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    "ocrText": "Originally Processed With FOIA(s):\nFOIA Number:\nS\nFOIA\nMARKER\nThis is not a textual record. This is used as an\nadministrative marker by the George Bush Presidential\nLibrary Staff.\nRecord Group/Collection:\nGeorge H.W. Bush Presidential Records\nCollection/Office of Origin:\nSpeechwriting, White House Office of\nSeries:\nSpeech File Draft Files\nSubseries:\nChron File, 1989-1993\nOA/ID Number:\n13521\nFolder ID Number:\n13521-003\nFolder Title:\nRed Cross Speech 2/23/90 [OA 4728]\nStack:\nRow:\nSection:\nShelf:\nPosition:\nG\n25\n6\n7\n6\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nOffice of the Press Secretary\nFor Immediate Release\nFebruary 23, 1990\nREMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT\nTO THE RED CROSS\nThe Red Cross Headquarters\nWashington, D.C.\n11:42 A.M. EST\nTHE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, Chairman Moody, and\nall of you, ladies and gentlemen. It's a great pleasure for me --\nlong drive over -- (laughter) -- but I'm willing to make the\nsacrifice. (Laughter.) Literally, it took us about 30 seconds. But\nwhat a pleasure to address the Red Cross. One reason is that if my\nspeech is a disaster, relief is close at hand. (Laughter.)\nMoreover, you prove what Emerson said: \"The greatest gift is a\nportion of thyself.\"\nSeventy-seven years ago it was William Howard Taft began\na great and generous tradition. And since then, every President has\nbeen privileged -- as I am -- to serve as American Red Cross Honorary\nChairman, and since 1943, to proclaim March as American Red Cross\nMonth.\nTo Franklin Roosevelt, the Red Cross embraced in its\nmembership all races and creeds. To Dwight Eisenhower, it mirrored\nthe warm heart of a free people. And another great President, Ronald\nReagan, rightly observed that the Red Cross volunteers have proved\nequal to the challenges of the times.\nThis spirit is crystalized in the three windows beside me\n-- windows commissioned by the Red Cross in 1917 which represent the\ntheme of ministry through sacrifice. These windows tell the Red\nCross story -- from collecting blood to combating disaster, and what\nthis has meant to Americans and people throughout the world for\ngenerations.\nLet me tell a story which illustrates that meaning. It's\nabout a violent winter snowstorm -- and a remote mountain cabin all\nbut covered by snow drifts. I'm afraid most Red Cross volunteers\nhave heard it.\nA Red Cross rescue team was carried by helicopter to\nthese snowdrifts, within a mile of the cabin -- and then struggled to\nthe cabin, shoveling a path through the snow. Finally arriving at\nthe door, the lead rescuer knocked. It was opened by a crusty\nmountaineer.\n\"We're from the Red Cross,\" the rescuer explained. To\nwhich the mountaineer responded by scratching his head. \"Well, it's\nbeen a right tough winter, \" he said at last. \"I don't see how we can\ngive anything this year.' (Laughter.)\nA few moments later, obviously, the mountaineer got the\nmessage that rescue team was there to help. Just as for millions of\npeople in need, from that snowbound mountaineer to families made\nhomeless by floods and hurricanes, the Red Cross is what I like to\nrefer to as a brilliant point of light -- part of that vast galaxy of\nindividuals, businesses, schools, churches, synagogues, voluntary\nassociations working together to solve problems.\nMORE\n- 2 -\nA point of light. A star of hope across the globe. For\n109 years that star has shone anytime there has been a need --\nanywhere there is a need. And today it dazzles still. In 2,800\nchapters in thousands of towns and cities and at our military\nbases around the world providing light at the end of the tunnel, a\nrainbow through the clouds.\nLook, first, here at home. When forest fires seared the\nState of Michigan in 1881 -- or the Dust Bowl ravaged lives the Red\nCross star of light, if you will, helped millions of people. And\nthat legacy continues from Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina to the\nearthquake in north California. Through CPR, AIDS education, and\nprograms for the elderly - the Red Cross star casts a glow of love\nand caring. Showing that any definition of a successful life must\ninclude serving others.\nAnd look around the world. In the late 1800's, the Red\nCross sent food and medical supplies to a starving Russia, and since\nthen, has served from San Juan Hill to Hamburger Hill. In 1987,\n1,200 Red Cross volunteers assisted when the tiny country of\nBangladesh suffered from floods. In 1988, you sent the first\ninternational disaster relief to the Soviet Union in 65 years. And\ntoday, just take a look at Eastern Europe where you're providing\nemergency food, clothing, and medical aid to new refugees.\nThese efforts prove anew that a world without the Red\nCross would be a terrible cross to bear, and show how the Red Cross\nbecome the leaders of tomorrow.\nstar of hope can shine forever by helping the volunteers of today\nFor evidence then look at these men and women -- each a\n\"Star Player\" honored by the Red Cross -- or, as you say, each\n\"playing your part.\"\nDorothy Campbell-Bell of Nashville. Teaching law in the\nclassroom -- and the disabled to swim. or Rochester, New York's, Joe\nDelgado, next here, Father of the Organization of Latin American\nStudents. In Philadelphia, Bill Gallagher is a Red Cross leader and\nfull-time medical student. And in Cape May, New Jersey, Karen\nMaiorana started Operation Mail Call. Then, there's Ben Robinson, of\nHartford, Connecticut. One of Ebony's Ten Young Leaders of America.\nAnd then Debra Johnson, of Ashtabula, Ohio. The 1988 Volunteer of\nthe Year.\nThat's some battalion, some line-up, I'll tell you. And\ntoday they're leading a cavalry charge of hope and healing. They're\namong the more than one million volunteers who grace settings from\nday care centers to inner-city schools. And who are buoyed by the\ndonors who last year raised nearly $145 million for the Red Cross\ndisaster relief fund.\nI began with a story about such service to others, and so\nlet me close with another. It's about a man -- President Woodrow\nWilson who so admired the Red Cross that he once told Admiral\nGrayson to gather up sheep and put them grazing on the White House\nlawn.\n\"He appointed me shepherd of the flock,\" Grayson\nrecalled. \"When shearing time came I reported to him that we had a\nlittle over 100 pounds of wool.\" With that, Wilson ordered him to\nsend two pounds of wool to every state telling the governors to\nhave it auctioned for the benefit of the Red Cross.\nThe auction raised $50,000 -- and in time, Admiral\nGrayson went on to become Chairman of the Red Cross. For like you,\nhe believed that we succeed in life only when we make a difference in\nsomeone else's life.\nYou live that belief. And have made the Red Cross a star\nof hope unto the world. This table was used by Red Cross Chairman\nWilliam Howard Taft when he was President. So it's my honor now to\nuse it again as I sign this proclamation making March American Red\nMORE\n- 3 -\nCross Month.\nThank you for all you do, and thank you for inviting me.\nGod bless the Red Cross. Thank you all. (Applause.)\nEND\n11:50 A.M. EST\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nOffice of the Press Secretary\nFor Immediate Release\nFebruary 23, 1990\nREMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT\nTO THE RED CROSS\nThe Red Cross Headquarters\nWashington, D.C.\n11:42 A.M. EST\nTHE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, Chairman Moody, and\nall of you, ladies and gentlemen. It's a great pleasure for me --\nlong drive over -- (laughter) -- but I'm willing to make the\nsacrifice. (Laughter.) Literally, it took us about 30 seconds. But\nwhat a pleasure to address the Red Cross. One reason is that if my\nspeech is a disaster, relief is close at hand. (Laughter.)\nMoreover, you prove what Emerson said: \"The greatest gift is a\nportion of thyself.\"\nSeventy-seven years ago it was William Howard Taft began\na great and generous tradition. And since then, every President has\nbeen privileged -- as I am -- to serve as American Red Cross Honorary\nChairman, and since 1943, to proclaim March as American Red Cross\nMonth.\nTo Franklin Roosevelt, the Red Cross embraced in its\nmembership all races and creeds. To Dwight Eisenhower, it mirrored\nthe warm heart of a free people. And another great President, Ronald\nReagan, rightly observed that the Red Cross volunteers have proved\nequal to the challenges of the times.\nThis spirit is crystalized in the three windows beside me\n-- windows commissioned by the Red Cross in 1917 which represent the\ntheme of ministry through sacrifice. These windows tell the Red\nCross story -- from collecting blood to combating disaster, and what\nthis has meant to Americans and people throughout the world for\ngenerations.\nLet me tell a story which illustrates that meaning. It's\nabout a violent winter snowstorm -- and a remote mountain cabin all\nbut covered by snow drifts. I'm afraid most Red Cross volunteers\nhave heard it.\nA Red Cross rescue team was carried by helicopter to\nthese snowdrifts, within a mile of the cabin -- and then struggled to\nthe cabin, shoveling a path through the snow. Finally arriving at\nthe door, the lead rescuer knocked. It was opened by a crusty\nmountaineer.\n\"We're from the Red Cross,\" the rescuer explained. To\nwhich the mountaineer responded by scratching his head. \"Well, it's\nbeen a right tough winter, he said at last. \"I don't see how we can\ngive anything this year.' (Laughter.)\nA few moments later, obviously, the mountaineer got the\nmessage that rescue team was there to help. Just as for millions of\npeople in need, from that snowbound mountaineer to families made\nhomeless by floods and hurricanes, the Red Cross is what I like to\nrefer to as a brilliant point of light -- part of that vast galaxy of\nindividuals, businesses, schools, churches, synagogues, voluntary\nassociations working together to solve problems.\nMORE\n- 2 -\nA point of light. A star of hope across the globe. For\n109 years that star has shone anytime there has been a need --\nanywhere there is a need. And today it dazzles still. In 2,800\nchapters -- in thousands of towns and cities and at our military\nbases around the world providing light at the end of the tunnel, a\nrainbow through the clouds.\nLook, first, here at home. When forest fires seared the\nState of Michigan in 1881 -- or the Dust Bowl ravaged lives - the Red\nCross star of light, if you will, helped millions of people. And\nthat legacy continues from Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina to the\nearthquake in north California. Through CPR, AIDS education, and\nprograms for the elderly -- the Red Cross star casts a glow of love\nand caring. Showing that any definition of a successful life must\ninclude serving others.\nAnd look around the world. In the late 1800's, the Red\nCross sent food and medical supplies to a starving Russia, and since\nthen, has served from San Juan Hill to Hamburger Hill. In 1987,\n1,200 Red Cross volunteers assisted when the tiny country of\nBangladesh suffered from floods. In 1988, you sent the first\ninternational disaster relief to the Soviet Union in 65 years. And\ntoday, just take a look at Eastern Europe where you're providing\nemergency food, clothing, and medical aid to new refugees.\nThese efforts prove anew that a world without the Red\nCross would be a terrible cross to bear, and show how the Red Cross\nstar of hope can shine forever by helping the volunteers of today\nbecome the leaders of tomorrow.\nFor evidence then look at these men and women -- each a\n\"Star Player\" honored by the Red Cross -- or, as you say, each\n\"playing your part.'\nDorothy Campbell-Bell of Nashville. Teaching law in the\nclassroom -- and the disabled to swim. Or Rochester, New York's, Joe\nDelgado, next here, Father of the Organization of Latin American\nStudents. In Philadelphia, Bill Gallagher is a Red Cross leader and\nfull-time medical student. And in Cape May, New Jersey, Karen\nMaiorana started Operation Mail Call. Then, there's Ben Robinson, of\nHartford, Connecticut. One of Ebony's Ten Young Leaders of America.\nAnd then Debra Johnson, of Ashtabula, Ohio. The 1988 Volunteer of\nthe Year.\nThat's some battalion, some line-up, I'll tell you. And\ntoday they're leading a cavalry charge of hope and healing. They're\namong the more than one million volunteers who grace settings from\nday care centers to inner-city schools. And who are buoyed by the\ndonors who last year raised nearly $145 million for the Red Cross\ndisaster relief fund.\nI began with a story about such service to others, and so\nlet me close with another. It's about a man -- President Woodrow\nWilson -- who so admired the Red Cross that he once told Admiral\nGrayson to gather up sheep and put them grazing on the White House\nlawn.\n\"He appointed me shepherd of the flock, Grayson\nrecalled. \"When shearing time came I reported to him that we had a\nlittle over 100 pounds of wool.\" With that, Wilson ordered him to\nsend two pounds of wool to every state -- telling the governors to\nhave it auctioned for the benefit of the Red Cross.\nThe auction raised $50,000 -- and in time, Admiral\nGrayson went on to become Chairman of the Red Cross. For like you,\nhe believed that we succeed in life only when we make a difference in\nsomeone else's life.\nYou live that belief. And have made the Red Cross a star\nof hope unto the world. This table was used by Red Cross Chairman\nWilliam Howard Taft when he was President. So it's my honor now to\nuse it again as I sign this proclamation making March American Red\nMORE\n- 3 -\nCross Month.\nThank you for all you do, and thank you for inviting me.\nGod bless the Red Cross. Thank you all. (Applause.)\nEND\n11:50 A.M. EST\nFile\nRED CROSS / WASHINGTON, D.C.\nFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1990 / 11:30 A.M.\nCHAIRMAN MOODY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. It's ALWAYS\nA PLEASURE TO ADDRESS THE RED CROSS. // ONE REASON IS\nTHAT IF MY SPEECH IS A DISASTER, RELIEF IS CLOSE AT\nHAND. // MOREOVER, YOU PROVE WHAT EMERSON SAID: \"THE\nGREATEST GIFT IS A PORTION OF THYSELF.\" //\nSEVENTY-SEVEN YEARS AGO, WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT BEGAN\nA GREAT AND GENEROUS TRADITION.\n- 2 -\nAND SINCE THEN, EVERY PRESIDENT HAS BEEN PRIVILEGED --\nAS I AM -- TO SERVE AS AMERICAN RED CROSS HONORARY\nCHAIRMAN. AND SINCE 1943, TO PROCLAIM MARCH AS\nAMERICAN RED CROSS MONTH.\nTo FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, THE RED CROSS \"EMBRAC[ED] IN\nITS MEMBERSHIP ALL RACES AND CREEDS.\" // To DWIGHT\nEISENHOWER, IT MIRRORED THE \"WARM HEART OF A FREE\nPEOPLE.\" //\n- 3 -\nAND ANOTHER GREAT PRESIDENT, RONALD REAGAN, RIGHTLY\nOBSERVED THAT \"THE RED CROSS VOLUNTEERS HAVE PROVED\nEQUAL TO THE CHALLENGES OF OUR TIME.\"\nTHIS SPIRIT IS CRYSTALIZED IN THE THREE WINDOWS\nBESIDE ME -- WINDOWS COMMISSIONED BY THE RED CROSS IN\n1917 WHICH REPRESENT THE THEME OF MINISTRY THROUGH\nSACRIFICE. THESE WINDOWS TELL THE RED CROSS STORY. //\nFROM COLLECTING BLOOD TO COMBATING DISASTER.\n- 4 -\nAND WHAT THIS HAS MEANT TO AMERICANS AND PEOPLE\nTHROUGHOUT THE WORLD FOR GENERATIONS.\n((LET ME TELL A STORY WHICH ILLUSTRATES THAT\nMEANING. It's ABOUT A VIOLENT WINTER SNOWSTORM -- AND\nA REMOTE MOUNTAIN CABIN ALL BUT COVERED BY SNOW DRIFTS.\n((A RED CROSS RESCUE TEAM WAS CARRIED BY HELICOPTER\nTO WITHIN A MILE OF THE CABIN -- THEN STRUGGLED TO THE\nCABIN AND SHOVELED A PATH THROUGH THE SNOW. FINALLY\nARRIVING AT THE DOOR, THE LEAD RESCUER KNOCKED.\n- 5 -\nIT WAS OPENED BY A CRUSTY MOUNTAINEER.\n((\"WE'RE FROM THE RED CROSS,\" THE RESCUER\nEXPLAINED. To WHICH THE MOUNTAINEER RESPONDED BY\nSCRATCHING HIS HEAD. // \"WELL, IT'S BEEN A RIGHT\nTOUGH WINTER,\" HE SAID AT LAST. \"I DON'T SEE HOW WE\nCAN GIVE ANYTHING THIS YEAR.\")) //\nA FEW MOMENTS LATER, THE MOUNTAINEER GOT THE\nMESSAGE: THAT RESCUE TEAM WAS THERE TO HELP.\n- 6 -\nJUST AS FOR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN NEED, FROM THAT\nSNOWBOUND MOUNTAINEER TO FAMILIES MADE HOMELESS BY\nFLOODS AND HURRICANES, THE RED CROSS IS A BRILLIANT\nPOINT OF LIGHT -- PART OF THAT VAST GALAXY OF\nINDIVIDUALS, BUSINESSES, SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, SYNAGOGUES,\nAND VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS WORKING TOGETHER TO SOLVE\nPROBLEMS.\n- 7 -\n\"A POINT OF LIGHT.\" A STAR OF HOPE ACROSS THE\nGLOBE. FOR 109 YEARS THAT STAR HAS SHONE ANYTIME THERE\nHAS BEEN A NEED -- ANYWHERE THERE IS A NEED. AND TODAY\nIT DAZZLES STILL. IN 2,800 CHAPTERS -- IN THOUSANDS OF\nTOWNS AND CITIES AND AT OUR MILITARY BASES AROUND THE\nWORLD -- PROVIDING LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL, A\nRAINBOW THROUGH THE CLOUDS.\n- 8 -\nLook, FIRST, HERE AT HOME. WHEN FOREST FIRES\nSEARED MICHIGAN IN 1881 -- OR THE DUSTBOWL RAVAGED\nLIVES -- THE RED CROSS STAR HELPED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.\nAND THAT LEGACY CONTINUES FROM HURRICANE HUGO IN SOUTH\nCAROLINA TO THE EARTHQUAKE IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.\nTHROUGH CPR, AIDS EDUCATION, AND PROGRAMS FOR THE\nELDERLY -- THE RED CROSS STAR CASTS A GLOW OF LOVE AND\nCARING. SHOWING THAT ANY DEFINITION OF A SUCCESSFUL\nLIFE MUST INCLUDE SERVING OTHERS.\n- 9 -\nAND LOOK AROUND THE WORLD. IN THE LATE 1800s, THE\nRED CROSS SENT FOOD AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO A STARVING\nRUSSIA. AND SINCE THEN HAS SERVED FROM SAN JUAN HILL\nTO HAMBURGER HILL. // IN 1987, 1,200 RED CROSS\nVOLUNTEERS ASSISTED WHEN BANGLADESH WAS FLOODED. //\nIN 1988, YOU SENT THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL DISASTER\nRELIEF TO THE SOVIET UNION IN 65 YEARS. // AND TODAY,\nLOOK AT EASTERN EUROPE.\n- 10 -\nWHERE YOU'RE PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD, CLOTHING, AND\nMEDICAL AID TO NEW REFUGEES.\nTHESE EFFORTS PROVE ANEW THAT A WORLD WITHOUT THE\nRED CROSS WOULD BE A TERRIBLE CROSS TO BEAR. AND SHOW\nHOW THE RED CROSS STAR OF HOPE CAN SHINE FOREVER: BY\nHELPING THE VOLUNTEERS OF TODAY BECOME THE LEADERS OF\nTOMORROW. //\n- 11 -\nFOR EVIDENCE, LOOK AT THESE MEN AND WOMEN -- EACH\nA \"STAR PLAYER\" HONORED BY THE RED CROSS -- OR, AS YOU\nSAY, EACH \"PLAYING YOUR PART.\" DOROTHY CAMPBELL-BELL\nOF NASHVILLE. TEACHING LAW IN THE CLASSROOM -- AND THE\nDISABLED TO SWIM. OR ROCHESTER, NEW YORK'S, JOE\nDELGADO. FATHER OF THE ORGANIZATION OF LATIN AMERICAN\nSTUDENTS. // IN PHILADEPHIA, BILL GALLAGHER IS A RED\nCROSS LEADER AND FULL-TIME MEDICAL STUDENT.\n- 12 -\nAND IN CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, KAREN MAIORANA [MAH REH\nANNA] STARTED OPERATION MAIL CALL. 11 THEN, THERE'S\nHARTFORD'S BEN ROBINSON. ONE OF EBONY MAGAZINE'S TEN\nYOUNG LEADERS OF AMERICA. AND DEBRA JOHNSON OF\nASHTABULA, OHTo. THE 1988 VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR. //\nTHAT'S SOME BATTALION. AND TODAY THEY'RE LEADING A\nCAVALRY CHARGE OF HOPE AND HEALING. THEY'RE AMONG THE\nMORE THAN ONE MILLION VOLUNTEERS WHO GRACE SETTINGS\nFROM DAY-CARE CENTERS TO INNER-CITY SCHOOLS.\n- 13 -\nAND WHO ARE BUOYED BY THE DONORS WHO LAST YEAR RAISED\nNEARLY $145 MILLION FOR THE RED CROSS DISASTER RELIEF\nFUND.\nI BEGAN WITH A STORY ABOUT SUCH SERVICE TO OTHERS.\nI'D LIKE TO CLOSE WITH ANOTHER. IT'S ABOUT A MAN --\nPRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON -- WHO so ADMIRED THE RED\nCROSS THAT HE ONCE TOLD ADMIRAL CARY GRAYSON TO GATHER\nUP SHEEP AND PUT THEM GRAZING ON THE WHITE HOUSE LAWN.\n- 14 -\n\"HE APPOINTED ME SHEPHERD OF THE FLOCK, \" GRAYSON\nRECALLED. \"WHEN SHEARING TIME CAME I REPORTED TO HIM\nTHAT WE HAD A LITTLE OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS OF WOOL.\"\n// WITH THAT, WILSON ORDERED HIM TO SEND TWO POUNDS OF\nWOOL TO EVERY STATE -- TELLING THE GOVERNORS TO HAVE IT\nAUCTIONED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RED CROSS.\nTHE AUCTION RAISED $50,000 --- AND IN TIME, ADMIRAL\nGRAYSON BECAME CHAIRMAN OF THE RED CROSS.\n- 15 -\nFOR LIKE YOU, HE BELIEVED THAT WE SUCCEED IN LIFE ONLY\nWHEN WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE.\nYou LIVE THAT BELIEF. AND HAVE MADE THE RED CROSS\nA STAR OF HOPE UNTO THE WORLD. THIS TABLE WAS USED BY\nRED CROSS CHAIRMAN WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT WHEN HE WAS\nPRESIDENT. So IT'S MY HONOR TO NOW USE IT AS I SIGN\nTHE PROCLAMATION MAKING MARCH AMERICAN RED CROSS MONTH.\nTHANK YOU FOR INVITING ME. GOD BLESS THE RED CROSS.\nAND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.\n# # # #\n*\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nFebruary 21, 1990\nINFORMATION\nMEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT\nTHROUGH:\nCHRISS WINSTON\ncw\nFROM:\nCURT SMITH\nis\nSUBJECT:\nREMARKS AT RED CROSS VISIT\nI. SUMMARY\nOn Friday, February 23, at 11:30 a.m. you will visit Red\nCross headquarters on 17th Street. The audience of about 200\npeople will consist of the Red Cross Board, volunteers, staff,\nand guests. George Moody, Chairman of the Red Cross, will\nintroduce you.\nII. DISCUSSION\nThe attached remarks (8 minutes, speechcards) praise the Red\nCross for its outstanding service. From blood services to\ndisaster relief to first aid, the Red Cross has been a \"star of\nhope.\" Six outstanding Red Cross volunteers will accompany you\non the platform as you deliver remarks and sign a proclamation\ndeclaring March Red Cross Month.\n(Smith/Blessey)\n4:05 P.M.\nFebruary 21, 1990\nRED\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RED CROSS\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\nFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1990\n11:30 a.m.\nChairman Moody, Ladies and gentlemen. It's always a\npleasure to address the Red Cross. // One reason is that if my\nspeech is a disaster, relief is close at hand. // Moreover, you\nprove what Emerson said: \"The greatest gift is a portion of\nthyself. //\nSeventy-seven years ago, William Howard Taft began a great\nand generous tradition. And since then, every President has been\nprivileged -- as I am -- to serve as American Red Cross Honorary\nChairman. And since 1943, to proclaim March as American Red\nCross Month.\nTo Franklin Roosevelt, the Red Cross \"embrac[ed] in its\nmembership all races and creeds.\" // To Dwight Eisenhower, it\nmirrored the \"warm heart of a free people.\" // And another\ngreat President, Ronald Reagan, rightly observed that \"The Red\nCross volunteers have proved equal to the challenges of our\ntime.\"\nThis spirit is crystalized in the three windows beside me --\nwindows commissioned by the Red Cross in 1917 which represent the\ntheme of ministry through sacrifice. These windows tell the Red\nCross story. // From collecting blood to combating disaster.\n2\nAnd what this has meant to Americans and people throughout the\nworld for generations.\n( (Let me tell a story which illustrates that meaning. It's\nabout a violent winter snowstorm -- and a remote mountain cabin\nall but covered by snow drifts.\n( (A Red Cross rescue team was carried by helicopter to\nwithin a mile of the cabin -- then struggled to the cabin and\nshoveled a path through the snow. Finally arriving at the door,\nthe lead rescuer knocked. It was opened by a crusty mountaineer.\n((\"We're from the Red Cross,\" the rescuer explained. To\nwhich the mountaineer responded by scratching his head. //\n\"Well, it's been a right tough winter,\" he said at last. \"I\ndon't see how we can give anything this year. \")) //\nA few moments later, the mountaineer got the message: that\nrescue team was there to help. Just as for millions of people in\nneed, from that snowbound mountaineer to families made homeless\nby floods and hurricanes, the Red Cross is a brilliant point of\nlight -- part of that vast galaxy of individuals, businesses,\nschools, churches, synagogues, and voluntary associations working\ntogether to solve problems.\n\"A point of light. \" A star of hope across the globe. For\n109 years that star has shone anytime there has been a need --\nanywhere there is a need. And today it dazzles still. In 2,800\nchapters -- in thousands of towns and cities and at our military\nbases around the world -- providing light at the end of the\ntunnel, a rainbow through the clouds.\n3\nLook, first, here at home. When forest fires seared\nMichigan in 1881 -- or the Dustbowl ravaged lives -- the Red\nCross star helped millions of people. And that legacy continues\nfrom Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina to the earthquake in\nNorthern California. Through CPR, AIDS education, and programs\nfor the elderly -- the Red Cross star casts a glow of love and\ncaring. Showing that any definition of a successful life must\ninclude serving others.\nAnd look around the world. In the late 1800s, the Red Cross\nsent food and medical supplies to a starving Russia. And since\nthen has served from San Juan Hill to Hamburger Hill. // In\n1987, 1,200 Red Cross volunteers assisted when Bangladesh was\nflooded. // In 1988, you sent the first international disaster\nrelief to the Soviet Union in 65 years. // And today, look at\nEastern Europe. Where you're providing emergency food, clothing,\nand medical aid to new refugees.\nThese efforts prove anew that a world without the Red Cross\nwould be a terrible cross to bear. And show how the Red Cross\nstar of hope can shine forever: By helping the volunteers of\ntoday become the leaders of tomorrow. //\nFor evidence, look at these men and women -- each a \"Star\nPlayer\" honored by the Red Cross -- or, as you say, each \"playing\nyour part. Dorothy Campbell-Bell of Nashville. Teaching law in\nthe classroom -- and the disabled to swim. or Rochester, New\nYork's, Joe Delgado. Father of the Organization of Latin\nAmerican Students. // In Philadephia, Bill Gallagher is a Red\n4\nCross leader and full-time medical student. And in Cape May, New\nJersey, Karen Maiorana [Mah reh ANNA] started Operation Mail\nCall. // Then, there's Hartford's Ben Robinson. One of Ebony\nMagazine's Ten Young Leaders of America. And Debra Johnson of\nAshtabula, Ohio. The 1988 Volunteer of the Year. //\nThat's some battalion. And today they're leading a cavalry\ncharge of hope and healing. They're among the more than one\nmillion volunteers who grace settings from day-care centers to\ninner-city schools. And who are buoyed by the donors who last\nyear raised nearly $145 million for the Red Cross disaster relief\nfund.\nI began with a story about such service to others. I'd like\nto close with another. It's about a man -- President Woodrow\nWilson -- who so admired the Red Cross that he once told Admiral\nCary Grayson to gather up sheep and put them grazing on the White\nHouse lawn.\n\"He appointed me shepherd of the flock,\" Grayson recalled.\n\"When shearing time came I reported to him that we had a little\nover a hundred pounds of wool.\" // With that, Wilson ordered\nhim to send two pounds of wool to every State -- telling the\nGovernors to have it auctioned for the benefit of the Red Cross.\nThe auction raised $50,000 -- and in time, Admiral Grayson\nbecame Chairman of the Red Cross. For like you, he believed that\nwe succeed in life only when we make a difference in someone\nelse's life.\n5\nYou live that belief. And have made the Red Cross a star\nof hope unto the world. This table was used by Red Cross\nChairman William Howard Taft when he was President. So it's my\nhonor to now use it as I sign the proclamation making March\nAmerican Red Cross Month. Thank you for inviting me. God bless\nthe Red Cross. And God bless the United States of America.\n# # # #\nDocument No. 114471 ss\nWHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM\nDATE:\n2/22/90\n---\nACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RED CROSS\nSUBJECT:\nACTION FYI\nACTION FYI\nVICE PRESIDENT\nMCCLURE\nSUNUNU\nNEWMAN\nSCOWCROFT\nPORTER\nDARMAN\nROGICH\nBATES\nUNTERMEYER\nCARD\nROGERS\nCICCONI\nWINSTON\nDEMAREST\nPINKERTON\nPETERSMEYER\nFITZWATER\nGRAY\nHAGIN\nREMARKS:\nThe attached has been forwarded to the President.\nRESPONSE:\nJames W. Cicconi\nAssistant to the President\nand Deputy to the Chief of Staff\nExt. 2702\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nFebruary 21, 1990\nISSO FEB 2! FM 6: 23\nINFORMATION\nMEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT\nTHROUGH:\nCHRISS WINSTON cw\nFROM:\nCURT SMITH Cs\nSUBJECT:\nREMARKS AT RED CROSS VISIT\nI. SUMMARY\nOn Friday, February 23, at 11:30 a.m. you will visit Red\nCross headquarters on 17th Street. The audience of about 200\npeople will consist of the Red Cross Board, volunteers, staff,\nand guests. George Moody, Chairman of the Red Cross, will\nintroduce you.\nII. DISCUSSION\nThe attached remarks (8 minutes, speechcards) praise the Red\nCross for its outstanding service. From blood services to\ndisaster relief to first aid, the Red Cross has been a \"star of\nhope.\" Six outstanding Red Cross volunteers will accompany you\non the platform as you deliver remarks and sign a proclamation\ndeclaring March Red Cross Month.\n(Smith/Blessey)\n4:05 P.M.\nFebruary 21, 1990\nRED\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RED CROSS\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\nFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1990\n11:30 a.m.\nChairman Moody, Ladies and gentlemen. It's always a\npleasure to address the Red Cross. // One reason is that if my\nspeech is a disaster, relief is close at hand. // Moreover, you\nprove what Emerson said: \"The greatest gift is a portion of\nthyself.\" //\nSeventy-seven years ago, William Howard Taft began a great\nand generous tradition. And since then, every President has been\nprivileged -- as I am -- to serve as American Red Cross Honorary\nChairman. And since 1943, to proclaim March as American Red\nCross Month.\nTo Franklin Roosevelt, the Red Cross \"embrac[ed] in its\nmembership all races and creeds.\" // To Dwight Eisenhower, it\nmirrored the \"warm heart of a free people.\" // And another\ngreat President, Ronald Reagan, rightly observed that \"The Red\nCross volunteers have proved equal to the challenges of our\ntime.\"\nThis spirit is crystalized in the three windows beside me --\nwindows commissioned by the Red Cross in 1917 which represent the\ntheme of ministry through sacrifice. These windows tell the Red\nCross story. // From collecting blood to combating disaster.\n2\nAnd what this has meant to Americans and people throughout the\nworld for generations.\n((Let me tell a story which illustrates that meaning. It's\nabout a violent winter snowstorm -- and a remote mountain cabin\nall but covered by snow drifts.\n( (A Red Cross rescue team was carried by helicopter to\nwithin a mile of the cabin -- then struggled to the cabin and\nshoveled a path through the snow. Finally arriving at the door,\nthe lead rescuer knocked. It was opened by a crusty mountaineer.\n( (\"We're from the Red Cross,\" the rescuer explained. To\nwhich the mountaineer responded by scratching his head. //\n\"Well, it's been a right tough winter, \" he said at last. \"I\ndon't see how we can give anything this year. ) ) 11\nA few moments later, the mountaineer got the message: that\nrescue team was there to help. Just as for millions of people in\nneed, from that snowbound mountaineer to families made homeless\nby floods and hurricanes, the Red Cross is a brilliant point of\nlight -- part of that vast galaxy of individuals, businesses,\nschools, churches, synagogues, and voluntary associations working\ntogether to solve problems.\n\"A point of light. \" A star of hope across the globe. For\n109 years that star has shone anytime there has been a need --\nanywhere there is a need. And today it dazzles still. In 2,800\nchapters -- in thousands of towns and cities and at our military\nbases around the world -- providing light at the end of the\ntunnel, a rainbow through the clouds.\n3\nLook, first, here at home. When forest fires seared\nMichigan in 1881 -- or the Dustbowl ravaged lives -- the Red\nCross star helped millions of people. And that legacy continues\nfrom Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina to the earthquake in\nNorthern California. Through CPR, AIDS education, and programs\nfor the elderly -- the Red Cross star casts a glow of love and\ncaring. Showing that any definition of a successful life must\ninclude serving others.\nAnd look around the world. In the late 1800s, the Red Cross\nsent food and medical supplies to a starving Russia. And since\nthen has served from San Juan Hill to Hamburger Hill. // In\n1987, 1,200 Red Cross volunteers assisted when Bangladesh was\nflooded. // In 1988, you sent the first international disaster\nrelief to the Soviet Union in 65 years. // And today, look at\nEastern Europe. Where you're providing emergency food, clothing,\nand medical aid to new refugees.\nThese efforts prove anew that a world without the Red Cross\nwould be a terrible cross to bear. And show how the Red Cross\nstar of hope can shine forever: By helping the volunteers of\ntoday become the leaders of tomorrow. //\nFor evidence, look at these men and women -- each a \"Star\nPlayer\" honored by the Red Cross -- or, as you say, each \"playing\nyour part.' Dorothy Campbell-Bell of Nashville. Teaching law in\nthe classroom -- and the disabled to swim. or Rochester, New\nYork's, Joe Delgado. Father of the Organization of Latin\nAmerican Students. // In Philadephia, Bill Gallagher is a Red\n4\nCross leader and full-time medical student. And in Cape May, New\nJersey, Karen Maiorana [Mah reh ANNA] started Operation Mail\nCall. 11 Then, there's Hartford's Ben Robinson. One of Ebony\nMagazine's Ten Young Leaders of America. And Debra Johnson of\nAshtabula, Ohio. The 1988 Volunteer of the Year. //\nThat's some battalion. And today they're leading a cavalry\ncharge of hope and healing. They're among the more than one\nmillion volunteers who grace settings from day-care centers to\ninner-city schools. And who are buoyed by the donors who last\nyear raised nearly $145 million for the Red Cross disaster relief\nfund.\nI began with a story about such service to others. I'd like\nto close with another. It's about a man -- President Woodrow\nWilson -- who so admired the Red Cross that he once told Admiral\nCary Grayson to gather up sheep and put them grazing on the White\nHouse lawn.\n\"He appointed me shepherd of the flock,\" Grayson recalled.\n\"When shearing time came I reported to him that we had a little\nover a hundred pounds of wool.\" // With that, Wilson ordered\nhim to send two pounds of wool to every State -- telling the\nGovernors to have it auctioned for the benefit of the Red Cross.\nThe auction raised $50,000 -- and in time, Admiral Grayson\nbecame Chairman of the Red Cross. For like you, he believed that\nwe succeed in life only when we make a difference in someone\nelse's life.\n5\nYou live that belief. And have made the Red Cross a star\nof hope unto the world. This table was used by Red Cross\nChairman William Howard Taft when he was President. So it's my\nhonor to now use it as I sign the proclamation making March\nAmerican Red Cross Month. Thank you for inviting me. God bless\nthe Red Cross. And God bless the United States of America.\n* * * *\nDocument No. 114471SS\nWHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM\nDATE: 2/16/90\nACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2/20/90 4:00 PM\nSUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RED CROSS\nACTION FYI\nACTION FYI\nVICE PRESIDENT\nMCCLURE\nSUNUNU\nNEWMAN\nSCOWCROFT\nPORTER\nDARMAN\nROGICH\nBATES N/C\nUNTERMEYER\nCARD\nROGERS\nWINSTON\nCICCONI\nDEMAREST N/C\nPINKERTON\nPETERSMEYER\nFITZWATER\nGRAY\nHAGIN\nREMARKS:\nPlease forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm.\n122, x2930, no later than 4:00 PM, Tuesday, February 20,\nwith a copy to my office. Thank you.\nRESPONSE:\nJames W. Cicconi\nAssistant to the President\nand Deputy to the Chief of Staff\nExt. 2702\nBussey's Des\ntime: 11:30\n(Smith/Blessey)\nhow many : 200\n5 P.M.\nFebruary 15, 1990\nRED\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RED CROSS\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\nFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1990\nChairman Moody, Ladies and gentlemen. It's always a\npleasure to address the Red Cross. // One reason is that if my\nspeech is a disaster, relief is close at hand. // Moreover, you\nprove what Emerson said: \"The greatest gift is a portion of\nthyself.\" //\n77\nEighty two years ago, a large man -- William Howard Taft --\nbegan an even larger tradition. And since then, every President\nhas been privileged as I am -- to serve as American Red Cross\nsince FDR in 1943\nHonorary Chairman and proclaim March American Red Cross Month.\nTo Franklin Roosevelt, the Red Cross \"embrac [ed] in its\nmembership all races and creeds.\" // To Dwight Eisenhower, it\nmirrored the \"warm heart of a free people.\" // And it was\nanother great President, Ronald Reagan, who rightly observed that\nvolunteers, have proved to\nof our time\n\"The Red Cross has [always] met the challenge.\nX\nThose traits are crystalized in the three windows beside me\npass!\n-- windows commissioned by the Red Cross in 1917, and which\nrepresent the theme of ministry through sacrifice. They show\nwhat the Red Cross does. // From collecting blood to combating.\ndisaster. And what it has meant through generations of service.\n( (Let me tell a story which illustrates that meaning. It's\nsebl 11:7\ncollect blood\n2\nabout a violent winter snowstorm -- and a remote mountain cabin\nall but covered by snow drifts.\n( (A Red Cross rescue team was carried by helicopter to\nwithin a mile of the cabin -- then struggled to the cabin and\nshoveled a path through the snow. Finally arriving at the door,\nthe lead rescuer knocked. It was opened by a crusty mountaineer.\n( (\"We're from the Red Cross,\" the rescuer explained. To\nwhich the mountaineer scratched his head. // \"Well, it's been a\nright tough winter,\" he said at last. \"I don't see how we can\ngive anything this year. \")) //\nA few moments later, the mountaineer got the message: That\nrescue team was there to help. Just as by asking others to give\nof, not to, themselves, the Red Cross is among what I call \"a\nthousand points of light\" -- that vast galaxy of voluntary\nassociations working together to solve problems.\n\"Point of light,\" yes. And star of hope across the globe.\nFor 109 years that star has shone anytime there has been a need\n-- anywhere you are needed. Rejecting the \"Me\"-Generation.\nAcclaiming the \"We\"-Generation. And today it dazzles still. In\nthousands\n2,800 chapters -- in over towns and cities -- providing light\nsome Lmittion solucteers)\nat the end of the tunnel.\nva forust fires seared Michigan in 1881\nLook, first, at America. When Civil War seared the Union\n1st\nor the Dustbowl ravaged lives -- the Red Cross star lit the night\ndisaster\nfor millions of people. As it did in 1989 from Hurricane Hugo to\nAl\nNorthern California.\nThrough CPR, AIDS education, and programs\nfor the elderly the Red Cross star casts a glow of love and\nThin\nit\n1\ndr mores\nwhen nos nos 24 saring Lelking 180, icen 000\n24\n3\ncaring. Showing how the definition of a successful life must\ninclude serving others.\nThat definition, naturally, is not limited to America. //\nSo in the late 1800s the Red Cross sent food and medical supplies\nto a famined Russia. And since then has served from San Juan\nHill to Hamburger Hill. // In 1987, 1,200 Red Cross volunteers\nIn 1988\nassisted when Bangladesh was flooded. // Last year, you sent\nthe first international disaster relief to the Soviet Union since\nEastern Europe\n1923. // And today, look at Germany. Where you're providing\n+\nemergency food, clothing, and medical aid to new refugees.\nThese efforts prove anew that a world without the Red Cross\nwould be a terrible cross to bear. And show how the Red Cross\nstar of hope can shine forever: By helping the volunteers of\ntoday become the leaders of tomorrow. //\nFor evidence, look at these men and women -- each a \"Star\nPlayer\" honored by the Red Cross -- or, as you say, each \"playing\nyour part. \" Dorothy Campbell-Bell of Nashville. Teaching law in\nthe classroom -- and the disabled to swim. Or Rochester, New\nYork's, Joe Delgado. Father of the Organization of Latin\nAmerican Students. // In Philadephia, Bill Gallagher is a Cross\nCope May\nleader and full-time medical student. And in Sea Isle City, New\n[Moh re AnnA 1 works wl\nx\nJersey, Karen Maiorana 1 manages Operation Fireside.\nThen,\n(or storted Operation MATTColl)\nthere's Hartford's Ben Robinson. One of Ebony Magazine's Ten\nOhio\nYoung Leaders of America. And Debra Johnson of Ashtabula, The\nt\n1988 Volunteer of the Year. //\n4\nThat's some battalion. And today they're leading a cavalry (1.2mitis)\nmore than million\ncharge of hope and healing. They're among the more than 21,000\nX\nvolunteers who grace settings from day-care centers to inner-city\n(Donors not volunteers (DIOC money)\nschools. And who last year raised nearly $145 million for the\nX\nus tept dy claras to raid\nRed Cross disaster relief fund.\nI began with a story about such service to others. I'd like\nto close with another. It's about a man -- Woodrow Wilson -- who\nC\nG\nso admired the Red Cross that he once told Admiral Cary Trayson\nX\nto gather up sheep and put them grazing on the White House lawn.\nG\n\"He appointed me shepherd of the flock,\" Trayson recalled.\nX\n\"When shearing time came I reported to him that we had a little\nover a hundred pounds of wool.\" // With that, Wilson ordered\nhim to send two pounds of wool to every State -- telling the\nGovernors to have it auctioned for the benefit of the Red Cross.\nThe auction raised $50,000 -- and in time, Admiral Grayson\nbecame Chairman of the Red Cross. For like Woodrow Wilson, he\nbelieved in \"We,\" not \"Me.\" And that only \"Do unto others\" could\ndefine a successful life both for the individual and Nation.\nYou share - you live -- that belief. And have made the\nRed Cross a star of hope unto the world. This table was used by\nthe Red Cross Chairman when William Howard Taft (shenhe was President.\nSo it's my honor to now use it as I sign the proclamation making\nMarch American Red Cross Month. Thank you for inviting me. God\nbless the Red Cross. And God bless the United States of America.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n(Smith/Blessey)\n1990 FEB 16 AM 11: 32\n5 P.M.\nFebruary 15, 1990\nRED\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RED CROSS\nnil\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\nFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1990\nChairman Moody, Ladies and gentlemen. It's always a\npleasure to address the Red Cross. // One reason is that if my\nspeech is a disaster, relief is close at hand. // Moreover, you\nprove what Emerson said: \"The greatest gift is a portion of\nthyself.\" //\nEighty-two years ago, a large man -- William Howard Taft --\nbegan an even larger tradition. And since then, every President\nhas been privileged -- as I am -- to serve as American Red Cross\nHonorary Chairman and proclaim March American Red Cross Month.\nTo Franklin Roosevelt, the Red Cross \"embrac [ed] in its\nmembership all races and creeds.\" 11 To Dwight Eisenhower, it\nmirrored the \"warm heart of a free people.\" 11 And it was\nanother great President, Ronald Reagan, who rightly observed that\n\"The Red Cross has [always] met the challenge.\"\nThose traits are crystalized in the three windows beside me\n-- windows commissioned by the Red Cross in 1917, and which\nrepresent the theme of ministry through sacrifice. They show\nwhat the Red Cross does. // From collecting blood to combating\ndisaster. And what it has meant through generations of service.\n( (Let me tell a story which illustrates that meaning. It's\n2\nabout a violent winter snowstorm -- and a remote mountain cabin\nall but covered by snow drifts.\n( (A Red Cross rescue team was carried by helicopter to\nwithin a mile of the cabin -- then struggled to the cabin and\nshoveled a path through the snow. Finally arriving at the door,\nthe lead rescuer knocked. It was opened by a crusty mountaineer.\n((\"We're from the Red Cross,\" the rescuer explained. To\nwhich the mountaineer scratched his head. // \"Well, it's been a\nright tough winter,\" he said at last. \"I don't see how we can\ngive anything this year. \")) //\nA few moments later, the mountaineer got the message: That\nrescue team was there to help. Just as by asking others to give\nof, not to, themselves, the Red Cross is among what I call \"a\nthousand points of light\" -- that vast galaxy of voluntary\nassociations working together to solve problems.\n\"Point of light,\" yes. And star of hope across the globe.\nFor 109 years that star has shone anytime there has been a need\n-- anywhere you are needed. Rejecting the \"Me\"-Generation.\nAcclaiming the \"We\"-Generation. And today it dazzles still. In\nand at our military bases overalls\n2,800 chapters -- in over towns and cities providing light\naround\nat the end of the tunnel.\nthe\nworld\nLook, first, at America. When Civil War seared the Union --\nor the Dustbowl ravaged lives -- the Red Cross star lit the night\nfor millions of people. As it did in 1989 from Hurricane Hugo to\nNorthern California. Through CPR, AIDS education, and programs\nfor the elderly -- the Red Cross star casts a glow of love and\n3\ncaring. Showing how the definition of a successful life must\ninclude serving others.\nThat definition, naturally, is not limited to America. //\nSo in the late 1800s the Red Cross sent food and medical supplies\nto a famined Russia. And since then has served from San Juan\nHill to Hamburger Hill. // In 1987, 1,200 Red Cross volunteers\nassisted when Bangladesh was flooded. // Last year, you sent\nthe first international disaster relief to the Soviet Union since\n1923. // And today, look at Germany. Where you're providing\nemergency food, clothing, and medical aid to new refugees.\nThese efforts prove anew that a world without the Red Cross\nwould be a terrible cross to bear. And show how the Red Cross\nstar of hope can shine forever: By helping the volunteers of\ntoday become the leaders of tomorrow. //\nFor evidence, look at these men and women -- each a \"Star\nPlayer\" honored by the Red Cross -- or, as you say, each \"playing\nyour part.\" Dorothy Campbell-Bell of Nashville. Teaching law in\nthe classroom -- and the disabled to swim. Or Rochester, New\nYork's, Joe Delgado. Father of the Organization of Latin\nAmerican Students. // In Philadephia, Bill Gallagher is a Cross\nleader and full-time medical student. And in Sea Isle City, New\nJersey, Karen Maiorana manages Operation Fireside. // Then,\nthere's Hartford's Ben Robinson. One of Ebony Magazine's Ten\nYoung Leaders of America. And Debra Johnson of Ashtabula. The\n1988 Volunteer of the Year. 11\n4\nThat's some battalion. And today they're leading a cavalry\ncharge of hope and healing. They're among the more than 21,000\nvolunteers who grace settings from day-care centers to inner-city\nschools. And who last year raised nearly $145 million for the\nRed Cross disaster relief fund.\nI began with a story about such service to others. I'd like\nto close with another. It's about a man -- Woodrow Wilson -- who\nso admired the Red Cross that he once told Admiral Gary Trayson\nto gather up sheep and put them grazing on the White House lawn.\n\"He appointed me shepherd of the flock,\" Trayson recalled.\n\"When shearing time came I reported to him that we had a little\nover a hundred pounds of wool.\" // With that, Wilson ordered\nhim to send two pounds of wool to every State -- telling the\nGovernors to have it auctioned for the benefit of the Red Cross.\nThe auction raised $50,000 -- and in time, Admiral Grayson\nbecame Chairman of the Red Cross. For like Woodrow Wilson, he\nbelieved in \"We,\" not \"Me.\" And that only \"Do unto others\" could\ndefine a successful life both for the individual and Nation.\nYou share -- you live -- that belief. And have made the\nRed Cross a star of hope unto the world. This table was used by\nthe Red Cross Chairman when William Howard Taft was President.\nSo it's my honor to now use it as I sign the proclamation making\nMarch American Red Cross Month. Thank you for inviting me. God\nbless the Red Cross. And God bless the United States of America.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n(Smith/Blessey)\n1990 FEB 16 AM 11: 32\n5 P.M.\nFebruary 15, 1990\nRED\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RED CROSS\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\nFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1990\nX\n11: 30 A.M.\nChairman Moody, Ladies and gentlemen. It's always a\npleasure to address the Red Cross. // One reason is that if my\nspeech is a disaster, relief is close at hand. // Moreover, you\nprove what Emerson said: \"The greatest gift is a portion of\nthyself.\" // Seventy-seven\nEighty two years ago, a great large man -- I William Howard Taft 1\ngreat and generous\nbegan an even larger tradition. And since then, every President\nhas been privileged -- as I am -- to serve as American Red Cross\nas\nHonorary Chairman and proclaim March American Red Cross Month.\nTo Franklin Roosevelt, the Red Cross \"embrac [ed] in its\nmembership all races and creeds.\" // To Dwight Eisenhower, it\nmirrored the \"warm heart of a free people.\" // And it was\nanother great President, Ronald Reagan, who rightly observed that\nvolunteers have proved equal 10 the\n\"The Red Cross has [always] met the challenge.\nThis spirit\nis\nThose traits are crystalized in the three windows beside me\n-- windows commissioned by the Red Cross in 1917 and which\nThese wndows\nrepresent the theme of ministry through sacrifice. They show\nwhat the Red Cross does. story // From collecting blood to combating\ntell\nthis\nto Guneri cans and people throughout the world for\ndisaster. And what it has meant through generations, of service.\n( (Let me tell a story which illustrates that meaning. It's\n2\nabout a violent winter snowstorm -- and a remote mountain cabin\nall but covered by snow drifts.\n( (A Red Cross rescue team was carried by helicopter to\nwithin a mile of the cabin -- then struggled to the cabin and\nshoveled a path through the snow. Finally arriving at the door,\nthe lead rescuer knocked. It was opened by a crusty mountaineer.\n( (\"We're from the Red Cross, the rescuer explained. To\nwhich the mountaineer scratched his head. // \"Well, it's been a\ndesponded by na\nright tough winter,\" he said at last. \"I don't see how we can\ngive anything this year. \")) //\nA few moments later, the mountaineer got the message: That\nrescue team was there to help Just as by asking others to give\nof, not to, themselves, the Red Cross is among what I call \"a a brilliant\npart of\nindividuals, businesses, schoo!\nthousand points of light that vast galaxy of voluntary\ncheriches,\nsynagogics\nassociations working together to solve problems.\nA\nA 'Point of light.\" yes. And star of hope across the globe.\nFor 109 years that star has shone anytime there has been a need\nthere is a\n-- anywhere you are needed. Rejecting the \"Me\"-Generation.\nAcclaiming the \"We\" Generation. And today it dazzles still. In\nthousands of\n2,800 chapters -- in over towns and cities -- providing light\nat the end of the tunnel, a rambow through the clouds.\nhere at home.\nthe\nforest fires seared Michigan in 1881\nLook, first, at America. When 1 Civil War seared the Union --\nor the Dustbowl ravaged lives -- the Red Cross star lit the night\nin South Coroluna\nfor millions of people. As it did in 1989 from Hurricane Hugo to\nin\nhe\near\nthquake\nNorthern California. Through CPR, AIDS education, and programs\nfor the elderly -- the Red Cross star casts a glow of love and\nor millions of American people in need, from stranded snow baund\nmountainees to families made homeless by floodo and hurricanes,\n3\nthat any\ncaring. Showing how the definition of a successful life must\ninclude serving others.\nand look around the world.\nThat definition, naturally, is not limited to America. H\nSo in the late 1800s the Red Cross sent food and medical supplies\nto a famined staromg Russia. And since then has served from San Juan\nHill to Hamburger Hill. // In 1987, 1,200 Red Cross volunteers\nin 1988,\nassisted when Bangladesh was flooded. // Last year, you sent\nin 65 years.\nthe first international disaster relief to the Soviet Union since\nEastern Europe &\n1923. // And today, look at Germany Where you're providing\nemergency food, clothing, and medical aid to new refugees.\nThese efforts prove anew that a world without the Red Cross\nwould be a terrible cross to bear. And show how the Red Cross\nstar of hope can shine forever: By helping the volunteers of\ntoday become the leaders of tomorrow. //\nFor evidence, look at these men and women -- each a \"Star\nPlayer\" honored by the Red Cross -- or, as you say, each \"playing\nyour part.\" Dorothy Campbell-Bell of Nashville. Teaching law in\nthe classroom -- and the disabled to swim. Or Rochester, New\nYork's, Joe Delgado. Father of the Organization of Latin\nAmerican Students. // In Philadephia, Bill Gallagher is a Cross\nCape May,\nleader and full-time medical student. And in Sea Isle City, New\n[Mah reh ANNA)\nPstarted Operation Mail Call.\nJersey, Karen Maiorana manages Operation Fireside. // Then,\nthere's Hartford's Ben Robinson. One of Ebony Magazine's Ten\nohio\nYoung Leaders of America. And Debra Johnson of Ashtabula, The\n1988 Volunteer of the Year. //\n4\nThat's some battalion. And today they're leading a cavalry\none million\ncharge of hope and healing. They're among the more than 21,000\nvolunteers who grace settings from day-care centers to inner-city\nwho are helped by the donors who last year\nschools. And who last year raised nearly $145 million for the\nRed Cross disaster relief fund.\nI began with a story about such service to others. I'd like\nPresident\nto close with another. It's about a man -- Woodrow Wilson -- who\nC\nFor\nso admired the Red Cross that he once told Admiral Gary Trayson\nto gather up sheep and put them grazing on the White House lawn.\n\"He appointed me shepherd of the flock,\" 18/ Trayson recalled.\n\"When shearing time came I reported to him that we had a little\nover a hundred pounds of wool.\" // With that, Wilson ordered\nhim to send two pounds of wool to every State -- telling the\nGovernors to have it auctioned for the benefit of the Red Cross.\nThe auction raised $50,000 -- and in time, Admiral Grayson\nbecame Chairman of the Red Cross. For like Woodrow Wilson, he\nLike you, he believed that we succe ed in\nbelieved in \"We,\" not \"Me.\" And that only \"Do unto others\" could\nlif e only when we make a difference in smieone else's life.\ndefine a successful life both for the individual and Nation.\nYou share -- you live -- that belief. And have made the\nRed Cross a star of hope unto the world. This table was used by\nwhen he\nthe Red Cross Chairman when William Howard Taft was President.\nSo it's my honor to now use it as I sign the proclamation making\nMarch American Red Cross Month. Thank you for inviting me. God\nbless the Red Cross. And God bless the United States of America.\n#\n#\n#\n#\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nFebruary 20, 1990\nMEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON\nFROM:\nROGER B. PORTER\nRBP\nSUBJECT:\nPresidential Remarks: Red Cross\nWe have reviewed the attached draft and have no suggested\nchanges from a policy standpoint.\nCC: James W. Cicconi\n90 FEB21 All : 49\nDocument No. 114471SS\nWHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM\nDATE: 2/16/90\nACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2/20/90 4:00 PM\nSUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RED CROSS\nACTION FYI\nACTION FYI\nVICE PRESIDENT\nMCCLURE\nSUNUNU\nNEWMAN\nSCOWCROFT\nPORTER\nDARMAN\nROGICH\nBATES\nUNTERMEYER\nCARD\nROGERS\nCICCONI\nWINSTON\nDEMAREST\nPINKERTON\nPETERSMEYER\nFITZWATER\nGRAY\nHAGIN\nREMARKS:\nPlease forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm.\n122, x2930, no later than 4:00 PM, Tuesday, February 20,\nwith a copy to my office. Thank you.\nRESPONSE:\nDONE\nJames W. Cicconi\nAssistant to the President\nand Deputy to the Chief of Staff\nExt. 2702\n(Smith/Blessey)\n1990 FEB 16 AM 11: 32\n5 P.M.\nFebruary 15, 1990\nRED\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RED CROSS\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\nFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1990\nChairman Moody, Ladies and gentlemen. It's always a\npleasure to address the Red Cross. // One reason is that if my\nspeech is a disaster, relief is close at hand. // Moreover, you\nprove what Emerson said: \"The greatest gift is a portion of\nthyself.\" //\nEighty-two years ago, a large man -- William Howard Taft --\nbegan an even larger tradition. And since then, every President\nhas been privileged -- as I am -- to serve as American Red Cross\nHonorary Chairman and proclaim March American Red Cross Month.\nTo Franklin Roosevelt, the Red Cross \"embrac [ed] in its\nmembership all races and creeds.\" // To Dwight Eisenhower, it\nmirrored the \"warm heart of a free people.\" // And it was\nanother great President, Ronald Reagan, who rightly observed that\n\"The Red Cross has [always] met the challenge.\"\nThose traits are crystalized in the three windows beside me\n-- windows commissioned by the Red Cross in 1917, and which\nrepresent the theme of ministry through sacrifice. They show\nwhat the Red Cross does. // From collecting blood to combating\ndisaster. And what it has meant through generations of service.\n( (Let me tell a story which illustrates that meaning. It's\n2\nabout a violent winter snowstorm -- and a remote mountain cabin\nall but covered by snow drifts.\n( (A Red Cross rescue team was carried by helicopter to\nwithin a mile of the cabin -- then struggled to the cabin and\nshoveled a path through the snow. Finally arriving at the door,\nthe lead rescuer knocked. It was opened by a crusty mountaineer.\n((\"We're from the Red Cross,\" the rescuer explained. To\nwhich the mountaineer scratched his head. // \"Well, it's been a\nright tough winter,\" he said at last. \"I don't see how we can\ngive anything this year. \")) //\nA few moments later, the mountaineer got the message: That\nrescue team was there to help. Just as by asking others to give\nof, not to, themselves, the Red Cross is among what I call \"a\nthousand points of light\" -- that vast galaxy of voluntary\nassociations working together to solve problems.\n\"Point of light,\" yes. And star of hope across the globe.\nFor 109 years that star has shone anytime there has been a need\n-- anywhere you are needed. Rejecting the \"Me\"-Generation.\nAcclaiming the \"We\"-Generation. And today it dazzles still. In\n2,800 chapters -- in over - towns and cities -- providing light\nat the end of the tunnel.\nLook, first, at America. When Civil War seared the Union --\nor the Dustbowl ravaged lives -- the Red Cross star lit the night\nfor millions of people. As it did in 1989 from Hurricane Hugo to\nNorthern California. Through CPR, AIDS education, and programs\nfor the elderly -- the Red Cross star casts a glow of love and\n3\ncaring. Showing how the definition of a successful life must\ninclude serving others.\nThat definition, naturally, is not limited to America. //\nSo in the late 1800s the Red Cross sent food and medical supplies\nto a famined Russia. And since then has served from San Juan\nHill to Hamburger Hill. // In 1987, 1,200 Red Cross volunteers\nassisted when Bangladesh was flooded. // Last year, you sent\nthe first international disaster relief to the Soviet Union since\n1923. // And today, look at Germany. Where you're providing\nemergency food, clothing, and medical aid to new refugees.\nThese efforts prove anew that a world without the Red Cross\nwould be a terrible cross to bear. And show how the Red Cross\nstar of hope can shine forever: By helping the volunteers of\ntoday become the leaders of tomorrow. //\nFor evidence, look at these men and women -- each a \"Star\nPlayer\" honored by the Red Cross -- or, as you say, each \"playing\nyour part.\" Dorothy Campbell-Bell of Nashville. Teaching law in\nthe classroom -- and the disabled to swim. Or Rochester, New\nYork's, Joe Delgado. Father of the Organization of Latin\nAmerican Students. // In Philadephia, Bill Gallagher is a Cross\nleader and full-time medical student. And in Sea Isle City, New\nJersey, Karen Maiorana manages Operation Fireside. // Then,\nthere's Hartford's Ben Robinson. One of Ebony Magazine's Ten\nYoung Leaders of America. And Debra Johnson of Ashtabula. The\n1988 Volunteer of the Year. //\n4\nThat's some battalion. And today they're leading a cavalry\ncharge of hope and healing. They're among the more than 21,000\nvolunteers who grace settings from day-care centers to inner-city\nschools. And who last year raised nearly $145 million for the\nRed Cross disaster relief fund.\nI began with a story about such service to others. I'd like\nto close with another. It's about a man -- Woodrow Wilson -- who\nso admired the Red Cross that he once told Admiral Gary Trayson\nto gather up sheep and put them grazing on the White House lawn.\n\"He appointed me shepherd of the flock,\" Trayson recalled.\n\"When shearing time came I reported to him that we had a little\nover a hundred pounds of wool.\" // With that, Wilson ordered\nhim to send two pounds of wool to every State -- telling the\nGovernors to have it auctioned for the benefit of the Red Cross.\nThe auction raised $50,000 -- and in time, Admiral Grayson\nbecame Chairman of the Red Cross. For like Woodrow Wilson, he\nbelieved in \"We,\" not \"Me.\" And that only \"Do unto others\" could\ndefine a successful life both for the individual and Nation.\nYou share -- you live -- that belief. And have made the\nRed Cross a star of hope unto the world. This table was used by\nthe Red Cross Chairman when William Howard Taft was President.\nSo it's my honor to now use it as I sign the proclamation making\nMarch American Red Cross Month. Thank you for inviting me. God\nbless the Red Cross. And God bless the United States of America.\n#\n#\n#\n#\nDocument No. 114471SS\nWHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM\nDATE: 2/16/90\nACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2/20/90 4:00 PM\nSUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RED CROSS\nACTION FYI\nACTION FYI\nVICE PRESIDENT\nMCCLURE\nSUNUNU\nNEWMAN\nSCOWCROFT\nPORTER\nDARMAN\nROGICH\nBATES\nUNTERMEYER\nCARD\nROGERS\nCICCONI\nWINSTON\nPINKERTON\nDEMAREST\nPETERSMEYER\nFITZWATER\nGRAY\nHAGIN\nREMARKS:\nPlease forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm.\n122, x2930, no later than 4:00 PM, Tuesday, February 20,\nwith a copy to my office. Thank you.\nRESPONSE:\nJames W. Cicconi\nAssistant to the President\nand Deputy to the Chief of Staff\nExt. 2702\n(Smith/Blessey)\n1990 FEB 16 AM 11: 32\n5 P.M.\nFebruary 15, 1990\nRED\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RED CROSS\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\nFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1990\n1\nChairman Moody, Ladies and gentlemen. It's always a\ngoing\nleasure to address the Red Cross. // One reason is that if my\nspeech is a disaster, relief is close at hand. // Moreover, you\nprove what Emerson said: \"The greatest gift is a portion of\nno\nvonnection\njoke between\nthyself.\nEighty-two years ago, a large grent man -- William Howard Taft --\nthe and time.\na grest\nbegan an even larger tradition. And since then, every President\nsepuitur\nhas been privileged -- as I am -- to serve as American Red Cross\nthe month of n\nHonorary Chairman and proclaim March American Red Cross Month.\nTo Franklin Roosevelt, the Red Cross \"embrac [ed] in its\nmembership all races and creeds.\" // To Dwight Eisenhower, it\nmirrored the \"warm heart of a free people.' // And it was\nanother great President, Ronald Reagan, who rightly observed that\n\"The Red Cross has [always] met the challenge.\"\nThis spirit is\nThose traits are crystalized in the three windows beside me\n-- windows commissioned by the Red Cross in 1917, and which\n4\nThese windows\nrepresent the theme of ministry through sacrifice. They show\ntell\nwhat the Red Cross does. story // From collecting blood to combating\ndisaster. And what it has meant hrough generations of service.\n( (Let me tell a story which illustrates that meaning. It's\nthis\nto Amaicane at people\nthrough the world for\n2\nabout a violent winter snowstorm -- and a remote mountain cabin\nall but covered by snow drifts.\n( (A Red Cross rescue team was carried by helicopter to\nwithin a mile of the cabin -- then struggled to the cabin and\nshoveled a path through the snow. Finally arriving at the door,\nthe lead rescuer knocked. It was opened by a crusty mountaineer.\n((\"We're from the Red Cross. \" the rescuer explained. To\nresponded by\nwhich the mountaineer scratched his head. // \"Well, it's been a\nright tough winter,\" he said at time last. \"I don't see how we can\ngive anything this year. \"))\n//\na constillation in\nhim\nA few moments later, the mountaineer got the message: That\nrescue team was there to help. Just as by asking others to give\nof, not to, themselves the Red Cross is among what I call \"a\nthousand points of light\" that vast galaxy of voluntary\nindividuals business,\nschools, charles\nassociations working together to solve problems.\nA\na\nand of\n\"Point of light yes. And star of hope across the globe.\nFor 109 years that star has shone anytime there has been a need\nhere in a meal\n-- anywhere you are needed. Rejecting the \"Me\" Generation.\nAcclaiming the \"We\" Generation. And today it dazzles still. In\n2,800 chapters -- in over towns and cities you providing light\nat the end of the tunnel\n, a rainbow though the clouder\nhere at\nin\nLook, first, at America. When Civil War seared the Union\nSouth\nCarlina\nor the Dustbowl ravaged lives -- the Red Cross star lit the night\nfor millions of people As it did in 1989 from Hurricane Hugo to the\nNorthern California. Through CPR, AIDS education, and programs\nentigale\nfor the elderly -- the Red Cross star casts a glow of love and\nFor milline of people in med, from stranked snowboard\nmountaineers hurricanes, to families made have by floode and\n3\nthat any\ncaring. Showing how the definition of a successful life must\ninclude serving others.\nAnd look around the would\nThat definition, naturally, is not limited to America. //\nSo in the late 1800s the Red Cross sent food and medical supplies\nto a famined Russia. And since then has served from San Juan\nHill to Hamburger Hill. // In 1987, 1,200 Red Cross volunteers\n19th\nassisted when Bangladesh was flooded. // Last year, you sent\ncating\nthe first international disaster relief to the Soviet Union since\n1923. // And today, look at Germany. Where you're providing\nemergency food, clothing, and medical aid to new refugees.\nThese efforts prove anew that a world without the Red Cross\nwould be a terrible cross to bear. And show how the Red Cross\nstar of hope can shine forever: By helping the volunteers of\ntoday become the leaders of tomorrow. //\nFor evidence, look at these men and women -- each a \"Star\nPlayer\" honored by the Red Cross -- or, as you say, each \"playing\nyour part.\" Dorothy Campbell-Bell of Nashville. Teaching law in\nthe classroom -- and the disabled to swim. Or Rochester, New\nYork's, Joe Delgado. Father of the Organization of Latin\nAmerican Students. // In Philadephia, Bill Gallagher is a Cross\nleader and full-time medical student. And in Sea Isle City, New\nJersey, Karen Maiorana manages Operation Fireside. // Then,\nthere's Hartford's Ben Robinson. One of Ebony Magazine's Ten\nYoung Leaders of America. And Debra Johnson of Ashtabula. The\n1988 Volunteer of the Year. //\n4\nThat's some battalion. And today they're leading a cavalry\ncharge of hope and healing. They're among the more than 21,000\nvolunteers who grace settings from day-care centers to inner-city\nschools. And who last year raised nearly $145 million for the\nRed Cross disaster relief fund.\nPresident\nI began with a story about such service to others. I'd like\nto close with another. It's about a man Woodrow Wilson -- who\nso admired the Red Cross that he once told Admiral Gary Trayson\nto gather up sheep and put them grazing on the White House lawn.\n\"He appointed me shepherd of the flock,\" Trayson recalled.\n\"When shearing time came I reported to him that we had a little\nover a hundred pounds of wool.\" // With that, Wilson ordered\nhim to send two pounds of wool to every State -- telling the\nGovernors to have it auctioned for the benefit of the Red Cross.\nThe auction raised $50,000 -- and in time, Admiral Grayson\nbecame Chairman of the Red Cross. For like Woodrow Wilson, he\nbelieved in \"We,\" not \"Me.\" And that only \"Do unto others\" could\ndefine a successful life both for the individual and Nation.\nYou share -- you live -- that belief. And have made the\nRed Cross a star of hope unto the world. This table was used by\nthe Red Cross Chairman when William Howard Taft was President.\nSo it's my honor to now use it as I sign the proclamation making\nMarch American Red Cross Month. Thank you for inviting me. God\nbless the Red Cross. And God bless the United States of America.\n#\n#\n#\n#\nWe he believed that 100 we\nsucceed you in life only when we make\na difference in someme else! life\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nFebruary 17, 1990\nMEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON\nFROM:\nJIM PINKERTON\nSUBJECT:\nRed Cross Draft\npg. 3, para. 3., line 1\n\"\na world without the Red\nCross would be a terrible cross to bear.\"\nThis, strictly speaking, is a mixed metaphor --\n\"terrible cross to bear\" does not apply to \"a world.\" In\npart because of that, the whole phrase seems contrived and\na bit silly --a contortion in order to make a play on the\nword \"cross.\" This phrase, and the next sentence,\n\"\nhelping the volunteers of today become the leaders of\ntomorrow, which is cliche, mar an otherwise fine draft.\n4,2\nThe anecdote about the Woodrow Wilson sheep is\ncharming and a good touch. A possible detail to the\nstory: if the auction raised $50,000 for one hundred\npounds of wool. that would be $31.25 per ounce. Given the\nprice of gold at the time, would that mean that the wool\nwas worth more, literally, than its weight in gold?\n###\n90 FEB 20 P6: 42\nDocument No. 114471SS\nWHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM\nDATE: 2/16/90\nACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2/20/90 4:00 PM\nSUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RED CROSS\nACTION FYI\nACTION FYI\nVICE PRESIDENT\nMCCLURE\nSUNUNU\nNEWMAN\nSCOWCROFT\nPORTER\nDARMAN\nROGICH\nBATES\nUNTERMEYER\nCARD\nROGERS\nCICCONI\nWINSTON\nPINKERTON\nDEMAREST\nPETERSMEYER\nFITZWATER\nGRAY\nHAGIN\nREMARKS:\nPlease forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm.\n122, x2930, no later than 4:00 PM, Tuesday, February 20,\nwith a copy to my office. Thank you.\nRESPONSE:\n197\nnc\nJ\n90 FEB21 A9 : 32\nJames W. Cicconi\nAssistant to the President\nand Deputy to the Chief of Staff\nExt. 2702\n(Smith/Blessey)\n1990 FEB 16. AM 11: 32\n5 P.M.\nFebruary 15, 1990\nRED\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RED CROSS\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\nFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1990\nChairman Moody, Ladies and gentlemen. It's always a\npleasure to address the Red Cross. // One reason is that if my\nspeech is a disaster, relief is close at hand. 11 Moreover, you\nprove what Emerson said: \"The greatest gift is a portion of\nthyself.\" //\nEighty-two years ago, a large man -- William Howard Taft --\nbegan an even larger tradition. And since then, every President\nhas been privileged -- as I am -- to serve as American Red Cross\nHonorary Chairman and proclaim March American Red Cross Month.\nTo Franklin Roosevelt, the Red Cross \"embrac [ed] in its\nmembership all races and creeds.\" // To Dwight Eisenhower, it\nmirrored the \"warm heart of a free people.\" // And it was\nanother great President, Ronald Reagan, who rightly observed that\n\"The Red Cross has [always] met the challenge.\"\nThose traits are crystalized in the three windows beside me\n-- windows commissioned by the Red Cross in 1917, and which\nrepresent the theme of ministry through sacrifice. They show\nwhat the Red Cross does. // From collecting blood to combating\ndisaster. And what it has meant through generations of service.\n( (Let me tell a story which illustrates that meaning. It's\n2\nabout a violent winter snowstorm -- and a remote mountain cabin\nall but covered by snow drifts.\n( (A Red Cross rescue team was carried by helicopter to\nwithin a mile of the cabin -- then struggled to the cabin and\nshoveled a path through the snow. Finally arriving at the door,\nthe lead rescuer knocked. It was opened by a crusty mountaineer.\n((\"We're from the Red Cross,\" the rescuer explained. To\nwhich the mountaineer scratched his head. // \"Well, it's been a\nright tough winter,\" he said at last. \"I don't see how we can\ngive anything this year. \")) //\nA few moments later, the mountaineer got the message: That\nrescue team was there to help. Just as by asking others to give\nof, not to, themselves, the Red Cross is among what I call \"a\nthousand points of light\" -- that vast galaxy of voluntary\nassociations working together to solve problems.\n\"Point of light,\" yes. And star of hope across the globe.\nFor 109 years that star has shone anytime there has been a need\n-- anywhere you are needed. Rejecting the \"Me\"-Generation.\nAcclaiming the \"We\"-Generation. And today it dazzles still. In\n2,800 chapters -- in over towns and cities -- providing light\n-\nat the end of the tunnel.\nLook, first, at America. When Civil War seared the Union --\nor the Dustbowl ravaged lives -- the Red Cross star lit the night\nfor millions of people. As it did in 1989 from Hurricane Hugo to\nNorthern California. Through CPR, AIDS education, and programs\nfor the elderly -- the Red Cross star casts a glow of love and\n3\ncaring. Showing how the definition of a successful life must\ninclude serving others.\nThat definition, naturally, is not limited to America. //\nSo in the late 1800s the Red Cross sent food and medical supplies\nto a famined Russia. And since then has served from San Juan\nHill to Hamburger Hill. // In 1987, 1,200 Red Cross volunteers\nassisted when Bangladesh was flooded. // Last year, you sent\nthe first international disaster relief to the Soviet Union since\n1923. // And today, look at Germany. Where you're providing\nemergency food, clothing, and medical aid to new refugees.\nThese efforts prove anew that a world without the Red Cross\nwould be a terrible cross to bear. And show how the Red Cross\nstar of hope can shine forever: By helping the volunteers of\ntoday become the leaders of tomorrow. //\nFor evidence, look at these men and women -- each a \"Star\nPlayer\" honored by the Red Cross -- or, as you say, each \"playing\nyour part.\" Dorothy Campbell-Bell of Nashville. Teaching law in\nthe classroom -- and the disabled to swim. Or Rochester, New\nYork's, Joe Delgado. Father of the Organization of Latin\nAmerican Students. // In Philadephia, Bill Gallagher is a Cross\nleader and full-time medical student. And in Sea Isle City, New\nJersey, Karen Maiorana manages Operation Fireside. // Then,\nthere's Hartford's Ben Robinson. One of Ebony Magazine's Ten\nYoung Leaders of America. And Debra Johnson of Ashtabula. The\n1988 Volunteer of the Year. //\n4\nThat's some battalion. And today they're leading a cavalry\ncharge of hope and healing. They're among the more than 21,000\nvolunteers who grace settings from day-care centers to inner-city\nschools. And who last year raised nearly $145 million for the\nRed Cross disaster relief fund.\nI began with a story about such service to others. I'd like\nto close with another. It's about a man -- Woodrow Wilson -- who\nso admired the Red Cross that he once told Admiral Gary Trayson\nto gather up sheep and put them grazing on the White House lawn.\n\"He appointed me shepherd of the flock,\" Trayson recalled.\n\"When shearing time came I reported to him that we had a little\nover a hundred pounds of wool.\" // With that, Wilson ordered\nhim to send two pounds of wool to every State -- telling the\nGovernors to have it auctioned for the benefit of the Red Cross.\nThe auction raised $50,000 -- and in time, Admiral Grayson\nbecame Chairman of the Red Cross. For like Woodrow Wilson, he\nbelieved in \"We,\" not \"Me.\" And that only \"Do unto others\" could\ndefine a successful life both for the individual and Nation.\nYou share -- you live -- that belief. And have made the\nRed Cross a star of hope unto the world. This table was used by\nthe Red Cross Chairman when William Howard Taft was President.\nSo it's my honor to now use it as I sign the proclamation making\nMarch American Red Cross Month. Thank you for inviting me. God\nbless the Red Cross. And God bless the United States of America.\n#\n#\n#\n#\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nFebruary 20, 1990\nMEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON\nDEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT\nFOR COMMUNICATIONS\nFROM:\nFREDERICK D. NELSON FAN.\nASSOCIATE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT\nSUBJECT:\nPresidential Remarks: Red Cross\nCounsel's Office makes no legal objections to the Presidential\nRemarks referenced above.\nWe appreciate having had the opportunity to review this\nmatter.\n90 FEB 20 P2:17\nDocument No. 114471SS\nWHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM\nDATE: 2/16/90\nACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE so BY: 2/20/99 6:00 4:00 PM\nSUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RED CROSS\nACTION FYI\nACTION FYI\nVICE PRESIDENT\nMCCLURE\nSUNUNU\nNEWMAN\nSCOWCROFT\nPORTER\nDARMAN\nROGICH\nBATES\nUNTERMEYER\nCARD\nROGERS\nCICCONI\nWINSTON\nPINKERTON\nDEMAREST\nPETERSMEYER\nFITZWATER\nGRAY\nHAGIN\nREMARKS:\nPlease forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm.\n122, x2930, no later than 4:00 PM, Tuesday, February 20,\nwith a copy to my office. Thank you.\nRESPONSE:\nJames W. Cicconi\nAssistant to the President\nand Deputy to the Chief of Staff\nExt. 2702\n(Smith/Blessey)\n1990 FEB 16 AM 11: 32\n5 P.M.\nFebruary 15, 1990\nRED\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RED CROSS\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\nFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1990\nChairman Moody, Ladies and gentlemen. It's always a\npleasure to address the Red Cross. // One reason is that if my\nspeech is a disaster, relief is close at hand. // Moreover, you\nprove what Emerson said: \"The greatest gift is a portion of\nthyself.\" //\nEighty-two years ago, a large man -- William Howard Taft --\nbegan an even larger tradition. And since then, every President\nhas been privileged -- as I am -- to serve as American Red Cross\nHonorary Chairman and proclaim March American Red Cross Month.\nTo Franklin Roosevelt, the Red Cross \"embrac [ed] in its\nmembership all races and creeds.\" // To Dwight Eisenhower, it\nmirrored the \"warm heart of a free people.\" // And it was\nanother great President, Ronald Reagan, who rightly observed that\n\"The Red Cross has [always] met the challenge.\"\nThose traits are crystalized in the three windows beside me\n-- windows commissioned by the Red Cross in 1917, and which\nrepresent the theme of ministry through sacrifice. They show\nwhat the Red Cross does. // From collecting blood to combating\ndisaster. And what it has meant through generations of service.\n( (Let me tell a story which illustrates that meaning. It's\n2\nabout a violent winter snowstorm -- and a remote mountain cabin\nall but covered by snow drifts.\n( (A Red Cross rescue team was carried by helicopter to\nwithin a mile of the cabin -- then struggled to the cabin and\nshoveled a path through the snow. Finally arriving at the door,\nthe lead rescuer knocked. It was opened by a crusty mountaineer.\n((\"We're from the Red Cross,\" the rescuer explained. To\nwhich the mountaineer scratched his head. // \"Well, it's been a\nright tough winter,\" he said at last. \"I don't see how we can\ngive anything this year. ) ) //\nA few moments later, the mountaineer got the message: That\nrescue team was there to help. Just as by asking others to give\nof, not to, themselves, the Red Cross is among what I call \"a\nindividuals and\nthousand points of light\" -- that vast galaxy of voluntary\nassociations working together to solve problems.\n\"Point of light,\" yes. And star of hope across the globe.\nFor 109 years that star has shone anytime there has been a need\n-- anywhere you are needed. Rejecting the \"Me\"-Generation.\nAcclaiming the \"We\"-Generation. And today it dazzles still. In\n2,800 chapters -- in over towns and cities -- providing light\n-\nat the end of the tunnel.\nLook, first, at America. When Civil War seared the Union --\nor the Dustbowl ravaged lives -- the Red Cross star lit the night\nfor millions of people. As it did in 1989 from Hurricane Hugo to\nNorthern California. Through CPR, AIDS education, and programs\nfor the elderly -- the Red Cross star casts a glow of love and\n3\ncaring. Showing how the definition of a successful life must\ninclude serving others.\nThat definition, naturally, is not limited to America. //\nSo in the late 1800s the Red Cross sent food and medical supplies\nto a famined Russia. And since then has served from San Juan\nHill to Hamburger Hill. // In 1987, 1,200 Red Cross volunteers\nassisted when Bangladesh was flooded. // Last year, you sent\nthe first international disaster relief to the Soviet Union since\n1923. // And today, look at Germany. Where you're providing\nemergency food, clothing, and medical aid to new refugees.\nThese efforts prove anew that a world without the Red Cross\nwould be a terrible cross to bear. And show how the Red Cross\nstar of hope can shine forever: By helping the volunteers of\ntoday become the leaders of tomorrow. //\nFor evidence, look at these men and women -- each a \"Star\nPlayer\" honored by the Red Cross -- or, as you say, each \"playing\nyour part.' Dorothy Campbell-Bell of Nashville. Teaching law in\nthe classroom -- and the disabled to swim. Or Rochester, New\nYork's, Joe Delgado. Father of the Organization of Latin\nAmerican Students. // In Philadephia, Bill Gallagher is a Cross\nleader and full-time medical student. And in Sea Isle City, New\nJersey, Karen Maiorana manages Operation Fireside. // Then,\nthere's Hartford's Ben Robinson. One of Ebony Magazine's Ten\nYoung Leaders of America. And Debra Johnson of Ashtabula. The\n1988 Volunteer of the Year. //\n4\nThat's some battalion. And today they're leading a cavalry\ncharge of hope and healing. They're among the more than 21,000\nvolunteers who grace settings from day-care centers to inner-city\nschools. And who last year raised nearly $145 million for the\nRed Cross disaster relief fund.\nI began with a story about such service to others. I'd like\nto close with another. It's about a man -- Woodrow Wilson -- who\nso admired the Red Cross that he once told Admiral Gary Trayson\nto gather up sheep and put them grazing on the White House lawn.\n\"He appointed me shepherd of the flock,\" Trayson recalled.\n\"When shearing time came I reported to him that we had a little\nover a hundred pounds of wool.\" // With that, Wilson ordered\nhim to send two pounds of wool to every State -- telling the\nGovernors to have it auctioned for the benefit of the Red Cross.\nThe auction raised $50,000 -- and in time, Admiral Grayson\nbecame Chairman of the Red Cross. For like Woodrow Wilson, he\nbelieved in \"We,\" not \"Me.\" And that only \"Do unto others\" could\ndefine a successful life both for the individual and Nation.\nYou share -- you live -- that belief. And have made the\nRed Cross a star of hope unto the world. This table was used by\nthe Red Cross Chairman when William Howard Taft was President.\nSo it's my honor to now use it as I sign the proclamation making\nMarch American Red Cross Month. Thank you for inviting me. God\nbless the Red Cross. And God bless the United States of America.\n#\n#\n#\n#\nDocument No. 114471SS\nWHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM\nDATE: 2/16/90\nACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2/20/90 4:00 PM\nSUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RED CROSS\nACTION FYI\nACTION FYI\nVICE PRESIDENT\nMCCLURE\nSUNUNU\nNEWMAN\nSCOWCROFT\nPORTER\nDARMAN\nROGICH\nBATES\nUNTERMEYER\nCARD\nROGERS\nCICCONI\nWINSTON\nPINKERTON\nDEMAREST\nPETERSMEYER\nFITZWATER\nGRAY\nHAGIN\nREMARKS:\nPlease forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm.\n122, x2930, no later than 4:00 PM, Tuesday, February 20,\nwith a copy to my office. Thank you.\nRESPONSE:\nno comment\n90 FEB 20 P3: 43\nJames W. Cicconi\nAssistant to the President\nand Deputy to the Chief of Staff\nExt. 2702\n(Smith/Blessey)\n1990 FEB 16 AM 11: 32\n5 P.M.\nFebruary 15, 1990\nRED\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RED CROSS\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\nFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1990\nChairman Moody, Ladies and gentlemen. It's always a\npleasure to address the Red Cross. // One reason is that if my\nspeech is a disaster, relief is close at hand. // Moreover, you\nprove what Emerson said: \"The greatest gift is a portion of\nthyself.\" //\nEighty-two years ago, a large man -- William Howard Taft --\nbegan an even larger tradition. And since then, every President\nhas been privileged -- as I am -- to serve as American Red Cross\nHonorary Chairman and proclaim March American Red Cross Month.\nTo Franklin Roosevelt, the Red Cross \"embrac[ed] in its\nmembership all races and creeds.\" // To Dwight Eisenhower, it\nmirrored the \"warm heart of a free people.\" // And it was\nanother great President, Ronald Reagan, who rightly observed that\n\"The Red Cross has [always] met the challenge.\"\nThose traits are crystalized in the three windows beside me\n-- windows commissioned by the Red Cross in 1917, and which\nrepresent the theme of ministry through sacrifice. They show\nwhat the Red Cross does. // From collecting blood to combating\ndisaster. And what it has meant through generations of service.\n( (Let me tell a story which illustrates that meaning. It's\n2\nabout a violent winter snowstorm -- and a remote mountain cabin\nall but covered by snow drifts.\n( (A Red Cross rescue team was carried by helicopter to\nwithin a mile of the cabin -- then struggled to the cabin and\nshoveled a path through the snow. Finally arriving at the door,\nthe lead rescuer knocked. It was opened by a crusty mountaineer.\n( (\"We're from the Red Cross,\" the rescuer explained. To\nwhich the mountaineer scratched his head. // \"Well, it's been a\nright tough winter,\" he said at last. \"I don't see how we can\ngive anything this year. \")) //\nA few moments later, the mountaineer got the message: That\nrescue team was there to help. Just as by asking others to give\nof, not to, themselves, the Red Cross is among what I call \"a\nthousand points of light\" -- that vast galaxy of voluntary\nassociations working together to solve problems.\n\"Point of light,\" yes. And star of hope across the globe.\nFor 109 years that star has shone anytime there has been a need\nanywhere you are needed. Rejecting the \"Me\"-Generation.\nAcclaiming the \"We\"-Generation. And today it dazzles still. In\n2,800 chapters -- in over towns and cities -- providing light\nat the end of the tunnel.\nLook, first, at America. When Civil War seared the Union --\nor the Dustbowl ravaged lives -- the Red Cross star lit the night\nfor millions of people. As it did in 1989 from Hurricane Hugo to\nNorthern California. Through CPR, AIDS education, and programs\nfor the elderly -- the Red Cross star casts a glow of love and\n3\ncaring. Showing how the definition of a successful life must\ninclude serving others.\nThat definition, naturally, is not limited to America. //\nSo in the late 1800s the Red Cross sent food and medical supplies\nto a famined Russia. And since then has served from San Juan\nHill to Hamburger Hill. // In 1987, 1,200 Red Cross volunteers\nassisted when Bangladesh was flooded. // Last year, you sent\nthe first international disaster relief to the Soviet Union since\n1923. // And today, look at Germany. Where you're providing\nemergency food, clothing, and medical aid to new refugees.\nThese efforts prove anew that a world without the Red Cross\nwould be a terrible cross to bear. And show how the Red Cross\nstar of hope can shine forever: By helping the volunteers of\ntoday become the leaders of tomorrow. //\nFor evidence, look at these men and women -- each a \"Star\nPlayer\" honored by the Red Cross -- or, as you say, each \"playing\nyour part.\" Dorothy Campbell-Bell of Nashville. Teaching law in\nthe classroom -- and the disabled to swim. Or Rochester, New\nYork's, Joe Delgado. Father of the Organization of Latin\nAmerican Students. // In Philadephia, Bill Gallagher is a Cross\nleader and full-time medical student. And in Sea Isle City, New\nJersey, Karen Maiorana manages Operation Fireside. // Then,\nthere's Hartford's Ben Robinson. One of Ebony Magazine's Ten\nYoung Leaders of America. And Debra Johnson of Ashtabula. The\n1988 Volunteer of the Year. //\n4\nThat's some battalion. And today they're leading a cavalry\ncharge of hope and healing. They're among the more than 21,000\nvolunteers who grace settings from day-care centers to inner-city\nschools. And who last year raised nearly $145 million for the\nRed Cross disaster relief fund.\nI began with a story about such service to others. I'd like\nto close with another. It's about a man -- Woodrow Wilson -- who\nso admired the Red Cross that he once told Admiral Gary Trayson\nto gather up sheep and put them grazing on the White House lawn.\n\"He appointed me shepherd of the flock,\" Trayson recalled.\n\"When shearing time came I reported to him that we had a little\nover a hundred pounds of wool.\" // With that, Wilson ordered\nhim to send two pounds of wool to every State -- telling the\nGovernors to have it auctioned for the benefit of the Red Cross.\nThe auction raised $50,000 -- and in time, Admiral Grayson\nbecame Chairman of the Red Cross. For like Woodrow Wilson, he\nbelieved in \"We,\" not \"Me.\" And that only \"Do unto others\" could\ndefine a successful life both for the individual and Nation.\nYou share -- you live -- that belief. And have made the\nRed Cross a star of hope unto the world. This table was used by\nthe Red Cross Chairman when William Howard Taft was President.\nSo it's my honor to now use it as I sign the proclamation making\nMarch American Red Cross Month. Thank you for inviting me. God\nbless the Red Cross. And God bless the United States of America.\n#\n#\n#\n#\nDocument No. 114471SS\nWHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM\n90 FEB 20 A10: 31\nDATE: 2/16/90\nACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2/20/90 4:00 PM\nSUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RED CROSS\nACTION FYI\nACTION FYI\nVICE PRESIDENT\nMCCLURE\nSUNUNU\nNEWMAN\nSCOWCROFT\nPORTER\nDARMAN\nROGICH\nBATES\nUNTERMEYER\nCARD\nROGERS\nWINSTON\nCICCONI\nPINKERTON\nDEMAREST\nPETERSMEYER\nFITZWATER\nGRAY\nHAGIN\nREMARKS:\nPlease forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm.\n122, x2930, no later than 4:00 PM, Tuesday, February 20,\nwith a copy to my office. Thank you.\nRESPONSE:\nNC\nAA\nJames W. Cicconi\nAssistant to the President\nand Deputy to the Chief of Staff\nExt. 2702\n(Smith/Blessey)\n1990 FEB 16 AM II: 32\n5 P.M.\nFebruary 15, 1990\nRED\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RED CROSS\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\nFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1990\nChairman Moody, Ladies and gentlemen. It's always a\npleasure to address the Red Cross. // One reason is that if my\nspeech is a disaster, relief is close at hand. // Moreover, you\nprove what Emerson said: \"The greatest gift is a portion of\nthyself.\" //\nEighty-two years ago, a large man -- William Howard Taft --\nbegan an even larger tradition. And since then, every President\nhas been privileged -- as I am -- to serve as American Red Cross\nHonorary Chairman and proclaim March American Red Cross Month.\nTo Franklin Roosevelt, the Red Cross \"embrac [ed] in its\nmembership all races and creeds.\" // To Dwight Eisenhower, it\nmirrored the \"warm heart of a free people.\" // And it was\nanother great President, Ronald Reagan, who rightly observed that\n\"The Red Cross has [always] met the challenge.\"\nThose traits are crystalized in the three windows beside me\n-- windows commissioned by the Red Cross in 1917, and which\nrepresent the theme of ministry through sacrifice. They show\nwhat the Red Cross does. // From collecting blood to combating\ndisaster. And what it has meant through generations of service.\n( (Let me tell a story which illustrates that meaning. It's\n2\nabout a violent winter snowstorm -- and a remote mountain cabin\nall but covered by snow drifts.\n( (A Red Cross rescue team was carried by helicopter to\nwithin a mile of the cabin -- then struggled to the cabin and\nshoveled a path through the snow. Finally arriving at the door,\nthe lead rescuer knocked. It was opened by a crusty mountaineer.\n( (\"We're from the Red Cross,\" the rescuer explained. To\nwhich the mountaineer scratched his head. // \"Well, it's been a\nright tough winter,\" he said at last. \"I don't see how we can\ngive anything this year. \")) //\nA few moments later, the mountaineer got the message: That\nrescue team was there to help. Just as by asking others to give\nof, not to, themselves, the Red Cross is among what I call \"a\nthousand points of light\" -- that vast galaxy of voluntary\nassociations working together to solve problems.\n\"Point of light,\" yes. And star of hope across the globe.\nFor 109 years that star has shone anytime there has been a need\n-- anywhere you are needed. Rejecting the \"Me\"-Generation.\nAcclaiming the \"We\"-Generation. And today it dazzles still. In\n2,800 chapters -- in over towns and cities -- providing light\n-\nat the end of the tunnel.\nLook, first, at America. When Civil War seared the Union --\nor the Dustbowl ravaged lives -- the Red Cross star lit the night\nfor millions of people. As it did in 1989 from Hurricane Hugo to\nNorthern California. Through CPR, AIDS education, and programs\nfor the elderly -- the Red Cross star casts a glow of love and\n3\ncaring. Showing how the definition of a successful life must\ninclude serving others.\nThat definition, naturally, is not limited to America. //\nSo in the late 1800s the Red Cross sent food and medical supplies\nto a famined Russia. And since then has served from San Juan\nHill to Hamburger Hill. // In 1987, 1,200 Red Cross volunteers\nassisted when Bangladesh was flooded. // Last year, you sent\nthe first international disaster relief to the Soviet Union since\n1923. // And today, look at Germany. Where you're providing\nemergency food, clothing, and medical aid to new refugees.\nThese efforts prove anew that a world without the Red Cross\nwould be a terrible cross to bear. And show how the Red Cross\nstar of hope can shine forever: By helping the volunteers of\ntoday become the leaders of tomorrow. //\nFor evidence, look at these men and women -- each a \"Star\nPlayer\" honored by the Red Cross -- or, as you say, each \"playing\nyour part.' Dorothy Campbell-Bell of Nashville. Teaching law in\nthe classroom -- and the disabled to swim. Or Rochester, New\nYork's, Joe Delgado. Father of the Organization of Latin\nAmerican Students. // In Philadephia, Bill Gallagher is a Cross\nleader and full-time medical student. And in Sea Isle City, New\nJersey, Karen Maiorana manages Operation Fireside. // Then,\nthere's Hartford's Ben Robinson. One of Ebony Magazine's Ten\nYoung Leaders of America. And Debra Johnson of Ashtabula. The\n1988 Volunteer of the Year. //\n4\nThat's some battalion. And today they're leading a cavalry\ncharge of hope and healing. They're among the more than 21,000\nvolunteers who grace settings from day-care centers to inner-city\nschools. And who last year raised nearly $145 million for the\nRed Cross disaster relief fund.\nI began with a story about such service to others. I'd like\nto close with another. It's about a man -- Woodrow Wilson -- who\nso admired the Red Cross that he once told Admiral Gary Trayson\nto gather up sheep and put them grazing on the White House lawn.\n\"He appointed me shepherd of the flock,\" Trayson recalled.\n\"When shearing time came I reported to him that we had a little\nover a hundred pounds of wool.\" // With that, Wilson ordered\nhim to send two pounds of wool to every State -- telling the\nGovernors to have it auctioned for the benefit of the Red Cross.\nThe auction raised $50,000 -- and in time, Admiral Grayson\nbecame Chairman of the Red Cross. For like Woodrow Wilson, he\nbelieved in \"We,\" not \"Me.\" And that only \"Do unto others\" could\ndefine a successful life both for the individual and Nation.\nYou share -- you live -- that belief. And have made the\nRed Cross a star of hope unto the world. This table was used by\nthe Red Cross Chairman when William Howard Taft was President.\nSo it's my honor to now use it as I sign the proclamation making\nMarch American Red Cross Month. Thank you for inviting me. God\nbless the Red Cross. And God bless the United States of America.\n#\n#\n#\n#.\nDocument No. 114471SS\nWHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM\nDATE: 2/16/90\nACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2/20/90 4:00 PM\nSUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RED CROSS\nACTION FYI\nACTION FYI\nVICE PRESIDENT\nMCCLURE\nSUNUNU\nNEWMAN\nSCOWCROFT\nPORTER\nDARMAN\nROGICH\nBATES\nUNTERMEYER\nCARD\nROGERS\nWINSTON\nCICCONI\nPINKERTON\nDEMAREST\nPETERSMEYER\nFITZWATER\nGRAY\nHAGIN\nREMARKS:\nPlease forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm.\n122, x2930, no later than 4:00 PM, Tuesday, February 20,\nwith a copy to my office. Thank you.\nRESPONSE:\nOK.S.R.\n23 Sd 9183306\nJames W. Cicconi\nAssistant to the President\nand Deputy to the Chief of Staff\nExt. 2702\n(Smith/Blessey)\n1990 FEB 16 AM 11: 32\n5 P.M.\nFebruary 15, 1990\nRED\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RED CROSS\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\nFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1990\nChairman Moody, Ladies and gentlemen. It's always a\npleasure to address the Red Cross. // One reason is that if my\nspeech is a disaster, relief is close at hand. // Moreover, you\nprove what Emerson said: \"The greatest gift is a portion of\nthyself.\" //\nEighty-two years ago, a large man -- William Howard Taft --\nbegan an even larger tradition. And since then, every President\nhas been privileged -- as I am -- to serve as American Red Cross\nHonorary Chairman and proclaim March American Red Cross Month.\nTo Franklin Roosevelt, the Red Cross \"embrac [ed] in its\nmembership all races and creeds.\" // To Dwight Eisenhower, it\nmirrored the \"warm heart of a free people.\" // And it was\nanother great President, Ronald Reagan, who rightly observed that\n\"The Red Cross has [always] met the challenge.\"\nThose traits are crystalized in the three windows beside me\n-- windows commissioned by the Red Cross in 1917, and which\nrepresent the theme of ministry through sacrifice. They show\nwhat the Red Cross does. // From collecting blood to combating\ndisaster. And what it has meant through generations of service.\n( (Let me tell a story which illustrates that meaning. It's\n2\nabout a violent winter snowstorm -- and a remote mountain cabin\nall but covered by snow drifts.\n( (A Red Cross rescue team was carried by helicopter to\nwithin a mile of the cabin -- then struggled to the cabin and\nshoveled a path through the snow. Finally arriving at the door,\nthe lead rescuer knocked. It was opened by a crusty mountaineer.\n((\"We're from the Red Cross,\" the rescuer explained. To\nwhich the mountaineer scratched his head. // \"Well, it's been a\nright tough winter,\" he said at last. \"I don't see how we can\ngive anything this year. \")) //\nA few moments later, the mountaineer got the message: That\nrescue team was there to help. Just as by asking others to give\nof, not to, themselves, the Red Cross is among what I call \"a\nthousand points of light\" -- that vast galaxy of voluntary\nassociations working together to solve problems.\n\"Point of light,\" yes. And star of hope across the globe.\nFor 109 years that star has shone anytime there has been a need\n-- anywhere you are needed. Rejecting the \"Me\"-Generation.\nAcclaiming the \"We\"-Generation. And today it dazzles still. In\n2,800 chapters -- in over towns and cities -- providing light\nat the end of the tunnel.\nLook, first, at America. When Civil War seared the Union --\nor the Dustbowl ravaged lives -- the Red Cross star lit the night\nfor millions of people. As it did in 1989 from Hurricane Hugo to\nNorthern California. Through CPR, AIDS education, and programs\nfor the elderly -- the Red Cross star casts a glow of love and\n3\ncaring. Showing how the definition of a successful life must\ninclude serving others.\nThat definition, naturally, is not limited to America. //\nSo in the late 1800s the Red Cross sent food and medical supplies\nto a famined Russia. And since then has served from San Juan\nHill to Hamburger Hill. // In 1987, 1,200 Red Cross volunteers\nassisted when Bangladesh was flooded. // Last year, you sent\nthe first international disaster relief to the Soviet Union since\n1923. // And today, look at Germany. Where you're providing\nemergency food, clothing, and medical aid to new refugees.\nThese efforts prove anew that a world without the Red Cross\nwould be a terrible cross to bear. And show how the Red Cross\nstar of hope can shine forever: By helping the volunteers of\ntoday become the leaders of tomorrow. //\nFor evidence, look at these men and women -- each a \"Star\nPlayer\" honored by the Red Cross -- or, as you say, each \"playing\nyour part.\" Dorothy Campbell-Bell of Nashville. Teaching law in\nthe classroom -- and the disabled to swim. Or Rochester, New\nYork's, Joe Delgado. Father of the Organization of Latin\nAmerican Students. // In Philadephia, Bill Gallagher is a Cross\nleader and full-time medical student. And in Sea Isle City, New\nJersey, Karen Maiorana manages Operation Fireside. // Then,\nthere's Hartford's Ben Robinson. One of Ebony Magazine's Ten\nYoung Leaders of America. And Debra Johnson of Ashtabula. The\n1988 Volunteer of the Year. 11\n4\nThat's some battalion. And today they're leading a cavalry\ncharge of hope and healing. They're among the more than 21,000\nvolunteers who grace settings from day-care centers to inner-city\nschools. And who last year raised nearly $145 million for the\nRed Cross disaster relief fund.\nI began with a story about such service to others. I'd like\nto close with another. It's about a man -- Woodrow Wilson -- who\nso admired the Red Cross that he once told Admiral Gary Trayson\nto gather up sheep and put them grazing on the White House lawn.\n\"He appointed me shepherd of the flock,\" Trayson recalled.\n\"When shearing time came I reported to him that we had a little\nover a hundred pounds of wool.\" // With that, Wilson ordered\nhim to send two pounds of wool to every State -- telling the\nGovernors to have it auctioned for the benefit of the Red Cross.\nThe auction raised $50,000 -- and in time, Admiral Grayson\nbecame Chairman of the Red Cross. For like Woodrow Wilson, he\nbelieved in \"We,\" not \"Me.\" And that only \"Do unto others\" could\ndefine a successful life both for the individual and Nation.\nYou share -- you live -- that belief. And have made the\nRed Cross a star of hope unto the world. This table was used by\nthe Red Cross Chairman when William Howard Taft was President.\nSo it's my honor to now use it as I sign the proclamation making\nMarch American Red Cross Month. Thank you for inviting me. God\nbless the Red Cross. And God bless the United States of America.\n#\n#\n#\n#"
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