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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
August 7, 1989
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT THE
BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE
Fort A.P. Hill
Bowling Green, Virginia
10:44 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Bill, thank you for
that generous introduction and to you and Ben Love, my sincere thanks
for inviting us to this unbelievable gathering of Scouts from all
across this country. If you will permit me a note of regional pride,
I understand that my home state of Texas has a pretty good-size
delegation over here. (Applause.) I saw that flag and I wanted to
acknowledge it.
Thank you, Curtis, for the Pledge of Allegiance and
Calvin for that National Anthem. Once again, I salute the Colonel
and the great Marine Band over here. You guys are lucky to have
them. They are outstanding, and thank you, Colonel Bourgeois.
(Applause.)
I want to salute our Secretary of Transportation, Sam
Skinner. We flew down here. You saw us coming in on Marine One, and
sitting with me on that plane was Sam Skinner, our outstanding
Secretary of Transportation; Andy Card, an Assistant to the
President; Bob Gates, an Assistant to the President for National
Security -- all three of them Eagle Scouts, so that tells you
something about how we feel. (Applause.)
The last Jamboree, I understand you had an unwelcome
visitor by the name of Bob -- Hurricane Bob. And Bill tells me you
didn't have a camp out -- you had a damp out. But today I want
credit as the guy that brought you the cool air down here. I would
like full credit for that. (Applause.)
But I'm told that this Jamboree has come together
marvelously. Canoeing, kayak, swimming. You can race trail bikes
and compete in archery. You can earn merit badges while you work
your way down the Midway. And some of you undoubtedly, you wise
ones, will be asked to organize snipe-hunting expeditions.
(Laughter.) And this all sounds like a lot of fun, but there's one
activity here that really tempts me to leave the White House behind
and spend a few days with you here at Fort A.P. Hill. And I'm
talking about Fish Hook Lane.
You see, I started fishing at age five or so, in the cold
waters along the Atlantic coast at Maine, using a lead jig with --
modest, but reasonably good delegation there, I'd say. Thank you
very much. You know, fishing with one of these lead jigs with a
little white cloth for bait, trolling with one of those old green
cotton lines. And after awhile you get the hang of it, pulling in
the fish -- mackerel and maybe a flounder. But I became acquainted
with the waters up there, and so well that now I think I know every
reef, when the swells will break and where they will, the sea
conditions and where you can find the seals on a given day.
And since the time I was your age, I've waded in a clean,
clear river in Iceland next to the Prime Minister of that land,
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catching my first salmon up there. I've pulled in bass in many, many
of the states that are represented here today, fought dolphins and
kings and tarpin and bluefish in Florida on the high seas -- the
Florida. earlier ones. (Applause.) Good sound system here. Thank you,
And as you might have guessed then, fishing I guess is my
favorite source of relaxation. And it's with a rod and reel that I
tend to count my blessings, especially if I'm out there with one of
our grandkids or with Barbara -- the only woman on Earth who can read
and fish the same time (laughter) and catch every word and
every fish.
But no matter where I fish today, I always look back to
the days when I trailed that little piece of white cloth along the
shoreline. And there's a lesson here that I want to share with you.
Whatever you love to do whether its hiking, hunting, kayaking --
hang on to it. As you pursue success in school, and if there is ever
a group that epitomizes the pursuit of success, it's you. And later
in your careers, don't forget to find time for the things you love to
do. If you stay true to the hobbies of your youth, you'll find a
source of relaxation and replenishment that will never fail you.
There are other things that you will learn as a Scout
that will serve you well through your entire life. Your Scout Law
commands you to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous,
kind, obedient, cheerful thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. What a
mouthful. (Applause.)
And that might sound like a lot to remember, but it
isn't. For at the core of that code is something simple -- a desire
to serve with honor, a sincere feeling for one's fellow man and for
one's country. Serving is not a lifelong chore to be carried out.
As Chief Scout Citizen Teddy Roosevelt put it, "The full performance
of duty is not only right in itself, but also the source of the
profoundest satisfaction that can come in life."
In short, to serve and to serve well is the highest
fulfillment we can know. Bill Swisher, who gave so much time and
commitment to this Jamboree -- he certainly knows this. Around the
country, Americans like you are serving others in a thousand ways,
providing a thousand points of light and doing a good turn daily.
I know that Boy Scouts have always helped out through
times of disaster, from fires to flash floods. The Boy Scouts were
there when Franklin Delano Roosevelt appealed for help during the
Great Depression, gathering almost two million articles of clothing,
household furnishing and food for the needy. And the Boy Scouts were
a strong helping hand at home when older brothers fought a war in
Europe.
And today the Boy Scouts have taken on a new struggle, to
defeat what you call the five "unacceptables" -- illiteracy,
unemployment, child abuse, drug abuse and hunger. In fact, fighting
hunger alone, Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorers rounded up -- now get
this 65 million cans of food for local food banks -- the largest
collection of food ever undertaken in the history of the United
States of America. (Applause.)
And your focus, then, is right on target. Today, we can
be grateful as a nation that no depression or no war looms ahead of
us. But this doesn't mean that the times we live in are less
demanding. The Boy Scouts of this Twelfth National Jamboree will
face challenges unimagined by your parents.
Perhaps the greatest challenges of our times, I'm sorry
to say, is one of the "unacceptables" -- the continuing struggle to
keep drugs out of our high schools -- a form of pollution, a
poisoning of the mind, a corruption of the very soul of young
America.
And we had some good news last week about drug use in
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America. The number of overall drug-users in the United States is
down by almost 40 percent. (Applause.) And this is a real tribute
to those who have worked in the service organizations, the youth
clubs and communities across this country. And it's especially a
tribute to the Boy Scouts of America.
But we cannot yet claim victory. The number of people
addicted to cocaine and crack has almost doubled. And we must work
harder. And I'm especially looking to you to encourage friends to
refuse drugs -- any illegal drug. I don't want any young American
starting down the path to cocaine and crack.
Last week, a Wall Street Journal reporter wrote movingly
of his son, a boy named Ryan. Ronald Shafer remembered his Ryan as
an enthusiastic collector of baseball cards who could name every
batting champion back to the '60s -- the kind of bright kid for whom
life was an open invitation to succeed. But Ryan started using drugs
and alcohol at age 12, and soon became a stranger to his parents and
his classmates. And by age 16, Ryan was dead.
There are thousands of Ryans across America, thousands of
young men and women who are in danger of losing their future, their
very lives, to this scourge called drugs.
The Boy Scouts of America has assumed a leadership role
in confronting this problem. You are teaching self-protection
strategies against drugs and other dangers and you've circulated
these strategies in direct language in a very successful pamphlet
called "Drugs; A Deadly Game." And you've done something else -- you
are leading the youth by example.
For years, the Boy Scouts of America has led our nation
in taking the anti-drug message to every community. By actively
engaging in the lives of others, you are demonstrating a central
theme, a central idea of this administration -- that from now on in
America, any definition of a successful life must include serving
others.
Now I want to challenge you to take the final steps. Ask
yourself if you know someone like Ryan Shafer. And if so, have you
done everything that you possibly can to help him or her?
And there are other, more positive challenges facing your
generation. When the first Boy Scouts chapter was formed, Americans
had just tamed the farthest reaches of the West. There were only a
few remote places in the world unseen by man. And since then, the
world has become smaller. And so has the room for our imagination
and daring -- a narrowed space for the restless spirit of freedom
that is so much a part of our national priority and of our national
identity.
But you and I know that there's a new frontier, a
frontier without limits -- space.
And once again, the Boy Scouts has played a leadership
role in preparing a generation for space exploration. It's no
coincidence that half of all astronauts were once Scouts. Admiral
Richard Truly, who ably heads NASA, is an Eagle Scout. Gus Grissom,
an American hero who lost his life in the early space program, was a
Scout. David Scott, who operated that first lunar rover, was a
Scout. Jim Lovell, another lunar explorer -- whom I'm told is with
us today. And I guess, Jim, if you're here, it's true what they say:
"Once an Eagle Scout, always an Eagle Scout." (Applause.) And I
doubt that any of the Scouts who participated in the 1969 Seventh
Jamboree in Idaho will ever forget Eagle Scout -- (applause) -- go
Boise -- will ever forget Eagle Scout Neil Armstrong, who made man's
first step on the moon, and later sent his greetings to the Jamboree
from deep space.
The first spacefarers were unique, the lucky few. But
your generation will have a broader, greater opportunity to live in
space, to travel, to establish an outpost on the moon and explore the
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mysteries of Mars. And this is the challenge of the next century --
your century, your challenge.
Near the Jamboree area is a NASA exhibit called Freedom
Station, which includes a display of our nation's first
permanently-manned space station in the next decade. And nearby are
also large-scale models of the space shuttle and other spacecraft.
This is America's space fleet, and its mission is gradually changing
from exploration to settlement. When we aim for the stars, it will
be to stay.
And this brings to mind a small coincidence. Just a few
miles away, along the Tidewater Coast of Virginia -- (applause) --
the first Englishmen arrived in the New World -- also not just to
explore, but to stay.
Those early colonists faced a terrible struggle. Their
first autumn brought a bitter harvest of hardship. Their first
winter brought tragedy. But in the end, the generation of Captain
John Smith escaped the confines of the Old World and settled the new,
a fresh frontier, a boundless promise called America.
And today, as before, some timid and chiding voices
caution us against the danger, the hardship and the expense. Perhaps
they should have seen Steven Spielberg's extravaganza. or perhaps
they should listen to Ray Bradbury, a writer who once said that space
will make children of us all.
He meant that the strange beauty and mystery of space
will teach even the most cynical and world-weary among us to
rediscover the wonder of their first glimpse of the night sky. It is
this sense of wonder and curiosity that draws you from the comfort of
home, comfort of television to the outdoors. And tonight, when you
are lying around the campfire, surrounded by dark forest, looking up
at the stars of the night sky, I want you to consider something.
Perhaps you, or even your kids -- or as hard as it is for you to
imagine, your grandchildren -- will one day look up at the night sky
before going to sleep, and see the Earth as a faint, twinkling blue
star.
It is this spirit, a spirit of wonder, of discovery and
adventure, that is surely drawing us to a new destiny on new and far
distant worlds.
You are privileged to be the generation that will witness
the first large movement of men and women into space. And as this
happens, I know that the Boy Scouts of today will be in the lead.
Thank you for inviting me to your Jamboree. God bless you, God bless
the Boy Scouts of America, and God bless the United States of
America. Thank you all.
END
11:02 A.M. EDT
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catching my first salmon up there. I've pulled in bass in many, many
of the states that are represented here today, fought dolphins and
kings and tarpin and bluefish in Florida on the high seas -- the
earlier ones. (Applause.) Good sound system here. Thank you,
Florida.
And as you might have guessed then, fishing I guess is my
favorite source of relaxation. And it's with a rod and reel that I
tend to count my blessings, especially if I'm out there with one of
our grandkids or with Barbara the only woman on Earth who can read
and fish at the same time --, (laughter) --- and catch every word and
every fish.
But no matter where I fish today, I always look back to
the days when I trailed that little piece of white cloth along the
shoreline. And there's a lesson here that I want to share with you.
Whatever you love to do whether its hiking, hunting, kayaking --
hang on to it. As you pursue success in school, and if there is ever
a group that epitomizes the pursuit of success, it's you. And later
in your careers, don't forget to find time for the things you love to
do. If you stay true to the hobbies of your youth, you'll find a
source of relaxation and replenishment that will never fail you.
There are other things that you will learn as a Scout
that will serve you well through your entire life. Your Scout Law
commands you to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous,
kind, obedient, cheerful thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. What a
mouthful. (Applause.)
And that might sound like a lot to remember, but it
isn't. For at the core of that code is something simple -- a desire
to serve with honor, a sincere feeling for one's fellow man and for
one's country. Serving is not a lifelong chore to be carried out.
As Chief Scout Citizen Teddy Roosevelt put it, "The full performance
of duty is not only right in itself, but also the source of the
profoundest satisfaction that can come in life."
In short, to serve and to serve well is the highest
fulfillment we can know. Bill Swisher, who gave so much time and
commitment to this Jamboree -- he certainly knows this. Around the
country, Americans like you are serving others in a thousand ways,
providing a thousand points of light and doing a good turn daily.
I know that Boy Scouts have always helped out through
times of disaster, from fires to flash floods. The Boy Scouts were
there when Franklin Delano Roosevelt appealed for help during the
Great Depression, gathering almost two million articles of clothing,
household furnishing and food for the needy. And the Boy Scouts were
a strong helping hand at home when older brothers fought a war in
Europe.
And today the Boy Scouts have taken on a new struggle, to
defeat what you call the five "unacceptables" -- illiteracy,
unemployment, child abuse, drug abuse and hunger. In fact, fighting
hunger alone, Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorers rounded up -- now get
this 65 million cans of food for local food banks -- the largest
collection of food ever undertaken in the history of the United
States of America. (Applause.)
And your focus, then, is right on target. Today, we can
be grateful as a nation that no depression or no war looms ahead of
us. But this doesn't mean that the times we live in are less
demanding. The Boy Scouts of this Twelfth National Jamboree will
face challenges unimagined by your parents.
Perhaps the greatest challenges of our times, I'm sorry
to say, is one of the "unacceptables" -- the continuing struggle to
keep drugs out of our high schools -- a form of pollution, a
America. poisoning of the mind, a corruption of the very soul of young
And we had some good news last week about drug use in
MORE
- 4 -
mysteries of Mars. And this is the challenge of the next century --
your century, your challenge.
Near the Jamboree area is a NASA exhibit called Freedom
Station, which includes a display of our nation's first
permanently-manned space station in the next decade. And nearby are
also large-scale models of the space shuttle and other spacecraft.
This is America's space fleet, and its mission is gradually changing
from exploration to settlement. When we aim for the stars, it will
be to stay.
And this brings to mind a small coincidence. Just a few
miles away, along the Tidewater Coast of Virginia -- (applause) --
the first Englishmen arrived in the New World -- also not just to
explore, but to stay.
Those early colonists faced a terrible struggle. Their
first autumn brought a bitter harvest of hardship. Their first
winter brought tragedy. But in the end, the generation of Captain
John Smith escaped the confines of the Old World and settled the new,
a fresh frontier, a boundless promise called America.
And today, as before, some timid and chiding voices
caution us against the danger, the hardship and the expense. Perhaps
they should have seen Steven Spielberg's extravaganza. or perhaps
they should listen to Ray Bradbury, a writer who once said that space
will make children of us all.
He meant that the strange beauty and mystery of space
will teach even the most cynical and world-weary among us to
rediscover the wonder of their first glimpse of the night sky. It is
this sense of wonder and curiosity that draws you from the comfort of
home, comfort of television to the outdoors. And tonight, when you
are lying around the campfire, surrounded by dark forest, looking up
at the stars of the night sky, I want you to consider something.
Perhaps you, or even your kids -- or as hard as it is for you to
imagine, your grandchildren -- will one day look up at the night sky
before going to sleep, and see the Earth as a faint, twinkling blue
star.
It is this spirit, a spirit of wonder, of discovery and
adventure, that is surely drawing us to a new destiny on new and far
distant worlds.
You are privileged to be the generation that will witness
the first large movement of men and women into space. And as this
happens, I know that the Boy Scouts of today will be in the lead.
Thank you for inviting me to your Jamboree. God bless you, God bless
the Boy Scouts of America, and God bless the United States of
America. Thank you all.
END
11:02 A.M. EDT
Document No.
059340SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
8/3/89
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
WINSTON
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
BENNETT
FITZWATER
OSTP
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
The attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 2, 1989
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
CHRISS WINSTON
FROM:
MARK DAVIS MD
SUBJECT:
BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE
I. SUMMARY
On Monday, August 7, 1989, at Fort A. P. Hill in Bowling
Green, Virginia, you will address the Twelfth National Jamboree
of the Boy Scouts of America. The audience will consist of more
than 30,000 Boy Scouts. You will be introduced by Bill Swisher.
Secretary Skinner will also be present. The speech is 15
minutes long and will be teleprompted. Because this is an
outdoor setting, a very sunny day may require us to revert to
cards.
II. DISCUSSION
The main themes of this text are the space program and
scourge of drugs.
Davis/Martin
Aug. 2, 1989
Draft: Three
Title: C:Scouts
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE/Ft. A.P. Hill
August 7, 1989/10:30 a.m.
( (Thank you, Bill. Let me start by asking a favor. For the
next ten seconds, I would like to hear every patrol in the Boy
Scouts give its call, starting now
...))
( (Wait ten seconds) )
( (Okay, okay, thank you
In all that noise, I thought I
could make out otters, panthers, owls and even a moose call or
two. Just think, out there somewhere in the thick Virginia
forest are a lot of wild animals, and they've all just fallen in
love )) ( (PAUSE) )
Last Jamboree, I understand you had an unwelcome visitor by
the name of Bob -- Hurricane Bob. Bill tells me you didn't have
a camp out
...
You had a damp out.
But this Jamboree is coming together marvelously. You can
canoe, kayak and swim. You can race trail bikes and compete in
archery. You can earn Merit Badges while you work your way down
the Midway. ( (Undoubtedly, some of you will also be asked to
organize snipe-hunting expeditions.) ) This all sounds like a lot
of fun. But there is one activity here that really tempts me to
leave the White House behind and spend a few days with you here
at Fort A.P. Hill. I am talking about Fish Hook Lake.
2
I started fishing at age five or so, in the cold waters
along the coast of Maine, using a lead jig with a piece of white
cloth for bait, sometimes trolling with an old green cotton line.
( (And, of course, the first thing I caught was a cold. )) But
after awhile, I got the hang of it, pulling in mackerel and an
occasional flounder. I became acquainted with the waters off
Kennebunkport so well that now I know every reef, when the swells
will break and where you can find the seals on a given day.
Since the time I was your age, I've waded in a clean, clear
river in Iceland next to the Prime Minister of that land, and
caught my first salmon. I've pulled in bass in many states, and
fought dolphin, kings and hard-hitting 'cuda on the high seas.
As you might have guessed, fishing is my favorite source of
relaxation. It is with a rod and reel in my hand that I tend to
count my blessings, especially if I'm with one of my
grandchildren, or with Barbara
( (the only woman on earth
who can read and fish at the same time, and catch every word and
every fish. ) )
But no matter where I fish today, I always look back to the
days when I trailed that piece of white cloth along the
shoreline. And there's a lesson here that I want to share with
you. Whatever you love to do -- whether its hiking, hunting or
kayaking -- hang on to it. As you pursue success in school, and
later in your careers, don't forget to find time for the things
you love to do. If you stay true to the hobbies of your youth,
3
you will find a source of relaxation and replenishment that will
never fail you.
There are other things you will learn as a Scout that will
serve you well through life. Your Scout Law commands you to be
trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient,
cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. ((Whew!))
That may sound like a lot to remember, but it isn't. For at
the core of that code is something simple -- a desire to serve
with honor, a sincere feeling for one's fellow man and for one's
country. Service isn't a lifelong chore to be carried out. As
Chief Scout Citizen Teddy Roosevelt put it,
"
the full
performance of duty is not only right in itself but also the
source of the profoundest satisfaction that can come in life."
In short, to serve and serve well is the highest fulfillment
we can know. Bill Swisher, who gave so much time and commitment
to this Jamboree, certainly knows this. Around the country,
Americans, like you, are serving others in a thousand ways,
providing a thousand points of light and "doing a good turn
daily."
I know the Boy Scouts have always helped out through times
of disaster, from fires to flash floods. The Boy Scouts were
there when Franklin Delano Roosevelt appealed for help during the
Great Depression, gathering almost two million articles of
clothing, household furnishings and food for the needy. And the
Boy Scouts were a strong helping hand at home when older brothers
fought a war in Europe.
4
Today, the Boy Scouts have taken on a new struggle, to
defeat what you call the five "unacceptables" -- illiteracy,
unemployment, child abuse, drug abuse and hunger. In fact,
fighting hunger alone, Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorers rounded
up 65 million cans of food for local food banks -- the largest
collection of food ever undertaken in the history of the United
States.
Your focus is right on target. Today, we can be grateful
that no depression or war looms ahead of us. But this doesn't
mean that the times we live in are less demanding. The Boy
Scouts of this Twelfth National Jamboree will face challenges
unimagined by your parents.
Perhaps the greatest challenge of our times, I'm sorry to
say, is one of the "unacceptables" -- the continuing struggle to
keep drugs out of our high schools
a form of pollution, a
poisoning of the mind, a corruption of the very soul, of young
America.
Last week, a Wall Street Journal reporter wrote movingly of
his son, a boy named Ryan. Ronald Shafer remembered his Ryan as
an enthusiastic collector of baseball cards who could name every
batting champion back to the 1960s -- the kind of bright boy for
whom life was an open invitation to succeed. But Ryan started
using drugs and alcohol at age 12, and soon became a stranger to
his parents and classmates. By age 16, Ryan was dead.
5
There are thousands of Ryans across America, thousands of
young men and women who are in danger of losing their future,
their very lives, to this scourge we call drugs.
The Boy Scouts of America has assumed a leadership role in
confronting this problem. You are teaching self-protection
strategies against drugs and other dangers. You have circulated
these strategies in direct language in a very successful pamphlet
called Drugs: A Deadly Game. And you have done something else --
you are leading the youth of America by example.
Now I want to challenge you to take the final steps. Ask
yourself if you know someone like Ryan Shafer. And if so, have
you done everything you can to help him or her?
There are other, more positive challenges facing your
generation. When the first Boy Scouts chapter was formed,
Americans had just tamed the farthest reaches of the West. There
were only a few remote places in the world unseen by Man. Since
then, the world has become smaller. And so has the room for our
imagination and daring -- a narrowed space for the restless
spirit of freedom that is so much a part of our national
identity.
But you and I know that there is a new frontier, a frontier
without limits -- space.
Once again, Boy Scouts have played a leadership role in
preparing a generation for space exploration. It is no
coincidence that half of all astronauts were once Scouts.
Admiral Richard Truly, who is doing such a great job at NASA, is
6
an Eagle Scout. Gus Grissom, an American hero who lost his life
in the early space program, was a Scout. David Scott, who
operated the first lunar rover, was a Scout. Jim Lovell, another
lunar explorer, is with us today
I guess, Jim, it's true
what they say: "once an Eagle Scout, always an Eagle Scout." And
I doubt that any of the Scouts who participated in the 1969
seventh Jamboree in Idaho will ever forget Eagle Scout Neil
Armstrong, who made man's first step on the moon, and later sent
his greetings to the Jamboree from deep space.
The first spacefarers were unique, the lucky few. But your
generation will have a broader, greater opportunity to live in
space, to travel to establish an outpost on the Moon and explore
the mysteries of Mars. This is the challenge of the next century
-- your century and your challenge.
Near the Jamboree area is a NASA exhibit called Freedom
Station, which includes a display of our nation's first
permanently manned space station in the next decade. Nearby are
also large-scale models of the space shuttle and other
spacecraft. This is America's space fleet, and its mission is
gradually changing from exploration to settlement. When we aim
for the stars, it will be to stay.
This brings to mind a small coincidence. Just a few miles
away, along the Tidewater Coast of Virginia, the first Englishmen
arrived in the New World -- also not just to explore, but to
stay.
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Those early colonists faced a terrible struggle. Their
first autumn brought a bitter harvest of hardship. Their first
winter brought tragedy. But in the end, the generation of
Captain John Smith escaped the confines of the Old World and
settled the new, a fresh frontier, a boundless promise called
America.
Today, as before, some timid and chiding voices caution us
against the danger, the hardship and the expense. Perhaps they
should have seen Steven Spielberg's extravaganza. Or perhaps
they should listen to Ray Bradbury, a writer who once said that
space will make children of us all.
He meant that the strange beauty and mystery of space will
teach even the most cynical and worldweary among us to rediscover
the wonder of their first glimpse of the night sky. It is this
sense of wonder and curiosity that draws you from the comfort of
home and television to the outdoors. Tonight, when you are lying
in your cots around a campfire, surrounded by dark forest,
looking up at the stars of the night sky, I want you to consider
something. Perhaps you, or your children -- or as hard as it is
for you to imagine, your grandchildren -- will one day look up at
the night sky before going to sleep, and see the Earth as a
faint, twinkling blue star. ((PAUSE))
It is this spirit, a spirit of wonder, of discovery and
adventure, that is surely drawing us to a new destiny on new and
far distant worlds.
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You are privileged to be the generation that will witness
the first large movement of men and women into space. And as
this happens, I know that the Boy Scouts of today will be in the
lead.
Thank you for inviting me to your Jamboree. God bless you
and God bless the Boy Scouts of America and the world.
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ADDRESS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE/FT. A.P. HILL
AUGUST 7, 1989/10:30 A.M.
THANK YOU, BILL.
To ALL THE Boy SCOUTS OUT THERE, I UNDERSTAND THAT
IT WAS QUITE A HIKE TO GET FROM YOUR CAMPSITE TO THIS
NATURAL ARENA. THANK YOU
- 2 -
((LOOKING AT ALL THE YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN HERE
TODAY, I'M AFRAID I HAVE TO GIVE YOU A WARNING
...
IF
YOU STAY IN THE FOREST TOO LONG, YOU'LL START TO LOOK
LIKE YAHOO SERIOUS .))
((LAST JAMBOREE, I UNDERSTAND YOU HAD AN UNWELCOME
VISITOR BY THE NAME OF BoB -- HURRICANE BoB. BILL
TELLS ME YOU DIDN'T HAVE A CAMP OUT
...
You HAD A
DAMP OUT.))
- 3 -
BUT THIS JAMBOREE HAS COME TOGETHER MARVELOUSLY.
You CAN CANOE, KAYAK AND SWIM. You CAN RACE TRAIL
BIKES AND COMPETE IN ARCHERY. You CAN EARN MERIT
BADGES WHILE YOU WORK YOUR WAY DOWN THE MIDWAY.
((UNDOUBTEDLY, SOME OF YOU WILL ALSO BE ASKED TO
ORGANIZE SNIPE-HUNTING EXPEDITIONS.))
- 4 -
THIS ALL SOUNDS LIKE A LOT OF FUN. BUT THERE IS ONE
ACTIVITY HERE THAT REALLY TEMPTS ME TO LEAVE THE WHITE
HOUSE BEHIND AND SPEND A FEW DAYS WITH YOU HERE AT FORT
A.P. HILL. I AM TALKING ABOUT FISH HooK LAKE.
- 5 -
I STARTED FISHING AT AGE FIVE OR so, IN THE COLD
WATERS ALONG THE COAST OF MAINE, USING A LEAD JIG WITH
A PIECE OF WHITE CLOTH FOR BAIT, SOMETIMES TROLLING
WITH AN OLD GREEN COTTON LINE. ((AND, OF COURSE, THE
FIRST THING I CAUGHT WAS A COLD.)) BUT AFTER AWHILE, I
GOT THE HANG OF IT, PULLING IN MACKEREL AND AN
OCCASIONAL FLOUNDER.
- 6 -
I BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH THE WATERS OFF KENNEBUNKPORT
so WELL THAT NOW I KNOW EVERY REEF, WHEN THE SWELLS
WILL BREAK AND WHERE YOU CAN FIND THE SEALS ON A GIVEN
DAY.
SINCE THE TIME I WAS YOUR AGE, I'VE WADED IN A
CLEAN, CLEAR RIVER IN ICELAND NEXT TO THE PRIME
MINISTER OF THAT LAND, AND CAUGHT MY FIRST SALMON.
I'VE PULLED IN BASS IN MANY STATES, AND FOUGHT DOLPHIN,
KINGS AND HARD-HITTING 'CUDA ON THE HIGH SEAS.
- 7 -
As YOU MIGHT HAVE GUESSED, FISHING IS MY FAVORITE
SOURCE OF RELAXATION. IT IS WITH A ROD AND REEL IN MY
HAND THAT I TEND TO COUNT MY BLESSINGS, ESPECIALLY IF
I'M WITH ONE OF MY GRANDCHILDREN, OR WITH BARBARA
((THE ONLY WOMAN ON EARTH WHO CAN READ AND FISH AT THE
SAME TIME, AND CATCH EVERY WORD AND EVERY FISH.))
- 8 -
BUT NO MATTER WHERE I FISH TODAY, I ALWAYS LOOK
BACK TO THE DAYS WHEN I TRAILED THAT PIECE OF WHITE
CLOTH ALONG THE SHORELINE. AND THERE'S A LESSON HERE
THAT I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU. WHATEVER YOU LOVE TO DO
-- WHETHER ITS HIKING, HUNTING OR KAYAKING -- HANG ON
TO IT. As YOU PURSUE SUCCESS IN SCHOOL, AND LATER IN
YOUR CAREERS, DON'T FORGET To FIND TIME FOR THE THINGS
YOU LOVE TO DO.
- 9 -
IF YOU STAY TRUE TO THE HOBBIES OF YOUR YOUTH, YOU WILL
FIND A SOURCE OF RELAXATION AND REPLENISHMENT THAT WILL
NEVER FAIL YOU.
THERE ARE OTHER THINGS YOU WILL LEARN AS A SCOUT
THAT WILL SERVE YOU WELL THROUGH LIFE. YOUR SCOUT LAW
COMMANDS YOU TO BE TRUSTWORTHY, LOYAL, HELPFUL,
FRIENDLY, COURTEOUS, KIND, OBEDIENT, CHEERFUL, THRIFTY,
BRAVE, CLEAN AND REVERENT. ((WHEW!))
- 10 - -
THAT MAY SOUND LIKE A LOT TO REMEMBER, BUT IT
ISN'T. FOR AT THE CORE OF THAT CODE IS SOMETHING
SIMPLE -- A DESIRE TO SERVE WITH HONOR, A SINCERE
FEELING FOR ONE'S FELLOW MAN AND FOR ONE'S COUNTRY.
SERVICE ISN'T A LIFELONG CHORE TO BE CARRIED OUT. As
CHIEF SCOUT CITIZEN TEDDY ROOSEVELT PUT IT, " THE
FULL PERFORMANCE OF DUTY IS NOT ONLY RIGHT IN ITSELF
BUT ALSO THE SOURCE OF THE PROFOUNDEST SATISFACTION
THAT CAN COME IN LIFE."
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IN SHORT, TO SERVE AND SERVE WELL IS THE HIGHEST
FULFILLMENT WE CAN KNOW. BILL SWISHER, WHO GAVE so
MUCH TIME AND COMMITMENT TO THIS JAMBOREE, CERTAINLY
KNOWS THIS. AROUND THE COUNTRY, AMERICANS, LIKE YOU,
ARE SERVING OTHERS IN A THOUSAND WAYS, PROVIDING A
THOUSAND POINTS OF LIGHT AND "DOING A GOOD TURN DAILY."
- 12 -
I KNOW Boy SCOUTS HAVE ALWAYS HELPED OUT THROUGH
TIMES OF DISASTER, FROM FIRES TO FLASH FLOODS. THE Boy
SCOUTS WERE THERE WHEN FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT
APPEALED FOR HELP DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION,
GATHERING ALMOST TWO MILLION ARTICLES OF CLOTHING,
HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS AND FOOD FOR THE NEEDY. AND THE
Boy SCOUTS WERE A STRONG HELPING HAND AT HOME WHEN
OLDER BROTHERS FOUGHT A WAR IN EUROPE.
- 13 -
TODAY, THE Boy SCOUTS OF AMERICA HAS TAKEN ON A NEW
STRUGGLE, TO DEFEAT WHAT YOU CALL THE FIVE
"UNACCEPTABLES" -- ILLITERACY, UNEMPLOYMENT, CHILD
ABUSE, DRUG ABUSE AND HUNGER. IN FACT, FIGHTING HUNGER
ALONE, SCOUTS, CUB SCOUTS AND EXPLORERS ROUNDED UP 65
MILLION CANS OF FOOD FOR LOCAL FOOD BANKS -- THE
LARGEST COLLECTION OF FOOD EVER UNDERTAKEN IN THE
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
- 14 -
YOUR FOCUS IS RIGHT ON TARGET. TODAY, WE CAN BE
GRATEFUL THAT NO DEPRESSION OR WAR LOOMS AHEAD OF US.
BUT THIS DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE TIMES WE LIVE IN ARE
LESS DEMANDING. THE Boy SCOUTS OF THIS TWELFTH
NATIONAL JAMBOREE WILL FACE CHALLENGES UNIMAGINED BY
YOUR PARENTS.
- 15 -
PERHAPS THE GREATEST CHALLENGE OF OUR TIMES, I'M
SORRY TO SAY, IS ONE OF THE "UNACCEPTABLES" -- THE
CONTINUING STRUGGLE TO KEEP DRUGS OUT OF OUR HIGH
SCHOOLS
A FORM OF POLLUTION, A POISONING OF THE
MIND, A CORRUPTION OF THE VERY SOUL, OF YOUNG AMERICA.
- 16 -
WE HAD SOME GOOD NEWS LAST WEEK ABOUT DRUG USE IN
AMERICA. THE NUMBER OF OVERALL DRUG-USERS IN THE
UNITED STATES IS DOWN BY ALMOST 40 PERCENT. THIS IS A
REAL TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO HAVE WORKED IN THE SERVICE
ORGANIZATIONS, THE YOUTH CLUBS AND COMMUNITIES ACROSS
THE NATION. AND IT IS ESPECIALLY A TRIBUTE TO THE Boy
SCOUTS OF AMERICA.
- 17 -
BUT WE CANNOT YET CLAIM VICTORY. THE NUMBER OF
PEOPLE ADDICTED TO COCAINE AND CRACK HAS ALMOST
DOUBLED. WE MUST WORK HARDER. I AM ESPECIALLY LOOKING
TO YOU TO ENCOURAGE FRIENDS TO REFUSE DRUGS -- ANY
ILLEGAL DRUG. I DON'T WANT ANY YOUNG AMERICAN STARTING
DOWN THE PATH TO COCAINE AND CRACK.
- 18 -
LAST WEEK, A WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTER WROTE
MOVINGLY OF HIS SON, A BOY NAMED RYAN. RONALD SHAFER
REMEMBERED HIS RYAN AS AN ENTHUSIASTIC COLLECTOR OF
BASEBALL CARDS WHO COULD NAME EVERY BATTING CHAMPION
BACK TO THE 1960s -- THE KIND OF BRIGHT BOY FOR WHOM
LIFE WAS AN OPEN INVITATION TO SUCCEED. BUT RYAN
STARTED USING DRUGS AND ALCOHOL AT AGE 12, AND SOON
BECAME A STRANGER TO HIS PARENTS AND CLASSMATES. BY
AGE 16, RYAN WAS DEAD.
- 19 -
THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF RYANS ACROSS AMERICA,
THOUSANDS OF YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE IN DANGER OF
LOSING THEIR FUTURE, THEIR VERY LIVES, TO THIS SCOURGE
WE CALL DRUGS.
THE Boy SCOUTS OF AMERICA HAS ASSUMED A LEADERSHIP
ROLE IN CONFRONTING THIS PROBLEM. You ARE TEACHING
SELF-PROTECTION STRATEGIES AGAINST DRUGS AND OTHER
DANGERS.
- 20 -
You HAVE CIRCULATED THESE STRATEGIES IN DIRECT LANGUAGE
IN A VERY SUCCESSFUL PAMPHLET CALLED DRUGS: A DEADLY
GAME. AND YOU HAVE DONE SOMETHING ELSE --YOU ARE
LEADING THE YOUTH OF AMERICA BY EXAMPLE.
FOR YEARS, THE Boy SCOUTS OF AMERICA HAS LED OUR
NATION IN TAKING THE ANTI-DRUG MESSAGE TO EVERY
COMMUNITY.
- 21 -
BY ACTIVELY ENGAGING IN THE LIVES OF OTHERS, YOU ARE
DEMONSTRATING A CENTRAL IDEAL OF THIS ADMINISTRATION --
THAT FROM NOW ON IN AMERICA, ANY DEFINITION OF A
SUCCESSFUL LIFE MUST INCLUDE SERVING OTHERS.
Now I WANT TO CHALLENGE YOU TO TAKE THE FINAL
STEPS. Ask YOURSELF IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE LIKE RYAN
SHAFER. AND IF so, HAVE YOU DONE EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO
HELP HIM OR HER?
- 22 -
THERE ARE OTHER, MORE POSITIVE CHALLENGES FACING
YOUR GENERATION. WHEN THE FIRST Boy SCOUTS CHAPTER WAS
FORMED, AMERICANS HAD JUST TAMED THE FARTHEST REACHES
OF THE WEST. THERE WERE ONLY A FEW REMOTE PLACES IN
THE WORLD UNSEEN BY MAN. SINCE THEN, THE WORLD HAS
BECOME SMALLER. AND so HAS THE ROOM FOR OUR
IMAGINATION AND DARING -- A NARROWED SPACE FOR THE
RESTLESS SPIRIT OF FREEDOM THAT IS SO MUCH A PART OF
OUR NATIONAL IDENTITY.
- 23 -
BUT YOU AND I KNOW THAT THERE IS A NEW FRONTIER, A
FRONTIER WITHOUT LIMITS -- SPACE.
ONCE AGAIN, THE Boy SCOUTS HAS PLAYED A LEADERSHIP
ROLE IN PREPARING A GENERATION FOR SPACE EXPLORATION.
IT IS NO COINCIDENCE THAT HALF OF ALL ASTRONAUTS WERE
ONCE SCOUTS. ADMIRAL RICHARD TRULY, WHO IS DOING SUCH
A GREAT JOB AT NASA, IS AN EAGLE SCOUT. Gus GRISSOM,
AN AMERICAN HERO WHO LOST HIS LIFE IN THE EARLY SPACE
PROGRAM, WAS A SCOUT.
- 24 -
DAVID SCOTT, WHO OPERATED THE FIRST LUNAR ROVER, WAS A
SCOUT. JIM LOVELL, ANOTHER LUNAR EXPLORER, IS WITH US
TODAY
I GUESS, JIM, IT'S TRUE WHAT THEY SAY:
"ONCE AN EAGLE SCOUT, ALWAYS AN EAGLE Scout." AND I
DOUBT THAT ANY OF THE SCOUTS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE
1969 SEVENTH JAMBOREE IN IDAHO WILL EVER FORGET EAGLE
SCOUT NEIL ARMSTRONG, WHO MADE MAN'S FIRST STEP ON THE
MOON, AND LATER SENT HIS GREETINGS TO THE JAMBOREE FROM
DEEP SPACE.
- 25 -
THE FIRST SPACEFARERS WERE UNIQUE, THE LUCKY FEW.
BUT YOUR GENERATION WILL HAVE A BROADER, GREATER
OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE IN SPACE, TO TRAVEL TO ESTABLISH AN
OUTPOST ON THE MOON AND EXPLORE THE MYSTERIES OF MARS.
THIS IS THE CHALLENGE OF THE NEXT CENTURY -- YOUR
CENTURY AND YOUR CHALLENGE.
- 26 -
NEAR THE JAMBOREE AREA IS A NASA EXHIBIT CALLED
FREEDOM STATION, WHICH INCLUDES A DISPLAY OF OUR
NATION'S FIRST PERMANENTLY MANNED SPACE STATION IN THE
NEXT DECADE. NEARBY ARE ALSO LARGE-SCALE MODELS OF THE
SPACE SHUTTLE AND OTHER SPACECRAFT. THIS IS AMERICA'S
SPACE FLEET, AND ITS MISSION IS GRADUALLY CHANGING FROM
EXPLORATION TO SETTLEMENT. WHEN WE AIM FOR THE STARS,
IT WILL BE TO STAY.
- 27 -
THIS BRINGS TO MIND A SMALL COINCIDENCE. JUST A
FEW MILES AWAY, ALONG THE TIDEWATER COAST OF VIRGINIA,
THE FIRST ENGLISHMEN ARRIVED IN THE NEW WORLD -- ALSO
NOT JUST TO EXPLORE, BUT TO STAY.
- 28 -
THOSE EARLY COLONISTS FACED A TERRIBLE STRUGGLE.
THEIR FIRST AUTUMN BROUGHT A BITTER HARVEST OF
HARDSHIP. THEIR FIRST WINTER BROUGHT TRAGEDY. BUT IN
THE END, THE GENERATION OF CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH ESCAPED
THE CONFINES OF THE OLD WORLD AND SETTLED THE NEW, A
FRESH FRONTIER, A BOUNDLESS PROMISE CALLED AMERICA.
- 29 -
TODAY, AS BEFORE, SOME TIMID AND CHIDING VOICES
CAUTION US AGAINST THE DANGER, THE HARDSHIP AND THE
EXPENSE. PERHAPS THEY SHOULD HAVE SEEN STEVEN
SPIELBERG'S EXTRAVAGANZA. OR PERHAPS THEY SHOULD
LISTEN TO RAY BRADBURY, A WRITER WHO ONCE SAID THAT
SPACE WILL MAKE CHILDREN OF US ALL.
- 30 -
HE MEANT THAT THE STRANGE BEAUTY AND MYSTERY OF
SPACE WILL TEACH EVEN THE MOST CYNICAL AND WORLDWEARY
AMONG US TO REDISCOVER THE WONDER OF THEIR FIRST
GLIMPSE OF THE NIGHT SKY. IT IS THIS SENSE OF WONDER
AND CURIOSITY THAT DRAWS YOU FROM THE COMFORT OF HOME
AND TELEVISION TO THE OUTDOORS. TONIGHT, WHEN YOU ARE
LYING IN YOUR COTS AROUND A CAMPFIRE, SURROUNDED BY
DARK FOREST, LOOKING UP AT THE STARS OF THE NIGHT SKY,
I WANT YOU TO CONSIDER SOMETHING.
- 31 -
PERHAPS YOU, OR YOUR CHILDREN -- OR AS HARD AS IT IS
FOR YOU TO IMAGINE, YOUR GRANDCHILDREN -- WILL ONE DAY
LOOK UP AT THE NIGHT SKY BEFORE GOING TO SLEEP, AND SEE
THE EARTH AS A FAINT, TWINKLING BLUE STAR. ((PAUSE))
IT IS THIS SPIRIT, A SPIRIT OF WONDER, OF DISCOVERY
AND ADVENTURE, THAT IS SURELY DRAWING US TO A NEW
DESTINY ON NEW AND FAR DISTANT WORLDS.
- 32 -
You ARE PRIVILEGED TO BE THE GENERATION THAT WILL
WITNESS THE FIRST LARGE MOVEMENT OF MEN AND WOMEN INTO
SPACE. AND AS THIS HAPPENS, I KNOW THAT THE Boy SCOUTS
OF TODAY WILL BE IN THE LEAD.
THANK YOU FOR INVITING ME TO YOUR JAMBOREE. GOD
BLESS YOU AND GOD BLESS THE Boy SCOUTS OF AMERICA AND
THE WORLD.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 2, 1989
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
CHRISS WINSTON
FROM:
MARK DAVIS MD
SUBJECT:
BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE
I. SUMMARY
On Monday, August 7, 1989, at Fort A. P. Hill in Bowling
Green, Virginia, you will address the Twelfth National Jamboree
of the Boy Scouts of America. The audience will consist of more
than 30,000 Boy Scouts. You will be introduced by Bill Swisher.
Secretary Skinner will also be present. The speech is 15
minutes long and will be teleprompted. Because this is an
outdoor setting, a very sunny day may require us to revert to
cards.
II. DISCUSSION
The main themes of this text are the space program and
scourge of drugs.
Davis/Martin
Aug. 2, 1989
Draft: Three
Title: C:Scouts
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE/Ft. A.P. Hill
August 7, 1989/10:30 a.m.
( (Thank you, Bill. Let me start by asking a favor. For the
next ten seconds, I would like to hear every patrol in the Boy
Scouts give its call, starting now
))
( (Wait ten seconds) )
( (Okay, okay, thank you
In all that noise, I thought I
could make out otters, panthers, owls and even a moose call or
two. Just think, out there somewhere in the thick Virginia
forest are a lot of wild animals, and they've all just fallen in
love
)) ( (PAUSE) )
Last Jamboree, I understand you had an unwelcome visitor by
the name of Bob -- Hurricane Bob. Bill tells me you didn't have
a camp out
You had a damp out.
But this Jamboree is coming together marvelously. You can
canoe, kayak and swim. You can race trail bikes and compete in
archery. You can earn Merit Badges while you work your way down
the Midway. ( (Undoubtedly, some of you will also be asked to
organize snipe-hunting expeditions.) ) This all sounds like a lot
of fun. But there is one activity here that really tempts me to
leave the White House behind and spend a few days with you here
at Fort A.P. Hill. I am talking about Fish Hook Lake.
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I started fishing at age five or so, in the cold waters
along the coast of Maine, using a lead jig with a piece of white
cloth for bait, sometimes trolling with an old green cotton line.
((And, of course, the first thing I caught was a cold. )) But
after awhile, I got the hang of it, pulling in mackerel and an
occasional flounder. I became acquainted with the waters off
Kennebunkport so well that now I know every reef, when the swells
will break and where you can find the seals on a given day.
Since the time I was your age, I've waded in a clean, clear
river in Iceland next to the Prime Minister of that land, and
caught my first salmon. I've pulled in bass in many states, and
fought dolphin, kings and hard-hitting 'cuda on the high seas.
As you might have guessed, fishing is my favorite source of
relaxation. It is with a rod and reel in my hand that I tend to
count my blessings, especially if I'm with one of my
grandchildren, or with Barbara
( (the only woman on earth
who can read and fish at the same time, and catch every word and
every fish. ))
But no matter where I fish today, I always look back to the
days when I trailed that piece of white cloth along the
shoreline. And there's a lesson here that I want to share with
you. Whatever you love to do -- whether its hiking, hunting or
kayaking -- hang on to it. As you pursue success in school, and
later in your careers, don't forget to find time for the things
you love to do. If you stay true to the hobbies of your youth,
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you will find a source of relaxation and replenishment that will
never fail you.
There are other things you will learn as a Scout that will
serve you well through life. Your Scout Law commands you to be
trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient,
cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. ( (Whew!) )
That may sound like a lot to remember, but it isn't. For at
the core of that code is something simple -- a desire to serve
with honor, a sincere feeling for one's fellow man and for one's
country. Service isn't a lifelong chore to be carried out. As
Chief Scout Citizen Teddy Roosevelt put it,
"
the full
performance of duty is not only right in itself but also the
source of the profoundest satisfaction that can come in life."
In short, to serve and serve well is the highest fulfillment
we can know. Bill Swisher, who gave so much time and commitment
to this Jamboree, certainly knows this. Around the country,
Americans, like you, are serving others in a thousand ways,
providing a thousand points of light and "doing a good turn
daily."
I know the Boy Scouts have always helped out through times
of disaster, from fires to flash floods. The Boy Scouts were
there when Franklin Delano Roosevelt appealed for help during the
Great Depression, gathering almost two million articles of
clothing, household furnishings and food for the needy. And the
Boy Scouts were a strong helping hand at home when older brothers
fought a war in Europe.
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Today, the Boy Scouts have taken on a new struggle, to
defeat what you call the five "unacceptables" -- illiteracy,
unemployment, child abuse, drug abuse and hunger. In fact,
fighting hunger alone, Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorers rounded
up 65 million cans of food for local food banks the largest
collection of food ever undertaken in the history of the United
States.
Your focus is right on target. Today, we can be grateful
that no depression or war looms ahead of us. But this doesn't
mean that the times we live in are less demanding. The Boy
Scouts of this Twelfth National Jamboree will face challenges
unimagined by your parents.
Perhaps the greatest challenge of our times, I'm sorry to
say, is one of the "unacceptables" -- the continuing struggle to
keep drugs out of our high schools
a form of pollution, a
poisoning of the mind, a corruption of the very soul, of young
America.
Last week, a Wall Street Journal reporter wrote movingly of
his son, a boy named Ryan. Ronald Shafer remembered his Ryan as
an enthusiastic collector of baseball cards who could name every
batting champion back to the 1960s -- the kind of bright boy for
whom life was an open invitation to succeed. But Ryan started
using drugs and alcohol at age 12, and soon became a stranger to
his parents and classmates. By age 16, Ryan was dead.
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There are thousands of Ryans across America, thousands of
young men and women who are in danger of losing their future,
their very lives, to this scourge we call drugs.
The Boy Scouts of America has assumed a leadership role in
confronting this problem. You are teaching self-protection
strategies against drugs and other dangers. You have circulated
these strategies in direct language in a very successful pamphlet
called Drugs: A Deadly Game. And you have done something else --
you are leading the youth of America by example.
Now I want to challenge you to take the final steps. Ask
yourself if you know someone like Ryan Shafer. And if so, have
you done everything you can to help him or her?
There are other, more positive challenges facing your
generation. When the first Boy Scouts chapter was formed,
Americans had just tamed the farthest reaches of the West. There
were only a few remote places in the world unseen by Man. Since
then, the world has become smaller. And so has the room for our
imagination and daring -- a narrowed space for the restless
spirit of freedom that is so much a part of our national
identity.
But you and I know that there is a new frontier, a frontier
without limits -- space.
Once again, Boy Scouts have played a leadership role in
preparing a generation for space exploration. It is no
coincidence that half of all astronauts were once Scouts.
Admiral Richard Truly, who is doing such a great job at NASA, is
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an Eagle Scout. Gus Grissom, an American hero who lost his life
in the early space program, was a Scout. David Scott, who
operated the first lunar rover, was a Scout. Jim Lovell, another
lunar explorer, is with us today
I guess, Jim, it's true
what they say: "once an Eagle Scout, always an Eagle Scout." And
I doubt that any of the Scouts who participated in the 1969
seventh Jamboree in Idaho will ever forget Eagle Scout Neil
Armstrong, who made man's first step on the moon, and later sent
his greetings to the Jamboree from deep space.
The first spacefarers were unique, the lucky few. But your
generation will have a broader, greater opportunity to live in
space, to travel to establish an outpost on the Moon and explore
the mysteries of Mars. This is the challenge of the next century
-- your century and your challenge.
Near the Jamboree area is a NASA exhibit called Freedom
Station, which includes a display of our nation's first
permanently manned space station in the next decade. Nearby are
also large-scale models of the space shuttle and other
spacecraft. This is America's space fleet, and its mission is
gradually changing from exploration to settlement. When we aim
for the stars, it will be to stay.
This brings to mind a small coincidence. Just a few miles
away, along the Tidewater Coast of Virginia, the first Englishmen
arrived in the New World -- also not just to explore, but to
stay.
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Those early colonists faced a terrible struggle. Their
first autumn brought a bitter harvest of hardship. Their first
winter brought tragedy. But in the end, the generation of
Captain John Smith escaped the confines of the Old World and
settled the new, a fresh frontier, a boundless promise called
America.
Today, as before, some timid and chiding voices caution us
against the danger, the hardship and the expense. Perhaps they
should have seen Steven Spielberg's extravaganza. Or perhaps
they should listen to Ray Bradbury, a writer who once said that
space will make children of us all.
He meant that the strange beauty and mystery of space will
teach even the most cynical and worldweary among us to rediscover
the wonder of their first glimpse of the night sky. It is this
sense of wonder and curiosity that draws you from the comfort of
home and television to the outdoors. Tonight, when you are lying
in your cots around a campfire, surrounded by dark forest,
looking up at the stars of the night sky, I want you to consider
something. Perhaps you, or your children -- or as hard as it is
for you to imagine, your grandchildren -- will one day look up at
the night sky before going to sleep, and see the Earth as a
faint, twinkling blue star. ((PAUSE))
It is this spirit, a spirit of wonder, of discovery and
adventure, that is surely drawing us to a new destiny on new and
far distant worlds.
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You are privileged to be the generation that will witness
the first large movement of men and women into space. And as
this happens, I know that the Boy Scouts of today will be in the
lead.
Thank you for inviting me to your Jamboree. God bless you
and God bless the Boy Scouts of America and the world.
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
8/1/89
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SUBJECT:
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PINKERTON
DEMAREST Corning i 2
BENNETT NICORING
FITZWATER
OSTP
on then way
GRAY
N/C
2512
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than NOON, Wednesday, August 2, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
80 2
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Davis/Martin
July 31, 1989
Draft: One
Title: C:Scouts
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE/Ft. A.P. Hill
August 7, 1989/10:30 a.m.
Bill
( (Thank you, Ben. Let me start by asking a favor. For the
next ten seconds, I would like to hear every patrol in the Boy
Scouts give its call, starting now
...))
((Wait ten seconds) )
( (Okay, okay, thank you
In all that noise, I thought I
could make out otters, panthers, owls and even a moose call or
two. Just think, out there somewhere in the thick Virginia
forest are a lot of wild animals, and they've all just fallen in
love ...)) ((PAUSE) )
Last Jamboree, I understand you had an unwelcomed visitor by
-
the name of Bob -- Hurricane Bob. Ben tells me you didn't have a
camp out
You had a damp out.
But this Jamboree is coming together marvelously. You can
A
canoe, kayak and swim. You can shoot shotguns and compete in
archery. You can earn Merit Badges while you work your way down
the Midway. ((Undoubtedly, some of you will also be asked to
organize snipe-hunting expeditions.) ) This all sounds like a lot
of fun. But there is one activity here that really tempts me to
leave the White House behind and spend a few days with you here
at Fort A.P. Hill. I am talking about Fishhook Lake.
2
I started fishing at age five or so, in the cold waters
along the coast of Maine, using a lead jig with a piece of white
cloth for bait, sometimes trolling with an old green cotton line.
((And, of course, the first thing I caught was a cold. )) But
after awhile, I got the hang of it, pulling in mackerel and an
occasional flounder. I became acquainted with the waters off
Kennebunkport so well that now I know every reef, when the swells
will break and where you can find the seals on a given day.
Since the time I was your age, I've waded in a clean, clear river in
Iceland next to the Prime Minister of that land, and caught my
first salmon. I've pulled in bass in many states, and fought
dolphin, kings and hard-hitting 'cuda on the high seas.
As you might have guessed, fishing is my favorite source of
relaxation. It is with a rod and reel in my hand that I tend to
count my blessings, especially if I'm with one of my
grandchildren, or with Barbara
( (the only woman on earth
who can read and fish at the same time, and catch every word and
every fish. ))
But no matter where I fish today, I will always look back to
the days when I trailed that piece of white cloth along the
shoreline. And there's a lesson here that I want to share with
you. Whatever you love to do -- whether its hiking, hunting or
kayaking -- hang on to it. As you pursue success in school, and
later in your careers, don't forget to find time for the things
you love to do. If you stay true to the hobbies of your boyhood, youth
3
you will find a source of relaxation and replenishment that will
never fail you.
There are other things you will learn as a Scout that will
serve you well through life. Your Scout Law commands you to be
trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient,
cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. ( (Whew!))
That may sound like a lot to remember, but it isn't. For at
the core of that code is something simple
è
add 1000 pto
with honor, a sincere feeling for one's fe
of light
one's
country. So service isn't a lifelong chor
ref.
As Chief Scout Citizen Teddy Roosevelt put
performance of duty is not only right in i
source of the profoundest satisfaction tha
In short, to serve and serve well is
ent
we can know.
Bill
Certainly, you have been proving this
g a
good turn daily." Boy Scouts have been helping out through times
of disaster, from fires to flash floods. The Boy Scouts were
there when Franklin Delano Roosevelt appealed for help during the
Great Depression, gathering almost two million articles of
clothing, household furnishings and food for the needy. And the
Boy Scouts were a strong helping hand at home when older brothers
fought a war in Europe.
Today, the Boy Scouts have taken on a new struggle, to
defeat what you call the five "unacceptables" -- illiteracy,
unemployment, child abuse, drug abuse and hunger. In fact,
4
fighting hunger alone, Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorers rounded
up 60 million cans of food for local food banks -- the largest
collection of food ever undertaken in the history of the United
States.
Your focus is right on target. Today, we can be grateful
that no depression or war looms ahead of us. But this doesn't
mean that the times we live in are less demanding. The Boy
Scouts of this Twelfth National Jamboree will face challenges
unimagined by your fathers
Perhaps the greatest challenge of our times, I'm sorry to
say, is one of the "unacceptables" -- the continuing struggle to
keep drugs out of the lockers of our high schools
a form of
pollution, a poisoning of the mind, a corruption of the very
soul, of young America.
Earlier this week, a Wall Street Journal reporter wrote
movingly of his son, a boy named Ryan. Ronald Shafer remembered
enthusiastic
his Ryan as an voracious collector of baseball cards who could
name every batting champion back to the 1960s -- the kind of
bright boy for whom life was an open invitation to succeed. But
Ryan started using drugs and alcohol at age 12, and soon became a
stranger to his parents and classmates. By age 16, Ryan was
dead.
There are thousands of Ryans across America, thousands of
young men and women who are in danger of losing their future,
their very lives, to this scourge we call drugs.
5
The Boy Scouts of America has assumed a leadership role in
confronting this problem. You are teaching self-protection
strategies against drugs and other dangers. You have circulated
these strategies in direct language in a very successful pamphlet
called Drugs: A Deadly Game. And you have done something else --
you are leading the youth of America by example.
Now I want to challenge you to take the final steps. Ask
yourself if you know someone like Ryan Shafer. And if so, have
you done everything you can to help him or her?
There are other, more positive challenges facing your
generation. When the first Boy Scouts chapter was formed,
Americans had just tamed the farthest reaches of the West. There
were only a few remote places in the world unseen by Man. Since
then, the world has become smaller. And SO has the room for our
imagination and daring -- a narrowed space for the restless
spirit of freedom that is so much a part of our national
identity.
But you and I know that there is a new frontier, a frontier
without limits -- space.
Once again, Boy Scouts have played a leadership role in
preparing a generation for space exploration. It is no
coincidence that half of all astronauts were once Scouts. Gus
Grissom, an American hero who lost his life in the early space
program, was a Scout. David Scott and James Irwin, who operated
the first lunar rover, were Scouts. And I doubt that any of the
Scouts who participated in the 1969 seventh Jamboree in Idaho
JimLowed
6
will ever forget Eagle Scout Neil Armstrong, who made man's first
step on the moon, and later sent his greetings to the Jamboree
from deep space.
The first spacefarers were unique, the lucky few. But your
generation will have a broader, greater opportunity to live in
establish an outpost on the Moon, and explore the
space, to travel to the moon and to even set foot on another
mysteries of Mars.
world. This is the challenge of the next century -- your century and your
challenge.
Near the Jamboree area is a NASA exhibit of "Freedom
Station," which will become our nation's first permanent manned
space station in the next decade. Nearby are also large-scale
models of the space shuttle and other Space crafts. This is America's
space fleet, and its mission is gradually changing from
exploration to settlement. When we aim for the stars, it will be
to stay.
concidence
This brings to mind an small irony. Just a few miles away,
along the Tidewater Coast of Virginia, the first Englishmen
arrived in the New World -- also not just to explore, but to
stay.
a
Those early colonisto faced, terrible struggled.
autumn
These early colonies were ill fated. Their first fall
brought a bitter harvest of hardship. Their first winter brought
tragedy. But in the end, the generation of Captain John Smith
and
d
escaped the confines of the Old World to settle the New, a fresh
frontier, a boundless promise called America.
Today, as before, some timid and chiding voices caution us
against the danger, the hardship and the expense. Perhaps they
(spects)
should listen to Steven Speilberg ( (quote to come)
Or perhaps
they should listen to Ray Bradbury, a writer who once said that
space will make children of us all.
He didn't mean that literally. Bradbury meant that the
strange beauty and mystery of space will teach even the most
cynical and worldweary among us to rediscover the wonder of their
first glimpse of the night sky. It is this sense of wonder and
curiosity that draws you from the comfort of home and television
to the outdoors. Tonight, when you are laying in your cots
around a campfire, surrounded by dark forest, looking up at the
stars of the night sky, I want you to consider something.
Perhaps you, or your children -- or as hard as it is for you to
imagine, your grandchildren -- will one day look up at the night
sky before going to sleep, and see the Earth as a faint,
twinkling blue star. ( (PAUSE))
\of discovery and adventure
It is this spirit, a spirit of wonder that is surely
and for distant
drawing us to a new destiny on new worlds.
You are privileged to be the generation that will witness
the first large movement of men and women into space. And as
this happens, I know that the Boy Scouts of today will be in the
lead.
Thank you for inviting me to your Jamboree. God bless you
and God bless the Boy Scouts of America
and
the and world
#
#
#
Out of 157 pilots and scientists selected
as Astronauts since 1959 over 90 were
scouts or involved with the scout's program
Also, Admiral Truly was an Eagle Scout.
fromtes
Admiralice of it do Fuly's whys sent shem.)
Document No.
059340SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
8/1/89
8/2/89 NOON
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
WINSTON
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
BENNETT
FITZWATER
OSTP
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than NOON, Wednesday, August 2, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Davis/Martin
July 31, 1989
Draft: One
Title: C:Scouts
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE/Ft. A.P. Hill
August 7, 1989/10:30 a.m.
( (Thank you, Ben. Let me start by asking a favor. For the
next ten seconds, I would like to hear every patrol in the Boy
Scouts give its call, starting now
...)) ( (Wait ten seconds) )
( (Okay, okay, thank you
...
In all that noise, I thought I
could make out otters, panthers, owls and even a moose call or
two. Just think, out there somewhere in the thick Virginia
forest are a lot of wild animals, and they've all just fallen in
love
...)) ((PAUSE) )
Last Jamboree, I understand you had an unwelcomed visitor by
the name of Bob -- Hurricane Bob. Ben tells me you didn't have a
camp out
You had a damp out.
But this Jamboree is coming together marvelously. You can
canoe, kayak and swim. You can shoot shotguns and compete in
archery. You can earn Merit Badges while you work your way down
the Midway. ( (Undoubtedly, some of you will also be asked to
organize snipe-hunting expeditions.) ) This all sounds like a lot
of fun. But there is one activity here that really tempts me to
leave the White House behind and spend a few days with you here
at Fort A.P. Hill. I am talking about Fishhook Lake.
2
I started fishing at age five or so, in the cold waters
along the coast of Maine, using a lead jig with a piece of white
cloth for bait, sometimes trolling with an old green cotton line.
( (And, of course, the first thing I caught was a cold. )) But
after awhile, I got the hang of it, pulling in mackerel and an
occasional flounder. I became acquainted with the waters off
Kennebunkport so well that now I know every reef, when the swells
will break and where you can find the seals on a given day.
Since I was your age, I've waded in a clean, clear river in
Iceland next to the Prime Minister of that land, and caught my
first salmon. I've pulled in bass in many states, and fought
dolphin, kings and hard-hitting 'cuda on the high seas.
As you might have guessed, fishing is my favorite source of
relaxation. It is with a rod and reel in my hand that I tend to
count my blessings, especially if I'm with one of my
grandchildren, or with Barbara
( (the only woman on earth
who can read and fish at the same time, and catch every word and
every fish. ) )
But no matter where I fish today, I will always look back to
the days when I trailed that piece of white cloth along the
shoreline. And there's a lesson here that I want to share with
you. Whatever you love to do -- whether its hiking, hunting or
kayaking -- hang on to it. As you pursue success in school, and
later in your careers, don't forget to find time for the things
you love to do. If you stay true to the hobbies of your boyhood,
3
you will find a source of relaxation and replenishment that will
never fail you.
There are other things you will learn as a Scout that will
serve you well through life. Your Scout Law commands you to be
trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient,
cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. ( (Whew!))
That may sound like a lot to remember, but it isn't. For at
the core of that code is something simple -- a desire to serve
with honor, a sincere feeling for one's fellow man and for one's
country. So service isn't a lifelong chore to be carried out.
As Chief Scout Citizen Teddy Roosevelt put it,
the full
performance of duty is not only right in itself but also the
source of the profoundest satisfaction that can come in life."
In short, to serve and serve well is the highest fulfillment
we can know.
Certainly, you have been proving this every day, by "doing a
good turn daily." Boy Scouts have been helping out through times
of disaster, from fires to flash floods. The Boy Scouts were
there when Franklin Delano Roosevelt appealed for help during the
Great Depression, gathering almost two million articles of
clothing, household furnishings and food for the needy. And the
Boy Scouts were a strong helping hand at home when older brothers
fought a war in Europe.
Today, the Boy Scouts have taken on a new struggle, to
defeat what you call the five "unacceptables" -- illiteracy,
unemployment, child abuse, drug abuse and hunger. In fact,
4
fighting hunger alone, Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorers rounded
up 60 million cans of food for local food banks -- the largest
collection of food ever undertaken in the history of the United
States.
Your focus is right on target. Today, we can be grateful
that no depression or war looms ahead of us. But this doesn't
mean that the times we live in are less demanding. The Boy
Scouts of this Twelfth National Jamboree will face challenges
unimagined by your fathers.
Perhaps the greatest challenge of our times, I'm sorry to
say, is one of the "unacceptables" -- the continuing struggle to
keep drugs out of the lockers of our high schools
a form of
pollution, a poisoning of the mind, a corruption of the very
soul, of young America.
Earlier this week, a Wall Street Journal reporter wrote
movingly of his son, a boy named Ryan. Ronald Shafer remembered
his Ryan as a voracious collector of baseball cards who could
name every batting champion back to the 1960s -- the kind of
bright boy for whom life was an open invitation to succeed. But
Ryan started using drugs and alcohol at age 12, and soon became a
stranger to his parents and classmates. By age 16, Ryan was
dead.
There are thousands of Ryans across America, thousands of
young men and women who are in danger of losing their future,
their very lives, to this scourge we call drugs.
5
The Boy Scouts of America has assumed a leadership role in
confronting this problem. You are teaching self-protection
strategies against drugs and other dangers. You have circulated
these strategies in direct language in a very successful pamphlet
called Drugs: A Deadly Game. And you have done something else --
you are leading the youth of America by example.
Now I want to challenge you to take the final steps. Ask
yourself if you know someone like Ryan Shafer. And if so, have
you done everything you can to help him or her?
There are other, more positive challenges facing your
generation. When the first Boy Scouts chapter was formed,
Americans had just tamed the farthest reaches of the West. There
were only a few remote places in the world unseen by Man. Since
then, the world has become smaller. And so has the room for our
imagination and daring -- a narrowed space for the restless
spirit of freedom that is so much a part of our national
identity.
But you and I know that there is a new frontier, a frontier
without limits -- space.
Once again, Boy Scouts have played a leadership role in
preparing a generation for space exploration. It is no
coincidence that half of all astronauts were once Scouts. Gus
Grissom, an American hero who lost his life in the early space
program, was a Scout. David Scott and James Irwin, who operated
the first lunar rover, were Scouts. And I doubt that any of the
Scouts who participated in the 1969 seventh Jamboree in Idaho
6
will ever forget Eagle Scout Neil Armstrong, who made man's first
step on the moon, and later sent his greetings to the Jamboree
from deep space.
The first spacefarers were unique, the lucky few. But your
generation will have a broader, greater opportunity to live in
space, to travel to the moon and to even set foot on another
world. This is the challenge of the next century -- your
challenge.
Near the Jamboree area is a NASA exhibit of "Freedom
Station," which will become our nation's first permanent manned
space station in the next decade. Nearby are also large-scale
models of the space shuttle and other crafts. This is America's
space fleet, and its mission is gradually changing from
exploration to settlement. When we aim for the stars, it will be
to stay.
This brings to mind an small irony. Just a few miles away,
along the Tidewater Coast of Virginia, the first Englishmen
arrived in the New World -- also not just to explore, but to
stay.
These early colonies were ill-fated. Their first fall
brought a bitter harvest of hardship. Their first winter brought
tragedy. But in the end, the generation of Captain John Smith
escaped the confines of the Old World to settle the New, a fresh
frontier, a boundless promise called America.
Today, as before, some timid and chiding voices caution us
against the danger, the hardship and the expense. Perhaps they
7
should listen to Steven Speilberg (quote to come)). Or perhaps
they should listen to Ray Bradbury, a writer who once said that
space will make children of us all.
He didn't mean that literally. Bradbury meant that the
strange beauty and mystery of space will teach even the most
cynical and worldweary among us to rediscover the wonder of their
first glimpse of the night sky. It is this sense of wonder and
curiosity that draws you from the comfort of home and television
to the outdoors. Tonight, when you are laying in your cots
around a campfire, surrounded by dark forest, looking up at the
stars of the night sky, I want you to consider something.
Perhaps you, or your children -- or as hard as it is for you to
imagine, your grandchildren -- will one day look up at the night
sky before going to sleep, and see the Earth as a faint,
twinkling blue star. ( (PAUSE))
It is this spirit, a spirit of wonder, that is surely
drawing us to a new destiny on new worlds.
You are privileged to be the generation that will witness
the first large movement of men and women into space. And as
this happens, I know that the Boy Scouts of today will be in the
lead.
Thank you for inviting me to your Jamboree. God bless you
and God bless the Boy Scouts of America.
#
#
#
BryScouts
Scott
Sutherland
2
I started fishing at age five or so, in the cold waters
along the coast of Maine, using a lead jig with a piece of white
cloth for bait, sometimes trolling with an old green cotton line.
( (And, of course, the first thing I caught was a cold. ))
But
after awhile, I got the hang of it, pulling in mackerel and an
occasional flounder. I became acquainted with the waters off
Kennebunkport so well that now I know every reef, when the swells
will break and where you can find the seals on a given day.
the time
Since I was your age, I've waded in a clean, clear river in
Iceland next to the Prime Minister of that land, and caught my
first salmon. I've pulled in bass in many states, and fought
dolphin, kings and hard-hitting 'cuda on the high seas.
As you might have guessed, fishing is my favorite source of
relaxation. It is with a rod and reel in my hand that I tend to
count my blessings, especially if I'm with one of my
grandchildren, or with Barbara
( (the only woman on earth
who can read and fish at the same time, and catch every word and
every fish. ))
But no matter where I fish today, I
will
always look back to
the days when I trailed that piece of white cloth along the
shoreline. And there's
share with
you. Whatever you love
hunting or
kayaking -- hang on to
school, and
later in your careers,
the things
you love to do. If you
There will be
your boyhood, youth
female boy scouts
in the audience
3
you will find a source of relaxation and replenishment that will
never fail you.
There are other things you will learn as a Scout that will
serve you well through life. Your Scout Law commands you to be
trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient,
cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. ( (Whew!))
That may sound like a lot to remember, but it isn't. For at
the core of that code is something simple -- a desire to serve
with honor, a sincere feeling for one's fellow man and for one's
country. So service isn't a lifelong chore to be carried out.
As Chief Scout Citizen Teddy Roosevelt put :-,
the full
performance of duty is not only right in itself but also the
source of the profoundest satisfaction that can come in life."
In short, to serve and serve well is the highest fulfillment
we can know.
Certainly, you have been proving this every day, by "doing a
good turn daily." Boy Scouts have been helping out through times
of disaster, from fires to flash floods. The Boy Scouts were
there when Franklin Delano Roosevelt appealed for help during the
Great Depression, gathering almost TWO million articles of
clothing, household furnishings and food for the needy. And the
Boy Scouts were a strong helping hand at home when older brothers
fought a war in Europe.
Today, the Boy Scouts have taken on a new struggle, to
defeat what you call the five "unacceptables" -- illiteracy,
unemployment, child abuse, drug abuse and hunger. In fact,
4
fighting hunger alone, Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorers rounded
up 60 million cans of food for local food banks -- the largest
collection of food ever undertaken in the history of the United
States.
Your focus is right on target. Today, we can be grateful
that no depression or war looms ahead of us. But this doesn't
mean that the times we live in are less demanding. The Boy
Scouts of this Twelfth National Jamboree will face challenges
unimagined by your fathers.
Perhaps the greatest challenge of our times, I'm sorry to
say, is one of the "unacceptables" -- the continuing struggle to
keep drugs out of the lockers of our high schools
a form of
pollution, a poisoning of the mind, a corruption of the very
soul, of young America.
Earlier this week, a Wall Street Journal reporter wrote
movingly of his son, a boy named Ryan. Ronald Shafer remembered
his Ryan as a voracious collector of baseball cards who could
name every batting champion back to the 1960s -- the kind of
bright boy for whom life was an open invitation to succeed. But
Ryan started using drugs and alcohol at age 12, and soon became a
stranger to his parents and classmates. By age 16, Ryan was
dead.
There are thousands of Ryans across America, thousands of
young men and women who are in danger of losing their future,
their very lives, to this scourge we call drugs.
5
The Boy Scouts of America has assumed a leadership role in
confronting this problem. You are teaching self-protection
strategies against drugs and other dangers. You have circulated
these strategies in direct language in a very successful pamphlet
called Drugs: A Deadly Game. And you have done something else --
you are leading the youth of America by example.
Now I want to challenge you to take the final steps. Ask
yourself if you know someone like Ryan Shafer. And if so, have
you done everything you can to help him or her?
There are other, more positive challenges facing your
generation. When the first Boy Scouts chapter was formed,
Americans had just tamed the farthest reaches of the West. There
were only a few remote places in the world unseen by Man. Since
then, the world has become smaller. And so has the room for our
imagination and daring -- a narrowed space for the restless
spirit of freedom that is so much a part of our national
identity.
But you and I know that there is a new frontier, a frontier
without limits -- space.
Once again, Boy Scouts have played a leadership role in
preparing a generation for space exploration. It is no
coincidence that half of all astronauts were once Scouts. Gus
Grissom, an American hero who lost his life in the early space
program, was a Scout. David Scott and James Irwin, who operated
the first lunar rover, were Scouts. And I doubt that any of the
Scouts who participated in the 1969 seventh Jamboree in Idaho
6
will ever forget Eagle Scout Neil Armstrong, who made man's first
step on the moon, and later sent his greetings to the Jamboree
from deep space.
The first spacefarers were unique, the lucky few. But your
generation will have a broader, greater opportunity to live in
space, to travel to the moon and to even set foot on another
world. This is the challenge of the next century -- your
challenge.
Near the Jamboree area is a NASA exhibit of "Freedom
Station," which will become our nation's first permanent manned
space station in the next decade. Nearby are also large-scale
models of the space shuttle and other crafts. This is America's
space fleet, and its mission is gradually changing from
exploration to settlement. When we aim for the stars, it will be
to stay.
This brings to mind an small irony. Just a few miles away,
along the Tidewater Coast of Virginia, the first Englishmen
arrived in the New World -- also not just to explore, but to
stay.
These early colonies were ill-fated. Their first fall
brought a bitter harvest of hardship. Their first winter brought
tragedy. But in the end, the generation of Captain John Smith
escaped the confines of the Old World to settle the New, a fresh
frontier, a boundless promise called America.
Today, as before, some timid and chiding voices caution us
against the danger, the hardship and the expense. Perhaps they
FYI for Speilbergie x mer on 8/2 the Jamba 8/2
will ing 7
should listen to Steven Speilberg ( (quote to come) ) Or perhaps
they should listen to Ray Bradbury, a writer who once said that
space will make children of us all.
He didn't mean that literally. Bradbury meant that the
strange beauty and mystery of space will teach even the most
cynical and worldweary among us to rediscover the wonder of their
first glimpse of the night sky. It is this sense of wonder and
curiosity that draws you from the comfort of home and television
to the outdoors. Tonight, when you are laying in your cots
around a campfire, surrounded by dark forest, looking up at the
stars of the night sky, I want you to consider something.
Perhaps you, or your children -- or as hard as it is for you to
imagine, your grandchildren -- will one day look up at the night
sky before going to sleep, and see the Earth as a faint,
twinkling blue star. ( (PAUSE) )
It is this spirit, a spirit of wonder, that is surely
drawing us to a new destiny on new worlds.
You are privileged to be the generation that will witness
the first large movement of men and women into space. And as
this happens, I know that the Boy Scouts of today will be in the
lead.
Thank you for inviting me to your Jamboree. God bless you
and God bless the Boy Scouts of America.
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
89 JUL 2 27
August 1, 1989
MEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON
FROM:
ROGER B. PORTER
RBP
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks: Boy Scout National
Jamboree
The draft is well written and evokes a strong sense of
individual creativity and responsibility, two attributes very
much worth nurturing in our young people. We do, however, have
a couple of editorial suggestions which we think will improve
the remarks.
The third sentence in the third paragraph on the first page
includes the phrase, "can shoot shotguns and compete in
archery." Although the scouts are shooting for sport, the
sentence may not be appropriate given recent media attention
paid to assault weapons and other firearms. We suggest simply
deleting the reference to shooting shotguns.
The word "permanent" in the first sentence of the second
paragraph on page six should be replaced with the word
"permanently". The word "an" should be replaced with the word
"a" in the first sentence of the third paragraph on page six.
If you have any questions or we can help in any other way,
please let me know.
CC: James W. Cicconi
Document No.
059340SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
8/1/89
8/2/89 NOON
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
WINSTON
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
BENNETT
FITZWATER
OSTP
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than NOON, Wednesday, August 2, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Davis/Martin
July 31, 1989
Draft: One
Title: C:Scouts
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE/Ft. A.P. Hill
August 7, 1989/10:30 a.m.
( (Thank you, Ben. Let me start by asking a favor. For the
next ten seconds, I would like to hear every patrol in the Boy
Scouts give its call, starting now
...))
( (Wait ten seconds) )
( (Okay, okay, thank you
In all that noise, I thought I
could make out otters, panthers, owls and even a moose call or
two. Just think, out there somewhere in the thick Virginia
forest are a lot of wild animals, and they've all just fallen in
love
.)) ( (PAUSE) )
Last Jamboree, I understand you had an unwelcomed visitor by
the name of Bob -- Hurricane Bob. Ben tells me you didn't have a
camp out
You had a damp out.
But this Jamboree is coming together marvelously. You can
canoe, kayak and swim. You can shoot shotguns and compete in
X
archery. You can earn Merit Badges while you work your way down
the Midway. ( (Undoubtedly, some of you will also be asked to
organize snipe-hunting expeditions.) ) This all sounds like a lot
of fun. But there is one activity here that really tempts me to
leave the White House behind and spend a few days with you here
at Fort A.P. Hill. I am talking about Fishhook Lake.
2
I started fishing at age five or so, in the cold waters
along the coast of Maine, using a lead jig with a piece of white
cloth for bait, sometimes trolling with an old green cotton line.
((And, of course, the first thing I caught was a cold. )) But
after awhile, I got the hang of it, pulling in mackerel and an
occasional flounder. I became acquainted with the waters off
Kennebunkport so well that now I know every reef, when the swells
will break and where you can find the seals on a given day.
Since I was your age, I've waded in a clean, clear river in
Iceland next to the Prime Minister of that land, and caught my
first salmon. I've pulled in bass in many states, and fought
dolphin, kings and hard-hitting 'cuda on the high seas.
As you might have guessed, fishing is my favorite source of
relaxation. It is with a rod and reel in my hand that I tend to
count my blessings, especially if I'm with one of my
grandchildren, or with Barbara
( (the only woman on earth
who can read and fish at the same time, and catch every word and
every fish. ))
But no matter where I fish today, I will always look back to
the days when I trailed that piece of white cloth along the
shoreline. And there's a lesson here that I want to share with
you. Whatever you love to do -- whether its hiking, hunting or
kayaking -- hang on to it. As you pursue success in school, and
later in your careers, don't forget to find time for the things
you love to do. If you stay true to the hobbies of your boyhood,
3
you will find a source of relaxation and replenishment that will
never fail you.
There are other things you will learn as a Scout that will
serve you well through life. Your Scout Law commands you to be
trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient,
cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. ( (Whew!))
That may sound like a lot to remember, but it isn't. For at
the core of that code is something simple -- a desire to serve
with honor, a sincere feeling for one's fellow man and for one's
country. So service isn't a lifelong chore to be carried out.
As Chief Scout Citizen Teddy Roosevelt put it,
the full
performance of duty is not only right in itself but also the
source of the profoundest satisfaction that can come in life."
In short, to serve and serve well is the highest fulfillment
we can know.
Certainly, you have been proving this every day, by "doing a
good turn daily." Boy Scouts have been helping out through times
of disaster, from fires to flash floods. The Boy Scouts were
there when Franklin Delano Roosevelt appealed for help during the
Great Depression, gathering almost two million articles of
clothing, household furnishings and food for the needy. And the
Boy Scouts were a strong helping hand at home when older brothers
fought a war in Europe.
Today, the Boy Scouts have taken on a new struggle, to
defeat what you call the five "unacceptables" -- illiteracy,
unemployment, child abuse, drug abuse and hunger. In fact,
4
fighting hunger alone, Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorers rounded
up 60 million cans of food for local food banks -- the largest
collection of food ever undertaken in the history of the United
States.
Your focus is right on target. Today, we can be grateful
that no depression or war looms ahead of us. But this doesn't
mean that the times we live in are less demanding. The Boy
Scouts of this Twelfth National Jamboree will face challenges
unimagined by your fathers.
Perhaps the greatest challenge of our times, I'm sorry to
say, is one of the "unacceptables" -- the continuing struggle to
keep drugs out of the lockers of our high schools
a form of
pollution, a poisoning of the mind, a corruption of the very
soul, of young America.
Earlier this week, a Wall Street Journal reporter wrote
movingly of his son, a boy named Ryan. Ronald Shafer remembered
his Ryan as a voracious collector of baseball cards who could
name every batting champion back to the 1960s -- the kind of
bright boy for whom life was an open invitation to succeed. But
Ryan started using drugs and alcohol at age 12, and soon became a
stranger to his parents and classmates. By age 16, Ryan was
dead.
There are thousands of Ryans across America, thousands of
young men and women who are in danger of losing their future,
their very lives, to this scourge we call drugs.
5
The Boy Scouts of America has assumed a leadership role in
confronting this problem. You are teaching self-protection
strategies against drugs and other dangers. You have circulated
these strategies in direct language in a very successful pamphlet
called Drugs: A Deadly Game. And you have done something else --
you are leading the youth of America by example.
Now I want to challenge you to take the final steps. Ask
yourself if you know someone like Ryan Shafer. And if so, have
you done everything you can to help him or her?
There are other, more positive challenges facing your
generation. When the first Boy Scouts chapter was formed,
Americans had just tamed the farthest reaches of the West. There
were only a few remote places in the world unseen by Man. Since
then, the world has become smaller. And SO has the room for our
imagination and daring -- a narrowed space for the restless
spirit of freedom that is so much a part of our national
identity.
But you and I know that there is a new frontier, a frontier
without limits -- space.
Once again, Boy Scouts have played a leadership role in
preparing a generation for space exploration. It is no
coincidence that half of all astronauts were once Scouts. Gus
Grissom, an American hero who lost his life in the early space
program, was a Scout. David Scott and James Irwin, who operated
the first lunar rover, were Scouts. And I doubt that any of the
Scouts who participated in the 1969 seventh Jamboree in Idaho
6
will ever forget Eagle Scout Neil Armstrong, who made man's first
step on the moon, and later sent his greetings to the Jamboree
from deep space.
The first spacefarers were unique, the lucky few. But your
generation will have a broader, greater opportunity to live in
space, to travel to the moon and to even set foot on another
world. This is the challenge of the next century -- your
challenge.
space station
Near the Jamboree area is a NASA exhibit of "Freedom
FReedom?
Station," which will become our nation's first permanent manned
X
space station in the next decade. Nearby are also large-scale
models of the space shuttle and other crafts. This is America's
space fleet, and its mission is gradually changing from
exploration to settlement. When we aim for the stars, it will be
to stay.
This brings to mind an small irony. Just a few miles away,
X
along the Tidewater Coast of Virginia, the first Englishmen
arrived in the New World -- also not just to explore, but to
stay.
These early colonies were ill-fated. Their first fall
brought a bitter harvest of hardship. Their first winter brought
tragedy. But in the end, the generation of Captain John Smith
escaped the confines of the Old World to settle the New, a fresh
frontier, a boundless promise called America.
Today, as before, some timid and chiding voices caution us
against the danger, the hardship and the expense. Perhaps they
7
should listen to Steven Speilberg ((quote to come)). Or perhaps
they should listen to Ray Bradbury, a writer who once said that
space will make children of us all.
He didn't mean that literally. Bradbury meant that the
strange beauty and mystery of space will teach even the most
cynical and worldweary among us to rediscover the wonder of their
first glimpse of the night sky. It is this sense of wonder and
curiosity that draws you from the comfort of home and television
to the outdoors. Tonight, when you are laying in your cots
around a campfire, surrounded by dark forest, looking up at the
stars of the night sky, I want you to consider something.
Perhaps you, or your children -- or as hard as it is for you to
imagine, your grandchildren -- will one day look up at the night
sky before going to sleep, and see the Earth as a faint,
twinkling blue star. ((PAUSE))
It is this spirit, a spirit of wonder, that is surely
drawing us to a new destiny on new worlds.
You are privileged to be the generation that will witness
the first large movement of men and women into space. And as
this happens, I know that the Boy Scouts of today will be in the
lead.
Thank you for inviting me to your Jamboree. God bless you
and God bless the Boy Scouts of America.
#
#
#
Document No.
059340SS
MCE
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
8/1/89
8/2/89 NOON
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
WINSTON
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
BENNETT
FITZWATER
OSTP
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than NOON, Wednesday, August 2, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE: Please see pages 5and 7.
mary Eatherine English, 3840
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
5,7
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Davis/Martin
1900
AUG
July 31, 1989
Draft: One
Title: C:Scouts
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE/Ft. A.P. Hill
August 7, 1989/10:30 a.m.
( (Thank you, Ben. Let me start by asking a favor. For the
next ten seconds, I would like to hear every patrol in the Boy
Scouts give its call, starting now
...))
((Wait ten seconds) )
( (Okay, okay, thank you
In all that noise, I thought I
could make out otters, panthers, owls and even a moose call or
two. Just think, out there somewhere in the thick Virginia
forest are a lot of wild animals, and they've all just fallen in
love
)
) ((PAUSE) )
Last Jamboree, I understand you had an unwelcomed visitor by
the name of Bob -- Hurricane Bob. Ben tells me you didn't have a
camp out
You had a damp out.
But this Jamboree is coming together marvelously. You can
canoe, kayak and swim. You can shoot shotguns and compete in
archery. You can earn Merit Badges while you work your way down
the Midway. ( (Undoubtedly, some of you will also be asked to
organize snipe-hunting expeditions.) ) This all sounds like a lot
of fun. But there is one activity here that really tempts me to
leave the White House behind and spend a few days with you here
at Fort A.P. Hill. I am talking about Fishhook Lake.
2
I started fishing at age five or so, in the cold waters
along the coast of Maine, using a lead jig with a piece of white
cloth for bait, sometimes trolling with an old green cotton line.
((And, of course, the first thing I caught was a cold. )) But
after awhile, I got the hang of it, pulling in mackerel and an
occasional flounder. I became acquainted with the waters off
Kennebunkport so well that now I know every reef, when the swells
will break and where you can find the seals on a given day.
Since I was your age, I've waded in a clean, clear river in
Iceland next to the Prime Minister of that land, and caught my
first salmon. I've pulled in bass in many states, and fought
dolphin, kings and hard-hitting 'cuda on the high seas.
As you might have guessed, fishing is my favorite source of
relaxation. It is with a rod and reel in my hand that I tend to
count my blessings, especially if I'm with one of my
grandchildren, or with Barbara
( (the only woman on earth
who can read and fish at the same time, and catch every word and
every fish. ))
But no matter where I fish today, I will always look back to
the days when I trailed that piece of white cloth along the
shoreline. And there's a lesson here that I want to share with
you. Whatever you love to do -- whether its hiking, hunting or
kayaking -- hang on to it. As you pursue success in school, and
later in your careers, don't forget to find time for the things
you love to do. If you stay true to the hobbies of your boyhood,
3
you will find a source of relaxation and replenishment that will
never fail you.
There are other things you will learn as a Scout that will
serve you well through life. Your Scout Law commands you to be
trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient,
cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. ( (Whew!))
That may sound like a lot to remember, but it isn't. For at
the core of that code is something simple -- a desire to serve
with honor, a sincere feeling for one's fellow man and for one's
country. So service isn't a lifelong chore to be carried out.
As Chief Scout Citizen Teddy Roosevelt put it,
the full
performance of duty is not only right in itself but also the
source of the profoundest satisfaction that can come in life."
In short, to serve and serve well is the highest fulfillment
we can know.
Certainly, you have been proving this every day, by "doing a
good turn daily." Boy Scouts have been helping out through times
of disaster, from fires to flash floods. The Boy Scouts were
there when Franklin Delano Roosevelt appealed for help during the
Great Depression, gathering almost two million articles of
clothing, household furnishings and food for the needy. And the
Boy Scouts were a strong helping hand at home when older brothers
fought a war in Europe.
Today, the Boy Scouts have taken on a new struggle, to
defeat what you call the five "unacceptables" -- illiteracy,
unemployment, child abuse, drug abuse and hunger. In fact,
4
fighting hunger alone, Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorers rounded
up 60 million cans of food for local food banks -- the largest
collection of food ever undertaken in the history of the United
States.
Your focus is right on target. Today, we can be grateful
that no depression or war looms ahead of us. But this doesn't
mean that the times we live in are less demanding. The Boy
Scouts of this Twelfth National Jamboree will face challenges
unimagined by your fathers.
Perhaps the greatest challenge of our times, I'm sorry to
say, is one of the "unacceptables" -- the continuing struggle to
keep drugs out of the lockers of our high schools
a form of
pollution, a poisoning of the mind, a corruption of the very
soul, of young America.
Earlier this week, a Wall Street Journal reporter wrote
movingly of his son, a boy named Ryan. Ronald Shafer remembered
his Ryan as a voracious collector of baseball cards who could
name every batting champion back to the 1960s -- the kind of
bright boy for whom life was an open invitation to succeed. But
Ryan started using drugs and alcohol at age 12, and soon became a
stranger to his parents and classmates. By age 16, Ryan was
dead.
There are thousands of Ryans across America, thousands of
young men and women who are in danger of losing their future,
their very lives, to this scourge we call drugs.
5
have
The Boy Scouts of America has assumed a leadership role in
confronting this problem. You are teaching self-protection
strategies against drugs and other dangers. You have circulated
these strategies in direct language in a very successful pamphlet
called Drugs: A Deadly Game. And you have done something else --
you are leading the youth of America by example.
Now I want to challenge you to take the final steps. Ask
yourself if you know someone like Ryan Shafer. And if so, have
you done everything you can to help him or her?
There are other, more positive challenges facing your
generation. When the first Boy Scouts chapter was formed,
Americans had just tamed the farthest reaches of the West. There
were only a few remote places in the world unseen by Man. Since
then, the world has become smaller. And so has the room for our
imagination and daring -- a narrowed space for the restless
spirit of freedom that is so much a part of our national
identity.
But you and I know that there is a new frontier, a frontier
without limits -- space.
Once again, Boy Scouts have played a leadership role in
preparing a generation for space exploration. It is no
coincidence that half of all astronauts were once Scouts. Gus
Grissom, an American hero who lost his life in the early space
program, was a Scout. David Scott and James Irwin, who operated
the first lunar rover, were Scouts. And I doubt that any of the
Scouts who participated in the 1969 seventh Jamboree in Idaho
6
will ever forget Eagle Scout Neil Armstrong, who made man's first
step on the moon, and later sent his greetings to the Jamboree
from deep space.
The first spacefarers were unique, the lucky few. But your
generation will have a broader, greater opportunity to live in
space, to travel to the moon and to even set foot on another
world. This is the challenge of the next century -- your
challenge.
Near the Jamboree area is a NASA exhibit of "Freedom
Station," which will become our nation's first permanent manned
space station in the next decade. Nearby are also large-scale
models of the space shuttle and other crafts. This is America's
space fleet, and its mission is gradually changing from
exploration to settlement. When we aim for the stars, it will be
to stay.
This brings to mind an small irony. Just a few miles away,
along the Tidewater Coast of Virginia, the first Englishmen
arrived in the New World -- also not just to explore, but to
stay.
These early colonies were ill-fated. Their first fall
brought a bitter harvest of hardship. Their first winter brought
tragedy. But in the end, the generation of Captain John Smith
escaped the confines of the Old World to settle the New, a fresh
frontier, a boundless promise called America.
Today, as before, some timid and chiding voices caution us
against the danger, the hardship and the expense. Perhaps they
7
should listen to Steven Speilberg ((quote to come)) Or perhaps
they should listen to Ray Bradbury, a writer who once said that
space will make children of us all.
He didn't mean that literally. Bradbury meant that the
strange beauty and mystery of space will teach even the most
cynical and worldweary among us to rediscover the wonder of their
first glimpse of the night sky. It is this sense of wonder and
curiosity that draws you from the comfort of home and television
to the outdoors. Tonight, when you are laying in your cots
(s)
around a campfire, surrounded by dark forest, looking up at the
stars of the night sky, I want you to consider something.
Perhaps you, or your children -- or as hard as it is for you to
imagine, your grandchildren -- will one day look up at the night
sky before going to sleep, and see the Earth as a faint,
twinkling shimmering blue star. ( (PAUSE))
Point aflight.
It is this spirit, a spirit of wonder, that is surely
drawing us to a new destiny on new worlds.
You are privileged to be the generation that will witness
the first large movement of men and women into space. And as
this happens, I know that the Boy Scouts of today will be in the
lead.
Thank you for inviting me to your Jamboree. God bless you
and God bless the Boy Scouts of America.
since planets do not "twinkle," and since # Earth's # atmosphere
contributes the to the "twinkle" effect as we regard
night sky from Earth.
according to Dr. Dadley she Connell
NA'SA
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DATE: 8/1/89
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ACTION FYI
ACTION
FYI
KRISTOL
X
KREMER
RYDER
PERNICE
FERNEAU
BALZANO
DUGAN
Albrecht
X
BECKWITH
LORD
GRIBBIN
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RESPONSE:
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Document No.
059340SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
8/1/89
8/2/89 NOON
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
WINSTON
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
BENNETT
FITZWATER
OSTP
GRAY
HAGIN.
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than NOON, Wednesday, August 2, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
Citriss:
WE'VE TAKEN THE LIDERTS OF PROVITING A FEW EDITORIAL
COMMENTS- IF Tou HAVE QUESTIONS, PLEASE GIVE ME A CALL
AT X 6175-
James W. Cicconi
- hiz PRESTRIDGE
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
NATIONIN SPACE COUNCIL
Ext. 2702
Davis/Martin
RECOMMED
July 31, 1989
Draft: One
Title: C:Scouts
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE/Ft. A.P. Hill
August 7, 1989/10:30 a.m.
( (Thank you, Ben. Let me start by asking a favor. For the
next ten seconds, I would like to hear every patrol in the Boy
Scouts give its call, starting now
...)) ( (Wait ten seconds))
( (Okay, okay, thank you
...
In all that noise, I thought I
could make out otters, panthers, owls and even a moose call or
two. Just think, out there somewhere in the thick Virginia
forest are a lot of wild animals, and they've all just fallen in
love
) ) ( (PAUSE) )
Last Jamboree, I understand you had an unwelcomed visitor by
the name of Bob -- Hurricane Bob. Ben tells me you didn't have a
camp out
...
You had a damp out.
But this Jamboree is coming together marvelously. You can
canoe, kayak and swim. You can shoot shotguns and compete in
archery. You can earn Merit Badges while you work your way down
the Midway. ( (Undoubtedly, some of you will also be asked to
organize snipe-hunting expeditions.) ) This all sounds like a lot
of fun. But there is one activity here that really tempts me to
leave the White House behind and spend a few days with you here
at Fort A.P. Hill. I am talking about Fishhook Lake.
2
I started fishing at age five or so, in the cold waters
along the coast of Maine, using a lead jig with a piece of white
cloth for bait, sometimes trolling with an old green cotton line.
( (And, of course, the first thing I caught was a cold. )) But
after awhile, I got the hang of it, pulling in mackerel and an
occasional flounder. I became acquainted with the waters off
Kennebunkport SO well that now I know every reef, when the swells
will break and where you can find the seals on a given day.
Since I was your age, I've waded in a clean, clear river in
Iceland next to the Prime Minister of that land, and caught my
first salmon. I've pulled in bass in many states, and fought
dolphin, kings and hard-hitting 'cuda on the high seas.
As you might have guessed, fishing is my favorite source of
relaxation. It is with a rod and reel in my hand that I tend to
count my blessings, especially if I'm with one of my
grandchildren, or with Barbara
( (the only woman on earth
who can read and fish at the same time, and catch every word and
every fish. ))
But no matter where I fish today, I will always look back to
the days when I trailed that piece of white cloth along the
shoreline. And there's a lesson here that I want to share with
you. Whatever you love to do -- whether its hiking, hunting or
kayaking -- hang on to it. As you pursue success in school, and
later in your careers, don't forget to find time for the things
you love to do. If you stay true to the hobbies of your boyhood,
3
you will find a source of relaxation and replenishment that will
never fail you.
There are other things you will learn as a Scout that will
serve you well through life. Your Scout Law commands you to be
trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient,
cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. ( (Whew!) )
That may sound like a lot to remember, but it isn't. For at
the core of that code is something simple -- a desire to serve
with honor, a sincere feeling for one's fellow man and for one's
country. So service isn't a lifelong chore to be carried out.
As Chief Scout Citizen Teddy Roosevelt put it,
the full
performance of duty is not only right in itself but also the
source of the profoundest satisfaction that can come in life.
In short, to serve and serve well is the highest fulfillment
we can know.
Certainly, you have been proving this every day, by "doing a
good turn daily." Boy Scouts have been helping out through times
of disaster, from fires to flash floods. The Bcy Scouts were
there when Franklin Delano Roosevelt appealed for help during the
Great Depression, gathering almost two million articles of
clothing, household furnishings and food for the needy. And the
Boy Scouts were a strong helping hand at home when older brothers
fought a war in Europe.
Today, the Boy Scouts have taken on a new struggle, to
defeat what you call the five "unacceptables" -- illiteracy,
unemployment, child abuse, drug abuse and hunger. In fact,
4
fighting hunger alone, Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorers rounded
up 60 million cans of food for local food banks -- the largest
collection of food ever undertaken in the history of the United
States.
Your focus is right on target. Today, we can be grateful
that no depression or war looms ahead of us. But this doesn't
mean that the times we live in are less demanding. The Boy
Scouts of this Twelfth National Jamboree will face challenges
unimagined by your fathers.
Perhaps the greatest challenge of our times, I'm sorry to
say, is one of the "unacceptables" -- the continuing struggle to
keep drugs out of the lockers of our high schools
a form of
pollution, a poisoning of the mind, a corruption of the very
soul, of young America.
Earlier this week, a Wall Street Journal reporter wrote
movingly of his son, a boy named Ryan. Ronald Shafer remembered
his Ryan as a voracious collector of baseball cards who could
name every batting champion back to the 1960s -- the kind of
bright boy for whom life was an open invitation to succeed. But
Ryan started using drugs and alcohol at age 12, and soon became a
stranger to his parents and classmates. By age 16, Ryan was
dead.
There are thousands of Ryans across America, thousands of
young men and women who are in danger of losing their future,
their very lives, to this scourge we call drugs.
5
The Boy Scouts of America has assumed a leadership role in
confronting this problem. You are teaching self-protection
strategies against drugs and other dangers. You have circulated
these strategies in direct language in a very successful pamphlet
called Drugs: A Deadly Game. And you have done something else --
you are leading the youth of America by example.
Now I want to challenge you to take the final steps. Ask
yourself if you know someone like Ryan Shafer. And if so, have
you done everything you can to help him or her?
There are other, more positive challenges facing your
generation. When the first Boy Scouts chapter was formed,
Americans had just tamed the farthest reaches of the West. There
were only a few remote places in the world unseen by Man. Since
then, the world has become smaller. And so has the room for our
imagination and daring -- a narrowed space for the restless
spirit of freedom that is so much a part of our national RAYWMIERS WATERS
identity.
But you and I know that there is a new frontier, a frontier
without limits -- space.
Once again, Boy Scouts have played a leadership role in
preparing a generation for space exploration. It is no
coincidence that half of all astronauts were once Scouts. Gus
Grissom, an American hero who lost his life in the early space
program, was a Scout. David Scott and James Irwin, who operated
the first lunar rover, were Scouts. And I doubt that any of the
Scouts who participated in the 1969 seventh Jamboree in Idaho
6
will ever forget Eagle Scout Neil Armstrong, who made man's first
step on the moon, and later sent his greetings to the Jamboree
from deep space.
The first spacefarers were unique, the lucky few. But your
generation will have a broader, greater opportunity to live in
ESTABLISH Ad OUTPOST and THE Mood AdD EXPLORE THE MYSTERIES
OF ANOTHER PLANET, THE 1 DISTANT PLATET MARS.
space, to travel to the moon and to even' set foot on another
AND your
world. This is the challenge of the next century -- your CENTURY
challenge.
,
Near the Jamboree area is a NASA exhibit of "Freedom
Station," which will become our nation's first permanent manned
space station in the next decade. Nearby are also large-scale
VENICLE
models of the space shuttle and other crafts. This is America's
25PACECRAFT.
space fleet, and its mission is gradually changing from
DSRING THE COMING CENTURY.
exploration to settlement N When we aim for the stars, it will be
to stay.
This brings to mind an small irony. Just a few miles away,
along the Tidewater Coast of Virginia, the first Englishmen
arrived in the New World -- also not just to explore, but to
stay.
Assumn
These early colonies were ill-fated. Their first fall
brought a bitter harvest of hardship. Their first winter brought
tragedy. But in the end, the generation of Captain John Smith
escaped the confines of the Old World to settle the New, a fresh
frontier, a boundless promise called America.
Today, as before, some timid and chiding voices caution us
against the danger, the hardship and the expense. Perhaps they
7
should listen to Steven Speilberg ((quote to come) Or perhaps
they should listen to Ray Bradbury, a writer who once said that
space will make children of us all.
He didn't mean that literally. Bradbury meant that the
strange beauty and mystery of space will teach even the most
cynical and worldweary among us to rediscover the wonder of their
first glimpse of the night sky. It is this sense of wonder and
curiosity that draws you from the comfort of home and television
to the outdoors. Tonight, when you are LYING laying in your cots
around a campfire, surrounded by dark forest, looking up at the
stars of the night sky, I want you to consider something.
Perhaps you, or your children -- or as hard as it is for you to
imagine, your grandchildren -- will one day look up at the night
sky before going to sleep, and see the Earth as a faint,
twinkling blue star. ( (PAUSE))
OF ExploRation, VDISCOVERY, AND ADVENTURE
It is this spirit, a spirit of wonder, that is surely
AND GAR.DISTANT
drawing us to a new destiny on new worlds.
You are privileged to be the FIRST generation that will witness
TRAVEL
the first large movement NUMBERS of men and women into space. And as
IN
this happens, I know that the Boy Scouts of today will be in the
lead.
Thank you for inviting me to your Jamboree. God bless you
and God bless the Boy Scouts of America.
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Document No.
059340SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
8/1/89
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE 85 JUL BY 2 P8/2/89 NOON
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
ROGERS
BREEDEN
WINSTON
CARD
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
BENNETT
FITZWATER
OSTP
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than NOON, Wednesday, August 2, with a 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
Davis/Martin
July 31, 1989
Draft: One
Title: C:Scouts
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE/Ft. A.P. Hill
August 7, 1989/10:30 a.m.
((Thank you, Ben. Let me start by asking a favor. For the
next ten seconds, I would like to hear every patrol in the Boy
Scouts give its call, starting now
...)) ((Wait ten seconds) )
( (Okay, okay, thank you
In all that noise, I thought I
could make out otters, panthers, owls and even a moose call or
two. Just think, out there somewhere in the thick Virginia
forest are a lot of wild animals, and they've all just fallen in
love
) ) ((PAUSE) )
Last Jamboree, I understand you had an unwelcomed visitor by
the name of Bob -- Hurricane Bob. Ben tells me you didn't have a
camp out
You had a damp out.
But this Jamboree is coming together marvelously. You can
canoe, kayak and swim. You can shoot shotguns and compete in
archery. You can earn Merit Badges while you work your way down
the Midway. ( (Undoubtedly, some of you will also be asked to
organize snipe-hunting expeditions.) ) This all sounds like a lot
of fun. But there is one activity here that really tempts me to
leave the White House behind and spend a few days with you here
at Fort A.P. Hill. I am talking about Fishhook Lake.
2
I started fishing at age five or so, in the cold waters
along the coast of Maine, using a lead jig with a piece of white
cloth for bait, sometimes trolling with an old green cotton line.
((And, of course, the first thing I caught was a cold. )) But
after awhile, I got the hang of it, pulling in mackerel and an
occasional flounder. I became acquainted with the waters off
Kennebunkport so well that now I know every reef, when the swells
will break and where you can find the seals on a given day.
Since I was your age, I've waded in a clean, clear river in
Iceland next to the Prime Minister of that land, and caught my
first salmon. I've pulled in bass in many states, and fought
dolphin, kings and hard-hitting 'cuda on the high seas.
As you might have guessed, fishing is my favorite source of
relaxation. It is with a rod and reel in my hand that I tend to
count my blessings, especially if I'm with one of my
grandchildren, or with Barbara
( (the only woman on earth
who can read and fish at the same time, and catch every word and
every fish. ))
But no matter where I fish today, I will always look back to
the days when I trailed that piece of white cloth along the
shoreline. And there's a lesson here that I want to share with
you. Whatever you love to do -- whether its hiking, hunting or
kayaking -- hang on to it. As you pursue success in school, and
later in your careers, don't forget to find time for the things
you love to do. If you stay true to the hobbies of your boyhood,
3
you will find a source of relaxation and replenishment that will
never fail you.
There are other things you will learn as a Scout that will
serve you well through life. Your Scout Law commands you to be
trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient,
cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent. ( (Whew!))
1
That may sound like a lot to remember, but it isn't. For at
the core of that code is something simple -- a desire to serve
with honor, a sincere feeling for one's fellow man and for one's
country. So service isn't a lifelong chore to be carried out.
As Chief Scout Citizen Teddy Roosevelt put it,
the full
performance of duty is not only right in itself but also the
source of the profoundest satisfaction that can come in life."
In short, to serve and serve well is the highest fulfillment
we can know.
Certainly, you have been proving this every day, by "doing a
good turn daily." Boy Scouts have been helping out through times
of disaster, from fires to flash floods. The Boy Scouts were
there when Franklin Delano Roosevelt appealed for help during the
Great Depression, gathering almost two million articles of
clothing, household furnishings, and food for the needy. And the
Boy Scouts were a strong helping hand at home when older brothers
fought a war in Europe.
Today, the Boy Scouts have taken on a new struggle, to
defeat what you call the five "unacceptables" -- illiteracy,
unemployment, child abuse, drug abuse and hunger. In fact,
4
fighting hunger alone, Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorers rounded
up 60 million cans of food for local food banks -- the largest
collection of food ever undertaken in the history of the United
States.
Your focus is right on target. Today, we can be grateful
that no depression or war looms ahead of us. But this doesn't
mean that the times we live in are less demanding. The Boy
Scouts of this Twelfth National Jamboree will face challenges
unimagined by your fathers.
Perhaps the greatest challenge of our times, I'm sorry to
say, is one of the "unacceptables" -- the continuing struggle to
keep drugs out of the lockers of our high schools
a form of
pollution, a poisoning of the mind, a corruption of the very
soul, of young America.
Earlier this week, a Wall Street Journal reporter wrote
movingly of his son, a boy named Ryan. Ronald Shafer remembered
Molin
an enthusiastic
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his Ryan as [a veracious] collector of baseball cards who could
name every batting champion back to the 1960s -- the kind of
bright boy for whom life was an open invitation to succeed. But
Ryan started using drugs and alcohol at age 12, and soon became a
stranger to his parents and classmates. By age 16, Ryan was
dead.
There are thousands of Ryans across America, thousands of
young men and women who are in danger of losing their future,
their very lives, to this scourge we call drugs.
5
The Boy Scouts of America has assumed a leadership role in
confronting this problem. You are teaching self-protection
strategies against drugs and other dangers. You have circulated
these strategies in direct language in a very successful pamphlet
called Drugs: A Deadly Game. And you have done something else --
you are leading the youth of America by example.
Now I want to challenge you to take the final steps. Ask
yourself if you know someone like Ryan Shafer. And if so, have
you done everything you can to help him or her?
There are other, more positive challenges facing your
generation. When the first Boy Scouts chapter was formed,
Americans had just tamed the farthest reaches of the West. There
were only a few remote places in the world unseen by Man. Since
then, the world has become smaller. And so has the room for our
imagination and daring -- a narrowed space for the restless
spirit of freedom that is so much a part of our national
identity.
But you and I know that there is a new frontier, a frontier
without limits -- space.
Once again, Boy Scouts have played a leadership role in
preparing a generation for space exploration. It is no
coincidence that half of all astronauts were once Scouts. Gus
Grissom, an American hero who lost his life in the early space
program, was a Scout. David Scott and James Irwin, who operated
the first lunar rover, were Scouts. And I doubt that any of the
Scouts who participated in the 1969 seventh Jamboree in Idaho
6
will ever forget Eagle Scout Neil Armstrong, who made man's first
step on the moon, and later sent his greetings to the Jamboree
from deep space.
The first spacefarers were unique, the lucky few. But your
generation will have a broader, greater opportunity to live in
space, to travel to the moon and to even set foot on another
world. This is the challenge of the next century -- your
challenge.
Near the Jamboree area is a NASA exhibit of "Freedom
Station," which will become our nation's first permanent manned
space station in the next decade. Nearby are also large-scale
models of the space shuttle and other crafts. This is America's
space fleet, and its mission is gradually changing from
exploration to settlement. When we aim for the stars, it will be
to stay.
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cynical and worldweary among us to rediscover the wonder of their
first glimpse of the night sky. It is this sense of wonder and
curiosity that draws you from the comfort of home and television
to the outdoors. Tonight, when you are [laying] lying in your cots
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It is this spirit, a spirit of wonder, that is surely
drawing us to a new destiny on new worlds.
You are privileged to be the generation that will witness
the first large movement of men and women into space. And as
this happens, I know that the Boy Scouts of today will be in the
lead.
Thank you for inviting me to your Jamboree. God bless you
and God bless the Boy Scouts of America.
#
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Document No.
059340SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
8/1/89
8/2/89 NOON
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
ROGERS
BREEDEN
WINSTON
CARD
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
BENNETT
OSTP
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than NOON, Wednesday, August 2, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
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James W. Cicconi
1m
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 2, 1989
Memorandum to Chriss Winston
From:
Austen Furse A7
Subject:
Boy Scout National Jamboree Draft Speech
pg. 1, para. 1, line 2 The device of having every patrol "sound
it's call" is clever but bears checking to see if having a
patrol call is the current practice in the Boy Scouts. The other
risk is that the President's speech will go on to be
intermittently interrupted by animal calls, but the follow-up
joke in the second graf probably makes this risk worthwhile.
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keep drugs out of the lockers of our high schools. "
We suggest simply "schools" instead of "high schools,
particularly if most of the boys present are younger than high
school age.
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Document No.
059340SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
8/1/89
8/2/89 NOON
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BOY SCOUT NATIONAL JAMBOREE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
ROGERS
BREEDEN
WINSTON
CARD
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
BENNETT
FITZWATER
OSTP
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than NOON, Wednesday, August 2, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702