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NAME OF SPEECH & DATE OF SPEECH Cities in Schools
5/6/91
NAME OF WRITER : Smith
NAME OF RESEARCHER: Grossman
SPEECH SYNOPSIS:
The President recognizes the
program Uthanks Hose involved
success of the Cities Schools
then talks about the importance
in the program. The President
President ends by discussing
of staying in school. The
his america 2000 shategy
for making evisting education
more productive.
NAME OF SPEECH & DATE OF SPEECH
NAME OF WRITER :
NAME OF RESEARCHER:
SPEECH SYNOPSIS:
(Smith/Grossman)
Draft Four
April 29, 1991
CITY
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CITIES IN SCHOOLS
EAST ROOM
MONDAY, MAY 6, 1991
4:00 P.M.
Members of the Cities in Schools International Board Summit.
Leaders of the corporate, foundation, and government communities.
Dr. [Ernest] Boyer, Burt Bacharach, Herb Alpert, Lionel Richie,
and Quincy Jones. Ladies and gentlemen. /
It is a pleasure to join my ambassador of education in
welcoming you to the White House. ((I often say Barbara should
have been a teacher. She taught Millie how to write a book.) ) //
Together, we're here to salute what in the 1988 campaign I named
as one of America's great "points of light" -- Cities in Schools.
((Sometimes, I kid Barbara that when it comes to CIS, she's
spent more time on the road than Charles Kuralt.) ) // It's been
time well-spent, believe me. / Perhaps no organization has done
more to keep at-risk youngsters in school. None has taken more
kids from the inner cities of America to the outer limits of
education. //
Your network of dropout and prevention programs have helped
keep youngsters in school. // In 36 different communities you
confront such problems as substance abuse, pregnancy, illiteracy,
and family crises. You try, in word and deed, to prove that any
definition of a successful life must include serving others. //
2
You have an impressive reach, as a few facts show. Almost
300 agencies are involved in CIS activities. You grace 262
school sites. Your programs reach nearly 130 communities. /
The result? Last year alone, 33,000 at-risk students stayed in
school thanks to the efforts of local workers. CIS workers acted
not just for themselves, but for their neighbors -- and their
nation.
I've talked before about doing "the hard work of freedom."
That's what you do every time you help a child learn. Kids who
turn their backs on education look at life through a rear-view
mirror. They don't see opportunities ahead. Nor do they see the
dangers that await those who choose lives of listlessness or
crime. You try to turn them around, to give them a clear view of
the road ahead. We all can learn from your example. As a nation
we must mount a crusade to but prepare our children and ourselves
for the exciting future that lies ahead. //
Two weeks ago, we announced a comprehensive new education
strategy to reach that objective. We term it America 2000. / It
seeks to nurture our greatest national resource -- our
intelligence, ingenuity -- the capacity of the human mind. //
The strategy is simple: For today's students, we must make
existing schools better and more accountable. / For tomorrow's
students, the next generation, we must create a new generation of
American schools. / For all of us, for the adults who thought
our school days are over, we've got to become a nation of
3
students. / Finally, outside our schools we must cultivate
communities where learning can occur. //
Learning is indeed a life-long process. ( (For instance, I'm
trying to be computer-literate, and recently had my first lesson
on a "P.C." I admit, it took me about 15 minutes to figure out
the function I was learning. But I'm really looking forward to
my second lesson on the computer // now that I've mastered
plugging it in.) ) //
Our education strategy doesn't try to impose a program on
everyone. It issues a challenge: Let's reinvent American
education by the year 2000. We need your help -- to achieve the
long graduation lines today that mean short unemployment lines
tomorrow. // We need your involvement -- to ensure that
education uplifts every American -- our most enduring legacy,
vital to everything we are and can become. //
When children are at risk, America is at risk. That's why
programs like your's not only salvage lives in the present --
they strengthen us for the future. //
The poet Robert Lowell once wrote, "If youth be a defect, it
is one we outgrow too soon." Leaving school is a defect from
which many kids never recover. Together, let us develop an
educational system that will enrich life in America -- so that
America can enrich the world.
Thank you for coming here. God bless you, and God bless
America.
#
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
A8: 24
91 APR May 1, 1991
MEMORANDUM FOR TONY SNOW
FROM:
ROGER B. PORTER
RBP
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks: Cities in Schools
We have reviewed the attached draft presidential remarks
from a policy standpoint and have noted a few minor suggestions
on the attached copy of the remarks.
Please let us know if you have any questions or if we may
help in any other way.
Attachment
CC: Phillip D. Brady
Document No. 233872 55
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 4/29/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: WEDNESDAY, 5/1/91 2:00 pm
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CITIES IN SCHOOLS
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
PETERSMEYER
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
SMITH
BROMLEY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930, no
later than 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 1, with a copy to this office.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
91 APR 29 PM 26
Draft Four
April 29, 1991
CITY
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CITIES IN SCHOOLS
EAST ROOM
MONDAY, MAY 6, 1991
4:00 P.M.
Members of the Cities in Schools International Board Summit.
Leaders of the corporate, foundation, and government communities.
Dr. [Ernest] Boyer, Burt Bacharach, Herb Alpert, Lionel Richie,
and Quincy Jones. Ladies and gentlemen. /
It is a pleasure to join my ambassador of education in
welcoming you to the White House. ( (I often say Barbara should
have been a teacher. She taught Millie how to write a book. )) //
Together, we're here to salute what in the 1988 campaign I named
as one of America's great "points of light" -- Cities in Schools.
( (Sometimes, I kid Barbara that when it comes to CIS, she's
spent more time on the road than Charles Kuralt. )) // It's been
time well-spent, believe me. / Perhaps no organization has done
more to keep at-risk youngsters in school. None has taken more
kids from the inner cities of America to the outer limits of
education. //
HAS
Your network of dropout and prevention programs have helped
keep youngsters in school. // In 36 different communities you
confront such problems as substance abuse, pregnancy, illiteracy,
and family crises. You try, in word and deed, to prove that any
definition of a successful life must include serving others. //
2
You have an impressive reach, as a few facts show. Almost
300 agencies are involved in CIS activities. You grace 262
school sites. Your programs reach nearly 130 communities. /
The result? Last year alone, 33,000 at-risk students stayed in
school thanks to the efforts of local workers. CIS workers acted
not just for themselves, but for their neighbors -- and their
nation.
I've talked before about doing "the hard work of freedom."
That's what you do every time you help a child learn. Kids who
turn their backs on education look at life through a rear-view
mirror. They don't see opportunities ahead. Nor do they see the
dangers that await those who choose lives of listlessness or
HELP
crime. You try to turn them around, to give them a clear view of
the road ahead. We all can learn from your example. As a nation
we must mount a crusade to but but prepare our children and ourselves
-
for the exciting future that lies ahead. //
Two weeks ago, we announced a comprehensive new education
strategy to reach that objective. We term CALL it America 2000. / It
seeks to nurture our greatest national resource -- our
intelligence, ingenuity -- the capacity of the human mind. //
The strategy is simple: For today's students, we must make
existing schools better and more accountable. / For tomorrow's
students, the next generation, we must create a new generation of
American schools. / For all of us, for the adults who thought
our school days are over, we've got to become a nation of
3
students. / Finally, outside our schools we must cultivate
communities where learning can occur. 11
Learning is indeed a life-long process. ((For instance, I'm
trying to be computer-literate, and recently had my first lesson
on a "P.C." I admit, it took me about 15 minutes to figure out
the function I was learning. But I'm really looking forward to
my second lesson on the computer // now that I've mastered
plugging it in.) ) 11
Our education strategy doesn't try to impose a program on
everyone. It issues a challenge: Let's reinvent American
education by the year 2000. We need your help -- to achieve the
WILL HELP KEEP
long graduation lines today that mean L short unemployment lines
tomorrow. 11 We need your involvement -- to ensure that
education uplifts every American -- our most enduring legacy,
vital to everything we are and can become. //
When children are at risk, America is at risk. That's why
programs like your's not only salvage lives in the present --
they strengthen us for the future. 11
The poet Robert Lowell once wrote, "If youth be a defect, it
is one we outgrow too soon." Leaving school is a defect from
which many kids never recover. Together, let us develop an
educational system that will enrich life in America -- so that
America can enrich the world.
Thank you for coming here. God bless you, and God bless
America.
# # # #
Document No. 23387255
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
97
APR 29 P4: 17
DATE: 4/29/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: WEDNESDAY, 5/1/91 2:00 pm
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CITIES IN SCHOOLS
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
PETERSMEYER
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
NIC
BRADY
SMITH N/C
BROMLEY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
\
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY N/C
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930, no
later than 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 1, with a copy to this office.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
\ 1 MASTER -
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
91 APR 29 PM 26
Draft Four
April 29, 1991
CITY
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CITIES IN SCHOOLS
EAST ROOM
sec Alexander OCA
MONDAY, MAY 6, 1991
4:00 P.M.
Members of the Cities in Schools International Board Summit.
Leaders of the corporate, foundation, and government communities.
Dr. [Ernest] Boyer, Burt Bacharach, Herb Alpert, Lionel Richie,
and Quincy Jones. Ladies and gentlemen. /
It is a pleasure to join my ambassador of education in
welcoming you to the White House. ((I often say Barbara should
have been a teacher. She taught Millie how to write a book. )) //
Together, we're here to salute what in the 1988 campaign or I named have
called
as one of America's Anghtest great "points of light" -- Cities in Schools.
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( (Sometimes, I kid Barbara that when it comes to CIS, she's
spent more time on the road than Charles Kuralt.) // It's been
time well-spent, believe me. / Perhaps no organization has done
more to keep at-risk youngsters in school. None has taken more
kids from the inner cities of America to the outer limits of
education. //
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Your network of dropout and prevention programs have helped
keep youngsters in school. // In 36 different communities you
confront such problems as substance abuse, pregnancy, illiteracy,
and family crises. You try, in word and deed, to prove that any
definition of a successful life must include serving others. //
2
You have an impressive reach, as a few facts show. Almost
300 agencies are involved in CIS activities. You grace 262
school sites. Your programs reach nearly 130 communities. /
The result? Last year alone, 33,000 at-risk students stayed in
school thanks to the efforts of local workers. CIS workers acted
not just for themselves, but for their neighbors -- and their
nation.
I've talked before about doing "the hard work of freedom."
That's what you do every time you help a child learn. Kids who
turn their backs on education look at life through a rear-view
mirror. They don't see opportunities ahead. Nor do they see the
dangers that await those Peters who choose lives of listlessness or
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we must mount a crusade to but prepare our children and ourselves
for the exciting future that lies ahead. //
Two weeks ago, we announced a comprehensive new education
strategy to reach that objective. We term it America 2000. / It
seeks to nurture our greatest national resource -- our
intelligence, ingenuity -- the capacity of the human mind. //
The strategy is simple: For today's students, we must make
existing schools better and more accountable. / For tomorrow's
students, the next generation, we must create a new generation of
American schools. / For all of us, for the adults who thought
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a "P.C." I admit, it took me about 15 minutes to figure out
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the function I was learning. But I'm really looking forward to
my second lesson on the computer // now that I've mastered
plugging it in. //
Our education strategy doesn't try to impose a program on
everyone. It issues a challenge: Let's reinvent American
education by the year 2000. We need your help -- to achieve the
long graduation lines today that mean short unemployment lines
tomorrow. // We need your involvement -- to ensure that
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education uplifts every American -- our most enduring legacy,
vital to everything we are and can become. //
When children are at risk, America is at risk. That's why
programs like your's not only salvage lives in the present --
they strengthen us for the future. //
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The poet Robert Lowell once wrote, "If youth be a defect, it Educ. OCA
is one we outgrow too soon." Leaving school is a defect from
which many kids never recover. Together, let us develop an
educational system that will enrich life in America -- so that
America can enrich the world.
Thank you for coming here. God bless you, and God bless
America.
# # # #
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91 APR APR 31
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 4/29/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: WEDNESDAY, 5/1/91 2:00 pm
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CITIES IN SCHOOLS
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
PETERSMEYER
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
SMITH
BROMLEY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930, no
later than 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 1, with a copy to this office,
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
THX
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
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Draft Four
April 29, 1991
CITY
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CITIES IN SCHOOLS
EAST ROOM
MONDAY, MAY 6, 1991
4:00 P.M.
Members of the Cities in Schools International Board Summit.
Leaders of the corporate, foundation, and government communities.
Dr. [Ernest] Boyer, Burt Bacharach, Herb Alpert, Lionel Richie,
and Quincy Jones. Ladies and gentlemen. /
It is a pleasure to join my ambassador of education in
welcoming you to the White House. ((I often say Barbara should
have been a teacher. She taught Millie how to write a book.) 11
Together, we're here to salute what in the 1988 campaign I named
as one of America's great "points of light" -- Cities in Schools.
((Sometimes, I kid Barbara that when it comes to CIS, she's
spent more time on the road than Charles Kuralt.) 11 It's been
time well-spent, believe me. / Perhaps no organization has done
more to keep at-risk youngsters in school. None has taken more
kids from the inner cities of America to the outer limits of
education. 11
has
Your network of dropout and prevention programs have helped
keep youngsters in school. 11 In 36 different communities you
confront such problems as substance abuse, pregnancy, illiteracy,
and family crises. You try, in word and deed, to prove that any
definition of a successful life must include serving others. 11
SENT BY:The TICKET CENTER
; 5- 1-91 :11:19AM ; LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS-
2024566218:# 3
2
You have an impressive reach, as a few facts show. Almost
300 agencies are involved in CIS activities. You grace 262
school sites. Your programs reach nearly 130 communities. /
The result? Last year alone, 33,000 at-risk students stayed in
school thanks to the efforts of local workers. CIS workers acted
not just for themselves, but for their neighbors -- and their
nation.
I've talked before about doing "the hard work of freedom."
That's what you do every time you help a child learn. Kids who
turn their backs on education look at life through a rear-view
mirror. They don't see opportunities ahead. Nor do they see the
anotherg
dangers that await those who choose lives of listlessness or
word.
spathy
crime. You try to turn them around, to give them a clear view of
the road ahead. We all can learn from your example. As a nation
awkward
we must mount a crusade to but prepare our children and ourselves
for the exciting future that lies ahead. 11
Two weeks ago, we announced a comprehensive new education
strategy to reach that objective. We term it America 2000. / It
seeks to nurture our greatest national resource -- our
intelligence, ingenuity -- the capacity of the human mind. 11
The strategy is simple: For today's students, we must make
existing schools better and more accountable. / For tomorrow's
students, the next generation, we must create a new generation of
American schools. / For all of us, for the adults who thought
our school days are over, we've got to become a nation of
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3
students. / Finally, outside our schools we must cultivate
communities where learning can occur. 11
Learning is indeed a life-long process. ((For instance, I'm
trying to be computer-literate, and recently had my first lesson
on a "P.C." I admit, it took me about 15 minutes to figure out
the function I was learning. But I'm really looking forward to
my second lesson on the computer 11 now that I've mastered
plugging it in.)) 11
our education strategy doesn't try to impose a program on
everyone. It issues a challenge: Let's reinvent American
education by the year 2000. We need your help -- to achieve the
long graduation lines today that mean short unemployment lines
tomorrow. 11 We need your involvement -- to ensure that
education uplifts every American -- our most enduring legacy,
vital to everything we are and can become. 11
when children are at risk, America is at risk. That's why
programs like your S not only salvage lives in the present --
they strengthen us for the future. 11
The post Robert Lowell once wrote, "If youth be a defect, it
is one we outgrow too soon." Leaving school is a defect from
which many kids never recover. Together, let us develop an
educational system that will enrich life in America -- so that
America can enrich the world.
Thank you for coming here. God bless you, and God bless
America.
#
Document No. 23387255
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
91 APR 31 Pl: PT:
DATE: 4/29/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: WEDNESDAY, 5/1/91 2:00 pm
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CITIES IN SCHOOLS
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
PETERSMEYER
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
SMITH
which
BROMLEY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930, no
later than 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 1, with a copy to this office.
Thank you.
RESPONSE: see comments
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
Draft Four
91 APR 29 PM 1: 26
April 29, 1991
CITY
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CITIES IN SCHOOLS
EAST ROOM
MONDAY, MAY 6, 1991
4:00 P.M.
Members of the Cities in Schools International Board Summit.
Leaders of the corporate, foundation, and government communities.
Dr. [Ernest] Boyer, Burt Bacharach, Herb Alpert, Lionel Richie,
and Quincy Jones. Ladies and gentlemen. /
It is a pleasure to join my ambassador of education in
welcoming you to the White House. ((I often say Barbara should
have been a teacher. She taught Millie how to write a book. )) 11
Together, we're here to salute what in the 1988 campaign I named
as one of America's great "points of light" -- Cities in Schools.
((Sometimes, I kid Barbara that when it comes to CIS, she's
spent more time on the road than Charles Kuralt.) ) // It's been
time well-spent, believe me. / Perhaps no organization has done
more to keep at-risk youngsters in school. None has taken more
kids from the inner cities of America to the outer limits of
education. //
Your network of dropout and prevention programs have helped
keep youngsters in school. 11 In 36 different communities you
confront such problems as substance abuse, pregnancy, illiteracy,
and family crises. You try, in word and deed, to prove that any
definition of a successful life must include serving others. //
2
You have an impressive reach, as a few facts show. Almost
300 agencies are involved in CIS activities. You grace 262
school sites. Your programs reach nearly 130 communities. /
The result? Last year alone, 33,000 at-risk students stayed in
school thanks to the efforts of local workers. CIS workers acted
not just for themselves, but for their neighbors -- and their
nation.
I've talked before about doing "the hard work of freedom. "
That's what you do every time you help a child learn. Kids who
turn their backs on education look at life through a rear-view
mirror. They don't see opportunities ahead. Nor do they see the
dangers that await those who choose lives of listlessness or
crime. You try to turn them around, to give them a clear view of
the road ahead. We all can learn from your example. As a nation
we must mount a crusade to but prepare our children and ourselves
for the exciting future that lies ahead. //
Two weeks ago, we announced a comprehensive new education
strategy to reach that objective. We term it America 2000. / It
seeks to nurture our greatest national resource -- our
intelligence, ingenuity -- the capacity of the human mind. //
The strategy is simple: For today's students, we must make
existing schools better and more accountable. / For tomorrow's
students, the next generation, we must create a new generation of
American schools. / For all of us, for the adults who thought
our school days are over, we've got to become a nation of
3
students. / Finally, outside our schools we must cultivate
communities where learning can occur. //
Not a good Learning is indeed a life-long process. ((For instance, I'm
idea to trying to be computer-literate, and recently had my first lesson
belittle
on a "P.C." I admit, it took me about 15 minutes to figure out
learning
Scully,
the function I was learning. But I'm really looking forward to
X5178
my second lesson on the computer // now that I've mastered
plugging it in.)) //
Our education strategy doesn't try to impose a program on
everyone. It issues a challenge: Let's reinvent American
education by the year 2000. We need your help -- to achieve the
long graduation lines today that mean short unemployment lines
tomorrow. // We need your involvement -- to ensure that
education uplifts every American -- our most enduring legacy,
vital to everything we are and can become. //
When children are at risk, America is at risk. That's why
programs like your's not only salvage lives in the present --
(
they strengthen us for the future. //
The poet Robert Lowell once wrote, "If youth be a defect, it
is one we outgrow too soon." Leaving school is a defect from
which many kids never recover. Together, let us develop an
educational system that will enrich life in America -- so that
America can enrich the world.
Thank you for coming here. God bless you, and God bless
America.
#
#
#
#
Document No. 23387255
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 4/29/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: WEDNESDAY, 94 5/1/91 2:00 pm
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CITIES IN SCHOOLS
APR 31
P2
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
PETERSMEYER
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
SMITH
BROMLEY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930, no
later than 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 1, with a copy to this office.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
See comments. Thank
Holezwilliamar
51-91
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
91 APR 29 PM 1: 26
Draft Four
April 29, 1991
CITY
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CITIES IN SCHOOLS
EAST ROOM
MONDAY, MAY 6, 1991
4:00 P.M.
Members of the Cities in Schools International Board Summit.
Leaders of the corporate, foundation, and government communities.
Dr. [Ernest] Boyer, Burt Bacharach, Herb Alpert, Lionel Richie,
and Quincy Jones. Ladies and gentlemen. /
It is a pleasure to join my ambassador of education in
welcoming you to the White House. ((I often say Barbara should
have been a teacher. She taught Millie how to write a book.) ) //
Together, we're here to salute what in the 1988 campaign I named
as one of America's great "points of light" -- Cities in Schools.
secretary
to
( (Sometimes, I kid Barbara that when it comes to CIS, she's
decrandered
spent more time on the road than Charles Kuralt.) ) 11 It's been
is
time well-spent, believe me. / Perhaps no organization has done
attend.
more to keep at-risk youngsters in school. None has taken more
kids from the inner cities of America to the outer limits of
education. //
Your network of dropout and prevention programs have helped
keep youngsters in school. // In 36 different communities you
confront such problems as substance abuse, pregnancy, illiteracy,
and family crises. You try, in word and deed, to prove that any
definition of a successful life must include serving others. //
2
You have an impressive reach, as a few facts show. Almost
300 agencies are involved in CIS activities. You grace 262
school sites. Your programs reach nearly 130 communities. /
The result? Last year alone, 33,000 at-risk students stayed in
school thanks to the efforts of local workers. CIS workers acted
not just for themselves, but for their neighbors -- and their
nation.
I've talked before about doing "the hard work of freedom."
That's what you do every time you help a child learn. Kids who
turn their backs on education look at life through a rear-view
mirror. They don't see opportunities ahead. Nor do they see the
dangers that await those who choose lives of listlessness or
crime. You try to turn them around, to give them a clear view of
the road ahead. We all can learn from your example. As a nation
we must mount a crusade to but prepare our children and ourselves
for the exciting future that lies ahead. //
Two weeks ago, we announced a comprehensive new education
strategy to reach that objective. We term it America 2000. / It
seeks to nurture our greatest national resource -- our
intelligence, ingenuity -- the capacity of the human mind. //
The strategy is simple: For today's students, we must make
existing schools better and more accountable. / For tomorrow's
students, the next generation, we must create a new generation of
American schools. / For all of us, for the adults who thought
our school days are over, we've got to become a nation of
3
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students. / Finally, outside our schools we must cultivate
communities where learning can occur. //
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between america 2000 is 4th
Learning is indeed a life-long process. (For instance, I'm That's
track & the activities of C.I.I S.
trying to be computer-literate, and recently had my first lesson what
CISIS
on a "P.C." I admit, it took me about 15 minutes to figure out all
about
the function I was learning. But I'm really looking forward to environment
my second lesson on the computer // now that I've mastered communits tat
inthe
plugging it in.)) //
home.
Our education strategy doesn't try to impose a program on
everyone. It issues a challenge: Let's reinvent American
education by the year 2000. We need your help -- to achieve the
long graduation lines today that mean short unemployment lines
tomorrow. 11 We need your involvement -- to ensure that
education uplifts every American -- our most enduring legacy,
vital to everything we are and can become. 11
When children are at risk, America is at risk. That's why
programs like your's not only salvage lives in the present --
they strengthen us for the future. //
The poet Robert Lowell once wrote, "If youth be a defect, it
is
one we outgrow too soon."
Leaving school is a defect from
which many kids never recover.
Together, let us develop an
educational system that will enrich life in America -- so that
America can enrich the world.
Thank you for coming here. God bless you, and God bless
America.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
91 APR 30 All : 44
Date: 4/29/91
TO:
Tay Snow
FROM:
Office Room CLARK 100, of KENT National OEOB, ERVIN x6266 Service CKR
Action
Your Comment
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Cities in Schools speed.
Document No. 23387255
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 4/29/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: WEDNESDAY, 5/1/91 2:00 pm
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CITIES IN SCHOOLS
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
PETERSMEYER
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
SMITH
BROMLEY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
\
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930, no
later than 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 1, with a copy to this office.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
Draft Four
91 APR 29 PM 1: 26
April 29, 1991
CITY
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CITIES IN SCHOOLS
EAST ROOM
MONDAY, MAY 6, 1991
4:00 P.M.
Members of the Cities in Schools International Board Summit.
Leaders of the corporate, foundation, and government communities.
Dr. [Ernest] Boyer, Burt Bacharach, Herb Alpert, Lionel Richie,
and Quincy Jones. Ladies and gentlemen. /
It is a pleasure to join my ambassador of education in
welcoming you to the White House. ( (I often say Barbara should
have been a teacher. She taught Millie how to write a book.) ) //
Together, we're here to salute what in the 1988 campaign I named
one of America's great "points of light" -- Cities in Schools.
( (Sometimes, I kid Barbara that when it comes to CIS, she's
spent more time on the road than Charles Kuralt.) ) // It's been
time well-spent, believe me. / Perhaps no organization has done
brighteet
more to keep at-risk youngsters in school. None has taken more
kids from the inner cities of America to the outer limits of
education. //
Your network of dropout and prevention programs have helped
keep youngsters in school. // In 36 different communities you
confront such problems as substance abuse, pregnancy, illiteracy,
and family crises. You try, in word and deed, to prove that any
definition of a successful life must include serving others. //
have called
2
You have an impressive reach, as a few facts show. Almost
300 agencies are involved in CIS activities. You grace 262
school sites. Your programs reach nearly 130 communities. /
The result? Last year alone, 33,000 at-risk students stayed in
school thanks to the efforts of local workers. CIS workers acted
not just for themselves, but for their neighbors -- and their
nation.
aliention
I've talked before about doing "the hard work of freedom."
That's what you do every time you help a child learn. Kids who
turn their backs on education look at life through a rear-view
mirror. They don't see opportunities ahead. Nor do they see the
dangers that await those who choose lives and of listlessness or
crime. You try to turn them around, to give them a clear view of
the road ahead. We all can learn from your example. As a nation
we must mount a crusade to but prepare our children and ourselves
for the exciting future that lies ahead. //
Two weeks ago, we announced a comprehensive new education
strategy to reach that objective. We term it America 2000. / It
seeks to nurture our greatest national resource -- our
intelligence, ingenuity -- the capacity of the human mind. //
The strategy is simple: For today's students, we must make
existing schools better and more accountable. / For tomorrow's
students, the next generation, we must create a new generation of
American schools. / For all of us, for the adults who thought
our school days are over, we've got to become a nation of
were
3
students. / Finally, outside our schools we must cultivate
communities where learning can occur. //
Learning is indeed a life-long process. ((For instance, I'm
trying to be computer-literate, and recently had my first lesson
on a "P.C." I admit, it took me about 15 minutes to figure out
the function I was learning. But I'm really looking forward to
my second lesson on the computer // now that I've mastered
plugging it in.)) //
Our education strategy doesn't try to impose a program on
everyone. It issues a challenge: Let's reinvent American
education by the year 2000. We need your help -- to achieve the
long graduation lines today that mean short unemployment lines
tomorrow. // We need your involvement -- to ensure that
education uplifts every American -- our most enduring legacy,
vital to everything we are and can become. //
When children are at risk, America is at risk. That's why
programs like your's not only salvage lives in the present --
they strengthen us for the future. //
The poet Robert Lowell once wrote, "If youth be a defect, it
is one we outgrow too soon." Leaving school is a defect from
which many kids never recover. Together, let us develop an
educational system that will enrich life in America -- so that
America can enrich the world.
Thank you for coming here. God bless you, and God bless
America.
ungagement
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Document No. 23387255
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
APR 29 P4: 17
DATE: 4/29/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: WEDNESDAY, 5/1/91 2:00 pn
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CITIES IN SCHOOLS
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
PETERSMEYER
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
SMITH
BROMLEY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930, no
later than 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 1, with a copy to this office.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
91 APR 29 PM 26
Draft Four
April 29, 1991
CITY
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CITIES IN SCHOOLS
EAST ROOM
MONDAY, MAY 6, 1991
4:00 P.M.
Members of the Cities in Schools International Board Summit.
Leaders of the corporate, foundation, and government communities.
Dr. [Ernest] Boyer, Burt Bacharach, Herb Alpert, Lionel Richie,
and Quincy Jones. Ladies and gentlemen. /
It is a pleasure to join my ambassador of education in
welcoming you to the White House. ((I often say Barbara should
have been a teacher. She taught Millie how to write a book.) ) //
Together, we're here to salute what in the 1988 campaign I named
as one of America's great "points of light" -- Cities in Schools.
( (Sometimes, I kid Barbara that when it comes to CIS, she's
spent more time on the road than Charles Kuralt.) ) // It's been
time well-spent, believe me. / Perhaps no organization has done
more to keep at-risk youngsters in school. None has taken more
kids from the inner cities of America to the outer limits of
education. //
Your network of dropout and prevention programs have helped
keep youngsters in school. 11 In 36 different communities you
confront such problems as substance abuse, pregnancy, illiteracy,
and family crises. You try, in word and deed, to prove that any
definition of a successful life must include serving others. //
2
You have an impressive reach, as a few facts show. Almost
300 agencies are involved in CIS activities. You grace 262
school sites. Your programs reach nearly 130 communities. /
The result? Last year alone, 33,000 at-risk students stayed in
school thanks to the efforts of local workers. CIS workers acted
not just for themselves, but for their neighbors -- and their
nation.
I've talked before about doing "the hard work of freedom."
That's what you do every time you help a child learn. Kids who
turn their backs on education look at life through a rear-view
mirror. They don't see opportunities ahead. Nor do they see the
dangers that await those who choose lives of listlessness or
crime. You try to turn them around, to give them a clear view of
the road ahead. We all can learn from your example. As a nation
we must mount a crusade to but prepare our children and ourselves
for the exciting future that lies ahead. //
Two weeks ago, we announced a comprehensive new education
strategy to reach that objective. We term it America 2000. / It
seeks to nurture our greatest national resource -- our
intelligence, ingenuity -- the capacity of the human mind. //
The strategy is simple: For today's students, we must make
existing schools better and more accountable. / For tomorrow's
students, the next generation, we must create a new generation of
American schools. / For all of us, for the adults who thought
our school days are over, we've got to become a nation of
3
students. / Finally, outside our schools we must cultivate
communities where learning can occur. //
Learning is indeed a life-long process. ((For instance, I'm
trying to be computer-literate, and recently had my first lesson
on a "P.C." I admit, it took me about 15 minutes to figure out
the function I was learning. But I'm really looking forward to
my second lesson on the computer // now that I've mastered
plugging it in.)) //
Our education strategy doesn't try to impose a program on
everyone. It issues a challenge: Let's reinvent American
education by the year 2000. We need your help -- to achieve the
long graduation lines today that mean short unemployment lines
tomorrow. // We need your involvement -- to ensure that
education uplifts every American -- our most enduring legacy,
vital to everything we are and can become. //
When children are at risk, America is at risk. That's why
programs like your's not only salvage lives in the present --
they strengthen us for the future. //
The poet Robert Lowell once wrote, "If youth be a defect, it
is one we outgrow too soon." Leaving school is a defect from
which many kids never recover. Together, let us develop an
educational system that will enrich life in America -- so that
America can enrich the world.
Thank you for coming here. God bless you, and God bless
America.
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#
Document No. 23387255
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
APR 30 P12: 37
DATE: 4/29/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: WEDNESDAY, 5/1/91 2:00 pm
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CITIES IN SCHOOLS
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
PETERSMEYER
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
SMITH
BROMLEY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930, no
later than 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 1, with a copy to this office.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
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D&
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
Draft Four
91 APR 29 PM 1: 26
April 29, 1991
CITY
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CITIES IN SCHOOLS
EAST ROOM
MONDAY, MAY 6, 1991
4:00 P.M.
Members of the Cities in Schools International Board Summit.
Leaders of the corporate, foundation, and government communities.
Dr. [Ernest] Boyer, Burt Bacharach, Herb Alpert, Lionel Richie,
and Quincy Jones. Ladies and gentlemen. /
It is a pleasure to join my ambassador of education in
welcoming you to the White House. ((I often say Barbara should
have been a teacher. She taught Millie how to write a book. )) 11
Together, we're here to salute what in the 1988 campaign I named
as one of America's great "points of light" -- Cities in Schools.
((Sometimes, I kid Barbara that when it comes to CIS, she's
spent more time on the road than Charles Kuralt.) ) 11 It's been
time well-spent, believe me. / Perhaps no organization has done
more to keep at-risk youngsters in school. None has taken more
kids from the inner cities of America to the outer limits of
education. //
Your network of dropout and prevention programs have helped
keep youngsters in school. // In 36 different communities you
confront such problems as substance abuse, pregnancy, illiteracy,
and family crises. You try, in word and deed, to prove that any
definition of a successful life must include serving others. 11
2
You have an impressive reach, as a few facts show. Almost
300 agencies are involved in CIS activities. You grace 262
school sites. Your programs reach nearly 130 communities. /
The result? Last year alone, 33,000 at-risk students stayed in
school thanks to the efforts of local workers. CIS workers acted
not just for themselves, but for their neighbors -- and their
nation.
I've talked before about doing "the hard work of freedom."
That's what you do every time you help a child learn. Kids who
turn their backs on education look at life through a rear-view
mirror. They don't see opportunities ahead. Nor do they see the
dangers that await those who choose lives of listlessness or
crime. You try to turn them around, to give them a clear view of
the road ahead. We all can learn from your example. As a nation
we must mount a crusade to but prepare our children and ourselves
for the exciting future that lies ahead. 11
Two weeks ago, we announced a comprehensive new education
strategy to reach that objective. We term it America 2000. / It
seeks to nurture our greatest national resource -- our
intelligence, ingenuity -- the capacity of the human mind. //
The strategy is simple: For today's students, we must make
existing schools better and more accountable. / For tomorrow's
students, the next generation, we must create a new generation of
American schools. / For all of us, for the adults who thought
our school days are over, we've got to become a nation of
3
students. / Finally, outside our schools we must cultivate
communities where learning can occur. //
Learning is indeed a life-long process. ((For instance, I'm
trying to be computer-literate, and recently had my first lesson
on a "P.C." I admit, it took me about 15 minutes to figure out
the function I was learning. But I'm really looking forward to
my second lesson on the computer // now that I've mastered
plugging it in.) ) //
Our education strategy doesn't try to impose a program on
everyone. It issues a challenge: Let's reinvent American
education by the year 2000. We need your help -- to achieve the
long graduation lines today that mean short unemployment lines
tomorrow. // We need your involvement -- to ensure that
education uplifts every American -- our most enduring legacy,
vital to everything we are and can become. //
When children are at risk, America is at risk. That's why
programs like your's not only salvage lives in the present --
they strengthen us for the future. //
The poet Robert Lowell once wrote, "If youth be a defect, it
is one we outgrow too soon. "
Leaving school is a defect from
which many kids never recover. Together, let us develop an
educational system that will enrich life in America -- so that
America can enrich the world.
Thank you for coming here. God bless you, and God bless
America.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
91 APR 30 pl: 49
WASHINGTON
April 30, 1991
MEMORANDUM FOR TONY SNOW
DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
FOR COMMUNICATIONS, DIRECTOR OF SPEECHWRITING
FROM:
ASSOCIATE COUNSEL MY TO THE PRESIDENT
NELSON LUND
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks: Cities in Schools
At the request of Phillip D. Brady, Counsel's office has reviewed
the captioned remarks. We have no legal objections.
We appreciate the opportunity to review this matter.
CC: Phillip D. Brady
Document No. 23387255
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 4/29/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: WEDNESDAY, 5/1/91 2:00 pm
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CITIES IN SCHOOLS
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
PETERSMEYER
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
SMITH
BROMLEY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930, no
later than 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 1, with a copy to this office.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
OKS.R,
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
Draft Four
91 APR 29 PM 26
April 29, 1991
CITY
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CITIES IN SCHOOLS
EAST ROOM
MONDAY, MAY 6, 1991
4:00 P.M.
Members of the Cities in Schools International Board Summit.
Leaders of the corporate, foundation, and government communities.
Dr. [Ernest] Boyer, Burt Bacharach, Herb Alpert, Lionel Richie,
and Quincy Jones. Ladies and gentlemen. /
It is a pleasure to join my ambassador of education in
welcoming you to the White House. ((I often say Barbara should
have been a teacher. She taught Millie how to write a book.) ) 11
Together, we're here to salute what in the 1988 campaign I named
as one of America's great "points of light" -- Cities in Schools.
( (Sometimes, I kid Barbara that when it comes to CIS, she's
spent more time on the road than Charles Kuralt. )) 11 It's been
time well-spent, believe me. / Perhaps no organization has done
more to keep at-risk youngsters in school. None has taken more
kids from the inner cities of America to the outer limits of
education. //
Your network of dropout and prevention programs have helped
keep youngsters in school. 11 In 36 different communities you
confront such problems as substance abuse, pregnancy, illiteracy,
and family crises. You try, in word and deed, to prove that any
definition of a successful life must include serving others. 11
2
You have an impressive reach, as a few facts show. Almost
300 agencies are involved in CIS activities. You grace 262
school sites. Your programs reach nearly 130 communities. /
The result? Last year alone, 33,000 at-risk students stayed in
school thanks to the efforts of local workers. CIS workers acted
not just for themselves, but for their neighbors -- and their
nation.
I've talked before about doing "the hard work of freedom. II
That's what you do every time you help a child learn. Kids who
turn their backs on education look at life through a rear-view
mirror. They don't see opportunities ahead. Nor do they see the
dangers that await those who choose lives of listlessness or
crime. You try to turn them around, to give them a clear view of
the road ahead. We all can learn from your example. As a nation
we must mount a crusade to but prepare our children and ourselves
for the exciting future that lies ahead. 11
Two weeks ago, we announced a comprehensive new education
strategy to reach that objective. We term it America 2000. / It
seeks to nurture our greatest national resource -- our
intelligence, ingenuity -- the capacity of the human mind. 77
The strategy is simple: For today's students, we must make
existing schools better and more accountable. / For tomorrow's
students, the next generation, we must create a new generation of
American schools. / For all of us, for the adults who thought
our school days are over, we've got to become a nation of
3
students. / Finally, outside our schools we must cultivate
communities where learning can occur. //
Learning is indeed a life-long process. ((For instance, I'm
trying to be computer-literate, and recently had my first lesson
on a "P.C." I admit, it took me about 15 minutes to figure out
the function I was learning. But I'm really looking forward to
my second lesson on the computer // now that I've mastered
plugging it in.) ) //
Our education strategy doesn't try to impose a program on
everyone. It issues a challenge: Let's reinvent American
education by the year 2000. We need your help -- to achieve the
long graduation lines today that mean short unemployment lines
tomorrow. // We need your involvement -- to ensure that
education uplifts every American -- our most enduring legacy,
vital to everything we are and can become. //
When children are at risk, America is at risk. That's why
programs like your's not only salvage lives in the present --
they strengthen us for the future. //
The poet Robert Lowell once wrote, "If youth be a defect, it
is one we outgrow too soon." Leaving school is a defect from
which many kids never recover. Together, let us develop an
educational system that will enrich life in America -- so that
America can enrich the world.
Thank you for coming here. God bless you, and God bless
America.
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