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-- SOUTH ASIA
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
The bank of the Self-Employed Women's Association is a one-
room building in Ahmedabad, a dusty textile center in western
India.
The teller's counter is an old kitchen table covered with
cloth. Bank clerks record all transactions by hand, on yellowed
sheets bound in volumes that resemble worn-out telephone books.
When I visited last month, I saw poor women who had walked
12 to 15 hours from their villages to take out loans -- some as
small as $1 -- to invest in milk cows, plows for their crops, or
goods that could be sold at market.
The bank was founded by SEWA, a trade organization for self-
employed women, many of whom rank among the poorest, least
educated and most ostracized in India. Today the bank has more
than 40,000 members and assets of more than $2 million. Women run
the bank, and only women are allowed to make deposits and borrow
money. The result is impressive: Against enormous political,
social, and economic odds, Indian women are transforming their
lives.
This is one of many indelible memories from my recent trip
through South Asia. In each country I visited -- Pakistan, India,
Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka -- I saw women struggling to
overcome poverty, illiteracy, inadequate health care and deeply
rooted cultural barriers by joining together to increase their
earning power and improve their circumstances. SEWA is simply one
example of how women have organized around their capacity as
borrowers, lenders, and savers to achieve greater economic
independence for themselves and greater prosperity for their
families and communities.
For the rest of the world, the South Asian experience offers
a simple lesson: that investing in people -- especially women and
girls -- is as essential to the future prosperity of our entire
global family as investing in the development of open markets and
trade. South Asia reminds us that social development and economic
development go hand-in-hand.
To sustain a global marketplace, we need a flourishing
global community. And to accomplish that, women represent the
soundest investment any nation can make in the effort to jump-
start development. Women comprise more than half of the world's
population. They are responsible for caring for almost all of the
world's children. And they do more than their share of the
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world's work. Investing in their education and health, and
assuring their full political, economic and social participation
in society ought to be the bottom line in any development
equation.
I realize that issues such as education and health care are
still regarded in many quarters as "soft" or marginal to economic
growth. Often they are reflexively dismissed as "traditional
women's issues" that do not rank high among the problems we will
face in the 21st century. A growing body of research from the
World Bank and elsewhere suggests that questions surrounding
social development, especially of women, are at the center of our
political and economic challenges.
Women have demonstrated in country after country that, when
given the tools of opportunity -- education, health care, access
to credit, political participation, and legal rights -- they can
lift themselves out of poverty. But even more important, they can
lift their families, communities, and nations as well.
The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, like SEWA, is a case study:
In one Grameen village, women borrowers pooled savings reaped
from their investments to build a communal well. A woman in
another Grameen village told me that she had taken out two loans
to buy milk COWS; the third loan was used to buy a rickshaw to
provide her husband a livelihood.
Education is also a seed of economic prosperity for women
around the world. I saw three examples of how schools -- one run
by the volunteer sector, one by a non-governmental organization,
and one by the government -- are reshaping the social and
economic landscape on a local level in South Asia.
The Prayas School in India is a volunteer effort, founded by
wives of professors at the Indian Institute of Technology. The
school serves the poorest women and girls in the neighboring
slums of New Delhi, offering classes for young girls and training
women to make ceramics, jewelry and other artifacts that can be
sold for profit.
In Bangladesh, where the literacy rate for women is 29
percent (compared to 45 percent for men), an NGO called the
Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee acts on the theory that
education is a precondition for economic development. BRAC has
established 27,000 schools, most of whose students are girls,
despite the fact that extremists opposed to its educational
efforts have burned some of the schools.
A government-run school I visited in Bangladesh offers
material incentives to parents to send their children --
especially girls -- to school. This is particularly significant
among the very poor, who often view school as a diversion from
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their children's income-producing work. As part of the Food for
Education program, families receive a weekly food allotment if
their children attend school. Another government program pays
parents to keep girls in secondary school.
Along with access to credit and education, health care is an
equally important ingredient in the recipe for development. Here,
too, South Asia offers instructive examples of low-tech, low-cost
strategies, many of which can be applied elsewhere, including the
West.
In Bangladesh, I visited the International Center for
Diarrheal Disease Control, and was surprised to see a doctor from
Louisiana making rounds. The center is a pioneer in the use of
oral rehydration therapy, a method of treating often fatal cases
of diarrhea through ingestion of a solution of salt, sugar, and
water. Thousands of lives have been saved around the world
through this inexpensive treatment. The doctor from Louisiana was
there to learn how ORT might be used in the United States, where
20 million children under age 5 suffer from diarrhea each year
and an estimated 300,000 are hospitalized because of resulting
dehydration. Intravenous rehydration treatments, which must be
given in the hospital, cost on average about $800 per day;
commercial ORT solutions cost about $7 per day and can be
administered at home, a potentially cheap and effective
alternative to hospitalization in the United States.
I was also struck by the common-sense approach to health
care at a clinic started by American women in Nepal. Although
often romanticized by Westerners because of its glorious setting
in the Himalayas, Nepal is a cruel health environment for
indigenous women. A disproportionate number of Nepalese women die
during their child-bearing years, the result of early and
frequent pregnancies, inadequate health care, and poor nutrition.
Women are always the last to eat in Nepal and as many as 80
percent are reported to be anemic. Although precise statistics
are not available, a recent report by a group of Nepalese women
estimates 515 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births.
At the health clinic I visited, midwives and others
preparing to deliver a baby are given a "Safe Home Delivery Kit"
-- a small package containing a plastic sheet, bar of soap, piece
of twine, wax, and a razor blade. This small kit is a cost-
effective, low-tech approach that will help improve conditions
for childbirth and lower the mortality rate among women.
As an American, I was proud to learn that many of these
grass-roots enterprises were succeeding because of direct
assistance from the United States to governments, non-
governmental organizations (NGOs), or U.S.-supported
international organizations such as the World Bank. NGOs have
been particularly effective because they are close to the people,
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accountable to the people, and often are good advocates for the
poor. Not only do the partnerships between governments and NGOs
help funnel aid directly to programs, they leverage support from
local governments and other sources.
Throughout South Asia, one can see the results of American
investment in governments and NGOs. The "Safe Home Delivery Kit,"
for example, was funded jointly by USAID, Save the Children, the
Nepalese government and a corporate sponsor. The United States
has supported family planning services in Bangladesh, where
population growth rates have fallen from 3 percent to 2.2 percent
since the early 1970s.
In Sri Lanka, I visited a remarkable facility built with
financial assistance from the United States. A program run by a
former theology professor, Sister Bernice, offers shelter,
schooling, job and financial counseling to women and girls who
are homeless or victims of violence.
These projects are proof that a small American investment
can reap a large dividend, not only for the country receiving aid
but for our country as well. Today, that American aid remains
critical. Having watched in the last 10 years as democracy has
flourished and markets have opened around the globe, we cannot
turn our backs now on nations struggling to uphold our ideals.
American aid -- both financial and technical -- has helped
provide the tools of opportunity to peoples and nations who have
evidenced a courageous commitment to democracy and free trade.
As debates over foreign aid take place in the coming months,
I hope that members of Congress and the American public will
remember that such assistance accounts for less than 1 percent of
our annual budget.
Still, at a time of widespread economic anxiety in our own
country, I'm sure many Americans wonder why we should be
concerned with the education, health and economic power of women
and girls living in dusty villages and urban slums around the
world. Beyond humanitarian reasons, the futures of those girls
and women are inextricably tied to the future of democracy and to
the global economy that affects our own wages, jobs, and
security.
As Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said after a recent trip
to India: "Development works. It improves lives in developing
countries, and as those lives improve, it will have a direct
impact on our economy, on the jobs and living standards of
Americans."
On every continent, we have seen how the development of
skills and earning power of women leads to more prosperous
regional and national economies. It also leads to better educated
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and more prosperous consumers of American goods and services. And
it is fundamentally important to building a more peaceful and
harmonious world. As long as economies remain underdeveloped and
spirits undernourished, conflicts that endanger our own security
are less likely to be resolved.
Finally, investing in opportunities for women is critical to
expanding social justice. Denying women education, health care,
economic security, political freedom and legal protections is a
violation of basic human rights.
Given recent objections voiced in this country about a day
devoted to bringing girls to work, it probably bears mentioning
that an emphasis on girls and women is not meant to exclude or
diminish the rights or interests of men. Men everywhere face
challenges and obstacles as they seek to fulfill themselves and
their responsibilities to their families. But around the world,
including in our own country, women represent a disproportionate
number of the poor and vulnerable. Investing in women strengthens
families and communities, which helps everyone in society. And
investing in women brings us closer to a world in which
distinctions between men and women are not viewed as reasons to
demean each other, but as complementary parts to a greater whole.
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FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
COLUMN #8 THE WOMEN'S CONFERENCE IN BEIJING
TALKING IT OVER/CREATORS SYNDICATE
As I was leaving V-J Day observances in Hawaii last weekend
to go to the international women's conference in Beijing, a
veteran came up to me and said, "Go to China and stand up for
American values. "
Our nation is the longest living democracy in history. We
are often called the "land of opportunity. And life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness are birthrights of all Americans.
That is why, as the veteran suggested, our nation's presence
at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women was so
important to millions of women, children and families throughout
the world.
In some countries, citizens are not allowed to vote, speak
their minds, assemble freely, or exercise their faith without
fear of persecution, arrest, or even torture.
These are what we commonly think of as violations of human
rights.
I believe
But as the women's 5 conference taught us, it is also a
violation of human rights when, in countries around the world,
not schooled
women and girls are valued less, fed less, fed last, overworked,
underpaid, and beaten up and not schooled.
PE one message rang clear from the conference it is that
nomen's rights are human rights. And women will never gain their
To value every) nurture and respect the potential of every girl
and boy is clear expression of human nights.
It is a violation of human rights when women are denied the
right to plan their own families, and that includes being forced
to have abortions or being sterilized against their will.
Today, women bear the brunt of human rights violations
and girls
around the world. As long as those violations persist -- and
discrimination and inequities remain commonplace -- a peaceful
and prosperous world CARDIA be achieved. IS sades ^ beyond our reach
One reason we haven't progressed further is that SO many
women have been afraid to speak up and speak out. As I said in
Beijing it is time to break the silence so that we women have a
greater say in the future we share.
As different as we may be, there is more that unites us than
divides us. The conference proved that.
It is also time for nations, governments social
institutions, and peoples everywhere to come together and find
common ground SO that we no longer deny half the world's
population
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full dignity until their human rights are respected and
protected.
will be forever grateful
for the Like rane the opportunity veteran in Hawaii to attend I felt the that Women's the women's conference in Beiging
conference offered a rare opportunity for me, as an American, to
Ithas been a privile ge to stand beside women and men
stand up and condemn injustices and abuses that fly in the face
from of our all basic over values. the world who are committed to speaking out
against the injustices and abuses that to Hy in the face of human basic
As I said during a keynote address to the United Nations conference
valies
delegates:
It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied
food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken simply
because they are born girls.
It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are
sold into the slavery of prostitution, sometimes by their own
brothers and fathers.
when wome
It is a violation when human rights are doused with
gasoline, set on fire, and burned to death because their marriage
dowries are deemed too small.
It is a violation of human rights when individual women are
raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are
subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war.
It is a violation of human rights when a leading cause of
death worldwide among women ages 14 to 44 is the violence they
are subjected to in their own homes.
It is a violation of human rights when young girls are
brutalized by the painful and degrading practice of genital
mutilation.
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FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
SAMPLE COLUMN #1
CREATORS SYNDICATE
On a recent trip to Arkansas I had a sudden impulse to
drive. We were staying at my mother's house in Little Rock and I
needed to run some errands. So on a quiet Friday afternoon I
jumped behind the wheel of a car and, much to the discomfort of
my Secret Service detail, drove myself around town. For several
hours, I enjoyed a marvelous sensation of personal freedom.
For me this brief taste of everyday life has come to
represent the odd duality of my role as First Lady. On the one
hand, I feel privileged to meet people and go places totally out
of reach for most men and women. On the other hand, experiences
that millions of Americans take for granted in the course of
their day have become extraordinary for me.
A few months back, for instance, I was browsing through a
museum in Washington. There I was, one of the most recognizable
women in America, thinking I could somehow blend anonymously into
the artwork.
Suddenly a woman came up to me. "You sure look like Hillary
Clinton," she said. "So I'm told, I answered.
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The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to
recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see. Like
millions of women across our country, my life consists of
different, and sometimes paradoxical, parts. Often those parts
are reduced to a snapshot of one moment in my life, when in fact
I wake up every morning trying to figure out how to mesh my
responsibilities to my family, my job, and the friend who might
be stopping by for dinner.
No doubt the same is true for many Americans, whether they
are beauticians, bankers, teachers or truck drivers. It is just
that the duality of my role is played out in public.
Whatever minor inconveniences my situation presents, I
wouldn't trade it for the world. A few years ago, I could never
have imagined the range of activities and people that are part of
my life today. Some are famous, like Lady Bird Johnson, Nelson
Mandela, and Mother Teresa. But most are men and women we never
hear about who wake up in the morning, do the best they can, and
contribute more to their families and communities than most of
the celebrities and public figures whose names regularly appear
on the evening news.
During the last 30 months, it has been the unforgettable
faces, heroic life stories, historic events, important issues and
comedic moments that have defined my time in the White House.
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Now I will have the opportunity to share these experiences and
observations directly with the American people.
I recently accepted an offer first made two years ago to
write a column about my experiences and observations as First
Lady. My hope is that this weekly column will talk about the
most immediate issues on people's minds -- the funny, the sad,
the inspiring and the momentous -- and give Americans a view of
events they might not otherwise have a chance to see.
Every year I receive hundreds of thousands of letters asking
about everything from Socks' feeding schedule to Medicare
benefits for mammograms, to my planning of State Dinners, to my
recent trip to South Asia. I have been told that for every person
who writes me there are thousands and maybe millions of others
with the same question or concern.
Some people may wonder whether I am looking to Eleanor
Roosevelt for my inspiration. In thinking about this column, I
re-read the column that Mrs. Roosevelt wrote nearly every day for
the better part of three decades. She called it "My Day" and it
covered everything from her annual picnic for disadvantaged boys,
to the meaning of religion in our lives, to the fuss over the new
bob in her hair. Sounds familiar!
My hope is that this column, like hers, will help all of us
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think more about the human dimension of our lives. In some small
way, I hope it will help contribute to bridging the gaps in our
society SO that we can reach beyond stereotypes and caricatures -
- and respect one another for the unique contributions each of us
makes to our country.
My wish too is that it will provide information about
problems facing us that people can use to help decide what they
think should be done. Mostly, though, this column will give me
the chance to talk things over with the hope that some of you
will join the conversation.
So, let's talk again next week.
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TALKING IT OVER
were staying at my mother's
house in Little Rock and I needed to
run some errands. So, on a quiet Friday
afternoon, I jumped behind the wheel
of a car and, much to the discomfort of
my Secret Service detail, drove myself
around town. For several hours, I
enjoyed a marvelous sensation of
personal freedom.
For me this brief taste of everyday
life has come to represent the odd
duality of my role as First Lady. On the
one hand, I feel privileged to meet
By HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
people and go places totally out of
reach for most men and women. On the
other hand, experiences that millions
people, whether they are beauticians,
of Americans take for granted have
bankers, teachers or truck drivers. It is
become extraordinary for me.
just that the complexity of my role is
A few months back, for instance, I
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Whatever minor inconveniences my
Washington. There I was, one of the
situation presents. I wouldn't trade it
most recognizable women in America,
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thinking I could somehow blend
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activities that are part of my life today,
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such as defending public television,
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Dear Mrs. Rodham Clinton:
The attached editorial from today's New York Times refers to Eleanor Roosevelt's
syndicated newspaper column. I am writing to ask if you would be interested in writing
your own syndicated column.
You have become a role model for millions of Americans. You are carving out new
territory, and the whole country would be interested in reading your thoughts and opinions
as you work alongside the President.
One enormous advantage of a syndicated column is that you could speak directly to the
American people in your own words -- without any editing or interpretation by reporters.
Some of Creators Syndicate's most influential columnists and cartoonists have offered their
support and endorsement of you and President Clinton, including Ann Landers, Molly
Ivins, Herblock of The Washington Post and Doug Marlette of New York Newsday. I
have enclosed a company brochure.
I do hope you take advantage of this unique opportunity to communicate directly with the
American people in your own words, and I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Rick Newcomber
Richard S. Newcombe
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THE NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIALS/LETTERS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1993
ARTHUR OCHS SULIBERGER JR., Publisher
Baird Stands in Part for All
MAX FRANKEL, Executive Editor
JOSEPH LELYVELD, Managing Editor
To the Editor:
Assistant Managing Editors
daughters since 1978; one X
WARREN HOOE
JOHN M. LEE
"The Sins of Zoe Baird," Anna
the other 3. Their schools
DAVID R. JONES
JACK ROSENTHAL
Quindien's excellent Jan. 20 column,
P.M. and noon, respectively
The New York Times
CAROLYN LEE
ALLAN M. SIEGAL
doesn't go far enough. The blame
new associate in a law fir
placing In which the Senate Indulged
work long hours. I could do
HOWELL RAINES, Editorial Page Editor
over Ms. Baird's child-care arrange-
PHILIP M. BOFFEY, Deputy Editorial Page Editor
hiring full-time help - M
ments demonstrates a fundamental
lombian and finally Barba
Founded in 1851
RUSSELL T. LEWIS, Executive V.P. Deputy Gen. Mgr.
paradox. No one says she was right to
wishes on Social Security P
ADOLPH S. OCHS, Publisher 1896-1935
JOHN M. O'BRIEN, Executive V.P. Deputy Gen. Mgr.
Ignore the law. But the Issue Is more
was entirely at their mero
ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER. Publisher 1935-1961
WILLIAM L POLLAR, Executive V.P. Sales
profound than Ms. Baird's failure to
No law firm. at that tir
ORVIL E. DRYPOOS. Publisher 1961-1963
JAMES A. CUTIE, Sr. V.P. Marketing
pay the appropriate taxes.
child-care arrangements.
ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER. Publisher 1963-1992
ERICH G. LINKER JR., Sr.V.P. Advertising
Americans mythologize the con-
RICHARD H. OILMAN, V.P., Systems and Technology
permitting work at home
cept of a happy childhood, yet our
MICHAEL 1 KURTZ, V.P. Human Resources
usual and in the law, Imp
KAREN A. MESSINEO, V.P. Controller
society provides no acceptable Insti-
could have taken a leave 0
JOSEPH M. MULLEN, V.P. Production
tutional child-care arrangements. A
but economic need made t
CHARLES B. SHELTON, V.P. Circulation
mother with a career like Zoe Baird
sible. I did not want to
and countless others is put in the
daughters for 10 hours a
untenable position of having to forgo
day, but since it was neces
the results of hard work - a choice
to know they were cared fo
those choices. That 15 the para
mgn pay rate TOT this
Hillary Rodham Clinton's Job
dox in the Baird case.
one American responded
I write from personal experience. I
turned to the Immigation
am a partner in a national law firm;
ralization Service because
It's official. Hillary Rodham Clinton will not
Ing a legal career, fine. But she was a successful
my children are In college. But I have
we could legally sponsor
ke cookies, keep to the East Wing or stand quietly
attorney and policy adviser before her husband
been divorced with custody of my two
national. Our extensive o
her man. No, she will stand with her man, or
became President, so why not after?
aybe ahead of him, in formulating health care
Especially since, according to the history In the
licy.
Editorial Notebook below, First Ladies have long
It's a genuine job and an unusual arrangement,
advised and influenced Presidents anyway. As Karl
Before We Step Into a Bosnian Quag
It it is who the Clintons are. In that regard, It is
Meyer notes, Eleanor Roosevelt was the prototype
To the Editor:
thing? That Mr. Milosevic
so more honest than the charade they went
of the activist First Lady. But to be effective
Re "Criticized as Appeaser, Vance
of the Serb paramilitary
rough before her independence became a cam-
politically in her day, she said, a woman needed
Defends His Role In the Balkans"
Bosnia deserve to be brown
lign liability and Mrs. Clinton helped get her
"the wisdom of the serpent and the guileless ap-
(front page, Jan. 19): Just as the
charges of war crimes
isband elected by pretending to be what she was
pearance of the dove."
Clinton State Department, heir In
doubt. So do Muslim and (
it.
Here we have a chance to measure how much
some ways to the Carter State De-
ers whose forces devasta
Her new position and new offices in the active
times have changed. Hillary Clinton's move to the
partment, takes over foreign policy,
populations. Mr. Vance
est Wing of the White House will allow her to do
West Wing is not a stealth operation. At best, her
Cyrus Vance, architect of the Carter
statesmen understand that
enly what she no doubt would otherwise have
candor will also help women feel free to be what-
philosophy, is under attack for doing
seek to appease any of the
inc covertly - advise her husband the President.
ever they choose to be, without apology.
what he does best: stalling for time
But they also know that t
all has 10 be better than pretending, for her and
But everyone should be clear-eyed about the
while trying to limit damage from a
people long the region's
mess most of the world has neither
l' the country.
risks. This is a test of the national psyche. Millions
supporters of Western plus
the patience nor wish to understand.
Christian values in the face
By functioning in the open, Mrs. Clinton will
of citizens will feel threatened by Mrs. Clinton's
I have never been an admirer of
munist dictatorship and M
ercise influence that others can engage and
assertiveness. Others will have questions about the
Mr. Vance until now. As a Serbian-
damentalism run the
dge. She and her ideas can be part of the debate,
propriety of an unelected, unsalaried person with no
American outraged by the criminal,
being wiped out by the We
it the stuff of gossip. Perhaps more Important, she
formal portfolio exercising authority by virtue of
almost suicidal policies of President
tion to misguided Serbia
Ill be exposed 10 policy and political questions that
marriage.
Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and his
leaders. And they seem alo
e would otherwise see only through the filter of
That means Mr. Clinton will have to work hard
holdover Communist henchmen, I am
prehending how the West
IT husband's politics and prejudices.
to see that the public understands the arrangement
equally angered at the West's short-
ture, German-driven reco
In other words, Hillary Clinton can be truer to
he and his wife have put In place and endorses It
sighted, bellicose response to the
Bosnia-Herzegovina and
:1" own person. If she hadn't worked outside the
politically. And the First Lady will have to deliver if
tragedy In the Balkans. The same
gave those self-serving le
ome before moving to Washington, had preferred
this latest and most riveting experiment in the Age
pundits who shuddered at United
for the flames of the Ser
occupy a quietly supportive role instead of pursu-
of the Clintons is to succeed.
States Involvement in Vietnam would
nationalist and religious fe
drag us into a Balkan conflict aimed
Mr. Vance practices the
at punishing the Serbs.
art of diplomacy with skill,
Editorial Notebook
Only Mr. Vance, Britain's Lord
the sound-bite school of the
Owen and Secretary General Boutros
for the laborious and a
Boutros-Ghall seem to appreciate
unpopular - world view
The President's Other Running Mate
that In the Balkans nothing is black
believe in the survival of th
and white. Resolving gray areas of
a people can only pray he he
ethnicity, religion, geopolitics and his-
and that his former disc
According 10 the columnist Wil.
During World War II Mrs. Roose-
His Wife's Key Role
tory mired In almost unimaginable
Secretary of State Warren
am Safire, the phrase "first Lady
velt was an omnipresent emissary
violence and passionate hatred re-
topher, take a page from the
1 the Land" was popularized dur-
to overseas installations, ranging as
A Logical Evolution
quires more than genuflecting to pub-
teacher.
NIC
g the Civil War in an 1863 book by
far as Espiritu Santo In the New
Hebrides. It Is said that some com-
IIc opinion. Haven't we learned any-
Montclair, N.J., Ja
Villiam Howard Russell, war corre-
pondent of The Times of London. It instantly took wing,
manders ordered G.I.'s not to take rain-showers In the
and Hillary Clinton is now 42d in a line that began with
nude for fear the First Lady might unexpectedly turn up.
Martha Washington (1wo Presidents remarried in office,
After F.D.R.'s death she shone In her own right as U.S.
Let's Tip the Balance Back From Au
efferson was a widower, Buchanan a bachelor).
delegate to the United Nations, where she headed the
From the outset, First Ladies served as hostesses and
commission that drafted the covenant on human rights.
To the Editor:
lines, diverters and plantir
ole models. After the comparatively staid Martha and
More recent First Ladies have tended to be more
The tragic hit-and-run deaths of
traffic and keep drivers a
shigail Adams came the first real leader of fashion,
conventional. Jacqueline Kennedy Is remembered for her
three members of a Russian émigré
Rather than favoring or
Dolley Madison. But she was more than a party-giver.
glamour, her cultural evenings and her renovations of the
family on New York City's Queens
travel, traffic calming
When the British sacked Washington in August 1814, the
White House. Lady Bird Johnson strove to beautify the
Boulevard (news article, Jan. 3) show
street space more equitab
rail, 63-year-old James Madison prudently (or cravenly)
American landscape. Pat Nixon also remodeled the Exec-
the absurd priorities that dominate
If we're serious about
led. In the only heroic note in an otherwise humillating
ulive Mansion. Betty Ford spoke with compelling candor
our transportation planning. Not only
traffic safety, we should lo
rout, the 45-year-old First Lady remained at the White
about mental health.
our boulevards, but our whole system
fic calming. Instead of tea
House until the British were at its gates; she supervised
Rosalynn Carter took a far more activist role. Jimmy
of streets is laid out first to accommo-
ple to be more patient abo
removal of Cabinet records and wrenched Stuart's por-
Carter writes that along with Vice President Mondale and
date the quick and efficient move-
the street, as a spokesm
rait of Washington from its frame.
Charles Kirbo, Mrs. Carter "helped me most" with Cabl-
ment of automobiles, through wide
Department of Transport
Probably the most powerful First Lady was Edith
net choices. "It was only natural," he says, that his wife
traffic lanes and roadways, one-way
we should seek ways to ma
Bolling Wilson. During a spenking tour in September 1919,
chose to pursue the causes she had adopted as Georgia's
streets, large turning radii and syn-
more patient, perhaps by
Woodrow Wilson collapsed and was left partly paralyzed.
First Lady, including mental health, the aged and commu-
chronized traffic lights. Pedestrians
the width of streets like Q
Mrs. Wilson became his surrogate and steward. Her
nity improvement. "She and I continued to discuss a full
are expected to adapt to this speed-
levard, to slow down cars.
detractors dubbed her "Acting First Man," and called her
range of important Issues and, aside from a few highly
way existence by darting across the
ty should be making our st
period of power "Mrs. Wilson's Regency." Incontestably,
secret and sensitive security matters, she knew all that
street before the light changes, by
the decided who and what the stricken President saw, and
was going on."
dodging speeding cars and by watch-
the memory of that time contributed 10 the eventual
More problematic was Nancy Reagan's role. Besides
Ing out for errant drivers.
idoption in 1967 of the 25th Amendment on Presidential
the expected good works, Mrs. Reagan lobbled energeti-
We pedestrians (which all of us are
cally with her passive husband about key appointments;
NYT
disability.
at one time or another) accept this
The First Lady most celebrated for her energy and
her Influence ended Donald Regan's tenure as chief of
topsy-turvy state, without realizing
versatility was Eleanor Roosevelt. In 1936 she contracted
staff. Far more curlous was Mrs. Reagan's reliance on
that there Is no logical reason to help
with United Features to write six columns a week simply
Joan Quigley, an astrologer, whose readings appear to
The New York Ti
have Influenced the timing of the Geneva and Reykjavik
hasten traffic. In places like Den-
headed, "My Day." Once when her husband had dispar-
summit meetings and the President's changing views
mark, Germany and the Netherlands,
Company
aged columnists, A reporter reminded him of her work, to
a different approach is cutting down
229 West 43d N.Y. 10
which he replied, "She is in an entirely different category;
about the Soviet Union (all to the sometimes baffled
consternation of the President's other handlers).
auto accidents and Improving the
she simply writes a daily diary."
ARTHUR OCHS BULZBERGER. $
Thus we come to Hillary Clinton. Her more formal role
quality of community life.
The diary recorded Mrs. Roosevelt's incessant travels
and Chief Executive oT
and lecture tours. A famous Robert Day cartoon in The
is less a radical break than a logical evolution of earlier
"Traffic calming," as It is called,
WALTER R MATTSON, Vice C
developments In a society where women are seen as
recognizes the needs of the walking
New Yorker depicted two miners deep in a shaft; one
LANCE R. PRIMIS. Presid
gasps out, "For gosh sakes, here comes Mrs. Roosevelt.'
partners and co-workers, not simply homemakers. Mov-
population by reducing speed limits
LAURA J. CORWIN, Secre
Recent blographers assert that Mrs. Roosevelt worked
ing her office to the West Wing formalizes that change In
in urban areas to as low as 15 or 20
DAVID L GORHAM, Senior Vice
tirelessly on thankless party chores, that her alert anten-
status. The argument that she was not elected is only half-
miles an hour and by design tech-
and Chief Financial oT
nae were invaluable 10 her husband and that she succeed-
true, since she was clearly as much a running mate as AI
niques like sidewalk extensions at
MICHAEL & RYAN, Senior Vice
ed despite the continuous fault-finding of her mother-in-
Gore. Did anyone doubt that she would play a policy role?
Intersection and midblock crossings,
RICHARD G. THOMAS, Trea
law. She managed also 10 raise SIX children.
Need anyone really mind?
KARL E. MEYER
street medians, interrupted sight
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Column
THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1995
Hillary Clinton Says
Chronicle
She Plans to Write
Syndicated Column
Congressional medal for the late Lubavitcher
By The New York Times
Rebbe
Paul Bowles to return to a city he hates
WASHINGTON, June 26 - To her
many titles of lawyer, advocate,
John McCarthy and Jill Morrell: off again.
mother, campaigner, Hillary Rod-
ham Clinton can now add one more
- columnist. Following in the foot-
Rabbi Menachem Mendel
man, worked with Orson Welles and
steps of one of her idols, Eleanor
Schneerson, the leader of the Brook-
scored a ballet for Salvador Dali.
Roosevelt, Mrs. Clinton announced
lyn-based Lubavitch movement who
JONATHAN SHEFFER, the artistic
today that she would begin writing a
died a year ago at age 92, will be
director of Eos Music Inc., which is
syndicated column on July 23.
awarded the Congressional Gold
organizing the festival, to be held
"Eleanor Roosevelt was there be-
Medal in Washington tomorrow. A
Sept. 19 to 21 at Alice Tully Hall,
fore me," Mrs. Clinton told a gather-
ceremony honoring the spiritual
called the composer's music "a fu-
ing of the American News Women's
leader, whom his followers called
sion of jazz and Tin Pan Alley, with
Club in the White House, referring to
the Rebbe, is expected to include
Stravinsky touches and Spanish in-
"My Day," which ran in hundreds of
Ronald 0. Perelman, the chairman
fluences" inspired by the years Mr.
newspapers during and after Frank-
of Revion; Elie Wiesel, the writer,
Bowles spent in Mexico. "He ab-
lin D. Roosevelt's years in the White
and Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, as
sorbed a lot of the sound of what Aar-
House. "But she has always been
well as House Speaker Newt Ging-
on Copland was doing at the time,"
there before me."
rich; Bob Dole, the majority leader;
he said. To shore up plans for the fes-
Mrs. Clinton will take no fee for
Senator Joseph I. Lieberman and
tival, he recently visited Mr. Bowles,
the 750-word column, which is to be
other Washington luminaries.
83, bearing 12 boxes of Jell-O, a fa-
distributed weekly by Creators Syn-
The medal, approved by Congress
vorite of the composer that is diffi-
dicate, which serves 2,400 papers
last year, will be accepted by Rabbi
cult to get in Tangier, where he lives.
around the world with writers as
ABRAHAM SHEMTOV, the chairman of
"He said he hates New York, and
diverse as former Vice President
Agudas Chassidei Chabad, an um-
he said over and over that he would
Dan Quayle, Mark Shields and Ann
brella committee for Lubavitch or-
never come back," Mr. Sheffer said.
Landers.
ganizations around the world, who
Mr. Bowles last visited the city in
also heads American Friends of Lu-
1968. Clearly, enough flattery, and
Mrs. Clinton said she hoped to
bavitch.
write "about issues that I know are
enough Jell-O, can change anybody's
on people's mind" and about "some
"It will be placed in a safe place,
mind.
of the funny stories and some of the
and it may become part of the Reb-
be's library in Brooklyn," Rabbi
momentous events, some of the hu-
Shemtov said. As for the kind of at-
man stories, the kinds of stories
British newspapers are reporting
about people who come here that
tention being showered on Rabbi
the breakup of JOHN McCARTHY, a
nobody would know otherwise."
Schneerson posthumously, Rabbi
former television journalist held
Shemtov said: "This was so far from
hostage in Beirut, Lebanon, for five
his character. He dedicated his
years, and JILL MORRELL, his long-
whole life to the service and better-
time girlfriend who agitated for his
ment of the world. If this can help, in
release. Their relationship fizzled
carrying the message further, I
while he was still a captive of Islam-
guess he would have wanted it."
ic Jihad but was rekindled after his
The award has already created
release in 1991. They wrote a best
some unexpected political bedfel-
seller together about the ordeal, ti-
lows. Mr. Gingrich and John Lewis, a
tled "Some Other Rainbow," and
Georgia Democrat and longtime civ-
three years ago moved into an Ox-
il rights activist, sponsored the reso-
fordshire, England, cottage together.
lution in Congress along with Repre-
CONSTANCE L. HAYS
sentative harles H. Schumer, Dem-
ocrat of Brooklyn, and Representa-
tive Jerry Lewis, a Georgia Republi-
can.
Also in the appreciation depart-
ment: PAUL BOWLES, the writer and
composer who moved to Morocco in
1947, will return to New York City
for the first time in nearly three dec-
ades for a two-day festival of his mu-
sic in September. The riddling writer
also composed music for plays by
Tennessee Williams and Lillian Hell-
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
The Washington Times
TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1995 *
Clumn
Heritage proposes
First lady to write
seniors health plan
newspaper column
to replace Medicare
Hillary takes page from Mrs. Roosevelt
By Patrice Hill
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The "Medi-Choice"
By Paul Bedard
The Heritage Foundation pro-
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The first lady was
system eventually
vided a glimpse yesterday of the
SAN FRANCISCO - Move over,
"too busy" during the
kinds of reforms Republicans are
would replace the
Ann Landers. Here comes a new
considering in Medicare to avert
adviser on family affairs: first
past 2½ years to write
bankruptcy and achieve $270 bil-
current program.
lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
lion of savings by 2002.
For the first time since first
the column.
The conservative think tank
lady Eleanor Roosevelt wrote "My
suggested replacing the health
37 million seniors, "the structural
Day" six days a week, Mrs. Clinton
care program for seniors, the gov-
problems causing skyrocketing
will begin authoring her own
during the first years of the Clin-
ernment's most expensive and
Medicare costs would be solved
weekly newspaper column begin-
ton administration, said Mrs. Clin-
fastest-growing bureaucracy, with
and senior citizens would have an
ning July 23, the White House an-
ton's spokeswoman, Lisa Caputo.
one modeled after a government
unprecedented opportunity to
nounced yesterday.
At the time she was heading the
success story: the health plan for
choose their coverage and range
"This newspaper column pre-
president's health care reform
federal workers and retirees.
of benefits," he said.
sents a unique opportunity to
Seniors would receive vouchers
Several decades of experience
program.
share my experiences in the White
or "defined contributions" total-
with the Federal Employee Health
The column will be of a "per-
House and as first lady with the
ling about $4,800 a year - cur-
Benefits Program shows that it
sonal and observational nature, re-
American people," Mrs. Clinton
flecting on events and people she
rently the average yearly cost of
holds down costs much better than
said in a statement issued here,
Medicare - which they could use
Medicare or the private sector.
has met," Miss Caputo said.
where Mr. Clinton was attending
She said the first lady will write
to purchase plans covering basic
Many large health plans have
celebrations of the 50th anniver-
medical benefits and other ser-
about meetings with famous peo-
formed in the Washington area to
sary of the United Nations.
vices they need.
ple and give Americans a view into
compete to cover federal workers.
The column will be syndicated
The vouchers, which would
strictly first-lady type of events,
The federal government pays 75
by Creators Syndicate, a large
such as "what it's like to plan
vary in amount to reflect differ-
percent of their premiums up to
newspaper group that approached
Christmas [events] in July."
ences in age, region and other fac-
$1,600 for individuals and $3,490
Mrs. Clinton more than two years
tors, would increase by 6 percent
for families.
Both Miss Caputo and Mr. New-
ago with the idea.
combe said the column won't be
a year, enabling seniors to keep up
Last year, with health care costs
Other Creators columnists in-
political in nature and was not
with inflation while limiting the
down dramatically nationwide,
clude Ann Landers, former Vice
government's costs. Medicare cur-
federal workers and retirees actu-
timed to appear during the re-
President Dan Quayle, conserva-
election effort.
rently is growing at about 10 per-
ally saw their premiums drop by
tive columnist Robert Novak,
cent a year.
3.3 percent. In most years, federal
Washington Post cartoonist Herb
Mr. Newcombe added that Mrs.
The "Medi-Choice" system
health premiums have grown at
Block, and major comics, includ-
Clinton has been asked to continue
eventually would replace the cur-
half of Medicare's rate.
ing "The Wizard of Id" and "B.C."
writing the column long past her
rent program, where the govern-
Congress is likely to adopt a mix
Creators President Rick New-
White House days.
ment defines a set of benefits that
of reforms to achieve the $270 bil-
combe said he did not know
"She and the syndicate view this
are covered and establishes fees
lion in Medicare savings required
whether Mrs. Clinton will name
as a long-term project," he said,
for each service, though seniors
under the budget resolution, said
noting that Mrs. Roosevelt wrote
her column or simply run it under
could opt to stay with Medicare.
Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Re-
her column until her death in 1962.
her byline.
"We think most will prefer the
publican.
Mrs. Clinton has looked to Mrs.
He said that while Mrs. Clinton
voucher system" over Medicare,
In addition to the voucher idea,
Roosevelt - a prolific writer and
has turned down compensation for
because it will give seniors better
which is endorsed by a growing
journalist, vigorous campaigner
the column, the syndicate will
care for le. 3 cost, said Stuart But-
for civil and women's rights, and a
number of experts, Congress will
donate some of the profits from
delegate to the United Nations
ler, Heritage vice president and
probably require seniors choosing
the column to children's charities.
from 1946 to 1951 - as a role
designer of "Medi-Choice."
so-called Part B physicians cover-
Mrs. Clinton will be paid any ex-
model. "I always hope that
The Heritage proposal is simi-
age to continue paying 31 percent
penses associated with writing her
lar to one recently endorsed by the
someday I will feel worthy of be-
of their coverage, while imposing
column, Mr. Newcombe said.
American Medical Association, he
a means test so that seniors with
ing mentioned in the same sen-
He said he first approched Mrs.
said. It also has received limited
high incomes pay more, he said.
tence with her," Mrs. Clinton has
Clinton in January 1993, shortly
backing from key seniors groups
As an interim measure until
said.
after the president's inauguration.
She has said she "devoured"
and hospital associations that are
vouchers are phased in, the Heri-
"I thought it was a great oppor-
Mrs. Roosevelt's books and
increasingly resigned to a major
tage proposal would actually raise
tunity for her to speak direct to the
overhaul of Medicare this year and
speeches, and disclosed that she
the part B premium to 50 percent,
American people," he said in a tele-
kept a collection of Mrs. Roose-
would prefer a free-market solu-
the level approved by Congress in
phone interview.
velt's newspaper columns at her
tion to Medicare-imposed price
1965 as part of the original Medi-
But the first lady was "too busy"
bedside.
controls, he said.
care "contract," while phasing out
By triggering a competition
the subsidy for seniors with in-
among health care plans to serve
comes between $65,000 and
the potentially lucrative market of
$85,000.
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
File
TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1995 USA TODAY
WASHINGTON
ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD
Clinton's campaign
China arrests dissidents,
airs first ads today
protests U.S.-Taiwan ties
The 1996 election is more than 17 months away, but start-
China, still angered over the White House visa issued to
ing today a series of television campaign ads begins airing
Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui earlier this month to attend
with President Clinton defending his assault-weapons ban.
a class reunion at Cornell University, has begun arresting
White House press secretary Mike McCurry, who pre-
prominent Chinese dissidents. Harry Wu, who spent 19
viewed the ads in the White House's Roosevelt Room during
years in a prison labor camp before becoming a U.S. citi-
his lunch hour Monday, said the three 30-second ads "were
zen, was detained last week during his fourth trip to China.
not prepared as campaign spots." But the ads' disclaimer
Beijing says Wu is under "investigation" for reporting that
says they're sponsored by Clinton's re-election committee,
Chinese officials were selling human organs taken from
which is spending $2.4 million of its $8 million bankroll to
prisoners. Late Monday, authorities arrested another critic,
broadcast them in 11 states. McCurry said the Democratic
Chen Ziming, key leader of the 1989 Tiananmen democra-
National Committee couldn't afford to pay for the ads.
cy movement. Chen was released after three years in pris-
McCurry said the campaign is designed to stop a repeal
on when he developed cancer and hepatitis. (Talwan, 1A)
of the weapons ban by Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole.
Dole promised the National Rifle Association in March he
SWISS VACATION HOMES: After a campaign that
would push for repeal, but he hasn't scheduled any votes.
warned of a "sellout of the homeland," Swiss voters reject-
In one ad, gunfire is heard and an assault weapon is seen
ed a government attempt to make it easier for foreigners to
in someone's hand. A voice intones, "An officer. Killed in
buy vacation homes in Switzerland. The Swiss Democrats
the line of duty. A father. Gunned down at work. A student.
welcomed the vote as a criticism of the government's
Shot at school. A mother. Murdered in cold blood. Victims.
"much too generous" policy toward foreigners.
Killed with deadly assault weapons." Then Clinton is shown,
saying, "Deadly assault weapons off our streets. One hun-
MISSING RELIEF WORKER:
dred thousand more police on the streets. Expand the death
Friends and family of American
penalty. That's how we'll protect America."
relief worker Fred Cuny, missing
"We're determined not to let a full-throated assault on the
in Chechnya, accused Russian and
assault-weapons ban develop without us answering,"
Chechen officials of impeding
McCurry said. He estimated one-third of the nation will see
their efforts to find him. They an-
the ads before the end of July.
nounced the formation of a founda-
Nelson Warfield, spokesman for Dole's presidential cam-
tion to support the search. The
paign, said the ads are designed "to scare the American
State Department said an FBI
people" but instead demonstrate "how scared candidate
team has received visas for travel
Clinton is of Bob Dole." Says NRA chief lobbyist Tanya Me-
to Chechnya to investigate the dis-
taksa: "Our agenda's still the same."
Judy Keen
appearance of Cuny. on April 7.
McCURRY
TREATED:
CUNY: Family steps
The team was to leave Monday
White House press-secretary
up its own search
night, a State Department official
Mike McCurry had a small patch of skin cancer removed
said. Cuny's family is trying to
from his face last week. McCurry, who wore a bandage un-
check out tips that the well-known disaster relief worker is
der his right eye Monday, had the outpatient procedure
alive. The most recent information came to U.S. officials
done Friday. To recuperate, he skipped President Clinton's
from a Russian source a week ago, Cuny's brother, Chris,
trips to Arkansas and the West Coast.
said at a news conference.
FIRST LADY A WRITER: Following in Eleanor Roose-
THATCHER COOL ON MAJOR: Former British
velt's footsteps, Hillary Rodham Clinton will write a weekly
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has declined to endorse
newspaper column to share "some
Prime Minister 'ohn Major in his fight to retain power, giv-
of the funny stories and some of
ing equal favor to Conservative Party politician John Red-
the momentous events" of White
wood, competing against him. Pressed on whether she
House life. She won't be paid, but
would endorse either candidate, she tersely told an audi-
part of the money newspapers pay
ence at Washington's National Press Club on Monday:
the distributor, Creators Syndicate,
"Both candidates are sound Conservatives. Next question."
will go to children's charities. The
column begins July 23.
WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL:
The
U.N.
tribunal
created
O'LEARY RESPONDS: Ener-
to try war crimes from the conflict in Rwanda held its first
session, with no one in custody. Like the war crimes tribu-
gy Secretary Hazel O'Leary, de-
nal for the former Yugoslavia, prosecutors are having trou-
scribing herself as "a little
ble getting access to suspects. Many of the 400 suspected of
Agence France-Presse
steamed; defended her travel rec-
involvement in last year's massacre of 500,000 Tutsi are be-
CLINTON: Column
ord after the Los Angeles Times
lieved to be hiding in Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania.
begins July 23
said she spent more taxpayer mon-
ey on travel than other Cabinet
ALSO
British animal rights activist Vicki Moore was
members - $49,857 on 61 trips within the USA - and often
badly gored by a bull at a fiesta in Coria, Spain. A veteran
traveled first class. She said that in all cases but one, she
protester, Moore is president of a British group called Fight
personally paid for first-class air travel upgrades and often
Against Animal Cruelty and was filming the event when she
pays for her own meals. "The story should have read, 'Sec-
was caught by the bull.
Israeli and Syrian military chiefs
retary of Energy spends her own money to get the job
of staff meet today in Washington to begin negotiating secu-
done,'' O'Leary said. "I'm $14,000 out just on basic travel. If
rity issues involving the Golan Heights.
Hundreds of Cri-
you count this year, every meal I've ever had to buy, this job
mean Tatars, angered by police corruption in Ukraine,
has cost me over $30,000."
clashed with officers. The riot spread to six towns.
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
HRC
THE WASHINGTON POST
THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1995
Lissa
File -column-
MARY McGRORY
Welcome to the Club, Hillary
ear Hillary:
happened. We can only hope someone at
D
Welcome to the scribblers'
the White House will respond favorably
corner. I hope you will like being
as we grovel for a few crumbs. We race
a Washington columnist. I'm not
up to the Hill-and grab a senator on his
resuming to tell you how to go about it,
way to the caucus lunch or camp in the
but you will learn, right away, that
Speaker's Lobby on the House side, and
offering unsolicited advice is a
we buff their vanity by saying we know
columnist's reflex. You've been on the
they know. They give us bits and scraps
receiving end of tons of it, your husband
and fragments and we construct our little
too. Now, on a slow day, you will be
cathedrals of conjecture, speculation and
telling Congress, the AMA, the AARP or
gossip that would fall into rubble at the
even the District of Columbia what to do
first word from you.
in print.
So you have the nukes, and we're
First of all brace yourself for floods of
telling ourselves you won't use them.
mail. As a political wife, you've had your
You'll be spared the worst indignities
share of abusive letters. You give the
of your new calling. You won't have to go
impression you're still not hardened to it.
to the Roosevelt Room and listen to
When you were still smarting after the
self-important young men tell you what is
November defeat, you complained about
behind the latest, faintest nuance of
what people said and wrote about you
Bosnian policy, or the impact of the
and how they fixated on your hair. Don't
balanced budget on the CPI. And you
give your critics the satisfaction.
won't, as Russell Baker once immortally
Remember always how the only previous
put it, be "sitting on marble floors
White House columnist, Eleanor
waiting for somebody to come out and lie
Roosevelt, handled hecklers. She lived
to me." You'll be spared the spinners.
Jane Austen's great line. She did not
Your real function is to validate the
believe they deserved "the compliment of
rational opposition."
ideas of people who have nobody to
About the writing, there's no worry.
speak for them, who can't get to where
the action is and need someone to
You're used to speaking your mind. But
you must, if I may say so, guard against
interpret the guff. No one is better
"wonkism." As you said yourself on the
qualified than you to speak for women
Diane Rehm show, you have a tendency
who are baffled or outraged over some
to "get a little wonky." Suppress it.
new insurance company medical
Enough people in this city are writing
practice, like the brutal business of
unintelligible accounts of rescissions in
kicking new mothers out of the hospital
the reconciliation bill. You should
24 hours after they have delivered a
concentrate, if you don't mind my saying
baby.
so, on people, not policies. Mrs. R. was
Do a little investigative reporting, it
never abstract. Real folks, specific
spruces up a column. Check out the
situations were her meat six times a
District of Columbia schools and solve
week in "My Day."
the mystery of why they cost so much
Once when she asked FDR if she
and produce so little. Don't let anybody
should pipe down, he replied, "Certainly
tell you writing is easy. Even once a
not. You ought to say whatever you
week is a drag. As the deadline
want. And I will simply tell people, well,
approaches, there is always something
PHOTOCOPY
that's my wife.
you would rather do, like rearrange your
It would be grand if you had such an
glove drawer or estimate your taxes.
PRESERVATION
understanding with your Himself and
"Better go down upon your
could steal away from the official line, so
marrow-bones" Yeats said of writing.
THE WASHINGTON POST
THURSE
The Reliable Source
Mirror
By Lois Romano
MADNESS
A Village to Call Her Own
Broker
charge
The white polyester three-piece
suit that John Travolta wore in
First lady Hillary Clinton, who told rural
Grout:
was
Bangladeshi villagers during her recent South Asia visit
1977's "Saturday Night Fever"
that she didn't keep cows in the White House and once
yesterday fetched an extraordinary
earned more than her husband, so impressed the local
TIMES
$145,500 from an anonymous
folks that they renamed their hamlet Hillarypara in her
we
telephone bidder at a Christie's East
The morning
honor.
auction in New York. The suit had
after:
In fact, Hillarypara, a remote village of "untouchables,"
HUGHOOD ASSOCIATED PRESS
been put on the block by movie critic
London
the lowest Hindu caste, has now become a local tourist
Gene Siskel,
tabs, a
attraction, according to Muhammad Yunus, managing
hounded
who paid
director of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank and one of the
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
Hurley.
$2,000 for it at
first lady's hosts on the Bangladesh stop of her
a charity event
five-nation Asia tour in the spring.
in 1979. It was
The Hugh Hullabaloo
to keep her schedule of meetings. Reporters
Yunus, who is visiting Washington, celebrated his
expected to
who claimed to have talked to friends of the
55th birthday yesterday at a reunion lunch at the Oval
bring not more
Room restaurant with Mrs. Clinton and several
ay 2, A.S. (After Scandal):
Estee Lauder face variously described her as
than $50,000.
D
Claudia
journalists, reports The Post's Molly Moore
Heartthrob Hugh Grant-arrested
"humiliated," "angry," "stunned" and
Schiffer
Many Bangladeshi leaders reportedly were upset
Tuesday allegedly in the middle of a
"devastated." All, however, seemed to agree
lewd act with a "known prostitute"-has fled
that she'd stand by her man of eight years.
created quite a
that Yunus decided to take the first lady to a village of
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return for a hefty sum of cash. (And there are
her new autobiography in pictures.
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MEMORANDUM
To: Pam
Ma sgie
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Re: Remarks on breast cancer
Da: June 30, 1995
Attached are some remarks HRC has given on breast cancer and
mammography. Stephanie, an intern in the Press Office, is
working on a transcript of HRC's remarks at the White House
Conference on Aging. When she is finished, she will send you a
copy.
Let me know if you want to see more speeches, or if I can be
of further assistance. Good luck!
from put together
for breast Cancer Column
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
May 1, 1995
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at Medicare
Mammography Awareness Campaign Kick-off
MRS. CLINTON: Thank you very much. Thank you so much for
being here for this important and, in many ways, unprecedented event.
I want to thank Secretary Shalala for her leadership in so many areas,
but as she mentioned, when the President announced the National Breast
Cancer Action Plan from this room and asked the Secretary to please
begin to do all that we could in the federal government to not only
get word out about breast cancer, but to begin a really concerted
effort to turn all of the forces of the federal government toward
research to find a cure to understand this disease -- Secretary
Shalala really took that and ran with it, and we're very grateful to
you.
I also want to acknowledge Bruce Vladick and Dr. Helen Smiths
from the Health Care Financing Administration. That is the agency
that pays the Medicare bills, that tries to compile information so
that we know what's really happening with people in our country when
it comes to health, and they are very much involved and committed to
this effort, and I'm very grateful for that.
I also want to thank Dr. Susan Blumenthal and the Public
Health Service's Office on Women's Health, which has played a major
role in bringing to all of our attention the issues affecting women
and our health, and I know this is a very big week for older
Americans, because it is the White House Conference on Aging. And
Fernando Torres Gil who is here, is the man responsible for making
sure that this week happens, and he seems remarkably relaxed, and so
I'm glad to welcome him here to join all of us.
We are kicking off the Clinton Administration's "Mommagram"
campaign. And that is a very carefully chosen phrase, because it
really says what we want it to say. We are concerned about our mommas
-- whether we call them mothers, mommies, moms, whatever, we are
concerned about all of the women in our country, and particularly
older women. And we want this campaign to increase awareness of the
importance of mammography among our nation's older women.
The threat of breast cancer, as the Secretary points out, is
one that touches every single American. We all know someone -- a
grandmother, a mother, a sister, an aunt, a daughter, a friend, or in
my case, my mother-in-law, who has suffered or is suffering from this
disease. But what many Americans do not know is that the risk of
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breast cancer increases with age. In fact, 80 percent of new breast
cancers occur in women aged 50 and older, and half of all new cases
occur in women 65 and older.
That is why, thanks in large part to the advocacy of many
organizations represented here today, mammography was added to
Medicare in 1991 as one of the few preventive or screening services
that Medicare offers. And that is why, as I worked on health care
reform, I was distressed to learn that fewer than 40 percent of women
aged 65 and older on Medicare have used the Medicare mammography
benefit.
Over the past months, I looked at studies on barriers to
mammography use among older women, and I talked to women all over the
country of different backgrounds and races and different regions who
had different experiences with mammography and with breast cancer. I
believe that through these meetings, which we called "listening
sessions," because that's what I was doing, we could gain a better
understanding of how we could increase the use of mammography by going
to the people who were the experts -- the women themselves.
I learned a great deal from these sessions, from the
physicians and nurses and women who took part in them, from the
advocates representing organizations, and the entire government did as
well. Because we heard that older women, like the rest of us, value
the advice of their doctors, and that a great number of older women
will get a mammogram if their doctors recommend it.
We learned that some older women don't realize that you never
outgrow the need to protect yourself against breast cancer, and that
some women mistakenly believe that mammograms are extremely painful or
even dangerous, that they, themselves, can cause breast cancer. Some
women fear getting a mammogram because they believe that finding
breast cancer, even in its early stages, is a death sentence. And we
learned that some older women, women who have spent their lives caring
for others, simply don't know how to take care of their own health by
seeking out such services for themselves.
But we also learned that with information and outreach, older
women will get mammograms to help them live longer, healthier lives,
and our goal is to provide this support and to increase mammography
use among our nation's older women. So we are pleased to announce
today this awareness initiative.
In honor of Mother's Day and all of our nation's older women,
we are kicking off our initiative with a "Mommagram" campaign. The
"Mommagram" campaign will give husbands, sons, daughters,
grandchildren, friends and anyone else with a close relationship with
an older woman a way to let that woman know that her family and
friends care, that part of that caring means wanting her to get
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regular mammograms, and that Medicare covers the cost of these
mammograms.
I would like to take this opportunity, on behalf of the
administration, to thank all of you who have done and will continue to
do so much to make this "Mommagram" campaign a success. This campaign
has been a wonderful coordinated effort among government agencies and
between the government and the private sector. I would also like to
thank the health care professionals and their organizations who will
be communicating with their members about the importance of reminding
their older women patients to get regular mammograms.
As one of the women in one of the listening sessions told me,
she says, "I had five things wrong with me, I have five
different doctors, I have doctors for my eyes, I have doctors for my
heart, I have doctors for my feet, but nobody ever told me to get a
mammogram." And so part of our message is for all doctors who take
care of women for any problem remind them, please, about mammograms.
I'd also like to thank the senior organizations and cancer
advocacy organizations who will be activating their grass roots
networks to get the message out. This is very important, because
you're really there on the front lines, talking with women every
single day. Many of you have worked very well on your own excellent
breast health awareness campaigns, and we appreciate your additional
efforts on behalf of this as well.
I'd also like to thank the creative public relations
professionals who donated their time and effort to design the
"Mommagram" campaign. You can see one great example behind me. And
the generous corporations and trade associations who have provided
funding or are distributing and displaying the message or the
materials that have been developed for this campaign.
And I would most certainly like to thank the women who
participated in these listening sessions. Some of them were able to
be with us today, and I would like all the women in all the listening
sessions to please stand, because it is your help that made this day
happen. (Applause.)
I would also add, we had a really good time, and some of
what was said and some of the stories that were told, we couldn't
publish in the form that they were -- (laughter) -- but I will never
forget them. And I hope that all of you know how much we appreciated
your taking your time and sharing very personal information with us.
Our efforts will not end with Mother's Day. The "Mommagram"
campaign is just the first stage in a year-long Medicare mammography
initiative that will include outreach through Medicare carriers and
intermediaries -- those are the insurance companies and the other
folks who process the bills and do what needs to be done in order to
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get Medicare to work for you, through state health departments, local
aging agencies, and we hope many of you here today.
I also know there are many women -- and we have just had very
strong evidence of that published in a recent article -- who are
living on bare-bones budgets in their later years, and they are
finding it very difficult to meet the deductible cost on Medicare and
the small copayment for a mammogram. Probably the most difficult and
poignant moments in those listening sessions were when women stood up
and said, "I was diagnosed with breast cancer, but I didn't have
insurance, and I waited until I was eligible for Medicare." or, women
who stood up and said "I have a history of breast cancer in my family,
but at the end of the month, I just can't afford, even with Medicare's
help, to pay for a mammogram."
I hope this campaign will help us focus national attention on
not only the benefit that is available through Medicare, but also the
need to make sure that every woman is able to take advantage of that
benefit. We applaud the many local programs that I learned about
around the country that offer free mammography screening, and I know
that the many partners in this effort here today and those unable to
be with us, will do everything that we can do together to assist in
finding ways to cover the costs that
Medicare does not now pick up.
Hopefully, the day will come when the government will be able
to meet the needs of all women, or there will be other changes that
will permit a service such as Medicare's mammography benefit to be
accessed without any financial barriers.
As I think about this campaign, I can't help but also think
about the voices we're hearing in Washington today that are trying to
tell us that there is nothing the federal government can do
for people. I think the Medicare mammography benefit belies that.
And I think this awareness campaign does, too. Working together with
local government and the private sector, we can use the Medicare
mammography benefit to save lives. And that is very important to all
of us.
We have here today someone I met in our listening sessions,
and whose words and thoughts helped us shape this campaign. I'd like
to welcome Zinny Cummings (PHO.) from Church Women United, a brave and
determined women who is one of mammography's success stories.
Zinny, would you please join us here at the podium?
(Applause.)
(ZINNY CUMMINGS SPEAKS)
MRS. CLINTON: I'm so glad you got on that airplane.
(Laughter.) One of the items that Zinny referred to was a video, news
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release that we put together by the Department of Health and Human
Services, which gives a bit of a flavor about what we heard in all of
these listening sessions. And I think we're going to be able to play
it right now and show you on these two screens.
(VIDEO SHOWN)
Thank you, Jackie, for you and your crew doing such an
excellent job on that. We started our first listening session in New
York, and I was pleased there to hear from a number of women who have
been active in various organizations that are advocates on behalf of
older women and on behalf of cancer. And one of those women from the
Older Women's League is Lou Glass (PHO.) And, Lou, I'd like to
introduce you now to our audience. Please join us here. (Applause.)
(JACKIE SPEAKS)
And that's such an important point that Lou just made is the
peace of mind that comes from doing this for yourself and finding out
there isn't anything wrong, and that's an important point that we want
to stress today.
As has already been mentioned, the President and I have a very
personal interest and commitment to this issue, because my mother-in-
law, Virginia Kelley, died in January of 1994 from breast
cancer, and so we were very intimately involved with her and her
disease over a number of months. She, as any of you who ever met her
would know, she never wanted to have anybody feel sorry for her or in
any way stop what they were doing because of her battle with breast
cancer, and she was a great inspiration to us in the last years of her
life as she was during her entire life.
And in our efforts to try to reach out to women around the
country, we thought we would tell our own personal story about this
because perhaps all of the talking and all of the statistics and all
of the effort that has been put into mammography for all women,
particularly older women, may not make the impression on some women
that a personal story does. So we have, with the help of some very
creative people, done some PSAs that I hope will, in their own way,
reach some additional women, and I'd like to show those to you now.
(PSAs are shown)
We hope that other additional ideas for ways of reaching women
throughout the country will come forward from this campaign. We want
to, in every way we can, to get the word out. Some of the things that
you'll be seeing in the Mother's Day part of this campaign are
Mother's Day cards that will have inside this special "Mommagram," and
so I hope that many, many people buy these cards and send them to
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their mothers and their grandmothers and other women who they
appreciate.
We'll be having, with deliveries of flowers on Mother's Day,
which I think is probably the biggest day for flowers in the whole
country, a mammogram for you which will come with every bouquet and
will point out the importance of having a mammogram, and again I think
that this is a way that Mother's Day can be celebrated particularly,
will have pins that I hope people will wear as --especially those of
you in organizations who are working on this will be visiting with
women and speaking to groups, many other kinds of brochures that will
be put out with our slogan -- "Get a mammogram: a picture that can
save your life."
So we are very grateful for everything that all of you have
done, and I think each of us has a personal reason for being here
today and for being invested in this campaign, and certainly my
mother-in-law is my personal reason, along with many of my friends and
other women whom I have known.
My own mother couldn't be here. She's much too busy today.
(Laughter.) So she's not going to be able to come for Mother's Day
until toward the end of the week. And of course, this is, as the
President said, our second Mother's Day without his mother. But I
think that we need to celebrate all of the mothers who are here, and I
asked if there could be one person perhaps chosen to represent all of
the mothers, because we'd like to give them a bouquet. And this is
really a bouquet for everybody, and this is a total surprise, so I'm
sure this woman will say, "Why are you doing this to me," but one of
the people from our listening sessions who is here today is LuAnn
Richter (PHO.), a 73-year-old breast cancer survivor, and she told us
that in her early years, she had regular mammograms but stopped having
them because she didn't have any family history of cancer.
Seven years ago, she found a lump through a self-exam, went to
a physician, it was confirmed as cancerous, she had a mastectomy. She
now has regular mammograms. She is a widow with two children and four
grandchildren and a member of the Older Women's League. And LuAnn, if
you'll join me, you are our proxy for all of the mothers and
grandmothers. (Applause.)
(MRS. RICHTER ACCEPTS BOUQUET)
Well, we are so excited to have all of you here, and I hope
that this campaign will be as successful as the efforts that you have
invested in it.
I also wanted to recognize another group who is here because
of what they had just done, and that's the Inspiration Expedition, a
group of breast cancer survivors who climbed the tallest mountain in
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the world, outside of the Himalayas, in South America, and I wanted
them to stand, all who were members of this expedition who are here,
because we are very proud of you. (Applause.)
So we have much to be grateful for as we approach this year's
Mother's Day and we have much to work for as we try to take this
campaign to women throughout our country, and I want to thank all of
you for making this possible and for being part of such an important
effort, and I look forward to celebrating next year as we hopefully
see these statistics getting better and better, as we see more and
more women taking advantage of these kinds of mammography benefits,
and as we move closer and closer to learning about what causes breast
cancer and what will cure it for ourselves, our daughters and our
granddaughters. Thank you all very much.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
September 19, 1994
REMARKS BY THE FIRST LADY
AT "FASHION TARGETS BREAST CANCER"
WASHINGTON, D.C.
MRS. CLINTON: Good afternoon. (Applause.) Good
afternoon, and welcome to the White House. I know some of
you have been here over the years, and for others, this is
your first trip. I hope that you feel as welcome as we want
you to. We are grateful for this event today, and we are
grateful for the American fashion industry's contribution to
our country.
And it is an exciting day for us here in the White
House because of the events of the last 24 hours. And what
better way to celebrate than to have all of you here and to
be doing something as important as this?
It is a special pleasure for me to not only welcome
you but to talk a little bit about what we hope to accomplish
with this very exciting kick-off event. In order to
understand how important this is to all of us, I think we
only have to pause for a minute to consider the woman who is
being honored, Nina Hyde, whom I did not have the pleasure of
knowing personally, but who certainly made her mark in so
many ways on so many lives.
In addition to Nina Hyde, who inspired this event
and has inspired so many to commit themselves to the fight
against breast cancer, I would imagine that every one of us
knows at least one other person who we are honoring today
silently because of her valiant fight against breast cancer,
perhaps becoming a survivor, with all of the lessons that
that gives to the rest of us; or perhaps someone like Nina or
my mother-in-law, who lost the fight against breast cancer,
but whose lessons about living and dying remain a constant
inspiration to the rest of us.
We all know the grim statistics about breast
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cancer. We all know how every three minutes, a woman is
diagnosed with breast cancer, how now, one out of every nine
women in America will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some
point during her life, and how every 11 minutes, a woman dies
of breast cancer, because it is the leading cause of death
among women between the ages of 35 and 54.
More than 180,000 women, women of all sizes and
shapes and colors and religions and ethnic backgrounds and
from every region of our country, will be diagnosed this
year. Over 2.6 million women are currently suffering from
breast cancer, and 46,000 will die.
The statistics are troubling enough, but what
brings us all together and what inspired this very exciting
campaign is that for too long, except for the example and the
voices of individuals, we did not do enough to combat breast
cancer.
We know now that we had to redouble and retriple
our efforts. And thanks to the examples of women like Nina
Hyde and her many friends and thanks also to scientists and
researchers and medical doctors like Dr. Mark Lippmann and
his team at Georgetown and thanks also to an Administration
with leadership like Dr. Susan Blumenthal and others, who
believes that breast cancer is a disease that must be
combatted as vigorously as we can possibly do so, we are
slowly beginning to make progress.
Last October, when leaders of the National Breast
Cancer Coalition met with the President here at the White
House, they pushed for a national action plan on breast
cancer. That is something that the President had promised
during the campaign. It is something that I personally felt
very strongly about, based on my own work and my own contact
with friends and other women who often waged a lonely battle
against this disease.
We have since then established such a conference
and created such a plan. We now have a frame work in place.
We have increased dramatically the amount of money spent on
research into this disease. We have also increased research
into the technology that can help diagnose it and treat it in
its current stages.
That is one of the reasons why many of us were and
remain so committed to health care reform, because we know
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that for every research breakthrough, there will be women who
will not be able to access that research. We know that
despite remarkable discoveries like that of the BRAC-1 gene
last week, that millions of women will be left out of those
breakthroughs without guaranteeing that every woman has
access to quality health care.
As I have worked on behalf of health care reform, I
have a movie in my mind. The movie is of the faces and
stories of men and women and children all over our country.
One of the faces is that of a woman whom I met in New
Orleans, a woman who had worked at the same job for more than
15 years, a woman who took care of herself, paid out of her
own pocket for a yearly physical because she could not afford
insurance and did not have it through her workplace, a woman
who when she had her annual physical, was told a lump had
been discovered in her breast and was referred to a surgeon.
But when the surgeon found out she did not have
health insurance, he told her that they would just watch the
lump instead of taking a biopsy of it, because she could not
afford the biopsy. That woman, like many women around our
country, was left not knowing; in many ways, a fate that
befalls to many in our health care system today, who even
despite their own best efforts, cannot achieve the health
care that would save a life or possibly minimize the damage
of a disease.
So in order to make progress against this disease,
we must move on many fronts. We must move as you are moving,
led by the fashion industry, to continue to raise awareness
and to continue to raise funds, so that we can combat breast
cancer. We must move on the scientific and research front,
and we must move on the governmental front, SO that breast
cancer is a disease that we all can feel we are contributing
toward the cause of and also toward the amelioration of, by
making sure that we have leadership in our public and private
sector that is dedicated and compassionate and understands
what this disease means in the lives of women.
Probably no industry understands women better. As
I've told some of our guests, I've never seen the women in
the White House get more dressed up. (Laughter.) People
were making mad phone calls around town, borrowing things,
trying to do their best. Even though they may not even see
you, they know you are here. (Laughter.)
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I was particularly touched and moved by the stories
I've read about Nina Hyde calling in columns from Tibet,
befriending people in the industry, taking care of her
assistants at the Post. And we are honored to have Kay
Graham with us, who really has helped to spearhead this work
on behalf of Nina Hyde and the Georgetown Center. And we are
also pleased to have Nina's daughters and her husband with
us, people who knew her well and still miss her.
But I was particularly moved by learning that Nina
Hyde always felt well-dressed with a swatch watch. I went
through my closets and drawers looking for a swatch watch. I
mean, after you've been on the worst dressed lists of People
magazine, you will look for anything that can possibly give
you some surcease from that.
But I don't have a swatch watch, but I have
something even better. I have the honor and pleasure of
introducing one of the leaders of this effort, someone who
has committed himself and his company to making sure that
these T-shirts are sold everywhere and become the fashion
statement, with or without a swatch watch, for every woman
and, I suppose, man who we can get to wear one.
And I think we all owe him and his colleagues a
great deal of thanks. So join me, please, in welcoming Ralph
Lauren. (Applause.)
MR. LAUREN: Just before we came out here, I was
standing out on the terrace, and Donna said, "Ralph, this
look becomes you, standing on the terrace." (Laughter.) I
said, "Donna, I really do like this. It feels very good.
I do want to say that I am here not for Ralph
Lauren. I am here for this industry. I'm here for the
Council of Fashion Designers, Fern Malase (phonetic), Stan
Herman (phonetic), Donna Karan, Oscar de la Renta, Louis de
Olio. I'm here for Ricky Lauren, who inspired me when I
worked with Nina. I'm here for Kay Graham, who has worked
with us. And it was inspiring to watch her.
As I was sitting here and I looked to my left, I
looked at a fellow here that might get embarrassed as I say
it, a boy by the name of Jeffrey Banks, who's not a boy
anymore. He's a man. And Nina Hyde introduced me to Jeffrey
about 30 -- Jeffrey, is it 30 years ago, 25 years ago?
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MR. BANKS: Twenty-five.
MR. LAUREN: Twenty-five years ago. (Laughter.)
Believe it or not, he was in high school and graduated in my
tuxedo. But he has been in this industry for these years and
has had a success.
And Nina was that kind of person that would really
be involved with people, no matter where you came. When you
were coming into Washington -- Nina was not my best friend,
but she treated every person she knew in that same way as if
you were her best friend, as if she was thinking about you.
And she was very intelligent and very caring about all
people.
And I'm here for those reasons, but I'm here for a
lot of different reasons. I guess I have had much success in
my career. I've enjoyed wonderful spreads in magazines,
lifestyle images of my wife and my family and all that, which
are wonderful. But one of the lifestyles you did not see was
New York Hospital, with bandages around my head and a person
who could not walk down the hall, so weak that it didn't
matter anymore.
On one hand, you're on the cover of Time magazine;
on the other hand, the world is forgetting you, and you know
what it feels to have that sensitivity. That type of
sensitivity, I'm glad for today. I was not happy about doing
what I had to do. But it does open your mind and your life
to thinking about the world. I work as hard today as I ever
did, but there is something extra that I carry along with me,
and I'm always sensitive to what goes on.
When I met Nina, I had just come out of the
hospital. I guess we had a sort of a kinship, because at
that time I had seen her, she did not look too happy. And I
had not seen her for a few months. And I said, "Nina, you
don't look so well. Why are you not smiling?" Because she
was always very gracious and very open and very -- and she
really did look down. She said, "Ralph, I have breast
cancer.
"
And I was taken by it and shocked. And I said,
"Nina, what can I do?" And she said "Ralph" -- and I can
remember driving along in a car with her. And she said, "It
would be really wonderful if you could talk to the fashion
industry about this. And I was saying to myself, "Talk to
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the fashion industry? It's a big industry." The fashion
industry is the largest industry in America. I said, "How am
I going to talk to the fashion industry about this?"
But, you know, you can do things that you never
think you could do. You can say, "It's too big; I'll never
get there," or you can say, "I can get there, one by one."
This did not happen overnight. We did not plan this event.
This took many years of thinking and trying to do things.
Anyway, in working with Nina and talking to Nina,
we did do something. And I called every designer and wrote
to every designer in the world. And we got responses from
everybody. And we had a cocktail party, and we raised a
million dollars. Nina was alive then, and she spoke. And it
was quite amazing. From nothing, we had a Nina Hyde
Foundation.
And I've often asked these questions of myself, and
these questions that I will have to ask you and hit you real
hard. If someone said to you -- if it was your sister, your
aunt, your wife, your girlfriend said, "I have breast cancer;
I'm dying, " what would you do? What would you do? And I
would have to ask everybody out there in the world that
passes notes that go by them, because we're so busy in life,
all the big industries, all the big-time power men out there
that are wheeling and dealing and shuffling and moving
dollars all over the places, if their wife had breast cancer,
and they loved their wife, would they have not paid millions
to make sure she lived? Would they not have done everything
in the world?
And we can say, "Beware of this terrible disease."
We can say, "Let's really know about this breast care
awareness. But it's not about awareness. It's about doing.
It's about getting a job done. It's about motivating and
getting these people to spend the money that it's going to
take to really cure this disease.
We have Dr. Mark Lippmann, who I had met through
Nina. Mark was just another doctor to me until I met him.
And he was inspiring, because he really explained what could
be done. And he explained that this is not going to be
forever. Breast cancer can be cured and will be cured,
possibly or maybe totally, in our lifetime.
If you know that and you're well, wouldn't it be
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great to prepare for that today? Wouldn't it be great to be
ready for that, so that you don't have to ever go through
that?
I would like to introduce Dr. Lippmann and have him
explain exactly what is being done. Thank you very much.
(Applause.)
DR. LIPPMANN: Mrs. Clinton and many honored
guests, it's an incredibly joy for me to be here today on
this occasion. But I wish to say to begin with that I'm
really not for here for myself.
I think it's essential that you recognize that I'm
not here for the Nina Hyde Center, the Lombardi Center at
Georgetown University, but I'm here, in some sense, for
thousands of dedicated scientists and physicians around this
country who have worked tirelessly towards gaining a better
understanding of breast cancer and better means of treating
it. And I'm also here on behalf of patients, patients that
are alive now, patients that are to be, and patients who are
no longer.
For the last 20 years, my entire life has been
dedicated to breast cancer, and it's an incredibly
overwhelming thought to know that in the United States alone
in that period of time, almost a million women have died of
breast cancer. It's enough to give one very, very serious
pause.
And some time ago, when Nina Hyde was my patient
and my friend and my colleague and, in some ways, my goad,
when she knew what lay in store for her, in many ways, she
did not give up. She most emphatically appreciated that much
could be done. And she collared many of the people in this
room, grabbed them, and wouldn't let go, got them, got their
attention. When their attention wandered, she got it again.
And when their attention wandered, she grabbed them again.
And because of her and other women like her, there
is a great deal that we can be thankful for already in the
story about breast cancer. And there are three pieces of
this story that, very briefly, I would like to touch upon.
The first one that we have already talked about is
awareness. But awareness isn't a vague concept when you talk
about breast cancer. Awareness is human lives that need not
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be lost. It is a simple fact that easily, one-third of the
women who die of breast cancer in this country every year
would not die with optimal care delivered equitably
throughout this country with technologies and means that we
have already discovered.
And certainly, when I say "awareness," I don't
simply say awareness philanthropically. I say awareness from
the vantage point of getting that care to people who need it,
helping them understand why they need it, helping them
understand that they're entitled to it, and helping them with
that entitlement to get what they need for themselves.
Secondly, and extremely importantly, there has been
progress made. And that progress has not come easily, but it
has not come by serendipity alone. Thousands of human hours
spent in the laboratory and in the clinic with women brave
enough to be part of clinical trials and to face the unknown,
together with their caregivers, have led to a variety of
therapies that are capable of saving lives.
Drug treatments given prophylactically following
surgery can improve the survival for women with breast
cancer. There's no question about it. New therapies with
citochines (phonetic) and new drugs clearly can increase the
response rates for many women with breast cancer. And that's
encouraging, as well.
Perhaps the most important message, though, that I
think I can bring to you is my own personal sense of optimism
and hopefulness, which is reality-based, which comes from an
increased understanding of this disease.
It is simply no longer true to say that we have no
idea what causes breast cancer. "It's just a terrible
mystery; it's a curse." That's not true. In many cases, the
specific proteins produced by breast cancers which are
responsible for their behavior, for making the breast tumors
grow and spread and metastasize have been discovered, are
known and identified.
And in laboratories such as the ones we have in the
Nina Hyde Center and throughout the country, many
investigators are hard at work attempting to exploit that
information with new experimental therapies. And it is
unquestionably the case that some of these therapies will
work. And this requires the dedication and support not only
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of the United States government, for sure, of organizations
like the American Cancer Society, and, critically, human
beings like yourselves involved in supporting this process.
Not only is this understanding of the disease going
to alter the entire face of therapy, but a great deal more
can be said about what we would almost all prefer, to wit:
to either prevent the disease or to detect it when the
therapies need be minimal, nonmutilating, and nontoxic.
And the fact is that we finally do have insights
into new approaches to breast cancer detection which can
either supplant or augment mammography. There are new
technologies in trial in experimental work in human beings
now which have enormous prospects of discovering the disease
while it is no bigger than a millimeter. Breast cancer
discovered at that size is curable 95 percent of the time or
more. That reduces the death rate from 46,000 to 4,000.
That would be a major gain.
The will to do these studies needs to constantly be
there among all of us. The financial support, so clearly
flagging over the past few years, needs to be re-enthused and
reinfused into this process, because we do have the knowledge
and the ability to get the additional knowledge to finally
have an impact on this disease, which is why I say thank you
on behalf of my colleagues, for your support.
Because not in some future, ephemeral time, but in
the next few years, I believe that our continued support for
this activity will change this disease for our children and
the people we love. Thank you for your attention.
(Applause.)
It's my pleasure to introduce Dr. Susan Blumenthal,
who works within the system for the U.S. government. And her
efforts have been extraordinarily helpful in attempting to
marshal the kind of support we need to improve this pace of
discovery. (Applause.)
DR. BLUMENTHAL: Thank you very much. Thank you,
Mark, and Mrs. Clinton and distinguished guests.
Over the past four years, our country has witnessed
the greatest focus on women's health in the history of our
nation. The year 1990 marked the beginning of a decade in
which alarming inequities in women's health were exposed --
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the lack of women as research subjects in our nation's
clinical investigations; the fact that men were considered to
be generic humans, and yet the findings from these studies
were extrapolated to guide the treatment of women patients;
the lack of analysis of data by gender in diseases that
affect both men and women, such as heart disease and cancer;
the dearth of senior women scientists in our country's
federal and research establishments.
These inequities are now being addressed through
the Public Health Service Office on Women's Health working in
collaboration with all of the agencies of the Public Health
Service and other departments of government and working with
consumers, health care professionals, and others.
There's an old proverb that says, "It is better to
light a candle than to curse the darkness. " There has been
considerable darkness surrounding women's health issues in
the past, but the light that has been shown on these issues
by the dedicated and outstanding leadership of Hillary Rodham
Clinton, Secretary Donna Shalala, consumers, health care
professionals, scientists, so many of you here today has
brightened the prospects for a healthier future for all
American women.
Perhaps nowhere is the need to focus our energies,
our resources, your art, and our science more than the
problem of breast cancer, the most frightening and the most
common cancer for women, a public health issue that is of
highest priority to the Clinton Administration and to our
Office on Women's Health.
As Mrs. Clinton mentioned, a year ago in this room,
signatures of 2.6 million Americans were presented, a
conference was held, and a national action plan was
implemented. Our Office on Women's Health is implementing
that action plan in cooperation, in collaboration with other
private organizations and public sector groups. We have
brought together all the agencies of government, the
Department of Defense, the Environmental Protection Agency,
the State Department.
We're working with consumer advocacy groups, with
health care professional societies, with private industry,
with all of you here today. Work with us to develop concrete
actions to eradicate breast cancer as a threat on the lives
of American women. And we will do that. Concrete
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initiatives -- we have developed working groups with public-
private partnerships on a number of issues, such as putting
together a plan for counseling for this newly discovered gene
that will affect 5 percent of women with breast cancer and 25
percent of women under the age of 30 with breast cancer.
We're developing and linking breast health and
breast services to the information superhighway. We're
developing a data and tissue resource bank, so that there
will be a national registry to help researchers find the risk
factors for breast cancer.
And there are many other important programs
underway in our government today. And let me just highlight
a few of them for you. The National Institutes of Health,
under the distinguished leadership of Dr. Harold Varmis
(phonetic), is the biomedical research capital of the world.
One of his institutes, the National Cancer Institute, is the
steward of research on all aspects of breast cancer,
supporting research both in the labs of the NIH and in
academic centers across the country, such as Georgetown
University Medical Center.
The National Cancer Institute, under the direction
of Dr. Samuel Groder (phonetic), is supporting research on
the biological, hormonal, and environmental causes of breast
cancer. We want to know why the rates of breast cancer have
gone from 1 in 20 women in the 1960s to 1 in 8 women over her
lifetime today.
While the breast cancer gene newly discovered
explains about 5 to 10 percent of those cases, fully 70
percent of women have no known risk factor for the disease.
And we think that 90 percent of them have some environmental
factor that is interacting with normal genes to express
breast cancer. We need to find out what those environmental
-- preventable environmental causes of breast cancer are and
change them.
Additionally, the NIH is supporting a trans NIH
initiative, the women's health initiative. It has been
joking called "the mother of all clinical trials,' because it
is the largest clinical trial ever conducted on either men or
women. It is exploring the risk factors for diseases in
older women, such as breast cancer, osteoporosis, and heart
disease. It is exploring the effects of hormone replacement
therapy, estrogen replacement therapy, on the development of
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risks for breast cancer. And it is studying whether low fat
diet, exercise, and vitamin supplements might be helpful in
preventing breast cancer in older women.
Additionally, the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences is looking at environmental
risks for breast cancer. We know that there are particular
pockets, geographic pockets that have higher rates of breast
cancer in our country. We want to know whether there are
pesticides, atmospheric pollutants, other factors that may
increase the risk. And we know that some of these factors
promote the production of estrogen in women's bodies. And
there have been studies that have linked some of these
factors to the increase in breast cancer rates.
Two seemingly unlikely sources of breast cancer
activity are the Department of Defense and the Environmental
Protection Agency. The Department of Defense is about to
announce $200 million of new research money on the causes,
the treatment, and prevention of breast cancer.
Additionally, the Environmental Protection Agency,
again, is looking at the regulation of some of those
environmental factors that have been identified and
associated with increased risk for breast cancer.
The Food and Drug Administration, under the
direction of Dr. David Kessler, is the agency that approves
all new drugs for the treatment of breast cancer. And they
are also implementing the 1992 Mammography Quality Standards
Act, which is going to ensure now that there is federal
certification of all mammography facilities and personnel, so
that when a woman goes to get her mammogram, she knows that
it's going to be safe, accurate, and reliable. The FDA seal
of approval will guide women to the best mammography in their
communities.
While mammography, as Dr. Lippmann mentioned, is an
old technique -- it's a 40-year-old technique -- and while it
can decrease the death rates from breast cancer by 30 percent
for women over the age of 50, it is less effective for
younger women. Surely, if we can image missiles 15,000 miles
in outer space and we can use the Hubbel telescope to see
those craters on Mars and Jupiter, we should be able to more
accurately detect a small lump in a woman's breast right in
front of us.
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So my office, in collaboration with the National
Cancer Institute and in cooperation with the Congressional
Caucus for Women's Issues, is bringing together radiologists
currently exploring MRI, magnetic resonance imaging,
mammography, PET scans, ultrasound, new technologies to be
applied to breast cancer, and we're bringing them together
with defense imaging experts, imaging experts from the
Central Intelligence Agency, from NASA, and those people who
do computer graphics, those special effects that were done in
Jurassic Park.
We're bringing them together to try to develop a
more accurate and sensitive method for the detection of
breast cancer. And what better peace dividend from our
national investment in defense than to save the lives of
American women? (Applause.)
All of our lives, I'm sure, have been touched in
some way by this dreaded disease. I know I lost my own
mother of this illness 17 years ago. I watched her be
ravaged by it. We are committed in this Administration, in
this government, working with all of you here today to
eradicate breast cancer as a threat from all of our lives.
In closing, let me remind you of another proverb
that says, "He" -- let's make that "she" -- "who has health
has hope, and she who has hope has everything." That's what
this Administration's efforts on women's health and the
national action plan on breast cancer is all about, bringing
hope for a healthier future, a future free of the threat of
breast cancer to every American woman. Thank you very much.
We look forward to working with you. (Applause.)
MRS. CLINTON: Well, we hope that all of the
comments from the speakers have been informative and useful
to you, as you launch this very exciting campaign. We now
want to invite all of you to join us for a reception in the
State Dining Room.
I would like to thank each of you individually, so
I will be in the Blue Room -- it's the Green Room, the Blue
Room, the Red Room -- to have a chance to express my
appreciation on behalf of the President and this
Administration for what you do all the time for our country
and for women, in particular, but what you are doing now,
especially, to bring attention and resources to the fight
against breast cancer.
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I hope that we will have an opportunity to meet on
a regular basis. And Dr. Lippmann, Dr. Blumenthal, their
colleagues will be able to update you and let you know how
important your resources have been and your commitment is.
It's an exciting challenge and one that we are determined to
meet.
Thank you all very much. (Applause.)
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
July 19, 1993
REMARKS BY THE FIRST LADY
AT THE IRIS CANTOR CENTER FOR BREAST IMAGING
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
MRS. CLINTON: Thank you so much for this extraordinary
honor and for the opportunity to be with you today. I have looked
forward to this occasion greatly, and it is a special privilege to
have had a chance to participate in this extraordinary event.
The morning, for me, started out at the Charles Drew
University for Medicine and Science, which, Chancellor Young has
explained to me, is something that UCLA is also very proud of having
been involved with, and there I saw firsthand many of the people who
will be, in the future, providing health care to Americans.
I was very encouraged by the dedication and commitment
that they demonstrated, because they share the goal that all of us
share together, and that is, improving health care for Americans, but
particularly for improving health care for American women.
This is a goal that Iris Cantor has been moving toward,
and for which we are all grateful that she has. To have an award
with her name attached to it is very special for me, because I know
her as a champion of the arts and a champion of education and a
champion of health, particularly breast cancer research and
treatment.
She reminds all of us of what one can do when one puts
one's mind and resources and dedication to the task of trying to make
a difference, and a difference has truly been made here at the Iris
Cantor Center. Just six years ago, as we saw from the video, this
was a dream that arose out of Iris' own personal tragedy, with the
death of her sister. Today, we can look around us and go far beyond
just the short video that we were able to see, and we can know that
today the center is in the process of giving evaluations and
mammography screenings to 700 women each month.
We can applaud the pioneering work of physicians like
Dr. Susan Love, whom you saw on that video, and whom I had the
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pleasure of meeting for the first time some months ago when I
attended a gathering of breast cancer survivors and physicians and
researchers to be brought up to date about what was happening in the
area of breast cancer treatment and research, and learned for the
first time of the work of Dr. Love.
We have heard from Dr. Bassett, and the accolades given
to him are so well-deserved for the leadership that he has shown in
an area that, very frankly, has been far too neglected until
recently.
There are many others who serve with Dr. Love and Dr.
Bassett, who have pioneered the use of core biopsies instead of
surgical biopsies, and have done so much to move forward what we now
know about breast cancer -- research into silicone implant leakage,
the education of physicians through special one-year fellowships,
and, particularly, the outreach programs we saw illustrated on the
video for underserved women throughout Los Angeles.
Importantly to all of us, no matter whether we have come
here -- as I have met some of you -- from New York or as far away as
London and Australia, the standards that have been set for quality
management of mammography here at this Center are really setting the
curve.
Every woman in America and, indeed, in the world, owes
this center a debt of gratitude because the mammography that she
receives will be better because of what the Iris Cantor Center has
been able to do. (Applause)
What I would like to do for a few minutes this afternoon
is to put into context what this center has been doing, is doing, and
will continue to do, and to talk about how it and the work it is
doing on behalf of women will help to guide what we intend to achieve
with respect to health care reform.
But let's start with some unpleasant reality. The
health of American women should be better than it is. For too long,
women have not had their health needs met with the same attention
that the health needs of men have received. We have been on the
medical and scientific sidelines. For too many years, when we
watched our symptoms, our illnesses, our need for treatments
increase, there has not been the corresponding response.
It is ironic that women historically have been relegated
to the margins of the health care system. After all, we often are
the primary care-givers for our children, for our aging parents, and
yet we have not benefitted often from the kind of care and treatment
we need most. Today, women are finally on the radar screen when it
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comes to research and treatment. We are speaking up. We are being
heard. But we have to understand how far we have yet to travel in
order to achieve the kinds of advances that the Iris Cantor Center
are working toward every day.
It is truly up to us to create a new and healthier
culture in our country, a culture in which we promote good health
from the outset instead of spending lots of time, money, and energy
to treat diseases that could be prevented. Women have a special
responsibility, as we are now finding our voices in health care, to
be the advocates for that kind of emphasis on primary and preventive
care.
Those of you in this room who support this center are
examples of the kind of concern and dedication I am talking about and
that I hope we will continue to see more of in the future. Your
generosity has already saved lives. You have already opened up new
opportunities for poor and neglected women, and you have brought your
energy and your resources to focus on breast cancer so that no longer
can this disease be ignored.
Your support is crucial, because we need to work as hard
as we know how and as hard as the scientists and doctors here at UCLA
can to find a cure for breast cancer and for other diseases that
primarily endanger women.
For too long, the conventional wisdom has been that
women's health problems are no different from men's. After all,
women usually live longer than men, so they must be healthier; right?
Well, wrong. Women do have longer years, in terms of a biological
advantage over men when it comes to life expectancy, but they do not
have a medical advantage when it comes to funding, research, and
treatment of the illnesses that burden them most.
Just last week, one of the most comprehensive surveys
ever completed on women's health was released. It showed that last
year one-third of all women did not receive basic preventive services
such as Pap smears, clinical breast exams, or complete physicals.
Among women over 50, only 44 percent received a mammogram, and,
often, the reason cited for the failure to seek such primary or
preventive care was the expense or lack of insurance. What this
study confirmed is that women become more vulnerable and more exposed
to serious illness as they get older, largely because their access to
preventive care is limited and, until recently, because all too often
the treatments that they received had not changed dramatically over a
number of years.
So, too often, those bonus years that we perhaps can
look forward to as a result of our gender are not really benefits at
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all. They become lonely days and nights, clouded by needless
infirmity and inadequate care. Sadly, even today, women grow older
with few clues about the health problems they face. Breast cancer is
but one example. We don't know what causes it. We don't know how to
prevent it. We don't know how to cure it. The truth is, we still
know far too little about this disease and other diseases that
primarily afflict women.
For example, do environmental factors, such as toxins or
pollutants, diet, drugs contribute to the rise in breast cancer
rates? We don't know. And the reason we don't know is because,
until just a few years ago, we were not looking very hard for
answers.
A few years ago, however, a group of energetic women's
scientists and grass roots advocates alerted us to the inequities
that existed in research and funding to try to determine what caused
and how to prevent and cure women's diseases. Groups such as the
Society for the Advancement of Women's Health Research showed us the
appalling degree to which women were routinely excluded from major
clinical trials of most illnesses.
Even when women are victims of the same diseases as men,
such as coronary heart disease, hypertension, or strokes, research
has focused on men. A major study on the relationship between
cholesterol and heart disease involved 15,000 men and no women. In
one of the most significant trials in the 1980s, which studies the
preventive effects of aspirin on heart disease, there was not one
woman included among the 22,000 patients screened, even though heart
disease is the leading cause of death among women, followed by cancer
and strokes.
For too long, the explanation has been that men were
providing a more stable group for clinical trials, but the fact is
that women are different from men, and the effects on women of
interventions have to be tested on women for us to know what works
and what does not.
Well, the national research agenda is finally
recognizing that women have unique health problems, unique systems,
and unique responses to treatment, so we are finally beginning to get
attention to diseases such as breast cancer. But what about, also,
cervical and ovarian cancer, osteoporosis, immunological illnesses
such as lupus and MS, certain forms of mental illness, eating
disorders, endometriosis -- all diseases which either exclusively
affect women or dispropartionately affect women?
Even one of the most universal female experiences,
menopause, is barely understood today. Are hormone therapies helpful
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or harmful in coping with menopause? Do they increase, decrease, or
have no effect on the possibility of contracting another disease,
such as cancer? Nobody really knows, and the result is that women
are often bombarded with confusing and conflicting messages about
their own health at critical stages of their lives.
Now, I don't think I need to say to this group why we
should be caring about these issues or why we should be focusing on
women's health, but for those who might not think this is as obvious
as we do, we need to make the case that focusing more attention on
women's health is good for everyone. It will greatly benefit the 51
percent of our population who happen to be women and who will live
longer and, we hope, healthier in those years, but also because their
well-being often affects the well-being of their family members and
because, in sheer economic terms, continued ignorance about women's
health will cost our nation far more than any investment we can make
to try to prevent and control the diseases that affect them.
If we have technology, as we do, sophisticated enough to
direct missiles to targets thousands of miles away, then we ought to
work to have technology sophisticated enough to detect every fatal
lump in a women's breast, because every three minutes -- every three
minutes, a woman in this country will be diagnosed with breast
cancer, and every 12 minutes, a woman will die from it.
Just last week, a young woman whom I met at that meeting
with Dr. Love in Williamsburg, Virginia, who had battled courageously
against breast cancer, died. One of the last things she did was to
bring her husband and her young son to the White House, because she
wanted her son to meet the President.
As we were standing there in the Oval Office, with my
friend, Sherry, confined to a wheelchair, after having exhausted
every possible treatment that she could, with her son clinging to her
leg, with her husband pushing the wheelchair, the last thing she said
as she left the Oval Office, was to turn to the President and me and
to say, "Don't ever let anyone forget what this disease does to those
who are left behind."
I told her then that I would not. And, just as Iris
Cantor felt that commitment to her sister, I intend to fulfill my
commitment to Sherry. (Applause.)
Because, even though we can applaud what the center here
is doing and what hard-working physicians and nurses and others are
doing all over this country every day, the toll in human terms can
never be completely over-looked until the disease is conquered,
because every person who is a statistic, whether we talk about the
numbers and the millions, the 2.6 millions who currently have it, or
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whether we talk about, on a very individual basis, someone like my
mother-in-law, who is a breast cancer survivor, behind every one of
those statistics there stands not just a single woman, but family
members and medical personnel who are battling to save her life.
I hear from these women and their families all the time,
and I know, as many of you do, what they are struggling against. I
am grateful that, finally, we have, I hope and trust, put behind us
the days of insensitivity, the days of the kind of treatment that was
implied in the video, where women are made to feel somehow less than
whole if they contract this disease, where women are treated as
second-class citizens if they do get the courage to seek help. I
trust those days are moving behind us, so that we can focus with
sensitivity and caring on the women who need our help.
This effort has to be put into the larger context of
what we are attempting to achieve with health care reform. I have
been privileged for the last six months to travel around our country,
to speak to all kinds of Americans, from the deans of prestigious
medical schools to nurses on the front lines to business people, to
patients in hospitals, and to listen to their stories. But there is
one in particular that I keep coming back to and that I often tell,
because it summed up for me what we are up against.
Several months ago, I was in New Orleans. I was
visiting a small business that did not provide any contribution
toward the health care insurance of employees, most of whom had
worked for this small business for many years, but most of whom did
not make very much money. I was sitting in a semicircle, talking to
men and women who were telling me about the travails they were facing
because of the extraordinary financial obstacles they faced in
achieving health care.
I think, all too often, those of us who have health
insurance, those of us who schedule our annual checkups, who do what
we're supposed to do, think of those without as somehow not quite
being responsible. You know, if they were responsible, they would
take care of themselves, and we wouldn't have all these health
problems.
Well, for many people, it's often a question between
food and health care or between rent and health care. For many
others, they try as hard as they know how to be responsible patients
themselves, responsible parents, and there are so many obstacles that
they face.
This one woman, who had worked for this company for 15
years, said she always tried to take good care of herself. She tried
to do what we all should be doing -- you know, not smoking, not
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drinking to excess, not using drugs, taking care of your diet. She
tried to do all of that, and, every year, she also dug into her own
pocket and went for an annual physical exam. She told me that she
had gone to her doctor and, during a manual breast exam, he had found
what he thought of as a suspicious lump, and he referred her to a
surgeon. She went to the surgeon. The surgeon examined her and told
her that if she had insurance, he would biopsy the lump in her
breast, but since she did not have insurance, he would just watch it.
I cannot tell you what it was like, but I think many of
you can feel what I felt when I heard that woman say that. What I
felt was that here was someone who was being responsible, was taking
care of herself, was seeking out care in a very reasonable way, and
was being told that she would be treated differently than someone who
came holding that insurance card or someone who came who would be
paid for tax dollars.
She fell in between the crack that exists between the
privately insured and the government insured, and in that crack are
about 40 million of our fellow citizens, the vast majority of whom
get up every day and go to work and who are mostly women and
children. She was being penalized in our health care system.
Now, it is traumatic enough for a woman to be told that
she has breast cancer and to cope, as Dr. Love, said, with losing a
breast or maybe even both. But can you imagine how it is like for
that woman to get up every day and wonder whether she is living with
cancer and not knowing it?
So, until we learn more about breast cancer, and until
we pursue the work that is being done here, to try to prevent or cure
breast cancer, we will all be in the same position as women are today
with not knowing. But until we change our health care system, we
will all share the unfair emotional burden that is afflicted on any
of our fellow citizens because of the inequities in this system.
Now, fortunately, times are finally beginning to change.
Women like Iris and many of you in this room -- cancer survivors,
scientists, physicians, nurses, health care advocates, Members of
Congress -- have all helped awaken our country to the challenge that
breast. cancer poses, and we have some progress to report.
In 1985, the federal government spent $50 million on
breast cancer research. In the current Appropriations Bill, $449
million is earmarked for programs at several agencies. That's an
improvement, and we hope that it will lead to the kinds of
breakthroughs that we're all praying for.
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Scientists are also exploring promising drug therapies,
such as taxol and tamoxifen, and they have uncovered potential uses
of RU-486 in tumor treatments. And, at the National Institutes of
Health, scientists may be on the verge of identifying a gene marker
in high-risk women.
The President lifted the ban on RU-486 importation, and
that will pave the way for move aggressive research. (Applause.)
And he also lifted the ban on fetal tissue research, which may be
useful in helping us find a cure. (Applause.) The President
recently signed the National Institutes of Health bill, which
includes the newly created Office of Research on Women's Health as
part of the statute, so, for the first time, we will have an office
in NIH that will focus in women's health issues as we begin to create
a more balanced approach. (Applause.)
And, very importantly, the federal government is
sponsoring a 14-year, $625 million effort called the Women's Health
Initiative, that will explore long-term patterns in heart disease,
cancer, and osteoporosis, looking for some of the solutions that have
eluded us thus far.
We are beginning to make the kind of commitment that is
required, and the administration in Washington has targeted $10.7
billion for research on prevention, treatment, and general health
promotion, and there has been a significant increase, as I've said,
in what effects women.
There has also been an increase targeted for the Public
Health Service budget, so that we can begin to implement the
standards for quality mammography that have been pioneered here at
the Iris Cantor Center.
But, in order for any of this to work and to make a
difference in our lives, we have to proceed with universal coverage
for every American in a health care system that provides quality
health care for men and women. (Applause.)
Let me just briefly describe to you what we hope that
health care system will look like after this reform occurs. It will
provide security for every American. Right now, those of us who are
insured have no assurance that we will be insured next year.
Whoever you talk to today, in this changing economic
climate, cannot tell you that if they are employed and their employer
provides insurance, that the employer will continue to do so, or
continue to do so at the level that was previously offered, or will
be even in business in today's fast-changing global economy.
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So the first and foremost promise we have to make to the
American people is this: No matter who you are, no matter who you
work for, no matter whether you have ever been sick before -- and,
therefore, have what is called a pre-existing condition -- you will
have health insurance, no matter what. That has to be a solemn
commitment that is made to everyone. (Applause.)
That health insurance has to provide a core of benefits
in a package that emphasizes primary and preventive health care. We
have done it backwards for too long. We have paid for the surgery,
but not for the mammography. We have paid for the expensive drug
treatment, but not for the screening. We need to emphasize primary
and preventive health care that includes checkups, immunizations, Pap
smears, mammographies, the kinds of early detection and prevention
treatments that will save us money as well as save us lives. And, if
we do that, we will need to be sure to have the kind of broad-based
delivery of health care that will enable us to have the primary and
preventive health care specialists, the physicians in family
practice, and the internists and the pediatricians, the nurse
practitioners and the nurse-midwives, the others who will be on the
front line, delivering primary and preventive health care. If we do
that, we will save money, and we will save lives.
That has to be the emphasis of the package of benefits
that we give, because we have to change the mind set as to what
health means. Health needs to be keeping people healthy, not just
treating them when they are sick. The only way we can get there is
by emphasizing primary and preventive health care, and we need to
have incentives for people to take advantage of those kinds of
interventions early.
If we provide security for everyone, and if we provide a
good system of primary and preventive health care, we will begin to
put our health care system on a much firmer footing, in terms of
health outcomes and in terms of its financing.
We also need to assure that patients have the choice as
to who they choose for their health care provider. We want to secure
the individual's right to choose the physician, the hospital, the
health plan that is best suited for that person.
In an area like Los Angeles, where you have so many
providers and so many fine institutions, that will not be as big a
problem, except in the currently underserved areas. It will do very
little good to tell the people where I came from this morning that
they now have health security and access, if they don't also have
choice.
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But with their now having a reimbursement stream that
will flow with them and the assurance that they will no longer be
uncompensated care statistics, we think that the kind of delivery
networks that need to exist even in underserved urban areas and rural
areas will be created within a marketplace of new approaches to
providing health care that will link fine institutions like UCLA with
primary care providers in places like Watts --
(End of side one)
(Begin side two -- in progress) -- and the difficulties of providing
health care in underserved areas, those areas have for too long gone
without.
We think we can make a market there that will enable us
to provide care to the citizens who live there, and we want the
decisions about health care to be made by physicians, nurses, health
care professionals, not government and insurance bureaucrats. We
want to move back the centrality of the patient-physician
relationship. (Applause.)
For those of you who have dealt with some forms of so-
called "managed care" now, you know that, too often, you get on the
phone, if you're a physician or you're a nurse or you're in the
admission department of a hospital, trying to convince somebody a
thousand miles away why you need to do the procedure that you want to
do for this particular patient. Those decisions need to be made
where the patient is.
Now, in order to do that, we need to simplify the
reimbursement and the administrative side of health care. We have
too many insurance companies, too many forms from both the private
companies and the government. They need to be collapsed in, as close
as possible, as a single form, so that physicians and nurses can get
back to treating patients instead of pushing paper. It will make a
big difference in the delivery of health care. (Applause.)
If we move on all of these fronts -- research, universal
access, providing a core benefits package that emphasizes primary and
preventive health care, making it possible for people to have choice,
simplifying the system to save the money that we now spend on
administrative and bureaucratic costs, we will have a system that
better. allocates the resources that are within it. And that is, in
the end, what we are attempting to achieve.
We already spend more money than any nation on Earth,
and we don't even cover most of our people. Many of our statistics
cannot be matched against other nations whose standard of living is
not as high as ours, because they do a better job in providing
primary and preventive health care. We cannot afford to let this
moment in history for this country go by.
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There will be a million reasons, as there always are
when you're advocating change, why something should not be done, but
we do not have a stable status quo. We have a status quo that
continues to deteriorate. At one end, you have the very best of
health care that you can find anywhere in the world, and yet, as you
go down the line from the UCLAs and the Iris Cantor Centers of this
world, down into where health care is not being delivered or being
delivered inadequately because of the pressures of too few resources
for too many people, we end up with results that no one in this
country can be proud of.
We could, however, change that and do it in a way that
will be financially beneficial for this country in terms of solving
our continuing deficit problem and, more importantly, begin to treat
all of our people with the respect and dignity they deserve to have.
But, in the end, even if we are successful, as we intend
to be, in reforming the health care system of our country to be a
more reasonable, cost-efficient quality deliverer of services, much
of what we can achieve will depend upon each of us individually. We
have to take responsibility for our own health, and we have to take
responsibility for our own communities.
It is not always easy to take care of yourself when
you've got so many things on your mind or when you're under the kind
of financial pressure, as that woman I met in New Orleans is. But
good health care starts with the individual, and good health care for
this country starts with recognizing the connections among
individuals.
We can improve our own health care. We can change our
behavior. Hippocrates said it first, as I have found he often said
things first, "The patient must combat the disease along with the
physician."
What is at stake in this struggle and challenge we are
confronting is not just changing the way we finance health care, it's
not just eliminating administrative hassles or giving us more primary
and preventive health care providers instead of specialists, or all
of the individual, specific pieces of what will make up health care
reform.
It is about once again asking individuals to be
responsible for themselves, but also for those with whom they live
and care about. It is, in the end, a vision about the kind of people
we are and that we want to be. It is about creating an ethos of
caring and it is about once again considering ourselves linked as
part of a great community.
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In the end, that is what will make us healthier. It is
being part of a community that is healthy. It is being part of a
commitment to caring and individual responsibility. That is what the
Iris Cantor Center is attempting to do.
For many of us, breast cancer is a very personal
challenge. It is something that we want to have a part in seeing
cured and prevented. But we want to do that, not just to combat a
disease, but because we love someone, we have a friend we care about,
we've been moved by somebody's story. Because, at bottom, it is that
human connection that will make the difference.
So let us join our hearts and our hands together to
support the changes that we need for ourselves as individuals, for
our communities, and for our country.
Thank you all very much. (Applause.)
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freelance at home now, but there was a
period when he was "Mr. Mom." Being
a parent, he added, eventually made
First lady to do a weekly feature
his journalistic output much more fam-
ily-oriented.
for Creators starting this month
"When I first started writing
columns, I didn't intend to write about
my kids," he said. "For one thing, I
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON will
didn't have any kids at the time! I
be writing a weekly column for Cre-
wanted to be Jack Anderson or Mike
ators Syndicate starting July 23.
Royko. Now here I am Erma Bombeck."
The first lady announced that she
Speaking from the audience, New
would be doing the feature at a June 26
York Post columnist Andrea Peyser said
White House reception honoring the
she was "struck" by how the female
American News Women's Club.
panelists seemed to be feeling more
"This newspaper column presents a
guilt than the male panelist as they
unique opportunity to share my expe-
struggled with their roles as both jour-
riences in the White House and as
nalists and parents.
First Lady with the American people,"
"Men just don't feel guilt," quipped
she said.
Ashcraft.
"We are deeply honored to represent
"Women are socialized to feel guilt,"
Hillary Rodham Clinton," said Cre-
added Cuniberti.
ators president Richard Newcombe,
Another audience meinber, Pitts-
whose syndicate first approached the
burg, Kans., Morning Sun columnist
first lady about writing a column more
J.T. Knoll, did observe that stay-at-
than two years ago. "She has extraor-
home fathers may be made to feel
dinary courage, intelligence and vision,
Photoby Stephen Jolle Reuters
guilty about supposedly not working as
and her fans number in the millions."
hard as when they were in an office.
Clinton will take no money for the
Hillary Rodham Clinton
But raising children. he said, is indeed
750-word feature. Creators will pay ex-
hard work.
penses associated with the writing and
"There is a devaluing of parenting,"
syndicating of the column, and will do-
footsteps of Eleanor Roosevelt, who
Knoll commented.
nate a "significant portion" of the pro-
wrote a column for United Feature
Washington Times columnist Adri-
ceeds to charities benefiting children.
Syndicate during and after her time in
enne Washington noted that, when
The first lady is following in the
the White House.
both a paying job and family responsi-
bilities are added together, many
women do much more than men. But,
unfair as that may be, Washington said
AP and syndicates are testing
she didn't want people in the NSNC
audience to get the impression that
mothers can't handle being a journal-
digital comics delivery service
ist, too.
The columnist said she has worked
DAGWOOD, CHARLIE BROWN and
"We've been able to leverage much of
long hours as a journalist while raising
little Jeffy from "The Family Circus" are
that technology so we are able to be
kids and taking care of dying parents.
going digital.
very aggressive on the [launch] timing,"
"I didn't have the luxury of a husband
The Associated Press is testing a ser-
Eck said.
with a high income," she remarked.
vice with the major syndicates that
Assuming a successful test, he said,
"I wish I could do what you do," re-
would deliver comics pages to news-
ComicSEND will launch sometime in
sponded Cuniberti. "Not everybody
papers in digital form.
autumn.
can do it. We are not all the same."
AP ComicSEND will provide satel-
Syndicates are to begin test scanning
lite or fax delivery of paginated full
by the beginning of August, Eck said. If
'FunNe' introduced
comics pages in an individual newspa-
any hitch develops in the service's
per's style. Syndicates will scan comics,
launch timing, it is likely to occur at
by American Color
horoscopes and other features for the
that step.
funny pages and send them to AP.
Eck noted that scanning line draw-
AMERICAN COLOR HAS an-
The wire service, in turn, will build
ings and text presents no real techno-
nounced the introduction of "FunNe,"
the daily pages using the templates of
logical challenge. In AP's own tests,
a digital distribution system for sending
individual papers. Newspapers will re-
scanning an individual comic strip takes
color-separated comics features, black-
ceive six daily comics pages each week.
"well under a minute," the project man-
and-whire puzzle features, and prefor-
ComicSEND is essentially an exten-
ager said.
matted text features to newspapers.
sion of the wire service's year-old AP
Like AdSEND, the digital comics de-
FunNe enables users to download
adSEND, which delivers ads digitally
livery service will use Adobe Acrobat
files with an electronic server and on-
from advertisers to newspapers, said
PDF as a file format.
line bullerin board system.
project manager Tom Eck.
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* MONDAY, JULY 3, 1995 / PAGE A5
to move Mr. Clinton toward the
ard A. Gephardt faces the same
Abortion politics
political center - "making him
problems as President Clinton in
Abortion opponents are offer-
ver as the 1996 presidential elec-
Inside Politics
more appealing to the state's
trying to bridge the gap between
ing Republicans room to maneu-
moderate electorate" - as well as
party liberals and conservatives,
a stronger display of leadership.
says David Grann, a reporter for
tion approaches, the New York
the Hill.
Times' Richard L. Berke reports.
President's man
"Despite many efforts to lift
The National Right to Life-
morale after the November elec-
Committee, the nation's largest
David Wilhelm, the former
tion, Gephardt's inability to unite
pro-life group, held its annual
Democratic national chairman
the party's liberal and conserva-
convention in Nashville, Tenn.,
who is seeking the nomination to
tive factions has undermined his
and "many participants said they
replace Illinois Sen: Paul Simon,
authority and left the party
were prepared to be pragmatic to
is standing with President Clin-
adrift, according to dozens of
avoid alienating themselves from
ton, Hotline reports.
Democratic congressmen."
the Republican Party.
"I am not going to cut and run
The Missouri Democrat's lack
They were careful to say that
from the president. I am proud of
of clout with his own troops is il-
they would not try to dictate the
my relationship with him," Mr.
lustrated by poor attendance at
party's presidential nominee.
Wilhelm said during a panel dis-
leadership meetings. Only five of
Column
They also said they would not
Compiled by Greg Pierce
cussion on a Chicago TV station.
19 ranking committee members
fight against modest changes in
Mr. Wilhelm's two rivals for
showed up for a recent meeting.
the strict party plank that calls
week's Supreme Court decision
the nomination were less enthu-
able is Rep. Nydia M. Velazquez's
for a constitutional amendment
against racial gerrymandering,
siastic. "I support the president,
'Bullwinkle'-shaped seat, carved
Sweet talker
that would outlaw abortion."
points to a paradox: Such
but I'm independent, and that's
out of three boroughs in 1992 to
Carol Long, director of the
minority-majority districts hurt
what I think the people want,"
When California Gov. Pete Wil-
give the city's Latinos a second
group's political action commit-
said Rep. Richard J. Durbin. For-
son was finally able to clear his
the Democrats and thus dimin-
representative.
tee, said-she does not-expect Re-
mer state Treasurer Patrick
throat, campaign contributors
ished black clout in Congress.
"But because her District 12
publican presidential hopefuls
Mr. Gigot says "it's no stretch
Quinn said although he agrees
voiced their support, aides brag.
shares borders with seven others,
"to put abortion at the top of their
to conclude that racial packing
with Mr. Clinton on jobs, he has
The Republican presidential
redistricting experts predict a
list" of issues.
cost Democrats their House ma-
major differences on other mat-
hopeful raised more than $1.7
'ripple' effect that could spread
ters.
million in the two weeks after he
jority. David Bositis, a voting ana-
across the city."
regained his voice, which had
lyst at the liberal Joint Center for
Ms. Velazquez's 14-square-mile
Hillary's Invasion
district has a 75-mile perimeter
California dreamin'
been silenced by throat surgery
Political and Economic Studies,
earlier this year.
Marsha Mercer, who covers
figures it cost Democrats about
"and looks like the head and
President Clinton should not
"Our contributors know that
the White House for Media Gen-
'13 to 14 seats' across the U.S. -
horns of the cartoon moose Bull-
expect much of a political payoff
Pete Wilson is the Republican
eral News Service, welcomed
just about the GOP margin of
winkle," the Post says. She is a
if he prevents the closure of
candidate who can beat Bill Clin-
first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
control." That's because Demo-
Democrat, as are the others who
some California military bases,
ton
and ever since they've
to the column-writing biz, but not
crats in neighboring districts
could be affected - Reps.
needed those black votes.
according to a professor of gov-
heard him speaking forcefully
without a few good-natured
Charles E. Schumer, Nita M.
ernment in that state.
again and seen him campaigning,
groans.
"Racial gerrymandering. did
Lowey, Tom Manton, Jerrold Nad-
"There is a potential for him to
our fund raising has taken off,"
"I don't reform the nation's
result in the election of more
ler, Edolphus Towns, Major R.
make some limited short-term
campaign chief Craig Fuller said
health care system. I don't go to
black Democrats to Congress,
Owens and Carolyn B. Maloney.
gains in the affected areas," John
in a press release. "Wilson's re-
the White House and take Socks
but that\isn't the same as greater
Pitney, associate professor of gov
covery ensures the campaign will
for a walk on his leash. I don't
black political clout. Because
Democrats lost their majority,
Happy days
ernment at Claremont McKenna
meet its year-end goal of $20 mil-
even bake cookies with Chelsea.
College, told USA Today's Steve
lion."
Why should Hillary invade my
black Democrats lost 17 commit-
Illinois Democrats are upbeat
Komarow. But Mr. Pitney added,
turf?
tee or súbcommittee chairs. The
about President Clinton's chances
"It's not an issue that shifts a lot
"Why, if she suddenly feels the
Black Caucus was bigger but
in their state next year, accord-
of votes statewide."
Busman's hollday
need to communicate, couldn't
weaker."
ing to the Chicago Tribune's
The Washington Times re-
Sen. Richard Lugar is spending
Hillary have gotten a talk show
Thomas Hardy.
ported Friday that Mr. Clinton in-
the Senate's Fourth of July recess
like everyone else?
Or Hillary
Bullwinkle's horns
A Democratic state committee-
tends to ask the Base Closure and
on a bus tour of Iowa, site of the
could have gone on-line and chat-
man commented, "Democrats
Realignment Commission to re-
first-in-the-nation presidential
ted to her heart's content. Al Gore
The high court's ruling on ra-
feel Clinton can win next
consider its recommendation to
caucuses.
would happily teach her how."
cial redistricting could shake up
year and that he can win Illinois.
shut down McClellan Air Force
The Indiana Republican and
congressional boundaries in New
And that wasn't the talk last year.
Base.
presidential aspirant kicked off
No stretch
York City.
It was all gloom and doom."
the seven-day trip-in - where
The New York Post's Marilyn
State Democrats told Mr.
Gephardt's dilemma
else? - Clinton, where he
Wall Street Journal columnist
Rauber and David Seifman say
Hardy the turnabout stems from
strolled in the River Boat Days
Paul Gigot, in applauding last
"the most immediately vulner-
White House policy adjustments
House Minority Leader Rich-
Parade.
The Washington Times
MONDAY, JULY 3, 1995 *
Mirror, mirror
her finger and said, 'If you work
hard and you make good grades,
Last week ended with Republi-
INSIDE THE
you can have a house like that!' I
cans refusing to compromise on
like my mama's America a lot
key elements of their seven-year
BELTWAY
better that I like Bill Clinton's
plan to eliminate the budget defi-
America."
cit, which makes Sen. Jim Exon,
Nebraska Democrat and ranking
ByJohn McCaslin
Don't mess with Nick
minority member of the Senate
Before he was elected to Con-
Budget Committee, a rather un-
happy camper.
gress, Rep. Nick Smith, Michigan
"They believe their budget is
Republican, was a dairy farmer.
so pure, so sacred, so perfect that
His kids handle the milking
it cannot be touched by those of
chores now, while their dad helps
us on this side of the aisle," said
run the nation and balance the
Mr. Exon, who will retire from
budget, represents his con-
the Senate when his term expires
stituents, and earns his first-
next year.
degree black belt in tae kwon do.
"I am reminded of a story that
"My discipline for exercising
Will Rogers told. It seems that a
isn't that great, and then I heard
woman confessed to her priest
about classes they had for con-
that she was guilty of the sin of
gressmen in tae kwon do," ex-
pride. She said, 'When I look in
plained Mr. Smith in an interview
the mirror, I think I'm beautiful.'
last week. With some nudging
"The priest said, "That's not a
from his wife, Bonnie, the con-
sin. That's a mistake.'
gressman signed up, waking at
the crack of dawn every week for
more than two years now to mas-
No easy money
ter the Korean art of self-
You have to hand it to the
defense.
Democrats. They've gone and put
"When I started I thought I
their money - or at least the bill-
was in good shape, but I found
fold of West Virginia Sen. John D.
that I needed a lot of work," said
Rockefeller IV - where their
Mr. Smith, who lettered in box-
mouths are.
ing, wrestling and gymnastics
"I have a standing offer of
Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV bets
during college.
$1,000 of Senator Rockefeller's
against a balanced GOP budget.
On Friday, at the Omni
money - because he has a little
Shoreham Hotel, the congress-
more than the rest of us - so he
islators. "In fact, I was home last
man will receive his black belt at
would provide $1,000 of his
night watching on C-SPAN when
the Jhoon Rhee Foundation Na-
money to anyone, to any member
you were all up here - watching
tional Karate Championships.
of the Senate or any journalist
you on C-SPAN, watching you de-
He'll also give a demonstration -
who would demonstrate to us that
bating until 9, 9:30, 10 o'clock. I
perhaps break a few boards, or
this [Republican] budget is in
commend the managers."
hold a fighting bout - of his
balance" was the announcement
At which point, Sen. Paul Sar-
newly mastered skills.
Tuesday by Sen. Byron L. Dor-
banes, Maryland Democrat,
"The purpose is not to fight;
gan, North Dakota Democrat.
asked the Kansas Republican,
hopefully I won't ever use it for
Yet, by the close of business
"Does it look better to watch it on
fighting," said the congressman.
Friday, no one - not even a low-
C-SPAN than to watch it in per-
"It's a wonderful exercise."
paid reporter - had stepped for-
son?"
ward to grab the $1,000.
"It is better," answered Mr.
"And they won't," Mr. Dorgan's
Dole, "because you are further
Guess which city
press secretary, Barry Piatt, told
away."
"The marble-and-granite me-
us in an interview, insisting, as
tropolis is in terrible shape," read
his boss did for most of the week,
Mama's America
the Dallas Morning News edito-
that the Republican budget plan
rial from June 25. "Mismanage-
actually contains a deficit of $108
Oh, how times have changed,
ment and chicanery by local poli-
billion once 2002 rolls around.
reminisced Republican
ticians forced Congress recently
presidential hopeful Sen. Phil
to appoint a board to oversee city
No place like home
Gramm of Texas.
finances. The city cannot pay its
"What a different world our
debts. Its schools are dysfunc-
Senate Majority Leader Bob
president is from than the world
tional. Its trash collection is spo-
Dole complimented senators on
I am from," he recalls. "When I
radic. Its taxes are exorbitant. Its
both sides of the aisle last week
was growing up, and we rode by
bureaucracy is bloated. Its resi-
for moving quickly on an act to
the nicest house in town, never
dents are fleeing to Maryland
amend federal securities laws in
once did my mama point her fin-
and Virginia.
order to curb abusive practices in
ger out and say, 'We ought to tax
"No American can be pleased.
private securities litigation.
those people, and give us their
Washington should be a national
"There was not any time
money.'
showcase. Instead, it is an embar-
wasted," Mr. Dole praised the leg-
"My mother always pointed
rassment."
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File
Column
Hair-raising tips for Hillary's new column
ear Hillary Rodham
Send the column off and go get
are perfectly welcome to use.
D
Clinton: I see by cer-
tain reports circulated
John
yourself a good stiff drink.
"Bill came in from jogging,
That, perhaps unfortunately,
smelling like old tennis shoes,
by the wolves of the
McKelway
brings up the subject of drink-
and said I had no business writ-
media that you plan to write a
ing as a part of getting started.
ing about Bosnia 'cause I knew
newspaper column.
I've known a number of colum-
as much about Bosnia as he
I think that's fine, and I look
nists who felt that a drink from
knows about Parchesi."
forward to it. Now you can be
time to time kind of loosened
"I often find it is pleasant to
the White House source "close
them up before the first para-
just stay home and bake sugar
to the president," and the press
graph. Then again, H.L. Menc-
cookies. One of the best recipes
room at the White House might
ken of the Baltimore Sun, one
I've ever seen was handed to me
as well be closed along with
standing so proud and hand-
and sort of sets the mood for
of the best, maintained writing
by an old woman who lived in a
that stretch of Pennsylvania
some in the gathering gloom of
the column, remember the
and alcohol should never be
cabin along a stretch of white-
Avenue out front.
twilight."
White House faces north so you
mixed.
water just north of Candy
It seems to me I have the op-
You might be surprised how
can also have bad weather mov-
Others I've had long talks
Springs up in the Ozarks."
portunity to possibly be of some
often such a beginning will
ing in from the south, west or
with over several drinks have
"A nation paused yesterday
help to a first lady. One rarely
come in handy. Let me remind
east. That's at least four starts
maintained it is best to wait un-
to honor her war dead."
gets that chance. Please, allow.
you that rain can move in all di-
that will always be available.
til after the second paragraph
"The Supreme Court, in its
me.
rections so that you might want
But I would add at this point
before drinking anything as
latest 5-4 decision, is beginning
Getting started on a column
to try something from time to
that there is some question just
powerful as, say, a martini.
to drive me nuts."
is often quite difficult. I pass
time along these lines:
which way the White House
Then again, with two or three
"Sen. Robert Dole, war hero
along a few starts that you are
"A mixture of sleet, snow,
does face. Some say the south
martinis, you can lose any inter-
and majority leader of the U.S.
welcome to use if you ever feel
hailstones the size of pingpong
side is in fact the front.
est in the start, the middle or
Senate, is beginning to drive me
the need, or simply can't think
Don't worry about what
the ending of any column.
nuts."
of one good (expletive deleted)
balls and just plain acid rain
has been coming across Lafa-
might be correct. Just kick the
That's why it is nice to have a
Anyway, best of luck. You
thing to say about anything.
yette Square now for two
subject around for awhile, toss-
couple in the bank, so to speak.
should not have any trouble at
"It is raining. Sheets of
straight days leaving us all feel-
ing in a reference to some his-
But even when writing a spare
all.
stinging drops race across the
ing like (expletive deleted)."
torical figure like Harry Tru-
column, you will have to start
One more thing. You can al-
White House lawn, and I can
man who liked the balcony on
someplace. It is always a prob-
ways write about your hair. A
hardly make out the Washing-
Note: When writing about
the south side and you will find
lem.
lot of the syndicated big guns
ton Monument to the south
the rain, which gets you going
it is all over before you know it:
Here's a few more starts you
can't do that - ever.
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FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
SAMPLE COLUMN #3 -- CHILDREN'S TELEVISION
CREATORS SYNDICATE
A few days ago, I flipped on the television in the middle of
the day. First, I saw a show about wild teenagers and their
mothers. On another network, women who use men for money. And on
a third, pcople who cheat on their mates.
I cringed.
Then, I found refuge in Barney.
FOI many parents across our country, there is great comfort
in knowing that however prurient, violent or sensational
commercial daytime programming has become, there is still an
oasis for children called public television.
The truth is, my daughter is a Sesame Street kid. When she
was younger, we would tune in together and read the books that
went along with the shows. Over the years, my husband and I could
see that Big Bird, Ernie, Bert and Oscar the Grouch had helped
her learn to spell, count* and, perhaps most important, appreciate
the cultural richness of our country.
But my daughter's experience is not the only reason I am
disturbed by proposals to eliminate federal funding for the
public television programming. It is time to acknowledge that
television is a pervasive influence in the lives of all of our
children -- one that can have a significant impact on their
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social and intellectual development.
We now have a wealth of research showing that children who
watch shows like Sesame Street, Lamb Chop, Barney and Mr. Rogers
are better prepared to learn by the time they begin kindergarten
than children who watch commercial television.
Most important, the latest research shows that educational
programs are particularly beneficial to low-income children whose
families often lack other opportunities for intellectual
stimulation.
In a study [the most comprehensive to date?], researchers at
the University of Kansas found that low-income children who watch
as little as 25 minutes a day of educational programming are
further along in reading potential, vocabulary, mathematical
reasoning, and overall readiness for school.
By contrast, non-educational cartoons and adult programs had
a negative effect on school readiness among children between the
ages of two and five.
There are other cultural benefits to educational television
as well. At a recent White House forum on public broadcasting,
Sonia Manzano, known to millions of children as "Maria" on Sesame
Street, described her experiences growing up in the Bronx as an
Hispanic child who never saw anyone who looked or talked like her
on relevision.
"T know that if a child spends his life not seeing himself
reflected in society, which mostly means on television, it will
wear him down, " she said.
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Sesame Street, she said, offers positive role models, self-
esteem, and a feeling of belonging to all children in our
society.
For many children, particularly those in low-income
families, the public broadcasting channel is the only source
available for educational programs. About one-third of American
families cannot afford or do not have access to cable television.
Sixty percent of public television's viewers come from families
with annual incomes under $40,000. It is the children in these
families who will be most affected if public broadcasting is
eliminated :- children with the fewest resources at home and the
fewest options for academic preparation and intellectual
stimulation.
I do not mean to suggest that public television is a panacea
for children. Clearly, parents must assume more responsibility
for monitoring the shows their children watch. And we can do more
as a society to help parents meet that challenge, whether through
rating systems or a proposed v-chip that would block out violent
programs from individual homes.
But let's not kid ourselves. In a culture like ours, which
is SO dominated by television, PBS's educational programming is
not a luxury enjoyed by a privileged few. It is a necessity for
tens of millions of Americans. That's why we must not abandon our
federal commitment to public broadcasting, or to the families and
children it serves.
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SAMPLE COLUMN #4 -- WORKING WOMEN
CREATORS SYNDICATE
The worst day T ever had as a working mother was when my
daughter was XXX years old. She had the chicken pox. My
babysitter had a death in the family. My husband was on the road.
And T, then a young attorney, was in the middle of a big trial.
The only thing that saved me was emergency child carc -- my
mother-in-law, who happened to live nearby -- and an
understanding boss, who was willing to make allowances for
employees when family crises arose.
Most working women are not so lucky.
With American families as overworked and as mobile as they
are today, relying on relatives and friends for child care is not
always an option. Most workplaces do not provide or subsidize
child care. Daycare centers don't take sick kids and most charge
high fees for late pick-ups.
And too often, employers penalize rather than help women who
need to adjust their schedules to attend to pressing family
obligations.
As a 42-year-old auto factory worker and mother of two said
to me recently: "What do you do with your kids when you are
assigned the 4 p.m. to midnight shift?"
Whether they are federal judges or fast-food cooks, working
women across our country are not getting enough support as they
struggle to meet the competing demands of family, work, and
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career.
I know this from my own experiences, as well as from
conversations with my friends. But you don't have to take my word
for it. Just ask any of the working women I met with recently in
Atlanta and Santa Fe. Or ask the 250,000 working women who
responded to a Department of Labor survey earlier this year.
"We have to be a wife, a mother, and a professional, and to
be ourselves, which usually takes last place," a 37-year-old
intensive care nurse said at a chips-and-salsa get-together at
Tomasita's Restaurant in Santa Fe.
"I nearly kill pedestrians trying to get to the day care
center on time [to avoid the late fees after 6 p.m.],' an
assistant bank vice president told me in Atlanta.
Even a federal judge was feeling the pressure.
"When I was a lawyer, all of the partners had wives who
didn't work, said this mother of four. "They didn't have to
worry about picking up the dry cleaning and picking up the kids.
...
I turned down a lot of good cases because I was nursing."
Today, 76 percent of all working women have school age
children. The vast majority of working women earn less than
$25,000 a year. Not surprisingly, stress ranks as the number one
problem for a majority of those who responded to the labor
department survey.
The clear message from women -- and many men -- I have
talked to across our country is that they need more a supportive
workplace culture, along with better wages and benefits.
Even at a place as hectic and workaholic as the White House,
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we have tried to offer some flexibility to working parents. One
of my husband's top campaign advisers [Paul Begala] took a month
off right before the election in 1992 to spend time with his new
son. One of my administrative assistants [Shirley] used to bring
her newborn to the office and, when necessary, nursed her/him?
during meetings. Another staff member worked from home during the
final two months of her pregnancy. In fact, my staff even keeps a
few toys around the office for those emergencies when parents
need to bring their children to work.
Across our country, employers in the public and private
sectors are beginning to recognize that family-friendly
workplaces are not just good for morale, but also for the bottom
line.
I know of companies and unions now joining forces to create
on-site child care for employees. I know of a school district
that is redesigning its bus schedule to make it easier for
children to get to after-school child programs. I know of a
university that will allow employees to choose alternative work
schedules, including telecommuting and four-day weeks. I know of
a consortium of law and consulting firms that are establishing an
800-hotline number that employees can call 24 hours a day, seven
days a week for pre-screened, in-home emergency child and elder
care. I know of a large company creating a pilot program offering
compressed four-day work weeks, job sharing, telecommuting, part-
time and flex time for its workforce.
Instead of leaving hard-working, stressed-out parents to
fend for themselves, we all need to get involved in making our
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work and family lives more compatible. These are some examples of
where to start.
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6A MONDAY, JULY 24, 1995
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON
'CYBERPORN':
High school freshman
Danelle Gruff got
First lady's debut column
more than she bar-
gained for when she
rates pros, cons of fame
dialed up a local com-
puter bulletin board.
She was shown porno-
Hillary Rodham Clinton made
graphic pictures,
her debut as a newspaper colum-
asked highly personal
nist Sunday, sounding a bit envious
questions - and ulti-
of Americans who can blend anon-
mately found the sys-
ymously into the passing scene.
tem operator at her
Browsing a museum on a recent
door.
Washington outing, she says a
"It scared me," she
woman told her, "You sure look
says. "I'd never had
like Hillary Clinton."
this done before."
"So I'm told," Clinton says she
Gruff, 15, from
answered without revealing her
Safety Harbor, Fla.,
identity. Clinton's first syndicated
USA TODAY
appears today before
column appeared in about 100
AP
'IT SCARED ME': Danelle Gruff
the Senate Judiciary
newspapers. She accepts no pay.
CLINTON: Enjoyed
with stepfather Michael Murray
Committee along with
In the column, Clinton tells of
'freedom' of driving
her stepfather, Mi-
having an urge to drive during a re-
chael Murray. They are testifying in a hearing on a "cyber-
cent trip to Arkansas, much to the dismay of Secret Service
porn" bill sponsored by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, that
agents. She writes: "On a quiet Friday afternoon, I jumped
would make it a crime for computer-communications ser-
behind the wheel of a car and drove myself around
vices to knowingly transmit pornography to children. Grass-
town. For several hours, I enjoyed a marvelous sensation of
ley's bill also would impose liability on computer services
personal freedom."
that provide access to the Internet and who willfully permit
The first lady relates both incidents to illustrate "the odd
their systems to be used to transmit pornography to minors.
duality of my role as first lady."
Gruff says her experience was confined to a computer
"On the one hand, I feel privileged to meet people and go
bulletin board not connected to the Internet. She logged off
places totally out of reach for most men and women," she
after the questions turned personal and the system operator
said. "On the other hand, experiences that millions of
attempted to send her pornographic pictures, she says. The
Americans take for granted have become extraordinary."
operator later showed up at her door after midnight,
Her inaugural column seems bent on demonstrating Clin-
parked outside for four hours on another occasion, and fol-
ton has more in common with ordinary Americans than
lowed her around a bowling alley another time.
they might realize. As an activist first lady, she has been
Murray says local authorities investigated but did not
criticized for injecting herself into policy-making, particu-
prosecute. Murray operates an Internet-based computer
larly last year's failed health-care reform effort. Since then,
bulletin board himself and is wary of government controls.
she has tried to project a softer image, with considerable
But he says he's alarmed that the bulletin-board operator
focus on international women's issues.
who harassed Danelle is still in business.
Clinton says she wants to offer a clearer personal profile:
"Sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary
WHITE HOUSE SUNDAYS: To hear President Clin-
Clinton that other people see." Clinton said she hopes her
ton tell it, Sundays at the White House sound a lot like Sun-
column, like Eleanor Roosevelt's daily columns years ago,
days at any other home in America. "Normally, when our
"will prompt all of us to think more about the human di-
daughter is here, we sleep in a little late, then we get up and
mension of our lives" and begin a nationwide conversation.
go to church up the street," Clinton said in an interview on
C-SPAN's Sunday Journal. This Sunday, he went to church
DEFENSE
MEETING:
Defense ministers and officials
alone since Chelsea was at summer camp.
from the United States, Canada and 32 Latin American na-
Clinton chatted about daily life at the White House in an
tions begin gathering today for their first joint meeting to
impromptu visit to C-SPAN's yellow school bus, a moving
promote military cooperation and democracy in the West-
TV studio. His plans for the rest of the day? "Tm going to
ern Hemisphere. Only Cuba, with the sole communist gov-
take my brothers-in-law golfing and we're going to get back
ernment in the region, will not be represented at the two-
here in time to welcome Chelsea home this afternoon."
day Defense Ministerial of the Americas starting Tuesday
Clinton said he wanted Americans to know that even af-
in Williamsburg, Va. "We need to address our mutual secu-
ter more than two years in office, "The people that live here
rity interests and concerns," said Defense Secretary Wil-
aren't jaded." He recalled how on the first day he woke up
liam Perry. "(The meeting) will give us an opportunity to
in the White House, "I knew I was president, but I felt like a
build closer relations based on openness and:respect"
tourist. I thought to myself, I don't know if the American
Now that President Clinton has granted diplomatic status to
people would feel good about this or not, but they need to
communist Vietnam, U.S. officials might find themselves
know their president is not a cynic."
defending the embargo on Cuba, one expert said.
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
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THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1995
First Lady's New Role:
possible for Hillary," Ms. Goodwin
said. "It has to be somewhat sooth-
ing to know that, little by little, if you
Newspaper Columnist
believe you're many-sided, complex,
warmer than people know, then you
can at least show some of that. It
doesn't make any sense to complain
By TODD S. PURDUM
truth is that sometimes it is hard
about it. Otherwise it's like fighting
even for me to recognize the Hillary
WASHINGTON, July 23 - One of
against the umpire at home when the
Clinton that other people see. Like
the most scrutinized women in
only real option is to hit the next one
millions of women across our coun-
America made her debut in a new
out of the park.
try, I find that my life consists of
role today, musing lightly as a week-
Mrs. Clinton first received the in-
different, sometimes paradoxical
ly syndicated columnist in more
parts."
vitation to write the column from
than 100 newspapers and magazines
For the First Lady, who declined
Creators Syndicate of Los Angeles
worldwide about the pleasures of
to be interviewed for this article,
shortly after Mr. Clinton took office,
driving her own car or of being mis-
that has never been truer. Her
but her aides said she declined be-
taken for a mere look-alike of her
friends say she is eager for the op-
cause she was too busy with health
well-known self.
portunity, however limited, to ad-
care and other matters. She accept-
But even as Hillary Rodham Clin-
dress the public directly.
ed last month, and will take no mon-
ton embarked on her latest effort to
ey, though the syndicate, which rep-
explain herself as something other
"She realized she overstepped on
resents writers as diverse as Ann
than someone else's cardboard con-
health care, and because she can't
Landers and Dan Quayle, will donate
ception, she found herself back in
have a direct policy role, she wants
an unspecified portion of its pro-
another spotlight as well: in front-
to make sure she has an advocacy
ceeds to children's charities.
page headlines as the uncalled wit-
one," one White House aide ex-
ness and unspoken target of the lat-
plained, speaking on the condition of
Mrs. Clinton works up ideas her-
est round of Congressional investiga-
anonymity. "It's also a pure political
self, her aides said, then drafts the
tions into the lingering soap opera of
tool, a wonderful free reach into
column with help from Alison Mus-
Whitewater.
women voters."
catine, a White House speechwriter
For Mrs. Clinton, who has resisted
Even as Mrs. Clinton remains a
who often works with her. They said
efforts to pigeonhole her personality
complex and polarizing figure in
they expected future columns to
as steadfastly as she once resisted
public opinion, she is also one of the
range from discussions of personal
efforts by reporters and investiga-
President's best campaign assets as
issues like motherhood and breast-
tors to pierce the privacy of her
he gears up for re-election, especial-
feeding to graver public-policy con-
personal finances, it could hardly be
ly among women and minority vot-
cerns.
otherwise. If her husband is the
ers whose support the President
That is consistent with the serious
President as kaleidoscope, she re-
needs.
mains the First Lady as Rorschach
but soft-edged approach the First
"I do think what you're seeing is a
Lady has taken in recent months.
test.
She acknowledged as much in the
feeling that there are opportunities
Though she is repeatedly described
first edition of "Talking It Over," a
here for making sure she says her
as keeping a low profile, she remains
750-word collection of personal phi-
piece," said her old friend, Diane
a one-woman flying fortress, jetting
losophizing and genteel politicking
Blair, a political science professor at
around the country beneath the ra-
the University of Arkansas. "It isn't
that will appear weekly in newspa-
dar to scores of appearances in local
pers as diverse as The Los Angeles
defensive; it isn't 'Making sure I am
media markets, popping up here on
understood,' but it's talking. I think
Times and The Daily News in New
"Oprah" and there on CNN.
York. Mrs. Clinton follows the tradi-
she's very excited."
"This is our season to reclaim our
tion of one of her idols, Eleanor
Doris Kearns Goodwin, whose por-
Roosevelt, whose "My Day" ran for
trait of Franklin and Eleanor Roose-
hopes," she told the annual conven-
tion of the National Association for
more than two decades.
velt's wartime partnership in the
White House, "No Ordinary Time,"
the Advancement of Colored People
In her first column, Mrs. Clinton
wryly recalls a recent effort to blend
was avidly read by both Clintons on
in Minneapolis in a spirited revival-
into the crowd at a Washington art
its publication last fall, said she had
style speech 10 days ago. "It is often
museum.
discussed with Mrs. Clinton how
when night looks darkest, it is often
before the fever breaks that one
"Suddenly a woman came up to
Mrs. Roosevelt used "My Day" to
me," Mrs. Clinton writes. You
stake out her views on issues, some-
senses the gathering momentum for
sure look like Hillary Clinton,' she
times ahead of her husband.
change, when one feels that resur-
said. 'So I'm told,' I answered. The
"I think all of those things will be
rection of hope in the midst of de-
spair and apathy."
Eleanor Roosevelt, First in the Spotlight
WASHINGTON, July 23 - The
used her column to float her own
first First Lady to become a ma-
ideas or to take more pointed
jor media figure was Eleanor
stands than her husband chose to.
Roosevelt, whose syndicated col-
She fretted about the health of the
umn, "My Day" began in 1936 and
President and of the republic,
continued, in one form or another,
musing in the midst of a series of
for more than two decades, at its
racial disturbances during World
peak reaching hundreds of news-
War II: "The domestic scene is
papers and making news with
anything but encouraging, and one
Mrs. Roosevelt's stands on major
would like not to think about it;
issues like civil rights and labor
because it gives one a feeling that,
relations.
as a whole, we are nct really pre-
pared for democracy."
Mrs. Roosevelt filed the column
six days a week from all over the
Over the years, Mrs. Roosevelt
world, lugging a typewriter on her
also wrote a monthly question-
tour of South Pacific bases in 1943
and-answer column for the Ladies
and even composing aboard a de-
Home Journal and McCall's, and
stroyer. When Franklin D. Roose-
had a weekly radio show spon-
velt once complained about Wash-
sored by a mattress company,
ington columnists, a reporter re-
among others. That led Cole Por-
minded him that his wife was one,
ter to write: "So Missus R., with
1951
but he replied, "She simply writes
all her trimmin's, can broadcast a
bed from Simmons 'cause Frank-
Eleanor Roosevelt wrote a syn-
a daily diary."
PRESERVATION
PHOTOCOPY
lin knows anything goes."
dicated newspaper column for
In fact, Mrs. Roosevelt often
TODD S. PURDUM
more than 20 years.
Let's I nake ac ontion process easier
Fillumn
T
HE FIRST time I met Mother Teresa was
not in an urban slum or a remote village in
India but in the fancy ballroom of a Wash-
I agreed to work on Mother
ingion hotel. It was February 1994, and she had just
delivered a speech against abortion at the National
Teresa's project. Although we
Prayer Breakfast. When she finished her remarks.
differ on some issues, we found
she pulled mc aside for a chat.
She told me about her homes for orphaned chil-
common ground on adoption.
dren in New Delhi and Calcutta and asked for my
help in setting up a similar home for abandoned
and neglected babics in Washington, D.C. I agreed
husband spent thousands of dollars adopting a br
to work on the project.
PHOTOCOPY
six years ago. He is, she said, "the joy of our
PRESERVATION
Although we differ on some
When her cousin's daughter recently becam
issues. we found common
nant at age 18 and could not afford to keep the
ground on adoption.
child. this same couple volunteered to adopt again.
A year later my daughter and
As simple as this case should have been - the
1 visited Mother Teresa's home
parents and baby were members of the same
for children in New Delhi.
extended family and'all parties agreed to the adop-
There were 100 many cribs and
tion - it still cost upward of $4,000 because of
100 few toilets, and there was
legal fees and paperwork.
too little space. There was no
For others, there is a fear factor. However rare
HILLARY
way the place could ever pass
inspection in any American
they are, cases in which birth parents seek to
city. But there were also dozens
reclaim custody of adopted children undermine
RODHAM
of beautiful babies, mostly girls,
people's faith in the adoption system.
CLINTON
being fed, clothed, sheltered,
Decisions to give up children for adoption
and loved until they could be
should be difficult to overturn, especially in the
adopted.
cases of children who become attached to their
When I returned home I was even more deter-
adoptive families. The decision to return the child
mined to help Mother Teresa bring to Washington
to the biological parents or to uphold the adoption
the compassion that I had witnessed in India. But
should be made as quickly as possible. No child
you cannot imagine how much red tape was getting
should be left in limbo.
in my way. Ironically, many regulations designed to
protect children often overlook what kids need
The process also is made more difficult because
most: love and attention.
of a historical bias against interracial adoptions,
Finally. on a sweltering day this past June, the
which can mean endless waiting until children are
Mother Teresa Home for Children opened in the
matched with parents of the same race.
nation's capital. It is a two-story Tudor house with
There are far more minority children needing
a swimming pool in the back yard, donated by a
homes than are being placed for adoption. To pre-
Miami Herald 7/30/95
remarkably generous person who chose to remain
vent these children from languishing in foster care,
anonymous. At the dedication ceremony, Mother
new guidelines are now in place; they will prohibit
Teresa - happy. enthusiastic, and all business
federally funded agencies from using race as a fac-
took me on a tour. She walked me through brightly
for in placing children.
painted rooms filled with cribs, bassinets, and
stuffed animals.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we did something
Although it will accommodate only eight chil-
dramatic about adoption? Why not set a goal of
Mother Teresa
dren at a time. this home is a crucial step in awak-
placing 100,000 children each year for the next five
ening Americans to the crisis of adoption.
About 450,000 children in the United States
years? To do this, we would have to make adoption
We should worry less about how many cribs can
easier and enlist volunteer lawyers and judges to
need permanent families, and tens of thousands of
be placed in a room and more about how many
speed up the legal process. And we should also foi-
parents are seeking to adopt. Yet complex regula-
low Mother Teresa's model, in which consider-
children can he placed with loving families. And
tions, outdated assumptions, and wrongheaded
instead of yelling at each other about abortion, we
ations such as money, regulations, and skin color
laws stand in the way of bringing these parents and
should spend our energy making adoptions easier.
do not outweigh the more important gift of love
children together.
If that were to happen, there would be far fewer
For some Americans, like a woman who wrote to
that adoptive parents want to offer.
abortions and far more children in happy homes.
me recently, cost is the biggest barrier. She and her
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was the headline over
an opinion piece by Ruth Marcus,
itarianism. the undigested revolu-
READER'S DIGEST
AUGUST
1995
describing her 19 months of covering
tions, the attacks on great institutions
Clinton for the Washington Pass.
from government to religion. the
The idea is not new. The same
overthrow of patriotism and tradi-
things were said, after all, of Franklin
tional American history.
D. Roosevelt. One correspondent said
But Clinton is a professional-
that FDR's first instinct was to lie,
the most gifted politician of his
bur that hairway through an answer
generation, self-created, almost
he would realize he could get away
Roosevelt-like in his political skills.
with the truth and he would shift
He will do whatever he has to do
gears. Clinton does the same thing,
in the next two years to survive-
but there is something wrong with
and very possibly win re-election.
his transmission. It sometimes takes
In fact, Clinton has already found
him an hour, 2 day, or a year to shift.
the appropriate maxim. Paraphras-
ing Lincoln. he told a reporter, "You
A LOT OF PEOPLE hated President Roo-
may take another time, where Lin-
sevelt and his wife, many for the very
coin said, 'I am controlled by events.
good reason that he was a great man,
My policy is to have no policy.
Reprints of this article are available. See page 198.
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on or, as he put it, "Exhibit A."
The New York Review
May 11, 1995
Most Rooseveltians are either
Franklinites OF Eleanorites. Since
I
never knews him, I saw mm largely
through my family's eyes-that is to
sinister, rather treacherous,
war
AMERICAN SURVEY
Hillary in Eleanor's footsteps
to attack and aroused controversy. But the
column proved a useful vehicle for a natu-
ral communicator with a big agenda.
WASHINGTON,DC
So it is with Mrs Clinton. She too is no
M
OTHER, lawyer. campaigner, First
wich her readers came Mrs Roosevelt's
stranger to controversy (her opening col-
Lady, health-care tsarina, part-
opinions on weighty matters of the day,
umn coincided with articles speculating
time investor and. now, columnist.
such as the grievances of miners, civil
about her possible involvement in a
Hillary Rodham Clinton this week took
rights and the bartie against isolationism.
Whitewater cover-up). Like Mrs Roose-
on yet another role as she began a weekly
The column was a gamble. recalls Ann
veit, she has strong views and, after the
column, called "Talking It Over", syndi-
Cottrell Free, who was a member of Mrs
failure of her official job on health-care re-
cated to some 150 newspapers in America
Roosevelt's women-only press corps. The
form. a need for a regular forum to express
and abroad. In her unadventurous first
public exposure laid Mrs Roosevelt open
them. If she happens to woo some vot-
article she writes of the diffi-
ers-especially women voters-
culty she and millions of other
in the run-up to the 1996 elec-
people have in juggling all of
tion, so much the better.
life's myriad responsibilities.
How many voters will actu-
She also refers to the only
ally have the chance to read
previous First Lady columnist,
Mrs Clinton is not yet clear.
Eleanor Roosevelt. who for 26
Some editors are finding it as
years starting in 1936 wrote a
tricky handling Hillary-the-col-
diary-cum-commentary, "My
umnist as they find handling
Day". Mrs Rousevelt would
her in her other roles. The New
churn out six articles a week, re-
York Daily News carried the
cording chatty details of meet-
column. the New York Times
ings and functions. reporting
did not. The Washington Post
impressions from her many
chose not to run it in its edito-
travels. from wartime London
rial pages but is considering
("Those who had lost so much
running it in its Style Plus scc-
still managed to smile") to Aus-
tion. Result: Washingtonians,
tralia ("I still feel a little as the I
the keenest Hillary-watchers in
were in a dream world"). Inter-
America. were unable to read
spersed in her casual gossip
Another new look for Hillary
the First Lady's first column.
for sale. But this is not exactly new. A vague
ment companies also committed chern-
will be developed by Forest City Rainer, an-
area marked by the collision of Broad
selves to develop projects or
other New York property group. As an
Filluimns
THE WHITE HOUSE
FILE
WASHINGTON
August 16, 1995
MEMORANDAUM FOR FIRST LADY STAFF
FROM: LISA CAPUTO
Attached is HRC's weekly column from the past four weeks. I am
forwarding these for your information. I will continue to
distribute the column on a weekly basis. Please do not
distribute or give out copies of the column outside the First
Lady's staff.
Enjoy!
Lisa
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TALKING IT OVER
BY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
RELEASE: WEEKEND, AUGUST 19-20, 1995
When 1 was a child, my family took the same vacation every summer to visit my
father's relatives in Pennsylvania. We would always leave Chicago at the crack of
dawn. My two brothers and I would pile into the back seat of whichever land barge my
father was driving and immediately begin arguing about who got to sit where.
As the oldest, and as one who felt carsick at even the sight of a moving car, I
would try to claim most of the seat. When 1 was cld enough to get an allowance, 1
resorted to bribery, promising to pay my brothers a dollar each if they would let me lie
down during the trip.
There was nothing exotic or luxurious about these vacations. My father drove for
hours on end, my mother relieving him for brief spells SO that we could cover 750 miles
without spending the night in a motel. We played word games using license tags and
road signs. We took breaks at roadside restaurants and turnpike rest stops. And we
often detoured onto side roads to visit historic sites.
Although I complained, especially as a teen-ager, about spending endless
hours in the car, I loved those trips.
Even now, I can shut my eyes and see my father driving through the night or my
mother laying out a picnic at the side of the road.
And when we arrived at my grandfather's lake cottage, there were long games
of pinochle, swimming, fishing in the Susquehanna River and walks through the
countryside.
Today, it seems harder for people to take such simple family vacations.
Although vacation travel is up this year because of a stronger economy, too many
parents can't afford to take even a few days off.
Others travel but never really get away. With fax machines, cellular phones,
pagers and laptop computers, work stays with them even if they are halfway around
the world.
When Chelsea was a little girl, we often took vacations by car. We carried lots of
tapes with stories to share and songs to sing together. And, unlike my father, we
stopped at motels to sleep.
I also miss the easy, carefree vacations I took as a student. When I was 25 years
old, 1 traveled abroad for the first time. Over the next 15 years, Bill and I went four more
times. I will always remember the wonder 1 felt touring the lake country in England,
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visiting Guernica in Spain, wandering through Paris and exploring the great
monuments and museums of Florence.
Of course, taking vacation is not so simple for me these days. Traveling as First
Family means traveling heavy: We can't go anywhere without dozens of staff and
security people. And it's hard to sneak in and out of town on Air Force One. Worst of
all, our security requirements inevitably disrupt the places we visit.
The best part is that my mother and daughter have been able to join us for some
wonderful trips. When we went last year to Latvia, Poland, Germany, Italy, France and
Engiand, 1 watched enviously as they spent their days shopping, sightseeing and
dropping into restaurants for pasta, pirogi and pastries without ever being noticed.
Then again, I had more fun than my husband, who can never go anywhere without a
crowd swarming around him.
1 have always admired the European approach to vacations. The first time 1
traveled there in late summer. I was surprised to find that all the shops were closed.
Everyone from construction worker to Prime Minister was away on vacation.
It's not that the Europeans don't work as hard as we do. It's just that vacation is
ingrained in their culture. It's understood that time off is vital to one's spirit, family and
work life.
When I accompany my husband to meetings with foreign heads of state, I am
often asked about our vacation plans.
I remember once explaining to German Chancellor Helmut Kohl that we were
hoping to get a few days off later in the year. He was going to spend a rejuvenating
month in the forest.
Jacques Chirac, the new President of France, told me that he had spent a
recent vacation exploring the countryside of Japan. British Prime Minister John Major
often blocks off the whole month of August for vacation.
Right now, our family is beginning a two-week vacation in Wyoming. It's a place
where the three of us can take long hikes, visit Grand Teton and Yellowstone National
Parks, swim and fish. (And I'm sure my husband will manage to play some golf!) The
time away will give us moments like the ones I remember from earlier years with my
family.
The only problem is: The phone, fax and laptop are on vacation with us.
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TALKING IT OVER
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
RELEASE: WEEKEND, AUGUST 12-13, 1995
Have you seen what's on daytime television lately? During a recent workout,
I started channel surfing, and the first show I saw was about wild
teen-agers and their mothers. Another network featured women who use men for
money. And on a third were people who believe their thoughts are controlled by
aliens.
1 cringed.
Then, I found refuge in Big Bird.
For many parents across our country, there is great comfort in knowing that
however prurient. violent or sensational daytime programming has become, there is
still an oasis for children called public television.
The truth is, my daughter is a Sesame Street kid. When she was younger, we
would tune in together and read the books that went along with the shows. Over the
years, my husband and I could see that Big Bird, Emie, Bert and Cookie Monster
had helped her learn to spell, count and, perhaps just as important, appreciate the
cultural richness of our country.
But my daughter's experience is not the only reason I am disturbed by recent
attacks on public television. There is no escaping that television is a pervasive
influence in the lives of all of our children -- one that can have a significant impact,
positive or negative, on their social and intellectual development.
A friend told me recently about the time her daughter came home from the
first day of school and was so excited that she couldn't stop talking about it. After
telling her parents about everything that had happened, she went to the television
set and told Mr. Rogers too. Can you imagine that child having the same
conversation with the Power Rangers?
The little girl's story gives us a window on the latest research. Studies show
that children who watch programs like "Sesame Street," "Barney" and "Mister
Rogers Neighborhood" are better prepared to learn by the time they begin
kindergarten than children who watch only commercial television. Early on, reading
becomes a part of their lives. So do numbers, ideas and a rich imagination.
In fact, just at that wonderful stage when young children seem to absorb
every new word and concept they come across, educational television provides a
unique learning tool. Even watching as little as 25 minutes a day can help.
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Researchers have found that low-income children between the ages of 2 and 5 who
watch a small amount of educational programming do significantly better on tests of
reading potential, vocabulary, mathematical reasoning and overall readiness for
school.
By contrast, kids who spend the same amount of time watching non-
educational cartocns and adult programs are not as well prepared for learning in
school.
Recently, Sonia Manzano, known to millions of children as "Maria" on
"Sesame Street," came to the White House to talk about educational television. She
described what it was like to grow up in the Bronx as a Hispanic child who never
saw anyone who looked or talked like her on television.
*I know that if a child spends his life not seeing himself reflected in society,
which mostly means on television, it will wear him down," she said.
Children's programs like "Sesame Street," she said, offer a feeling of
belonging and positive role models to all children in our society.
They are particularly beneficial to low-income children whose families often
lack other opportunities for intellectual stimulation.
The public broadcasting channel is the only source available for educationa!
children's programming for about one-third of American families that cannot afford
or do not have access to cable television. And I bet most Americans would be
surprised to know that the majority of public television viewers come from families
with annual incomes of less than $40,000. It is the children in these families who
gain the most from public broadcasting.
I do not mean to suggest that public television is a panacea. Clearly, we
parents must take responsibility for turning off the television more often and
monitoring the shows our children do watch. And we can do more as a society to
help our families meet that challenge. A rating system and the proposed v-chip to
block out violent programs from individual homes could make a difference.
But let's not kid ourselves. In a cuiture like ours, which is so dominated by
television, children's programming is not a luxury enjoyed by a privileged few. It is a
necessity for tens of millions of American families.
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TALKING IT OVER
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
RELEASE: WEEKEND, AUGUST 5-6, 1995
Every place I have ever worked, a strange thing happens at 3:00 in the
afternoon. Women start grabbing for the phones.
It's the "anxious mom" phenomenon mothers calling home to make sure their
children have arrived safely from school.
I know because I've done it hundreds of times myself. And, like any working
mother, I can tell you about the times I have had to leave at midday or miss work
altogether because of a family emergency.
Once, as a young lawyer, I had to be in court at 9 a.m. for a big triai. My husband
was out of town. My daughter was sick. And I was in a panic.
I managed in situations like that -- but only because I had extraordinary support:
baby sitters a mother-in-law nearby, a mother who visited regularly, and a husband
who was eager to help.
Most working women are not so lucky.
With American families as overworked and as mobile as they are today, relying
on relatives and friends for child care is not always an option. Most workplaces do not
provide or subsidize child care. Day-care centers don't take sick kids, and most charge
high fees for late pickups.
And too often, employers penalize rather than help women who need to adjust
their schedules to attend to pressing family obligations.
As a 42-year-old auto-factory worker and mother of two said to me recently:
"What do you do with your kids when you are assigned the 4 p.m. to midnight shift?"
Whether they are federal judges or fast-food cooks, working women everywhere
are not getting enough support as they struggle to meet the competing demands of
family, work and career.
I know this from my own experience, as well as from conversations with my
friends. But you don't have to take my word for it. Just ask any of the working women I
met with recently in Atlanta and Santa Fe. Or ask the 250,000 working women who
responded to a Department of Labor survey earlier this year.
"We have to be a wife, a mother and a professional, and to be ourselves, which
usually takes last place," a 37-year-old intensive-care nurse said at a chips-and-salsa
get-together in Santa Fe.
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"I nearly kill pedestrians trying to get to the day-care center on time (to avoid the
late fees after 6 p.m.)," an assistant bank vice president told me in Atlanta.
Even a federal judge was feeling the pressure. "When i was a lawyer, ail of the
partners had wives who didn't work," said this mother of four. "They didn't have to
worry about picking up the dry cleaning or picking up the kids."
Today, three out of four working women have school-age children. The vast
majority of working women earn less than $25,000 a year. Not surprisingly, stress
ranks as the No. 1 problem for most of these women.
The clear message from many women and men - I have talked to is that they
need a more supportive workplace culture.
Even at a place as hectic and workaholic as the White House, we have tried to
offer some flexibility to working parents. One of my husband's top campaign advisers
took a month off right before the election in 1992 to spend time with his new son. One
of my administrative assistants used to bring her newborn to the office and, when
necessary, nursed him during meetings. Another member of my staff worked from
home during the final two months of her pregnancy. In fact, we even keep a few toys
around the office in case parents need to bring their children to work.
We are hardly alone in this. Employers and organizations in the public and
private sectors are beginning to recognize that family-friendly workplaces are not just
good for morale but also for the bottom line:
-- In San Francisco. a group of businesses, unions and community groups
joined forces to establish a 24-hour day-care center for airport employees.
-- In Boston, a school-bus schedule was redesigned to make it easier for
children to get to after-school programs.
-- In Northern California, a consortium of law and consulting firms are
establishing an 800-hotline number that employees can call 24 hours a day, seven
days a week for pre-screened, in-home emergency child and elder care.
-- In New Jersey, a company with 3,000 employees is creating a pilot program
offering compressed four-day work weeks, job sharing, part-time and flex-time options,
and telecommuting for its work force.
Instead of leaving hard-working, stressed-out parents to fend for themselves, we
all need to do more to bring some harmony to our work and family lives.
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TALKING IT OVER
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
RELEASE: WEEKEND, JULY 29-30, 1995
The first time I met Mother Teresa was not In an urban slum or a remote village in
India but in the fancy ballroom of a Washington hotel. It was February 1994, and she had
just delivered a speech against abortion at the National Prayer Breakfast. When she
finished her remarks, she pulled me aside for a chat.
She told me about her homes for orphaned children in New Delhi and Calcutta and
asked for my help in setting up a similar home for abandoned and neglected babies in
Washington, D.C. I agreed to work on the project. Although we differ on some issues, we
found common ground on adoption. So we sat and talked about how to find homes for the
hundreds of thousands of American children who need loving families.
A year later, my daughter and I visited Mother Teresa's home for children in New
Delhi. There were too many cribs and too few toilets, and there was too little space. There
was no way the place could ever pass inspection in any American city. But there were also
dozens of beautiful babies, mostly girls, being fed, clothed, sheltered and loved until they
could be adopted.
These Images stayed with me when I returned home. I was even more determined to
help Mother Teresa bring to Washington the compassion I had witnessed in India. But you
cannot imagine how much red tape was getting in my way. Ironically, many regulations
designed to protect children often overlook what kids need most: love and attention.
Finally, on a sweltering day this past June, the Mother Teresa Home for Children
opened in an affluent residential neighborhood of the nation's capital. It is a two-story
Tudor house with a swimming pool in the backyard, donated by a remarkably generous
person who chose to remain anonymous. At the dedication ceremony, Mother Teresa -
happy, enthusiastic and all business - took me on a tour. Grabbing my hand and leading
me up the stairs, she walked me through brightly painted rooms filled with cribs, bassinets
and stuffed animals.
Although it will accommodate only eight children at a time, this home is a crucial step
in awakening Americans to the crisis of adoption.
We should worry less about how many cribs can be placed in a room and more
about how many children can be placed with loving families. And instead of yelling at each
other about abortion, we should spend our energy making adoptions easier. If that were to
happen, there would be far fewer abortions and far more children in happy homes.
Today, there are about 450,000 children in the United States who need permanent
families. There are tens of thousands of parents seeking to adopt.
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Yet every day, complex regulations, outdated assumptions and wrong-headed laws
stand in the way of bringing these parents and children together.
For some Americans, like a woman who wrote to me recently, cost is the biggest
barrier. She and her husband, both musicians, spent thousands of dollars adopting a little
boy six years ago. He is, she said, "the joy of our life." When her cousin's daughter recently
became pregnant at age 18 and could not afford to keep the child, this same couple
volunteered to adopt again.
As simple as this case should have been -- the parents and baby were members of
the same extended family and all parties agreed to the adoption -- it still cost upward of
$4,000 because of legal fees and paperwork.
For others, there is a fear factor. Like many Americans, a 40-year-old newscaster I
met recently in New Mexico was interested in adopting but was discouraged by highly
publicized cases like Baby Richard's. However rare they are, cases in which birth parents
seek to reclaim custody of adopted children undermine people's faith in the adoption
system.
Decisions to give up children for adoption: uld be difficult to overtum, especially
in the cases of children who become attached to their adoptive families during their
formative years, like Baby Richard. The decision to return the child to the biological parents
or to uphold the adoption should be made as quickly as possible. No child should be left in
limbo.
The whole process also is made more difficult because of a historical bias against
interracial adoptions, which can mean endless waiting until children are matched with
parents of the same race.
In a perfect world, most of us would choose parents who shared our cultural and
racial identities. But our world is not perfect. Today, there are far more minority children
needing homes than are being placed for adoption. To prevent these children from
languishing in foster care, new guidelines are now in place that will prohibit federally
funded agencies from using race as a factor in placing children.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we did something dramatic about adoption? Why not set a
goal of placing 100,000 children each year for the next five years? To do this, we would
have to make adoption easier and enlist volunteer lawyers and judges to speed up the
legal process. And we should also follow Mother Teresa's model, in which considerations
like money, regulations and skin color do not outweigh the more important gift of love that
adoptive parents want to offer.
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TALKING IT OVER
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
RELEASE: SUNDAY, JULY 23, 1995
On a recent trip to Arkansas, I had a sudden impulse to drive. We were
staying at my mother's house in Little Rock and I needed to run some errands. So,
on a quiet Friday afternoon, I jumped behind the wheel of a car and, much to the
discomfort of my Secret Service detail, drove myself around town. For several
hours, I enjoyed a marvelous sensation of personal freedom.
For me this brief taste of everyday life has come to represent the odd duality
of my role as First Lady. On the one hand, I feel privileged to meet people and go
places totally out of reach for most men and women. On the other hand,
experiences that millions of Americans take for granted have become extraordinary
for me.
A few months back, for instance, I was browsing through a museum in
Washington. There I was, one of the most recognizable women in America, thinking
I could somehow blend anonymously into the artwork.
Suddenly, a woman came up to me. "You sure look like Hillary Clinton," she
said.
"So I'm told," I answered.
The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary
Clinton that other people see. Like millions of women across our country, I find that
my life consists of different, and sometimes paradoxical, parts. Often those parts are
reduced to a snapshot of one moment in my day, when in fact I wake up every
morning trying to figure out how to mesh my responsibilities to my family, my public
duties and the friend who might be stopping by for dinner.
No doubt the same is true for many people, whether they are beauticians,
bankers, teachers or truck drivers. It is just that the complexity of my role is played
out in public.
Whatever minor inconveniences my situation presents, I wouldn't trade it for
the world. A few years ago, I could never have imagined the range of activities that
are part of my life, such as defending public television, planning state dinners and
visiting the CIA with the President. I have also met a lot of interesting people. Some
are famous, like Lady Bird Johnson, Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa. But most
are men and women we never hear about who wake up in the morning, do the best
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they can, and contribute more to their families and communities than most of the
celebrities and public figures whose names regularly appear on the evening news.
It is the unforgettable faces, heroic life stories, historic events, pressing
issues and comedic moments that have most defined my time in the White House.
Now I will have the opportunity to share these experiences and observations
directly with newspaper readers everywhere.
I recently accepted an offer first made two years ago to write a column about
my life as First Lady. My hope is that this weekly column will talk about the most
immediate issues on people's minds - the funny, the sad, the inspiring and the
momentous - and give people a view of events they might not otherwise have a
chance to see.
Every year, I receive hundreds of thousands of letters asking about
everything from Socks' feeding schedule to Medicare benefits for mammograms,
from the financial pressures affecting working families to my recent trip to South
Asia. I have been told that for every person who writes me, there are thousands
and maybe millions of others with the same question or concern.
Some people may wonder whether I am looking to Eleanor Roosevelt for my
inspiration. In thinking about this column, I re-read the column that Mrs. Roosevelt
wrote nearly every day for the better part of three decades. She called her column
"My Day" and covered subjects as varied as her annual picnic for disadvantaged
boys, the meaning of religion in our lives and the fuss over a new bob in her hair.
Sounds familiar!
My hope is that this column, like hers, will prompt all of us think more about
the human dimension of our lives. In some small way, I hope it will help bridge the
gaps in our society so that we can reach beyond stereotypes and caricatures - and
respect one another for the unique contributions each of us makes to our country.
My wish too is that it will provide information about problems facing us that
people can use to help decide what they think should be done. Mostly, though, this
column will give me the chance to talk things over in the hope that some of you will
join the conversation.
So, let's talk again next week.
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Ms. Mary McGrory
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Dear Ms. McGrory:
It was truly a pleasure to speak with you today. Thank you for taking time out of your
busy schedule to discuss your column on Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Beijing
conference.
As I told you, I found your column fascinating. You analyzed the consequences should
Mrs. Clinton decide to attend the conference and the consequences should she choose to
stay home. It was the best column I've seen on the subject.
But one sentence leapt from the page. "She writes a column that has not caught on." Since
Creators Syndicate represents Mrs. Clinton's column, I know that sentence is not true. I
could conclude only that you did not have all of the information.
Mrs. Clinton's column appears in about 100 newspapers worldwide, and new clients are
signing up every day. A few of the newspapers that run her column in the United States
are: The Boston Globe, Detroit News, Seattle Times, Denver Post, New York Daily News,
Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Oregonian, Austin American-Statesman, Buffalo News,
Des Moines Register, Kansas City Star, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Indianapolis Star,
San Francisco Examiner, Chicago Sun-Times and the Miami Herald.
The column is published in every region of the country and is widely distributed overseas.
Mrs. Clinton is published in Japan, Germany, Italy, South America, England, Saudi
Arabia, Denmark, Spain and many other countries.
In fact, a Washington, D.C., resident recently wrote that a relative was mailing her Mrs.
Clinton's column from India where it appears in a local paper.
Eleanor Roosevelt entered syndication with 20 newspaper clients. Mrs. Clinton began with
nearly a hundred. But it is not only the number of newspapers that dictates Mrs. Clinton's
success as a columnist. It is also how her readers respond which matters. Newspaper
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readers are thrilled with Mrs. Clinton's column. The enclosed article from Lincoln, Neb.,
illustrates this.
Seventy-seven percent of the people who contacted the Journal-Star thought Mrs. Clinton's
column was "delightful and worthwhile," "brilliant," and "a breath of fresh air." The
editors at the Journal-Star may have canceled the column anyway, but this doesn't change
the fact that the column was a success with the people of Lincoln.
I do not believe this type of response is unique to Nebraska. The people in our mail room
tell me they are flooded with mail and have been since the first column was published.
We've never seen such a response so quickly.
I thought you would find all of this interesting and perhaps conclude that Mrs. Clinton's
column had, indeed, caught on.
If you have questions, I would be happy to answer them. Please do not hesitate to call me
any time.
Sincerely,
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WASHINGTON
August 24,1995
MEMORANDAUM FOR FIRST LADY STAFF
FROM: LISA CAPUTO
Attached is HRC's column for the upcoming week. As a reminder,
please do not distribute or give out copies of the column outside
the First Lady's staff.
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TALKING IT OVER
BY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
RELEASE: WEEKEND, AUGUST 26-27, 1995
One day in the summer of 1978, I was knocking on doors in a small town in
eastern Arkansas, trying to drum up support for my husband in the upcoming election
for governor.
It was the middle of the day, and most of the people at home were older women
-- women who I assumed would be going to the polls. Imagine my surprise when one
woman told me that her husband did the voting in their family. Another said that, since
her husband's death, she hadn't known whom to vote for. And a third explained that
she couldn't vote because she hadn't paid her poll tax, a requirement that had been
outlawed years before.
Seventeen years have passed since then, and as we celebrate the 75th
anniversary of women's suffrage, women in America are hardly flocking to the polls to
exercise their hard-won privileges.
A smaller percentage of women vote in national elections today than voted 30
years ago. Fewer than half go to the polls in non-presidential election years.
Sadly, many women feel that their vote doesn't really matter to their own futures
or the future of our country.
It might also be that we have SO many obligations in our everyday lives. Women
are busy raising children, taking care of aging parents, holding jobs (often working
longer hours for lower wages) and running households.
But even so, we all should be able to find the time to vote, especially now that
registration can be done at the local department of motor vehicles, the government
social services office, the public library or even through the mail.
i
We owe it to ourselves to make our voices heard. After all, women's suffrage did
not come easily. It took 72 years of hard work.
It took the vision of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who launched the suffrage
movement in 1848, and the courage of Susan B. Anthony, who was arrested, tried and
fined for attempting to vote in the presidential election of 1872.
It took thousands of others -- from seamstresses to socialites -- who joined
parades, pageants and picket lines on behalf of suffrage.
It took men, too. Men like Harry Burn, the young legislator from Tennessee who
cast the decisive vote in favor of women's suffrage on Aug. 18, 1920, but only after
receiving an admonishing letter from his mother.
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"Dear son," said the letter from Mrs. J.L. Burn. "Hurrah and vote for suffrage. I
have been watching to see how you stood, but have not noticed anything yet. Don't
forget to be a good boy and help Mrs. (Carrie Chapman) Catt put 'rat' in ratification.
Your Mother."
Harry Burn took his mother's advice, and eight days later, on Aug. 26, 1920,
suffrage was finally granted. But for months thereafter, Harry Burn had to travel the
state guarded by a local blacksmith who carried a big hammer in his pocket.
He got off easy compared to some. Many who campaigned for suffrage went to
jail for their cause. Some were scorned and ridiculed. Some lost jobs. Some gave up
their possessions to raise money for hundreds of suffrage campaigns that were waged
in state legislatures and at state and national party conventions.
To those Americans, voting was the most fundamental right of living in a
democracy. It was essential to women's progress in the world. And that's why women
before us fought so hard to achieve it.
Women's suffrage, finally granted with ratification of the 19th Amendment, was
nothing short of a social revolution. With the vote, women in America could influence
laws. They could have some say over their destinies. They could enjoy the full
privileges of citizenship.
When 1 travel overseas, I think about suffrage often. On several recent trips, I
have met women who have been persecuted, imprisoned or even exiled for their
efforts to gain basic legal and political rights for women. I have visited countries, newly
freed from the yoke of totalitarianism, where citizens walk miles and stand in line for
hours to cast their ballots.
And each time, 1 come home thankful for the blessings we Americans have.
This week, let's celebrate the anniversary of women's suffrage by taking stock of
the sacrifices that so many women and men made on our behalf.
And let's remember the words of the great suffrage leaders.
As Sojourner Truth, the 19th century anti-slavery and women's rights advocate,
put it: "If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn this world upside
down alone, then we together ought to be able to turn it right side up again."
But we can only do it if we vote.
COPYRIGHT 1995 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
SAMPLES
maggie
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TO Read
WASHINGTON
August 24,1995
MEMORANDAUM FOR FIRST LADY STAFF
FROM: LISA CAPUTO
Attached is HRC's column for the upcoming week. As a reminder,
please do not distribute or give out copies of the column outside
the First Lady's staff.
Column
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TALKING IT OVER
BY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
RELEASE: WEEKEND, AUGUST 26-27, 1995
One day in the summer of 1978, I was knocking on doors in a small town in
eastern Arkansas, trying to drum up support for my husband in the upcoming election
for governor.
It was the middle of the day, and most of the people at home were older women
women who I assumed would be going to the polls. Imagine my surprise when one
woman told me that her husband did the voting in their family. Another said that, since
her husband's death, she hadn't known whom to vote for. And a third explained that
she couldn't vote because she hadn't paid her poll tax, a requirement that had been
outlawed years before.
Seventeen years have passed since then, and as we celebrate the 75th
anniversary of women's suffrage, women in America are hardly flocking to the polls to
exercise their hard-won privileges.
A smaller percentage of women vote in national elections today than voted 30
years ago. Fewer than half go to the polls in non-presidential election years.
Sadly, many women feel that their vote doesn't really matter to their own futures
or the future of our country.
It might also be that we have so many obligations in our everyday lives. Women
are busy raising children, taking care of aging parents, holding jobs (often working
longer hours for lower wages) and running households.
But even so, we all should be able to find the time to vote, especially now that
registration can be done at the local department of motor vehicles, the government
social services office, the public library or even through the mail.
We owe it to ourselves to make our voices heard. After all, women's suffrage did
not come easily. It took 72 years of hard work.
It took the vision of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who launched the suffrage
movement in 1848, and the courage of Susan B. Anthony, who was arrested, tried and
fined for attempting to vote in the presidential election of 1872.
It took thousands of others - from seamstresses to socialites who joined
parades, pageants and picket lines on behalf of suffrage.
It took men, too. Men like Harry Burn, the young legislator from Tennessee who
cast the decisive vote in favor of women's suffrage on Aug. 18, 1920, but only after
receiving an admonishing letter from his mother.
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"Dear son," said the letter from Mrs. J.L. Burn. "Hurrah and vote for suffrage.
I
have been watching to see how you stood, but have not noticed anything yet. Don't
forget to be a good boy and help Mrs. (Carrie Chapman) Catt put 'rat' in ratification.
Your Mother."
Harry Burn took his mother's advice, and eight days later, on Aug. 26, 1920,
suffrage was finally granted. But for months thereafter, Harry Burn had to travel the
state guarded by a local blacksmith who carried a big hammer in his pocket.
He got off easy compared to some. Many who campaigned for suffrage went to
jail for their cause. Some were scorned and ridiculed. Some lost jobs. Some gave up
their possessions to raise money for hundreds of suffrage campaigns that were waged
in state legislatures and at state and national party conventions.
To those Americans, voting was the most fundamental right of living in a
democracy. It was essential to women's progress in the world. And that's why women
before us fought so hard to achieve it.
Women's suffrage, finally granted with ratification of the 19th Amendment, was
nothing short of a social revolution. With the vote, women in America could influence
laws. They could have some say over their destinies. They could enjoy the full
privileges of citizenship.
When 1 travel overseas, I think about suffrage often. On several recent trips, I
have met women who have been persecuted, imprisoned or even exiled for their
efforts to gain basic legal and political rights for women. I have visited countries, newly
freed from the yoke of totalitarianism, where citizens walk miles and stand in line for
hours to cast their ballots.
And each time, I come home thankful for the blessings we Americans have.
This week, let's celebrate the anniversary of women's suffrage by taking stock of
the sacrifices that so many women and men made on our behalf.
And let's remember the words of the great suffrage leaders.
As Sojourner Truth, the 19th century anti-slavery and women's rights advocate,
put it: "If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn this world upside
down alone, then we together ought to be able to turn it right side up again."
But we can only do it if we vote.
COPYRIGHT 1995 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
MEMORANDUM
To: Maggie, Melanne, Lisa
Fr: Lissa
Re: Sample columns from candidates
Da: August 25, 1995
Attached you will find (in no particular order) four sample
columns submited by candidates applying for the column researcher
position. We are looking for someone who will do all of the
research and will write some drafts of columns.
Each candidate was asked to write about the general theme,
"Back to school.' They were given the following personal
anecdotes to incorporate as they saw fit:
Mrs. Dorothy Rodham never attended college, but encouraged all of her
children to go on to higher education.
Mrs. Clinton stopped bringing Chelsea to school on the first day of
classes when she reached the eighth grade. Every year, Mrs. Clinton
would cry when she said goodbye, embarrassing Chelsea in front of the
other children. Chelsea finally forbade her mother to come along.
As Governor and First Lady of Arkansas, the Clintons every year invited
the valedictorians from each high school in the state to come to the
Governor's mansion for a reception in their honor. One year, Mrs.
Clinton met a young student, whose intelligence and ambition to become a
doctor greatly impressed her. When she asked him where he was going to
college, he replied that he wasn't going to college in the fall. He
told her that his high school had such a poor academic reputation,
college admissions officers would not even consider students from his
school.
The candidates were also sent copies of Mrs. Clinton's
published columns as examples.
Please rate the attached in your order of preference.
To: Lissa Muscatine
Date: 8/24/95 Time: 16:21:39
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Back to School
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It's time to sharpen the number two pencils and configure the delicate intricacies of -- the
carpool. Although determining which parent can attend each softball game or dance recital
can be as complicated as computing the consumer price index for the past three quarters,
nothing is as important as our children's education. Our children need us more at this time
of year. They must see that our concern for their education and quality of life supersedes
everything else.
My parents demanded a great deal of me in school. If I did well in a subject there was
praise from my mom, but my father would assert that the teacher just liked to pass high
grades out at the door. Even with this not so gentle jab, I knew directly from my parents
that the most important part of my childhood was making sure I worked hard in school.
Now more than ever we must reassure our children that we stand behind them and support
their work as they attempt to reach their potential. If we as parents do not do this, it won't
just be the child that suffers. It will mean our country will fall behind in a world that
increasingly expects greater levels of competence in a competitive workplace.
In the past, many families had large numbers of children that provided security for their
parents in their old age. With the average number of children in a family declining, we as a
society need to make sure each child is more than adequately schooled so they embrace
their tomorrow with success and continued promise.
If we think that it will be possible to slash funding for education today and rely upon a
successful American workforce in years to come there's a bridge in Brooklyn I might be
able to interest you in. Yes, difficult budgetary decisions must be made, but financially
undermining institutions of learning will lead us to increased spending later on individuals
unable to prosper in our society.
This support for our children's education is an ongoing process with a cumulative effect.
Statistics prove that the child that has the right educational start ends up an educational
success.
A little bit of funding goes a long way in education, and today administrators are learning
how to stretch their dollars for greater productivity. One such program is the "Roots and
Wings" program that serves rural children at risk.
Children in four St. Mary's County, Maryland elementary schools have been participating
in the Roots and Wings program for four years. The schools were targeted because many
students came from families, such as migrant farm workers, unable to put down roots in a
school and achieve stability in their educational pursuits.
Back to School
To: Lissa Muscatine
Date: 8/24/95 Time: 18:22:48
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These students are not able to get all the help they need during regular school hours. The
program provides after school work to augment what is taught during the day. With
parents of these children preoccupied with just survival, the program allows kids at risk to
succeed.
The Roots and Wings program received initial government funding, but is designed to
become a self sufficient program within five years of implementation. Pat Richardson of
the St. Mary's County Public Schools says the program helped identify areas where
county government was duplicating efforts and costs. Now the Parks and Recreation
Department is pooling resources with the school system providing funding for Roots and
Wings instead of running unilateral after school programs. I like that.
Discipline, teamwork and standards are what is necessary in school. I have listened to so
many parents who only want one thing: quality education for the children they love. It is
the right of every American to expect that for their family.
An American educator I admire, Mary McLeod Bethune, toiled for decades to provide
educational opportunities to African Americans, many the children and grandchildren of
slaves. When she finally was able to open her school she placed a sign over the door that
admonished, "Enter to learn." It did not say "Enter to try but drop out if it gets too rough."
So enter your child's classroom and greet the teachers who will open the world up to them
with the enthusiasm that accompanies a new year. My days of walking Chelsea to the door
on her first day are over. Every year I would walk her to her classroom and start to cry.
By eighth grade Chelsea said she could endure the embarrassment no longer.
I may not walk in with her, but I still cry a little when she goes out the door. Hopefully I'll
get a grip by the time she's in graduate school.
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Hillary Clinton piece "Back to School'
A knot still forms in my stomach every August when I first hear the
cicadas buzzing in the trees. When I was a child, the insects'
shrill, droning sound served as a signal that summer was coming to
a close and school was upon me. Every year I looked forward to my
return to the classroom with a combination of enthusiasm and
anxiety.
Now that I am a parent, I find myself remembering those childhood
emotions every year when I send my daughter off to school. As when
I was a girl, I feel mixed emotions, not only for Chelsea but for
all the children of America. On the one hand, I'm delighted at the
thought of all the adventures in learning that are once again going
on in classrooms, big and small, around our nation. On the other
hand, I'm concerned by the fact that many of our children aren't
learning anything near as much as they should.
This is where parents come in. Rather than view our children's
annual return to school as time when we pass on certain
responsibilities to their teachers, why not view it as an
opportunity to consider our own responsibilities in regard to our
children's education?
For in fact parents can do a great deal to enhance children's
intellectual growth. One thing we can do is get our children's
education to be our work, as well. Study after study has shown that
a teacher who knows of a given parent's interest and involvement in
his or her child's education will spend a greater amount of time
with that child. If you make your interest and involvement known,
the teacher will also expect more out of your child precisely
because of your involvement.
It's important to keep the lines of communication open between
parent and teacher. Because of their training, and because they're
in a position to compare children in the same age group, teachers
are often more likely than parents to recognize a child's special
talents, interests, or difficulties. In the same way, parents can
provide teachers with insights into their children that may prove
valuable. A well-functioning teacher-parent partnership can be very
effective in enhancing a child's educational experience.
To be sure, it can be difficult for parents who work outside the
home to be as involved as they would like to be in their children's
education. This is a particular problem for single-parent and two-
wage-earner households. Employers should make every reasonable
effort to work out ways for employees in such situations to attend
school events, PTA meetings, and the like.
Perhaps the single most important thing you can do to improve your
child's education is to do what you're doing right now: read. Read
to them, read with them. Glenn C. Loury, a professor at Boston
University, wrote recently about enrolling his child in the first
grade. He recounted how the school's principal greeted parents with
a speech urging them to read to their children at least half an
hour each day.
"My experience tells me that some of you will follow this advice
and others will not," she concluded. "By the third grade we will
know who is who."
Teachers can teach the fundamentals of reading, but parents need to
drive home that reading is fun and essential. "Proficient readers
tend to perform better academically, not just in English and
literature classes but also in math and science," says Ruth Graves,
president of Reading is Fundamental. Quoted in an article in
Parents magazine, Graves went on to say: "They tend to be better
writers, they're less likely to drop out of high school, and they
are likely to go on to college."
One way to convey the message that reading is fun is to have family
reading sessions. During these sessions, family members can read
separately or out loud together. Such family rituals will also help
increase the amount of "quality time" you spend with your child.
If you have read the Harper Lee novel To Kill A Mockingbird, you
will remember how Atticus Finch read to his daughter, Scout, from
the newspaper every evening. This process continued until Scout
learned to read the stories herself.
Beyond this, it's important to create a home environment that
encourages study and reflection. This means, among other things,
setting a good example by watching television less and reading
more. "The amount of time spent in front of a television or video
screen is the single biggest chunk of time in the waking life of an
average American child," writes Dr. David Walsh in his 1994 book
Selling out America's Children.
Dr. Walsh's title is a disturbing one. Surely few parents have any
intention of "selling out" their children. But many of us could do
much more to help our children grow into citizens capable of making
intelligent decisions about their lives and their society. When the
school bells ring, knots in the stomach and all, let's work to make
this school year the most productive yet.
3
Back to School
This week, Chelsea, her long hair finally all dry after our exhilarating
vacation on the Wyoming rapids, will start her junior year of high school.
It's been three years since Chelsea forbade me from accompanying her to her
first day of school. On every first day until then, without fail and to Chelsea's
great mortification, my eyes would begin to water as I said good bye to her in
front of her classmates.
Still, every September, as I watch Chelsea pack new notebooks, folders and
mechanical pencils in her backpack, a little lump develops in my throat.
Unbeknownst to her, she leaves for school toting not just a year's worth of
school supplies, but that large part of my heart that carries all of my hopes and
dreams for her success in life.
1 hope Chelsea will gain in school all the skills she needs to become a good,
productive adult. That she will learn about things that I had never even
heard of while growing up -- of recombinant DNA, of top quarks, and of the
social and political implications of information superhighway.
Like my mother before me who never attended college, but made sure that
her three children did, I hope that my daughter will be prepared enough to
take the most advantage of all the opportunities now available to her. Since
my college days for instance, all the nation's premier universities and service
academies have gone coed. Women have made major strides in many male-
dominated professions. Female students now outnumber male students at
some of the nation's most prestigious medical schools this year.
I am painfully aware that Chelsea is luckier than most American children.
She will not have to worry about whether her parents will be able to afford
college. She will not be among the 3.8 million student loan recipients whose
futures in higher education depend on the outcome of annual budget battles
in Congress.
Like most parents, my husband and I realize that Chelsea's success in school
hinges on our involvement in her education. Numerous studies, backed up
by common sense, have shown that a student cannot reach his or her full
academic potential without the support of parents who have made education
a priority.
Children, as they have throughout the ages, need parents to make sure they
understand that homework comes before MTV, that they have enough light
and space to complete their homework assignments, and that they are
accountable for every poor grade they bring home.
But what of the student who enjoys overwhelming parental support, who
hungrily laps up everything his teachers and textbooks can teach him, only to
find that his high school has not prepared him well enough for any college?
In a Pulitzer-prize winning series of articles last year, Wall Street Journal
reporter Ron Suskind described the heartbreaking plight of a student at an
inner-city high school who worked hard to excel at every subject and even
asked teachers to provide him with more advanced work so that he could
fulfill his dream of attending MIT and becoming an engineer. That dream
slipped away the moment an MIT professor told Cedric, a straight-A student,
that he was too poorly prepared for the rigors of MIT.
Unfortunately, Cedric's tale is not unique. I remember meeting a similar
student while my husband was governor of Arkansas. Each year, we would
invite the state's high school valedictorians to the Governor's mansion for a
reception. At one such reception, I met a very intelligent and well-spoken
student who told me he hoped to become a doctor. When I asked which
school he planned to attend, he told me that could not go to college that fall.
College admissions officers would not even consider students from his school
because it had such a poor academic reputation.
In the new film, "Dangerous Minds," an inner-city school teacher tells her
students that "there are no victims" in her classroom. Cedric and the
Arkansas valedictorian's stories challenge this statement. Though they and
their parents did their part, our schools failed them.
We need to goad our school boards, legislators and the President to make sure
that all students whether rich or poor, urban or rural gain the same high
quality education and are prepared to take full advantage of the diverse
opportunities of 21st century. And all schools need support from students,
parents and the government as they aim for even higher standards in
teaching and curricula.
We need to make our children feel that they take not only their parents' but
our whole nation's hopes and dreams with them to school each day.
4
TALKING IT OVER
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
BACK TO SCHOOL SAMPLE
All right, I admit it. I procrastinated until the very last second to write this column.
It's my own fault, since I picked the topic: nobody made me do this. but then, as it
turns out, it was tough enough for me to make me do this. But I can tell fall is coming.
Suddenly, D.C. humidity isn't quite as insufferable as it was a few weeks ago. The
shadows are a little longer on the ground; the leaves of the trees are beginning to
rustle and shake when the wind blows through. Yes indeed, it's about that time. I
may as well get down to work. It's just that I've been having such a terrific time on
vacation, playing with my husband and my daughter, I didn't want to lose a minute.
So the very thought of the topic "Back to School" made my brain go into melt-down.
That shouldn't be terribly surprising I guess. I spent 18 Augusts preparing for
class - buying new texts, notebooks, that perfect outfit to wear on the first day. I
remember the day I first bought my books for Yale Law School. I hadn't been there
more than a few hours and already, I was behind in class. Assignments were posted
and the material was due the first day. I ran to the bookstore. The books were so
heavy that I barely got them home. Exhausted and stressed out, I made the mistake of
trying to do my reading. I was expected to understand that? I didn't even know what
the words on the first page meant.
But I was hoist by my own petard. I had wanted to go to law school, and now I
had made it. The next three years were full of possibilities I never would have
imagined on the first day, not all of them academic (I met Bill in the Yale Law Library).
Not everybody is as lucky as I was: not everyone gets to follow a dream. When Bill
was Governor of Arkansas, each year we invited all of the high school valedictorians to
the Governor's Mansion for a party in their honor. One young man who was so
impressive. Intelligent, ambitious, he wanted to be a doctor. But he wouldn't be going
to college. His school had such a poor reputation, colleges wouldn't even consider his
application.
My own classroom days are over (now that they're past, I look on them fondly)
but I relive those times through my daughter Chelsea.
Chelsea is starting school again. Amazing. So soon?
I used to take Chelsea to school on the first day of class every year. Then, when
she began eighth grade, she forbade me to go. You see, every year, without fail, I
started crying when I dropped her off. Chelsea thought it was too embarrassing to
have her mother sobbing hysterically. I can't say that I blame her for feeling that way:
I'd probably have felt the same way if I were in her position. It's just that I couldn't help
it.
Each year, I'm overwhelmed with a tidal wave of my emotions. I remember my
own experiences at school; I wonder how hers will compare to mine. I think about how
much Chelsea has grown up since the last time I dropped her off at school. I want her
to do well, not only in class, but meeting new friends, in soccer and ballet. I worry
about the challenges and difficulties she will inevitably face. I beam with pride at the
successes I see in her imminent - and distant - future.
I guess I'm not any different from any other parent.
I know that my mother must have felt some of those things. She never went to
college, but she encouraged all of her children to go on with our educations. She saw
our futures and wanted to make sure we were ready for them. I am so thankful. For
her faith in us, and for all the times that she and my father would help me with
homework. I'm thankful for the nights I'd call from college SO homesick I couldn't take
it any more and they encouraged me to see it through.
For their support and love; I am forever grateful. They taught me so much more
than just what they helped me study. Can Bill and I teach Chelsea all that? I guess
Chelsea's right about keeping me away from school. I'd have cried again this year,
too.