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Document No.
013442
3 MAR 1989
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
3/3/89
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 3/3/89 5:00 PM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONESTOGA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL, LANCASTER, PA.
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
WINSTON
CICCONI
PINKERTON
BENNETT
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston, Rm. 122, x2930, by 5:00 PM TODAY, Friday, March 3, 1989,
with an info copy to my office. Sorry for the short turnaround.
Thank you.
Maybe a little more Jesse Jackson style
RESPONSE:
charge to the kids.
8ms
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(McGroarty)
March 2, 1989
4:00pm
danl
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONESTOGA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA
MARCH 7, 1989
{Acknowledgments, Lancaster dignitaries, Mr. Harry Wirth,
principal.} I thank the students, parents, and teachers here at
Conestoga Valley for this warm welcome.
We often think of drug abuse as an urban, inner-city
phenomenon. Millions of Americans think of their own
communities, and say, "it can't happen here."
The people of Lancaster know that's not true. In the past
two years, the drug epidemic has come here, to your community.
The good news is: you're fighting back. Your community is too
proud, your traditions here too deeply rooted, to watch an
invader threaten your safety and well-being.
I'm here to say that you're not alone: the drug epidemic is
a national problem. Recognizing this fact is the first step
towards finding a solution.
2
I'm also here to say that you're not alone in battling the
drug problem. You have partners -- in your community, in others
across America. And you have partners in the war on drugs in
Washington.
Our task today is not just to deplore the drug problem, but
to take action against it. What the banners you've hung here
today say to me is that Conestoga Valley and the people of
Lancaster are ready to take action to stop the drug scourge.
One of the most powerful weapons in the war against drug
abuse is education.
of course, there's another side to the drug problem that
I'll be speaking about later today, when I visit Wilmington,
Delaware on my way back to Washington. That's interdiction and
enforcement -- our effort to stop the supply of illegal drugs,
and shut down the drug trade. But this morning, I want to focus
on means of prevention -- on drying up demand for illegal drugs.
Anti-drug education and awareness can help provide our
children and young adults both the reasons and the will-power to
resist the lure of drugs.
That's the aim of an anti-drug education program called DARE
-- Drug Abuse Resistance Education -- that's helping, as the
people involved with DARE like to say, "drug-proof" our children.
3
The program was pioneered by the Los Angeles Police Department
and the LA public school system. DARE sends policemen into the
classroom, to work with kids, build their self-esteem, teach them
that they can refuse when they are pressured to try drugs. And
the DARE program is teaching youngsters something else: that the
police and their schools are united in a common effort to stop
drug abuse. In the six years since the program began in
California, DARE has caught on nationwide. This year, in 1200
communities in 45 states, three million children will
participate.
DARE is just one example of the kind of program that can
provide our children both the reasons and the will-power to
resist the lure of drugs. There is no one right answer when it
comes to battling drug abuse. Each community will find what
works best -- and we will all learn from each other.
Here in Lancaster, you have a program called High-Risk Youth
in the elementary schools, and another called SCIP -- School
Community Intervention Program, in place in the high schools and
junior highs. They aim at identifying young people whose
circumstances and family situations make them most vulnerable to
the lure of drugs. Targeting these children youth for special
attention is crucial, and with High-Risk Youth and SCIP, you are
doing something to stop drug problems before they begin.
4
For my part, I'm committed to seeing that drug education
recieves the funding it needs.
-- My budget for 1990 calls for a full $1.1 billion dollars
for drug prevention and anti-drug education activities -- up 16%
over 1989.
-- I've urged Congress to provide 367 million dollars for
the Drug Free Schools and Communities program, funds that go to
the states and institutions of higher education.
Jin
-- And I've nominated a Drug Policy Director, Bill Bennett,
to map strategy and oversee the anti-drug campaign.
These initiatives are important, and they'll have an impact.
But there's a role for each of us in the war on drugs, and I hope
you'll join me in asking what you can do to help -- especially to
advance anti-drug education and awareness.
START Right now - by refusingto use drugs
I'm told you can start tonight, by coming back here to
Conestoga Valley to see a drug awareness video. I hope the
turnout will be just as large as it is this morning.
We can all play a part in increasing awareness about the
ravages of drug dependency. We must get the message across that
drugs aren't a form of entertainment or a harmless means of
escape -- drugs are a poison, to users and to our communities.
5
But a widespread awareness of the dangers of drug abuse
depends on sending consistent signals -- on sending a clear
message that using drugs isn't fashionable, isn't fun, and above
all, isn't safe.
For too long our popular culture glorified drug use. I
think that's changing now -- and that's a real change for the
better. Consider the anti-drug abuse campaign on television.
Not long ago, I was told a story about a little girl, four
years old, who's getting the message. She got up from in front
of the TV to take to her parents an important piece of
information.
"Drugs," she said, "fry your brain like an egg."
We've all seen the commercial that little girl was talking
about. Whether you're four or fourteen or forty, the message
gets across. Let's all carry that message.
And let's shed some of the perceptions about the drug
problem that are comforting, but are completely incorrect.
There's no room for saying, "drug abuse doesn't effect me.' "
Think about the costs of drug abuse: the lost time, the waste,
the crime, the accidents that can be traced to the influence of
drugs
Twenty three million Americans used illegal drugs last
6
year. Five thousand died. The fact is that none of us are
immune to the problems drug abuse can cause.
Together, let S send a message on drug abuse:
you tme
To the so-called "casual" user: face up to the fact that
your so-called "recreational" drug use contributes to the drug
culture -- to the crime, death and degradation associated with
the drug trade.
To parents: your children know more than you realize about
drugs. Make it your business as a parent to know about drug
abuse yourself. Educate yourselves: don't hide from the reality
of drug abuse in our communities and hope for the best. Your
children depend on you to help them separate fact from fiction --
to help them make a choice, and stick with it, when it comes to
resisting drugs.
To our children, let's send the message that drugs are
dangerous. That you don't need drugs to feel good about yourself
-- or to win approval from others. That your parents, the people
in your schools and your community care.
But most of all, you must understand that the decision
against drugs is yours to make -- no one else's. When it's time
to draw the line against drugs, the final choice is yours.
7
As a community, we must work to make it as easy as possible
for our children to make the choice against drugs. We can do it
by creating an environment -- a safe, secure space -- where our
children can acquire a sense of self and self-confidence so
secure that no amount of peer group pressure can push them into
taking drugs.
In many homes across America, in many of our communities,
here in Lancaster, we're doing just that.
DON'TDODRUES!
My message to you today is: Keep fighting back. Fight for
your community, for your children. The war on drugs will
ultimately be won one day, one battle at a time -- the battles
each and every one of us wage to keep our families and
communities free from drug abuse. Mention budget?
Let these banners be a battle cry -- that in Conestoga
Valley, in Lancaster, and in communities like yours all over the
country, we will join together, turn the tide, and bring the drug
epidemic to an end.
Thank you.
Document No.
013442
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
3/3/89
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 3/3/89 5:00 PM
SUBJECT:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONESTOGA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL, LANCASTER, PA.
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
WINSTON
CICCONI
PINKERTON
BENNETT
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston, Rm. 122, x2930, by 5:00 PM TODAY, Friday, March 3,1989,
with an info copy to my office. Sorry for the short turnaround.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
comments
no
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(McGroarty)
March 2, 1989
4:00pm
danl
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONESTOGA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA
MARCH 7, 1989
{Acknowledgments, Lancaster dignitaries, Mr. Harry Wirth,
principal.) I thank the students, parents, and teachers here at
Conestoga Valley for this warm welcome.
We often think of drug abuse as an urban, inner-city
phenomenon. Millions of Americans think of their own
communities, and say, "it can't happen here."
The people of Lancaster know that's not true. In the past
two years, the drug epidemic has come here, to your community.
The good news is: you're fighting back. Your community is too
proud, your traditions here too deeply rooted, to watch an
invader threaten your safety and well-being.
I'm here to say that you're not alone: the drug epidemic is
a national problem. Recognizing this fact is the first step
towards finding a solution.
2
I'm also here to say that you're not alone in battling the
drug problem. You have partners -- in your community, in others
across America. And you have partners in the war on drugs in
Washington.
Our task today is not just to deplore the drug problem, but
to take action against it. What the banners you've hung here
today say to me is that Conestoga Valley and the people of
Lancaster are ready to take action to stop the drug scourge.
One of the most powerful weapons in the war against drug
abuse is education.
of course, there's another side to the drug problem that
I'll be speaking about later today, when I visit Wilmington,
Delaware on my way back to Washington. That's interdiction and
enforcement -- our effort to stop the supply of illegal drugs,
and shut down the drug trade. But this morning, I want to focus
on means of prevention -- on drying up demand for illegal drugs.
Anti-drug education and awareness can help provide our
children and young adults both the reasons and the will-power to
resist the lure of drugs.
That's the aim of an anti-drug education program called DARE
-- Drug Abuse Resistance Education -- that's helping, as the
people involved with DARE like to say, "drug-proof" our children.
3
The program was pioneered by the Los Angeles Police Department
and the LA public school system. DARE sends policemen into the
classroom, to work with kids, build their self-esteem, teach them
that they can refuse when they are pressured to try drugs. And
the DARE program is teaching youngsters something else: that the
police and their schools are united in a common effort to stop
drug abuse. In the six years since the program began in
California, DARE has caught on nationwide. This year, in 1200
communities in 45 states, three million children will
participate.
DARE is just one example of the kind of program that can
provide our children both the reasons and the will-power to
resist the lure of drugs. There is no one right answer when it
comes to battling drug abuse. Each community will find what
works best -- and we will all learn from each other.
Here in Lancaster, you have a program called High-Risk Youth
in the elementary schools, and another called SCIP -- School
Community Intervention Program, in place in the high schools and
junior highs. They aim at identifying young people whose
circumstances and family situations make them most vulnerable to
the lure of drugs. Targeting these children for special
attention is crucial, and with High-Risk Youth and SCIP, you are
doing something to stop drug problems before they begin.
4
For my part, I'm committed to seeing that drug education
recieves the funding it needs.
-- My budget for 1990 calls for a full $1.1 billion dollars
for drug prevention and anti-drug education activities -- up 16%
over 1989.
-- I've urged Congress to provide 367 million dollars for
the Drug Free Schools and Communities program, funds that go to
the states and institutions of higher education.
-- And I've nominated a Drug Policy Director, Bill Bennett,
to map strategy and oversee the anti-drug campaign.
These initiatives are important, and they'll have an impact.
But there's a role for each of us in the war on drugs, and I hope
you'll join me in asking what you can do to help -- especially to
advance anti-drug education and awareness.
I'm told you can start tonight, by coming back here to
Conestoga Valley to see a drug awareness video. I hope the
turnout will be just as large as it is this morning.
We can all play a part in increasing awareness about the
ravages of drug dependency. We must get the message across that
drugs aren't a form of entertainment or a harmless means of
escape -- drugs are a poison, to users and to our communities.
5
But a widespread awareness of the dangers of drug abuse
depends on sending consistent signals -- on sending a clear
message that using drugs isn't fashionable, isn't fun, and above
all, isn't safe.
For too long our popular culture glorified drug use. I
think that's changing now -- and that's a real change for the
better. Consider the anti-drug abuse campaign on television.
Not long ago, I was told a story about a little girl, four
years old, who's getting the message. She got up from in front
of the TV to take to her parents an important piece of
information.
"Drugs," she said, "fry your brain like an egg."
We've all seen the commercial that little girl was talking
about. Whether you're four or fourteen or forty, the message
gets across. Let's all carry that message.
And let's shed some of the perceptions about the drug
problem that are comforting, but are completely incorrect.
There's no room for saying, "drug abuse doesn't effect me."
Think about the costs of drug abuse: the lost time, the waste,
the crime, the accidents that can be traced to the influence of
drugs
Twenty three million Americans used illegal drugs last
6
year. Five thousand died. The fact is that none of us are
immune to the problems drug abuse can cause.
Together, let's send a message on drug abuse:
To the so-called "casual" user: face up to the fact that
your so-called "recreational" drug use contributes to the drug
culture -- to the crime, death and degradation associated with
the drug trade.
To parents: your children know more than you realize about
drugs. Make it your business as a parent to know about drug
abuse yourself. Educate yourselves: don't hide from the reality
of drug abuse in our communities and hope for the best. Your
children depend on you to help them separate fact from fiction --
to help them make a choice, and stick with it, when it comes to
resisting drugs.
To our children, let's send the message that drugs are
dangerous. That you don't need drugs to feel good about yourself
-- or to win approval from others. That your parents, the people
in your schools and your community care.
But most of all, you must understand that the decision
against drugs is yours to make -- no one else's. When it's time
to draw the line against drugs, the final choice is yours.
7
As a community, we must work to make it as easy as possible
for our children to make the choice against drugs. We can do it
by creating an environment -- a safe, secure space -- where our
children can acquire a sense of self and self-confidence so
secure that no amount of peer group pressure can push them into
taking drugs.
In many homes across America, in many of our communities,
here in Lancaster, we're doing just that.
My message to you today is: Keep fighting back. Fight for
your community, for your children. The war on drugs will
ultimately be won one day, one battle at a time -- the battles
each and every one of us wage to keep our families and
communities free from drug abuse.
Let these banners be a battle cry -- that in Conestoga
Valley, in Lancaster, and in communities like yours all over the
country, we will join together, turn the tide, and bring the drug
epidemic to an end.
Thank you.
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONESTOGA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA
MARCH 7, 1989
I THANK THE STUDENTS, PARENTS, AND TEACHERS HERE AT
CONESTOGA VALLEY, HARRY WIRTH, YOUR PRINCIPAL, AND CHAD
WEAVER, STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT, FOR THIS WARM WELCOME. I
ESPECIALLY WANT TO COMMEND CONGRESSMAN BoB WALKER FOR HIS
ROLE IN THE PASSAGE THE ANTI-DRUG Act OF 1988, AND FOR HIS
EFFORTS TOWARD ACHIEVING A DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE.
2
WE OFTEN THINK OF DRUG ABUSE AS AN URBAN, INNER-CITY
PHENOMENON. MILLIONS OF AMERICANS THINK OF THEIR OWN
COMMUNITIES, AND SAY, "IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE."
THE PEOPLE OF RURAL PENNSYLVANIA KNOW THAT'S NOT
TRUE. IN THE PAST TWO YEARS, DRUG ABUSE IN THIS AREA HAS
ESCALATED. THE GOOD NEWS IS: YOU'RE FIGHTING BACK. YOUR
COMMUNITY IS TOO PROUD, YOUR TRADITIONS HERE TOO DEEPLY
ROOTED, FOR AN INVADER TO THREATEN YOUR SAFETY AND
WELL-BEING WITHOUT A FIGHT.
3
WHEN DRUGS COME HERE TO THE CONESTOGA VALLEY, THAT'S
PROOF THE DRUG EPIDEMIC IS A NATIONAL PROBLEM. LANCASTER
IS A STRONG COMMUNITY. IT'S NOT A SPECIAL CASE -- IT
SIMPLY SHOWS HOW VULNERABLE EVERY AMERICAN CITY AND TOWN
IS TO THE MENACE OF DRUG ABUSE. RECOGNIZING THIS FACT IS
THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS FINDING A SOLUTION.
AND LANCASTER IS ON ITS WAY. THIS MORNING, YOU HEARD
FROM THOMAS HIPPLE AND PETER TRUE -- TWO YOUNG MEN WHO FOR
THEIR OWN REASONS HAVE MADE A COMMITMENT TO HELP OTHERS
UNDERSTAND THE LASTING DAMAGE DRUGS CAN DO,
4
AND PREVENT THEIR PEERS FROM MAKING WHAT CAN BE A
LIFE-SHATTERING CHOICE.
WHAT THOMAS AND PETER ARE DOING TAKES TREMENDOUS
COURAGE AND COMMITMENT. I'M HERE TO SAY THAT YOU'RE NOT
ALONE IN BATTLING THE DRUG PROBLEM. You HAVE PARTNERS --
IN YOUR COMMUNITY, IN OTHERS ACROSS AMERICA. AND YOU HAVE
PARTNERS IN THE WAR ON DRUGS IN WASHINGTON: RIGHT THERE
ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. As I SAID IN MY INAUGURAL
ADDRESS, I AM COMMITTED TO ENDING THE SCOURGE OF DRUGS.
5
OUR TASK TODAY IS NOT-JUST TO DEPLORE THE DRUG
PROBLEM, BUT TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST IT. WHAT THE BANNERS
YOU'VE HUNG HERE TODAY SAY TO ME IS THAT CONESTOGA VALLEY
AND THE PEOPLE OF LANCASTER ARE READY TO TAKE ACTION TO
STOP THE DRUG SCOURGE.
ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL WEAPONS IN THE WAR AGAINST
DRUG ABUSE IS EDUCATION.
OF COURSE, THERE'S ANOTHER SIDE TO THE DRUG PROBLEM
THAT I'LL BE SPEAKING ABOUT LATER TODAY, WHEN I VISIT
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE ON MY WAY BACK TO WASHINGTON.
6
THAT'S INTERDICTION AND ENFORCEMENT -- OUR EFFORT TO STOP
THE SUPPLY OF ILLEGAL DRUGS, AND SHUT DOWN THE DRUG TRADE.
BUT THIS MORNING, I WANT TO FOCUS ON MEANS OF PREVENTION
-- ON DRYING UP DEMAND FOR ILLEGAL DRUGS.
ANTI-DRUG EDUCATION AND AWARENESS CAN HELP PROVIDE
OUR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS BOTH THE REASONS AND THE
WILL-POWER TO RESIST THE LURE OF DRUGS.
THAT'S THE AIM OF AN ANTI-DRUG EDUCATION PROGRAM
CALLED DARE -- DRUG ABUSE RESISTANCE EDUCATION -- THAT'S
HELPING, AS THE PEOPLE INVOLVED WITH DARE LIKE TO SAY,
7
"DRUG-PROOF" OUR CHILDREN. THE PROGRAM WAS PIONEERED BY
THE Los ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE LA PUBLIC SCHOOL
SYSTEM. DARE SENDS POLICEMEN INTO THE CLASSROOM, TO WORK
WITH KIDS, BUILD THEIR SELF-ESTEEM, TEACH THEM THAT THEY
CAN REFUSE WHEN THEY ARE PRESSURED TO TRY DRUGS. AND THE
DARE PROGRAM IS TEACHING YOUNGSTERS SOMETHING ELSE: THAT
THE POLICE AND THEIR SCHOOLS ARE UNITED IN A COMMON EFFORT
TO STOP DRUG ABUSE. IN THE SIX YEARS SINCE THE PROGRAM
BEGAN IN CALIFORNIA, DARE HAS CAUGHT ON NATIONWIDE. THIS
YEAR, IN 1200 COMMUNITIES IN 45 STATES,
8
THREE MILLION CHILDREN WILL PARTICIPATE.
DARE IS JUST ONE EXAMPLE OF THE KIND OF PROGRAM THAT
CAN PROVIDE OUR CHILDREN BOTH THE REASONS AND THE
WILL-POWER TO RESIST THE LURE OF DRUGS. THERE IS NO ONE
RIGHT ANSWER WHEN IT COMES TO BATTLING DRUG ABUSE. EACH
COMMUNITY WILL FIND WHAT WORKS BEST -- AND WE WILL ALL
LEARN FROM EACH OTHER.
HERE IN LANCASTER, YOU HAVE A PROGRAM CALLED HIGH
RISK YOUTH IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, AND ANOTHER CALLED
SCIP -- SCHOOL COMMUNITY INTERVENTION PROGRAM,
9
IN PLACE IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS AND JUNIOR HIGHS. THEY AIM
AT IDENTIFYING YOUNG PEOPLE WHOSE CIRCUMSTANCES AND FAMILY
SITUATIONS MAKE THEM MOST VULNERABLE TO THE LURE OF DRUGS.
TARGETING THESE YOUTH FOR SPECIAL ATTENTION IS CRUCIAL,
AND WITH HIGH RISK YOUTH AND SCIP, YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING
TO STOP DRUG PROBLEMS BEFORE THEY BEGIN.
FOR MY PART, I'M COMMITTED TO SEEING THAT DRUG
EDUCATION RECEIVES THE FUNDING IT NEEDS.
10
-- MY BUDGET FOR 1990 CALLS FOR A FULL $1.1 BILLION
DOLLARS FOR DRUG PREVENTION AND ANTI-DRUG EDUCATION
ACTIVITIES -- UP 16% OVER 1989.
-- I'VE URGED CONGRESS TO PROVIDE 392 MILLION DOLLARS
FOR THE DRUG FREE SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES PROGRAM, FUNDS
THAT GO TO THE STATES AND INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER
EDUCATION.
-- AND I'VE NOMINATED TO SERVE AS DIRECTOR OF MY
OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY, BILL BENNETT, TO
MAP STRATEGY AND OVERSEE THE ANTI-DRUG CAMPAIGN.
11
I PICKED BILL FOR THIS JOB BECAUSE HE'S KNOWLEDGEABLE,
HE'S TOUGH, AND HE'S DETERMINED -- BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY,
HE CARES DEEPLY ABOUT THE CHILDREN OF THIS COUNTRY.
THESE INITIATIVES ARE IMPORTANT, AND THEY'LL HAVE AN
IMPACT. BUT THERE'S A ROLE FOR EACH OF US IN THE WAR ON
DRUGS, AND I HOPE YOU'LL JOIN ME IN ASKING WHAT YOU CAN DO
TO HELP -- ESPECIALLY TO ADVANCE ANTI-DRUG EDUCATION AND
AWARENESS.
I'M TOLD YOU CAN START TONIGHT, BY COMING BACK HERE
TO CONESTOGA VALLEY TO SEE A DRUG AWARENESS VIDEO.
12
I HOPE THE TURNOUT WILL BE JUST AS LARGE AS IT IS THIS
MORNING.
WE CAN ALL PLAY A PART IN INCREASING AWARENESS ABOUT
THE RAVAGES OF DRUG DEPENDENCY. WE MUST GET THE MESSAGE
ACROSS THAT DRUGS AREN'T A FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT OR A
HARMLESS MEANS OF ESCAPE -- DRUGS ARE A POISON, TO USERS
AND TO OUR COMMUNITIES.
BUT A WIDESPREAD AWARENESS OF THE DANGERS OF DRUG
ABUSE DEPENDS ON SENDING CONSISTENT SIGNALS --
13
ON SENDING A CLEAR MESSAGE THAT USING DRUGS ISN'T
FASHIONABLE, ISN'T FUN, AND ABOVE ALL, ISN'T SAFE.
FOR TOO LONG OUR POPULAR CULTURE GLORIFIED DRUG USE.
I THINK THAT'S CHANGING NOW -- AND THAT'S A REAL CHANGE
FOR THE BETTER. CONSIDER THE ANTI-DRUG ABUSE CAMPAIGN ON
TELEVISION.
NOT LONG AGO, I WAS TOLD A STORY ABOUT A LITTLE GIRL,
FOUR YEARS OLD, WHO'S GETTING THE MESSAGE. SHE GOT UP
FROM IN FRONT OF THE TV TO TELL HER PARENTS SOMETHING
IMPORTANT.
14
"DRUGS," SHE SAID, "FRY YOUR BRAIN LIKE AN EGG."
WE'VE ALL SEEN THE COMMERCIAL THAT LITTLE GIRL WAS
TALKING ABOUT. WHETHER YOU'RE FOUR OR FOURTEEN OR FORTY,
THE MESSAGE GETS ACROSS. LET'S ALL CARRY THAT MESSAGE.
AND LET'S SHED SOME OF THE PERCEPTIONS ABOUT THE DRUG
PROBLEM THAT ARE COMFORTING, BUT ARE COMPLETELY INCORRECT.
THERE'S NO ROOM FOR SAYING, "DRUG ABUSE DOESN'T
AFFECT ME." THINK ABOUT THE COSTS OF DRUG ABUSE: THE
LOST TIME, THE WASTE, THE CRIME, THE ACCIDENTS THAT CAN BE
TRACED TO THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS...
15
TWENTY THREE MILLION AMERICANS USED ILLEGAL DRUGS LAST
YEAR. COUNTLESS THOUSANDS DIED. THE FACT IS THAT NONE OF
US IS IMMUNE TO THE PROBLEMS DRUG ABUSE CAN CAUSE.
TOGETHER, LET'S YOU AND ME SEND A MESSAGE ON DRUG
ABUSE:
To THE SO-CALLED "CASUAL" USER: FACE UP TO THE FACT THAT
YOUR SO-CALLED "RECREATIONAL" DRUG USE CONTRIBUTES TO THE
DRUG CULTURE -- TO THE CRIME, DEATH AND DEGRADATION
ASSOCIATED WITH THE DRUG TRADE.
16
To PARENTS: YOUR CHILDREN KNOW MORE THAN YOU REALIZE
ABOUT DRUGS. MAKE IT YOUR BUSINESS AS A PARENT TO KNOW
ABOUT DRUG ABUSE YOURSELF. EDUCATE YOURSELVES: DON'T
HIDE FROM THE REALITY OF DRUG ABUSE IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND
HOPE FOR THE BEST. YOUR CHILDREN DEPEND ON YOU TO HELP
THEM SEPARATE FACT FROM FICTION -- TO HELP THEM MAKE A
CHOICE, AND STICK WITH IT, WHEN IT COMES TO RESISTING
DRUGS.
To OUR CHILDREN, LET'S SEND THE MESSAGE THAT DRUGS
ARE DANGEROUS.
17
THAT YOU DON'T NEED DRUGS TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF --
OR TO WIN APPROVAL FROM OTHERS. THAT YOUR PARENTS, THE
PEOPLE IN YOUR SCHOOLS AND YOUR COMMUNITY CARE.
BUT MOST OF ALL, YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THAT THE
DECISION AGAINST DRUGS IS YOURS TO MAKE -- NO ONE ELSE'S.
WHEN IT'S TIME TO DRAW THE LINE AGAINST DRUGS, THE FINAL
CHOICE IS YOURS.
As A COMMUNITY, WE MUST WORK TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS
POSSIBLE FOR OUR CHILDREN TO MAKE THE CHOICE AGAINST
DRUGS.
18
WE CAN DO IT BY CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT -- A SAFE,
SECURE SPACE -- WHERE OUR CHILDREN CAN ACQUIRE A SENSE OF
SELF AND SELF-CONFIDENCE so SECURE THAT NO AMOUNT OF PEER
GROUP PRESSURE CAN PUSH THEM INTO TAKING DRUGS.
IN MANY HOMES ACROSS AMERICA, IN MANY OF OUR
COMMUNITIES, HERE IN LANCASTER, YOU'RE DOING JUST THAT.
SURE THINGS HAVE CHANGED. BUT MOST AMERICANS WANT TO SEE
THEIR TOWNS RESTORED TO A TIME WHEN DRUGS CAME FROM THE
LOCAL M.D. A PLACE OF MOTHERS AND FATHERS AND CHILDREN AND
GRANDPARENTS AND BICYCLES AND BASEBALL AND SPELLING BEES.
19
WHERE CRACK WAS SOMETHING YOU JUMPED OVER TO AVOID BAD
LUCK. WITH YOUR HARD WORK AND COMMITMENT, THAT DAY WILL
COME SOONER.
MY MESSAGE TO YOU TODAY IS: DON'T DO DRUGS. KEEP
FIGHTING BACK. FIGHT FOR YOUR COMMUNITY, FOR YOUR
CHILDREN. THE WAR ON DRUGS WILL ULTIMATELY BE WON ONE DAY,
ONE BATTLE AT A TIME --THE BATTLES EACH AND EVERY ONE OF
US WAGE TO KEEP OUR FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES FREE FROM
DRUG ABUSE. WE'VE LEARNED A HARD LESSON -- UNLESS WE JOIN
TOGETHER AND FIGHT, IT CAN HAPPEN HERE.
20
BUT IF WE DO WORK AS A TEAM AND AS A COMMUNITY, IT WON'T.
LET THESE, BANNERS BE A BATTLE CRY -- THAT IN
CONESTOGA VALLEY, IN LANCASTER, AND IN COMMUNITIES LIKE
YOURS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, WE WILL JOIN TOGETHER, TURN
THE TIDE, AND BRING THE DRUG EPIDEMIC TO AN END.
THANK YOU.
ID #.
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(McGroarty)
March 2, 1989
4:00pm
dan1
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONESTOGA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA
MARCH 7, 1989
{Acknowledgments, Lancaster dignitaries, Mr. Harry Wirth,
principal.) I thank the students, parents, and teachers here at
Conestoga Valley for this warm welcome.
We often think of drug abuse as an urban, inner-city
phenomenon. Millions of Americans think of their own
communities, and say, "it can't happen here."
The people of Lancaster know that's not true. In the past
two years, the drug epidemic has come here, to your community.
The good news is: you're fighting back. Your community is too
proud, your traditions here too deeply rooted, to watch an
invader threaten your safety and well-being.
I'm here to say that you're not alone: the drug epidemic is
a national problem. Recognizing this fact is the first step
towards finding a solution.
2
I'm also here to say that you're not alone in battling the
drug problem. You have partners -- in your community, in others
across America. And you have partners in the war on drugs in
Washington.
Our task today is not just to deplore the drug problem, but
to take action against it. What the banners you've hung here
today say to me is that Conestoga Valley and the people of
Lancaster are ready to take action to stop the drug scourge.
One of the most powerful weapons in the war against drug
abuse is education.
of course, there's another side to the drug problem that
I'll be speaking about later today, when I visit Wilmington,
Delaware on my way back to Washington. That's interdiction and
enforcement -- our effort to stop the supply of illegal drugs,
and shut down the drug trade. But this morning, I want to focus
on means of prevention -- on drying up demand for illegal drugs.
Anti-drug education and awareness can help provide our
children and young adults both the reasons and the will-power to
resist the lure of drugs.
That's the aim of an anti-drug education program called DARE
-- Drug Abuse Resistance Education -- that's helping, as the
people involved with DARE like to say, "drug-proof" our children.
3
The program was pioneered by the Los Angeles Police Department
and the LA public school system. DARE sends policemen into the
classroom, to work with kids, build their self-esteem, teach them
that they can refuse when they are pressured to try drugs. And
the DARE program is teaching youngsters something else: that the
police and their schools are united in a common effort to stop
drug abuse. In the six years since the program began in
California, DARE has caught on nationwide. This year, in 1200
communities in 45 states, three million children will
participate.
DARE is just one example of the kind of program that can
provide our children both the reasons and the will-power to
resist the lure of drugs. There is no one right answer when it
comes to battling drug abuse. Each community will find what
works best -- and we will all learn from each other.
Here in Lancaster, you have a program called High-Risk Youth
in the elementary schools, and another called SCIP -- School
Community Intervention Program, in place in the high schools and
junior highs. They aim at identifying young people whose
circumstances and family situations make them most vulnerable to
the lure of drugs. Targeting these children for special
attention is crucial, and with High-Risk Youth and SCIP, you are
doing something to stop drug problems before they begin.
4
For my part, I'm committed to seeing that drug education
recieves the funding it needs.
-- My budget for 1990 calls for a full $1.1 billion dollars
for drug prevention and anti-drug education activities -- up 16%
over 1989.
-- I've urged Congress to provide 367 million dollars for
the Drug Free Schools and Communities program, funds that go to
the states and institutions of higher education.
-- And I've nominated a Drug Policy Director, Bill Bennett,
to map strategy and oversee the anti-drug campaign.
These initiatives are important, and they'll have an impact.
But there's a role for each of us in the war on drugs, and I hope
you'll join me in asking what you can do to help -- especially to
advance anti-drug education and awareness.
I'm told you can start tonight, by coming back here to
Conestoga Valley to see a drug awareness video. I hope the
turnout will be just as large as it is this morning.
We can all play a part in increasing awareness about the
ravages of drug dependency. We must get the message across that
drugs aren't a form of entertainment or a harmless means of
escape -- drugs are a poison, to users and to our communities.
5
But a widespread awareness of the dangers of drug abuse
depends on sending consistent signals -- on sending a clear
message that using drugs isn't fashionable, isn't fun, and above
all, isn't safe.
For too long our popular culture glorified drug use. I
think that's changing now -- and that's a real change for the
better. Consider the anti-drug abuse campaign on television.
Not long ago, I was told a story about a little girl, four
years old, who's getting the message. She got up from in front
of the TV to take to her parents an important piece of
information.
"Drugs," she said, "fry your brain like an egg."
We've all seen the commercial that little girl was talking
about. Whether you're four or fourteen or forty, the message
gets across. Let's all carry that message.
And let's shed some of the perceptions about the drug
problem that are comforting, but are completely incorrect.
There's no room for saying, "drug abuse doesn't effect me." "
Think about the costs of drug abuse: the lost time, the waste,
the crime, the accidents that can be traced to the influence of
drugs
Twenty three million Americans used illegal drugs last
6
year. Five thousand died. The fact is that none of us are
immune to the problems drug abuse can cause.
Together, let's send a message on drug abuse:
To the so-called "casual" user: face up to the fact that
your so-called "recreational" drug use contributes to the drug
culture -- to the crime, death and degradation associated with
the drug trade.
To parents: your children know more than you realize about
drugs. Make it your business as a parent to know about drug
abuse yourself. Educate yourselves: don't hide from the reality
of drug abuse in our communities and hope for the best. Your
children depend on you to help them separate fact from fiction --
to help them make a choice, and stick with it, when it comes to
resisting drugs.
To our children, let's send the message that drugs are
dangerous. That you don't need drugs to feel good about yourself
-- or to win approval from others. That your parents, the people
in your schools and your community care.
But most of all, you must understand that the decision
against drugs is yours to make -- no one else's. When it's time
to draw the line against drugs, the final choice is yours.
7
As a community, we must work to make it as easy as possible
for our children to make the choice against drugs. We can do it
by creating an environment -- a safe, secure space -- where our
children can acquire a sense of self and self-confidence so
secure that no amount of peer group pressure can push them into
taking drugs.
In many homes across America, in many of our communities,
here in Lancaster, we're doing just that.
My message to you today is: Keep fighting back. Fight for
your community, for your children. The war on drugs will
ultimately be won one day, one battle at a time -- the battles
each and every one of us wage to keep our families and
communities free from drug abuse.
Let these banners be a battle cry -- that in Conestoga
Valley, in Lancaster, and in communities like yours all over the
country, we will join together, turn the tide, and bring the drug
epidemic to an end.
Thank you.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
March 4, 1989
MR. PRESIDENT:
OK seepy
Attached for your review
and edits is a draft of your
remarks to the Conestoga
Valley High School in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Thank you.
S
James James Am W. Cicconi
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
3/4/89
p.4
(McGroarty)
March 3, 1989
7:45pm
dan1
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONESTOGA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA
MARCH 7, 1989
{Acknowledgments, Lancaster dignitaries, Congressman Bob
Walker, Mr. Harry Wirth, principal.} I thank the students,
parents, and teachers here at Conestoga Valley for this warm
welcome. I especially want to command Bob Walker for his role in
the passage the Anti-Drug Act of 1983, and for his efforts toward
achieving a drug-free workplace.
We often think of drug abuse as an urban, inner-city
phenomenon. Millions of Americans think of their own
communities, and say, "it can't happen here." "
The people of rural Pennsylvania know that's not true. In
the past two years, the drug epidemic has come here, to your
community. The good news is: you're fighting back. Your
community is too proud, your traditions here too deeply rooted,
for an invader to threaten your safety and well-being without a
fight.
2
When the drug epidemic comes here to the Conestoga Valley,
that's proof the drug epidemic is a national problem.
Recognizing this fact is the first step towards finding a
solution.
I'm also here to say that you're not alone in battling the
drug problem. You have partners -- in your community, in others
across America. And you have partners in the war on drugs in
Washington: right there on Pennsylvania Avenue . As I said in
my Inaugural Address, I am committed to ending the scourge of
drugs.
Our task today is not just to deplore the drug problem, but
to take action against it. What the banners you've hung here
today say to me is that Conestoga Valley and the people of
Lancaster are ready to take action to stop the drug scourge.
One of the most powerful weapons in the war against drug
abuse is education.
of course, there's another side to the drug problem that
I'll be speaking about later today, when I visit Wilmington,
Delaware on my way back to Washington. That's interdiction and
enforcement -- our effort to stop the supply of illegal drugs,
and shut down the drug trade. But this morning, I want to focus
on means of prevention -- on drying up demand for illegal drugs.
3
Anti-drug education and awareness can help provide our
children and young adults both the reasons and the will-power to
resist the lure of drugs.
That's the aim of an anti-drug education program called DARE
-- Drug Abuse Resistance Education -- that's helping, as the
people involved with DARE like to say, "drug-proof" our children.
The program was pioneered by the Los Angeles Police Department
and the LA public school system. DARE sends policemen into the
classroom, to work with kids, build their self-esteem, teach them
that they can refuse when they are pressured to try drugs. And
the DARE program is teaching youngsters something else: that the
police and their schools are united in a common effort to stop
drug abuse. In the six years since the program began in
California, DARE has caught on nationwide. This year, in 1200
communities in 45 states, three million children will
participate.
DARE is just one example of the kind of program that can
provide our children both the reasons and the will-power to
resist the lure of drugs. There is no one right answer when it
comes to battling drug abuse. Each community will find what
works best -- and we will all learn from each other.
Here in Lancaster, you have a program called High-Risk Youth
in the elementary schools, and another called SCIP -- School
Community Intervention Program, in place in the high schools and
4
junior highs. They aim at identifying young people whose
circumstances and family situations make them most vulnerable to
the lure of drugs. Targeting these youth for special attention
is crucial, and with High-Risk Youth and SCIP, you are doing
something to stop drug problems before they begin.
For my part, I'm committed to seeing that drug education
receives the funding it needs.
-- My budget for 1990 calls for a full $1.1 billion dollars
for drug prevention and anti-drug education activities -- up 16%
over 1989.
-- I've urged Congress to provide 392 million dollars-for
the Drug Free Schools and Communities program, funds that go to
the states and institutions of higher education.
-- And I've nominated to serve as Director of my Office of
National Drug Control Policy, Bill Bennett, to map strategy and
oversee the anti-drug campaign. histough, I picked Bill for this job
because he's knowledgeable he's determined but most importantly,
he cares deeply about the children of this country.
These initiatives are important, and they'll have an impact.
But there's a role for each of us in the war on drugs, and I hope
you'll join me in asking what you can do to help -- especially to
advance anti-drug education and awareness.
5
I'm told you can start tonight, by coming back here to
Conestoga Valley to see a drug awareness video. I hope the
turnout will be just as large as it is this morning.
We can all play a part in increasing awareness about the
ravages of drug dependency. We must get the message across that
drugs aren't a form of entertainment or a harmless means of
escape -- drugs are a poison, to users and to our communities.
But a widespread awareness of the dangers of drug abuse
depends on sending consistent signals -- on sending a clear
message that using drugs isn't fashionable, isn't fun, and above
all, isn't safe.
For too long our popular culture glorified drug use. I
think that's changing now -- and that's a real change for the
better. Consider the anti-drug abuse campaign on television.
Not long ago, I was told a story about a little girl, four
years old, who's getting the message. She got up from in front
of the TV to tell her parents something important.
"Drugs," she said, "fry your brain like an egg."
We've all seen the commercial that little girl was talking
about. Whether you're four or fourteen or forty, the message
gets across. Let's all carry that message.
6
And let's shed some of the perceptions about the drug
problem that are comforting, but are completely incorrect.
There's no room for saying, "drug abuse doesn't affect me."
Think about the costs of drug abuse: the lost time, the waste,
the crime, the accidents that can be traced to the influence of
drugs Twenty three million Americans used illegal drugs last
year. Countless thousands died. The fact is that none of us is
immune to the problems drug abuse can cause.
Together, let's you and me send a message on drug abuse:
To the so-called "casual" user: face up to the fact that
your so-called "recreational" drug use contributes to the drug
culture -- to the crime, death and degradation associated with
the drug trade.
To parents: your children know more than you realize about
drugs. Make it your business as a parent to know about drug
abuse yourself. Educate yourselves: don't hide from the reality
of drug abuse in our communities and hope for the best. Your
children depend on you to help them separate fact from fiction --
to help them make a choice, and stick with it, when it comes to
resisting drugs.
To our children, let's send the message that drugs are
dangerous. That you don't need drugs to feel good about yourself
7
-- or to win approval from others. That your parents, the people
in your schools and your community care.
But most of all, you must understand that the decision
against drugs is yours to make -- no one else's. When it's time
to draw the line against drugs, the final choice is yours.
As a community, we must work to make it as easy as possible
for our children to make the choice against drugs. We can do it
by creating an environment -- a safe, secure space -- where our
children can acquire a sense of self and self-confidence so
secure that no amount of peer group pressure can push them into
taking drugs.
In many homes across America, in many of our communities,
here in Lancaster, you're doing just that. Sure things have
changed. But most Americans want to see their towns restored to
a time when drugs came from the local M.D. A place of mothers
and fathers and children and grandparents and bicycles and
baseball and spelling bees. Where crack was something you jumped
over to avoid bad luck. With your hard work and commitment, that
day will come sooner.
My message to you today is: Don't do drugs. Keep fighting
back. Fight for your community, for your children. The war on
drugs will ultimately be won one day, one battle at a time -- the
battles each and every one of us wage to keep our families and
8
communities free from drug abuse. We've learned a hard lesson --
unless we join together and fight, it can happen here. But if we
do work as a team and as a community, it won't.
Let these banners be a battle cry -- that in Conestoga
Valley, in Lancaster, and in communities like yours all over the
country, we will join together, turn the tide, and bring the drug
epidemic to an end.
Thank you.
(McGroarty)
March 3, 1989
7:45pm
dan1
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONESTOGA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA
MARCH 7, 1989
{Acknowledgments, Lancaster dignitaries, Congressman Bob
Walker, Mr. Harry Wirth, principal.) I thank the students,
parents, and teachers here at Conestoga Valley for this warm
welcome. I especially want to command Bob Walker for his role in
the passage the Anti-Drug Act of 1983, and for his efforts toward
achieving a drug-free workplace.
We often think of drug abuse as an urban, inner-city
phenomenon. Millions of Americans think of their own
communities, and say, "it can't happen here."
The people of rural Pennsylvania know that's not true. In
the past two years, the drug epidemic has come here, to your
community. The good news is: you're fighting back. Your
community is too proud, your traditions here too deeply rooted,
for an invader to threaten your safety and well-being without a
fight.
2
When the drug epidemic comes here to the Conestoga Valley,
that's proof the drug epidemic is a national problem.
Recognizing this fact is the first step towards finding a
solution.
I'm also here to say that you're not alone in battling the
drug problem. You have partners -- in your community, in others
across America. And you have partners in the war on drugs in
Washington: right there on Pennsylvania Avenue . As I said in
my Inaugural Address, I am committed to ending the scourge of
drugs.
Our task today is not just to deplore the drug problem, but
to take action against it. What the banners you've hung here
today say to me is that Conestoga Valley and the people of
Lancaster are ready to take action to stop the drug scourge.
One of the most powerful weapons in the war against drug
abuse is education.
Of course, there's another side to the drug problem that
I'll be speaking about later today, when I visit Wilmington,
Delaware on my way back to Washington. That's interdiction and
enforcement -- our effort to stop the supply of illegal drugs,
and shut down the drug trade. But this morning, I want to focus
on means of prevention -- on drying up demand for illegal drugs.
3
Anti-drug education and awareness can help provide our
children and young adults both the reasons and the will-power to
resist the lure of drugs.
That's the aim of an anti-drug education program called DARE
-- Drug Abuse Resistance Education -- that's helping, as the
people involved with DARE like to say, "drug-proof" our children.
The program was pioneered by the Los Angeles Police Department
and the LA public school system. DARE sends policemen into the
classroom, to work with kids, build their self-esteem, teach them
that they can refuse when they are pressured to try drugs. And
the DARE program is teaching youngsters something else: that the
police and their schools are united in a common effort to stop
drug abuse. In the six years since the program began in
California, DARE has caught on nationwide. This year, in 1200
communities in 45 states, three million children will
participate.
{
DARE is just one example of the kind of program that can
provide our children both the reasons and the will-power to
resist the lure of drugs. There is no one right answer when it
comes to battling drug abuse. Each community will find what
works best -- and we will all learn from each other.
Here in Lancaster, you have a program called High-Risk Youth
in the elementary schools, and another called SCIP -- School
Community Intervention Program, in place in the high schools and
4
junior highs. They aim at identifying young people whose
circumstances and family situations make them most vulnerable to
the lure of drugs. Targeting these youth for special attention
is crucial, and with High-Risk Youth and SCIP, you are doing
something to stop drug problems before they begin.
For my part, I'm committed to seeing that drug education
receives the funding it needs.
-- My budget for 1990 calls for a full $1.1 billion dollars
for drug prevention and anti-drug education activities -- up 16%
over 1989.
-- I've urged Congress to provide 392 million dollars for
the Drug Free Schools and Communities program, funds that go to
the states and institutions of higher education.
-- And I've nominated to serve as Director of my Office of
National Drug Control Policy, Bill Bennett, to map strategy and
oversee the anti-drug campaign. I picked Bill for this job
because he's knowledgeable, he's determined but most importantly,
he cares deeply about the children of this country.
These initiatives are important, and they'll have an impact.
But there's a role for each of us in the war on drugs, and I hope
you'll join me in asking what you can do to help -- especially to
advance anti-drug education and awareness.
5
I'm told you can start tonight, by coming back here to
Conestoga Valley to see a drug awareness video. I hope the
turnout will be just as large as it is this morning.
We can all play a part in increasing awareness about the
ravages of drug dependency. We must get the message across that
drugs aren't a form of entertainment or a harmless means of
escape -- drugs are a poison, to users and to our communities.
But a widespread awareness of the dangers of drug abuse
depends on sending consistent signals -- on sending a clear
message that using drugs isn't fashionable, isn't fun, and above
all, isn't safe.
For too long our popular culture glorified drug use. I
think that's changing now -- and that's a real change for the
better. Consider the anti-drug abuse campaign on television.
Not long ago, I was told a story about a little girl, four
years old, who's getting the message. She got up from in front
of the TV to tell her parents something important.
"Drugs," she said, "fry your brain like an egg."
We've all seen the commercial that little girl was talking
about. Whether you're four or fourteen or forty, the message
gets across. Let's all carry that message.
6
And let's shed some of the perceptions about the drug
problem that are comforting, but are completely incorrect.
There's no room for saying, "drug abuse doesn't affect me."
Think about the costs of drug abuse: the lost time, the waste,
the crime, the accidents that can be traced to the influence of
drugs
Twenty three million Americans used illegal drugs last
year. Countless thousands died. The fact is that none of us is
immune to the problems drug abuse can cause.
Together, let's you and me send a message on drug abuse:
To the so-called "casual" user: face up to the fact that
your so-called "recreational" drug use contributes to the drug
culture -- to the crime, death and degradation associated with
the drug trade.
To parents: your children know more than you realize about
drugs. Make it your business as a parent to know about drug
abuse yourself. Educate yourselves: don't hide from the reality
of drug abuse in our communities and hope for the best. Your
children depend on you to help them separate fact from fiction --
to help them make a choice, and stick with it, when it comes to
resisting drugs.
To our children, let's send the message that drugs are
dangerous. That you don't need drugs to feel good about yourself
7
-- or to win approval from others. That your parents, the people
in your schools and your community care.
But most of all, you must understand that the decision
against drugs is yours to make -- no one else's. When it's time
to draw the line against drugs, the final choice is yours.
As a community, we must work to make it as easy as possible
for our children to make the choice against drugs. We can do it
by creating an environment -- a safe, secure space -- where our
children can acquire a sense of self and self-confidence so
secure that no amount of peer group pressure can push them into
taking drugs.
In many homes across America, in many of our communities,
here in Lancaster, you're doing just that. Sure things have
changed. But most Americans want to see their towns restored to
a time when drugs came from the local M.D. A place of mothers
and fathers and children and grandparents and bicycles and
baseball and spelling bees. Where crack was something you jumped
over to avoid bad luck. With your hard work and commitment, that
day will come sooner.
My message to you today is: Don't do drugs. Keep fighting
back. Fight for your community, for your children. The war on
drugs will ultimately be won one day, one battle at a time -- the
battles each and every one of us wage to keep our families and
8
communities free from drug abuse. We've learned a hard lesson --
unless we join together and fight, it can happen here. But if we
do work as a team and as a community, it won't.
Let these banners be a battle cry -- that in Conestoga
Valley, in Lancaster, and in communities like yours all over the
country, we will join together, turn the tide, and bring the drug
epidemic to an end.
Thank you.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
March 3, 1989
Memorandum to Chriss Winston
From:
Jim Pinkerton
Re:
Comments on Conestoga, Wilmington, and Golden Mike
drafts
I liked all three of these drafts, and my comments are more
in the nature of cosmetic surgery, as opposed to amputations!
Conestoga
Page 1, para 2, line 3 I like the "can't happen here"
reference; so much so that I don't think we should just let it
drop. I would pick it up again at the end, e.g. around the
3rd graf on page 7: "We've learned a hard lesson -- unless
we join together and fight, it can happen here. But if we
do work as a team and as a community, it won 't." I make no
great claims for literary quality, but I think that it couldn't
hurt to set up drug abuse as the '80s equivalent of fascism;
the "can't happen here" deriving as it does from the Upton
Sinclair play.
1,3,4-5 The sentence doesn't quite make a point. I'd
say "Your community is too proud, your traditions too deeply
rooted, for an invader to threaten your safety and well-being
without a fight."
1,4,1 The repetition of the "you're not alone" line in
this and the next graf is confusing. I'd save the usage for
the good news: that the President is here to help you. So I'd
rewrite the first line of this as follows: "When the drug
epidemic comes here, to the Conestoga Valley, that's proof
that
"
2,1,3 We ought to work the President into this graf:
"And you have partners in the war on drugs in Washington: right
there on Pennsylvania Avenue. As I said in my Inaugural Address,
I am committed to ending the scourge of drugs."
5,3,3-4 I think the second sentence could be tightened.
Suggest: "She got up from in front of the TV to tell her parents
something important."
7,2,2 I think this graf needs an add-on, as noted above.
2-2-2
However, I think "we're" is presumptuous. The President just got
there. Change it to "you're."
One last thought on this speech. The spread of the drug
plague into Amish country has attracted a great deal of media
attention, given the sense that this was about the last place
one would expect to see drugs. So it might be a good idea for
the President to wax somewhat lyrical about America once was and
what America could be if we can end the drug scourge. Forgive
my license, but such a GB Vision graf could read like this:
"I have a vision that one day soon I'll be able to come
meet
back to Lancaster and see this beautful town restored to what it
once was. A place of mothers and fathers and children and grand-
C
parents and bicycles and baseball and spelling bees. Where crack
was something you jumped over to avoid bad luck. With your hard
work and commitment, that day will come sooner
Wilmington
This is a good tough speech. I like the significant alteration
in tone between the two stops.
1,4,3 I'm not sure people will get the K'port reference.
4,3,1 Fights don't "rest." How 'bout "My friends, we are
all a part of this fight."
4,4,6 I think the "crush" reference is inapt, considering
the fact that part of the production/refining process for drugs
involves crushing/pulverization. I'd change it to just "stop."
6,6,1 When citing a cliche, it's dangerous to change one
word, lest you throw people off the trail. I'd change "hue"
back to "shade." And I'd change "abuse" to "trade." Most Americans,
including this one, think that there is a difference between a
drug kingpin and a preteen crack addict.
7,1,1 "demands" isn't the right word. Try "Every American
should have the right to be free
"
7,2,8 I don't think you can drop in a reference to Eddie
Byrne anymore with confidence that people will remember who he was.
Golden Mikes
1,2,1 Drop first five words. They add nothing. Should
read: "As Broadcast Pioneers, your ability to reach into the hearts
[delete "and minds" shades of Vietnam]gives you a unique
"
1,3,1 Should begin "Broadcast Pioneers have
"
3-3-3
1,3,6 I think we need to restate the concept of the weapon.
Ask the rhetorical "What is that weapon? The truth."
2,1,1 I wouldn't repeat the "alive" image twice. Keep the
JJ quote, but change the second usage to "American Dream going
strong.
"
#
3/3
chriss- concur I've looked with at JP's this comments. &
Bill Room
Document No. 013442
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
3/3/89
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 3/3/89 5:00 PM
SUBJECT:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONESTOGA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL, LANCASTER, PA.
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
WINSTON
CICCONI
PINKERTON
BENNETT
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston, Rm. 122, x2930, by 5:00 PM TODAY, Friday, March 3, 1989,
with an info copy to my office. Sorry for the short turnaround.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
yes commuts
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext 2702
(McGroarty)
March 2, 1989
4:00pm
dan1
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONESTOGA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA
*
MARCH 7, 1989
{Acknowledgments, Lancaster dignitaries, Mr. Harry Wirth,
principal.) I thank the students, parents, and teachers here at
Conestoga Valley for this warm welcome.
We often think of drug abuse as an urban, inner-city
phenomenon. Millions of Americans think of their own
communities, and say, "it can't happen here."
The people of Lancaster know that's not true. In the past
two years, the drug epidemic has come here, to your community.
The good news is: you're fighting back. Your community is too
proud, your traditions here too deeply rooted, to watch an
invader threaten your safety and well-being.
I'm here to say that you're not alone: the drug epidemic is
a national problem. Recognizing this fact is the first step
towards finding a solution.
2
I'm also here to say that you're not alone in battling the
drug problem. You have partners -- in your community, in others
across America. And you have partners in the war on drugs in
Washington.
Our task today is not just to deplore the drug problem, but
to take action against it. What the banners you've hung here
today say to me is that Conestoga Valley and the people of
Lancaster are ready to take action to stop the drug scourge.
One of the most powerful weapons in the war against drug
abuse is education.
of course, there's another side to the drug problem that
I'll be speaking about later today, when I visit Wilmington,
Delaware on my way back to Washington. That's interdiction and
enforcement -- our effort to stop the supply of illegal drugs,
and shut down the drug trade. But this morning, I want to focus
on means of prevention -- on drying up demand for illegal drugs.
Anti-drug education and awareness can help provide our
children and young adults both the reasons and the will-power to
resist the lure of drugs.
That's the aim of an anti-drug education program called DARE
-- Drug Abuse Resistance Education -- that's helping, as the
people involved with DARE like to say, "drug-proof" our children.
3
The program was pioneered by the Los Angeles Police Department
and the LA public school system. DARE sends policemen into the
classroom, to work with kids, build their self-esteem, teach them
that they can refuse when they are pressured to try drugs. And
the DARE program is teaching youngsters something else: that the
police and their schools are united in a common effort to stop
drug abuse. In the six years since the program began in
California, DARE has caught on nationwide. This year, in 1200
communities in 45 states, three million children will
participate.
DARE is just one example of the kind of program that can
provide our children both the reasons and the will-power to
resist the lure of drugs. There is no one right answer when it
comes to battling drug abuse. Each community will find what
works best -- and we will all learn from each other.
Here in Lancaster, you have a program called High-Risk Youth
in the elementary schools, and another called SCIP -- School
Community Intervention Program, in place in the high schools and
junior highs. They aim at identifying young people whose
circumstances and family situations make them most vulnerable to
the lure of drugs. Targeting these children for special
attention is crucial, and with High-Risk Youth and SCIP, you are
doing something to stop drug problems before they begin.
4
For my part, I'm committed to seeing that drug education
recieves the funding it needs.
-- My budget for 1990 calls for a full $1.1 billion dollars
for drug prevention and anti-drug education activities -- up 16%
over 1989.
392
Holen
x5178
-- I've urged Congress to provide 367 million dollars for
the Drug Free Schools and Communities program, funds that go to
the states and institutions of higher education.
suppointed yet?
A.Raul
Y 5044
-- And I've nominated a Drug Policy Director, Bill Bennett,
to map strategy and oversee the anti-drug campaign.
These initiatives are important, and they'll have an impact.
But there's a role for each of us in the war on drugs, and I hope
you'll join me in asking what you can do to help -- especially to
advance anti-drug education and awareness.
I'm told you can start tonight, by coming back here to
Conestoga Valley to see a drug awareness video. I hope the
turnout will be just as large as it is this morning.
We can all play a part in increasing awareness about the
ravages of drug dependency. We must get the message across that
drugs aren't a form of entertainment or a harmless means of
escape -- drugs are a poison, to users and to our communities.
5
But a widespread awareness of the dangers of drug abuse
depends on sending consistent signals -- on sending a clear
message that using drugs isn't fashionable, isn't fun, and above
all, isn't safe.
For too long our popular culture glorified drug use. I
think that's changing now -- and that's a real change for the
better. Consider the anti-drug abuse campaign on television.
Not long ago, I was told a story about a little girl, four
years old, who's getting the message. She got up from in front
of the TV to take to her parents an important piece of
information.
"Drugs," she said, "fry your brain like an egg."
We've all seen the commercial that little girl was talking
about. Whether you're four or fourteen or forty, the message
gets across. Let's all carry that message.
And let's shed some of the perceptions about the drug
problem that are comforting, but are completely incorrect.
There's no room for saying, "drug abuse doesn't effect me."
Think about the costs of drug abuse: the lost time, the waste,
the crime, the accidents that can be traced to the influence of
drugs
Twenty three million Americans used illegal drugs last
6
year. Five thousand died. The fact is that none of us are
immune to the problems drug abuse can cause.
Together, let's send a message on drug abuse:
To the so-called "casual" user: face up to the fact that
your so-called "recreational" drug use contributes to the drug
culture -- to the crime, death and degradation associated with
the drug trade.
To parents: your children know more than you realize about
drugs. Make it your business as a parent to know about drug
abuse yourself. Educate yourselves: don't hide from the reality
of drug abuse in our communities and hope for the best. Your
children depend on you to help them separate fact from fiction --
to help them make a choice, and stick with it, when it comes to
resisting drugs.
To our children, let's send the message that drugs are
dangerous. That you don't need drugs to feel good about yourself
-- or to win approval from others. That your parents, the people
in your schools and your community care.
But most of all, you must understand that the decision
against drugs is yours to make -- no one else's. When it's time
to draw the line against drugs, the final choice is yours.
7
As a community, we must work to make it as easy as possible
for our children to make the choice against drugs. We can do it
by creating an environment -- a safe, secure space -- where our
children can acquire a sense of self and self-confidence so
secure that no amount of peer group pressure can push them into
taking drugs.
In many homes across America, in many of our communities,
here in Lancaster, we're doing just that.
My message to you today is: Keep fighting back. Fight for
your community, for your children. The war on drugs will
ultimately be won one day, one battle at a time -- the battles
each and every one of us wage to keep our families and
communities free from drug abuse.
Let these banners be a battle cry -- that in Conestoga
Valley, in Lancaster, and in communities like yours all over the
country, we will join together, turn the tide, and bring the drug
epidemic to an end.
Thank you.
Document No.
013442
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
3/3/89
3/3/89 5:00 PM
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONESTOGA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL, LANCASTER, PA.
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
WINSTON
CICCONI
PINKERTON
BENNETT
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston, Rm. 122, x2930, by 5:00 PM TODAY, Friday, March 3, 1989,
with an info copy to my office. Sorry for the short turnaround.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
Chris 3/3
Please comments
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(McGroarty)
March 2, 1989
4:00pm
dan1
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONESTOGA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA
MARCH 7, 1989
{Acknowledgments, Lancaster dignitaries, Mr. Harry Wirth,
principal.) I thank the students, parents, and teachers here at
Conestoga Valley for this warm welcome.
We often think of drug abuse as an urban, inner-city
phenomenon. Millions of Americans think of their own
communities, and say, "it can't happen here."
The people of Lancaster know that's not true. In the past
two years, the drug epidemic has come here, to your community.
The good news is: you're fighting back. Your community is too
proud, your traditions here too deeply rooted, to watch an
invader threaten your safety and well-being.
I'm here to say that you're not alone: the drug epidemic is
a national problem. Recognizing this fact is the first step
towards finding a solution.
2
I'm also here to say that you're not alone in battling the
drug problem. You have partners -- in your community, in others
across America. And you have partners in the war on drugs in
Washington.
Our task today is not just to deplore the drug problem, but
to take action against it. What the banners you've hung here
today say to me is that Conestoga Valley and the people of
Lancaster are ready to take action to stop the drug scourge.
One of the most powerful weapons in the war against drug
abuse is education.
of course, there's another side to the drug problem that
I'll be speaking about later today, when I visit Wilmington,
Delaware on my way back to Washington. That's interdiction and
enforcement --- our effort to stop the supply of illegal drugs,
and shut down the drug trade. But this morning, I want to focus
on means of prevention -- on drying up demand for illegal drugs.
Anti-drug education and awareness can help provide our
children and young adults both the reasons and the will-power to
resist the lure of drugs.
That's the aim of an anti-drug education program called DARE
-- Drug Abuse Resistance Education -- that's helping, as the
people involved with DARE like to say, "drug-proof" our children.
3
The program was pioneered by the Los Angeles Police Department
and the LA public school system. DARE sends policemen into the
classroom, to work with kids, build their self-esteem, teach them
that they can refuse when they are pressured to try drugs. And
the DARE program is teaching youngsters something else: that the
police and their schools are united in a common effort to stop
drug abuse. In the six years since the program began in
California, DARE has caught on nationwide. This year, in 1200
communities in 45 states, three million children will
participate.
DARE is just one example of the kind of program that can
provide our children both the reasons and the will-power to
resist the lure of drugs. There is no one right answer when it
comes to battling drug abuse. Each community will find what
works best -- and we will all learn from each other.
Here in Lancaster, you have a program called High-Risk Youth
in the elementary schools, and another called SCIP -- School
Community Intervention Program, in place in the high schools and
junior highs. They aim at identifying young people whose
circumstances and family situations make them most vulnerable to
the lure of drugs. Targeting these children for special
attention is crucial, and with High-Risk Youth and SCIP, you are
doing something to stop drug problems before they begin.
4
For my part, I'm committed to seeing that drug education
recieves the funding it needs.
A
-- My budget for 1990 calls for a full $1.1 billion dollars
for drug prevention and anti-drug education activities -- up 16%
over 1989.
-- I've urged Congress to provide 367 million dollars for
the Drug Free Schools and Communities program, funds that go to
the states and institutions of higher education.
Director of my Office of Notional
-- And I've nominated a Drug Policy Director, Bill Bennett, control Dug
to map strategy and oversee the anti-drug campaign.
Policy
These initiatives are important, and they'll have an impact.
But there's a role for each of us in the war on drugs, and I hope
you'll join me in asking what you can do to help -- especially to
advance anti-drug education and awareness.
I'm told you can start tonight, by coming back here to
Conestoga Valley to see a drug awareness video. I hope the
turnout will be just as large as it is this morning.
We can all play a part in increasing awareness about the
ravages of drug dependency. We must get the message across that
drugs aren't a form of entertainment or a harmless means of
escape -- drugs are a poison, to users and to our communities.
5
But a widespread awareness of the dangers of drug abuse
depends on sending consistent signals -- on sending a clear
message that using drugs isn't fashionable, isn't fun, and above
all, isn't safe.
For too long our popular culture glorified drug use. I
think that's changing now -- and that's a real change for the
better. Consider the anti-drug abuse campaign on television.
Not long ago, I was told a story about a little girl, four
years old, who's getting the message. She got up from in front
of the TV to take to her parents an important piece of
information.
"Drugs," she said, "fry your brain like an egg."
We've all seen the commercial that little girl was talking
about. Whether you're four or fourteen or forty, the message
gets across. Let's all carry that message.
And let's shed some of the perceptions about the drug
problem that are comforting, but are completely incorrect.
There's no room for saying, "drug abuse doesn't effect me." "
Think about the costs of drug abuse: the lost time, the waste,
the crime, the accidents that can be traced to the influence of
drugs
Twenty three million Americans used illegal drugs last
6
have died
year. Five thousand died. The fact is that none of us are
immune to the problems drug abuse can cause.
Together, let's send a message on drug abuse:
To the so-called "casual" user: face up to the fact that
your so-called "recreational" drug use contributes to the drug
culture -- to the crime, death and degradation associated with
the drug trade.
To parents: your children know more than you realize about
drugs. Make it your business as a parent to know about drug
abuse yourself. Educate yourselves: don't hide from the reality
of drug abuse in our communities and hope for the best. Your
children depend on you to help them separate fact from fiction --
to help them make a choice, and stick with it, when it comes to
resisting drugs.
To our children, let's send the message that drugs are
dangerous. That you don't need drugs to feel good about yourself
-- or to win approval from others. That your parents, the people
in your schools and your community care.
But most of all, you must understand that the decision
against drugs is yours to make -- no one else's. When it's time
to draw the line against drugs, the final choice is yours.
7
As a community, we must work to make it as easy as possible
for our children to make the choice against drugs. We can do it
by creating an environment -- a safe, secure space -- where our
children can acquire a sense of self and self-confidence so
secure that no amount of peer group pressure can push them into
taking drugs.
In many homes across America, in many of our communities,
here in Lancaster, we're doing just that.
My message to you today is: Keep fighting back. Fight for
your community, for your children. The war on drugs will
ultimately be won one day, one battle at a time -- the battles
each and every one of us wage to keep our families and
communities free from drug abuse.
Let these banners be a battle cry -- that in Conestoga
Valley, in Lancaster, and in communities like yours all over the
country, we will join together, turn the tide, and bring the drug
epidemic to an end.
Thank you.
Values:
Document No.
013442
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
3/3/89
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 3/3/89 5:00 PM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONESTOGA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL, LANCASTER, PA.
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
WINSTON
CICCONI
PINKERTON
BENNETT
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston, Rm. 122, x2930, by 5:00 PM TODAY, Friday, March 3,1989,
with an info copy to my office. Sorry for the short turnaround.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Accietant to the President
(McGroarty)
March 2, 1989
4:00pm
dan1
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONESTOGA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA
MARCH 7, 1989
Congressman Bob Walker
{Acknowledgments, Lancaster dignitaries, Mr. Harry Wirth,
principal.} I thank the students, parents, and teachers here at
Conestoga Valley for this warm welcome. X If appropriate, include
acknow ledgement of Walker's efforts in last years anti-drug abuse
Act 1953 bilt and his efforts to eliminate drugs from the workplace a elsewhere.)
We often think of drug abuse as an urban, inner-city
phenomenon. Millions of Americans think of their own
communities, and say, "it can't happen here."
The people of Lancaster know that's not true. In the past
two years, the drug epidemic has come here, to your community.
The good news is: you're fighting back. Your community is too
proud, your traditions here too deeply rooted, to watch an
invader threaten your safety and well-being.
I'm here to say that you're not alone: the drug epidemic is
a national problem. Recognizing this fact is the first step
toward achieving a drug -free workplace.
towards finding a solution.
*
I especially want
passace the anti- Drus abuse Get of 1988. and for his efforts
to commend Bob Walher for his off role in the
2
I'm also here to say that you're not alone in battling the
drug problem. You have partners -- in your community, in others
across America. And you have partners in the war on drugs in
Washington.
Our task today is not just to deplore the drug problem, but
to take action against it. What the banners you've hung here
today say to me is that Conestoga Valley and the people of
Lancaster are ready to take action to stop the drug scourge.
One of the most powerful weapons in the war against drug
abuse is education.
of course, there's another side to the drug problem that
I'll be speaking about later today, when I visit Wilmington,
Delaware on my way back to Washington. That's interdiction and
enforcement -- our effort to stop the supply of illegal drugs,
and shut down the drug trade. But this morning, I want to focus
on means of prevention -- on drying up demand for illegal drugs.
Anti-drug education and awareness can help provide our
children and young adults both the reasons and the will-power to
resist the lure of drugs.
That's the aim of an anti-drug education program called DARE
-- Drug Abuse Resistance Education -- that's helping, as the
people involved with DARE like to say, "drug-proof" our children.
3
The program was pioneered by the Los Angeles Police Department
and the LA public school system. DARE sends policemen into the
classroom, to work with kids, build their self-esteem, teach them
that they can refuse when they are pressured to try drugs. And
the DARE program is teaching youngsters something else: that the
police and their schools are united in a common effort to stop
drug abuse. In the six years since the program began in
California, DARE has caught on nationwide. This year, in 1200
communities in 45 states, three million children will
participate.
DARE is just one example of the kind of program that can
provide our children both the reasons and the will-power to
resist the lure of drugs. There is no one right answer when it
comes to battling drug abuse. Each community will find what
works best -- and we will all learn from each other.
Here in Lancaster, you have a program called High-Risk Youth
in the elementary schools, and another called SCIP -- School
Community Intervention Program, in place in the high schools and
junior highs. They aim at identifying young people whose
circumstances and family situations make them most vulnerable to
the lure of drugs. Targeting these children for special
attention is crucial, and with High-Risk Youth and SCIP, you are
doing something to stop drug problems before they begin.
4
For my part, I'm committed to seeing that drug education
recieves the funding it needs.
-- My budget for 1990 calls for a full $1.1 billion dollars
for drug prevention and anti-drug education activities -- up 16%
over 1989.
-- I've urged Congress to provide 367 million dollars for
the Drug Free Schools and Communities program, funds that go to
the states and institutions of higher education.
-- And I've nominated a Drug Policy Director, Bill Bennett,
to map strategy and oversee the anti-drug campaign.
These initiatives are important, and they'll have an impact.
But there's a role for each of us in the war on drugs, and I hope
you'll join me in asking what you can do to help -- especially to
advance anti-drug education and awareness.
I'm told you can start tonight, by coming back here to
Conestoga Valley to see a drug awareness video. I hope the
turnout will be just as large as it is this morning.
We can all play a part in increasing awareness about the
ravages of drug dependency. We must get the message across that
drugs aren't a form of entertainment or a harmless means of
escape -- drugs are a poison, to users and to our communities.
5
But a widespread awareness of the dangers of drug abuse
depends on sending consistent signals -- on sending a clear
message that using drugs isn't fashionable, isn't fun, and above
all, isn't safe.
For too long our popular culture glorified drug use. I
think that's changing now -- and that's a real change for the
better. Consider the anti-drug abuse campaign on television.
Not long ago, I was told a story about a little girl, four
years old, who's getting the message. She got up from in front
of the TV to take to her parents an important piece of
information.
"Drugs," she said, "fry your brain like an egg."
We've all seen the commercial that little girl was talking
about. Whether you're four or fourteen or forty, the message
gets across. Let's all carry that message.
And let's shed some of the perceptions about the drug
problem that are comforting, but are completely incorrect.
There's no room for saying, "drug abuse doesn't effect me."
Think about the costs of drug abuse: the lost time, the waste,
the crime, the accidents that can be traced to the influence of
drugs
Twenty three million Americans used illegal drugs last
6
year. Five thousand died. The fact is that none of us are
immune to the problems drug abuse can cause.
Together, let's send a message on drug abuse:
To the so-called "casual" user: face up to the fact that
your so-called "recreational" drug use contributes to the drug
culture -- to the crime, death and degradation associated with
the drug trade.
To parents: your children know more than you realize about
drugs. Make it your business as a parent to know about drug
abuse yourself. Educate yourselves: don't hide from the reality
of drug abuse in our communities and hope for the best. Your
children depend on you to help them separate fact from fiction --
to help them make a choice, and stick with it, when it comes to
resisting drugs.
To our children, let's send the message that drugs are
dangerous. That you don't need drugs to feel good about yourself
-- or to win approval from others. That your parents, the people
in your schools and your community care.
But most of all, you must understand that the decision
against drugs is yours to make -- no one else's. When it's time
to draw the line against drugs, the final choice is yours.
7
Às a-community, we must work to make it as easy as possible
for our children to make the choice against drugs. We can do it
by creating an environment -- a safe, secure space -- where our
children can acquire a sense of self and self-confidence so
secure that no amount of peer group pressure can push them into
taking drugs.
In many homes across America, in many of our communities,
here in Lancaster, we're doing just that.
My message to you today is: Keep fighting back. Fight for
your community, for your children. The war on drugs will
ultimately be won one day, one battle at a time -- the battles
each and every one of us wage to keep our families and
communities free from drug abuse.
Let these banners be a battle cry -- that in Conestoga
Valley, in Lancaster, and in communities like yours all over the
country, we will join together, turn the tide, and bring the drug
epidemic to an end.
Thank you.
orig.draft
DRAFT
(McGroarty)
March 2, 1989
4:00pm
dan1
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONESTOGA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA
MARCH 7, 1989
{Acknowledgments, Lancaster dignitaries, Mr. Harry Worth,
principal.} I thank the students, parents, and teachers here at
Conestoga Valley for this warm welcome.
We often think of drug abuse as an urban, inner-city
phenomenon. Millions of Americans think of their own
communities, and say, "it can't happen here."
The people of Lancaster know that's not true. In the past
two years, the drug epidemic has come here, to your community.
The good news is: you're fighting back. Your community is too
proud, your traditions here too deeply rooted, to watch an
invader threaten your safety and well-being.
I'm here to say that you're not alone: the drug epidemic is
a national problem. Recognizing this fact is the first step
towards finding a solution.
2
I'm also here to say that you're not alone in battling the
drug problem. You have partners -- in your community, in others
across America. And you have partners in the war on drugs in
Washington.
Our task today is not just to deplore the drug problem, but
to take action against it. What the banners you've hung here
today say to me is that Conestoga Valley and the people of
Lancaster are ready to take action to stop the drug scourge.
One of the most powerful weapons in the war against drug
abuse is education.
of course, there's another side to the drug problem that
I'll be speaking about later today, when I visit Wilmington,
Delaware on my way back to Washington. That's interdiction and
enforcement -- our effort to stop the supply of illegal drugs,
and shut down the drug trade. But this morning, I want to focus
on means of prevention -- on drying up demand for illegal drugs.
Anti-drug education and awareness can help provide our
children and young adults both the reasons and the will-power to
resist the lure of drugs.
That's the aim of an anti-drug education program called DARE
-- Drug Abuse Resistance Education -- that's helping, as the
people involved with DARE like to say, "drug-proof" our children.
3
The program was pioneered by the Los Angeles Police Department
and the LA public school system. DARE sends policemen into the
classroom, to work with kids, build their self-esteem, teach them
that they can refuse when they are pressured to try drugs. And
the DARE program is teaching youngsters something else: that the
police and their schools are united in a common effort to stop
drug abuse. In the six years since the program began in
California, DARE has caught on nationwide. This year, in 1200
communities in 45 states, three million children will
participate.
DARE is just one example of the kind of program that can
provide our children both the reasons and the will-power to
resist the lure of drugs. There is no one right answer when it
comes to battling drug abuse. Each community will find what
works best -- and we will all learn from each other.
Here in Lancaster, you have a program called High-Risk Youth
in the elementary schools, and another called SCIP -- School
Community Intervention Program, in place in the high schools and
junior highs. They aims at identifying young people whose
circumstances and family situations make them most vulnerable to
the lure of drugs. Targeting these children for special
attention is crucial, and with High-Risk Youth and SCIP, you are
doing something to stop drug problems before they begin.
4
For my part, I'm committed to seeing that drug education
recieves the funding it needs.
-- My budget for 1990 calls for a full $1.1 billion dollars
for drug prevention and anti-drug education activities -- up 16%
over 1989.
-- I've urged Congress to provide 367 million dollars for
the Drug Free Schools and Communities program, funds that go to
the states and institutions of higher education.
-- And I've appointed a Drug Policy Director, Bill Bennett,
to map strategy and oversee the anti-drug campaign.
These initiatives are important, and they'll have an impact.
But there's a role for each of us in the war on drugs, and I hope
you'll join me in asking what you can do to help -- especially to
advance anti-drug education and awareness.
I'm told you can start tonight, by coming back here to
Conestoga Valley to see a drug awareness video. I hope the
turnout will be just as large as it is this morning.
We can all play a part in increasing awareness about the
ravages of drug dependency. We must get the message across that
drugs aren't a form of entertainment or a harmless means of
escape -- drugs are a poison, to users and to our communities.
5
But a widespread awareness of the dangers of drug abuse
depends on sending consistent signals -- on sending a clear
message that using drugs isn't fashionable, isn't fun, and above
all, isn't safe.
For too long our popular culture glorified drug use. I
think that's changing now -- and that's a real change for the
better. Consider the anti-drug abuse campaign on television.
Not long ago, I was told a story about a little girl, four
years old, who's getting the message. She got up from in front
of the TV to take to her parents an important piece of
information.
"Drugs," she said, "fry your brain like an egg."
We've all seen the commercial that little girl was talking
about. Whether you're four or fourteen or forty, the message
gets across. Let's all carry that message.
And let's shed some of the perceptions about the drug
problem that are comforting, but are completely incorrect.
There's no room for saying, "drug abuse doesn't effect me."
Think about the costs of drug abuse: the lost time, the waste,
the crime, the accidents that can be traced to the influence of
drugs
Twenty three million Americans used illegal drugs last
6
year. Five thousand died. The fact is that none of us are
immune to the problems drug abuse can cause.
Together, let's send a message on drug abuse:
To the so-called "casual" user: face up to the fact that
your so-called "recreational" drug use contributes to the drug
culture -- to the crime, death and degradation associated with
the drug trade.
To parents: your children know more than you realize about
drugs. Make it your business as a parent to know about drug
abuse yourself. Educate yourselves: don't hide from the reality
of drug abuse in our communities and hope for the best. Your
children depend on you to help them separate fact from fiction --
to help them make a choice, and stick with it, when it comes to
resisting drugs.
To our children, let's send the message that drugs are
dangerous. That you don't need drugs to feel good about yourself
-- or to win approval from others. That your parents, the people
in your schools and your community care.
But most of all, you must understand that the decision
against drugs is yours to make -- no one else's. When it's time
to draw the line against drugs, the final choice is yours.
7
As a community, we must work to make it as easy as possible
for our children to make the choice against drugs. We can do it
by creating an environment -- a safe, secure space -- where our
children can acquire a sense of self and self-confidence so
secure that no amount of peer group pressure can push them into
taking drugs.
In many homes across America, in many of our communities,
here in Lancaster, we're doing just that.
My message to you today is: Keep fighting back. Fight for
your community, for your children. The war on drugs will
ultimately be won one day, one battle at a time -- the battles
each and every one of us wage to keep our families and
communities free from drug abuse.
Let these banners be a battle cry -- that in Conestoga
Valley, in Lancaster, and in communities like yours all over the
country, we will join together, turn the tide, and bring the drug
epidemic to an end.
Thank you.
staffed-holding/
for5
dray speech
(McGroarty)
March 2, 1989
4:00pm
danl
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONESTOGA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA
MARCH 7, 1989
{Acknowledgments, Lancaster dignitaries, Mr. Harry Wirth,
principal.) I thank the students, parents, and teachers here at
Conestoga Valley for this warm welcome.
We often think of drug abuse as an urban, inner-city
phenomenon. Millions of Americans think of their own
communities, and say, "it can't happen here."
The people of Lançaster know that's not true. In the past
two years, the drug epidemic has come here, to your community.
The good news is: you're fighting back. Your community is too
proud, your traditions here too deeply rooted, to watch an
invader threaten your safety and well-being.
I'm here to say that you're not alone: the drug epidemic is
a national problem. Recognizing this fact is the first step
towards finding a solution.
2
I'm also here to say that you're not alone in battling the
drug problem. You have partners -- in your community, in others
across America. And you have partners in the war on drugs in
Washington.
Our task today is not just to deplore the drug problem, but
to take action against it. What the banners you've hung here
today say to me is that Conestoga Valley and the people of
Lancaster are ready to take action to stop the drug scourge.
One of the most powerful weapons in the war against drug
abuse is education.
of course, there's another side to the drug problem that
I'll be speaking about later today, when I visit Wilmington,
Delaware on my way back to Washington. That's interdiction and
enforcement -- our effort to stop the supply of illegal drugs,
and shut down the drug trade. But this morning, I want to focus
on means of prevention -- on drying up demand for illegal drugs.
Anti-drug education and awareness can help provide our
children and young adults both the reasons and the will-power to
resist the lure of drugs.
That's the aim of an anti-drug education program called DARE
-- Drug Abuse Resistance Education -- that's helping, as the
people involved with DARE like to say, "drug-proof" our children.
3
The program was pioneered by the Los Angeles Police Department
and the LA public school system. DARE sends policemen into the
classroom, to work with kids, build their self-esteem, teach them
that they can refuse when they are pressured to try drugs. And
the DARE program is teaching youngsters something else: that the
police and their schools are united in a common effort to stop
drug abuse. In the six years since the program began in
California, DARE has caught on nationwide. This year, in 1200
communities in 45 states, three million children will
participate.
DARE is just one example of the kind of program that can
provide our children both the reasons and the will-power to
resist the lure of drugs. There is no one right answer when it
comes to battling drug abuse. Each community will find what
works best -- and we will all learn from each other.
Here in Lancaster, you have a program called High-Risk Youth
in the elementary schools, and another called SCIP -- School
Community Intervention Program, in place in the high schools and
junior highs. They aim at identifying young people whose
circumstances and family situations make them most vulnerable to
the lure of drugs. Targeting these children for special
attention is crucial, and with High-Risk Youth and SCIP, you are
doing something to stop drug problems before they begin.
4
For my part, I'm committed to seeing that drug education
recieves the funding it needs.
-- My budget for 1990 calls for a full $1.1 billion dollars
for drug prevention and anti-drug education activities -- up 16%
over 1989.
-- I've urged Congress to provide 367 million dollars for
the Drug Free Schools and Communities program, funds that go to
the states and institutions of higher education.
-- And I've nominated a Drug Policy Director, Bill Bennett,
to map strategy and oversee the anti-drug campaign.
These initiatives are important, and they'll have an impact.
But there's a role for each of us in the war on drugs, and I hope
you'll join me in asking what you can do to help -- especially to
advance anti-drug education and awareness.
I'm told you can start tonight, by coming back here to
Conestoga Valley to see a drug awareness video. I hope the
turnout will be just as large as it is this morning.
We can all play a part in increasing awareness about the
ravages of drug dependency. We must get the message across that
drugs aren't a form of entertainment or a harmless means of
escape -- drugs are a poison, to users and to our communities.
5
But a widespread awareness of the dangers of drug abuse
depends on sending consistent signals -- on sending a clear
message that using drugs isn't fashionable, isn't fun, and above
all, isn't safe.
For too long our popular culture glorified drug use. I
think that's changing now -- and that's a real change for the
better. Consider the anti-drug abuse campaign on television.
Not long ago, I was told a story about a little girl, four
years old, who's getting the message. She got up from in front
of the TV to take to her parents an important piece of
information.
"Drugs," she said, "fry your brain like an egg."
We've all seen the commercial that little girl was talking
about. Whether you're four or fourteen or forty, the message
gets across. Let's all carry that message.
And let's shed some of the perceptions about the drug
problem that are comforting, but are completely incorrect.
There's no room for saying, "drug abuse doesn't effect me." "
Think about the costs of drug abuse: the lost time, the waste,
the crime, the accidents that can be traced to the influence of
drugs
Twenty three million Americans used illegal drugs last
6
year. Five thousand died. The fact is that none of us are
immune to the problems drug abuse can cause.
Together, let's send a message on drug abuse:
To the so-called "casual" user: face up to the fact that
your so-called "recreational" drug use contributes to the drug
culture -- to the crime, death and degradation associated with
the drug trade.
To parents: your children know more than you realize about
drugs. Make it your business as a parent to know about drug
abuse yourself. Educate yourselves: don't hide from the reality
of drug abuse in our communities and hope for the best. Your
children depend on you to help them separate fact from fiction --
to help them make a choice, and stick with it, when it comes to
resisting drugs.
To our children, let's send the message that drugs are
dangerous. That you don't need drugs to feel good about yourself
-- or to win approval from others. That your parents, the people
in your schools and your community care.
But most of all, you must understand that the decision
against drugs is yours to make -- no one else's. When it's time
to draw the line against drugs, the final choice is yours.
7
As a community, we must work to make it as easy as possible
for our children to make the choice against drugs. We can do it
by creating an environment -- a safe, secure space -- where our
children can acquire a sense of self and self-confidence so
secure that no amount of peer group pressure can push them into
taking drugs.
In many homes across America, in many of our communities,
here in Lancaster, we're doing just that.
My message to you today is: Keep fighting back. Fight for
your community, for your children. The war on drugs will
ultimately be won one day, one battle at a time -- the battles
each and every one of us wage to keep our families and
communities free from drug abuse.
Let these banners be a battle cry -- that in Conestoga
Valley, in Lancaster, and in communities like yours all over the
country, we will join together, turn the tide, and bring the drug
epidemic to an end.
Thank you.