline
fact, that afterward she gushed over the
ball. The president heads to the third
Kennedy's pillbox. There remains after
woman whom Republicans had been por-
floor, determined to find the solarium.
three decades greater fascination with what
traying as Hilla the Hun. Mrs. Bush, who
where Ronald Reagan recuperated from
goes on top of a woman's head than what is
hates the press herself, described Hillary
his attempted assassination. Hillary be-
in it; Hillary's headband, the shade of her
leaning forward, teacup in hand, to ask
gins dressing for the balls. donning the
blond hair, now the brimmed topper,
her what to do about all those pesky re-
lavender-and-lilac inaugural gown de-
dubbed "the chipmunk hat,' have already
porters. She advised Hillary to ignore
signed by Sarah Phillips, while four peo-
eaten up hundreds of column inches.
them except to correct mistakes where
ple attend her, including backup hair-
Governor Clinton is not yet president,
friends are concerned. Hillary takes the
dresser Gabriel De Bakey. "This job, it
but as the couple leave for the eight A.M.
"ignore them" part of the advice seri-
came from God," says De Bakey, who
church service, the security is fully presi-
ously, avoiding scores of interview re-
ran the last block to the White House with
dential. As Hillary gets into the car, she
quests and inviting only local press
two cases of gear. De Bakey does the
looks back at the Secret Service and the
into the East Wing.
fussy swept-up dos that Hairdresser
"War Wagon," an omnipresent van,
When the inauguration parade is al-
Number One, Cristophe, who owns a
with a rear seat that swings out to allow
most over, Hillary jumps up to leave the
salon in Beverly Hills with an espresso
agents to fire artillery powerful enough to
reviewing stand, grabbing her husband's
bar and seaweed treatments, wouldn't be
pierce an armored vehicle. "I don't know
gray overcoat, and the president follows
caught dead moussing. De Bakey is anx-
how we will keep a normal life in Wash-
slowly-he never wants to leave where
ious to prove he is up to doing the First
ington," she said two weeks before in the
he is-stopping to thank the butlers who
Head of Hair. "We are not crazy here,
living room of the governor's mansion,
bore Diet Cokes on silver trays all after-
these big pieces of hair going out ev-
where cement bunkers were built the day
noon. As Hillary, not the most patient
erywhere. he says with wild Gallic ges-
after the election. They won't. Much of
person in the world, makes her way
tures.
the first month in Washington will be
across the jury-rigged blue planks, Bill
Chelsea and friends are ready to go.
spent trying to find a middle ground be-
shouts, "Hey, Hillary, wait up!" She
and White House photographers start
tween protection and interference. The
puts her hand out behind her without
snapping pictures. Like a wedding at
Secret Service agents will be removed
looking back. He catches up and they
which the First Lady is the bride, every
from the upstairs White House outpost
run inside together.
permutation is taken. In the middle of
where they hung out during the Bush
This time, there's no adult supervi-
this, the Clintons eye Chelsea's ears,
years, because Chelsea's room is up
sion, since the Bushes have already left
adorned by big green clip-ons, since
there. They are not pleased.
for Houston on Air Force One. The
Chelsea has not been allowed to get
After church. he goes over the speech
Clintons rush past the chief usher, into
them pierced. Though her mother com-
again, and they end up being late for the
the elevator, and out onto the second
ments. Chelsea makes a clean getaway.
ceremonial coffee with the Bushes. As
floor, nearly galloping now, opening
jewelry intact.
they walk down the stairs, the president-
doors as they go. They find their bed-
The balls: they came, they waved.
elect snaps at Hillary to hurry up. a fre-
room, midway down the yellow hall-
they danced-the same sequence at ev-
quent reaction when he's running on
way, where Hillary doffs her hat like
ery one. except for the three where the
Clinton Standard Time. Harry Thomason
Mary Tyler Moore, kicks off her shoes,
president played the saxophone. By two
and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. the co-
and jumps on the queen-size bed they
A.M. sleep deprivation is beginning to
chairs of the inauguration (who are always
will share for the next four years.
take its toll. and his winning smile gets
invited to the coffee meeting), have been
Possessions have been magically ex-
a little less dazzling. A huge full-length
making small talk with the Quayles for 15
changed while the transfer of power was
picture of the Clintons, looking as if
minutes-coldly, since Dan Quayle seems
going on at the Capitol. Out with the
they are having the first dance at the
to have confused Linda Bloodworth-
Bushes' duck decoys and clock radio set
wedding, immediately goes up in the
Thomason (the creator of Designing
to the country-music station, and in
hallway leading from the pressroom to
Women) with Diane English (the creator
with the Clintons' rocking chairs and
the West Wing offices.
of Murphy Brown).
quilts and CD player. Clothes and shoes
The open house sounded like a great
But once Hillary arrives, the room
are already waiting in the appropriate
Andrew Jacksonesque notion when it
brightens. For all their obvious differ-
walk-in closets, though the family pic-
was announced-but this early in the
ences, Barbara Bush has seemed to actu-
tures are not yet hung.
morning, on three hours' sleep? Worse,
ally like Hillary since the day in November
Virginia Kelley passes by, on her way
the guards have let in not just ticket
112
EDESIGNING
WOMEN
Hillary and good friend
Linda Bloodworth- Thomason
raided hite House
kitchen with their husbands
the night,after the
inauguration
holders but all comers. Midway through
Ming vase he knocked over. She is
Baird nomination. He doesn't get to
the long day, an open mike catches Hil-
having the time of her life, but unlike her
sleep till after 2 A.M.
lary pulling her husband aside to point
husband, who can't leave even a dull
A few mornings later a steward walks
out that at the rate the line is moving
party, she soon begins moving people
into the bedroom while the Clintons are
they will be there until it is time to an-
out the door with great dispatch.
still between the sheets. "We were not up
nounce the re-election campaign. But
Finally, the Clintons are left alone
yet and a steward came in." the presi-
even in an unguarded moment on an
with their close friends from Arkansas,
dent explained. "The guy just honestly
endless day. she is concerned rather than
the Thomasons, who are. as Linda puts
thought we were up and we weren't.
cranky. Pointing to the crowd outside,
it, "two hicks who will be spending the
Where H.R.C. will sit becomes the
she whispers, "We just screwed all these
night in the Lincoln Bedroom. The
next big question. The president had
people!"
foursome raids the kitchen, looking for
mused out loud that he wished he could
On Thursday, Hillary has about 30 of
something to eat without disturbing the
knock down a wall in the West Wing so
her high-school friends from Park Ridge,
stewards. But all the Bushes have left
that she could be right beside him. Her
Illinois, into the Blue Room for a party.
behind are a few spoonfuls of vanilla ice
predecessors, of course, stuck to the
The extended First Family drops by.
cream and some stale saltines. The pres-
East Wing; Mrs. Hoover stayed in the
The move to the White House is a big
ident, who loves to order in pizza. can't
bedroom, spreading out her correspon-
jolt for both families, who lived so close
because all vendors have to be cleared by
dence on top of the blankets. But loca-
to the Arkansas statehouse that they had
the Secret Service. Hungry and trapped.
tion is everything and the difference
dinner together most weekends.
Clinton jokes that they have just moved
between the East Wing and the West
Patriarch Hugh Rodham sits happily in
into "the crown jewel of the federal
Wing is the difference between being in
his wheelchair. Hillary does an imitation
prison system.'
the loop and being the loop. The closest
of her high-school prom date, who insist-
He grabs his wife and they go hunt-
she can get without offending the White
ed she learn to skateboard before he
ing for the bowling alley and movie
House curator is the second floor in a
would take her to the dance. One of the
theater. But Hillary, who wants to
small, boxy office. The last occupant.
guests is speaking on the phone to
get some sleep. has programmed the
ironically, was Janet Mullins, the James
his wife, who wanted to have the experi-
Thomasons to discourage a late night.
Baker aide who is being investigated for
ence of being called from the White
The new president extracts a few des-
authorizing a search of Bill Clinton's
House. The First Lady takes the receiver
ultory hands of hearts. After midnight.
passport file.
and jokes. "Don't worry, now, we've
he is pulled back down to the Oval
The carpets and drapes are cleaned;
worked out a way for him to pay for the
Office to finally withdraw the Zoe
Hillary orders a coffeepot and pushes up
113
the blinds to let the light in. Her staff-
go to the main entrance, where the TV
young ones who look like extras on
crews. reporters, and photographers
Beverly Hills. 90210 and others who re-
have camped out since early morning.
semble assistant deans at Smith Col-
she wouldn't be smart enough to attend
lege-perch on the striped sofa and
Sidwell Friends. Junior-high-school kids
small table. which is quickly smothered
don't like to be taken to school by their
in piles of health-care briefs and corre-
parents. but Hillary accompanies Chel-
spondence. "We usually meet in my of-
sea. keeping the Secret Service and lim-
fice because the table is bigger and not
ousines with flags at bay. The request
as messy. says Domestic Policy Ad-
from Chelsea that there be as little fanfare
viser Carol Rasco. Hillary's manage-
as possible on the part of the driver and
ment style is collegial and direct. Says
others will later be misinterpreted as a
Deputy Assistant to the President Me-
dislike for men in uniform and evidence
lanne Verveer, "She carries her own
that the Clintons are anti-military. Lat-
stuff, writes little notes on sticky paper or
er, Hillary attends Chelsea's first soccer
right on a letter-'Let's do this,' 'What
game, and manages to avoid causing a
do you think about this study? Maybe
stir. Chelsea's team wins, 4 to 1.
we should get this guy in here. We know
When Hillary enters the Roosevelt
she's not our peer now. but when we are
Room that afternoon wearing a head-
working she acts just like another profes-
band. it's surprising that reporters don't
sional around the table.
race to the phones. The headband has
Significantly. she has a larger num-
come to be like a mood ring: headband
ber of senior officials assigned to her
on. she's the killer lawyer, offering her-
than the vice president. and her per-
self during the campaign as the blue-plate
sonal staff is much more powerful than
special. two for the price of one, and
any previous First Lady's. She has
giving intros longer than the candidate's
five commissioned officers-that is.
speech. Headband off. she's the docile
assistants to the president-in contrast
helpmate of the campaign bus trips, de-
to one for Mrs. Bush. "Inside the
murely in the background. The Nancy
White House culture." says Anna Pe-
Gaze has nothing on the Hillary Nod.
rez. Barbara Bush's former press sec-
But the president announces that the
retary. "that carries a lot of weight.'
First Lady will not be the best support-
Hillary also gets a great deal on real
ing actress in this administration. She
estate. because she keeps the space set
will be running his second-most-impor-
aside for the social office in the East
tant enterprise. He turned to her. he ex-
Wing and a suite of offices for the rest
plains. because "she's better at organiz-
of the First Lady's staff in the adjacent
ing and leading people from a complex
Old Executive Office Building.
beginning to a certain end than anybody
It is Hillary who decides to restore
I've ever worked with in my life." He
the small dining room next to the Oval
adds that he hopes "she'll be sharing
Office-Ronald Reagan had turned it into
some of the heat I expect to generate.
an office-where meetings can be held
Before the election, aides worried
and where the vice president and presi-
deeply that Hillary would appear to be
dent have lunch once a week. She also
an "empowered Nancy Reagan.' ac-
decorates the president's small study.
cording to one document. When asked
with its stand-up desk. a stereo. an easy
during the campaign whether she would
chair, and a picture of the tower at Ox-
actually be participating in government.
ford with the American flag flying over
she said to look at her record in Arkan-
it on November 3, 1992, commemorat-
sas. "I didn't sit in on Cabinet meetings
ing the first time a Rhodes scholar has
there, did I? Why would I behave dif-
ever been elected president. She puts
ferently in Washington?" Well, for the
her gift of all his campaign buttons
same reason Willie Sutton robbed banks:
mounted in a frame on the wall just out-
it's where the action is. And, unlike Lit-
side the Oval Office. Nearby, he hangs
tle Rock, Washington is a city where
a large portrait of his wife.
you can't work outside the home if
Hillary 1. Photodogs 0. They will do
home is the White House.
anything-hold out catnip. grovel on
As before, advisers often check with
their stomachs-to get a picture, even if
her before approaching the president.
it is only of the family cat. It's a full-
"Why wouldn't you talk to the last per-
court press for Chelsea's first day of
son who sees him at night and the first in
school, but if she were stupid enough to
the morning.' says James Carville, "es-
HAEL GEISSINGER
114
"If her husband plays poker." 22
sa
one congressm
"he ought to take r W h him."
pecially when she is as smart as a whip?"
SPOTLIGHT
Bruce Lindsey, one of Clinton's oldest
confidants and the White House person-
nel chief, routinely runs possible ap-
pointments by her. Critics say she is
Cinco
slowing down the process. After attor-
ney-general candidate Kimba Wood meets
the president, for instance, she pays a
visit to Hillary's office.
de
Much has been made of F.O.B.'s
(Friends of Bill). but there are almost as
many F.O.H.'s in the administration.
MOMA
Hillary's first boss, Bernard Nussbaum,
is White House counsel; his assistant,
Vince Foster, was her law partner. Her
second boss, Webb Hubbell, managing
partner of Little Rock's Rose Law Firm,
is associate attorney general. Health and
Human Services Secretary Donna Sha-
lala served with Hillary on the board of
the Children's Defense Fund. The presi-
dent's top aide. Mack McLarty. says he
may be as close to Hillary as to the pres-
ident, even though he has known the
president since Miss Mary's kindergar-
ten. "I've seen a lot more of Hillary
over the last 10 years than the president
because of our schedules," he says.
She has walk-in-the-door privileges
W Kahlo,
throughout the building-and others feel
free to walk in on her. In the middle of the
Zoe Baird nomination going south, White
0 Mexican who died nearly 40 years ago, one of the
House consultant Skip Rutherford walks
most fashionable painters of the moment? Not just
into Hillary's office with a cup of coffee
because she was a woman. The last time North
from the White House mess, remarking
Americans looked south of the border with such in-
that there are only Styrofoam cups avail-
tensity was in the 1930s and 40s, when the exotic
able for carryout. Hillary cocks her head
political passions of the great Mexican muralists Die-
toward the vice president's office, jok-
go Rivera (who was Kahlo's husband), José Clemente
ing, "We better get Al on that. The next
Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros inspired Ameri-
day. the Styrofoam is gone in favor of
can art. This time the fascination has more to do with
heavy. recyclable paper.
hemispheric solidarity-with an intense feeling that
During the first week, a Wall Street
both North and South America should look less to-
Journal/NBC News poll finds that the
ward Europe and more toward each other.
First Lady has a positive rating of 57
This month, New York's Museum of Modern Art is
LATIN
percent, up from 46 percent in Decem-
putting on display a vast survey of 20th-century Latin-
LOVE
ber; 74 percent think she is a positive
American art-more than 300 works by about 90
role model. In a Washington Post/ABC
poll, however, 36 percent are worried
artists. The exhibition is blessedly free of political pos-
The
that H.R.C. will have too large a role,
turing and the sort of hot-tamale aesthetics that has
exhibition is
and only 3 percent fret that she'll have
often shaped Anglo taste on the subject. There is none
of that "It looks like European art except colorful,
blessedly
too small a one. One poll finds that 62
percent think she should stuff the Rod-
native, spicy-like a fiesta, sombrero, chili pepper."
free of political
ham part of her name.
Instead, the art is allowed to speak for itself. Latin-
posturing
The name will occupy investigative
American artists took the important themes of Europe-
and hot-tamale
PAINTING FROM MUSEU DE ARTE DE SAO PAULO, ASSIS CHATEAUBRIAND. BRAZIL: 1993 BY THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
reporters and talk-show radio for days.
an modernism and remade them in the complex image
aesthetics.
According to the best available informa-
of their continent. The Brazilian painter Emiliano di
tion, the facts are these: It was Hillary
Cavalcanti's picture of five women, Cinco Moças de
Rodham until 1982, no question. In
Guaratinguetá (1930, 92 cm X 70 cm, oil on canvas),
1980, her husband's gubernatorial oppo-
may owe a great deal to Art Deco and German Ex-
nent, Frank White, made a television ad
pressionism, for example, but the central figure stares
saying that his (Continued on page 165)
at US from an ancient, distant place. -MARK STEVENS
116
Crook is characteristically lucid but be-
like the magazine's elevated British tone.
up on Britain would be risky: though the
trays no hint of the author's having been
The harshest version of this was argued
U.K. is responsible for less than 20 per-
there.
by James Fallows in the Washington Post
cent of its circulation, it generates nearly a
The reporting in the international sec-
"Outlook" section. "There are certain
third of its advertising revenue.
tion is often extremely weak, partly be-
English products whose quaintness is put
The editors dodge this bullet by arguing
cause of a heavy reliance on stringers-
on mainly for export purposes-they're
that what matters is not The Economist's
The Economist still has no bureau in the
the equivalent of Ye Olde Tea Shoppe-
Britishness but its foreignness. "Any paper
Middle East or Latin America. As a re-
style tourist traps, which the locals avoid,'
has to have a personality," says Pennant-
sult. it almost never breaks news. And the
he wrote. "Something similar is going on
Rea. "We are British in ours, but interna-
writing often sags as well, under the
with The Economist
It is disdained by
tional in subject matter and approach.
weight of The Economist's own bag of
the very Englishmen whom many Ameri-
There's nothing particularly virtuous about
hack tricks, like ending a piece with the
can readers would most love to emulate, the
Britishness. If it was based in Australia, it
phrase "Words to remember.' It some-
secure upper and upper-middle classes."
would be produced as it is now."
times reads as if the same person wrote
Indeed, in London, The Spectator is the
The Economist in Australia, however,
the whole magazine.
in magazine with the chattering classes,
is still unthinkable. The magazine has al-
Anonymity, to which all swear fealty,
and The Economist is regarded as a te-
ways been one of the great bastions of
encourages this-no one is ever ashamed
dious, Americanized hybrid. "I am not
what critic Dwight Macdonald called am-
to have his name on anything. The lack of
a dedicated reader of the Economist,"
ateur journalism," which is produced only
credit may breed collegiality, but it drives
Roy Jenkins, who was offered the edi-
in London. Macdonald meant amateur not
many of the cleverest away. The roster of
torship in the 1960s, wrote in his mem-
in the pejorative sense of being second-
writers who have left recently to pursue
oirs, "regarding it as essentially a journal
rate but rather in the sense of writing that
greater glory under a byline includes An-
for foreigners."
was spontaneous. sophisticated, and iron-
drew Marr, the previous Bagehot, who is
These foreigners are lured by The Econo-
ic, produced more for love than money.
now Britain's top political columnist at
mist's snob-appeal direct mail, which makes
Nobody at The Economist knows wheth-
The Independent. and Anne Applebaum,
a subscription sound like membership in a
er the magazine will continue in this tradi-
who recently left to become foreign editor
London club. But they don't want the ins
tion, and again become a journalistic oasis
of The Spectator. "Anonymity is a draw-
and outs of British politics; there is a rec-
where one can opine at leisure on the is-
back for everybody," says one writer,
ognition, at least on the part of its senior
sues of the day. The power struggle has
who prefers to remain anonymous.
staff, that it indulges in parochial issues at
cast a long shadow, which will hang over
The magazine also remains visually
its peril.
the magazine's sesquicentennial, a lumi-
stunted. its covers often ugly, undecipher-
But to fold the Britain section into Eu-
nary-laden bash that will be held at the
able cartoons. like a recent Helmut Kohl
rope, something Emmott will have to con-
Reform Club in September, and linger
in a broken-down Mercedes, his head
sider, would make it even more irrelevant
long afterward. One irony may be noted
looking nauseatingly like a swollen pea-
at home. Already, Andrew Neil, editor of
by Mrs. Thatcher, Alan Greenspan, and
nut. Perhaps its largest problem, however,
The Sunday Times and former Britain edi-
the other invited guests: the stiff dose of
is one of nationality. Increasingly, its
tor of The Economist. publicly calls its
competition The Economist always pre-
readers are not Brits but Americans who
domestic coverage "poor." And giving
scribes for others didn't do it any good.
Hillary Clinton
(Continued from page 116) wife and the
care czarina as Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The private-quarters kitchen in the
mother of his children was proud to call
While the polls are against her on this,
White House is too small for that, but it
herself "Mrs. Frank White." Soon, he
she will avoid impeachment hearings as
works for family breakfasts and dinners.
was calling himself Governor White. Be-
long as she forgoes the hyphen.
After dinner, the Clintons read, work,
fore Clinton launched his campaign to
The Clintons have hardly had time for
watch television, and make phone calls. It
unseat him. Hillary Rodham was an-
dinner together: the president has been
takes weeks to get phones that can di-
swering to Mrs. Bill Clinton. But she
working in his office every night until one
rect-dial (the Bushes went through an
was actually going tri-moniker. Like
A.M. But together with Mack McLarty
operator), but now there are his-and-her
many women, she used her full name
they work out a deal where his schedule
versions.
some of the time, part of it some of the
will allow him to be upstairs for dinner at
The house is filled with guests: Diane
time, and mumbled something the rest of
7:30. No one likes eating in the imposing
Blair (Hillary's friend from the University
the time. Her press secretary and her law
dining room, so Hillary has a white table
of Arkansas) and her husband (the general
firm insist that she always signed three
and wicker chairs sent up from Arkansas.
counsel of Tyson Foods), the Thomasons
names. But in the campaign, press re-
In Little Rock, everything happened in the
(Harry several times), Susan Thomases
leases and schedules often used just Hil-
kitchen-potluck suppers, marathon Triv-
(several times), and all the family. When-
lary Clinton. Aides insist she was still
ial Pursuit games, the pinochle the Rod-
ever word gets to Hillary that friends are
H.R.C. when she signed something (one
hams love. McLarty remembers, "You
coming to town, she insists they stay at
of the more intimidated staffers is sure
would be over there and it wouldn't be
the White House. "It's the only way she's
of this because he always thought it
surprising if you set the table, pulled the
sure she will see them," says Verveer.
meant Her Royal Clinton). At campaign
leftovers out of the refrigerator, and
At the end of the week, the Clintons
stops, Bill Clinton introduced his wife as
cleaned up. And that was after he was
slip off for a private dinner at a friend's
Hillary, and now he introduces the health-
elected president."
house on 16th Street. The president is giv-
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165
Hillary Clinton
would let her go, because of the heavy
says, Hey, it's just been a week. Al Gore
snow. When the meeting is rescheduled
rises to boogie, or try to, and jokes about
on the Hill, three times as many people
his dancing ability.
en Ross Perot ears, and Hillary is given a
turn out.
When Clinton takes the floor, howev-
black cone-shaped hat and toasted as the
cr, he lights into his aides for leaking
Wicked Witch of the West (Wing).
WEEK TWO. On January 27, Hillary
information to the press. It's the reverse
On Tuesday morning, January 26, Hil-
holds her first health-care task-force meet-
of the perception that Hillary always
lary catches the 8:30 shuttle to New York.
ing in the Old E.O.B. (steps across a
plays the bad cop. In fact, she is more
nailing the window seat and cating the
driveway from the White House). in a
often the mother hen. "Are you getting
cheese and apple in the plastic basket.
stifling-hot, standing-room-only office
enough sleep?" she asks the younger
"She likes to eat and doesn't gain weight
on the second floor. The turnout is ex-
staff. "Maybe you should stay home to-
and hardly exercises,' says Verveer. She's
cellent, and includes the president and
night." She sometimes force-feeds ba-
ecumenical but prefers Italian and Mexi-
vice president. Warren Christopher or
gels to visitors to her office and urges
can. The president fixes her eggs with ja-
Donna Shalala should be blessed with
her staff to go home for birthdays, anni-
lapeño peppers on the weekends. One
such attendance. Hillary sets the tone:
versaries, and holidays. White House
Christmas she served black beans and
"I don't want you to think because I'm
consultant Paul Begala says that for al-
chili as part of a buffet. She carries Tabas-
the president's wife it's not O.K. to tell
most everyone "it's much easier to turn
co sauce wherever she goes.
me what you think. I want everything on
to Hillary than the president. She has no
At P.S. 115 in a poor Manhattan neigh-
the table."
temper. I've never heard her raise her
borhood, Hillary bends over a child's
Consultants to the health-care task
voice." When Begala's wife was eight
desk and recalls how her father quizzed
force travel to Washington to ponder
months pregnant, Hillary and the gover-
her on the multiplication table. She re-
price controls and bunk in cheap hotels,
nor insisted he go home for a month with
wards the winner of a multiplication bingo
on pullout couches, and in sublets. They
full pay. "This is the most important
game with two silver happy faces and a
quickly find that a meeting with the
thing that will ever happen to you, not
kiss in the middle of his forehead.
president seems like a hoedown com-
the election," Begala recalls her saying.
After this piece of classic First Lady
pared with the brisk no-frills directness
"The Clintons inspire loyalty because
theater, Hillary races downtown for lunch
of an encounter with H.R.C. An overor-
they give it," he says. "I would throw
with Jacqueline Onassis in her apartment
ganizer-Hillary read 43 First Lady bi-
myself in front of a truck for them."
across from the Metropolitan Museum of
ographies and several Elliott Roosevelt
January 30. On the first trip to Camp
Art. Nibbling salad, they do not talk of
mystery novels to learn about life in the
David, Hillary is still upbeat. There is a
hats or headbands. As she departs, Hillary
White House-she has a plan consuming
touchie-feelie quality about the meeting
abandons her no-hug policy for an em-
umpteen pages of charts, graphs. calen-
of Cabinet members and top White House
brace in the lobby.
dars, tickler files, and checkoffs. along
aides, with nametags and facilitators and
She moves on to Chemical Bank's mid-
with a tollgate strategy which requires
getting-to-know-you stories. The presi-
town headquarters, where she is to receive
each group to pass its findings through
dent recalls being teased about being a
the Lewis Hine Award from the National
ever narrowing checkpoints.
fat kid. Hillary tries out "Mr. Presi-
Child Labor Committee. She breaks stride
Everyone worries about the self-imposed
dent." After several references, she stops
to ask an aide to see if more people can't
100-day deadline. One White House aide is
and says, "This is going to be hard and
be invited to Sunday's first official White
sure they'll make it. "H.R.C. will do as
awkward for me, so let me just say 'Bill'
House dinner. Arriving at the plush 50th-
much work as anyone, and she will see
when I need to.`` But no one has heard
floor conference room, Hillary slips away
that everyone works as hard as she does.
the president addressed in public by any-
to call Chelsea, whom she had dropped
With her, you can't jive, you can't tempo-
one since as Governor or Bill. "Hillary
off at school that morning for her second
rize, you can't play any games. You do,
tells everyone, and I mean everyone,
day of eighth grade.
you're dead."
says Begala, ''to call her Hillary.'
Hillary also squeezes in calls to several
But there is a false drama to the secret
The next day, they head back to the
members of Congress, including House
deliberations, since a memo to partici-
White House to watch the Super Bowl
Ways and Means Committee Chairman
pants says that the job of the task force is
with Governors Ann Richards (rooting for
Dan Rostenkowski, House Minority Lead-
to make the argument for a managed-com-
Dallas) and Mario Cuomo (for the Buffalo
er Robert Michel, and Senate Minority
petition plan; a single payer. as in Cana-
Bills). Chelsea sits on the floor with
Leader Bob Dole. Dole had recently fret-
da, is not seriously considered. While
Socks.
ted over whether the president would be
the oxymoronic "managed competition"
With an official White House dinner
able to fire his wife as he could other
means doctors and pharmaceutical compa-
that evening, the First Lady has no time
aides, and wondered whether there could
nies will take a hit, it more or less pre-
for football. Home-ec Hillary goes into
be a full and frank discussion of ideas
serves the piece of action the powerful
high gear: she consults with the kitchen
around her. Rostenkowski had asked, "Is
insurance companies have, except that
staff and checks out the pink tablecloths,
Mrs. Rodham Clinton starting to take over
they now may be forced to cover people
the red Reagan china, the tulips. She is a
the White House?" and Michel said, "I
who aren't disgustingly healthy.
different First Lady from the one in Ar-
could always ask my wife, I guess. to
At the end of a bad week-the gays-in-
kansas, where she would breeze in at the
come be my representative.' When Hilla-
the-military issue exploding on the heels
last minute for an official dinner, mov-
ry doesn't make it to Annapolis for a
of Zoe Baird's withdrawal-Hillary sug-
ing around name cards, perhaps, but
meeting of the Republican caucus, one
gests a get-together of the whole White
otherwise leaving the arrangements to
senator cavils, "We made it out here,
House staff in the East Room. It quickly
the pros.
why didn't you?" She explains that nei-
turns into a pep rally. McLarty introduces
Hillary's spurt of domesticity comes
ther the local police nor the Secret Service
Tipper Gore, who introduces Hillary, who
exactly one year after the wifely perfor-
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Hillary Clinton
David Letterman comparing Bill and
not a long-suffering Eleanor Roosevelt, an
Roger Clinton:
overbearing Edith Wilson, a pill-taking
Bill-Can recite Declaration of Inde-
Betty Ford, or an overthin, grandchild-
mance on 60 Minutes, when she helped
pendence by heart.
averse Nancy Reagan. She doesn't sit si-
rescue the imperiled Clinton candidacy.
Roger-Can stop electric garage door
lently at Cabinet meetings like Rosalynn
Then, she came across as a determined,
with his head.
Carter. She brings her own agenda.
hard-talking, g-droppin' woman who was
Bill-Secret Service code name is Eagle.
standing by her man, though without a
Roger-Secret Service code name is
WEEK THREE. On Meet the Press. Rob-
lot of charm or grace. Tonight she is Hil-
Boss's oser-lay other-bray.
ert Novak, the Prince of Darkness on the
lary transformed, dressed for dinner in a
Roger-Terrified of Hillary.
Sunday-morning talk shows, blames the
black turtleneck number by Donna Karan
Bill-Terrified of Hillary.
two failed attorney-general selections on
that says, in a sexy whisper, "I am not
A half-true joke: Chelsea goes to the
the First Lady's insistence that the job be
Barbara Bush." Since the dress has al-
school nurse because she has a head-
filled by a woman. He fulminates about
ready been knocked off in ready-to-
ache. The nurse wants to give her an as-
"the hidden hand of Hillary Clinton try-
wear, it also says, "I am not Nancy
pirin but has to have parental consent.
ing to play Bobby Kennedy at the Justice
Reagan." To the aides who are afraid of
Chelsea tells the nurse, "Call my dad;
Department, but unable to get the job on a
her, however, it says, "I am Hillary,
my mom's too busy. (What she actual-
de jure basis because of the anti-nepotism
hear me roar; I'm more important than
law." Four days later, when asked at his
Al Gore" (a song that would soon be-
Rose Garden announcement of his nomi-
come popular on Washington, D.C., ra-
nee for attorney general what influence
dio stations).
With
Hillary had on the selection of Janet
The next day, the First Lady gives her
Reno, the president answers, "None."
first postinaugural interview, to Marian
February 10. The Detroit town meeting.
Burros, a food writer for The New York
A focus group sponsored by a marketing
Times. She has granted the audience on
firm turns knobs during the president's
the condition that they keep the talk to
question-and-answer session. The favor-
household hints and favorite recipes. "We
Hillary, says one
able ratings move steadily upward during
are big broccoli eaters," Hillary declares.
an answer by Clinton on health care-until
About the president's much-lampooned
White House aide,
he mentions his wife's role. Then the dials
eating habits she says, "You know, he
turn down. They go back up when he starts
gets an unfair rap. An occasional trip to a
"you can't jive,
talking about health care again.
fast-food restaurant is not the worst of all
Hillary has spent much of the first three
possible sins."
you can't temporize,
weeks with Chelsea, helping her to adjust
A few days after her culinary inter-
to a new city and a new school, to life
view, Hillary is her old self again in a
you can't play
without her grandparents or friends near-
black suit, heels clicking on marble
by. Except for those few days when she is
floors as she sweeps past white marble
any games. You do,
traveling, Hillary goes upstairs at 4:30,
busts of dead white men on Capitol Hill.
when Chelsea gets home from school. On
She doesn't carry a briefcase but a black
you're dead.'
a snow day when Chelsea is home, Hilla-
purse so large she would be asked to
ry stays with her all day. Various people
check it at the airport. In the L.B.J.
come up and join them. Chelsea has intro-
Room, 25 Democratic congressmen listen
duced her parents to Game Boy, and now
intently. H.R.C. shares top billing with
Hillary tries to pry it out of her hands.
Senator George Mitchell. Up here in the
ly said, according to the president, was
The family has taken to the movie the-
last pre-feminist stronghold in the land,
that "I was easier to get on the phone-
ater and bowling alley. When Mary Steen-
where men are members and women are
but that's because I'm more likely to be
burgen. the actress from Arkansas who is
wives or trouble, they are having a little
in one place.'')
a close friend of the Clintons', stays in the
difficulty getting used to such a power-
Of course, it's safer to make Hillary the
White House to celebrate her birthday.
ful First Lady. There has been a lot of
object of the concerns about the presiden-
she and Chelsea race downstairs. The
grumbling, especially about Mrs. Rod-
cy. If he turns out to be a jerk, the country
whole family has watched Steve Martin in
ham Clinton (Dan Rostenkowski's name
suffers; if she does, it's a good parlor
Leap of Faith, plus Groundhog Day,
for her) calling men by their first names.
game. And many people may fear having
Home Alone 2, Aladdin, Benny & Joon, A
Hillary seems to be an irresistible target
more than one person wearing the pants in
Few Good Men, and Falling Down. The
for unfriendly fire.
a marriage as much as they fear having
White House swimming pool is ignored
The jokes:
more than one president, especially men
except by Steenburgen, who gets up at
The president got his taxes done early but
who like the pants-allocation system just
6:30 A.M. for a swim in freezing weather.
couldn't send them in, because he couldn't
the way it is.
As she comes back in, the president is
find the head of household to sign.
Susan Faludi, the author of Backlash,
leaving for his jog, and Hillary is seeing
Clinton is finally getting a feel for
thinks that "the rusting social order has
Chelsea off to school.
things in Washington. Now, if we can just
its shorts in a knot over Hillary not be-
figure out what to do with her husband.
cause she's an independent woman but
WEEK FOUR. February 11. Hillary and
Saturday Night Live's Opera Man: "Ag-
because she is unapologetic about it."
Tipper travel to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
gressiv-ah. Hillary power trip-ah. El presi-
She's taken off the mask of the demure
for a town meeting on health care. As al-
dente es pusso whip-ah."
wife without putting on a hair shirt. She is
ways Hillary is in command of the ses-
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Hillary Clinton
more than scraps of paper scattered the
criticisms that would be hurled your way?"
length of the table. "Hillary is making
Her comments are a departure from the
about a dozen different assignments to
campaign, when she told Time magazine
sion, asking pointed questions and giving
people," an aide recalls later. "[National
that she took criticism grounded in fact
away little-she keeps details about how
Economic Council head Robert) Rubin's
seriously but not personally and ignored
the plan is being developed close to the
section is so full of jargon that she has to
the rest. ''If I worried about every time
vest. "If her husband plays poker,' says
take him in the other room and do her If
anybody said something nasty about me
Representative Mike Synar of Oklahoma,
it's a tax, call it a tax' routine." Another
during the last year. I would be incapaci-
"he ought to take her with him."
aide calls Hillary "the detox center for
tated."
The next day, the First Couple visits a
bad writers.' Paul Begala admits his sec-
In a public appearance in his home
clinic in Arlington, Virginia. The trip is a
tion on health care was too soft and unfo-
state, Wyoming congressman Craig Thom-
reminder that they are hardly ever togeth-
cused. "Hillary stitched health care back
as refers to the First Lady as "Hillary
er during the day anymore. (Verveer says,
into the speech as an economic issue," he
Baby. When it is reported on network
"Hillary will stop by the Oval Office on
says. "She was the calm in the eye of the
news, he claims, "I meant no disre-
the way back from a meeting if she thinks
storm."
spect." A reporter at The Washington
he might be there, but he's so fully
But when the president joins them, one
Post coins the phrase "Billary," one
scheduled there's almost no time. '') The
aide notices for the first time a flash of
president, two heads, one headband. He
president takes up the fight Hillary has
irritation directed at his wife. "It was a
makes no denial about his intention.
pre-picked for him with the drug compa-
small thing-looking a second too long
nies for gouging profits out of sick peo-
when Hillary was speaking-but she knew
WEEK SIX. Along with six Cabinet mem-
ple. They make a good team; the sum of
enough to back off.' The aide adds that,
bers, H.R.C. is sued in federal court by
their anger is greater than its parts. They
in addition to being his most ardent cheer-
three industry groups seeking to open the
dandle babies to make clear whose side
leader, Hillary is Clinton's toughest crit-
health-care meetings. The White House
they are on.
ic-able to tell him things few people are
counsel fights back, arguing that the sun-
A Time/CNN poll of 1,800 adults finds
willing to now that he's president.
shine laws, which state that government
that 56 percent of respondents have a fa-
At 6:30, Clinton rehearses the speech in
meetings with an outside adviser must be
vorable impression of the First Lady. A
the movie theater on the ground floor. At
open. weren't passed to protect the coun-
Gallup poll shows that 67 percent of
8:30, the First Couple climbs into the limo
try from the First Lady.
1,001 Americans surveyed have a favor-
and they pencil-edit the last draft on the
Another First Lady comes to visit. Hil-
able opinion of her-two points better
way to the Capitol. In front of the camera,
lary and Betty Ford talk for two hours
than her husband scores on the same ques-
he ad-libs about a quarter of the speech. It
about mental health and substance abuse
tion. No one asks about Al. At the Grid-
is hailed as a breakthrough success.
and the small world of First Ladies. They
iron dinner, Bob Dole thanks his former
Hillary thought it would be a great idea
have their pictures taken under Mrs. Ford's
Senate colleague for his efforts. "The
to invite Alan Greenspan, the former
portrait.
vice president puts in long hours at the
chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, to
The president seems to be thriving, ca-
White House working on the environ-
sit beside her during the speech. This eye-
reening from one wildly adventurous proj-
ment. And, Al, the lawn looks great."
popping sight attracts almost as much at-
ect to another-a new town meeting, a
February 14. Valentine's Day at the
tention as the president's words. Two
new crisis, a new summit. The major
Red Sage restaurant. Even on a romantic
days later, Greenspan will testify favor-
aides-Mack McLarty, George Stephano-
outing. the president can be the date from
ably about Clinton's economic plan before
poulos, Paul Begala, Bruce Lindsey-are
hell, talking to everyone but the girl he
Congress.
tied up with devising the economic plan
brung, which in this case means attending
Back at the White House, Clinton gets
and getting it through Congress, then with
to the waiter, the Secret Service, the aide
everybody up to the third-floor solarium
the timber summit, then with the Yeltsin
with the nuclear codes, and an advance
for a party. Hillary misses most of it be-
summit. Hillary is left to the single, brain-
person. Before going to the downstairs
cause Chelsea needs help with her home-
crushing task of health-care reform and its
dining room, he U-turns into the bar for a
work. When the First Lady arrives around
Mission: Impossible deadline.
round of flesh-pressing. Finally alone,
midnight, the president is trying to round
There is a performer in most elected of-
they have "painted soup" and the lamb
up a crowd for a movie, but everyone is
ficials, including First Ladies, a leaning
baked in herbed bread. They exchange
too tired. Instead, he talks Hillary into
toward the light. Nancy Reagan was an
gifts and touch each other more in two
watching a rerun of the speech on C-SPAN.
actress, Betty Ford a dancer. They took to
hours than the Bushes did in four years.
On February 21, Hillary appears at Al-
their parts. Hillary, on the other hand, is a
ice Tully Hall in New York for a benefit
behind-the-scenes player; she would be
WEEK FIVE. February 17. The presi-
to raise money for a sculpture of Eleanor
happy if she were never on-camera again
dent's State of the Union speech will be
Roosevelt to be placed in Riverside Park-----
and never had to sit for another photo
delivered and broadcast live tonight at
America's first memorial to a First Lady,
shoot, especially if it means sitting still
nine. The pressure is intense: after his 10-
other than the collection of gowns in the
for a makeup artist. She attacks her job
minute address from the Oval Office two
Smithsonian. Hillary remarks that she has
with determination and decades of experi-
days earlier, the stock market suffered its
had many conversations with Mrs. Roose-
ence. At public hearings for the health-
biggest one-day drop in 16 months. At
velt in her head during the past year-
care task force, she is never at a loss for
lunchtime, the president is pre-spinning
"one of the saving graces that I have hung
either information or sympathy. What kind
news anchors over grilled chicken in his
on to for dear life." She says she asked
of health insurance do you have? How
private dining room while Hillary works
her predecessor things like "How did you
much do you pay? A rapt student, she has
on the speech in the Roosevelt Room.
put up with this?" and "How did you go
not yet been asked a question that she
At this stage, the address is nothing
on, day to day, with all the attacks and
couldn't answer. Like most staffs, hers
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prepares talking points for her, which she
to each saga as if it were the first one
pawed by the press and overexposed and
almost never uses. Says Verveer. "I ask
she'd heard. Just as she seems to be flag-
came across as precocious and pampered,
her, 'What do you need us for?' She al-
ging and the discussion starts to drag, she
Rosalynn Carter said, "My children have
ways comes up with something to make
will lift her head off her hand and lob a
grown up in public life. Amy was two
us feel better.
live one. To a doctor whining about oner-
when we were in the governor's mansion.
The Gores and the Clintons relive the
ous government regulation, she retorts
I don't worry about it. Chelsea, howev-
salad days of the campaign bus tour by
with thinly veiled anger, "Why the medi-
er, was kept so sheltered that, during the
going out together to a Jerry Jeff Walker
cal community in this country can't help
campaign, some focus groups didn't think
performance at the Birchmere, a club in
us figure out what will work
Deep
the Clintons had a child.
suburban Virginia. They eat at RT's, a
breath. "It's frustrating
this
is
just
one
What Hillary can't let pass is a segment
Cajun restaurant. where the Clintons order
example of what really should be solved
on Saturday Night Live which made fun of
the pasta jambalaya. The veep orders his
by the medical community. For a wom-
favorite meal: potato skins stuffed with
an of her control, this is the equivalent of
barbecued chicken followed by pecan-
mowing the doctor down with an Uzi.
crusted chicken with rock shrimp. The
While the pundits and the medical es-
Credits and
evening raises the question of whether
tablishment and men in general seem to
jeans are age-appropriate for a vice presi-
enjoy taking potshots at Hillary, the less
Fashion Information
dent, even when going to a country-music
privileged root for her at clinics in Virgin-
concert and eating Cajun food.
ia, farm halls in lowa, auditoriums in
Florida, and hospitals in Pennsylvania.
WEEK SEVEN. Hillary loses the lawsuit
The people who line up after the hearings
against her. The judge rules that she is not
for a word. an autograph, to shake her
Page 6: Photographs, top to bottom, by Jim Ra.
a federal employee, which means that
hand, and the 100,000 people who have
kete, Michael Geissinger, Roxanne Lowit.
Page 12: Photographs, bottom left and right, by
task-force meetings to gather information
written to say they think she is doing the
Marina Schiano; robe from Ralph Lauren, N.Y.C.
must be held in public. The White House
right thing seem to appreciate her core of
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claims it is "gratified" by the ruling,
unbendable steel. Her husband can be as
bottom, from Sipa.
which is a "stamp of approval," because
oversensitive as a car alarm, anxious to
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they now claim not to have held any meet-
please the last person he talked to, split
Page 80: Photographs, left, by Max Aguilera-
Hellweg/Onyx; right, from Rex USA.
ings which if they had held them would
the difference, find a way up the middle.
Page 84: Props styled by Millie Falcaro for Net-
have had to have been held in public. De-
But she acts like someone who will stick
work Representatives; hair, makeup, and grooming
by Mathü Andersen.
spite being gratified by the decision, the
to her guns. Says her close friend Steen-
Page 86: Photographs: Top, jackets from the
White House will appeal the ruling sever-
burgen. "Like all of us. Hillary would
Stussy Union, L.A.; styled by Jill Sokolec for Céles-
al weeks later.
prefer to be liked, but she's secure enough
tine, grooming by Jeanine Greville-Morris for Clou-
tier. Bottom, grooming by Denise Markey.
The Clintons have yet to take a week-
to risk not being liked if that's what it
Page 88: Photographs: Top left, by John Strickler/
end off. There's always something-Zoe
takes."
Sygma. Top right, styled by Jerri Sokolec; hair and
Baird. Boris Yeltsin, the economic plan.
In Slater. lowa, she allows herself a
makeup by Barbara Sansone for J. Zingarelli.
Page 90: T-shirt and jeans from all Gap stores;
The president goes golfing twice in Ma-
rare moment of self-reflection, saying that
styled by Lee W. Moore for Visages Style; grooming
nassas, but it's so foggy he can barely see
she's been at the job of drafting a health-
by Caroline Keenan.
the ball. Chelsea has friends over to watch
care-reform package for six weeks, but
Page 94: Photographs, top, hair, makeup, and
styling by Angie Heon; bottom center, by Marina
movies and spend the night, and for her
"actually it feels like six years. Yet
Garnier; bottom right, by Oberto Gili.
13th birthday, friends from Little Rock fly
she seems indefatigable. One day she
Page 103: Robe from Ralph Lauren, N Y.C.
Page 105: Suit and shirt from Giorgio Armani,
up. Hillary takes them all out to see a re-
has only a single official item on her
Beverly Hills.
vival of Jesus Christ Superstar at the
schedule-a discussion of health care
Page 106: Suit from Emporio Armani, N.Y.C.; shirt
Warner Theatre.
with five female senators-but she holds
from Bergdorf Goodman Men, N.Y.C., all Neiman
Marcus stores, and Louis, Boston.
When Steenburgen visits, Hillary tells
30 other meetings.
Pages 108-9: Photographs, left, from Photore-
her how homesick she is for friends and
On March 16, she gives one of many
porters; right, from Sygma.
the ease of her old life. Steenburgen says
teas in the White House, this one for 10
Page 117: Painting photographed by Bruce M.
White, N.Y.C.
that, unlike the Hollywood types she
First Ladies from the Western Hemi-
Pages 118-19: Photographs, left to right, by Al-
knows, the Clintons want to hold on to the
sphere. The event recalls the exchange
bert Ferreira/DMI, Roxanne Lowit, Nick Elgar/Lon-
don Features.
prosaic quality of their lives, to avoid the
she had with Jerry Brown during the cam-
Page 122: Photograph from Photoreporters.
rarefied atmosphere and the dependence
paign. When he attacked her law practice
Page 128: Vest, ponts, and mules from Gianni
that comes when someone is always there
as a conflict of interest in a state where
Versace, Beverly Hills; ring from Luna Felix, Beverly
Hills; mariachi band provided by Mariachi Express
to take care of the details. Hillary stops by
her husband was governor. she shot back,
& More.
the grocery store near Chelsea's school
"I suppose I could have stayed home and
Page 129: Dress from Fred Segal, Santa Monica,
one day to pick up things that used to be
baked cookies and had teas. Less report-
and I. Magnin, Beverly Hills; shoes from Bergdorf
Goodman, N.Y.C., and Neiman Marcus, Beverly
in the cupboard in Little Rock, like peanut
ed was her next sentence: `The work that
Hills.
butter. But she has only $11 cash, and the
I
have
done
has
been
aimed
to
as-
Pages 130-31: Photograph, left, courtesy of Phil-
ip Johnson Architects.
store doesn't take credit cards. She charms
sure that women can make the choices
Pages 132-33: Photograph © 1955 (renewed
the clerk anyway, signing an autograph on
whether it's full-time career, full-time
1983) by the Condé Nast Publications Inc.
her way out.
motherhood, or some combination.'
Page 135: Photograph, right, from Esto Photo-
graphics.
The Clintons have taken a very differ-
Pages 136-37: Large photograph by Sonia Mos-
WEEK EIGHT. At the health-care meet-
ent approach toward their daughter from
kowitz; insets, top to bottom, from A.P./Wide World
ings, everyone has a woeful tale about
Photos, from U.P.I./Bettmann, by Dorothy Alexander.
the Carters, the last First Family that came
Pages 140-41: Grooming by Kate Best for the
getting sick, and Hillary manages to listen
with a child. When Amy Carter was
Artist Group.
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169
Hillary Clinton
the hospital has set aside a room for the
hosting the Oscars. After the award for
Clinton family and she has access to a
best supporting actress had been present-
phone, a fax, and overnight mail, little
ed, Crystal cracked, "Now that she's won
Chelsea's "awkward stage." The Clin-
work gets done.
the Oscar, Marisa Tomei has asked me to
tons try to explain to her that "unkind and
Susie May, the Clintons' Little Rock
announce that she wants to be known as
mean things are said by people who are
neighbor and close friend who got hours
Marisa Rodham Tomei."
either insecure or going for the laugh or
and hours of Hillary's solace over coffee
going for the nasty remark-whether it's
after Alzheimer's disease hit her family,
WEEK 11. As her father's illness drags
on a playground or on a television set."
says she let Hillary know she was there if
on, there is pressure on Hillary to give up
she needed her, but honored her request
the vigil. Who knew how long it would
WEEK NINE. The Clintons' pincer move-
"to spend the time alone with family."
last? And she is much the worse for sitting
ment on the Hill is having an effect. Senate
One of the few outsiders Hillary sees is
in the hospital 12 hours a day. On April 1,
Minority Leader Bob Dole kills press re-
Harry Thomason, who flies in on a private
the White House has to announce that the
ports that Hillary blundered when she had
plane for the day and insists on getting
health-care-reform plan is unlikely to make
the temerity to call him Bob. "Last time I
Hillary and her mother away from hospi-
its 100-day deadline.
checked, that was my name," he says
tal food for a night. They go to the Faded
On April 4, after two weeks in Little
when asked about it. And he calls her Hil-
Rock, Hillary and Chelsea return to the
lary. On Larry King Live, Dole says he
White House, just before the president
would support changing the so-called Rob-
comes back from the Vancouver summit
ert Kennedy nepotism law to make an ex-
with Boris Yeltsin. The next day is base-
ception for H.R.C. If the president asked
ball's opening day. If her father hadn't had
me to try to change the law, I'd probably
the stroke, she would be throwing out the
do it I'm impressed with her." When
first ball for the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley
asked by a colleague about his softening
Hillary
Field. No presidential spouse has ever
on Hillary, he says, "Well, I'm used to
thrown out an opening-day pitch at a ma-
smart women [he's married to Red Cross
was scheduled to
jor-league baseball game in the 83 years
president Elizabeth Dole]. At least Hillary
since President William Howard Taft be-
doesn't ask for blood."
throw out
gan the ritual, but this was to have been
On Friday, March 19, Hillary is hosting
the gift of a child to an ailing father. Hil-
a lunch for 25 campaign and White House
the first ball for the
lary tells friends it would be too heart-
staff, laughing her head off as they relive
wrenching to go through with it.
the Keystone Kops sequences of the pri-
Chicago Cubs.
On Tuesday, H.R.C. makes her first
maries, when an aide comes in and whis-
trip since her father's hospitalization, to a
pers in her ear that her 82-year-old father
But after her father's
long-planned event at the University of
has had a stroke. "Her face, which was
Texas in Austin, where she draws an un-
all smiles and crinkled eyes, went slack,"
stroke, she said
usually large crowd of 14,000 people (the
remembers one guest. "It literally turned
largest since President Bush spoke there
to putty. Hillary asks Melanne Verveer
it would be
in 1991). Hillary has no prepared speech.
to pack up what she will need from the
She begins by noting the obvious, that she
office. Before leaving, she spends time
too heart-wrenching.
and Ann Richards have on similar outfits,
with the president and McLarty, who re-
and adds. "I suppose the only thing left
alizes for the first time how much she's
for me is to get a hairdo like that. You
been carrying on her own and how tired
know, I'm actually due for a new one, and
she is.
I figure that if we ever want to get Bosnia
Hugh Rodham's stroke defines the en-
Rose for dinner and have such a good time
off the front page all I have to do is either
suing weeks. "The impact on her is un-
that Harry hopes the other patrons don't
put on a headband or change my hair and
fathomable unless you know how close
misinterpret the momentary relief from
we'll be occupied with something else.'
the Rodhams and the Clintons are,''
grieving.
No one is better at staying on message
says Skip Rutherford, an old friend from
The only other break Hillary takes is to
than Hillary, but rather than talk about
Arkansas who hopped on the plane with
watch the Oscars with the president, who
managed competition or H.I.P.C.'s, Hil-
her and listened to Chelsea and Hillary
has come for an overnight visit. They
lary speaks philosophically of the ques-
relieve the anxiety with stories about
have been movie fanatics since their days
tions that face the dying: "When does life
birthdays and Christmases and softball
at Yale, where they patronized a theater in
start? When does life end? Who makes
tournaments.
a cineast's garage. Hillary loves the Liza
those decisions? How do we dare to im-
Minnelli song that is part of Oscar night's
pinge upon these areas of such delicate,
WEEK 10. Everything shuts down as Hil-
tribute to women, and phones her right
difficult questions?" She quotes from an
lary sits by her father's bedside in Little
then and there. When Minnelli calls back,
article she carries around with her, an in-
Rock. Her mother and two brothers are
she tells Hillary she will be in Washington
terview with Lee Atwater, George Bush's
there, along with Chelsea, who is on
to perform in June, and the First Lady in-
campaign manager, who died at age 40 of
spring break from Sidwell. The only aide
vites her to stay at the White House.
brain cancer. "My illness," he said,
with Hillary is Lisa Caputo, her press sec-
Hillary's sense of humor is intact. Billy
"helped me to see that what was missing
retary, who traveled with her during the
Crystal keeps his invitation to visit the
in society is what was missing in me-a
campaign and is so close to Hillary that
White House on April 14 despite a joke
little heart, a lot of brotherhood," and to
she is like a younger sister. Even though
the comedian made at her expense while
see that we must "speak to this spiritual
170
VANITY FAIR/JUNE 1993
vacuum at the heart of American society,
Lawn) and restricted staff to only four
"We haven't heard zip, not since Mrs.
this tumor of the soul."
tickets so that it will be truly open to the
Clinton stood right here and talked to 35
One cure for the tumor of the soul, Hil-
public. She is more animated than she has
of us," he gripes.
lary says, is to "be hopeful again
to
been since the inauguration, but afterward
The Clintons plan their first weekend
see other people as they wish to be seen
she goes up to the family quarters instead
away together that is not to the Little
and to treat them as they wish to be treat-
of returning to work in her office. Accord-
Rock hospital or Camp David, but un-
ed, to overcome all of the obstacles we
ing to a senior aide, Hillary is drained.
fortunately they will not be alone. They
have erected around ourselves that keep
In the early morning on Tuesday, the
will retreat, along with Senate Demo-
us apart from one another, fearful and
president takes time away from Bosnia
crats, to historic Jamestown. Virginia,
afraid, not willing to build the bridges
and the troubled stimulus package to smell
to consider the fate of the nation. Before
necessary to fill that spiritual vacuum that
the flowers with his wife. Bill and Hillary
they leave, gay leaders, who complain
Lee Atwater talked about." Even the Se-
can be glimpsed walking through the crab
that the Clintons are ignoring them, are
cret Service agents are misty-eyed.
apples and magnolias now in bloom on
placated with a first-ever meeting in the
The next night, her father passes away.
the White House lawn. On this first warm
Oval Office with the president, who ex-
day of spring, they have lunch together on
plains, "Presidents act and decide, they
WEEK 12. She wasn't kidding when she
the patio outside the Oval Office.
don't protest or march."
said she was due for a haircut. Cristophe
Back in Washington, Hillary prepares
cuts her hair before she leaves for the
WEEK 13 AND BEYOND. Death and
to give her first commencement speech as
funeral in Little Rock. He is taking ad-
taxes are life's two inevitabilities, and on
First Lady, at the University of Michigan
vantage of his new celebrity to open a
April 15, waiting to the last minute, the
on May 1. the 101st day of the Clinton
branch of his Beverly Hills salon in Wash-
Clintons write a check for the $4,085
administration. It is an auspicious occa-
ington-much to the dismay of backup
owed on their $290,697 income. The
sion for reflection and renewal, for the
hairdresser De Bakey, who sniffs, "This
president says we "took a pretty good
graduates and for Hillary.
Cristophe, he is trying to take credit for
lick," paying $70,228 in all. In the bread-
She gave her first commencement ad-
my work."
winning department, the First Couple has
dress in 1969, the first student ever to do
During a service conducted by the same
traded places. Last year she made most of
so at Wellesley. The college president,
minister who married them, the Clintons
the money-$203,172 to her husband's
Ruth Adams, introduced her by saying of
sit by Hugh Rodham's flag-draped coffin.
$34,527. This year she will earn nothing,
the graduating class, "There was no debate
When the president rises to speak, he
and the president will bring home the ba-
as to who their spokesman was to be
says, "I suppose it is enough to say we
con with $200,000.
Miss Hillary Rodham." In her speech,
got along." Clinton fondly recalls the de-
By Friday, Hillary is feeling well
Hillary spoke of "the courage to be whole,
bates among the Rodham family. "Lord,
enough to travel to Lincoln, Nebraska,
to try to mold an entire person
living
in
they loved to argue. Each one tried to
and Billings, Montana. She speaks to Na-
relation to one another in the full poetry of
rewrite history to put the proper spin on
tive American tribal leaders about health
existence.' She concluded with a poem
it. It was a wonderful preparation for
care, and on Saturday she gets up at five
written by a classmate. "And you and I
politics. Rodham was a conservative
A.M. for a meeting with a Great Falls
must
be
free
not to kill ourselves with a
Republican whose daughter started out
health group so that she can be back to
nameless gnawing pain / but to practice
as a Goldwaterite and ended up a Clin-
spend the weekend at home.
with all the skill of our being / the art of
ton Democrat. He had been sick for a long
Health care loses its warm and fuzzy
making possible."
time, and the president says how grateful
connotations as the enormous bill for
The Coke-bottle glasses and bell-bot-
he is that Hugh Rodham got to see his
keeping more Americans healthy looms.
toms may be gone but not the lofty ideal-
daughter recognized by America. "We
"What about VAT?" is the question of the
ism. Back then the graduates of Wellesley
thank God for his good last year,' he con-
week after H.H.S. Secretary Donna Sha-
dreamt that Hillary would go from being
cludes.
lala blurts out that a value-added tax is
president of the student government to
The next day, Hillary's father is buried
being considered to pay for the health-
president of the United States. Instead,
in his hometown, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
care program. The administration does its
she became the wife of the man who
The family goes to Camp David for Easter
"everything is on the table" routine to
would become president. But she has tak-
Sunday, the first day off since the inau-
cool the discussion. Still, this is the first
en a place at the innermost circle of the
guration.
alarm bell on the health-care tab, which
White House, and taken charge herself of
The White House Easter Egg Roll waits
could do a lot more damage to the Clin-
the most far-reaching social reform since
for no one, and by five A.M. Monday
tons than Senator Bob Dole's filibuster on
the New Deal-all while coping with the
there are young aides out on the lawn
the stimulus package. In fact, Dole, who
death of her father. In her first 100 days,
steeling themselves for the event. Hillary
had softened considerably on Hillary, goes
Hillary Rodham Clinton has already made
has expanded it this year to the Ellipse
formal again, complaining about not be-
more of the role of First Lady than anyone
(the stretch of grass beyond the South
ing consulted sufficiently on health care.
could have imagined.
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171
CLINTON ADMINISTRATION ACCOMPLISHMENTS
AND ACTIONS
FIRST 100 DAYS
File First 100
DAY
POLICY
ACTION
BUDGET: REVERSE TRICKLE
DOWN ECONOMICS
Congress adopts sweeping
investment and deficit
reduction package
BUDGET CUTS: BUREAUCRACY
"We will cut 100, 000
federal government
positions through
attrition."
Executive Order 12839
signed 2/10/93.
BUDGET CUTS
Cut administrative costs
by 3 percent
Executive Order 12837
signed 2/10/93 -- Creates
a 14 percent reduction in
administrative costs by
'97.
EDUCATION
Achieve 1989 Education
Summit's "National
Education Goals" by the
year 2000.
Introduced Goals 2000:
Education
America Act.
Will improve learning and
teaching by providing a
national framework for
education reform.
ECONOMY: ECONOMIC COUNCIL
Create an Economic
Security Council to
coordinate America's
international economic
policy.
Established National
Economic Council, 1/25/93.
Executive Order 12835.
ENVIRONMENT:
COMPETITIVENESS COUNCIL
End back door for
polluters at White House.
Abolished by Presidential
Memorandum, 01/21/93.
ENVIRONMENT: LEADERSHIP
"I want to give you a real
environmental presidency."
Created Office of
Environmental Policy,
which has broader
influence and more focused
mandate to coordinate
policy than Council on
Environmental Quality,
2/8/93.
ENVIRONMENT: OZONE
DEPLETION
Issued Executive Order to
reduce ozone depletion.
Requires Federal Govenment
procurement to restrict
use of substances that
cause stratospheric ozone
depletion.
ENVIRONMENT: END FALSE
CHOICE
Shatter the false choice
between environmental
protection and economic
growth.
Babbitt announces
compromise naming
California Gnatcatcher a
"threatened" species,
calls for preservation of
ecosystem with allowance
for limited development,
3/25/93
ENVIRONMENT: FOREST SUMMIT
Early in my administration
I will convene a Pacific
Northwest Forest Summit to
work out a legislative
solution.
Forest conference convened
in Portland, OR, 4/2/93.
Orders cabinet officials
to draft immediate
responses and
recommendations.
FAMILIES: IMMUNIZE
CHILDREN
Sent the Child
Immunization Act to
Congress on April 1, 1993.
FAMILIES: FAMILY AND
MEDICAL LEAVE ACT
Promised to get the bill
on his desk quickly and
sign it.
Signed two weeks after
taking office, 2/5/93.
FETAL TISSUE RESEARCH
Lift the ban on fetal
tissue testing.
Repealed by Presidential
Memorandum, 1/22/93.
GOVERNMENT WASTE
Limits the use of
government aircraft by
government employees,
Memorandum on Restriction
of Government Aircraft,
2/10/93.
GOVERNMENT WASTE
Reduces and restricts use
of government vehicles,
Memorandum, 2/10/93.
HEALTH CARE
Will form a health care
task force to research and
draft health care reform
plan.
Forms health care task
force with First Lady
Hillary Rodham Cliton as
chair, 1/25/93.
JOBS: RE-EMPLOYMENT HELP
Extended unemployment
insurance and includes
reforms to provide
reemployment assistance to
beneficiaries.
MIDDLE EAST: PEACE TALKS
Sent Secretary Christopher
to region to re-start
talks, 2/4/93.
REFORM OFFICE OF U.S.
TRADE REPRESENTATIVE
Prevent trade negotiators
from cashing in on their
positions by serving as
representatives of foreign
corporations or
governments.
Issued Executive Order
banning senior staff and
trade reprentatives from
representing foreign
governments.
REINVENTING GOVERNMENT
"We will reduce the White
House Staff by 25
percent."
Announced reduction and
reorganization of White
House staff. Cut staff by
25%, or 350 positions
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: GAG
RULE
"Repeal President Bush's
'gag' rule" which
prohibits doctors from
sharing information with
patients.
Repealed by Presidential
Memorandum, 1/22/93.
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS:
MEXICO CITY POLICY
"Protect
right to
choose."
Repealed by Presidential
Memorandum, 1/22/93.
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS:
MILITARY HOSPITALS
"Protect women's rights in
the workplace."
Repealed by Presidential
Memorandum,
1/22/93.
Granted legal rights to
privately funded abortions
at military hospitals.
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
"Support testing of RU-
486."
Repealed by Presidential
Memorandum, 1/22/93.
Rescinded import ban of
RU-486, pending routine
testing and approval
process.
TOWN HALL MEETINGS
Will continue as
President.
First town hall meeting -
2/10/93.
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
Extend benefits to jobless
workers in the event of a
recession.
$5.8 Billion extension
signed 3/4/93 when
unemployment
remains above level where
it was when unemployment
insurance was first
granted in current
recession.
WELFARE REFORM: BREAK
CYCLE OF DEPENDENCY
Make welfare a second
chance, not a way of life.
Established task force on
welfare reform policy with
National Governors'
Association.
The First 100 Days
Administration of President Bill Clinton
January 20 - April 30, 1993
INTRODUCTION
This is the season of America's renewal.
Already, in the first few months of his new Administration,
President Bill Clinton has restored an active purpose to the
Presidency, and renewed America's commitment to change and
progress.
We now have a President dedicated to investment and economic
growth; a President determined to help Americans weather the
winds of change; a President committed to restoring
responsibility; a President devoted to returning the
government back to the American people.
After twelve years of national drift and economic decline,
President Clinton has charted a clear path to growth with
his New Directions economic plan designed to create jobs,
boost incomes, move our economy from consumption to
investment, and reduce our deficit, substantially and
dramatically.
The investments in the Clinton economic plan embrace
priorities that will raise the living standards and profits
of workers and businesses for the long-term: rebuilding
America's infrastructure; committing resources and attention
to the education and training needs of our students and
workers; and restoring vital incentives that reward
productivity, profits, innovation and investment.
The Clinton budget -- the outline of his economic plan for
New Directions -- passed the Congress in record setting
time. It reduces deficit spending by over $500 billion; a
plan so credible that the markets continue to reduce
interest rates on the American people. These interest rate
reductions, coupled with imaginative steps taken by the
Clinton Administration to deal with the credit crunch, means
American businesses, farms, and consumers have money to
save, spend, invest and grow.
We now have a President who helps the American people make
the choice for change.
Enormous changes are sweeping our economy. Inevitable
defense cutbacks are forcing military bases to close --
they're causing defense manufacturers to lose markets and
cut jobs. Problems in the airline industry have caused
massive lay-offs in aerospace firms and among the domestic
carriers. America's economic partners abroad are beating
American companies in the race for markets in the former
Soviet Union.
That's why President Clinton's economic program will help
the American people take advantage of these changes. He has
offered a $20 billion, five-year initiative to reinvest in
workers, communities and companies harmed by cuts in
military spending. He has formed a task force to recommend
real changes in Federal policy to help restart our aviation
and aerospace industry. And he has provided an enterprise-
oriented aid initiative to save the Russian Democracy and
spur American economic growth.
Beyond growth, Americans want a return to responsibility in
our schools, our communities, and our economy. And in that
spirit, President Clinton is leading the way. By reforming
welfare to make it a second chance, not a way of life; by
reforming the health care system to provide health security
to every American and bring rising costs under control; by
making national service opportunities available to students
so that they can exchange opportunities for education with
community service.
Finally, President Clinton is working to give the government
back to the American people. At the beginning of his
Administration he announced his decision to cut the White
House staff by 25%, and to eliminate the kinds of perks and
privileges which isolate federal workers from the people
they are supposed to serve.
He has cut billions from the budgets of Federal Agencies and
Departments, telling them they must do more with less. He
is committed to reinventing government and bringing his
Presidency directly to the people through town meetings,
electronic mail with the White House, and ideas like the
Forest Conference-- which enabled the environmental and
economic problems of the Pacific Northwest to be discussed
by average people with the President, Vice-President Gore
and Members of the Cabinet.
Most important, he is committed to enacting tough campaign
finance and lobbying reform legislation to drive special
interest dealing out of politics.
What follows is a chronology from the first 100 days of the
most action oriented Administration in our memory. But it
is more than a listing of accomplishments, because now is
not the time to be satisfied. Instead, it is indicative of
a change in direction.
What will come from what we accomplished here -- more
economic growth, comprehensive health and welfare reform, a
new system of national service, and the like -- is new
opportunities for achievement, empowerment and progress for
middle-class Americans, and a new direction for us all. It
is indeed America's season of renewal.
HISTORICAL FOOTNOTE
The "hundred days" period was applied by journalists to the
special session of the 73rd Congress, which granted newly
inaugurated President Franklin D. Roosevelt extraordinary
powers to combat the national crisis of the Great Depression
in 1933.
Less well-known than the hundred days of 1933, is how
Woodrow Wilson set a modern precedent in 1913, when one
month after taking office, he became the first President in
a century to deliver an address to Congress. That speech
initiated the sweeping economic reforms enacted later that
year -- tariff reform, the first income tax and the Federal
Reserve. With that early speech, Wilson had closed the book
on the Gilded Age and had shifted Government to the side of
average, hard working Americans.
Day 1: January 20, 1993
Inaugurated as 42nd President of the United States.
Delivers Inaugural Address from the steps of the
Capitol.
Issues Executive Order on Executive Appointee
Ethics; order restricts or limits ways in which
senior executive appointees may profit in the future
from their experience while serving the President.
Proclaims a National Day of Fellowship and Hope.
"Our Democracy must be not only the envy of the
world but the engine of our own renewal. There is
nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by
what is right with America.
This beautiful Capital, like every
capital since the dawn of civilization, is often a
place of intrigue and calculation. Powerful people
maneuver for position and worry about who is out,
who is up, who is down, forgetting those people
whose toil and sweat sends us here and pays our way.
Americans deserve better.
Let us resolve to make
our Government a place for what Franklin Roosevelt
called 'bold, persistent experimentation, a
Government for our tomorrows, not our yesterdays.
Let us give this Capital back to the people to whom
it belongs.
Yes, you, my fellow Americans, have forced the
spring. Now we must do the work the season
demands. "
-- Inaugural Address
Day 2: January 21, 1993
Abolishes Council on Competitiveness, criticized as
a back door for polluters who circumvented U.S.
laws.
Meets with senior White House staff.
Day 3: January 22, 1993
Swearing-in of Cabinet members.
First Cabinet Meeting.
Issues memorandum to revoke Reagan and Bush
Administration restrictions on fetal tissue research
in the development of treatments for individuals
afflicted with serious diseases and disorders such
as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease,
diabetes and leukemia.
Issues memorandum to revoke Reagan and Bush
Administration restrictions ("Gag Rule") that
prohibited abortion counseling in clinics that
receive Title X funds to provide family planning
services for low-income patients.
Issues memorandum to revoke Reagan and Bush
Administration restrictions ("Mexico City Policy")
that prohibited Family Planning Grants to be awarded
to certain nongovernmental organizations from the
Agency for International Development.
Issues memorandum to revoke Reagan and Bush
Administration restrictions on a woman's legal right
to privately- funded abortion services in military
hospitals.
Issues memorandum to revoke previous Administration
restrictions on the importation of the drug commonly
known as RU-486.
Day 4: January 23, 1993
Telephone conversations with President Boris Yeltsin
of Russia and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of
Israel.
Day 5: January 24, 1993
Issues Proclamation and statement on the death of
Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Day 6: January 25, 1993
Establishes National Economic Council to coordinate
economic policymaking among all relevant departments
and offices of the federal government; holds
economic policy meeting.
Meets with Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Establishes Task Force on National Health Reform,
chaired by the First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton;
Task Force is charged with formulating legislation
that would take strong action to control health care
costs while providing Americans with the security of
knowing that their fundamental health care needs
will be met.
Day 7: January 26, 1993
Meets with bipartisan Congressional leadership.
Nominates U.S. Foreign Service Ambassador Pickering
to be Ambassador to Russia.
Day 8: January 27, 1993
Meets with Democratic Congressional leaders.
Day 9: January 28, 1993
Meets with Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan,
Secretary Bentsen and NEC Chairman Rubin.
Day 10: January 29, 1993
Teleconference with citizens concerned about Family
and Medical Leave Act.
Issues memorandum on ending discrimination on the
basis of sexual orientation in determining who may
serve in the Armed Forces; memorandum directs
Secretary of Defense Aspin to consult with others to
study how revisions in current policy could be
implemented in a manner that is practical, realistic
and consistent with the high standards of combat
effectiveness and unit cohesion maintained by the
Armed Forces; memorandum directs the Secretary to
submit recommendations prior to July 15, 1993.
First news conference.
Day 11: January 30, 1993
Weekend working meeting at Camp David with Cabinet
and senior White House staff.
Day 12: January 31, 1993
Hosts first state dinner, attended by the Nation's
Governors.
Day 13: February 1, 1993
Meets with Nation's Governors about health care and
other policy issues.
Revokes Bush Administration Executive Orders on
federal contracting, thereby reducing Government
intrusion into workplace relations.
Addresses Democratic Governors' Association Dinner.
Day 14: February 2, 1993
Addresses National Governors' Association on
initiatives to make welfare a second chance, not a
way of life; declares intent to form working group
on welfare reform; outlines principles and goals to
guide policy reform, ensure that people who work are
rewarded, toughen child support enforcement, and
encourage policy experimentation to achieve these
goals in the states.
Declares storm-afflicted areas of Louisiana a
Federal Disaster Area, authorizing emergency relief
assistance.
Day 15: February 3, 1993
Addresses employees of Office of Management and
Budget; pledges cooperation with, and asks for help
from, federal employees in cutting waste and
reinventing government.
Discusses campaign finance and lobbying reform with
Democratic Congressional leaders.
Declares storm-damaged and flood-affected areas of
California a Federal Disaster Area, authorizing
emergency relief assistance.
Day 16: February 4, 1993
Addresses National Prayer Breakfast.
Announces Secretary of State Christopher will travel
to Middle East to advance the peace process.
Meets with German Foreign Minister Kinkel.
Day 17: February 5, 1993
Signs Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.
Meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mulroney of
Canada.
Holds news conference (number 2) with Prime Minister
Mulroney.
Addresses U.S. Conference of Mayors.
"I am very proud that the first bill
I am to sign as President truly puts people first.
it took eight years and two vetoes to make this
legislation the law of the land. Now millions of
our people will no longer have to choose between
their jobs and their families."
-- Remarks on signing Family and
Medical Leave Act of 1993.
Day 18: February 6, 1993
First Saturday radio address; focuses on the economy
and principles to guide economic plan to be unveiled
later this month
Day 20: February 8, 1993
Creates White House Office on Environmental Policy,
a new office that will have broader influence and a
more effective and focused mandate to coordinate
environmental policy, one that recognizes the
connection between environmental protection and
economic growth and the responsibility to provide
real leadership on global environmental issues;
reaffirms support of legislation to make
Environmental Protection Agency part of the Cabinet.
Designates Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary
Building.
Meets with Turkish President Ozal.
Day 21: February 9, 1993
As part of new effort to cut waste and reinvent
government, announces reduction and reorganization
of the White House staff; Executive Office of the
President staff to be reduced by 25%, or 350
positions, in the next fiscal year.
Day 22: February 10, 1993
Cabinet meeting (number 2).
Signs Executive Orders on greater efficiency and
fiscal responsibility in government: 14% reduction
in administrative costs by FY97, a savings of $16
billion in taxpayers' dollars; elimination of
wasteful advisory committees; reduction of federal
bureaucracy by 100,000 positions through attrition;
elimination or limitation of perks and privileges in
executive branch offices, including the use of
executive dining rooms, government aircraft, and
government vehicles.
Conducts first town meeting with citizens in
Detroit, linked via satellite with citizens in
Seattle, Miami, and Atlanta.
Day 23: February 11, 1993
Addresses business leaders on the economy and the
budget.
Meets with Japanese Foreign Minister Watanabe.
News conference (number 3), nominates Janet Reno to
be Attorney General.
Telephone conversation with Philippine President
Ramos.
Day 24: February 12, 1993
Announces child immunization initiative at Fenwick
Clinic, Arlington, Virginia; proposal provides more
vaccines for children, saving taxpayers $10 in
avoidable health care costs for every $1 invested in
vaccinations; directs the Secretary of Health and
Human Services to enter into negotiations with drug
manufacturers to see that states can buy vaccines at
affordable prices, reversing the trend of
skyrocketing costs of vaccines to U.S. consumers.
Day 25: February 13, 1993
Saturday radio address on the economic plan.
Day 27: February 15, 1993
Address from the Oval Office on the economic plan.
"All during this last 12 years the
federal deficit has roared out of control. Look at
this: the big tax cuts for the wealthy, the growth
in Government spending, and soaring health care
costs all caused the federal deficit to explode
Now if all that debt had been invested in
strengthening our economy, we'd at least have
something to show for our money: more jobs, better
educated people, a health care system that works.
But as you can see, while the deficit went up,
investments in the things that make us stronger and
smarter, richer and safer, were neglected: less
invested in education, less in our children's
future, less in transportation, less in local law
enforcement
The price of doing the same old
thing is far higher than the price of change."
-- First televised address to the
Nation from the Oval Office.
Day 28: February 16, 1993
Addresses California Economic Conference via
teleconference.
Visits construction site, Washington, D.C., to
discuss jobs and infrastructure.
Day 29: February 17, 1993
Delivers address to Joint Session of Congress on the
economic plan.
Meets with bipartisan Congressional leaders prior to
address.
"Our Nation needs a new direction.
Tonight I present to you a comprehensive plan to set
our Nation on that new course."
"I know this economic plan is ambitious, but I
honestly believe it is necessary for the continued
greatness of the United States. And I think it is
paid for fairly, first by cutting Government, then
by asking the most of those who benefited the most
in the past, and by asking more Americans to
contribute today so that all of us can prosper
tomorrow."
"The test of this plan cannot be 'What is in it for
me?' It has got to be 'What is in it for us?' If
we work hard and if we work together, if we
rededicate ourselves to creating jobs, to rewarding
work, to strengthening our families, to reinventing
our Government, we can lift our country's fortunes
again.
"
-- Address before a Joint Session of
Congress
Day 30: February 18, 1993
Delivers speech on the economic plan, St. Louis,
Missouri.
Day 31: February 19, 1993
Delivers speech on the economic plan and
participates in a town meeting, Chillicothe, Ohio.
Delivers speech on the economic plan, Hyde Park, New
York.
Day 32: February 20, 1993
Saturday radio address on the economic plan.
Participates in a "Children's Town Meeting" at the
White House.
Day 33: February 21, 1993
Delivers speech on the economic plan, Santa Monica,
California.
Meets with California business leaders.
Day 34: February 22, 1993
Announces national technology policy and conducts
question-and-answer session with Vice President Gore
and employees of Silicon Graphics, Mountain View,
California; policy focuses on high-skill, high-wage
jobs in the technology sectors, research and
development and experimentation, education for
America's workforce, information infrastructure, and
U.S. competitiveness in basic science, mathematics
and engineering.
Talks by phone from Air Force One with Larry
Villella, a 14-year-old entrepreneur who donated
$1,000 to reduce the federal budget deficit.
Addresses Boeing employees, Everett, Washington, on
legislation in Congress to establish a commission to
examine the U.S. airline industry, efforts by U.S.
Trade Representative Kantor to monitor agreements on
European Airbus subsidies and their impact on
American workers, and the economic plan.
Day 35: February 23, 1993
Delivers speech on the economy, the economic plan
and other economic proposals to the National
Business Action Rally of the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce.
Meets with U.N. Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali.
Day 36: February 24, 1993
Meets with Prime Minister Major of the United
Kingdom.
News conference (number 4) with Prime Minister
Major.
Day 37: February 25, 1993
Delivers speech on the economic plan to business and
labor leaders.
Announces airdrops of humanitarian aid in Bosnia-
Herzegovina.
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton accepts invitation
to attend "Conversations on Health,' a series of
four public hearings on the health care crisis, held
in Florida, Michigan, Iowa and D.C.
Day 38: February 26, 1993
Delivers first major foreign policy address, on the
subject of American leadership in the global
economy, at American University, Washington, D.C.
"For years our leaders have failed to take
the steps that would harness the global economy to
the benefit of all our people, steps such as
investing in our people and their skills, enforcing
our trade laws, helping communities hurt by change;
in short, putting the American people first without
withdrawing from the world and people beyond our
borders.
The truth of our age is this and must be this: Open
and competitive commerce will enrich us as a nation.
It spurs us to innovate. It forces us to compete.
It connects us with new customers. It promotes
global growth without which no rich country can hope
to grow wealthier. It enables our producers who are
themselves consumers of services and raw materials
to prosper. And so I say to you in the face of all
the pressures to do the reverse, we must compete,
not retreat."
-- Address on "The imperative of
American leadership in the face of global change," "
American University
Day 39: February 27, 1993
Saturday radio address on the economic plan.
Day 40: February 28, 1993
Publishes column, on principles behind the National
Service proposal, in the New York Times.
"Our new initiative will embody the
same principles as the old G.I. Bill. It will
challenge our people to serve our country and do the
work that should -- and must -- be done. It will
invest in the future of the quiet heroes who invest
in the future of others.' "
-- "National Service Now,' " New York Times
Day 41: March 1, 1993
Issues statement on community service and
participates in a question-and-answer session at
Adult Learning Center, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Outlines National Service proposal in an address at
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Day 42: March 2, 1993
Meets with Republican House leaders at the Capitol.
Lunch meeting with Senate Republicans.
Meets with NATO Secretary General Woerner.
Meets with Democratic Congressional leaders.
Day 43: March 3, 1993
Announces initiative to reinvent government; names
Vice President Gore as head of national performance
review to cut spending and increase efficiency
throughout government, agency by agency.
Receives one millionth piece of mail after six weeks
in office, as much as the previous President
received in six months.
Day 44: March 4, 1993
Signs Emergency Unemployment Compensation Amendments
of 1993.
Declares certain storm-damaged areas of the State of
Washington a Federal Disaster Area and declares
major disaster in Georgia, authorizing emergency
relief assistance.
Meets with former President Carter.
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton discusses health
care concerns with steelworkers, New Orleans,
Louisiana.
Day 45: March 5, 1993
Delivers speech to Mayors on the economic plan.
Announces April 3-4 summit with Russian President
Yeltsin.
Day 46: March 6, 1993
Saturday radio address on the economic plan.
Revokes Bush Administration Proclamation that
suspended Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 within areas
struck by Hurricanes Andrew and Iniki.
Day 48: March 8, 1993
Delivers speech on the jobs package to the
Legislative Conference of the National League of
Cities.
Telephone conversation with former President Bush to
discuss the situation in Russia.
Meets with members of the House Budget Committee.
Meets with former President Nixon.
Day 49: March 9, 1993
Meets with President Mitterrand of France.
News conference (number 5) with President
Mitterrand.
Signs Executive Order to extend U.S. Cooperation
with the European Atomic Energy Community.
Meets with Senate Budget Committee.
Day 50: March 10, 1993
Announces initiative to alleviate the credit crunch,
to open up credit to creditworthy loans, to generate
jobs in the private sector, and to assist small
businesses on fair lending, equal opportunity and
credit availability.
Meets with California State legislators.
Announces Forest Conference to be convened in
Portland, Oregon, on April 2.
Secretary Christopher announces the President's plan
on Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Day 51: March 11, 1993
Outlines plan for defense conversion and
reinvestment to Westinghouse employees, Linthicum,
Maryland; plan confronts issues raised by cutbacks
made in defense spending since 1985; major
components include: worker training and adjustment,
investing in hard-hit communities, dual-use
technology and commercial-military integration, and
conversion opportunities in new civilian technology
investment.
Delivers speech on children and family policies to
Children's Defense Fund conference.
Meets with National Conference of State
Legislatures.
Issues statement on murder of Dr. David Gunn,
Pensacola, Florida.
Discusses campaign finance reform with Democratic
Senators.
Day 52: March 12, 1993
Attorney General Reno assumes office.
Visits and addresses the crew of the U.S.S. Theodore
Roosevelt.
Radio address to the Armed Forces.
"I pledge to you that as long as I am
President, you and the other men and women in
uniform of this country will continue to be the best
trained, the best prepared, the best equipped, and
the strongest supported fighting force in the
world."
-- Remarks to the crew of the U.S.S.
Theodore Roosevelt
Day 53: March 13, 1993
Radio address on plans for defense conversion and
reinvestment.
Declares storm-afflicted areas of Florida Federal
Disaster Areas, authorizing emergency relief
assistance.
Day 55: March 15, 1993
Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Rabin.
News conference (number 6) with Prime Minister
Rabin.
At the direction of the President, U.S. begins
negotiations with Canada and Mexico to seek side
agreements to the North American Free Trade
Agreement; side agreements would seek greater
protections for American workers, farmers and the
environment.
Day 56: March 16, 1993
Meets with bipartisan Congressional leaders.
Meets with exiled Haitian President Aristide.
Day 57: March 17, 1993
Meets with Irish Prime Minister Reynolds; attends
Friends of Ireland luncheon at the Capitol.
Signs Aircraft Equipment Settlement Leases Act of
1993.
Day 58: March 18, 1993
House of Representatives passes Budget Resolution,
basic outline of the economic plan.
Addresses employees of the U.S. Treasury Department
on the economic plan.
Meets with National Newspaper Publishers
Association.
Meets with Commission of European Communities
President Delors.
Addresses Radio and Television Correspondents
Association Dinner.
"I want to thank all of you for the
work that you do. I think you have a difficult job.
Each of us sees the world in different ways and the
whole complex interplay of the press and people in
public life is designed somehow to give the American
people a kaleidoscope of opinion, a mountain of
facts organized in ways that will enable them to
grasp it, so that somehow they -- not you or me --
they can be the main actors in the great American
democracy."
"I ask that in the months and years ahead you stay
faithful to yourselves and to your cause. Never
lose your sense of humor. And remember that most of
us who do this on both sides do it because we love
our country and prefer to believe that an effort
made today can make it better tomorrow. It's a good
way to live a life."
-- Remarks to the Radio and
Television Correspondents Association Dinner
Day 59: March 19, 1993
Meets with members of the House of Representatives
who supported the economic plan.
Issues statement praising career and service of
Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White; thanks Justice
White for time to deliberate on the choice of a
successor and still have nominee considered and
confirmed by the Senate well in advance of the
Court's next term, which begins in October.
Delivers speech on the economic plan and health care
at Downtown Child Development Center, Atlanta,
Georgia.
Delivers speech on the economic plan, the jobs
package and reinventing government to local business
leaders, Atlanta, Georgia.
"I think that there are few decisions
the President makes which are more weighty, more
significant, or can have a greater impact on more
Americans than an appointment to the Supreme Court.
And I'm going to try to pick a person that has a
fine mind, good judgment, wide experience in the law
and in the problems of real people, and someone with
a big heart."
-- Exchange with reporters at the
Downtown Child Development Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
Day 60: March 20, 1993
Saturday radio address on the economic plan.
Issues statement on the situation in Russia in
support of Russian President Yeltsin.
Day 63: March 23, 1993
News conference (number 7) on the economic plan and
aid to Russia.
Addresses to Democratic Governors' Association,
state officials and business leaders.
Day 64: March 24, 1993
Meets with Russian Foreign Minister Kozyrev.
Meets with Governor Pedro J. Rossello of Puerto
Rico.
Day 65: March 25, 1993
Senate passes Budget Resolution, basic outline of
the economic plan.
Meets with Foreign Minister Zlenko of Ukraine.
Working dinner with Members of the House of
Representatives on the Administration's policy
toward Russia.
Day 66: March 26, 1993
Meets with German Chancellor Kohl.
News conference (number 8) with Chancellor Kohl.
Meets with Bosnian President Izetbegovic.
Working dinner with Senators on the Administration's
policy toward Russia.
Names Commerce Secretary Brown to lead Cabinet-wide
effort on the economy in California.
Day 67: March 27, 1993
Radio address on the economic plan and the jobs
package.
Signs into law an Act to extend the Export
Administration Act of 1979 and authorize
appropriations under the Act for fiscal years 1993
and 1994.
Addresses Gridiron Club Dinner.
Day 69: March 29, 1993
Issues Executive Order on International Development
Law Institute.
Day 70: March 30, 1993
Makes available emergency appropriations for the
Departments of Agriculture and Education to provide
assistance for victims of recent natural disasters.
Day 71: March 31, 1993
Cabinet meeting (number 3).
Signs Memorandum on Certification of Major Narcotics
Producing and Transit Countries.
Day 72: April 1, 1993
Congress passes basic outline of the economic plan
just six weeks after the President's State of the
Union Address; for the first time in 17 years,
Budget Resolution conference report is passed before
the legal deadline.
Meets with bipartisan Congressional leadership.
Transmits to Congress the proposed Comprehensive
Child Immunization Act of 1993.
Signs into law an act to extend the suspended
implementation of certain requirements of the food
stamp program on Indian reservations and for other
purposes.
Addresses Naval Academy Midshipmen, Annapolis,
Maryland.
Outlines aid to Russia in address to the American
Society of Newspaper Editors, Annapolis, Maryland.
"Just today, the Congress passed the
heart of my economic program, a long term plan to
drastically reduce the deficit and increase
investment in our nation's future. After years of
policies that have diminished our future, Washington
has finally realized that the best social program is
a good job, and the best route to deficit reduction
is a growing economy founded on a bold plan of
change that will both cut spending and increase
investment to empower the working people of our
country."
-- Address to the American Society
of Newspaper Editors, Annapolis, Maryland
"Decisions command attention. Crises
drive action. But it is only with an overriding
sense of purpose, drawn from their history and their
cultures, that great nations can rise above the
daily tyranny of the urgent to construct their
security, to build their prosperity, to advance
their interests, and to reaffirm their values."
"Like a wise homeowner who recognizes that you
cannot stop investing in your house once you buy it,
we cannot stop investing in the peace now that we
have obtained it.
vision must drive our
investment and our engagement in this new world."
"Nowhere is that engagement more important than in
our policies toward Russia and the newly independent
states of the former Soviet Union. Their struggle
to build free societies is one of the great human
dramas of our day."
-- Address to the American Society
of Newspaper Editors, Annapolis, Maryland
Day 73: April 2, 1993
Holds Forest Conference, Portland, Oregon;
conference convenes interests at odds over
management of the Nation's forests in the Pacific
Northwest.
Declares major disaster in the State of New York due
to effects of the bombing of the World Trade Center
and in the State of Nebraska as a result of severe
March flooding and ice jams, authorizing emergency
relief assistance.
Day 74: April 3, 1993
Summit with Russian President Yeltsin, Vancouver,
BC.
Meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mulroney,
Vancouver, BC.
Lunch meeting with Prime Minister Mulroney and
President Yeltsin.
Radio address on the economic plan and aid to Russia
package.
Working dinner with President Yeltsin.
Day 75: April 4, 1993
Summit with Russian President Yeltsin, Vancouver,
BC.
News conference (number 9) with President Yeltsin.
Issues Vancouver Declaration: Joint Statement of the
Presidents of the United States and the Russian
Federation.
Day 76: April 5, 1993
Throws out first pitch at opening day, baseball game
between the Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers,
Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore, Maryland.
Day 77: April 6, 1993
Meets with Egyptian President Mubarak.
News conference (number 10) with President Mubarak.
Signs act providing for temporary increase in the
public debt limit.
Day 78: April 7, 1993
Signs enabling legislation providing for the
"National Commission to Ensure a Strong Competitive
Airline Industry".
Day 79: April 8, 1993
Submits budget to Congress.
Meets with Defense Secretary Aspin and Joint Chiefs
of Staff at the Pentagon.
Day 80: April 9, 1993
Announces the White House will send to Congress
proposed legislation to extend fast track for the
Uruguay Round of the GATT negotiations.
Day 83: April 12, 1993
Addresses the first Technology Reinvestment Project
Conference via satellite.
Issues statement on jobs package and immunization of
children.
Announces that General Vessey will travel to Vietnam
as the President's Special Emissary for POW/MIA
Affairs.
In first engagement outside of NATO territory, NATO
forces begin enforcement of no-fly zone in Bosnia, a
policy urged by the President and adopted by the
United Nations.
Day 84: April 13, 1993
Hosts town meeting to discuss summer jobs proposal
and school-to-work training for young Americans,
with Secretaries Riley of Education and Reich of
Labor and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, via
satellite.
Delivers speech at Ceremony honoring 250th
anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth, Jefferson
Memorial.
"The genius of Thomas Jefferson was
his ability to get the most out of today while never
taking his eye off tomorrow, to think big while
enjoying the little things of daily life. Perhaps
most important, he understood that in order for us
to preserve our timeless values, people have to
change. And free people need to devise means by
which they can change profoundly and still
peacefully."
-- Remarks at Ceremony honoring the
250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson,
Jefferson Memorial
Day 85: April 14, 1993
Addresses at Summer Jobs conference on jobs package,
Crystal City, Virginia.
Releases letter to Congressional leaders consistent
with War Powers Resolution, advising of actions in
support of United Nations efforts in Bosnia-
Herzegovina.
Day 86: April 15, 1993
Addresses speech to law enforcement organizations on
jobs package provision for hiring police officers.
Day 87: April 16, 1993
Announces jobs package revisions to break gridlock
in the Senate; reduces size of package by 25%, but
reduces jobs created by only 18%; maintains original
full funding for unemployment benefits, highway
improvements, summer jobs, childhood immunization,
Ryan White program for AIDS victims, wastewater
treatment, food safety, and assistance to small
businesses; new provision includes $200 million for
new police hiring.
Meets with Japanese Prime Minister Miyazawa.
News conference (number 11) with Prime Minister
Miyazawa.
Day 88: April 17, 1993
Delivers speech on the jobs package, Pittsburgh
Airport, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Radio address on the jobs package, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
Day 90: April 19, 1993
Delivers speech on the jobs package to the Building
and Construction Trades Union of the AFL-CIO.
Issues statement on federal operations in Waco,
Texas.
Issues statement on death of Turkish President Ozal.
Day 91: April 20, 1993
Issues statement and conducts news conference
(number 12) on Federal Operations in Waco, Texas.
Meets with Czech President Havel.
Day 92: April 21, 1993
Delivers speech on the eve of Earth Day; announces
U.S. will sign international treaty to protect
biodiversity; commits U.S. to specific targets and
timetables to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases;
outlines long term strategy to protect the
environment while promoting economic growth and
creating millions of new high-skill, high-wage jobs.
Issues Executive Order to increase the use of
alternative fuel vehicles in the federal fleet.
Issues Executive Order to reduce government use of
ozone-depleting substances.
Issues Executive Order requiring federal agencies to
use energy efficient equipment.
Meets with President Walesa of Poland, Prime
Minister Meksi of Albania, President Havel of Czech
Republic, President Zhelev of Bulgaria, President
Tudjman of Croatia, President Herzog of Israel,
President Soares of Portuguese Republic, President
Iliescu of Romania, President Goncz of Hungary,
President Kucan of Slovenia, President Kovac of
Slovak Republic, and Prime Minister Sangheli of
Moldova.
Republican filibuster prevents vote on jobs package
in the Senate.
Submits sweeping education reform legislation,
"Goals 2000," to Congress.
"For all our differences, I think
there is an overwhelming determination to change our
course, to offer more opportunity, to assume more
responsibility, to restore the larger community, and
to achieve things that are larger than ourselves and
more lasting than the present moment.
All across this country, there is a deep
understanding rooted in our religious heritage and
renewed in the spirit of this time that the bounty
of nature is not ours to waste. It is a gift from
God that we hold in trust for future generations."
-- Earth Day address
Day 93: April 22, 1993
Delivers address at the dedication ceremony of the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Day 94: April 23, 1993
News conference (number 13)
Day 96: April 25, 1993
Addresses the Newspaper Association of America,
Boston.
Day 98: April 27, 1993
Announces proposal for campaign finance reform to
limit campaign spending, curb the influence of
special interests and open greater access to
communication with voters.
April 30, 1993
Outlines legislation to enact a National Service
plan.
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The First 100 Days
Accomplishments of Vice President Al Gore
"Season of America's Renewal"
January 20 - April 30, 1993
DAY
1
JANUARY 20, 1993
Inaugurated as the 45th Vice President of the United States
2
JANUARY 21, 1993
The Council on Competitiveness is abolished.
"Today we send a clear message to the special interests who
used the Council on Competitiveness as a back door to avoid
the law. That back door is closed."
3
JANUARY 21, 1993
First Cabinet Meeting
6
JANUARY 25, 1993
The Vice President joins The President in a meeting with the
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
7
JANUARY 26, 1993
The Vice President joins The President in a meeting with
bipartisan Congressional Leadership.
9
JANUARY 28, 1993
In Baltimore, the Vice President calls for new cooperation
to break gridlock at the National Legislative Education
Foundation Issues Conference. Speaking to members and
leaders of the Democratic House Caucus, Vice President Gore
called on Congress and the Administration to forge a new
relationship of cooperation to confront the country's major
challenges, starting with reviving the economy, creating new
jobs, and controlling skyrocketing health care costs.
Statement on Anniversary of Space Shuttle Disaster
Mrs. Gore is asked by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton to
serve as Mental Health Advisor to the President's Task Force
on National Health Reform
10
JANUARY 29, 1993
Teleconference with the President with citizens concerned
about the Family and Medical Leave Act
11
JANUARY 30, 1993
Camp David Retreat
Weekend working meeting at Camp David with President
Clinton, the Cabinet and Senior White House staff.
15
FEBRUARY 3, 1993
Joins the President in meeting with Congressional leaders on
campaign finance and lobbying reform.
16
FEBRUARY 4, 1993
Addresses National Prayer Breakfast
Joins key sponsors of the Lobbying Reform Law at its
introduction to urge Congressional action. This new
legislation will strengthen and streamline lobbyists'
disclosures.
17
FEBRUARY 5, 1993
The signing of the Family Medical Leave Act
20
FEBRUARY 8, 1993
White House Office on Environmental Policy established.
The President and the Vice President announce the creation
of a new office in the White House to deal directly with
environmental policy. The White House Office on
Environmental Policy is established to more effectively and
efficiently coordinate environmental policy making across
the federal government. Reaffirmed support of legislation
to make the EPA part of the Cabinet.
22
FEBRUARY 10, 1993
Second Cabinet Meeting
The Vice President conducts first Town Hall Meeting with
citizens on jobs and the economy in Ontario, California.
23
FEBRUARY 11, 1993
Mrs. Gore accompanies First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on a
tour of a medical center and joins in a conversation with
Pennsylvania citizens about health care reform.
24 FEBRUARY 12, 1993
Commemorates President Lincoln's 184th Birthday.
This event, at the Lincoln Memorial, has been held every
year since 1923.
26
FEBRUARY 14, 1993
The Vice President and Mrs. Gore join the President in a 2-
mile run sponsored by the American Heart Association.
28
FEBRUARY 16, 1993
Meeting with Environmental Leaders
The Vice President meets with members of the Alliance for
Collaborative Research, a group of CEOs from R&D consortium
such as the microelectronics and computer technology
consortium and the Electric Power Research Institute.
Address to the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory
Council annual conference.
29
FEBRUARY 17, 1993
The Vice President joins the President in meeting with
bipartisan Congressional Leaders.
31
FEBRUARY 19, 1993
Address To North Carolina State Legislature
The Vice President carries The President's economic message
of investment, opportunity and hope to North Carolina in an
address to a joint session of the North Carolina State
Legislature.
"President Clinton is right. We can do better. We must do
better. And President Clinton is offering America a new
direction, a plan, first of all, to jump start our economic
growth now and keep it running strong into the future --
investing in our people, their jobs and their incomes. "
"President Clinton is right. Instead of asking 'What's in
it for me?' we must ask each other, 'What's in it for us,
for our children, for our future, for North Carolina, for
the United States of America?"
-- Remarks to a Joint Session of the North Carolina General
Assembly
FEBRUARY 19, 1993
Tours GTE in Atlanta, Georgia
The Vice President tours the GTE mobile communications
facility in Atlanta, GA and meets with workers there at a
town meeting on the President's economic plan.
Mrs. Gore meets with mental health experts to gather
information and talk about ideas for health care reform.
Mrs. Gore is the featured speaker in Washington, D.C. at the
celebration of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's
206th Founder's Day. "Your Church's mission to help the
helpless, house the homeless and minister to the needs of
the disadvantaged is a beacon of hope for many in this
country."
32
FEBRUARY 20, 1993
Visit to Alabama Head Start Program
The Vice President visits with children and their parents at
a Head Start classroom in Birmingham, Alabama.
Visit to Tampa Housing Project in Florida
The Vice President tours and works at a Tampa housing
construction site, part of an innovative housing development
and restoration program that would benefit from the
President's economic package and continue to provide
affordable housing to Tampa residents. The Vice President
also meets with community leaders to discuss the President's
economic package.
33
FEBRUARY 21, 1993
Dinner with High Tech Business Executives in California
Joins the President in California on the eve of the
announcement of the President's technology initiative to
discuss the initiative with the leaders of high technology
businesses.
34
FEBRUARY 22, 1993
Technology Initiative Announcement
The President and the Vice President unveil a comprehensive,
and ground-breaking technology policy: "Technology for
America's Economic Growth--A New Direction to Build Economic
Strength." In a meeting with employees of Silicon Graphics
in Mountain, View California. The Technology Initiative
provides a new framework for Federal technology programs
built around three goals: (1) Long term economic growth
that creates jobs and protects the environment, (2) A
government that is more productive and more responsive to
the needs of its citizens, and (3) World leadership in basic
science, mathematics, and engineering. The Vice President
plays a critical role in this effort, working with Dr. Jack
Gibbons, the President's Science and Technology Advisor.
"We face new challenges, from our competitors around the
world and from the people we serve here at home, that demand
new solutions and creative thinking. Technology offers new
opportunities for jobs, for a cleaner environment, for
better schools, for high-quality health care and for scores
of other advances. We must move to seize these
opportunities."
Town Hall Meeting in Kansas City, Missouri
The Vice President meets with students and local residents
for a town meeting at Penn Valley Community College in
Kansas City, Missouri to discuss the President's economic
package.
Mrs. Gore accompanies First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on a
visit to Boston-area small businesses and in a discussion
with Massachusetts health care professionals.
35
FEBRUARY 23, 1993
Meeting with Environmental Ministers
The Vice President meets with Environmental Ministers from
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to discuss the
environmental crisis in Eastern Europe.
36
FEBRUARY 24, 1993
Mrs. Gore meets with child mental health experts to gather
information and talk about ideas for health care reform.
41
MARCH 1, 1993
Address to Veterans of Foreign Wars Annual Conference,
Washington, D.C.
National Service Day -- Summer of Service
In Madison Wisconsin, the Vice President tours the
University of Wisconsin's Arboretum, built with the help of
a youth conservation corps working in much the same way as
those who will take part in the President's new National
Service Initiative, praising the Wisconsin Conservation
Corps as a model for the nation. He also conducts a Town
Hall Meeting at the University of Wisconsin to discuss
National Service.
Mrs. Gore travels to Richmond, Virginia to tour a
transitional housing facility and talk to area youth about
the Summer of Service and the President's National Service
Program.
42
MARCH 2, 1993
Joins the President in meeting with Democratic Leadership
Joins the President in meeting with Republican House
Leadership
Joins the President in lunch meeting With Senate Republicans
Joins the President in meeting with NATO Secretary General
Woerner
Meets with British Secretary of State for the Environment
43
MARCH 3, 1993
Reinventing Government: National Performance Review
The President asks the Vice President to head a new
initiative on government reform, demonstrating his
commitment to streamlining the government to improve
efficiency and productivity.
"Mark this date: President Clinton is starting a revolution
in government. It won't happen overnight, and it won't be
easy, but it will fundamentally change the way our
government works -- for the people it serves and the people
it employs."
"Today, we are starting what will be a continuous and
vigilant process to make government work better -- to use
every tax dollar wisely, to weed out dead ideas and
encourage new, creative ways, and -- to borrow a phrase I've
heard once or twice before -- to put people first."
-- Statement on "A Revolution in Government"
44
MARCH 4, 1993
Criticizes Iran's Mistreatment of Bahais
Reaffirming his support of the oppressed Iranian Bahais, the
Vice President expresses concern over Tehran's human rights
violations outlined in a recently released United Nations
Report, and praises the work of the United Nations Human
Rights Commission.
Joins the President in meeting with former President Jimmy
Carter
48
MARCH 8, 1993
Joins the President in meeting with Members of the House
Budget Committee
Joins the President in meeting with the Congressional Black
Caucus
Mrs. Gore delivers the keynote speech before the American
Psychological Association in Washington, D.C. "It has been
truly inspirational to witness so many different interest
groups contributing to the creation of a plan to ensure
Americans have access to quality, affordable health care."
49
MARCH 9, 1993
Joins the President in meeting with Senate Budget Committee
Meeting with Inspectors General
The Vice President meets with the Inspectors General who are
required to promote efficiency in the administration and
prevent fraud and abuse throughout the different agencies
and departments.
50
MARCH 10, 1993
Omaha, Nebraska Town Hall Meeting on Economic Recovery.
The Vice President meets with University of Nebraska
students and local residents at a Town Hall Meeting in Omaha
to discuss The President's economic initiative and the
National Performance Review the Vice President is directing
to make government more efficient, effective and responsive.
51
MARCH 11, 1993
Town Hall Meeting and visit to SouthWest Airlines, Dallas,
Texas
The Vice President and Senator Bob Krueger of Texas
participate in a town hall meeting with SouthWest Airlines
employees to discuss the total quality management practices
and other innovations that have made this company one of the
industry's most successful.
Visit to Austin, Texas and Tour of Motorola
The Vice President visits Austin with Sen. Krueger to
discuss with Motorola workers the President's technology
initiative and the new effort the Vice President is leading
to make government more efficient, effective and responsive.
Visits Houston Head Start Classroom
The Vice President joins Sen. Krueger in spreading the
President's message of economic recovery and investment
visiting with children and their parents at a Head Start
Classroom in Houston, TX.
52
March 12, 1993
Mrs. Gore accompanies First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton to
Tampa, Florida to serve as a panelist during discussions
with Floridians about health care reform.
55 MARCH 15, 1993
Joins the President in his meeting with Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin
56
MARCH 16, 1993
Joins the President in meeting with bipartisan Congressional
Leaders
Joins the President in meeting with Ireland's Prime Minister
Albert Reynolds.
Joins the President in meeting with House Hispanic Caucus
Joins the President in meeting with the Exiled Haitian
President Jean Bertrand Aristide
58
MARCH 18, 1993
Joins the President in meeting with the National Newspaper
Publishers Association
Joins the President in meeting with Commission of European
Communities President Jacques Delors.
59
MARCH 19, 1993
Joins the President in meeting with Members of the House of
Representatives to discuss the economic plan.
60
MARCH 20, 1993
Meets with Saud Nassir A-Sabah, Minister of Information and
former Ambassador of Kuwait.
Mrs. Gore is the keynote speaker at the renaming of the
Mental Health Law Project to the Bazelon Center. "The
President understands. He understands that mental illness
had biological roots and should be treated equally with so-
called physical illness."
62
MARCH 22, 1993
Joins the President in meeting with Democratic Governors
Association
MARCH 22, 1993
Access to Government Information
The Government Printing Office Electronic Access bill, based
on legislation Vice President Gore introduced last year,
passes the Senate. The bill authorizes the Government
Printing Office to make more Federal information such as the
Congressional Record) available on-line.
Mrs. Gore travels to Detroit, Michigan to serve as a
panelist during discussions with Michigan citizens about
health care reform. HHS Secretary Donna Shalala joins Mrs.
Gore.
64
MARCH 24, 1993
The Vice President addresses the American Medical
Association in Washington, D.C.
"Fixing this system
will not be easy. But the American
people have demanded that we fundamentally reform a system
that costs too much and wastes too much and serves too few;
and, that we make the system work better for real people
with real problems."
"Last year, the American people proved that they have the
courage to change. Now it is time for us to prove ours, by
enacting real health care reform.
Joins the President in meeting with Russian Foreign Minister
Kozyrev
Meets with British Foreign Minister Sir Douglas Hurd
65
MARCH 25, 1993
Joins the President in working Dinner with Members of the
House of Representatives.
66
MARCH 26, 1993
Reinventing Government -- Town Hall Meeting
The Vice President, committed to personally meeting with
employees from federal agencies and departments, started his
series of visits at the Department of Housing and Urban
Development. In a Town Hall Meeting with Secretary Cisneros
and HUD employees, The Vice President listens to suggestions
for improving operations at HUD and across the government.
MARCH 26, 1993
The Vice President joins the President in meeting with
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
Meeting With President Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia-
Hercegovina
The Vice President meets with President Alija Izetbegovic of
Bosnia-Hercegovina to underscore United States support for
his decision to sign all of the principal documents of the
Bosnian Peace Plan. The Vice President praises the Bosnian
leader for his statesmanship and courage for taking this
critical step to move his country closer to peace and
expresses his hope for full and rapid agreement among all of
the parties on the terms of the Peace Plan.
The Vice President joins the President in working dinner
with Senators
Mrs. Gore serves as a panelist during Robert Wood Johnson's
health care discussions in Washington, D.C. HHS Secretary
Donna Shalala joins Mrs. Gore.
The Vice President announces the leadership team organizing
and implementing the National Performance Review.
67
MARCH 27, 1993
Addresses Gannett Pre-Gridiron Luncheon
69
MARCH 29, 1993
Chairs Official Hearing of The President's Task Force on
Health Care Reform. Mrs. Gore joins the Vice President at
this meeting.
70
MARCH 30, 1993
Meets with Hungarian Foreign Minister Jeszneszky.
71
MARCH 31, 1993
Cabinet Meeting (3)
MARCH 31, 1993
Vice President meets with Ambassadors Aurel Dragos-Manteanu
of Romania, and Ognian Pishev of Bulgaria to deliver letters
to President Ion Iliescu of Romania and President Zhelyu
Zhelev of Bulgaria expressing the appreciation of the United
States for their governments' determined efforts to enforce
the United Nations sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro.
Mrs. Gore attends Congressional Breakfast and Briefing of
National Coalition for the Mentally Ill in the Criminal
Justice System.
72
APRIL 1, 1993
Address to the American College of Physicians
Joins with the President in meeting with bipartisan
Congressional leadership
73
APRIL 2, 1993
Forest Conference, Portland, Oregon
Joins the President at the Forest Conference, in Portland,
which provides a comprehensive forum for a broad and diverse
range of views on the issues associated with the management
of federal forest lands in the Northwest and Northern
California.
"For far too long, bitter fighting and confused policy-
making have scarred this debate. As each side fought for
advantage, no one won and many lost their jobs, their way of
life, the wilderness they grew up to love, and even their
plans for their families and their future. It is time we
moved beyond argument and confusion to a new approach that
replaces fear with hope and stalemate with progress."
"The days when this debate was defined by either-or choices
are over. This isn't about saving jobs or saving the
environment, it's about saving jobs and saving the
environment, because we can't do one without the other,
certainly not in the long term. A healthy forest economy
demands healthy forests.'
-- Remarks at Forest Conference
75
APRIL 4, 1993
Commission on Russian Technological Improvements
The President announces the Vice President will co-chair,
along with Russian Prime Minister Chernomyrdin, a commission
on Technological Improvements on Russian energy and space
sectors.
77
APRIL 6, 1993
The Vice President joins the President meeting with Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak
Meets with Australian Foreign Minister and Senator, Gareth
Evans
78
APRIL 7, 1993
Reinventing Government Town Hall Meeting -- Department of
Agriculture
In the second of his visits to federal agencies and
departments, the Vice President meets with more than 300
employees at the United States Department of Agriculture to
hear their suggestions for improving efficiency and
effectiveness at USDA and across the government.
Recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
The Vice President is named the recipient of the 13th Annual
Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for his book Earth In The
Balance. Each year this Award honors the literary work that
most faithfully and forcefully reflects Robert Kennedy's
purpose.
79 APRIL 8, 1993
Reinventing Government Town Hall Meeting -- Atlanta, Georgia
The Vice President hosts a Town Hall meeting in Atlanta,
with federal employees from a variety of agencies with
regional offices there to hear their suggestions for
improving government efficiency and effectiveness.
The Vice President throws out the first pitch at the Atlanta
Braves opening game baseball game against the Los Angeles
Dodgers.
83
APRIL 12, 1993
Economic Roundtable in Toledo, Ohio
The Vice President participates in an economic conference
hosted by Senator John Glenn.
85 APRIL 14, 1993
Meeting With Malawi's Ambassador
The Vice President meets with Malawi's Ambassador Robert
Mbaya urging democracy in Malawi and an end to human rights
abuses. They also discuss the country's upcoming referendum
on multi-party democracy.
Mrs. Gore joins First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in a
meeting with members of the Latino community to discuss
specific health care concerns related to the Latino
community.
86 APRIL 15, 1993
National Performance Review Training Session
The Vice President opens an all-day training session for the
National Performance Review staff in a speech presenting the
team's vision, goals and agenda.
87
APRIL 16, 1993
Joins the President in meeting with Japanese Prime Minister
Kiichi Miyazawa
88
APRIL 17, 1993
First Childrens' Earth Summit and Town Hall Meeting
The Vice President joins students from across the United
States and around the world for the first ever Kids Earth
Summit in Orlando, FL. He tours a display of student
environmental projects and then participates in a Town Hall
Meeting with Linda Ellerbee later broadcast on "Nickelodeon"
where he discusses with student delegates their concerns
about the environment and their plans for an environmentally
sound future.
89
APRIL 18, 1993
New York Commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
At the Paramount Theatre in Madison Square Garden, the Vice
President participates in a ceremony commemorating the 50th
Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
.
Mrs. Gore travels to New Orleans, Louisiana to tour an
innovative community-based mental health program and learn
more about the area's mobile crisis transportation unit.
90
APRIL 19, 1993
The Vice President travels to Poland to participate in
ceremony marking the 50th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising.
Wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Meets with Poland's President Lech Walesa at Belweder.
Meets with members of Poland's Jewish Community, Jewish
Historical Institute
Meets with Poland's Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka, Council
of Ministers Building.
Meets with Poland's Foreign Minister Krzysztof Skubiszewski,
Council of Ministers Building.
Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at Parkowa.
APRIL 19, 1993
IN POLAND -- Participates in a ceremony commemorating the
50th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Upraising at the
Monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto. The Vice
President speaks at the ceremony along with two survivors of
the ghetto uprising, President Walesa, Prime Minister Rabin,
and World Jewish Congress President Edgar Bronfman.
"How could the human race have allowed such a calamity as
the Holocaust to fall upon us? What terrible darkness lies
coiled in the human soul that might account for this
barbarism? The sorrow rising from such questions is deeper
than all tragedy and leaves us mute before a mystery the
human mind cannot penetrate. And yet the uprising of the
Warsaw Ghetto shines in our consciousness like a pole star
of the human spirit.
"The story of the Warsaw Ghetto is sacred text for our time.
It warns us of the unfathomable power of evil, the
pestilence of the human soul that for a time can dissolve
nations and devastate civilization. But the uprising in the
Ghetto also warns tyrannts wherever they rule that a fierce,
bright light blazes eternal in the human breast, that the
darkness can never be put out."
-- Remarks at the 50th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto
uprising in Warsaw, Poland.
91
APRIL 20, 1993
POLAND -- Address Polish Officials in speech at Parliament
"Every nation must find its own way to freedom. Every
nation must create its own institutions to preserve
democracy and find its own solutions to its internal
problems. The strength and endurance of the Polish people
have been tested in recent times; they will be tested again.
We believe with all our hearts that you will prevail. And
we will stand by you in the testing time that lies ahead."
-- Statement in Warsaw, Poland at the Seym (Polish
Parliament).
(Returns to Washington, D.C. April 20)
92
APRIL 21, 1993
Joins the President in commemorating Earth Day. President
Clinton announces the U.S will sign international treaty to
protect biodiversity; commits U.S. to specific targets and
timetables to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases; outlines
long-term strategy to protect the environment while
promoting economic growth and creating millions of new high-
skill, high wage-jobs.
Joins The President in meeting with President Walesa.
Mrs. Gore travels to Piscataway, New Jersey to participate
in a public hearing on national health care with Governor
Florio and the people of New Jersey.
93
APRIL 22, 1993
Meets with President Zhelyu Zhelev of Bulgaria
The Vice President and Mrs. Gore join the President in
dedication of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Meets with Romania's President Ion Iliescu
Meets with Croatian President Franjo Tudjman
Meets with Czechoslovakia's President Vaclav Havel
Mrs. Gore is the featured Speaker at the Picture of the Year
Awards presenting slides of her photographs from the
campaign.
94
APRIL 23, 1993
Meets with Hungarian President Arpad Goncz
Meets with Slovenia's President Milan Kucan
95
APRIL 24, 1993
Joins the President meeting with Democratic Senators in
Jamestown, Virginia.
Mrs. Gore travels to Raleigh, North Carolina to talk to area
graduate students about child mental health.
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