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1.
At the bottom of page one I do
not know if I would choose the
Clean Air Act and the Americans
with disabilities act as our
principal accomplishments to date.
I think it would be better to talk
about capital gains, the budget
agreement and other financial issues,
on the assumption that the audience
will probably be largely comprised
of Wall Street types. Perhaps we
could even get the President to
say something about other financial
issues as well, such as CFTC/SEC, etc.
2.
The comments at the bottom of page
6 about the evils of divided
government contrast with our support
for the Republican Senate in New
York on page 4.
3. It may seem disingenuous to attack
Cuomo for a budget deficit on page 3
when we have a far larger deficit of
our own to deal with. However, WE
can make the point here that Cuomo
has less of an excuse, since he has
line-item veto power. (See attached.)
Pruce
Bruce R. Bartlett
Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Economic Policy
room 3445
phone 566-2768
Document No. 159833
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
90 JUL 20 P4: 17
DATE: 07/19/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 3:00 p.m. Friday 07/20
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NEW YORK REPUBLICAN PARTY
(07/16 draft two)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
R
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
A
DEMAREST
PINKERTON
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
CARNEY
HAGIN
BOSKIN
1
HOLIDAY
ANDERSON
BENNETT
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 3:00 p.m. on Friday, 07/20, with a copy to my office.
Thanks.
RESPONSE:
Ace comments. Thanks.
Helly williamson
7-20-90
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Davis/Blymire
Title: Newyork
1990 JUL 18 71 7:59
Date: June 16, 1990
Draft: Two
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: NEW YORK REPUBLICAN PARTY, WALDORF ASTORIA
7:30 p.m., TUESDAY, PARE 24, 1990
July
((Acknowledgements -- Senator D'Amato, Chairman Pat Barrett,
Senate Majority Leader Ralph Marino, Commissioner Comptroller
Regan.)
Vireasury
((You know, for two years, when I was ambassador to the
United Nations, Barbara and I lived in this very hotel, in room
42 A. And whenever I complained about anything, Barbara would
just roll her eyes and say: "Just where do you think we live?
The Waldorf Astoria?"))
((Of course, we've changed addresses. But every time I come
back to New York, someone always asks if I have any comment on
the plight of a certain charismatic New York celebrity. You know
who I'm talking about -- that celebrity whose financial problems
have made so many headlines, a luminary who is waging a day-to-
day battle to avoid the creditors. III Well, I have absolutely
nothing to say about that: You see, I promised myself I wouldn't
talk about Mario Cuomo tonight. )) III
But I am here tonight to talk about the differences between
See
our parties. Of course, many Democrats in Washington have
greasury
supported me in meeting this fantastic era of change abroad; have
comment
#1
worked with me to pass the first revision of the Clean Air Act in
more than thirteen years -- tougher standards to cut down on acid
Cattached
in the
rain and other toxins. And they worked with me, so I could sign
back)
2
into law a bill ending discrimination against disabled Americans.
But much remains to be done -- too much. Tonight, I will speak
of our disagreements. And what better place to discuss these
differences than in a state run by Democrats.
In New York, we face a tremendous opportunity to end the
Democrat gerrymander -- an opportunity to end discrimination
against voters by race and by party. That is our mission this
November, and it is one that transcends mere politics because we
are deeply concerned about the future of this great state.
We love New York, all of New York, from the oak-lined
avenues of Long Island, to the Brooklyn Arts Museum, to Broadway.
From Yankee Stadium, to the city streets of Buffalo, to the New
York of farm towns and Adirondacks. New York is a city of
lights, a state of grandeur, a place where dreams come true.
But we are concerned for the future, because New York has
become something else -- a showcase of liberal policies. And
after sixteen years of dominance by liberal Democrats, it is time
to judge the results.
For 92 months, America has enjoyed peacetime economic
expansion and the creation of more than 22 million jobs. But not
all the benefits of those years were enjoyed by the people of New
York State. Throughout the 1980s, while most of America was
growing and looking forward to the future, life in New York --
especially in the City -- was becoming more expensive, more
difficult and more dangerous than ever before.
3
Here in Albany, liberal Democrats blame every problem on
Republican policies -- especially Republican economic policies.
But in 198 (x) a large energy corporation based in New York
didn't go out of business. It just moved south to Virginia,
taking ((number)) jobs with it. And in 19 (x) a large airline
centered in New York didn't go out of business. It just moved
south to Texas, taking ((number)) jobs with it. In fact, since
1983, almost a third of the Fortune 500 corporations based in New
York City have chosen to leave.
will people New York's credit rating is lower than Donald Trump's, and
this
literally
its annual budget deficit is higher than those of the three
(OCA)
largest South American countries combined. And yet my friends in
New York tell me that this year Democrat leaders proposed an
see
almost ten percent increase in spending -- twice the rate of
comment
inflation!
#3
Who let this happen? The same people who've been in power
in Gracie Mansion and Albany for years -- liberal Democrats.
Well, New Yorkers are sick and tired of a declining quality of
life that drives away companies and good jobs. New Yorkers are
want to
(OCA)
get tough those responsible for
Asick and tired of open-air drug marts and muggings. And New
Yorkers are sick and tired of the liberal anti reform mentality.
want to empower the poor, to create oppor tunities for home ownership
financial
Thirty-four years of Democrat dominance in Congress have independence.
also taken their toll. Only a President carries a national
mandate. But, like Republican Presidents before me, I know that
to deal with a Democrat Congress is to often face government by
gridlock -- with spending skyrocketing out of control, good
4
legislation thrown aside for pork, and a budget deficit looming
over our children's children.
It is time we asked the American people to end the gridlock.
To choose the liberal mindset of the Democratic Party or to
choose our path -- the Republican path. To empower government to
run their lives, or to empower people to run their lives for
themselves. To ask America to CHOOSE. 111
Here in New York, you must choose a governor. Let it be a
Republican Governor -- Pierre Rinfret. Here is a family man,
a decorated war hero, a successful entrepreneur who pulled
himself out of Hell's Kitchen, and wants to lead others out of
poverty into opportunity. He may not be a politician. But maybe
New York doesn't need another politician. Maybe New York needs a
change. III
But New York must also make another choice -- to keep Senate
Leader Ralph Marino and his colleagues as your last line of
defense against a liberal governor and his Assembly. Republicans
like what works. That's why your Republican Senate has been --
and will remain -- your watchdog against big spenders.
It is the Republicans in the Senate, after all, who forced a
spending cap and base-line budgeting. It is the Republicans in
the Senate who managed to trim $1.5 billion in Democratic
spending proposals. ((They know you can't trust a party that
would double the fare of the Staten Island Ferry. )) 111 Kidding
aside, think of what these Republicans could achieve if they
could work with a Republican governor, a Republican Assembly.
5
These matters of jobs and taxes are important. But safe
streets are of equal concern, especially in a city that lives in
fear. That's why New York agrees with us -- these violent
criminals deserve nothing less than punishment swift and sure.
So Republicans want to change lenient, blame-the-victim
laws, and liberal Democrats don't.
Republicans want to allow the women of this state to be able
to defend themselves with MACE, and liberal Democrats don't.
munderers
(Justice)
And Republicans want cop billers and drug kingpins to pay
the ultimate penalty -- and liberal Democrats don't. III
In Washington, we argued that those who sell drugs are
selling death. And we proposed that drug kingpins reap what they
sow. But our crime bill faces another obstacle. Fifteen months
ago, I stood before the U.S. Capitol and announced America's
determination to take back the streets.
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and does nothing
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perfect bill, but
it was crafted
Let me give you another example of how a liberal Congress,
by
Republicans) long in power, jealously clings to the failed policies of the
past. In April of '89, our Administration asked Congress to pass
the Educational Excellence Act -- reform proposals to reward
achievement and allow educational choice -- and yes, spend more
money on worthy programs like Head Start. Yet Congress killed
many of these sensible and cost-effective proposals. And then
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they tripled our request with one billion dollars worth of
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by 6 points
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we shouldn't throw money at an education system that is already
the most expensive in the industrialized world? When are they
going to stop measuring the results of a program by the size of
its price tag? When are they going to stop blocking reform?
But where the liberal mindset dominates, as it does in
Albany and in Washington, the net result is the same: bad
schools, dangerous streets, big deficits. And as long as liberal
Democrats run Congress and run Albany, we -- a Republican
President and a Republican New York State Senate -- will often be
forced to measure our successes in catastrophes averted and
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system. Also Treasury comment #2. Cartached in back)
7
As we go into the 1990 election season, remember an adage
from a great Republican governor of New York, and a great
President. Theodore Roosevelt said: "In life, as in a football
game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard."
The choice is clear: Republican reform or the Democrat
status quo. When we present the people with this stark choice,
rest assured -- we will hit the line hard in November.
Thank you for all you have done, and are pledged to do. And
may God bless you, and the United States of America.
#
STATE STATE OFFICE UNITED OFFICE FILL JO OF THE
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503
NOTICE:
Enclosed are comments from staff members of the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) Such comments do not necessarily
represent the official position of the Director of OMB or of the
Office of Management and Budget. If you wish to have the
Director's personal comments, please let me know -- and contact
me if you have any questions.
If our proposed substantive changes are not made, please let
us know before the material is prepared in final.
James UM C. Marr
Associate Director for
Legislative Reference
and Administration
Document No. 159833
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
90 JUL 20 P2: 50
DATE: 07/19/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 3:00 p.m. Friday 07/20
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NEW YORK REPUBLICAN PARTY
(07/16 16 draft two)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
>
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
A
DEMAREST
S
PINKERTON
FITZWATER
WINSTON
>
GRAY
CARNEY
HAGIN
BOSKIN
1
HOLIDAY
ANDERSON
BENNETT
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 3:00 p.m. on Friday, 07/20, with a copy to my office.
Thanks.
RESPONSE: See comments
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Davis/Blymire
Title: Newyork
1990 JUL IS 7:1 7:59
Date: June 16, 1990
Draft: Two
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: NEW YORK REPUBLICAN PARTY, WALDORF ASTORIA
7:30 p.m., TUESDAY, 24, 1990
July
(Acknowledgements -- Senator D'Amato, Chairman Pat Barrett,
Senate Majority Leader Ralph Marino, Commissioner Regan.) )
((You know, for two years, when I was ambassador to the
United Nations, Barbara and I lived in this very hotel, in room
42 A. And whenever I complained about anything, Barbara would
just roll her eyes and say: "Just where do you think we live?
The Waldorf Astoria?") ) III
((Of course, we've changed addresses. But every time I come
back to New York, someone always asks if I have any comment on
the plight of a certain charismatic New York celebrity. You know
who I'm talking about -- that celebrity whose financial problems
have made so many headlines, a luminary who is waging a day-to-
day battle to avoid the creditors. III Well, I have absolutely
nothing to say about that: You see, I promised myself I wouldn't
talk about Mario Cuomo tonight.) ) III
But I am here tonight to talk about the differences between
our parties. of course, many Democrats in Washington have
supported me in meeting this fantastic era of change abroad; have
worked with me to pass the first revision of the Clean Air Act in
more than thirteen years -- tougher standards to cut down on acid
rain and other toxins. And they worked with me, so I could sign
air pollutants
Grady V
X4844
2
into law a bill ending discrimination against disabled Americans.
But much remains to be done -- too much. Tonight, I will speak
of our disagreements. And what better place to discuss these
differences than in a state run by Democrats.
In New York, we face a tremendous opportunity to end the
Democrat gerrymander -- an opportunity to end discrimination
against voters by race and by party. That is our mission this
November, and it is one that transcends mere politics because we
are deeply concerned about the future of this great state.
We love New York, all of New York, from the oak-lined
avenues of Long Island, to the Brooklyn Arts Museum, to Broadway.
From Yankee Stadium, to the city streets of Buffalo, to the New
York of farm towns and Adirondacks. New York is a city of
lights, a state of grandeur, a place where dreams come true.
But we are concerned for the future, because New York has
become something else -- a showcase of liberal policies. And
after sixteen years of dominance by liberal Democrats, it is time
to judge the results.
For 92 months, America has enjoyed peacetime economic
expansion and the creation of more than 22 million jobs. But not
all the benefits of those years were enjoyed by the people of New
York State. Throughout the 1980s, while most of America was
growing and looking forward to the future, life in New York --
especially in the City -- was becoming more expensive, more
difficult and more dangerous than ever before.
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Here In Albany, liberal Democrats blame every problem on
Republican policies -- especially Republican economic policies.
But in 198 (x) a large energy corporation based in New York
didn't go out of business. It just moved south to Virginia,
taking ((number)) jobs with it. And in 19 ((x)), a large airline
centered in New York didn't go out of business. It just moved
south to Texas, taking ((number)) jobs with it. In fact, since
1983, almost a third of the Fortune 500 corporations based in New
York City have chosen to leave.
New York's credit rating is lower than Donald Trump's, and
its annual budget deficit is higher than those of the three
largest South American countries combined. And yet my friends in
New York tell me that this year Democrat leaders proposed an
almost ten percent increase in spending -- twice the rate of
inflation!
Who let this happen? The same people who've been in power
in Gracie Mansion and Albany for years -- liberal Democrats.
Well, New Yorkers are sick and tired of a declining quality of
life that drives away companies and good jobs. New Yorkers are
sick and tired of open-air drug marts and muggings. And New
Yorkers are sick and tired of the liberal anti-reform mentality.
Thirty-four years of Democrat dominance in Congress have
also taken their toll. Only a President carries a national
mandate. But, like Republican Presidents before me, I know that
to deal with a Democrat Congress is to often face government by
gridlock -- with spending skyrocketing out of control, good
4
legislation thrown aside for pork, and a budget deficit looming
over our children's children.
It is time we asked the American people to end the gridlock.
To choose the liberal mindset of the Democratic Party or to
choose our path -- the Republican path. To empower government to
run their lives, or to empower people to run their lives for
themselves. To ask America to CHOOSE. 111
Here in New York, you must choose a governor. Let it be a
Republican Governor -- Pierre Rinfret. Here is a family man,
a decorated war hero, a successful entrepreneur who pulled
himself out of Hell's Kitchen, and wants to lead others out of
poverty into opportunity. He may not be a politician. But maybe
New York doesn't need another politician. Maybe New York needs a
change. III
But New York must also make another choice -- to keep Senate
Leader Ralph Marino and his colleagues as your last line of
defense against a liberal governor and his Assembly. Republicans
like what works. That's why your Republican Senate has been --
and will remain -- your watchdog against big spenders.
It is the Republicans in the Senate, after all, who forced a
spending cap and base-line budgeting. It is the Republicans in
the Senate who managed to trim $1.5 billion in Democratic
spending proposals. ((They know you can't trust a party that
would double the fare of the Staten Island Ferry. )) Kidding
aside, think of what these Republicans could achieve if they
could work with a Republican governor, a Republican Assembly.
5
These matters of jobs and taxes are important. But safe
streets are of equal concern, especially in a city that lives in
fear. That's why New York agrees with us -- these violent
criminals deserve nothing less than punishment swift and sure.
Aso So Republicans want to change lenient, blame-the-victir
laws, and liberal Democrats don't.
Republicans want to allow the women of this state to be able
to defend themselves with MACE, and liberal Democrats don't.
And Republicans want cop killers and drug kingpins to pay
the ultimate penalty -- and liberal Democrats don't.\\\
In Washington, we argued that those who sell drugs are
selling death. And we proposed that drug kingpins reap what they
sow. But our crime bill faces another obstacle. Fifteen months
ago, I stood before the U.S. Capitol and announced America's
determination to take back the streets. ag
The Senate has now cleared a crime bill. But it is a bill
that does nothing to end the endless appeals process, or to
/
mearrect Martin
44864
ensure that evidence gathered by good cops acting in good faith
isn't barred by technicalities that let bad people go free.
Let me give you another example of how a liberal Congress,
long in power, jealously clings to the failed policies of the
past. In April of '89, our Administration asked Congress to pass
the Educational Excellence Act -- reform proposals to reward
achievement and allow educational choice, and yes, spend more
Incorrect
Martin
money on worthy programs like Head Start. Yet Congress killed
x4864
many of these sensible and cost-effective proposals. And then
6
they tripled our request with one billion dollars worth of
unnecessary, unrelated and costly changes.
If liberal Democrats should have learned anything, it is
that you cannot reform an education system by throwing billions
of dollars at it. Right here in New York State, spending on
education increased by ((dollar amount) ) over ( (years) ) i and yet
SAT scores dropped ((number)), and graduation rates fell from
( (numbers) When is it going to penetrate liberal thinking that
we shouldn't throw money at an education system that is already
the most expensive in the industrialized world? When are they
going to stop measuring the results of a program by the size of
its price tag? When are they going to stop blocking reform?
But where the liberal mindset dominates, as it does in
Albany and in Washington, the net result is the same: bad
schools, dangerous streets, big deficits. And as long as liberal
Democrats run Congress and run Albany, we -- a Republican
President and a Republican New York State Senate -- will often be
forced to measure our successes in catastrophes averted and
calamities mitigated.
Let me be blunt: Divided government isn't working very well.
Divided government just isn't good enough, for America or
for New York.
It is time to ask the American people to let us show what we
can do without the albatross of liberal legislatures. It is time
to ask America to choose.
7
As we go into the 1990 election season, remember an adage
from a great Republican governor of New York, and a great
President. Theodore Roosevelt said: "In life, as in a football
game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard."
The choice is clear: Republican reform or the Democrat
status quo. When we present the people with this stark choice,
rest assured -- we will hit the line hard in November.
Thank you for all you have done, and are pledged to do. And
may God bless you, and the United States of America.
#
#
#
Document No. 159833
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
90 JUL 20 P2: 29
DATE: 07/19/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 3:00 p.m. Friday 07/20
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NEW YORK REPUBLICAN PARTY
(07/16 draft two)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
>
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
DEMAREST
PINKERTON
FITZWATER
WINSTON
>
GRAY
CARNEY
HAGIN
BOSKIN
HOLIDAY
ANDERSON
BENNETT
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 3:00 p.m. on Friday, 07/20, with a copy to my office.
Thanks.
/
RESPONSE:
One of the best polit
speeched ever
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Davis/Blymire
Title: Newyork
1990 JUL IS 7:1 7:59
Date: June 16, 1990
Draft: Two
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: NEW YORK REPUBLICAN PARTY, WALDORF ASTORIA
7:30 p.m., TUESDAY, FIRE 24, 1990
RINFRET Senate
July
(Acknowledgements -- Senator D'Amato, Chairman Pat Barrett,
Majority Leader Ralph Marino, Commissioner Regan.) )
((You know, for two years, when I was ambassador to the
United Nations, Barbara and I lived in this very hotel, in room
42 A. And whenever I complained about anything, Barbara would
just roll her eyes and say: "Just where do you think we live?
The Waldorf Astoria?") )
((Of course, we've changed addresses. But every time I come
back to New York, someone always asks if I have any comment on
the plight of a certain charismatic New York celebrity. You know
who I'm talking about -- that celebrity whose financial problems
have made so many headlines, a luminary who is waging a day-to-
day battle to avoid the creditors. Well, I have absolutely
nothing to say about that: You see, I promised myself I wouldn't
talk about Mario Cuomo tonight. UHI
But I am here tonight to talk about the differences between
our parties. of course, many Democrats in Washington have
supported me in meeting this fantastic era of change abroad; have
worked with me to pass the first revision of the Clean Air Act in
more than thirteen years -- tougher standards to cut down on acid
rain and other toxins. And they worked with me, so I could sign
2
into law a bill ending discrimination against disabled Americans.
But much remains to be done -- too much. Tonight, I will speak
of our disagreements. And what better place to discuss these
differences than in a state run by Democrats.
In New York, we face a tremendous opportunity to end the
Democrat gerrymander -- an opportunity to end discrimination
against voters by race and by party. That is our mission this
November, and it is one that transcends mere politics because we
are deeply concerned about the future of this great state.
We love New York, all of New York, from the oak-lined
avenues of Long Island, to the Brooklyn Arts Museum, to Broadway.
From Yankee Stadium, to the city streets of Buffalo, to the New
York of farm towns and Adirondacks. New York is a city of
also
barthple
lights, a state of grandeur, a place where dreams come true.
of
Barb
Bush
But we are concerned for the future, because New York has
become something else -- a showcase of liberal policies. And
after sixteen years of dominance by liberal Democrats, it is time
to judge the results.
For 92 months, America has enjoyed peacetime economic
expansion and the creation of more than 22 million jobs. But not
all the benefits of those years were enjoyed by the people of New
York State. Throughout the 1980s, while most of America was
growing and looking forward to the future, life in New York --
especially in the City -- was becoming more expensive, more
difficult and more dangerous than ever before.
3
Here in Albany, liberal Democrats blame every problem on
Republican policies -- especially Republican economic policies.
But in 198 (x) a large energy corporation based in New York
didn't go out of business. It just moved south to Virginia,
taking ((number)) jobs with it. And in 19 ((x)), a large airline
centered in New York didn't go out of business. It just moved
south to Texas, taking ((number)) jobs with it. In fact, since
1983, almost a third of the Fortune 500 corporations based in New
York City have chosen to leave.
New York's credit rating is lower than Donald Trump's and
its annual budget deficit is higher than those of the three
largest South American countries combined. And yet my friends in
New York tell me that this year Democrat leaders proposed an
almost ten percent increase in spending -- twice the rate of
inflation!
Who let this happen? The same people who've been in power
in Gracie Mansion and Albany for years -- liberal Democrats.
Well, New Yorkers are sick and tired of a declining quality of
life that drives away companies and good jobs. New Yorkers are
sick and tired of open-air drug marts and muggings. And New
Yorkers are sick and tired of the liberal anti-reform mentality.
good
Thirty-four years of Democrat dominance in Congress have
also taken their toll. Only a President carries a national
mandate. But, like Republican Presidents before me, I know that
to deal with a Democrat Congress is to often face government by
gridlock -- with spending skyrocketing out of control, good
4
legislation thrown aside for pork, and a budget deficit looming
over our children's children.
It is time we asked the American people to end the gridlock.
To choose the liberal mindset of the Democratic Party or to
choose our path -- the Republican path. To empower government to
run their lives, or to empower people to run their lives for
themselves. To ask America to CHOOSE.
Here in New York, you must choose a governor. Let it be a
Republican Governor -- Pierre Rinfret. Here is a family man,
a decorated war hero, a successful entrepreneur who pulled
himself out of Hell's Kitchen, and wants to lead others out of
poverty into opportunity. He may not be a politician. But maybe
New York doesn't need another politician. Maybe New York needs a
change.
But New York must also make another choice -- to keep Senate
Leader Ralph Marino and his colleagues as your last line of
defense against a liberal governor and his Assembly. Republicans
like what works. That's why your Republican Senate has been --
and will remain -- your watchdog against big spenders.
It is the Republicans in the Senate, after all, who forced a
spending cap and base-line budgeting. It is the Republicans in
the Senate who managed to trim $1.5 billion in Democratic
spending proposals. ((They know you can't trust a party that
would double the fare of the Staten Island Ferry. )) Kidding
aside, think of what these Republicans could achieve if they
could work with a Republican governor, a Republican Assembly.
5
These matters of jobs and taxes are important. But safe
streets are of equal concern, especially in a city that lives in
fear. That's why New York agrees with us -- these violent
criminals deserve nothing less than punishment swift and sure.
So Republicans want to change lenient, blame-the-victim
laws, and liberal Democrats don't.
Republicans want to allow the women of this state to be able
to defend themselves with MACE, and liberal Democrats don't.
And Republicans want cop killers and drug kingpins to pay
the ultimate penalty -- and liberal Democrats don't.
In Washington, we argued that those who sell drugs are
selling death. And we proposed that drug kingpins reap what they
sow. But our crime bill faces another obstacle. Fifteen months
ago, I stood before the U.S. Capitol and announced America's
determination to take back the streets.
The Senate has now cleared a crime bill. But it is a bill
that does nothing to end the endless appeals process, or to
ensure that evidence gathered by good cops acting in good faith
isn't barred by technicalities that let bad people go free.
Let me give you another example of how a liberal Congress,
long in power, jealously clings to the failed policies of the
past. In April of '89, our Administration asked Congress to pass
the Educational Excellence Act -- reform proposals to reward
achievement and allow educational choice -- and yes, spend more
money on worthy programs like Head Start. Yet Congress killed
many of these sensible and cost-effective proposals. And then
6
they tripled our request with one billion dollars worth of
unnecessary, unrelated and costly changes.
If liberal Democrats should have learned anything, it is
that you cannot reform an education system by throwing billions
of dollars at it. Right here in New York State, spending on
education increased by ((dollar amount)) over ( (years) i and yet
SAT scores dropped ((number)), and graduation rates fell from
( (numbers) When is it going to penetrate liberal thinking that
we shouldn't throw money at an education system that is already
the most expensive in the industrialized world? When are they
going to stop measuring the results of a program by the size of
its price tag? When are they going to stop blocking reform?
But where the liberal mindset dominates, as it does in
Albany and in Washington, the net result is the same: bad
schools, dangerous streets, big deficits. And as long as liberal
Democrats run Congress and run Albany, we -- a Republican
President and a Republican New York State Senate -- will often be
forced to measure our successes in catastrophes averted and
Good calamities mitigated.
Let me be blunt: Divided government isn't working very well.
Divided government just isn't good enough, for America or
for New York.
It is time to ask the American people to let us show what we
can do without the albatross of liberal legislatures. It is time
to ask America to choose.
7
As we go into the 1990 election season, remember an adage
from a great Republican governor of New York, and a great
President. Theodore Roosevelt said: "In life, as in a football
game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard."
The choice is clear: Republican reform or the Democrat
status quo. When we present the people with this stark choice,
rest assured -- we will hit the line hard in November.
Thank you for all you have done, and are pledged to do. And
may God bless you, and the United States of America.
#
#
#
Document No. 159833
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
90 JUL 20 P3: 00
DATE: 07/19/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 3:00 p.m. Friday 07/20
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NEW YORK REPUBLICAN PARTY
(07/16 draft two)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
>
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
A
DEMAREST
PINKERTON
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
CARNEY
HAGIN
BOSKIN
1
HOLIDAY
ANDERSON
BENNETT
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 3:00 p.m. on Friday, 07/20 with a copy to my office.
Thanks.
RESPONSE: ONDEP-
ok- no comments
D. Casse -
x 2992
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
7/20
900 am
To: Daniel Casse
Heremith for reading!
ny Rep. Party - (7) Seven pages.
Report due by 3 pase Fri (Todey)
Thanks
X-
456-2492
Davis/Blymire
Title: Newyork
1990 JUL 19 71 7: 59
Date: June 16, 1990
Draft: Two
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: NEW YORK REPUBLICAN PARTY, WALDORF ASTORIA
7:30 p.m., TUESDAY, OTHE 24, 1990
July
((Acknowledgements -- Senator D'Amato, Chairman Pat Barrett,
Senate Majority Leader Ralph Marino, Commissioner Regan.) )
((You know, for two years, when I was ambassador to the
United Nations, Barbara and I lived in this very hotel, in room
42 A. And whenever I complained about anything, Barbara would
just roll her eyes and say: "Just where do you think we live?
The Waldorf Astoria?") ) III
((Of course, we've changed addresses. But every time I come
back to New York, someone always asks if I have any comment on
the plight of a certain charismatic New York celebrity. You know
who I'm talking about -- that celebrity whose financial problems
have made so many headlines, a luminary who is waging a day-to-
day battle to avoid the creditors. III Well, I have absolutely
nothing to say about that: You see, I promised myself I wouldn't
talk about Mario Cuomo tonight.) )) 111
But I am here tonight to talk about the differences between
our parties. of course, many Democrats in Washington have
supported me in meeting this fantastic era of change abroad; have
worked with me to pass the first revision of the Clean Air Act in
more than thirteen years -- tougher standards to cut down on acid
rain and other toxins. And they worked with me, so I could sign
2
into law a bill ending discrimination against disabled Americans.
But much remains to be done -- too much. Tonight, I will speak
of our disagreements. And what better place to discuss these
differences than in a state run by Democrats.
In New York, we face a tremendous opportunity to end the
Democrat gerrymander -- an opportunity to end discrimination
against voters by race and by party. That is our mission this
November, and it is one that transcends mere politics because we
are deeply concerned about the future of this great state.
We love New York, all of New York, from the oak-lined
avenues of Long Island, to the Brooklyn Arts Museum, to Broadway.
From Yankee Stadium, to the city streets of Buffalo, to the New
York of farm towns and Adirondacks. New York is a city of
lights, a state of grandeur, a place where dreams come true.
But we are concerned for the future, because New York has
become something else -- a showcase of liberal policies. And
after sixteen years of dominance by liberal Democrats, it is time
to judge the results.
For 92 months, America has enjoyed peacetime economic
expansion and the creation of more than 22 million jobs. But not
all the benefits of those years were enjoyed by the people of New
York State. Throughout the 1980s, while most of America was
growing and looking forward to the future, life in New York --
especially in the City -- was becoming more expensive, more
difficult and more dangerous than ever before.
3
Here in Albany, liberal Democrats blame every problem on
Republican policies -- especially Republican economic policies.
But in 198 (x) a large energy corporation based in New York
didn't go out of business. It just moved south to Virginia,
taking ((number)) jobs with it. And in 19 ((x)), a large airline
centered in New York didn't go out of business. It just moved
south to Texas, taking ((number)) jobs with it. In fact, since
1983, almost a third of the Fortune 500 corporations based in New
York City have chosen to leave.
New York's credit rating is lower than Donald Trump's, and
its annual budget deficit is higher than those of the three
largest South American countries combined. And yet my friends in
New York tell me that this year Democrat leaders proposed an
almost ten percent increase in spending -- twice the rate of
inflation!
Who let this happen? The same people who've been in power
in Gracie Mansion and Albany for years -- liberal Democrats.
Well, New Yorkers are sick and tired of a declining quality of
life that drives away companies and good jobs. New Yorkers are
sick and tired of open-air drug marts and muggings. And New
Yorkers are sick and tired of the liberal anti-reform mentality.
Thirty-four years of Democrat dominance in Congress have
also taken their toll. Only a President carries a national
mandate. But, like Republican Presidents before me, I know that
to deal with a Democrat Congress is to often face government by
gridlock -- with spending skyrocketing out of control, good
4
legislation thrown aside for pork, and a budget deficit looming
over our children's children.
It is time we asked the American people to end the gridlock.
To choose the liberal mindset of the Democratic Party or to
choose our path -- the Republican path. To empower government to
run their lives, or to empower people to run their lives for
themselves. To ask America to CHOOSE. III
Here in New York, you must choose a governor. Let it be a
Republican Governor -- Pierre Rinfret. Here is a family man,
a decorated war hero, a successful entrepreneur who pulled
himself out of Hell's Kitchen, and wants to lead others out of
poverty into opportunity. He may not be a politician. But maybe
New York doesn't need another politician. Maybe New York needs a
change. 111
But New York must also make another choice -- to keep Senate
Leader Ralph Marino and his colleagues as your last line of
defense against a liberal governor and his Assembly. Republicans
like what works. That's why your Republican Senate has been --
and will remain -- your watchdog against big spenders.
It is the Republicans in the Senate, after all, who forced a
spending cap and base-line budgeting. It is the Republicans in
the Senate who managed to trim $1.5 billion in Democratic
spending proposals. ((They know you can't trust a party that
would double the fare of the Staten Island Ferry. ))\\\ Kidding
aside, think of what these Republicans could achieve if they
could work with a Republican governor, a Republican Assembly.
5
These matters of jobs and taxes are important. But safe
streets are of equal concern, especially in a city that lives in
fear. That's why New York agrees with us -- these violent
criminals deserve nothing less than punishment swift and sure.
So Republicans want to change lenient, blame-the-victim
laws, and liberal Democrats don't.
Republicans want to allow the women of this state to be able
to defend themselves with MACE, and liberal Democrats don't.
And Republicans want cop killers and drug kingpins to pay
the ultimate penalty -- and liberal Democrats don't.
In Washington, we argued that those who sell drugs are
selling death. And we proposed that drug kingpins reap what they
sow. But our crime bill faces another obstacle. Fifteen months
ago, I stood before the U.S. Capitol and announced America's
determination to take back the streets.
The Senate has now cleared a crime bill. But it is a bill
that does nothing to end the endless appeals process, or to
ensure that evidence gathered by good cops acting in good faith
isn't barred by technicalities that let bad people go free.
Let me give you another example of how a liberal Congress,
long in power, jealously clings to the failed policies of the
past. In April of '89, our Administration asked Congress to pass
the Educational Excellence Act -- reform proposals to reward
achievement and allow educational choice -- and yes, spend more
money on worthy programs like Head Start. Yet Congress killed
many of these sensible and cost-effective proposals. And then
6
they tripled our request with one billion dollars worth of
unnecessary, unrelated and costly changes.
If liberal Democrats should have learned anything, it is
that you cannot reform an education system by throwing billions
of dollars at it. Right here in New York State, spending on
education increased by ((dollar amount)) over ( (years) ) ; and yet
SAT scores dropped ( (number)) and graduation rates fell from
( (numbers) When is it going to penetrate liberal thinking that
we shouldn't throw money at an education system that is already
the most expensive in the industrialized world? When are they
going to stop measuring the results of a program by the size of
its price tag? When are they going to stop blocking reform?
But where the liberal mindset dominates, as it does in
Albany and in Washington, the net result is the same: bad
schools, dangerous streets, big deficits. And as long as liberal
Democrats run Congress and run Albany, we -- a Republican
President and a Republican New York State Senate -- will often be
forced to measure our successes in catastrophes averted and
calamities mitigated.
Let me be blunt: Divided government isn't working very well.
Divided government just isn't good enough, for America or
for New York.
It is time to ask the American people to let us show what we
can do without the albatross of liberal legislatures. It is time
to ask America to choose.
7
As we go into the 1990 election season, remember an adage
from a great Republican governor of New York, and a great
President. Theodore Roosevelt said: "In life, as in a football
game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard."
The choice is clear: Republican reform or the Democrat
status quo. When we present the people with this stark choice,
rest assured -- we will hit the line hard in November.
Thank you for all you have done, and are pledged to do. And
may God bless you, and the United States of America.
#
#
#
action Ralph
Document No. 159833
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
CC: JBJI
90 JUL 20 P2: 14
noon
DATE: 07/19/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 3:00 p.m. Friday 07/20
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NEW YORK REPUBLICAN PARTY
(07/16 draft two)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
DEMAREST
PINKERTON
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
CARNEY
HAGIN
BOSKIN
HOLIDAY
ANDERSON
BENNETT
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 3:00 p.m. on Friday, 07/20, with a copy to my office.
Thanks.
RESPONSE:
2 numbers checked
June is 91 month of expansion
P2.
July is 92, but not over yet
ok'd byter
All else O.K.
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
RMM
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Davis/Blymire
Title: Newyork
1990 JUL 18 7:1 7: 59
Date: June 16, 1990
Draft: Two
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: NEW YORK REPUBLICAN PARTY, WALDORF ASTORIA
7:30 p.m., TUESDAY, 24, 1990
July
((Acknowledgements -- Senator D'Amato, Chairman Pat Barrett,
Senate Majority Leader Ralph Marino, Commissioner Regan.) )
((You know, for two years, when I was ambassador to the
United Nations, Barbara and I lived in this very hotel, in room
42 A. And whenever I complained about anything, Barbara would
just roll her eyes and say: "Just where do you think we live?
The Waldorf Astoria?") ) III
((Of course, we've changed addresses. But every time I come
back to New York, someone always asks if I have any comment on
the plight of a certain charismatic New York celebrity. You know
who I'm talking about -- that celebrity whose financial problems
have made so many headlines, a luminary who is waging a day-to-
day battle to avoid the creditors. III Well, I have absolutely
nothing to say about that: You see, I promised myself I wouldn't
talk about Mario Cuomo tonight. ))\\\
But I am here tonight to talk about the differences between
our parties. of course, many Democrats in Washington have
supported me in meeting this fantastic era of change abroad; have
worked with me to pass the first revision of the Clean Air Act in
more than thirteen years -- tougher standards to cut down on acid
rain and other toxins. And they worked with me, so I could sign
2
into law a bill ending discrimination against disabled Americans.
But much remains to be done -- too much. Tonight, I will speak
of our disagreements. And what better place to discuss these
differences than in a state run by Democrats.
In New York, we face a tremendous opportunity to end the
Democrat gerrymander -- an opportunity to end discrimination
against voters by race and by party. That is our mission this
November, and it is one that transcends mere politics because we
are deeply concerned about the future of this great state.
We love New York, all of New York, from the oak-lined
avenues of Long Island, to the Brooklyn Arts Museum, to Broadway.
From Yankee Stadium, to the city streets of Buffalo, to the New
York of farm towns and Adirondacks. New York is a city of
lights, a state of grandeur, a place where dreams come true.
But we are concerned for the future, because New York has
become something else -- a showcase of liberal policies. And
after sixteen years of dominance by liberal Democrats, it is time
to judge the results.
91
NEW
For
months, America has enjoyed peacetime economic
expansion and the creation of more than 22 million jobs. But not
all the benefits of those years were enjoyed by the people of New
York State. Throughout the 1980s, while most of America was
growing and looking forward to the future, life in New York --
especially in the City -- was becoming more expensive, more
difficult and more dangerous than ever before.
3
Here in Albany, liberal Democrats blame every problem on
Republican policies -- especially Republican economic policies.
But in 198 (x) a large energy corporation based in New York
didn't go out of business. It just moved south to Virginia,
taking ((number)) jobs with it. And in 19 ((x)) a large airline
centered in New York didn't go out of business. It just moved
south to Texas, taking ((number)) jobs with it. In fact, since
1983, almost a third of the Fortune 500 corporations based in New
York City have chosen to leave.
New York's credit rating is lower than Donald Trump's, and
its annual budget deficit is higher than those of the three
largest South American countries combined. And yet my friends in
New York tell me that this year Democrat leaders proposed an
almost ten percent increase in spending -- twice the rate of
inflation!
Who let this happen? The same people who've been in power
in Gracie Mansion and Albany for years -- liberal Democrats.
Well, New Yorkers are sick and tired of a declining quality of
life that drives away companies and good jobs. New Yorkers are
sick and tired of open-air drug marts and muggings. And New
Yorkers are sick and tired of the liberal anti-reform mentality.
Thirty-four years of Democrat dominance in Congress have
also taken their toll. Only a President carries a national
mandate. But, like Republican Presidents before me, I know that
to deal with a Democrat Congress is to often face government by
gridlock -- with spending skyrocketing out of control, good
4
legislation thrown aside for pork, and a budget deficit looming
over our children's children.
It is time we asked the American people to end the gridlock.
To choose the liberal mindset of the Democratic Party or to
choose our path -- the Republican path. To empower government to
run their lives, or to empower people to run their lives for
themselves. To ask America to CHOOSE.
Here in New York, you must choose a governor. Let it be a
Republican Governor -- Pierre Rinfret. Here is a family man,
a decorated war hero, a successful entrepreneur who pulled
himself out of Hell's Kitchen, and wants to lead others out of
poverty into opportunity. He may not be a politician. But maybe
New York doesn't need another politician. Maybe New York needs a
change. 111
But New York must also make another choice -- to keep Senate
Leader Ralph Marino and his colleagues as your last line of
defense against a liberal governor and his Assembly. Republicans
like what works. That's why your Republican Senate has been --
and will remain -- your watchdog against big spenders.
It is the Republicans in the Senate, after all, who forced a
spending cap and base-line budgeting. It is the Republicans in
the Senate who managed to trim $1.5 billion in Democratic
spending proposals. ((They know you can't trust a party that
would double the fare of the Staten Island Ferry. ) Kidding
aside, think of what these Republicans could achieve if they
could work with a Republican governor, a Republican Assembly.
5
These matters of jobs and taxes are important. But safe
streets are of equal concern, especially in a city that lives in
fear. That's why New York agrees with us -- these violent
criminals deserve nothing less than punishment swift and sure.
So Republicans want to change lenient, blame-the-victim
laws, and liberal Democrats don't.
Republicans want to allow the women of this state to be able
to defend themselves with MACE, and liberal Democrats don't.
And Republicans want cop killers and drug kingpins to pay
the ultimate penalty -- and liberal Democrats don't.
In Washington, we argued that those who sell drugs are
selling death. And we proposed that drug kingpins reap what they
SOW. But our crime bill faces another obstacle. Fifteen months
ago, I stood before the U.S. Capitol and announced America's
determination to take back the streets.
The Senate has now cleared a crime bill. But it is a bill
that does nothing to end the endless appeals process, or to
ensure that evidence gathered by good cops acting in good faith
isn't barred by technicalities that let bad people go free.
Let me give you another example of how a liberal Congress,
long in power, jealously clings to the failed policies of the
past. In April of '89, our Administration asked Congress to pass
the Educational Excellence Act -- reform proposals to reward
achievement and allow educational choice -- and yes, spend more
money on worthy programs like Head Start. Yet Congress killed
many of these sensible and cost-effective proposals. And then
6
they tripled our request with one billion dollars worth of
unnecessary, unrelated and costly changes.
If liberal Democrats should have learned anything, it is
that you cannot reform an education system by throwing billions
of dollars at it. Right here in New York State, spending on
education increased by ( (dollar amount)) over ( (years) ) ; and yet
SAT scores dropped ((number)), and graduation rates fell from
( (numbers) When is it going to penetrate liberal thinking that
we shouldn't throw money at an education system that is already
the most expensive in the industrialized world? When are they
going to stop measuring the results of a program by the size of
its price tag? When are they going to stop blocking reform?
But where the liberal mindset dominates, as it does in
Albany and in Washington, the net result is the same: bad
schools, dangerous streets, big deficits. And as long as liberal
Democrats run Congress and run Albany, we -- a Republican
President and a Republican New York State Senate -- will often be
forced to measure our successes in catastrophes averted and
calamities mitigated.
Let me be blunt: Divided government isn't working very well.
Divided government just isn't good enough, for America or
for New York.
It is time to ask the American people to let us show what we
can do without the albatross of liberal legislatures. It is time
to ask America to choose.
7
As we go into the 1990 election season, remember an adage
from a great Republican governor of New York, and a great
President. Theodore Roosevelt said: "In life, as in a football
game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard."
The choice is clear: Republican reform or the Democrat
status quo. When we present the people with this stark choice,
rest assured -- we will hit the line hard in November.
Thank you for all you have done, and are pledged to do. And
may God bless you, and the United States of America.
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
90 JUL 20 Pl: P : 09
July 20, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON
FROM:
AUSTEN FURSE At
SUBJECT:
New York Republican Party Draft Speech
pg. 2, para. 3, line 1
"We love New York "
To play on the fact that this phrase is a certified
cliche and catchphrase, we suggest a self-mocking
addition: "To coin a phrase, we love New York
"
6,2,10 "When are they going to stop measuring the results
of a program by the size of its price tag?"
A terrific line.
###
Document No. 159833
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
90 JUL 20 A10: 01
DATE: 07/19/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 3:00 p.m. Friday 07/20
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NEW YORK REPUBLICAN PARTY
(07/16 draft two)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
>
MCCLURE
R
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
A
DEMAREST
PINKERTON
R
FITZWATER
R
WINSTON
GRAY
CARNEY
HAGIN
BOSKIN
1
HOLIDAY
ANDERSON
BENNETT
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 3:00 p.m. on Friday, 07/20, with a copy to my office.
Thanks.
RESPONSE:
Signal
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Davis/Blymire
Title: Newyork
1990 JUL IS 71 7: 59
Date: June 16, 1990
Draft: Two
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: NEW YORK REPUBLICAN PARTY, WALDORF ASTORIA
7:30 p.m., TUESDAY, 24, 1990
July
(Acknowledgements -- Senator D'Amato, Chairman Pat Barrett,
Senate Majority Leader Ralph Marino, Commissioner Regan.) )
((You know, for two years, when I was ambassador to the
United Nations, Barbara and I lived in this very hotel, in room
42 A. And whenever I complained about anything, Barbara would
just roll her eyes and say: "Just where do you think we live?
The Waldorf Astoria?") ) III
( (Of course, we've changed addresses. But every time I come
back to New York, someone always asks if I have any comment on
the plight of a certain charismatic New York celebrity. You know
who I'm talking about -- that celebrity whose financial problems
have made so many headlines, a luminary who is waging a day-to-
day battle to avoid the creditors. 111 Well, I have absolutely
nothing to say about that: You see, I promised myself I wouldn't
talk about Mario Cuomo tonight.) ) 111
But I am here tonight to talk about the differences between
our parties. of course, many Democrats in Washington have
supported me in meeting this fantastic era of change abroad; have
worked with me to pass the first revision of the Clean Air Act in
more than thirteen years -- tougher standards to cut down on acid
rain and other toxins. And they worked with me, so I could sign
2
into law a bill ending discrimination against disabled Americans.
But much remains to be done -- too much. Tonight, I will speak
of our disagreements. And what better place to discuss these
differences than in a state run by Democrats.
In New York, we face a tremendous opportunity to end the
Democrat gerrymander -- an opportunity to end discrimination
against voters by race and by party. That is our mission this
November, and it is one that transcends mere politics because we
are deeply concerned about the future of this great state.
We love New York, all of New York, from the oak-lined
avenues of Long Island, to the Brooklyn Arts Museum, to Broadway.
From Yankee Stadium, to the city streets of Buffalo, to the New
York of farm towns and Adirondacks. New York is a city of
lights, a state of grandeur, a place where dreams come true.
But we are concerned for the future, because New York has
become something else -- a showcase of liberal policies. And
after sixteen years of dominance by liberal Democrats, it is time
to judge the results.
For 92 months, America has enjoyed peacetime economic
expansion and the creation of more than 22 million jobs. But not
all the benefits of those years were enjoyed by the people of New
York State. Throughout the 1980s, while most of America was
growing and looking forward to the future, life in New York --
especially in the City -- was becoming more expensive, more
difficult and more dangerous than ever before.
3
Here in Albany, liberal Democrats blame every problem on
Republican policies -- especially Republican economic policies.
But in 198 (x) a large energy corporation based in New York
didn't go out of business. It just moved south to Virginia,
taking ((number)) jobs with it. And in 19 ((x)), a large airline
centered in New York didn't go out of business. It just moved
south to Texas, taking ((number)) jobs with it. In fact, since
1983, almost a third of the Fortune 500 corporations based in New
York City have chosen to leave.
New York's credit rating is lower than Donald Trump's, and
its annual budget deficit is higher than those of the three
largest South American countries combined. And yet my friends in
New York tell me that this year Democrat leaders proposed an
almost ten percent increase in spending -- twice the rate of
inflation!
Who let this happen? The same people who've been in power
in Gracie Mansion and Albany for years -- liberal Democrats.
Well, New Yorkers are sick and tired of a declining quality of
life that drives away companies and good jobs. New Yorkers are
sick and tired of open-air drug marts and muggings. And New
Yorkers are sick and tired of the liberal anti-reform mentality.
Thirty-four years of Democrat dominance in Congress have
also taken their toll. Only a President carries a national
mandate. But, like Republican Presidents before me, I know that
to deal with a Democrat Congress is to often face government by
gridlock -- with spending skyrocketing out of control, good
4
legislation thrown aside for pork, and a budget deficit looming
over our children's children.
It is time we asked the American people to end the gridlock.
To choose the liberal mindset of the Democratic Party or to
choose our path -- the Republican path. To empower government to
run their lives, or to empower people to run their lives for
themselves. To ask America to CHOOSE.
Here in New York, you must choose a governor. Let it be a
Republican Governor -- Pierre Rinfret. Here is a family man,
a decorated war hero, a successful entrepreneur who pulled
himself out of Hell's Kitchen, and wants to lead others out of
poverty into opportunity. He may not be a politician. But maybe
New York doesn't need another politician. Maybe New York needs a
change. III
But New York must also make another choice -- to keep Senate
Leader Ralph Marino and his colleagues as your last line of
defense against a liberal governor and his Assembly. Republicans
like what works. That's why your Republican Senate has been --
and will remain -- your watchdog against big spenders.
It is the Republicans in the Senate, after all, who forced a
spending cap and base-line budgeting. It is the Republicans in
the Senate who managed to trim $1.5 billion in Democratic
spending proposals. ((They know you can't trust a party that
would double the fare of the Staten Island Ferry. )) Kidding
aside, think of what these Republicans could achieve if they
could work with a Republican governor, a Republican Assembly.
5
These matters of jobs and taxes are important. But safe
streets are of equal concern, especially in a city that lives in
fear. That's why New York agrees with us -- these violent
criminals deserve nothing less than punishment swift and sure.
So Republicans want to change lenient, blame-the-victim
laws, and liberal Democrats don't.
Republicans want to allow the women of this state to be able
to defend themselves with MACE, and liberal Democrats don't.
And Republicans want cop killers and drug kingpins to pay
the ultimate penalty -- and liberal Democrats don't.
In Washington, we argued that those who sell drugs are
selling death. And we proposed that drug kingpins reap what they
sow. But our crime bill faces another obstacle. Fifteen months
ago, I stood before the U.S. Capitol and announced America's
determination to take back the streets.
The Senate has now cleared a crime bill. But it is a bill
that does nothing to end the endless appeals process, or to
ensure that evidence gathered by good cops acting in good faith
isn't barred by technicalities that let bad people go free.
Let me give you another example of how a liberal Congress,
long in power, jealously clings to the failed policies of the
past. In April of '89, our Administration asked Congress to pass
the Educational Excellence Act -- reform proposals to reward
achievement and allow educational choice -- and yes, spend more
money on worthy programs like Head Start. Yet Congress killed
many of these sensible and cost-effective proposals. And then
6
they tripled our request with one billion dollars worth of
unnecessary, unrelated and costly changes.
If liberal Democrats should have learned anything, it is
that you cannot reform an education system by throwing billions
of dollars at it. Right here in New York State, spending on
education increased by ( (dollar amount)) over ( (years) ) i and yet
SAT scores dropped ((number)), and graduation rates fell from
( (numbers) When is it going to penetrate liberal thinking that
we shouldn't throw money at an education system that is already
the most expensive in the industrialized world? When are they
going to stop measuring the results of a program by the size of
its price tag? When are they going to stop blocking reform?
But where the liberal mindset dominates, as it does in
Albany and in Washington, the net result is the same: bad
schools, dangerous streets, big deficits. And as long as liberal
Democrats run Congress and run Albany, we -- a Republican
President and a Republican New York State Senate -- will often be
forced to measure our successes in catastrophes averted and
calamities mitigated.
Let me be blunt: Divided government isn't working very well.
Divided government just isn't good enough, for America or
for New York.
It is time to ask the American people to let us show what we
can do without the albatross of liberal legislatures. It is time
to ask America to choose.
7
As we go into the 1990 election season, remember an adage
from a great Republican governor of New York, and a great
President. Theodore Roosevelt said: "In life, as in a football
game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard."
The choice is clear: Republican reform or the Democrat
status quo. When we present the people with this stark choice,
rest assured -- we will hit the line hard in November.
Thank you for all you have done, and are pledged to do. And
may God bless you, and the United States of America.
#
#
#
For Folder
Davis/Blymire
Title: Newyork
Date: June 16, 1990
Draft: Two
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: NEW YORK REPUBLICAN PARTY, WALDORF ASTORIA
7:30 p.m., TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1990
( (Acknowledgements -- Senator D'Amato, Chairman Pat Barrett,
Senate Majority Leader Ralph Marino, Commissioner Regan.))
((You know, for two years, when I was ambassador to the
United Nations, Barbara and I lived in this very hotel, in room
42 A. And whenever I complained about anything, Barbara would
just roll her eyes and say: "Just where do you think we live?
The Waldorf Astoria?") III
((Of course, we've changed addresses. But every time I come
back to New York, someone always asks if I have any comment on
the plight of a certain charismatic New York celebrity. You know
who I'm talking about -- that celebrity whose financial problems
have made so many headlines, a luminary who is waging a day-to-
day battle to avoid the creditors. III Well, I have absolutely
nothing to say about that: You see, I promised myself I wouldn't
talk about Mario Cuomo tonight. )) III
But I am here tonight to talk about the differences between
our parties. Of course, many Democrats in Washington have
supported me in meeting this fantastic era of change abroad; have
worked with me to pass the first revision of the Clean Air Act in
more than thirteen years -- tougher standards to cut down on acid
rain and other toxins. And they worked with me, so I could sign
2
into law a bill ending discrimination against disabled Americans.
But much remains to be done -- too much. Tonight, I will speak
of our disagreements. And what better place to discuss these
differences than in a state run by Democrats.
In New York, we face a tremendous opportunity to end the
Democrat gerrymander -- an opportunity to end discrimination
against voters by race and by party. That is our mission this
November, and it is one that transcends mere politics because we
are deeply concerned about the future of this great state.
We love New York, all of New York, from the oak-lined
avenues of Long Island, to the Brooklyn Arts Museum, to Broadway.
From Yankee Stadium, to the city streets of Buffalo, to the New
York of farm towns and Adirondacks. New York is a city of
lights, a state of grandeur, a place where dreams come true.
But we are concerned for the future, because New York has
become something else -- a showcase of liberal policies. And
after sixteen years of dominance by liberal Democrats, it is time
to judge the results.
For 92 months, America has enjoyed peacetime economic
expansion and the creation of more than 22 million jobs. But not
all the benefits of those years were enjoyed by the people of New
York State. Throughout the 1980s, while most of America was
growing and looking forward to the future, life in New York --
especially in the City -- was becoming more expensive, more
difficult and more dangerous than ever before.
3
Here in Albany, liberal Democrats blame every problem on
Republican policies -- especially Republican economic policies.
But in 198 (x) ) a large energy corporation based in New York
didn't go out of business. It just moved south to Virginia,
taking ((number)) jobs with it. And in 19 ((x)) a large airline
centered in New York didn't go out of business. It just moved
south to Texas, taking ((number)) jobs with it. In fact, since
1983, almost a third of the Fortune 500 corporations based in New
York City have chosen to leave.
New York's credit rating is lower than Donald Trump's, and
its annual budget deficit is higher than those of the three
largest South American countries combined. And yet my friends in
New York tell me that this year Democrat leaders proposed an
almost ten percent increase in spending -- twice the rate of
inflation!
Who let this happen? The same people who've been in power
in Gracie Mansion and Albany for years -- liberal Democrats.
Well, New Yorkers are sick and tired of a declining quality of
life that drives away companies and good jobs. New Yorkers are
sick and tired of open-air drug marts and muggings. And New
Yorkers are sick and tired of the liberal anti-reform mentality.
Thirty-four years of Democrat dominance in Congress have
also taken their toll. Only a President carries a national
mandate. But, like Republican Presidents before me, I know that
to deal with a Democrat Congress is to often face government by
gridlock -- with spending skyrocketing out of control, good
4
legislation thrown aside for pork, and a budget deficit looming
over our children's children.
It is time we asked the American people to end the gridlock.
To choose the liberal mindset of the Democratic Party or to
choose our path -- the Republican path. To empower government to
run their lives, or to empower people to run their lives for
themselves. To ask America to CHOOSE.
Here in New York, you must choose a governor. Let it be a
Republican Governor -- Pierre Rinfret. Here is a family man,
a decorated war hero, a successful entrepreneur who pulled
himself out of Hell's Kitchen, and wants to lead others out of
poverty into opportunity. He may not be a politician. But maybe
New York doesn't need another politician. Maybe New York needs a
change. III
But New York must also make another choice -- to keep Senate
Leader Ralph Marino and his colleagues as your last line of
defense against a liberal governor and his Assembly. Republicans
like what works. That's why your Republican Senate has been --
and will remain -- your watchdog against big spenders.
It is the Republicans in the Senate, after all, who forced a
spending cap and base-line budgeting. It is the Republicans in
the Senate who managed to trim $1.5 billion in Democratic
spending proposals. ( (They know you can't trust a party that
would double the fare of the Staten Island Ferry. )) Kidding
aside, think of what these Republicans could achieve if they
could work with a Republican governor, a Republican Assembly.
5
These matters of jobs and taxes are important. But safe
streets are of equal concern, especially in a city that lives in
fear. That's why New York agrees with us -- these violent
criminals deserve nothing less than punishment swift and sure.
So Republicans want to change lenient, blame-the-victim
laws, and liberal Democrats don't.
Republicans want to allow the women of this state to be able
to defend themselves with MACE, and liberal Democrats don't.
And Republicans want cop killers and drug kingpins to pay
the ultimate penalty -- and liberal Democrats don't.\
In Washington, we argued that those who sell drugs are
selling death. And we proposed that drug kingpins reap what they
sow. But our crime bill faces another obstacle. Fifteen months
ago, I stood before the U.S. Capitol and announced America's
determination to take back the streets.
The Senate has now cleared a crime bill. But it is a bill
that does nothing to end the endless appeals process, or to
ensure that evidence gathered by good cops acting in good faith
isn't barred by technicalities that let bad people go free.
Let me give you another example of how a liberal Congress,
long in power, jealously clings to the failed policies of the
past. In April of '89, our Administration asked Congress to pass
the Educational Excellence Act -- reform proposals to reward
achievement and allow educational choice -- and yes, spend more
money on worthy programs like Head Start. Yet Congress killed
many of these sensible and cost-effective proposals. And then
6
they tripled our request with one billion dollars worth of
unnecessary, unrelated and costly changes.
If liberal Democrats should have learned anything, it is
that you cannot reform an education system by throwing billions
of dollars at it. Right here in New York State, spending on
education increased by ((dollar amount) ) over ( (years) ) i and yet
SAT scores dropped ((number)) and graduation rates fell from
( (numbers) ) When is it going to penetrate liberal thinking that
we shouldn't throw money at an education system that is already
the most expensive in the industrialized world? When are they
going to stop measuring the results of a program by the size of
its price tag? When are they going to stop blocking reform?
But where the liberal mindset dominates, as it does in
Albany and in Washington, the net result is the same: bad
schools, dangerous streets, big deficits. And as long as liberal
Democrats run Congress and run Albany, we -- a Republican
President and a Republican New York State Senate -- will often be
forced to measure our successes in catastrophes averted and
calamities mitigated.
Let me be blunt: Divided government isn't working very well.
Divided government just isn't good enough, for America or
for New York.
It is time to ask the American people to let us show what we
can do without the albatross of liberal legislatures. It is time
to ask America to choose.
7
As we go into the 1990 election season, remember an adage
from a great Republican governor of New York, and a great
President. Theodore Roosevelt said: "In life, as in a football
game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard."
The choice is clear: Republican reform or the Democrat
status quo. When we present the people with this stark choice,
rest assured -- we will hit the line hard in November.
Thank you for all you have done, and are pledged to do. And
may God bless you, and the United States of America.
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
1990 JUL 23 P11 7:27 PII
July 23, 1990
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN NM
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
7/24/90 Add a
on
THROUGH: CHRISS WINSTON CW
FROM:
MARK DAVIS mD
SUBJECT: REVISIONS ON NEW YORK STATE PARTY
OR Souten two
This morning, members of the Senior Staff had second thoughts on
this speech, worrying that it could lead too easily to a direct
debate between yourself and a certain personage in Albany. So we
toned down the speech a bit, cutting out some of the fighting
words.
Also, because of the ongoing budget summit, we have inserted some
new language on Page Seven that leaves room for Congressional
leaders to defy expectations, and to join you in a heroic step
toward balancing the budget.
Davis/Blymire
Title: Newyork1
Date: June 16, 1990
Draft: Four
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: NEW YORK REPUBLICAN PARTY, WALDORF ASTORIA
7:30 p.m., TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1990
((Senator D'Amato, Bill Green and the other Members of the
New York Congressional Delegation, Senate Majority Leader Ralph
Marino, Chairman Pat Barrett, Pierre Rinfret, Comptroller Regan,
Guy Vellella, Assembly Minority Leader Clarence [["RAPP"]]
Rappleyea.) )
((You know, for two years, when I was ambassador to the
United Nations, Barbara and I lived in this very hotel, in room
42 A. And whenever I complained about anything, Barbara would
just roll her eyes and say: "Just where do you think we live?
The Waldorf Astoria?") )
( (Now I understand that New York City has been selected as
the site of an important event in 1992 -- a convention that will
attract thousands of participants from all over the country --
people who hope to put their past setbacks behind them and plan a
winning strategy for the future. That's right -- the first
reunion of all the ex-managers of the New York Yankees. ))\\\
But then there is that other future New York convention --
the Democrats'. Of course, many Democrats in Washington have
supported me in meeting this fantastic era of change abroad; are
working with me to pass the first revision of the Clean Air Act
in more than thirteen years -- tougher standards to cut down on
2
acid rain and other air pollutants. And they worked with me so I
could sign into law a bill ending discrimination against disabled
Americans. So tough negotiations can get results. But
differences between the parties are still broad and deep, and
much remains to be done -- too much. With more Republicans in
Washington and in Albany, think of how much more we can achieve.
In New York, we face a tremendous opportunity to fight the
Democrat gerrymander -- an opportunity to end discrimination
against voters by race and by party. That is our mission this
November, and it is one that transcends mere politics because we
are deeply concerned about the future of this great state.
To coin a phrase, we love New York, all of New York, from
the oak-lined avenues of Long Island, to Yankee Stadium, to
Broadway. From the city streets of Buffalo, to the New York of
farm towns and the Adirondacks -- New York is a city of lights, a
state of grandeur, a place where dreams come true. ( (It
certainly is for me -- After all, New York is where Barbara Bush
was born.) )
But we are concerned for the future, because New York has
become something else -- a showcase of liberal policies. And
after sixteen years of dominance by liberal Democrats, it is time
to judge the results.
For 92 months, America has enjoyed peacetime economic
expansion and the creation of more than 22 million jobs. But not
all the benefits of those years were enjoyed by the people of New
York State. Throughout the 1980s, while most of America was
3
growing and looking forward to the future, life in New York --
especially in the City -- was becoming more expensive, more
difficult and more dangerous than ever before.
Liberal Democrats blame every problem on Republican
policies, especially Republican economic policies. But in the
late seventies, a large airline centered in New York didn't go
out of business. It just decided to move south, to Texas, taking
more than a thousand jobs with it. And in 1987, a large energy
swi
corporation based in New York didn't go out of business. It just
Be
this
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decided to move south to Virginia, taking 3,600 jobs with it.
set
((In fact, since 1983, almost a third of the Fortune 500
with
corporations based here have chosen to leave.)
New Yorkers are simply sick and tired of a declining quality
N.Y.
of life that drives away companies and good jobs. New Yorkers
Repubs clected
are sick and tired of open-air drug marts and muggings. And New
Yorkers are sick and tired of the liberal anti-reform mentality.
Molinari
Raip
Twenty-nine out of the last thirty-five years of Democrat
dominance in Congress have also taken their toll. Only a
President carries a national mandate. But, like Republican
Presidents before me, I know that to deal with a Democrat
Congress is to often face government by gridlock -- with spending
skyrocketing out of control, good legislation thrown aside for
pork, and a budget deficit looming over our children's children.
It is time we asked the American people to end the gridlock.
To choose the liberal mindset of the Democratic Party or to
choose our path -- the Republican path of opportunity and growth.
4
To empower government to run their lives, or to empower people to
run their lives for themselves. To ask America to CHOOSE. 111
Here in New York, you must choose a governor. Let it be a
Republican Governor -- Pierre Rinfret. Here is a family man,
a decorated war hero, a successful entrepreneur who pulled
himself out of Hell's Kitchen, and wants to lead others out of
poverty. He may not be a politician. But maybe New York doesn't
need another politician. Maybe New York needs a change.
New York must also make another choice -- to keep your
outstanding Senate Leader Ralph Marino and his colleagues as your
prime
last line of defense against a liberal governor and his Assembly.
Republicans like what works. That's why your Republican Senate
has been -- and will remain -- your watchdog against big
spenders. And, more, a same propount of what works.
So be thankful that your Republicans in the Senate forced a
spending cap and base-line budgeting. It is the Republicans in
the Senate who managed to trim $1.5 billion in Democratic
spending proposals. ((They know you can't trust a party that
?
would double the fare of the Staten Island Ferry. )) Kidding
aside, think of what these Republicans would achieve if they
john reality 10 ?
could work with a Republican governor, a Republican Assembly.
Jobs and spending are important. But safe streets are of
equal concern, especially in a city that lives in fear. That's
why New York agrees with us -- these violent criminals deserve
nothing less than punishment swift and sure.
5
So Republicans want to change lenient, blame-the-victim
laws, and liberal Democrats don't.
Republicans want to allow the women of this state to be able
to defend themselves with MACE, and liberal Democrats don't.
And Republicans want murderers and drug kingpins to pay the
ultimate penalty -- and liberal Democrats don't.\\
In Washington, we argued that those who sell drugs are
selling death. And we proposed that drug kingpins reap what they
SOW. But our crime bill faces another obstacle. Fifteen months
ago, I stood before the U.S. Capitol and announced America's
determination to take back the streets.
The Senate has now cleared a crime bill, a major new package
-- 423 days after I proposed it. It is not a perfect bill. It
does nothing to ensure that evidence gathered by good cops acting
in good faith isn't barred by technicalities that let bad people
go free. But this bill will go a long way toward toughening
sentences for violent crime, and reducing repetitive appeals.
Now this legislation is before the House. And let us tell
the Members of the House, 423 days is long enough. Don't keep
our men and women in blue waiting. Pass a tough crime bill, and
pass it soon.
Let me give you another example of how a liberal Congress,
long in power, jealously clings to the failed policies of the
past. In April of last year, our Administration asked Congress
to pass the Educational Excellence Act -- reform proposals to
reward achievement and allow educational choice. Yet Congress
6
killed many of these sensible and cost-effective proposals. And
then they doubled our request with hundreds of millions of
dollars worth of unnecessary, unrelated and costly changes.
If liberal Democrats should have learned anything, it is
that you cannot reform an education system by throwing billions
of dollars at it. So when is it going to penetrate liberal
thinking that we shouldn't throw money at an ineffective
education system that is already the most expensive in the
industrialized world? When are they going to start demanding
results and stop measuring the value of a program by the size of
its price tag? When are they going to stop blocking reform?
Where the liberal mindset dominates, the net result has been
the same: bad schools, dangerous streets, big deficits. of
course, times can change -- and I hope they do. As you know, I
met this morning -- and will meet every morning this week -- with
the Congressional leadership to work for an agreement to lower
our federal deficit.
We all know that the Democrats have a long track record on
spending. ( (But if the Berlin Wall could come down in the same
year that America goes nuts over Teen-Age Mutant Ninja Turtles, 11
who knows what could happen next?)) Again, times can change.
The leaders of Congress can work with me to break the impasse on
reducing the budget deficit. The spotlight is on both sides to
place progress over partisanship, and the national interest over
special interests. I welcome sincere efforts from both sides of
7
the aisle, and I am eager to get an agreement with Congressional
leaders to achieve meaningful budget reform.
This is my hope. But as long as the liberal mindset
dominates, we will be forced to measure our successes in
catastrophes averted and calamities mitigated.
The genius of the American system is that it allows for
checks and balances. But this doesn't mean that the voters must
choose political stalemate, year after year, decade after decade.
Let me be blunt: Divided government just isn't good enough, for
America or for New York. We must have more Republicans. 11
It is time to ask the American people to let us show what we
can do without the albatross of liberal legislatures. It is time
to ask America to choose.
As we go into the 1990 election season, remember an adage
from a great Republican governor of New York, and a great
President. Theodore Roosevelt said: "In life, as in a football
game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard."
The choice is clear: Republican reform or the Democrat
status quo. When we present the people with this stark choice,
rest assured -- we will hit the line hard in November.
Thank you for all you have done, and are pledged to do. And
may God bless you, and the United States of America.