Images (13)
Document
| id |
id
472249820
|
|---|---|
| contentType |
contentType
document
|
| source |
source
import
|
Source image fields (6)
Extracted text
OCR Page 1 of 13142571
Real B mus
- bull
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
95 DEC 8 P7: 08
December 7, 1995
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
Bruce Reed
SUBJECT:
Weekly Report -- New Ideas
Here is a brief update on some of the long-term ideas under development for the State
of the Union and beyond. This list is very much a work in progress: These proposals are
still being vetted with policy and political advisers in the White House and around the
agencies, and some may not stand up to deeper scrutiny. Meanwhile, the search for
additional ideas will continue. Don Baer and I have been working on a process for the State
of the Union to ensure that in preparation for the speech, we ask the Cabinet and prominent
thinkers outside the Administration to submit their thoughts on what you should say.
In the end, the State of the Union may not be the right moment to unveil our whole
agenda -- either because it would be overshadowed by wherever we are in the budget talks,
or because we want to keep enough new ideas in reserve so that you can stay in the news and
put forth a positive agenda while the Republican candidates are attacking us and one another
throughout the spring. But we need to make sure that the State of the Union sets the tone for
our new agenda, and that the FY97 budget leaves room for it.
This week's report will focus on first-tier issues: the economy, crime, education, and
personal responsibility. Next week, I will say more about political reform, the environment,
and other issues.
I. ECONOMY
The best way for you to highlight your strong record of economic accomplishment is
to put forward a positive, optimistic vision of economic opportunity. This is not just a matter
of generating new economic ideas our actual policies have always been more appealing
than the Republicans'. What we need is an overarching theory of economic growth as
1