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Document No. 21572055
91
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM P3:19
DATE: 2/25/91-
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2/27/91 NOON
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
WINSTON
FITZWATER
BROMLEY
R
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than NOON, Wednesday, February 27, with a copy to
this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
see comments. manls,
Holly alilliamson
2-27-91
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
003
Please see the Commerce insert below on travel +
tourism that thes would like included in one of the
President's speeches this week,
SUGGESTED INSERT TO THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH TO ASAE
You know, there is one more way those OF you in this
room can help strengthen our Nation's economy, Every
one of your organizations keeps America moving by
holding conferences and conventions. I hope that not
one member of ASAE will cancel a single one of your
events. By keeping your members moving around this
country, by keeping Americans traveling you will keep
the economy growing.
This is one of the challenges Bob Mosbacher and Sam
Skinner are stepping up to -- keeping Americans
traveling for business and pleasure. We are not going
to surrender this distinctly American freedom and once
again you in ASAE can lead the way to the ticket
counters and the registrations desks across America.
And know that you do it with our thanks and gratitude.
BACKGROUND: On Monday afternoon, Secretary Mosbacher
convened the largest coalition assembled from the
travel industry to jump start a travel recovery. Bill
Marriott is the Chairman of the new Coalition that is
Coalition started.
being formed. Many members of ASAE helped get this
CHRISS: PLEASE SEE COMMERCE'S SUGGESTED INSERT THAT THEY
HAD WANTED TO INCLUDE IN THE ASAE SPEECHATHAT WE DISCOURAGED
DUE TO THE MANY TOPICS ALREADY IN THAT SPEECH.
IF POSSIBLE, IT WOULD BE GOOD TO INCLUDE THE GIST OF TRAVEL
AND TOURISM IN THE WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS OF COURSE WITH
THE NECESSARY CHANGES ABOUT ASAE IN THE ABOVE SUGGESTED
LANGUAGE. Thanks.
or the Amer. Basiness Conmil
TOTAL P.02
Although OCA had no comments
on the Westinghouse speech,
we concur with the substantive
changes from DOE.
Many thanks.
Holly Williamson
02/27/91
15:14
SOE
002
OF
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Washington, DC 20585
SECURITY
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
February 27, 1991
MEMORANDUM FOR:
HOLLY WILLIAMSON
FROM:
RUTH BURNS
SUBJECT:
COMMENTS ON THE PRESIDENT'S DRAFT SPEECH TO
WESTINGHOUSE AWARD RECIPIENTS
Overall, the comments received on the speech were quite negative.
Several people who reviewed the speech said that it would be
better to start from scratch. The author of the speech must
realize that this is a sophisticated group of young people -- the
scientists and researchers of tomorrow. We must further realize
that the Westinghouse event and awards are very prestigious in the
scientific community. It is in the best interest of the
President, to treat the students and the event with a bit more
sophistication.
General Comments:
More information should be provided on the President's math
and science initiative and his commitment to improving high
school science education for everyone.
While military technologies are well covered, the non-
military applications of technology are not. Adding
material on health and the environment would be particularly
helpful.
Specific Comments:
Page 2.
1st partial paragraph. Jokes are pretty bad, and not
pitched to bright teenagers. Why would an academically
gifted teenager think that connecting a VCR to a microwave
oven and watching Gone With the Wind in 12 1/2 minutes is
funny? That's a better Joke for a less "brainy" crowd.
Also, Gone With the Wind, is an old movie; couldn't we refer
to something in the last decade?
1st paragraph. Who is Kilby? No one over here thinks that
the audience will know who he is.
02/27/91
15:15
SOE
003
Page 2 - Memorandum for Holly Williamson
,
Paragraph 2. "each has reached for the stars -- so that
future generations of Americans might someday stand on
them." This audience is used to using language figuratively
-- standing the on the stars would certainly give them a
"hot foot.'
Page 3.
Paragraph 2. "becacarotene" is mispelled. It should be
spelled betacarotene.
Paragraph 3. "continuance" is usually used as a legal term.
Why not just say "continuation?"
Paragraph 3. The story about the Commissioner of Patents
should be fact-checked. This story has been around, but set
in the late 19th century, not in 1843.
Page 4.
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Third paragraph. This goal could be keyed to a pitch by the
President to encourage the students to pursue careers in
science and research. In order to achieve this goal, we
will need many more scientists and engineers.
Bottom of Page 4. In addition, we would urge that the
discussion on military technologies be balanced by expanding
on the theme at the bottom of page 4 which emphasizes the
President's impressive commitment to R&D. Specifically, we
recommend adding a paragraph or two (between the last
paragraph on page 4 and the first paragraph on page 5) that
describes some of the real benefits to U.S. citizens of the
commercial R&D in the budget, including energy,
environmental, and economic benefits. Some suggested themes
include:
--
The role of technology for reducing our dependence on
costly or unreliable energy supplies, such as more
energy efficient materials, processes and products;
new sources of supply, such as various sources of
renewable energy and fusion; making existing sources
of energy more viable, such as solving the waste
and safety problems with nuclear power (a very
important issue for Westinghouse Corp.) or enhanced
oil and gas recovery from domestic resources.
02/27/91
15:15
SOE
004
Page 3 - Memorandum for Holly Williamson
The role of science and technology for addressing
environmental concerns, such as additional research
to explore the true sources and environmental
effects of greenhouse gases; finding ways to prevent
additional damage to the environment, such as from
burning fossil fuels (e.g., clean coal technologies,
alternative fuels, mag-lev vehicles, or intelligent
transportation systems); and new technologies for
managing wastes and cleaning up existing environmental
damage.
The role of science and technology for developing
new cures and treatments for diseases, such as
mapping the human genome to find the genetic causes
of cancer or cystic fibrosis; medical diagnostics
equipment that can reduce the need for exploratory
surgery; and new drugs that can alleviate suffering
or effect a complete cure. We recommend that HHS
be used for the source of this information to make
it more exiting.
--
Finally, the role of technology for enhancing the
economic strength of the nation, through new
products, new services, new jobs, more efficient
use of resources, and improved trade balance.
Studies show that there is an empirical link
between a nation's overall commitment to investing
in science and technology with its industrial
competitiveness.
Page 5.
-
Third paragraph. Riyhad is misspelled and should be spelled
Rihyad.
WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS \ WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1991 \ 7:00 P.M.
SECRETARY SULLIVAN, GOVERNOR AND MRS. SUNUNU,
DR. BROMLEY. DR. SEABORG, MR. LEGO [LEG-GO],
MR. SHERBURNE, Ms. Luszcz [LoosH], MONSIGNOR QUINN,
MR. FLATOW [FLAY-TOE], TRUSTEES OF THE WESTINGHOUSE
FOUNDATION, PAST AND CURRENT WESTINGHOUSE AWARD
RECIPIENTS, JUDGES OF THE SCIENCE TALENT SEARCH,
DISTINGUISHED GUESTS OF SCIENCE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
- 2 -
THANK YOU, MR. LEGO, FOR THAT INTRODUCTION, AND FOR
YOUR WARM RECEPTION. AND LET ME WELCOME TO WASHINGTON
THE TRUSTEES OF OUR POSTERITY. / HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENTS -- THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST -- WHO ACT FOR
NATION AND NEIGHBOR. // IT IS A PLEASURE TO BE AT THE
SUPER BOWL OF SCIENCE. //
WE MEET TONIGHT ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
WESTINGHOUSE SCIENCE TALENT SEARCH -- A PROGRAM WHICH
HAS HELPED MAKE THE PAST HALF-CENTURY A TIME OF
EXTRAORDINARY EXPLORATION. //
- 3 -
NOT TO DATE MYSELF, BUT WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, PAC-MAN
WAS A HIKER, NOT A VIDEO GAME. / Ино KNOWS HOW FUTURE
ENDEAVORS WILL MAKE OURS A RICHER, MORE DECENT WORLD?
((Now, I'LL ADMIT. IT'S PRETTY HARD FOR ME TO
CLAIM I'M ADEPT AT HIGH TECH WHEN MY GRANDKIDS KEEP
CLOBBERING ME AT "NINTENDO." 11 I REMEMBER HOW ONCE MY
SCIENCE TEACHER SAID TO ME, "WHATEVER YOU DO IN LIFE I
HOPE YOU'LL HOLD THE TORCH ON HIGH -- AS LONG AS IT
ISN'T A BUNSEN BURNER." 11
- 4 -
EVEN so, I DID TRY A RECENT EXPERIMENT THAT I'M PROUD
OF. I CONNECTED MY VCR TO OUR MICROWAVE OVEN AND
WATCHED "GONE WITH THE WIND" IN 12 AND 1/2 MINUTES.))
TONIGHT, WE HONOR DISTINGUISHED SCIENTISTS AND
RESEARCHERS, WHO ARE OPENING DOORS INTO AN AGE WHERE
MANKIND NOT ONLY MOVED INTO THE FUTURE -- BUT
RE-INVENTED IT. // THINK OF DISCOVERIES LIKE
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE MICROCHIP. AND OF PIONEERS LIKE
KILBY AND NOYCE OR COHEN AND BOYER, THE FIRST TWO
PEOPLE TO SPLICE A GENE.
- 5 -
ALL KNEW, AS THOMAS JEFFERSON WROTE TO A POLISH GENERAL
WHO FOUGHT WITH US IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, "THE MAIN
OBJECTS OF ALL SCIENCE ARE THE FREEDOM AND HAPPINESS OF
MAN. " //
SINCE THE DARK DAYS OF WORLD WAR II, WESTINGHOUSE
RECIPIENTS HAVE AIDED THIS FREEDOM -- BECOMING AN
INSTRUMENT OF LIBERTY AND THE SYMBOL OF THE INFORMATION
AGE. //
- 6 -
FROM THE FIRST MAN TO WIN THE TOP PRIZE IN THE SCIENCE
TALENT SEARCH -- PAUL TESCHAN [TEH-SHAWN], SAVING
SOLDIERS' LIVES WITH THE ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY IN THE
KOREAN WAR -- TO RAYMOND KURZWEIL, WHOSE READING
DEVICES MAKE LIFE EASIER FOR THE BLIND -- EACH HAS
REACHED FOR THE STARS -- SO THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS OF
AMERICANS MIGHT SOMEDAY TRAVEL TO THEM. //
THIS PROGRAM'S HISTORY REAFFIRMS THAT TRUTH. FIVE
WESTINGHOUSE AWARD RECIPIENTS HAVE WON THE NOBEL PRIZE.
- 7 -
EIGHT HAVE RECEIVED MACARTHUR FELLOWSHIPS. // THREE
HAVE BEEN ADMITTED TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF
ENGINEERING. TWENTY-EIGHT HAVE ALSO BEEN ELECTED TO TO
THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES -- ONE OF YOUR
PROFESSION'S HIGHEST HONORS. //
ALBERT EINSTEIN PUT IT BEST WHEN HE NOTED THAT
EVERYTHING THAT IS REALLY GREAT AND INSPIRING IS
CREATED BY INDIVIDUALS WHO LABOR IN FREEDOM. IN SHORT,
HE BELIEVED WHAT ALL OF THESE HONOREES BELIEVE --
FREEDOM WORKS.
- 8 -
THIS YEAR'S NATIONAL WINNERS -- 40 IN ALL -- WERE
CULLED FROM MORE THAN 1,400 ENTRIES. MANY BELONG TO
THEIR SCHOOL DEBATE TEAM, BASEBALL CLUB, THEIR
NEWSPAPER, THEIR CHURCH GROUP OR BAND. // ALL HAVE
CREATED RESEARCH PROJECTS WHICH SHOW HOW THE
TRAILBLAZERS OF TODAY CAN BE THE HEROES OF TOMORROW. //
CONSIDER CLIFFORD WANG OF VERO BEACH. HE PROPOSED
THAT SEAWEED CAN BE GROWN IN THE OCEAN TO REMOVE METAL
POLLUTANTS AND THEN HARVESTED FOR METHANE GENERATION,
CLEANING THE ENVIRONMENT WHILE AT THE SAME TIME
PRODUCING ENERGY. /
- 9 -
OR TARA BAHNA-JAMES OF NEW YORK CITY, WHO EXPLORED THE
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MATH APTITUDE AND MUSICAL TALENT.
IN SPRING, TEXAS, WADE BUTIN DEVELOPED A VARNISH TO
WITHSTAND THE RIGORS OF WEATHER AND SALT WATER. / AND
IN PITTSBURGH, SUSAN CRISS RECENTLY COMPLETED A TWO-
YEAR PROJECT THAT SHOWED HOW BETACAROTENE IN THE
BLOODSTREAM MAY REDUCE THE RISK OF CANCER. //
- 10 -
THESE AND OTHER PROJECTS SHOW HOW LEARNING IS
ALWAYS A CONTINUATION, NEVER A CONSUMMATION -- THAT
BECAUSE FREEDOM WORKS, DREAMS MAKE POSSIBLE EVEN
GREATER DREAMS. // ((HERE IS A STORY WHICH MAGNIFIES
THAT FACT. 1843. A COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS MADE A
REPORT TO PRESIDENT TYLER. НÉ SAID: "THE ADVANCEMENT
OF THE ARTS FROM YEAR TO YEAR TAXES OUR CREDULITY AND
SEEMS TO PRESAGE THE ARRIVAL OF THAT PERIOD WHEN HUMAN
IMPROVEMENT MUST END. " //
- 11 -
HE WENT ON TO URGE THAT THE PATENT OFFICE BE LIQUIDATED
-- EVEN RIPLEY WOULDN'T BELIEVE THIS -- BECAUSE, HE
ALLEGEDLY BELIEVED, THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE TO BE
INVENTED.)).//
TODAY, ALL OF US KNOW BETTER. WE REALIZE THIS
NATION HAS NO NATURAL RESOURCES LIKE ITS INTELLECTUAL
RESOURCES. So WE MUST, AND ARE, ASSISTING THE
KNOWLEDGE THAT IS OUR MOST ENDURING LEGACY -- VITAL TO
EVERYTHING WE ARE AND CAN BECOME. //
- 12 -
THE NATION'S GOVERNORS AND I HAVE SET A GOAL FOR
U.S. STUDENTS TO BE NUMBER ONE IN THE WORLD IN MATH AND
SCIENCE LEARNING BY THE YEAR 2000. WE CAN ACHIEVE IT.
WE WILL. // To START WITH, WE WILL ACHIEVE IT THROUGH
OUR NEW NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE Act THAT I WILL
SOON SEND TO CONGRESS. LAST FALL CONGRESS ACTED
FAVORABLY ON OUR INITIATIVE FOR NATIONAL SCIENCE
SCHOLARS PROGRAM, WHICH WILL GIVE AMERICA'S YOUTH A
SPECIAL INCENTIVE TO EXCEL IN SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, AND
ENGINEERING. //
- 13 -
WE WILL ALSO ACHIEVE THIS GOAL THROUGH RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT IN ALL AREAS OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND
ENGINEERING. LAST MONTH I SUBMITTED MY NEW BUDGET TO
THE CONGRESS, AND IT INCLUDES SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON MATH
AND SCIENCE EDUCATION. WE PROPOSE AN INCREASE OF $225
MILLION FOR MATH AND SCIENCE EDUCATION. NEW FUNDING
FOR R & D TOTALING $76 BILLION -- INCLUDING A RECORD
HIGH OF OVER $13 BILLION FOR BASIC SCIENCE RESEARCH. //
- 14 -
OUR BUDGET WILL CONTINUE OUR COMMITMENT TO DOUBLE
THE FUNDING FOR THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. /
DEVOTE OVER $16 BILLION FOR MAJOR SPACE ACTIVITIES --
UP 15 PER CENT OVER LAST YEAR -- AND SUPPORT THE
DEVELOPMENT OF WORTHY IDEAS FROM ELECTRIC POWERED
VEHICLES TO HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING TO THE HUMAN
GENOME PROJECT. / IT GIVES MORE MONEY THAN EVER TO THE
SMALL SCIENCE RESEARCH -- RESEARCH BY INDIVIDUALS --
EMBODIED BY THE WESTINGHOUSE SCIENCE TALENT SEARCH.
- 15 -
AND IT URGES CONGRESS TO PROVIDE THE 28 PERCENT
INCREASE I SEEK TO RAISE THE QUALITY OF PRE-COLLEGE
MATH AND SCIENCE EDUCATION WHICH WE MUST DO IF AMERICAN
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WILL CONTINUE TO LEAD THE WORLD.
THIS BUDGET WILL HELP FREEDOM WORK AT HOME. YET
FREEDOM HAS ALSO HELPED ADVANCE THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY
ABROAD. //
- 16 -
FOR EVIDENCE, LOOK TO THE PERSIAN GULF, WHERE
ACHIEVEMENTS IN SCIENCE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HIGH-
TECH EQUIPMENT WHICH HAS SERVED OUR MILITARY so WELL.
IN THE PAST, SOME HAVE URGED THAT WE DEPEND MORE
FOR OUR PROTECTION ON THEORIES OF DETERRENCE THAN
TECHNOLOGIES OF DEFENSE. WELL, THANK GOD THAT WHEN THE
SCUDS CAME -- THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL AND SAUDI ARABIA HAD
MORE TO PROTECT THEM THAN SOME ABSTRACT THEORY OF
DETERRENCE. //
- 17 -
Go TO RIYADH OR TEL Aviv. A THEORY DIDN'T PROTECT
ITS CITIZENS. PATRIOT MISSILES BORN OF TECHNOLOGY DID.
BECAUSE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -- BECAUSE OF
AMERICAN CREATIVITY -- THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT
CIVILIANS -- PRICELESS HUMAN LIVES -- HAVE BEEN SPARED.
THE PATRIOT AND OTHER MISSILES SHOW HOW AMERICAN
INNOVATION STEMS FROM AMERICAN INSPIRATION. //
- 18 -
IF THE CAUSE OF PEACE IS TO CONTINUE BEING SERVED
BY AMERICAN MILITARY POWER, IT MUST CONTINUE BEING
ADVANCED BY AMERICAN BRAIN POWER. // Ask OUR TROOPS IN
THE GULF. YES, THE FINEST SOLDIERS, SAILORS, MARINES,
AIRMEN, AND COAST GUARDSMEN ANY NATION HAS EVER HAD.
TODAY ALL OF US ARE ESPECIALLY GRATEFUL THAT TEN
COALITION POWs, INCLUDING SEVERAL AMERICANS, ARE ON
THEIR WAY BACK HOME -- AND OUR REMAINING POWs SHOULD
NOT BE FAR BEHIND.
- 19 -
THE WELFARE OF OUR TROOPS WAS OUR TOP PRIORITY IN THE
WAR AND AS WE FORGE A NEW PEACE, ALL OF THEM WILL BE ON
OUR MINDS UNTIL ALL OF THEM ARE BACK HOME. EACH OF
THESE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN KNOW HOW SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY BROUGHT CLOSER FREEDOM'S ULTIMATE VICTORY.
// Ask, Too, THOSE OTHER GREAT HEROES -- OUR TEACHERS.
EACH DAY THEY GIVE PERHAPS THE GREATEST GIFT OF SHARING
THEIR KNOWLEDGE WITH OTHERS. // Ask, FINALLY,
AMERICA'S STUDENTS AND PARENTS.
- 20 -
THEY KNOW THAT WHILE LEARNING IS VERY PRACTICAL, IT IS
ALSO AMONG MANKIND'S MOST NOBLE ENDEAVORS. IT CAN
PRESAGE A NEW GOLDEN AGE -- YES, A NEW WORLD ORDER --
WHERE CREATIVITY FLOWS -- MORE THAN EVER -- FROM THE
HUMAN HEART AND MIND. //
- 21 -
OVER THE PAST HALF-CENTURY, SCIENTIFIC
BREAKTHROUGHS HAVE BENEFITED US ALL. FROM THE FIRST
RADAR / TO PIONEERING ADVANCES IN SHOCK AND BURN
TREATMENT-/ TO THE REVOLUTIONARY LASER / TO THE HIGH-
TECH OF TODAY / AMERICA'S SCIENTISTS HAVE DONE THEIR
DUTY -- AS THEY WILL IN THE FUTURE. // HELPING US NOT
MERELY TO PREVAIL AT WAR -- BUT ALSO, MORE IMPORTANTLY,
TO WIN THE PEACE.
- 22 -
WHAT A MAGNIFICENT LEGACY FOR THE WESTINGHOUSE
SCIENCE TALENT SEARCH. / WHAT A MAGNIFICENT METAPHOR
FOR THE DREAM THAT IS AMERICA. / THANK YOU FOR TONIGHT
-- AND FOR HELPING FREEDOM To WORK. PLEASE CONTINUE TO
PRAY FOR OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS IN THE PERSIAN GULF,
AND FOR PEACE IN THAT TROUBLED CORNER OF THE WORLD.
GOD BLESS AMERICA.
#
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
February 27, 1991
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
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THROUGH:
DAVID DEMAREST
FROM:
CURT SMITH
SUBJECT:
WESTINGHOUSE SCIENCE AWARDS REMARKS
I. SUMMARY
On Monday, March 4 at 7:00 p.m. you will make remarks at
the 50th Annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search awards banquet.
This event will be held at the Washington Hilton, with 1200 guests
expected. Your remarks are eleven minutes in length and will be
on speechcards.
II. DISCUSSION
The attached remarks note the special relationship
between scientific achievement and the many freedoms we owe to
developments in the field. You also touch briefly on your new
budget and the emphasis it places on science -- in research and
development, working facilities and education. In conclusion, the
remarks recognize the value of science and technology in wartime.
(Smith/Cawley)
February 25, 1991
9 A.M.
WEST
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1991
7:00 P.M.
Secretary Sullivan, Dr. Bromley, Dr. Seaborg, Mr. Lego [Leg-go],
Mr. Sherburne, Ms. Luszcz [Loosh], Monsignor Quinn, Mr. Flatow,
Members of the Westinghouse Science Foundation, past and current
Westinghouse Award recipients, judges of the Science Talent
Search, distinguished guests of science, ladies and gentlemen. /
Thank you, Mr. Lego, for that introduction, and for your
warm reception. And let me welcome to Washington the trustees of
our posterity. / High school students -- the best and the
brightest -- who act for Nation and neighbor. // It is a
pleasure to be at the Super Bowl of Science. //
We meet tonight on the fiftieth anniversary of the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search -- a program which has helped
make the past half-century a time of extraordinary exploration.
// Not to date myself, but when I was growing up, PAC-MAN was a
hiker, not a video game. / Who knows how future endeavors will
make ours a richer, more decent world? //
((Now, I'll admit. Few have called me a virtuoso in
science. // ) It's pretty hard for me to claim I'm adept at high
tech when my grandkids keep beating me at "Nintendo." II // I
remember how once my science teacher said to me, "Whatever you do
in life I hope you'll hold the torch on high -- as long as it
2
isn't a bunsen burner." // Even so, I did try a recent
experiment that I'm proud of. I connected my VCR to our
microwave oven and watched "Gone With the Wind" in 12 and 1/2
minutes. )) //
Tonight, we honor scientists and researchers who --
thankfully -- have not followed my lead. Opening doors into an
age where mankind not only moved into the future -- but re-
invented it. // Think of discoveries like biotechnology and the
microchip. And of pioneers like Kilby and Noyce and Herbert
Boyer, the first person to splice a gene. All knew, as Thomas
Jefferson wrote to a Polish general who fought with us in the
Revolutionary War, "The main objects of all science are the
freedom and happiness of man. " //
Since the dark days of World War II, Westinghouse recipients
have aided this freedom -- becoming an instrument of liberty and
the symbol of the information age. // From the first man to win
the top prize in the Science Talent Search -- Paul Teschan
[Teh-SHAWN], saving soldiers' lives with the artificial kidney in
the Korean War -- to Raymond Kurzweil, whose reading devices make
life easier for the blind -- each has reached for the stars -- so
that future generations of Americans might someday travel to
them. //
This program's history reaffirms that truth. Five
Westinghouse award recipients have won the Nobel Prize. Eight
have received MacArthur Fellowships. // Three have been
admitted to the National Academy of Engineering. Twenty-eight
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have also been elected to to the National Academy of Sciences --
one of your profession's highest honors. //
Albert Einstein put it best when he noted that everything
that is really great and inspiring is created by individuals who
labor in freedom. In short, he believed what all of these
honorees believe -- freedom works. This year's national winners
-- 40 in all -- were culled from more than 1,400 entries. Many
belong to their school debate team, baseball club, their
newspaper, their church group or band. // All have created
research projects which show how the trailblazers of today can be
the heroes of tomorrow. //
Consider Clifford Wang of Vero Beach. He proposed that
seaweed can be grown in the ocean to remove metal pollutants and
then harvested for methane generation, cleaning the environment
while at the same time producing energy. / or Tara Bahna-James
of New York City, who explored the relationship between math
aptitude and musical talent. / In Spring, Texas, Wade Butin
developed a varnish to withstand the rigors of weather and salt
water. / And in Pittsburgh, Susan Criss recently completed a
two-year project that showed how betacarotene in the bloodstream
may reduce the risk of cancer. //
These and other projects show how learning is always a
continuation, never a consummation -- that because freedom works,
dreams make possible even greater dreams. // ( (Here is a story
which magnifies that fact. 1843. A Commissioner of Patents made
a report to President Tyler. He said: "The advancement of the
4
arts from year to year taxes our credulity and seems to presage
the arrival of that period when human improvement must end. " //
He went on to urge Congress to liquidate the Patent-Office --
even Ripley wouldn't believe this -- because, he believed, there
was nothing else to be invented. )) //
Today, all of us know better. We realize this Nation has no
natural resources like its intellectual resources. So we must,
and are, assisting the knowledge that is our most enduring legacy
-- vital to everything we are and can become. //
The Nation's Governors and I have set a goal for U.S.
students to be Number One in the world in math and science
learning by the year 2000. We can achieve it. We will. // To
start with, we will achieve it through our new National
Educational Excellence Act that I will soon send to Congress.
Last fall Congress acted favorably on our initiative for National
Science Scholars program, which will give America's youth a
special incentive to excel in science, mathematics, and
engineering. //
We will also achieve this goal through research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
Last month I submitted my new budget to the Congress, and it
includes special emphasis on math and science education. We
propose an increase of $225 million for math and science
education. New funding for R & D totaling $76 billion --
including a record high of over $13 billion for basic science
research. //
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Our budget will continue our commitment to double the
funding for the National Science Foundation. / Devote over $16
billion for major space activities -- up 15 per cent over last
year -- and support the development of worthy ideas from electric
powered vehicles to high performance computing to the human
genome project. / It gives more money than ever to the small
science research -- research by individuals -- embodied by the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search. And it urges Congress to
provide the 28 percent increase I seek to raise the quality of
pre-college math and science education which we must do if
American science and technology will continue to lead the world.
This budget will help freedom work at home. Yet freedom has
also helped advance the cause of liberty abroad. // For
evidence, look to the Persian Gulf, where achievements in science
are responsible for the high-tech equipment which has served our
military so well. //
In the past, some have urged that we depend more for our
protection on theories of deterrence than technologies of
defense. Well, thank God that when the Scuds came -- the people
of Israel and Saudi Arabia had more to protect them than some
abstract theory of deterrence. //
Go to Riyadh or Tel Aviv. A theory didn't protect its
citizens. Patriot missiles born of technology did. Because of
science and technology -- because of American creativity --
thousands of innocent civilians -- priceless human lives -- have
6
been spared. The Patriot and other missiles show how American
innovation stems from American inspiration. //
If the cause of peace is to continue being served by
American military power, it must continue being advanced by
American brain power. // Ask our troops in the Gulf. Yes, the
finest soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and Coast Guardsmen
any Nation has ever had. They know the value of science and
technology. Each day it brought closer freedom's ultimate
victory. // Ask those other great heroes -- our teachers. Each
day they give perhaps the greatest gift of sharing their
knowledge with others. // Ask, finally, America's students and
parents. They know that while learning is very practical, it is
also among mankind's most noble endeavors. It can presage a new
Golden Age -- yes, a new world order -- where creativity flows
-- more than ever -- from the human heart and mind. //
Over the past half-century, scientific breakthroughs have
benefited us all. From the first radar / to pioneering advances
in shock and burn treatment / to the revolutionary laser / to the
high-tech of today / America's scientists have done their duty
-- as they will in the future. // Helping us not merely to
prevail at war -- but also, more importantly, to win the peace.
What a magnificent legacy for the Westinghouse Science
Talent Search. / What a magnificent metaphor for the dream that
is America. / Thank you for tonight -- and for helping freedom
to work. Please pray for our sons and daughters in the Persian
7
Gulf. And let me leave you with three of the most beautiful
words in ours or any language. God bless America.
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THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
3/4/91
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
91 FEB 28 PM 4: 48
February 27, 1991
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
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SUBJECT:
WESTINGHOUSE SCIENCE AWARDS REMARKS
I. SUMMARY
On Monday, March 4 at 7:00 p.m. you will make remarks at
the 50th Annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search awards banquet.
This event will be held at the Washington Hilton, with 1200 guests
expected. Your remarks are eleven minutes in length and will be
on speechcards.
II. DISCUSSION
The attached remarks note the special relationship
between scientific achievement and the many freedoms we owe to
developments in the field. You also touch briefly on your new
budget and the emphasis it places on science -- in research and
development, working facilities and education. In conclusion, the
remarks recognize the value of science and technology in wartime.
(Smith/Cawley)
February 25, 1991
9 A.M.
WEST
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1991
7:00 P.M.
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Secretary Sullivan, Dr. Bromley, Dr. Seaborg, Mr. Lego [Leg-go]
Mr. Sherburne, Ms. Luszcz [Loosh], Monsignor Quinn, Mr. Flatow,
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Members of the Westinghouse Science Foundation, past and current
Westinghouse Award recipients, judges of the Science Talent
Search, distinguished guests of science, ladies and gentlemen. /
Thank you, Mr. Lego, for that introduction, and for your
warm reception. And let me welcome to Washington the trustees of
our posterity. / High school students -- the best and the
brightest -- who act for Nation and neighbor. // It is a
pleasure to be at the Super Bowl of Science. //
We meet tonight on the fiftieth anniversary of the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search -- a program which has helped
make the past half-century a time of extraordinary exploration.
// Not to date myself, but when I was growing up, PAC-MAN was a
hiker, not a video game. / Who knows how future endeavors will
make ours a richer, more decent world? //
( (Now, I'll admit. Few have called me a virtuese in
science. // It's pretty hard for me to claim I'm adept at high
clobbering
tech when my grandkids keep beating me at "Nintendo." // I
remember how once my science teacher said to me, "Whatever you do
in life I hope you'll hold the torch on high -- as long as it
2
isn't a bunsen burner. " // Even so, I did try a recent
experiment that I'm proud of. I connected my VCR to our
microwave oven and watched "Gone With the Wind" in 12 and 1/2
minutes. )) //
distinguished
Tonight, we honor A scientists and researchers. who --
thankfully have not followed my lead. Opening doors into an
age where mankind not only moved into the future -- but re-
invented it. // Think of discoveries like biotechnology and the
microchip. And of pioneers like Kilby and Noyce and Herbert
Boyer, the first person to splice a gene. All knew, as Thomas
Jefferson wrote to a Polish general who fought with us in the
Revolutionary War, "The main objects of all science are the
freedom and happiness of man. " //
Since the dark days of World War II, Westinghouse recipients
have aided this freedom -- becoming an instrument of liberty and
the symbol of the information age. // From the first man to win
the top prize in the Science Talent Search -- Paul Teschan
[Teh-SHAWN], saving soldiers' lives with the artificial kidney in
the Korean War -- to Raymond Kurzweil, whose reading devices make
life easier for the blind -- each has reached for the stars -- so
that future generations of Americans might someday travel to
them. //
This program's history reaffirms that truth. Five
Westinghouse award recipients have won the Nobel Prize. Eight
have received MacArthur Fellowships. // Three have been
admitted to the National Academy of Engineering. Twenty-eight
3
have also been elected to to the National Academy of Sciences --
one of your profession's highest honors. //
Albert Einstein put it best when he noted that everything
that is really great and inspiring is created by individuals who
labor in freedom. In short, he believed what all of these
honorees believe -- freedom works. This year's national winners
-- 40 in all -- were culled from more than 1,400 entries. Many
belong to their school debate team, baseball club, their
newspaper, their church group or band. // All have created
research projects which show how the trailblazers of today can be
the heroes of tomorrow. //
Consider Clifford Wang of Vero Beach. He proposed that
seaweed can be grown in the ocean to remove metal pollutants and
then harvested for methane generation, cleaning the environment
while at the same time producing energy. / or Tara Bahna-James
of New York city, who explored the relationship between math
aptitude and musical talent. / In Spring, Texas, Wade Butin
developed a varnish to withstand the rigors of weather and salt
water. / And in Pittsburgh, Susan Criss recently completed a
two-year project that showed how betacarotene in the bloodstream
may reduce the risk of cancer. //
These and other projects show how learning is always a
continuation, never a consummation -- that because freedom works,
dreams make possible even greater dreams. // ( (Here is a story
which magnifies that fact. 1843. A Commissioner of Patents made
a report to President Tyler. He said: "The advancement of the
4
arts from year to year taxes our credulity and seems to presage
the arrival of that period when human improvement must end. " //
He went on to urge Congress to liquidate the Patent Office --
even Ripley wouldn't believe this -- because, he believed, there
was nothing else to be invented. )) //
Today, all of us know better. We realize this Nation has no
natural resources like its intellectual resources. So we must,
and are, assisting the knowledge that is our most enduring legacy
-- vital to everything we are and can become. //
The Nation's Governors and I have set a goal for U.S.
students to be Number One in the world in math and science
learning by the year 2000. We can achieve it. We will. // To
start with, we will achieve it through our new National
Educational Excellence Act that I will soon send to Congress.
Last fall Congress acted favorably on our initiative for National
Science Scholars program, which will give America's youth a
special incentive to excel in science, mathematics, and
engineering. //
We will also achieve this goal through research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
Last month I submitted my new budget to the Congress, and it
includes special emphasis on math and science education. We
propose an increase of $225 million for math and science
education. New funding for R & D totaling $76 billion --
including a record high of over $13 billion for basic science
research. //
5
Our budget will continue our commitment to double the
funding for the National Science Foundation. / Devote over $16
billion for major space activities -- up 15 per cent over last
year -- and support the development of worthy ideas from electric
powered vehicles to high performance computing to the human
genome project. / It gives more money than ever to the small
science research -- research by individuals -- embodied by the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search. And it urges Congress to
provide the 28 percent increase I seek to raise the quality of
pre-college math and science education which we must do if
American science and technology will continue to lead the world.
This budget will help freedom work at home. Yet freedom has
also helped advance the cause of liberty abroad. // For
evidence, look to the Persian Gulf, where achievements in science
are responsible for the high-tech equipment which has served our
military so well. //
In the past, some have urged that we depend more for our
protection on theories of deterrence than technologies of
defense. Well, thank God that when the Scuds came -- the people
of Israel and Saudi Arabia had more to protect them than some
abstract theory of deterrence. //
Go to Riyadh or Tel Aviv. A theory didn't protect its
citizens. Patriot missiles born of technology did. Because of
science and technology -- because of American creativity --
thousands of innocent civilians -- priceless human lives -- have
6
been spared. The Patriot and other missiles show how American
innovation stems from American inspiration. //
If the cause of peace is to continue being served by
American military power, it must continue being advanced by
American brain power. // Ask our troops in the Gulf. Yes, the
finest soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and Coast Guardsmen
any Nation has ever had. They know the value of science and
technology. Each day it brought closer freedom's ultimate
victory. // Ask those other great heroes -- our teachers. Each
day they give perhaps the greatest gift of sharing their
knowledge with others. // Ask, finally, America's students and
parents. They know that while learning is very practical, it is
also among mankind's most noble endeavors. It can presage a new
Golden Age -- yes, a new world order -- where creativity flows
-- more than ever -- from the human heart and mind. //
Over the past half-century, scientific breakthroughs have
benefited us all. From the first radar / to pioneering advances
in shock and burn treatment / to the revolutionary laser / to the
high-tech of today / America's scientists have done their duty
-- as they will in the future. // Helping us not merely to
prevail at war -- but also, more importantly, to win the peace.
What a magnificent legacy for the Westinghouse Science
Talent Search. / What a magnificent metaphor for the dream that
is America. / Thank you for tonight -- and for helping freedom
continue to
to work. Please pray for our sons and daughters in the Persian
A
and for peace in that troubled 7 corren of the would
Gulf / And let me leave you with three of the most beautiful
words in ours or any language. God bless America.
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Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
FEB 28 P6: 34
DATE: 2/28/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
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SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE SCIENCE AWARDS - 3/4/91
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
WINSTON
FITZWATER
BROMLEY
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
The attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
91 FEB 28 PM 4: 47
February 27, 1991
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
47
THROUGH:
DAVID DEMAREST
FROM:
CURT SMITH
SUBJECT:
WESTINGHOUSE SCIENCE AWARDS REMARKS
I. SUMMARY
On Monday, March 4 at 7:00 p.m. you will make remarks at
the 50th Annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search awards banquet.
This event will be held at the Washington Hilton, with 1200 guests
expected. Your remarks are eleven minutes in length and will be
on speechcards.
II. DISCUSSION
The attached remarks note the special relationship
between scientific achievement and the many freedoms we owe to
developments in the field. You also touch briefly on your new
budget and the emphasis it places on science -- in research and
development, working facilities and education. In conclusion, the
remarks recognize the value of science and technology in wartime.
(Smith/Cawley)
February 25, 1991
9 A.M.
WEST
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1991
7:00 P.M.
Secretary Sullivan, Dr. Bromley, Dr. Seaborg, Mr. Lego [Leg-go],
Mr. Sherburne, Ms. Luszcz [Loosh], Monsignor Quinn, Mr. Flatow,
Members of the Westinghouse Science Foundation, past and current
Westinghouse Award recipients, judges of the Science Talent
Search, distinguished guests of science, ladies and gentlemen. /
Thank you, Mr. Lego, for that introduction, and for your
warm reception. And let me welcome to Washington the trustees of
our posterity. / High school students -- the best and the
brightest -- who act for Nation and neighbor. // It is a
pleasure to be at the Super Bowl of Science. //
We meet tonight on the fiftieth anniversary of the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search -- a program which has helped
make the past half-century a time of extraordinary exploration.
// Not to date myself, but when I was growing up, PAC-MAN was a
hiker, not a video game. / Who knows how future endeavors will
make ours a richer, more decent world? //
( (Now, I'll admit. Few have called me a virtuoso in
science. // It's pretty hard for me to claim I'm adept at high
tech when my grandkids keep beating me at "Nintendo." // I
remember how once my science teacher said to me, "Whatever you do
in life I hope you'll hold the torch on high -- as long as it
2
isn't a bunsen burner." // Even so, I did try a recent
experiment that I'm proud of. I connected my VCR to our
microwave- oven and watched "Gone With the Wind" in 12 and 1/2
minutes. )) //
Tonight, we honor scientists and researchers who --
thankfully -- have not followed my lead. Opening doors into an
age where mankind not only moved into the future -- but re-
invented it. // Think of discoveries like biotechnology and the
microchip. And of pioneers like Kilby and Noyce and Herbert
Boyer, the first person to splice a gene. All knew, as Thomas
Jefferson wrote to a Polish general who fought with us in the
Revolutionary War, "The main objects of all science are the
freedom and happiness of man. " //
Since the dark days of World War II, Westinghouse recipients
have aided this freedom -- becoming an instrument of liberty and
the symbol of the information age. // From the first man to win
the top prize in the Science Talent Search -- Paul Teschan
[Teh-SHAWN], saving soldiers' lives with the artificial kidney in
the Korean War -- to Raymond Kurzweil, whose reading devices make
life easier for the blind -- each has reached for the stars -- so
that future generations of Americans might someday travel to
them. //
This program's history reaffirms that truth. Five
Westinghouse award recipients have won the Nobel Prize. Eight
have received MacArthur Fellowships. // Three have been
admitted to the National Academy of Engineering. Twenty-eight
3
have also been elected to to the National Academy of Sciences --
one of your profession's highest honors. //
Albert Einstein put it best when he noted that- everything
that is really great and inspiring is created by individuals who
labor in freedom. In short, he believed what all of these
honorees believe -- freedom works. This year's national winners
-- 40 in all -- were culled from more than 1,400 entries. Many
belong to their school debate team, baseball club, their
newspaper, their church group or band. // All have created
research projects which show how the trailblazers of today can be
the heroes of tomorrow. //
Consider Clifford Wang of Vero Beach. He proposed that
seaweed can be grown in the ocean to remove metal pollutants and
then harvested for methane generation, cleaning the environment
while at the same time producing energy. / or Tara Bahna-James
of New York City, who explored the relationship between math
aptitude and musical talent. / In Spring, Texas, Wade Butin
developed a varnish to withstand the rigors of weather and salt
water. / And in Pittsburgh, Susan Criss recently completed a
two-year project that showed how betacarotene in the bloodstream
may reduce the risk of cancer. //
These and other projects show how learning is always a
continuation, never a consummation -- that because freedom works,
dreams make possible even greater dreams. // ( (Here is a story
which magnifies that fact. 1843. A Commissioner of Patents made
a report to President Tyler. He said: "The advancement of the
4
arts from year to year taxes our credulity and seems to presage
the arrival of that period when human improvement must end." //
He went on to urge Congress to liquidate the Patent Office --
even Ripley wouldn't believe this -- because, he believed, there
was nothing else to be invented. )) //
Today, all of us know better. We realize this Nation has no
natural resources like its intellectual resources. So we must,
and are, assisting the knowledge that is our most enduring legacy
-- vital to everything we are and can become. //
The Nation's Governors and I have set a goal for U.S.
students to be Number One in the world in math and science
learning by the year 2000. We can achieve it. We will. // To
start with, we will achieve it through our new National
Educational Excellence Act that I will soon send to Congress.
Last fall Congress acted favorably on our initiative for National
Science Scholars program, which will give America's youth a
special incentive to excel in science, mathematics, and
engineering. //
We will also achieve this goal through research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
Last month I submitted my new budget to the Congress, and it
includes special emphasis on math and science education. We
propose an increase of $225 million for math and science
education. New funding for R & D totaling $76 billion --
including a record high of over $13 billion for basic science
research. //
5
Our budget will continue our commitment to double the
funding for the National Science Foundation. / Devote over $16
billion for major space activities -- up 15 per cent over last
year -- and support the development of worthy ideas from electric
powered vehicles to high performance computing to the human
genome project. / It gives more money than ever to the small
science research -- research by individuals -- embodied by the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search. And it urges Congress to
provide the 28 percent increase I seek to raise the quality of
pre-college math and science education which we must do if
American science and technology will continue to lead the world.
This budget will help freedom work at home. Yet freedom has
also helped advance the cause of liberty abroad. // For
evidence, look to the Persian Gulf, where achievements in science
are responsible for the high-tech equipment which has served our
military so well. //
In the past, some have urged that we depend more for our
protection on theories of deterrence than technologies of
defense. Well, thank God that when the Scuds came -- the people
of Israel and Saudi Arabia had more to protect them than some
abstract theory of deterrence. //
Go to Riyadh or Tel Aviv. A theory didn't protect its
citizens. Patriot missiles born of technology did. Because of
science and technology -- because of American creativity --
thousands of innocent civilians -- priceless human lives -- have
6
been spared. The Patriot and other missiles show how American
innovation stems from American inspiration. //
If the cause of peace is to continue being served by
American military power, it must continue being advanced by
American brain power. // Ask our troops in the Gulf. Yes, the
finest soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and Coast Guardsmen
any Nation has ever had. They know the value of science and
technology. Each day it brought closer freedom's ultimate
victory. // Ask those other great heroes -- our teachers. Each
day they give perhaps the greatest gift of sharing their
knowledge with others. // Ask, finally, America's students and
parents. They know that while learning is very practical, it is
also among mankind's most noble endeavors. It can presage a new
Golden Age -- yes, a new world order -- where creativity flows
-- more than ever -- from the human heart and mind. //
Over the past half-century, scientific breakthroughs have
benefited us all. From the first radar / to pioneering advances
in shock and burn treatment / to the revolutionary laser / to the
high-tech of today / America's scientists have done their duty
-- as they will in the future. // Helping us not merely to
prevail at war -- but also, more importantly, to win the peace.
What a magnificent legacy for the Westinghouse Science
Talent Search. / What a magnificent metaphor for the dream that
is America. / Thank you for tonight -- and for helping freedom
to work. Please pray for our sons and daughters in the Persian
7
Gulf. And let me leave you with three of the most beautiful
words in ours or any language. God bless America.
#
#
#
#
insert to President's remarks to Veterans at 1:45 March 4:
I am pleased to report that we are making progress in our
journey from war to peace. The cessation of combat operations
that went into effect midnight Wednesday is for the most part
holding. General Schwarzkopf has reported that Sunday's dessert
meeting with Iraqi commanders made real progress. Already, ten
coalition POWs, including several Americans, are on their way
back home; our remaining POWs should not be far behind. We also
anticipate a quick accounting for all MIAs and the return of the
remains of fallen heroes. We have received information on the
The theatre of opens the rebuilding of Kuwalt
location of minefields in an around Kuwait Kuwai so that operations can
shot begin Kawait to can reclaim begin saftly. the land and waters of this recent battlefield.
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Our goal remains what it has been all along: Iraq's
complete and unconditional compliance with all relevant United
Nations resolutions, and its implementation of all the
requirements to be found in Security Council Resolution 686,
passed overwhelmingly late Saturday evening. This would allow us
to move beyond the current suspension of military operations to a
more permanent and stable cease-fire.
March 4, 10:00 a.m.
Assert for Westinghouse
from Harr
Document No. 21572055
91 FEB 27 WHITE I HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 2/25/91-
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2/27/91 NOON
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
WINSTON
FITZWATER
BROMLEY
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than NOON, Wednesday, February 27, with a copy to
this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
See comments
18:1d 27 833 16
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
91 FEB 25 PM 5:51
(Smith/Cawley)
February 25, 1991
9 A.M.
WEST
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1991
7:00 P.M.
Secretary Sullivan, Dr. Bromley, Dr. Seaborg, Mr. Lego [Leg-go],
Mr. Sherman, Ms. Luszcz [Loosh], Monsignor Quinn, Mr. Flatow,
Members of the Westinghouse Science Foundation, past and current
Westinghouse Award recipients, judges of the Science Talent
Search, distinguished guests of science, ladies and gentlemen. /
Thank you, Mr. Lego, for that introduction, and for your
warm reception. And let me welcome to Washington the trustees of
our posterity. / High school students -- the best and the
brightest -- who act for Nation and neighbor. // It is a
pleasure to be at the Super Bowl of Science. //
We meet tonight on the fiftieth anniversary of the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search -- a program which has helped
make the past half-century a time of extraordinary exploration.
// Not to date myself, but when I was growing up, PAC-MAN was a
hiker, not a video game. / Who knows how future endeavors will
make ours a richer, more decent world? //
((Now, I'll admit. Few have called me a virtuoso in
science. // It's pretty hard for me to claim I'm adept at high
tech when my grandkids keep beating me at "Nintendo." // I
remember how once my science teacher said to me, "Whatever you do
in life I hope you'll hold the torch on high -- as long as it
2
isn't a bunsen burner." // Even so, I did try a recent
experiment that I'm proud of. I connected my VCR to our
microwave oven and watched "Gone With the Wind" in 12 and 1/2
minutes. )) //
Tonight, we honor scientists and researchers who --
thankfully -- have not followed my lead. Opening doors into an
age where mankind not only moved into the future -- but re-
invented it. // Think of discoveries like the fax machine and
the microchip. And of pioneers like Kilby and Noyce and Curie
and Westinghouse. All knew, as Thomas Jefferson wrote to a
Polish general in the Revolutionary War, "The main objects of
all science are the freedom and happiness of man. " //
Since the dark days of World War II, Westinghouse recipients
have aided this freedom -- becoming an instrument of liberty and
the symbol of the information age. // From the first man to win
the top prize in the Science Talent Search -- Paul Teschan,
aiding kidney research -- to Raymond Kurzweil, whose reading
devices make life easier for the blind -- each has reached for
the stars -- so that future generations of Americans might
someday stand on them. //
This program's history reaffirms that truth. Five
Westinghouse recipients have won the Nobel Prize. Eight have
received MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. // Three have been
admitted to the National Academy of Engineering. Twenty-six have
3
also been elected to to the National Academy of Sciences -- your
profession's highest elective honor. //
Albert Einstein put it best when he said, "Everything that
is really great and inspiring is created by individuals who labor
in freedom." In short, he believed what all of these honorees
believe -- freedom works. This year's winners -- 40 in all --
were culled from more than 1,400 entries. Many belong to their
school debate team, baseball club, their newspaper, their church
group or band. // All have created research projects which show
how the trailblazers of today can be the heroes of tomorrow. 11
Consider Clifford Wang of Vero Beach. He proposed that
seaweed be grown in the ocean to remove pollutants while also
producing energy. / Or Tara-Bahn James of New York City, who
explored the relationship between math aptitude and music talent.
/ In Spring, Texas, Wade Butin developed varnish to withstand
the effect of weather and salt water. / And in Pittsburgh, Susan
continuum
Criss recently completed a two-year project that showed how
becacarotene may reduce the risk of cancer. //
These and other projects show how learning is always a
continuance, never a consummation -- that because freedom works,
dreams make possible even greater dreams. // ( (Here is a story
44844
which magnifies that fact. 1843. A Commissioner of Patents made
a report to President Tyler. He said: "The advancement of the
arts from year to year taxes our credulity and seems to presage
the arrival of that period when human improvement must end. " //
He went on to urge Congress to liquidate the Patent Office --
4
even Ripley wouldn't believe this -- because, he believed, there
was nothing else to be invented. )) //
Today, all of us know better. We realize this Nation has no
natural resouces like its intellectual resources. So we must,
and are, assisting the knowledge that is our most enduring legacy
-- vital to everything we are and can become. //
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The Governors and I have announced that U.S. students will be Number One by
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in science are responsible for the high-tech equipment which has
served our military so well. //
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defense. Well, thank God that when the Scuds came -- the people
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of Israel and Saudi Arabia had more to protect than some abstract
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theory of deterrence. //
Go to Riyhad or Tel Aviv. A theory didn't protect its
citizens. Missles born of technology did. Because of science
and technology -- because of American creativity -- thousands of
innocent civilians -- priceless human lives -- have been spared.
Thank God for the Patriot and other missiles which show how
American can-do stems from American know-how. //
If the cause of peace is to continue being served by
American military power, it must continue being advanced by
American brain power. // Ask our troops in the Gulf. Yes, the
finest soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and Coast Guardsmen
any Nation has ever had. They know the value of science and
technology. Each day it brings closer freedom's ultimate
victory. // Ask those other great heroes -- our teachers. Each
day they give perhaps the greatest gift of sharing their
knowledge with others. // Ask, finally, America's students and
parents. They know that while learning is a very practical thing
6
-- it is also among mankind's most noble things. It can presage
a new Golden Age -- yes, a new world order -- where creativity
flows -- more than ever -- from the human heart and mind. //
a great scientist
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Fifty-one years ago, (tone jone of the greatest scientists of all
X 4657
time was moved by an American President who spoke of how
technology could further peace. // His name was Edward Teller,
hearing Franklin Roosevelt declare that "the great achievements
of science
[would help] protect our culture, our American
freedom, and our civilization." //
Teller later wrote that it was the duty of science to "work
out the military problems, because without the work of the
scientists the war and the world would be lost. " // He did his
duty -- as you have -- as you are today. Helping to win the war
in the Persian Gulf -- just as we will win the peace that
follows. //
What a magnificent legacy for the Westinghouse Science
Talent Search. / What a magnificent metaphor for the dream that
is America. / Thank you for tonight -- and for helping freedom
to work. Please pray for our sons and daughters in the Persian
Gulf. And let me leave you with three of the most beautiful
words in ours or any language. God bless America.
#
#
#
#
Document No. 21572055
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 2/25/91-
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2/27/91 NOON
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
N/C
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT bootleg
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH NIC
BRADY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
WINSTON
FITZWATER
BROMLEY
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than NOON, Wednesday, February 27, with a copy to
this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
91 FEB 25 PM 5:51
(Smith/Cawley)
February 25, 1991
9 A.M.
WEST
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1991
7:00 P.M.
Secretary Sullivan, Dr. Bromley, Dr. Seaborg, Mr. Lego [Leg-go],
Mr. Sherman, Ms. Luszcz [Loosh], Monsignor Quinn, Mr. Flatow,
Members of the Westinghouse Science Foundation, past and current
Westinghouse Award recipients, judges of the Science Talent
Search, distinguished guests of science, ladies and gentlemen. /
Thank you, Mr. Lego, for that introduction, and for your
warm reception. And let me welcome to Washington the trustees of
our posterity. / High school students -- the best and the
brightest -- who act for Nation and neighbor. // It is a
pleasure to be at the Super Bowl of Science. //
We meet tonight on the fiftieth anniversary of the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search -- a program which has helped
make the past half-century a time of extraordinary exploration.
// Not to date myself, but when I was growing up, PAC-MAN was a
hiker, not a video game. / Who knows how future endeavors will
make ours a richer, more decent world? //
((Now, I'll admit. Few have called me a virtuoso in
science. // It's pretty hard for me to claim I'm adept at high
tech when my grandkids keep beating me at "Nintendo." If // I
remember how once my science teacher said to me, "Whatever you do
in life I hope you'll hold the torch on high -- as long as it
2
isn't a bunsen burner.' " // Even so, I did try a recent
experiment that I'm proud of. I connected my VCR to our
microwave oven and watched "Gone With the Wind" in I2 and 1/2
minutes. )) //
Tonight, we honor scientists and researchers who --
thankfully -- have not followed my lead. Opening doors into an
age where mankind not only moved into the future -- but re-
invented it. // Think of discoveries like the fax machine and
the microchip. And of pioneers like Kilby and Noyce and Curie
and Westinghouse. All knew, as Thomas Jefferson wrote to a
Polish general in the Revolutionary War, "The main objects of
all science are the freedom and happiness of man. " //
Since the dark days of World War II, Westinghouse recipients
have aided this freedom -- becoming an instrument of liberty and
the symbol of the information age. // From the first man to win
the top prize in the Science Talent Search -- Paul Teschan,
aiding kidney research -- to Raymond Kurzweil, whose reading
devices make life easier for the blind -- each has reached for
the stars -- so that future generations of Americans might
someday stand on them. //
This program's history reaffirms that truth. Five
Westinghouse recipients have won the Nobel Prize. Eight have
received MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. // Three have been
admitted to the National Academy of Engineering. Twenty-six have
3
also been elected to to the National Academy of Sciences -- your
profession's highest elective honor. //
Albert Einstein put it best when he said, "Everything that
is really great and inspiring is created by individuals who labor
in freedom." In short, he believed what all of these honorees
believe -- freedom works. This year's winners -- 40 in all --
were culled from more than 1,400 entries. Many belong to their
school debate team, baseball club, their newspaper, their church
group or band. // All have created research projects which show
how the trailblazers of today can be the heroes of tomorrow. //
Consider Clifford Wang of Vero Beach. He proposed that
seaweed be grown in the ocean to remove pollutants while also
producing energy. / Or Tara-Bahn James of New York city, who
explored the relationship between math aptitude and music talent.
/ In Spring, Texas, Wade Butin developed varnish to withstand
the effect of weather and salt water. / And in Pittsburgh, Susan
Criss recently completed a two-year project that showed how
becacarotene may reduce the risk of cancer. //
These and other projects show how learning is always a
continuance, never a consummation -- that because freedom works,
dreams make possible even greater dreams. // ( (Here is a story
which magnifies that fact. 1843. A Commissioner of Patents made
a report to President Tyler. He said: "The advancement of the
arts from year to year taxes our credulity and seems to presage
the arrival of that period when human improvement must end. " //
He went on to urge Congress to liquidate the Patent Office --
4
even Ripley wouldn't believe this -- because, he believed, there
was nothing else to be invented. )) //
Today, all of us know better. We realize this Nation has no
natural resouces like its intellectual resources. So we must,
and are, assisting the knowledge that is our most enduring legacy
-- vital to everything we are and can become. //
I have announced that U.S. students will be Number One by
the year 2000. We can achieve it. We will. // To start with,
we will achieve it through our National Educational Excellence
Act that I again urge Congress to pass. Let me especially salute
our new Initiative of National Science Scholars, which gives
America's youth a special incentive to excel in science,
mathematics, and engineering. //
We will also achieve this goal through research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
Let me describe the emphasis on science and math in our new
budget for Fiscal Year 1992. // Imagine: A record high of $76
billion for basic research and R & D. -- and basic science
research up $13 billion. / Reflect upon: A budget which will
double the National Science Foundation Budget if Congress will
cooperate. // Help me achieve: A budget which will devote over
$16 billion for outer space activities -- up 15 per cent over
last year. Giving more money than ever to the small science
research -- research by individuals -- embodied by the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search. //
5
This budget will help freedom work at home. Yet freedom has
also helped advance the cause of liberty abroad. // For
evidence, -look in closing to the Persian Gulf, where achievements
in science are responsible for the high-tech equipment which has
served our military so well. //
In the past, some have urged that we depend more for our
protection on theories of deterrence than technologies of
defense. Well, thank God that when the Scuds came -- the people
of Israel and Saudi Arabia had more to protect than some abstract
theory of deterrence. //
Go to Riyhad or Tel Aviv. A theory didn't protect its
citizens. Missles born of technology did. Because of science
and technology -- because of American creativity -- thousands of
innocent civilians priceless human lives -- have been spared.
Thank God for the Patriot and other missiles which show how
American can-do stems from American know-how. //
If the cause of peace is to continue being served by
American military power, it must continue being advanced by
American brain power. // Ask our troops in the Gulf. Yes, the
finest soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and Coast Guardsmen
any Nation has ever had. They know the value of science and
technology. Each day it brings closer freedom's ultimate
victory. // Ask those other great heroes -- our teachers. Each
day they give perhaps the greatest gift of sharing their
knowledge with others. // Ask, finally, America's students and
parents. They know that while learning is a very practical thing
6
-- it is also among mankind's most noble things. It can presage
a new Golden Age -- yes, a new world order -- where creativity
flows -- more than ever -- from the human heart and mind. //
Fifty-one years ago, one of the greatest scientists of all
time was moved by an American President who spoke of how
technology could further peace. // His name was Edward Teller,
hearing Franklin Roosevelt declare that "the great achievements
of science
[would help] protect our culture, our American
freedom, and our civilization." //
Teller later wrote that it was the duty of science to "work
out the military problems, because without the work of the
scientists the war and the world would be lost. " // He did his
duty -- as you have -- as you are today. Helping to win the war
in the Persian Gulf -- just as we will win the peace that
follows. //
What a magnificent legacy for the Westinghouse Science
Talent Search. / What a magnificent metaphor for the dream that
is America. / Thank you for tonight -- and for helping freedom
to work. Please pray for our sons and daughters in the Persian
Gulf. And let me leave you with three of the most beautiful
words in ours or any language. God bless America.
#
#
#
#
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Document No. 21572055
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 2/25/91-
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2/27/91 NOON
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
WINSTON
FITZWATER
BROMLEY
R
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than NOON, Wednesday, February 27, with a copy to
this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
February 27, 1991
TO:
CHRISS WINSTON
NSC concurs with the attached.
Brent Return Scowcroft
PHILLIP D. BRADY
CC: Phillip Brady
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
91 FEB 25 PM 5:51
(Smith/Cawley)
February 25, 1991
9 A.M.
WEST
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1991
7:00 P.M.
Secretary Sullivan, Dr. Bromley, Dr. Seaborg, Mr. Lego [Leg-go],
Mr. Sherman, Ms. Luszcz [Loosh], Monsignor Quinn, Mr. Flatow,
Members of the Westinghouse Science Foundation, past and current
Westinghouse Award recipients, judges of the Science Talent
Search, distinguished guests of science, ladies and gentlemen. /
Thank you, Mr. Lego, for that introduction, and for your
warm reception. And let me welcome to Washington the trustees of
our posterity. / High school students -- the best and the
brightest -- who act for Nation and neighbor. // It is a
pleasure to be at the Super Bowl of Science. //
We meet tonight on the fiftieth anniversary of the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search -- a program which has helped
make the past half-century a time of extraordinary exploration.
// Not to date myself, but when I was growing up, PAC-MAN was a
hiker, not a video game. / Who knows how future endeavors will
make ours a richer, more decent world? //
( (Now, I'll admit. Few have called me a virtuoso in
science. // It's pretty hard for me to claim I'm adept at high
tech when my grandkids keep beating me at "Nintendo. " // I
remember how once my science teacher said to me, "Whatever you do
in life I hope you'll hold the torch on high -- as long as it
2
isn't a bunsen burner. " // Even so, I did try a recent
experiment that I'm proud of. I connected my VCR to our
microwave oven and watched "Gone With the Wind" in 12 and 1/2
minutes. )) //
Tonight, we honor scientists and researchers who --
thankfully -- have not followed my lead. Opening doors into an
age where mankind not only moved into the future -- but re-
invented it. // Think of discoveries like the fax machine and
the microchip. And of pioneers like Kilby and Noyce and Curie
and Westinghouse. All knew, as Thomas Jefferson wrote to a
Polish general in the Revolutionary War, "The main objects of
all science are the freedom and happiness of man. " //
Since the dark days of World War II, Westinghouse recipients
have aided this freedom -- becoming an instrument of liberty and
the symbol of the information age. // From the first man to win
the top prize in the Science Talent Search -- Paul Teschan,
aiding kidney research -- to Raymond Kurzweil, whose reading
devices make life easier for the blind -- each has reached for
the stars -- so that future generations of Americans might
someday stand on them. //
This program's history reaffirms that truth. Five
Westinghouse recipients have won the Nobel Prize. Eight have
received MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. // Three have been
admitted to the National Academy of Engineering. Twenty-six have
3
also been elected to to the National Academy of Sciences -- your
profession's highest elective honor. 11
Albert Einstein put it best when he said, "Everything that
is really great and inspiring is created by individuals who labor
in freedom." In short, he believed what all of these honorees
believe -- freedom works. This year's winners -- 40 in all --
were culled from more than 1,400 entries. Many belong to their
school debate team, baseball club, their newspaper, their church
group or band. // All have created research projects which show
how the trailblazers of today can be the heroes of tomorrow. //
Consider Clifford Wang of Vero Beach. He proposed that
seaweed be grown in the ocean to remove pollutants while also
producing energy. / Or Tara-Bahn James of New York City, who
explored the relationship between math aptitude and music talent.
/ In Spring, Texas, Wade Butin developed varnish to withstand
the effect of weather and salt water. / And in Pittsburgh, Susan
Criss recently completed a two-year project that showed how
becacarotene may reduce the risk of cancer. //
These and other projects show how learning is always a
continuance, never a consummation -- that because freedom works,
dreams make possible even greater dreams. // ( (Here is a story
which magnifies that fact. 1843. A Commissioner of Patents made
a report to President Tyler. He said: "The advancement of the
arts from year to year taxes our credulity and seems to presage
the arrival of that period when human improvement must end. " //
He went on to urge Congress to liquidate the Patent Office --
4
even Ripley wouldn't believe this -- because, he believed, there
was nothing else to be invented. )) //
Today, all of us know better. We realize this Nation has no
natural resouces like its intellectual resources. So we must,
and are, assisting the knowledge that is our most enduring legacy
-- vital to everything we are and can become. //
I have announced that U.S. students will be Number One by
the year 2000. We can achieve it. We will. // To start with,
we will achieve it through our National Educational Excellence
Act that I again urge Congress to pass. Let me especially salute
our new Initiative of National Science Scholars, which gives
America's youth a special incentive to excel in science,
mathematics, and engineering. //
We will also achieve this goal through research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
Let me describe the emphasis on science and math in our new
budget for Fiscal Year 1992. // Imagine: A record high of $76
billion for basic research and R & D. -- and basic science
research up $13 billion. / Reflect upon: A budget which will
double the National Science Foundation Budget if Congress will
cooperate. // Help me achieve: A budget which will devote over
$16 billion for outer space activities -- up 15 per cent over
last year. Giving more money than ever to the small science
research -- research by individuals -- embodied by the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search. //
5
This budget will help freedom work at home. Yet freedom has
also helped advance the cause of liberty abroad. // For
evidence, look in closing to the Persian Gulf, where achievements
in science are responsible for the high-tech equipment which has
served our military so well. //
In the past, some have urged that we depend more for our
protection on theories of deterrence than technologies of
defense. Well, thank God that when the Scuds came -- the people
of Israel and Saudi Arabia had more to protect than some abstract
theory of deterrence. //
Go to Riyhad or Tel Aviv. A theory didn't protect its
citizens. Missles born of technology did. Because of science
and technology -- because of American creativity -- thousands of
innocent civilians -- priceless human lives -- have been spared.
Thank God for the Patriot and other missiles which show how
American can-do stems from American know-how. 11
If the cause of peace is to continue being served by
American military power, it must continue being advanced by
American brain power. // Ask our troops in the Gulf. Yes, the
finest soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and Coast Guardsmen
any Nation has ever had. They know the value of science and
technology. Each day it brings closer freedom's ultimate
victory. // Ask those other great heroes -- our teachers. Each
day they give perhaps the greatest gift of sharing their
knowledge with others. // Ask, finally, America's students and
parents. They know that while learning is a very practical thing
6
-- it is also among mankind's most noble things. It can presage
a new Golden Age -- yes, a new world order -- where creativity
flows -- more than ever -- from the human heart and mind. //
Fifty-one years ago, one of the greatest scientists of all
time was moved by an American President who spoke of how
technology could further peace. // His name was Edward Teller,
hearing Franklin Roosevelt declare that "the great achievements
of science
[would help] protect our culture, our American
freedom, and our civilization. " //
Teller later wrote that it was the duty of science to "work
out the military problems, because without the work of the
scientists the war and the world would be lost. " // He did his
duty -- as you have -- as you are today. Helping to win the war
in the Persian Gulf -- just as we will win the peace that
follows. //
What a magnificent legacy for the Westinghouse Science
Talent Search. / What a magnificent metaphor for the dream that
is America. / Thank you for tonight -- and for helping freedom
to work. Please pray for our sons and daughters in the Persian
Gulf. And let me leave you with three of the most beautiful
words in ours or any language. God bless America.
#
#
#
#
MASTER
(Smith/Cawley)
February 25, 1991
9 A.M.
WEST
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1991
7:00 P.M.
Secretary Sullivan, Dr. Bromley, Dr. Seaborg, Mr. Lego [Leg-go],
Mr. Sherman, Ms. Luszcz [Loosh], Monsignor Quinn, Mr. Flatow,
Members of the Westinghouse Science Foundation, past and current
Westinghouse Award recipients, judges of the Science Talent
Search, distinguished guests of science, ladies and gentlemen. /
Thank you, Mr. Lego, for that introduction, and for your
warm reception. And let me welcome to Washington the trustees of
our posterity. / High school students -- the best and the
brightest -- who act for Nation and neighbor. // It is a
pleasure to be at the Super Bowl of Science. //
We meet tonight on the fiftieth anniversary of the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search -- a program which has helped
make the past half-century a time of extraordinary exploration.
11 Not to date myself, but when I was growing up, PAC-MAN was a
hiker, not a video game. / Who knows how future endeavors will
make ours a richer, more decent world? //
((Now, I'll admit. Few have called me a virtuoso in
science. // It's pretty hard for me to claim I'm adept at high
tech when my grandkids keep beating me at "Nintendo." // I
remember how once my science teacher said to me, "Whatever you do
in life I hope you'll hold the torch on high -- as long as it
2
isn't a bunsen burner." 11 Even so, I did try a recent
experiment that I'm proud of. I connected my VCR to our
microwave oven and watched "Gone With the Wind" in 12 and 1/2
minutes. )) //
Tonight, we honor scientists and researchers who --
thankfully -- have not followed my lead. Opening doors into an
age where mankind not only moved into the future -- but re-
biotechnology
invented it. // Think of discoveries like the fax machine and
Herbert Boyer,
the microchip. And of pioneers like Kilby and Noyce and-Curie
the first person to splice a gene.
and-Westinghouse. All knew, as Thomas Jefferson wrote to a
Polish general in the Revolutionary War, "The main objects of
all science are the freedom and happiness of man." //
Since the dark days of World War II, Westinghouse recipients
have aided this freedom -- becoming an instrument of liberty and
the symbol of the information age. // From the first man to win
the top prize in the Science Talent Search -- Paul Teschan,
aiding kidney research -- to Raymond Kurzweil, whose reading
devices make life easier for the blind -- each has reached for
the stars -- so that future generations of Americans might
travel to
someday stand on them. //
This program's history reaffirms that truth. Five
award
Westinghouse recipients have won the Nobel Prize. Eight have
received MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. // Three have been
admitted to the National Academy of Engineering. Twenty-six have
eight
3
also been elected to to the National Academy of Sciences -- your
profession's highest elective honor.
the
//
noted that
Albert Einstein put it best when he said, "Everything that
is really great and inspiring is created by individuals who labor
in freedom. In short, he believed what all of these honorees
national
believe -- freedom works. This year's winners -- 40 in all --
were culled from more than 1,400 entries. Many belong to their
school debate team, baseball club, their newspaper, their church
group or band. // All have created research projects which show
how the trailblazers of today can be the heroes of tomorrow. //
Consider Clifford Wang of Vero Beach. He proposed that
could at the same
seaweed, be grown in the ocean to remove pollutants while also
time
producing energy. / Or Tara BahnaJames of New York City, who
explored the relationship between math aptitude and music talent.
/ In Spring, Texas, Wade Butin developed varnish to withstand
the effect of weather and salt water. / And in Pittsburgh, Susan
Criss recently completed a two-year project that showed how
+
in the bloodstream
becacarotene may reduce the risk of cancer. //
These and other projects show how learning is always a
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continuance never a consummation -- that because freedom works,
dreams make possible even greater dreams. // ( (Here is a story
which magnifies that fact. 1843. A Commissioner of Patents made
a report to President Tyler. He said: "The advancement of the
arts from year to year taxes our credulity and seems to presage
the arrival of that period when human improvement must end." //
He went on to urge Congress to liquidate the Patent Office --
4
even Ripley wouldn't believe this -- because, he believed, there
was nothing else to be invented. )) //
Today, all of us know better. We realize this Nation has no
natural resouces like its intellectual resources. So we must,
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In the past, some have urged that we depend more for our
protection on theories of deterrence than technologies of
defense. Well, thank God that when the Scuds came -- the people
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of Israel and Saudi Arabia had more to protect than some abstract
theory of deterrence. / /
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Go to Payhad- or Tel Aviv. A theory didn't protect its
citizens. Missles born of technology did. Because of science
and technology -- because of American creativity -- thousands of
innocent civilians -- priceless human lives -- have been spared.
Thank God for the Patriot and other missiles which show how
American can-do stems from American know-how. //
If the cause of peace is to continue being served by
American military power, it must continue being advanced by
American brain power. // Ask our troops in the Gulf. Yes, the
finest soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and Coast Guardsmen
any Nation has ever had. They know the value of science and
technology. Each day it brings closer freedom's ultimate
victory. // Ask those other great heroes -- our teachers. Each
day they give perhaps the greatest gift of sharing their
knowledge with others. // Ask, finally, America's students and
parents. They know that while learning is a very practical thing
6
endeavors
-- it is also among mankind's most noble things It can presage
a new Golden Age -- yes, a new world order -- where creativity
flows -- more than ever -- from the human heart and mind. //
a
great scientist
Fifty-one years ago, one of the greatest scientists of all
time was moved by an American President who spoke of how
Find another
technology could further peace. // His name was Edward Teller,
hearing Franklin Roosevelt declare that "the great achievements
of science
[would help] protect our culture, our American
freedom, and our civilization." //
said
Teller later wrote that it was the duty of science to "work
out the military problems because without the work of the
scientists the war and the world would be lost. " // He did his
duty -- as you have -- as you are today. Helping to win the war
in the Persian Gulf -- just as we will win the peace that
follows. //
What a magnificent legacy for the Westinghouse Science
Talent Search. / What a magnificent metaphor for the dream that
is America. / Thank you for tonight -- and for helping freedom
to work. Please pray for our sons and daughters in the Persian
Gulf. And let me leave you with three of the most beautiful
words in ours or any language. God bless America.
#
#
#
#
CURT: Ive marked my
changes on this
reconciled version.
(Smith/Cawley)
February 25, 1991
9 A.M.
Dave wants a look @ this before it's sent to POTUS.
WEST
Please let me know before it goes over, because I told Sara I'd highlight changes.
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1991
7:00 P.M.
Secretary Sullivan, Dr. Bromley, Dr. Seaborg, Mr. Lego [Leg-go],
Mr. Sherman, Ms. Luszcz [Loosh], Monsignor Quinn, Mr. Flatow,
Members of the Westinghouse Science Foundation, past and current
Westinghouse Award recipients, judges of the Science Talent
Search, distinguished guests of science, ladies and gentlemen. /
Thank you, Mr. Lego, for that introduction, and for your
warm reception. And let me welcome to Washington the trustees of
our posterity. / High school students -- the best and the
brightest -- who act for Nation and neighbor. // It is a
pleasure to be at the Super Bowl of Science. //
We meet tonight on the fiftieth anniversary of the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search -- a program which has helped
make the past half-century a time of extraordinary exploration.
// Not to date myself, but when I was growing up, PAC-MAN was a
hiker, not a video game. / Who knows how future endeavors will
make ours a richer, more decent world? //
((Now, I'll admit. Few have called me a virtuoso in
science. // It's pretty hard for me to claim I'm adept at high
tech when my grandkids keep beating me at "Nintendo." " // I
remember how once my science teacher said to me, "Whatever you do
in life I hope you'll hold the torch on high -- as long as it
2
isn't a bunsen burner. " // Even so, I did try a recent
Also: how Also:how about naming
this general? Kosciuko.
experiment that I'm proud of. I connected my VCR to our
microwave oven and watched "Gone With the Wind" in 12 and 1/2
OR
minutes. )) //
Tonight, we honor scientists and researchers who --
Jefferson wrote this in 1810 -well well after
the Rev. War. Let's change it to either
thankfully -- have not followed my lead. Opening doors into an
age where mankind not only moved into the future -- but re-
general who fought with us us in in
general after the R.W.".
invented it. // Think of discoveries like biotechnology and the
microchip. And of pioneers like Kilby and Noyce and Herbert
Boyer, the first person to splice a gene. All knew, as Thomas
Jefferson wrote to a Polish general in the Revolutionary War,
"The main objects of all science are the freedom and happiness of
man." ///
Since the dark days of World War II, Westinghouse recipients
have aided this freedom -- becoming an instrument of liberty and
ballefields
saved soldiers lives with the
artificial kidney in the Korean war.
the symbol of the information age. // From the first man to win
the top prize in the Science Talent Search -- Paul Teschan, who
aiding kidney research -- to Raymond Kurzweil, whose reading
devices make life easier for the blind -- each has reached for
the stars -- so that future generations of Americans might
someday travel to them. //
This program's history reaffirms that truth. Five
Westinghouse award recipients have won the Nobel Prize. Eight
have received MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. // Three have
been admitted to the National Academy of Engineering. Twenty-
3
eight have also been elected to to the National Academy of
Sciences -- one of your profession's highest honors. //
Albert Einstein put it best when he noted that everything
that is really great and inspiring is created by individuals who
labor in freedom. In short, he believed what all of these
honorees believe -- freedom works. This year's national winners
-- 40 in all -- were culled from more than 1,400 entries. Many
belong to their school debate team, baseball club, their
newspaper, their church group or band. // All have created
research projects which show how the trailblazers of today can be
the heroes of tomorrow. //
Consider Clifford Wang of Vero Beach. He proposed that
seaweed can be grown in the ocean to remove pollutants which at
the same time would produce energy. / Or Tara Bahna-James of New
York City, who explored the relationship between math aptitude
and musical talent. / In Spring, Texas, Wade Butin developed
a
rigors
varnish to withstand the effect of weather and salt water. / And
in Pittsburgh, Susan Criss recently completed a two-year project
that showed how betacarotene in the bloodstream may reduce the
risk of cancer. //
These and other projects show how learning is always a
continuation, never a consummation -- that because freedom works,
dreams make possible even greater dreams. // ( (Here is a story
which magnifies that fact. 1843. A Commissioner of Patents made
a report to President Tyler. He said: "The advancement of the
arts from year to year taxes our credulity and seems to presage
4
the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.' " //
He went on to urge Congress to liquidate the Patent Office --
even Ripley wouldn't believe this -- because, he believed, there
was nothing else to be invented. )) //
Today, all of us know better. We realize this Nation has no
natural resources like its intellectual resources. So we must,
and are, assisting the knowledge that is our most enduring legacy
-- vital to everything we are and can become. //
The Nation's Governors and I have set a goal for U.S.
students to be Number One in the world in math and science
learning by the year 2000. We can achieve it. We will. // To
start with, we will achieve it through our new National
Educational Excellence Act that I will soon send to Congress.
Last fall Congress acted favorably on our initiative for National
Science Scholars program, which will give America's youth a
special incentive to excel in science, mathematics, and
engineering. //
We will also achieve this goal through research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
Let me describe the emphasis on science and math. Our new budget
$225
for math and science education includes an increase of over $100
million. New funding totals $76 billion for R & D -- including a
over
record high of $13 billion for basic science research. //
continue our commitment to double
Our budget will double the funding for the National Science
major
Foundation. / Devote over $16 billion for outer space activities
and it alsot
-- up 15 per cent over last year -- which supports the
the space budget has
the budget does not double
nothing to do with
the NSF sunding.
electric vehicles,
the genome project, etc.
5
development of worthy ideas from electric powered vehicles to
high performance computing in the human genome project. / It
gives more money than ever to the small science research --
research by individuals -- embodied by the Westinghouse Science
Talent Search. And urges Congress to provide the 28 percent
increase I seek to raise the quality of pre-college math and
science education which we must do if American science and
technology will continue to lead the world.
This budget will help freedom work at home. Yet freedom has
also helped advance the cause of liberty abroad. // For
evidence, look to the Persian Gulf, where achievements in science
are responsible for the high-tech equipment which has served our
military so well. //
In the past, some have urged that we depend more for our
protection on theories of deterrence than technologies of
defense. Well, thank God that when the Scuds came -- the people
of Israel and Saudi Arabia had more to protect them than some
abstract theory of deterrence. //
Go to Riyadh or Tel Aviv. A theory didn't protect its
citizens. Missles born of technology did. Because of science
and technology -- because of American creativity -- thousands of
innocent civilians -- priceless human lives -- have been spared.
Thank God for the Patriot and other missiles which show how
American can-do stems from American know-how. //
If the cause of peace is to continue being served by
American military power, it must continue being advanced by
6
American brain power. // Ask our troops in the Gulf. Yes, the
finest soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and Coast Guardsmen
any Nation has ever had. They know the value of science and
technology. Each day it brought closer freedom's ultimate
victory. // Ask those other great heroes -- our teachers. Each
day they give perhaps the greatest gift of sharing their
knowledge with others. // Ask, finally, America's students and
parents. They know that while learning is very practical, it is
also among mankind's most noble endeavors. It can presage a new
Golden Age -- yes, a new world order -- where creativity flows -
- more than ever -- from the human heart and mind. //
What a magnificent legacy for the Westinghouse Science
Talent Search. / What a magnificent metaphor for the dream that
is America. / Thank you for tonight -- and for helping freedom
to work. Please pray for our sons and daughters in the Persian
Gulf. And let me leave you with three of the most beautiful
words in ours or any language. God bless America.
#
#
#
#
CAROLYN'S COMMENTS
Note: -Before speaking, POTUS will meet the
40 students in a side room + view 3-4
(Smith/Cawley)
February 25, 1991
projects.
9 A.M.
- Also, the 40 students will be on stage
WEST
w/him, on 3 tiers of risers.
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1991
7:00 P.M.
Secretary Sullivan, Dr. Bromley, Dr. Seaborg, Mr. Lego [Leg-go],
Mr. Sherman, Ms. Luszcz [Loosh], Monsignor Quinn, Mr. Flatow,
Members of the Westinghouse Science Foundation, past and current
Westinghouse Award recipients, judges of the Science Talent
Search, distinguished guests of science, ladies and gentlemen. /
Thank you, Mr. Lego, for that introduction, and for your
warm reception. And let me welcome to Washington the trustees of
our posterity. / High school students -- the best and the
brightest -- who act for Nation and neighbor. // It is a
pleasure to be at the Super Bowl of Science. //
We meet tonight on the fiftieth anniversary of the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search -- a program which has helped
make the past half-century a time of extraordinary exploration.
// Not to date myself, but when I was growing up, PAC-MAN was a
hiker, not a video game. / Who knows how future endeavors will
make ours a richer, more decent world? //
( (Now, I'll admit. Few have called me a virtuoso in
science. // It's pretty hard for me to claim I'm adept at high
tech when my grandkids keep beating me at "Nintendo." // I
remember how once my science teacher said to me, "Whatever you do
in life I hope you'll hold the torch on high -- as long as it
2
isn't a bunsen burner. " // Even so, I did try a recent
experiment that I'm proud of. I connected my VCR to our
microwave oven and watched "Gone With the Wind" in 12 and 1/2
minutes. )) //
Tonight, we honor scientists and researchers who --
thankfully -- have not followed my lead. Opening doors into an
age where mankind not only moved into the future -- but re-
invented it. // Think of discoveries like the fax machine and
the microchip. And of pioneers like Kilby and Noyce and Curie
and Westinghouse. All knew, as Thomas Jefferson wrote to a
who fought with US in
Polish general in the Revolutionary War, "The main objects of
all science are the freedom and happiness of man. " //
Since the dark days of World War II, Westinghouse recipients
have aided this freedom -- becoming an instrument of liberty and
the symbol of the information age. // From the first man to win
the top prize in the Science Talent Search -- Paul Teschan,
aiding kidney research -- to Raymond Kurzweil, whose reading
devices make life easier for the blind -- each has reached for
the stars -- so that future generations of Americans might
someday stand on them. //
This program's history reaffirms that truth. Five
award
Westinghouse recipients have won the Nobel Prize. Eight have
received MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. // Three have been
admitted to the National Academy of Engineering. Twenty-six eight have
one of
also been elected to to the National Academy of Sciences --/your
profession's highest elective honors. //
This is a paraphrase -
remove quotation marks.
3
noted that
Albert Einstein put it best when he said, Everything that
is really great and inspiring is created by individuals who labor
in freedom. " In short, he believed what all of these honorees
national
believe -- freedom works. This year winners -- 40 in all --
were culled from more than 1,400 entries. Many belong to their
school debate team, baseball club, their newspaper, their church
group or band. // All have created research projects which show
how the trailblazers of today can be the heroes of tomorrow. //
Consider Clifford Wang of Vero Beach. He proposed that
at the same time
seaweed be grown in the ocean to remove pollutants while also
producing energy. / Or Tara- Bahna James of New York City, who
explored the relationship between math aptitude and music/talent.
/ In Spring, Texas, Wade Butin developed varnish to withstand
rigors
the effect of weather and salt water. / And in Pittsburgh, Susan
Criss recently completed a two-year project that showed how
in the bloodstream
becacarotene may reduce the risk of cancer. //
These and other projects show how learning is always a
continuance, never a consummation -- that because freedom works,
dreams make possible even greater dreams. // ( (Here is a story
which magnifies that fact. 1843. A Commissioner of Patents made
a report to President Tyler. He said: "The advancement of the
arts from year to year taxes our credulity and seems to presage
the arrival of that period when human improvement must end. " //
He went on to urge Congress to liquidate the Patent Office --
even Ripley wouldn't believe this -- because, he believed, there
was nothing else to be invented. )) //
4
Today, all of us know better. We realize this Nation has no
natural resouces like its intellectual resources. So we must,
and are, assisting the knowledge that is our most enduring legacy
-- vital to everything we are and can become. //
in math and
science
must
achievement
I have announced that U.S. students will be Number One by
the year 2000. We can achieve it. We will. // To start with,
we will achieve it through our National Educational Excellence
Act that I again urge Congress to pass. Let me especially salute
our new Initiative of National Science Scholars, which gives
America's youth a special incentive to excel in science,
mathematics, and engineering. / /
We will also achieve this goal through research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
Let me describe the emphasis on science and math in our new
budget for Fiscal Year 1992. // Imagine: A record high of $76
research 2nd development, including R+D facilities
billion for basic research and R & D. -- and basic science
$1 billion, to over $13 billion.
research up $13 billion e / Reflect upon: A budget which will
oatinue our
ommitment to
double the National Science Foundation Budget if Congress will
cooperate. // Help me achieve: A budget which will devote over
major
$16 billion for outer space activities -- up 15 per cent over
last year. Giving more money than ever to the small science
research -- research by individuals -- embodied by the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search. //
This budget will help freedom work at home. Yet freedom has
also helped advance the cause of liberty abroad. // For
evidence, look in closing to the Persian Gulf, where achievements
5
in science are responsible for the high-tech equipment which has
served our military so well. //
In the past, some have urged that we depend more for our
protection on theories of deterrence than technologies of
defense. Well, thank God that when the Scuds came -- the people
of Israel and Saudi Arabia had more to protect than some abstract
theory of deterrence. / /
Go to Riyhad or Tel Aviv. A theory didn't protect its
citizens. Missles born of technology did. Because of science
and technology -- because of American creativity -- thousands of
innocent civilians -- priceless human lives -- have been spared.
Thank God for the Patriot and other missiles which show how
American can-do stems from American know-how. //
If the cause of peace is to continue being served by
American military power, it must continue being advanced by
American brain power. // Ask our troops in the Gulf. Yes, the
finest soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and Coast Guardsmen
any Nation has ever had. They know the value of science and
technology. Each day it brings closer freedom's ultimate
victory. // Ask those other great heroes -- our teachers. Each
day they give perhaps the greatest gift of sharing their
knowledge with others. // Ask, finally, America's students and
parents. They know that while learning is a very practical thing
-- it is also among mankind's most noble things. It can presage
a new Golden Age -- yes, a new world order -- where creativity
flows -- more than ever -- from the human heart and mind. //
6
Fifty-one years ago, one of the greatest scientists of all
time was moved by an American President who spoke of how
technology could further peace. // His name was Edward Teller,
hearing Franklin Roosevelt declare that "the great achievements
of science
[would help] protect our culture, our American
freedom, and our civilization. " //
said
Teller later wrote that it was the duty of science to "work
out the military problems, because without the work of the
scientists, the war and the world would be lost. " // He did his
duty -- as you have -- as you are today. Helping to win the war
in the Persian Gulf -- just as we will win the peace that
follows. //
What a magnificent legacy for the Westinghouse Science
Talent Search. / What a magnificent metaphor for the dream that
is America. / Thank you for tonight -- and for helping freedom
to work. Please pray for our sons and daughters in the Persian
Gulf. And let me leave you with three of the most beautiful
words in ours or any language. God bless America.
#
#
#
#
Document No. 21572055
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING,MEMORANDUM
DATE: 2/25/91-
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2/27/91 NOON
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
WINSTON
FITZWATER
BROMLEY
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than NOON, Wednesday, February 27, with a copy to
this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE: Minorediting until the last page. There, the focus on Edward
Teller raises a serious concern. Many scientists, including most of all the
view him to be avery good scientist (but not one of the greatest). Also,
ones attending this dinner, vicu Teller with mixed feelings, though
none of the students' projects will be focused on military technologies, and
the reference to their duty will contuse them. As a transition to the final A,
you could discuss Barbara Mc Clintock's wak, or Mary Good, the head of the ixational
Science Board.
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
91 FEB 25 PM 5:
(Smith/Cawley)
February 25, 1991
9 A.M.
WEST
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1991
7:00 P.M.
Secretary Sullivan, Dr. Bromley, Dr. Seaborg, Mr. Lego [Leg-go],
Mr. Sherman, Ms. Luszcz [Loosh], Monsignor Quinn, Mr. Flatow,
Members of the Westinghouse Science Foundation, past and current
Westinghouse Award recipients, judges of the Science Talent
Search, distinguished guests of science, ladies and gentlemen. /
Thank you, Mr. Lego, for that introduction, and for your
warm reception. And let me welcome to Washington the trustees of
our posterity. / High school students -- the best and the
brightest -- who act for Nation and neighbor. // It is a
pleasure to be at the Super Bowl of Science. //
We meet tonight on the fiftieth anniversary of the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search -- a program which has helped
make the past half-century a time of extraordinary exploration.
// Not to date myself, but when I was growing up, PAC-MAN was a
hiker, not a video game. / Who knows how future endeavors will
make ours a richer, more decent world? //
((Now, I'll admit. Few have called me a virtuoso in
science. // It's pretty hard for me to claim I'm adept at high
tech when my grandkids keep beating me at "Nintendo." " // I
remember how once my science teacher said to me, "Whatever you do
in life I hope you'll hold the torch on high -- as long as it
2
isn't a bunsen burner." // Even so, I did try a recent
experiment that I'm proud of. I connected my VCR to our
microwave oven and watched "Gone With the Wind" in 12 and 1/2
minutes. )) //
Tonight, we honor scientists and researchers who --
thankfully -- have not followed my lead. Opening doors into an
age where mankind not only moved into the future -- but re-
not easy
to list, +
invented it. // Think of discoveries like the fax machine and e
and biotechnology
Herbert Boyer,
though sategory, for cate a
the microchip. And of pioneers like Kilby and Noyce and Curiee
the first person to splice a gene.
and Westinghouse. All knew, as Thomas Jefferson wrote to a
mentioned.
Polish general in the Revolutionary War, "The main objects of
separately.
all science are the freedom and happiness of man. " //
Since the dark days of World War II, Westinghouse recipients
have aided this freedom -- becoming an instrument of liberty and
the symbol of the information age. // From the first man to win
the top prize in the Science Talent Search -- Paul Teschan,
aiding kidney research -- to Raymond Kurzweil, whose reading
devices make life easier for the blind -- each has reached for
the stars -- so that future generations of Americans might
travel to
someday stand on them. //
This program's history reaffirms that truth. Five
Westinghouse recipients have won the Nobel Prize. Eight have
received MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. // Three have been
admitted to the National Academy of Engineering. Twenty-six have
3
the
also been elected to to the National Academy of Sciences -- your
profession's highest elective honor. //
Albert Einstein put it best when he said, "Everything that
is really great and inspiring is created by individuals who labor
in freedom." In short, he believed what all of these honorees
believe -- freedom works. This year's winners -- 40 in all --
were culled from more than 1,400 entries. Many belong to their
school debate team, baseball club, their newspaper, their church
group or band. // All have created research projects which show
how the trailblazers of today can be the heroes of tomorrow. //
Consider Clifford Wang of Vero Beach. He proposed that
seaweed be grown in the ocean to remove pollutants while also
producing energy. / Or Tara-Bahn James of New York City, who
explored the relationship between math aptitude and music talent.
/ In Spring, Texas, Wade Butin developed varnish to withstand
the effect of weather and salt water. / And in Pittsburgh, Susan
"beta-cardency Should
Criss recently completed a two-year project that showed how
checked.
becacarotene may reduce the risk of cancer. //
The
These and other projects show how learning is always a
caroleve
continuance, never a consummation -- that because freedom works,
dreams make possible even greater dreams. // ( (Here is a story
which magnifies that fact. 1843. A Commissioner of Patents made
a report to President Tyler. He said: "The advancement of the
arts from year to year taxes our credulity and seems to presage
the arrival of that period when human improvement must end. " //
He went on to urge Congress to liquidate the Patent Office --
4
even Ripley wouldn't believe this -- because, he believed, there
was nothing else to be invented. )) //
Today, all of us know better. We realize this Nation has no
natural resouces like its intellectual resources. So we must,
and are, assisting the knowledge that is our most enduring legacy
-- vital to everything we are and can become. //
in math and science
I have announced that U.S. students will be Number One A by
the year 2000. We can achieve it. We will. // To start with,
we will achieve it through our National Educational Excellence
Act that I again urge Congress to pass. Let me especially salute
Program will
e
our new Initiative of National Science Scholars, which gives
America's youth a special incentive to excel in science,
mathematics, and engineering. //
We will also achieve this goal through research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
is
Let me describe the emphasis on science and math in our new
budget for Fiscal Year 1992. // Imagine: A record high of $76
billion for basic research and R & D -- and basic science
research up $13 billion. / Reflect upon: A budget which will
double the National Science Foundation Budget if Congress will
cooperate. // Help me achieve: A budget which will devote over
$16 billion for outer space activities -- up 15 per cent over
last year. Giving more money than ever to the small science
research -- research by individuals -- embodied by the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search. //
NASA does very little
"small Science
5
This budget will help freedom work at home. Yet freedom has
also helped advance the cause of liberty abroad. // For
evidence, -look in closing to the Persian Gulf, where achievements
in science are responsible for the high-tech equipment which has
served our military so well. //
In the past, some have urged that we depend more for our
protection on theories of deterrence than technologies of
defense. Well, thank God that when the Scuds came -- the people
of Israel and Saudi Arabia had more to protect than some abstract
theory of deterrence. //
Go to Riyhad or Tel Aviv. A theory didn't protect its
citizens. Missles born of technology did. Because of science
and technology -- because of American creativity -- thousands of
innocent civilians -- priceless human lives -- have been spared.
Thank God for the Patriot and other missiles which show how
American can-do stems from American know-how. //
If the cause of peace is to continue being served by
American military power, it must continue being advanced by
American brain power. // Ask our troops in the Gulf. Yes, the
finest soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and Coast Guardsmen
any Nation has ever had. They know the value of science and
technology. Each day it brings closer freedom's ultimate
victory. // Ask those other great heroes -- our teachers. Each
day they give perhaps the greatest gift of sharing their
knowledge with others. 11 Ask, finally, America's students and
parents. They know that while learning is a very practical thing
Shouldn't this phrase gradually
begivena narrover rather than
broader definition?
6
-- it is also among mankind's most noble things. It can presage
a new Golden Age yes, a new world order -- where creativity
flows -- more than ever -- from the human heart and mind. //
Fifty-one years ago, one of the greatest scientists of all
time was moved by an American President who spoke of how
technology could further peace. // His name was Edward Teller,
hearing Franklin Roosevelt declare that "the great achievements
of science
...
[would help] protect our culture, our American
freedom, and our civilization." //
Teller later wrote that it was the duty of science to "work
out the military problems, because without the work of the
scientists the war and the world would be lost. " // He did his
duty -- as you have -- as you are today. Helping to win the war
in the Persian Gulf -- just as we will win the peace that
follows. //
What a magnificent legacy for the Westinghouse Science
Talent Search. / What a magnificent metaphor for the dream that
is America. / Thank you for tonight -- and for helping freedom
to work. Please pray for our sons and daughters in the Persian
Gulf. And let me leave you with three of the most beautiful
words in ours or any language. God bless America.
#
#
#
#
Document No. 21572055
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 2/25/91-
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2/27/91 NOON
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
UNTERMEYER.
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
WINSTON
FITZWATER
BROMLEY
1
GRAY
HOLIDAY
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Please forward your comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
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PHILLIP D. BRADY
RBP
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
91 FEB 25 PM 5:51 5:
(Smith/Cawley)
February 25, 1991
9 A.M.
WEST
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1991
7:00 P.M.
Secretary Sullivan, Dr. Bromley, Dr. Seaborg, Mr. Lego [Leg-go],
Mr. Sherman, Ms. Luszcz [Loosh], Monsignor Quinn, Mr. Flatow,
Members of the Westinghouse Science Foundation, past and current
Westinghouse Award recipients, judges of the Science Talent
Search, distinguished guests of science, ladies and gentlemen. /
Thank you, Mr. Lego, for that introduction, and for your
warm reception. And let me welcome to Washington the trustees of
our posterity. / High school students -- the best and the
brightest -- who act for Nation and neighbor. // It is a
pleasure to be at the Super Bowl of Science. //
We meet tonight on the fiftieth anniversary of the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search -- a program which has helped
make the past half-century a time of extraordinary exploration.
// Not to date myself, but when I was growing up, PAC-MAN was a
hiker, not a video game. / Who knows how future endeavors will
make ours a richer, more decent world? //
((Now, I'll admit. Few have called me a virtuoso in
science. 11 It's pretty hard for me to claim I'm adept at high
tech when my grandkids keep beating me at "Nintendo." 11 I
remember how once my science teacher said to me, "Whatever you do.
in life I hope you'll hold the torch on high -- as long as it
2
isn't a bunsen burner." // Even so, I did try a recent
experiment that I'm proud of. I connected my VCR to our
microwave oven and watched "Gone With the Wind" in 12 and 1/2
minutes. )) //
Tonight, we honor scientists and researchers who --
thankfully -- have not followed my lead. Opening doors into an
age where mankind not only moved into the future -- but re-
invented it. // Think of discoveries like the fax machine and
the microchip. And of pioneers like Kilby and Noyce and Curie
and Westinghouse. All knew, as Thomas Jefferson wrote to a
Polish general in the Revolutionary War, "The main objects of
all science are the freedom and happiness of man. //
Since the dark days of World War II, Westinghouse recipients
have aided this freedom -- becoming an instrument of liberty and
the symbol of the information age. // From the first man to win
the top prize in the Science Talent Search -- Paul Teschan,
aiding kidney research -- to Raymond Kurzweil, whose reading
devices make life easier for the blind -- each has reached for
the stars -- so that future generations of Americans might
someday stand on them. //
This program's history reaffirms that truth. Five
Westinghouse recipients have won the Nobel Prize. Eight have
received MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. // Three have been
admitted to the National Academy of Engineering. Twenty-six have
3
also been elected to to the National Academy of Sciences -- your
profession's highest elective honor. //
Albert Einstein put it best when he said, "Everything that
is really great and inspiring is created by individuals who labor
in freedom." In short, he believed what all of these honorees
believe -- freedom works. This year's winners -- 40 in all --
were culled from more than 1,400 entries. Many belong to their
school debate team, baseball club, their newspaper, their church
group or band. // All have created research projects which show
how the trailblazers of today can be the heroes of tomorrow. //
Consider Clifford Wang of Vero Beach. He proposed that
?
seaweed bé grown in the ocean to remove pollutants while also
producing energy. / or Tara-Bahn James of New York City, who
explored the relationship between math aptitude and music talent.
/ In Spring, Texas, Wade Butin developed varnish to withstand
the effect of weather and salt water. / And in Pittsburgh, Susan
Criss recently completed a two-year project that showed how
becacarotene may reduce the risk of cancer. //
These and other projects show how learning is always a
continuance, never a consummation -- that because freedom works,
dreams make possible even greater dreams. // ( (Here is a story
which magnifies that fact. 1843. A Commissioner of Patents made
a report to President Tyler. He said: "The advancement of the
arts from year to year taxes our credulity and seems to presage
the arrival of that period when human improvement must end. = //
He went on to urge Congress to liquidate the Patent Office --
4
even Ripley wouldn't believe this -- because, he believed, there
was nothing else to be invented. )) //
Today, all of us know better. We realize this Nation has no
natural resouces like its intellectual resources. So we must,
and are, assisting the knowledge that is our most enduring legacy
-- vital to everything we are and can become. //
THE NATION'S GOVERNORS AND ADVANCED SIY NATIONAL EDUCATION 60ALS
I have announced that U.S. students will be Number One by
INCOUDING THE boAL of, BEING NUMBER ONE IN THE WORLD IN MATH AND SCIENCE ACHIEVEMENT By
the year 2000. We can achieve it. We will. // To start with,
LOUR STUDENTS
we will achieve it through our National Educational Excellence
LAST FALL THE CONGRESS ACTED
Act that I again urgo Congress to pass. Let me especially salute
FAVORABUY ON OUR
FOR A
cur new Initiative of National Science Scholars, which gives
Americà's youth a special incentive to excel in science,
mathematics, and engineering. //
We will also achieve this goal through research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
Let me describe the emphasis on science and math in our new
budget for Fiscal Year 1992. // Imagine: A record high of $76
billion for basic research and R & D. -- and basic science
research up $13 billion. / Reflect upon: A budget which will
double the National Science Foundation Budget if Congress will
cooperate. // Help me achieve: A budget which will devote over
$16 billion for outer space activities -- up 15 per cent over
last year. Giving more money than ever to the small science
research -- research by individuals -- embodied by the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search. //
5
This budget will help freedom work at home. Yet freedom has
also helped advance the cause of liberty abroad. // For
evidence, look in closing to the Persian Gulf, where achievements
in science are responsible for the high-tech equipment which has
served our military so well. //
In the past, some have urged that we depend more for our
protection on theories of deterrence than technologies of
defense. Well, thank God that when the Scuds came -- the people
of Israel and Saudi Arabia had more to protect than some abstract
theory of deterrence. //
Go to Riyhad or Tel Aviv. A theory didn't protect its
citizens. Missles born of technology did. Because of science
and technology -- because of American creativity -- thousands of
innocent civilians -- priceless human lives -- have been spared.
Thank God for the Patriot and other missiles which show how
American can-do stems from American know-how. //
If the cause of peace is to continue being served by
American military power, it must continue being advanced by
American brain power. // Ask our troops in the Gulf. Yes, the
finest soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and Coast Guardsmen
any Nation has ever had. They know the value of science and
technology. Each day it brings closer freedom's ultimate
victory. // Ask those other great heroes -- our teachers. Each
day they give perhaps the greatest gift of sharing their
knowledge with others. // Ask, finally, America's students and
parents. They know that while learning is very practical thing
6
ENDEAVORS
-- it is also among mankind's most noble things. It can presage
a new Golden Age -- yes, a new world order -- where creativity
flows -- more than ever -- from the human heart and mind. //
Fifty-one years ago, one of the greatest scientists of all
time was moved by an American President who spoke of how
technology could further peace. // His name was Edward Teller,
hearing Franklin Roosevelt declare that "the great achievements
of science
[would help] protect our culture, our American
freedom, and our civilization. " //
Teller later wrote that it was the duty of science to "work
out the military problems, because without the work of the
scientists the war and the world would be lost. " // He did his
duty -- as you have -- as you are today. Helping to win the war
in the Persian Gulf -- just as we will win the peace that
follows. //
What a magnificent legacy for the Westinghouse Science
Talent Search. / What a magnificent metaphor for the dream that
is America. / Thank you for tonight -- and for helping freedom
to work. Please pray for our sons and daughters in the Persian
Gulf. And let me leave you with three of the most beautiful
words in ours or any language. God bless America.
#
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#
Balis;
no phone call comment
Pre-Brad comments
(Smith/Cawley)
February 25, 1991
9 A.M.
WEST
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1991
7:00 P.M.
Secretary Sullivan, Dr. Bromley, Dr. Seaborg, Mr. Lego [Leg-go],
Mr. Sherman, Ms. Luszcz [Loosh], Monsignor Quinn, Mr. Flatow,
Members of the Westinghouse Science Foundation, past and current
Westinghouse Award recipients, judges of the Science Talent
Search, distinguished guests of science, ladies and gentlemen. /
Thank you, Mr. Lego, for that introduction, and for your
warm reception. And let me welcome to Washington the trustees of
our posterity. / High school students -- the best and the
brightest -- who act for Nation and neighbor. // It is a
pleasure to be at the Super Bowl of Science. //
We meet tonight on the fiftieth anniversary of the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search -- a program which has helped
make the past half-century a time of extraordinary exploration.
// Not to date myself, but when I was growing up, PAC-MAN was a
hiker, not a video game. / Who knows how future endeavors will
make ours a richer, more decent world? //
((Now, I'll admit. Few have called me a virtuoso in
science. // It's pretty hard for me to claim I'm adept at high
tech when my grandkids keep beating me at "Nintendo." // I
remember how once my science teacher said to me, "Whatever you do
in life I hope you'll hold the torch on high -- as long as it
2
isn't a bunsen burner. " // Even so, I did try a recent
experiment that I'm proud of. I connected my VCR to our
microwave oven and watched "Gone With the Wind" in 12 and 1/2
minutes.)) //
Tonight, we honor scientists and researchers who --
thankfully -- have not followed my lead. Opening doors into an
age where mankind not only moved into the future -- but re-
invented it. // Think of discoveries like the fax machine and
the microchip. And of pioneers like Kilby and Noyce and Curie
and Westinghouse. All knew, as Thomas Jefferson wrote to a
Polish general in the Revolutionary War, "The main objects of
all science are the freedom and happiness of man. " //
Since the dark days of World War II, Westinghouse recipients
have aided this freedom -- becoming an instrument of liberty and
the symbol of the information age. // From the first man to win
the top prize in the Science Talent Search -- Paul Teschan,
aiding kidney research -- to Raymond Kurzweil, whose reading
devices make life easier for the blind -- each has reached for
the stars -- so that future generations of Americans might
someday stand on them. //
This program's history reaffirms that truth. Five
Westinghouse recipients have won the Nobel Prize. Eight have
received MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. // Three have been
admitted to the National Academy of Engineering. Twenty-six have
3
also been elected to to the National Academy of Sciences -- your
profession's highest elective honor. //
Albert Einstein put it best when he said, "Everything that
is really great and inspiring is created by individuals who labor
in freedom." In short, he believed what all of these honorees
believe -- freedom works. This year's winners -- 40 in all --
were culled from more than 1,400 entries. Many belong to their
school debate team, baseball club, their newspaper, their church
group or band. // All have created research projects which show
how the trailblazers of today can be the heroes of tomorrow. 11
whereise
Consider Clifford Wang of Vero Beach. He proposed that
seaweed be grown in the ocean to remove pollutants while also
Seaweed cookld
producing energy. / Or Tara-Bahn James of New York City, who
explored the relationship between math aptitude and music talent.
/
In Spring, Texas, Wade Butin developed varnish to withstand
what's react grown this
the effect of weather and salt water. / And in Pittsburgh, Susan
ren 50 he Criss
recently completed a two-year project that showed how
becacarotene may reduce the risk of cancer. //
These and other projects show how learning is always a
continuance, never a consummation -- that because freedom works,
dreams make possible even greater dreams. // ( (Here is a story
which magnifies that fact. 1843. A Commissioner of Patents made
a report to President Tyler. He said: "The advancement of the
arts from year to year taxes our credulity and seems to presage
the arrival of that period when human improvement must end. II //
He went on to urge Congress to liquidate the Patent Office --
4
even Ripley wouldn't believe this -- because, he believed, there
was nothing else to be invented. )) //
Today, all of us know better. We realize this Nation has no
natural resouces like its intellectual resources. So we must,
and are, assisting the knowledge that is our most enduring legacy
-- vital to everything we are and can become. 11
I have announced that U.S. students will be Number One by
the year 2000. We can achieve it. We will. // To start with,
we will achieve it through our National Educational Excellence
Act that I again urge Congress to pass. Let me especially salute
our new Initiative of National Science Scholars, which gives
America's youth a special incentive to excel in science,
mathematics, and engineering. 11
We will also achieve this goal through research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
Let me describe the emphasis on science and math in our new
budget for Fiscal Year 1992. 11 Imagine: A record high of $76
billion for basic research and R & D. -- and basic science
research up $13 billion. / Reflect upon: A budget which will
double the National Science Foundation Budget if Congress will
cooperate. // Help me achieve: A budget which will devote over
$16 billion for outer space activities -- up 15 per cent over
last year. Giving more money than ever to the small science
research -- research by individuals -- embodied by the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search. 11
5
This budget will help freedom work at home. Yet freedom has
also helped advance the cause of liberty abroad. 11 For
evidence, look in closing to the Persian Gulf, where achievements
in science are responsible for the high-tech equipment which has
served our military so well. //
In the past, some have urged that we depend more for our
protection on theories of deterrence than technologies of
defense. Well, thank God that when the Scuds came -- the people
of Israel and Saudi Arabia had more to protect than some abstract
theory of deterrence. //
Go to Riyhad or Tel Aviv. A theory didn't protect its
citizens. Missles born of technology did. Because of science
and technology -- because of American creativity -- thousands of
innocent civilians -- priceless human lives -- have been spared.
Thank God for the Patriot and other missiles which show how
American can-do stems from American know-how. //
If the cause of peace is to continue being served by
American military power, it must continue being advanced by
American brain power. // Ask our troops in the Gulf. Yes, the
finest soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and Coast Guardsmen
any Nation has ever had. They know the value of science and
technology. Each day it brings closer freedom's ultimate
victory. // Ask those other great heroes -- our teachers. Each
day they give perhaps the greatest gift of sharing their
knowledge with others. // Ask, finally, America's students and
parents. They know that while learning is a very practical thing
6
-- it is also among mankind's most noble things. It can presage
a new Golden Age -- yes, a new world order -- where creativity
flows -- more than ever -- from the human heart and mind. //
Fifty-one years ago, one of the greatest scientists of all
time was moved by an American President who spoke of how
technology could further peace. // His name was Edward Teller,
hearing Franklin Roosevelt declare that "the great achievements
of science
[would help] protect our culture, our American
freedom, and our civilization. " //
Teller later wrote that it was the duty of science to "work
out the military problems, because without the work of the
scientists the war and the world would be lost. " // He did his
duty -- as you have -- as you are today. Helping to win the war
in the Persian Gulf -- just as we will win the peace that
follows. //
What a magnificent legacy for the Westinghouse Science
Talent Search. / What a magnificent metaphor for the dream that
is America. / Thank you for tonight -- and for helping freedom
to work. Please pray for our sons and daughters in the Persian
Gulf. And let me leave you with three of the most beautiful
words in ours or any language. God bless America.
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SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
ACTION FYI
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VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
WINSTON
FITZWATER
BROMLEY
GRAY
HOLIDAY
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this office. Thank you.
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PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
Document No. 21572055
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DATE: 2/25/91-
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2/27/91 NOON
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
WINSTON
FITZWATER
BROMLEY
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than NOON, Wednesday, February 27, with a copy to
this office. Thank you.
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PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
as
91FEB25 PM 5:51
(Smith/Cawley)
February 25, 1991
9 A.M.
WEST
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1991
7:00 P.M.
Secretary Sullivan, Dr. Bromley, Dr. Seaborg, Mr. Lego [Leg-go],
Mr. Sherman, Ms. Luszcz [Loosh], Monsignor Quinn, Mr. Flatow,
Members of the Westinghouse Science Foundation, past and current
Westinghouse Award recipients, judges of the Science Talent
Search, distinguished guests of science, ladies and gentlemen. /
Thank you, Mr. Lego, for that introduction, and for your
warm reception. And let me welcome to Washington the trustees of
our posterity. / High school students -- the best and the
brightest -- who act for Nation and neighbor. // It is a
pleasure to be at the Super Bowl of Science. //
We meet tonight on the fiftieth anniversary of the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search -- a program which has helped
make the past half-century a time of extraordinary exploration.
// Not to date myself, but when I was growing up, PAC-MAN was a
hiker, not a video game. / Who knows how future endeavors will
make ours a richer, more decent world? //
( (Now, I'll admit. Few have called me a virtuoso in
science. // It's pretty hard for me to claim I'm adept at high
tech when my grandkids keep beating me at "Nintendo." // I
remember how once my science teacher said to me, "Whatever you do
in life I hope you'll hold the torch on high as long as it
2
isn't a bunsen burner." // Even so, I did try a recent
experiment that I'm proud of. I connected my VCR to our
microwave oven and watched "Gone With the Wind" in 12 and 1/2
minutes. )) //
Tonight, we honor scientists and researchers who --
thankfully -- have not followed my lead. Opening doors into an
age where mankind not only moved into the future -- but re-
invented it. // Think of discoveries like the fax machine and
the microchip. And of pioneers like Kilby and Noyce and Curie
and Westinghouse. All knew, as Thomas Jefferson wrote to a
Polish general in the Revolutionary War, "The main objects of
all science are the freedom and happiness of man. " //
Since the dark days of World War II, Westinghouse recipients
have aided this freedom -- becoming an instrument of liberty and
the symbol of the information age. // From the first man to win
the top prize in the Science Talent Search -- Paul Teschan,
aiding kidney research -- to Raymond Kurzweil, whose reading
devices make life easier for the blind -- each has reached for
the stars -- so that future generations of Americans might
someday stand on them. //
This program's history reaffirms that truth. Five
Westinghouse recipients have won the Nobel Prize. Eight have
received MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. // Three have been
admitted to the National Academy of Engineering. Twenty-six have
3
also been elected to to the National Academy of Sciences -- your
profession's highest elective honor. //
Albert Einstein put it best when he said, "Everything that
is really great and inspiring is created by individuals who labor
in freedom. " In short, he believed what all of these honorees
believe -- freedom works. This year's winners -- 40 in all --
were culled from more than 1,400 entries. Many belong to their
school debate team, baseball club, their newspaper, their church
group or band. // All have created research projects which show
how the trailblazers of today can be the heroes of tomorrow. //
Consider Clifford Wang of Vero Beach. He proposed that
seaweed be grown in the ocean to remove pollutants while also
producing energy. / or. Tara-Bahn James of New York City, who
explored the relationship between math aptitude and music talent.
/ In Spring, Texas, Wade Butin developed varnish to withstand
the effect of weather and salt water. / And in Pittsburgh, Susan
Criss recently completed a two-year project that showed how
becacarotene may reduce the risk of cancer. //
These and other projects show how learning is always a
continuance, never a consummation -- that because freedom works,
dreams make possible even greater dreams. // ( (Here is a story
which magnifies that fact. 1843. A Commissioner of Patents made
a report to President Tyler. He said: "The advancement of the
arts from year to year taxes our credulity and seems to presage
the arrival of that period when human improvement must end. " //
He went on to urge Congress to liquidate the Patent Office --
4
even Ripley wouldn't believe this -- because, he believed, there
was nothing else to be invented. )) //
Today, all of us know better. We realize this Nation has no
natural resouces like its intellectual resources. So we must,
and are, assisting the knowledge that is our most enduring legacy
-- vital to everything we are and can become. //
I have announced that U.S. students will be Number One by
the year 2000. We can achieve it. We will. // To start with,
we will achieve it through our National Educational Excellence
Act that I again urge Congress to pass. Let me especially salute
our new Initiative of National Science Scholars, which gives
America's youth a special incentive to excel in science,
mathematics, and engineering. //
We will also achieve this goal through research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
Let me describe the emphasis on science and math in our new
budget for Fiscal Year 1992. // Imagine: A record high of $76
billion for basic research and R & D. -- and basic science
research up $13 billion. / Reflect upon: A budget which will
double the National Science Foundation Budget if Congress will
cooperate. // Help me achieve: A budget which will devote over
$16 billion for outer space activities -- up 15 per cent over
last year. Giving more money than ever to the small science
research -- research by individuals -- embodied by the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search. //
5
This budget will help freedom work at home. Yet freedom has
also helped advance the cause of liberty abroad. // For
evidence, 1ook in closing to the Persian Gulf, where achievements
in science are responsible for the high-tech equipment which has
served our military so well. //
In the past, some have urged that we depend more for our
protection on theories of deterrence than technologies of
defense. Well, thank God that when the Scuds came -- the people
of Israel and Saudi Arabia had more to protect than some abstract
theory of deterrence. //
Go to Riyhad or Tel Aviv. A theory didn't protect its
citizens. Missles born of technology did. Because of science
and technology -- because of American creativity -- thousands of
innocent civilians -- priceless human lives -- have been spared.
Thank God for the Patriot and other missiles which show how
American can-do stems from American know-how. //
If the cause of peace is to continue being served by
American military power, it must continue being advanced by
American brain power. // Ask our troops in the Gulf. Yes, the
finest soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and Coast Guardsmen
any Nation has ever had. They know the value of science and
technology. Each day it brings closer freedom's ultimate
victory. // Ask those other great heroes -- our teachers. Each
day they give perhaps the greatest gift of sharing their
knowledge with others. 11 Ask, finally, America's students and
parents. They know that while learning is a very practical thing
6
-- it is also among mankind's most noble things. It can presage
a new Golden Age -- yes, a new world order -- where creativity
flows -- more than ever -- from the human heart and mind. //
Fifty-one years ago, one of the greatest scientists of all
time was moved by an American President who spoke of how
technology could further peace. // His name was Edward Teller,
hearing Franklin Roosevelt declare that "the great achievements
of science
[would help] protect our culture, our American
freedom, and our civilization. " //
Teller later wrote that it was the duty of science to "work
out the military problems, because without the work of the
scientists the war and the world would be lost. " // He did his
duty -- as you have -- as you are today. Helping to win the war
in the Persian Gulf -- just as we will win the peace that
follows. //
What a magnificent legacy for the Westinghouse Science
Talent Search. / What a magnificent metaphor for the dream that
is America. / Thank you for tonight -- and for helping freedom
to work. Please pray for our sons and daughters in the Persian
Gulf. And let me leave you with three of the most beautiful
words in ours or any language. God bless America.
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WASHINGTON
91 FEB 26 P3: 37
February 26, 1991
MEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON
DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR
COMMUNICATIONS AND DIRECTOR OF SPEECHWRITING
FROM:
JEFFREY R. HOLMSTEAD JRA/KRM
ASSOCIATE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks Westinghouse Address
Counsel's Office has no legal objection to the Presidential
remarks referenced above.
Thank you for the opportunity to review this matter.
Attachment
CC: Phillip D. Brady
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and Staff Secretary
Document No. 21572055
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 2/25/91-
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2/27/91 NOON
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
WINSTON
FITZWATER
BROMLEY
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than NOON, Wednesday, February 27, with a copy to
this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
91 FEB 25 PM
(Smith/Cawley)
February 25, 1991
9 A.M.
WEST
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1991
7:00 P.M.
Secretary Sullivan, Dr. Bromley, Dr. Seaborg, Mr. Lego [Leg-go],
Mr. Sherman, Ms. Luszcz [Loosh], Monsignor Quinn, Mr. Flatow,
Members of the Westinghouse Science Foundation, past and current
Westinghouse Award recipients, judges of the Science Talent
Search, distinguished guests of science, ladies and gentlemen. /
Thank you, Mr. Lego, for that introduction, and for your
warm reception. And let me welcome to Washington the trustees of
our posterity. / High school students -- the best and the
brightest -- who act for Nation and neighbor. // It is a
pleasure to be at the Super Bowl of Science. //
We meet tonight on the fiftieth anniversary of the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search -- a program which has helped
make the past half-century a time of extraordinary exploration.
// Not to date myself, but when I was growing up, PAC-MAN was a
hiker, not a video game. / Who knows how future endeavors will
make ours a richer, more decent world? //
((Now, I'll admit. Few have called me a virtuoso in
science. // It's pretty hard for me to claim I'm adept at high
tech when my grandkids keep beating me at "Nintendo." // I
remember how once my science teacher said to me, "Whatever you do
in life I hope you'll hold the torch on high -- as long as it
2
isn't a bunsen burner. II // Even so, I did try a recent
experiment that I'm proud of. I connected my VCR to our
microwave oven and watched "Gone With the Wind" in 12 and 1/2
minutes. )) //
Tonight, we honor scientists and researchers who --
thankfully -- have not followed my lead. Opening doors into an
age where mankind not only moved into the future -- but re-
invented it. // Think of discoveries like the fax machine and
the microchip. And of pioneers like Kilby and Noyce and Curie
and Westinghouse. All knew, as Thomas Jefferson wrote to a
Polish general in the Revolutionary War, "The main objects of
all science are the freedom and happiness of man. " //
Since the dark days of World War II, Westinghouse recipients
have aided this freedom -- becoming an instrument of liberty and
the symbol of the information age. // From the first man to win
the top prize in the Science Talent Search -- Paul Teschan,
aiding kidney research -- to Raymond Kurzweil, whose reading
devices make life easier for the blind -- each has reached for
the stars -- so that future generations of Americans might
someday stand on them. //
This program's history reaffirms that truth. Five
Westinghouse recipients have won the Nobel Prize. Eight have
received MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. // Three have been
admitted to the National Academy of Engineering. Twenty-six have
3
also been elected to to the National Academy of Sciences -- your
profession's highest elective honor. //
Albert Einstein put it best when he said, "Everything that
is really great and inspiring is created by individuals who labor
in freedom." In short, he believed what all of these honorees
believe -- freedom works. This year's winners -- 40 in all --
were culled from more than 1,400 entries. Many belong to their
school debate team, baseball club, their newspaper, their church
group or band. // All have created research projects which show
how the trailblazers of today can be the heroes of tomorrow. //
Consider Clifford Wang of Vero Beach. He proposed that
seaweed be grown in the ocean to remove pollutants while also
producing energy. / Or Tara-Bahn James of New York City, who
explored the relationship between math aptitude and music talent.
/ In Spring, Texas, Wade Butin developed varnish to withstand
the effect of weather and salt water. / And in Pittsburgh, Susan
Criss recently completed a two-year project that showed how
becacarotene may reduce the risk of cancer. //
?
These and other projects show how learning is always a
continuance, never a consummation -- that because freedom works,
dreams make possible even greater dreams. // ( (Here is a story
which magnifies that fact. 1843 A Commissioner of Patents made
a report to President Tyler. He said: "The advancement of the
arts from year to year taxes our credulity and seems to presage
the arrival of that period when human improvement must end." //
He went on to urge Congress to liquidate the Patent Office --
4
even Ripley wouldn't believe this -- because, he believed, there
was nothing else to be invented. ) ) //
Today, all of us know better. We realize this Nation has no
natural resouces like its intellectual resources. So we must,
and are, assisting the knowledge that is our most enduring legacy
-- vital to everything we are and can become. //
I have announced that U.S. students will be Number One by
the year 2000. We can achieve it. We will. // To start with,
we will achieve it through our National Educational Excellence
Act that I again urge Congress to pass. Let me especially salute
our new Initiative of National Science Scholars, which gives
America's youth a special incentive to excel in science,
mathematics, and engineering. //
We will also achieve this goal through research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
Let me describe the emphasis on science and math in our new
budget for Fiscal Year 1992. // Imagine: A record high of $76
billion for basic research and R & D. -- and basic science
research up $13 billion. / Reflect upon: A budget which will
double the National Science Foundation Budget if Congress will
cooperate. // Help me achieve: A budget which will devote over
$16 billion for outer space activities -- up 15 per cent over
last year. Giving more money than ever to the small science
research -- research by individuals -- embodied by the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search. //
5
This budget will help freedom work at home. Yet freedom has
also helped advance the cause of liberty abroad. // For
evidence, look in closing to the Persian Gulf, where achievements
in science are responsible for the high-tech equipment which has
served our military so well. //
In the past, some have urged that we depend more for our
protection on theories of deterrence than technologies of
defense. Well, thank God that when the Scuds came -- the people
of Israel and Saudi Arabia had more to protect than some abstract
theory of deterrence. //
Go to Riyhad or Tel Aviv. A theory didn't protect its
citizens. Missles born of technology did. Because of science
and technology -- because of American creativity -- thousands of
innocent civilians -- priceless human lives -- have been spared.
Thank God for the Patriot and other missiles which show how
American can-do stems from American know-how. //
If the cause of peace is to continue being served by
American military power, it must continue being advanced by
American brain power. // Ask our troops in the Gulf. Yes, the
finest soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and Coast Guardsmen
any Nation has ever had. They know the value of science and
technology. Each day it brings closer freedom's ultimate
victory. // Ask those other great heroes -- our teachers. Each
day they give perhaps the greatest gift of sharing their
knowledge with others. // Ask, finally, America's students and
parents. They know that while learning is a very practical thing
6
-- it is also among mankind's most noble things. It can presage
a new Golden Age -- yes, a new world order -- where creativity
flows -- more than ever -- from the human heart and mind. //
Fifty-one years ago, one of the greatest scientists of all
time was moved by an American President who spoke of how
technology could further peace. // His name was Edward Teller,
hearing Franklin Roosevelt declare that "the great achievements
of science
[would help] protect our culture, our American
freedom, and our civilization. " //
Teller later wrote that it was the duty of science to "work
out the military problems, because without the work of the
scientists the war and the world would be lost. If // He did his
duty -- as you have -- as you are today. Helping to win the war
in the Persian Gulf -- just as we will win the peace that
follows. //
What a magnificent legacy for the Westinghouse Science
Talent Search. / What a magnificent metaphor for the dream that
is America. / Thank you for tonight -- and for helping freedom
to work. Please pray for our sons and daughters in the Persian
Gulf. And let me leave you with three of the most beautiful
words in ours or any language. God bless America.
#
#
#
#
(Smith/Cawley)
February 25, 1991
9 A.M.
WEST
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WESTINGHOUSE ADDRESS
WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1991
7:00 P.M.
Secretary Sullivan, Dr. Bromley, Dr. Seaborg, Mr. Lego [Leg-go],
Mr. Sherman, Ms. Luszcz [Loosh], Monsignor Quinn, Mr. Flatow,
Members of the Westinghouse Science Foundation, past and current
Westinghouse Award recipients, judges of the Science Talent
Search, distinguished guests of science, ladies and gentlemen. /
Thank you, Mr. Lego, for that introduction, and for your
warm reception. And let me welcome to Washington the trustees of
our posterity. / High school students -- the best and the
brightest -- who act for Nation and neighbor. // It is a
pleasure to be at the Super Bowl of Science. //
We meet tonight on the fiftieth anniversary of the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search -- a program which has helped
make the past half-century a time of extraordinary exploration.
// Not to date myself, but when I was growing up, PAC-MAN was a
hiker, not a video game. / Who knows how future endeavors will
make ours a richer, more decent world? //
( (Now, I'll admit. Few have called me a virtuoso in
science. // It's pretty hard for me to claim I'm adept at high
tech when my grandkids keep beating me at "Nintendo." // I
remember how once my science teacher said to me, "Whatever you do
in life I hope you'll hold the torch on high -- as long as it
2
isn't a bunsen burner." // Even so, I did try a recent
experiment that I'm proud of. I connected my VCR to our
microwave oven and watched "Gone With the Wind" in 12 and 1/2
minutes. )) //
Tonight, we honor scientists and researchers who --
thankfully -- have not followed my lead. Opening doors into an
age where mankind not only moved into the future -- but re-
invented it. // Think of discoveries like the fax machine and
the microchip. And of pioneers like Kilby and Noyce and Curie
and Westinghouse. All knew, as Thomas Jefferson wrote to a
Polish general in the Revolutionary War, "The main objects of
all science are the freedom and happiness of man. " //
Since the dark days of World War II, Westinghouse recipients
have aided this freedom -- becoming an instrument of liberty and
the symbol of the information age. // From the first man to win
the top prize in the Science Talent Search -- Paul Teschan,
aiding kidney research -- to Raymond Kurzweil, whose reading
devices make life easier for the blind -- each has reached for
the stars -- so that future generations of Americans might
someday stand on them. //
This program's history reaffirms that truth. Five
Westinghouse recipients have won the Nobel Prize. Eight have
received MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. // Three have been
admitted to the National Academy of Engineering. Twenty-six have
3
also been elected to to the National Academy of Sciences -- your
profession's highest elective honor. //
Albert Einstein put it best when he said, "Everything that
is really great and inspiring is created by individuals who labor
in freedom." In short, he believed what all of these honorees
believe -- freedom works. This year's winners -- 40 in all --
were culled from more than 1,400 entries. Many belong to their
school debate team, baseball club, their newspaper, their church
group or band. // All have created research projects which show
how the trailblazers of today can be the heroes of tomorrow. //
Consider Clifford Wang of Vero Beach. He proposed that
seaweed be grown in the ocean to remove pollutants while also
producing energy. / Or Tara-Bahn James of New York City, who
explored the relationship between math aptitude and music talent.
/ In Spring, Texas, Wade Butin developed varnish to withstand
the effect of weather and salt water. / And in Pittsburgh, Susan
Criss recently completed a two-year project that showed how
becacarotene may reduce the risk of cancer. //
These and other projects show how learning is always a
continuance, never a consummation -- that because freedom works,
dreams make possible even greater dreams. // ( (Here is a story
which magnifies that fact. 1843. A Commissioner of Patents made
a report to President Tyler. He said: "The advancement of the
arts from year to year taxes our credulity and seems to presage
the arrival of that period when human improvement must end. " //
He went on to urge Congress to liquidate the Patent Office --
4
even Ripley wouldn't believe this -- because, he believed, there
was nothing else to be invented. )) //
Today, all of us know better. We realize this Nation has no
natural resouces like its intellectual resources. So we must,
and are, assisting the knowledge that is our most enduring legacy
-- vital to everything we are and can become. 11
I have announced that U.S. students will be Number One by
the year 2000. We can achieve it. We will. // To start with,
we will achieve it through our National Educational Excellence
Act that I again urge Congress to pass. Let me especially salute
our new Initiative of National Science Scholars, which gives
America's youth a special incentive to excel in science,
mathematics, and engineering. //
We will also achieve this goal through research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
Let me describe the emphasis on science and math in our new
budget for Fiscal Year 1992. 11 Imagine: A record high of $76
billion for basic research and R & D. -- and basic science
research up $13 billion. / Reflect upon: A budget which will
double the National Science Foundation Budget if Congress will
cooperate. // Help me achieve: A budget which will devote over
$16 billion for outer space activities -- up 15 per cent over
last year. Giving more money than ever to the small science
research -- research by individuals -- embodied by the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search. //
5
This budget will help freedom work at home. Yet freedom has
also helped advance the cause of liberty abroad. 11 For
evidence, look in closing to the Persian Gulf, where achievements
in science are responsible for the high-tech equipment which has
served our military so well. //
In the past, some have urged that we depend more for our
protection on theories of deterrence than technologies of
defense. Well, thank God that when the Scuds came -- the people
of Israel and Saudi Arabia had more to protect than some abstract
theory of deterrence. 11.
Go to Riyhad or Tel Aviv. A theory didn't protect its
citizens. Missles born of technology did. Because of science
and technology -- because of American creativity -- thousands of
innocent civilians -- priceless human lives -- have been spared.
Thank God for the Patriot and other missiles which show how
American can-do stems from American know-how. //
If the cause of peace is to continue being served by
American military power, it must continue being advanced by
American brain power. // Ask our troops in the Gulf. Yes, the
finest soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and Coast Guardsmen
any Nation has ever had. They know the value of science and
technology. Each day it brings closer freedom's ultimate
victory. // Ask those other great heroes -- our teachers. Each
day they give perhaps the greatest gift of sharing their
knowledge with others. // Ask, finally, America's students and
parents. They know that while learning is a very practical thing
6
-- it is also among mankind's most noble things. It can presage
a new Golden Age -- yes, a new world order -- where creativity
flows -- more than ever -- from the human heart and mind. //
Fifty-one years ago, one of the greatest scientists of all
time was moved by an American President who spoke of how
technology could further peace. // His name was Edward Teller,
hearing Franklin Roosevelt declare that "the great achievements
of science
[would help] protect our culture, our American
freedom, and our civilization. " //
Teller later wrote that it was the duty of science to "work
out the military problems, because without the work of the
scientists the war and the world would be lost. " // He did his
duty -- as you have -- as you are today. Helping to win the war
in the Persian Gulf -- just as we will win the peace that
follows. //
What a magnificent legacy for the Westinghouse Science
Talent Search. / What a magnificent metaphor for the dream that
is America. / Thank you for tonight -- and for helping freedom
to work. Please pray for our sons and daughters in the Persian
Gulf. And let me leave you with three of the most beautiful
words in ours or any language. God bless America.
#
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
March 4, 1991
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF
WESTINGHOUSE SCIENCE TALENT SEARCH
The Hilton Hotel
Washington, D.C.
7:28 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Please be seated. Let me
just say how pleased I am to be here, salute the members of my
Cabinet here: Secretary Sullivan; and Governor and Mrs. Sununu; Dr.
Bromley, outstanding Science Advisor to the President; Dr. Seaborg,
an old friend who's been so instrumental in all of this. Mr. Lego,
Mr. Sherburne, Ms. Luszcz, Monsignor Quinn, Mr. Flatow, and trustees
of the Westinghouse Foundation. And then, of course, the past and
current Westinghouse Award recipients; also, the judges of the
Science Talent Search; distinguished guests of science; and that
leaves me as the only one. (Laughter.)
I went in and saw five of these displays in there on the
condition that they'd not give a test after they explained exactly
what they had wrought. (Laughter.) And I wish all of you could have
seen it; it was wonderful.
But thank you, sir, for introducing me and for all you
do, for this warm reception out here. And let me welcome to
Washington the trustees of our posterity -- high school students --
the best and the brightest. High school students who act for the
nation and neighbor. And it's a pleasure for me to be here at this
Super Bowl of Science.
You know, we meet tonight on the 50th anniversary of the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search -- a program which has helped make
the past half-century a time of extraordinary exploration. Fifty
years ago, 1941, just think of the changes since then. As for the
VCR -- people couldn't set their clocks on the VCR back then either.
(Laughter.) Because their wasn't any VCR. (Laughter.) When I was
growing up in 1941, PAC-MAN was a hiker, not a video game.
(Laughter.) And there have been so many changes, so much scientific
change for the good. And who knows how future endeavors will make
ours a richer, more decent world?
Tonight, we honor distinguished scientists and
researchers who are opening doors into an age where mankind not only
moved into the future, but reinvented it. Think of discoveries like
biotechnology and the microchip. And of pioneers like Kilby and
Noyce or Cohen and Boyer, the first two people to splice a gene. All
knew, as Thomas Jefferson wrote to a Polish general who fought with
us in the Revolutionary War, "The main objects of all science are the
freedom and happiness of man. "
Since the dark days of World War II, Westinghouse
recipients have aided this freedom -- becoming an instrument of
liberty and the symbol of the information age. From the first man to
win the top prize in the Science Talent Search -- Paul Teschan,
saving soldiers lives with the artificial kidney in the Korean War,
to Raymond Kurzweil, whose reading devices make life easier for the
blind. Each has reached for the stars so that future generations of
Americans might someday travel to them.
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- 2 1.
This program's history reaffirms that truth. Five
Westinghouse Award recipients have won the Nobel Prize. Eight have
received MacArthur Fellowships. Three have been admitted to the
National Academy of Engineering. Twenty-eight have also been elected
to the National Academy of Sciences -- one of your profession's
highest honors.
Albert Einstein put it best when he noted that everything
that is really great and inspiring is created by individuals who
labor in freedom. In short, he believed what all of these honorees
believe -- freedom works. This year's national winners, 40 in all,
were culled from more than 1, 400 entries. Many belong to their
school debate team, or baseball club, or their newspaper, or their
church group or their band. All have created research projects which
show how the trailblazers of today can indeed be the heroes of
tomorrow.
Consider Clifford Wang of Vero Beach. He proposed that
seaweed can be grown in the ocean to remove metal pollutants and then
harvested for methane generation, cleaning the environment while at
the same time producing energy. or Tara -- Tara Bahna-James of New
York city, who explored the relationship between math aptitude and
musical talent. In Spring, Texas -- right there in my old
congressional district -- Wade Butine developed a varnish to
withstand the rigors of weather and salt water. And in Pittsburgh,
Susan Criss recently completed a two-year project -- it's one of the
five I saw -- that showed how betacarotene in the bloodstream may
reduce the risk of cancer.
These and other projects show how learning is always a
continuation, never a consummation -- that because freedom works,
dreams make possible even greater dreams. Here's a story which
magnifies that fact. In 1843, a Commissioner of Patents made a
report to President Tyler. And he said, "The advancement of the arts
from year to year taxes our credulity and seems to presage the
arrival of that period when human improvement must end." He went on
to urge that the Patent Office be liquidated -- even Ripley wouldn't
believe this -- (laughter) -- because, he alledgedly believed, there
was nothing else to be invented. (Laughter.)
Today, all of us know better. We realize this nation has
no natural resources like its intellectual resources. So we must,
and are, assisting the knowledge that is our most enduring legacy,
vital to everything we are and can become.
The nation's governors and I have set a goal -- a
national goal -- for U.S. students to be number one in the world in
math and science learning by the year 2000. And we can achieve it.
We will achieve it. To start with, we will achieve it through our
own National Educational Excellence Act that I will soon send up to
Congress. Last fall Congress acted favorably on our initiative for a
National Science Scholars program, which will give America's youth a
special incentive to excel in science, math and engineering.
We will also achieve this goal through research and
development in all areas of science, technology and engineering.
Last month, I submitted our new budget to the Congress and it
includes special emphasis on math and science education. We propose
an increase of $225 million for math and science education; new
funding for R&D that total $76 billion, including a record high of
over $13 billion for basic science research.
Our budget will continue our basic commitment to double
the funding for the National Science Foundation; devote over $16
billion for major space activities, and that's up 15 percent over
last year; and support the development of worthy ideas from electric
powered vehicles to high performance computing to the human genome
project. It gives more money than ever to the small science
research, research by individuals embodied, if you will, by the
Westinghouse Science Talent Search. And it urges Congress to provide
the 28 percent increase I seek to raise the quality of precollege
math and science education which we must do if American science and
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technology will continue to lead the world.
This budget will help freedom work at home. And yet this
freedom has also helped advance the cause of liberty abroad. For
evidence, look halfway around the world at the Persian Gulf, where
achievements in science are responsible for the high-tech equipment
which has served our military so well.
In the past, some have urged that we depend more for our
protection on theories of deterrence than technologies of defense.
Well, thank God that when those Scuds came in, the people of Israel
and Saudi Arabia had more to protect them than some abstract theory
of deterrence. (Applause.)
You just go over to Riyadh or Tel Aviv. And a theory
didn't protect those citizens. Patriot missiles born of technology
did. Because of science and technology, because of American
creativity, thousands of innocent civilians, priceless human lives,
have been spared. The Patriot and other missiles show how American
innovation stems from American inspiration.
If the cause of peace is to continue being served by
American military power, it must continue being advanced by American
brain power. Ask our troops in the Gulf. Yes, those finest
soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen any nation has
ever had. Today, all of us are especially grateful that 10 coalition
POWs, including several Americans, are on their way back home. And
our remaining POWs should not be far behind. (Applause.) The
welfare of our troops was our top priority in the war. And as we
forge a new peace, all of them will be on our minds until all of them
are back home. Each of these brave men and women know how science
and technology brought closer freedom's ultimate victory.
Ask, too, those other great heroes, our teachers. Each
day they give perhaps the greatest gift of sharing their knowledge
with others. And ask, finally, America's students and parents. They
know that while learning is very practical, it is also among
mankind's most noble endeavors. It can presage a new golden age, a
bold, new world order where creativity flows more than ever from the
human heart and mind.
Over the past half-century, scientific breakthroughs have
benefitted us all. From the first radar to pioneering advances in
shock and burn treatment, to the revolutionary laser, to the
high-tech of today, America's scientists have done their duty, as
they will in the future, helping us not merely to prevail at war but
also, more importantly, to win the peace.
What a magnificent legacy for the Westinghouse Science
Talent Search. What a magnificent metaphor for the dream that is
America.
Thank you for all you do. Congratulations to each and
every one of you. Please continue -- I would ask this of all of you
-- to pray for our sons and daughters in the Gulf and for peace --
lasting peace in that troubled corner of the world..
God bless you all and thank you very much. (Applause.)
END
7:41 P.M. EST