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REMARKS: AMERICAN ASSOC. OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
WASHINGTON SHERATON HOTEL
MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1989, 11:15 A.M.
THANK YOU, SARAH HARDER, FOR THAT GRACIOUS
INTRODUCTION. AND CONGRATULATIONS AS YOU COMPLETE YOUR
DISTINGUISHED TERM AS PRESIDENT OF AAUW. YOU AND I
KNOW IT CAN BE FUN TO BE PRESIDENT. BUT I HEAR FROM
CALIFORNIA THAT EX-PRESIDENT IS NOT SUCH A BAD JOB,
EITHER.
AND CONGRATULATIONS ALSO TO YOUR SUCCESSOR, SHARON
SCHUSTER.
AND THERE'S ANOTHER AAUW PRESIDENT -- A PAST
PRESIDENT -- THAT I'D LIKE TO SAY HELLO TO TODAY. FROM
DES MOINES, IOWA -- AND NOW HEAD OF YOUR EDUCATIONAL
FOUNDATION -- MARY GREFE.
- 2 -
IN AMERICA TODAY, THERE IS NO GREATER
IMPERATIVE -- MORAL OR PRACTICAL -- THAN PROVIDING
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD. THIS
MEANS EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN HOUSING AND JOBS -- AND
FLEXIBILITY AND PARENTAL CHOICE IN CHILD CARE AND
EDUCATION. IT MEANS EQUAL PROTECTION FROM HOSTILE
ELEMENTS, WHETHER CRIMINAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL -- AND
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN SERVICE AND COMMUNITY ACTION,
WHETHER THROUGH PUBLIC, PRIVATE, OR NON-PROFIT
ORGANIZATIONS.
AND TODAY, I'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT TWO ISSUES IN
PARTICULAR: EDUCATION -- AND PUBLIC SAFETY. BOTH ARE
IMPORTANT TO THIS ASSOCIATION -- AND TO ANY THINKING
PERSON WHO CARES ABOUT THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND
OPPORTUNITY IN AMERICA. AND BOTH ARE THE SUBJECT OF
MAJOR ADMINISTRATION PROPOSALS NOW PENDING BEFORE THE
CONGRESS.
AND THERE'S A THIRD ISSUE THAT I KNOW YOU'RE
FAMILIAR WITH -- COMMUNITY ACTION -- WHAT I HAVE
CALLED "A THOUSAND POINTS OF LIGHT."
- 3 -
LAST WEEK I TRAVELED UP AND DOWN THE EASTERN
SEABOARD -- ISSUING A CALL TO ACTION FOR COMMUNITY
SERVICE. WE CARRIED THE MESSAGE FROM MAIN STREET TO
WALL STREET -- ENLISTING YOUNG AND OLD -- BLACK, WHITE
AND BROWN -- AMERICA'S DIVERSITY -- TO JOIN A MOVEMENT
PREDICATED ON ONE SIMPLE IDEA:
"FROM NOW ON, ANY DEFINITION OF A SUCCESSFUL LIFE
MUST INCLUDE SERVICE TO OTHERS."
FOR OVER A HUNDRED YEARS, YOUR PREDECESSORS -- AND
NOW YOU IN THIS ROOM -- HAVE BUILT SUCCESSFUL LIVES
THROUGH COMMUNITY ACTION. YOU WERE AHEAD OF THE CURVE
-- BY ABOUT A CENTURY. AND OFTEN YOUR SERVICE HAS
ADDRESSED THE VERY ISSUES WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY --
EDUCATION AND PUBLIC SAFETY.
THE AAUW FOUNDATION THAT MARY GREFE NOW DIRECTS
BEGAN HANDING OUT EDUCATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS IN 1888. IT
IS A GREAT TRADITION, AT ONCE COMBINING AMERICA'S
VALUES OF SERVICE AND EDUCATION.
- 4 -
AND THE SCHOLARSHIPS YOU PROVIDE ARE MORE THAN
JUST MONEY IN THE HANDS OF DESERVING STUDENTS. THEY
ARE MONEY IN THE BANK FOR THE FUTURE OF AMERICA.
AND TODAY OUR EFFORTS TO IMPROVE THE EDUCATION
SYSTEM REPRESENT AN ENDEAVOR WHERE NOTHING LESS THAN
THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY IS AT STAKE. AND YOUR
ASSOCIATION REPRESENTS 140,000 REASONS WHY AMERICA WILL
SUCCEED.
YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS ARE IMPORTANT. AND EQUALLY
IMPORTANT IS THE RECENT AND RENEWED COMMITMENT TO AN
OLD-FASHIONED AMERICAN IDEA -- PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE
GOVERNMENT AND THE COMMUNITY IN SEEKING EDUCATIONAL
EXCELLENCE.
GOVERNMENT -- AND ESPECIALLY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT --
CANNOT PROVIDE ALL THE ANSWERS. BUT IT HAS AN
OBLIGATION TO LEAD.
- 5 -
EARLIER THIS YEAR, I SENT TO CONGRESS THE
EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE ACT OF 1989. IT PROPOSES
SOLUTIONS BASED ON FOUR SIMPLE IDEAS -- REWARDING
EXCELLENCE, HELPING THOSE IN NEED, ACCOUNTABILITY --
AND ONE THAT'S CLOSE TO THE TRADITIONS OF THIS
ORGANIZATION -- PARENTAL CHOICE AND FLEXIBILITY.
TO ACHIEVE THESE GOALS, MY NEW INITIATIVE PROPOSES
A SEVEN-POINT PLAN. TWO OF THESE POINTS CALL FOR MERIT
AWARDS -- CASH INCENTIVES FOR OUR MOST SUCCESSFUL
SCHOOLS AND THE TOP TEACHERS IN EVERY STATE.
I WANT THE BEST TEACHERS OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
CAN ATTRACT. BECAUSE TEACHERS SHAPE THE MINDS THAT
SHAPE THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY.
LAST YEAR -- AT THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE
FIRST AAUW EDUCATIONAL FELLOWSHIP -- JUSTICE SANDRA DAY
O'CONNOR RECEIVED THE AAUW ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. AND WHEN
WE TALK ABOUT MERIT SCHOOLS AND MERIT TEACHERS, THERE
COULD HARDLY BE A BETTER EXAMPLE THAN THIS YEAR'S
WINNER -- THE FOUNDER OF WESTSIDE PREPARATORY SCHOOL IN
CHICAGO'S INNER CITY -- MARVA COLLINS.
- 6 -
SAYS MARVA: "ANY CHILD CAN LEARN -- IF THEY ARE
NOT TAUGHT SO THOROUGHLY THAT THEY CANNOT."
SHE GOT RESULTS. WORKING WITH STUDENTS WHO HAVE
BEEN WRITTEN OFF BY THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 98 PERCENT OF
HER STUDENTS GO ON TO HIGH SCHOOL AND THEN COLLEGE.
AND HER STUDENTS GOT RESULTS. IT WAS REPORTED
THAT ONE OF MARVA'S SIX-YEAR-OLDS COULD RECITE JESSE
JACKSON'S 1988 CONVENTION ADDRESS FROM MEMORY. NOW
MARVA -- JESSE'S A VERY GIFTED SPEAKER -- AND YOU'RE
BEING TOO TOUGH ON THOSE KIDS. GIVE THEM MY CONVENTION
SPEECH AND I BET THEY CAN DO IT AT AGE THREE.
I'VE ALSO HEARD OF ONE YOUNG GIRL WHO BEGAN
POUNDING HER LUNCH BOX ON THE DESK IN THE MIDDLE OF
CLASS. MARVA TOLD THE GIRL: "DARLING, NO ONE IS GOING
TO BE HANDING OUT GOOD JOBS TO PEOPLE WHO POUND THEIR
LUNCHBOXES ON THEIR DESKS. PRESIDENT BUSH DOES NOT
POUND HIS LUNCHBOX ON THE DESK." [[PAUSE]] OBVIOUSLY,
MARVA'S NEVER BEEN TO ONE OF MY CABINET MEETINGS.
- 7 -
WELL, AMERICA NEEDS RESULTS, TOO. SO ANOTHER PART
OF MY EDUCATION PLAN CALLS FOR A SIMILAR KIND OF NEW
INCENTIVE SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIPS OF UP TO $40,000 FOR
MORE THAN 500 OF OUR BEST HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS.
AND THIS IS AN IDEA THAT ALSO RESONATES IN YOUR
ASSOCIATION. LAST YEAR YOU FOUNDED THE ELEANOR
ROOSEVELT FUND --WHAT YOU CALL "AN INTERGENERATIONAL
PARTNERSHIP" -- TO ADDRESS THE UNDERREPRESENTATION OF
WOMEN AND GIRLS IN MATH AND SCIENCE.
AND I KNOW THAT MANY OF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH
"WORKFORCE 2000," WHICH CONCLUDES THAT ALMOST TWO-
THIRDS OF THE NEW ENTRANTS TO THE LABOR FORCE IN THE
NEXT ELEVEN YEARS WILL BE WOMEN. TO STAY COMPETITIVE
IN A COMPETITIVE WORLD, WE MUST PROVIDE INCENTIVES AND
OPPORTUNITIES FOR THIS NEW GENERATION OF WOMEN --TO GET
THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING THEY NEED TO BE SECOND TO
NONE.
- 8 -
YOU KNOW, THERE ARE MORE WOMEN IN THIS COUNTRY
THAN THERE ARE PEOPLE IN JAPAN. AND SUCCESS FOR
AMERICA IN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION BEGINS WITH
SUCCESS IN OUR SCHOOLS. IF WE CANNOT COMPETE WITH
OTHER COUNTRIES IN THE CLASSROOM, WE CANNOT COMPETE
WITH THEM IN THE BOARDROOM.
REWARDING SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS, TEACHERS, AND
SCHOOLS IS ONE WAY TO ENCOURAGE EXCELLENCE. BUT IT
ALSO REQUIRES ELEMENTS OF FLEXIBILITY AND CHOICE. AND
THAT'S WHY OUR PACKAGE ALSO REQUESTS NEW FUNDING FOR
BOTH MAGNET SCHOOLS AND HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND
UNIVERSITIES. AND IT CALLS FOR ALTERNATIVE
CERTIFICATION -- TO EXPAND THE POOL OF TALENTED
TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS -- BY OPENING THE DOOR TO
DIVERSE AND ACCOMPLISHED PEOPLE, SUCH AS THE WOMEN HERE
IN THIS ROOM.
- 9 -
AND SPEAKING OF THE WOMEN IN THIS ROOM -- I'VE
COME HERE TODAY TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE IN
DEVELOPING THESE PLANS -- AND TO TELL YOU THAT MY
ADMINISTRATION VALUES YOUR EXPERIENCE AND YOUR VIEWS.
I MET WITH SARAH HARDER IN WASHINGTON FOLLOWING MY
ELECTION AS PRESIDENT. AND I AM GRATEFUL FOR HER
COMMITMENT AND HER COUNSEL.
THE LAST OF OUR EDUCATION INITIATIVES CALLS FOR
DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS. WE'VE ASKED CONGRESS TO FINANCE
URBAN EMERGENCY GRANTS -- TO HELP OUR HARDEST-HIT
SCHOOL DISTRICTS. IF WE WANT TO STOP OUR KIDS FROM
PUTTING DRUGS IN THEIR BODIES, WE MUST FIRST PUT
CHARACTER IN THEIR HEARTS AND COMMON SENSE IN THEIR
HEADS.
AND, AS WITH EDUCATION, THE SUBJECT OF DRUGS AND
CRIME -- AND ESPECIALLY VIOLENT CRIME -- HAS BEEN MUCH
ON MY MIND IN RECENT WEEKS. LAST MONTH, I STOOD BEFORE
THE U.S. CAPITOL ON A SOMBER, RAINY AFTERNOON TO CALL
ON CONGRESS TO JOIN ME -- IN A NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH
AMERICA'S CITIES AND STATES -- TO "TAKE BACK THE
STREETS."
- 10 -
THIS COMPREHENSIVE INITIATIVE IS DIRECTED AT
VIOLENT CRIME -- AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE EXPLOSION OF
URBAN GUNFIRE THAT OFTEN ACCOMPANIES DRUG TRAFFICKING.
BUT ALL TOO OFTEN, VIOLENT CRIME ALSO MEANS CRIME
AGAINST WOMEN.
I AM ANGERED AND DISGUSTED BY THE CRIMES AGAINST
AMERICAN WOMEN -- AND BY THE ARCHAIC AND UNACCEPTABLE
ATTITUDES THAT ALL TOO FREQUENTLY CONTRIBUTE TO THOSE
CRIMES.
WHETHER IT INVOLVES SPOUSE ABUSE AT HOME -- OR
VIOLENCE IN THE STREET -- THESE ARE EVIL ACTS THAT
TRANSCEND RACIAL AND CLASS LINES. THIS WAR AGAINST
WOMEN MUST STOP.
OUR CITIES AND STATES MUST STEP UP THEIR EFFORTS
TO COMBAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN -- AND TO TREAT
VICTIMS WITH COMPASSION AND RESPECT. AND THEY MUST
FOLLOW OUR FEDERAL EXAMPLE OF ENACTING TOUGHER LAWS --
BACKED UP BY MORE POLICE, PROSECUTORS, AND PRISONS --
TO PUT AWAY EVERY VIOLENT OFFENDER.
- 11 -
AND, FUNDAMENTALLY, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN WON'T
SUBSIDE UNLESS PUBLIC ATTITUDES CHANGE. WE MUST
CONTINUE TO EDUCATE POLICE AND PROSECUTORS, JUDGES AND
JURIES. AND WE MUST ENGENDER A CLIMATE WHERE THE
MESSAGE OUR CHILDREN GET -- FROM TELEVISION AND FILMS,
FROM SCHOOLS AND PARENTS -- IS THAT VIOLENCE AGAINST
WOMEN IS WRONG.
A KINDER AND GENTLER NATION MUST PROTECT ALL ITS
CITIZENS. AND NO MATTER HOW EQUAL THE OPPORTUNITIES IN
OUR SCHOOLS AND THE WORKPLACE, WOMEN WILL NEVER HAVE
THE SAME OPPORTUNITIES AS MEN IF A CLIMATE OF FEAR
LEAVES THEM JUSTIFIABLY CONCERNED ABOUT WALKING TO THE
CAMPUS LIBRARY AT NIGHT -- OR RELUCTANT TO WORK LATE
HOURS, FOR FEAR OF GETTING OUT OF THE PARKING LOT
SAFELY.
I HAVE A DAUGHTER -- AND FOUR DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW.
AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT WHAT KIND OF SCHOOLS AND THE
KIND OF SOCIETY WE ARE SHAPING FOR THE NEXT CENTURY, I
THINK ABOUT MY ELEVEN GRANDCHILDREN. SEVEN ARE GIRLS.
AND IT IS UNTHINKABLE THAT ANY OPPORTUNITY SHOULD BE
AVAILABLE TO YOUNG GEORGE P. THAT ISN'T ALSO OUT THERE
FOR HIS COUSIN JENNA BUSH.
- 12 -
ONE OPPORTUNITY THAT SOME WOMEN IN THIS ROOM
SHOULD NOT OVERLOOK IS RUNNING FOR PUBLIC OFFICE. I
ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO so. IT IS CHALLENGING AND
ENORMOUSLY SATISFYING WORK.
OVER THE YEARS, I HAVE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF
WORKING WITH MANY TALENTED LEADERS LIKE CARLA HILLS,
LIDDY DOLE, SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR AND NANCY KASSEBAUM.
AND THEIR RECORD OF PUBLIC SERVICE -- LIKE THE WORK OF
so MANY IN YOUR ASSOCIATION -- CONFIRMS THE LONG-AGO
OBSERVATION OF ONE OF THE PATRON SAINTS OF COMMUNITY
SERVICE -- ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE.
HE WROTE: "IF I WERE ASKED TO WHAT THE SINGULAR
PROSPERITY AND GROWING STRENGTH OF [THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE] OUGHT MAINLY TO BE ATTRIBUTED, I SHOULD REPLY:
TO THE SUPERIORITY OF THEIR WOMEN."
I AM PLEASED TO BE THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO ADDRESS
AAUW, AND VERY HONORED TO BE AWARDED AN OFFICIAL
MEMBERSHIP. AND I GUESS THAT, TECHNICALLY, THAT MAKES
ME THE FIRST AAUW MEMBER TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES. BUT I KNOW I WON'T BE THE LAST.
- 13 -
THANK YOU FOR YOUR WARM WELCOME. GOOD LUCK IN
YOUR EFFORTS TO SERVE THE PUBLIC GOOD. AND GOD BLESS
YOU -- AND GOD BLESS AMERICA.
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
89 JUN 22 P2: 11
June 21, 1989
MEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON
FROM:
ROGER B. PORTER
RBP
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks: American Association of
University Women
The draft remarks for the AAUW speech are excellent and
emphasize two themes that deserve repetition -- our education
initiatives and our violent crime proposals. Both should
have appeal to this audience.
I have two comments: one stylistic and the other policy-
related.
1. The reference on page one to blaming things on one's
predecessor should, in my view, be eliminated. George Bush
has gone a long way not to criticize or countenance criticism
by staff of the previous administration. It is an administra-
tion of which he was an integral part and of which he is proud.
He has no interest in blaming things on his predecessor.
2. Much more substantively and importantly, the two
paragraphs at the bottom of page five should be eliminated.
We are not in a position to make any commitments for member-
ship on the President's Education Policy Advisory Committee.
Moreover, when we are ready, we will want to announce the
committee all at once rather than dribbling it out.
There has been much interest in the membership of this
advisory committee and making any public mention of its
membership is not what we need right now.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
CC: James W. Cicconi
frien
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
89 JUN 22 PI : 15
June 22, 1989
Memorandum to Chriss Winston
From:
Jim Pinkerton
Subject:
AAUW Draft Speech
The device of developing more than one issue can be very
effective if we synthesize those issues under a common theme.
In this speech, the issues of community service, education, and
crime suggest a common theme of the importance of "investing in
character," values, and public virtue.
I very much approve of the President edging closer to the
Susan Baker/Tipper Gore school of focusing on a wholesome common
culture. This is in essence a focus on the common sense values
of most Americans. The President should not hesitate to line up
with those conservative values.
For example, the language at pg. 7, para. 2, referring to
the message that our children are getting from popular culture,
peers, and parents addresses this point. We should amplify this
theme, and from this, string out the three issues of the speech.
The press easily tires of our speaking to one issue. The
Bully Pulpit should be used more for gathering otherwise
disparate issues under a common philosophical message. Thus, for
purposes of this speech we should beef up the community service
language, making it more than the transition it serves as now;
and, as mentioned, amplifying the values/character theme to tie
the three strings of service, crime, and education together.
Incidentally, on the crime issue, I am especially pleased to
see "The War Against Women Must Stop" language.
2,2 In order to help beef up the community service section, we
offer a quote on women in America by the patron saint of
community service, de Tocqueville, from Democracy In America:
"If I were asked to what the singular prosperity and growing
strength of that people [the Americans] ought mainly to be
attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women. "
(more)
2-2-2
4,1,2
We need to check any recent stories on Marva Collins to
guard against the possibility that her ideas have been debunked.
That aside, the President, in quoting Ms. Collins, uses her
faulty diction: it is idiomatic to say "if they are not taught so
thoroughly that they cannot" and not, as in the quote, "if they
are not taught too thoroughly that they cannot. " [emphasis
added] We suggest taking the liberty of correcting the diction
and using "so" instead of "too." "
7,2,3
Changing this sentence to read: "We must continue to
educate Police and presecutors, judges and juries, and all the
public," would make the idea behind this sentence stronger.
#
Document No. 046634
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
6/21/89
89 N2289P 4NOON6
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
WINSTON
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm.
122, x2930, no later than NOON, Thursday, June 22, 1989, with
an info copy to my office. Thank you.
All comments
RESPONSE:
James W, Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(McNally/Simon)
June 200 1989, 9:00 p.m.
Draft Three (AAUW)
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AMERICAN ASSOC. OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
WASHINGTON SHERATON HOTEL
MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1989, 11:15 A.M.
Thank you, Sarah Harder, for that gracious introduction.
And congratulations as you complete your distinguished term as
president of AAUW. You and I know it can be fun to be President.
But I hear from California that ex-President is not such a bad
job, either.
And congratulations also to your successor, Sharon Schuster.
Sharon, you have a big advantage over me. [[PAUSE]] You can
still blame things on your predecessor.
And there's another AAUW president -- a past president --
that I'd like to say hello to today. From Des Moines, Iowa --
and now head of your Educational Foundation -- Mary Grefe.
In America today, there is no greater imperative -- moral or
practical -- than providing equal opportunity to every man, woman
and child. This means equal opportunity in housing, jobs, and
education -- flexibility and choice in child care and health
care. It means equal protection from hostile elements, whether
criminal or environmental -- and equal opportunity in service and
community action, whether through public, private, or non-profit
organizations.
And today, I'd like to talk about two issues in particular:
Education -- and public safety. Both are important to this
association -- and to any thinking person who cares about the
2
quality of life and opportunity in America. And both are the
subject of major Administration proposals now pending before the
Congress.
And there's a third issue that I know you're familiar with
-- community action -- what I have called "a thousand points of
light."
Last week I traveled up and down the Eastern seaboard --
issuing a call to action for community service. We carried the
and
message to Wall Street, And to the youth of a suburban high
from Main Street to wall Street -evlut yours and
school. old, Hack, while and nown - American deversity a motement - to
"From now on, any definition of a successful som life must preducted
P For over a hundred years
on the
include service to others. " And members of the American
following
you m her room and your ^ predecessors and now you in this room
statement
Association of University Women have built successful lives
through community action. for over a hundred years. You were
ahead of the curve -- by about a century. And often your service
has addressed the very two needs we're talking about today --
education and public safety.
The AAUW foundation that Mary Grefe now directs began
handing out educational fellowships in 1888. It is a great
tradition, at once combining America's values of service and
education.
And the scholarships you provide are more than just money in
the hands of deserving students. They are money in the bank roll for
the future of America future. .
And today our efforts to improve the education system
represent an endeavor where nothing less than the future of our
3
country is at stake. And your association represents 140,000
reasons why America will succeed.
Your contributions are important. And equally important is
the recent and renewed commitment to an old-fashioned American
idea -- partnership between the government and the community in
seeking educational excellence.
Government -- and especially federal government -- cannot
provide all the answers. But it has an obligation to lead.
Earlier this year, I sent to Congress the Education
Excellence Act of 1989. It proposes solutions based on four
simple ideas -- rewarding excellence, helping those in need,
accountability -- and one that's close to the traditions of this
organization -- choice and flexibility.
To achieve these goals, my new initiative proposes a seven-
point plan. Two of these points call for merit awards -- cash
incentives for our most successful schools and the top teachers
in every state.
I want the best teachers our educational system can attract.
you shape the minds that shape the future.
We must never lose sight of the fact that teachers shape the
minds that will shape the future of the country.
Last year -- at the centennial celebration of the first AAUW
educational fellowship -- Justice Sandra Day O'Connor received
the AAUW Achievement Award. And when we talk about merit schools
and merit teachers, there could hardly be a better example than
this year's winner -- the founder of Westside Preparatory School
in Chicago's inner city -- Marva Collins.
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Says Marva: "Any child can learn -- if they are not taught
too thoroughly that they cannot."
And the results prove it. Working with students who have
She got results.
been written off by the public schools, 98 percent of her
students go on to high school and then college.
Her. students got results.
Amazing results. It was reported that one of Marva's six-
year-olds could recite Jesse Jackson's 1988 Convention address
from memory. Now Marva -- Jesse's a very gifted speaker -- and
you're being too tough on those kids. Give them my Convention
speech and I bet they can do it at age three.
I've also heard of one young girl who began pounding her
lunch box on the desk in the middle of class. Marva told the
girl: "Darling, no one is going to be handing out good jobs to
people who pound their lunchboxes on their desks. President Bush
does not pound his lunchbox on the desk." [[PAUSE]] Obviously,
Marva's never been to one of my Cabinet meetings.
well, America needs results too.
Another part of my education plan calls for a similar kind
of new incentive -- science scholarships of up to $40,000 for
more than 500 of our best high school seniors.
resonates
And this is an idea that also finds echoes in your
too
association a Last year you founded the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund --
what you call "an intergenerational partnership" -- to address
the underrepresentation of women and girls in math and science.
And I know that many of you are familiar with "Workforce
2000," which concludes that almost two-thirds of the new entrants
to the labor force in the next eleven years will be women. To
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stay competitive in a competitive world, we must provide
incentives and opportunities for this new generation of women --
to get the education and training they need to be second to none.
You know, there are more women in this country than there
are people in Japan. And success for America in international
competition begins with success in our schools. If we cannot
compete with other countries in the classroom, we cannot compete
with them in the boardroom.
Rewarding successful students, teachers, and schools is one
way to encourage excellence. But it also requires elements of
flexibility and choice. And that's why our package also requests
new funding for both magnet schools and historically black
colleges and universities. And it calls for alternative
certification -- to expand the pool of talented teachers and
administrators -- by opening the door to diverse and accomplished
people, such as the women here in this room.
And speaking of the women in this room -- I've come here
today to thank you for your assistance in developing these plans
-- and to tell you that my Administration values your experience
and your views. Twice since my election as President I have met
with Sarah Harder. And I've been grateful for her commitment and
her counsel.
In fact, Sarah's contributions have been such that -- I am
pleased to announce today -- the new president of AAUW will be
invited to serve on the President's Education Policy Advisory
Committee. AAUW will be heard.
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The last of our education initiatives calls for drug-free
schools. We've asked Congress to finance urban emergency grants
-- to help our hardest-hit school districts. If we want to stop
our kids from putting drugs in their bodies, we must first put
good ideas in their heads and moral character in their hearts.
And, as with education, the subject of drugs and crime --
and especially violent crime -- has been much on my mind in
recent weeks. Last month, I stood before the U.S. Capitol on a
somber, rainy afternoon to call on Congress to join me -- in a
new partnership with America's cities and states -- to "take back
the streets."
This comprehensive initiative is directed at violent crime
-- and, in particular, the explosion of urban gunfire that often
accompanies drug trafficking. But all too often, violent crime
also means crime against women.
I am angered and disgusted by the crimes against American
women -- and by the archaic and unacceptable attitudes that all
too frequently contribute to those crimes. Whether it involves
abuse of a wife at home,
the
violation
of
a
jogger
in
a
park
or
the
brutalization
of
Street.
wife and daughter in a high-rent brownstone these are evil
This
acts of violence that transcend racial and class lines. The war
against women must stop.
Our cities and states must step up their efforts to combat
violence against women -- and to treat victims with compassion
and respect. And they must follow our federal example of
7
enacting tougher laws -- backed up by more police, prosecutors,
and prisons -- to put away every violent offender.
And, fundamentally, violence against women won't subside
unless public attitudes change. We must continue to educate
police and prosecutors, judges and juries. And we must engender
a climate where the message our children get -- from television
and films, from schools and parents -- is that violence against
women is wrong.
A kinder and gentler nation must protect all its citizens.
And no matter how equal the opportunities in our schools and the
workplace, women will never have the same opportunities as men if
a climate of fear leaves them justifiably concerned about walking
to the campus library at night -- or reluctant to work late
hours, for fear of getting out of the parking lot safely.
I have a daughter -- and four daughters-in-law. And when we
talk about what kind of schools and the kind of society we are
shaping for the next century, I think about my eleven
grandchildren. Seven are girls. And it is unthinkable that any
opportunity should be available to young George P. that isn't
also out there for his cousin Jenna Bush.
One opportunity that some women in this room have probably
never thought about is running for public office. I encourage
you to do SO. It is challenging and enormously satisfying work.
I know because
And when you've had the opportunity, as I have had, to work
with leaders like Margaret Thatcher, Benazir Bhutto, and Cory
Aquino -- not to mention Carla Hills, Liddy Dole, Sandra Day
8
0' Connor and Nancy Kassebaum ,- you realize that we're long
overdue to elect a woman as President of the United States
[ [PAUSE] ] But do me one favor please wait until after 1996.
I am pleased to be the first President to address AAUW, and
very honored to be awarded an official membership. And I guess
that, technically, that makes me the first AAUW member to be
President of the United States. But I know I won't be the last.
Thank you for your warm welcome. Good luck in your efforts
to serve the public good. And God bless you -- and God bless
America.
#
#
#
Document No. 046634
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
6/21/89
6/22/89 NOON
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
WINSTON
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm.
122, x2930, no later than NOON, Thursday, June 22, 1989, with
an info copy to my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
James W, Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(McNally/Simon)
June 200 1989, 9:00 p.m.
Draft Three (AAUW)
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AMERICAN ASSOC. OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
WASHINGTON SHERATON HOTEL
MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1989, 11:15 A.M.
Thank you, Sarah Harder, for that gracious introduction.
And congratulations as you complete your distinguished term as
president of AAUW. You and I know it can be fun to be President.
But I hear from California that ex-President is not such a bad
job, either.
And congratulations also to your successor, Sharon Schuster.
Sharon, you have a big advantage over me. [[PAUSE]] You can
still blame things on your predecessor.
And there's another AAUW president -- a past president --
that I'd like to say hello to today. From Des Moines, Iowa --
and now head of your Educational Foundation -- Mary Grefe.
In America today, there is no greater imperative -- moral or
practical -- than providing equal opportunity to every man, woman
and child. This means equal opportunity in housing, jobs, and
education -- flexibility and choice in child care and health
care. It means equal protection from hostile elements, whether
criminal or environmental -- and equal opportunity in service and
community action, whether through public, private, or non-profit
organizations.
And today, I'd like to talk about two issues in particular:
Education -- and public safety. Both are important to this
association -- and to any thinking person who cares about the
2
quality of life and opportunity in America. And both are the
subject of major Administration proposals now pending before the
Congress.
And there's a third issue that I know you're familiar with
-- community action -- what I have called "a thousand points of
light.'
Last week I traveled up and down the Eastern seaboard --
issuing a call to action for community service. We carried the
message to Wall Street. And to the youth of a suburban high
school.
"From now on, any definition of a successful life must
include service to others." And members of the American
Association of University Women have built successful lives
through community action for over a hundred years. You were
ahead of the curve -- by about a century. And often your service
has addressed the very two needs we're talking about today --
education and public safety.
The AAUW foundation that Mary Grefe now directs began
handing out educational fellowships in 1888. It is a great
tradition, at once combining America's values of service and
education.
And the scholarships you provide are more than just money in
the hands of deserving students. They are money in the bank for
the future of America.
And today our efforts to improve the education system
represent an endeavor where nothing less than the future of our
3
country is at stake. And your association represents 140,000
reasons why America will succeed.
Your contributions are important. And equally important is
the recent and renewed commitment to an old-fashioned American
idea -- partnership between the government and the community in
seeking educational excellence.
Government -- and especially federal government -- cannot
provide all the answers. But it has an obligation to lead.
Earlier this year, I sent to Congress the Education
Excellence Act of 1989. It proposes solutions based on four
simple ideas -- rewarding excellence, helping those in need,
accountability -- and one that's close to the traditions of this
organization -- choice and flexibility.
To achieve these goals, my new initiative proposes a seven-
point plan. Two of these points call for merit awards -- cash
incentives for our most successful schools and the top teachers
in every state.
I want the best teachers our educational system can attract.
We must never lose sight of the fact that teachers shape the
minds that will shape the future of the country.
Last year -- at the centennial celebration of the first AAUW
educational fellowship -- Justice Sandra Day O'Connor received
the AAUW Achievement Award. And when we talk about merit schools
and merit teachers, there could hardly be a better example than
this year's winner -- the founder of Westside Preparatory School
in Chicago's inner city -- Marva Collins.
4
Says Marva: "Any child can learn -- if they are not taught
too thoroughly that they cannot."
And the results prove it. Working with students who have
been written off by the public schools, 98 percent of her
students go on to high school and then college.
Amazing results. It was reported that one of Marva's six-
year-olds could recite Jesse Jackson's 1988 Convention address
from memory. Now Marva -- Jesse's a very gifted speaker -- and
you're being too tough on those kids. Give them my Convention
speech and I bet they can do it at age three.
I've also heard of one young girl who began pounding her
lunch box on the desk in the middle of class. Marva told the
girl: "Darling, no one is going to be handing out good jobs to
people who pound their lunchboxes on their desks. President Bush
does not pound his lunchbox on the desk." [[PAUSE] ] Obviously,
Marva's never been to one of my Cabinet meetings.
Another part of my education plan calls for a similar kind
of new incentive -- science scholarships of up to $40,000 for
more than 500 of our best high school seniors.
And this is an idea that also finds echoes in your
association. Last year you founded the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund --
what you call "an intergenerational partnership" -- to address
the underrepresentation of women and girls in math and science.
And I know that many of you are familiar with "Workforce
2000," which concludes that almost two-thirds of the new entrants
to the labor force in the next eleven years will be women. To
5
stay competitive in a competitive world, we must provide
incentives and opportunities for this new generation of women --
to get the education and training they need to be second to none.
You know, there are more women in this country than there
are people in Japan. And success for America in international
competition begins with success in our schools. If we cannot
compete with other countries in the classroom, we cannot compete
with them in the boardroom.
Rewarding successful students, teachers, and schools is one
way to encourage excellence. But it also requires elements of
flexibility and choice. And that's why our package also requests
new funding for both magnet schools and historically black
colleges and universities. And it calls for alternative
certification -- to expand the pool of talented teachers and
administrators -- by opening the door to diverse and accomplished
people, such as the women here in this room.
And speaking of the women in this room -- I've come here
today to thank you for your assistance in developing these plans
-- and to tell you that my Administration values your experience
ELIMINATE
and your views. Twice since my election as President I have met
with Sarah Harder. And I've been grateful for her commitment and
her counsel.
In fact, Sarah's contributions have been such that -- I am
pleased to announce today -- the new president of AAUW will be
invited to serve on the President's Education Policy Advisory
Committee. AAUW will be heard.
6
The last of our education initiatives calls for drug-free
schools. We've asked Congress to finance urban emergency grants
-- to help our hardest-hit school districts. If we want to stop
our kids from putting drugs in their bodies, we must first put
good ideas in their heads and moral character in their hearts.
And, as with education, the subject of drugs and crime --
and especially violent crime -- has been much on my mind in
recent weeks. Last month, I stood before the U.S. Capitol on a
somber, rainy afternoon to call on Congress to join me -- in a
new partnership with America's cities and states -- to "take back
the streets. "
This comprehensive initiative is directed at violent crime
-- and, in particular, the explosion of urban gunfire that often
accompanies drug trafficking. But all too often, violent crime
also means crime against women.
I am angered and disgusted by the crimes against American
women -- and by the archaic and unacceptable attitudes that all
too frequently contribute to those crimes. Whether it involves
the violation of a jogger in a park -- or the brutalization of a
wife and daughter in a high-rent brownstone -- these are evil
acts of violence that transcend racial and class lines. The war
against women must stop.
Our cities and states must step up their efforts to combat
violence against women -- and to treat victims with compassion
and respect. And they must follow our federal example of
7
enacting tougher laws -- backed up by more police, prosecutors,
and prisons -- to put away every violent offender.
And, fundamentally, violence against women won't subside
unless public attitudes change. We must continue to educate
police and prosecutors, judges and juries. And we must engender
a climate where the message our children get -- from television
and films, from schools and parents -- is that violence against
women is wrong.
A kinder and gentler nation must protect all its citizens.
And no matter how equal the opportunities in our schools and the
workplace, women will never have the same opportunities as men if
a climate of fear leaves them justifiably concerned about walking
to the campus library at night -- or reluctant to work late
hours, for fear of getting out of the parking lot safely.
I have a daughter -- and four daughters-in-law. And when we
talk about what kind of schools and the kind of society we are
shaping for the next century, I think about my eleven
grandchildren. Seven are girls. And it is unthinkable that any
opportunity should be available to young George P. that isn't
also out there for his cousin Jenna Bush.
One opportunity that some women in this room have probably
never thought about is running for public office. I encourage
you to do SO. It is challenging and enormously satisfying work.
And when you've had the opportunity, as I have had, to work
with leaders like Margaret Thatcher, Benazir Bhutto, and Cory
Aquino -- not to mention Carla Hills, Liddy Dole, Sandra Day
8
O' Connor and Nancy Kassebaum -- you realize that we're long
overdue to elect a woman as President of the United States.
[ [PAUSE]] But do me one favor -- please wait until after 1996.
I am pleased to be the first President to address AAUW, and
very honored to be awarded an official membership. And I guess
that, technically, that makes me the first AAUW member to be
President of the United States. But I know I won't be the last.
Thank you for your warm welcome. Good luck in your efforts
to serve the public good. And God bless you -- and God bless
America.
#
#
#
U
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
6/21/89
6/22/89 NOON
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENTI DUE BY:
89 JUN 22 P4:17
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
WINSTON
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm.
122, x2930, no later than NOON, Thursday, June 22, 1989, with
an info copy to my office. Thank you.
SPONSE:
No. Commet 6/22/89.
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Document No. 046634
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
6/21/89
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT 00 UN21 DUE BY: P26/22/89 NOON
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
WINSTON
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm.
122, x2930, no later than NOON, Thursday, June 22, 1989, with
an info copy to my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE: on
6BW
6/21
James W, Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
DDDA
IN 22 All : 37
THE VICE PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON
June 22, 1989
MEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON
FROM:
BILL KRISTOL wk/zu
SUBJECT:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF
UNIVERSITY WOMEN
I recommend that you strike the passage referring to a "war
against women," (see pages 6 and 7). It is not clear that the
American people are engaged in such a "war," and I think it would
be inappropriate for the President to imply that they are.
Document No. 046634
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
89 JUN 22 P12: 02
6/21/89
6/22/89 NOON
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
WINSTON
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm.
122, x2930, no later than NOON, Thursday, June 22, 1989, with
an info copy to my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
See comments
James W, Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(McNally/Simon)
June 20% 1989, 9:00 p.m.
Draft Three (AAUW)
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AMERICAN ASSOC. OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
WASHINGTON SHERATON HOTEL
MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1989, 11:15 A.M.
Thank you, Sarah Harder, for that gracious introduction.
And congratulations as you complete your distinguished term as
president of AAUW. You and I know it can be fun to be President.
But I hear from California that ex-President is not such a bad
job, either.
And congratulations also to your successor, Sharon Schuster.
Sharon, you have a big advantage over me. [[PAUSE]] You can
still blame things on your predecessor.
And there's another AAUW president -- a past president --
that I'd like to say hello to today. From Des Moines, Iowa --
and now head of your Educational Foundation -- Mary Grefe.
In America today, there is no greater imperative -- moral or
practical -- than providing equal opportunity to every man, woman
Wedon't Note:
and child. This means equal opportunity in housing, jobs, and
education -- flexibility and choice in child care and health
know what
care It means equal protection from hostile elements, whether
criminal or environmental -- and equal opportunity in service and
community action, whether through public, private, or non-profit
scist
organizations.
And today, I'd like to talk about two issues in particular:
Education -- and public safety. Both are important to this
association -- and to any thinking person who cares about the
2
quality of life and opportunity in America. And both are the
subjectSof major Administration proposals now pending before the
Congress.
And there's a third issue that I know you're familiar with
-- community action -- what I have called "a thousand points of
light."
Last week I traveled up and down the Eastern seaboard --
issuing a call to action for community service. We carried the
message to Wall Street. And to the youth of a suburban high
school.
"From now on, any definition of a successful life must
include service to others." And members of the American
Association of University Women have built successful lives
through community action for over a hundred years. You were
ahead of the curve -- by about a century. And often your service
has addressed the very two needs we're talking about today --
education and public safety.
The AAUW foundation that Mary Grefe now directs began
handing out educational fellowships in 1888. It is a great
tradition, at once combining America's values of service and
education.
And the scholarships you provide are more than just money in
the hands of deserving students. They are money in the bank for
the future of America.
And today our efforts to improve the education system
represent an endeavor where nothing less than the future of our
3
country is at stake. And your association represents 140,000
reasons why America will succeed.
Your contributions are important. And equally important is
the recent and renewed commitment to an old-fashioned American
idea -- partnership between the government and the community in
seeking educational excellence.
Government -- and especially federal government -- cannot
provide all the answers. But it has an obligation to lead.
Earlier this year, I sent to Congress the Education
Excellence Act of 1989. It proposes solutions based on four
simple ideas -- rewarding excellence, helping those in need,
accountability -- and one that's close to the traditions of this
organization -- choice and flexibility.
To achieve these goals, my new initiative proposes a seven-
point plan. Two of these points call for merit awards -- cash
incentives for our most successful schools and the top teachers
in every state.
I want the best teachers our educational system can attract.
We must never lose sight of the fact that teachers shape the
minds that will shape the future of the country.
Last year -- at the centennial celebration of the first AAUW
educational fellowship -- Justice Sandra Day 0' Connor received
the AAUW Achievement Award. And when we talk about merit schools
and merit teachers, there could hardly be a better example than
this year's winner -- the founder of Westside Preparatory School
in Chicago's inner city -- Marva Collins.
4
Says Marva: "Any child can learn -- if they are not taught
too thoroughly that they cannot."
And the results prove it. Working with students who have
been written off by the public schools, 98 percent of her
students go on to high school and then college.
Amazing results. It was reported that one of Marva's six-
year-olds could recite Jesse Jackson's 1988 Convention address
from memory. Now Marva -- Jesse's a very gifted speaker -- and
you're being too tough on those kids. Give them my Convention
speech and I bet they can do it at age three.
I've also heard of one young girl who began pounding her
lunch box on the desk in the middle of class. Marva told the
girl: "Darling, no one is going to be handing out good jobs to
people who pound their lunchboxes on their desks. President Bush
does not pound his lunchbox on the desk." [[PAUSE]] Obviously,
Marva's never been to one of my Cabinet meetings.
Another part of my education plan calls for a similar kind
of new incentive -- science scholarships of up to $40,000 for
more than 500 of our best high school seniors.
And this is an idea that also finds echoes in your
association. Last year you founded the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund --
what you call "an intergenerational partnership" -- to address
the underrepresentation of women and girls in math and science.
And I know that many of you are familiar with "Workforce
2000," which concludes that almost two-thirds of the new entrants
to the labor force in the next eleven years will be women. To
5
stay competitive in a competitive world, we must provide
incentives and opportunities for this new generation of women --
to get the education and training they need to be second to none.
You know, there are more women in this country than there
are people in Japan. And success for America in international
competition begins with success in our schools. If we cannot
compete with other countries in the classroom, we cannot compete
with them in the boardroom.
Rewarding successful students, teachers, and schools is one
way to encourage excellence. But it also requires elements of
flexibility and choice. And that's why our package also requests
new funding for both magnet schools and historically black
colleges and universities. And it calls for alternative
certification -- to expand the pool of talented teachers and
administrators -- by opening the door to diverse and accomplished
people, such as the women here in this room.
And speaking of the women in this room -- I've come here
today to thank you for your assistance in developing these plans
-- and to tell you that my Administration values your experience
and your views. Twice since my election as President I have met
with Sarah Harder. And I've been grateful for her commitment and
her counsel.
In fact, Sarah's contributions have been such that -- I am
pleased to announce today -- the new president of AAUW will be
invited to serve on the President's Education Policy Advisory
Committee. AAUW will be heard.
6
The last of our education initiatives calls for drug-free
schools. We've asked Congress to finance urban emergency grants
-- to help our hardest-hit school districts. If we want to stop
our kids from putting drugs in their bodies, we must first put
good ideas in their heads and moral character in their hearts.
And, as with education, the subject of drugs and crime --
and especially violent crime -- has been much on my mind in
recent weeks. Last month, I stood before the U.S. Capitol on a
somber, rainy afternoon to call on Congress to join me -- in a
new partnership with America's cities and states -- to "take back
the streets."
This comprehensive initiative is directed at violent crime
-- and, in particular, the explosion of urban gunfire that often
accompanies drug trafficking. But all too often, violent crime
also means crime against women.
I am angered and disgusted by the crimes against American
women -- and by the archaic and unacceptable attitudes that all
too frequently contribute to those crimes. Whether it involves
the violation of a jogger in a park -- or the brutalization of a
wife and daughter in a high-rent brownstone -- these are evil
acts of violence that transcend racial and class lines. The war
against women must stop.
Our cities and states must step up their efforts to combat
violence against women -- and to treat victims with compassion
and respect. And they must follow our federal example of
7
enacting tougher laws -- backed up by more police, prosecutors,
and prisons -- to put away every violent offender.
And, fundamentally, violence against women won't subside
unless public attitudes change. We must continue to educate
police and prosecutors, judges and juries. And we must engender
a climate where the message our children get -- from television
and films, from schools and parents -- is that violence against
women is wrong.
A kinder and gentler nation must protect all its citizens.
And no matter how equal the opportunities in our schools and the
workplace, women will never have the same opportunities as men if
a climate of fear leaves them justifiably concerned about walking
to the campus library at night -- or reluctant to work late
hours, for fear of getting out of the parking lot safely.
I have a daughter -- and four daughters-in-law. And when we
talk about what kind of schools and the kind of society we are
shaping for the next century, I think about my eleven
grandchildren. Seven are girls. And it is unthinkable that any
opportunity should be available to young George P. that isn't
also out there for his cousin Jenna Bush.
should not
One opportunity that some women in this room have probably
overlook
never thought about is running for public office.
I
encourage
you to do so. It is challenging and enormously satisfying work.
And when you've had the opportunity, as I have had, to work
with leaders like Margaret Thatcher, Benazir Bhutto, and Cory
Aquino -- not to mention Carla Hills, Liddy Dole, Sandra Day
8
0' Connor and Nancy Kassebaum -- you realize that we're long
overdue to elect a woman as President of the United States.
[ [PAUSE]] But do me one favor -- please wait until after 1996.
I am pleased to be the first President to address AAUW, and
very honored to be awarded an official membership. And I guess
that, technically, that makes me the first AAUW member to be
President of the United States. But I know I won't be the last.
Thank you for your warm welcome. Good luck in your efforts
to serve the public good. And God bless you -- and God bless
America.
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
89 JUN 22 A10: 15
June 21, 1989
MEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON
DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR
COMMUNICATIONS
FROM:
LEE S. LIBERMAN 1st
ASSOCIATE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT
SUBJECT:
Review of Presidential Remarks to the
American Association of University Women
The Counsel's Office has no objection to, or comment on, the
subject remarks.
Attachment
CC: James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President and
Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Document No. 046634
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
6/21/89
6/22/89 NOON
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
r
BREEDEN
ROGERS
,
CARD
WINSTON
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm.
122, x2930, no later than NOON, Thursday, June 22, 1989, with
an info copy to my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
James W, Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(McNally/Simon)
June 200 1989, 9:00 p.m.
Draft Three (AAUW)
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AMERICAN ASSOC. OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
WASHINGTON SHERATON HOTEL
MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1989, 11:15 A.M.
Thank you, Sarah Harder, for that gracious introduction.
And congratulations as you complete your distinguished term as
president of AAUW. You and I know it can be fun to be President.
But I hear from California that ex-President is not such a bad
job, either.
And congratulations also to your successor, Sharon Schuster.
Sharon, you have a big advantage over me. [[PAUSE]] You can
still blame things on your predecessor.
And there's another AAUW president -- a past president --
that I'd like to say hello to today. From Des Moines, Iowa --
and now head of your Educational Foundation -- Mary Grefe.
In America today, there is no greater imperative -- moral or
practical -- than providing equal opportunity to every man, woman
and child. This means equal opportunity in housing, jobs, and
education -- flexibility and choice in child care and health
care. It means equal protection from hostile elements, whether
criminal or environmental -- and equal opportunity in service and
community action, whether through public, private, or non-profit
organizations.
And today, I'd like to talk about two issues in particular:
Education -- and public safety. Both are important to this
association -- and to any thinking person who cares about the
2
quality of life and opportunity in America. And both are the
subject of major Administration proposals now pending before the
Congress.
And there's a third issue that I know you're familiar with
-- community action -- what I have called "a thousand points of
light."
Last week I traveled up and down the Eastern seaboard --
issuing a call to action for community service. We carried the
message to Wall Street. And to the youth of a suburban high
school.
"From now on, any definition of a successful life must
include service to others." And members of the American
Association of University Women have built successful lives
through community action for over a hundred years. You were
ahead of the curve -- by about a century. And often your service
has addressed the very two needs we're talking about today --
education and public safety.
The AAUW foundation that Mary Grefe now directs began
handing out educational fellowships in 1888. It is a great
tradition, at once combining America's values of service and
education.
And the scholarships you provide are more than just money in
the hands of deserving students. They are money in the bank for
the future of America.
And today our efforts to improve the education system
represent an endeavor where nothing less than the future of our
3
country is at stake. And your association represents 140,000
reasons why America will succeed.
Your contributions are important. And equally important is
the recent and renewed commitment to an old-fashioned American
idea -- partnership between the government and the community in
seeking educational excellence.
Government -- and especially federal government -- cannot
provide all the answers. But it has an obligation to lead.
Earlier this year, I sent to Congress the Education
Excellence Act of 1989. It proposes solutions based on four
simple ideas -- rewarding excellence, helping those in need,
accountability -- and one that's close to the traditions of this
organization -- choice and flexibility.
To achieve these goals, my new initiative proposes a seven-
point plan. Two of these points call for merit awards -- cash
incentives for our most successful schools and the top teachers
in every state.
I want the best teachers our educational system can attract.
We must never lose sight of the fact that teachers shape the
minds that will shape the future of the country.
Last year -- at the centennial celebration of the first AAUW
educational fellowship -- Justice Sandra Day 0' Connor received
the AAUW Achievement Award. And when we talk about merit schools
and merit teachers, there could hardly be a better example than
this year's winner -- the founder of Westside Preparatory School
in Chicago's inner city -- Marva Collins.
4
Says Marva: "Any child can learn -- if they are not taught
too thoroughly that they cannot."
And the results prove it. Working with students who have
been written off by the public schools, 98 percent of her
students go on to high school and then college.
Amazing results. It was reported that one of Marva's six-
year-olds could recite Jesse Jackson's 1988 Convention address
from memory. Now Marva -- Jesse's a very gifted speaker -- and
you're being too tough on those kids. Give them my Convention
speech and I bet they can do it at age three.
I've also heard of one young girl who began pounding her
lunch box on the desk in the middle of class. Marva told the
girl: "Darling, no one is going to be handing out good jobs to
people who pound their lunchboxes on their desks. President Bush
does not pound his lunchbox on the desk." [[PAUSE] Obviously,
Marva's never been to one of my Cabinet meetings.
Another part of my education plan calls for a similar kind
of new incentive -- science scholarships of up to $40,000 for
more than 500 of our best high school seniors.
And this is an idea that also finds echoes in your
association. Last year you founded the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund --
what you call "an intergenerational partnership" -- to address
the underrepresentation of women and girls in math and science.
And I know that many of you are familiar with "Workforce
2000," which concludes that almost two-thirds of the new entrants
to the labor force in the next eleven years will be women. To
5
stay competitive in a competitive world, we must provide
incentives and opportunities for this new generation of women --
to get the education and training they need to be second to none.
You know, there are more women in this country than there
are people in Japan. And success for America in international
competition begins with success in our schools. If we cannot
compete with other countries in the classroom, we cannot compete
with them in the boardroom.
Rewarding successful students, teachers, and schools is one
way to encourage excellence. But it also requires elements of
flexibility and choice. And that's why our package also requests
new funding for both magnet schools and historically black
colleges and universities. And it calls for alternative
certification -- to expand the pool of talented teachers and
administrators -- by opening the door to diverse and accomplished
people, such as the women here in this room.
And speaking of the women in this room -- I've come here
today to thank you for your assistance in developing these plans
-- and to tell you that my Administration values your experience
and your views. Twice since my election as President I have met
with Sarah Harder. And I've been grateful for her commitment and
her counsel.
In fact, Sarah's contributions have been such that -- I am
pleased to announce today -- the new president of AAUW will be
invited to serve on the President's Education Policy Advisory
Committee. AAUW will be heard.
6
The last of our education initiatives calls for drug-free
schools. We've asked Congress to finance urban emergency grants
-- to help our hardest-hit school districts. If we want to stop
our kids from putting drugs in their bodies, we must first put
good ideas in their heads and moral character in their hearts.
And, as with education, the subject of drugs and crime --
and especially violent crime -- has been much on my mind in
recent weeks. Last month, I stood before the U.S. Capitol on a
somber, rainy afternoon to call on Congress to join me -- in a
new partnership with America's cities and states -- to "take back
the streets. "
This comprehensive initiative is directed at violent crime
-- and, in particular, the explosion of urban gunfire that often
accompanies drug trafficking. But all too often, violent crime
also means crime against women.
I am angered and disgusted by the crimes against American
women -- and by the archaic and unacceptable attitudes that all
too frequently contribute to those crimes. Whether it involves
the violation of a jogger in a park -- or the brutalization of a
wife and daughter in a high-rent brownstone -- these are evil
acts of violence that transcend racial and class lines. The war
against women must stop.
Our cities and states must step up their efforts to combat
violence against women -- and to treat victims with compassion
and respect. And they must follow our federal example of
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enacting tougher laws -- backed up by more police, prosecutors,
and prisons -- to put away every violent offender.
And, fundamentally, violence against women won't subside
unless public attitudes change. We must continue to educate
police and prosecutors, judges and juries. And we must engender
a climate where the message our children get -- from television
and films, from schools and parents -- is that violence against
women is wrong.
A kinder and gentler nation must protect all its citizens.
And no matter how equal the opportunities in our schools and the
workplace, women will never have the same opportunities as men if
a climate of fear leaves them justifiably concerned about walking
to the campus library at night -- or reluctant to work late
hours, for fear of getting out of the parking lot safely.
I have a daughter -- and four daughters-in-law. And when we
talk about what kind of schools and the kind of society we are
shaping for the next century, I think about my eleven
grandchildren. Seven are girls. And it is unthinkable that any
opportunity should be available to young George P. that isn't
also out there for his cousin Jenna Bush.
One opportunity that some women in this room have probably
never thought about is running for public office. I encourage
you to do SO. It is challenging and enormously satisfying work.
And when you've had the opportunity, as I have had, to work
with leaders like Margaret Thatcher, Benazir Bhutto, and Cory
Aquino -- not to mention Carla Hills, Liddy Dole, Sandra Day
8
0' Connor and Nancy Kassebaum -- you realize that we're long
overdue to elect a woman as President of the United States.
[ [PAUSE]] But do me one favor -- please wait until after 1996.
I am pleased to be the first President to address AAUW, and
very honored to be awarded an official membership. And I guess
that, technically, that makes me the first AAUW member to be
President of the United States. But I know I won't be the last.
Thank you for your warm welcome. Good luck in your efforts
to serve the public good. And God bless you -- and God bless
America.
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And congratulations also to your successor, Sharon Schuster.
Sharon, you have a big advantage over me. [[PAUSE]] You can
still blame things on your predecessor.
And there's another AAUW president -- a past president --
that I'd like to say hello to today. She's now head of your
Educational Foundation. And ten years ago, during the winter of
1979, she was a friend and supporter who helped bring us to an
early triumph in Iowa. Hello -- and thank you -- Mary Grefe.
In America today, there is no greater imperative -- moral or
practical -- than providing equal opportunity to every man, woman
and child. This means equal opportunity in housing, jobs, and
education -- flexibility and choice in child care and health care
It means
equal protection from hostile elements, whether criminal or
environmental -- and equal opportunity in service and community
action, whether through public, private, or non-profit
organizations.
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And today, I'd like to talk about two issues in particular:
Education -- and public safety. Both are important to this
association -- and to any thinking person who cares about the
quality of life and opportunity in America. And both are the
subject of major Administration proposals now pending before the
Congress.
know you're familiar th
And there's a third issue that I won't dwell on at length --
community action -- what I have called "a thousand points of
light. "
Last week I traveled up and down the Eastern seaboard --
issuing a call to action for community service. We carried the
message to Wall Street. And to the youth of a suburban high
school.
Elif of successful life
But there's no need to repeat it here. Because the American
Association of University Women has been a moving force for
community action for over a hundred years. You were ahead of the
curve -- by about a century. And often your service has
addressed the very two needs we're talking about today --
education and public safety.
The AAUW foundation that Mary Grefe now directs began
handing out educational fellowships in 1888. It is a great
tradition, at once combining America's values of service and
education.
And the scholarships you provide are more than just money in
the hands of deserving students. They are money in the bank for
the future of America.
3
And today our efforts to improve the education system
represent an endeavor where nothing less than the future of our
country is at stake. And your association represents 140,000
reasons why America will succeed.
Your contributions are important. And equally important is
the recent and renewed commitment to an old-fashioned American
idea -- partnership between the government and the community in
seeking educational excellence.
Government -- and especially federal government -- cannot
provide all the answers. But it has an obligation to lead.
Earlier this year, I sent to Congress the Education
Excellence Act of 1989. It proposes solutions based on four
simple ideas -- rewarding excellence, helping those in need,
accountability -- and one that's close to the traditions of this
organization -- choice and flexibility.
To achieve these goals, my new initiative proposes a seven-
point plan. Two of these points call for merit awards -- cash
incentives for our most successful schools and the top teachers
in every state.
I want the best teachers our educational system can attract.
We must never lose sight of the fact that teachers shape the
minds that will shape the future of the country.
Last year -- at the centennial celebration of the first AAUW
educational fellowship -- Justice Sandra Day O'Connor received
the AAUW Achievement Award. And when we talk about merit schools
and merit teachers, there could hardly be a better example than
4
this year's winner -- the founder of Westside Preparatory School
in Chicago's inner city -- Marva Collins.
Says Marva: "Any child can learn -- if they are not taught
too thoroughly that they cannot."
And the results prove it. Working with students who have
been written off by the public schools, 98 percent of her
students go on to high school and then college.
Amazing results. It was reported that one of Marva's six-
year-olds could recite Jesse Jackson's 1988 Convention address
from memory. Now Marva -- Jesse's a very gifted speaker -- and
you're being too tough on those kids. Give them my Convention
speech and I bet they can do it at age three.
I've also heard of one young girl who began pounding her
lunch box on the desk in the middle of class. Marva told the
girl: "Darling, no one is going to be handing out good jobs to
people who pound their lunchboxes on their desks. President Bush
does not pound his lunchbox on the desk." [[PAUSE]] Obviously,
Marva's never been to one of my Cabinet meetings.
Another part of my education plan calls for a similar kind
of new incentive -- science scholarships of up to $40,000 for
more than 500 of our best high school seniors.
And this is an idea that also finds echoes in your
association. Last year you founded the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund --
what you call "an intergenerational partnership" -- to address
the underrepresentation of women and girls in math and science.
5
And I know that many of you are familiar with Workforce
2000, " which concludes that almost two-thirds of the new entrants
to the labor force in the next eleven years will be women. To
stay competitive in a competitive world, we must provide
incentives and opportunities for this new generation of women --
to get the education and training they need to be second to none.
e
You know, there are more woman in this country than there
are people in Japan. And success for America in international
competition begins with success in our schools. If we cannot
compete with other countries in the classroom, we cannot compete
with them in the boardroom.
Rewarding successful students, teachers, and schools is one
way to encourage excellence. But it also requires elements of
flexibility and choice. And that's why our package also requests
new funding for both magnet schools and historically black
colleges and universities. And it calls for alternative
certification -- to expand the pool of talented teachers and
administrators -- by opening the door to diverse and accomplished
people, such as the women here in this room.
And speaking of the women in this room -- I've come here
today to thank you for your assistance in developing these plans
-- and to tell you that my Administration values your experience
and your views. Twice since my election as President I have met
commetment
with Sarah Harder. And I've been grateful for her gracious
and Calent.
complements on my efforts, and on the work of Bobbie Kilberg,
a
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very able lawyer and mother who we appointed at the White House
to take the lead on many of these issues.
In fact, Sarah's contributions have been such that I am
Shoron?
pleased to announce today that her successor -- the new president
of AAUW -- has been invited to serve on the President's Education
Policy Advisory Committee. AAUW will be heard.
The last of our education initiatives calls for drug-free
schools. We've asked Congress to finance urban emergency grants
-- to help our hardest-hit school districts. If we want to stop
our kids from putting drugs in their bodies, we must first put
good ideas in their heads and moral character in their hearts.
And, as with education, the subject of drugs and crime --
and especially violent crime -- has been much on my mind in
recent weeks. And last month, I stood before the U.S. Capitol on
a somber, rainy afternoon to call on Congress to join me -- in a
new partnership with America's cities and states -- to "take back
the streets."
And all too often, violent crime means crime against women.
And while it's true that the federal role in fighting street
crime is limited by constitutional traditions, there's nothing in
the Constitution that's going to limit my expression of moral
outrage on this issue.
X am angered and disgusted by the crimes against American
women -- and by the archaic and unacceptable attitudes that all
too frequently contribute to those crimes. Whether it involves
the violation of a jogger in a park -- or the brutalization of a
7
wife and daughter in a high-rent brownstone -- these are evil
acts of violence that transcend racial and class lines. The war
against women must stop.
Our cities and states must step up their efforts to combat
violence against women -- and to treat victims with compassion
and respect. And fundamentally, violence against women won't
subside unless public attitudes change. We must continue to
educate police and prosecutors, judges and juries. And we must
engender a climate where the message our children get -- from
television and films, from schools and parents -- from fathers
is that violence against women is wrong.
A kinder and gentler nation must protect all its citizens.
And no matter how equal the opportunities in our schools and the
workplace, women will never have the same opportunities as men if
a climate of fear leaves them justifiably concerned about walking
to the campus library at night -- or reluctant to work late
hours, for fear of getting out of the parking lot safely.
I have a daughter -- and four daughters-in-law. And when we
talk about what kind of schools and the kind of society we are
shaping for the next century, I think about my eleven
grandchildren. Seven are girls. And it is unthinkable that any
opportunity should be available to young George P. that isn't
also out there for his cousin Jenna Bush.
One opportunity that some women in this room have probably
never thought about is running for public office. I encourage
you to do so. It is challenging and enormously satisfying work.
8
And when you've had the opportunity, as I have had, to work
with leaders like Margaret Thatcher, Benazir Bhutto, and Cory
Aquino -- not to mention Carla Hills, Liddy Dole, Sandra Day
O'Connor and Nancy Kassebaum -- you realize that we're long
overdue to elect a woman as President of the United States.
[[PAUSE]] But do me one favor -- please wait until after 1996.
I am pleased to be the first President to address AAUW, and
very honored to be awarded an official membership. And I guess
that, technically, that makes me the first AAUW member to be
President of the United States. But I know I won't be the last.
Thank you for your warm welcome. Good luck in your efforts
to serve the public good. And God bless you -- and God bless
America.
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