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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Dallas, Texas)
For Immediate Release
May 18, 1990
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT TEXAS GOP FUNDRAISER
Loews Anatole Hotel
Dallas, Texas
7:41 P.M. CDT
THE PRESIDENT: Barbara and I are delighted to be here.
And, Phil, thank you for that most generous introduction. You have
the heart of Old Texas in you. And for a college professor, your
brevity was an appreciated departure from tradition, and your
comments were far too generous. But Bar and I are just delighted to
be back here.
Wasn't Yolanda Garcia marvelous, standing up here without
-- (applause.)
And, Boone, this is a great party you're throwing for a
great party. And so many familiar Texas faces here tonight. People
that have shaped this party and served this state. First, of course,
our great Governor, my friend, Bill Clements. He and Rita have done
an outstanding job for the state. And to our Chairman from Dallas,
Fred Meyer. I'm told he did a lot of the work on this dinner. Fred.
(Applause.) And, of course, to the all-time star of Texas, Tom
Landry. Where's Tom? (Applause.) Right there.
And to Bobby Holt, the Finance Chairman, my pal from West
Texas. (Applause.) And to Fort Stockton's son, Claytie Williams.
I'll get to him in a bit, but Claytie -- (laughter.) And to I guess
the guy that I would always look to as my mentor in Texas politics,
my dear friend, John Tower, who's with us tonight. I salute him.
(Applause.)
And, of course, our great statewide Republican ticket,
and the Victory '90 fellow over there, our son, George. Glad to be
with him. Go Rangers. (Applause.) And again, so many wonderful
friends from over so many years. Barbara and I realized on the way
down here that it was -- we're talking 42 years ago next month that
we moved to Texas. Of course, that was in a '47 Studebaker, and
today it was in Air Force One. More leg room now -- (laughter) --
but all the same, it's just a wonderful feeling of coming home.
Texas remains larger than life in our hearts. It is a
place of family and duty and loyalty and honor. But then, what more
could you expect from a state whose name means "friend"?
I'd love to come back home to my friends again next
October. Things have to change a little bit. I want to throw out
the first ball at the opening game of the Rangers and the Astros in
the World Series. We can all dream, you know. (Laughter.) I asked
George, knowing they needed a little help on the Rangers, if I could
try out for the club. He said, "Don't give up your daytime job."
(Laughter.) Then he added, "Why don't you go out for the Old Timers'
Game?"
But also as we flew in, there's some sadness involved in
this homecoming, too, because from the plane and then from our room,
Barbara and I saw some of the areas devastated by the flooding. We
were astounded that we could only see the tops of some trees where
the Trinity's overflowed. Two weeks ago, I signed an emergency FEMA
proclamation at the request of our Governor, bringing federal
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disaster aid to the beleaguered counties. And how many, Bill, are
there in the official list?
GOVERNOR CLEMENTS: I think it's 37.
THE PRESIDENT: Way up there. Some 37 or more counties
-- more counties being added.
And so, in this terrible disaster, the losses have been
heavy. But the one thing that comes through to me from talking to my
friends is that this state will never lose -- one thing it will never
lose -- and that is its soul. And I heard some wonderful Texans from
Liberty talking on the television today -- and, yes, Texas is big,
but not as big as the generous hearts and indomitable spirit of its
people. You know, when I hear the candidates of the other party,
sometimes I wonder if they know the people of this state at all.
Know how they think. Know how to listen to their voices. I realized
you can explain it to them, but you can't understand it for them.
More than 40 years ago, as a salesman peddling drilling
bits out in West Texas, I crisscrossed all across West Texas in my
car. From Muleshoe to Wink to Notrees; from the Panhandle down,
Claytie, to Fort Stockton. I learned a lot about the people then.
Shared barbecues and saw their pain when they were laid off and the
paychecks weren't there.
Listening to the pulse of the people. That's how you
hear the heartbeat of Texas. And that's how Texas gets into your
blood. Sticks to you like a tumbleweed in a barbed-wire fence. And
you know, once it's there, it never leaves. For those of you who
might be worried that I'm spending too much time in Washington or in
Maine, and in the Northeast in general, let me tell you that we do
get homesick, and that chicken-fried lobster is no substitute for the
real thing. (Laughter.)
Coming home and seeing what the Texas GOP is doing makes
me very, very proud. This is the party of inclusion. And I
congratulate Claytie Williams for the kind of race he tells me he's
planning to run -- inclusion. (Applause.) And as Phil pointed out,
no one stands for this more -- of idealism. No one stands for that
more than Phil. And of ideas -- the same. You believe that progress
is not measured in money spent and bureaucracies built, but in people
helped.
And I'm proud, very proud of this slate, this statewide
slate of Republican candidates -- the strongest team in the history
of the state. (Applause.) Proud that for the first time there are
candidates for 15 state offices and the United States Senate.
First, of course, there's Senator Phil Gramm. Phil says
he's running for reelection like he was running for sheriff in each
of Texas' 254 counties. I believe him. But when he asked to hold
the budget talks there at high noon in the middle of Pennsylvania
Avenue, I thought he'd gone too far. But let me say this: thank God
that this able Senator is such a key player on the high-level budget
negotiations that we're undertaking in Washington now. Thank God for
his common sense. (Applause.)
And Clayton Williams -- Claytie the next Governor of
Texas -- (applause) -- I respect what he's achieved in business and
we respect his record of success in creating jobs in his 32 years in
business. We respect his commitment to fighting this insidious
poison of drugs. And we respect that he has broadened the base of
our party. Clayton Williams will bring his own energetic style to
the governor's office. You ought to ride in the limousine with this
guy -- you get ulcers just watching him jumping up and down in there.
(Laughter.) And he will stamp his brand of leadership on the Texas
of the 1990s. Claytie, I am for you 100 percent. You must and you
will win this race and follow Bill Clements into office. It's
absolutely essential. (Applause.)
And the rest of this great state and local slate. Men
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and women who make up a coalition that reflects Texas -- all of Texas
-- as it really is and as it will be. A coalition of diverse people
--- Kay Bailey Hutchison, Lou Sturns, Rick Perry, Tony Garza, old
friend, Bob Mosbacher -- Rob -- Wes Gilbreath. Warren Harding,
Buster Brown. You are today's Texans with the large and generous
spirit of yesterday's Texans.
You know, on Inauguration Day, I talked in the State of
the Union message about a new breeze blowing. Let me tell you,
standing back here in Texas, I can feel it. It is the warm Gulf
breeze of a state where people are independent-minded and open -- as
bold as its frontiers. It's the wind of a land where risk-taking
comes from the strength of your beliefs, and where your spirit as big
as the Texas sky.
Each of you in the Texas GOP has helped to open the
window of the musty darkness of outdated big government. You're
blowing away the stuffiness of irrelevant liberalism because your new
breeze carries the new ideas Texas needs for the '90s. Ideas that
encourage investment in business and in the business of our children
-- education.
In Washington, we share your belief that education is the
only path to a brighter American future. It is critical to
everything we are and everything we can become. And I must say, I
salute Barbara Bush for her lead in trying to make this country a
literate America. (Applause.) We've declared a new era of education
reform in America. We began in September with the first education
summit in American history, bringing together at Charlottesville the
nation's governors. And I will pay tribute here -- including our own
Bill Clements, who took a leadership role. Brought them together to
tackle this crisis.
Last winter, we announced our goals -- they were
unanimous; they got across party lines. Goals to make American
education number one. Among them -- American students must be the
first in math and science. All children must start school ready to
learn, with help from programs like Head Start. They must
demonstrate competency in crucial subject areas while we increase the
percentage of graduating high school students to 90 percent.
Finally, every school in America must have a disciplined
environment and, most of all, be drug free. (Applause.)
The curse of drugs threatens our communities, our
schools, our workplaces and, most importantly -- and God bless them
-- our children. There is no greater threat today to the health of
the American family and the future of our land. The strength we
bring to win the war on drugs has got to be of hurricane force. It
must roar with determination from the smallest town squares to those
concrete canyons of our cities.
Our National Drug Control Strategy is clear. The rules
of the game have changed. America will no longer tolerate drug use.
For too long we condoned that which we should have condemned. And
those who violate the law will pay a heavy price. We will take back
the streets of our country. (Applause.)
We must and we will stop the horror -- the pollution of
drugs drifting across our borders. We've designated the Houston area
and the southwest border high-intensity drug trafficking areas. This
means that you'll receive special federal enforcement assistance to
disrupt and dismantle drug trafficking organizations.
The additional drug legislation that our administration
sent to the Hill this week contains a number of proposals that will
help stop drugs and drug smugglers from breaching our borders. We've
called for more border patrol agents, extending general arrest
authority to them so they can enforce our drug laws as they protect
our frontier. We're also proposing legislation that will permit
authorities to exclude criminal aliens convicted of drug felonies.
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And to win this war on drugs, we must continue the fight
being waged so well by our own Governor right here in Texas, Bill
Clements. We need this Republican team -- headed by Clayton Williams
--- in Austin, to continue this cooperative battle. And needless to
say, I need Phil Gramm in Washington, where he is a leader in the
quest for drug-free communities.
But I need Phil in Washington for something else -- and I
alluded to it earlier -- our struggle with the budget. In this last
decade, not once but twice, his vision has changed the fiscal
firmament of this land. On Tuesday, we convened an extraordinary,
ongoing bipartisan budget summit. Phil is designated as a -- without
the ranking member on the specific committee -- as a key member; one
of, I think, only two in the whole process designated by the
leadership. He's working closely with me at the table, providing the
kind of sound fiscal advice that he's known for.
And so, education. The fight against drugs. The budget
deficit. I think we're making progress -- and with our Texan
Republican leadership in place in Austin and Washington, we're going
to make a lot more progress. (Applause.)
We're going to win -- you know what's at stake here on
redistricting across this country -- we're going to win here and
across the country in 1990. We have to win in 1990. If we don't,
once again the opposition will gerrymander fair representation right
out the window and into thin air. The Democratic leaders know that
today Republicans will win in a fair fight because times are
changing. Party identity, as Phil pointed out to you, is changing.
When I was running, with a spectacular lack of success,
for the Senate back in 1964, my first speech was about building a
two-party system in Texas. Barbara listened and three other people
listened, and that was it. (Laughter.) But back then -- and that's
the gospel truth -- but back then during elections they might as well
have put a sign: public office available, no Republicans need apply.
Well, today Texas voters have put up a new sign. It tells everyone:
public office available, no outdated big spending,
bureaucracy-building liberal Democrats need apply. (Applause.) And
that's the message.
So the next six months are crucial to this state. I
really feel that deep inside me. Crucial to Texas and to our country
itself. The future's at stake. And we've got to join together.
We're going to take the Republican message to every farm
and ranch, to every town and city, to every Texan willing to listen
in this magnificent state of ours. And if we do, on election day the
people of Texas will lift their faces and feel that Republican breeze
of change, of new ideas that's sweeping our land.
And then together we can face whatever challenges the
future may bring. Because in togetherness there is strength. And in
Texas togetherness is the finest kind of strength of all.
Thank you all very much for your fantastic support for
our ticket. God bless the great state of Texas and God bless
America. Thank you. It's a great pleasure to be home. (Applause.)
END
7:59 P.M. CDT
Document No. 140898SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
90 MAY 21 A8: 34
DATE:
5/17/90
---
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: TEXAS GOP FUNDRAISER
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
PINKERTON
FITZWATER
PORTER ROSE
GRAY
WRAY
HAGIN
ANDERSON
BENNETT
REMARKS:
The attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
May 16, 1990
1990 MAY 16 PM 3. 04
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
CHRISS WINSTON
cw
FROM:
BETH HINCHLIFFE BH
SUBJECT:
TEXAS GOP FUNDRAISER
I. SUMMARY
On Friday, May 18, at 6:30 p.m. you will address about 2,000
people at a Texas GOP fundraiser. Senator Phil Gramm will
introduce you. Accompanying you on the dais will be: Governor
Bill Clements; Chairman of the Texas GOP, Fred Meyer; Bobby Holt;
Tom Landry; your son, George; and the 15 statewide Republican
candidates.
II. DISCUSSION
The attached remarks (12 minutes, teleprompter) celebrate
how the Texas GOP has become a stronger and more viable political
party. The text also highlights the Administration's policies on
education, drug use, and the budget negotiations. You also
reference the new drug proposals affecting the Southwest border
which were announced today.
(Hinchliffe/Blessey)
May 16, 1990 2:10 p.m.
TEXAS
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
TEXAS GOP FUNDRAISER
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1990 6:30 P.M.
Thank you, Phil. It's always a pleasure to hear your
introductions -- you have the heart of old Texas in you. ((And, for
an old college professor, your brevity was certainly an appreciated
departure from tradition.))
Boone, this is a great party you're throwing for a great party!
And so many familiar Texas faces: Bill (Clements), Fred (Meyer),
Bobby (Holt), Clayton (Williams), Tom (Landry), this great statewide
Republican ticket, and a fellow over there (son George), can't quite
recall the name
...
Many wonderful old friends from over so many
years. Barbara and I realized on the way down here that it was 42
years ago we first made this trip. ((Of course, that was in a '47
Studebaker, and today it was in Air Force One. A little more leg room
now, but all the same -- it's great to be back home!))
Texas is larger than life in our hearts. It's a place of family
and duty and loyalty and honor. But then, what more could you expect
from a state whose name means "friend"?
((I'd love to come back home to my friends again next October, to
throw out the first ball at the opening game of the Rangers-Astros
World Series. You know, I asked George if I could try out for the
club. He said, "Sure, Dad, you can come down and throw the ball
around. But don't give up your day job."// Then he added, kindly, "Of
course, you can play
...
in the Old Timers' League. ")) //
2
But there is some sadness involved in this homecoming, too. When we
were flying in this afternoon, Barbara and I saw several of the areas
devastated by the flooding. We were astounded that we could only see
the tops of trees where the Trinity has overflowed. Two weeks ago, I
signed an emergency FEMA proclamation bringing federal disaster aid
to the beleaguered counties. And more counties are being added.
In this terrible disaster, the losses have been heavy. But the
one thing this state will never lose is its soul. Yes, Texas is big,
but not as big as the generous hearts and indomitable spirit of its
people. But, you know, when I hear the candidates of the other party,
sometimes I wonder if they know the people of this state at all. Know
how they think. Know how to listen to their voices. ((I realized: you
can explain it to them, but you can't understand it for them.)
More than 30 years ago, as a salesman selling drilling bits, I
crisscrossed this state in my car. From Muleshoe to the Rio Grande;
from Wichita Falls to Dimebox. I learned a lot about the people then.
Shared barbecues with them. Saw their pain when paychecks weren't
there. Listening to the pulse of the people. That's how you hear the
heartbeat of Texas.
And that's how Texas gets into your blood. Sticks to you like
tumbleweed to a barbed wire fence. And you know, once it's there, it
never leaves. ( (For those of you who might be worried that we've been
spending too much time in Washington, in Maine, and in the Northeast
in general, let me tell you that we do get homesick, and that
chicken-fried lobster is no substitute for the real thing.) //
Coming home and seeing what you in the Texas GOP are doing makes
me proud. You're the party of inclusion. of idealism. And of ideas.
3
You believe that progress is not measured in money spent and bur-
eaucrácies built, but in people helped.
And I'm proud of this slate of Republican candidates -- the
strongest team in the history of the state. Proud that for the first
time there are candidates for 15 state offices and the U.S. Senate.
There's Senator Phil Gramm. Phil says he's running for reelection
like he was running for sheriff in each of Texas' 254 counties. ((I
believe him. But when he asked to hold the budget talks at high noon
in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue, I thought he'd gone too far.)
And Clayton Williams -- Claytie -- the next Governor of Texas. //
We respect his record of success in creating jobs: more than 100,000
in his 32 years in business. We respect his commitment to fighting
the insidious poison of drugs. And we respect that he has broadened
the base of our party. Clayton Williams will bring his own energetic
style to the governor's office -- and stamp his brand of leadership
on the Texas of the 90s. //
And the rest of this great state and local slate. Men and women
who make up a coalition that reflects Texas -- all of Texas -- as it
really is and as it will be. A coalition of diverse people like Kay
Bailey Hutchison, Louis Sturns, Rick Perry. Tony Garza, Rob Mosbacher
and Wes Gilbreath. Warren Harding and Buster Brown. You are today's
Texans with the large and generous spirit of yesterday's Texans. //
You know, on Inauguration Day, I talked about a new breeze blow-
ing. Let me tell you, standing back here in Texas, I can feel the air
stirring. It's the warm Gulf breeze of a state where people are inde-
pendent-minded and as open as its ranges. As bold as its frontiers.
4
It's the wind of a land where risk-taking comes from the strength of
your beliefs, and where your spirit is as big as the Texas night sky.
Each of you in the Texas GOP has helped to open the window on the
musty darkness of outdated big government. You are blowing away the
stuffiness of irrelevant liberalism: because your new breeze carries
the new ideas Texas needs for the '90s. Ideas that encourage invest-
ment in business and in the business of our children -- education.
In Washington, we share your belief that education is the only
path to a brighter American future. It is critical to everything we
are and everything we can become. That's why we've declared a new era
of education reform in America. We began in September with the first
education summit in American history, bringing together the nation's
governors, including your own Bill Clements, to tackle this crisis.
Last winter, we announced our goals to make American education
number one. Among them: American students must be first in math and
science. // All children must start school ready to learn, with help
from programs like Head Start. // They must demonstrate competency in
crucial subject areas while we increase the percentage of graduating
high school students to 90%. //
Finally, every school in America must have a disciplined
environment -- and, most of all, be drug free. //
The curse of drugs threatens our communities, our schools, our
workplaces and, most importantly, our children. There is no greater
threat today to the health of the American family and the future of
our land. The strength we bring to win the war on drugs must be of
hurricane force. It must roar with determination from the smallest
town squares to the concrete canyons of our cities.
5
Our National Drug Control Strategy is clear. The rules of the
game have changed. America will no longer tolerate drug use. And
those who violate the law will pay a heavy price. We will take back
the streets of our country.
We will stop the horror -- the pollution of drugs drifting across
our borders. We have designated the Houston area and the southwest
border high intensity drug trafficking areas. This means you will
receive special Federal enforcement assistance to disrupt and
dismantle drug trafficking organizations. /
The drug legislation package that my Administration sent to the
Hill this week contains a number of proposals that will help stop
drugs and drug smugglers from breaching our borders. We have called
for more border patrol agents, extending general arrest authority to
them so they can enforce our drug laws as they guard the frontier. We
are also proposing legislation that will permit authorities to
exclude criminal aliens convicted of drug felonies.
But to win the war on drugs, I need your Republican team --
headed by Clayton Williams -- in Austin, to continue this cooperative
fight. And I need Phil in Washington, where he is a leader in the
battle for drug-free schools.
But I need Phil in Washington for something else, too: our
struggle with the budget. In this last decade, not once, but twice,
his vision has changed the fiscal firmament of this land. On Tuesday,
we convened an extraordinary, ongoing bipartisan budget summit. Phil
is working closely with me at the table, providing the kind of sound
fiscal advice he's known for.
6
Education. The fight against drugs. The budget deficit. We're
making progress -- and, with your Texan Republican leadership in
place in Austin and Washington, we're going to make more.
We're going to win here in 1990. We have to win in 1990. If we
let the familiar old faces continue in power, once again they'll
gerrymander fair representation right out the window and into thin
air. The Democratic leaders know that today Republicans will win in a
fair fight because the times are changing in Texas.
When I was running for the Senate here back in 1964, my first
speech was about building a two-party system in Texas. Back then,
during elections they might as well have put up a sign: Public Office
Available: No Republicans Need Apply. Well, today Texas voters have
put up a new sign. It tells everyone -- Public Office Available: No
outdated, big spending, backroom scheming, liberal members of the
backslapping, backward-looking Democratic Party need apply. ///
The next six months are crucial to Texas and to the United States
itself. The future is at stake. We must join together -- ((and work
as hard as a stump-tailed bull at fly time.) )
We will take the Republican message to every farm and ranch, to
every town and city, to every Texan willing to listen in this
magnificent state of ours. And if we do, on election day the people
of Texas will lift their faces and feel the Republican breeze of
change -- of new ideas -- sweep our land.
And then together we can face whatever challenges the future may
bring. Because in togetherness there is strength. And in Texan
togetherness is the finest kind of strength of all.
God bless the great state of Texas and God bless America.
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((I'D LOVE TO COME BACK HOME TO MY FRIENDS AGAIN
NEXT OCTOBER, TO THROW OUT THE FIRST BALL AT THE
OPENING GAME OF THE RANGERS-ASTROS WORLD SERIES. YOU
KNOW, I ASKED GEORGE IF I COULD TRY OUT FOR THE CLUB.
HE SAID, "SURE, DAD, YOU CAN COME DOWN AND THROW THE
BALL AROUND. BUT DON'T GIVE UP YOUR DAY JOB. "// THEN
HE ADDED, KINDLY, "WHY DON'T YOU TRY OUT FOR THE OLD
TIMERS' LEAGUE. ")) //
BUT THERE IS SOME SADNESS INVOLVED IN THIS
HOMECOMING, TOO. FROM OUR ROOM, BARBARA AND I SAW
SOME OF THE AREA DEVASTATED BY THE FLOODING. WE WERE
ASTOUNDED THAT WE COULD ONLY SEE THE TOPS OF THE TREES
WHERE THE TRINITY HAS OVERFLOWED. TWO WEEKS AGO, I
SIGNED AN EMERGENCY FEMA PROCLAMATION BRINGING FEDERAL
DISASTER AID TO THE BELEAGUERED COUNTIES. AND MORE
COUNTIES ARE BEING ADDED.
- 2 -
((I'D LOVE TO COME BACK HOME TO MY FRIENDS AGAIN
NEXT OCTOBER, TO THROW OUT THE FIRST BALL AT THE
OPENING GAME OF THE RANGERS-ASTROS WORLD SERIES. YOU
KNOW, I ASKED GEORGE IF I COULD TRY OUT FOR THE CLUB.
HE SAID, "SURE, DAD, YOU CAN COME DOWN AND THROW THE
BALL AROUND. BUT DON'T GIVE UP YOUR DAY JOB. "// THEN
HE ADDED, KINDLY, "WHY DON'T YOU TRY OUT FOR THE OLD
TIMERS' LEAGUE. ")) //
BUT THERE IS SOME SADNESS INVOLVED IN THIS
HOMECOMING, TOO. FROM OUR ROOM, BARBARA AND I SAW
SOME OF THE AREA DEVASTATED BY THE FLOODING. WE WERE
ASTOUNDED THAT WE COULD ONLY SEE THE TOPS OF THE TREES
WHERE THE TRINITY HAS OVERFLOWED. TWO WEEKS AGO, I
SIGNED AN EMERGENCY FEMA PROCLAMATION BRINGING FEDERAL
DISASTER AID TO THE BELEAGUERED COUNTIES. AND MORE
COUNTIES ARE BEING ADDED.
TEXAS GOP FUNDRAISER / DALLAS, TEXAS
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1990 / 6:30 P.M.
THANK YOU, PHIL. IT'S ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO HEAR
YOUR INTRODUCTIONS -- YOU HAVE THE HEART OF OLD TEXAS
IN YOU. ((AND, FOR AN OLD COLLEGE PROFESSOR, YOUR
BREVITY WAS CERTAINLY AN APPRECIATED DEPARTURE FROM
TRADITION.))
BOONE, THIS IS A GREAT PARTY YOU'RE THROWING FOR
A GREAT PARTY! AND SO MANY FAMILIAR TEXAS FACES: BILL
(CLEMENTS), FRED (MEYER), BOBBY (HOLT), TOM (LANDRY),
CLAYTON (WILLIAMS), AND JOHN (TOWER), THIS GREAT
STATEWIDE REPUBLICAN TICKET, AND A FELLOW OVER THERE
(SON GEORGE). MANY WONDERFUL OLD FRIENDS FROM OVER so
MANY YEARS. BARBARA AND I REALIZED ON THE WAY DOWN
HERE THAT IT WAS 42 YEARS AGO NEXT MONTH THAT WE MOVED
TO TEXAS. ((OF COURSE, THAT WAS IN A '47 STUDEBAKER,
AND TODAY IT WAS IN AIR FORCE ONE. A LITTLE MORE LEG
ROOM NOW, BUT ALL THE SAME -- IT'S GREAT TO BE BACK
HOME!))
TEXAS IS LARGER THAN LIFE IN OUR HEARTS. IT'S A
PLACE OF FAMILY AND DUTY AND LOYALTY AND HONOR. BUT
THEN, WHAT MORE COULD YOU EXPECT FROM A STATE WHOSE
NAME MEANS "FRIEND"?
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((I'D LOVE TO COME BACK HOME TO MY FRIENDS AGAIN
NEXT OCTOBER, TO THROW OUT THE FIRST BALL AT THE
OPENING GAME OF THE RANGERS-ASTROS WORLD SERIES. YOU
KNOW, I ASKED GEORGE IF I COULD TRY OUT FOR THE CLUB.
HE SAID, "SURE, DAD, YOU CAN COME DOWN AND THROW THE
BALL AROUND. BUT DON'T GIVE UP YOUR DAY JOB."/// THEN
HE ADDED, KINDLY, "WHY DON'T YOU TRY OUT FOR THE OLD
TIMERS' LEAGUE. ")) //
BUT THERE IS SOME SADNESS INVOLVED IN THIS
HOMECOMING, TOO. WHEN WE WERE FLYING IN THIS AFTERNOON,
BARBARA AND I SAW SEVERAL OF THE AREAS DEVASTATED BY TRINITY
TO HEAR THAT THE/WATERS
THE FLOODING. WE WERE ASTOUNDED THAT WE COULD ONLY SEE
THE
REACHED
THE TOP$ OF TREES, WHERE THE TRINITY -HAS OVERFLOWED
TWO WEEKS AGO, I SIGNED AN EMERGENCY FEMA PROCLAMATION
BRINGING FEDERAL DISASTER AID TO THE BELEAGUERED
COUNTIES. AND MORE COUNTIES ARE BEING ADDED.
- 3 -
IN THIS TERRIBLE DISASTER, THE LOSSES HAVE BEEN
HEAVY. BUT THE ONE THING THIS STATE WILL NEVER LOSE IS
ITS SOUL. YES, TEXAS IS BIG, BUT NOT AS BIG AS THE
GENEROUS HEARTS AND INDOMITABLE SPIRIT OF ITS PEOPLE.
BUT, YOU KNOW, WHEN I HEAR THE CANDIDATES OF THE OTHER
PARTY, SOMETIMES I WONDER IF THEY KNOW THE PEOPLE OF
THIS STATE AT ALL. KNOW HOW THEY THINK. KNOW HOW TO
LISTEN TO THEIR VOICES. ((I REALIZED: YOU CAN EXPLAIN
IT TO THEM, BUT YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND IT FOR THEM.))
MORE THAN 40 YEARS AGO, AS A SALESMAN SELLING
DRILLING BITS, I CRISSCROSSED WEST TEXAS IN MY CAR.
FROM MULESHOE TO WINK TO NOTREES; FROM THE PANHANDLE TO
FORT STOCKTON. I LEARNED A LOT ABOUT THE PEOPLE THEN.
SHARED BARBECUES WITH THEM. SAW THEIR PAIN WHEN
PAYCHECKS WEREN'T THERE.
LISTENING TO THE PULSE OF THE PEOPLE. THAT'S HOW
YOU HEAR THE HEARTBEAT OF TEXAS.
- 4 -
AND THAT'S HOW TEXAS GETS INTO YOUR BLOOD.
STICKS TO YOU LIKE TUMBLEWEED TO A BARBED WIRE FENCE.
AND YOU KNOW, ONCE IT'S THERE, IT NEVER LEAVES. ((FOR
THOSE OF YOU WHO MIGHT BE WORRIED THAT WE'VE BEEN
SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME IN WASHINGTON, IN MAINE, AND IN
THE NORTHEAST IN GENERAL, LET ME TELL YOU THAT WE DO
GET HOMESICK, AND THAT CHICKEN-FRIED LOBSTER IS NO
SUBSTITUTE FOR THE REAL THING.) 11
COMING HOME AND SEEING WHAT THE TEXAS GOP IS
DOING MAKES ME PROUD. THIS IS THE PARTY OF INCLUSION.
OF IDEALISM. AND OF IDEAS. YOU BELIEVE THAT PROGRESS
IS NOT MEASURED IN MONEY SPENT AND BUREAUCRACIES BUILT,
BUT IN PEOPLE HELPED.
AND I'M PROUD OF THIS SLATE OF REPUBLICAN
CANDIDATES -- THE STRONGEST TEAM IN THE HISTORY OF THE
STATE. PROUD THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME THERE ARE
CANDIDATES FOR 15 STATE OFFICES AND THE U.S. SENATE.
- 5 -
THERE'S SENATOR PHIL GRAMM. PHIL SAYS HE'S
RUNNING FOR REELECTION LIKE HE WAS RUNNING FOR SHERIFF
IN EACH OF TEXAS' 254 COUNTIES. ((I BELIEVE HIM. BUT
WHEN HE ASKED TO HOLD THE BUDGET TALKS AT HIGH NOON IN
THE MIDDLE OF PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, I THOUGHT HE'D GONE
TOO FAR.)) // THANK GOD THIS ABLE SENATOR IS SUCH A
KEY PLAYER ON THE HIGH-LEVEL BUDGET NEGOTIATIONS.
AND CLAYTON WILLIAMS -- CLAYTIE -- THE NEXT
GOVERNOR OF TEXAS.// WE RESPECT HIS RECORD OF SUCCESS
IN CREATING JOBS IN HIS 32 YEARS IN BUSINESS. WE
RESPECT HIS COMMITMENT TO FIGHTING THE INSIDIOUS POISON
OF DRUGS. AND WE RESPECT THAT HE HAS BROADENED THE
BASE OF OUR PARTY. CLAYTON WILLIAMS WILL BRING HIS OWN
ENERGETIC STYLE TO THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE -- AND STAMP
HIS BRAND OF LEADERSHIP ON THE TEXAS OF THE '90S.
CLAYTIE -- I AM ALL FOR YOU -- 100% -- YOU MUST AND YOU
WILL WIN!
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AND THE REST OF THIS GREAT STATE AND LOCAL
SLATE. MEN AND WOMEN WHO MAKE UP A COALITION THAT
REFLECTS TEXAS -- ALL OF TEXAS -- AS IT REALLY IS AND
AS IT WILL BE. A COALITION OF DIVERSE PEOPLE LIKE KAY
BAILEY HUTCHISON, LOUIS STURNS, RICK PERRY. TONY
GARZA, ROB MOSBACHER AND WES GILBREATH [GILL-BREATH].
WARREN HARDING AND BUSTER BROWN. YOU ARE TODAY'S
TEXANS WITH THE LARGE AND GENEROUS SPIRIT OF
YESTERDAY'S TEXANS. //
YOU KNOW, ON INAUGURATION DAY, I TALKED ABOUT A
NEW BREEZE BLOWING. LET ME TELL YOU, STANDING BACK
HERE IN TEXAS, I CAN FEEL IT. IT'S THE WARM GULF
BREEZE OF A STATE WHERE PEOPLE ARE INDEPENDENT-MINDED
AND OPEN -- AS BOLD AS ITS FRONTIERS. IT'S THE WIND OF
A LAND WHERE RISK-TAKING COMES FROM THE STRENGTH OF
YOUR BELIEFS, AND WHERE YOUR SPIRIT IS AS BIG AS THE
TEXAS NIGHT SKY.
- 7 -
EACH OF YOU IN THE TEXAS GOP HAS HELPED TO OPEN
THE WINDOW ON THE MUSTY DARKNESS OF OUTDATED BIG
GOVERNMENT. YOU ARE BLOWING AWAY THE STUFFINESS OF
IRRELEVANT LIBERALISM: BECAUSE YOUR NEW BREEZE CARRIES
THE NEW IDEAS TEXAS NEEDS FOR THE '90S. IDEAS THAT
ENCOURAGE INVESTMENT IN BUSINESS AND IN THE BUSINESS OF
OUR CHILDREN -- EDUCATION.
IN WASHINGTON, WE SHARE YOUR BELIEF THAT
EDUCATION IS THE ONLY PATH TO A BRIGHTER AMERICAN
FUTURE. IT IS CRITICAL TO EVERYTHING WE ARE AND
EVERYTHING WE CAN BECOME. THAT'S WHY WE'VE DECLARED A
NEW ERA OF EDUCATION REFORM IN AMERICA. WE BEGAN IN
SEPTEMBER WITH THE FIRST EDUCATION SUMMIT IN AMERICAN
HISTORY, BRINGING TOGETHER THE NATION'S GOVERNORS,
INCLUDING OUR OWN BILL CLEMENTS, TO TACKLE THIS CRISIS.
- 8 -
LAST WINTER, WE ANNOUNCED OUR GOALS TO MAKE
AMERICAN EDUCATION NUMBER ONE. AMONG THEM: AMERICAN
STUDENTS MUST BE FIRST IN MATH AND SCIENCE. // ALL
CHILDREN MUST START SCHOOL READY TO LEARN, WITH HELP
FROM PROGRAMS LIKE HEAD START. 11 THEY MUST
DEMONSTRATE COMPETENCY IN CRUCIAL SUBJECT AREAS WHILE
WE INCREASE THE PERCENTAGE OF GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENTS TO 90%. //
FINALLY, EVERY SCHOOL IN AMERICA MUST HAVE A
DISCIPLINED ENVIRONMENT -- AND, MOST OF ALL, BE DRUG
FREE. //
THE CURSE OF DRUGS THREATENS OUR COMMUNITIES,
OUR SCHOOLS, OUR WORKPLACES AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, OUR
CHILDREN. THERE IS NO GREATER THREAT TODAY TO THE
HEALTH OF THE AMERICAN FAMILY AND THE FUTURE OF OUR
LAND. THE STRENGTH WE BRING TO WIN THE WAR ON DRUGS
MUST BE OF HURRICANE FORCE. IT MUST ROAR WITH
DETERMINATION FROM THE SMALLEST TOWN SQUARES TO THE
CONCRETE CANYONS OF OUR CITIES.
- 9 -
OUR NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY IS CLEAR.
THE RULES OF THE GAME HAVE CHANGED. AMERICA WILL NO
LONGER TOLERATE DRUG USE. AND THOSE WHO VIOLATE THE LAW
WILL PAY A HEAVY PRICE. WE WILL TAKE BACK THE STREETS
OF OUR COUNTRY.
WE WILL STOP THE HORROR - -- THE POLLUTION OF
DRUGS DRIFTING ACROSS OUR BORDERS. WE HAVE DESIGNATED
THE HOUSTON AREA AND THE SOUTHWEST BORDER HIGH
INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREAS. THIS MEANS YOU WILL
RECEIVE SPECIAL FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE TO
DISRUPT AND DISMANTLE DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATIONS. //
THE ADDITIONAL DRUG LEGISLATION THAT MY
ADMINISTRATION SENT TO THE HILL THIS WEEK CONTAINS A
NUMBER OF PROPOSALS THAT WILL HELP STOP DRUGS AND DRUG
SMUGGLERS FROM BREACHING OUR BORDERS. WE HAVE CALLED
FOR MORE BORDER PATROL AGENTS, EXTENDING GENERAL ARREST
AUTHORITY TO THEM SO THEY CAN ENFORCE OUR DRUG LAWS AS
THEY GUARD THE FRONTIER. WE ARE ALSO PROPOSING
LEGISLATION THAT WILL PERMIT AUTHORITIES TO EXCLUDE
CRIMINAL ALIENS CONVICTED OF DRUG FELONIES. //
- 10 -
BUT TO WIN THE WAR ON DRUGS, WE MUST CONTINUE
THE FIGHT BEING WAGED so WELL BY BILL CLEMENTS. WE
NEED THIS REPUBLICAN TEAM -- HEADED BY CLAYTON WILLIAMS
-- IN AUSTIN, TO CONTINUE THIS COOPERATIVE BATTLE.
AND, NEEDLESS TO SAY, I NEED PHIL IN WASHINGTON, WHERE
HE IS A LEADER IN THE QUEST FOR DRUG-FREE COMMUNITIES.
BUT I NEED PHIL IN WASHINGTON FOR SOMETHING
ELSE, TOO: OUR STRUGGLE WITH THE BUDGET. IN THIS LAST
DECADE, NOT ONCE, BUT TWICE, HIS VISION HAS CHANGED THE
FISCAL FIRMAMENT OF THIS LAND. ON TUESDAY, WE CONVENED
AN EXTRAORDINARY, ONGOING BIPARTISAN BUDGET SUMMIT.
PHIL IS WORKING CLOSELY WITH ME AT THE TABLE, PROVIDING
THE KIND OF SOUND FISCAL ADVICE HE'S KNOWN FOR.
EDUCATION. THE FIGHT AGAINST DRUGS. THE BUDGET
DEFICIT. WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS -- AND, WITH OUR TEXAN
REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP IN PLACE IN AUSTIN AND
WASHINGTON, WE'RE GOING TO MAKE MORE.
- 11 -
WE'RE GOING TO WIN HERE AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY
IN 1990. WE HAVE TO WIN IN 1990. IF WE DON'T, ONCE
AGAIN THE OPPOSITION WILL GERRYMANDER FAIR
REPRESENTATION RIGHT OUT THE WINDOW AND INTO THIN AIR.
THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS KNOW THAT TODAY REPUBLICANS WILL
WIN IN A FAIR FIGHT BECAUSE THE TIMES ARE CHANGING.
WHEN I WAS RUNNING FOR THE SENATE HERE BACK IN
1964, MY FIRST SPEECH WAS ABOUT BUILDING A TWO-PARTY
SYSTEM IN TEXAS. BACK THEN, DURING ELECTIONS THEY
MIGHT AS WELL HAVE PUT UP A SIGN: PUBLIC OFFICE
AVAILABLE: NO REPUBLICANS NEED APPLY. WELL, TODAY
TEXAS VOTERS HAVE PUT UP A NEW SIGN. IT TELLS EVERYONE
-- PUBLIC OFFICE AVAILABLE: NO OUTDATED, BIG SPENDING,
BACKROOM SCHEMING, LIBERAL MEMBERS OF THE BACKSLAPPING,
BACKWARD-LOOKING DEMOCRATIC PARTY NEED APPLY. ///
THE NEXT SIX MONTHS ARE CRUCIAL TO TEXAS AND TO
THE UNITED STATES ITSELF. THE FUTURE IS AT STAKE. WE
MUST JOIN TOGETHER.
- 12 -
WE WILL TAKE THE REPUBLICAN MESSAGE TO EVERY
FARM AND RANCH, TO EVERY TOWN AND CITY, TO EVERY TEXAN
WILLING TO LISTEN IN THIS MAGNIFICENT STATE OF OURS.
AND IF WE DO, ON ELECTION DAY THE PEOPLE OF TEXAS WILL
LIFT THEIR FACES AND FEEL THE REPUBLICAN BREEZE OF
CHANGE -- OF NEW IDEAS -- SWEEP OUR LAND.
AND THEN TOGETHER WE CAN FACE WHATEVER
CHALLENGES THE FUTURE MAY BRING. BECAUSE IN
TOGETHERNESS THERE IS STRENGTH. AND IN TEXAS
TOGETHERNESS IS THE FINEST KIND OF STRENGTH OF ALL.
GOD BLESS THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS AND GOD BLESS
AMERICA.
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
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OUR NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY IS CLEAR.
THE RULES OF THE GAME HAVE CHANGED. AMERICA WILL NO
LONGER TOLERATE DRUG USE. AND THOSE WHO VIOLATE THE LAW
WILL PAY A HEAVY PRICE. WE WILL TAKE BACK THE STREETS
OF OUR COUNTRY.
WE WILL STOP THE HORROR -- THE POLLUTION OF
DRUGS DRIFTING ACROSS OUR BORDERS. WE HAVE DESIGNATED
THE HOUSTON AREA AND THE SOUTHWEST BORDER HIGH
INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREAS. THIS MEANS YOU WILL
RECEIVE SPECIAL FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE TO
DISRUPT AND DISMANTLE DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATIONS. //
THE ADDITIONAL DRUG LEGISLATION THAT MY
ADMINISTRATION SENT TO THE HILL THIS WEEK CONTAINS A
NUMBER OF PROPOSALS THAT WILL HELP STOP DRUGS AND DRUG
SMUGGLERS FROM BREACHING OUR BORDERS. WE HAVE CALLED
FOR MORE BORDER PATROL AGENTS, EXTENDING GENERAL ARREST
AUTHORITY TO THEM SO THEY CAN ENFORCE OUR DRUG LAWS AS
THEY GUARD THE FRONTIER. WE ARE ALSO PROPOSING
LEGISLATION THAT WILL PERMIT AUTHORITIES TO EXCLUDE
CRIMINAL ALIENS CONVICTED OF DRUG FELONIES. //
- 9 -
OUR NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY IS CLEAR.
THE RULES OF THE GAME HAVE CHANGED. AMERICA WILL NO
LONGER TOLERATE DRUG USE. AND THOSE WHO VIOLATE THE LAW
WILL PAY A HEAVY PRICE. WE WILL TAKE BACK THE STREETS
OF OUR COUNTRY.
WE WILL STOP THE HORROR - -- THE POLLUTION OF
DRUGS DRIFTING ACROSS OUR BORDERS. WE HAVE DESIGNATED
THE HOUSTON AREA AND THE SOUTHWEST BORDER HIGH
INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREAS. THIS MEANS YOU WILL
RECEIVE SPECIAL FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE TO
DISRUPT AND DISMANTLE DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATIONS. //
THE ADDITIONAL DRUG LEGISLATION THAT MY
ADMINISTRATION SENT TO THE HILL THIS WEEK CONTAINS A
NUMBER OF PROPOSALS THAT WILL HELP STOP DRUGS AND DRUG
SMUGGLERS FROM BREACHING OUR BORDERS. WE HAVE CALLED
FOR MORE BORDER PATROL AGENTS, EXTENDING GENERAL ARREST
AUTHORITY TO THEM SO THEY CAN ENFORCE OUR DRUG LAWS AS
THEY GUARD THE FRONTIER. WE ARE ALSO PROPOSING
LEGISLATION THAT WILL PERMIT AUTHORITIES TO EXCLUDE
CRIMINAL ALIENS CONVICTED OF DRUG FELONIES. //
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
1390 MAY is F:13-04 3.
May 16, 1990
INFORMATION
charges
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
CHRISS WINSTON
cu
your
FROM:
BETH HINCHLIFFE BH
SUBJECT:
TEXAS GOP FUNDRAISER
I. SUMMARY
On Friday, May 18, at 6:30 p.m. you will address about 2,000
people at a Texas GOP fundraiser. Senator Phil Gramm will
introduce you. Accompanying you on the dais will be: Governor
Bill Clements; Chairman of the Texas GOP, Fred Meyer; Bobby Holt;
Tom Landry; your son, George; and the 15 statewide Republican
candidates.
II. DISCUSSION
The attached remarks (12 minutes, teleprompter) celebrate
how the Texas GOP has become a stronger and more viable political
party. The text also highlights the Administration's policies on
education, drug use, and the budget negotiations. You also
reference the new drug proposals affecting the Southwest border
which were announced today.
(Hinchliffe/Blessey)
May 16, 1990 2:10 p.m.
TEXAS
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
TEXAS GOP FUNDRAISER
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1990 6:30 P.M.
Thank you, Phil. It's always a pleasure to hear your
introductions -- you have the heart of old Texas in you. ((And, for
an old college professor, your brevity was certainly an appreciated
departure from tradition.)
Boone, this is a great party you're throwing for a great party!
And so many familiar and Texas faces: Bill (Clements), Fred (Meyer),
Bobby (Holt) Clayton (Williams), Tom (Landry), this great statewide
Republican ticket, and a fellow over there (son George), can't quite
recall the name ... Many wonderful old friends from over so many
years. Barbara and I realized on the way down here that it was 42
next month that we would to xx3
years ago 1 we first made this trip. ((Of course, that was in a '47
Studebaker, and today it was in Air Force One. A little more leg room
now, but all the same -- it's great to be back home!))
Texas is larger than life in our hearts. It's a place of family
and duty and loyalty and honor. But then, what more could you expect
from a state whose name means "friend"?
((I'd love to come back home to my friends again next October, to
throw out the first ball at the opening game of the Rangers-Astros
World Series. You know, I asked George if I could try out for the
club. He said, "Sure, Dad, you can come down and throw the ball
around. But don't give up your day job. "// Then he added, kindly, of
course, you can play V. in the Old Timers' League. ")) //
why dont you by out for
2
be shippetrue
But there is some sadness involved in this homecoming, too. When we
were flying in this afternoon, Barbara and I saw several of the areas
devastated by the flooding. We were astounded that we could only see
the tops of trees where the Trinity has overflowed. Two weeks ago, I
signed an emergency FEMA proclamation bringing federal disaster aid
to the beleaguered counties. And more counties are being added.
In this terrible disaster, the losses have been heavy. But the
one thing this state will never lose is its soul. Yes, Texas is big,
but not as big as the generous hearts and indomitable spirit of its
people. But, you know, when I hear the candidates of the other party,
sometimes I wonder if they know the people of this state at all. Know
how they think. Know how to listen to their voices. ( (I realized: you
can explain it to them, but you can't understand it for them.)
More than 40 years ago, as a salesman selling drilling bits, I
crisscrossed mest state Texos in my car. From Muleshoe to winh Rio Grande; Nothers
the Panhandle Ft. Stochton
from Wichita Falls to Dimebox. I learned a lot about the people then.
Shared barbecues with them. Saw their pain when paychecks weren't
there. Listening to the pulse of the people. That's how you hear the
heartbeat of Texas.
leave
in
And that's how Texas gets into your blood. Sticks to you like
leave
tumbleweed to a barbed wire fencè. And you know, once it's there, it
in
never leaves. ((For those of you who might be worried that we've been
spending too much time in Washington, in Maine, and in the Northeast
in general, let me tell you that we do get homesick, and that
chicken-fried lobster is no substitute for the real thing.) //
Coming home and seeing what you in the Texas GOP doe doing makes
Two
me proud. You're the party of inclusion. of idealism. And of ideas.
3
You believe that progress is not measured in money spent and bur-
eaucrácies built, but in people helped.
And I'm proud of this slate of Republican candidates -- the
strongest team in the history of the state. Proud that for the first
time there are candidates for 15 state offices and the U.S. Senate.
There's Senator Phil Gramm. Phil says he's running for reelection
like he was running for sheriff in each of Texas' 254 counties. ((I
believe him. But when he asked to hold the budget talks at high noon
the
Thank God this abk Senator is such a key player on there
in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue, I thought he'd gone too far.
And Clayton Williams -- Claytie -- the next Governor of Texas. //
bids
We respect his record of success in creating jobs more than 100,000
regotic
in his 32 years in business, We respect his commitment to fighting
tea
the insidious poison of drugs. And we respect that he has broadened
the base of our party. Clayton Williams will bring his own energetic
style to the governor's office -- and stamp his brand of leadership
on the % Texas of the 90s. Claptre I am all for you
100 - you must and you will min
And the rest of this great state and local slate. Men and women
who make up a coalition that reflects Texas -- all of Texas -- as it
really is and as it will be. A coalition of diverse people like Kay
Bailey Hutchison, Louis Sturns, Rick Perry. Tony Garza, Rob Mosbacher
and Wes Gilbreath. Warren Harding and Buster Brown. You are today's
Texans with the large and generous spirit of yesterday's Texans. //
You know, on Inauguration Day, I talked about a new breeze blow-
ing. Let me tell you, standing back here in Texas, I can feel the it air
stirring. It's the warm Gulf breeze of a state where people are inde-
pendent-minded and as open as its ranges, As bold as its frontiers.
4
It's the wind of a land where risk-taking comes from the strength of
your beliefs, and where your spirit is as big as the Texas night sky.
Each of you in the Texas GOP has helped to open the window on the
musty darkness of outdated big government. You are blowing away the
stuffiness of irrelevant liberalism: because your new breeze carries
the new ideas Texas needs for the '90s. Ideas that encourage invest-
ment in business and in the business of our children -- education.
In Washington, we share your belief that education is the only
path to a brighter American future. It is critical to everything we
are and everything we can become. That's why we've declared a new era
of education reform in America. We began in September with the first
education summit in American history, bringing together the nation's
our
governors, including your own Bill Clements, to tackle this crisis.
Last winter, we announced our goals to make American education
number one. Among them: American students must be first in math and
science. // All children must start school ready to learn, with help
from programs like Head Start. // They must demonstrate competency in
crucial subject areas while we increase the percentage of graduating
high school students to 90%. //
Finally, every school in America must have a disciplined
environment -- and, most of all, be drug free. //
The curse of drugs threatens our communities, our schools, our
workplaces and, most importantly, our children. There is no greater
threat today to the health of the American family and the future of
our land. The strength we bring to win the war on drugs must be of
hurricane force. It must roar with determination from the smallest
town squares to the concrete canyons of our cities.
5
Our National Drug Control Strategy is clear. The rules of the
game have changed. America will no longer tolerate drug use. And
those who violate the law will pay a heavy price. We will take back
the streets of our country.
We will stop the horror -- the pollution of drugs drifting across
our borders. We have designated the Houston area and the southwest
border high intensity drug trafficking areas. This means you will
receive special Federal enforcement assistance to disrupt and
dismantle drug trafficking organizations. //
The drug legislation package that my Administration sent to the
Hill this week contains a number of proposals that will help stop
drugs and drug smugglers from breaching our borders. We have called
for more border patrol agents, extending general arrest authority to
them so they can enforce our drug laws as they guard the frontier. We
are also proposing legislation that will permit authorities to
exclude criminal aliens We must convicted continue of drug the fight felonies being woyed so well
by Bill Climit
But to win the war on drugs A need two Republican team
headed by Clayton Williams -- in Austin, to continue this cooperative
realties to say,
fight. And I need Phil in Washington, where he is a leader in the
battle for drug-free schools.
But I need Phil in Washington for something else, too: our
struggle with the budget. In this last decade, not once, but twice,
his vision has changed the fiscal firmament of this land. On Tuesday,
we convened an extraordinary, ongoing bipartisan budget summit. Phil
is working closely with me at the table, providing the kind of sound
fiscal advice he's known for.
6
Education. The fight against drugs. The budget deficit. We're
making progress -- and, with your own Texan Republican leadership in
place in Austin and Washington, we're going to make more.
andacross the country
We're going to win here in 1990 We have to win in 1990. Tf-wa
Tet the familiar old faces continue in power once again they opposition
If me don't
gerrymander fair representation right out the window and into thin
in Texas
air. The Democratic leaders know that today Republicans will win in a
fair fight because the times are changing in Texas.
When I was running for the Senate here back in 1964, my first
speech was about building a two-party system in Texas. Back then,
during elections they might as well have put up a sign: Public Office
Available: No Republicans Need Apply. Well, today Texas voters have
put up a new sign. It tells everyone -- Public Office Available: No
outdated, big spending, backroom scheming, liberal members of the
backslapping, backward-looking Democratic Party need apply. ///
The next six months are crucial to Texas and to the United States
itself. The future is at stake. We must join together -- (Tand work
as hard as a stump tailed bull at fly time H
We will take the Republican message to every farm and ranch, to
every town and city, to every Texan willing to listen in this
magnificent state of ours. And if we do, on election day the people
of Texas will lift their faces and feel the Republican breeze of
change -- of new ideas -- sweep our land.
And then together we can face whatever challenges the future may
bring. Because in togetherness there is strength. And in Texam
togetherness is the finest kind of strength of all.
God bless the great state of Texas and God bless America.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
May 16, 1990
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
CHRISS WINSTON
cw
FROM:
BETH HINCHLIFFE BH
SUBJECT:
TEXAS GOP FUNDRAISER
I. SUMMARY
On Friday, May 18, at 6:30 p.m. you will address about 2,000
people at a Texas GOP fundraiser. Senator Phil Gramm will
introduce you. Accompanying you on the dais will be: Governor
Bill Clements; Chairman of the Texas GOP, Fred Meyer; Bobby Holt;
Tom Landry; your son, George; and the 15 statewide Republican
candidates.
II. DISCUSSION
The attached remarks (12 minutes, teleprompter) celebrate
how the Texas GOP has become a stronger and more viable political
party. The text also highlights the Administration's policies on
education, drug use, and the budget negotiations. You also
reference the new drug proposals affecting the Southwest border
which were announced today.
(Hinchliffe/Blessey)
May 16, 1990 2:10 p.m.
TEXAS
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
TEXAS GOP FUNDRAISER
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1990 6:30 P.M.
Thank you, Phil. It's always a pleasure to hear your
introductions -- you have the heart of old Texas in you. ((And, for
an old college professor, your brevity was certainly an appreciated
departure from tradition.))
Boone, this is a great party you're throwing for a great party!
And so many familiar Texas faces: Bill (Clements), Fred (Meyer),
Bobby (Holt), Clayton (Williams), Tom (Landry), this great statewide
Republican ticket, and a fellow over there (son George), can't quite
recall the name
Many wonderful old friends from over so many
years. Barbara and I realized on the way down here that it was 42
years ago we first made this trip. ((Of course, that was in a '47
Studebaker, and today it was in Air Force One. A little more leg room
now, but all the same -- it's great to be back home!) )
Texas is larger than life in our hearts. It's a place of family
and duty and loyalty and honor. But then, what more could you expect
from a state whose name means "friend"?
((I'd love to come back home to my friends again next October, to
throw out the first ball at the opening game of the Rangers-Astros
World Series. You know, I asked George if I could try out for the
club. He said, "Sure, Dad, you can come down and throw the ball
around. But don't give up your day job."// Then he added, kindly, "Of
course, you can play
in the Old Timers' League. ")) //
2
But there is some sadness involved in this homecoming, too. When we
were flying in this afternoon, Barbara and I saw several of the areas
devastated by the flooding. We were astounded that we could only see
the tops of trees where the Trinity has overflowed. Two weeks ago, I
signed an emergency FEMA proclamation bringing federal disaster aid
to the beleaguered counties. And more counties are being added.
In this terrible disaster, the losses have been heavy. But the
one thing this state will never lose is its soul. Yes, Texas is big,
but not as big as the generous hearts and indomitable spirit of its
people. But, you know, when I hear the candidates of the other party,
sometimes I wonder if they know the people of this state at all. Know
how they think. Know how to listen to their voices. ((I realized: you
can explain it to them, but you can't understand it for them.)
More than 30 years ago, as a salesman selling drilling bits, I
crisscrossed this state in my car. From Muleshoe to the Rio Grande;
from Wichita Falls to Dimebox. I learned a lot about the people then.
Shared barbecues with them. Saw their pain when paychecks weren't
there. Listening to the pulse of the people. That's how you hear the
heartbeat of Texas.
And that's how Texas gets into your blood. Sticks to you like
tumbleweed to a barbed wire fence. And you know, once it's there, it
never leaves. ( (For those of you who might be worried that we've been
spending too much time in Washington, in Maine, and in the Northeast
in general, let me tell you that we do get homesick, and that
chicken-fried lobster is no substitute for the real thing.) ) //
Coming home and seeing what you in the Texas GOP are doing makes
me proud. You're the party of inclusion. Of idealism. And of ideas.
3
You believe that progress is not measured in money spent and bur-
eaucrácies built, but in people helped.
And I'm proud of this slate of Republican candidates -- the
strongest team in the history of the state. Proud that for the first
time there are candidates for 15 state offices and the U.S. Senate.
There's Senator Phil Gramm. Phil says he's running for reelection
like he was running for sheriff in each of Texas' 254 counties. ((I
believe him. But when he asked to hold the budget talks at high noon
in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue, I thought he'd gone too far.))
And Clayton Williams -- Claytie -- the next Governor of Texas. //
We respect his record of success in creating jobs: more than 100,000
in his 32 years in business. We respect his commitment to fighting
the insidious poison of drugs. And we respect that he has broadened
the base of our party. Clayton Williams will bring his own energetic
style to the governor's office -- and stamp his brand of leadership
on the Texas of the 90s. //
And the rest of this great state and local slate. Men and women
who make up a coalition that reflects Texas -- all of Texas -- as it
really is and as it will be. A coalition of diverse people like Kay
Bailey Hutchison, Louis Sturns, Rick Perry. Tony Garza, Rob Mosbacher
and Wes Gilbreath. Warren Harding and Buster Brown. You are today's
Texans with the large and generous spirit of yesterday's Texans. / /
You know, on Inauguration Day, I talked about a new breeze blow-
ing. Let me tell you, standing back here in Texas, I can feel the air
stirring. It's the warm Gulf breeze of a state where people are inde-
pendent-minded and as open as its ranges. As bold as its frontiers.
4
It's the wind of a land where risk-taking comes from the strength of
your beliefs, and where your spirit is as big as the Texas night sky.
Each of you in the Texas GOP has helped to open the window on the
musty darkness of outdated big government. You are blowing away the
stuffiness of irrelevant liberalism: because your new breeze carries
the new ideas Texas needs for the '90s. Ideas that encourage invest-
ment in business and in the business of our children -- education.
In Washington, we share your belief that education is the only
path to a brighter American future. It is critical to everything we
are and everything we can become. That's why we've declared a new era
of education reform in America. We began in September with the first
education summit in American history, bringing together the nation's
governors, including your own Bill Clements, to tackle this crisis.
Last winter, we announced our goals to make American education
number one. Among them: American students must be first in math and
science. // All children must start school ready to learn, with help
from programs like Head Start. // They must demonstrate competency in
crucial subject areas while we increase the percentage of graduating
high school students to 90%. //
Finally, every school in America must have a disciplined
environment -- and, most of all, be drug free. //
The curse of drugs threatens our communities, our schools, our
workplaces and, most importantly, our children. There is no greater
threat today to the health of the American family and the future of
our land. The strength we bring to win the war on drugs must be of
hurricane force. It must roar with determination from the smallest
town squares to the concrete canyons of our cities.
5
Our National Drug Control Strategy is clear. The rules of the
game have changed. America will no longer tolerate drug use. And
those who violate the law will pay a heavy price. We will take back
the streets of our country.
We will stop the horror -- the pollution of drugs drifting across
our borders. We have designated the Houston area and the southwest
border high intensity drug trafficking areas. This means you will
receive special Federal enforcement assistance to disrupt and
dismantle drug trafficking organizations. / /
The drug legislation package that my Administration sent to the
Hill this week contains a number of proposals that will help stop
drugs and drug smugglers from breaching our borders. We have called
for more border patrol agents, extending general arrest authority to
them so they can enforce our drug laws as they guard the frontier. We
are also proposing legislation that will permit authorities to
exclude criminal aliens convicted of drug felonies.
But to win the war on drugs, I need your Republican team --
headed by Clayton Williams -- in Austin, to continue this cooperative
fight. And I need Phil in Washington, where he is a leader in the
battle for drug-free schools.
But I need Phil in Washington for something else, too: our
struggle with the budget. In this last decade, not once, but twice,
his vision has changed the fiscal firmament of this land. On Tuesday,
we convened an extraordinary, ongoing bipartisan budget summit. Phil
is working closely with me at the table, providing the kind of sound
fiscal advice he's known for.
6
Education. The fight against drugs. The budget deficit. We're
making progress -- and, with your Texan Republican leadership in
place in Austin and Washington, we're going to make more.
We're going to win here in 1990. We have to win in 1990. If we
let the familiar old faces continue in power, once again they'll
gerrymander fair representation right out the window and into thin
air. The Democratic leaders know that today Republicans will win in a
fair fight because the times are changing in Texas.
When I was running for the Senate here back in 1964, my first
speech was about building a two-party system in Texas. Back then,
during elections they might as well have put up a sign: Public Office
Available: No Republicans Need Apply. Well, today Texas voters have
put up a new sign. It tells everyone -- Public Office Available: No
outdated, big spending, backroom scheming, liberal members of the
backslapping, backward-looking Democratic Party need apply. ///
The next six months are crucial to Texas and to the United States
itself. The future is at stake. We must join together -- ((and work
as hard as a stump-tailed bull at fly time.)
We will take the Republican message to every farm and ranch, to
every town and city, to every Texan willing to listen in this
magnificent state of ours. And if we do, on election day the people
of Texas will lift their faces and feel the Republican breeze of
change -- of new ideas -- sweep our land.
And then together we can face whatever challenges the future may
bring. Because in togetherness there is strength. And in Texan
togetherness is the finest kind of strength of all.
God bless the great state of Texas and God bless America.
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Document No. 140 898
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 05/14/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 5:00 p.m. Tuesday 05/15
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: TEXAS GOP FUNDRAISER/DALLAS, TX
(05/14 2:10 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
PINKERTON
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
PORTER ROSE
FITZWATER
GRAY
WRAY
HAGIN
ANDERSON
BENNETT
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 05/15/ with a copy to my office.
Thanks.
RESPONSE:
please see comments.
5/15/90
61 Sd SI AMA 06
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
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(Hinchliffe/Blessey)
May 14, 1990
2:10 p.m.
DALLAS
1990 MAY 14 PM 6: 25
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
TEXAS GOP FUNDRAISER
LOEW'S ANATOLE HOTEL, DALLAS
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1990 6:30 P.M.
Thank you, Phil. It's always a pleasure to hear your
introductions - you have the heart of old Texas in you. ((And your
brevity was certainly a departure from tradition for an old college
professor.))
Boone, this is a great party you're throwing for a great
party! And so many familiar Texas faces: Bill (Clements), Fred
(Myers), Bobby (Holt), Bill Melton, and a fellow over there (son
George), can't quite recall the name Many wonderful old friends
from over so many years. Barbara and I realized on the way down here
that it was 42 years ago we first made this trip. of course, that was
in a '47 Studebaker, and today it was in Air Force One. A little more
leg room now, but all the same -- it's great to be back home!
Texas is larger than life in our memory. It's a place of
family and duty and loyalty and honor. But then, what more could you
expect from a state whose motto is "friendship" -- and whose very
name means "friend"?
((I'd love to come back home to my friends again next October,
to throw out the first ball at the opening game of the Rangers-Astros
World Series. You know, I asked George if I could try out for the
club. He said, "sure, Dad, you can come down and throw the ball
around. But don't give up your day job."))
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But there is distress involved in this homecoming, too.
Barbara and I share your anguish over the devastating floods that
have been raging over this wonderful land. Last week, I signed an
declaration
emergency FEMA proclamation bringing federal disaster aid to the
beleaguered counties.
In this terrible disaster, many have lost something. Some have
lost everything. But the one thing this state will never lose is its
soul. Yes, Texas is big, but not as big as the generous hearts and
indomitable spirit of its people. It's a state where bigness means
greatness, and greatness means pride, and pride means hope. We know
that that Texas grandeur of heart will pull you all together as you
find within you the strength to recover.
the candidates of the other party,
You know, when I hear about your opponents, sometimes I wonder
if
they n 11 the leaders of the other party know this state at all. Know how
the people think. Know how to listen to their voices. Here's the best
way to know Texas -- to know it deeply and surely and truly.
Nearly 30 years ago -- in that infamously unsuccessful race
for U.S. Senate -- Barbara and I crisscrossed this state for a year.
e
From the Panhandle to the Rio Grande; from Wichita Falls to Begville.
We spent time with the real people of Texas. We saw their pain when
paychecks weren't there. Shared their joys when a gusher hit and
their children could get new clothes for school. Heard their
whispered fears and their proud hopes. Listening to the heartbeat of
Texas. That's how you hear the people's voice.
And that's how Texas gets into your blood. Sticks to you like
tumbleweed to a barbed wire fence. And you know, once it's there, it
?
never leaves. Even now, Barbara and I still listen to willie Nelson
2
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in the city of New Kids on the Block. We remember the Texas religion
called the Dallas Cowboys in the city of the Redskins. And we eat
?
?
chicken-fried steak and pork rinds in the city of fresh crabs.
Coming home and seeing what you in the Texas GOP have done
makes me proud. You're the party of inclusion. or idealism. And of
ideas. You believe that progress is not measured in money spent and
bureaucracies built, but in people helped.
slate
And I'm proud of this ticket of Republican candidates -- the
^
the
strongest team in the history of this strong state. Proud that for
the first time there is a slate of candidates for 16 state offices.
Victory 901
There's Senator Phil Gramm. Phil says he's running for re-
election like he was running for sheriff in each of Texas' 254
counties. ((You know, his friend Marvin Leath said of him: "If you're
going to tangle with Phil, remember two things: one, he's smarter
than you; two, he's meaner than a junkyard dog." Barbara is glad to
have Millie at her side -- I'm glad to have Phil.))
And Clayton Williams, the next Governor of Texas. We respect
your record of success in creating jobs -- more than 100,000 in your
32 years in business. We respect your commitment to fighting the
insidious poison of drugs. And we respect how you have broadened the
base of our party.
Clayton, you're an energetic and outspoken modern Texan. But
you also have in your heart the echoes of this state's fine history.
The idealism of purpose of Stephen Austin. The convictions and
courage of Sam Houston. And the great pioneer style of Davy Crockett.
3
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new
you
being
1
vitality governument
You're going to bring your own style to the governor's office. I look
forward to watching the strength you'll give the future of our state,
And look at the rest of this great ticket. Men and women of a
multitude of professions bringing their private sector success and
optimistic spirit to public service. More than that, they're a
coalition. A coalition that reflects Texas -- all of Texas -- as it
really is and as it will be. A coalition of diverse people like Kay
Bailey Hutchison. Louis Sturns. Rick Perry.
You know, in less than two years, 179 Southern Democratic
elected officials and leaders have turned Republican. Churchill said,
"Some men change their principles for their party." Rick and so many
others have changed their party for their principles. As Phil himself
knows -- this has become a fine Texas tradition.
The Republican team embodies the spirit of today's diverse,
forward-thinking Republican party -- devoted to family values and a
strong future. Yet you also stand for our state's finest traditions -
- decency and the courage to dare. You are today's Texans with the
large and generous spirit of yesterday's Texans.
You know, on Inauguration Day, I talked about a new breeze
blowing. Let me tell you, standing back here in my old homestate of
Texas, I can feel the air stirring. It's the warm, Gulf Stream breeze
of a state where people are independent-minded and as open as its
ranges. As bold as its frontiers. It's the wind of a land where risk-
taking comes from the strength of your beliefs, and where your spirit
is as big as the Texas night sky.
Each of you in the Texas GOP has helped to open the window on
the musty darkness of outdated big government. You are blowing away
4
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the stuffiness of irrelevant liberalism -- because your new breeze
carries the new ideas Texas needs for the '90s. Ideas that encourage
investment in business and in the business of our children --
education.
In Washington, we share your belief that education is the only
path to a brighter American future. It is critical to everything we
are and everything we can become.
That's why we've declared a new era of education reform in
America, beginning with the first education summit in American his-
tory. Last fall, we met with the nation's Governors and set firm
goals. Among them: American students must be number one in math and
science. All children must start school ready to learn, through
programs like Head Start. They must demonstrate competency in crucial
subject areas while we increase the percentage of students graduating
from high school to 90 percent.
Finally, every school in America must have a disciplined
environment -- and, most of all, be drug free.
The curse of drugs threatens our communities, our schools, our
workplaces and, most importantly, our children. There is no greater
threat today to the health of the American family and the future of
our land. The strength we bring to win the war on drugs must be of
hurricane force. It must roar with determination from the smallest
town squares to the concrete canyons of our cities.
Our National Drug Control Strategy is clear. The rules of the
game have changed. America will no longer tolerate drug use. And
those who violate the law will pay a heavy price. We will take back
the streets of our country.
5
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We will stop the horror -- the pollution of drugs drifting
across our borders. We have designated the Houston area and the
southwest border of Texas high intensity drug trafficking areas. This
means you will receive special help through Federal, State, and local
cooperative efforts.
Three Aerostat blimps with powerful lookdown radar will scan
the Texas-Mexican border -- covering it with an electronic picket
fence, so to speak. They are the cornerstone of the Custom Service's
awesome multi-state electronic network. Even with this project not
yet complete, seizures of the killer cocaine have been increased by
1,000 percent.
But to win the war on drugs, I need your Republican team,
headed by Clayton Williams, in Austin to continue this cooperative
fight. And I need Phil in Washington, where he led the fight for the
blimp surveillance.
But I need Phil in Washington for something else, too -- our
struggle with the budget. In this last decade, not once, but twice,
The
his vision has changed the fiscal firmament of this land.
Gramer Tevdman 1.
Last Tuesday, we convened an extraordinary, ongoing bipartisan
economic budget. summit. Phil is working with mg. as the designee of the Bob
closely in there negotiations
Dole, the Republican Leader of the
Senate. (MORE TO COME AFTER BUDGET SESSIONS)
Education. The fight against drugs. The budget deficit. We're
making progress -- and, with your Texan Republican leadership in
place in Austin and Washington, we're going to make more.
We're going to win here in 1990. We have to win in 1990. If
we let the familiar old faces continue in power, once again they'll
gerrymander fair representation right out the window and into thin
as it is commonly known, is the best tool we have
to surfores try to enforce ogne fiscal restraint
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air. The Democratic leaders know that today Republicans will win in a
fair fight because the times are changing in Texas.
When you talk of this state, say Gramm and Williams and Hutch-
ison and Sturns and Perry and you're talking about people who share
Texans' conservative philosophy. But say Richards and Hightower and
Parmer, and you might as well be saying Dukakis and Mondale and
Kennedy.
When I was running for the Senate here back in 1964, my first
speech was about building a two-party system in Texas. Back then,
during elections they might as well have put up a sign: Public Office
Available: No Republicans Need Apply. Well, today's Texas voters have
put up a new sign. It tells everyone - Public Office Available: No
outdated, big spending, backroom scheming, liberal members of the
backslapping, backward-looking Democratic Party need apply.
The next six months are crucial to Texas and to the United
States itself. The future is at stake. We must join together -- ((and
?
work as hard as a stump-tailed bull at fly time.))
We will take the Republican message to every farm and ranch,
to every town and city, to every Texan willing to listen in this
magnificent state of ours. And if we do, on election day the people
of Texas will lift their faces and feel the Republican breeze of
change -- of new ideas -- sweep our land.
And then together we can face whatever challenges the future
may bring. Because in togetherness there is strength. And in Texan
togetherness is the finest kind of strength of all.
God bless the great state of Texas and God bless America.
7
Document No. 140 898
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 05/14/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 5:00 p.m. Tuesday 05/15
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: TEXAS GOP FUNDRAISER/DALLAS, TX
(05/14 2:10 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
x
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
WINSTON
FITZWATER
PORTER ROSE
&
GRAY
WRAY
HAGIN
ANDERSON
BENNETT
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 05/15, with a copy to my office.
Thanks.
RESPONSE:
Chriss -
Comments on pgo. 2 $7.
0E : 21d street SLAW 06
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Hinchliffe/Blessey)
May 14, 1990
2:10 p.m.
DALLAS
1990 MAY 14 PM 6: 25
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
TEXAS GOP FUNDRAISER
LOEW'S ANATOLE HOTEL, DALLAS
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1990 6:30 P.M.
Thank you, Phil. It's always a pleasure to hear your
introductions -- you have the heart of old Texas in you. ((And your
brevity was certainly a departure from tradition for an old college
professor.)
Boone, this is a great party you're throwing for a great
party! And so many familiar Texas faces: Bill (Clements), Fred
(Myers), Bobby (Holt), Bill Melton, and a fellow over there (son
George), can't quite recall the name ... Many wonderful old friends
from over so many years. Barbara and I realized on the way down here
that it was 42 years ago we first made this trip. of course, that was
in a '47 Studebaker, and today it was in Air Force One. A little more
leg room now, but all the same -- it's great to be back home!
Texas is larger than life in our memory. It's a place of
family and duty and loyalty and honor. But then, what more could you
expect from a state whose motto is "friendship" -- and whose very
name means "friend"?
((I'd love to come back home to my friends again next October,
to throw out the first ball at the opening game of the Rangers-Astros
World Series. You know, I asked George if I could try out for the
club. He said, "Sure, Dad, you can come down and throw the ball
around. But don't give up your day job."))
But there is distress involved in this homecoming, too.
Barbara and I share your anguish over the devastating floods that
have been raging over this wonderful land. Last week, I signed an
emergency FEMA proclamation bringing federal disaster aid to the
beleaguered counties.
In this terrible disaster, many have lost something. Some have
lost everything. But the one thing this state will never lose is its
soul. Yes, Texas is big, but not as big as the generous hearts and
indomitable spirit of its people. It's a state where bigness means
greatness, and greatness means pride, and pride means hope. We know
that that Texas grandeur of heart will pull you all together as you
find within you the strength to recover.
You know, when I hear about your opponents, sometimes I wonder
if the leaders of the other party know this state at all. Know how
the people think. Know how to listen to their voices. Here's the best
way to know Texas -- to know it deeply and surely and truly.
Nearly 30 years ago -- in that infamously unsuccessful race
for U.S. Senate -- Barbara and I crisscrossed this state for a year.
From the Panhandle to the Rio Grande; from Wichita Falls to Becville.
We spent time with the real people of Texas. We saw their pain when
Beeville
paychecks weren't there. Shared their joys when a gusher hit and
their children could get new clothes for school. Heard their
whispered fears and their proud hopes. Listening to the heartbeat of
Texas. That's how you hear the people's voice.
And that's how Texas gets into your blood. Sticks to you like
tumbleweed to a barbed wire fence. And you know, once it's there, it
never leaves. Even now, Barbara and I still listen to Willie Nelson
2
in the city of New Kids on the Block. We remember the Texas religion
called the Dallas Cowboys in the city of the Redskins. And we eat
chicken-fried steak and pork rinds in the city of fresh crabs.
Coming home and seeing what you in the Texas GOP have done
makes me proud. You're the party of inclusion. of idealism. And of
ideas. You believe that progress is not measured in money spent and
bureaucracies built, but in people helped.
And I'm proud of this ticket of Republican candidates -- the
strongest team in the history of this strong state. Proud that for
the first time there is a slate of candidates for 16 state offices.
Victory 90!
There's Senator Phil Gramm. Phil says he's running for re-
election like he was running for sheriff in each of Texas' 254
counties. ((You know, his friend Marvin Leath said of him: "If you're
going to tangle with Phil, remember two things: one, he's smarter
than you; two, he's meaner than a junkyard dog." Barbara is glad to
have Millie at her side -- I'm glad to have Phil.))
And Clayton Williams, the next Governor of Texas. We respect
your record of success in creating jobs -- more than 100,000 in your
32 years in business. We respect your commitment to fighting the
insidious poison of drugs. And we respect how you have broadened the
base of our party.
Clayton, you're an energetic and outspoken modern Texan. But
you also have in your heart the echoes of this state's fine history.
The idealism of purpose of Stephen Austin. The convictions and
courage of Sam Houston. And the great pioneer style of Davy Crockett.
3
You're going to bring your own style to the governor's office. I look
forward to watching the strength you'll give the future of our state.
And look at the rest of this great ticket. Men and women of a
multitude of professions bringing their private sector success and
optimistic spirit to public service. More than that, they're a
coalition. A coalition that reflects Texas -- all of Texas -- as it
really is and as it will be. A coalition of diverse people like Kay
Bailey Hutchison. Louis Sturns. Rick Perry.
You know, in less than two years, 179 Southern Democratic
elected officials and leaders have turned Republican. Churchill said,
"Some men change their principles for their party." Rick and so many
others have changed their party for their principles. As Phil himself
knows -- this has become a fine Texas tradition.
The Republican team embodies the spirit of today's diverse,
forward-thinking Republican party -- devoted to family values and a
strong future. Yet you also stand for our state's finest traditions -
- decency and the courage to dare. You are today's Texans with the
large and generous spirit of yesterday's Texans.
You know, on Inauguration Day, I talked about a new breeze
blowing. Let me tell you, standing back here in my old homestate of
Texas, I can feel the air stirring. It's the warm, Gulf Stream breeze
of a state where people are independent-minded and as open as its
ranges. As bold as its frontiers. It's the wind of a land where risk-
taking comes from the strength of your beliefs, and where your spirit
is as big as the Texas night sky.
Each of you in the Texas GOP has helped to open the window on
the musty darkness of outdated big government. You are blowing away
4
the stuffiness of irrelevant liberalism -- because your new breeze
carries the new ideas Texas needs for the '90s. Ideas that encourage
investment in business and in the business of our children --
education.
In Washington, we share your belief that education is the only
path to a brighter American future. It is critical to everything we
are and everything we can become.
That's why we've declared a new era of education reform in
America, beginning with the first education summit in American his-
tory. Last fall, we met with the nation's Governors and set firm
goals. Among them: American students must be number one in math and
science. All children must start school ready to learn, through
programs like Head Start. They must demonstrate competency in crucial
subject areas while we increase the percentage of students graduating
from high school to 90 percent.
Finally, every school in America must have a disciplined
environment -- and, most of all, be drug free.
The curse of drugs threatens our communities, our schools, our
workplaces and, most importantly, our children. There is no greater
threat today to the health of the American family and the future of
our land. The strength we bring to win the war on drugs must be of
hurricane force. It must roar with determination from the smallest
town squares to the concrete canyons of our cities.
Our National Drug Control Strategy is clear. The rules of the
game have changed. America will no longer tolerate drug use. And
those who violate the law will pay a heavy price. We will take back
the streets of our country.
5
We will stop the horror -- the pollution of drugs drifting
across our borders. We have designated the Houston area and the
southwest border of Texas high intensity drug trafficking areas. This
means you will receive special help through Federal, State, and local
cooperative efforts.
Three Aerostat blimps with powerful lookdown radar will scan
the Texas-Mexican border -- covering it with an electronic picket
fence, so to speak. They are the cornerstone of the Custom Service's
awesome multi-state electronic network. Even with this project not
yet complete, seizures of the killer cocaine have been increased by
1,000 percent.
But to win the war on drugs, I need your Republican team,
headed by Clayton Williams, in Austin to continue this cooperative
fight. And I need Phil in Washington, where he led the fight for the
blimp surveillance.
But I need Phil in Washington for something else, too -- our
struggle with the budget. In this last decade, not once, but twice,
his vision has changed the fiscal firmament of this land.
Last Tuesday, we convened an extraordinary, ongoing bipartisan
economic summit. Phil is working with me, as the designee of the
Senate. (MORE TO COME AFTER BUDGET SESSIONS)
Education. The fight against drugs. The budget deficit. We're
making progress -- and, with your Texan Republican leadership in
place in Austin and Washington, we're going to make more.
We're going to win here in 1990. We have to win in 1990. If
we let the familiar old faces continue in power, once again they'll
gerrymander fair representation right out the window and into thin
6
air. The Democratic leaders know that today Republicans will win in a
fair fight because the times are changing in Texas.
When you talk of this state, say Gramm and Williams and Hutch-
ison and Sturns and Perry and you're talking about people who share
Texans' conservative philosophy. But say Richards and Hightower and
Parmer, and you might as well be saying Dukakis and Mondale and
Kennedy.
When I was running for the Senate here back in 1964, my first
speech was about building a two-party system in Texas. Back then,
during elections they might as well have put up a sign: Public Office
Available: No Republicans Need Apply. Well, today's Texas voters have
put up a new sign. It tells everyone -- Public Office Available: No
love this!
outdated, big spending, backroom scheming, liberal members of the
backslapping, backward-looking Democratic Party need apply.
The next six months are crucial to Texas and to the United
States itself. The future is at stake. We must join together -- ((and
work as hard as a stump-tailed bull at fly time.)
We will take the Republican message to every farm and ranch,
to every town and city, to every Texan willing to listen in this
magnificent state of ours. And if we do, on election day the people
of Texas will lift their faces and feel the Republican breeze of
change -- of new ideas -- sweep our land.
And then together we can face whatever challenges the future
may bring. Because in togetherness there is strength. And in Texan
togetherness is the finest kind of strength of all.
God bless the great state of Texas and God bless America.
####
7
Document No. 140 898
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 05/14/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 5:00 p.m. Tuesday 05/15
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: TEXAS GOP FUNDRAISER/DALLAS, TX
(05/14 2:10 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
WINSTON
FITZWATER
PORTER ROSE
GRAY
WRAY
HAGIN
ANDERSON
BENNETT
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
/inston by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 05/15, with a copy to my office.
Thanks.
:21d
RESPONSE:
Good spuch a littl long much
this could he rewarked and used at other
political wents- - d pay are should Assistant James to W. the Cicconi
President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
and an E. Europe / USSR
Ext. 2702
particitic ancolate such as T.V. guide constitution
(Hinchliffe/Blessey)
May 14, 1990
2:10 p.m.
DALLAS
1990 MAY 14 PM 6: 25
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
TEXAS GOP FUNDRAISER
LOEW'S ANATOLE HOTEL, DALLAS
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1990 6:30 P.M.
Thank you, Phil. It's always a pleasure to hear your
introductions -- you have the heart of old Texas in you. ((And your
brevity was certainly a departure from tradition for an old college
professor.))
Boone, this is a great party you're throwing for a great
party! And so many familiar Texas faces: Bill (Clements), Fred
(Myers), Bobby (Holt), Bill Melton, and a fellow over there (son
George), can't quite recall the name ... Many wonderful old friends
from over so many years. Barbara and I realized on the way down here
that it was 42 years ago we first made this trip. of course, that was
in a '47 Studebaker, and today it was in Air Force One. A little more
leg room now, but all the same -- it's great to be back home!
Texas is larger than life in our memory. It's a place of
family and duty and loyalty and honor. But then, what more could you
expect from a state whose motto is "friendship" -- and whose very
name means "friend"?
((I'd love to come back home to my friends again next October,
to throw out the first ball at the opening game of the Rangers-Astros
World Series. You know, I asked George if I could try out for the
club. He said, "Sure, Dad, you can come down and throw the ball
around. But don't give up your day job."))
But there is distress involved in this homecoming, too.
Barbara and I share your anguish over the devastating floods that
have been raging over this wonderful land. Last week, I signed an
emergency FEMA proclamation bringing federal disaster aid to the
beleaguered counties.
In this terrible disaster, many have lost something. Some have
lost everything. But the one thing this state will never lose is its
soul. Yes, Texas is big, but not as big as the generous hearts and
indomitable spirit of its people. It's a state where bigness means
greatness, and greatness means pride, and pride means hope. We know
that that Texas grandeur of heart will pull you all together as you
find within you the strength to recover.
You know, when I hear about your opponents, sometimes I wonder
if the leaders of the other party know this state at all. Know how
the people think. Know how to listen to their voices. Here's the best
way to know Texas -- to know it deeply and surely and truly.
Nearly 30 years ago -- in that infamously unsuccessful race
for U.S. Senate -- Barbara and I crisscrossed this state for a year.
From the Panhandle to the Rio Grande; from Wichita Falls to Becville.
We spent time with the real people of Texas. We saw their pain when
paychecks weren't there. Shared their joys when a gusher hit and
their children could get new clothes for school. Heard their
whispered fears and their proud hopes. Listening to the heartbeat of
Texas. That's how you hear the people's voice.
And that's how Texas gets into your blood. Sticks to you like
tumbleweed to a barbed wire fence. And you know, once it's there, it
never leaves. Even now, Barbara and I still listen to Willie Nelson
2
in the city of New Kids on the Block. We remember the Texas religion
called the Dallas Cowboys in the city of the Redskins. And we eat
chicken-fried steak and pork rinds in the city of fresh crabs.
Coming home and seeing what you in the Texas GOP have done
makes me proud. You're the party of inclusion. of idealism. And of
ideas. You believe that progress is not measured in money spent and
bureaucracies built, but in people helped.
And I'm proud of this ticket of Republican candidates -- the
strongest team in the history of this strong state. Proud that for
the first time there is a slate of candidates for 16 state offices.
Victory 90!
There's Senator Phil Gramm. Phil says he's running for re-
election like he was running for sheriff in each of Texas' 254
counties. ((You know, his friend Marvin Leath said of him: "If you're
going to tangle with Phil, remember two things: one, he's smarter
than you; two, he's meaner than a junkyard dog." Barbara is glad to
have Millie at her side -- I'm glad to have Phil.))
And Clayton Williams, the next Governor of Texas. We respect
your record of success in creating jobs -- more than 100,000 in your
32 years in business. We respect your commitment to fighting the
insidious poison of drugs. And we respect how you have broadened the
base of our party.
Clayton, you're an energetic and outspoken modern Texan. But
you also have in your heart the echoes of this state's fine history.
The idealism of purpose of Stephen Austin. The convictions and
courage of Sam Houston. And the great pioneer style of Davy Crockett.
3
You're going to bring your own style to the governor's office. I look
forward to watching the strength you'll give the future of our state.
And look at the rest of this great ticket. Men and women of a
multitude of professions bringing their private sector success and
optimistic spirit to public service. More than that, they're a
coalition. A coalition that reflects Texas -- all of Texas -- as it
really is and as it will be. A coalition of diverse people like Kay
Bailey Hutchison. Louis Sturns. Rick Perry.
You know, in less than two years, 179 Southern Democratic
elected officials and leaders have turned Republican. Churchill said,
"Some men change their principles for their party.' Rick and so many
others have changed their party for their principles. As Phil himself
knows -- this has become a fine Texas tradition.
The Republican team embodies the spirit of today's diverse,
forward-thinking Republican party -- devoted to family values and a
strong future. Yet you also stand for our state's finest traditions -
- decency and the courage to dare. You are today's Texans with the
large and generous spirit of yesterday's Texans.
You know, on Inauguration Day, I talked about a new breeze
blowing. Let me tell you, standing back here in my old homestate of
Texas, I can feel the air stirring. It's the warm, Gulf Stream breeze
of a state where people are independent-minded and as open as its
ranges. As bold as its frontiers. It's the wind of a land where risk-
taking comes from the strength of your beliefs, and where your spirit
is as big as the Texas night sky.
Each of you in the Texas GOP has helped to open the window on
the musty darkness of outdated big government. You are blowing away
4
the stuffiness of irrelevant liberalism -- because your new breeze
carries the new ideas Texas needs for the '90s. Ideas that encourage
investment in business and in the business of our children --
education.
In Washington, we share your belief that education is the only
path to a brighter American future. It is critical to everything we
are and everything we can become.
That's why we've declared a new era of education reform in
America, beginning with the first education summit in American his-
tory. Last fall, we met with the nation's Governors and set firm
goals. Among them: American students must be number one in math and
science. All children must start school ready to learn, through
programs like Head Start. They must demonstrate competency in crucial
subject areas while we increase the percentage of students graduating
from high school to 90 percent.
Finally, every school in America must have a disciplined
environment -- and, most of all, be drug free.
The curse of drugs threatens our communities, our schools, our
workplaces and, most importantly, our children. There is no greater
threat today to the health of the American family and the future of
our land. The strength we bring to win the war on drugs must be of
hurricane force. It must roar with determination from the smallest
town squares to the concrete canyons of our cities.
Our National Drug Control Strategy is clear. The rules of the
game have changed. America will no longer tolerate drug use. And
those who violate the law will pay a heavy price. We will take back
the streets of our country.
5
We will stop the horror -- the pollution of drugs drifting
across our borders. We have designated the Houston area and the
southwest border of Texas high intensity drug trafficking areas. This
means you will receive special help through Federal, State, and local
cooperative efforts.
Three Aerostat blimps with powerful lookdown radar will scan
the Texas-Mexican border -- covering it with an electronic picket
fence, so to speak. They are the cornerstone of the Custom Service's
awesome multi-state electronic network. Even with this project not
yet complete, seizures of the killer cocaine have been increased by
1,000 percent.
But to win the war on drugs, I need your Republican team,
headed by Clayton Williams, in Austin to continue this cooperative
fight. And I need Phil in Washington, where he led the fight for the
blimp surveillance.
But I need Phil in Washington for something else, too -- our
struggle with the budget. In this last decade, not once, but twice,
his vision has changed the fiscal firmament of this land.
Last Tuesday, we convened an extraordinary, ongoing bipartisan
economic summit Phil is working with me, as the designee of the
Senate. (MORE TO COME AFTER BUDGET SESSIONS)
Education. The fight against drugs. The budget deficit. We're
making progress -- and, with your Texan Republican leadership in
place in Austin and Washington, we're going to make more.
We're going to win here in 1990. We have to win in 1990. If
we let the familiar old faces continue in power, once again they'll
gerrymander fair representation right out the window and into thin
6
air. The Democratic leaders know that today Republicans will win in a
fair fight because the times are changing in Texas.
When you talk of this state, say Gramm and Williams and Hutch-
ison and Sturns and Perry and you're talking about people who share
Texans' conservative philosophy. But say Richards and Hightower and
Parmer, and you might as well be saying Dukakis and Mondale and
Kennedy.
When I was running for the Senate here back in 1964, my first
speech was about building a two-party system in Texas. Back then,
during elections they might as well have put up a sign: Public Office
Available: No Republicans Need Apply. Well, today's Texas voters have
put up a new sign. It tells everyone -- Public Office Available: No
outdated, big spending, backroom scheming, liberal members of the
backslapping, backward-looking Democratic Party need apply.
The next six months are crucial to Texas and to the United
States itself. The future is at stake. We must join together -- ((and
work as hard as a stump-tailed bull at fly time.) )
We will take the Republican message to every farm and ranch,
to every town and city, to every Texan willing to listen in this
magnificent state of ours. And if we do, on election day the people
of Texas will lift their faces and feel the Republican breeze of
change -- of new ideas -- sweep our land.
And then together we can face whatever challenges the future
may bring. Because in togetherness there is strength. And in Texan
togetherness is the finest kind of strength of all.
God bless the great state of Texas and God bless America.
#
#
#
#
#
7
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
Document No. 140 898 Varw
Carnery
Collins
DATE: 05/14/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 5:00 p.m. Tuesday 05/15
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: TEXAS GOP FUNDRAISER/DALLAS, TX
(05/14 2:10 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
WINSTON
PORTER ROSE
FITZWATER
GRAY
WRAY
HAGIN
ANDERSON
BENNETT
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 05/15, with a copy to my office.
Thanks.
RESPONSE:
5/15 5/15 1115 1115
See connection page /
See Suggestion 9d 4
90 MAY 15
James W. Cicconi
Run
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Hinchliffe/Blessey)
May 14, 1990
2:10 p.m.
DALLAS
1990 MAY 14 PM 6: 25
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
TEXAS GOP FUNDRAISER
LOEW'S ANATOLE HOTEL, DALLAS
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1990 6:30 P.M.
Thank you, Phil. It's always a pleasure to hear your
introductions -- you have the heart of old Texas in you. ((And your
brevity was certainly a departure from tradition for an old college
professor.) )
Boone, this is a great party you're throwing for a great
party! And so many familiar Texas faces: Bill (Clements), Fred
(Myers), Bobby (Holt), Bill Melton, and a fellow over there (son
George), can't quite recall the name ... Many wonderful old friends
from over so many years. Barbara and I realized on the way down here
that it was 42 years ago we first made this trip. Of course, that was
in a '47 Studebaker, and today it was in Air Force One. A little more
leg room now, but all the same -- it's great to be back home!
Texas is larger than life in our memory. It's a place of
family and duty and loyalty and honor. But then, what more could you
expect from a state whose motto is "friendship" -- and whose very
name means "friend"?
((I'd love to come back home to my friends again next October,
to throw out the first ball at the opening game of the Rangers-Astros
World Series. You know, I asked George if I could try out for the
club. He said, "Sure, Dad, you can come down and throw the ball
around. But don't give up your day job.' "))
But there is distress involved in this homecoming, too.
Barbara and I share your anguish over the devastating floods that
have been raging over this wonderful land. Last week, I signed an
emergency FEMA proclamation bringing federal disaster aid to the
beleaguered counties.
In this terrible disaster, many have lost something. Some have
lost everything. But the one thing this state will never lose is its
soul. Yes, Texas is big, but not as big as the generous hearts and
indomitable spirit of its people. It's a state where bigness means
greatness, and greatness means pride, and pride means hope. We know
that that Texas grandeur of heart will pull you all together as you
find within you the strength to recover.
You know, when I hear about your opponents, sometimes I wonder
if the leaders of the other party know this state at all. Know how
the people think. Know how to listen to their voices. Here's the best
way to know Texas -- to know it deeply and surely and truly.
Nearly 30 years ago -- in that infamously unsuccessful race
for U.S. Senate -- Barbara and I crisscrossed this state for a year.
From the Panhandle to the Rio Grande; from Wichita Falls to Becville.
We spent time with the real people of Texas. We saw their pain when
paychecks weren't there. Shared their joys when a gusher hit and
their children could get new clothes for school. Heard their
whispered fears and their proud hopes. Listening to the heartbeat of
Texas. That's how you hear the people's voice.
And that's how Texas gets into your blood. Sticks to you like
tumbleweed to a barbed wire fence. And you know, once it's there, it
never leaves. Even now, Barbara and I still listen to Willie Nelson
2
in the city of New Kids on the Block. We remember the Texas religion
called the Dallas Cowboys in the city of the Redskins. And we eat
chicken-fried steak and pork rinds in the city of fresh crabs.
Coming home and seeing what you in the Texas GOP have done
makes me proud. You're the party of inclusion. Of idealism. And of
ideas. You believe that progress is not measured in money spent and
bureaucracies built, but in people helped.
And I'm proud of this ticket of Republican candidates -- the
strongest team in the history of this strong state. Proud that for
the first time there is a slate of candidates for 16 state offices.
Victory 90!
There's Senator Phil Gramm. Phil says he's running for re-
election like he was running for sheriff in each of Texas' 254
counties. ((You know, his friend Marvin Leath said of him: "If you're
going to tangle with Phil, remember two things: one, he's smarter
than you; two, he's meaner than a junkyard dog." Barbara is glad to
have Millie at her side -- I'm glad to have Phil.) )
And Clayton Williams, the next Governor of Texas. We respect
your record of success in creating jobs -- more than 100,000 in your
32 years in business. We respect your commitment to fighting the
insidious poison of drugs. And we respect how you have broadened the
base of our party.
Clayton, you're an energetic and outspoken modern Texan. But
you also have in your heart the echoes of this state's fine history.
The idealism of purpose of Stephen Austin. The convictions and
courage of Sam Houston. And the great pioneer style of Davy Crockett.
3
You're going to bring your own style to the governor's office. I look
forward to watching the strength you'll give the future of our state.
And look at the rest of this great ticket. Men and women of a
multitude of professions bringing their private sector success and
optimistic spirit to public service. More than that, they're a
coalition. A coalition that reflects Texas -- all of Texas -- as it
really is and as it will be. A coalition of diverse people like Kay
Bailey Hutchison. Louis Sturns. Rick Perry.
(include Apportionment
Board offices BusterBrown-AG
etc
You know, in less than two years, 179 Southern Democratic
elected officials and leaders have turned Republican. Churchill said,
"Some men change their principles for their party." Rick and so many
others have changed their party for their principles. As Phil himself
knows -- this has become a fine Texas tradition.
The Republican team embodies the spirit of today's diverse,
forward-thinking Republican party -- devoted to family values and a
strong future. Yet you also stand for our state's finest traditions -
- decency and the courage to dare. You are today's Texans with the
large and generous spirit of yesterday's Texans.
You know, on Inauguration Day, I talked about a new breeze
blowing. Let me tell you, standing back here in my old homestate of
Texas, I can feel the air stirring. It's the warm, Gulf Stream breeze
of a state where people are independent-minded and as open as its
ranges. As bold as its frontiers. It's the wind of a land where risk-
taking comes from the strength of your beliefs, and where your spirit
is as big as the Texas night sky.
Each of you in the Texas GOP has helped to open the window on
the musty darkness of outdated big government. You are blowing away
4
the stuffiness of irrelevant liberalism -- because your new breeze
carries the new ideas Texas needs for the '90s. Ideas that encourage
investment in business and in the business of our children --
education.
In Washington, we share your belief that education is the only
path to a brighter American future. It is critical to everything we
are and everything we can become.
That's why we've declared a new era of education reform in
America, beginning with the first education summit in American his-
tory. Last fall, we met with the nation's Governors and set firm
goals. Among them: American students must be number one in math and
science. All children must start school ready to learn, through
programs like Head Start. They must demonstrate competency in crucial
subject areas while we increase the percentage of students graduating
from high school to 90 percent.
Finally, every school in America must have a disciplined
environment -- and, most of all, be drug free.
The curse of drugs threatens our communities, our schools, our
workplaces and, most importantly, our children. There is no greater
threat today to the health of the American family and the future of
our land. The strength we bring to win the war on drugs must be of
hurricane force. It must roar with determination from the smallest
town squares to the concrete canyons of our cities.
Our National Drug Control Strategy is clear. The rules of the
game have changed. America will no longer tolerate drug use. And
those who violate the law will pay a heavy price. We will take back
the streets of our country.
5
We will stop the horror -- the pollution of drugs drifting
across our borders. We have designated the Houston area and the
southwest border of Texas high intensity drug trafficking areas. This
means you will receive special help through Federal, State, and local
cooperative efforts.
Three Aerostat blimps with powerful lookdown radar will scan
the Texas-Mexican border -- covering it with an electronic picket
fence, so to speak. They are the cornerstone of the Custom Service's
awesome multi-state electronic network. Even with this project not
yet complete, seizures of the killer cocaine have been increased by
1,000 percent.
But to win the war on drugs, I need your Republican team,
headed by Clayton Williams, in Austin to continue this cooperative
fight. And I need Phil in Washington, where he led the fight for the
blimp surveillance.
But I need Phil in Washington for something else, too -- our
struggle with the budget. In this last decade, not once, but twice,
his vision has changed the fiscal firmament of this land.
Last Tuesday, we convened an extraordinary, ongoing bipartisan
economic summit. Phil is working with me, as the designee of the
Senate. (MORE TO COME AFTER BUDGET SESSIONS)
Education. The fight against drugs. The budget deficit. We're
making progress -- and, with your Texan Republican leadership in
place in Austin and Washington, we're going to make more.
We're going to win here in 1990. We have to win in 1990. If
we let the familiar old faces continue in power, once again they'll
gerrymander fair representation right out the window and into thin
6
air. The Democratic leaders know that today Republicans will win in a
fair fight because the times are changing in Texas.
When you talk of this state, say Gramm and Williams and Hutch-
ison and Sturns and Perry and you're talking about people who share
Texans' conservative philosophy. But say Richards and Hightower and
Parmer, and you might as well be saying Dukakis and Mondale and
Kennedy.
When I was running for the Senate here back in 1964, my first
speech was about building a two-party system in Texas. Back then,
during elections they might as well have put up a sign: Public Office
Available: No Republicans Need Apply. Well, today's Texas voters have
put up a new sign. It tells everyone -- Public Office Available: No
outdated, big spending, backroom scheming, liberal members of the
backslapping, backward-looking Democratic Party need apply.
The next six months are crucial to Texas and to the United
States itself. The future is at stake. We must join together -- ( (and
work as hard as a stump-tailed bull at fly time.) )
We will take the Republican message to every farm and ranch,
to every town and city, to every Texan willing to listen in this
magnificent state of ours. And if we do, on election day the people
of Texas will lift their faces and feel the Republican breeze of
change -- of new ideas -- sweep our land.
And then together we can face whatever challenges the future
may bring. Because in togetherness there is strength. And in Texan
togetherness is the finest kind of strength of all.
God bless the great state of Texas and God bless America.
#
#
#
#
#
7
Document No. 140 898
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 05/14/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 5:00 p.m. Tuesday 05/15
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: TEXAS GOP FUNDRAISER/DALLAS, TX
(05/14 2:10 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
WINSTON
FITZWATER
PORTER ROSE
GRAY
WRAY
HAGIN
ANDERSON
BENNETT
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 05/15, with a copy to my office.
Thanks.
RESPONSE:
& think the needs
by
DE : 212 SI 1-2 pages
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Hinchliffe/Blessey)
May 14, 1990
2:10 p.m.
1990 MAY 14 PM 6: 25
DALLAS
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
TEXAS GOP FUNDRAISER
LOEW'S ANATOLE HOTEL, DALLAS
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1990 6:30 P.M.
Thank you, Phil. It's always a pleasure to hear your
introductions -- you have the heart of old Texas in you ((And your
brevity was certainly a departure from tradition for an old college
professor
))
And appricated.
Boone, this is a great party you're throwing for a great
party! And so many familiar Texas faces: Bill (Clements), Fred
(Myers), Bobby (Holt), Bill Melton, and a fellow over there (son
George), can't quite recall the name ... Many wonderful old friends
from over so many years. Barbara and I realized on the way down here
that it was 42 years ago we first made this trip. Of course, that was
in a '47 Studebaker, and today it was in Air Force One. A little more
leg room now, but all the same -- it's great to be back home!
Texas is larger than life in our memory. It's a place of
family and duty and loyalty and honor. But then, what more could you
expect from a state whose motto is "friendship" -- and whose very
name means "friend"?
((I'd love to come back home to my friends again next October,
to throw out the first ball at the opening game of the Rangers-Astros
World Series. You know, I asked George if I could try out for the
club. He said, "Sure, Dad, you can come down and throw the ball
around. But don't give up your day job."))
But there is distress involved in this homecoming, too.
Barbara and I share your anguish over the devastating floods that
have been raging over this wonderful land. Last week, I signed an
emergency FEMA proclamation bringing federal disaster aid to the
beleaguered counties.
the Losses have been heavy.
In this terrible disaster, many have lost something. Some have
lost everything But the one thing this state will never lose is its
soul. Yes, Texas is big, but not as big as the generous hearts and
indomitable spirit of its people. It a state where bigness means
greatness, and greatness means pride, and pride means hope. We know
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that that Texas grandeur of heart will pull you all together as you
find within you the strength to recover.
Now, let's talk politics.
You know, when I hear about your opponents, sometimes I wonder
if the leaders of the other party know this state at all. Know how
the people think. Know how to listen to their voices. Here's the best
way to know Texas -- to know it deeply and surely and truly.
Nearly 30 years ago -- in that infamously unsuccessful race
for U.S. Senate -- Barbara and I crisscrossed this state for a year.
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From the Panhandle to the Rio Grande; from Wichita Falls to Beeville.
We spent time with the real people of Texas. We saw their pain when
paychecks weren't there. Shared their joys when a gusher hit and
their children could get new clothes for school. Heard their
whispered fears and their proud hopes. Listening to the heartbeat of
listen to
Texas. That's how you hear the people voice.
And that's how Texas gets into your blood. Sticks to you like
tumbleweed to a barbed wire fence. And you know, once it's there, it
never leaves. Even now, Barbara and I still listen to Willie Nelson
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I'm and think real
in the city of New Kids on the Block. We remember the Texas religion
called the Dallas Cowboys in the city of the Redskins. And we eat
chicken-fried steak and pork rinds in the city of fresh crabs.
Coming home and seeing what you in the Texas GOP have done
makes me proud. You're the party of inclusion. of idealism. And of
ideas. You believe that progress is not measured in money spent and
bureaucracies built, but in people helped.
And I'm proud of this ticket of Republican candidates -- the
strongest team in the history of this strong state. Proud that for
the first time there is a slate of candidates for 16 state offices.
Victory 90!
There's Senator Phil Gramm. Phil says he's running for re-
election like he was running for sheriff in each of Texas' 254
counties. ((You know, his friend Marvin Leath said of him: "If you're
going to tangle with Phil, remember two things: one, he's smarter
than you; two, he's meaner than a junkyard dog. " Barbara is glad to
have Millie at her side -- I'm glad to have Phil.))
And Clayton Williams, the next Governor of Texas. We respect
your record of success in creating jobs -- more than 100,000 in your
32 years in business. We respect your commitment to fighting the
insidious poison of drugs. And we respect how you have broadened the
base of our party.
Clayton, you're an energetic and outspoken modern Texan. But
you also have in your heart the echoes of this state's fine history.
The idealism of purpose of Stephen Austin. The convictions and
courage of Sam Houston. And the great pioneer style of Davy Crockett.
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You're going to bring your own style to the governor's office. I look
forward to watching the strength you'll give the future of our state.
And look at the rest of this great ticket. Men and women of a
multitude of professions bringing their private sector success and
optimistic spirit to public service. More than that, they're a
coalition. A coalition that reflects Texas -- all of Texas -- as it
really is and as it will be. A coalition of diverse people like Kay
Bailey Hutchison. Louis Sturns. Rick Perry.
You know, in less than two years, 179 Southern Democratic
elected officials and leaders have turned Republican. Churchill said,
"Some men change their principles for their party.' Rick and so many
others have changed their party for their principles. As Phil himself
knows -- this has become a fine Texas tradition.
The Republican team embodies the spirit of today's diverse,
forward-thinking Republican party -- devoted to family values and a
strong future. Yet you also stand for our state's finest traditions -
- decency and the courage to dare. You are today's Texans with the
large and generous spirit of yesterday's Texans.
You know, on Inauguration Day, I talked about a new breeze
blowing. Let me tell you, standing back here in my old homestate of
Texas, I can feel the air stirring. It's the warm, Gulf Stream breeze
of a state where people are independent-minded and as open as its
ranges. As bold as its frontiers. It's the wind of a land where risk-
taking comes from the strength of your beliefs, and where your spirit
is as big as the Texas night sky.
Each of you in the Texas GOP has helped to open the window on
the musty darkness of outdated big government. You are blowing away
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the stuffiness of irrelevant liberalism -- because your new breeze
carries the new ideas Texas needs for the '90s. Ideas that encourage
investment in business and in the business of our children --
education.
In Washington, we share your belief that education is the only
path to a brighter American future. It is critical to everything we
are and everything we can become.
That's why we've declared a new era of education reform in
America, beginning with the first education summit in American his-
tory. Last fall, we met with the nation's Governors and set firm
goals. Among them: American students must be number one in math and
science. All children must start school ready to learn, through
programs like Head Start. They must demonstrate competency in crucial
subject areas while we increase the percentage of students graduating
from high school to 90 percent.
Finally, every school in America must have a disciplined
environment -- and, most of all, be drug free.
The curse of drugs threatens our communities, our schools, our
workplaces and, most importantly, our children. There is no greater
threat today to the health of the American family and the future of
our land. The strength we bring to win the war on drugs must be of
hurricane force. It must roar with determination from the smallest
town squares to the concrete canyons of our cities.
Our National Drug Control Strategy is clear. The rules of the
game have changed. America will no longer tolerate drug use. And
those who violate the law will pay a heavy price. We will take back
the streets of our country.
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We will stop the horror -- the pollution of drugs drifting
across our borders. We have designated the Houston area and the
southwest border of Texas high intensity drug trafficking areas. This
means you will receive special help through Federal, State, and local
cooperative efforts.
Three Aerostat blimps with powerful lookdown radar will scan
the Texas-Mexican border -- covering it with an electronic picket
fence, so to speak. They are the cornerstone of the Custom Service's
awesome multi-state electronic network. Even with this project not
yet complete, seizures of the killer cocaine have been increased by
1,000 percent.
But to win the war on drugs, I need your Republican team,
headed by Clayton Williams, in Austin to continue this cooperative
fight. And I need Phil in Washington, where he led the fight for the
blimp surveillance.
But I need Phil in Washington for something else, too -- our
struggle with the budget. In this last decade, not once, but twice,
his vision has changed the fiscal firmament of this land.
Last Tuesday, we convened an extraordinary, ongoing bipartisan
economic summit. Phil is working with me, as the designee of the
Senate. (MORE TO COME AFTER BUDGET SESSIONS)
Education. The fight against drugs. The budget deficit. We're
making progress -- and, with your Texan Republican leadership in
place in Austin and Washington, we're going to make more.
We're going to win here in 1990. We have to win in 1990. If
we let the familiar old faces continue in power, once again they'll
gerrymander fair representation right out the window and into thin
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air. The Democratic leaders know that today Republicans will win in a
fair fight because the times are changing in Texas.
When you talk of this state, say Gramm and Williams and Hutch-
ison and Sturns and Perry and you're talking about people who share
Texans' conservative philosophy. But say Richards and Hightower and
Parmer, and you might as well be saying Dukakis and Mondale and
Kennedy.
When I was running for the Senate here back in 1964, my first
speech was about building a two-party system in Texas. Back then,
during elections they might as well have put up a sign: Public Office
Available: No Republicans Need Apply. Well, today's Texas voters have
put up a new sign. It tells everyone -- Public Office Available: No
outdated, big spending, backroom scheming, liberal members of the
backslapping, backward-looking Democratic Party need apply.
The next six months are crucial to Texas and to the United
States itself. The future is at stake. We must join together -- ((and
work as hard as a stump-tailed bull at fly time.) )
We will take the Republican message to every farm and ranch,
to every town and city, to every Texan willing to listen in this
magnificent state of ours. And if we do, on election day the people
of Texas will lift their faces and feel the Republican breeze of
change -- of new ideas -- sweep our land.
And then together we can face whatever challenges the future
may bring. Because in togetherness there is strength. And in Texan
togetherness is the finest kind of strength of all.
God bless the great state of Texas and God bless America.
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