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daily 4/11
CONTED 5 THE UNITED THE
OF STATE
May 11, 1992
The charge is:
The poor are getting poorer and the
rich are getting richer!
The answer please.
/
Brief
FROM THE PRESIDENT
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
May 13, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
us
FROM:
W. HENSON MOORE WAM
DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF
Attached is a not-so-brief answer to the question of your
attached memo. Tony Snow is also working on an op-ed piece.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20500
May
11,
19921
THE CHAIRMAN
07
MEMORANDUM TO THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
MICHAEL J. BOSKIN MM
SUBJECT:
NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE ON INCOME DISTRIBUTION
o
The article in today's New York Times continues a heightened media interest
that began with a March 5 NY Times article reviewing analysis by Paul
Krugman of MIT, and includes an editorial in today's Wall Street Journal
(attached). I had extensive discussions with Robert Bartley, editor of the
Journal, in anticipation of today's editorial.
o
CEA did extensive work pursuant to the March 5 article, including the
drafting of an Op-Ed which strongly refuted the Krugman analysis. Clayton
Yeutter had Tony Snow draft an Op-Ed using a conceptual analysis that ran
in the NY Times which replied to the Krugman analysis. Because that piece
did not include a rigorous statistical analysis, it did not fully counter the
impressions left by the original article.
BASIC FACTS ABOUT INCOME DISTRIBUTION
Economic growth is the single most important cause of increases in income
for all income levels. Over the past fifteen years, income for the typical
family has risen substantially. From 1977 to 1982, while the economy
stagnated, income growth was near zero or negative for households in all
quintiles. In contrast, average income grew for all households in each
quintile during the Reagan-Bush expansion from 1982 to 1989.
Over the past fifteen years, the distribution of income has gradually become
more unequal. The primary causes are shifting labor market patterns,
particularly the increase in the wage premium of educated over uneducated
workers, and demographic patterns, particularly the baby boom and the
increase in single-parent families, rather than government policies. Similar
trends have occurred in other Western countries.
THEMES IN THE NY TIMES ARTICLE
0
Krugman's analysis of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) data
crystallized the issue of who gained the most in the 1980s. He argues that
70 percent of the increase in the average income went to the top 1 percent of
families.
2
There are many ways to calculate how relative incomes have changed, all of
which indicate that the distribution of income has become more unequal, and
that the share going to the top 1 percent has increased.
0
A meaningful question is what share of overall income growth went to the
top 1 percent. Using CBO data, which, as noted below, is flawed, this figure
is about 25 percent for after-tax income between 1977 and 1989, the last year
for which data are available.
- This figure is essentially the same for the Carter years (1977-80) as for
the Reagan-Bush years (1980-89).
0
Another meaningful question, which Krugman alleged to be trying to answer,
is what share of overall income growth beyond that due to the increase in the
number of families went to the top 1 percent. This number is also about 25
percent using CBO data (since the number of people in each percentile rose
at the same rate as the overall population, the share of the top 1 percent,
which includes more families, will grow by the same percentage as the total).
ERRORS IN THE KRUGMAN/CBO ANALYSIS
o
Krugman's 70 percent figure is misleading and flawed in several respects.
-
The analysis ignores the very large increase in the number of new
workers. New workers were likely to have been younger and less skilled
than average and, therefore, are likely to have earned less than average.
The resulting dramatic increase in employment reduced average income
compared to what it would have been without the increase in less-skilled
workers even though it provided an important contribution to economic
growth.
-
The analysis ignores the mobility of families between income categories.
About one-third of the individuals in the top 1 percent in any year
between 1980 and 1986 were not in the top 1 percent in the prior year.
-
The analysis is based on CBO data that show much lower income growth
for the bottom 80 percent of the population than do Census data. CBO
overstates income for upper-income families by including realized nominal
capital gains as income and omitting rental, partnership, and some capital
losses. CBO also understates income for lower-income families by
omitting non-cash government transfers.
CONCLUSION
0
See the attached Wall Street Journal editorial, and you will note that CBO,
under pressure from me and others, backed away from the Krugman number.
Attachment
.We were about ready to write off
ments and is hard to match with sepa-
the Congressional Budget Office as
rate Census Bureau statistics. Yet it's
one more propaganda arm of its Dem-
encouraging to know that Mr. Reis-
ocratic employers, but we're suddenly
chauer is professional enough to draw
willing to reconsider. Reacting to child
a line.
CBO Sues for Divorce
abuse of its income-statistics off-
In response to the Krugman-Times
spring, the CBO has filed formal sepa-
efforts, he recently took the extraordi-
ration papers from MIT's Paul Krug-
nary step of issuing an eight-page
man, the New York Times and Bill
memo "to clarify some of the confu-
Clinton.
sion surrounding the meaning and
This divorce is not exactly The
derivation of estimates reported in the
Donald VS. Ivana. and in normal times
original New York Times article." He
would be relegated to petty claims
also warned about the "limitations to
court. But this election year. it's news
analyses of incomes." Yet while Mr.
(though not widely reported news).
Krugman made page one, Mr. Reis-
Mr. Clinton hopes to beat George Bush
chauer's caveats somehow aren't
by dividing what he calls the "forgot-
deemed news fit to print.
ten middle class" from "the rich."
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
The Reischauer memo first does
Dan Rostenkowski's Ways and Means
what any respectable economist would
Committee has spent the past two
do and adjusts CBO's income data for
years trying to create fewer million-
changes in family size. Second, the
MONDAY. MAY 11. 1992
aires by passing a "millionaire's tax."
CBO memo adjusts income for capital
These efforts to discredit the economic
gains. which accumulate over time but
boom of the 1980s invariably cite a
are realized in a single tax year. This
happy marriage with the CBO's "non-
has the sensible effect of stripping out
partisan professionals" headed by di-
gains that make taxpayers look "rich"
rector Robert Reischauer.
for one year. These adjustments make
A March 5 story atop the New York
the income distribution figures look
Times's front page, for example. car-
much less skewed than do Mr. Krug-
ried the headline "The 1980's: A Very
man's manipulations.
Good Time for the Very Rich." It con-
Finally, the CBO memo points out
tinued "Data Show the Top 1% Got 60%
that income figures can vary depend-
of Gain in Decade's Boom.' Reporter
ing on which years you choose to
Sylvia Nasar reported that "The data
measure. In fact, Mr. Krugman's ma-
were compiled by the Congressional
nipulations measure from 1977 to 1989.
Budget Office. the research arm of
lumping the Carter and Reagan presi-
Congress." This claim was immedi-
dencies. As we read the record. the
ately quoted on the stump by Mr. Clin-
years from 1977 to 1982 were the years
ton, whose assertions were then
of stagflation and its taming. (The
quoted approvingly by the New York
CBO felt changes in income distribu-
Times. Critics, including some on
tion weren't even worth measuring
these pages. naturally blamed the
from 1977 to 1980 because. as Mr. Reis-
CBO as well as the rest for this prepos-
chauer told us. "Quite frankly, there
terous figure.
were no income gains to allocate."
"There was no CBO study," Mr.
The "decade's boom" started in 1983.
Reischauer told us. "It was Paul Krug-
We're happy to discuss issues of
man sort of manipulating some num-
class and income, but honest discus-
bers that we had given to the Ways
sion about them doesn't make good
and Means Committee in December.
partisan sound bites. The dull truth is
We never did a calculation of the sort
that income distribution figures have
Krugman did." Mr. Krugman happens
stayed remarkably stable over time.
to be an MIT economist of liberal lean-
There has been a trend toward some-
ings who has chosen to make himself
what greater income disparity, but the
an evangelist in the cause of discredit-
trend began well before the "greed
ing-the 1980s. In a later Times story he
decade" and has been evident in most
complained about inequality growing
Western nations. The largest influ-
to "Great Gatsby levels," whatever
ence is probably demographic-
that means in technical economic jar-
smaller families and more retired peo-
gon.
ple, for example. But it is also true that
For his part, Mr. Reischauer is no
in this information age returns from
conservative. His CBO economists
education seem to be growing, mean-
routinely produce data about taxes
ing educated people do even better
and spending that turn up in Demo-
than they used to in comparison with
cratic sound bites. Congressman Dick
unskilled. people. Another reason to
Armey. the Texas Republican who is
get schools working better, with pro-
himself an economist, regularly sends
posals such as educational choice.
out frustrated all-points bulletins
The subject warrants further scru-
about CBO's latest partisan sally. We
tiny, but innocent statistics do deserve
have our own problems with CBO data,
some protection. The CBO has stepped
which is subject to complex adjust-
up to defend them; divorce granted.
THE WHITE HOUSE
MRS. BUSH'S PRESS OFFICE
DAILY PRESS CLIPPINGS
Saturday, Sunday, Monday April 11,12,13,1992
Mrs. Bush
(in folder)
Secretary Skinner
West Wing
Marlin Fitzwater
West Wing
Constance Horner
West Wing
Carol Powers
West Wing
Patty Presock
Residence
First Lady Detail
Staircase
Karen Connell
Room 58 OEOB
Shirley Green
Room 94 OEOB
Anne Griffith
Room 98 OEOB
Diana Kellogg
Room 157 OEOB
Gregg Petersmeyer
Room 100 OEOB
Marguerite Sullivan
Room 268 OEOB
Carolyn Washington
Room 268 OEOB
Benita Somerfield
hold one copy
Ann Brock
Julie Cooke
Joan DeCain
Laurie Firestone
Jane Moore
Susan Porter Rose
Sally Runion
Peggy Swift
Anna Perez
Sondra Haley
Jean Becker
Jay Suchan
(plus originals)
THE FAMILY CIRCUS BIL KEANE
1
THE
4 10
Cross - - -
Cas " - - -
"Why doesn't Mrs. Bush wear a crown like Queen
Elizabeth?"
Barbara Bush makes a contribution Tuesday to the penny collection at Sealey
Elementary. Mrs Bush gave penny No. 1,000,000 and then added one more.
Barbara Bush stopped by Tuesday to toss in
For pupils, it's pennies. They
the millionth penny. She even popped in one more
find there are a multitude of
penny
to start the students on their next
million.
lessons in 2.9 tons of coins.
The entire school got more than a penny's
worth of lessons from this most unusual project.
By LUCY MORGAN
In math classes they studied the weight,
Times Staff Writer
diameter. mass and density of pennies; they
determined how many pennies it would take to
TALLAHASSEE - The idea was to give
reach the moon.
elementary schoolchildren a way to picture 1-mil-
In science and health classes they looked into
"ion of something.
what would happen if you swailowed a penny.
The result: pennies. pennies. pennies. More
In science ciasses they looked at the content
and more pennies.
of the metal used in pennies and the chemicals
One-million pennies.
used to make them bright.
So many pennies that local architects and
In social studies classes they looked at the
engineers were called in to make sure the floors
history of pennies and other coins, studied what a
at Sealey Elementary School would not collapse
penny used to buy, looked at what the federal
under the weight of 5-gallon jugs filled with
mints do, debated the future of the penny and
pennies. (Total weight: 2.9 tons).
studied counterfeiting.
A local insurance company even insured the
in language arts ciasses they wrote poems.
pennies for the schooichildren. It is, after all.
$10.000 worth of pennies.
Please see PENNIES 2A
Pennies
had a Popsicie day, a pizza day,
from 1A
even an entire week with no home-
work. Now that the students have
stories and skits and developed a
reached their goal. Principal Frank
speakers' bureau. In computer
Voran will spend a day in the "Pen-
classes they developed spread
ny-tentiary.' Students will guard
sheets to keep track of their
him.
pennies.
Barbara Bush's visit Tuesday
In art classes they made post-
was another fun day for the 720
ers, and in music classes they
students and teachers. Four stu-
wrote penny raps.
dents, Jabari James, 10; Adam
They cataloged their rare and
Grise, 11; Matthew Cooper, 10;
valuable pennies, checking their
and Meg Wood, 11, explained the
value in coin books and sealing
project to Mrs. Bush in the
them in marked envelopes kept
school's media center.
separate from their ordinary
Outside was "Penny Man," a
pennies. They gave their oldest
masked man in a copper cape wav-
and most valuable one to Mrs.
ing a penny-covered shield and a
Bush.
wand topped by the school flag.
It's an 1859 Indian princess
There was the elementary school
penny, worth $5.25.
band, backed up by part of the
The students plan to spend
famous Marching 100 from Florida
their $10,000 collection on books
A&M University.
for the school and county libraries.
Students waved American
"You've confirmed that little
flags as Mrs. Bush was led to the
things do count," Mrs. Bush told
speaker's platform by Christopher
the students. "And by using it to
Reber, a 4-year-old in the school's
buy more books to read, you truly
speech and language class who
are the most penny-wise people in
won the coveted "Copper Heart"
America.
award for showing up for class
"My hero Abraham Lincoln
each week with a fistful of pennies.
would be proud to know that you
Eleven-year-old Hamilton Gil-
are the school of the penny, by the
berg described the project in a
penny and for the penny," Mrs.
spirited speech that set the tone
Bush said. "You all know Mr. Lin-
for a flag-waving musical celebra-
coln, of course, you've seen him a
tion. He introduced Malachi An-
million times."
drews, the school's special foster
How did the school get the
grandparent, who the students call
president's wife to visit?
"Grandpapa Penny" because he
Cheryl Cliett, who teaches gift-
gave the first penny to launch the
ed students, took a personal leave
project.
day from school last October after
Bonnie Brock, winner of the
reading that Jeb Bush, one of the
school's public speaking contest,
Bushes' sons, was making a speech
got to introduce Mrs. Bush.
in Orlando. She went down and
"It's not every day a kid like
asked him to invite his mother.
me has the pleasure to introduce
"I don't have any connections,
such a wonderful and famous per-
I- don't know anybody," Mrs.
son," she said. "Barbara Bush is
Gliettsaid. "We just wanted the
not only a successful woman, she is
first lady to be part of the project.
also a mother, a grandmother and
We think she is special and cares
supportive wife for 47 years of the
about children."
president of the United States of
Mrs. Cliett came up with the
America. This is something she is
idea for the project in discussions
very proud of and a great accom-
with other teachers on how to
plishment."
establish a model for a million. It
The crowd erupted into ap-
had.to:be:something-smil collect-
plause and laughter.
ible and easily understood by chil-
dren.
Brock described Mrs. Bush as a
"We thought about popcorn,"
lover of animals, "especially first
said Lea Reeves, a teacher for the
dog Millie," and "soft on the in-
emotionally handicapped who co-
side, warm on the outside and al-
chaired the project with Mrs.
ways competent."
Cliett. "We read a million minutes
Mrs. Bush said she's glad her
a couple of years ago, but it wasn't
husband isn't facing the young
something the kids could see and
speakers on the campaign trail this
touch and understand."
year, "because he'd have a little
They started collecting
trouble."
pennies back in October 1990. At
In the school's media center,
times it seemed like all of Talla-
students and teachers built a "Pa-
hassee was involved in the project.
triarch Penny Tree," with
Secretary of State Jim Smith set
branches that stretch across the
up a schoolhouse in his Capitol
room toward all of the school's
office and collected thousands of
classrooms.
pennies. Smith was on hand for
Tuesday's celebration.
They called the tree a "Sealey
regional conifer," that grows best
At milestones along the way,
"in an educational setting and
the entire school celebrated. They
bears fruit year round."
1 April 8, 1992
FLORIDA'S CAPITAL NEWSPAPEW
87th Year, No. 99
Final Edition
First lady gives Sealey 'the last red cent'
Penny-wise students give
Armed with waves and smiles, chuckles
coin (1909). and that the Lincoln Memo-
and motherly concern, the wife of the
6
What started as a
rial was added 10 the back of the penny
Barbara Bush a lesson and two
38th U.S. president provided a charming
pocket-sized idea
in 1959.
libraries a lot of books.
finale 10 Sealey Elementary's "Common
became a
"I didn't know that," Bush Shid. "You
Sense For Education" program.
certainly know a lot about the penny."
monumental learning
By in ald Ensley
With Bush donating the symbolic fi-
,
Equally well-versed were students
experience.
Adam Grise and Jabari James, who ex-
Den writer
nal penny on Tuesday, the school com-
memorated the end of its drive to collect
- Sealey student-body
plained the project's logistics to Bush -
with the clock in the Sealey Ele-
a million U.S. pennies. Equal to a green-
president Hamilton Gilberg
including the ponderous physical proper-
in atary library showed 9:05 a.m., fifth-
backs total of $10,000, the pennius will be
ties of 1 million pénnies. Held in 40 five-
grade l' Mall Cooper's anticipation
used 10 buy books for the Scaley and
gallon water bottles, the pennies weigh
rea a fever patch.
Leon County public libraries.
jars on their counters, donated the other
2.9 tons, or 145 pounds per bottie.
She W.IS supposed to be here at 9;
"I just know my hero Abraham Lin-
20 percent.
"We were ahaid the floor might will
1.. Il ne here any ininute now," Cooper
coln would be glad to know that Sealey is
The project also was intended to edu-
lapse," Grise told Bush.
said it fellow fifth grader. Meg Wood. "I
a school of the penny, by the penny and
cate the students about money, measures
Bush's visit WaS spurred by Cheryl
can 10.1 see her coming through that
for the penny," Bush old the 720 stu-
and history - a goal it accomplished in
Cliett, a Sealey teacher who was one of
doo, wearing that blue dress with the
dents, their parents and dozens of other
grand style, judging by Cooper and other
three CO chairwomen of the project 1. Last
blue Dat, and Wa mg at US.
guests. "This program is absolutely
students who spoke with Bush on
October, Cliett went to Orlando where
3 JW. I'm 50 reited
wonderful."
Tuesday.
presidential SON Jeb Bush was sp raking.
11 vould be another 10 minutes be-
Sealey students began the project in
Cooper was a walking compendium
Cliett, who willow teachers describe
1002 are object of Cooper's excitement
October 1990. The students donated, col-
of the history of the penny, which was
as shy. sought ont Jeb Bush, xplained
arri of wearing an apricol outfit
lected and scrounged pennies - which
first minted in 1792 in a size approxi-
the project and asked for help in getting
rather than the blue suit Cooper had
ranged from a white-gold 1859 penny to
mately the same as today's half-dollar.
his mother to appear.
Phil Coale/Dement
seen her wear on television.
several 1943 World War II-era steel pen-
Among other interesting facts, Coo-
"He agreed to talk to his mother,"
Bill first lady Barbara Bush proved
nies to raise 80 percent of the total.
per told the first lady that Lincoln was
The first lady ands her contribute 11 to the 20 toma
worthy of Cooper's excitement Tuesday.
Area businesses, which put penny
the first person to appear on any U.S.
Please see SEALEY, 6A
pennies collected by students to buy librar 1.1
of
2
Phil Coale/Democrat
Sealey students anxiously await Barbara Bush's speech Tuesday.
SEALEY/
This is a
The invitation was
community project,
put together by
sent via Jeb Bush
smart, kind,
From 1A
generous people
who know how to
Cliett said. "Since the day we first
care for each
had the concept, we wanted the
other.
,
first lady to be part of this. We
Barbara Bush
thought she was so special, and we
knew how much she supported
education."
servation that she and the President
had been married 47 years, which
Bush, who stopped in Tallahas-
"is something she's proud of and is a
see en route to a pair of South Flori-
major accomplishment."
da money-raising functions for her
husband's re-election, appeared de-
And Bush captivated the audi-
lighted during the visit.
ence with a speech full of names
that she'd only that morning
She smiled appreciatively when
learned, a sense of humor - "I am
Sealey student-body president Ham-
proud of being married to the finest
ilton Gilberg capped an articulate,
man in the world" - and a genuine
poised speech with a ringing de-
appreciation of the school's project.
scription of the project: "What start-
ed as a pocket-sized idea became a
"This is a community project,
monumental learning experience."
put together by smart, kind, gener-
ous people who know how to care.
She laughed along with the
for each other," she said. "Thanks
crowd, when fifth-grader Bonnie
for letting me add my two cents -
Brock introduced her with the ob-
and put in the last red cent."
not
FIRST LADY STUMPS IN PALM BEACH
Palm Beach Post IA 4-8-92
LANNIS WATERS/Staff Photographer
PALM BEACH - Barbara Bush arrives at the raised $216,000 for President Bush's re-elec-
Poinciana Club on Tuesday for a $1,000-a-
tion campaign. Earlier Tuesday, Mrs. Bush
plate Republican fund-raiser. The dinner
visited Fort Lauderdale and Tallahassee.
THE
U.S. POSTAGE
PAID
SCOTTISHRITE JOURNAL
OF FREEMASONRY SOUTHERN JURISDICTION USA
SPECIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO
merica
Children
APRIL
19927
FIRST LADY BARBARA BUSH
VISITS TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
cont.
TEXAS
Scottish Rite Hospital for Children (TSRIIC)
is a very special place. On Ortober 30. 1991.
it was even more special because of a visit
from Barbara Bush. The First Lady came to the Hospital to
learn more about its innovative dyslexia training program and
the literacy campaign it recently started to help thousands of
Texas high school students learn to read.
The comprehensive TSRHC Literacy Program consists of
160 hours of videotaped instruction. Offered for only the cost
of duplicating the tapes and related materials, the program
promises hope for the 38 percent of Texas students who are
not equipped with the literacy skills necessary to succeed. The
beauty of the literacy program is that classrobm teachers do
not have 10 be experts in remedial reading. "Their role is to
provide support and encouragement while the Hospital's highly
trained teachers do the instructing on the videbtape.
The TSRHC Literacy Program is modeled after the Hospi-
tal's successful Dyslexia Training Program which teaches the
basics of reading and spelling. While the literacy program is
designed 10 offer older students a second chance at literacy. the
dyslexia program is aimed towards helping Fyoung children
with specific learning disabilities. First available on videotape
During her visit, First I atly Barbara Bush toured many of the treatment and 1421 roational
in 1987. the TSRHC Dyslexia Training Program has been an
facilities of Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
Photo 15/01 Blocha
outstanding success among students in grades three to six. Now
il is used in nearly 300 school districts in Texas. 17 other
states. and 7 countries.
Hospital. A close friend of the Bush family. III.: Chambers
Mrs. Bush visited Texas Scottish Rite
knew of the First Lady's interest in learning disabilities (one
Hospital for Children at the invitation of
of her sons has dystexia) and literacy (she heads the Barbara
Jas. F. Chambers. Jr., 33°. Vice Chair-
Bush Foundation for Family Literacy). and SO
POINTOF man of the Board of Trustees at the
LIGHT
APRIL
1992
by SAM E. HILBURN, 33°
Chairman, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
4/
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watched it dysk AI.I lass in at
tion and then personally yrs ted
each student. She listend J atten-
lively to an 0 GVRW of the new
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met two of the Hospital syoung
orthopedic patients whole sur-
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developed in the former Soviet
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anywhere III the world.
gives Barbara Bush a cuddly token of appreciation
Mrs. Bush, who and dan
from the Hospital staff and patients.
with heads of state and world
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leaders, is still the same person
I remember from earlier days in Midland. Texas, where our
slight acquaintance was in association with the Little League
baseball diamond located in the park near our homes. She
was genuine, down-to-carth and gracious then, and she
continues 10 reveal those qualities today. While vi iting the
Hospital, she never rushed or hurried anyone, but listened
with genuine interest. She showed a deeply rooted compas-
sion and caring for the children of the Hospital.
Asking insightful questions, she learned the Hospital has
never charged a patient for any service in its 70-) car
Sam Hilburn
history. Instead. the Hospital is supported solely by volun-
is a Past Grand
tary donations. When she finally met the assembled mem
Master of TX: Pass
hers of the press, Mrs. Bush gave the Hospital one of it:,
Grand Command
proudest moments Telling the journalist everything she bill
er. Knights Tem-
phir of TX, and
seen, she called Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children,
Past Grand Sover
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GOLFWEEK. March 2:. 1992 25
REAL ESTATE
MELORMENT RESTINAT
Home is where the thrill is
for this world-class traveler
By BILL F. HENSLEY
SEA ISLAND. Ga.
: was a classic match: the nation's
irst lady playing with the first lady of
goif.
Actually. the latter title doesn't exist,
but if it did it would belong to Carolyn
Carter. a Sea Island resident who prob-
ably has played more golf courses than
any woman in the world.
Despite having played in 41 countries
and 40 states. her biggest thrill was play-
mg recently with Barbara Bush at Sea Is-
land. Also in the foursome were veteran
professionais Louise Suggs and Fran
Green. both of Sea Island.
"I was invited to play by Griffin Bell.
the former U.S. Attorney General who
lives here." explained the dignified. soft-
spoken golf enthusiast. "It was an after-
noon I will long remember. Mrs. Bush is
il charming and lovely woman - and her
love of the game almost matches mine."
Carolyn Carter (center) and friends, LPGA Hall of Famer Louise Suggs (left)
"We didn't really keep score." Carter
and Barbara Bush, tee it up at Sea Island, Ga.
continued, "we just enjoyed the beautiful
weather. scenery and companionship. It
that border on the spectacular.
Carter and her husband. Don. are re-
was the President and Mrs. Bush's first
The den in her spacious home is cov-
tired journalists. though both continue to
visit to The Cloister since their honey-
ered with assorted memorabilia -
write when they are not on a golf course
moon in 1945."
scorecards. bag tags. and towels - from
in some far-flung corner of the globe.
Though playing golf with Barbara
courses around the world. The most re-
"My work, and my husband's. took us
Bush was aspecialtreat-Carolyn-Carter
centiprize is an autographed photo with
See First lady, Page 29
can look back on numerous golf exploits
President and Mrs. Bush.
2
GOLFWEEK
3-21-92
First lady:
Himalayas decorates the cluttered wall of her
den. along with pictures of kangaroos. llamas
(Continued from Page 25)
and alligators on golf courses.
to many interesting areas during our active ca-
"On a trip to Bermuda," offers husband
reers." she says. "I always liked seeing golf
Don, "we played 27 holes at Mid Ocean in the
courses far better than visiting ancient ruins or
morning and 18 holes at Castle Harbour in the
venerable castles. I'm fortunate to have had
afternoon. For a trip, Carolyn packs her golf
the chance to play so many great courses."
clubs before her suitcase."
Since taking up the game in her mid-40s.
Her enthusiasm for the game is exemplified
Carter. 73. has played courses from Australia
by a recent trip to Great Britain - her fourth
to Augusta. Israel to Idaho, Bali to Bermuda.
- when she played 14 courses in Scotland and
Portugal to Pinehurst. If the country she is vis-
England and visited 10 others, talking with
iting has a golf course. she will play it.
pros. walking a few holes and studying score-
Has she missed a famous course or two
cards. In a two-week period, she walked 81
along the way?
miles. according to her pedometer.
"Most definitely." she replies. "I have never
Later in the same year, she joined a group of
played Pine Valley." But she has played such
golf writers for a visit to Africa's Ivory Coast
courses as Pebble Beach, Merion, Olympic,
and played two new courses there. It marked
Cypress Point, New Delhi and Bangkok.
her third golfing trip to Africa.
A 21-handicapper who plays "three or four
Carter's best score was an 88 at Sea Island.
times a week." her favorite courses are "any-
"I have only broken 90 two or three times." she
thing at Sea Island" and the Gavea course in
says dejectedly. "But 1 keep trying." Several
Rio de Janeiro.
years ago she had her only hole in one at Sea
"But to be truthful." she adds. "I haven't
Island. The Carters also belong to the Biltmore
played many courses that I didn't like."
Forest Club in Asheville, N.C., and the Atlanta
Her introduction to golf was in self defense.
Athletic Club, where they play frequently.
Working in Atlanta as a travel writer for the
When she is not traveling, playing golf or
state's tourist division, Carter was assigned
writing, the University of Georgia graduate
the task of publishing a Georgia golf guide.
enjoys reading, cooking and listening to clas-
"I knew nothing about the sport," she ad-
sical music. And, like any serious golfer. she
mits, "except for having interviewed Bobby
also enjoys tinkering with her equipment.
Jones when I worked for a magazine. I made
"She probably has as much equipment as
so many mistakes that I decided I had better
Jack Nicklaus." her husband said. "Clubs OC-
learn the game."
cupy every corner of the garage. She could
With the encouragement of her husband, a
make a fortune if she ever had a garage sale."
newspaper editor and executive, she started
"Golf has meant so much to me, the travel-
loved:it:from-the-start,:she
ing first confides, "and I hope to play for
says with a smile, "and it was often a challenge
years to come. There are still a lot of courses
to find courses in such places as Yugoslavia.
out there, and someday I may shoot my age."
Thailand and Jakarta."
Her many friends, including Barbara Bush.
A large color picture of her playing in the
certainly won't bet against it.
0
Letters
Bushes are insulated from harsh realities
net me respond to Rick Pyer's
ments, traditional American val-
don't believe a woman should go to
March 24 letter, "Thanks for the
ues could never be represented by
college to "get a husband" to sup-
condescending remarks, Mrs.
the Bushes. President and Mrs.
port her for the rest of her life.
Clinton." I'm not a supporter of
Bush are both rich. Mrs. Bush has
Gov. Bill Clinton, but Mr. Pyer just
never worked a day in her life.
Did Mr. Pyer notice that almost
all of those candidates' wives are
doesn't get it. Hillary Clinton was
What could either of them tell us
lawyers?
speaking for herself - something
about American parents who are
that we women are allowed to do
both working to make ends meet?
now:
Or even about some women who
ALEEN McELROY
Contrary to Mr. Pyer's com-
have always worked because we
Malvern, Pa.
4.13.92
WASHINGTON TIMES
ALEX. ey WHER 1081 VI, HAMILTON.
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METRO EDITION
ONDAY, APRIL 13, 1992 / Sunny. 50 today; partly cloudy, upper 30s tonight / Details, Page 2
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First Lady Barbara Bush 'spitting mad' over
Hillary Clinton's gossiping about prez
Barbara Bush is in-
censed at Hillary Clinton
BABS
for spreading uncon-
firmed rumors that
President Bush has had
an extra-marital affair.
The popular First Lady
has blasted Mrs. Clin-
ton's sniping as "ugly
and hypocritical
not
to mention untrue."
DETAILS: Page Five
BITES
BACK
Associated Pro
cont.
NEW YORK POST. MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1992
5
BS
First Lady
Barbara
Bush (left)
blasted as
untrue hints
by Hillary
Clinton
(right) that
the presi-
dent may
have had a
lover.
By DEBORAH ORIN
Washington Bureau Chief
Fumes at Hillary's hint prez was playing around
First Lady Barbara Bush is
"spitting mad" at Hillary
Clinton for gossiping about
She blasted Mrs. Clinton's
porters failed to look into
should have "stayed home
Other leading Democrats
Bush.
unsubstantiated rumors of an
sniping as "hypocritical -
rumors that Bush also had a
and baked cookies and had
have threatened to question
A few days later at Was)
extramarital affair by Presi-
not to mention untrue."
girlfriend named Jennifer,
teas."
Bush's fidelity in the upcom-
ington's annual Gridiron dii
dent Bush. a source told The
"But as far as I know. [Mrs.
the report said.
The First Lady has been
ing election - and gotten the
ner, Brown went to greet Mr
Post.yesterday
Bush] hasn't even read [the
Mrs. Bush. one of the most
stewing over the gossip by
cold shoulder from Barbara
Bush and got an icy "Hello."
"She was livid. She was
Vanity Fair- article)" her"
popular people in Washing-
her rival - and other Demo-
Bush
spitting mad The Bushes
friend told The Post "She
ton, was particularly in-
crats- in recent weeks.
Democratic media man
Back in 1984. Mrs. Bus
don't do it to the Clintons. and
really does put blinders on.
censed because Mrs. Clinton
Last week. Mrs. Bush called
Bob Squier. appearing on
herself had a problem wit
indiscreet campaign com
it was just ugly - ugly and
It's a form of protection."
has demanded a "zone of pri-
the rumor about her hus-
NBC's "Today" show as a
hypocritical" a friend of Bar-
In the May issue of Vanity
vacy" from the press - rul-
band's extramarital affair
commentator, suggested that
ments when she compare
bara Bush said vesterday.
Fair. reporter Gail Sheehy
ing out her and her husband's
"baloney" during a GOP
Bush should also be asked
Democratic vice-presidentis
The friend confirmed an ac-
asked Hillary Clinton about
private lives.
fund-raiser in Little Rock,
what Squier dubbed "the Jen-
nominee Geraldine Ferrar
count in this week's edition of
Gennifer Flowers' alleged 12-
Friends said "Babs" also is
Ark. Clinton's home turf.
nifer question."
to something that rhyme
with "rich"
U.S. News & World Report
year affair with her husband
angry because she went to
Pressed for comment then.
Democratic National Chair-
that Mrs. Bush has privately
Mrs. Clinton - who has de-
bat for Hillary, defending
the First Lady replied: "I
man Ron Brown has told re-
When her remarks mac
denounced the gossip by'
nounced inquiries into her
Mrs. Clinton's right to a law
don't talk about other people.
porters that if questions
headlines, Mrs. Bush quickl
Democratic front-runner Bill
own marriage - complained
career after Hillary angered
I don't campaign against
about adultery still dog Clin-
apologized and told reporter
Clinton's wife in the May
about what she saw as a dou-
housewives by derisively
other people. I campaign for
ton next fall, he thinks simi-
"I would never call her
issue of Vanity Fair.
ble standard in which the re-
wondering whether she
George Bush."
lar questions should be put to
witch for anything."
PERSPECTIVES
Overheard
"Y ou can't see in our bedroom
window. That's the good news."
BARBARA BUSH, to reporters
after her husband dismissed articles
saying the White House is in disarray
© 1992 MARKSTEIN-MILWAUKEE JOURNAL
Quotations are compiled from NEWSWEEK correspondents as well as other press, TV and wire service reports.
NEWSWEEK: APRIL 20, 1992 29
V
News Item: The President's campaion flounders amid confusion. backbiting and mistrust.
George?
Yes.
Are you
Surely you
Barbara.
having an
Barbara!
don't believe
affair?
Please!
that gossipy
Hillary Clinton?
PH
Who's
Trixie?
You yelled
Dixie!
Trixie?
Trixie in
That's Dixie!
your sleep!
I was dreaming
about the
primaries!
Barbara?
Yes, George.
Who's
Harold?
CONT
Chinton other woman problem
By Anne Summers
It can be done. i know. because for three years in the
mid-1980s I was women's policy adviser to Bob Hawke.
is the Bill Clinton juggernaut teeters toward the
Australia's recently deposed prime minister. He was a
Democratic nomination. a iot of feminists are acutely
self-confessed adulterer and a man whose eyes lit up
ambivaient about a man whose pro-choice position is
whenever an attractive woman entered the room.
indisputably prererable to President Bush's anti-
Most Australian feminists didn't approve of Bob
abortion stance but whose relationships with women
Hawke even though they admired his feistv feminist
are causing much speculation and anguish.
wife. Hazel. They didn't have to condone his past.
For some. the extranuptial excursions of the
however. to welcome new. anti-discrimination.
Arkansas governor are an absolute barrier. "There's no
affirmative-action and parental-leave laws. his doubling
way I can support him." a prominent Democratic
of the child-care budget and his endorsement of a
woman. and former statewide office-hoider. told me
National Agenda for Women. which aims to achieve
recently. "A person's conduct with women reflects how
gender equality by the year 2000.
one views them as human beings.
Others are holding their noses but getting behind
Hawke's strong support was surprising and even
uncharacteristic as he had no track record in the area.
him. using what 1 call the Ted Kennedy defense: We
He knew he owed his election victory to women's votes.
may not approve of his personal conduct but he's
but it seemed to me that his new-found enthusiasm
good on "our" issues.
stemmed from guilt and vulnerability. What better way
Then there are those who seem to be forgetting
to atone for his transgressions than to introduce policies
which Clinton would be on the ballot in November.
that might improve women's lives?
We really like Hillary. they say. we trust her judgment.
If Bob Hawke could do it. so can Bill Clinton.
One friend was sporting a "Vote for Hillary's
Many feminists find this kind of pragmatism
husband" button this past weekend.
distasteful. We wanted our revolution to be about more
have trouble with these arguments. We can't turn
than lining up votes in Congress or the White House.
our backs on the man who can pernaps defeat George
We wanted to change behavior as well as laws. We still
Bush and expect to have any influence with his
do. But we need the laws-to preserve abortion rights.
administration. Nor can we avoid contronting a
to reverse the "gag rule" forbidding the mere mention
contradiction between private conduct and public
of those rights in federally subsidized facilities. to give
standing.
us family leave and better child care. Clinton will give
The women's movement has been making excuses
us all this. But if we held his feet to the fire and
for Ted Kennedy for years. He's a great champion of
marched on ours to the polls. we'd get a lot more. So I
women's issues. the argument went. and besides he's
divorced. But adultery is not the issue. Attitude
say we go with him and get women back onto the
towards women IS. A man's so-called private conduct
nation's agenda.
towards women is a measure of his regard for women
generally. of how seriously he takes us and how
effective he might be for us in office.
Last October we watched with rage as Sen. Kennedy
sat silent and impotent during the Clarence Thomas-
Anita Hill hearings. His private life had finally caught
up with him. and it costs us politically. Could a
similar thing happen with Clinton?
Bill Clinton would not be where he is today had his
wife not stood by him. She's no doormat. she
reminded us forcefully in the famous "60 Minutes"
interview. and if it's OK with her. why shouldn't it be
OK with us? After all. she is a feminist and a
formidable policy expert. especially on issues relating
to children. We could do with someone like her in the
White House. couldn't we? So goes the Barbara Bush
defense: The president may be a jerk. but the First
Lady is a good woman. Well, yes. but what has
Barbara Bush done for us latelv?
I'd rather we nailed down now some guarantees
from the man who could be president. If it's Bush VS.
Clinton in November. we'll have little bargaining
power, but while Jerry Brown and Paul Tsongas are
there to soak up the votes of the doubters and the
disaffected. we have some leverage.
Rather than wasting votes on political scavengers, we
should be sitting down to negotiate a better women's
platform with the man with the most delegates.
Gov. Clinton's three-page position paper on women
is satisfactory but hardly stellar. It dwells on some
fundamentals like choice. children and health but says
nothing about employment or education. It does not
promise a special office to oversee and coordinate
women's policy. without which these issues are liable
to get wedged in those weil-known bureaucratic cracks.
A strongiy articulated and wide-ranging platform
addressed to women could be a potent magnet for
female voters who could decide the outcome of the
election. and there's no reason why Bill Clinton can't
prevailed upon to deliver one.
3TCummmas
Anne Summers. formerly editor-in-chief of Ms.
magazine. is a writer based in New York City.
THES
4-13-92
Political Memo
Bush May Get a Closer Look
After What Clinton Endured
By ANDREW ROSENTHAL
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, April 12 - As a porters said they believed that the
battered Gov. Bill Clinton nears the
:
Democrats would demand that Mr.
Democratic Presidential nomination,
Bush not get a free ride. There are
political analysts and politicians in
already signs that accusing the press
both parties are debating whether
of being too soft on Mr. Bush will be a
President Bush will face a searching
theme of those Clinton aides who
new inspection of his record, charac-
have made a specialty of criticizing
ter, finances and conflict-of-interest
the reporting on their candidate.
issues involving his relatives, aides
Already, the Clinton and Bush cam-
and associates.
paigns are competing for the upper
Bush campaign aides said last
hand in the debate over how much the
week that. they were braced for a
campaign and the coverage should
renewed critique of the President be-
focus on candidates' backgrounds.
cause of the rough tone of the early
A Question of Fairness?
primaries, the controversies about
Mr. Clinton's past and the Arkansas
The Clinton camp is arguing that
Mr. Clinton has been subject to a
Governor's contention that he has
tougher-than-normal examination
been unfairly singled out.
and that, as Hillary Clinton suggested
A number of Bush aides and sup-
in an interview with Vanity Fair, sim-
ple fairness demands that Mr. Bush
be held to the same standard.
The Republicans are countering
that Mr. Clinton is merely going
through the reviews that any new
national figure must endure. They
say that Mr. Bush was vetted in four
national campaigns and in three
years in office, and that it would be
unfair to do it again.
"I've been with him since 1980 and
believe me, George Bush has been
living under the new rules," said Vic-
tor. Gold, a-former. Bush speech-
writer.
"I defy them to subject themselves
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cont.
THE
NEW
YORK
TIMES
NATIONAL
MONDAY,
APRIL
13,
1992
The 1992 Campaign
Political Memo
Bush May Get Scrutiny to Match
That of Clinton
thing, of course, that changes the
A stock brokerage owned by Jona-
Continued Page Al
whole ball game is dealing with an
than Bush, the President's brother,
opponent who has that problem. The
was fined $30,000 for violating securi-
yardstick for the goose is the yard-
ties laws in Massachusetts and Con-
to 11 or 12 years of this stuff." Mr.
stick for the gander."
necticut. Another brother, Prescott,
Gold said, arguing that Mr. Clinton
was an adviser to a Tokyo investment
Mr. Bush bristles at any discussion
had not undergone that kind of nation-
company that the Japanese police
of his personal life, or questioning of
al scrutiny while Governor of Arkan-
have said was connected with organ-
the integrity of his sons or aides. He
ized crime.
sas. Until a few months ago, he said,
said on Friday that he had told his
In each case, the Bush family and
few Americans knew Mr. Clinton ex-
campaign staff "to stay out of the
the White House have vehemently
cept as "a guy who made a long-
sleaze business."
denied any wrongdoing.
winded speech at the Democratic
But it seems unlikely that the Dem-
On a more personal level, long-
convention in '88."
ocrats will be content to let Mr. Bush
denied rumors that Mr. Bush had an
But Kevin Phillips, the conserva-
escape the trial by scandal that Mr.
extramarital affair are already back
tive Republican commentator, dis-
Clinton has undergone. It will be hard
agreed about how deeply Mr. Bush
for the Bush organization to ward off
has been examined. "Bush hasn't
such review, given the President's
been through it vis-à-vis his term in
reputation for using any weapon that
The Arkansas
the White House," he said. "Clearly,
comes to hand and his protestations
there has been no scrutiny with any
on taking office that his White House
Governor's ordeal
intensity of the conduct of his sons
would not give off even the whiff of
and siblings, and there has been no
impropriety.
scrutiny with any intensity of all
tends to make the
"George Bush, both professionaly
these questions raised about his ad-
and personally, has always set very,
visers and their roles for foreign gov-
very high standards for himself, for
rules rougher.
ernments."
his family and for his staff since he
Although Mr. Phillips understates
first started in public office decades
the coverage of the Bushes' business
ago, and they are about the best ex-
dealings, there clearly is a new surge
ample public service has of maintain-
in play as analysts look ahead to what
of interest in the subject.
ing the highest ethical and moral
Mr. Phillips calls "the mother of all
News articles, including one this
standards,' said Victoria Clarke, the
dirty campaigns."
month on the op-ed page of The Los
campaign's press secretary.
Mrs. Clinton, whose husband has
Angeles Times by Mr. Phillips, are
Over time, there has been a trickle
denied a former state employee's as-
revisiting earlier reports about Mr.
of reports raising questions about the
sertion that they had a 12-year affair,
Bush's sons' involvement in the sav-
conduct of the President's sons and
raised the rumor about Mr. Bush in
ings and loan scandal. There are re-
brothers and, in a few cases, official
her Vanity Fair interview. Some re-
newed questions about possible con-
inquiries.
cent news reports have gone so far as
flicts of interest by top political aides
to name the woman said to be in-
A Few Embarrassments
who hold lobbying, marketing and
volved. In 1987, the Bush team dealt
public relations contracts with Amer-
Neil Bush, the President's son, was
with the issue by having George W.
ican and foreign companies and who
reprimanded by Federal regulators
Bush, the President's eldest son, tell
sit-in-on-White-House-meetings-andz
for-his-role:as.a-director-in-the.failed
Newsweek-that-he-hadasked.his-f
have business dealings with the exec-
Silverado Savings and Loan Associa-
ther, and "the answer to the Big A
utive branch.
tion of Colorado and put under mild
question is 'N.O.'
Mr. Phillips said it was inevitable
restrictions if he ever got back into
Another area of potential contro-
that Mr. Bush's private life also
the business.
versy involves the business and lob-
would undergo inspection. "You nor-
His elder brother, John Ellis Bush,
bying activities of high-level cam-
mally wouldn't expect the President
and business associates did not repay
paign aides whose dealings with for-
running for re-election would face
a loan they used to buy a Miami office
eign companies, including some in
that," he said. "I think they're quite
building. The Federal Government
Japan, have already come under at-
legitimate in raising that point. The
had to repay more than $4 million.
tack from Patrick J. Buchanan, Mr.
CONT.
Bush's conservative challenger.
Robert M. Teeter, the Bush cam-
paign chairman, represents corpo-
rate clients. including the Ford Motor
Company, through his Michigan mar-
keting concern. Frederic V. Malek,
he campaign manager, sits on nine
corporate boards and retains a finan-
nal interest in Northwest Airlines,
whough he resigned his vice presi-
dency when he joined the campaign.
Mr. Malek and Mr. Teeter meet
regularly with Samuel K. Skinner, the
White House chief of staff.
Charles Black. senior adviser to the:
campaign, is chief executive of Black,
Janafort. Stone and Kelley, which
has about 50 American and foreign
orporate clients. He is a lobbyist.
James Lake. another campaign ad-
"iser, represents a Japanese auto-
parts concern. His company, Robin-
son. Lake; Lehrer and Montgomery,
advises the Abu Dhabi Investment
Authority on various matters, includ-
ing how to deal with the American
press on the scandal over the Bank of
Credit and Commerce International.
Edward P. Rogers Jr., a former
White House aide who works as a
campaign volunteer, was forced by
the Administration to drop a contract
to represent a major figure in the
B.C.C.I. scandal.
Avoiding the Appearance
Even when there is no illegality,
appearances can become a liability,
as Mr. Bush himself has acknowl-
edged in saying he wanted an Admin-
istration free of even the appearance
of misconduct. In the current political
climate, business dealings with Ja-
Jose R. Lopez/ The New York Times
pan and connections with bank scan-
Campaign aides for President Bush said that they are braced for a
dals are particularly damaging.
renewed critique of the President from supporters of Gov. Bill Clinton.
The White House has not required
Mr. Bush spoke at a news conference Friday at the White House.
Mr. Bush's political aides to put their
business dealings on hold.
C. Boyden Gray, the White House
one involved in the campaign that is
should be the real focus of any new
counsel who is in charge of ethics and
in contact with the Administration
scrutiny of the President.
conflict-of-interest questions, de-
has voluntarily disclosed their finan-
"Clinton and now Jerry Brown are
clined to be interviewed. Gary Foster
cial interests and will disqualify
killed by a thousand:cuts: with
a White House spokesman, said:
themselves on any discussion that
They are private citizens and not
out anyone even pretending to look at
has to do with any client."
the whole record," she said. "Is mari-
ederal employees. They do not
Mr. Black, who said he was lobby-
tal fidelity as important as policies
make policy. Policy is made by Ad-
ing for three clients on "narrow is-
that have led to the savings and loan
ministration officials only."
sues" that do not intersect with the
debacle? I don't understand why this
Politics and Policy Meet
campaign, said his work, and that of
country's afraid to talk about what is
But politics and policy inevitably
Mr. Lake, sometimes involved gov-
really at stake in this election. We're
ernment contacts.
intersect in a re-election campaign.
constantly sidetracked on character
During a campaign trip to Michigan,
"I do not get access because of my
issues that no President, not, F.D.R.
for example, Mr. Bush announced
position in the campaign," he said.
not Richard Nixon, certainly hot Jack
new emissions rules of benefit to
"I've been successful as a lobbyist in
Kennedy or Lyndon Johnson, could
automobile manufacturers, and the
town for 12 years before this cam-
have endured."
trip was discussed in detail at the
paign started."
White House and the campaign.
Ellen Hume, executive director of
Mr. Black said Mr. Teeter, who
the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center
More national nous
represents Ford, bowed out of those
on Press and Public Policy at Har-
vard University, said actual issues of
appears on page
discussions. Mr. Foster said, "Any-
government, not personal questions.
The Poiitical Interest/Michael Kramer
It's Not Going to Be Pretty
A high-minded
NO LESS AN EXPERT THAN THE
over 100 taxes in Arkansas and 'He talks about im-
leader of the free world has
proving education. but Arkansas pupils rank near
debate of the
now pronounced 1992 "the ug-
the bottom on test scores. According to Bond.
liest political year I've ever
we'll also see spots that "accentuate the stature
issues? No way.
seen. Not that he or his min-
gap." like. "In the next decade 10 Third World
The roughing up
ions are the problem. said
countries will have nuclear weapons. Who better
George Bush last week. It's the
can deal with a madman with nukes. George Bush
of Bill Clinton
other guys: "I look across at
or Bill Clinton?" Foreign policy will be an issue if
has just begun.
the Democranc primary. and
we make it an issue." says Stone. "and we will. You
anything that happened in
always play to your strength. and you play it over
19S8 is pale in comparison to what's going on there.
and over.
Has the President seen the light? He says he has
Hillary Clinton will be targeted too. "Barbara
issued written instructions ordering his operatives
Bush plays the piano SO she doesn't drown out
to "stay out of the sleaze business. but the defini-
George's violin. savs Richard Nixon. "Hillary
tion thing persists. "I don't know what's negative
pounds the piano so hard that Bill can't be heard.
and what's not these days." says the man who views
You want a wife who's intel-
the famous Willie Horton TV ad as a fair examina-
ligent. but not too intelli-
tion of prison-furlough abuse.
gent." For Roger Ailes.
Fuzzy markers delight the G.O.P., and a foretaste
who directed the Bush
of the war to come was glimpsed clearly on the night
media effort four years
before Bush's feigned distress. Minutes after Bill
ago, the logic is simple:
Clinton won the New York food fight last Tuesday.
"You couple them and
Republican Party chairman Rich Bond gleefully re-
go for a score on family
called Jerry Brown's characterization of Clinton as
values. You say that Bill
"the prince of sleaze." They've "got them all on
and Hillary believe that
tape." says Bond. "Paul Tsongas calling Clinton a
children should have
'Pander Bear': Ed Koch saying, It happens that Bill
the right to sue their
Clinton has no credibility'; Mario Cuomo calling Clin-
parents. I don't know
ton's middle-class tax cut 'a joke.' We've got 'em. and
if Bill believes that.
you'll be seeing 'em. It ain't gonna be pretty."
but Hillary does. SO
How unpretty will it get? "Character dominates
you just assume. They
in voters' minds." says Bush campaign manager
themselves say they'
Robert Teeter: our job, says Bond. is to "remind" vot-
a team. SO it'll fly."
ers that does: For the most parts the "worst of Glin--
Unless-the-poils
ton" will be left for the press to reiterate and for the
dictate different tac-
surrogate salons (the radio call-in shows) to elabo-
tics-or he just can't
rate. Such restraint does not preclude "man-in-the-
contain himself-
street spots." cautions Republican consultant Roger
Bush will be the soul
Stone. "Ford almost won in 76 with a series of TV
of propriety. The Presi-
ads that had "regular people' saving. "There's just
dent will aid the negative strategy only in
something about Carter that bothers me' and 'He
debate or when responding to a Clinton
seems SO wishy-washy' and 'His smile strikes me as
charge. but in either case. the code words
insincere. Same thing this year. for sure."
will be unmistakable. "If he gets a question
The truly rough stuff will rise. virgin-like. from
about some supposed insensitivity, he'll say, I
the same "independent expenditure" group that
don't need a lecture from Bill Clinton about per-
produced the Willie Horton ad in 1988. Four years
sonal responsibility," says Ailes. "Or if Clinton
ago. these conservative ideologues called them-
waffles during a debate." adds Bond. "I can hear the
selves "Americans for Bush": this time they the
President saving. There he goes again. dodging an-
"Presidential Victory Committee." They have a
other question.'
S10 million budget. and "what thev do." says
Ailes advises that nothing will work for Clinton
Stone. "is kind of obvious." All they've said SO far is
unless he gives as good as he gets. "He should run
what they won't do: they won't establish a 900 num-
ads about George's kids problems." says Ailes. and
her so the curious can hear the Gennifer Flowers
"spots on the foreign clients our campaign guys rep-
tapes. Bevond that. every mini-scandal and Clinton
resent. and others about our contributors to allege
slickery is considered fair game.
that the President is controlled by powerful inter-
While all that is going on. the campaign will take
ests. He'll never prove that Bush is just as bad as
the "high road." says Bond. "The first goal." ex-
him. but he's got to try and take character off the ta-
plains Stone. is to extend the doubts about Clinton
ble by muddying the waters. If he doesn't. he'll be
to issues. You play to the pre-existing prejudice-
left trying to convince voters that he has integrity,
that manv people don't know if they can believe anu-
and that's a rough road." To which an unsmiling
thing Clinton savs. There be ads that say Clinton
and depressed senior Clinton aide says, "He's got
talks about a middle-class tax cut. but he's raised
that right."
WASHINGTON WHISPERS
BUSH advisers seek to block Perot ballot drive in New York
FIRST LADY deeply offended by Hillary Clinton interview
BOB MARTINEZ may be on his way out as federal drug czar
TAYLOR JONES FOR USNAWR
EDITED BY CHARLES FENYVESI
U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT. APRIL 20. 1992
Barbara Bush and Hillary Clinton
A row over rumors
world N minutes TOWN
Deepty offended. Friends of Barba-
ra Bush's say the first lady was deeply
offended that Hillary Clinton, in an in-
terview in the current issue of Vanity
Fair, repeated unsubstantiated rumors
about an extramarital relationship in-
volving the president and a former
aide. According to the sources, Mrs.
Bush. who previously defended Mrs.
Clinton's independent professional ac-
tivities. is said to feel that her com-
ments were "ugly" and "hypocritical- -
not to mention untrue."
THICAGO TRIBUNE
4-10-92
Hillary Clinton invited
The Wellesley College women, who
two years ago disapproved of Barbara
Bush as commencement speaker, voted
to invite Hillary Clinton to do it this
year. The 1990 class believed that Mrs.
Bush was invited only because her hus-
band was that other person living in
the large white house on Pennsylvania
Avenue. But Clinton, a Wellesley alum
and a Yale Law School graduate. is
considered one of the nation's 100
most influential lawyers by the Ameri-
can Bar Association.
FEW
YORK
TIMES
1-12-92
Mrs. Clinton Stirs Wellesley Debate
WELLESLEY, Mass.(AP) -
to the way Mrs. Clinton was se-
Hillary Clinton has been chosen
lected to speak, because she was
as the commencement speaker at
not among the possible speakers
her alma mater, Wellesley Col-
nominated by the graduating sen-
lege, and that has prompted some
iors.
students to speak out against the
Mrs. Clinton graduated from
selection.
Wellesley in 1969 and was ranked
Sara Gross said she and other
as one of the "most illustrious
seniors were concerned that the
alumnae," said a college spokes-
appearance of the wife of a Demo-
woman, Laurel Stavis.
cratic Presidential candidate
"Some students may be unhap-
would be seen as "more of a politi-
py with the process by which she
cal issue." She said she and others
was selected, but that's to be ex-
did not want the country to get the
pected at Wellesley," Ms. Stavis
impression that Wellesley was en-
said. "We have a tradition of
dorsing Gov. Bill Clinton of Ar-
choosing prominent, sometimes
kansas as a candidate.
controversial, speakers."
Students also fear a repeat of
Ms. Gross said Mrs. Clinton
events two years ago when Bar-
was apparently chosen at the last
bara Bush spoke at the Wellesley
minute after the nominating com-
commencement and the ceremo-
mittee had difficulty scheduling
ny attracted a large contingent of
any of the other 20 speakers on
reporters and television crews.
the nominating list.
Ms. Gross and others objected
ATURDAY. APRIL 11. 1992 GS
HE WASHINGTON POST
Names & Faces
Fan Voice Maii
1 An Ellicott City man was arrested yes-
erday for making obscene and threatening
none cails to actor Clint Eastwood. Brian
Keitn Neun. 30. allegediy made 43 calls to a
pice mail system at Eastwood's office in
Burbank. Calif.. last month. demanding $5
million and threatening the actor and his
TO children.
: : cording to the FBI. one message said:
don [ know what else to say. you know.
ther than if. you know. if love doesn't finish
ou ON by the (deadline today], I sure will."
mother said: "You kept trying to keep
the lights out of my life. 1 will kill you."
A Maryland telephone number and
ASSOCIATED PRESS
adress were left on two of the messages,
wruch led to Neun's arrest, an FBI-
Clint Eastwood in 1986 with children Kyle and Alison.
-pokesman said. Neun told an FBI agent
that he'd been an Eastwood fan since
arrival of Clara Sternoff Beyer, born
had not achieved anything on her own and
hildhood. Eastwood was unavailable for
yesterday aiternoon at Alexandria Hospital.
was not the kind of woman that Wellesley
comment.
The 7-pound. 11-ounce baby is the couple's
taught them to be.
first child. He has two children from a
Bush gave the speech anyway, and she
Go, Dog, Go
previous marriage.
was a smash.
Clara was named after her
2 it was a "Dog Day Afternoon" for Al
great-grandmother. a New Deal labor
Pacino Tuesday when he was fined $50 by
reformer who was inducted last month into
End Notes
an Orangetown, N.Y., court for letting his
the Virginia Women's Hall of Fame.
four mutts run loose. According to his
Don't know what it means, exactly, but
Armanino Foods of Distinction Inc. is
publicist, Pacino's pups bolted from his
suburban yard on three separate occasions
Commencement Complaint
dropping its Frank Sinatra line of pasta
in the past two months. and during the last
sauces. claiming that Or Blue Eyes'
romp one "got in a scrap" with another
1 Those Wellesley students are making a
marinara et al. just isn't selling
Sen.
neighborhood pooch-and ripped a little
big fuss over their commencement speaker
Robert Byrd, one of the last of the old-style
flesh.
again. Wellesley College alumna Hillary
orators, showed off his linguistic capabilities
Pacino's attorney said his client has an
Clinton has been chosen to speak at the
yesterday on the Senate floor by using in a
electric fence around his property to deter
May 29 ceremony, but students claim she
sentence what's believed to be the longest
such behavior. Guess the power was off.
wasn't nominated and therefore the
word in the Oxford English Dictionary:
Meanwhile, actor John Candy is suing a
selection is a "breach of democratic
floccinaucinihiipilification-which the
the trainer for fraud after purchasing a
process." Seniors also believe that choosing
dictionary says is "the action or habit of
German shepherd for $19,000 last
Clinton, president of the class of '69, as
estimating as worthless."
December. Candy charges in papers filed in
Los Angeles Superior Court that the canine
their speaker could be misinterpreted as an
Kim Watkinson of Falls Church says
IS sickly and that dogs of a similar pedigree
endorsement of her husband, presidential
she was misquoted in an item about
sell for $1,500 to $4,500. The dog trainer's
candidate Bill Clinton.
Ivana Trump in yesterday's Reliable
lawyer had no comment.
Two years ago, seniors at the
Source. Watkinson says she never said or
all-women's college in Massachusetts
implied anything negative about Trump
publicly protested when Barbara Bush was
and that she has the utmost respect for
it's a Girl
invited to give the commencement address.
her.
7 Virginia Lt. Gov. Don S. Beyer Jr. and his
They complained that the First Lady had
-Compiled from staff and wire reports
vife. Megan Carroll Beyer. announced the
spent her life in the shadow of her husband.
by Dana Thomas
The Washington Dost
SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 1992
Commentary and Opinion
MARY McGRORY
George & Bar & Bill & Hillary
HE WAY the presidential campaign is
do just about anything to win. Their wives, in
shaping up, we may be in for our first
different ways, are pretty much the same.
battle of the couples.
Barbara Bush showed in 1984 that if
It won't be just George VS. Bill: it's going to
cattiness is called for. she's ready. She said
Geraldine Ferraro reminded her of something
be the Bushes against the Clintons, and
that rhymes with "rich." She recovered from
Katie-bar-the-door.
this show of claws. She is universally revered
George Bush and Bill Clinton have both
as a lady who looks and acts like everyone's
established themselves as candidates who will
dream of a grandmother, and also everyone's
Mary McGrory is a Washington Post
idea of a first lady.
columnist.
See McGRORY, C5, Col. 4
MARY McGRORY
George & Bar & Bill & Hillary
chairman of the board of the
McGRORY. From C1
Nancy Reagan has probably
Children's Defense Fund) and a
contributed, involuntarily. to
She is, in fact, the most popular
teacher of law. She is as committed
Barbara Bush's runaway approval
public figure in the country. In a
a policy freak as her husband, and
rating. Americans suspected that
season when other political
she can discourse just as fluently
Nancy Reagan and her astrologer
personages, including her husband,
about the country and its needs for
were manipulating the president.
have hit the skids in public esteem,
35 minutes without a note or a
Her volunteer work against drugs
her approval stands at a shining 75
pause for breath.
was something no contemporary
percent. In tribute to her
without an armed guard-she had
exceptional hold on the electorate.
arbara Bush seems to glory in
one in the Secret Service-could
the New Yorker ran a cartoon
B
being the wife of a prominent
have expected to do. Anyone can
recently showing the White House
man. Hillary Clinton fights
emulate Barbara Bush. She reads
being identified as "wife of." In the
wrapped with a banner that said,
stories to children who don't get
New Hampshire primary, while
"Keep Barbara Bush in the White
read to; she fights illiteracy.
other candidates' spouses-Ruth
House." She may be the president's
Hillary Clinton teaches law school
Harkin and Niki Tsongas, both of
best hope of re-election.
classes along the campaign trail. She
them also lawyers, by the
Hillary Clinton is new to the
was a star graduate of the Yale Law
way-made numerous joint
national scene. She has made a
School. Barbara Bush dropped out of
appearances, Hillary Clinton firmly
stunning-impression,both.good.and
college to marry George Bush.
declined to join in.
bad. The country met her at the
When it was pelting cookies on
Ruth Harkin told interviewers she
supremely awkward moment of her
Hillary Clinton, Barbara Bush
shares her husband's life. not his job;
graciously came to her aid. stating
"60 Minutes" appearance right after
Niki Tsongas, a gentle soul, did not
what Hillary Clinton had meant to
Gennifer Flowers burst all over the
need to reassure anyone that she
New Hampshire primary. Here was
say-that women should have "the
would not put an equal hand on the
chance to do that which they choose
this good-looking woman with dark
rudder of the ship of state.
to do."
blue eyes and dark eyebrows and
Some of her feminist sisters find
Hillary Clinton, who is SO brainy
lashes insisting, in the most forceful
an idol in Hillary Clinton. The
and so political, may have made a
way, that she loves her husband and
traditionalists, some men among
more serious misstep when she
that the state of their union is good.
them, have had a problem since she
indirectly took on Barbara Bush. In
She was so forceful that Richard
made her famous remark-"I could
a Vanity Fair interview, which she
Nixon. always ready to stick his oar
have stayed home and baked
unaccountably called "a private
in. warned that she might make her
cookies." Housewives felt insulted
conversation." she complained about
husband "look like a wimp." Voters
and dismissed. even though it was
a double standard in the press. She
seem more concerned that she
fairly easy to see that she wasn't
said of Barbara Bush's husband. "I
might make her husband look like a
putting them down but defending
understand he has a Jennifer too."
co-president, an idea whose time
her own choice.
What this said is that if the
may not have come.
The case against the Clintons was
campaign gets nasty on the Bush
Barbara Bush says that she leaves
put by an unhappy primary voter,
side. a Clinton is ready to fire back.
the government "to my husband and
who said on the sidewalks of New
Notice has been served in the War
other people who are elected to
York outside his polling place, "I
of the Couples, as this could turn out
office." Hillary Clinton does not. She
think he's a liar and I think she
to be, that Hillary and Bill are no
is not just a corporate lawyer, a
makes Nancy Reagan look like Snow
Kitty and Michael revisited. It's
children's advocate (until recentiv
White."
going to be take-no-prisoners time.
WASHINGTON POST
7.11.92
White House
Garden Tours
Begin Today
The annual White House
spring garden tours are
scheduled for today and to-
morrow between 2 and 5 p.m.
No tickets are necessary.
A White House spokes-
woman said visitors should
line up on the Ellipse for the
free garden tour.
The tours, initiated during
the Kennedy administration,
allow the public an oppor-
tunity to walk through the
First Ladv's garden, the
Rose Garden and the chil-
dren's garden; the South
Lawn and the state floor of
the White House.
Photographs are per-
mitted on the grounds but
not in the White House.
TIMES
ASHINGTON EDITION
IONDAY. APRIL 13. 1992
NATION
Quick
Start. Skinner
Finds Himself
in the Hot Seat
3 The ii hite House chief of start has tackled
me D19 problems. But now incre IS
rumpting about nis management stvie.
ALSTEPHENSON Angeles Times
-xtent. insiders'concede. he IS being faulted for not being
book a weekend trip back home to Chicago-where he
more like his predecessor.
served as C.S. attorney-on a regularly scheduled com-
You want a gogfather. sitting in 3 darkened office.
mercial flight-coach seal. please.
after
assuming
con
.king quietly and making decisions. Jhe senior statf
The initial challenge racing Skinner was to perform a
W
incroughty
demorar-
ember said. seemingly oplivious to the criticism ne
wpe of political triage that would allow him to tackle the
::
troubled
terce-year
-*uped on Sununu last autumn. Sometimes. you wish
Lizgest problems and 10 set aside the less significant-or
:S
trueshing
to
==
munu was Dack.
emporarily in that ne appears to have
ens renment made even more
Cush. nowever. dismisses the complaints about continu-
acceeded.
2: pressures or presidential e.ection cam-
12 disarray within the White House as lust SO much
Today. the economy :S snowing signs of improvement.
Washington gossio.
The President renomination seems assured. His political
the
from the faded challenge
incortation Bet ITS irafted him :: replace the
.companying nim on an early morning stron last week.
used DY Republican chanenger Patrick J. Buchanan to
received 2:29 marks for tacknne some
:u know and I know that there S periodic stories of this
focus on the general election cambaign.
grest sendlems 140.00 ... " nite reque upon nis
sture. i ve seen 11 in every single Administration- Demo-
The big goals nave been acnieved." White House Press
that or Republican. i discount 11. : think we ve 20: an
Secretary Mariin Fitzwater said. "We've organized the
indercurrent e: crumpling
:tstanding staff."
White House. We've organized the campaign. We're
manner Aperformance
And at a press conference on Friday, Busn cenied that
MINNING the primaries The acnievements nave been
the
House.
the
campaign
team
son presence at the White House IS a sien 01 are own
enificant under the circumstances."
friends and advisers
-satisiaction with his staff. .
in a more personal level. Skinner ":5 settling down a
*203*
nos improble quantities and initial
mate bit and learning new to deal with people." another
33505. Skinner seems to display a style 100 100se for the
OF new "60 ": words of one close Busn
T
or an the grumpling. most White House insiders
senior staff member said. Interpersonal relations are a tot
acknowledge that Skinner CIO well when contronted
setter. Even when the campaign news was bad and
ten =0 2.most seems a be : man miscast.
wan a caunting set of problems.
:emoralizing. and people were apprenensive. they were
e cruses cite several problem areas: Skinner S ben-
Last Dec. 16. when Skinner walked into his new office.
cappier personally, because its a more numane atmos-
for minking out toud. 1 tengency to celav decisions.
:..e economy nad just headed south again. There were no
onere.
mingness moose alihority yer une Busn
mm plans for now to nandle the President S crucial State or
Ekinner. one 01 his admirers in the White House said.
residention - to .:: senior W hite
Union speecn. scheduled for Jan. US. The first primary
a personal style that IS totally different from his
presidential
untidants.
-ction was only two months away. out Bush 3 campaign
treaecessor. rie is open with people. He 15 nonest He
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maker
1:1.
rave
reanization nad not taken form. And the White nause
mesn try to manipurate people. He's not deceptive or
asinner
::. entering a pontical test unitke any 11 had faced. 'A as in
inniving. These are traits the stari around here tenas to
eumos.
appreciate.
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time
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was, in the words of a senior W Fite House 01:10:a..
tev are appreciated too DV Bush. Skinner S boss. social
01 mess.
mpanion and occasional goiling partner.
.en.
%
claved
te 0: Skinner vows was to avoid the mistakes as THE
the other name. Swinner can be demanding. the White
rere into problem areas for his
redecessor. dhunu S fan from grace nac chowed J
House admirer said. "He nas a snort attention span. A toua
at
the
White
House.
rus
minar battern: He lost favor no: only with competing
resonality :f you WILL.
5 embarking on ansther
centers. this case congressional eacers
ren the President IS $310 to have become arked at
since
Key
NEURCE
uner : nechc campaign trip across
LIUCINE DIS DCSS. the President bununu $ Use of Air none
South ID the week eading up to Super Tuesday last
13.6
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.E to carry aim on personal trips was not the primery
shin.
recessarity
involving
use or as cowntail. but It became a cataivs DV crawing
and there have been other incidents. Skinner iashed out
siner
100
aides.
appoint
cention to the crief of stati's officious. ernearing
Buchanan suggesting that Buchanan was an anti-Sem-
was DV memen.
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namen 0: anonymity
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has injected numself into the conucal race. one
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NATION
SKINNER: His Management Style Doesn't Suit Everyone at White House
Continued from A5
Croisant, an old friend from-Skin-
was taking a partisan approach to
K. Yeutter, newly moved from the
to simultaneously press his col-
guys think something's going to
longtime Bush adviser said. "That's
ner's early career at IBM.
Bush's economic recovery plan
chairmanship of the Republican
leagues to tackle issues that might
happen without putting hands on."
not the role of a chief of staff."
"The guy [Croisant] had very
right from the beginning, "and
National Committee to become
not bubble to the surface for sever-
The result, he said. is "a kind of
At a time when the White House
little relevance to us," a senior
somebody's got to say it."
White House counselor for domes-
al months. Those frustrations sur-
paralysis."
was trying to maintain smooth
White House official said. "A very
As for the Croisant study, it
tic policy. the former Economic
faced recently in a blowup between
Perhaps Skinner's biggest chal
relations with Congress, Skinner
"allowed me to validate some of
Policy Council and the Domestic
Fitzwater and Deputy Chief of
lenge, however, is that of reaching
disruptive influence. Everyone on
assailed Senate Majority Leader
the President's staff was upset
the things I was being told," Skin-
Policy Council have been folded
Staff W. Henson Moore, a key
a working relationship with the
George J. Mitchell (D-Me.) as "a
about the fella."
ner said. "It was accurate. Any
into a Policy Coordinating Group.
Skinner appointee.
Bush/Quayle reelection campaign
crass politician
who puts poli-
organization has problems
It
This unit is intended 10 function
in general and campaign chairman
tics above his country."
I
ndeed, Skinner's efforts to reor-
allowed me to get a good feel for
much as the National Security
B
y bringing in Yeutter, a former
Robert S. Teeter in particular.
"He's making the mistake any
ganize the White House have
what we had to do."
Council does in the foreign policy
agriculture secretary, and
"They're still trying to sort out
Skinner also resents the com-
arena, overseeing related elements
Moore. a former deputy energy
responsibilities between Teeter
chief of staff makes, not under-
been a source of continuing com-
standing the small margin for error
plaints.
plaints about the pace of his deci-
of domestic, social and economic
secretary. Skinner may have trad-
and Skinner," a senior White
in the White House," an experi-
One insider said: "We didn't need
sion-making. "I think that's un-
policy and coordinating govern-
ed in a White House upper man-
House staff member said. "The
enced White House insider re-
the whole White House staff reor-
fair," he said. "If anything, I think
ment actions, Yeutter said.
agement that had been too slim on
campaign started out with the
marked. "It is very small. It can gel
ganized in the fourth year."
people push things to get them to
Fitzwater has taken over as
Washington heavyweights for one
assumption it would have control
you in trouble if you're a think-
In an interview, Skinner said
us. I want to get them to the
communications chief, responsible
that has "too many chiefs, not
of blocks of Bush's time and would
much of the grousing is unjustified.
President sooner."
not only for day-to-day operations
enough Indians," in the words of
drive his schedule. That isn't hap-
out-loud kind of person."
One of the first steps Skinner
His comment on Buchanan was
Skinner remains defensive about
in the White House press office but
one colleague.
pening."
took upon arriving at the White
"a legitimate, honest statement,"
the restructuring effort, although,
also for laying out long-range ef-
"They all think when they're in
Skinner replies: "I defer to him
House was to institute what one
Skinner said, and he does not
by various accounts from inside the
forts to project Bush's message.
a meeting they are all in charge.
[Teeter] on a lot of campaign
aide scornfully called a "time and
regret it. But, he added, "you
White House, the changes added to
But the dual role has its built-in
None of them thinks he's the guy
issues. He's the campaign chair-
motion" study of staff perations,
haven't heard me say it since."
initial disarray and dissatisfaction.
frustrations, forcing Fitzwater to
to take notes at a meeting and then
man. 1 don't defer to fam on
under the direction of Eugene R.
Likewise, Skinner said, Mitchell
Under the direction of Clayton
deal with immediate problems and
follow up on something. All these
policy."
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 13, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICIALS
FROM:
JOHN UNDELAND Fil
Associate Director
Office of Media Affairs
RE:
TALKING POINTS ON THE BECK EXECUTIVE ORDER
For your information and distribution are talking points on the President's Beck
Executive Order to protect the individual rights of America's workers. These products
are intended for use by Presidential surrogates. Should you have any questions,
please don't hesitate to contact me at 456-7150. Thank you.
TALKING POINTS ON PROTECTING WORKER RIGHTS:
THE BECK EXECUTIVE ORDER
"No worker should be forced to have money taken out of his
paycheck to fund politicians he or she disagrees with.
-- President Bush, March 20, 1992
As part of his crusade to fundamentally change the way government works so that the
peoples' interests -- not special interests -- are served, President Bush signed an
Executive Order implementing the Supreme Court's Beck decision.
Protecting American workers' First Amendment right to free speech, the Supreme
Court's Beck decision held that union bosses could not compel non-union workers to
fund political causes and/or candidates through compulsory union dues. Non-union
employees' dues could be used only for core union activities such as collective
bargaining, contract administration and grievance procedures.
Implementation of Beck will correct an historic misuse of workers' earnings. Writing
for the majority, Justice Brennan said: "Nobody should be coerced to give money to
political causes or candidates." Why should a liberal truck driver be compelled to
support Republican candidates supported by the Teamsters Union? Why should a
conservative autoworker be forced to back the liberal agenda of the United Auto
Workers?
President Bush's Executive Order implementing Beck protects American workers
against political abuse by special interest groups. It ensures that employees of
Federal contractors are made aware of their right to refuse to fund political causes
they oppose. As a society, we ensure that criminal suspects are read their rights;
certainly American workers should be "read" theirs, as well.
Specifically, the President's Executive Order requires Federal contractors to
conspicuously post notices that summarize these critical points:
0 The law protects employees' freedom from being compelled to join or
maintain membership in a union;
0 Objecting employees may not be compelled to contribute to union activities
other than core union activities; and
0 Objecting employees may be entitled to receive refunds and future reduction
in fees spent for non-representational union activities.
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Furthering the principles advanced by Beck, the President has taken additional actions
to protect workers' rights by:
0 Directing the Department of Labor to require full and open disclosure of
union expenditures. This will allow workers to keep close tabs on where their
dues are being spent. With more than half of union dues now being spent on
political rather than bargaining-related purposes, workers will be empowered
with the knowledge to challenge the union for a refund, if they so chose. This
knowledge will eventually mean as much as $2.4 billion a year staying in
workers' pockets and out of the special interest trough.
0 Initiating a National Labor Relations Board proceeding to more efficiently
implement Beck on a number of related issues. This action will speed up
deliberation on the caseload of the board's adjudication system.
Thomas Jefferson once wrote: "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money
for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical." Guided
by Jefferson's ideal two centuries later, President Bush's Executive Order will stem the
influence of special interests, helping return government to the people.
# # #
4/13/92
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LOCATION Washington, D.C.
DATE 13 April 1992
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THE PRESIDENT
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This is a personal
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SEAL STATES
Hunard Hir Force Cne
February 29, 1992
(Enroute Atlanta, Georgia)
MEMORANDUM FROM THE PRESIDENT
TO:
BOB TEETER
BOB MOSBACHER
Dick Allen has been helping. Attached is a ten
point plan of his.
Please have someone bring him, in thank him, and see
what should be done.
Please advise when this has been done.
Thanks.
CyBl
CC: Sam Skinner
FEBRUARY 24. 1992
CONSERVATIVES IN 1992
TEN RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE PRESIDENT
1. Review the 1980 Republican Platform: It was on the basis
of accepting this very Platform that you were chosen by
Reagan as his running mate.
The Platform was written very carefully over many
months; Marty Anderson and I saw to it that everything
in it was Reagan policy. It was a solid plan of action,
designed to be implemented from the first day of the
Reagan presidency.
2. Be seen reading the Platform and let the word go out that
you believe it to be an excellent guide for future policy
Platforms. in your second term, ditto the 1984 and 1988
The five main themes of the 1980 Platform were
intentionally basic:
Family
Neighborhood
Work
Peace
Freedom
We wrote basic major speeches on each of these
themes, and constantly worked the themes into Reagan
stump speeches. Again and again.
3. Let it be known that you are designating a team of first-
rate mainstream conservatives to take on the Platform
task again -- not a team of moderates or business-as-
usual Republicans.
We will find that team of first-rate people to do this job:
but not until then, and not in the leading role.
others will be included only as the process gets going.
4. "Ideas Have Consequences" -- this is the rallying cry of all
modern conservatives. It is the title of an essay by
Richard Weaver, a patron saint of the conservative
movement. Show that you care about ideas, not just an
amorphous "vision."
In 1980 we had a plan -- a plan that was coherent and
easy to understand. Say, in simple terms. that you
know this, and that your plan will be the best one for
America in the 1990s.
5. Claim and define the Mainstream of conservatism; it's
yours.
Be relentless and repetitive: America is conservative
and believes in conservative values. You are committed
to those values. but you must say just that. over and
over. Pat Buchanan is at the fringe -- out of the
mainstream and responsible. mainstream
conservatives know this, as even Bill Buckley has
pointed out.
Don't let Ann Devroy and the rest of the media define
for you the state of your relations with conservatives;
these media people are just trying to stir up trouble,
and are substantively ignorant about conservatism.
6. No matter what you are told by your expert advisers, you
need to court conservatives who can really help you.
Reach out for help where you really need it. Placating
conservatives is not just a matter of conceding on a few
political issues; it takes a shift of mood and a coherent
program.
You won't persuade the fringe, SO don't try. and don't
let your conventional advisers persuade you that first-
rate conservatives are on the fringe with Buchanan.
Think about it -- is Marty Anderson on the fringe? Are
Bill Buckley and the others?
Court conservatives by having them for dinner in the
residence and for working lunches in the Cabinet
Room; take some on the plane with you, and keep
three or four seats on Air Force One filled with them;
use your assets. Keep the sessions small, listen
out. carefully, work with them and the word will quickly get
Does your staff say you don't have time for this? Make
time! You're the Boss! We'll get you lists of people.
7. The too. neoconservatives, mostly Democrats, can be yours,
They can't stand Pat Buchanan's isolationist agenda and,
since they're domestically liberal, his domestic agenda
either. In 1980 we converted the entire Committee on
the Present Danger into a force supporting Reagan, and
it was overwhelmingly Democrat in composition. Of its
125 members, nearly seventy served in the Reagan-
Bush Administration. An outstanding example: Jeane
Kirkpatrick, whom I personally brought over the line
into our camp. Nitze, Rostow, Kampelman -- they all
came from the CPD roster.
Consult with these neoconservatives before they drift
back to their natural home among the Democrats. We
can get you names.
8. Create two major policy advisory councils alongside or
very loosely linked to the campaign structure, one for
domestic matters, the other for foreign policy matters,
but the latter will concentrate on foreign economic and
trade matters. Put each under the firm control of a
trusted, competent conservative ally who knows what
ideas are all about and how to turn them into political
weapons.
These groups will meet and advise, but they will not
issue reports. You would meet with them in groups and
on occasions, and they will churn out analyses and
reports, some of which will flow to you through the
council directors. This should not be a part of your
formal campaign organization. and the effort should not
be harmed by this effort even if they are "turf sensitive"
on matters of substance.
9. Tsongas has a book, and Buchanan has a lot of ideas. In
1988 I persuaded Jim Baker to use a device Nixon had
Marty and me develop in 1968 -- publish a book
detailing Nixon's positions. We did it in five days,
called it "Nixon On The Issues," and stilled the
criticism that Nixon was not addressing the issues and
not generating ideas. The Bush book took a bit longer,
but was similarly effective.
Get a similar book out now, wasting no time. Don't let
the nitpickers argue about what's in it; let it be
rammed through by a good writer and editor. It can't
be a yuppy research effort; it must have serious
intellectual direction.
10. Get at least one visible conservative in your close-in
entourage -- a real conservative. This person should
travel with you a lot, and should be seen to have access
to you.
This person will be a conservative channel for you, a
conveyor belt, and will also be a hand-holder. This
must be the kind of person who inspires confidence
among conservatives. This person must not be a White
House Staff member; he must be seen as an
independent adviser. Marty Anderson would be an
excellent choice; he's experienced in our two winning
campaigns from the "outside" (1968 and 1980); he is
very, very savvy politically; he is an economist who
knows both domestic and foreign issues; he is held in
great respect by conservatives and many liberals; and
with him could come Annelise, his wife, who worked
for you in 1980.
Jul
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ON, D.C.
Mr. Jan Douglas Norris
Kwik Kopy Corporation
22 "R" Town and Country Village
CAMP DAVID
Houston, Texas 77024
April 12, 1992
Dear Jan,
I am very sorry that
yesterday was so hectic.
Who would have dreamed
that President Kravchuk
of Ukraine would have
interrupted my visit with
Jan Norris.
I read your note and am
grateful.
I will try to be the GB
of '66.
Warm Regards and 1000
apologies,
GBl
CC: (everything)
Rose Zamaria
(1 copy)
FROM THE PRESIDENT
Jan Douglas Norris
22R Town & Country Village
Houston, Texas 77024
President George Bush
Dear m. President,
April 10, 1992
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with nan Ellis.
are the chief adviser in this compaign.
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Just be the George Busk from 1966.
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and 1wing at name.
wash. (seattle). and Jeff (24) is in college
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presidential Library. sendfor Don Henderon
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Bud Hadfill, chairman of Kwik Kopy
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Revisiting the Bush campaign trail
HE GRAY LINE TOURS in Houston
tics in 1964 when he ran his first unsuccessful
T
have been known to roll sightseers
race for the Senale. He didn't cause the stir
around on trips that included famous
murder scenes. Maybe now it's time to take
Tom
there he does now. "He just comes through the
line like everybody else," manager June Solka
them to landmarks in the political career of the
Kennedy
said, "and he insists on paying. We've tried not
next president of the United States.
to charge him, but he always pays." Bush usu-
If various New England hostelries can adver-
ally gives the free Olto's meal lickets to his
tise "George Washington slept here," then
Secret Service agents.
Houston should have something to show
Steel retired from Prudential Insurance Co.
George Bush campaigned here (research
in 1980 and has served as manager of Bush's
shows that the Houston George seldom slept
headquarters. Bush was 42 at the time with the
Houston office since 1981. Recalling the early
anywhere but at home).
same campaign charm which earned him the
days, Steel said Ronald Reagan's elected suc-
But he did walk a lot of precincts here in the
White House, come Jan. 20. A few frames
cessor never really had a favorite watering hole
'60s when he ran unsuccessfully for the Senate
depict his high school coordinator, Don Hen-
or gathering place to map out campaign strate-
in 1964 (and later in 1970) and successfully
derson, in a pullover sweater. discussing strate-
gy. He liked going home or to Steel's apart-
for Congress in 1966 and 1968.
gy. Today, Henderson is a state senator.
ment for such tasks. Steel said Bush always has
"This is it!" long-time Houston advertising
Coat-over-the-right-shoulder precinct-walk-
liked Molina's on Westheimer for Mexican food
and public relations man Jan Norris proclaimed
ing became Bush's style along with a look that
and preferred then - as he does now - infor-
the other day on a Cook's tour of old Bush
sported a loosened lie wind-blown over his left
mal Sunday alternoon cookouts with his family
campaign haunts. "I remember it now, right
shoulder. He stayed in frequent touch with
and close friends.
across the street from Kmart, just like it was in
Norris on the north side and Steel on the south.
Among a few notable Bush residences in
1966."
Steel's command station was located at 4014
Houston - besides the famous apartment in
In front oi him at the address of 8226 Long
Richmond at Weslayan, the current home of
The Houstonian - was the ranch-style, split-
Point was a one-story building now housing
Baxter Pools & Spas.
level home on Briar Drive between Sage and
the Spring Branch-Memorial office of the Asso-
In 1966, Bush defeated former District At-
Maple Valley. "In the back yard behind the
ciation for Relarded Citizens. On this spot 22
torney Frank Briscue with 57.7 percent of the
pool they had a hedge row, Steel recalled,
years ago, Norris managed Bush's "campaign
vote. He had no on bonent in 1968.
and in back of that they had another lot.
district 2" headquarters when Bush sought to
Norris did a double take as he drove up to
That's where they used to play soltball and
be the first representative of the newly drawn
the north-side 1970 Bush-for-Senate head-
touch football with kids of all ages and their
7th Congress onal District.
quarters off Wille Road at 9936 Westview,
parents.
Norris' area included Spring Branch, Memo-
where Carr-Redwine body shop supply house
"The Bushes have always been very family-
rial and "the country part" of the vast congres-
now is located. They campaigned hard from
oriented, and I don't think there's going to be
sional district, while what was called the "dis-
here - Norris still has what he calls the old
any change in the White House."
trict I campaign office" was headed by Jack
Bush campaign desk - but their candidate lost
The Briar Drive house is gone, the property
Steel and included River Oaks, Tanglewood,
the race to Lloyd Beutsen.
subdivided for development. The Gray Line
Briar Grove and parts west on Westheimer.
Il's no secret the president-elect has long
tour won't find a marker noting "President
Norris now has on videotape the rare 8mm
loved eating barbecue at Otto's on Memorial,
Bush played ball here," although he made his
film footage of the opening of the Long Point
even before he took his first plunge into poli-
mark in the neighborhood.
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Norris and others in his party also
The 22 photos were taken last
ing and public relations firm which
traveled to Swan Lake, near Ty
summer in Russia by Norris, just a
does work in Houston, New York,
umen in Western Siberia where they
scant month before the coup which
and Russia.
stayed in a lakeside Dacha where
brought the winds of democracy to
He has also worked in Moscow
President Gorbachev had stayed
and Western Siberia for M.D. Seis, a
the week before, and where Yeltsin
that nation.
The photographs show some of
Houston geo-physical company
was expected to make his first visit
the historic structures of Russia and
which does joint ventures in Russia.
the following week.
ASSEI
the many faces of the Russian
it was while on a trip for M.D. Seis
Everyone is invited to take this
Fussel
people.
last July, that Norris made the photo-
opportunity to view these historic
pastor
The exhibit will remain on display
graphs which are now on display in
photographs taken by the North
6 p.m.
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at the bank, during regular business
Vivian.
Caddo native. Be sure to pick up
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hours, through the month of March:
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
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SUBJECT:
BECK EXECUTIVE ORDER SIGNING
I. SUMMARY
On Monday, April 13, at 11:00 a.m. in the Rose Garden,
you will give brief remarks before signing an Executive
Order regarding workers rights under the Supreme Court's
Beck decision. The audience will consist of people from the
National Right to Work Committee, Harry Beck and some of the
other plaintiffs. Charlton Heston, who has also worked on
this issue, will be there.
II. DISCUSSION
The remarks (7 minutes, on cards) state the principle
that no one should be forced to contribute to organizations
or candidates against their will. There is also a plug for
your campaign finance reform bill.
(Duggan/Simon)
April 10, 1992
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
BECK EXECUTIVE ORDER SIGNING
ROSE GARDEN
MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1992
11:00 A.M.
[Acknowledgments]
It is a pleasure to welcome all of you to the White House.
This happens to be a very special anniversary. Two hundred
forty-nine years ago today, Thomas Jefferson was born. And there
is a renewed spirit of Jeffersonian reform sweeping through this
nation today. It is therefore a fitting occasion for putting
into effect new reforms that will protect Americans' fundamental
rights against political abuse by special interest groups.
For brilliance, for courage, for passion in the cause of
freedom and democracy, no one has ever surpassed Thomas
Jefferson. Jefferson eloquently stated a principle of
fundamental fairness in 1779 when he declared: "To compel a man
to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions
which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical."
Not long ago in Philadelphia, I spoke of the wisdom of the
Founders on the subject of government reform. It is this
Jeffersonian insight that we reaffirm today with reforms to
strengthen the fundamental rights of American workers. In the
Executive Order I will sign in a few moments, I am directing that
companies performing federal contract work must inform their
employees in the clearest possible terms of their legal rights as
affirmed in the Supreme Court's landmark Beck decision. The
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large placard displayed here presents the exact words of the
notice that will be placed in workplaces around the nation.
While this order will directly affect American workers employed
by federal contractors, I want to emphasize that the principles
affirmed by the Beck decision are precious to all Americans.
The Beck decision is one of a series of cases protecting
American workers from being compelled against their will to pay
union or agency dues in excess of what is actually used for
collective bargaining purposes and contract administration. Full
implementation of this principle will guarantee that no American
will have his job or livelihood threatened for refusing to
contribute to political activities against his will. The
Executive Order I sign today will make it easier for employees of
federal contractors to understand and exercise their political
rights.
The Secretary of Labor is separately proposing a rule
clarifying and bringing up to date requirements for labor
organizations to account for how workers' dues are spent. This
rule aims to foster union democracy, and it also will have the
effect of helping employees protect their Beck rights. The trial
court in the Beck case found, for instance, that in plaintiff
Harry Beck's workplace, 79 percent of the compulsory dues
collected went to purposes unrelated to collective bargaining and
contract administration. Our new rule will assist union members
in discovering how their dues are being spent. And perhaps most
important of all, I expect the National Labor Relations Board to
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carry out its responsibility to enforce the principles of the
Beck decision.
One of America's most intrepid fighters for individual
rights is the distinguished actor, Charlton Heston. He has been
a member of four different labor organizations, and like Ronald
Reagan before him, a president of the Screen Actors Guild. He
has given much of himself to put collective bargaining rights
into practice. And he has been equally committed to seeing that
no company or organization may infringe a worker's individual
freedom of conscience. Chuck, we're honored that you have
travelled across the country to be with us today. 11
Our new actions to protect individual liberties are
important efforts in a larger crusade I am waging to reform our
system of politics and government. Institutions of public life -
- whether the government, corporations, or unions -- should be
accountable to their constituents to produce results and to
respond to their needs. Working Americans should have the right
to decide whether contributing to political parties or candidates
at odds with their beliefs fulfill that principle and represent
the institutional responsibility we rightfully expect. In
pursuit of the very same principles -- accountability and
responsibility -- I am asking Congress to enact a sweeping reform
of campaign financing. I'm fighting to eliminate the special
interest PACs, which will stop the millions of dollars in
administrative subsidies that corporations and labor
organizations now are allowed to channel into their own PACs.
Time and again over our constitutional history, protecting
universal rights has demanded the lonely courage of individuals
citizens standing up against powerful organized interests. And I
am especially honored that we have here today such an individual.
It took this man 12 years of patient effort to carry his case to
vindication in the highest court of the land. And it is his
crusade that brings us together today. Harry Beck, thank you for
all you've done. I'm proud to have you [and other plaintiffs --
names still to be provided] stand with me as I sign the Executive
Order. 11 {Signs order.}
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News Summary
OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARY
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1992
6 A.M. EDT EDITION
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
U.S. ACTION AGAINST IRAQ NOT RULED OUT -- Gen. Scowcroft said
Sunday he would not rule out military action against Iraq if it
tries to prevent U-2 reconnaissance flights now being carried out
under U.N. auspices.
(Washington Post)
SCOWCROFT VOICES SUPPORT FOR YELTSIN, REFORMS -- Gen. Scowcroft
expressed support for President Yeltsin as the U.S. 's best bet for
carrying out radical economic reforms in the former Soviet
republic.
(UPI)
NATIONAL NEWS
BUSH TARGETS UNION CONTRIBUTIONS -- President Bush Monday takes
steps to pare back union spending on political campaigns that
usually helps Democrats. Bush wants to boost enforcement of a 1988
Supreme Court ruling that said non-union workers who pay union dues
must pay only for collective bargaining activities. (USA Today)
WISCONSIN'S REFORM OF WELFARE SCRUTINIZED -- Even though Wisconsin
has taken 44,000 residents off welfare, it might not serve as an
adequate model for nationwide welfare reform, Secretary Sullivan
said Sunday.
(Washington Times)
NETWORK NEWS (Sunday evening)
UNIONS/POLITICS -- President
Bush will try to prevent
unions from spending billions
on political activities that
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
A-1
traditionally help Democrats.
NATIONAL NEWS
A-5
LIBYA -- An Egyptian official
says Gadhafi has agreed in
NETWORK NEWS
B-1
principle to hand over the
two Lockerbie suspects.
TALK SHOWS
C-1
POLL -- An ABC poll shows
Bush winning the election;
Perot just behind Clinton.
This Summary is prepared Monday through Friday by the White House News Summary Staff.
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS
U.S. ACTION AGAINST IRAQ NOT RULED OUT
Scowcroft Calls Baghdad's Preparations In North 'Very Ominous'
Gen. Scowcroft said Sunday he would not rule out military
action against Iraq if it tries to prevent U-2 reconnaissance
flights now being carried out under U.N. auspices.
Scowcroft said recent military preparations by Baghdad in
northern Iraq, including new antiaircraft missile emplacements,
were "very ominous." Speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press,' he warned
that the Iraqis "will not get away with anything. "
In other remarks about Iraq, CIA Director Gates said in an
interview with Time magazine that Saddam probably has "a couple of
hundred Scud missiles" still hidden away and that he could
reconstitute his biological weapons program "in weeks. "
Asked if MFN status for China would be in jeopardy unless
[visas for Sens. Boren and Pell to travel to Tibet] were granted,
Scowcroft said, "Oh, yes. Well, it's in jeopardy anyway.
(George Lardner, Washington Post, A15)
HARD-LINERS FALL BEHIND IN IRAN VOTE
Early Results Indicate Rafsanjani Allies Getting wide Support
TEHRAN -- Supporters of President Rafsanjani appear to be
coming out well ahead of his hard-line opponents in last Friday's
national legislative elections, according to initial results
released Sunday.
With votes counted in about one-fifth of the polling stations
in Tehran Rafsanjani supporters are outpacing hard-line
candidates, the Ministry of Interior said.
(Caryle Murphy, Washington Post, A1)
GADHAFI TO CLOSE OFF LIBYA 1 DAY BEFORE SANCTIONS START
TRIPOLI -- Libya announced Sunday that it will sever all
contact with the outside world for the 24 hours before U.N.
sanctions take effect in a confrontation over the bombing of Pan
Am Flight 103.
Arab leaders, meanwhile, continued efforts to find a way to
head off the sanctions, which would include embargoes on arms sales
and commercial air traffic to Libya.
The official news agency JANA distributed a statement saying
Libya would cut all international travel and communication links
Tuesday as a sign of mourning for the 1986 U.S. air strike that
killed 41 Libyans.
(AP, Washington Times, A9)
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White House News Summary
Monday, April 13, 1992 -- A-2
SALES TO PAKISTAN SURVIVE IN U.S. POLICY RIFT
Commercial Deals For Spare Parts Continue
Because of Loophole In Hill's Ban On Aid
When Pakistan's army chief of staff, Gen. Asif Nawaz, visited
Washington in January, he was told by Bush Administration officials
that despite a ban on U.S. government aid and military sales to his
country, Pakistan was free to buy spare parts for its F-16 fighters
from commercial sources
This was
news to some members of Congress, who thought that
a 1984 law that was triggered in 1990 had completely cut off the
flow of arms to Pakistan because of a U.S. judgment that it
possessed a nuclear device. In fact, the law had not totally
stopped the flow of arms, and the story of what happened offers an
illustration of how competing forces in Washington never quit
trying to outflank each other, even after a law is passed.
(David Hoffman, Washington Post, A17)
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT SAID READY TO RESIGN
MOSCOW -- Russia's reforming government formally told
President Yeltsin Monday it would resign unless the supreme
legislature reversed a series of measures watering down his
reforms, a minister told reporters.
The cabinet met Yeltsin in an emergency session ahead of the
day's session of the Congress of People's Deputies
The
minister, who asked not to be identified, said the government would
first try to reverse Saturday's decisions [to strip Yeltsin of his
power to appoint the government]
According to a government
document leaked to former Soviet television Sunday, the measures
would emasculate the reform program and ruin attempts to stabilize
the government's financial situation.
(Reuter)
SCOWCROFT VOICES SUPPORT FOR YELTSIN, REFORMS
Gen. Scowcroft expressed support for President Yeltsin as the
U.S.'s best bet for carrying out radical economic reforms in the
former Soviet republic.
Scowcroft, commenting on NBC's "Meet the Press," said Yeltsin
was performing "reasonably well" in his drive to move Russia toward
a Western-style market economy.
He also downplayed Saturday's attempt by Russia's Congress of
People's Deputies to strip Yeltsin of his role as prime minister.
"I don't think it's quite that cataclysmic," Scowcroft said.
But asked whether the U.S. would continue to provide economic
aid to the Russians if their parliament fails to rescind its action
after July, Scowcroft wouldn't comment on future prospects
He cautioned the U.S. must be "very careful" in providing aid
without an expectation of reform.
(UPI)
White House News Summary
Monday, April 13, 1992 -- A-3
ARMED FORCES OF FORMER SOVIET UNION
ARE FAST FALLING APART, ANALYSTS SAY
Western military analysts see signs of accelerating
disintegration of the formidable military structure that remains
from the breakup of the Soviet Union, with some of them forecasting
social upheaval and even civil war if the chaos continues.
The analysts cite diversion of heavy weapons and small arms
to the militias that are springing up in the former Soviet
republics, depletion of manpower in many units and a breakdown in
the systems that pay, feed and house millions of former Soviet
troops. The creation of a number of private corporations within
the military that are aimed at selling off weapons and even
military real estate is compounding an already confusing situation,
according to Col. David Glantz, director of a U.S. Army research
unit at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., that closely follows the former
Soviet army.
(John Fialka, Wall Street Journal, A20)
FUJIMORI UPS TIMETABLE FOR PLEBISCITE
LIMA -- President Fujimori, facing increased isolation by the
international community, Sunday night announced he will hold a
plebiscite within six months to set up an elections board, a first
step to return to democracy
Asked [in a television interview] about the possibility of a
full military takeover, Fujimori said that he did not think it was
a danger. He said public opinion polls showed that 86 percent of
the population supported his decision to close Congress and an
equal percentage opposed military rule.
(UPI)
BRADY NUDGES EUROPE'S NEW BANK
BUDAPEST -- With billions of dollars in aid flowing to the
post-communist East, Secretary Brady warned Sunday that the effort
to stave off economic collapse in the region risks being hindered
by turf battles between international lending institutions.
Brady criticized the president of the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development, Jacques Attali, who wants to
broaden the bank's powers. Attali is proposing that the bank be
allowed to make soft loans usually disbursed through the World
Bank. "There's no sense having all the international financial
institutions doing the same thing," said Brady, speaking on the eve
of the bank's first annual meeting. "You don't want everybody
doing everybody else's job. That's a sure prescription for a less
effective effort."
(Peter Maass, Washington Post, A22)
TAXPAYERS PICK UP TAB FOR WOOING OF FOREIGNERS
A few days before allied forces launched a ground war against
Iraq, Secretary Cheney was the host at a reception for Saudi
Arabian and other VIPs in the desert kingdom. The February 1991
party cost U.S. taxpayers $8,000.
Closer to home, there was a black-tie dinner in Washington for
Czechoslovakia's defense minister in June. The tab: $9,900.
In both cases, the money came from a $1.4 million annual
entertainment fund Congress allocated to the Defense Department.
The 13 other Cabinet departments each have their own allowance,
from millions to a mere $2,000 a year. (AP, Washington Times, A5)
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White House News Summary
Monday, April 13, 1992 -- A-4
TRADE, NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE REVOLVING DOOR
Lawmakers Seek Creation Of Professional Corps
With Restrictions On Post-Government Work
A GAO study released last week listed
82 U.S. officials,
lawmakers or senior congressional aides who during the last five
years left public service and became lobbyists or representatives
for foreign interests.
"The revolving door continues," Rep. Kaptur told a news
conference Thursday. "The embarrassment of exposure and recent
reports on this topic are not enough to stop this practice,' she
added, referring to widely publicized examples [involving Carla
Hills and Ed Rogers]
Calling the trend to cash in on government experience and
contacts "totally outrageous," " Rep. Guarini said the GAO report
"points to the tip of the iceberg of an enormous problem that
threatens our national security."
Guarini, Kaptur and several other lawmakers called the news
conference to release the study and to propose a bill seeking to
slam the revolving door shut. They proposed limiting trade
negotiations on behalf of the U.S. to specially trained
professionals who would be restricted from lobbying after leaving
government service.
(Gary Lee, Washington Post, A19)
EDITOR'S NOTE: "International Trade, A Bush Legacy," by Marshall
Ingwerson, appears in the Christian Science Monitor, p.10.
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NATIONAL NEWS
BUSH TARGETS UNION CONTRIBUTIONS
'88 Ruling Provides Opening
President Bush Monday takes steps to pare back union spending
on political campaigns that usually helps Democrats.
Bush wants to boost enforcement of a 1988 Supreme Court ruling
that said non-union workers who pay union dues must pay only for
collective bargaining activities.
About 3 million workers aren't in unions but pay dues because
they're covered by union contracts. Those workers can seek
reimbursements of the portion of dues used for phone banks, get-
out-the-vote efforts and voter registration drives
Without unions' voter efforts, "Republicans would have a
massive advantage" in several states, says Democratic political
consultant Duane Garrett
Jeff Faux of the economic Policy Institute, a labor think
tank, said Bush hasn't worried about informing workers about their
rights to unemployment benefits and to join unions. "It's clearly
a thin cover for attempting to harass labor unions because most
unions -- though clearly not all -- support Democrats," he says.
But Reed Larson of the National Right to Work Committee, which
opposes compulsory unionism, says the move is "long overdue. It's
a recognition by the President that there is a very serious problem
of denial of rights of free speech." (Judy Keen, USA Today, 3A)
BUSH MAY GET A CLOSER LOOK AFTER WHAT CLINTON ENDURED
As a battered Gov. Clinton nears the Democratic presidential
nomination, political analysts and politicians in both parties are
debating whether President Bush will face a searching new
inspection of his record, character, finances and conflict-of-
interest issues involving his relatives, aides and associates.
Bush campaign aides said last week that they were braced for
a renewed critique of the President because of the rough tone of
the early primaries, the controversies about Mr. Clinton's past and
the Arkansas governor's contention that he has been utterly singled
out. A number of Bush aides and supporters said they believed that
the Democrats would demand that Mr. Bush not get a free ride.
There are already signs that accusing the press of being too soft
on Mr. Bush will be a theme of those Clinton aides who have made
a specialty of criticizing the reporting on their candidate
"I've been with him since 1980 and believe me, George Bush has
been living under the new rules," said Victor Gold, a former Bush
speechwriter. "I defy them to subject themselves to 11 or 12 years
of this stuff," Mr. Gold said, arguing that Mr. Clinton had not
undergone that kind of national scrutiny while governor of
Arkansas
But Kevin Phillips, the conservative Republican
commentator, disagreed about how deeply Mr. Bush has been examined.
"Bush hasn't been through a vis-a-vis his term in the White House,"
he said. "Clearly, there has been no scrutiny with any intensity
of the conduct of his sons and siblings, and there has been no
scrutiny with any intensity of all these questions raised about his
advisers and their roles for foreign governments."
(Andrew Rosenthal, New York Times, A1)
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White House News Summary
Monday, April 13, 1992 -- A-6
BUSH VS. PEROT?
U.S. News & World Report says this week that Bush strategists,
"spooked" by Ross Perot's independent candidacy, are urging New
York Republicans to tie knots in his effort to get on the ballot.
He needs signatures of 20,000 registered voters who skipped the
primary. Quoting unidentified "insiders," U.S. News says the
officials are being asked to "ensnare" the signature drive in red
tape.
(USA Today, 4A)
CLINTON PADS LEAD ON WEEKEND
Even while not campaigning, Gov. Clinton stretched his lead
for the Democratic presidential nomination over the weekend,
apparently picking up most of Virginia's delegates in caucusing
that ends Monday night. By Sunday, Clinton had support from 52.5
percent of those attending A Newsweek poll out Sunday showed
Clinton is backed by just enough of his party's 772 superdelegates
to win the nomination.
(USA Today, 4A)
TSONGAS, RUDMAN DISCUSS JOINT EFFORT
Paul Tsongas and Sen. Rudman said Sunday they might team up
to campaign for what they described as responsible economic
policies.
"Warren and 'I have talked about maybe doing something
together," Tsongas said on CBS's "Face the Nation.
Rudman, appearing on the same program, said he and Tsongas
"share the view that the fiscal integrity of this country, unless
things change very rapidly, is going to dissipate and we will face
a major crisis within a very few years. If Paul Tsongas and I
together have credibility on that issue we might well do
something together to generate support across this country among
working people who care about their children and grandchildren that
we are going to have to get responsible in both political parties.
We'll talk about that as the year goes on."
(AP, Washington Post, A7)
WISCONSIN'S REFORM OF WELFARE SCRUTINIZED
Even though Wisconsin has taken 44,000 residents off welfare,
it might not serve as an adequate model for nationwide welfare
reform, Secretary Sullivan said Sunday.
"Clearly we are dealing with a complex problem where there is
no one single answer. I believe that the best answer is to address
the specific problems, and that means we have to have a flexible
response,' Sullivan said in an interview on ABC's "This Week."
One of several guests discussing the welfare system, Sullivan
said President Bush's commitment to welfare reform gives states
more flexibility in dealing with the issue. He lauded the reforms
initiated by Wisconsin Gov. Thompson during his five-year
administration
"The welfare system just doesn't work in its present form,"
Thompson said in a separate interview. "Right now, in the current
welfare system, we have problems with mothers having children and
having more children and getting paid for it. We also have the
problem with teen-agers, babies having babies."
(Carleton Bryant, Washington Times, A4)
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White House News Summary
Monday, April 13, 1992 -- A-7
PENSIONS COVERING LOWER PERCENTAGE OF U.S. WORK FORCE
The share of America's work force covered by company pensions
is shrinking, reversing a decades-old trend of steady growth.
Last year, an estimated 43 percent of workers participated in
company pension plans, down from a peak of 49 percent in 1979.
While women's participation in pension plans held almost steady,
the drop for younger blue-collar men was far steeper than for the
work force as a whole.
"Pensions are an important part of the private safety net,"
said David Bloom, an economist at Columbia University, [who has
recently completed a study that is about to be published in the
proceedings of the American Economics Association]. "That safety
net seems to have developed a tear that got wider during the
1980s."
(Sylvia Nasar, New York Times, A1)
HE'S NO. 1 FOR SURE: COUPLES ENGULFS MASTERS
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Sunday, at the 56th Masters, 32-year-old
Fred Couples finally achieved what all his fans, his friends and
his fellow pros had predicted for so long. Surviving a shaky
final-round start with two snap-hook drives on his first two tee
shots, Couples took command at mid-round and held off his great
friend and Ryder Cup teammate Raymond Floyd and fast-finishing
Corey Pavin on the back nine. He posted a round of 70, a 13-
under-par total of 275 and scored a two-stroke victory over Floyd
on perhaps the longest day of golf in his life.
(Leonard Shapiro, Washington Post, D1)
EDITOR'S NOTES: "Bush's Stealth Flack," on campaign spokeswoman
Torie Clarke, appears in the Washington Post, C3.
"After A Quick Start, Skinner Finds Himself In The Hot Seat, " by
James Gerstenzang, appears in the Los Angeles Times Washington
Edition, A5.
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NETWORK NEWS
(Sunday evening, April 12; CBS News was preempted by coverage of
The Masters)
UNIONS/POLITICAL ACTIVITY
ABC's Carole Simpson: President Bush is expected to issue orders
tomorrow sure to spark an angry response from Democrats and labor
leaders. Mr. Bush will take steps to prevent unions from spending
billions of dollars on political activities that traditionally help
Democratic candidates.
ABC's Ann Compton: Unions have traditionally pumped millions of
dollars and man hours into political campaigns for Democrats. This
past week, Bill Clinton was out hustling for support on picket
lines and assembly lines. President Bush wants to weaken labor's
political clout by enforcing a Supreme Court decision that union
dues cannot be used for candidates when the worker paying the dues
objects.
(Rep. Weber: "Organized labor is, of course, the dependable ally
the Democrats have. We think that there's been an abuse of their
fund-raising and political abilities.")
(President Bush, March 20: "No worker should be forced to have
money taken out of his or her paycheck to fund politicians that he
or she disagrees with.")
Tomorrow, President Bush will deliver on that promise by issuing
three orders: Companies doing business with the government must
tell workers they have a right to make no political contributions;
he will tell the Department of Labor to get exact figures from
unions on their political spending; he will tell the National Labor
Relations Board to speed up work on 300 complaints about political
spending moving slowly through the NLRB pipeline. Organized labor
complained today that President Bush is simply engaged in union
bashing.
(Laurence Gold, AFL-CIO counsel: "It has nothing to do with labor-
management relations. It has everything to do with the President's
concern about the right-wing of his own political party.")
The 1980s saw a significant blue-collar defection to Ronald Reagan.
But even if those workers are not drawn to candidate George Bush,
his Administration would like to weaken the union's ability to
support his Democratic opponent.
(ABC-Lead)
LIBYA/SUSPECTS
NBC's Mary Alice Williams: A senior Egyptian official is quoted
tonight as saying Moammar Gadhafi has agreed in principle with U.N.
Resolution 731, the resolution that calls on Libya to hand over two
officials accused in the bombing of Pan Am 103, by Wednesday. This
as Gadhafi met with Egypt's president. But at the same time,
Gadhafi decided to close Libya to the outside world for 24 hours
on Tuesday, one day before the U.N. deadline.
White House News Summary
Monday, April 13, 1992 -- B-2
NBC's Margaret Larsen reports President Mubarak paid a surprise
visit to Gadhafi today, trying to work out a compromise. In an
interview today, Gadhafi said the men could surrender themselves,
but held out no promises that they would. He also announced
sanctions of his own: Libya will sever all international
communications, air traffic and fuel sales for 24 hours to protest
the expected U.N. action and to call attention to the anniversary
of the 1986 U.S. air raid on Tripoli. Asked about the possibility
of U.S. military action, Gadhafi responded: Only if they go mad.
It's possible; people go mad all the time, but they won't gain
anything.
(NBC-Lead)
PEROT CANDIDACY
ABC's Cokie Roberts reports on H. Ross Perot's presidential
candidacy. Perot claims that in one period of several days, calls
came into his campaign at the rate of 90,000 an hour.
(Doug Bailey, The Hotline publisher: "He is a receptacle for all
of the anger and all of the protests, and it is as great as I have
seen it out there in 25 years."
Although the American electorate has supported third-party
candidates in the past, the movements have fared poorly come
election day.
(Bailey: "People tend not to vote protest for president. But if
it's ever going to have a major impact, it is this year.")
ABC News/Washington Post Poll
Election with Bush and Clinton.
BUSH
43%
CLINTON
38%
Election with Bush, Clinton and Perot.
BUSH
38%
CLINTON
28%
PEROT
24%
Perot has never been through a presidential campaign, and it is not
clear that he has skin thick enough for it. But he does have
something no third-party presidential candidate has had before
-- money. That and the volatility of the voters this year could
make him a candidate to reckon with.
(ABC-4)
VOTER TURNOUT
ABC's Jim Hickey reports that despite voter-education efforts,
people are still staying away from the polls. There are a lot of
reasons for that, but it basically boils down to voter
dissatisfaction with the whole process.
(Curtis Gans, American Electorate Committee: "I think they're very
turned off by what's happening and I think they don't see any
affirmative vision for our society.")
The decline in voting has been especially dramatic among blacks,
many of whom see no one to vote for.
(Sonia Jarvis, Black Voter Coalition: "The political campaigns and
candidates are simply not addressing the issues in a way that make
sense and connect with African-American voters.")
(ABC-3)
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White House News Summary
Monday, April 13, 1992 -- B-3
VIRGINIA CAUCUSES
Simpson reports early returns from Virginia's Democratic caucuses
give Gov. Clinton a comfortable lead. With results in from about
60 percent of the caucuses, Clinton has 53 percent, undecided 33
and Jerry Brown 15. The caucuses continue tomorrow.
(ABC-2)
CONGRESS/RETIREMENTS
NBC's Henry Champ reports that for many of the 53 retiring senators
and representatives, it's an issue of frustration.
(Rep. Weber: "It's not worth it to me. If I saw a tremendous
opportunity for a positive contribution in the next Congress, it
would be worth it to me. But I'm concerned that we're going to
have a chaotic Congress.")
The unemployment-benefits extension has been the only major
legislation enacted this year. President Bush has vetoed other
major bills.
(TV coverage: President Bush at news conference.)
The latest Gallup Poll shows only 31 percent of voters believe most
congressmen should be reelected.
(Sen. Conrad: "People are not perfect. Election to office doesn't
make them saints, and the question ought to be performance and not
all the side-show issues.")
There are predictions of as many as 125. new members on Capitol
Hill, the greatest number of freshmen since World War II. And some
experts say that could be positive.
(Kevin Phillips, Republican analyst: "What we should get from 125
new House members is a breath of fresh air, reformism, a
willingness to make changes. That's the thing that should come.")
That is the upbeat view. But a lot of very effective lawmakers
will be taking years of useful experience with them when they go.
(NBC-7)
IRAQ/NUCLEAR
ABC's Sheila MacVicar reports the U.N. nuclear inspection team is
getting ready to blow up buildings at al-Atheer. Senior Iraqi
officials say the decision to cooperate was made by Saddam Hussein.
But diplomats say confrontations over missiles in northern Iraq and
U-2 spy flights show Saddam does not want to be seen as weak, even
if it means diluting the new goodwill of cooperation.
(ABC-6)
IRAN/ELECTIONS
Simpson reports early results show the moderate party of President
Rafsanjani appears headed for victory.
(ABC-5)
PENSIONS
NBC's Jeff Madrick reports on people who have lost their pensions
because their employers have gone bankrupt. Some in Congress are
worried about the need someday for another federal bailout.
(Sen. Packwood: "We should have gotten into this 10 or 15 years
ago and we should have learned from the savings and loan crisis,
and we should say right now we're not going to run that risk
again.")
(NBC-5)
-end of B-Section-
ABC -- THIS WEEK WITH DAVID BRINKLEY
Moderator: David Brinkley. Panel: George will, Cokie Roberts.
Guests: Secretary Sullivan, Gov. Thompson, political scientist
Charles Murray, Rev. Rembert Weakland.
On welfare: With Thompson.
Brinkley: During your time in office, you have cut the welfare
role in your state by 44,000 people
So how did you get down
by 44,000? What have you done so far to make that happen?
Thompson:
We set up a very comprehensive jobs program for
people that are on welfare to help them get off, give them the
elevator of opportunity. We have set up Learn Fair, we've set up
Children First, we've set up a host of other programs. We've got
about 19 programs in existence right now that are helping people
to help themselves get off of welfare, and that's what this new
program is going to be all about.
On welfare: With Sullivan.
Brinkley: You've heard a good deal of rhetoric about the welfare
problem in this country. Is there an answer? If so, what is it?
Sullivan: The President has emphasized recently his commitment to
reforming the welfare system, and one of those components is to
give the states greater flexibility to address the problems that
they confront in their individual states. And this is why we were
pleased to approve the waiver request that Gov. Thompson came in
with recently.
Roberts:
Many [welfare] plans have similar provisions to the
Wisconsin one that make having more children less economically
attractive
By supporting these plans, is the Bush
Administration tacitly supporting abortion?
Sullivan: No. In no way is that the case. I would emphasize that
the total earnings or income of welfare recipients on AFDC under
the Governor's proposal would be greater
In addition to that,
the beneficiaries receive added dollars or added benefits for
Medicaid, health-care benefits and food stamps
will:
Since
1989
AFDC has increased 21 percent. One in seven
children in the U.S. is now on relief. Why now? What's happened?
Sullivan: Well, as you know, when I became secretary, we were busy
implementing the jobs program, the welfare reform that the Congress
had enacted in 1988. We were very pleased with our success in
putting that program in place
So there are a number of things
that have been underway during the past three years, but this
effort now, where the President has indicated his approval -- his
propensity for approval of welfare request -- is really an added
incentive to try and find ways to get welfare recipients more
independent.
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White House News Summary
Monday, April 13, 1992 -- C-2
POLITICAL DISCUSSION
On the British election: Brit Hume joins the panel.
Roberts: I think that it is a lesson for this [U.S.] election.
The economic situation in Great Britain is dreadful, worse than it
is here. And that's what the Democrats are counting on to bring
them to the White House. And in fact, people took a look at Neil
Kinnoch, who had moved more to the middle than he had been in the
past -- as the Democratic Party is attempting to do this time --
and people said uh-uh, we don't believe you
And the whole
question of character and personality and all those things were in
that election, and I think it spells very bad news for the
Democratic Party here.
Hume: Considerable relief and indeed delight at the White House
at the outcome of the British election. Not just because Bush
considers John Major to be one of his head-of-government pals, but
also because there's a feeling there that what happened there will
be a precursor, sort of, for what's happening here because there's
some historic precedent for that.
###
NBC -- MEET THE PRESS
Moderator: Tim Russert. Panel: Elizabeth Drew, Robert Novak.
Guest: Gen. Scowcroft.
On Russia:
Russert: The vote in the parliament is to rescind some of Mr.
Yeltsin's power and, in fact, after July he would no longer be
prime minister in charge of the economic program. If the
parliament does not change its course, can we still go forward and
provide economic aid?
Scowcroft: Well, I think we have to look and see what really
happens. If, in fact, congress gets control over economic policy,
you can assume it will be less reformist, less dramatic than
Yeltsin has planned
That would affect [aid], because one of
the reasons that we were able to announce the program is that just
the day before we announced, there was a shadow IMF agreement with
Russia on the scope of their reforms, making aid that we're
proposing a reasonable proposition.
Russert:
And how much credit does former President Richard
Nixon deserve for helping move this country towards giving aid to
what we now call Russia?
Scowcroft: I think he deserves some credit
The one thing that
President Nixon did is to get it out of the scope, if you will, of
just another economic-aid giveaway program and said how important
it was, what a momentous time this was in history and that we
needed to move ahead
Drew: Apparently, the Administration is not conducting any overall
post-Soviet Union review of our foreign policy. Why not?
Scowcroft:
of course, we are. We don't have something with
a label "U.S. World Foreign Policy." We've been doing it in the
area of NATO, in the area of military forces, and scope in the
world. of course we're doing it.
On the Middle East:
Novak: Robert Gates is indicating that Iran is becoming the
regional superpower. Is that alarming to U.S. interests?
Scowcroft: Well, there are some troublesome indications about Iran
and the direction that it may be going. First of all, they do have
a very massive military buildup program going on. There have been
disquieting signs of a turn away from what we conveniently call
the Rafsanjani program of moderation, but the elections which
started yesterday -- I think what you could call moderates seem to
have done quite well. I think we need to reserve judgment on Iran
for the moment.
-
White House News Summary
Monday, April 13, 1992 -- C-4
On China:
Russert: The most-favored-nation status would be in jeopardy
unless the visas were granted [to Sens. Pell and Boren]?
Scowcroft: Oh, yes. Well, it's in jeopardy anyway.
Russert: Sen. Broomfield had this to say: "We can't go along
doing business as usual with this outlaw regime." Do you think the
regime in China is outlaw at this point?
Scowcroft: Well, it certainly is by the standards which we apply
to ourselves and to our friends
They are not doing the kinds
of things, especially in human rights, that we would like. We have
had problems with them on missile technology transfers.
On Noriega:
Drew: There are reports that there is as much drug running and
money laundering in Panama as ever before -- perhaps as much -- and
we had to lighten sentences on about 16 drug kingpins in order to
get [Noriega's] conviction. So what have we achieved?
Scowcroft: I think we've achieved a great deal. First of all, he's
out of there. It was a detestable regime. We have democracy in
Panama. They have a growth rate over the last year of 9 percent.
Unemployment is down 20 points. Drug dealing is down dramatically.
It has not been wiped out. It is down dramatically.
On China and Peru:
Novak: Maybe you can explain one other thing to me, sir. In
regard to China, that we are tolerating continuing relations with
this brutal dictatorship; and when the elected president of Peru,
President Fujimori, is trying to crack down, we immediately cut off
aid. That isn't very consistent, is it?
Scowcroft: Yes, I think it's consistent policy. That's a very
difficult situation. Fujimori is trying to do the kinds of things
that we want done. He's trying to crack down on drugs -- economic
reform, all those kinds of things. But the problem is that it is
extremely dangerous to try to save democracy by destroying
democracy.
###
CBS -- FACE THE NATION
Moderator: Bob Schieffer. Guests: Paul Tsongas, Sen. Conrad,
Sen. Rudman, Rep. Weber.
On political discontent: With Tsongas.
Schieffer: Why is this great cynicism abroad in the land?
Tsongas: Let's take the Republican side. The fact is that four
years ago, the American people had a choice. The choice was
between George Bush, who would say anything to anybody to get
elected, and Bob Dole. Bob Dole came across as angry and that kind
of thing, but Bob Dole has the courage to do what's necessary to
bring this country back into some kind of fiscal discipline and
give us the direction for the future.
So the fact is the American people were given a choice on the
Republican side between irresponsibility and responsibility and
chose irresponsibility. Now, who's fault is that? Do you blame
the system, or do you blame the environment that the only way that
you get elected to anything is to promise everything to everybody?
The fact is that strong people who run on realism and the kind
of courage this country used to be known for often get defeated by
those -- and I'm just using the Republican Party here now -- by
those who would offer anything. George Bush has no core.
On political discontent: With Conrad, Rudman, Weber.
Weber: I can't imagine us really, really grappling with
significant change in any area as long as you have the two parties
basically controlling the opposite ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.
It doesn't mean that either one is wrong or good or bad. It just
means the country has not made a decision to turn the government
over to one party, and so you can't really expect a breakthrough,
in my view.
Rudman: Let there be accountability. The problem today is that
the American people don't know who is accountable. The President
blames the Congress, the Congress blames the President. Both are
right to some degree, but the American people are totally confused
and, as Paul Tsongas said, the reason for the cynicism is they're
frankly tired of it all
Conrad: I think divided government is a problem, but there is also
a certain amount of confusion. Congress is not the executive.
There is really only one person in our country who can stand up,
tell the American people the truth about our condition and convince
the American people that we need change, and there's risk in that.
And until we have somebody who is willing to take on that role,
we're not going to convince the American people that changes have
to be made.
###
THE McLAUGHLIN GROUP
Moderator: John McLaughlin. Panel: Fred Barnes, Eleanor Clift,
Jack Germond, Morton Kondracke.
On the Democratic nomination:
Barnes: There is no way to stop [Clinton] now. There is not a
chance. He has the nomination locked up
There is no "Stop
Clinton" movement. Democrats in the House and in the Democratic
National Committee, starting next week, will begin gushing out with
their endorsements of Clinton.
On the White House and campaign:
Clift: When the network ratings go down, the anchorman gets the
ax. And one of those high-level bodies [in the White House or
campaign] is probably going to get thrown on the funeral pyre
before this is all over
Henson Moore has a high
probability
I don't think Skinner is home-free either
George Bush has said he will do anything to be reelected, and that
includes dumping his friends. But George Bush is the only person
who can save himself. They ought to take away his golf clubs and
the keys to his speedboat, lock him up in a room like a schoolboy
until he figures out what he wants to do in terms of being
president of this country.
Germond:
The fact is, to the extent that the President still
has a political problem, it is the extent to which he has not yet
formulated a coherent, convincing message.
Kondracke: What they are trying to do now is have the President
repeat over and over and over again the five pillars
And he's
going to repeat it and repeat it and repeat it and repeat it and
hope to get it in to make him seem like the agent of change. What
they've been doing in the White House -- this is largely a White
House problem, not a campaign problem -- is they have these
interminable meetings and they can't get anything done, they can't
get any message out. That's the problem.
Barnes:
Bush needs an authority figure [in the campaign], not
himself. Bush is the candidate; he can't be the campaign manager
as well.
McLaughlin: Can Fred Malek do it?
Barnes: No, he can't. He doesn't have the respect, the command
over all the other players.
McLaughlin: Can Skinner do it?
Barnes: Well, he's getting there, but too slowly.
White House News Summary
Monday, April 13, 1992 -- C-7
McLaughlin: Who can do it?
Barnes: Jim Baker is one and Dick Cheney is one. They're the ones
who would have the command over the staff, who could get things
done.
Clift:
I think he could send a strong signal if he put someone
in place as a domestic czar. He utters the five pillars, but
there's no delivery system. He needs a domestic equivalent of a
Jim Baker.
Kondracke: I absolutely agree. The people in the White House who
are dissatisfied with the way things are have been dying to have
Dick Cheney come over there. But I don't think Bush will do it.
I think Bush is stuck with Skinner for the rest of the campaign.
Clift:
Bill Clinton may be the only Democrat George Bush can
beat, but George Bush may be the only president Bill Clinton can
beat. They both have got problems. It's a nice even draw
I
think in any domestic issues [in a debate], Bill Clinton is going
to have an edge, definitely.
Germond: Bill Clinton is also a very tough cookie who'll get right
in your face. Bush is not going to find the guy as a pushover.
PREDICTIONS
McLaughlin: Next week, the President will sign an executive order
prohibiting unions from using compulsory dues to support political
candidates, implementing the Supreme Court decision, and the unions
will be wild with anger.
###
INSIDE WASHINGTON
Moderator:
Gordon
Peterson.
Panel:
Juan Williams, Nina
Totenberg, Carl Rowan, Charles Krauthammer.
On the campaign:
Krauthammer: The only hope that Clinton has is to make Bush the
issue in the general election. If it's a referendum on the four
years of Bush -- are you better off today than you were four years
ago? -- he's got a chance. And the only chance he has of his
character not becoming the main issue -- because if it does, he's
not going to win -- is if people will be tired of the stories, that
nothing particularly new will come out, and it will wear off over
time
Totenberg:
It's true that there was a lot of dissatisfaction
with Reagan and Bush as candidates, but that's because of what they
stood for or didn't stand for. In this case, the dissatisfaction
about Clinton is about who he is and that's harder to fix
Rowan: But Bush has got a 61 percent negative rating partly
because people think he doesn't stand for anything. So it's not
his stands, it's his non-stands.
On the British election:
Peterson: John Major is back. He won by a narrow margin. If you
were George Bush, do you take heart from that?
Totenberg: I sure would. They're in the worst recession they've
had since World War II, and still the Tories eked out a win
Krauthammer: There's a remarkable parallel. Major is like Bush,
the inheritor of the mantle of a very strong charismatic
conservative
It's the fourth election in Britain, as here.
And [Major] carried it against a rather strong opponent
and
in
the teeth of a recession. I think it bodes very, very ill for the
Democrats.
On Noriega:
Rowan: I don't think it was worth the price [to convict him]
Panama's economy still is in terrible shape and the drug traffic
going on full-tilt. We're going to come to view this as one of
those military ventures that did not serve us well and did not
serve our court system well.
Krauthammer: It served us very well. It got a dictator out of
Panama who was oppressing his people and had overthrown a
democratic government, and it was a threat to our interests in the
Panama Canal. In that sense, our action there was a great success.
Bringing him here to try him on drug charges is a totally different
issue. It's stupid. I think it looks like the Romans bringing
back the defeated king of a small country in chains.
-erom-
White House News Summary
Monday, April 13, 1992 -- C-9
On the Persian Gulf War:
Peterson: Smart weapons were not as smart as we thought they were.
Intelligence reports were not quite as accurate as we thought,
Saddam's troops got away with more than we thought, but the news
was magnificently managed.
Rowan: This is just another case of government lying to us to make
these adventures look marvelous. And it takes a year, sometimes
two, to get the truth.
Totenberg: I hate to be in the position of defending the Pentagon
on this, but I think it is a natural human instinct to think that
your successful weapons are doing better than they in fact did.
And I think the Pentagon deserves some credit for going back and
looking at it realistically.
Williams:
The point is news management. The point is that the
Pentagon decided, "We can't tell the American people the extent of
damage that we are suffering, the extent to which we are not
getting the job done, because it would endanger public support for
this war effort." And therefore, numbers get put out there in kind
of blown-up, exaggerated fashion, and later, the reality seeps in
when no one really cares.
-end of News Summary-
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THE WHITE HOUSE
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WASHINGTON
THE PRESIDENT
FOR: ROSE ZAMARIA
13, 1992
FROM: PHILLIP D. BRADY
Time
Oval Office
riefing
Oval Office
The President's upublished schedule for
ity Briefing
Oval Office
4/13
ief of Staff
Oval Office
ng
Oval Office
(TAB A)
Time
Oval Office
Oval Office
(5 min)
(Rollins)
(TAB B)
11:00 am
Signing Ceremony for Beck
Rose Garden
(10 min)
Executive Order
(Rollins)
(TAB C)
11:10 am
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(20 min)
11:30 am
Staff Time
Oval Office
(5 min)
(Rollins)
(TAB D)
11:35 am
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(25 min)
12:00 pm
Lunch with Attorney General
Oval Office
(60 min)
Barr, Secretary Kemp and
Director Martinez
(Holiday)
(TAB E)
UNP 04/10/92
6:00 pm
1:00 pm
Meeting with Representatives
Roosevelt Room
(20 min)
of the Law Enforcement Community
(Rollins)
(TAB F)
1:20 pm
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(70 min)
2:30 pm
Staff Time
Oval Office
(30 min)
(Rhodes)
3:00 pm
Administrative Time
Oval Office
(30 min)
3:30 pm
Meeting with Secretary Cheney
Oval Office
(30 min)
4:00 pm
Meeting with Prime Minister
Oval Office
(30 min)
Jan Olszewski of Poland
(Scowcroft)
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4:30 pm
Meeting with Chief of Staff
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 10, 1992
DOMESTIC POLICY BRIEFING
DATE:
Monday, April 13, 1992
LOCATION:
Oval Office
TIME:
FROM:
Clayton 9:45 a.m. Yeutter Corcy
I. PURPOSE
We'll use this meeting to cover a potpourri of items
that have reached the front burner in recent days.
II. BACKGROUND
Dr. Boskin will provide an analysis of the economic
reports of this past week, including the larger than
expected increase in the Producer Price Index and the
lowering of the Fed funds rate a day earlier.
I will cover an emerging battle over whether EPA should
cap the Superfund liability of municipalities in the
cleanup of hazardous wastes. The business community is
adamantly opposed to such a proposal, which has
potential legislative dimensions as well.
If there is time, I will also do a quick update on the
NAFTA negotiations.
III. PARTICIPANTS
The President
Vice President
Richard Darman
Michael Boskin
Roger Porter
Clayton Yeutter
IV. PRESS PLAN
Closed.
V. SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
Participants enter. Discussion takes place.
Participants depart.
VI. REMARKS
None required.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 11, 1992
PHOTO OP FOR BECK EXECUTIVE ORDER
DATE:
April 13, 1992
LOCATION:
Oval Office
TIME:
10:55 A.M.
GSR
THROUGH:
SHERRIE ROLLINS
FROM:
CECE KREMER Cece pam
LEIGH ANN METZGER
I. PURPOSE:
To meet and have a photo taken with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Beck
and Charlton Heston prior to signing the Executive Order on
Beck in the Rose Garden. To show your personal support for
the implementation of this landmark decision.
II. BACKGROUND:
Harry Beck was the plaintiff in the Supreme Court decision
in Beck V. Communications Workers of America (1988).
Charlton Heston has been a member of four different labor
organizations, including being former president of the
Screen Actors Guild. He has been outspoken on his support
for the implementation of this Supreme Court decision.
In 1988, the Supreme Court in Beck held that a union may
not, over the objection of a non-member employee, expend
dues or fees collected from that employee for activities
unrelated to collective bargaining, contract administration
or grievance adjustment. In particular, a union may not
spend an employee's fees to fund political candidates or
causes if the employee objects.
Unfortunately, many employees are still unaware of the
rights they have under the Beck decision -- rights which if
exercised, could permit workers to reduce their mandatory
payments by as much as several hundred dollars each year.
By signing the Executive Order, you are acting to protect
the fundamental rights of Americans against political abuse
by special interest groups.
III. PARTICIPANTS:
The President
The Vice President
Secretary Lynn Martin
Mr. Harry Beck
Mrs. Karin Beck
Charlton Heston
IV. PRESS PLAN:
White House photographer
V. SEQUENCE OF EVENTS:
-
You, the Vice President and Secretary Martin welcome
Mr. and Mrs. Beck and Charlton Heston in the Oval
Office and have photo taken.
-
Mr. and Mrs. Beck and Charlton Heston depart Oval
Office and are escorted to the Rose Garden.
-
You, the Vice President and Secretary Martin depart
Oval Office and proceed to Rose Garden.
VI. REMARKS:
No remarks required.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 11, 1992
SIGNING CEREMONY FOR BECK EXECUTIVE ORDER
DATE:
April 13, 1992
LOCATION:
The Rose Garden
TIME:
11:00 A.M.
THROUGH:
SHERRIE ROLLINS
SSR
FROM:
CECE KREMER Cece
LEIGH ANN METZGER
fam
I. PURPOSE:
To sign the Beck Executive Order, which will ensure that
employees of Federal contractors are made aware of their
rights under the Supreme Court's Beck decision.
II. BACKGROUND:
In Beck, the Supreme Court held that a union may not, if a
non-member employee objects, use fees collected from an
unwilling employee on activities unrelated to collective
bargaining, contract administration or grievance adjustment.
In particular, a union may not spend an employee's fees to
fund political candidates or causes if the employee- objects.
Unfortunately, many employees are still unaware of the
rights they have under the Beck decision -- rights which if
exercised, could permit workers to reduce their mandatory
payments by as much as several hundred dollars each year.
Moreover, some employees who have objected to the use of
their dues for purposes unrelated to collective bargaining
purposes have been hindered or frustrated in exercising
their Beck rights. By signing this Executive Order, you are
acting to protect the fundamental rights of American workers
against political abuse by special interest groups.
Before the Rose Garden ceremony, you, the Vice President and
Secretary Martin will meet with Harry and Karin Beck and
Charlton Heston in the Oval Office.
III. PARTICIPANTS:
In Oval Office:
The President
The Vice President
Secretary Martin
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Beck
Mr. Charlton Heston
On Dais in Rose Garden:
The President
The Vice President
Secretary Martin
Harry Beck
In Audience:
Approximately 200 guests including:
The Attorney General
Members of Congress and Congressional staff
Charlton Heston
National Labor Relations Board
(all four Members and General Counsel)
Agency staff
Various elected officials
IV. PRESS PLAN:
Oval: White House photographer
Rose Garden: Open Press
V. SEQUENCE OF EVENTS:
-
You, the Vice President and Secretary Martin proceed to
the platform in the Rose Garden.
-
You welcome guests and deliver brief remarks.
-
You sign the Executive Order and hand pens to Harry
Beck and Secretary Martin.
-
You depart Rose Garden.
VI. REMARKS:
To be provided by speechwriters.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 11, 1992
PRE-BRIEF FOR MEETING WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY
DATE:
April 13, 1992
TIME:
11:30 a.m.
LOCATION:
Oval Office
THROUGH:
SHERRIE ROLLINS
SSR
FROM:
CECE KREMER Cell
LEIGH ANN METZGER
Exam
I. PURPOSE:
To brief you on issues of concern to the law enforcement
community before you meet with this constituency.
II. BACKGROUND:
You will meet with approximately 25 representatives of the
law enforcement community at 1:00 p.m. on April 13th. The
purpose of this meeting is to strengthen ties to this
important constituency, to discuss current enforcement
issues, and to encourage support for the Thurmond-Gramm
crime bill. As President, you have not yet met with law
enforcement as a group.
Of particular concern to these law enforcement leaders is
your position on the crime bill. Most have gone on record
in support of the conference report, and would like the
Administration to compromise on several key differences,
including habeas corpus, the exclusionary rule, and a
handgun waiting period.
Questions may be asked of you concerning a proposed police
officers' bill of rights, your drug strategy, asset
forfeiture, the Rodney King incident, Weed and Seed,
implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and
other areas. The Attorney General will not attend this pre-
brief.
III. PARTICIPANTS:
The President
Sherrie Rollins, Assistant to the President for Public
Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs
Leigh Ann Metzger, Deputy Assistant to the President for
Public Liaison
IV. PRESS PLAN:
Closed.
V.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS:
-- Sherrie Rollins and Leigh Ann Metzger enter the Oval
Office to brief you on the roundtable with law
enforcement leaders.
-- Participants depart.
VI. REMARKS:
None required.
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THE BRIEFING PAPER FOR YOUR LUNCH WITH
ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR, SECRETARY KEMP
AND DIRECTOR MARTINEZ WILL BE FORWARDED
ON MONDAY MORNING.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 10, 1992
MEETING WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY
DATE:
April 13, 1992
TIME:
1:00 p.m.
LOCATION:
Roosevelt Room
THROUGH:
SHERRIE ROLLINS
SR
FROM:
CECE KREMER Cleenam
LEIGH ANN METZGER
I. PURPOSE:
To urge support from the law enforcement community for an
acceptable crime bill. To renew your ties with the
leadership of this important constituency.
II. BACKGROUND:
Your participation in annual law enforcement events,
increased funding for crime and drug control programs, and
your tough stance on crime issues has earned you the respect
and loyalty of the law enforcement community. However, this
constituency has not yet met with you collectively, and
important leaders have lately wandered away from the
Administration on key issues.
Of particular concern has been law enforcement's lack of
support for your crime bill. Although Attorney General Barr
has personally met with most major law enforcement groups to
ask for their support, Congressional leaders have also
mounted intense pressure on behalf of the conference report.
Senator Joe Biden, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, has been particularly active, personally lobbying
leaders and promising spending increases on police training,
education and other areas. This week he telephoned leaders
again to confirm their support.
Rank and file police organizations, including the Fraternal
Order of Police, are solidly behind the conference report.
The National District Attorneys Association and the National
Troopers Coalition have supported your crime bill, with the
International Association of Chiefs of Police undecided.
Outside of this issue, however, law enforcement remains a
supportive group, endorsing Supreme Court and federal judge
nominations, supporting past versions of your crime bill,
and working closely with the Department of Justice on anti-
crime initiatives. All are personally supportive of you.
The Attorney General will remain after you depart to urge
support for the Thurmond bill, which contains acceptable
provisions on habeas corpus, the death penalty and other
areas that the Administration objects to in the conference
report.
III. PARTICIPANTS:
The President
Attorney General Barr
Director Bob Martinez, Office of National Drug Control
Policy
Invited Guests
Sheriff Frank Policaro, President, National Sheriff's
Association
Bud Meeks, Executive Director, National Sheriff's
Association
Dewey Stokes, President, Fraternal Order of Police
Thomas Charron, President, National District Attorneys
Association
Newman Flanagan, Executive Director, National District
Attorneys Association
Chief Patrick Fitzsimons, President, Major Cities Chiefs
Association
Chief Cornelius Behan, Baltimore County Police Department,
and Legislative Representative, Major Cities Chiefs
Association
Roland Vaughn, President, International Association of
Chiefs of Police
Dan Rosenblatt, Executive Director, International
Association of Chiefs of Police
Robert Scully, President, National Association of Police
Organizations
Hubert Williams, President, Police Foundation
Leslie Seymour, Chairman, National Black Police Association
John J. Bellizzi, President, International Narcotic
Enforcement Officers Association
Chief Willie Williams, Philadelphia Police Department, and
President, National Organization of Black Law Enforcement
Executives
Gayle Buckner, President, International Association of Women
Police
Victor O'Boyski, President, Federal Law Enforcement Officers
Association
Richard Weinblatt, President, Center for Reserve Law
Enforcement
Don Baldwin, Executive Director, National Law Enforcement
Council
Darrel Stephens, Executive Director, Police Executive
Research Forum
Johnny Hughes, Legislative Liaison, National Troopers
Coalition
Jim Doyle, Legislative Director, National Troopers Coalition
Ken Lyons, President, International Brotherhood of Police
Associations
Ernie Alexander, President, Federal Investigators
Association
IV. PRESS PLAN:
Photo Pool Only. White House Photographer
V.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS:
-- You enter the Roosevelt Room with the Attorney General
and Director Martinez.
-- You greet participants, sit down at table, and deliver
brief talking points.
-- You answer several questions before departing.
-- The Attorney General and Director Martinez remain, with
the Attorney General delivering brief comments and
fielding questions.
Talking points to be provided by OPL on Monday morning.
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Bob
Martinez
Ernie
Newman Flanagan
Alexander
District Attorneys
Fed. Investigators
John
Ken
Bellizi
Lyons
Narcotics Officers
Int'l Brotherhood of Police
Robert
Chief Willie
Scully
Williams
Greg Fitch
Nat'l Assoc. of Police
Black Police Exec.
Darrel
Organizations
Leigh Ann Metzger
Stephens
Sherrie Rollins
Dewey
PERF
Johnny Hughes
Stokes
Richard Weinblatt Frat. Order of Police
Reserve Officers
Hubert Williams
Roosevelt Room
Nat'l Troopers
Howard Hay (DOJ)
Paul McNulty (DOJ)
Tom
The President
Police Found.
Charron
Jim Doyle
District Attorneys
Nat'l Troopers
Sheriff
Roland Vaughn
Policaro
Chief's of Police
Victor
Nat'l Sheriffs
O'Boyski
Fed. Law Enforcement
Don
Gayle
Baldwin
Buckner
Law Enforcement Council
Int'l Assoc. of Women
Police
Chief
Bud Meeks
Patrick
Nat'l Sheriffs
Fitzsimons
Major Cities Chiefs Assoc.
DOOR
Dan
Don
Rosenblatt
Attorney
Cahill
Chiefs of
General
Fraternal Order
Police
of Police
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 13, 1992
LUNCH WITH BARR, KEMP, AND MARTINEZ
DATE:
April 13, 1992
LOCATION:
The Oval Office
TIME:
12:00 p.m.
FROM:
EDE HOLIDAY
I. PURPOSE
To have lunch with Attorney General Barr, Secretary Kemp,
and Director Martinez.
II. BACKGROUND
At your request, we have invited small groups of Cabinet
members to meet with you over lunch.
Attorney General Barr will undoubtedly want to provide you
with any additional details he has on the successful
prosecution of General Noriega. Sam Skinner has raised the
possibility of scheduling an event with the prosecutors
involved in the case.
Secretary Kemp continues to put in the greatest amount of
time for surrogate campaign travel: on Tuesday he will
travel to Boston and Providence for fundraisers.
Director Martinez will be able to tell you how happy Digger
Phelps is in his new position at the drug policy office.
You may also wish to ask him about the situation in Peru,
which he has been following closely.
III. PARTICIPANTS
The President
Attorney General Barr
Secretary Kemp
Director Martinez
Sam Skinner
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IV. PRESS PLAN
White House photographer only.
V. SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
-- Your guests will arrive for lunch.
-- Following your lunch, Barr and Martinez will join you in
the Roosevelt Room for your 1:00 p.m. meeting with law
enforcement groups.
VI. REMARKS
None required.
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BUSH
The Democrats on the Issues
TAXES
Supports maintaining the 1990 budget
Clinton
agreement to keep control of Federal
Brown
TAXES
spending. Supports reducing the capital
Cut income taxes of most Americans
gains tax rate to create jobs. Supports
Replace the Federal Income, Social
percent and offset the code
making the Research and Experimentation
Security, Medicare and gasoline taxes
tax credit permanent.
with a flat, 13 percent tax on income, allowing
higher taxes on those with incomes above
deductions only for mortgage interest, rent and
Replace the current $2,100.00 Headent
charitable contributions, Impose a 13 percent
tremption with à tax credit of $800 child
Cut capital gains tax for investments held at
HEALTH
value-added tax, similar to a national sales tax
Give businesses tax breaks for hiring workers
least tive years in new businesses. Give
investment tax credits to small and medium-
Proposed a health care reform program,
from poor neighborhoods and for invosting tri
equipment and research.
alted businesses. Prohibit businesses from
based on making health care more
writing off the cost of excessive salaries and
accessible by making insurance more
affordable, reducing the costs of health
bocuses for executives.
care by making the system more effi-
HEALTH
cient, cutting waste in the present
Install a national health
Require employers to provide
system, and getting the growth in
Insurance system, similar to the one
private insurance coverage for
government programs under control.
In Canada, operating on a fixed national
workers or pay an additional taxicolo at
Opposes national health care system.
budget, in which patients choose their doctors
ohile fund to cover the uninsured Remblish a
fees are set by the states and private infiratice
Government board to regulate medicaliture
companies are bypassed. Vague about
$
Vague about how the system AM be
TRADE
new system would be financed Would stoport
(dianced, Would support more AIDS
more AIDS research.
Proposed a North American Free Trade
Agreement to establish the world's
TRADE
largest market with 360 million
Opposes giving the
Favors the Mexican free-
consumers and $6 trillion in output.
President authority to negotiate a
trade agreement but would require
Supports conclusion of the Uruguay Round
free-trade agreement with Mexico.
stricter environmental and labor
and continued work to expand markets for
Supports a variety of measures designed to
standards in Mexico. Says he is basicilly R
U.S. products. Supports free, tair, and
limit Imports Into the United States.
free trader but supports retaliation If Japan
open trade.
keeps out American products.
MILITARY
Cut the military budget in
SPENDING
Cut the military budget by
MILITARY SPENDING
half over the next five years.
the third over the next tive years
Planned cuts will have reduced defense
Remove all troops from Europe.
Step production of the B-2 bomber and the
Otherwise not specific about how this deso
State Wara missile defense system But continue
spending by 30% in real terms by 1997.
reduction would be achieved
production, at least for the time Botring of the
Supports cuts where necessary, but
Wolf nuclear submarine
opposes reckless cuts. Supports
maintaining U.S. military presence in
Europe and Asia.
CLINTON
BUSH
BROWN
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
FOREIGN
Mostly avoids foreign policy
AFFAIRS
Argues that the United States
strongly believes America must remain
matters, which he says draw
Amust be engaged in foreign affairs to
engaged in world affairs, since the end
attention away from critical problems at
remain a world leader. Says he supported
of the Cold War leaves the U.S. as the
home. At times voices support for ald to Israel
President Bush's intervention in Iraq but
world's only superpower. Strongly
and Russia but at other time says the country
criticizes the President for grasping relations
supports NATO. Proposed aid to the
cannot afford foreign assistance while
with Japan, for being slow to respond to events
Commonwealth of Independent States.
Americans have needs. Says he would have
in Russia and for not imposing trade sanctions
Supports the Middle East peace process
walted longer before taking offensive action
on China Opposes Israell settlements th the
and continued pressure on Iraq to comply
against Iraq.
West Bank but says that they should not stop
with UN Security Council resolutions.
immigration aid to Israel.
CITIES
CITIES
Give citles roughly $30
Give federally-owned
billion In new annual grants and loans
housing. including that on closed
and tenant
for public works, transportation projects,
military bases, to community groups to
ownership of public housing. Estab-
public safety, job training and other programs.
house the homeless. Encourage resident
lished the Commission on America's Urban
Establish zones in poor neighborhoods where
ownership of low-income housing. Give citles
Families. Funding for drug treatment.
businesses could get tax breaks.
matching grants for crime-control projects.
programs and anti-drug activities to
ENERGY AND
local government have increased.
Cut energy consumption in
ENVIRONMENT
Reduce energy consumption
Supports strong anti-crime legislation.
half over the next 10 years. Phase out
by at least one-quarter. Through new
Proposed new "Weed and Seed" program to
all nuclear power plants and emphasize
regulations, encourage utilities to invest in
help reclaim embattled neighborhoods
energy sources like solar and wind power. Stop
from crime. Increased funding for Head
new offshore oil drilling. Increase protection of
plants unless a safe way can be found to
Start and infant health programs.
wetlands. Require public utilities to spend
dispose of the waste. Emphasize natural gas
more than $600 billion over the next 15 years
over oil and promote solar and wind power:
for conservation. Otherwise vague about
Opposes oll drilling In the Arctic refuge. Might
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
achieving conservation and financing
support a small Increase in Federal gasoline
alternative energy.
tax.
Proposed the National Energy Strategy,
which will encourage greater energy
:
EDUCATION AND
security and promote energy efficiency
Increase Federal education
TRAINING
Double Federal spending on
and conservation. Worked for passage of
spending. Replace tultion loans with
education, aiming at Inner cities and
the Clean Air Act. Supports
scholarships and work-study grants.
rural areas. Let college students pay off
conservation and believes environmental
Establish a civilian conservation corps where
tultion loans service. Create apprenticeship
and economic goals are compatible.
young people can develop skills.
program for high-school students not bound for
college and adult-education programs for those
without high school diplomas.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Convened an Education Summit with the
Governors and produced the six National
Education Goals. Proposed AMERICA 2000,
a concerted strategy to revolutionize
American education. Supports parental
choice of schools. Proposed Job
Training 2000, a comprehensive reform of
Federal job training programs.
BUSH
CM NTON
BROWN
WELFARE
WELFARE
Provide training and child-care
incourage businesses 10 hire
but in most instances require an adult,
poor people and supplement their
Supports welfare reform; welfare "was
salaries with a welfare check, Medicaid and
after two years on welfare, to take a private
never meant to be a lifestyle."
food stamps. Withdraw those benefits at a rate
or public service job or lose benefits. In some
Administration will seriously consider
of 20 percent a year for five years. Vague
cases, allow people to stay on welfare more
all reasonable State proposals for
about what he would provide poor people
than two years If they were making progress in
Medicaid waivers. Supports State
education programs. Vague about what he
efforts such as Wisconsin's Learnfare.
without jobs.
would provide for children If their parents
refused to work
ABORTION
ABORTION
Supports freedom of choice
Supports freedom of choice for
women. Would not press for law
Supports abortion only in cases where
for women and Medicaid financing of
allowing Medicaid financing of abortions
necessary to save the life of the
abortions for poor women and opposes
Supports
laws requiring parents to be notified before
but would sign such a law If Congress passed "
Signed a law in Arkansas requiring a girl
Federal funding for abortion only when
their daughters can have abortions.
under 18 to notify her parents or a judge before
the life of the mother is threatened.
she could have an abortion.
Opposes the "Freedom of Choice Act."
GUN
avois registration of all guns
CONTROL
Favors legislation now before
GUN CONTROL
and a ban on assault-type weapons. As
Congress for a five- or seven-day
waiting period before a firearm purchase. As
Would accept a 5-day waiting period for
Gover nor, supported and signed a
California law requiring a 15-day waiting
Governor, signed a bill supported by the
handgun purchases if part of a
period before a firearm could be purchased.
National Rifle Association making harassment
comprehensive crime bill that includes
of hunters a crime, but vetoed a measure also
key provisions of the President's crime
backed by the N.R.A. that would have
package. The Department of Justice is
prevented local governments from regulating
continuing its efforts to develop a
guns.
system to identify at the point of sale
felons who attempt to purchase firearms.
CAPITAL
Opposes In all cases.
PUNISHMENT
Favors the death penalty.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
DAVID E. ROSENBAUM
Supports imposition of a Federal death
penalty for the most heinous crimes with
procedures to ensure its fair and
colorblind application, as proposed in
the Administration's "Comprehensive
Violent Crime Control Act."
CAMP DAVID
April 5, 1992
To: Phil Brady
attached
Re: NYT Story Democrats on the Issues 4-5-92
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the same number of words as in this NYT article. Enter them under
same headings-in an ew column next to Democrats.
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
Carla A. Hills
SUBJECT
North American Free Trade Negotiations:
Update from Montreal Ministerial
I have just concluded three days of North Ame:
Free
Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) talks with my Mexican and Canadian
counterparts, Jaime Serra and Michael Wilson The talks were
tough -- nd very disappointing. Although Serra privately
assured me that he was ready and Billing to deal, he offered no
substantive improvement in any of the negotiating areas, despite
long hours at the negotiating table and the presence in Montreal
of our respective experts on each agenda item. My sense is that
the deal now on the table is still significantly short of what we
will need to successfully conclude the negotiation and obtain
legislative approval.
As for next steps, negotiating groups will continue to meet and
the Chief Negotiators will reconvene again before the end of the
month. I will be seeing Michael Wilson in Tokyo April 24-25 at
the Quadrilateral trade talks (U.S., Canada, EC, and Japan), and
Wilson, Serra and I have agreed to hold a NAFTA conference call
during the week of April 27.
I am preparing a report that summarizes the pluses and minuses of
the deal that is now on the table, or appears likely to be
offered, in the major negotiating areas. This report will be
ready next week.
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FROM:
NICHOLAS E. CALIO NEC
SUBJECT:
Weekly Legislative Report
THE WEEK OF APRIL 6 - APRIL 10
HOUSE AND SENATE FLOORS
HOUSE
On Wednesday the House agreed to the conference report on H.R.
3337, the White House Commemorative Coin bill, by a vote of 414
to 0. In addition to the White House Commemorative Coin, this
legislation includes the Christopher Columbus, the World Cup
Soccer, and the James Madison commemorative coins and a medal
honoring the veterans of Desert Storm.
On Thursday the House agreed to the conference report on S. 3,
the Democratic Leadership's campaign reform proposal, by a vote
of 259 to 165. Your senior advisors recommend a veto. The bill
calls for establishment of spending limits, which favor
incumbents and which Counsel's office believes are
unconstitutional. The bill would also provide for a scheme of
benefits to candidates that would inevitably be funded by
taxpayers. In addition, the bill's limitations on PACs are far
short of those you have proposed. 145 Republicans and 20
Democrats voted against the conference report, enough votes to
sustain a veto even without the help of any Democrats.
On Thursday night the House passed H.R. 2967, the Older Americans
Act, by a vote of 340-68. The House added an amendment that
raises the cap on earnings for Social Security recipients from
the current $10,200 to $20,000, phased in over 5 years. This
amendment, crafted by Chairman Dan Rostenkowski (D-IL) and
Representative Dennis Hastert (R-IL) is a compromise version of
the so-called McCain Amendment added by the Senate that lifts the
earnings cap completely. The bill now goes back to the Senate
where the outlook is unclear because the House amendment also
includes an expansion of benefits to widows that costs over $3
-2-
billion over 5 years and is subject to a 60-vote budgetary point
of order.
Finally, in a party-line vote, the House adopted a Democratic
version of an internal House administrative reform proposal. The
House rejected a substitute offered by Republican Leader Bob
Michel (R-IL) that would have created a professional House
administrator and an inspector general and cut committee staff by
50%. Debate was partisan and harsh, as Republicans reacted
angrily to Democrats' having basically ignored the GOP's reform
ideas.
The debate on administrative reform reflected a continuation of
the sour mood on the House floor. Representative Vin Weber's (R-
MN) retirement announcement also reflected the frustration that
we are hearing from many Members. Weber told us that he is tired
of working on important substantive issues like welfare reform
and foreign aid, and then going back to his district to find his
constituents interested only in how many checks he bounced or how
many times he's been to Camp Hoover.
SENATE
On Tuesday the Senate, by a vote of 87 to 11, passed H. Con. Res.
292, which expresses support for U.S. involvement in the upcoming
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio
de Janeiro. A provision was added urging you to avoid signing
any global environmental treaties that would hurt U.S. industry.
On Wednesday the Senate confirmed Wayne Budd to be the Assistant
Attorney General for Civil Rights.
Early Friday evening, by a vote of 54 to 35, the Senate' passed S.
Con. Res. 106, the $1.5 trillion budget resolution. The measure
calls for reduction of $5 billion in defense spending next year,
resembling your request. The bill would also freeze domestic
spending at enacted FY92 levels and reduce foreign aid spending
by $800 million below the 1993 cap level. During consideration
of the bill, the Senate took the following action:
-- Passed an amendment by Senators Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX)
and Phil Gramm (R-TX) restoring the Social Security
firewall, by a vote of 94 to 3.
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-- Passed, by voice vote, a Sense of the Senate Resolution
by Senator John Danforth (R-MO), which expresses
opposition to U.S. acquiescence in some subsidies in
the tentative Airbus agreement.
-- In an important vote, defeated an amendment by Senator
James Exon (D-NE) which would have cut $7.6 billion in
budget authority and $2.2 billion in outlays below the
committee mark, by a vote of 45 to 50.
-- Defeated, by a 36 to 62 vote, an amendment by Senator
Bill Bradley (D-NJ), which would have reduced defense
spending and split the savings between domestic
discretionary spending and deficit reduction.
HOUSE AND SENATE COMMITTEES
HOUSE
On Wednesday HUD Secretary Jack Kemp testified before the House
Appropriations Subcommittee on VA/HUD. Chairman Bob Traxler (D-
MI) asked whether Kemp had any input into the HUD rescissions or
if they were decided by OMB.
On Wednesday the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on
Telecommunications and Finance reported out a highly reregulatory
cable bill by vote of 17 to 7. We lost three Republicans
(Representatives Matthew Rinaldo (R-NJ), Carlos Moorhead (R-CA)
and Michael Bilirakis (R-FL)) Prior to reporting the bill, the
subcommittee defeated a substitute offered by Representative
Norman Lent (R-NY) by a vote of 12 to 14, with Representative Joe
Barton (R-TX) voting present. The Secretary of Commerce and
Attorney General sent a joint letter to Subcommittee Chairman Ed
Markey (D-MA), stating the Administration's objections to the
legislation including the reregulatory and access to programming
provisions contained in the bill. In its current form, the
Secretary of Commerce and the Attorney General indicated that
they would recommend a veto.
On Wednesday the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
and the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries met to
consider their versions of legislation slated for ultimate
inclusion in H.R. 776, the Comprehensive National Energy Policy
Act. The Committees added provisions such as OCS leasing
moratoria and objectionable nuclear licensing provisions that,
among others, have generated veto threats from the Secretary of
Energy and the Secretary of Interior.
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On Thursday the House Post Office Subcommittee on Human Resources
held further hearings on White House expenses. Testifying before
the subcommittee were Ron Rasmussen, director of the financial
management division and Phillip Larsen, director of the personnel
management division of the White House Office of Administration.
As announced, the questions asked by Subcommittee Chairman Paul
Kanjorski (D-PA) dealt with the Administration's policies on
personnel expenses and the use of detailees. Although there was
considerable fighting back and forth between Subcommittee
Democrats and Republicans over their respective travel records
and the purpose of the hearings, both sides complimented the
Administration witnesses for thoroughness and professionalism.
Future hearings will focus on White House operating expenses and
travel.
On Thursday the House Science and Technology Committee gave voice
vote approval to legislation reauthorizing NASA. The bill
provides NASA with $15.3 billion in FY 1993, slightly higher than
your request. The bill contained a provision requiring Senate
confirmation of the National Space Council's executive secretary;
in the face of a senior advisors' veto threat over this
confirmation provision, the Committee dropped the provision.
SENATE
On Tuesday the Senate Labor and Human Resources Subcommittee on
Labor held a hearing on S. 2311, legislation to discourage
American employers from eliminating American jobs by relocating
S.-based operations to a foreign country.
On Wednesday the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a
hearing on the nomination of Roman Popadiuk to be Ambassador to
the Ukraine and Sigmund Rogich to be Ambassador to Iceland.
On Wednesday the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
Committee approved the Federal Housing Enterprises Regulatory
Reform Act of 1992, by voice vote. This legislation would
require the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie May)
and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) to
set aside more money to protect against losses and report
annually to Congress on their financial condition.
On Wednesday the Senate Judiciary Committee began consideration
of S. 1521, legislation that would allow the victims of sex
crimes to sue in federal court the producers and distributors of
hard-core pornography. Six members of the committee have
sponsored the bill including ranking member Senator Strom
Thurmond (R-SC). Senators Hank Brown (R-CO) and Howard
Metzenbaum (D-OH) expressed reservations about the measure saying
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that the bill would lead to censorship. The markup will
continue after the Senate returns from spring recess. The
committee also approved S. 2201, legislation to encourage
immigration of Soviet scientists, by voice vote. This
legislation would enable scientists to enter the United States
before obtaining employment, reversing a rule requiring them to
have a job before getting their visas.
On Wednesday Office of Management and Budget Director Richard G.
Darman testified before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on
Treasury, Postal Service and General Government on perks and
benefits given to federal workers. Richard Darman promised to
end any undue perks but rejected suggestions from Chairman Dennis
DeConcini (D-AZ) that changes in travel rules should apply to
your use of Air Force One. He stated that as Commander-in-
Chief, you must travel on Air Force One and to require you to
repay the total costs of political trips would put you at an
unfair financial disadvantage.
On Wednesday the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Manpower
and Personnel held a hearing on the Pentagon's plan to cut
reserve and National Guard troops by 21 percent over five years.
Fifty Senators have signed a letter of opposition to the
Pentagon's planned cut.
On Thursday the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on strategic
Forces and Nuclear Deterrence held a hearing on the allocation of
FY92 funds for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) and the
FY93 budget request for SDI.
On Thursday Secretary of State James Baker testified before the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee on U.S. assistance to the
former Soviet Union.
On Thursday the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation
Committee continued hearings on global climate change, focusing
on global warming and the biosphere.
On Friday the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health for Families
and the Uninsured held a hearing on S. 2077, the Medicaid Managed
Care Improvement Act of 1991.
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THE WEEK OF APRIL 13 - APRIL 17
HOUSE AND SENATE FLOORS
HOUSE
The House will be in recess until Tuesday, April 28, with no
votes expected until April 29.
SENATE
The Senate will be in recess until Tuesday, April 28.
HOUSE AND SENATE COMMITTEES
No committee meetings are scheduled for the coming week.
CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENCE
Attached is a summary of selected Congressional mail for the week
of April 3 - April 9.
Presidential Log of Selected Congressional Mail
Weeks of April 3, 1992 - April 9, 1992
Member
Subject
Comments
Sen. Jesse Helms
Express concern over "two unclassified reports
(R-NC)
to Congress that the former Soviet Union did
Also signed by Senators
not declare, and then secretly retained, covert
Pressler, Smith, Wallop,
missile forces after they signed the
Symms, and Craig
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
#320200
on December 8, 1987." Encloses an article
from The Washington Times reporting that a
Ukrainian Defense Ministry official offered to
sell a previously declared destroyed SS-20 to an
American businessman. Includes 6 questions
on this situation for your review.
Rep. Matthew Rinaldo
Believes it would be a mistake for the United
(R-NJ)
Nations Conference on Environment and
#320192
Development to overlook the threat posed by
the Soviet-designed nuclear power plants
operating in Eastern Europe, in the old Soviet
republics and (those) that will soon be
operating in Cuba within 180 miles of the east
coast of the United States. Urges you "to
make the safety of these reactors a major
priority of the United States at the United
Nations conference in Rio."
Sen. Richard Lugar
Suggests that you "give consideration to
(R-IN)
convening a White House Conference on the
#320288
issue of American private sector involvement in
the CIS assistance effort." Believes interest on
the part of the private sector exists; but is
looking to you for leadership in pointing the
way.
Rep. Robert Torricelli
Believes President Fujimori's recent actions to
(D-NJ)
suspend the Peruvian constitution, dissolve the
#320871
Congress, and disband the judiciary were
unconstitutional and represent a significant blow
to democracy in Peru. Request that you
"suspend deliveries of all nonhumanitarian aid
to Peru, consider recalling your Ambassador to
that country, and seek a delay in the approval
of any loans to the Peruvian government by the
Inter-American Development Bank."
Darly
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1 PRESIDENTS PRESS BRIEFING OF
Phili SPEECH OF 4/3/92
2 PLEASE SUPPORT FAMILY/MEDICAL
LEAVE BILL
3 POTUS SHOULD ATTEND EARTH
SUMMIT MEETING IN BRAZIL
4
FETAL TISSUE RESEARCH
DAILY TALLY SHEET
NAME
STATION
#
Summary
DAY - MTWTF
DATE- 4 / 6 / 92
1,453
SECTION 1 - INDIVIDUAL
TOTALS
Expression of Feeling
23
Toward the President
-
48
Expression of Feeling
7
Toward the First Lady
0
Greeting Requests
91
Referrals (Gov't/WH Offices)
21
Personal and Nonsubstantive
51
Questions
48
Miscellaneous Issues
246
SECTION 2- - ISSUES
POSITIVE
NEGATIVE
TOTALS
1 PRESIDENTS PRESS BRIEFING OF
Phili
SPEECH OF
4/3/92
6
-0
6
2
PLEASE SUPPORT FAMILY/MEDICAL
LEAVE BILL
214
2
216
3 POTUS SHOULD ATTEND EARTH
SUMMIT MEETING IN BRAZIL
138
7
145
4
FETAL TISSUE RESEARCH
52
90
142
5 PRO LIFE (POSITIVE COLUMN)
PRO CHOICE (NEGATIVE COLUMN)
55
79
134
6
RECOGNIZE CROATIA SLOVENIA/
BOSNIA/HERCEGOVINA/MACEDONIA
58
0
58
7
SIGN CAMPAIGN FINANCE
REFORM ACT
43
0
43
(OVER)
COMMENTS FOR MONDAY, APRIL 6TH, 1992 9:00 A.M.-5:00 - P.M.
I AM STANDING BY POTUS 100% - THE NEW YORK DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN IS
THE PROLOGUE TO THE CIRCUS (WHICH COMES IN NEXT WEEK.) OUR
PRESIDENT IS A LEADER AND WE HAVE GOT TO HAVE HIM ANOTHER 4
YEARS. HE'S ONE OF THE FINEST PRESIDENTS WE HAVE HAD.
CALLER WANTS POTUS TO KNOW THAT HIS POSITION ON ABORTION IS VERY
POSITION. IMPORTANT TO THEIR FAMILY AND WANT TO THANK HIM FOR HIS PRO LIFE
CALLER FROM BREMEN, GERMANY WISHES POTUS A SUCCESSFUL ELECTION.
CALLER IS UPSET AFTER SEEING "60 MINUTES" ABOUT ILLEGAL SEARCHING
BY THE POLICE AND DRUG OFFICIALS JUST BECAUSE THEY HAVE LARGE
SUMS OF MONEY ETC. THE CALLER FEELS THIS IS AGAINST OUR RIGHTS.
WAIT UNTIL THEY BUY THE DRUGS, THEN ARREST AND SEARCH.
CALLER ASKS FOR INVESTIGATION OF FHA BACKED SENIOR CITIZEN
HOUSING. SENIORS ARE AT THE MERCY OF THEIR LAND LORDS - PROPERTY
IS NOT KEPT UP AND IN DESPERATE NEED OF REPAIR. IT IS A TERRIBLE
WASTE OF FEDERAL FUNDS.
CALLER URGES POTUS TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE ATTITUDE OF BUSINESS AND
LABOR WHERE BOTH LABOR AND BUSINESS SHARE THE BLAME FOR WHAT IS
GOING ON HERE. ASK POTUS TO SPEAK OUT FOR FAIRNESS.
POTUS SAID HE WAS PRO FAMILY BUT HE VETOED THE FAMILY LEAVE BILL.
IF HE IS PRO FAMILY, HE MUST SIGN IT.
PAPER WORK WILL COST MILLIONS TO CHANGE W-2 FORMS. PEOPLE DO NOT
WANT A FEW MORE DOLLARS EACH PAY CHECK AND THEN OWE MONEY ON
APRIL 15TH. WHY DID POTUS DO THIS - AND WHY DOES HE CHANGE HIS
MIND S0 OFTEN?
RE: SECRETARY BAKER - IT IS RIDICULOUS FOR HIM TO FLY
COMMERCIAL. WE WILL LOSE COMPETENT PEOPLE IF THIS TREND
CONTINUES. HE IS DOING A MAGNIFICENT JOB.
IT LOOKS LIKE HOWDY-DOODY IS RUNNING POTUS' RE-ELECTION. NO ONE
IS CAMPAIGNING FOR HIM IN NEW YORK - LONG ISLAND. SOMEONE BETTER
GET HIS IDEAS OUT. HE'S GOT TO START PUTTING THE GLOVES ON, OR
HE WON'T WIN.
WHY DOESN'T POTUS COME OUT AND TELL US WHAT HE'S THINKING? HE
JUST DODGES AROUND THE ISSUES. WE NEED TO ATTACK PROBLEMS ONE AT
A TIME AND IF HE DOESN'T HAVE THE ANSWERS YET, HE SHOULD SAY SO.
SUNDAY WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE IN THE SPORTS SECTION RE TRIP THE
VICE PRESIDENT AND ENTOURAGE TOOK TO THE BASKETBALL (BUT DIDN'T
SEE IF CAUSE NO TICKETS AVAILABLE) - CALLER ASKS WHO PAID FOR
THIS TRIP?
Phil
DAILY TALLY SHEET
sg
NAME
STATION
#
DAY - MT WTF
Summary
100 8
PATES 417192
1428
SECTION 1 - INDIVIDUAL
TOTALS
Expression of Feeling
45
Toward the President
-
31
Expression of Feeling
2
Toward the First Lady
-
0
Greeting Requests
71
Referrals (Govt/WH Offices)
21
Personal and Nonsubstantive
80
Questions
67
Miscellaneous Issues
189
SECTION 2 - ISSUES
POSTITVE
NEGATIVE
TOTALS
1 PRESIDENTS PRESS BRIEFING OF
SPEECH OF
4/3/92
2
0
2
2 SUPPORT SALE OF F 15
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TO SAUDI ARABIA
372
0
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372
3 POTUS SHOULD ATTEND EARTH
SUMMIT MEETING IN BRAZIL
51
10
61
4
FETAL TISSUE RESEARCH
24
36
60
5 PRO LIFE (POSITIVE COLUMN)
PRO CHOICE (NEGATIVE COLUMN)
61
79
140
6
THANK YOU FOR RECOGNIZING
CROATIA, SLOVENIA, BOSNIA/
HERCEGOVINA
117
4
121
7
SIGN CAMPAIGN FINANCE
REFORM ACT
46
0
46
(OVER)
Phil,
DAILY TALLY SHEET
Ag
NAME
STATION
Summary
DAY-MT(WTF -
DATE- - 4 / 8 / 92
1,364
SECTION 1- INDIVIDUAL
TOTALS
Expression of Feeling
3
5
37
Toward the President
-
46
Expression of Feeling
2
Toward the First Lady
-
/
Greeting Requests
88
Referrals (Govt/WH Offices)
21
Personal and Nonsubstantive
70
Questions
38
Miscellaneous Issues
243
SECTION 2- ISSUES
POSITIVE
NEGATIVE
TOTALS
1 PRESIDENTS PRESS BRIEFING OF
SPEECH OF
2
SUPPORT SALE OF F 15
TO SAUDI ARABIA
299
/
300
3 POTUS SHOULD ATTEND EARTH
SUMMIT MEETING IN BRAZIL
62
30
92
4
FETAL TISSUE RESEARCH
32
37
69
5 PRO LIFE (POSITIVE COLUMN)
PRO CHOICE (NEGATIVE COLUMN)
25
19
4 4
6
THANK YOU FOR RECOGNIZING
CROATIA, SLOVENIA, BOSNIA/
HERCEGOVINA
64
16
80
7
SIGN CAMPAIGN FINANCE
REFORM ACT
55
-0
55
(OVER)
COMMENTS FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8TH, 1992 9:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M.
CONGRATULATIONS FOR LYNN MARTIN ASKING FOR EXTENSION OF THE
UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS. SAID "SHE IS A PEARL IN THE ROUGH AND
DON'T WORRY YOU'LL BE ELECTED."
WITH CONGRESS RUNNING THIS COUNTRY - NOW WONDER WE HAVE DEFICIT.
WE WILL THROW ALL THE BUMS OUT IN NOVEMBER.
WHEN WILL THE COUNTRY WAKE UP? ONLY 18% OF THE PEOPLE VOTED. WE
WILL ELECT A "LEADER" NOT BUSH, NOT CLINTON, NOT BROWN, NOT
AGRAN, BUT ROSS PEROT.
NO ENTITLEMENT INCREASES UNTIL THE BUDGET IS BALANCED.
IT S CRITICAL TO THE U.S. TO HANDLE THE SALE OF THE F15'S TO
SAUDI ARABIA. WE NEED THE JOBS THIS MARKET WILL GENERATE. IT
ALSO MEANS VOTES FOR PRESIDENT BUSH. (SOME CALLERS SAID
GEPHARDT'S OFFICE TOLD THEM TO CALL THE WHITE HOUSE RE THIS
SALE.)
FETAL TISSUE RESEARCH IS SO IMPORTANT TO SO MANY PEOPLE. PLEASE
DO NOT STOP THIS PROCESS.
DAILY TALLY SHEET
NAME
Summary
STATION
DAY - MTW T F
DATE- 4 / 9 / 92
1,081
SECTION -INDIVIDUAL
TOTALS
Expression of Feeling
Toward the President
37
-
Expression of Feeling
33
Toward the First Lady
9
Greeting Requests
2
Referrals (Govt/WH Offices)
48
Personal and Nonsubstantive
19
Questions
51
35
Miscellaneous Issues
203
SECTION 2. ISSUES
POSITIVE
NEGATIVE
TOTALS
1 PRESIDENTS PRESS BRIEFING OF
SPEECH OF
2 SUPPORT SALE OF F 15
TO SAUDI ARABIA
235
0
235
3 POTUS SHOULD ATTEND EARTH
SUMMIT MEETING IN BRAZIL
33
12
45
4
FETAL TISSUE RESEARCH
35
40
75
5 PRO LIFE (POSITIVE COLUMN)
PRO CHOICE (NEGATIVE COLUMN)
14
15
29
6
THANK YOU FOR RECOGNIZING
HERCEGOVINA CROATIA, SLOVENIA, BOSNIA/
32
/
33
7
SIGN CAMPAIGN FINANCE
REFORM ACT
31
2
33
(OVER)
COMMENTS FOR THURSDAY, APRIL 9TH, 1992 9:00 A.M.-5:00
P.M.
ANYONE THAT CAN GET ALL THOSE RADICAL FEMINISTS SO MAD AT HIM
LAST SUNDAY DESERVES CALLER'S VOTE.
SUPPORT HR1662/HR3642 - MAKE MEDICATION AVAILABLE FOR THOSE WITH
LIFE THREATENING DISEASES.
NO MONEY TO C.I.S. UNTIL ALL MIA'S/POW'S ARE ACCOUNTED FOR.
POTUS NEEDS A MORE FIRM AND DIRECT APPROACH - ISSUES NEED TO BE
ADDRESSED SPECIFICALLY - SOCIAL SECURITY, WORKMAN'S COMP.,
NATIONAL HEALTH CARE. HE NEEDS TO ADDRESS CURRENT ISSUES AND NOT
THE GULF WAR WHICH IS IN THE PAST.
SUPPORT S2248/HR4278 - SUPPORT AND SIGN AMERICAN VETERANS HEALTH
CARE REFORM ACT OF 1992. SPEED UP PROCESS OF GETTING VETERAN'S
CLAIMS PROCESSED - GET THEM CARE RIGHT AWAY. PUT THE PEACE
DIVIDEND TOWARD VETERANS PROGRAMS. THEY EARNED IT AND THEIR NEEDS
AND NUMBERS ARE INCREASING.
CALLER IS UPSET THAT POTUS APPOINTED WENDY LURES TO NEA AS SHE
SUPPORTS MAPLETHORPE AND THAT TYPE OF ART. CALLER QUOTED HER AS
SAYING "YOU WERE AN ELITIST IF YOU DIDN'T LIKE THAT KIND OF ART."
CALL FROM ZAGREB TO THANK POTUS FOR RECOGNITION OF CROATIA.
ANOTHER CALLER WANTS POTUS TO GET MORE INVOLVED IN MATTERS OF
CROATIA.
CALLER SUPPORTS ALTERNATIVE FUELS SOURCE - EPA AND POTUS ARE
DISCRIMINATING AGAINST FARMERS.
THOMAS JEFFERSON SAID DEMOCRACY WILL LAST AS LONG AT THE PUBLIC
DOESN'T DISCOVER THE TREASURY. ALSO, GOVERNMENT JOBS WERE NEVER
MEANT TO BE CAREER JOBS. ALL GOVERNMENT JOBS SHOULD HAVE A TERM
LIMIT. THIS WOULD BE THE BIGGEST BOON TO REDUCING THE BUDGET.
FEDERAL WORKERS ARE OVERPAID COMPARED TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR JOBS.
CUTTING THE RETIREMENT BENEFITS OF CONGRESSMEN WOULD HELP REDUCE
THE DEFICIT.
IS IT TRUE THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR GIVES LABOR UNIONS GRANTS
TO HELP CERTAIN CAUSES; I.E., THE AFL RECEIVED A GRANT FOR
SELECTED STAFFERS AND UNION MEMBERS TO GO TO POLAND TO SHOW
THEM/HELP THEM START/MANAGE UNIONS? I VIGOROUSLY OPPOSE TAX
DOLLARS BEING USED TO SUPPORT UNIONS. THEY ARE WEALTHY AND
SHOULD THIS ACTIVITY.
A NUMBER OF CALLERS HAVE ASKED POTUS TO FOLLOW FRANCE IN BANNING
NUCLEAR PRODUCTION AND TESTING.
DAILY TALLY SHEET
9:00-12:00
NAME
STATION #
DAY - MTWTF
Summary
12 APR 10
DATESH 4,10,92
450
SECTION 1 - INDIVIDUAL
TOTALS
Expression of Feeling
11
Toward the President
-
18
Expression of Feeling
2
Toward the First Lady
-
0
Greeting Requests
19
Referrals (Gov't/WH Offices)
13
Personal and Nonsubstantive
19
Questions
/
Miscellaneous Issues
97
SECTION 2- ISSUES
POSITIVE
NEGATIVE
TOTALS
1 PRESIDENTS PRESS BRIEFING OF
SPEECH OF
2 SALE OF F15 TO SAUDI ARABIA
130
/
131
3 POTUS SHOULD ATTEND EARTH
SUMMIT MEETING IN BRAZIL
17.
9
0
26
4
FETAL TISSUE RESEARCH
10
7
17
5 PRO LIFE (POSITIVE COLUMN)
PRO CHOICE (NEGATIVE COLUMN)
5
0
5
6
THANK YOU FOR RECOGNIZING
6
CROATIA, SLOVENIA, BOSNIA
D
6
HERCEGOVINA
7
SIGN CAMPAIGN FINANCE
REFORM ACT
15
0
15
(OVER)
COMMENTS FOR FRIDAY, APRIL 10TH, 1992
9:00
A.M.-
-
12:00
P.M.
THE WAY PRESIDENT BUSH AND SECRETARY BAKER HAVE STOOD FIRM THESE
PAST FEW MONTHS REAFFIRMS MY FAITH.
THE COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE USE OF AIRCRAFT BY THE PRESIDENT AND
VICE-PRESIDENT ARE RIDICULOUS. THEY SHOULD HAVE THESE PERKS.
CONGRESS IS PUSHING THIS BECAUSE THEY WANT TO DEFLECT BLAME FOR
THEIR OWN ACTIONS.
CALLER FROM NEW JERSEY SAID ENGLAND'S ELECTION RESULTS COINCIDE
WITH OURS - THEY WON AND YOU WILL TOO.
THE DEFICIT SHOULD BE ADDRESSED BY CONGRESS AND NOT WHO FLIES
WHERE AND ON WHAT.
A VERY DISTRAUGHT AND TEARFUL LADY CALLER FROM CALIFORNIA WAS UP
MOST OF THE NIGHT WAITING TO CALL THE WHITE HOUSE FIRST THING.
SHE HEARD ON THE NEWS IN CALIFORNIA LAST NIGHT THAT THE
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE WAS TAKING A CONTRACT FOR SONAR EQUIPMENT
AWAY FROM BENDIX CORPORATION AND GIVING IT TO THE FRENCH. THE
CALLER IS A REPUBLICAN AND VOTED FOR POTUS. SHE SAID THIS WILL
END POTUS IN CALIFORNIA AND THEIR AREA WILL BE DEVASTATED. SHE
JUST CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS ADMINISTRATION IS DOING AND WHAT
IS HAPPENING TO INDUSTRY IN OUR COUNTRY. SHE NEEDED A LOT OF
CONSOLING.
ANOTHER ANGRY CALLER, WHO VOTED FOR POTUS, IS UPSET OVER THE
"IRS" PIECE ON "STREET STORIES" ON TV LAST EVENING. WHAT HAS
HAPPENED TO DUE PROCESS - TRIAL BY JURY? POTUS IS SUPPOSE TO
ENFORCE THE CONSTITUTION. CALLER WANTS POTUS START LOOKING OUT
FOR THE PEOPLE. A NUMBER OF CALLERS ARE CONCERNED OVER HOW THE
IRS OPERATES AND MENTIONED WATCHING "STREET STORIES."
WHY DOESN'T THE PRESIDENT HOLD MORE NEWS CONFERENCES?
CALLER IS NOT HAPPY WITH THE WAY THE POLITICIANS ARE RUNNING THIS
COUNTRY.
IN FIGHTING DRUGS, WE ARE LOSING OUR FREEDOMS - BASED ON THE
PROGRAM "60 MINUTES."
BERNARD GALLAGHER FROM FLORIDA IS VERY UNHAPPY WITH MR. BUSH
BECAUSE OF HIS STAND ON ABORTION. HOWEVER, MR. GALLAGHER THINKS
MRS. BUSH IS LOVELY - A TRUE LADY.
CALLER SUGGESTS POTUS CALL IN A MEDIATOR IN THE CATERPILLAR
STRIKE.
WE, OR RATHER YOU, MR. PRESIDENT NEED TO DOWNSIZE AND PRIVATIZE
GOVERNMENT BUSINESS. NEITHER THE REPUBLICANS OR DEMOCRATS WILL
WIN - BUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL. PLEASE LET US HEAR YOUR
THOUGHTS DURING THE CAMPAIGN PERIOD.
PAGE 2 - 4/19/92
YOU CAN'T CUT BILLIONS FROM DEFENSE WITHOUT CAUSING UNEMPLOYMENT.
YOU COULD USE THE MILITARY BEING SENT HOME FROM GERMANY TO GUARD
THE MEXICAN BORDERS.
MR. PRESIDENT, WHATEVER HAS HAPPENED TO THE TAX CREDIT FOR NEW
HOME BUYERS? SOMEONE MUST GET YOUR PROPOSALS MOVING. EVERYTHING
YOU PROPOSE SEEMS TO DISAPPEAR IN THIN AIR. WE KNOW YOU STAND
FOR SOMETHING AND THE COUNTRY NEEDS YOU FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS.
YOUR STAFF MUST START FOLLOWING THROUGH ON YOUR PROPOSALS. THE
MEDIA IS MAKING YOU LOOK AS THOUGH IT'S JUST POLITICS - JUST
GETTING UP AND GIVING SPEECHES ETC., AND THEN JUST FORGET ABOUT
IT. PLEASE, MR. PRESIDENT, START RATTLING THEIR CHAINS. YOU
MUST BE THEIR TOP PRIORITY.
THE CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM BILL IS THE BEST PIECE OF
LEGISLATION. PLEASE SIGN IT.
ON NORIEGA TRIAL AND CONVICTION:
CALLER FROM CALIFORNIA CONGRATULATE POTUS ON THE NORIEGA
CONVICTION. SAID HIS MASON ORGANIZATION ARE HAPPY TO SEE
THAT JUSTICE HAS BEEN DONE.
A NUMBER OF CALLERS SAY WE HAVE NO BUSINESS GOING OUT OF
THIS COUNTRY ARRESTING PEOPLE AND BRINGING THEM TO TRIAL
HERE.
CALLER IS VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE INTEREST ON DEBTS AND THE
GROWING DEFICIT.
CALLER SAID THE LOWER INTEREST RATES ARE MAKING IT DIFFICULT FOR
OLDER PEOPLE ON FIXED INCOMES.
YOU'RE A LEADER - WORK WITH CONGRESS NOT AGAINST IT.
SUPPORTER OF POTUS FEELS HE SHOULD GO TO THE EARTH SUMMIT IN RIO.
SHE FEARS POTUS IS NOT AS CONCERNED ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT AS HE
SHOULD BE.
CONCERNED EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS - SUPPORT AID TO ISRAEL - POTUS
SHOULD TONE DOWN HIS RHETORIC ON ISRAEL.
CONCERNED EMPLOYEE FROM MC DONALD DOUGLAS IN ST. LOUIS ASKS POTUS
TO APPROVE THE SALE OF THE F 15 TO THE SAUDIS. HE WAS ESPECIALLY
CONCERNED ABOUT AN ARTICLE IN THE "ST. LOUIS DISPATCH" THAT SAID
CONGRESS WAS OPPOSING THE SALE.
CALLER FEELS PATENT FEES ARE OUTRAGEOUS. THEY ARE NO LONGER
AFFORDABLE AND ARE CHOKING OFF TALENTS.
MUNICIPALITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE CONCERNED THEY WILL GO BANKRUPT
PAYING THEIR SHARE OF THE TOXIC WASTE CLEANUP.
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEE* 4/13
NOTE FROM LIZ AND IRV CROSS
1. POTUS
DATED: APRIL 6, 1992
2. MRS. BUSH
3. FILE
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Dear President and Mrs. Bush:
Thank you so much for inviting us to attend the YOUTH FOR TOMORROW
GALA with you. We had a wonderful time, and it was a night that
neither of us will ever forget.
Thank you also for your support for YFT. This youth home truly does make
a difference in the lives of the young men it serves. Your support is very
much appreciated.
Sincerely,
Liz and Irv Cross
n
Thank You
Attention: Patty Presock
Daily
Reading File
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20515
Guy VANDER JAGT
April 6, 1992
9TH DISTRICT, MICHIGAN
3/1/2019
The President and Mrs. Bush
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear President and Mrs. Bush:
How can I ever thank you enough for the hospitality and
support you give the National Republican Congressional
Committee. The reception you hosted at The White House for our
major donors was absolutely spectacular!
It is an honor for our supporters to meet you and spend an
evening in the historic and beautiful White House. It is a
reminder of the freedom we enjoy in America and our great
fortune to have a President and First Lady as warm and giving
as the two of you.
This annual event is always the highlight of the year for
our most active supporters and I am pleased to report this was
the first time many of the attendees had been to the White
House. It was evening they will never forget.
Carol and I thank you for your continued support and
friendship.
Sincerely,
Guy
Guy Vander Jagt, M.C.
Chairman, National Republican
Congressional Committee
GVJ/mc
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
MONETARY TARY FUND
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20431
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
CABLE ADDRESS
INTERFUND
United States
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
an
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY
April 7, 1992
FROM:
Thomas C. Dawson H MD
SUBJECT: "And the Winner Is
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The Fund Board yesterday had its semi-annual review of the world
economic outlook. As usual, the Fund staff is wringing their hands over the
"threat of inflation" while continuing to revise downward their previous
growth forecast. My attack on this issue (attached) received little
support, except from one unexpected source: the British director, who made
the following statement:
"Secretary Brady has had a better forecasting record
than the Fund and any of the rest of us."
Better late than never, although perhaps too late for his own
government.
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THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
Pat Robertson
President
March 26, 1992
hn Presedent
The Honorable Nicholas F. Brady
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Secretary of the Treasury
Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20220
Dear Nick:
It was wonderful to see you during my recent visit to
Washington.
I concur with the feeling that you and Fred Goldberg have
that the Treasury plan to require religious institutions to
report larger donations to the IRS is unwise. However, as I
stated in our meeting there can certainly be no objection to
current and accurate records of their donors who contribute $500
requiring churches and other religious organizations to keep
or more during a calendar year. I am pleased to know that you
are on top of the situation, and that you are aware of its
importance to a very critical constituency for the President.
I do hope in 1993 that the current statutory bias towards
corporate indebtedness can be corrected by permitting
corporations to deduct stock dividends in the same manner that
they deduct payments on debt securities.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can assist you on
any other policy matter of mutual concern in the future. I am
Sincerely,
Pat Pat Robertson
PR/ml
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daily 4/13
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Daniel Andrews, Jr.
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Julie Rae
to
Mr. Charles Gregg Petersmeyer
on Laturday. the sixteenth of May
Nineteen hundred and ninetry-two
at half after eleven a clock
Laint Columba's Episcopal Church
Washington, D.C.
From the desk of
George Bush
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5225 Duvall Drive
After the sixteenth of May
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
DATE: 4/13/92
TO:
Ron Kanfman
FROM: ROSE ZAMARIA
Deputy Assistant to the President
The President asked that
this he forwarded to him you.
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