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Originally Processed With FOIA(s): FOIA Number: S; 2003-0345-F FOIA MARKER This is not a textual record. This is used as an administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential Library Staff. Record Group/Collection: George H.W. Bush Presidential Records Collection/Office of Origin: Speechwriting, White House Office of Series: Speech File Draft Files Subseries: Chron File, 1989-1993 OA/ID Number: 13493 Folder ID Number: 13493-003 Folder Title: Hawke Toast 6/27/89 Stack: Row: Section: Shelf: Position: G 25 6 3 6 Document No. 047263 WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM 89 JUN 22 P6:21 DATE: 6/22/89 ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 12:00 6/23/89 SUBJECT: PRESIDENTAIL ADDRESS: TOAST TO PRIME MINISTER HAWKE 12:25 ACTION FYI ACTION FYI VICE PRESIDENT MCCLURE N/Cphone SUNUNU NEWMAN SCOWCROFT PORTER N/C phone DARMAN STUDDERT BATES N/C UNTERMEYER BREEDEN WINSTON CARD ROGERS CICCONI PINKERTON DEMAREST Boskin N/C phone FITZWATER GRAY C/D Diane HAGIN REMARKS: Please provide your comments/recommendations directly to Chriss Winston's office with an info copy t9 my office by 12:00 Friday, June 23. Thank you. RESPONSE: James W, Cicconi Assistant to the President and Deputy to the Chief of Staff Ext. 2702 Davis/Martin 1900 Title: Hawke2 June 19, 1989 Draft: One PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: TOAST TO PRIME MINISTER HAWKE JUNE 27, 1989/7:30 p.m. I am very happy, Bob and Hazel, that Barbara and I have had the opportunity to welcome you back to Washington. I remember with fondness our visit to Australia in 1982, and your previous visits to Washington. And now we have been delighted with your gracious company during your all-too brief stay. ((Bob, if I may, I believe the correct term is that you're a fair dinkum bloke, and our meetings have gone quite bonzer.) ) ((PAUSE)) But our friendship is a reflection of a deeper closeness. Wilbur Garrett, editor of National Geographic, wrote that both America and Australia exert an enduring fascination on each other, "like brothers growing up in different parts of the world." We have borne great sacrifices as brothers in war. Now we share great responsibilities as brothers in peace. In this century, Australia has risen in stature, from a Dominion of England, to become a nation. A great nation. In culture and the arts, the world has taken note -- Australia is a rising star. 2 Let me single out just one aspect of Australian arts that has captivated the world your cinema. Classic films like "Gallipoli" are moving examples of why Australia is emerging as a Breaker moront, Paticic Whites hobel prize for literature leading light in world culture. But Australia has an even more profound contribution to make to the world -- the encouragement and spread of democracy. Australia is a shining light in the Pacific, a lamp of liberty for the oppressed peoples of the East. Persona leadership in the region you have led with ideas to better ongenize the Gi Bob, let me take just a moment to aciemowledge your austanding tading portners of the Pacific Busin and you have been a chompion of freedom's cause. Since your last visit to this city, Australia has Your mations inaugurated a magnificent new Parliament building IS. a fitting monument to a long history of self-government under democratic principles. Little wonder that so many Americans \including and members of the our U.S. Congress, joined you on that occasion, to reaffirm our contro buted forthe mangusation of that building and even to to arche tech kinship. It is a kinship that is more profound than heritage, in a reafire tion of deeper than a shared language. It is the universal kinship, the brotherhood of democracy. Recent events in the Asia-Pacific region show that it not enough to let a man buy what he wants. He must be allowed to say what he believes. He must be allowed to choose his government a voice in the governing of society. and political freed on indeed 90 hand me in Economic freedom alone will not provide sufficient room for the hand and apend on one availer restless human spirit. It ThereFore, is particularly Very timely that \ forus 3 we could to meet, once consultand) again affirm our the solidarity of the U.S.-Australian alliance. The United States will remain fully engaged in Asia, to support the forces of peace, democracy and human rights. Our abiding commitment to Australia and our other friends and allies in the region will and abiding. remain strong. And I know that Australia stands with us, not just in favor of the free flow of goods -- but of the ideas and ideals of freedom. Ladies and gentlemen, Australia is a strong fellow democracy and a close ally of the United States. I offer this toast to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of Australia. # # # (Lange/Wallace) June 27, 1989 10:30 a.m. [PRICE. DOC] PRESIDENTIAL TALKING POINTS: STATE DINNER EAST ROOM TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1989 [TIME] * I'm grateful you all could be here tonight -- with our friends the Prime Minister and Mrs. Hawke of Australia -- to hear the incomparable singing of Ms. Leontyne Price. * Born in Laurel, Mississippi, she grew up wanting to be a music teacher. Since then, she has taught us all --- and taught the world -- to love music. * She has been called "the Stradivarius of singers." She was the first opera singer to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1965, and the First Medal of Arts, in 1985. * She has sung here at the White House many times. And her previous performances here have won Emmy Awards. We have been very fortunate to have her here tonight -- together with her long-time partner at the piano, David Garvey. * After a career of singing in the great halls of New York, Vienna, Berlin, and London, the acoustics here in the East Room may have been slightly disappointing -- but Leontyne, I hope our enthusiasm has helped make up for it. Thank you. [REGULATE. NOT] One of my goals over the next four years is to see that you spend more time doing business -- and less time trying to keep government out of it. You operate in a fiercely competitive industry. So you should be able to spend more time making long- term investments, building economic growth, and creating jobs -- and less time fighting off Congress. We know the kind of damage government intervention can do. Not long ago, a businessman went out into the streets of Lima, Peru, and started asking questions. He talked to street vendors, and workers in the "informal" economy. He discovered that people there work illegally because government over-regulation makes it virtually impossible for them to run legitimate businesses. As an experiment, he decided to set up a small garment factory, to document the costs of entering the system legally. After running the bureaucratic gauntlet, filling out countless forms, he calculated that one person would have to spend 289 days, six hours a day to become certified to open a garment factory. He tried to set up the same kind of business in New York. It took two hours. Let's think about what the future ought, to look like -- what kind of companies we ought to see thriving in America, in the year 2000. We are at the edge of a fundamental change in the way work is done in this country, and who's doing it. Over the next decade the labor pool will grow more slowly than at any time since World War II. Just half the rate of the 1970s. Affirmative action, once purely a matter of legal compulsion, will be driven by economic necessity. Child care and parental leave will become the currency companies use to attract the talent they need. Health benefits, flexible benefit plans, progressive pension policies -- all will gain momentum in the market for talent, because the market will do what the law never could, or should. Benefits should be mandated by the market. It is time we understood the changes before us, and let the market do its work. It is time we put legislative intervention out of business. By the end of this century fully a third of the workforce will be new. Of that third, most will be women, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and immigrants. And as jobs are becoming more demanding, a skills gap is widening. We know that our taxation of capital gains now puts us at a competitive disadvantage with most of our trading partners. We know that cutting the capital gains rate will increase revenues to the Treasury. Far from being a "tax break for the rich,' 80 percent of capital gains beneficiaries earn less than $50,000 a year. And best of all, the capital gains tax cut creates jobs. (Lange/Blessey) April 19, 1989 3:30 p.m. [SPACE. DOC] PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: SIGNING CEREMONY SPACE COUNCIL EXECUTIVE ORDER THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1989 [PLACE] [TIME] Thank you. It is a great pleasure to be with you today, on an occasion like this. (( You know, one of my staff just told me that space is the "final frontier." And I spent the last two years thinking the final frontier was New Hampshire )) I want to thank all of you, for being here. You're helping me fulfill a promise I made almost 18 months ago, in Huntsville, Alabama -- at the George Marshall Space Center. I pledged then -- and I'm pleased and proud now -- to reestablish the National Space Council. I have asked Vice President Quayle to serve as Chairman. Under his able leadership, I'm confident that the Space Council will bring coherence, continuity, and commitment to our efforts to explore, study, and develop space. I look to the Council to coordinate our civil, military, and commercial efforts. We must: establish a permanent manned presence in space, by building the Space Station Freedom; encourage private initiatives and investment; and ensure our 2 national security, through effective defense activities in space. You know, when people talk about space exploration -- what it represents to us, in this country -- some say it captures the American imagination. But it's more than that. Our efforts in space unleash the imagination. Twenty years ago, an entire generation of Americans was inspired by the space program. We must continue on the path we've blazed in earlier decades -- with renewed dedication. Space is vitally important to our nation's future, and the quality of life here on earth. It offers a technological frontier, creating jobs for tomorrow. And space programs inspire an interest in math, science, and engineering in young people -- knowledge so important for a competitive future. Space offers us the chance to unlock secrets billions of years old, and billions of light years away. Space is the manifest destiny of a new generation -- and a new century. Mr. Vice President, I sign this Executive Order with one objective in mind: to keep America first in space. It is only a matter of time, before the world salutes the first men and women on their way outward, into the solar system. All of us want them to be Americans. THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release June 27, 1989 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER HAWKE OF AUSTRALIA IN EXCHANGE OF TOASTS The State Dining Room 9:25 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Prime Minister and Mrs. Hawke -- Bob and Hazel to us, to all of you -- we are just delighted to have this opportunity to welcome you back to Washington, sir. I would once more reminisce about the fondness with which I remember our visit to Australia a few years ago, and then, of course, your own previous visits to Washington, D.C. as Prime Minister. And now, we have been delighted with your gracious company during this all-too-brief stay. And, lest you wonder about the Prime Minister's travel plans, it is my understanding that he and Hazel go right to the airport, climb onto an airplane, and will be seen smiling and greeting the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany about 1:00 p.m. Federal Republic of Germany Time. So we will be brief, and -- (Laughter.) But I think the friendship that we feel towards our distinguished visitor is but a reflection of a deeper closeness. Wilbur Garrett, the editor of the National Geographic wrote that, "Both America and Australia exert an enduring fascination on each other, like brothers growing up in different parts of the world. Well, we've borne great sacrifices as brothers in war, and now we share great responsibilities as brothers in peace. And in this century, Australia has risen in stature from a dominion of England to become a nation, a great nation, in culture and in the arts. The world has taken note. Australia, the rising star. In classic films like Gallipole and Breaker Morant and so many others -- Patrick White's Nobel Prize for literature, are moving examples of why Australia is emerging as this leading light in world culture. Australia has an even more profound contribution to make to the world -- the encouragement and spread of democracy. Australia is the shining light in the Pacific, a lamp of liberty for the oppressed peoples of the East. And so, Bob, let me just take a moment to acknowledge your own outstanding personal leadership in the region. You've led with ideas to better organize the trading partners of the Pacific Basin, and you've been a champion of freedom's cause. Your nation's magnificent new Parliament Building is a fitting monument to democratic principles. Little wonder that so many Americans, including members of our own Congress, joined you for the inauguration of that building, and even contributed to its architecture in a reaffirmation of our kinship. It's a kinship that is more profound than heritage, deeper than a shared language. It is the universal kinship, the brotherhood of democracy. Recent events in the Asia Pacific region show that it is not enough to let a man buy what he wants. He must be allowed to say what he believes. He must be allowed a voice in the governing of the society. And economic freedom alone and political freedom, indeed, go hand-in-hand. They depend one on the other. And therefore, it is very timely for us to meet, consult, and I mean consult in the real MORE - 2 - spirit of consultation, and once again affirm the solidarity of our U.S.-Australian alliance. The United States is fully engaged in Asia to support the forces of peace, democracy, and yes, human rights. And our abiding commitment to Australia and our friends and allies in the region is going to remain strong and abiding. And I know that you stand with us, sir, not just in favor of the free flow of goods, but one of ideas and ideals of freedom. So, ladies and gentlemen, let me say that Australia is a strong fellow democracy, a very close ally of the United States of America. This visit, in my view, sir, has been an outstanding success. We are delighted that you have been with us -- you and Hazel. And now, I would like to offer a toast to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, Queen of Australia. (A toast is offered.) (Applause.) PRIME MINISTER HAWKE: Mr. President, George and Barbara, and friends, I think the people of this country probably imagine that they have a fair idea of the capabilities of their new President, as well they should. He has been in the public eye for a very many, many years. I may say that Barbara has given me a few insights into some aspects of his character that are probably -- (laughter) -- not so well known, but I want to assure you, my friends, that I've come to learn, just in the last three days, that he has a capacity for shrewdness which is almost limitless. It occurred on the golf course. (Laughter.) We were lined up there -- the President, the Prime Minister, and Baker, and Bob Michel. And I know that my friend, Jim Baker, will take no offense, and I with my well-known modesty, take no offense in acknowledging that, of the three of us, apart from the President, there was not a doubt that Michel is the best player. (Laughter.) So with an innocence which was all belying, the President of the United States said, we will now work out who plays one with the other. So I thought that there would be a fairly reasonable process that would be followed. It was very exotic, I can assure you. He gets his ball and he takes a ball from each of us. He puts his on the ground, and he said, now, here they go. He said, the ball nearest mine will be my partner. And there was no doubt which ball was nearest his; it was Michel's, of course. (Laughter.) It was never going to be any other way. A very, very shrewd operator. (Laughter.) Now, we have shrewdness in sport, too, in our country. George, I might say, I've had the opportunity of sitting next to -- here to Sarah, who shares my passion for racing. And I can tell you a brief, true story about horse-racing in Australia, which will give an indication that there is certain shrewdness in sport in our country. It's a true story, I can assure you. It was a country race meeting out. in the bush in Australia, and this event was a three-horse race -- literally a three-horse race. This punter went up to the bookmaker, and said, I'll have $5,000 on Blue Vein. And the bookmaker took his $5,000 with a huge grin, and shoved it into his bookmaker's bag and said, thank you very much. That's my horse. To which the punter replied, it's going to be a bloody slow race, isn't it? I own the other two. (Laughter.) Well, my friend, George, the -- coming to more serious matters, you and I and our two countries are not in a slow race. We're certainly not in a race in which we're not trying. It's an increasingly fast race, it's an increasingly serious race. It's a race which requires all of our commitments and our courage and devotion and best efforts. MORE - 3 - George, you and I are both politicians. We've had a long experience in politics. It would be honest enough to say that there are times when you have to talk about persons -- even perhaps sometimes when you have to talk about nations. And where there is no substance in the relationship with the person or the nation with which you're talking, as politicians you have to delve fairly deeply into the wells of rhetoric and platitudes to do justice to the situation. But we're fortunately in the situation where we have to do nothing of that kind. Between our nations, there is an enormous, immeasurable substance. It's a substance, a relationship which has been formed on the battlefields. On four occasions in this century, our soldiers have fought next to one-another; they have died next to one-another in defense of the fundamental beliefs that we share. And in the times of peace, our nations also have been at one in pursuing not only for the people of their own nations, but for others, the achievement of those ideals of freedom and liberty. As for us as individuals, George, we have had the pleasure of not merely knowing one another, but of being friends for the greater part of this decade -- certainly a friendship which I cherish. And may I say to you, my friends, that in getting to know George Bush, I've got to know a man whose integrity I. admire, whose courage in defending lasting truths I admire, and whose boldness in testing new frontiers of experience I have also increasingly come to admire. It is the case, George, that you and I, through the responsibilities of leadership in our nations, have the experience now of living at a point in history which I would suggest by almost any definition is at one in the same time the most exciting and challenging of any time in this 20th century -- certainly the most challenging and promising, in a sense, than at any time in the nuclear age. We are entitled the rest of us in the world -- to say of the leadership of the United States in recent times that, by the discharge of your responsibilities, by the preparedness, as I say, to exercise boldness in testing new frontiers, that you have given us cause for a greater degree of optimism about the possibility of living in a world in peace than at any other time in the nuclear age. When I was here 12 months ago, in speaking to a Joint Session of the Congress, I referred to that thesis which had been gaining some currency, that this was a nation in some sort of relative decline. I said, then, that that was a thesis that I dispute, a concept that I reject. Because all of the evidence of recent times, in my analysis, points in the other direction. It is not merely a question of the continuation of your great economic might, but on all the evidence of leadership that has been the courage of the previous administration of which you were such a leading part, and which you now, as President, have taken to new frontiers. It is that courage, that leadership, that boldness which, with a certain responsiveness from the leadership in the Soviet Union, has offered to mankind, to this generation and to our children and to theirs a greater hope for peace than at any other time in this nuclear age, which so frequently -- almost consistently -- has being frought with. the ultimate danger of obliteration. And it takes courage, it takes strength, it takes leadership, it takes boldness to have done those things. And George, I want to say to you that my country looks with enormous appreciation to what this country has done and what you now as President are doing. We thank you for the strength of our alliance. May I say in the presence of the Ambassador-elect, who I have just recently gotten MORE - 4 - to know -- Mel Sembler, and his wife, Betty -- I thank you for your decision in choosing them as your representative in our country. We look forward to welcoming them, and I take your selection of Mel Sembler as an indication of the importance that you attach to our relationship. Our friendship, as I say, the friendship of our two countries, forged in war and advanced in peace, rests on unshakable foundations. It involves a commitment to ensure that the peoples of our own nations, the United States and Australia, shall advance in prosperity and in security. But more importantly even than that, I think the strength of our relationship is in our commitment that we shall do everything in our power to see that those freedoms that we have nurtured and which have given us our strength, our pleasure, our hope for the future shall be freedoms and rights that increasingly, as a result of our efforts shall be enjoyed by men and women around the globe. That is our great responsibility, it's our great opportunity, and our great challenge. And may I say, George, for me, that it is an immeasurable pleasure that I have this opportunity at this stage of history of sharing with you the leadership of two great countries so firmly united. Ladies and gentlemen, may I offer you a toast to the President of the United States, and to the abiding friendship and partnership of the United States and Australia. (A toast is offered.) (Applause.) END 9:52 P.M. EDT THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release June 27, 1989 PRESS BRIEFING BY ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR NEAR EASTERN AND SOUTH ASIAN AFFAIRS WILLIAM CLARK The Briefing Room 11:46 A.M. EDT MR. POPADIUK: Good afternoon. Welcome to the readout on the President's meeting with Prime Minister Hawke of Australia. The rules are ON THE RECORD except for sound and camera. Today's briefer is Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, William Clark. The Secretary has a few opening remarks, and then he'll take your questions. MR. CLARK: Thank you. Good morning. The President had a short private meeting this morning with Prime Minister Hawke, followed by an expanded meeting which included the Vice President, Secretaries Baker, Cheney, Chief of State John Sununu, General Scowcroft, Bob Gates, myself, Doug Ball of the NSC staff, Bob Zoellick from State. Prime Minister Hawke was accompanied by Ambassador Cook; Mr. Mike Codd, Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; Mr. Richard Woolcott, Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade who had been here earlier talking about the Prime Minister's specific initiative; Mr. Sandy Holloway his Principal Private Secretary. The Prime Minister's visit has been an opportunity for him to meet members of the new administration and to discuss bilateral and international issues. Australia is a firm security partner within ANZUS, we share many views on international and regional issues, and Australia is an important trading partner. Prime Minister and Mrs. Hawke are old friends of President and Mrs. Bush. The Prime Minister was last here in June, 1988 for an official working visit. President Bush visited Australia in 1982. In addition to his meeting with the President, Prime Minister Hawke met yesterday with Secretaries Cheney, Brady and Yeutter, and he will be meeting -- in fact, he is meeting now -- with Secretary Baker, and that meeting will be followed by a luncheon at the State Department. The Prime Minister has also met with some Members of Congress; he spoke at the National Press Club yesterday, as you all know, and Prime Minister and Mrs. Hawke will be the guests of honor at a White House dinner this evening. Immediately following the dinner, the Prime Minister will depart for the Federal Republic of Germany. The chief issues discussed by the President and the Prime Minister today were: the EEP, China, Pacific Basin, Philippines, Soviet relations, arms control, Cambodia, Middle East. Thank you. Q What was that first issue? MR. CLARK: EEP. Economic enhancement program -- ours. Q Export. MORE - 2 - MR. CLARK: Export enhancement program -- thank you. Q What was said about the EEP? MR. CLARK: The discussion of the EEP ran fairly parallel -- if you saw the Prime Minister's remarks yesterday at the Press Club -- we have differences over it, but we have one very similiar position, and that is that export subsidies should be done away with in the agricultural area, and the place to do that is in the Uruguay round, and we will both be working to achieve that end. Q You're saying that we would only do away with our subsidies to our grain manufacturers -- I mean, producers if the other countries do? MR. CLARK: Yes, that's what I'm saying. That's where we solve it -- is in the Uruguay round. Both Australia and the United States pushed very hard to have agriculture included in the round. It is, and we will continue to work to have subsidies removed around the world. Q But we'll only do it if all the other countries agree? Is that our position? MR. CLARK: We'll do it in the process of the round, that's right. Q He draws the differences. Is he satisfied with this approach? I mean, he seemed to be indicating that he was going to lay it on the table. MR. CLARK: No, we expressed -- discussed very frankly the differences, but the agreed position and the agreed solution is to take it to the round and to-work very hard to solve it there. Q So he doesn't think the U.S. can do anything unilaterally? MR. CLARK: No, we've agreed to do it within the round right now. Q So he doesn't have a complaint? MR. CLARK: He has a complaint, but the solution to the complaint is a multinational solution. Q He's not pushing for Bush to do away with the -- Q That's what I'm trying to ask. Q -- the export -- MR. CLARK: No, he is pushing -- well, he is but in the context of the round. You know, everybody else too -- the EEC. Q So there is not any difference -- MR. CLARK: He is not making a demand right now that we do away with it. That's absolutely right. Q Can you tell us a little about their discussion on China? MR. CLARK: Yes, discussion on China -- obviously both are quite concerned. Australia was one of the leading countries in redeveloping a relationship with China. They were ahead of us and they have had a good and a special relationship with Beijing, and they are as shocked and outraged as we are by the events that have taken place there. If you caught the Prime Minister on the morning show this morning, he said that he was in sync -- we were in sync on our policies with China. We do agree with what has been done. But there was a discussion of the situation now and an agreement that we MORE - 3 - need to keep in touch with what is going on, but right now we're both in the same place in terms of policy, and that's where we should be. Q Have they done anything in terms of sanctions? MR. CLARK: He has -- not in terms of economic sanctions, no. He ha cancelled his own visit to Beijing and several other visits, so he has taken some visible moves to -- they don't have any military relationship with China, so he wasn't able to do anything in that area. Q What did they say about the Middle East, and was there any talk at all of the ANZUS situation? MR. CLARK: There was -- the ANZUS situation we have discussed with the Australians probably more than anything else. So, no, it didn't come up in that context. The context was U.S. -Australian relations on the security front, which are quite good. In the Middle East, the -- was really general discussion and it will probably be done in greater detail with -- between Secretary Baker and Prime Minister Hawke, but there was a need to take another look at Lebanon and see if there wasn't something we could do about the tragic situation there. Q I gather a formal invitation to visit Australia has been extended. Has it been accepted and has any time frame been set? MR. CLARK: I think you can say it's been extended. The Prime Minister extended it in his public remarks on arrival this morning. The President has said he very much would like to visit Australia, but no time has been set. Q What would be a logical time frame? MR. CLARK: I will have to leave that to the White House spokesman. I haven't got his schedule in front of me. Q Beyond outrage, shock, et cetera, did he bring anything new in terms of information regarding China -- say, how long this is going to go on, is it definitely on the road of oppression until they totally control the country again? And is economic progress or cooperation possible between -- with the West anymore? MR. CLARK: Well, I think, yes, there was discussion of the situation in China. I don't think anyone has a clear view still as to how it's going to finally play out. All of us are convinced, as the Secretary said, you may clear the Square, you can't clear your conscience. And you cannot put the democratic genie back in the bottle. So, in the long run, I think we're hopeful it can continue. I think there is agreement between the two that we should not cut off all of our contacts with China, we should maintain them so that we have an opportunity to exert whatever influence we can in the days ahead. Q Have you seen any evidence that you can make an impact at all? MR. CLARK: Oh, I think you can make some, but you know, China is a very large and, at times of crisis, a very inward-looking country. It's very hard to influence. Q Did I understand you to say that the Vice President was at the talks this morning? MR. CLARK: That's quite right, the Vice President was at the talks this morning. 2 When Vice President Quayle was in Australia, he said that U.S. farm subsidies were not harming Australian farmers. Yesterday, Secretary Yeutter said they were. Did Vice President MORE - 4 - Quayle today clarify that situation? MR. CLARK: They did not discuss that today. Q There was some concern when Vice President Quayle was in there that he was perhaps not across-the-subject as well as he might have been. There was criticism from a senior Australian minister that there was "no hope for him." Did he take an active and high profile role in this morning's discussions? MR. CLARK: Absolutely. Of course, the Vice President is very clearly an active and important part of the team. Q Does the President now accept that the EEP does have Australia's farming interests? MR. CLARK: We have differing views on that, as you know. And you can run statistics on both sides. Australia has its statistics and does claim damage. We maintain that we run the EEP in a manner that protects traditional markets and it's designed to go after others. So, we have a difference here. But the main point is, we have agreed on the way to find a solution. Trying to run -- whether we see it the same or not doesn't really get us too far forward. Well, no, so what we've agreed is, the way to solve it is to do away with this type of subsidy. And the way you do that is within the Uruguay round. Q -- is very important. How do you have different sets of figures? I never understood that. Could you explain how the American figures are so different from the Australian figures on this? MR. CLARK: Well, you see the -- there is a question as to what you would have had in a market if you'd had a market without EEP and the growing conditions had been different and the U.S. hadn't had a drought. And you can run that up several ways. So you make different assumptions. Q So the official view from the White House remains that Australian farm incomes are not reduced by the EEP? MR. CLARK: The official position from the U.S. government is that we make every effort to administer the EEP in a manner that does not harm traditional suppliers. Q I just want to make sure that I understand what you said a while ago. You said that Prime Minister Hawke did not make any sort of request for the United States to unilaterally end its export subsidies. MR. CLARK: No, I said that the agreement -- and if you look at his comments at the Press Club yesterday, that the solution is to find -- is to reduce agricultural subsidies around the world in the context of the Uruguay round. Q Just to clarify a point that's still murky here -- you can say that you make every effort to administer the EEP in a way so as not to harm, et cetera, et cetera. But what is the official position if you have this unreconciled difference between Quayle and Yeutter and what have you -- is Australia being harmed or not? I haven't heard a yes or a no here. MR. CLARK: What I'm saying is that we maintain that we do it in a way that we think does not harm. Australia maintains that there is harm. There is a difference here. The difference has not been resolved. We have different views. Q So your position is the Quayle position, not the Yeutter position, that Yeutter is out of step here if he says that they are being affected? MORE - 5 - MR. CLARK: Look, what I'm saying is that we have -- we -- there is a difference of opinion on this, it has not been resolved, but the way to resolve it is not to argue about that, but is to do away with it. Q But the difference is within the administration. MR. CLARK: No. Q You're saying there's a difference between you and the Australians, but there's also a difference within the administration. MR. CLARK: That I will leave to you to ask Clayton Yeutter about, because I can't do that one for you. Q So Vice President Quayle was correct, then? Q So your position -- you disagree with -- or just what's doing that -- MR. CLARK: No, wait a minute. Let me finish. I'm briefing on the meeting today. You're into technical areas that I can't do. Sorry. Q Okay, what about the Philippines? Q Did you discuss the Prime Minister's regional trade initiative, and was it decided whether there will be a ministerial meeting in Australia later in the year? MR. CLARK: Yes, we did discuss the Prime Minister's regional trade initiative, and if you looked at the Secretary's speech in New York last night, you'll see that we have been doing a lot of thinking ourselves, and we find that the Prime Minister's thoughts on that are very useful. If, indeed, the timing, substance, and the agenda can be resolved and there is a consensus in the region, we would very much support the Prime Minister's call for a regional meeting this fall. Q What about the Philippines, Roman? What happened -- what did they say about that? Q Do you want it to be held in Australia and the U.S. would go to Australia to sell this -- MR. CLARK: Of course. Q You said they talked about the Philippines -- MR. CLARK: They talked about the current situation in the Philippines. There is, as you know, a meeting -- this is the last question -- there is, as you know, a meeting in Tokyo on the 3rd and 4th of next month that will be a session to kick off the multinational aid initiative to the Philippines. There was some discussion of that -- who would attend -- and a good deal of confidence on both sides that President Aquino has gotten a good hold on the situation, moving forward. THE PRESS: Thank you. END 12:00 P.M. EDT (Lange/Wallace) June 26, 1989 4:00 p.m. [PRICE.DOC] PRESIDENTIAL TALKING POINTS: STATE DINNER EAST ROOM TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1989 [TIME] * I'm grateful you all could be here tonight -- with our friends the Prime Minister and Mrs. Hawke of Australia -- to hear the incomparable singing of Ms. Leontyne Price. * Leontyne Price is a hard act to follow. Born in Laurel, Mississippi, she grew up wanting to be a music teacher. Since then, she has taught us all -- and taught the world -- to love music. * She has been called "the Stradivarius of singers." She was the first opera singer to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1965, and the First Medal of Arts, in 1985. * She has sung here at the White House many times. And her previous performances here have won Emmy Awards. We have been very fortunate to have her here tonight -- together with her long-time partner at the piano, David Garvey. you have our enthusiastic appretion * After a career of singing in the great halls of Vienna, Berlin, London, and New York, the acoustics here in the East Room may have been slightly disappointing -- but Leontyne, I hope our enthusiasm has helped make up for it. Thank you. PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: TOAST TO PRIME MINISTER HAWKE JUNE 27, 1989/7:30 P.M. I AM VERY HAPPY, BoB AND HAZEL, THAT BARBARA AND I HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO WELCOME YOU BACK TO WASHINGTON. I REMEMBER WITH FONDNESS OUR VISIT To AUSTRALIA IN 1982, AND YOUR PREVIOUS VISITS TO WASHINGTON. AND NOW WE HAVE BEEN DELIGHTED WITH YOUR GRACIOUS COMPANY DURING YOUR ALL-TOO BRIEF STAY. - 2 - ((BoB, IF I MAY, I BELIEVE THE CORRECT TERM IS THAT YOU'RE A FAIR DINKUM BLOKE, AND OUR MEETINGS HAVE GONE QUITE BONZER.)) ((PAUSE)) BUT OUR FRIENDSHIP IS A REFLECTION OF A DEEPER CLOSENESS. WILBUR GARRETT, EDITOR OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, WROTE THAT BOTH AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA EXERT AN ENDURING FASCINATION ON EACH OTHER, "LIKE BROTHERS GROWING UP IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD." - 3 - WE HAVE BORNE GREAT SACRIFICES AS BROTHERS IN WAR. Now WE SHARE GREAT RESPONSIBILITIES AS BROTHERS IN PEACE. IN THIS CENTURY, AUSTRALIA HAS RISEN IN STATURE, FROM A DOMINION OF ENGLAND, TO BECOME A NATION. A GREAT NATION. IN CULTURE AND THE ARTS, THE WORLD HAS TAKEN NOTE -- AUSTRALIA IS A RISING STAR. - 4 - CLASSIC FILMS LIKE "GALLIPOLI" AND "BREAKER MORANT", PATRICK WHITE'S NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE ARE MOVING EXAMPLES OF WHY AUSTRALIA IS EMERGING AS A LEADING LIGHT IN WORLD CULTURE. BUT AUSTRALIA HAS AN EVEN MORE PROFOUND CONTRIBUTION TO MAKE TO THE WORLD -- THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND SPREAD OF DEMOCRACY. AUSTRALIA IS A SHINING LIGHT IN THE PACIFIC, A LAMP OF LIBERTY FOR THE OPPRESSED PEOPLES OF THE EAST. - 5 - BoB, LET ME TAKE JUST A MOMENT TO ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR OUTSTANDING PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN THE REGION. You HAVE LED WITH IDEAS TO BETTER ORGANIZE THE TRADING PARTNERS OF THE PACIFIC BASIN AND YOU HAVE BEEN A CHAMPION OF FREEDOM'S CAUSE. YOUR NATION'S MAGNIFICENT NEW PARLIAMENT BUILDING IS A FITTING MONUMENT TO DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES. - 6 - LITTLE WONDER THAT so MANY AMERICANS INCLUDING MEMBERS OF OUR CONGRESS, JOINED YOU FOR THE INAUGURATION OF THAT BUILDING -- AND EVEN CONTRIBUTED TO ITS ARCHITECTURE IN A REAFFIRMATION OF OUR KINSHIP. IT IS A KINSHIP THAT IS MORE PROFOUND THAN HERITAGE, DEEPER THAN A SHARED LANGUAGE. IT IS THE UNIVERSAL KINSHIP, THE BROTHERHOOD OF DEMOCRACY. RECENT EVENTS IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION SHOW THAT IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO LET A MAN BUY WHAT HE WANTS. - 7 - HE MUST BE ALLOWED TO SAY WHAT HE BELIEVES. HE MUST BE ALLOWED A VOICE IN THE GOVERNING OF SOCIETY. ECONOMIC FREEDOM ALONE AND POLITICAL FREEDOM INDEED GO HAND IN HAND AND DEPEND ON ONE ANOTHER. THEREFORE, IT IS VERY TIMELY FOR US TO MEET, CONSULT AND ONCE AGAIN AFFIRM THE SOLIDARITY OF OUR U.S. -AUSTRALIAN ALLIANCE. THE UNITED STATES IS FULLY ENGAGED IN ASIA, TO SUPPORT THE FORCES OF PEACE, DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS. - 8 - OUR ABIDING COMMITMENT TO AUSTRALIA AND OUR OTHER FRIENDS AND ALLIES IN THE REGION WILL REMAIN STRONG AND ABIDING. AND I KNOW THAT AUSTRALIA STANDS WITH US, NOT JUST IN FAVOR OF THE FREE FLOW OF GOODS -- BUT OF THE IDEAS AND IDEALS OF FREEDOM. - 9 - LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AUSTRALIA IS A STRONG FELLOW DEMOCRACY AND A CLOSE ALLY OF THE UNITED STATES. I OFFER THIS TOAST TO HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH OF AUSTRALIA. # # # Document No. 047263 action. L. Funstory WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM DATE: 6/22/89 ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 12:00 6/23/89 SUBJECT: PRESIDENTAIL ADDRESS: TOAST TO PRIME MINISTER HAWKE ACTION FYI ACTION FYI VICE PRESIDENT MCCLURE SUNUNU NEWMAN SCOWCROFT PORTER DARMAN STUDDERT BATES UNTERMEYER BREEDEN WINSTON CARD ROGERS PINKERTON CICCONI DEMAREST Boskin FITZWATER GRAY HAGIN REMARKS: Please provide your comments/recommendations directly to Chriss Winston's office with an info copy t9 my office by 12:00 Friday, June 23. Thank you. RESPONSE: No PE : comment 11v 266 NNC 68 LH no comment. James W. Cicconi per John Taylor Assistant to the President and Deputy to the Chief of Staff Ext. 2702 Davis/Martin Title: Hawke2 June 19, 1989 Draft: One PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: TOAST TO PRIME MINISTER HAWKE JUNE 27, 1989/7:30 p.m. I am very happy, Bob and Hazel, that Barbara and I have had the opportunity to welcome you back to Washington. I remember with fondness our visit to Australia in 1982, and your previous visits to Washington. And now we have been delighted with your gracious company during your all-too brief stay. ((Bob, if I may, I believe the correct term is that you're a fair dinkum bloke, and our meetings have gone quite bonzer. )) ((PAUSE)) I Cannot fact check this! But our friendship is a reflection of a deeper closeness. Wilbur Garrett, editor of National Geographic, wrote that both America and Australia exert an enduring fascination on each other, "like brothers growing up in different parts of the world." We have borne great sacrifices as brothers in war. Now we share great responsibilities as brothers in peace. In this century, Australia has risen in stature, from a Dominion of England, to become a nation. A great nation. In culture and the arts, the world has taken note -- Australia is a rising star. 2 Let me single out just one aspect of Australian arts that has captivated the world -- your cinema. Classic films like "Gallipoli" are moving examples of why Australia is emerging as a leading light in world culture. But Australia has an even more profound contribution to make to the world -- the encouragement and spread of democracy. Australia is a shining light in the Pacific, a lamp of liberty for the oppressed peoples of the East. Since your last visit to this city, Australia has inaugurated a magnificent new Parliament building a fitting monument to a long history of self-government under democratic principles. Little wonder that so many Americans and members of the U.S. Congress joined you on that occasion, to reaffirm our kinship. It is a kinship that is more profound than heritage, deeper than a shared language. It is the universal kinship, the brotherhood of democracy. Recent events in the Asia-Pacific region show that it not enough to let a man buy what he wants. He must be allowed to say what he believes. He must be allowed to choose his government. Economic freedom alone will not provide sufficient room for the restless human spirit. 3 It is particularly timely that we could once again affirm the solidarity of the U.S.-Australian alliance. The United States will remain fully engaged in Asia, to support the forces of peace, democracy and human rights. Our abiding commitment to Australia and our other friends and allies in the region will remain strong. And I know that Australia stands with us, not just in favor of the free flow of goods -- but of the ideas and ideals of freedom. Ladies and gentlemen, Australia is a strong fellow democracy and a close ally of the United States. I offer this toast to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of Australia. # # # THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON June 22, 1989 INFORMATION MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT THROUGH: CHRISS WINSTON SR forcw FROM: MARK DAVIS MD SUBJECT: TOAST TO PRIME MINISTER HAWKE I. SUBJECT On Tuesday, June 27, 1989, you will attend a State Dinner in honor of Prime Minister (Bob) Hawke of Australia and his wife, Hazel. The dinner will begin at 7:30 in the Rose Garden, following dessert at 9:30 p.m. you will deliver a brief toast to the Prime Minister prepared on speechcards. II. DISCUSSION The toast salutes the brotherhood, history and political ideas shared by Australia and the United States. Davis/Martin Title: Hawke2 June 19, 1989 Draft: One PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: TOAST TO PRIME MINISTER HAWKE JUNE 27, 1989/7:30 p.m. I am very happy, Bob and Hazel, that Barbara and I have had the opportunity to welcome you back to Washington. I remember with fondness our visit to Australia in 1982, and your previous visits to Washington. And now we have been delighted with your gracious company during your all-too brief stay. ((Bob, if I may, I believe the correct term is that you're a fair dinkum bloke, and our meetings have gone quite bonzer.) ) ((PAUSE)) But our friendship is a reflection of a deeper closeness. Wilbur Garrett, editor of National Geographic, wrote that both America and Australia exert an enduring fascination on each other, "like brothers growing up in different parts of the world." We have borne great sacrifices as brothers in war. Now we share great responsibilities as brothers in peace. In this century, Australia has risen in stature, from a Dominion of England, to become a nation. A great nation. In culture and the arts, the world has taken note --- Australia is a rising star. 2 Classic films like "Gallipoli" and "Breaker Morant", Patrick White's Nobel prize for literature are moving examples of why Australia is emerging as a leading light in world culture. But Australia has an even more profound contribution to make to the world -- the encouragement and spread of democracy. Australia is a shining light in the Pacific, a lamp of liberty for the oppressed peoples of the East. Bob, let me take just a moment to acknowledge your outstanding personal leadership in the region. You have led with ideas to better organize the trading partners of the Pacific Basin and you have been a champion of freedom's cause. Your nation's magnificent new Parliament building is a fitting monument to democratic principles. Little wonder that so many Americans including members of our Congress, joined you for the inauguration of that building -- and even contributed to its architecture in a reaffirmation of our kinship. It is a kinship that is more profound than heritage, deeper than a shared language. It is the universal kinship, the brotherhood of democracy. Recent events in the Asia-Pacific region show that it not enough to let a man buy what he wants. He must be allowed to say 3 what he believes. He must be allowed a voice in the governing of society. Economic freedom alone and political freedom indeed go hand in hand and depend on one another. Therefore, it is very timely for us to meet, consult and once again affirm the solidarity of our U.S.-Australian alliance. The United States will remain fully engaged in Asia, to support the forces of peace, democracy and human rights. Our abiding commitment to Australia and our other friends and allies in the region will remain strong and abiding. And I know that Australia stands with us, not just in favor of the free flow of goods -- but of the ideas and ideals of freedom. Ladies and gentlemen, Australia is a strong fellow democracy and a close ally of the United States. I offer this toast to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of Australia. # # # WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM DATE: 6/22/89 ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 12:00 6/23/89 SUBJECT: PRESIDENTAIL ADDRESS: TOAST TO PRIME MINISTER HAWKE ACTION FYI ACTION FYI VICE PRESIDENT MCCLURE SUNUNU NEWMAN SCOWCROFT PORTER DARMAN STUDDERT BATES UNTERMEYER BREEDEN WINSTON CARD ROGERS CICCONI PINKERTON DEMAREST Boskin FITZWATER GRAY HAGIN REMARKS: Please provide your comments/recommendations directly to Chriss Winston's office with an info copy t9 my office by 12:00 Friday, June 23. Thank you. RESPONSE: No comments. James W. Cicconi Assistant to the President and Deputy to the Chief of Staff Ext. 2702 Document No. 047263 WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM 89 JUN 23 P4:07 DATE: 6/22/89 ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 12:00 6/23/89 SUBJECT: PRESIDENTAIL ADDRESS: TOAST TO PRIME MINISTER HAWKE ACTION FYI CTION FYI VICE PRESIDENT MCCLURE SUNUNU NEWMAN SCOWCROFT PORTER DARMAN STUDDERT BATES UNTERMEYER BREEDEN WINSTON CARD ROGERS PINKERTON CICCONI 1 DEMAREST 1 Boskin FITZWATER GRAY HAGIN REMARKS: Please provide your comments/recommendations directly to Chriss Winston's office with an info copy t9 my office by 12:00 Friday, June 23. Thank you. RESPONSE: ok 6Bw 6/23 James W, Cicconi Assistant to the President and Deputy to the Chief of Staff Ext. 2702 THE WHITE HOUSE washington Stephanie -- Jim thinks that NSC's comment on p. 3, "is" for "will remain", is substantive and should be incorporated. Also, could you please check with NSC to ensure that the formulation "Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of Australia" is correct? Thanks. Steph took careofit cmm 1:05 6.23 3 what he believes. He must be allowed a voice in the governing of society. Economic freedom alone and political freedom indeed go hand in hand and depend on one another. Therefore, it is very timely for us to meet, consult and once again affirm the solidarity of our U.S. -Australian alliance. The United States will remain fully engaged in Asia, to support the forces of peace, democracy and human rights. Our abiding commitment to Australia and our other friends and allies in the region will remain strong and abiding. And I know that Australia stands with us, not just in favor of the free flow of goods -- but of the ideas and ideals of freedom. Ladies and gentlemen, Australia is a strong fellow democracy and a close ally of the United States. I offer this toast to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of Australia. # # # THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON 1000' July 2.3 June 22, 1989 INFORMATION MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT THROUGH: CHRISS WINSTON SR for cw FROM: MARK DAVIS MD SUBJECT: TOAST TO PRIME MINISTER HAWKE I. SUBJECT On Tuesday, June 27, 1989, you will attend a State Dinner in honor of Prime Minister (Bob) Hawke of Australia and his wife, Hazel. The dinner will begin at 7:30 in the Rose Garden, following dessert at 9:30 p.m. you will deliver a brief toast to the Prime Minister prepared on speechcards. II. DISCUSSION The toast salutes the brotherhood, history and political ideas shared by Australia and the United States. Davis/Martin Title: Hawke2 June 19, 1989 Draft: One PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: TOAST TO PRIME MINISTER HAWKE JUNE 27, 1989/7:30 p.m. I am very happy, Bob and Hazel, that Barbara and I have had the opportunity to welcome you back to Washington. I remember with fondness our visit to Australia in 1982, and your previous visits to Washington. And now we have been delighted with your gracious company during your all-too brief stay. ((Bob, if I may, I believe the correct term is that you're a fair dinkum bloke, and our meetings have gone quite bonzer.) ) ((PAUSE)) But our friendship is a reflection of a deeper closeness. Wilbur Garrett, editor of National Geographic, wrote that both America and Australia exert an enduring fascination on each other, "like brothers growing up in different parts of the world." We have borne great sacrifices as brothers in war. Now we share great responsibilities as brothers in peace. In this century, Australia has risen in stature, from a Dominion of England, to become a nation. A great nation. In culture and the arts, the world has taken note -- Australia is a rising star. 2 Classic films like "Gallipoli" and "Breaker Morant", Patrick White's Nobel prize for literature are moving examples of why Australia is emerging as a leading light in world culture. But Australia has an even more profound contribution to make to the world -- the encouragement and spread of democracy. Australia is a shining light in the Pacific, a lamp of liberty for the oppressed peoples of the East. Bob, let me take just a moment to acknowledge your outstanding personal leadership in the region. You have led with ideas to better organize the trading partners of the Pacific Basin and you have been a champion of freedom's cause. Your nation's magnificent new Parliament building is a fitting monument to democratic principles. Little wonder that so many Americans including members of our Congress, joined you for the inauguration of that building -- and even contributed to its architecture in a reaffirmation of our kinship. It is a kinship that is more profound than heritage, deeper than a shared language. It is the universal kinship, the brotherhood of democracy. Recent events in the Asia-Pacific region show that it not enough to let a man buy what he wants. He must be allowed to say 3 what he believes. He must be allowed a voice in the governing of society. Economic freedom alone and political freedom indeed go hand in hand and depend on one another. Therefore, it is very timely for us to meet, consult and once again affirm the solidarity of our U.S. -Australian alliance. The United States is fully engaged in Asia, to support the forces of peace, democracy and human rights. Our abiding commitment to Australia and our other friends and allies in the region will remain strong and abiding. And I know that Australia stands with us, not just in favor of the free flow of goods -- but of the ideas and ideals of freedom. Ladies and gentlemen, Australia is a strong fellow democracy and a close ally of the United States. I offer this toast to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of Australia. # # # Document No. 047263 4936 WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM 89 JUN 23 P3:26 26 DATE: 6/22/89 ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 12:00 6/23/89 SUBJECT: PRESIDENTAIL ADDRESS: TOAST TO PRIME MINISTER HAWKE ACTION FYI ACTION FYI VICE PRESIDENT MCCLURE SUNUNU NEWMAN SCOWCROFT PORTER DARMAN STUDDERT BATES UNTERMEYER BREEDEN WINSTON CARD ROGERS CICCONI PINKERTON DEMAREST Boskin FITZWATER GRAY 1 HAGIN REMARKS: Please provide your comments/recommendations directly to Chriss Winston's office with an info copy t9 my office by 12:00 Friday, June 23. Thank you. RESPONSE: TO: CHRISS WINSTON June 23, 1989 The NSC concurs with changes noted. Brent RSaten for Scowcroft James W, Cicconi Assistant to the President CC: Jim Cicconi and Deputy to the Chief of Staff Ext. 2702 as:Eq ES NUL es SS:Ld Davis/Martin 1930 Title: Hawke2 June 19, 1989 Draft: One PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: TOAST TO PRIME MINISTER HAWKE JUNE 27, 1989/7:30 p.m. I am very happy, Bob and Hazel, that Barbara and I have had the opportunity to welcome you back to Washington. I remember with fondness our visit to Australia in 1982, and your previous visits to Washington. And now we have been delighted with your gracious company during your all-too brief stay. ((Bob, if I may, I believe the correct term is that you're a fair dinkum bloke, and our meetings have gone quite bonzer.) ) ((PAUSE)) But our friendship is a reflection of a deeper closeness. Wilbur Garrett, editor of National Geographic, wrote that both America and Australia exert an enduring fascination on each other, "like brothers growing up in different parts of the world." We have borne great sacrifices as brothers in war. Now we share great responsibilities as brothers in peace. In this century, Australia has risen in stature, from a Dominion of England, to become a nation. A great nation. In culture and the arts, the world has taken note -- Australia is a rising star. 2 [Let Let me single out just one aspect of Australian arts that has captivated the world -- your cinema. J Classic films like and "Breaker Morant", Patrickewhite's nobel prize for literature "Gallipoli" are moving examples of why Australia is emerging as a leading light in world culture. But Australia has an even more profound contribution to make to the world -- the encouragement and spread of democracy. Australia is a shining light in the Pacific, a lamp of liberty for the oppressed peoples of the East. 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He must be allowed to say a voice in the governance of society what he believes. He must be allowed to choose his government. and political freedom ^ rindeed GO hand in hand and Economic freedom alone will not provide sufficient room for the restless human spirit spirit. depend in each other. Therefore it is very for us to meet, consult, and It is particularly timely that we could once again affirm our the solidarity of the U.S. Australian alliance. The United States will remain fully engaged in Asia, to support the forces of peace, democracy and human rights. Our abiding commitment to cw is Australia and our other friends and allies in the region will and abiding- remain strong. A And I know that Australia stands with us, not just in favor of the free flow of goods -- but of the ideas and ideals of freedom. Ladies and gentlemen, Australia is a strong fellow democracy and a close ally of the United States. I offer this toast to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of Australia. # # # FILE Davis/Martin Title: Hawke2 June 19, 1989 Draft: One PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: TOAST TO PRIME MINISTER HAWKE JUNE 27, 1989/7:30 p.m. I am very happy, Bob and Hazel, that Barbara and I have had the opportunity to welcome you back to Washington. I remember with fondness our visit to Australia in 1982, and your previous visits to Washington. And now we have been delighted with your gracious company during your all-too brief stay. ((Bob, if I may, I believe the correct term is that you're a fair dinkum bloke, and our meetings have gone quite bonzer.)) ((PAUSE)) But our friendship is a reflection of a deeper closeness. Wilbur Garrett, editor of National Geographic, wrote that both America and Australia exert an enduring fascination on each other, "like brothers growing up in different parts of the world." We have borne great sacrifices as brothers in war. Now we share great responsibilities as brothers in peace. In this century, Australia has risen in stature, from a Dominion of England, to become a nation. A great nation. In culture and the arts, the world has taken note -- Australia is a rising star. 2 Let me single out just one aspect of Australian arts that has captivated the world -- your cinema. Classic films like "Gallipoli" are moving examples of why Australia is emerging as a leading light in world culture. But Australia has an even more profound contribution to make to the world -- the encouragement and spread of democracy. Australia is a shining light in the Pacific, a lamp of liberty for the oppressed peoples of the East. Since your last visit to this city, Australia has inaugurated a magnificent new Parliament building a fitting monument to a long history of self-government under democratic principles. Little wonder that so many Americans and members of the U.S. Congress joined you on that occasion, to reaffirm our kinship. It is a kinship that is more profound than heritage, deeper than a shared language. It is the universal kinship, the brotherhood of democracy. Recent events in the Asia-Pacific region show that it not enough to let a man buy what he wants. He must be allowed to say what he believes. He must be allowed to choose his government. Economic freedom alone will not provide sufficient room for the restless human spirit. 3 It is particularly timely that we could once again affirm the solidarity of the U.S.-Australian alliance. The United States will remain fully engaged in Asia, to support the forces of peace, democracy and human rights. Our abiding commitment to Australia and our other friends and allies in the region will remain strong. And I know that Australia stands with us, not just in favor of the free flow of goods -- but of the ideas and ideals of freedom. Ladies and gentlemen, Australia is a strong fellow democracy and a close ally of the United States. I offer this toast to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of Australia. # # # Document NO. WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM DATE: 6/22/89 A ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 12:00 6/23/89 23 69 SUBJECT: PRESIDENTAIL ADDRESS: TOAST TO PRIME MINISTER HAWKE ACTION FYI ACTION FYI VICE PRESIDENT MCCLURE SUNUNU NEWMAN SCOWCROFT PORTER DARMAN STUDDERT BATES UNTERMEYER BREEDEN WINSTON CARD ROGERS CICCONI PINKERTON DEMAREST Boskin FITZWATER GRAY HAGIN REMARKS: Please provide your comments/recommendations directly to Chriss Winston's office with an info copy t9 my office by 12:00 Friday, June 23. Thank you. RESPONSE: No Comment 6/23/89 James W. Cicconi Assistant to the President and Deputy to the Chief of Staff Ext. 2702 Document No. 047263 WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM DATE: 6/22/89 ACTION/CONCURENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: P12: 07 12:00 6/23/89 SUBJECT: PRESIDENTAIL ADDRESS: TOAST TO PRIME MINISTER HAWKE ACTION FYI ACTION FYI VICE PRESIDENT MCCLURE SUNUNU NEWMAN SCOWCROFT PORTER DARMAN STUDDERT BATES UNTERMEYER BREEDEN WINSTON CARD ROGERS CICCONI PINKERTON DEMAREST Boskin FITZWATER A GRAY HAGIN REMARKS: Please provide your comments/recommendations directly to Chriss Winston's office with an info copy t9 my office by 12:00 Friday, June 23. Thank you. RESPONSE: no Comment James W. Cicconi Assistant to the President and Deputy to the Chief of Staff Ext. 2702 Davis/Martin 1909 Title: Hawke2 June 19, 1989 Draft: One PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: TOAST TO PRIME MINISTER HAWKE JUNE 27, 1989/7:30 p.m. I am very happy, Bob and Hazel, that Barbara and I have had the opportunity to welcome you back to Washington. I remember with fondness our visit to Australia in 1982, and your previous visits to Washington. And now we have been delighted with your gracious company during your all-too brief stay. ((Bob, if I may, I believe the correct term is that you're a fair dinkum bloke, and our meetings have gone quite bonzer.) ) ((PAUSE)) But our friendship is a reflection of a deeper closeness. Wilbur Garrett, editor of National Geographic, wrote that both America and Australia exert an enduring fascination on each other, "like brothers growing up in different parts of the world." We have borne great sacrifices as brothers in war. Now we share great responsibilities as brothers in peace. In this century, Australia has risen in stature, from a Dominion of England, to become a nation. A great nation. In culture and the arts, the world has taken note -- Australia is a rising star. 2 Let me single out just one aspect of Australian arts that has captivated the world -- your cinema. Classic films like "Gallipoli" are moving examples of why Australia is emerging as a leading light in world culture. But Australia has an even more profound contribution to make to the world -- the encouragement and spread of democracy. Australia is a shining light in the Pacific, a lamp of liberty for the oppressed peoples of the East. Since your last visit to this city, Australia has inaugurated a magnificent new Parliament building a fitting monument to a long history of self-government under democratic principles. Little wonder that so many Americans and members of the U.S. Congress joined you on that occasion, to reaffirm our kinship. It is a kinship that is more profound than heritage, deeper than a shared language. It is the universal kinship, the brotherhood of democracy. Recent events in the Asia-Pacific region show that it not enough to let a man buy what he wants. He must be allowed to say what he believes. He must be allowed to choose his government. Economic freedom alone will not provide sufficient room for the restless human spirit. 3 It is particularly timely that we could once again affirm the solidarity of the U.S.-Australian alliance. The United States will remain fully engaged in Asia, to support the forces of peace, democracy and human rights. Our abiding commitment to Australia and our other friends and allies in the region will remain strong. And I know that Australia stands with us, not just in favor of the free flow of goods -- but of the ideas and ideals of freedom. Ladies and gentlemen, Australia is a strong fellow democracy and a close ally of the United States. I offer this toast to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of Australia. # # # THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON June 23, 1989 89 JUN 23 P12: 46 MEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON FROM: STEPHEN G. RADEMAKER SR ASSOCIATE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT SUBJECT: Presidential Address - Toast to Prime Minister Hawke Pursuant to James Cicconi's request, Counsel's Office has reviewed the above-referenced matter. We recommend that the words "friends and" be deleted from the sentence on page 3 reading "Our abiding commitment to Australia and our other friends and allies in the region will remain strong." The word "commitment" is not defined in this context, and therefore this statement could be construed as extending to "friends" our legal commitment to U.S. allies. Apart from this suggestion, Counsel's Office no legal objection to the arrival statement as drafted. We note that our commercialization concerns ordinarily would lead us to object to the reference to the movie "Gallipoli" on page 2, but in the context of a salute to a foreign culture, and given that the movie is not a recent release, we have no objection. Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention. CC: James W. 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Refer questions about the correspondence tracking system to Central Reference, ext. 2590. 5/81 Document No. 047263 WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM DATE: 6/22/89 ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 12:00 6/23/89 SUBJECT: PRESIDENTAIL ADDRESS: TOAST TO PRIME MINISTER HAWKE ACTION FYI ACTION FYI VICE PRESIDENT MCCLURE 7 SUNUNU NEWMAN SCOWCROFT PORTER DARMAN STUDDERT BATES UNTERMEYER BREEDEN WINSTON CARD ROGERS CICCONI PINKERTON DEMAREST Boskin FITZWATER GRAY HAGIN REMARKS: Please provide your comments/recommendations directly to Chriss Winston's office with an info copy t9 my office by 12:00 Friday, June 23. Thank you. RESPONSE: James W, Cicconi Assistant to the President and Deputy to the Chief of Staff Ext. 2702 Davis/Martin 1908 Title: Hawke2 June 19, 1989 Draft: One PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: TOAST TO PRIME MINISTER HAWKE JUNE 27, 1989/7:30 p.m. I am very happy, Bob and Hazel, that Barbara and I have had the opportunity to welcome you back to Washington. I remember with fondness our visit to Australia in 1982, and your previous visits to Washington. And now we have been delighted with your gracious company during your all-too brief stay. ((Bob, if I may, I believe the correct term is that you're a fair dinkum bloke, and our meetings have gone quite bonzer.) ) ((PAUSE)) But our friendship is a reflection of a deeper closeness. Wilbur Garrett, editor of National Geographic, wrote that both America and Australia exert an enduring fascination on each other, "like brothers growing up in different parts of the world." We have borne great sacrifices as brothers in war. Now we share great responsibilities as brothers in peace. In this century, Australia has risen in stature, from a Dominion of England, to become a nation. A great nation. In, culture and the arts, the world has taken note -- Australia is a rising star. 2 Let me single out just one aspect of Australian arts that has captivated the world -- your cinema. Classic films like "Gallipoli" are moving examples of why Australia is emerging as a leading light in world culture. But Australia has an even more profound contribution to make to the world -- the encouragement and spread of democracy. Australia is a shining light in the Pacific, a lamp of liberty for the oppressed peoples of the East. Since your last visit to this city, Australia has inaugurated a magnificent new Parliament building a fitting monument to a long history of self-government under democratic principles. Little wonder that so many Americans and members of the U.S. Congress joined you on that occasion, to reaffirm our kinship. It is a kinship that is more profound than heritage, deeper than a shared language. It is the universal kinship, the brotherhood of democracy. Recent events in the Asia-Pacific region show that it not enough to let a man buy what he wants. He must be allowed to say what he believes. He must be allowed to choose his government. Economic freedom alone will not provide sufficient room for the restless human spirit. 3 It is particularly timely that we could once again affirm the solidarity of the U.S. -Australian alliance. The United States will remain fully engaged in Asia, to support the forces of peace, democracy and human rights. Our abiding commitment to Australia and our other friends and allies in the region will remain strong. And I know that Australia stands with us, not just in favor of the free flow of goods -- but of the ideas and ideals of freedom. Ladies and gentlemen, Australia is a strong fellow democracy and a close ally of the United States. I offer this toast to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of Australia. # # # THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON June 23, 1989 MEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON FROM: ROGER B. PORTER RBP SUBJECT: Presidential Address: Toast To Prime Minister Hawke We have no suggested changes from a policy standpoint and approve of the draft in its present form. CC: James W. Cicconi 89 JUN 26 A10: 54 Document No. 047263 WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM DATE: 6/22/89 A'CTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 12:00 6/23/89 SUBJECT: PRESIDENTAIL ADDRESS: TOAST TO PRIME MINISTER HAWKE ACTION FYI ACTION FYI VICE PRESIDENT MCCLURE SUNUNU NEWMAN SCOWCROFT PORTER DARMAN STUDDERT BATES UNTERMEYER BREEDEN WINSTON CARD ROGERS CICCONI PINKERTON DEMAREST Boskin FITZWATER GRAY HAGIN REMARKS: Please provide your comments/recommendations directly to Chriss Winston's office with an info copy t9 my office by 12:00 Friday, June 23. Thank you. RESPONSE: James W, Cicconi Assistant to the President and Deputy to the Chief of Staff Ext. 2702 Davis/Martin Title: Hawke2 June 19, 1989 Draft: One PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: TOAST TO PRIME MINISTER HAWKE JUNE 27, 1989/7:30 p.m. I am very happy, Bob and Hazel, that Barbara and I have had the opportunity to welcome you back to Washington. I remember with fondness our visit to Australia in 1982, and your previous visits to Washington. And now we have been delighted with your gracious company during your all-too brief stay. ((Bob, if I may, I believe the correct term is that you're a fair dinkum bloke, and our meetings have gone quite bonzer.)) ((PAUSE)) But our friendship is a reflection of a deeper closeness. Wilbur Garrett, editor of National Geographic, wrote that both America and Australia exert an enduring fascination on each other, "like brothers growing up in different parts of the world." We have borne great sacrifices as brothers in war. Now we share great responsibilities as brothers in peace. In this century, Australia has risen in stature, from a Dominion of England, to become a nation. A great nation. In culture and the arts, the world has taken note -- Australia is a rising star. 2 Let me single out just one aspect of Australian arts that has captivated the world -- your cinema. Classic films like "Gallipoli" are moving examples of why Australia is emerging as a leading light in world culture. But Australia has an even more profound contribution to make to the world -- the encouragement and spread of democracy. Australia is a shining light in the Pacific, a lamp of liberty for the oppressed peoples of the East. Since your last visit to this city, Australia has inaugurated a magnificent new Parliament building a fitting monument to a long history of self-government under democratic principles. Little wonder that so many Americans and members of the U.S. Congress joined you on that occasion, to reaffirm our kinship. It is a kinship that is more profound than heritage, deeper than a shared language. It is the universal kinship, the brotherhood of democracy. Recent events in the Asia-Pacific region show that it not enough to let a man buy what he wants. He must be allowed to say what he believes. He must be allowed to choose his government. Economic freedom alone will not provide sufficient room for the restless human spirit. 3 It is particularly timely that we could once again affirm the solidarity of the U.S.-Australian alliance. The United States will remain fully engaged in Asia, to support the forces of peace, democracy and human rights. Our abiding commitment to Australia and our other friends and allies in the region will remain strong. And I know that Australia stands with us, not just in favor of the free flow of goods -- but of the ideas and ideals of freedom. Ladies and gentlemen, Australia is a strong fellow democracy and a close ally of the United States. I offer this toast to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of Australia. # # #