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FOIA Number:
2009-0166-S
2009-0166-S
FOIA
MARKER
This is not a textual record. This is used as an
administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential
Library Staff.
Record Group/Collection: George H.W. Bush Presidential Records
Collection/Office of Origin:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
OA/ID Number:
90533
Folder ID Number:
90533-003
Folder Title:
Monday, January 22, 1990
Stack:
Row:
Section:
Shelf:
Position:
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12
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5
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Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Doc. No./Type
Subject/Title
Date
Restriction
Classification
01. Schedule
Schedule of the President [redaction] (1 pp.)
01/22/90
(b)(3)
02. Log
White House Telephone Log [President Bush] [redaction of
01/22/90
(b)(6)
personal information] (2 pp.)
03. Memo
From distribution list Re: Recommended Telephone Call to Judge
01/22/90
(b)(6)
William M. Nickerson [redaction of personal information] (1 pp.)
04. Memo
From distribution list Re: Recommended Telephone Call to
01/22/90
(b)(6)
Joseph M. Hood [redaction of personal information] (1 pp.)
05. Memo
From distribution list Re: Recommended Telephone Call to
01/22/90
(b)(6)
Justice David H. Souter [redaction of personal information] (1
pp.)
06a. Memo
From Command Duty Officer to Commanding Officer Re: CDO
01/22/90
(b)(7)(c),
[Camp David] Visit Report for 19 Thru 21 January 1990
(b)(7)(e), (b)(7)(f)
[redaction] [double-sided] (1 pp.)
06b. List
Visit Package [Camp David] 19-21 January 1990 Cabin
01/90
(b)(7)(c),
Assignments [double-sided] (1 pp.)
(b)(7)(e), (b)(7)(f)
06c. List
Helo Manifest and Carpet/Gov't Vehicle for (Staff/Guests)
n.d.
(b)(7)(c),
[double-sided] (1 pp.)
(b)(7)(e), (b)(7)(f)
Page 1 of 2
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Monday, January 22, 1990
Pinksheet Number:
dw1577
OA/ID Number:
90533-003
Date Closed:
1/19/2010
FOIA/Sys Case #:
2009-0166-S
Re-review Case #:
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Doc. No. / Type
Subject/Title
Date
Restriction
Classification
07a. Memo
From List Re; Recommended Telephone Call to Justice David H.
01/22/90
(b)(6)
Souter [redaction of personal information] (1 pp.)
07b. Resume
Daivd H. Souter [redaction of personal information] (1 pp.)
n.d.
(b)(6)
08. Note
From President Bush to Robert (Bob) Gates (2 pp.)
01/20/90
(b)(1)
Page 2 of 2
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Monday, January 22, 1990
Pinksheet Number:
dw1577
OA/ID Number:
90533-003
Date Closed:
1/19/2010
FOIA/Sys Case #:
2009-0166-S
Re-review Case #:
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Document No.
Subject/Title of Document
Date
Restriction
Class.
and Type
01. Schedule
Schedule of the President [redaction] (1 pp.)
01/22/90
(b)(3)
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Monday, January 22, 1990
Date Closed:
1/19/2010
OA/ID Number:
90533-003
FOIA/SYS Case #:
2009-0166-S
Appeal Case #:
Re-review Case #:
Appeal Disposition:
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
Disposition Date:
AR Case #:
MR Case #:
AR Disposition:
MR Disposition:
AR Disposition Date:
MR Disposition Date:
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P-1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
(b)(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P-2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
(b)(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an
P-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
(b)(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
(b)(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P-5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
(b)(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
(b)(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
PRM. Removed as a personal record misfile
SCHEDULE OF THE PRESIDENT
Monday, January 22, 1990
8:00 am
Intelligence Briefing
Oval Office
(15 min)
(Scowcroft/Sununu)
8:15 am
National Security Briefing
Oval office
(30 min)
(Scowcroft/Sununu)
8:45 am
Meeting with Governor Sununu
Oval Office
(30 min)
9:15 am
Administrative Time
Oval Office
(45 min)
10:00 am
Meeting with Benjamin
Roosevelt Room
(30 min)
Hooks, et al
(Demarest) (stills)
(TAB A)
10:30 am
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(20 min)
10:50 am
Photo with Arnold Schwarzenegger
Oval Office
(10 min)
(Untermeyer) (stills)
(TAB B)
11:00 am
Staff Time
Oval Office
(10 min)
(Demarest)
(TAB C)
11:20 am
Interview with Black TV
Library
(15 min)
and Radio Networks
(Demarest)
(TAB D)
11:35 am
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(25 min)
12:00 pm
Phone Call to "March for Life"
Oval Office
(5 min)
(Demarest) (wires)
(TAB E)
12:05 pm
Lunch with Warren Brookes
Oval Office
(55 min)
and Paul Gigot
(Fitzwater)
(TAB F)
1:00 pm
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(15 min
UNP 01/19/90
6:00 pm
1:15 pm
Meeting with Secretary Cheney
Oval Office
(30 min)
1:45 pm
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(30 min)
2:15 pm
Meeting with the Outer
Cabinet Room
(60 min)
Continental Shelf Task Force
(Bates)
(TAB G)
3:15 pm
Staff Time
Oval Office
(60 min)
(Scowcroft)
4:15 pm
Administrative Time
Oval Office
(15 min)
4:30 pm
Meeting with Governor Sununu
Oval Office
(30 min)
6:55 pm
The President departs for
South Lawn
"The American Spectator"
Reception and Dinner at the
Willard Hotel
(Rogich)
(TAB H)
8:05 pm
Arrives White House
South Lawn
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7:0
Poter arrives oval of sary Nalters 7:02 Walters out
7:57 add Dates
+ DCI 7:59 add Aconcroft 8:04
(b)(3)
8:24 DCI +
out 8:39 Dates + scouraft out 9:02 summer out
9:42 add Boyden Dray 9:46 add Acourroft 9:51 Dray out
9:57 scowerftont 9:58 (?) add summer 10:00 Dold Demorest
10:00 Polus, Summer, + Demarent to Roosevilt Pm. 10:32 Potes to Oval
User 10:38 allout 10:52 add Schwarzeneger et al. Maria photos Shrive + Eunire Shrives
w/ mtg participants for
Jun naylar Jim Cicconi.
11:01 Potis, all to Cabana 11:07 Poters, all to Oval; guest all dept
11:08 add K. Taylor, Demorest, + Portei 11:15 dirt to wif Res.
11:17 an Vermeil Run makeup 11:20 an WH libray
UNP 01/19/90
11:49 are vermeil take off makeup 11:50 apt wH to Oval 6:00 pm
1:56 add summ 12:00 add Demant, wead+ Pitywater
12:04 Fitywater Demarest out 12:04 wead out 12:05 Fatyurate into oval
12.n8 add Resorters
1:15 all out 1:16 add Chency + Acowenft
1:24 Annum to Oval 1:2 4 Card into Oval-Card & sunum out
1:25 surune into oval 1:51 Arenum out
1:56 Cheny + Acontroft ont; add Cicconi 1:58 cicconi ont; add
Demorest & Ed. Mc Nally
2:10 add sununce
2:14 McNally + Dem arest ont 2:18 add Bates
2:20 Summer + Bates ant 2:22 Potes to Cabret Rm. for OCS mtg.
3:25 Potus to Oval; add Powell, Baher, cheney, scowcroft DC/, Dates 4 Darman
3:27 and d summer 4:07 Cheney, Powell + Webster out 4:08 Dates Darman oux
4:09 Dates + Eagleburger in (Sumunu, Acontrioft, Bader stillin) 4:29 summer any
4:34 sununu in 4:43 Dates + Engleburger out 4:44 Acowrift + Surname
out
4:51 Baher 4:52 sunume 5:13 Aunune out 5:38 Card in of out
6:20 dpt Oval to Fitywater office (Card in office too)
6:22 dpt 7 itywate office 6:24 an 2 rd 7h Re,
6:56 Poter t Mrs. Bush apt WH ln ste Willar d (see Tab "H")
7:44 an WH.
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Document No.
Subject/Title of Document
Date
Restriction
Class.
and Type
02. Log
White House Telephone Log [President Bush] [redaction of
01/22/90
(b)(6)
personal information] (2 pp.)
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Monday, January 22, 1990
Date Closed:
1/19/2010
OA/ID Number:
90533-003
FOIA/SYS Case #:
2009-0166-S
Appeal Case #:
Re-review Case #:
Appeal Disposition:
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
Disposition Date:
AR Case #:
MR Case #:
AR Disposition:
MR Disposition:
AR Disposition Date:
MR Disposition Date:
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P-1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
(b)(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P-2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
(b)(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an
P-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
(b)(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
(b)(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P-5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
(b)(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
(b)(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
PRM. Removed as a personal record misfile.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
JANUARY 22nd
19
90
PRESIDENT BUSH
TIME
NAME
DISC
ACTION
PLACED
OUT
7:40
AM
7:44
SENATOR ROBERT KASTEN
(b)(6)
XXNC
XRM
TLKD-OK
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
7:50
SENATOR ARLEN SPECTOR
DA, WC LATER
5:56
TLKD-OK 5:54 P.M.
(b)(6)
XXNC
XPM
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
7:55 AM
9:28
SENATOR JOHN HEINZ
DA, WC LATER READY
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
HOLD. PRESUS IN MT
224-8043
XING
XRM
TOLD MRS. PRESOCK.
Photocopy from George Bush Presidential Library
OUT
AM
WCB 8:10 A.M.
TLKD-OK 9:15 A. M.
INC
PM
OUT
AM
9:07
9:13
MR. NEIL BUSH
(b)(6)
XINX
XXXM
TLKD-OK
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
10:50
AM
10:51
CHASE UNTERMEYER
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 689
INC
PM
TLKD-OK
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
XWX
JUDGE JOHN RAINEY
OFC: ANGLETON, TX.
XNC
5:30
PM
5:33
409 849-577 EXT. 1261
TLKD-OK
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
JANUARY 22nd
90
PRESIDENT BUSH
, 19
TIME
PLACED
DISC
NAME
ACTION
OUT
XM
MR. MARK HAMPTON
(b)(6)
ANC
5:47
PM
5:50
TLKD-OK
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
XX
AM
JUDGE JOESPH HOOD
(b)(6)
XXX
6:08
6:09
TLKD-OK
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
JUSTICE DAVID SOUTER
OFC. DA & RES. DA
TOLD MRS. PRESOCK.
(b)(6)
INC
6:11
PM
9:10
WCL TLKD-OK 9:08 P.M.
Photocopy from George Bush Presidential Library
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
XXX
JUDGE WILLIAM NICKELSON
OUT LOCALLY TOLD
MRS. PRESOCK. WCL
(b)(6)
TLKD-OK 8:57 P.M.
INC
6:15 PM
9:01,
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
XAM
MRS. PRESCOTT BUSH
(b)(6)
INC.
7:52 PM
7:58
TLKD-OK
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
SIGNAL SWITCHBOARD
January 22
'
19
90
TIME
NAME
ACTION
PLACED
DISC
OUT
AM
Right For Life Rally
Tlkd-ok
The Ellipse
12:01 PM
INC
12:01 PM
12:03
White House Signal 2-4560
PA System Used
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
SIGNAL SWITCHBOARD
January 22 , 19 90
TIME
NAME
PLACED
DISC
ACTION
OUT
AM
Right For Life Rally
Tlkd-ok
The Ellipse
12:01 PM
HNE
12:01 PM
12:03
White House Signal 2-4560
PA System Used
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
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PRESIDENTIAL MOVEMENTS
LOCATION Washington, D.C.
DATE 22 January 1990
TIME
MOVEMENTS
0701
Oval Office
1102
South Grounds
1107
Oval Office
1119
Ground Floor
1152
Oval Office
1424
Cabinet Room
1525
Oval Office
1825
Residence
1855
South Grounds
1856
Depart South Grounds via Motorcade
1858
Arrive Willard Hotel
1944
Depart Willard Hotel via Motorcade
1945
Arrive North Grounds
1946
Residence
2135
South Grounds
2137
Oval Office
2138
South Grounds
2150
Residence
WHCA FORM 15, OCTOBER 15, 1980
PRESIDENTIAL MOVEMENTS
LOCATION Washington, D.C.
DATE
22 January 1990
TIME
MOVEMENTS
0701
Oval Office
1102
South Grounds
1107
Oval Office
1119
Ground Floor
1152
Oval Office
1424
Cabinet Room
1525
Oval Office
1825
Residence
1855
South Grounds
1856
Depart South Grounds via Motorcade
1858
Arrive Willard Hotel
1944
Depart Willard Hotel via Motorcade
1945
Arrive North Grounds
1946
Residence
2135
South Grounds
2137
Oval Office
2138
South Grounds
2150
Residence
WHCA FORM 15, OCTOBER 15, 1980
News Summary
OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARY
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1990 -- 6 a.m. EST EDITION
TODAY'S HEADLINES
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Moscow's Troops Consolidate Hold Over Azerbaijan -- The Soviet Army
consolidated its occupation of Baku Sunday as leaders of the Azerbaijan
Popular Front made plans to stage a general protest strike throughout the
strife-ridden Soviet republic.
(New York Times, AP)
U.S. To Back High-Tech Sales Boost To East Bloc -- The Bush
Administration has decided to support increased sales of advanced
computers, telecommunications equipment and machine tools to East Bloc
nations that have shed their communist governments and have begun
liberalizing their economies, according to Administration officials.
(Washington Post)
NATIONAL NEWS
Bush Would Agree to Elevate EPA -- President Bush, reversing his
previous position, would accept a vote in Congress to make the EPA a
Cabinet-level department, Administration officials said.
(New York Times, AP)
NETWORK NEWS (Sunday evening)
SOCIAL SECURITY - Speaker Foley
warned that a proposed cut in the
INTERNATIONAL
A-1
Social Security tax would mean a big
increase in the deficit.
NATIONAL NEWS
A-5
ABORTION -- A national survey of
college freshmen shows that two out
NETWORK NEWS
B-1
or three now favor legalized abortion.
TALK SHOWS
C-1
HAITI -- There is a state of siege
in Haiti, imposed by military
ruler Prosper Avril.
This Summary is prepared Monday through Friday by the White House News Summary Staff.
For complete stories or information, please call 456-2950.
INTERNA NEWS
U.S. TO BACK HIGH-TECH SALES BOOST TO EAST BLOC
Political Liberalization Was Key To Decision
The Bush Administration has decided to support increased sales of
advanced computers, telecommunications equipment and machine tools to
East Bloc nations that have shed their communist governments and have
begun liberalizing their economies, according to Administration officials.
The decision, made late Friday by a committee of the NSC, came after
European allies told the Administration in forceful terms that political
liberalization within the Soviet Union and the crumbling of Moscow's rule in
Eastern Europe require sweeping shifts in the U.S. position of maintaining
strict controls against technology sales to East Bloc nations, according to
officials close to the decision.
At the same time, countries such as Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia
and
East Germany are seeking high-tech products from the West to
modernize their economies and have promised the Bush Administration to
keep those products from the Soviet Union.
The NSC, faced with a mid-February meeting of NATO allies, Japan
and Australia at which the U.S. is likely to be isolated if it does not
change its position, agreed to a sweeping liberalization of export
restrictions in hopes that the new U.S. position will be adopted by its
allies.
(Stuart Auerbach, Washington Post, A13)
BAKU BURIES ITS DEAD;
STRIKES DECLARED TO PROTEST SOVIET MILITARY
MOSCOW -- Factory whistles wailed in mourning Monday and tens of
thousands of Azerbaijanis massed in Baku to bury scores of countrymen
killed when Soviet troops stormed the city to put down a nationalist
uprising, sources said.
A general strike was called to protest the assault and occupation, and
the southern republic's legislature reportedly met to consider secession.
In fierce fighting to put down a revolt born in bloody ethnic strife,
Soviet troops smashed through barricades and broke through to the center
of the Azerbaijan capital on Saturday.
The official news agency Tass said 83 people, including 14 soldiers
and members of their families, were killed in the assault and skirmishes
the previous day.
That brought the toll to 156 dead and more than 500 wounded in a
week of fighting throughout Azerbaijan.
(John-Thor Dahlburg, AP)
Moscow's Troops Consolidate Hold Over Azerbaijan
MOSCOW -- The Soviet Army consolidated its occupation of Baku
Sunday as leaders of the Azerbaijan Popular Front made plans to stage a
general protest strike throughout the strife-ridden Soviet republic.
Both government-controlled news outlets and individual members of
the opposition reached by telephone in Baku reported scattered gunfire in
the republic's capital, but no new deaths. Large crowds of Azerbaijanis
gathered in public squares in Baku and other areas in defiance of martial-
law restrictions.
They protested the killing of scores of people and the wounding of
hundreds when the central government sent in troops early Saturday to
reassert its authority in the rebellious city.
(Francis Clines, New York Times, A1)
-more-
Monday, January 22, 1990 -- A-2
CITY GOVERNMENT OF BAKU DEMANDS ARMY'S WITHDRAWAL
Defiance Against Soviet Troops Continues
MOSCOW -- The city council of the embattled capital of Soviet
Azerbaijan demanded Sunday that army troops be withdrawn, while
thousands of people gathered outside Communist Party headquarters in
defiance of the state of emergency to mourn those killed in this weekend's
sudden military occupation.
As Soviet troops with heavy weapons patrolled the streets of Baku in
force, an "enlarged meeting" of the city council demanded that the state of
emergency be lifted and army units removed, according to the official Tass
news agency. The council's action was a brusque rejection of appeals by
the Soviet military commander for residents to join in "the rebirth of the
city" under Moscow's control.
At a higher political level, the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan was
summoned to an urgent meeting amid predictions from nationalist sources
that it, too, would demand that the troops go home
Sniping and sporadic fighting, including an account of mutinous
Azerbaijani military cadets firing on Soviet army troops, were reported by
Western news agencies based on telephone interviews from Baku Sunday.
(Don Oberdorfer, Washington Post, A1)
COMMUNIST PARTY'S NO. 2 LEADER RESIGNS,
DEMANDS BREAKUP OF PARTY
EAST BERLIN -- In a move expected to trigger mass defections, East
Germany's No. 2 communist has abandoned the party that ruled East
Germany through intimidation for 40 years, and called for its dissolution.
Wolfgang Berghofer, the party's deputy chairman since December and
a leading popular reformer, defected along with 39 other prominent party
members from Dresden, of which he is mayor.
Sunday's resignations immediately followed an emergency meeting of
the embattled communist leadership, which expelled Egon Krenz
along
with 13 other former Politburo members.
They also coincided with a. march by tens of thousands of
anti-communist protesters across the border to West Germany and back.
Many marchers carried empty suitcases in the symbolic exodus.
West Germany's ADR television said: "They wanted to show how many
people are ready to leave the country in case the Communist Party remains
in power" after parliamentary elections promised for May 6.
(George Boehmer, AP)
MONGOLIANS MARCH FOR DEMOCRACY
Demonstrators Defy New Ban On Protests
BEIJING -- Nearly 3,000 Mongolians, defying a ban on
demonstrations, marched to the central square in Mongolia's capital of Ulan
Bator Sunday to call for democratic reforms and restrictions on Communist
Party rule there.
Diplomats and foreign witnesses in the Mongolian capital, interviewed
by telephone, said Sunday's demonstration, the fourth of its kind in six
weeks, was peaceful. Protesters met no resistance from police even
though the Mongolian government last week announced a ban on
demonstrations in Ulan Bator. (Daniel Southerland, Washington Post, A13)
-more-
Monday, January 22, 1990 -- A-3
EAST BLOC TURMOIL BODES ILL FOR TRADE AND AID IN CUBA
MIAMI -- Cuba's 31-year-old communist regime can expect serious
economic troubles this year as a result of the changes sweeping Eastern
Europe and the Soviet Union. But Fidel Castro's rule is not likely to
crumble like those of East European communist leaders, in the view of
U.S. and Latin American specialists.
This year, the experts predict, Cuba will suffer growing shortages of
basic goods and frustrating disruptions in production as imports dwindle
from the socialist nations in turmoil.
Some analysts in the U.S. say the hardships could become as severe
as those Cubans experienced in the years after 1962, when the U.S.
imposed a trade boycott after Castro's defiant declaration of his Marxist
beliefs.
(Julia Preston, Washington Post, A1)
NORIEGA WEALTH
MIAMI -- Investigators are concluding the Bush Administration
exaggerated ousted Panamanian Noriega's wealth, the Miami Herald reported
Sunday.
Many of the assets cited by the Administration as evidence of
Noriega's fortune belonged to Panama's defense forces or are registered to
businessmen close to him, according to documents emerging from
Panamanian government offices in the aftermath of the Dec. 20 U.S.
invasion
This could complicate efforts by prosecutors to portray Noriega as an
immensely wealthy man in the former general's upcoming federal trial on
drug charges in Miami.
(AP)
NORIEGA'S WEALTH PUT AT $300 MILLION
PANAMA CITY -- U.S. investigators have uncovered evidence to
suggest that the fortune amassed by Manuel Noriega during his years in
power may total as much as $300 million, according to Panamanian officials
and U.S. sources here.
Among hundreds of bank accounts and pieces of property worldwide
now linked to the ousted dictator is a $27 million castle in the south of
France held in the name of Vicky Amado, Noriega's 35-year-old mistress,
the sources said.
The indication of the vastness of the Noriega holdings has sent a
quiet reverberation of hope through the financially strapped government of
Guillermo Endara. The regime's grim economic outlook is compounded by
new concerns that as little as half of the $400 million in government funds
frozen by the U.S. during the Noriega years may ultimately be returned to
Panama.
(Douglas Jehl, Los Angeles Times)
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Monday, January 22, 1990 -- A-4
HAITIAN OPPOSITION HIDING OR DEPORTED
AS CRACKDOWN CONTINUES
PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Haiti's military government has continued to
arrest and deport more political opponents in a crackdown unleashed with
the declaration of a 30-day state of siege, diplomats and opposition sources
said.
In response, the French government abruptly cancelled a meeting for
Monday and Tuesday of the French-Haitian Cooperation Mission, saying
President Avril's action had made such a conference impossible.
Military officials said the siege decree issued Saturday was spurred
by the machine-gun slaying Friday night of an army colonel, his wife and
maid
Fearing they would be targeted next for arrest, some anti-government
leaders went into hiding Sunday.
(Matt Spetalnick, Reuter)
U.S. CONFRONTS ISRAEL ON ETHIOPIA CLUSTER BOMBS
The Bush Administration has told Israel that it opposes secret
shipments of cluster bombs to the Marxist government of Ethiopia for use
against rebel troops and villages, officials said Sunday.
Officials said they have received several credible reports that
Ethiopia's air force has recently begun dropping cluster bombs
If the bombs were U.S.-made or based on U.S. technology, their
shipment to Ethiopia would probably be illegal under American law, officials
said. But when the U.S. asked Israel whether it was providing the bombs
to the Ethiopian regime, the response was "unclear," a U.S. diplomat said.
"They told us, in effect, that they are no longer sending any -- that
they aren't sending any right now, he said. "But they've been vague
about what they've done in the past.
(Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, A5)
CAREER DIPLOMATS GET TWO-THIRDS OF AMBASSADORSHIPS
Career diplomats got two-thirds of the ambassadorships during
President Bush's first year and are likely to receive almost all the embassy
openings for the rest of his term, the White House personnel director
says.
Charles Untermeyer said Sunday that despite criticism from Democrats
about ambassadorships being awarded as plums to the Republican Party's
biggest benefactors, Bush has achieved his goal of putting diplomatic
newcomers in no more than one-third of U.S. embassies.
From now on, "close to 100 percent" of ambassadorial appointments
will go to career foreign service officers, Untermeyer said in an interview.
"Henceforth, for the rest of the first Bush term, I expect very,
very few non-career nominations," he said.
(Christopher Connell, AP)
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NATIONAL NEWS
MITCHELL: PAYROLL TAX CUT COULD PASS
No Consensus In Hill Leadership
On Rollback Of Social Security Levy
Sen. Mitchell (D.-Maine) said Sunday there is a "very real
possibility" Congress will pass a Social Security tax cut this year and
contended that the proposal "greatly complicates" chances for passage of a
capital gains tax reduction sought by President Bush.
But Sen. Dole (R.-Kan.) said the Social Security proposal is "not
going anywhere" and added that he doubts it will have any adverse effect
on Bush's proposal to reduce tax rates on capital gain from the sale of
stocks, property and other assets
Despite Mitchell's prediction, the interviews underscored a lack of
consensus on the issue in the top ranks of the Democratic leadership.
While Mitchell has taken no firm position on Moynihan's proposal, he
said on ABC's "This Week With David Brinkley" that he "may well endorse
it" after further details are made available along with its analyses of its
impact on the federal budget deficit.
But Rep. Foley (D-Wash.) said he is currently inclined against the
idea. "I'm not sure it's a good idea to cut the taxes," Foley said on
NBC's "Meet the Press." "If I had to make a decision today, I'd probably
say don't do it."
(Helen Dewar, Washington Post, A19)
ADMINISTRATION NOW FAVORS
ELEVATION OF EPA TO CABINET STATUS
The White House senior staff is advising support of bipartisan
legislation to elevate the EPA to Cabinet status, an Administration source
says.
President Bush has been reluctant to endorse such a move in the past
on grounds that making the Cabinet larger makes it harder to manage the
government
Supporting elevation of the EPA to Cabinet status could bring
considerable political benefit to Bush among environmentalists, who have
long pushed the idea.
(AP)
Bush Would Agree to Elevate EPA
President Bush, reversing his previous position, would accept a vote
in Congress to make the EPA a Cabinet-level department, Administration
officials said.
Before he took office, Mr. Bush said he did not want to add to the
Cabinet because he wanted to keep it a manageable size; it now has 14
members. But, the officials said, the President's growing appreciation of
the need for global cooperation on environmental problems, the profound
implications of EPA programs on all parts of society and the rising public
interest in such issues have helped persuade him to drop his opposition.
Legislation to make the EPA a Cabinet department is scheduled to be
introduced in the House of Representatives this week. On the Senate
side, a similar measure is expected to be introduced shortly. Two
Democratic supporters of the legislation, Rep. Synar (D:-Okla.) and Sen.
Glenn (D.-Ohio) said they believe that prospects for passage of the
legislation this year are good.
(Philip Shabecoff, New York Times, A1)
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Monday, January 22, 1990 -- A-6
WHITE HOUSE, CONGRESS TO CLASH IN NEW SESSION
With Democrats promising to bleed President Bush's defense budget,
wage war on Social Security and obstruct a capital gains tax cut if it's not
to their liking, clashes with the White House are a certainty as Congress
returns for a new session Tuesday
"The good news for the Republicans is the President has a 79
percent approval rating, and that will be very helpful if the American
people find out that the Democratic [controlled] Congress has been
blocking a lot of what he has been trying to do," said a key Republican
aide in the Senate.
But other Republicans are not so optimistic. "We're anticipating a
lame duck [type] session, because of the political volatility of a lot of
these issues,' said Michael Johnson, top aide for House Minority Leader
Robert Michel of Illinois.
A key Democratic aide agreed partisan fighting would be evident this
year, but added: "We're not talking about a pendulum swing from an
embrace [with the President] to trench warfare."
(Chris Harvey, Washington Times, A3)
BUSH IS POPULAR, BUT VULNERABLE
President Bush begins his second year in office this week as the most
popular president of the postwar rea but faces a wide range of problems
that could send his public approval rating plummeting, according to a
panel pf political analysts.
The analysts who met Friday at the Washington Times Forum to assess
the Bush presidency said Mr. Bush remains politically weak and unfeared
on Capitol Hill and could be hurt by his opposition to a proposal by Sen.
Moynihan to cut Social Security taxes
Virtually everyone on the panel of nine political analysts agreed that
Mr. Bush's performance has exceeded their expectations -- especially in
foreign affairs -- but that his domestic agenda lacked substance and
direction
The analysts said Mr. Bush's biggest fear should be that the
Democrats will organize a united offensive against him as the 1990
congressional election season heats up.
"George Bush has to fear that the Democrats will all of a sudden
stand up and decide they're going to fight him. George is very much of a
compromiser, and I'm not sure how he would react if there is aggressive
opposition to him," said Lyn Nofziger who was President Reagan's first
White House political adviser.
(Donald Lambro, Washington Times, A1)
ABORTION FOES TO MOBILIZE, HEAR BUSH
Both sides of the abortion issue take to the streets Monday to
commemorate the 17th anniversary of Roe V. Wade
The biggest event for abortion opponents is the annual March for Life
in Washington, where President Bush is expected to speak through a
telephone hookup to marchers
Meanwhile, Newsweek reported Sunday that the Bush family,
discussing the issue at a recent gathering, was deeply divided; among
Bush, wife Barbara, their children and children's spouses, the women
supported and the men opposed abortion rights.
(Steve Marshall, USA Today, A1)
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Monday, January 22, 1990 -- A-7
GOP LURCHES TOWARD NEW CONSENSUS ON ABORTION
Atwater Seeks To Avoid Decision,
Get Through 1990 Elections Without Issue Hurting Party
With a strategic push from Chairman Lee Atwater, the Republican
Party has begun lurching toward a new consensus on abortion, but it is
not clear whether the party can get there without triggering a civil war.
Atwater's immediate goal is to get through the 1990 elections without
allowing the abortion issue to trip up Republican candidates the way it did
in Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial elections last November
With thousands of antiabortion demonstrators arriving here Monday for
the annual "March for Life," the party's dilemma is clear. Any backsliding
could produce a backlash. Those activists helped nominate and elect
Ronald Reagan a year ago and have been a core constituency of the
Republican Party.
They now expect President Bush to adhere to that position, and so
far he has done so
But equally important to Atwater's goal of making the Republicans the
majority party are younger voters, women and independents who may favor
abortion rights but are otherwise attracted to the party's conservatism.
They are looking for signs that the Republicans are not rigidly opposed to
abortion rights.
(Dan Balz, Washington Post, A20)
SUPPORT FOR LEGALIZED ABORTION
RISES AMONG COLLEGE FRESHMEN
Shift Is Dramatic In Wake Of Webster Case
The number of college freshmen who want to keep abortion legal rose
significantly after last July's Supreme Court decision giving states
increased powers to regulate abortion, according to an extensive survey of
students released Sunday.
The survey, administered to 216,382 freshmen on 403 campuses last
year, found 64.7 percent agreed when asked whether "abortion should be
legalized," up from 57 percent in 1988
"An abrupt change in student attitudes of this magnitude in just one
year is most unusual
I
think that's the single largest increase we've
seen on any question," said Alexander Astin, an education professor at
UCLA and director of the survey, first conducted in 1966.
(Kenneth Cooper, Washington Post, A20)
BUSH TO NOMINATE CHAIRMAN TO END SAFETY BOARD VACANCY
President Bush will nominate James L. Kolstad to be chairman of the
National Transportation Safety Board, ending a long stalemate with
Congress over who should run the agency, a White House official said
Sunday.
Mr. Bush will make the nomination on Monday, Charles Untermeyer,
the director of Presidential personnel, told the AP
The board has been struggling with a shrinking investigatove staff
and a tight budget as it tries to fulfill its mandate to learn the causes of
the nation's worst accidents in the air, sea and on land.
(AP, New York Times, A12)
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Monday, January 22, 1990 -- A-8
CONTRACTORS AND 'THE PUBLIC INTEREST'
GAO Says Sensitive Energy Dept.
and EPA Tasks Belong 'In House'
The Energy Department and the EPA are using private contractors to
perform sensitive tasks that should be done by full-time federal employees,
according to a GAO report scheduled to be released Monday.
At Energy, contractor personnel are used to rule on security
clearance applications and to help department officials prepare for
appearances before Congress. The EPA has a contract with Geo/Resource
Consultants Inc. to answer questions from the public and from other
government agencies on the "Superfund Hotline."
These functions, the GAO said in a report to Sen. Pryor (D.-Ark.)
fit a criterion developed by the OMB for determining whether it is
appropriate to let contractors handle them: They are "so intimately related
to the public interest as to mandate performance by government
employees."
"My ongoing investigations show that much of what the American
public thinks of as its government is being turned over to an invisible
bureaucracy of consultants and contractors," Sen. Pryor (D.-Ark.) said in
a statement. He said the GAO finding is "confirmation that something has
gone very wrong when government officials are no more than mouthpieces
or rubber stamps for testimony, rules and decisions prepared by private
contractors.'
(Thomas Lippman, Washington Post, A9)
BARRY CONCEDES 'DEEPEST HUMAN FRAILTIES,'
ASKS FOR UNDERSTANDING WHILE SEEKING CARE
D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, flanked by his wife and several prominent
religious leaders, Sunday sought to share the anguish he has felt since his
arrest Thursday on a cocaine charge and pledged to "find a way to begin
to heal my body, mind and soul."
In the latest scene of a drama that has riveted the attention of the
District, the nation and the international community, a tense Barry faced a
battery of reporters at a church fellowship hall across the street from his
house in Southeast, talking in painfully public terms about his "deepest
human frailties" and "weaknesses," and making an emotional appeal to city
residents for their understanding and love
One close friend Sunday disputed the official explanation of the
mayor's abuse problem. "This is not an alcohol problem," the longtime
associate said. "There's nobody in their right mind who thinks this is
alcohol. He's got a combined problem of alcohol and drugs."
(R.H. Melton, Washington Post, A1)
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Monday, January 22, 1990 -- A-9
RESIGNING NOT VIABLE, MUNDY SAYS
Barry's Attorney To Review New Evidence
D.C. Mayor Barry's attorney said Sunday he plans to begin
reviewing the evidence federal prosecutors have against the mayor this
week and asserted that "at this point, resignation is not a viable option
for the mayor."
Several legal experts said Sunday that an agreement to resign is one
of Barry's key bargaining chips if plea negotiations go forward, as sources
close to Barry said they might.
These legal specialists said that the best deal Barry could realistically
hope for from prosecutors could be an agreement that no more criminal
charges would be filed against him, in exchange for his resignation.
Prosecutors would be reluctant to drop the misdemeanor cocaine
charge already leveled against the mayor, several sources said.
(Saundra Torry, Washington Post, A1)
EDITOR'S NOTES: "Weinberger: Too Loose With Secrets?" by Patrick
Tyler, appears in the Washington Post, A9.
-End of A-Section-
NETWORK NEWS SUMMARY
(Sunday Evening, January 21)
(NBC and ABC news pre-empted by local coverage.)
SOCIAL SECURITY TAX
CBS's Connie Chung reports that Speaker Foley warned today that a
proposed cut in the Social Security tax would mean a big increase in
the deficit. If a vote were held today, Foley said, he'd vote against
the cut. Sen. Mitchell hasn't made up his mind on the Social
Security tax, but he took a shot today on the President's plan to cut
the capital gains tax.
(Sen. Mitchell: "The Administration tax policy can be summed up in
a sentence: Let the little people pay; cut taxes for the wealthy. I
think that's wrong and unfair.")
(CBS-3)
MAYOR BARRY
Chung: Marion Barry was to have announced today that he is running for
re-election as mayor of Washington, D.C. But instead, with tears in
his eyes, Barry announced that he is going to seek help to heal his
body. The mayor did not say what he was going to heal his body of,
but it was last Thursday night that he was charged with possessing
crack cocaine.
CBS's Norman Robinson reports that in his speech today, Mayor
Barry never admitted to a drug problem. Insiders say the mayor may
not want to speak out on drugs yet because of plea-bargaining
efforts. Residents are worried that the mayor's problems will
encourage Congress to step in and exercise more control and quash
recent efforts by the city to become independent of federal overseers.
(Sen. Kerrey: "I think it's very unlikely that statehood's going to
go very far in the midst of this.")
Returning to the White House this evening, the President was
sympathetic to the mayor.
(TV Coverage: President and Mrs. Bush entering White House from
South Lawn.)
(President Bush: "Very sad, very sad.")
(CBS-Lead)
ABORTION, DRUGS/STUDENTS
Chung reports that a national survey of college freshmen shows that two
out of three now favor legalized abortion. An all-time low of less
than 17 percent believe marijuana should be legalized.
(CBS-12)
ABORTION
Chung: Seventeen years ago tomorrow, the Supreme Court legalized
abortion. Today, pro-life activists around the country demonstrated
against the decision. Some 20,000 people rallied at the Oklahoma
capital, urging legislators to outlaw abortion in the state. (CBS-9)
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Monday, January 22, 1990 -- B-2
AZERBAIJAN
Chung reports that Soviet troops have apparently gained the upper hand
tonight in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Soviet commander said at least 83
people were killed in fighting against Azerbaijani nationalists. Others
say the toll is much higher.
CBS's Barry Petersen reports that troops surrounded the main square
of Baku. Local Azerbaijani officials today demanded the troops be
pulled out, that the curfew and other emergency measures be lifted,
and that Azerbaijanis be put back in control. Meanwhile, the debate
has begun over whether Soviet troops shot only to defend themselves
or whether they opened fire indiscriminately, killing dozens of
innocent people. Already there are accusations and anger against the
Soviet leadership. At a Moscow news conference, an Azerbaijani
spokesman and former member of the Soviet Politburo called the
decision a mistake made at the highest level. Azerbaijanis marched
through the streets of Moscow in protest, their signs attacking
Gorbachev by name.
(CBS-4)
ARMENIAN-AMERICANS
Chung reports that thousands of Armenian-Americans today blamed the
bloodshed on Azerbaijanis and defended the role of Soviet troops.
CBS's Richard Roth reports that Armenian-Americans gathered and
demonstrated in New York, suburban Chicago and Los Angeles. In
Washington, Armenian-Americans delivered a letter to the Soviet
Embassy criticizing Moscow for not doing enough. They want
territory back from Azerbaijan and assurances of safety.
(CBS-5)
MONGOLIA
Chung reports that thousands in Soviet-dominated Mongolia defied a
government ban on protests today and heard speakers demand
political reforms and respect for human rights.
(CBS-6)
HAVEL/TROOP WITHDRAWALS
Chung reports that Czech President Havel will be visiting the U.S. and
Soviet Union to discuss troop withdrawals from Europe. He will
reportedly go to Moscow by the end of January and to Washington two
weeks after that.
(CBS-8)
E. GERMANY/KRENZ
Chung reports that East Germany's former leader Egon Krenz was expelled
from the Communist Party today.
(CBS-7)
HAITI
Chung reports that there is a state of seige tonight in Haiti, imposed by
military ruler Prosper Avril. At least two prominent opposition
leaders were deported and surfaced today in Miami. They were
among dozens of opposition figures arrested following the murder
Friday night of an army colonel.
(CBS-14)
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Monday, January 22, 1990 -- B-3
REFUGEES/U.S.
Chung: The U.S. and 17 other countries meet Tuesday in Geneva to
discuss what to do with thousands of Vietnamese refugees stranded in
southeast Asia.
CBS's Bill Plante reports that it took seven years for the U.S. to get
a deal with Vietnam to release refugees who were being held by Hanoi
because of their loyalty to the U.S. during the Vietnam War. It took
that long partly because there were other issues the U.S. considered
more urgent: the POWs and MIAs, for example. But the
humanitarian business of helping any refugees always seems in
practice to become political.
(Roger Winter, U.S. Commission on Refugees: "The way to
understand the politics of U.S. refugee programs is to follow the
money. Where does the money go?")
These days, a lot of the money is going to help resettle refugees
from Eastern Europe and, particularly, the Soviet Union.
(Roger Winter: "As we have responded to the politics, the almost
irresistable need and desire to resettle refugees from the Soviet
Union, we have necessarily diverted resources from other refugees.")
Winter and other critics argue that it costs far more to resettle
thousands of refugees in the U.S. than to feed and protect millions of
refugees in the Third World. But the primary goal of U.S. refugee
policy is to be able to offer asylum to those who need it.
(Robert Finseth, State Dept.: "There must be some resettlement of
persons who do not have a possibility of ever returning to their
homes.")
(CBS-13)
DAIRY PRODUCTS/HORMONES
Chung reports that Wisconsin could soon become the first state to require
the labeling of dairy products that come from COWS treated with the
hormone known variously as BST and BGH. The drug is designed to
produce more milk, but it is also producing health concerns.
CBS's Gary Reeves reports that because some of the BGH is made
artificially, it has become controversial despite manufacturers' claims
that it is perfectly safe. The FDA may soon approve BGH for
general use, the first gene-spliced product available for general
consumption, despite critics' claims that the FDA relies too heavily on
data supplied by the companies that make the artificial hormones.
Fear of adverse health problems has prompted some stores to ban
BGH milk.
(CBS-10)
DROPOUTS/DRIVING
Chung reports that the New Hampshire state Senate has just given its
approval to a bill that would deny a driver's license to teenage
dropouts.
CBS's Victoria Corderi reports that New Hampshire legislators are
pushing a law that says no diploma, no driver's license until age 18.
The proposal is controversial and has failed twice -- the biggest
organized opposition is the teachers. The bill has been modified and
stands a better chance of passing this time around.
(CBS-11)
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ABC -- THIS WEEK WITH DAVID BRINKLEY
Moderator: David Brinkley. Panelists: George Will, Sam Donaldson.
Guests: Sen. Hollings, Rep. Gingrich, Sen. Dole, Sen. Mitchell, Budget
Director Darman.
Guests: Rep. Gingrich, Sen. Hollings.
Brinkley: Sen. Moynihan's plan, Mr. Gingrich -- what do you think of it?
Rep. Gingrich: I think it's very interesting that Pat Moynihan now calls
thievery something he helped design
I think he's opened a good
debate
I personally think that Congressman John Porter has a much
better idea in returning it as an IRA rather than as a pure tax cut
Moynihan knew precisely where we were going. He said as late as 1988
that he knew there would be huge surpluses. He knew they would be
invested in the way they're being invested.
Brinkley: Sen. Hollings, how about you?
Sen. Hollings: Well, the fact is that in 1983, yes, Sen. Moynihan's law
called for an increase in 1990 of Social Security taxes in order to set aside
a reserve. We're not investing it; we're not reserving it. We're spending
it for the deficit. So Sen. Moynihan is right on target. It's thievery,
and the Administration really has gotten its hand in the Social Security jar
because it's not a tax cut
What we're saying
is
let's
not
increase
Social Security taxes some $50 billion, some $600 again on all the workers
of America, to pay for the deficit.
Will: Congressman Gingrich, explain to me more why Republicans like you
relish this debate. You're opposing the tax cut for 111 million working
Americans
Gingrich:
[Sens. Moynihan and Hollings] are not talking about a tax
cut in toto. They're talking about forcing a budget crisis which is
artificial -- about budget numbers which all of them have known for
several years. They're talking about forcing a tax increase
Will:
Are you, as a spokesman for the Republican Party
happy with
the trend of the incidence of taxation in this country over the last ten
years, and do you dispute that it has been made much more regressive?
Gingrich:
I'm very happy that we've had the longest period of
economic growth in American history
And I think that the tax
programs of the last ten years have done that.
Donaldson: Sen. Hollings, why don't you respond to the idea that you
five percent value-added tax is, in fact, something that would be
regressive, and that would simply add to the problem?
Hollings: Nothing's more regressive than the Social Security tax on the
workers just to pay the deficit and not for Social Security. What's really
happened here is that the Administration is caught asking for a tax
increase
to pay the deficit.
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Monday, January 22, 1990 -- C-2
Donaldson: You say the Administration is asking for a tax increase. But
in fact, it's the law
The Administration is not asking for an increase.
Hollings: Well, they are because this is a 1990 increase that never was
contemplated to be used for the deficit
It's the law, but it was a law
set aside for a reserve, and we're not setting it aside for reserve. And
under Gramm-Rudman-Hollings, we weren't going to need that.
Brinkley:
If we have your five percent value-added tax, how long will
it stay at five percent? A year?
Hollings: Well, no one knows
My guess would be you might cut out
some of the exemptions
Brinkley: But how long would it stay at five percent, senator, in your
best judgment?
Hollings: Well, it doesn't make any difference. How long is the debt
going to continue to soar?
Brinkley: I think it does.
Guests: Sens. Dole and Mitchell.
Brinkley: What we are told now is that the money, as it is going at the
moment, will not be there. There will be IOUs. Is that right?
Sen. Mitchell: That's absolutely right. Sen. Moynihan has performed an
important national service by pointing that fact out, and by pointing out
how unfair and regressive the American tax system has become.
Donaldson: Do I take it you endorse the Moynihan plan?
Sen. Mitchell: Not yet, but I may well do that soon. It's just a
Moynihan suggestion to discuss it with him. I think there's a growing groundswell of
And I've not yet had the opportunity to meet with Sen.
support for it in both the Democratic and Republican parties in Congress
and around the country
Donaldson: I'm a little curious why you don't jump on it immediately.
Sen. Mitchell: Well, I think it's kind of a sad commentary on the state of
American politics that if you don't have an instant opinion, that if you
want to actually study something and think about it, that's perceived as a
negative
The one adverse aspect which has to be carefully analyzed is
the effect on the deficit and how we can deal with that.
Donaldson: Sen. Dole, you're not for the Moynihan plan?
Sen. Dole: I don't know how we're going to take care of the deficit
My view is, the Administration has a plan that they're going to surface
when the budget's released that would start setting aside, on a phased-in
basis, money where you'd retire the debt with -- so you could save,
protect the trust fund for future retirees
I agree that it's an idea
that ought to be studied
It's not going to pass.
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Monday, January 22, 1990 -- C-3
Sen. Mitchell: No, I don't agree with that. I think there's a very real
possibility that it might pass.
Will: Sen. Dole, is it not the case that because of the use now being
made of the Social Security revenues flooding into the government, a huge
tax increase is going to be necessary sometime to finance the baby boom
retirement, and the argument is whether or not the tax increase should
come sooner rather than later
?
Sen. Dole: No, even if you take a look at the Moynihan plan in the next
century, he's going to have to raise taxes to about 19 percent of payroll
-- that's if you include the so-called Medicare tax. So his tax is going
to go up from about 12.2 to 19 percent
You also said that it's
regressive. The tax may be regressive, but the benefits are
progressive
There is a problem. We are now using this to mask the
deficit. It shouldn't be done. That's where Sen. Moynihan has provided
a service.
Donaldson:
Does this affect [the capital gains tax cut proposal] Will
a capital gains cut pass this year?
Sen. Mitchell: Clearly, a majority in both Houses favor the concept of a
differential in taxing capital gains
I don't know what the President's
plan is going to be this year. I think Sen. Moynihan's proposal greatly
complicates and makes more difficult enactment of a capital gains tax cut,
because the benefit goes primarily to the wealthy; very little to working
people. Moynihan's plan is just the reverse.
Sen. Dole: I think we're going to pass the capital gains rate reduction.
I don't think the Moynihan plan makes any difference.
Donaldson:
The President has launched a campaign, desperate, it
seems, to sustain his veto of the bill that would allow Chinese students to
stay in this country, saying the Administration is doing it on its own.
Will that veto be sustained?
Sen. Mitchell: Of course he only needs 34 votes, and there are 45
Republicans
I hope the veto is not sustained, because I think the
President's policy on China is absolutely dead wrong.
Sen. Dole: Well, the President has done as much by Administrative
action, or more, in every case, than does this bill; so we ought to vote to
sustain the veto. What I would do is hold off on this bill for awhile
Let's wait 30 to 60 days, see what the Chinese do. They're making
changes now.
Guest: Budget Director Darman.
Brinkley: If we go on as we are, spending the Social Security trust fund
to cover our debts, deficits, what do we do in 15 years when the baby
boomers retire and want their money?
Darman: They'd have a problem. That's why we shouldn't do that. We
should be getting our debt down.
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Brinkley: How? I mean, we've heard that a lot.
Darman: What we should do first is meet the targets of the
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law, balance the budget in '93 at zero, keep it at
zero thereafter, and then, importantly, take an amount equivalent to this
amount that Sen. Moynihan is talking about
and buy down debt with it,
so that in the future, instead of having $3 trillion in debt, we have zero.
Brinkley: You think there's any real chance of it being done?
Darman: Well, Sen. Moynihan has in effect thrown a grenade into the
middle of the House and Senate
I think this is a risky strategy.
Will: In 1981 you were David Stockman's boon companion when the Reagan
Administration threw a grenade into the fiscal system, saying in effect,
let's cut taxes and see what happens by the pressure that will put on the
government to cut spending
Isn't that also what Moynihan is doing?
Darman: Well, the problem with Sen. Moynihan's approach is that it has
to have an effect either in the direction of something like Sen. Hollings'
plan, and a corresponding increase in taxes, or it would force benefit
reductions, which is exactly why the President says it's a charade.
Will: There's a third possibility, and that is that the Bush Administration
could continue what the Reagan and Bush Administrations have done,
which is just borrow the difference -- a borrowing binge.
Darman: But that is not at all our proposal
We say, let's have
honest accounting about all of this, and let's pay that debt down.
Donaldson:
You're forecasting a deficit of, what, $100 billion?
Darman: A little more than that; about $101 billion.
Donaldson: The Congressional Budget Office is about to come out with its
forecast of $138 billion
Darman:
You're right, there is a difference between us and the
Congressional Budget Office and its a difference of about $30-some-odd
billion. And the reason is that they forecast a little bit slower economic
growth than we do, and they forecast interest rates I believe
which rise
slightly over the year, whereas we're forecasting a decline slowly over the
year.
Donaldson: I want your opinion of the Porter plan in the House to
privatize Social Security
Do you favor that?
Darman: No, I don't favor it personally. But it's almost irrelevant. It
isn't going to have enough votes
Donaldson: In order to stop this idea which is rolling -- the momentum is
clearly with the Moynihan plan --
Darman: No, the momentum of press interest is with the Moynihan plan.
But at least so far I think it's notable that there's not much in the way of
significant Democratic or Republican leadership that has endorsed it.
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Donaldson:
Sen. Mitchell just forecast on this program a few minutes
ago, didn't he telegraph that, as soon as they finish studying it, they're
going to jump right on?
Darman: Well, I don't know what he's going to do. He said that he was
interested in being responsible, and I agree with one of your colleagues,
Charles Krauthammer, says the Moynihan plan has actually won the award
for the most irresponsible idea of the 90's.
Will: Can you explain the irresponsibility? He says, let's cut taxes, and
then we'll have an argument about whether to balance the budget, and if
so, how to do it. What's irresponsible?
Darman:
What Sen. Moynihan is proposing, you say, Oh my gosh, we
have a problem over here: we don't have enough money. Let's take in
even less.
Will: Over the next three years, just give us your ballpark figure how
big is the peace dividend?
Darman:
In our budget, the peace dividend is going to start on the
order of about $10 billion in budget authority, relative to the infation
adjustment -- $15, $16 billion relative to what we had previously planned.
And it will rise toward the level of $40 billion a year in, say, four years.
Donaldson:
Do you think [the Federal Reserve Board] has gotten the
message from the White House, and they're going to try to ease monetary
policy to some extent so that interest rates can be lower?
Darman: I don't think they're much influence by what the White House
says, or what I would say. And so I don't propose to say anymore.
Donaldson: Well, may I just ask you very seriously, what would you like
to see the Fed do?
Darman: I would like to stay out of that debate on the theory that they
will do something wiser if I stay out of it.
---
Discussion segment -- Hodding Carter joins.
On President Bush's ratings:
Donaldson: I think George Bush has had a very good year
I think
he gets good marks in a tactical sense.
Carter:
I think it's going to be a long-term disaster
The
long-term problems are major, and he's been dealing with none of them.
Will:
What you want to do is save the euphoria for election eve
It would amaze me if this is not the best year of Bush's Presidency,
because you can only de-Communize Central Europe once
But the fact
is, the Bush Administration has continued what the country voted for,
which is to continue financing current consumption by putting the burden
on the voiceless and voteless rising generation.
###
CBS -- FACE THE NATION
Moderator: Lesley Stahl. Guests: Sen. Moynihan, Tom Oliphant of the
Boston Globe, Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution.
Guest: Sen. Moynihan.
Stahl: Let me present the counter-arguments to you, the reasons that
very few Democrats have come to endorse your plan, and why the White
House opposes it, and that is, if you don't allow the Social Security
surpluses to be used to get the deficit down, then you're just going to
have a huge, gigantic deficit.
Sen. Moynihan: You can cut spending. The defense spending is going to
go down very sharply. But I just have to plead that there's a prior
issue of integrity in government
Remember, we have always been on a
pay-as-you-go basis. It's a nice point.
Stahl: But wait a minute. You're the one who was part of that plan that
says pay as you go won't work
You're
one
of
the
architects
of
the
Social Security trust fund deal that produced these big taxes, right?
You said in 1983 that if we didn't have these surpluses, we weren't going
to be able to pay the retirees in the future.
Sen. Moynihan: We said that we should save them in order to be able to
do it. But then when it turned out the government was
diverting it to
almost illegal purposes, we started saying, as clearly as we could, now
you can't do that. That's a breach of trust
And now, the threat is
being made that somehow we'll jeopardize benefits. Of course we won't.
Stahl: Aren't you really saying that we should be raising the income tax
instead of the Social Security tax?
Sen. Moynihan: You could do other taxes. We ought to have an increase
in the gasoline tax
The first issue is, will we face the fact that we
are abusing. this trust? That's why I wish the President would not
characterize motives; he's a man of integrity
If he can meet with Mr.
Gorbachev in a harbor in the middle of the Mediterranean, he can meet
with us here in Washington at a summit.
Stahl: Why are so few Democrats for [your proposal]?
Sen. Moynihan: I don't know. I would say this, if we can't get behind
an issue like this, of principle, then I'm not sure who needs the
Democratic Party.
Stahl:
What I'm told is, [the Democrats are against it because of] this
fear of the big deficit that will result because Congress will, in an election
year, be sort of turned on by the idea of a big huge tax cut, but afraid
to raise taxes on the gas
or the sales tax
or cut spending further
Sen. Moynihan: The finances of the federal government are a wreck.
They were deliberately wrecked in the 1980s to make all this seem
impossible
But at least we can be truthful about the trust funds.
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Stahl: Even if it means a big deficit.
Sen. Moynihan: The deficit is $200 billion now. We have been lying to
ourselves. And I think to the American people.
Guests: Tom Oliphant, Stephen Hess.
Stahl:
I'm very curious about how the Democrats are not jumping on
Sen. Moynihan's plan. Do you think they eventually will?
Oliphant: Some of them will
[The Democrats] can't recognize it for
the ten-strike it is.
Hess:
I think George Mitchell will say, all right, to George Bush, I'll
put the Moynihan proposal off the table if you'll take the capital gains off
the table. For Fritz Hollings, it's that versus Social Security.
Stahl: What do you think President Bush is going to do?
Oliphant:
Many Democrats tell me privately the one fear they have is
that somewhere down the line in six months, there will be President Bush
scurrying down to get on this train as it pulls out of the station.
Hess: And Moynihan gave them a vehicle. He said, Let's have a summit.
On the President's ratings:
Stahl: He has a high overall approval; but what is really fascinating is to
see the [high] numbers for blacks, for liberals, for those who voted for
Dukakis, and even the pro-choice women. How do you explain it?
Hess: Well, it's in the context of 1989 being a vanilla year
And in
the absence of anything else, George Bush is a relatively likable guy
The people accepted a handshake in place of a program.
Oliphant: He does not transmit that sense of not caring that President
Reagan sent, rightly or wrongly, and the interpretation to black
Americans
We will now have to see what happens when that symbol is
tested
This is a government run by somebody who is a very shrewd
and experienced national politician whose Administration is right in sync on
most matters with public opinion.
Hess: I think that's an important point because high popularity doesn't
necessarily coalesce with either leadership or greatness.
Stahl: Steve, I wanted to ask you about conservatives. Where are they?
Hess: Well, they have no place else to go. He can take them granted a
bit, if he wants to use some of this great political capital he has
Oliphant:
He's a political genius, and he understands that the center
of the Republican Party has moved toward the center, and that on
abortion, on military spending, you do have to be kinder and gentler. He
is kinder and gentler; that's why it works.
###
NBC -- MEET THE PRESS
Moderator: Garrick Utley. Panelists: Andrea Mitchell, Albert Hunt.
Guest: Speaker Foley.
Utley: Let's start with that political concussion grenade that Sen.
Moynihan has lobbed into Congress and into Washington: His proposal to
cut Social Security taxes. Do you support that?
Speaker Foley: Well, I think Sen. Moynihan deserves a lot of credit for
raising this issue, because it underscores the fact that we're misusing
Social Security funds in masking the level of the federal deficit. But I'm
not sure it's a good idea to cut the taxes. What we really ought to be
doing is providing for the means of government without using these funds
so that they could be invested to meet the very heavy retirement burdens
that'll come in the next century as the baby boom generation retires.
Utley: So you would not oppose it?
Speaker Foley: I'm not ready to oppose it. I think we ought to study it
very carefully
Mitchell: Mr. Speaker, you said it needs study. It's not that difficult.
It's really rather simple. Are you or are you not in favor of cutting
Social Security payroll taxes?
Speaker Foley: Well, I wouldn't be ready to say I was in favor of it today
if I had to make a decision today. I'd probably say don't do it.
Mitchell: What's wrong with cutting the payroll taxes, the most regressive
of our taxes?
Speaker Foley: Well, what's wrong with it is that the tax was created for
the purpose of providing support for the Social Security system, to meet
the demands on the system at economically reduced times of activity. And
secondly, to pay the very large burdens that'll occur as the smaller
number of workers-to-retirees occurs in the next century
Hunt:
The way it's scheduled right now you're going to be using even
more of the Social Security trust fund to camouflage the deficit over the
next couple of years. Therefore, would you be willing to support some
other revenue raiser?
Speaker Foley: Yes, I would be personally. But I think the reality is
that the President has to join in that effort or it's not going to happen.
Hunt: What would you be willing to support? Sen. Hollings has
proposed a sales tax; Chairman Rostenkowski has proposed a gasoline
tax increase.
Speaker Foley: I've said before that I favor increases in the gasoline tax
for the purpose of meeting the infrastructure needs of the country
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Monday, January 22, 1990 -- C-9
Foley: The capital gains tax [cut] is up there again for a vote. It
appears it's going to go through. Are you going to try to fight it?
Speaker Foley: No, I don't think we're against things to stimulate
investment.
Utley: So you're for a cut?
Speaker Foley: Not necessarily. The important thing is the details of the
program The proposal last year was the worst program I think you It
could have devised in order to try and encourage investment
simply gave a windfall to the richest, most affluent people in the
country
Some proposal to encourage investment will go through, [but]
whether it's a capital gains tax or other, I'm not sure about at this
moment.
Hunt: But you think politically you can pass [a capital gains tax cut] and
do nothing about Social Security taxes?
Speaker Foley: I think we're going to have to deal with the question of
any kind of tax in the context, in part, of fairness; you're right. And
I've said that. That's one of the reasons I strongly opposed the
President's proposals to rush through a capital gains reduction last year.
Utley:
Now you've said some kind of legislation [limiting campaign
contributions] will come to the House in the coming weeks and months.
When, and what should it be?
Speaker Foley: Well, it'll come this session. I don't want to predict the
actual month, but I think by late spring, we will have a bill on the floor
of the House
If I were again to make a prediction today, I'll predict
that the second session of the 101st Congress will pass will pass important
campaign reform legislation.
Mitchell: Now, would you predict that the Congress would pass cuts in
foreign aid to Israel, as Republican leader Dole has suggested?
Speaker Foley: I will predict they will not do that.
Mitchell: You disagree with Bob Dole's suggestion?
Speaker Foley: Yes
I don't feel that it's a good idea to cut these
programs, partially because it's not only a matter of Israel and Egypt, but
a matter of countries like the Philippines which are in grave political crisis
and are constantly under stress.
Hunt: Are you saying there ought to be a bigger foreign aid budget this
year than there was last year, because of Eastern Europe?
Speaker Foley: Yes.
President Bush now has a record level in public opinion polls,
71 Utley: to 79 percent approval rating. How are you going to work with him,
with a President who has this kind of public backing?
He's sending out
every signal that he's going to be tougher this session than he was last
year. He's feeling his oats.
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Monday, January 22, 1990 -- C-10
Speaker Foley: The President I think has said at the beginning
that he
wanted to cooperate with the Congress. I don't think the President has
changed his mind on that. We in turn want to cooperate with him
There are a lot of areas in which the President has joined with Democratic
concerns on the environment, with clean air, on family concerns, with
child care. I don't see a lot of conflict.
Utley: Okay, but you are looking for vulnerable points in Bush's armor,
and one of them is China. you're going to try to override
the China
bill
Speaker Foley: We will do that in the House
And it will be, by the
way, overwhelmingly bipartisan.
Mitchell: What about his China policy and the two trips that Gen.
Scowcroft took?
Speaker Foley: Well, I think the overall impact of that was unfortunately
to leave the impression that the United States, the Administration at least,
was not willing to keep a firm criticism of Chinese policy forward
Some of the aspects of the trip, the toast and so on, left a residue of
acquiesence that I think was unfortunate, and it's secrecy was
unnecessary, and I think not a wise pattern for the future.
---
Discussion segment.
On the President's ratings:
Utley: We've all been watching the polls this past week on the President's
popularity; 71, 72, up to 78 percent, near record highs
But what
does this translate into in terms of political muscle, in terms of a mandate,
if anything?
Mitchell: I think one of the really interesting things that's been
underreported is that one fact in
the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll was
that by a count of 55 to 28 percent those same people who liked George
Bush so much trust Congress to deal effectively with the budget deficit.
Hunt: I think it translates into enormous popularity for George Bush and
that's it, period
The public wants to spend more on the homeless, on
education and the environment
I think he has what they call
Eisenhower coattails: very, very short. In Congress, the other thing is
that as opposed to Ronald Reagan there is no fear of George Bush.
There's no fear of voting against him.
Mitchell: They know he's a nice guy.
On the Social Security payroll tax:
Mitchell:
A lot of Democrats may find this so appealing; it's the one
way that they can try to checkmate the capital gains tax.
Hunt: That's what the Moynihan proposal will do. It'll stop the capital
gains tax, which otherwise would have gone through.
###
THE McLAUGHLIN GROUP
Moderator: John McLaughlin. Panelists: Pat Buchanan, Fred Barnes,
Jack Germond, Morton Kondracke.
On Mayor Barry's arrest:
McLaughlin: Here the President is on the threshold of going to Colombia
for an international drug conference. Does what happens in Washington,
D.C. strengthen his hand or weaken his hand?
Barnes: It doesn't have anything to do with his hand.
Buchanan: Barry's a separate case.
McLaughlin: I say it weakens his hand because now the Colombians can
say, 'Look, you've got proof positive that it's demand in the United States
that is propelling the drug problem.
This is screamer headline news
across the world.
On Azerbaijan:
Barnes:
Let's remember one thing. There are no American, Western
reporters in Azerbaijan; all we know that's going on there is what the
Soviet government tells us. So we ought to be suspicious about that
The Soviets could have done something earlier to separate these
combatants, they didn't do it It seems to me what they're doing is
legitimizing a military crackdown where there's some civil strife to protect
a minority, the same thing that they could concoct in Lithuania.
Germond:
There was no choice but to do what Gorbachev did.
McLaughlin: This is a blessing in disguise for Gorbachev, because he can
use military force as needed because the limits of tolerance have passed,
in the interests of both warring parties, whereas he doesn't have to use it
in Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia, but he still sends a powerful signal to
those people.
Kondracke: He has not sent enough troops into Azerbaijan to do the job.
Buchanan:
There's a real possibility some of the Azerbaijanis might
move for separation from the Soviet Union and tie up with Iran.
On Sen. Dole's foreign aid proposal:
Germond: [Dole's idea] is a politically realistic idea
Israel's not the
most popular constituent right now in the foreign aid field.
Kondracke: They're never going to get Israel cut back, not out of this
Congress. I think that Dole should have widened the pie.
He knows that the Democrats would never advocate cutting
Barnes: aid to Israel, nor will the White House, though the White House was
delighted that Dole went out and said this.
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Germond: Israel has a very strong case for the present level of aid.
They are the ones who are taking all these people that we are not taking
anymore.
McLaughlin:
Aren't you ashamed that you rank 14th among the nations
of the world [in foreign aid per capita] when your nation is number one in
GNP of $4.2 trillion?
Barnes: None of those [other] countries brought in 10 million immigrants
in the 1980s
I'd cut it, because I think a lot of the foreign aid,
except military aid, is counterproductive.
Buchanan: I think foreign economic aid should be abolished. There has
not been a single country in the last 20 years that has got off the dole.
On the Social Security payroll tax:
Buchanan:
This is a conflict between populists in both parties versus
the parties of government and the establishment. I think we've got a
chance to cut that Social Security tax, and I hope they do.
Barnes: Not if the White House strategy works. The White House has
adopted a containment strategy, in hopes they just get Republicans and
Democrats not to endorse it, so it'll just die inside the Beltway, because
they know if it gets outside the Beltway, and people hear about it, the
pressure will be so great that this will pass
The White House is
against it because they know if you cut this, you're going to have to raise
taxes somewhere else
You've had an incredible role reversal where at
least one Democrat, Moynihan, is arguing for a tax cut for individuals,
and the White House is screaming that it will cause Social Security benefit
cuts.
McLaughlin: Why isn't the Democratic establishment behind Moynihan?
George Mitchell has been absolutely mum on this.
Germond: Because they don't want a program that's going to add that
much to the deficit; they love the politics of it, nonetheless. But the idea
that the White House can get away with accusing the Democrats of wanting
to cut Social Security budgets
There is no chance in the world they
can make that saleable. This is a bargaining position, and it makes it
almost impossible for Bush not to back away on a compromise on the capital
gains thing, or he's going to be in a terrible position.
McLaughlin: Will the Social Security payroll tax be cut in 1990?
Buchanan: I think it still will be.
Barnes: I thought yes, but now I think no. It's just not gaining
support.
Germond: I agree with Fred. A close no.
Kondracke: No Moynihan, and also no capital gains tax cut.
McLaughlin: It looks to me like no payroll tax cut for Social Security.
###
INSIDE WASHINGTON
Moderator: Gordon Peterson. Panelists: Carl Rowan, James Kilpatrick,
Strobe Talbott, Elizabeth Drew.
On Mayor Barry's arrest:
Rowan:
He's vulnerable to some other indictments, and I'm talking
about felonies, and I'm not just talking about perjury, and conspiracy.
There are some contracts out there that fall into the category of some very
serious lawbreaking.
On the Social Security payroll tax:
Drew:
I was talking to Hill people last week. I think if it would have
come to a vote last week, it would have passed. The White House is in a
tizzy. They tried not saying anything, and then they realized they
couldn't do that They're saying this is a trick to take away your
future benefits. But the point is, those benefits. aren't there. They've
been spent.
Talbott: When the President and Vice President say it's a charade and a
subterfuge to force a general tax increase, in a way they're right. And I
think that's part of what Moynihan is doing here, is pointing to the more
general problem, which is a refusal to face up to the issue of the need to
raise revenue.
Peterson: Sen. Heinz, I think it is, said that the accounting procedures
used here amount to embezzlement.
Rowan: There's no limit to the little demagogic tricks in this particular
debate. President Bush says, "They want me to take money away from
our old people, and I'm not going to do that. "
It
is
hokum.
If
anything, what they're doing takes something away from the young people
who one of these years will be old people.
Talbott:
Part of what Moynihan is doing here is illustrating the
dilemma that the Democrats have. They do not want to get out front on
the issue of calling for an increase in taxes
Drew:
Conservative Republicans are all for it
And there's a whole
supply-side point of view that's for it. It's quite possible that large
organizations of small business people will come out for it
So they've
got a little steamroller going
Peterson: Sen. Hollings has suggested that we just use a value-added
tax.
Drew: Other Democrats are quite unhappy with him, but Hollings is not
easily controlled. The position that Sen. Mitchell and Rep. Foley has
taken
is the Democrats will not come out for a tax increase. That's what
we've come to. The President says no new taxes, Democrats say "we
won't do it," and we're floundering.
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Monday, January 22, 1990 -- C-14
On the Federal Reserve:
Peterson:
The
President
wants the Federal Reserve to ease up the
credit rating, he wants to see home mortgage rates come down.
Drew: There's really quite a concerted effort now on the part of the
Administration to beat up on Alan Greenspan, to say that he's holding
interest rates too high. But Alan Greenspan has serious
problems including the fact that the inflation rate for last year is quite
high. He doesn't have a free hand. But clearly they want to shift the
blame and say if anything goes wrong, don't blame us, it's Greenspan.
Talbott: They also want to head off a recession in an election year.
Drew: Greenspan isn't getting a lot of help from Congress or the
Administration on fiscal policy that would enable him to loosen monetary
policy.
On Azerbaijan:
Talbott: The key thing is, is it going to spread. And so far there's not
much evidence that this is going to spread throughout the other Moslem
parts of the Soviet Union. And in general
on this issue
he's got
most of the Soviet population behind him, and quite a bit of international
opinion, too, including that of the United States government.
Drew: In fact, we had given him advance permission to do this. Ever
since Baker and Shevardnadze met in Wyoming in August, Baker has been
saying, in effect, we have an understanding. He didn't put it that way,
but the Soviet minister has agreed [they] would not use force to put down
independence movements in Eastern Europe, he would not use force to stop
the independence of the Baltics -- we would take a very dim view. If he
has to use force to deal with ethnic strife within the Soviet Union, that's
different.
Talbott:
There's a buildup of pessimism about Gorbachev's chances.
First of all, he may turn out to be a transitional figure, he may not be
able to withstand all of the problems that he has.
On Sen. Dole's foreign aid proposal:
Drew: The real issue that Dole was raising in cahoots with, if not on
behalf of, the Administration, was that the President should have more
authority, more leeway, to decide where the money should go
There
is the hope [in the Administration] that somehow this will get an expansion
of foreign aid, so that they can put more money into Eastern Europe.
On President Bush's ratings:
Kilpatrick: He's doing great, doing great. I think he deserves a 79
percent rating, and his ratings are very high around the world.
Rowan: I think it's a little too early.
Drew: I think again you have to judge how it goes on how it continues.
Is he going to give us domestic leadership?
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TALKING POINTS FOR NAACP MEETING - January 22, 1990
BEN, BILL SESSIONS, DICK THORNBURGH AND
MEMBERS OF THE NAACP BOARD AND STAFF --
THANK YOU FOR COMING THIS MORNING.
THIS MEETING IS A FOLLOW UP TO MY MEETING
ON JANUARY 9th WITH YOU, BEN, WHERE, AS
YOU KNOW, I PERSONALLY EXPRESSED MY OUTRAGE
AT THE RECENT BOMBINGS, OBSCENE PHONE CALLS
AND HATE MAIL.
I ALSO SAID THAT MY ADMINISTRATION WOULD
NOT TOLERATE BIGOTRY AND RACIAL PREJUDICE,
AND I MEAN THAT.
THIS ADMINISTRATION IS DETERMINED TO
PUT THE TIRED OLD BAGGAGE OF BIGOTRY
AND RACIAL HATRED BEHIND US AND
DICK THORNBURGH AND BILL SESSIONS ARE
HERE THIS MORNING TO FURTHER DEMONSTRATE
OUR SINCERE INTEREST IN BRINGING THE
PERPETRATORS OF THESE HIDEOUS CRIMES
TO JUSTICE.
WHEN I MET WITH THE BLACK LEADERSHIP
FORUM IN NOVEMBER, BEN, YOU ASKED ME
TO THINK ABOUT USING THIS OFFICE AS
A 'BULLY PULPIT' TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST
RACISM AND HATE CRIMES.
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LUTHER KING, JR. FEDERAL HOLIDAY
PROCLAMATION SIGNING CEREMONY, I
SAID THAT I WILL CONTINUE TO USE
THAT PULPIT ALWAYS TO DENOUNCE
AND WORK TO BRING TO JUSTICE THE
BIGOTS WHO STAIN THIS GOOD AND DECENT
LAND. AND I SHALL.
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Judge William M. Nickerson [redaction of personal
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personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
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purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
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gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
PRM. Removed as a personal record misfile.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Patty
to
Recommended Telephone Call
TO:
Judge William M. Nickerson
TELEPHONE:
Home:
(b)(6)
Office: (301) 887-2668
DATE TO CALL:
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January 22 or 23, 1990
RECOMMENDED BY:
The Attorney General, Governor John H.
Sununu, C. Boyden Gray, Frederick D. McClure
and Charles G. Untermeyer
Remund the
PURPOSE:
To ask him to serve as United States District
Judge for the District of Maryland
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TOPICS OF
DISCUSSION:
1.
Since 1985, Judge Nickerson has served
as an Associate Judge on the Circuit
Court for Baltimore County. Prior to
his service in that position, he was
affiliated with the law firm of
Webrean
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston as an
associate, 1962-1966, and a partner,
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Presidential
1966-1985.
2.
Judge Nickerson received his B.A. (1955)
from the University of Virginia and his
LL. B. (1962) from the University of
Maryland School of Law. He served in
the United States Coast Guard from 1955
to 1959 when he was honorably released
from active duty.
3.
Judge Nickerson is 56 years old,
married, his wife's name is Virginia, he
has five children and resides in Tuston,
Maryland.
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agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
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financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
(b)(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or-financial
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information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
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personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
(b)(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
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gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
PRM. Removed as a personal record misfile.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Recommended Telephone Call
TO:
Joseph M. Hood
TELEPHONE:
Home:
(b)(6)
Office: (606) 329-2952
DATE TO CALL:
January 22 or 23, 1990
RECOMMENDED BY:
The Attorney General, Governor John H.
Sununu, C. Boyden Gray, Frederick D. McClure
and Charles G. Untermeyer
PURPOSE:
To ask him to serve as United States District
Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky
TOPICS OF
DISCUSSION:
1. Since 1976, Mr. Hood has served as a
United States Magistrate for the Eastern
District of Kentucky. Prior to his
service in that position, he was a law
clerk to the Honorable H. David
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Hermansdorfer of the United States
District Court for the Eastern District
of Kentucky, 1972-1976.
2. Mr. Hood received his B.S. degree (1965)
and his J.D. degree (1972) from the
University of Kentucky. He served in
the United States Army from 1966 to 1970
when he was honorably released from
active duty as a Captain.
3. Mr. Hood is 47 years old, married, his
wife's name is Carol, he has two
children and resides in Russell,
Kentucky.
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agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
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financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
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information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
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personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
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purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
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(b)(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
PRM Removed as a personal record misfile.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Recommended Telephone Call
TO:
Justice David H. Souter
TELEPHONE:
Home:
(b)(6)
Office: (603) 271-3660
DATE TO CALL:
January 22 or 23, 1990
RECOMMENDED BY:
The Attorney General, Governor John H.
Sununu, C. Boyden Gray, Frederick D. McClure
and Charles G. Untermeyer
PURPOSE:
To ask him to serve as United States Circuit
Judge for the First Circuit
TOPICS OF
DISCUSSION:
1. Since 1983, Justice Souter has served as
an Associate Justice on the Supreme
Court of New Hampshire (a position to
which he was appointed by Governor
Sununu) Prior to his service in that
position, he served as an Associate
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Justice for the Superior Court of New
Hampshire, 1978-1983; in the Office of
the Attorney General of New Hampshire as
Attorney General, 1976-1978, Deputy
Attorney General, 1971-1976, and
Assistant Attorney General, 1968-1971;
and as an associate with the law firm of
Orr and Reno, 1966-1968.
2.
Justice Souter received his B.A. (1961)
from Harvard College, B.A. and M.A.
degrees (1989) from Magdalen College,
Oxford, and his LL.B. (1966) from
Harvard Law School.
3.
Justice Souter is 50 years old, single
and resides in Weare, New Hampshire.
DATE OF SUBMISSION: January 22, 1990
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QUESTIONS FOR BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION
January 22, 1990
WHAT IS YOUR REACTION TO D.C. MAYOR MARION BARRY BEING ARRESTED
ON DRUG CHARGES?
While I can't comment on the case itself, H can say such an
appearance of impropriety sends a very disturbing signal to our
youth particularly to the black youth in D.C., many of whom
are constantly being lured and tempted by drugs.
I see it as a step in the right direction, however, that the
Mayor has acknowledged he has a problem and intends to seek
immediate help.
HAS THE RACIAL CLIMATE IN AMERICA CHANGED so THAT IT'S NO LONGER
A KINDER, GENTLER NATION? DO THE RECENT BOMBINGS POINT TO A MORE
BLATANT FORM OF RACISM?
My administration will not tolerate bigotry and racial
prejudice. I am extremely disturbed by these bombings. I met
with Ben Hooks, Bill Sessions and Dick Thornburgh today to
discuss this issue and to personally express to Hooks my outrage
at not only the bombings, but the obscene phone calls and hate
mail that the NAACP has been receiving recently.
I reassured him in this meeting (and in a similar meeting
on Tuesday, Jan. 9) that we must struggle hard to leave the tired
old baggage of bigotry behind us. I asked him to let his
membership know that we will not let up in the fight against
racism and that we will work to bring the perpetrators of these
hideous crimes to justice.
ARE THERE ANY PLANS TO INVITE THE SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT ON AN
OFFICIAL VISIT TO WASHINGTON?
At this moment, there are no plans for De Klerk to pay us an
official visit.
On the release of Mandela: I think everyone has heard the
reports (still unconfirmed) that Nelson Mandela might be
released, and I strongly support that. I've always called for his
release and for dialogue between the South African government and
the black opposition.
On sanctions: I am not in favor of new sanctions. I've
always said that they would hurt the very people they are
intended to help.
DURING THE CAMPAIGN, THE WILLIE HORTON CASE LEFT A BAD TASTE IN
SECTIONS OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE
MATTER MORE THAN A YEAR LATER?
The ad was never intended to focus on Willie Horton the man,
nor did it ever actually show his face. It was intended to focus
on one simple issue: Massachusett's furlough program. The color
of his skin wasn't the issue; what was the issue was that he was
released on furlough after having committed a heinous crime.
Page Two
Black Entertainment Questions
WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S ATTEMPTS TO RECRUIT
MORE BLACKS AND MINORITIES?
I've always said that we will try hard to bring more
minorities into the Republican fold, and we are working on that.
Lee Atwater has also been working hard to bring more blacks into
the GOP. I think there's a tendency in the Democratic Party to
take the black vote for granted. Well, we are the Party of
Lincoln. Today, more than ever, our party must begin to practice
the "Politics of Inclusion."
IS CIVIL RIGHTS WHERE IT SHOULD BE? DO YOU PROJECT ANY NEW
DIRECTIONS OR PROGRAMS?
It is my view that most of the major civil rights
legislation has been enacted. Overall, I think the major legal
steps have been taken and put into place. What we need to do is
work on enforcing these laws with equal vigor, across the board.
The Civil Rights Division of Justice has continued its
record number of prosecutions in areas like fair housing cases
and the criminal civil rights division (namely hate crimes). On
hate crimes: I have stated publicly before that I strongly
support enabling the appropriate agencies to collect as much
information as they can on crimes motivated by religious, racial
or ethnic animosity. My administration has and will continue to
take a strong stand against bigotry, racism and hate crimes.
Note: The acting head of the Civil Rights Division is James
Turner.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CRITICAL AREAS WHERE YOUR ADMINISTRATION
HOPES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE? WHICH SOCIAL PROGRAMS NEED TO BE
FOCUSED ON?
Right off I would say education, drugs and housing. I'm
convinced that Jack Kemp is on the right track in terms of
homeownership, tenant control and enterprise zones. I'm a strong
believer in enterprise zones -- and we've done very badly getting
it through Congress. I applaud those neighborhood groups in
public housing projects that have fought hard against the drug
dealers in their communities.
On education, I've always said that a quality education is a
way out of poverty, and that every child in America deserves an
equal place at the starting line. We've got to work hard to
improve the quality of education, not only for our children, but
for our future -- these kids are the ones who will one day keep
this country thriving and competitive. If they're not properly
educated, the problems we face in the future are tremendous.
Page Three
Black Entertainment Questions
FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH. DO YOU, AS PRESIDENT, THINK THAT
IT'S IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE SUCH A MONTH?
Certainly it's important. It's important for all of us --
and I should think black youth in particular -- to gain a better
understanding of black history, of the struggle that was waged
and the lives that were lost in pursuit of the civil rights we
now sometimes take for granted. Black History Month provides all
of us the opportunity to recognize the outstanding achievements
black men and women have made to our country's heritage over the
years.
The following figures, fairly promising for black Americans, can
be used if asked:
BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES:
Figures for total black employment have improved
dramatically since the beginning of the economic recovery:
From Nov. 1982 - Dec. 1989: Overall black employment has
expanded by 2.7 million. Black unemployment has fallen by almost
half during that time, from 18.9% in 1982 to 11.4% in 1989. While
that number is still uncomfortably high, it does show that we've
made significant progress and we will continue to work to lower
those numbers.
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WASHINGTON
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January 22, 1990
Monday
TIME:
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QUESTIONS FOR BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION
January 22, 1990
WHAT IS YOUR REACTION TO D.C. MAYOR MARION BARRY BEING ARRESTED
ON DRUG CHARGES?
While I can't comment on the case itself, I can say such an
appearance of impropriety sends a very disturbing signal to our
youth -- particularly to the black youth in D.C., many of whom
are constantly being lured and tempted by drugs.
see it as a step in the right direction, however, that the
Mayor has acknowledged he has a problem and intends to seek
immediate help.
HAS THE RACIAL CLIMATE IN AMERICA CHANGED SO THAT IT'S NO LONGER
A KINDER, GENTLER NATION? DO THE RECENT BOMBINGS POINT TO A MORE
BLATANT FORM OF RACISM?
My administration will not tolerate bigotry and racial
prejudice. I am extremely disturbed by these bombings. I met
with Ben Hooks, Bill Sessions and Dick Thornburgh today to
discuss this issue and to personally express to Hooks my outrage
at not only the bombings, but the obscene phone calls and hate
mail that the NAACP has been receiving recently.
I reassured him in this meeting (and in a similar meeting
on Tuesday, Jan. 9) that we must struggle hard to leave the tired
old baggage of bigotry behind us. I asked him to let his
membership know that we will not let up in the fight against
racism and that we will work to bring the perpetrators of these
hideous crimes to justice.
ARE THERE ANY PLANS TO INVITE THE SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT ON AN
OFFICIAL VISIT TO WASHINGTON?
At this moment, there are no plans for De Klerk to pay us an
official visit.
On the release of Mandela: I think everyone has heard the
reports (still unconfirmed) that Nelson Mandela might be
released, and I strongly support that. I've always called for his
release and for dialogue between the South African government and
the black opposition.
On sanctions: I am not in favor of new sanctions. I've
always said that they would hurt the very people they are
intended to help.
DURING THE CAMPAIGN, THE WILLIE HORTON CASE LEFT A BAD TASTE IN
SECTIONS OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE
MATTER MORE THAN A YEAR LATER?
The ad was never intended to focus on Willie Horton the man,
nor did it ever actually show his face. It was intended to focus
on one simple issue: Massachusett's furlough program. The color
of his skin wasn't the issue; what was the issue was that he was
released on furlough after having committed a heinous crime.
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Page Two
Black Entertainment Questions
WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S ATTEMPTS TO RECRUIT
MORE BLACKS AND MINORITIES?
I've always said that we will try hard to bring more
minorities into the Republican fold, and we are working on that.
Lee Atwater has also been working hard to bring more blacks into
the GOP. I think there's a tendency in the Democratic Party to
take the black vote for granted. Well, we are the Party of
Lincoln. Today, more than ever, our party must begin to practice
the "Politics of Inclusion."
IS CIVIL RIGHTS WHERE IT SHOULD BE? DO YOU PROJECT ANY NEW
DIRECTIONS OR PROGRAMS?
It is my view that most of the major civil rights
legislation has been enacted. Overall, I think the major legal
steps have been taken and put into place. What we need to do is
work on enforcing these laws with equal vigor, across the board.
The Civil Rights Division of Justice has continued its
record number of prosecutions in areas like fair housing cases
and the criminal civil rights division (namely hate crimes). On
hate crimes: I have stated publicly before that I strongly
support enabling the appropriate agencies to collect as much
information as they can on crimes motivated by religious, racial
or ethnic animosity. My administration has and will continue to
take a strong stand against bigotry, racism and hate crimes.
Note: The acting head of the Civil Rights Division is James
Turner.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CRITICAL AREAS WHERE YOUR ADMINISTRATION
HOPES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE? WHICH SOCIAL PROGRAMS NEED TO BE
FOCUSED ON?
Right off I would say education, drugs and housing. I'm
convinced that Jack Kemp is on the right track in terms of
homeownership, tenant control and enterprise zones. I'm a strong
believer in enterprise zones -- and we've done very badly getting
it through Congress. I applaud those neighborhood groups in
public housing projects that have fought hard against the drug
dealers in their communities.
On education, I've always said that a quality education is a
way out of poverty, and that every child in America deserves an
equal place at the starting line. We've got to work hard to
improve the quality of education, not only for our children, but
for our future -- these kids are the ones who will one day keep
this country thriving and competitive. If they're not properly
educated, the problems we face in the future are tremendous.
Page Three
Black Entertainment Questions
FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH. DO YOU, AS PRESIDENT, THINK THAT
IT'S IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE SUCH A MONTH?
Certainly it's important. It's important for all of us --
and I should think black youth in particular -- to gain a better
understanding of black history, of the struggle that was waged
and the lives that were lost in pursuit of the civil rights we
now sometimes take for granted. Black History Month provides all
of us the opportunity to recognize the outstanding achievements
black men and women have made to our country's heritage over the
years.
The following figures, fairly promising for black Americans, can
be used if asked:
BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES:
Figures for total black employment have improved
dramatically since the beginning of the economic recovery:
From Nov. 1982 - Dec. 1989: Overall black employment has
expanded by 2.7 million. Black unemployment has fallen by almost
half during that time, from 18.9% in 1982 to 11.4% in 1989. While
that number is still uncomfortably high, it does show that we've
made significant progress and we will continue to work to lower
those numbers.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 17, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
FREDERICK D. McCLURE for
SUBJECT:
Pelosi Bill Override (China)
The Speaker has tentatively scheduled the veto override
attempt on H.R. 2712, the so-called Pelosi Chinese Students bill,
for Wednesday, January 24. In a letter to all Senators
yesterday, Majority Leader Mitchell indicated that should the
veto be overridden in the House, it is his intention to consider
the veto in the Senate "as soon as possible thereafter."
Although he notes that it is not possible to precisely predict
the time of the vote, he alerts all Senators that chances are
good that the veto will be considered in Senate on the same day,
January 24, or Thursday, January 25.
Last week, my staff and I, in conjunction with the Offices
of Legislative Affairs at the National Security Council and
Department of State, spoke directly with 37 Republican Senators.
Attached are recommended telephone call memoranda for six
key Senators, including the views expressed by these Senators in
our conversations. The calls we made were to gather information
and were not "hard sell" conversations. I would note that
although our best chance for success in sustaining your veto is
in the Senate, we are continuing to make an effort in the House.
As soon as you begin your telephone calls, calls will be
initiated as well by Secretary of State James Baker and John
Sununu. For your information, they have been asked to contact
the individuals shown below:
Secretary of State
Sen. Rudy Boschwitz (leaning yes)
Sen. Mark Hatfield (undecided)
Sen. Bob Packwood (undecided)
Sen. Nancy Kassebaum (leaning no)
Sen. Jim McClure (no response)
John Sununu
Sen. Malcolm Wallop (leaning yes)
Sen. Warren Rudman (undecided)
Sen. Strom Thurmond (undecided)
Sen. Al D'Amato (leaning no)
Sen. John McCain (leaning no)
Sen. Steve Symms (no)
2
In my view, it is important that these telephone calls occur
roughly simultaneously and before a number of Senators return
next week for conversations with their staffs. As always, your
feedback on conversations will be very useful.
Attachments
Recommended Telephone Calls with Suggested Talking Points
Senator Kit Bond
Senator Dave Durenberger
Senator John Heinz
Senator Bob Kasten
Senator Arlen Specter
Senator Phil Gramm
Summary of Positive Steps Taken by China
Attachment A
--
I am calling about China policy and upcoming votes on the
Pelosi bill.
--
I want you to know that under my administrative actions, no
Chinese students or scholars are going to be sent home
against their will.
--
The Pelosi Bill is the Democrats' bill.
--
A vote to override my veto will not protect even one
additional student, but it may well provide China's
hardliners a pretext to shut down these student exchanges
altogether.
--
I hope the Chinese students already here will show more
concern that their fellow students in China also have the
opportunity to come here to study.
--
There is a power struggle going on in China between
hardliner isolationist forces and more moderate leaders.
It's at a delicate stage.
--
Since I sent Brent Scowcroft and Larry Eagleburger to China,
we have seen some modest but positive steps [attached]. I
want to keep that process moving in the direction of more
substantial progress; I would hate to see it set back by an
override that will do nothing materially for the students
here.
--
My policy is beginning to work; let me manage it.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
RECOMMENDED TELEPHONE CALL BY THE PRESIDENT
TO:
Senator Kit Bond (R-MO)
DATE:
January 17, 1990
RECOMMENDED BY:
Frederick D. McClure 7m
PURPOSE:
To enlist the support of Senator Bond for
your veto of H.R. 2712, the Emergency
Chinese Immigration Relief Act of 1989.
BACKGROUND:
When the Senate considered H.R. 2712, the
measure was adopted by voice vote. You
subsequently vetoed the legislation but
directed the Attorney General and Secretary
of State to implement the provisions of the
legislation administratively. Indeed, this
administrative action was broader than the
measure enacted by Congress. Republican
Leader Bob Dole has provided each Republican
Senator with a copy of our side-by-side
analysis of the Administration actions and
the Pelosi bill.
The House is expected to attempt a veto
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override Wednesday, January 24. Should the
override attempt in the House be successful,
B2
the Senate is expected to consider the veto
either on the same day or on Thursday,
January 25.
Boyder
Senator Bond has indicated that he is in the
"leaning no" category. His comments were
that he is likely to vote to override, but
is "willing to listen to our arguments."
told
Jack Danforth, Senator Bond's Missouri
colleague, is expected to support your veto,
a point that might be useful during your
conversation.
KEY POINTS:
See Attachment.
DATE OF
SUBMISSION:
ACTION:
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January 17, 1990
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George Bush Handwriting
WASHINGTON
RECOMMENDED TELEPHONE CALL BY THE PRESIDENT
TO:
Senator Dave Durenberger (R-MN)
DATE:
January 17, 1990
RECOMMENDED BY:
Frederick D. McClure 7m
PURPOSE:
To enlist the support of Senator Durenberger
for your veto of H.R. 2712, the Emergency
Chinese Immigration Relief Act of 1989.
BACKGROUND:
When the Senate considered H.R. 2712, the
measure was adopted by voice vote You
subsequently vetoed the legislation but
directed the Attorney General and Secretary
of State to implement the provisions of the
legislation administratively. Indeed, this
administrative action was broader than the
measure enacted by Congress. Republican
Leader Bob Dole has provided each Republican
Senator with a copy of our side-by-side
analysis of the Administration's actions and
the Pelosi bill.
The House is expected to attempt a veto
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override Wednesday, January 24. Should the
override attempt in the House be successful,
the Senate is expected to consider the veto
either on the same day or on Thursday,
January 25.
Senator Durenberger has indicated that he is
in the "leaning no" category. His comment
was to "put him down as likely to vote to
override.'
"
Rudy Boschwitz, Senator Durenberger's
Minnesota colleague, is leaning toward
supporting your veto, a point that might be
useful during your conversation.
KEY POINTS:
See Attachment.
DATE OF
SUBMISSION:
January 17, 1990
ACTION: out - L.W.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
RECOMMENDED TELEPHONE CALL BY THE PRESIDENT
TO:
Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX)
DATE:
January 17, 1990
RECOMMENDED BY:
Frederick D. McClure for
PURPOSE:
To enlist the support of Senator Gramm for
your veto of H.R. 2712, the Emergency
Chinese Immigration Relief Act of 1989.
BACKGROUND:
When the Senate considered H.R. 2712, the
measure was adopted by voice vote. You
subsequently vetoed the legislation but
directed the Attorney General and Secretary
of State to implement the provisions of the
legislation administratively. Indeed, this
administrative action was broader than the
measure enacted by Congress. Republican
Leader Bob Dole has provided each Republican
Senator with a copy of our side-by-side
analysis of the Administration's actions and
the Pelosi bill.
The House is expected to attempt a veto
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override Wednesday, January 24. Should the
override attempt in the House be successful,
the Senate is expected to consider the veto
either on the same day or on Thursday,
January 25.
Senator Gramm initially indicated that he
was in the "no". category. His comments were
that he "was outspoken on this issue early
on." He believes that we can possibly turn
the issue around, "but that it is not worth
the huge amount of political capital it
would take." Republican Leader Dole spoke
with Gramm on the issue yesterday, and Gramm
agreed to take another look. As such, I
believe Gramm should be in the "leaning no"
category.
KEY POINTS:
See Attachment.
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DATE OF
SUBMISSION:
January 17, 1990
ACTION:
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1-20
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
RECOMMENDED TELEPHONE CALL BY THE PRESIDENT
TO:
Senator John Heinz (R-PA)
DATE:
January 17, 1990
RECOMMENDED BY:
Frederick D. McClure 7m
PURPOSE:
To enlist the support of Senator Heinz for
your veto of H.R. 2712, the Emergency
Chinese Immigration Relief Act of 1989.
BACKGROUND:
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When the Senate considered H.R. 2712, the
measure was adopted by voice vote. You
subsequently vetoed the legislation but
directed the Attorney General and Secretary
nowout
of State to implement the provisions of the
legislation administratively. Indeed, this
administrative action was broader than the
measure enacted by Congress. Republican
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Leader Bob Dole has provided each Republican
Senator with a copy of our side-by-side
analysis of the Administration's actions and
the Pelosi bill.
The House is expected to attempt a veto
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override Wednesday, January 24. Should the
override attempt in the House be successful,
the Senate is expected to consider the veto
either on the same day or on Thursday,
January 25.
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Senator Heinz has indicated that he is in
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the "leaning no" category. His comments
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were that he is likely to vote to override.
politics
He noted that "only if the Chinese take
dramatic action to reverse their present
or
repressive policies will [he] reconsider.
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KEY POINTS:
See Attachment.
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DATE OF
SUBMISSION:
January 17, 1990
ACTION:
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George Bush Handwriting
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
RECOMMENDED TELEPHONE CALL BY THE PRESIDENT
TO:
Senator Bob Kasten (R-WI)
DATE:
January 17, 1990
RECOMMENDED BY:
Frederick D. McClure 7m
PURPOSE:
To enlist the support of Senator Kasten for
your veto of H.R. 2712, the Emergency
Chinese Immigration Relief Act of 1989.
BACKGROUND:
When the Senate considered H.R. 2712, the
measure was adopted by voice vote. You
subsequently vetoed the legislation but
directed the Attorney General and Secretary
of State to implement the provisions of the
legislation administratively. Indeed, this
administrative action was broader than the
measure enacted by Congress. Republican
Leader Bob Dole has provided each Republican
Senator with a copy of our side by-side
analysis of the Administration' actions and
the Pelosi bill.
The House is expected to attempt a veto
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override Wednesday, January 24. Should the
override attempt in the House be successful,
the Senate is expected to consider the veto
either on the same day or on Thursday,
January 25.
Senator Kasten has indicated that he is in
the "leaning no" category. His comments
were that he "had some political problems
and needs some good reason to vote with us."
He was not convinced by the administrative
action did more argument. At the time of
the conversation, however, he had not seen
our side-by-side analysis.
KEY POINTS:
See Attachment.
1-22-755 AM
DATE OF
SUBMISSION:
January 17, 1990
ACTION:
No I'm offered
5'5 at Twores 1-27
n-gative - Cartoons in NYTINE
Toasts heavy Krain students
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
RECOMMENDED TELEPHONE CALL BY THE PRESIDENT
TO:
Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA)
DATE:
January 17, 1990
RECOMMENDED BY:
Frederick D. McClure7m 7m
PURPOSE:
To enlist the support of Senator Specter for
your veto of H.R. 2712, the Emergency
Chinese Immigration Relief Act of 1989.
BACKGROUND:
When the Senate considered H.R. 2712, the
measure was adopted by voice vote. You
subsequently vetoed the legislation but
directed the Attorney General and Secretary
of State to implement the provisions of the
legislation administratively. Indeed, this
administrative action was broader than the
measure enacted by Congress. Republican
Leader Bob Dole has provided each Republican
Senator with a copy of our side by-side
analysis of the Administration's actions and
the Pelosi bill.
The House is expected to attempt a veto
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override Wednesday, Jánuary 24. Should the
override attempt in the House be successful,
the Senate is expected to consider the veto
either on the same day or on Thursday,
January 25.
Senator Specter's staff indicated that he
was in the 'leaning no" category.
KEY POINTS:
See Attachment.
DATE OF
SUBMISSION:
January 17, 1990
ACTION:
6 PM -
Will support you !!
Defer to your judgent -
Scowcnott = I womed
was varing -bacare of visits -
GB
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Attachment B
POSITIVE STEPS BY CHINA
Following the Scowcroft/Eagleburger trip, China muted its
propaganda attacks on the U.S.
Beijing publicly denied it will sell M-9 missiles to Syria
and added a broader assurance for the first time that it
will sell no medium range ballistic missile to any Middle
East country.
The Chinese reopened discussions to resume the Fulbright
exchange program. Beijing had suspended it last summer in
response to Chinese hardliners who see the program as an
agency of "bourgeois" influence.
The Chinese reversed themselves and agreed to receive the
4
first Peace Corps volunteers, on schedule in Sichuan
Province next September. Again this has been a sensitive
issue inside China, with hardliners arguing that the
volunteers are spies or carriers of "bourgeois democracy."
More importantly, China lifted martial law in Beijing. The
implications of this move are complex, and the action has
5
not fundamentally changed the situation at one stroke. But
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hardliners were anxious to retain the extra powers given
them by martial law, and symbolically it is very significant
that the regime has shown it is willing to bend to foreign
pressure. To declare that the lifting of martial law is
anything other than a positive step runs the risk of
strengthening those who refuse to bend.
6
Our Embassy in Beijing is no longer being harassed by
security forces and is back to the situation prior to
Tiananmen. Our Ambassador's access is greatly improved.
7 - Release 553 pisaus
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22 January 1990
MEMORANDUM
From: Command Duty officerMe3/24
To:
Commanding Officer
Via: Executive Officer
Subj: CDO VISIT REPORT FOR 19 THRU 21 JANUARY 1990
Encl: (1) Revised cabin assignment and access list
(2) Action items/discrepancies
ARRIVALS/DEPARTURES
Friday, 19 January 1990
1627 - WHSM Van aboard with MSCS Orlando Frilles and Paula
Rendon. (C1)
2015 -
(b)(7)(c), (b)(7)(e), (b)(7)(f)
2024 -
2233 - Night Hawk TWO aboard with (b)(7)(e) (H2)
2235 - Marine ONE aboard with President and Mrs. Bush, and staff.
(H1)
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2303 - Don Rhodes aboard. (P2)
Saturday, 20 January 1990
0605 - WH Vehicle #23 aboard with newspapers.
0606 - WH Vehicle #23 ashore.
0708 - CDR Turoci (Physical Therapist) aboard. (P2)
0950 - CDR Turoci (Physical Therapist) ashore. (P2)
Sunday, 21 January 1990
0542 - WH Vehicle #19 aboard with newspapers.
0615 - WH Vehicle #19 ashore.
0721 - Chaplain Weyand aboard.
0828 - Chaplain Weyand ashore.
0833 - CDR Turoci (Physical Therapist) and wife aboard. (P3)
0838 - Chaplain Clough and family aboard.
1006 - Chaplain Clough and family ashore.
1140 - CDR Turoci (Physical Therapist) and wife ashore. (P3)
1149 - Arnold Schwarzennegger, Maria Shriver and family aboard.
(P4)
1321 - Don Rhodes ashore. (P1)
1505 - WHSM Van ashore with MSCS Orlando Frilles and Paula
Rendon. (C1)
1532 - Marine ONE departed with the First Family and staff. (H1)
1533 - Nighthawk Two departed with (b)(7)(e) (H2)
1542 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver and family ashore.
(P4)
GUEST ACTIVITIES
Aspen Movies:
Saturday "My Left Foot" (35MM)
Approximately 25 videos were viewed by guests and staff.
Wye Oak
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President and Mrs. Bush used Wye Oak at various times during the
weekend.
Bowling Alley
Doctor, Milaide, and ASAIC used the bowling alley on Saturday.
Chapel Service
Chaplain Weyand conducted Catholic Service at 0730 in the
Hickory Theater. Approximately 11 in attendance. Chaplain
Clough conducted an inter-denominational service at 0900.
President and Mrs. Bush, 75 crew members and dependents attended.
Horse Shoes
The President, staff and Arnold Schwarzenegger threw horseshoes
on Sunday.
Walk
The President and Mrs. Bush walked the perimeter on Saturday
evening.
Staff Pool
Mrs. Bush swam both on Saturday and Sunday.
COMMUNICATIONS
Communications between USSS, Marine and the NSF Duty Section were
excellent. Notifications went extremely well.
DUTY SECTIONS
FRI
SAT/SUN
NOOD: CMC SUESS
BUC MOORE
JOOD: SK1 COULTER BU1 ANDERSON
Very respectfully,
PauL Dicholo
PAUL F. NICHOLS
LT, SC, USN
Copy to:
DH (including WHCA)
All CDO's
Visit File
OOD Pass Down Log
ACTION ITEMS/DISCREPANCIES
Aspen
*
- Movie sound system check needed (deep rumbling noises in
background) (CMO Action)
*
- Move secure phone. (WHCA Action)
Laurel
- Install accordian door for staff lounge. (PW Action)
- Purchase small functional bookcase for President's Office.
(SUPO Action)
- Install Electrical outlet on floor below the desk in
President's Office. (PW Action)
Wye Oak
- Investigate method to increase water pressure. (PW Action)
- Obtain "shoulder" exercise equipment as discussed. (SCTY
Action)
Hickory
- oil swing door in Theater. (PW Action)
- Repair door stop on double door entrance to theater. (PW
Action)
- Bowling Alley door drags on mat/hard to open. (PW Action)
Redwood
- Exterior trim outside room #16 is falling off and lower
exit door threshold needs repair. (PW Action)
Elm
*
- Rehang Aspen lite plan near console. (MSC Action)
*
- Rehang bulletin board next to phone near galley in Elm.
(SCTY Action)
MISCELLANEOUS COMMENTS
- Birm along Wye Oak road needs additional fill. (PW Action)
- Buy Ultrasound machine. (MED Action)
- Noisy ballast in street lamp by Sycamore. (PW Action)
- Make 10/1 visit ready. (i.e. Calendars updated, cleaning,
install drapes in senior staff offices, etc.) (CMO Action)
- Make TV/VCR rise platforms (3) for cabins. (PW Action -
See CO)
- oil USSS rusty bike chains. (PW Action)
* - TO BE DONE PRIOR TO NEXT VISIT
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
daily
January 22, 1990
Sir:
A five minute photo at 7:55 this morning has
been set up for Philip Neuhaus to stop by to
say hello. He is in town for Lacey Neuhaus
Dorn's swearing in today at 11:00 am.
She is being sworn is as the Director of the
Arts in the Embassies Programs at the State
Department. Joseph Reed and Ivan Selin will
perform the ceremony. Lacey's husband, Dale,
(Tucker)
will also accompany them.
Bridget
1/24/90
10643855
PY
THE WHITE HOUSE
THE PRESIDENT 1/23/90 HAS SEEN
ON HOLD,
WASHINGTON
1990 JAN 22 PM 2: 23
FG052
per Diane B.
January 22, 1990
1/24/90-OK togo
per Dian B.
&
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
C. BOYDEN GRAY CARIY
SUBJECT:
Nomination of David H. Souter to be United States
Circuit Judge for the First Circuit
The Attorney General, Governor John H. Sununu, C. Boyden Gray,
Frederick D. McClure and Charles G. Untermeyer recommend that you
nominate David H. Souter to be United States Circuit Judge for
the First Circuit. Since 1983, Justice Souter has served as an
Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. Prior
to his service in that position, he served as an Associate
Justice for the Superior Court of New Hampshire, 1978-1983; in
the Office of the Attorney General of New Hampshire as Attorney
General, 1976-1978, Deputy Attorney General, 1971-1976, and
Assistant Attorney General, 1968-1971; and as an associate with
the law firm of Orr and Reno, 1966-1968. Justice Souter received
his B.A. (1961) from Harvard College, B.A. and M.A. degrees
(1989) from Magdalen College, Oxford, and his LL.B. (1966) from
Harvard Law School. Justice Souter is 50 years old, single and
resides in Weare, New Hampshire.
RECOMMENDATION:
1. That you call Justice Souter (Telephone recommendation
attached at Tab A).
2. That you sign the nomination at Tab B.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
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Recommended Telephone Call
TO:
Justice David H. Souter
TELEPHONE:
Home:
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Office: (603) 271-3660
DATE TO CALL:
January 22 or 23, 1990
RECOMMENDED BY:
The Attorney General, Governor John H.
Sununu, C. Boyden Gray, Frederick D. McClure
and Charles G. Untermeyer
PURPOSE:
To ask him to serve as United States Circuit
Judge for the First Circuit
TOPICS OF
DISCUSSION:
1. Since 1983, Justice Souter has served as
an Associate Justice on the Supreme
Court of New Hampshire (a position to
which he was appointed by Governor
Sununu). Prior to his service in that
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position, he served as an Associate
Justice for the Superior Court of New
Hampshire, 1978-1983; in the Office of
the Attorney General of New Hampshire as
Attorney General, 1976-1978, Deputy
Attorney General, 1971-1976, and
Assistant Attorney General, 1968-1971;
and as an associate with the law firm of
Orr and Reno, 1966-1968.
2.
Justice Souter received his B.A. (1961)
from Harvard College, B.A. and M.A.
degrees (1989) from Magdalen College,
Oxford, and his LL.B. (1966) from
Harvard Law School.
3.
Justice Souter is 50 years old, single
and resides in Weare, New Hampshire.
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DAVID H. SOUTER
Birth:
September 17, 1939
Melrose, Massachusetts
Legal Residence:
New Hampshire
Marital Status:
Single
Education:
1957 - 1961
Harvard College
B.A. degree
1961 - 1963
Magdalen College
BA and MA, 1989
1963 - 1966
Harvard Law School
LL.B. degree
Bar:
1966
New Hampshire
Experience:
1966 - 1968
Orr and Reno
Associate
1968 - 1978
Ofc of the Attorney General
Assistant Attorney General
(1968-1971)
Deputy Attorney General
(1971-1976)
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Attorney General
(1976-1978)
1978 - 1983
Associate Justice
Superior Court of New
Hampshire
1983 - present
Associate Justice
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Hampshire
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Concord, New Hampshire 03301
603 271-3660
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Salary:
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DOMINA
JUSTITIA
January 19, 1990
The Honorable George Bush
President of the United States
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
I have the honor to enclose the nomination of David H.
Souter, of New Hampshire, to be United States Circuit Judge for
the First Circuit vice Hugh H. Bownes, retired.
Justice Souter was born September 17, 1939 in Melrose,
Massachusetts and is single. He received a B.A. degree in 1961
from Harvard College, a B.A. degree and M.A. degree in 1989 from
Magdalen College, Oxford, and a LL.B. degree in 1966 from Harvard
Law School. He was admitted to the New Hampshire State Bar in
1966.
Since 1983, Justice Souter has served on the Supreme Court
of New Hampshire. Prior to his appointment to the supreme court,
he served as an Associate Justice for the Superior Court of New
Hampshire, 1978-1983; in the Office of the Attorney General of
New Hampshire as Attorney General, 1976-1978, Deputy Attorney
General, 1971-1976, and Assistant Attorney General, 1968-1971;
and as an associate with the law firm of Orr and Reno, 1966-1968.
Justice Souter bears an excellent reputation as to character
and integrity, has judicial temperament and is, I believe, worthy
of appointment as a United States Circuit Judge.
I recommend the nomination
MD/3 Thornburgh
Attorney General
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
January 24, 1990
The President today announced his intention to nominate David H.
Souter, of New Hampshire, to be United States Circuit Judge for
the First Circuit. He would succeed Hugh H. Bownes.
Since 1983, Justice Souter has served as an Associate Justice on
the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. Prior to this, he served as
an Associate Justice for the Superior Court of New Hampshire,
1978-1983; and he served in several capacities in the Office of
the Attorney General of New Hampshire: Attorney General,
1976-1978; Deputy Attorney General, 1971-1976; and Assistant
Attorney General, 1968-1971. In addition, he served as an
Associate with the law firm of Orr and Reno, 1966-1968.
Justice Souter was graduated from Harvard College (B.A., 1961) i
Magdalen College, Oxford (B.A., M.A., 1989); and Harvard Law
School (LL.B., 1966). He was born September 17, 1939 in Melrose,
Massachusetts. Justice Souter resides in Weare, New Hampshire.
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The President
Jan 22, 1990
of the United States of America
Dear Marh-
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OUR GLAD WE'RE HERE, GLAD THEY NOW HAVE A CHOICE IN
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THE WHITE HOUSE
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January 22, 1990
Dear Ethan:
Belated thanks for your December letter. I enjoyed
reading the "Reds Report" article about you, and
I'm delighted to have the copy of that first day
issue. Thanks for sending them along.
I'm afraid I don't have much information to pass
along regarding Jesse Pearson. A copy of his
letter to me is enclosed in case you would like
to write him a note.
Barbara and I send best wishes for a wonderful year
ahead.
Sincerely,
Maybe Peason asp only
made Spring theing
Mr. Ethan N. Allan
40-C Stratford Hills Apartments
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Dear Ethan:
Thanks for your December 7 letter and the article from
the Reds Report. That piece brought back some great
memories of my days playing ball with you.
Jesse Pearson sent me the picture I passed along to you.
I'm enclosing a copy of his letter to me to give you a
little more information and his address, in case you want
to contact him.
I hope you and Doris enjoyed the holidays. Barbara
joins me in sending you both best wishes for a terrific
1990.
Sincerely,
Mr. Ethan N. Allen
40-C Stratford Hills Apartments
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514
by
Dec. .7,1989
Dear "Poppy":
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Thanks for the picture. Who is Jesse Pearson?
I can't find him in the record book. It seems to me
there was a Pearson on the team but I am having
trouble remembering what happened the previous
day let alone more than 50 years ago.
I thought you would like to see the enclosures.
Afterall I did make you a .275 hitter and today
you would be one of the leading hitters.
Ruly Carpenter and wife plus his daughter came
by. The daughter was looking at schools. Ruly
said she could run faster than him which wouldn't
make her very fast.
Doris is reading Polly Buck' E, The Masters Wife,
and liking it. They were in Play Reading together.
Best wishes for a Happy Holiday Season and love
to Barbara.
"COACH ALLEN,
"NO, GEORGE,
Lou Genrig
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November 8, 1989
President George Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Bush:
Enclosed is a photograph of Ethan Allen, your former baseball coach at Yale
and myself. This photo was taken at Spring Training at the Philadelphia
National League Camp at Winter Haven, Florida in 1936.
I thought perhaps this would be of some interest to you as I have heard you
mention Ethan Allen's name on a number of occasions. He was a fine person.
Perhaps this will help brighten your usual busy day.
Respectfully yours,
Jesse W. Pearson
Chairman of the Board (Emeritus)
JWP/rvh
Enc.
CINCINNATI REDS REPORT-Nov.1989
The President's Coach
ex-Philadelphia Phillies manager Jim-
mic Wilson was serving as coach. One one
occasion. the Reds lost a game as the result
Former Outfielder Ethan Allen
of a horrendous job of baserunning. in an
effort to have the team brush up on its tech-
Tutored George Bush on Baseball
nique while running the bases, Wilson offered
to stage a clinic on that subject. McKechnie
declined emphatically: 'If they can't run the
By John Godwin
-1 had a reporter call from the NEW
bases,' he declared. well get some players
E
than Allen says he doesn't have many
YORK DAILY NEWS. and he planned on
who can."
alma maters anymore. Crosley Field.
coming down to interview me on a Satur-
While Allen enjoyed his three and a half
where be hit the first home run to
day." Allen said. "My wife told him that
years with the Reds. by the 1930 season he
dead center field. is gone. So are the St.
Saturday was her laundry day. and be said,
was ready to leave. primarily due to the pres-
Louis Browns. for whom he played out his
TTI bring my laundry with me.'
ence of a new manager, "Dapper" Dan How-
career in 1937 and 38. His Green Mountain
Allen recalled that Bush's best day came
ley, who joined the Reds in 1930 after having
Boys of Revolutionary War fame have long
during a tour through the South when the
managed the St. Louis Browns the previous
since disbanded
cops, wrong Ethan
first baseman went 3-for-4 with a double and
three seasons.
Allen.
a triple.
"I asked for the trade, because (Howley)
But just because it's been more than 50
"After the game, scouts all came down out
had brought a lot of old players over from
years since be bung up his spikes. the game
of the stands to talk to him." Allen said. "I
the American League, like Bob Meusel (a
hasn't completely disappeared for the former
said. That shows you how much scouts
10-year Yankee veteran) and Harry Heil-
Reds center fielder. In fact, it would be no
know about hitting. Because be wasn't that
man. He had the team picked before we went
exaggeration to say that Allen's put in a full
good a hitter. He just had a good day. I had
south. and I thought that was the wrong
career in baseball since his playing days were
given him credit for being about a 275 hitter.
attitude to take. I felt that if talk could have
over.
but I found out be actually hit about 250 or
won a pennent, then be would have been the
Allen. who says he's "69 going on 86" and
260."
champion manager of all time."
actually is 85. lives in Chapel Hill. N.C..
Alien. born Jan. 1. 1904. graduated from
Allen claims he was no "hometown hero"
these days with his wife. Doris. and a host of
the University of Cincinnati in 1926 and
with the Reds. as has been the case with such
memories of his years with his hometown
went directly to the Reds. although he enter-
later local stars as Pete Rose and Barry
Reds (1926-30). the New York Giants. St.
tained offers from the Detroit Tigers and the
Larkin.
Louis Cardinals. Philadelphis Phillies. Chi-
Cleveland Indians. He went to Detroit for a
"I remember one night in Cincinnati when
cago Cubs and St. Louis Browns. and a gift
tryout and met the irascible Cobb. who not
STELLAR CAREER: in his 13 years in the
only pitched batting practice to the young
majors, Ethan Alien complied a .300 career
I definitely wasn't a hero." Allen said. "My
for spinning entertaining takes about bis
associations with the likes of Ty Cobb. Dizzy
average and had over 1,300 hits.
father came to the game this particular day.
Cincinnation. but took him home for a post-
and they had a pinch-hitter for me early in
Dean and Hack Wilson.
tryout dinner as well.
But Allen's world of baseball didn't really
"He said. 'Well it gets to be two balls and
the game. And I went home and left him
"I got to meet Tris Speaker. who was great,
begin to revolve until he completed his 13-
and even though Ty Cobb pitched to me in
no strikes. and everybody in the league
there. I forgot he was at the game. And is was
knows that Hornsby likes for you to take (a
a terrible way for him to get home. because
year career in the big leagues, Since 1938.
batting practice and took me home for
dinner, I wanted to stay at home and play,
pitch).' So, down the middle goes the ball.
he had to ride two streetcars and a bus and
he's devised a baseball game (Cadaco's "All-
Star Baseball") that's about to celebrate its
and I came back." Allen said. "But they kept
When it gets to three balls and a strike, once
then walk about a faile. Oh boy, 1 could
50th anniversary, written a bost of highly
raising the ante on me, even though the ante
again he takes. The ball comes down the
never get over that."
middle. and there be stands.
Allen was traded by the Reds early in
regarded baseball instructional books as well
wasn't very much in those days."
as an autobiography. won over 300 games as
As for his dealings with Cobb. Alien said
"Hack needed three swings, because he
1930. along with Pete Donohue, to the New
a college coach at Yale. and oh yeah, coached
the legendary "Georgia Peach" didn't seem
might hit a home run on the second or third
York Giants for Pat Crawford. In 1933. be
swing. So his average went down. and his
went to the Cardinals, followed by stints
a future President of the United States, a first
anything like his reputation as a dirty
baseman by the name of George Herbert
ballplayer.
home runs went down. But he was the
with the Phillies, Cubs and Browns. A frac-
Walker "Poppy" Bush.
"I never noticed any of that." he said of
damndest hitter I ever saw. He had a big
tured kneecap suffered during a slide into
Cobb. who was the Tigers' player-manager
heavy bat with a very thin handle, and even
second base with the Cubs in 1936 helped
at the time. "He wasn't nasty on the bench,
though be be pitched high and tight all the
bring about the beginning of the end for
"Kids write to me all the
time, he could still his the ball over the right-
Allen's playing career with the Browns in
and he didn't aggravate anybody. One fella
time now, and they ask
field fence. We never figured how he could
1937 and 1938.
failed to score from second on a single. and I
do that."
"Horsnby was the manager of the Browns
what my most memora-
remember Cobb saying. "Well. well have
and I didn't know what he'd gotten me for,'
somebody out there next year who can
As a career 300 hitter. Allen knows plenty
ble feat was, and I sup-
score.'
about hitting. And his book, "Baseball Play
said Allen. "I thought be was going to send
and Strategy," has long been regarded as one
me to Oshkosh or something, but I wa; a
pose it was bitting the
One of Allen's favorite anecdotes involves
the wild and crazy Dean. who roomed with
of the game's best instructional books.
10-year man, and they couldn't send BK
ball over the (center
Asked to characterize himself as a hitter,
anywhere. But he just wanted to get some
Allen one year during the St. Louis Cardi-
Allen. who led the National League with 34
older guys to team with some of the younger
field) fence in Crosley
nais' spring training camp.
players."
"We had a game in St. Petersburg one day.
doubles with the Phillies in 1934. said. "I
could hit the ball pretty far. and I hit a few for
So while Allen was riding out the end of
Field."
and I was just about to get out of the bath-
distance (47 career homers), but generally
his career, the idea for "All-Star Baseball'
Ethan Allen
tub." said Allen. "I'd played that day and
speaking. I was a line-drive hitter.
was forming in his mind. The game, which is
must have gotten on base a couple of times,
"Kids write to me all the time now well,
available at most K-Mart stores throughout
Naturally. it's in the latter category, as the
because there was dirt all over the tub. just
I guess some of em are Loen - and they ask
the nation, is a board game in the $10 price
coach of the current President: that Allen has
then, Dizzy burst into the bathroom and
said, 'Don't pull the plug. I've got a date and
what my most memorable feat was, and I
range. it consists of a model of a stadium
received the most attention in recent years.
suppose it was hitting the ball over the (cen-
with dises for each player being inserted
Bush, known as "Poppy" during his days at
E in a hurry.' And he jumped right on in the
tub on top of me. How be could bathe in that
ter field) fence in Crosley Field. But actually,
below the spinner. Each player's statistics
Yale. was on Alien's teams that advanced to
I was on a losing cause that day. Sometimes
below the spinner then indicate what the of
water. I don't know."
the College World Series in 1947 and '48 and
if you get a hit or make a catch to help save a
feraive player does, while the defensive player
served as team captain in 1948.
Another legendary character who was
Allen's roommate with the Philadelphia
game, it's more important."
spins to see what play is made.
Asked if be remembers Bush as presiden-
Phillies in 1934 was Wilson. The slugger's
Looking back on his days as a player, one
"There'll be & 50th anniversary game com
tial timber back in those days. Allen replies,
of the things that anmzes Allen now is the
ing up pretty soon They like to put a
1 wasn't interested in politics. 1 was inter-
amazing career, which included the all-time
lack of instruction the players were given. In
George Bush disc out to go with the game,
ested in winning ballgames. But he was a nice
record for RBIs in a season with 190 in 1930,
the excellent photo-essay book. "Before The
I guess it would have to be his college stats
guy and a good defensive ballplayer and a
was winding down at the time, and Wilson's
affection for the bottle was generally blamed
Game," Alien is quoted at length by the
And you can't use the President's image for
good team player.
"If once got a call from another of my
for his decline. Allen said that wasn't neces-
book's author. former University of North
profit, unless the profit is designated for
Carolina English professor Louis Rubin:
some worthy cause
like me," Aller
sarily the case.
ex-ballplayers when Bush was being con-
"Allen
joked.
"He was just a shell of the player that he
tells of his first spring training
sidered for CIA director (in 1976), and be
trip with the Cincianeti Reds in 1927. He had
"I don't know whether they'll be able "
wanted to know if I thought Bush had the
was by then," said Allen. "He went downhill
when (Rogers) Hornsby took over the last
joined the team directly from college the
put a disc out for him or not. but I'm sure
qualifications to be CIA director. And I said
if he could fathom my signal system at Yale,
four days of one season (1930) and then was
summer before, and be was looking forward
he'd like it because he's so wacky about
baseball."
he had the qualifications to be a spy."
manager the next year. He (Wilson) went
eagerly to the hitting and fielding instruction
he would get at the Reds' training camp in
That pretty much characterizes Ethan
Allen. whose 23-year lenure at Yale earned
from 190 runs batted in to where be just
Florida. To his dismay. be found that nobody
Allen's approach to the game wacky
didn't hit well."
him induction into the American Associa-
After hitting 356 during his record-setting
taught anything to anyone; the sole purpose
about baseball. Asked what prompted him
tion of College Baseball Coaches Hall of
1930 season, Wilson batted just 261 and
of spring training was to enable the players
to stay involved in the game for so many
Fame. had to field plenty of questions
drove in 61 runs in 1931. Three years later, he
to get into top physical condition for the
years, be responded that his most satisfac
regarding Bush during the 1988 campaign.
ensuing season.
tion comes from "doing something for the
And he enjoyed every minute of it. particu-
was out of baseball.
kids."
"I asked a coach what was wrong with
"Allen tells a story that characterizes
larly the part where he let it be known that as
the attitude of so many old-time ballplayers
There's no doubt that he's met that goal
a lifelong Democrat. he planned to vote for
Wilson." said Allen, "and he said. Hornsby
toward teaching the game. When Bill
since kids have been enjoying his garaes for
Michael Dukake
is taking the bat OUR of his hands.'
-1 said. 'What do you mean?"
McKechnie was manager of the Cincinnati
nearly 50 years. learning from his instruc
Reds in the late 1930s. the veteran catcher
tional books and even playing for him 2'
Yale. Just ask George Bush.
NOVEMBER 1989 1.
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D.C
Mr. Ethan N. Allen
40-C Stratford Hills Apartments
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514
Dear Ethan:
Thanks for your December 7 letter and the article from
the Rede Report. That piece brought back some great
memories of my days playing ball with you.
Jesse Pearson sent me the picture I passed along to you.
I'm enclosing a copy of his letter to me to give you R
little more information and his address, in case you want
to contact him.
1 hope you and Doris enjoyed the holidays. Barbara
joins me in sending you both best wishes for a terrific
1990.
Sincerely,
Mr. Ethan N. Allen
40-C Stratford Hills Apartments
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514
GB/MAH/SMG/CH:pw
(PC--1PRES)
Enclosure: copy of letter to POTUS from Jesse Pearson
FOR POTUS TO SEE AND SIGN
Dear Ethan:
Thanks for your December 7 letter and the article from
the Reds Report. That piece brought back some great
inemories of my days playing ball with you.
Jesse Pearson sent me the picture I passed along to you.
I'm enclosing a copy of his letter to me to give you 8
little more information and his address, in case you want
to contact him.
and Don's
I hope Dorie and you enjoyed the Holidays. Barbara
joins me in sending you both best wishes for a terrific
1990.
Sincerely,
Mr. Ethan N. Allen
40-C Stratford Hills Apartments
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514
GB/MAH/SMG/CH:pw (PC--1PRES)
Enclosure: copy of letter to POTUS from Jesse Pearson
FOR POTUS TO SEE AND SIGN
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Dear Ethan:
Thanks for your December 7 letter and the article from
the Reds Report. That piece brought back some great
memories of my days playing ball with you.
Jesse Pearson sent me the picture I passed along to you.
I'm enclosing a copy of his letter to me to give you a
little more information and his address, in case you want
to contact him.
I hope you and Doris enjoyed the holidays. Barbara
joins me in sending you both best wishes for a terrific
1990.
Sincerely,
Mr. Ethan N. Allen
40-C Stratford Hills Apartments
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514
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Dear Ethan,
Thanks for your December 7 letter and the article from the
Reds Report. That piece brought back some great memories of
my days playing ball with you.
Jesse Pearson sent me the picture I passed along to you. I'm
enclosing a copy of his letter to me to give you a little more
information and his address, in case you want to contact him.
I hope you and Doris enjoyed the Holidays. Barbara joins me
in sending you both best wishes for a terrific 1990.
Sincerely,
5/ Dear "Poppy":
Dec.7,1989
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Thanks for the picture. Who is Jesse Pearson?
can't find him in the record book. It seems to me
there was a Pearson on the team but I am having
frien
trouble remembering what happened the previous
day let alone more than 50 years ago.
I thought you would like to see the enclosures.
Afterall I did make you a .275 hitter and today
you would be one of the leading hitters.
Ruly Carpenter and wife plus his daughter came
by. The daughter was looking at schools. Ruly
gaid she could run faster than him which wouldn't
make her very fast.
Doris is reading Polly Buck e, The Masters Wife,
and liking it. They were in Play Reading together.
Best wishes for a Happy Holiday Season and love
to Barbara.
Elfian
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FAX: (215) 436-7684
UTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY
17 East Gay Street
P.O. Box 659
West Chester, PA 19381-0659
November 8, 1989
President George Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Bush:
Enclosed is a photograph of Ethan Allen, your former baseball coach at Yale
and myself. This photo was taken at Spring Training at the Philadelphia
National League Camp at Winter Haven, Florida in 1936.
I thought perhaps this would be of some interest to you as I have heard you
mention Ethan Allen's name on a number of occasions. He was a fine person.
Perhaps this will help brighten your usual busy day.
Respectfully yours,
Jesse W. Pearson
Chairman of the Board (Emeritus)
JWP/rvh
Enc.
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THE PRESIDENT
Jan 22, 1990
Dear Muph-
I loved your note - so
did Bar. It was great
seeing you and Janie - right
thre as I pulled that 6
iron into the weeds.
Here are zone golf
balls - guaranteed not
to do what I did on
hok # 3.
Love to all Barter.
as
500122
Mr. Murphy H. Baxter
1200 Smith Street, Suite 2950
Houston, Texas 77002
MURPHY H. BAXTER
1200 SMITH STREET, SUITE 2950
HOUSTON, TEXAS 77002
January 16, 1990
Dear George and Bar:
Your personalized picture of the White House brings back many
memories. Forty one years ago none of us really knew about Honest
Claude, Toughie, and Hilda Hardcastle!
You can bet your sweet pituty that Bar hasn't changed. Please
don't, we like you just as you are. George your loyalists remain
the same except there are more of them.
After seeing you on the golf course Janie wanted to know how
soon it would be before she could "vote for George Bush again".
Sincerely,
The President and Mrs. Bush
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20501
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THE PRESIDENT
January 22, 1990
Dear Nolan,
I was so sorry to hear about the death of your mother.
The entire Bush family joins me in sending our sincere
condolences and our family love.
Sincerely,
Cy Bel
day I hurt dread my own a the lot- mother But dies- to I all know the it Faurly. mut
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
bcc: Bush family
Mr. Nolan Ryan
done
Texas Rangers Baseball Club
9:45
(Nolan Ryan)
Post Office Box 1111
1/22
Arlington, Texas 76010
B.Y.
900123
1/22/90
Sir
Nolan Ryan regrets the
dinner this week -- his mother
died over the weekend.
Condolence note attached.
p.
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1/22
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THE PRESIDENT
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Dear Debbic-
Loved your note - I
really deal.
you're on for lunch.
Patty presoch will follow up.
Missiya - GB/
THE WHITE HOUSE
bcc:
incoming & outgoing
Ms. Deborah Steelman
John Sununu
Epstein, Becker & Green
Patty Presock (action)
1140 19th Street, NW
Joe Hagin (fyi)
Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
900123
DEBORAH STEELMAN
Dear mr Preident,
1.17.90
nearly a year has passed tince the
Inaugural + while the entreprenewial world is
guat, l do miss working with you + the team.
my Dad put his finger in it while I was home
for Christmas. He said 1. That Bush guy really
knows what his doing doesn't Le?" It was
great! my 1989 was winderful : my practice is
1
dring well and thanks to you, my public policy
cravings one satisfied by chairing the Advisory
bec:
incoming & outgoing
John Sununu
Patty Presock (action)
Joe Hagin (fyi)
Council on Social Security. its been fun,
and a geat experience exper in group dynamics.
if you'd ear like a quickie lunch partner,
you would sure make my day!
Debbie
bcc:
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John Sununu
Patty Presock (action)
Joe Hagin (fyi)
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THE PRESIDENT
January 22, 1990
Dear Tom,
Just a quick note of thanks for yours of December 20.
Your words of encouragement mean a lot.
I hope you have a wonderful 1990.
Sincerely,
Thanks on
G/
I'm sure proud of our nulitay-
Panama, Tom-
from 4 stars to no stripes
THE WHITE HOUSE
The Honorable Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
Old Orchard Road
Armonk, New York 10504-1783
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Dear Jim, letter
Thanks for your December 20 note. I'm glad you like the
photo. I Am hopeful about the progress we can make
also Presiden robacher. supportive for you payspict we Penane
± approciate dourAwords about Panaman I know we made the
right move there.
Barbara joins me in sending best wishes for the New Year,
Sincerely,
Dear TOM -
That for your litter of December 20. 2
appreciate you suggest for our action in
Panana & ad you thoughts comments as on relation
with the Societ Lesion
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Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
Old Orchard Road. Armonk, New York 10504-1783
December 20, 1989
Dear Mr. President,
You are really quick on the uptake and I am
deeply appreciative. The picture of you and
Gorbachev may usher in a new age and while I know
these people are terribly difficult to work with,
the direction you are taking is the only positive
one for the United States. You'll have a prodigious
job working those weapons down, but if both sides
allow for complete inspections, then it should be
possible. The picture is historic and your penned
note of thanks on the side is appreciated more than
I can say.
Respectfully,
Jon
The President
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
You made a trugh call
in Panama ht Datly
distinbed Incessery b
one. Sov reactor
That to The expected
was Can gratulation
CA.
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Jan 22,1990
THE PRESIDENT
To all assembled - all you
10th reunioners -
a) wish I were there
how did this group get let into
a church b) - and an Episcopal charle at that
I im still very grateful to
each c) - every one of you FBBI-CLS GBl
Don Rhodes is asking for a personal message that Shirley
XYe can deliver this evening on your behalf
DATE:
January 22, 1990
TO:
THE PRESIDENT
I don't know if Don had told you that
we are having a 10th Reunion of the
Iowa Caucus tonight -- just for those
of us who were on the GBFP 1979-80 staff.
Frankly, we didn't know whether you all
would want to consider dropping by, but
Teeley said he would invite you. But
now that everyone has gotten into the
swing of it so, I. just had to be sure
you at least knew. (Attached is the
invitation that I know you'll get a
chuckle from.)
Everyone has been dragging out old T-shirts,
buttons, newsmagazines, photos, flyers,
etc., and Jane Kenny had the attached
Reunion T-shirts made up. If there is
any way you could drop by, I know your
original gang would be thrilled. Or
if you'd like to write a message to them,
I'll be happy to take it.
SHIRLEY M. GREEN
THE Messages
and Correspondence
to the President Thilley
Room 94-OEOB, 456-7610
P.S. It's really quite wonderful how the
original Bushies are still so close.
It was Tom Lias who had the FBBI
(For Bush Before Iowa) buttons made.
TEXANS
for
BUSH*
USH
It hasn't always been a kinder, gentler nation.
In 1980
Ten years ago it was tough out there. But we few, we
George Bush
happy few, we band of brothers--and sisters--got up
for the Eighties. Come renew your friendship with Big
GET BUSH YOUR
Mo and those who were there then--ten years after Iowa '80.
for
YOUR PRECINCT CAUCUS
WILL MEET AT:
ALL SOULS EASCOPAL CHURCH- BASEMENT
2300 CATHEDRAL, WASHINGTON, D.C.
AT 6:30 P.M.
MONDAY, JANUARY 22
These GEORGE BUSH Supporters
Also Will Attend Your Caucus:
RICA BOND
PETE TERLEY
DEB AMEND
SUSAN MORRISON
BILL McInturff
DAVID SPARKS
CECI COLE
SHIRLEY GREEN
ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY
and doesens more
Chili and beer (and other drinks, too)
at your caucus place.
$5.00 per couple (to keep this caucus, per JAB III, in the black)
RSVP to machines: 671-2043 or 462-1937
1-22-90
THE PRESIDENT
Dear Dich-
This came with that
fishing rod- Just FYI
(just genuen found it in my desh)
GB,
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fyi
V. D.C.
The Honorable Dick Cheney
The Secretary of Defense
The Department of Defense
The Pentagon
Room 3E 880
Washington, DC 20301-1400
THE PRESIDENT
January 22, 1990
Dear Kyo,
You'll do a wonderful job at SBA; I'm delighted you're
on our team.
Thank you for your holiday greeting and thoughtful message.
Barbara and I appreciate it.
Warm regards,
Sincerely,
Cs Be
THE WHITE HOUSE
Dr. Kyo R. Jhin
8837 Sleepy Hollow Lane
Potomac, Maryland 20854
THE PRESIDENT
Jan 22, 1990
Dear Al -
I was very pleased
to see that you went with
Riggs, a fine institution. Joe
Albritton is a good wen and
a friend - But of as
THE WHITE HOUSE
bec: Sununu
The Honorable Alton G. Keel, Jr.
Riggs National Bank
Scowcroft
800. 17th Street, NW
(w/ article)
Washington, DC 20006
hast name?
sent 2/2 bc: Prescott?
109224
THE PRESIDENT
January 22, 1990
Dear Douglass:
Many thanks for your support for our actions
in Panama. Our troops did an outstanding job.
Barbara joins me in sending our warmest best
wishes for 1990.
Sincerely,
Bridget:
GBul
Can you identify
who this was to, and
did Prescott get a copy?
Thanks.
requested by
&
Prescot Bush
(see attached)
Douglass Campbell
10 East 53rd Street
New York, New York
10022
1990
The President
Jan 22, 199
of the United States of America
Dear Marh-
Mrs. Bush showed we your
wonditul letter. I am very very
proud of you and all the others (sur)
who jamed in to give
Panam a a real shot at
denocray o freedom
Pride in the word.
Good well
Cy Bl
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D.C
A1C Mark S. Kennedy
63rd Security Police Squadron
APO Miami 34001
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 22, 1990
Dear Ethan:
Belated thanks for your December letter. I enjoyed
reading the "Reds Report" article about you, and
I'm delighted to have the copy of that first day
issue. Thanks for sending them along.
I'm afraid I don't have much information to pass
along regarding Jesse Pearson. A copy of his
letter to me is enclosed in case you would like
to write him a note.
Barbara and I send best wishes for a wonderful year
ahead.
Sincerely,
Maybe Peason aff only
made Spring theing
Mr. Ethan N. Allan
40-C Stratford Hills Apartments
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514
THE WHITE HOUSE
Mr. John Paul Jones Dejoria
John Paul Mitchell Systems
Post Office Eox 10597
Beverly Hills, California 90213-3597
THE PRESIDENT
January 22, 1990
Dear John Paul,
Thanks for your good letter of support for our actions
in Panama. Our troops did an outstanding job.
Barbara joins me in sending warmest best wishes for
1990!
Sincerely, G Bl
May Thanks
for the Encouragement
bcc: Neil Bush - done
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1/22
Jan
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 22, 1990
Dear Mr. Davis:
Thank you for your letter of support for our
actions in Panama.
Our troops did an outstanding job in ensuring the
safety of our citizens and in protecting the Canal.
Now that General Noriega has surrendered, we can
begin helping the elected government of Panama in
its efforts to restore their nation's economic,
political, and social structure.
Again, my thanks for your support, and my best
wishes for a wonderful year ahead.
Sincerely, as Bl
Mr. Charles Davis III
Regional Vice President
CSX Corporation
One James Center
Richmond, Virginia 23219
U
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 22, 1990
Dear Jack:
Thank you for your letter of support for our
actions in Panama.
Our troops did an outstanding job in ensuring the
safety of our citizens and in protecting the Canal.
Now that General Noriega has surrendered, we can
begin helping the elected government of Panama in
its efforts to restore their nation's economic,
political, and social structure.
Again, my thanks for your support, and my best
wishes to you and Frances for a wonderful year
ahead.
Sincerely, Cg Bl
Mr. J.A. Matthews
1260 Midland National Bank Tower
Midland, Texas 79701
THE PRESIDENT
January 22, 1990
Dear Carloss:
It was good to hear from you and I appreciated your
thoughtful letter. I especially appreciated your words
of support for our actions in Panama. Our troops did
an outstanding job.
Barbara joins me in sending our warmest best wishes.
Sincerely,
as Bl
THE WHITE HOUSE
Mr. Carloss Morris
Chairman
Stewart Title Guaranty Company
Post Office Box 2029
Houston, Texas 77252
FISH
THE PRESIDENT
January 22, 1990
Dear Ed,
I'm delighted to have those fishing lures -- now
I just have to find some time to use them! Many,
many thanks.
Sincerely,
Bl
I'll use the
'y
500u in the
Potomac,
HE WHITE HOUSE
1 box fishing lures
from:
Ed Moore
Mr. Ed Moore
Ed Moore Lures
Ed Moore Lures
P. O. Box 70
Post Office Box 70
Welaka, Florida 32093
Welaka, Florida 32093
904-467-2510
bcc: Gift Unit
bc: Bucky
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 22, 1990
Dear Carl:
Bucky shared your letter with me concerning presentation
of the Prisoner of War Medal for USS PUEBLO crew members.
Recent Congressional changes provide for the award of the
POW Medal to individuals who are held captive by foreign
armed forces in conditions similar to those imposed on
military personnel during an armed conflict, as was the
case of the PUEBLO crew. The Secretary of the Navy, on
December 22, approved the award for the crew serving on
the USS PUEBLO on January 23, 1968.
I appreciate your suggestion that I personally present the
medal to members of the PUEBLO crew. In light of my
present schedule, and since I believe that the presentation
of these awards should not be further delayed, I have asked
the Secretary of the Navy to ensure that the awards are
presented in a timely manner. I salute your efforts in behalf
of the PUEBLO crew.
With warmest best wishes,
Sincerely,
G Bul
Mr. F. Carl Schumacher, Jr.
Vice President
Boatmen's Trust Company
Post Office Box 14737
St. Louis, Missouri 63178
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
January 22, 1990
STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY
Today the President ordered the implementation of a report
from the White House Economic Policy Council's Working Group on
Rural Development, formed in April 1989 to analyze and evaluate
existing Federal rural development programs and develop policy
options for improving their coordination and execution.
The President has instructed Secretary of Agriculture
Clayton Yeutter to implement six proposals designed to improve
the coordination of rural development programs and serve as a
catalyst for future initiatives. They are:
President's Council on Rural America. A Presidential
Council will be formed with membership drawn from farmers,
state and local governments, rural businesses and high
technology industries to advise the Federal government on
improving Federal rural development policy.
State Rural Development Councils. Each state will establish
a Rural Development Council to coordinate Federal rural
development programs in its region. Council members will
include representation from the office of the governor and
the state representatives of all Federal departments
administering rural development programs locally. The
council will identify and assess local rural development
needs and coordinate the delivery of Federal and state rural
development programs to meet those needs.
Rural Development Demonstration Program. Under existing
budgetary resources and programs, a series of Rural
Development Demonstration Programs will be organized to:
identify regional rural development needs; develop plans of
action to meet those needs; bring together the necessary
resources; and evaluate the process and its results for
possible application on a broader basis.
Rural Development Technical Assistance Center and Hot Line.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will establish a center
to provide technical assistance and detailed information on
Federal programs that serve rural communities. The center
will also link callers with Federal, state and regional
program officials who can provide additional assistance.
-MORE-
Hisa
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Target Federal Rural Development Programs. Given limited
Federal budget resources, the Federal government will
attempt to target rural development programs on those
activities that generate the maximum net economic benefits.
While most Federal rural development programs allocate funds
by formula, programs with discretionary accounts will
allocate funds to those activities where the payoff is
greatest.
Economic Policy Council's Working Group on Rural
Development. This working group will become a standing
committee of the President's Economic Policy Council and
will implement any rural development initiatives developed
by the President's Council on Rural America and approved by
the Administration.
Secretary Yeutter will hold a press availability at the U.S.
Department of Agriculture today at 10:30 a.m. to discuss these
initiatives.
# # #
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: At the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Kelly Shipp (202) 447-4623.
Daily
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
January 22, 1990
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Arnold Schwarzenegger
as Chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and
Sports, and I challenge him to raise the consciousness of all
Americans on the importance of good health through physical
fitness.
The physical health of all Americans must have a stronger
commitment than an annual New Year's resolution. We now know
that individuals can influence their health, fitness and
productive prime of life through the active pursuit of regular
exercise programs.
I have asked Arnold to chair the Council because I believe he is
uniquely qualified to address and influence national health and
fitness issues especially among our youth. Arnold has devoted
much of his career to the pursuit and advocacy of physical
fitness. His abilities have produced a broad range of career
successes involving athletic competition, acting and business
ventures.
The continued success of the President's Council on Physical
Fitness and Sports is in large part due to the efforts of past
Councils and Chairmen, especially immediate past Chairman Dick
Kazmaier. I have asked Dick to remain on the Council so that his
experience and knowledge can be of benefit to the new Chairman.
I will be announcing other new Members of the Council in the very
near future, and I know that, through the Council's work and
Arnold's leadership, physical fitness will become a priority for
all Americans in the 1990's.
# # #
White House News Summary
Monday, January 22, 1990 -- 1
5:00 P.M. NEWS UPDATE
DOW JONES (New York/Reuter) -- Wall Street stocks closed with their
steepest losses since the Oct. 13 mini-crash Monday as a late wave of
computerized program selling hit a market already depressed by poor
corporate earnings. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 77.45
points at 2,600.45, according to early unofficial figures. In the broader
market, declining shares exceeded gainers by a 5-1 ratio on light NYSE
volume of 147 million shares.
EPA/REP. BOEHLERT (Reuter) -- President Bush supports legislation to
elevate the EPA to a Cabinet-level department, the bill's author said
Monday. Rep. Boehlert, R-NY, said Administration officials have indicated
that Bush would back his bill, which was introduced last year. "The
President's willingness to support my bill underscores his commitment to be
a positive force for environmental protection," Boehlert said in a
statement. "There is no better time than today to put the world's leading
environmental research and remedy team where it belongs at the
forefront of the new global effort to protect our natural heritage," he
added.
NICARAGUA/CAMPAIGN FUNDS (Reuter) -- The U.S. accused the
Nicaraguan government Monday of blocking money that Congress approved
for use as campaign funds by the Nicaraguan opposition in elections
scheduled for next month. "The Nicaraguan government is doing
everything in its power to block monies designed by Congress to help level
the playing field for the opposition," State Department spokeswoman
Tutwiler told reporters. Tutwiler said Nicaragua's ruling Sandinista
government had resorted to anti-Semitism to justify prolonged delays in
transferring money to the opposition.
ISRAEL/ETHIOPIA/CLUSTER BOMBS (Reuter) -- The U.S. has been
assured that Israel is not selling cluster bombs to Ethiopia, the State
Department said Monday. The New York Times said Sunday U.S.
Administration officials suspected Israel of sending cluster bombs to
Ethiopia and had unconfirmed reports that the government had already
used them against rebels. State Department spokeswoman Tutwiler said
the Administration had noted the report but could not confirm it. "The
truth is that we have no clear, physical evidence that Israel has provided
such weapons to the government of Ethiopia," she said.
SOVIET UNREST/U.S. (Reuter) -- The U.S. Monday deplored the ethnic
violence in the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan and said it hoped a political
dialogue could begin soon that would take into consideration the aspirations
of all sides. For the second time in three days, the Bush Administration
tempered understanding of the Kremlin's use of force in the troubled
Transcaucasus with the warning that this should be a short-term remedy
to restore order, not a means to suppress legitimate political expression.
But State Department spokeswoman Tutwiler said the statement she read at
a daily news briefing was not meant to suggest Washington thought Soviet
leader Gorbachev had crossed some line of acceptable behavior.
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Monday, January 22, 1990 -- 2
FITNESS COUNCIL/SCHWARZENEGGER (AP) -- Actor-strongman Arnold
Schwarzenegger came to the White House on Monday and emerged in a new
role: chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
The broad-shouldered Austrian-born performer, after getting marching
orders from President Bush in the Oval Office, said his aim is to get all
Americans, from the very young to the very old, to exercise regularly.
"President Bush is very much committed not only to have this a kinder
and gentler nation, but also a very fit nation,' said Schwarzenegger. The
onetime Mr. Universe said of the 65-year-old president: "He's 100 percent
behind physical fitness
He's in tremendous shape himself." Bush said
in a statement that "I have asked Arnold to chair the council because I
believe he is uniquely qualified to address and influence national health
and fitness issues, especially among our youth.
SEN. DOLE (Chicago/Reuter) -- Sen. Dole appeared more often than any
member of Congress on major network evening TV news shows during the
last session of Congress, according to a new study. The Kansas
lawmaker's failed attempt to seek his party's presidential nomination and
his leadership post in Congress contributed to his appearing or being
mentioned 486 times, the report said
The study was conducted by Joe
Foote, a former congressional staff member who chairs the radio-TV
department at Southern Illinois University. It covered ABC, CBS and
NBC evening newscasts.
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Monday, January 22, 1990 -- 1
12:00 P.M. NEWS UPDATE
ABORTION RALLY (AP) -- Backers of legal abortion, marking the 17th
anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark Roe V. Wade decision, raised
the specter of Romania's former communist repression Monday in warning
against a rollback of abortion rights. As opponents of abortion prepared
to rally outside the White House, the head of the National Abortion Rights
Action League told a gathering on Capitol Hill that legalizing abortions was
one of the first steps Romania took after overthrowing its hated dictator
last month. "Romanians know firsthand what most Americans can only
imagine -- the deadly impact of government bans on abortion," said Kate
Michelman, executive director of the abortion-rights lobbying group
Abortion foes expected tens of thousands of marchers in Washington, and
more at smaller events around the country. President Bush promised to
speak over a loudspeaker by telephone to the anti-abortion crowd gathered
on the Ellipse.
ABORTION (Headline News) -- Activists on both sides are holding
demonstrations marking the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision
legalizing abortion. An estimated 50,000 opponents are gathered in
Washington for a noon march. Abortion rights activists have already
staged their big rally. They gathered on Capitol Hill and brought a
wooden memorial to women who died undergoing illegal abortions. Molly
Yard, former president of the NOW, said, "We will not go back. We will
maintain the right of a woman to control her reproductive life "
In
what has become a tradition, anti-abortion activists delivered roses to
members of Congress.
The intense social confrontation over abortion has caused intense
political jockeying in both major parties. Last November's gubernatorial
elections resulted in several victories for abortion-rights activists.
Democrats in Congress feel the political winds shifting their way
They
feel President Bush's adamant anti-abortion stance will give them a key
advantage
The GOP's top strategist expects the Democrats to overplay
their hand. Lee Atwater: "I am convinced that voters -- the average
rank-and-file voter in America -- will vote for a candidate, regardless of
his or her position solely on abortion." Democrats plan to force Bush to
take a stand on the issue. They'll attach new liberalized abortion
language to various appropriations bills. Those bills will come to the
floor just in time for the election campaign this fall, and hot debate will
again resound through Congress as it did last year
But anti-abortion
forces say the plan might back-fire
Both sides are candidly saying
that the fight this year is not simply over abortion but really over who
controls Congress.
DRUG TESTING/SUPREME COURT (UPI) -- The Supreme Court tacitly
gave its blessing Monday to random drug testing of some federal employees
at the Justice Department and civilian Army workers, refusing to review a
pair of decisions. The court rejected appeals by the employees of rulings
by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The
cases at issue concerned random drug testing of employees with top secret
clearances in the Department of Justice and civilian workers in the Army's
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Program.
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AZERBAIJAN (Headline News) -- The Azerbaijani parliament declared
Moscow's state of emergency order void and demanded withdrawal of Soviet
troops from the republic. The Azerbaijani parliament is threatening to
consider a break away from Moscow over that issue. A general strike is
being honored in Soviet Azerbaijan today as thousands of Azerbaijanis
walked off their jobs to bury victims of the continuing ethnic unrest.
Soviet news reports say Iranians near the border may be providing men
and weapons to help nationalists fight the troops. Iran denies that
report. Thousands of Azerbaijanis have reportedly crossed into
neighboring Iran
Today troops sealed the borders, stopping that
exodus.
EAST GERMANY/PRO-DEMOCRACY GROUPS (East Berlin/AP) -- Communist
Premier Modrow bowed to pressure from opposition groups and agreed
Monday to rebuild the East German government to include pro-democracy
groups
"It is my intention to give a new quality to our cooperation,"
Modrow told representatives of more than a dozen fledgling parties and
reform movements during Monday's talks between the government and the
opposition. "Our expectation of your constructive advice underscores this
intention.'
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3:15 P.M. NEWS UPDATE
ABORTION RALLY (David Anderson, UPI) -- President Bush told throngs
of anti-abortion protesters Monday he stood with them in their efforts to
make abortion illegal and urged Americans to consider the "self-evident
moral superiority" of adoption over abortion. Bush, using a telephone
hook-up, addressed demonstrators gathered on the Ellipse behind the White
House as they marked the 17th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision
legalizing most abortions. "The continuing strong presence of the March
for Life reminds those of us in decision-making capacities in the White
House and in the Congress and in the court, that millions of Americans
care fundamentally about this issue and are committed to preserving the
sanctity of life," Bush said. "Your movement also reminds Americans,
especially young Americans, of the self-evident moral superiority of
adoption over abortion," he added. "We should all be grateful to the
families that adopt babies, giving them care and love and a chance for a
wonderful life."
(William Welch, AP) -- President Bush assured anti-abortion marchers
Monday of his "deep conviction" against the Supreme Court ruling 17 years
ago Monday that legalized abortion and his steadfast opposition to abortion
on demand. Bush, speaking by telephone to marchers gathered outside
the White House before the annual march past the Capitol and the Supreme
Court, said the anti abortion movement reminds Americans "of the
self-evident moral superiority of adoption over abortion."
Even as he
spoke, pro-choice forces led by the Planned Parenthood Federation were
urging Americans to call the White House switchboard to register their
support for legal abortions.
(Headline News) -- The 17th anniversary of [Roe V. Wade] is
bringing activists on both sides of the issue out in force
On the
steps of the Supreme Court the March for Life arrived [at about 2:30
p.m. and there is] a lot of chanting going on. Most of these people are
so-called pro-life demonstrators; they're being confronted by a very small
band of people who are so-called pro-choice backers
As this march
got underway earlier this afternoon, conservative Sen. Helms
accused
pro-choice backers of being politically motivated: "They chant, 'pro
choice,' but what so many really mean is 'protection' of their own political
hides. They are willing to advocate the deliberate destruction of tiny
babies in the womb in order to win elections. And that is a disgrace."
The U.S. Park Service has officially estimated today's crowd at 35,000
-- that is considerably smaller than the approximate 60,000 people who
showed up for this event last year.
STOCK MARKET (Headline News-Quotron Ticker) -- At 2:56 p.m. the Dow
Jones Industrial Average was down 47.72 points at a volume of 116 million
shares traded.
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NAACP LEADERS (Eliot Brenner, UPI) -- Senior NAACP leaders told
President Bush on Monday that racism and violence are increasing in the
U.S., and Bush pledged to use Justice Department resources to battle the
problem. Bush met for more than half an hour with the organization's
executive director, Benjamin Hooks, Board of Directors Chairman William
Gibson and officials with a number of NAACP offices from around the
country. The meeting was arranged as a follow-up to an earlier meeting
that dealt with the package bombs sent to NAACP offices and judicial
officials in the South. "We're concerned about the climate that has caused
race relations to deteriorate and increased acts of violence," Hooks said
afterward, adding that he urged that there be greater contact between
federal agents and his group's 1,700 chapter leaders. Gibson termed the
meeting productive and added, "We are concerned about the climate of
racism, the climate of race relationships in America
(and) scizms between
blacks and whites in America.'
BARRY/HOOKS/RACISM (AP) -- The head of the NAACP today questioned
whether the cocaine arrest of Mayor Barry was part of a pattern of
harassment of elected black officials and "the rising tide of racism in this
nation."
"I'm not trying to justify any wrongdoing" or condone use
of cocaine, Hooks said, but "I am opposed to selective enforcement of the
law."
"I simply said that there will be in the minds of many blacks the
continued feeling that there has been undue harassment of black elected
officials. To the extent that [the Barry case] fits into this conference,
the rising tide of racism in this nation, it is something we want to
examine," Hooks said.
BARRY/TREATMENT (Headline News) -- Mayor Barry has entered an
alcohol treatment facility. His lawyer made the announcement today. [His
lawyer] would not specify which facility the mayor went to for treatment,
however Barry was spotted today entering the Hanley-Hazelden Clinic in
West Palm Beach, Fla.
STRATEGIC ARMS REDUCTION (UPI) -- The U.S. and Soviet Union, in a
breakthrough step towards a strategic arms reduction treaty, said Monday
they have reached agreement on reciprocal trial inspections of each side's
nuclear warheads. Letters formalizing accord on the inspections were
signed and exchanged by chief arms negotiators at an earlier than
scheduled resumption of the talks on 50 percent cuts in long-range
strategic nuclear arsenals. U.S. delegate Richard Burt and his Soviet
counterpart, Yuri Nazarkin, have instructions from presidents Bush and
Gorbachev to complete a basic treaty outline in time for the next
superpower summit in June.
SOVIETS/POWELL (AP) -- The "Soviet threat is diminishing," but America
should beware of dropping its defenses so low that it has a "hollow Army,"
the top U.S. military officers said Monday. "Although the Soviets retain
a significant military capability, the political likelihood of them using that
capability against us or our allies in Europe is less than it has been in
decades," said Gen. Powell. Not only is the Soviet Union changing, but
its Warsaw Pact allies also are forming independent ideas of their defense
needs, Powell said in his first public remarks since attending a meeting of
military chiefs of the 16 NATO, seven Warsaw Pact and 12 non-aligned
countries in Vienna last week.
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Monday, January 22, 1990 -- 3
RURAL DEVELOPMENT (UPI) -- The Bush Administration announced a
six-point plan Monday to try to get more from rural economic development
programs but without spending additional money. The plan included the
creation of a presidential council on rural America, streamlined access to
technical assistance and a decision to target federal funding, when
possible, on projects with the biggest payoffs. Most programs allot their
money by formula, so targeting would apply to discretionary funds.
"There is ample potential here to get more bang for the buck," said
Agriculture Secretary Yeutter. "Within the existing financial resources,
our judgement is we can do a great deal more and ought to."
ROMANIA/U.S. FOOD (Reuter) -- Romania will get $80 million worth of
U.S. food aid including 500,000 tons of corn and 7,500 tons of butter in
the coming months, government officials said Monday. "The aid has
already been agreed in principle and we are working out the details now,"
said a State Department official who declined to be named. He said the
food aid was the same amount per capital as that given to Poland last
year.
YUGOSLAVIA (Reuter) -- Yugoslavia's Communist Party renounced its
constitutionally guaranteed monopoly on power Monday after 45 years of
unchallenged rule and decided to permit the creation of a multiparty
system. "The League of Communists (the party) renounced its
constitutionally guaranteed leading role in society," said Momir Bulatovic,
Communist Party chief of the republic of Montenegro and chairman of a
plenary session at the party's congress.
CHINA DIPLOMACY/SURVEY (AP) -- President Bush's secret diplomacy
with China is still a secret to many Americans, according to the latest
Times Mirror survey of public interest in the news. The Times Mirror
News Interest Index for January said only 6 percent of those polled
reported following "very closely" the news of a December visit to China by
two top Administration officials. An additional 18 percent said they
followed the story fairly closely.
S&Ls/CRANSTON (Los Angeles, UPI) -- Sen. Cranston, under fire for his
role in the Lincoln S&L scandal, unveiled a plan Monday to help investors
recover their losses after buying uninsured bonds from Lincoln's parent
company, American Continental Corp. The plan includes a possible option
for those bondholders, who stand to lose an estimated $200 million, to sue
the federal government
Cranston's plan, delivered in a letter sent
Jan. 16 to Attorney General Thornburgh, provides for bondholders to be
given first priority on funds seized in civil and criminal actions.
BOSTON TRIP/VICE PRESIDENT (UPI) -- Vice President Quayle visited a
grammar school Monday in a Boston neighborhood shaken by racial
tensions, urging students to understand the importance of education and
the dangers of drug use. Quayle, who braved the second day of a major
New England snowstorm for a full day of activities in Boston, sat hunched
in a small classroom chair at the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Grammar
School listening in on a first-grade class and answering students'
questions. Asked by one child if the job was hard, Quayle responded, "I
wouldn't call it a hard job. There are many challenges. It's easy to work
with President Bush. The President is a very honorable, decent, caring
person."
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Bridget Montagne
Office of the Press S
PRESS BRIEFING
BY
MARLIN FITZWATER
January 22, 1990
The Briefing Room
11:10 A.M. EST
INDEX
SUBJECT
PAGE
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Briefing On Visit of President Salih of Yemen
1
President's Schedule
1-3
Trip to Kansas city, Missouri
1-2
FOREIGN
COCOM/Eastern Europe/Technology Controls
8-11;13;14
DOMESTIC
President-Benjamin Hooks Meeting/Mayor Barry Case
3-4;13
Abortion/President's Stand
4-7
EPA/Cabinet Agency?
.8
Poland/Hungary
9-10
China
10-11
Dr. Sullivan-Uptown Cigarettes
12
Latin American President-Elects
12
New Decorations in Oval Office
13
State of the Union Address
14
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Office of the Press Secretary
PRESS BRIEFING
BY
MARLIN FITZWATER
January 22, 1990
The Briefing Room
11:10 A.M. EST
MR. FITZWATER: Today at 1:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary of
State for Northeastern and East Asian Affairs John Kelly, will hold a
background briefing for the state visit of President Salih of the
Yemen Arab Republic. Following departure statements on Wednesday,
January 24 at approximately 1:30 p.m., Mr. Kelly will conduct an
on-the-record readout of the visit.
The President will meet with two recently-elected South
American leaders over the next two weeks as part of his continuing
dialogue with Latin America on political and economic issues. The
President will meet with Brazilian President-elect Fernando Collor de
Mello on January 26th at 11:00 a.m. Collor won the run-off of the
Brazilian presidential election on December 17, 1989 and will be
inaugurated on March 15th. Topics to be discussed include:
Brazilian economic reform, regional issues such as Central America
and Panama, U.S.-Brazilian bilateral relations, including trade.
President Collor also plans to call on other senior administration
officials, members of Congress, the IMF and the World Bank.
On February 5 at 11:00 a.m. the President will meet with
Uruguayan President-elect Luis Alberto Lacalle. Lacalle won the
Uruguayan presidential election on November 26, and he will be
inaugurated on March lst. Lacalle will be accompanied by Enrique
Braga, who he recently named to be Minister of Economy and Finance.
Topics to be -discussed include: the process of democracy in the
region, President-elect Lacalle's economic plans and trade issues,
including Uruguay's important role as chairman for final sessions of
the Uruguayan round of the GATT negotiations. Lacalle plans
additional meetings during his trip with officials of the IMF, World
Bank and Inter-American Development Bank as well as a meeting in New
York with the U.N. Secretary General.
Q
Could we get some spellings on those --
MR. FITZWATER: Yes. Brazilian President-elect Collor's
name is Fernando Collor de Mello. And Uruguayan President-elect
Lacalle is first name Luis Alberto Lacalle.
The President will go to Kansas City tomorrow to meet
with the Ad Hoc Committee on Crime. That's an all-caps name of an
organization, which is a grass-roots community organization formed in
1977 by citizens concerned about a series of unresolved drug-related
murders. The Committee is made up of volunteers from drug-ridden
communities and works closely with the police, schools, the courts,
the media and the business community in attempting to clean up crime
and drug use in their neighborhoods.
Over the years, Committee members have succeeded in
forcing drug dealers out of suspected crack houses in their
neighborhoods, and they have sought to educate neighborhood youths on
the dangers of drugs.
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The President will meet with families in the area and
tour a crack house -- a former crack house that's listed --
Q
The Vista Hotel.
MR. FITZWATER: -- on Park Avenue and the President will
also address representatives of federal, state and local law
enforcement agencies at the Kansas City Municipal Auditorium.
Q
Is this a local group, Marlin, this Ad Hoc
Committee?
MR. FITZWATER: Yes.
Q
Strictly Kansas City?
MR. FITZWATER: Yes. I'll have a full schedule later
today, but tentatively press check-in is 8:30 a.m., press charter
departs 9:00 a.m., Marine One departs the White House 9:45 a.m., Air
Force One departs Andrews at 10:00 a.m.
On the return, Air Force One arrives at Andrews at 5:15
p.m., Marine One arrives at the White House at 5:30 p.m. and the
press charter arrives at Andrews at 6:30 p.m. Schedule to come.
Q
Is the President announcing Drug Plan II this -- or
is Bennett doing it, and is this connected to it? Is this like a
leader for it, or what?
MR. FITZWATER: This is not -- we will be announcing the
National Drug Strategy Part II in association with the budget and the
State of the Union. Haven't determined a final date for that, but
that will not be announced in this speech in Kansas City tomorrow.
Q
This week, though?
MR. FITZWATER: It's not clear. It'll either be this
week -- well let's see, State of the Union is Wednesday, right?
Between now and Wednesday.
Q
There's been some suggestion that it would be done
this week as early as Thursday. If it's changing, why is it
changing? (Laughter.)
MR. FITZWATER: We'll let you know when it is.
Q
So what is the message tomorrow, Marlin? The same
thing?
MR. FITZWATER: The message is, the President will speak
to the drug problem. He'll talk about the spirit of local
communities who take charge of their own lives and their own
communities. He'll talk about local heroes in the Kansas City region
who have done this job. He'll talk about the problems of crime that
are caused by drug use and will comment on his crime bill now before
the Congress and ask the Congress to finish the job they started in
the last session.
Q
Marlin, any chance that he might refer to
Washington, D.C., as he has in the past?
MR. FITZWATER: No.
Q
No chance?
MR. FITZWATER: No chance.
Q
Marlin, what about the speech tonight? Can you tell
us what's in the speech tonight and whether we're getting a text
ahead of time?
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MR. FITZWATER: We will try to get you an advance text
tonight. The speech is a conservative philosophy speech. This is to
the American Spectator. I haven't gone through the President's
schedule yet, but at 6:55 p.m. tonight, the President departs for a
reception and dinner at the Willard Hotel, sponsored by the American
Spectator, which is a conservative-oriented magazine organization.
And we will try to have an advance text. I don't have other details.
Q
Does the speech tonight mention the issue of
abortion?
MR. FITZWATER: I don't know. I haven't seen it.
Since you raised that, let me go through the schedule
here today, and we'll come back to all these announcements later.
The President met this morning at 10:00 a.m. with
Benjamin Hooks and representatives of the NAACP. I didn't get a
report on the stakeout. I don't know what they had to say out there,
but essentially the discussion with the President focused on the
series of bombs and other threats that have been experienced at NAACP
offices around the country. The President reiterated his direction
to the FBI and the Justice Department to investigate these incidents
with all dispatches. The President said that the NAACP offices
should be in contact with federal law enforcement authorities, and
that we would provide all the support and help we could in that
effort.
That was the sole subject, really, of the meeting.
Q
Mr. Hooks, when asked about the situation with the
-- Mayor, was asked about criticism by some blacks that black
officials have been the target and have been harassed by federal law
enforcement investigations. He did not tie it directly to the Barry
case, but said that indeed many Blacks will look at the Barry case
and said -- and be reminded that some black officials have been
harassed. Does President Bush believe there's been any harassment of
black officials by the federal investigators?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, this issue did not come up in the
meeting. We are not going to have any comment on the Mayor Barry
situation, and we simply urge our investigators, law enforcement
agencies and everyone to be very careful that that never happens.
Q
Was the White House apprised of the progress in that
case?
MR. FITZWATER: No.
Q
So although those involved in investigating Marion
Barry did keep in contact with the Justice Department, that
information didn't come over here in any form or fashion?
MR. FITZWATER: Not to my knowledge.
Q
Benjamin Hooks suggested that -- or one of the
others suggested that there was some indication in the meeting of
movement of finding the perpetrators in these bombings. Do you know
anything about that?
MR. FITZWATER: The Attorney General simply said that we
were making progress, that he was hopeful, but he could not give any
specifics at that point. He did give them reason to make that
statement, but no other specifics beyond that.
Q
Well, why did they hold this meeting today?
Benjamin Hooks just met with the President, what was it, 10-14 days
-- some --
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MR. FITZWATER: Ben said that they were very concerned
about this, that they have some 1700 field offices of the NAACP.
These kinds of letter bombs and other threats have spread a good deal
of fear in the community. He wanted to explain to the President the
exact nature of their problem and the threats, and also to receive
our assurances that we would have the full force and support of the
federal government in combatting these.
Q
Wasn't all that accomplished in the previous meeting
just a couple of weeks ago, or was there some new development between
then and now?
MR. FITZWATER: You'd have to ask Ben that question. I
don't know. Most of the meeting was taken up by two or three of the
participants describing two or three of the various incidents that
had occurred to them.
Let's go on here with the schedule. The President also
had a brief meeting with Arnold Schwarzenegger at 10:50 a.m. and
we'll have a release soon. The President is naming him Chairman of
the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. And we'll
have a statement by the President and background information
immediately after the briefing.
Q
Is there a photo of that?
MR. FITZWATER: There was a photo. I think we had photo
coverage, did we not? I believe so.
Q
Not for the television --
MR. FITZWATER: Just stills?
Q
Did they arm-wrestle?
MR. FITZWATER: No. (Laughter.)
At 12:00 noon, the President makes a phone call to the
March for Life movement on the Mall, and we'll have a wire photo
during the phone call. And the call itself will be fed in live here
to the Briefing Room.
This afternoon -- let's see, we have the 1:00 p.m.
backgrounder here that I mentioned.
The President meets with Secretary Cheney at 1:15 p.m. in
their routine meeting. And then we go to the American Spectator
dinner at 6:55 p.m.
Q
Marlin, last week, Atwater, speaking to the RNC,
told them that the party was a big enough attempt to support both
sides of the abortion issue. I know the President has gone on to
raise money for Republican candidates who have come down on both
sides. But does the President concur -- he put Atwater in that job
-- does he concur the party is big enough for people on both sides of
that issue?
MR. FITZWATER: Yes, he does. The President feels very
strongly about his position on abortion. He feels it is a personal
choice of conscience he has made and considered, and urges others to
consider their conscience and their principles in making their own
personal judgments. But we all feel that there is room within the
party for varying points of view on this issue.
Q
Does the President fear that this issue has the
potential to splinter the Republican Party because of the
strongly-held views of the pro-lifers?
MR. FITZWATER: No. The President feels that this is a
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for a number of important things, and that there is room for various
points of view on abortion in the party.
Q
If I could just follow up. The Republican Party
platform does not recognize the diversity of opinion on abortion, it
opposes abortion in all circumstances. Would the President like the
platform to be revised so it recognizes diversity of views on this
issue?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, we don't have any comment on the
platform. That'll come up in four years; we'll address it then.
Q
But Marlin, the statement about a matter of
conscience. -- is the President going to say that in the speech this
evening?
MR. FITZWATER: I don't know what he says in his remarks.
We'll have to wait for 12:00 noon.
Q
Marlin, I notice when the President speaks to the
President of Brazil that there's nothing on the agenda about human
rights. And there's no country around the world that is meaner or
nastier to women than the people of Brazil legally today, according
to 60 minutes, which I believe, on CBS. And that says that a man can
kill his wife anytime there, and just stay away from the police for a
few hours and it'll be legal.
MR. FITZWATER: I don't know about that specific --
Q
And I think that with all the aid we're giving to
Brazil now and giving them part of our industry and everything else
that we certainly ought to feel free to take up the right of women.
MR. FITZWATER: Okay. Thank you, Sarah.
Q
Is it true, as Newsweek reported, that all the women
in the family oppose him on abortion -- the daughter,
daughters-in-law and all of that?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, the President said no such meeting
ever took place, and you have to ask the individuals what their
private positions are.
Q
No family gathering at which they ever discussed it?
MR. FITZWATER: I don't know. He just said no meeting
like that ever took place.
Q
What about the merit of the story, Marlin? Is it
true that that's what they think, whether or not a meeting took
place?
MR. FITZWATER: I don't know. You'd have to ask them
what they think.
Q
Does Mrs. Bush differ with him on this?
MR. FITZWATER: I refer you to Mrs. Bush's press
secretary, the wonderful Ms. Anna Perez, who is available --
Q
Back to the platform question. The platform is the
party position on which the President ran. Irrespective of what he
wants to do four years from now, if he feels it's a matter of
conscience, why wasn't that part of the Republican Party platform?
MR. FITZWATER: He has always said it's a matter of
contents, and how things get in the platform, I don't know.
Q
Why didn't he say it? I mean, he controls the
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MR. FITZWATER: He has. He's always said that.
Q
Well, has he changed his mind between when the
platform was drafted and now?
MR. FITZWATER: No. The position is always that way.
He's said it from this podium any number of times.
Q
Marlin, Nellie Gray organized --
Q Name one.
MR. FITZWATER: Name one? I'll get you transcripts.
Q Nellie Gray was organizing this rally today and is
very supportive of the President. Says that the reason the two
Republican candidates lost last year -- and she said they were -- in
the gubernatorial races, and she was glad they did lose -- is that
they equivocated on that issue. And I'm sure that Courter doesn't
feel that he equivocated. He may have changed his position, and
Coleman the same way. Is the President, who is going to be
campaigning for Republicans this fall, worried that those who may
change their position a little bit to accommodate the times are in
danger of losing because they're equivocated?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, we won't -- can't give an analysis
on every candidate and so forth. The President will speak forth on
his position whenever he finds the occasion to do so, and he will
speak forthrightly, as he always has in the past.
Q
On the anniversary of Roe V. Wade, President Reagan
often met with the organizers of the March for Life. Why has the
President chosen not to meet with this group -- the leaders of the
group?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, we've chosen to make this phone
call, which is the way it's been done in past years, as I understand
it.
Q
Well, President Reagan would make the phone call,
but then he would have the leaders of the group into the Oval Office
for a meeting -- President Bush --
MR. FITZWATER: I don't know. Not since I've been here.
I was with him '87 and '88 and we didn't.
Q
Marlin, Pro Choice groups have asked their
supporters to call the White House at 12:00 noon. And has the White
House done anything to accommodate what is probably going to be an
increase in phone calls at around that time? Have you laid on extra
operators? Have you done anything?
MR. FITZWATER: No. I saw that in the paper, and we
called over just to alert them that there were going to be calls.
We've also got a series of calls coming in from Europe on another
matter. I can't remember what that issue was. So the operators are
going to be very busy today. Some long distance operation call-in,
too. So another busy --
Q
-- two years ago on the Civil Rights Restoration
Act. Their opponents of the Civil Rights Restoration Act were all
calling members of Congress at once, at the same time. And their
phones were completely jammed. Has that ever happened here?
MR. FITZWATER: Not to my knowledge. We've had a lot of
jammed phones, people calling in almost spontaneously, saying how
great the administration is doing -- (laughter) --
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Q Recently?
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They always get through, right?
Q
What administration was that?
MR. FITZWATER: Those dates were the 17th, 24th -- I
can't remember the exact month.
Q
Who was President?
Q
What are those calls?
MR. FITZWATER: I don't remember. I just saw it in wire
service notes that somebody organized a call-in campaign to call
America and call the White House at 12:00 noon today on something or
other. I can't remember what it was.
Q
Could you find out for us whether that's happened?
MR. FITZWATER: Sure. It's on the wires. I'll get a
story for you.
Q
Is this sense that the Republican Party believes
that you can take what position your conscience tells you -- does
that apply only to abortion, or does this apply to all of the other
issues that are in the platform as the party espouses? And if not,
why abortion in particular?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, it applies to every issue. We
welcome Republicans for being Republicans. And they're free -- we
have people of independent belief and thought here.
Q
What makes them Republicans if they don't have some
sort of --
Q Money. (Laughter.)
MR. FITZWATER: Because they consider their beliefs to be
most closely aligned with ours and with the party beliefs.
Q
What are the party beliefs on this issue?
MR. FITZWATER: But on any individual issue, people will
differ all the time on every issue -- everything.
Q
Well, Marlin, if the Party is big enough to
accommodate people of different opinions, why isn't the United
States? The constitutional amendment that the President supports
would not endorse, as Susan said, any diversity of opinions. So why
is it appropriate for the Republican Party -- why does the President
continue to support a constitutional amendment which would
effectively eliminate personal choice?
MR. FITZWATER: Because he believes that's the
appropriate course of action.
Q
Well, this may be the same question, but if you use
the phrase "personal choice" that the President believes this is a
matter of personal choice and a matter of conscience, then why isn't
a woman's decision to have an abortion a matter of personal choice
and a matter of conscience?
MR. FITZWATER: I'm not going to argue this issue with
you, Karen. The President believes what he believes. It's very
clear. We've laid it all out. The words -- he says it's a matter of
his personal conscience. Everybody has to make that judgment. I'm
not going to try to proselytize you or analyze this situation.
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Q
That's exactly what the amendment calls it -- making
someone else's personal decision for them.
MR. FITZWATER: The President feels it's correct.
Q
Does the President have any regrets that this issue
of personal conscience has taken on such a high profile politically
in this country?
MR. FITZWATER: The President thinks it's a legitimate
issue and one that needs to be considered.
Q
Does the President think the EPA should be a Cabinet
agency?
MR. FITZWATER: This is a matter that -- the question is,
should EPA be a Cabinet agency? And the issue has been considered.
As I said over the weekend, several members of the staff are
receptive to the idea, but there has been no final decision yet. One
of the selling points is that it could improve managerial -- or have
managerial advantages for the agency. EPA is in kind of a unique
situation where it's part regulatory-part policy, and so we think
there are some managerial advantages. But no final judgment has been
made.
Q
How do you align that with the President's desire
not to expand the Cabinet? He's kept other people out of the these
positions.
MR. FITZWATER: We would like not to expand the Cabinet,
but occasionally there may come up reasons why we'd want to change
our mind.
Q
Well, is he disposed to this idea?
MR. FITZWATER: Pardon?
Q
What is his disposition on this idea? Does he favor
it?
MR. FITZWATER: Doesn't have a personal position at this
point. No decision has been made.
Q
Has anybody talked with Conyers about it, or any of
the others?
MR. FITZWATER: We've talked to members of Congress, yes.
I don't know who.
Q
New topic. There's a Post story today saying that
the administration decided on Friday to greatly expand the -- really
liberalize the export controls on high tech to Eastern Europe. Can
you confirm that story?
MR. FITZWATER: For over 40 years, COCOM has protected
the vital security interest of its members by restricting the flow of
militarily significant goods and technology to potential adversaries.
We now face a situation in which the political and military
environment is changing. As a result, the administration is
proposing certain immediate steps to adapt to this changing
environment while ensuring that COCOM continues to perform its
essential function.
The National Security Council is recommending a new
approach to COCOM. This new approach is: One, support for reform in
Eastern Europe; two, strengthen protection for truly strategic goods
and technologies; three, more rapid modernization of the current
control lists; four, decontrol of off-the-shelf commodities readily
available to the general public; and five, guidance to exporters on
what goods and technologies COCOM is likely to approve for sale to
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Eastern Europe.
We are now engaging in consultations with our allies on
several U.S. proposals. The proposals deal with: computers,
telecommunications, and machine tools. In addition, the President
has ordered an expeditious but comprehensive review of how to adapt
our export controls to the changing strategic picture.
The results of this review will form the basis of
follow-on proposals to modernize COCOM. We believe that COCOM can
and should adapt to the changes in Eastern Europe in a comprehensive,
yet flexible, manner. The U.S. is advocating a response that will
complement Western efforts to support reform and development in these
countries while protecting critical strategic interests. The
presidential decision will be made following the consultations in
terms of any final action.
Q
If I can just follow up on that. So this is a
proposal, then? It's not finalized yet. Is that correct?
MR. FITZWATER: Yes. I would describe the process as one
where this has been under review in the State Department, the Defense
Department and the Commerce Department for sometime. It then was
elevated to the National Security Council staff for final
coordination and review. They have indeed made the preliminary
decision that they think this is the direction in which we should be
moving. It now moves to consultations, and we have people who are in
the various European capitals at this time undertaking those
consultations. Following that, it goes to the President for final
judgement.
Q
So when do you think it will be finished?
MR. FITZWATER: Can't say when, but in the
not-too-distant future.
Q
Marlin, do you know whether the U.S. has completed
the negotiations with Poland and Hungary, in particular on inspection
regimes and other safeguards to prevent any kind of transshipment of
things that are still on the Soviet COCOM restricted list?
MR. FITZWATER: I don't believe those have been
completed. I'll have to check the exact status, but I think we're
still having those discussions.
Q
I don't recall you, in the past, reading lengthy NSC
recommendations before the President's made a decision. Why are you
doing it this time?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, because it was in the paper and
because it's happening and seemed like the right thing to do.
(Laughter.)
Q
There's actually kind of two components to this.
There's the idea of specific products that you're entering into
negotiations --
MR. FITZWATER: I hate it when these guys know more than
I do. (Laughter.)
Q
There also seems to be like a basic philosophical
change that's going on, and I wonder how important that is. Because
in the past, it seemed like the U.S. has only responded to pressures
because the Swiss were going to sell or somebody else was going to go
ahead, we should do something in response.
MR. FITZWATER: I think you have to recognize the changes
that have taken place in the world, and therefore the changes that
are being brought to bear on COCOM. COCOM has always had a difficult
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the same time protecting our defense posture and our national
security. There has always been tension in that directive,
historically.
The situation that's changed now, of course, is with the
emergence of these new democracies in Eastern Europe, or the
countries moving in that direction at least, and in our interest to
help support those countries by additional exports of technology and
by the seeming change of the military threat by the Soviet Union and
by their intentions, that those bring into it a new attitude towards
the COCOM situation. That leads to our addressing this issue and why
the situation is frankly different today than it was a year ago.
Q
First of all that same news article also implies
that the United States is sort of being compelled to do this along
lines that he just indicated, that is that other countries are
planning to go ahead anyway --
MR. FITZWATER: I wouldn't use the word "compelled." A
lot of other countries have always been more eager than us to bend
the COCOM rules. And, there has always been pressure from certain
countries who want to increase exports for one reason or another, and
maybe who don't always share the same heightened or sensitivity of
security concerns that we have. So, we have had to be steadfast over
the years in protecting our technology and our security interests,
and that situation is quite obvious.
Q
Well, also, would you say that this is not just a
reaction to the change, but actually an effort to help to spur
change? By liberalizing these policies -- you're actually
encouraging --
MR. FITZWATER: I think it's all of the above. I mean,
obviously, it's a reaction to the changes in Eastern Europe,
obviously it's because we want to continue to support those changes.
Q
Would the changes apply to China, and is there any
guiding principle in deciding what should go and what shouldn't go?
I mean, obviously, everything we have -- we thought was important for
our defense, and now, what -- we're going to cut the list in half or
--
MR. FITZWATER: Well, as I understand it, these are
always subject to case-by-case kinds of judgments on the technology
involved in the country. Now, I just don't know about
country-by-country in the case of China. I dont whether -- what that
role is.
Q
Well, you've said last -- that the President was
going to the press on votes on the China students over here. Can you
report any progress in being able to pick up any votes to sustain?
MR. FITZWATER: I don't have any vote count for you. I
understand it's probable later in this week to have a vote on the
Pelosi bill.
We have been greatly concerned that members of Congress
and others were not aware of the President's Executive Order, which
gave students the same protections, and more, indeed, than are in the
Pelosi bill. That's one of the reasons why we released Attorney
General Thornburgh's letter to the President over the weekend which
outlined the specific steps that have been made. That document has
been circulated widely on the Hill. We are hopeful that members of
the Congress now have a better understanding of the assurances that
they have been given to students and that that will have some impact.
But I cannot give you a vote count.
Q
Well, I assume Gingrich knew this and he said that
he's going to vote to override, and if you lose some of the
leadership, isn't it pretty much mission impossible?
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MR. FITZWATER: It's not easy. And it's going to be
uphill and Congressman Gingrich had some very precise comments the
other day. He was on the airplane with us down to Florida. And we
gave him a copy of the Thornburgh document -- (laughter) -- and --
Q
Any changes?
Q
Opened his eyes.
Q
Did it change his mind?
Q
Is there a change in plans.
Q
It's a matter of conscience.
MR. FITZWATER: They assigned six Secret Service agents
in that area to make sure he read it, but I don't know whether -- who
knows? (Laughter.)
Q
Can you tell us if the President is, in fact, doing
anything this week in support of this vote? Calling anybody, meeting
with anybody, going to the Hill, anything?
MR. FITZWATER: He will be undertaking some activities,
but I just don't want to delineate them at this time.
Q
Marlin, back to COCOM, the Defense Department is
vehemently against any relaxation of the rules. Has that changed at
all, or have the changes in the Eastern Europe -- are they overriding
those concerns?
MR. FITZWATER: We believe that the modifications we are
proposing make it easier to export certain goods and technologies to
Eastern European destinations under carefully specified
circumstances. We believe that this is a prudent change that will
not jeopardize the critical strategic interests we share with our
allies. And that is a position shared by the Defense Department, as
well as other aspects of the administration.
or
Who wrote that?
Q
It's like tag team --
Q
Anything else?
MR. FITZWATER: Everything you ever wanted to know, COCOM
breath, is right here. (Laughter.)
Q
On the China student thing, as I understand it, the
Pelosi bill would extend this right for the students to stay here --
it's a blanket extension as opposed to the President's, which would
require individual students to actively apply for an extension, which
would perhaps open them up to some persecution from the Chinese
government. That's the difference in the two pieces, as I understand
it.
MR. FITZWATER: I don't know. That's pretty technical.
The President's assurances say that no student will be sent back if
he fears persecution.
Q
That's right. But that student has to personally
apply for the extension, as I understand it, as opposed to the Pelosi
measure, which would automatically extend that right to each
individual student.
MR. FITZWATER: I don't know whether that's true or not.
I mean, that right is extended by the President's Executive Order.
Now, whether or not the bill says you don't have to -- I mean, I just
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piece of paper or apply for something; I don't know. But the
assurances and the certainties are the same in terms of government
policy.
Q
Does the President share the concern of some on the
Hill that these students, if they were to apply for an extension,
would be subject to persecution by the Chinese government, or did
General Scowcroft receive some assurances from the Chinese that that
wouldn't be the case? Do we know that?
MR. FITZWATER: I'm not aware of any assurances, but I
think the Chinese students in this country are a very courageous
group who have had to speak out, who have assumed certain risks, and
those probably continue under either set of circumstances. The
important point here is that they have the assurances that they will
not be forced to return to China if there is any fear of persecution
at all.
Q On child care, Marlin. Can you tell us something
about the White House strategy whether or not you have a bill on the
Hill that you want passed, or do you want to support the Downey bill?
MR. FITZWATER: I can't go into that at this point.
Congress is returning, and we are working on a strategy, but it's not
something I'd want to lay out in public.
Q
Do you have a bill up there?
MR. FITZWATER: We have our original child care bill, and
that of course is our initial point of interest, and we start from
there.
Q
Is it that you haven't decided, or you just don't
want to lay it out?
MR. FITZWATER: We have our bill. We just don't discuss
legislative strategy in public, is all.
Q Marlin, were Dr. Sullivan's comments on the Uptown
cigarette cleared through the White House, were they discussed by the
senior staff-in any way? And does the President agree that he did
the right thing?
MR. FITZWATER: We were aware that he was going to do it,
and the President agrees he did the right thing.
Q
Was it ever discussed, or he was just simply
notifying the White House of his intention?
MR. FITZWATER: I don't know. That's --
Q
But it was discussed in advance to your knowledge in
some way?
MR. FITZWATER: We were aware of it.
Q
But you don't disagree? You think it's fine?
MR. FITZWATER: We think it's fine.
Q
The meeting the President is going to have with the
President-elect of Brazil and Uruguay -- were these set up because
there's concern that there's a greater need for fence-mending with
South American and Latin American leaders in the wake of the Panama
invasion?
MR. FITZWATER: No. They're set up because these are
newly-elected leaders, and the President thought it was appropriate
to talk to them.
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Q
Do you have any comments by the President on his
redecorated digs in the Oval Office?
THE PRESIDENT: The President is pleased with his new
decorations. I have viewed them over the weekend and this morning
and I think they're beautiful. I hope all of you think the same
thing.
Q
But then let us in then.
Q
Well, let's go, then. Let's go.
Q
That was an invitation.
MR. FITZWATER: Come on down -- let's go.
Q
Where's the old rug?
Q
Question from a different end. Why have you
scheduled three events in the Oval Office today or in the West Wing
where still photographers have been allowed in and no television
coverage? Does the President not want to be seen on the day in which
he is speaking on the abortion?
MR. FITZWATER: No. We'd love to be seen. And its just
the nature of the events. The first event was in the -- well, I
don't want to explain any of these decisions. But it's just the
nature of the events.
Q
Media discrimination.
Q
On the Oval Office thing again how long does this
work take? Is this something that we just done quickly?
MR. FITZWATER: It was done over the weekend. It was
installed Friday while we were on the trip.
Q What was it?
Q In the Briefing this morning with the NAACP,
Benjamin Hooks made a comment that the President indicated that there
were strong developments in the investigation. What exactly did the
President mean by that?
MR. FITZWATER: He didn't go beyond that comment, and we
wouldn't do that. He just simply said -- the President didn't --
Attorney General Thornburgh said there were developments, but he
could not be any more specific.
Q
Important developments or is this -- a field grip?
MR. FITZWATER: Developments.
Q
Does the administration support changing antitrust
laws to allow for joint ventures?
MR. FITZWATER: I don't know, Toby. Call Treasury.
Q
Saw a story over the weekend that said that Mr.
Havel is supposed to be coming to visit, the Czech leader. Do you
have a date for that yet?
MR. FITZWATER: I don't think we have a date, do we
Roman? Yes. He's indicated he would like to. We've indicated we'd
like to have him. We're talking about dates, but nothing is set.
Q
Any rough time frame?
Q
Is the early release of these COCOM liberalization
proposals reflected at all an urgency on the part of health urgency
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-- on the part of the administration spurred by concern that there
may be reversals in the East bloc? That we need to move more quickly
to --
MR. FITZWATER: They haven't been released yet.
Q
I mean you've announced them. You announced them
prior to any agreement on it. Does that reflect a concern that there
couls be reversals in the East bloc if you don't move faster?
MR. FITZWATER: No. No.
Q
Dr. Hooks suggested or said to us at the stakeout
that he's talked with the President about his concerns of the growing
racial polarization in this country. What was the President's
reaction?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, the President was very concerned
about it. As he said in his letter to Ben Hooks a few weeks ago,
there is no place for racial bigotry and racism in this country, and
this kind of violence that breeds fear is something we must deal
with. And he instructed his law enforcement agencies to act swiftly
and comprehensively to help deal with this problem.
Q
Marlin, springing off of that -- Mr. Gibson, I think
it was -- indicated that he had asked the President to speak out on
the subject and specifically mentioned the State of the Union
address, that he had asked him to include this topic. Is that
likely?
MR. FITZWATER: I can't -- I don't want to say what's in
the State of the Union Address. I would just note that in the letter
to Ben Hooks we did make that public as a way of speaking out. He
did address the skinhead rally in Atlanta in his speech the other
day. And I'm sure you will see the President speak out on this
issue.
Q
Marlin, will he speak out in a forum -- (laughter)
-- on the forum -- (laughter) -- will he speak out in a forum that's
likely to get wide public attention and which white people might
notice that he is speaking out?
MR. FITZWATER: He spoke out to the press corps and to
Atlanta. If you guys don't cover it, that's your problem not mine.
THE PRESS: Thank you.
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