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cripple Hong Kong -- a bastion of freedom and free trade and
investor in South China's export industries. // Moreover, I
recognized what many critics of MFN have either forgotten or
never knew. To influence China, one cannot isolate China. //
This Nation's foreign policy has always been more than an
expression of American interests. It is an extension of American
principles.
This moral dimension requires us to advance the
cause of freedom by understanding that often countries confront
like ours (Ported
moral ambiguity. Some argue that a nation as moral and just as
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ours should not taint itself by dealing with nations less moral
and just. But this counsel offers up self-righteousness draped
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sawas
high
accounted for many of the casualties of Tienanmen Square. //
Is it enough? Not nearly -- and we will continue to urge
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China to internally reform and externally rejoin the community of
nations. We cannot be sure of success. We can be sure that
the movement for reform in China
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2
between East Asia and the United States would die a certain death
will be set -back, not advanced. That is not in the interest
through of the critics Chinese who people now denounce and MFN it certainly is not in the
interest of the United States of America.
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it. Trade and people-to-people exchanges are an important
force for positive change in China. Trade with the United
States has strengthened the market-oriented provinces of
Southern China. Cutting off trade would leave them vulnerable
to the hardline government bureaucrats in Beijing. I know that
many of you have visited your families in China. You have
helped to spread American ideas -- democracy, human rights,
free enterprise. We should not invite conflicts that cut off
exchanges of goods and people that are positive forces for
freedom and change."
Explanation: Most Chinese-Americans come from the
Southern provinces who would be most hurt by revoking MFN.
Many have family back there. Opportunities for emigration and
visits back-and-forth are very important from a family
perspective and could be put at risk by MFN revocation.
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I spoke earlier of the ideals which enrich the Asian/Pacific
community. Let me close with a passage from a Chinese author --
Lin Yutang -- who wrote brilliantly of their importance. //
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goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't Ney believe in the good
old words because we don't believe in the good old values.' //
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Asian-Americans have always believed in these values.
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to join a cause larger than ourselves. God bless what you done
for our country, and thank you for this occasion. And God bless
the Nation you so richly love -- the United States of America.
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through wngagement with China -- and in response to my
extending MFN last year -- Professor Fang Lizhi is free today in
this country. he even enjoys that presious freedom -- the
freedom to differ publicly with this country policies, as he has
done before the Congress. I have another example of the benefit
of engagement, no matter how distasteful we may find dealing with
those who violate human rights. Last year, over strong
objections in the Congress and in the nation at large, I vetoed
the Pelosi Bill, legislation inteneded to protect student in this
country. If that bill had become law, I am convinced Beijing
would have seized on it as a pretext to end the practie of
permitting Chinese young people to study in tehUntied States.
Instead, I extended even greater protections than provided in the
Pelosi Bill through and Executive Order. The results of
continued engagement are clear: in the last year above, the
number of visas issued to Chinese students and scholars to study
in the United States was 11, 500. That's 11,500 opportunties
fulfilled that might have been forgone if we did not stay
engaged.
Document No. 245053SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
91 JUN 12 P7:19
DATE: 6/11/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: WEDNESDAY 6/12/91 3:00p.m
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ASIA/PACIFIC RALLY
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 3:00 p.m., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 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)
91 JUN I Fill2:26
June 11, 1991
Draft Three
PACIFIC
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ASIA/PACIFIC RALLY
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1991
Yee Hang Chang -- the first Hmong from Laos to graduate from
the United States Military Academy -- thank you for that
introduction. / Mr. Kwan, Miss Nahkirunkanok [NA Kee-run-kah-
nook), Elizabeth Szu (SOO), Inder Singh (SING), Ky (KEE) Ngo (Nn-
GO), John Tsu (soo), my fellow Americans. //
An Oriental proverb says, "The two words, 'peace' and
'tranquility,' are worth a thousand pieces of gold." My pleasure
in being here is worth a thousand times that total. //
((This is one of the largest crowds I've spoken to since my
election to the Presidency. // Actually, since we are on a golf
course, I'm used to crowds this size. Last time I played, it
took this many people to help find my ball.) ) //
((I'm also glad to be with you on Father's Day. / I'm like
many dads. My kids know me as a Father who guided them through
life by using those three magic words, "Ask your mother." // Let
me say, too, that as someone who's just had a birthday, it's a
pleasure to be with people whose culture reveres old age.) //
Most of all, I am proud to have the chance to salute the
various ethnic groups who form the Asian/Pacific community.
Groups diverse in name but united by ideals. Ideals like belief
in work. Discipline, self-sacrifice, and a love of freedom. /
2
They are ideals which brought your grand-parents, parents, and
some of you to America. Ideals which are now uplifting America. / /
For more than 200 years, this Nation has been the home of
free markets and free people. There is no question: Opportunity
in America is the envy of the world. // You came in search of
opportunity -- and you're finding it. You came to build a better
America -- and you're building it. // You've enhanced our
schools, our professions, our small and large businesses. For
the Asian/Pacific community, growth is not a codeword. It is a
watchword which has helped enrich the American community. //
Consider how according to Census data on average family
incomes, Japanese Americans and Asian Indians have made the
American Dream reality. // Or how the latest National Assessment
of Educational Progress shows Asian-Americans excelling in
subjects such as math. // Yet the best is still ahead. Over the
past decade, the Asian/Pacific community has grown by 105 per
cent -- faster than any group. I look forward to more pioneers
like An Wang, founder of Wang Laboratories, and Henry Tang and
I.M. Pei and physicist Leo Esaki. They know how merit and
opportunity begets the growth that is America. //
( (Let me tell a story of a restaurant in China where three
American tourists walked in. They were wearing the most
outrageous safari clothes / complete with Panama hats, backpacks,
video cameras, and a few Chinese phrases picked up from a
stateside friend who happens to own a wok. )) //
3
((The friends stood around looking for a waiter, and finally
one asked in a loud voice: "How do we attract attention?") )
That's one way to attract attention. You've chosen another way.
// You haven't asked what government can do for you. You've
asked what you can do -- for yourself -- for your family and your
community. //
seally y5178
your community understands
No people understands more than Asians what really counts
competence, not color. You know what matters is the human heart
and will -- not sex or creed or national orgin. // Historically,
Americans have thought of themselves not as special interest
groups -- one pitted against the other -- but as individuals --
judged by what we are, and what we dream. // Some propose
policies that judge people by the pigment of their skin. I say -
- as you do -- what we need are equal rights for all Americans -
- not preferential treatment for some. //
You know what I'm talking about: Quotas that harm talented
Americans like the thousands of Asian students in our
universities who study science and engineering. // Our
Administration has a splendid record on civil rights. We have
nurtured equality of opportunity and equality under the law.
That is why I will not sign any Civil Rights bill which allows
quotas -- explicitly, or implicitly. / Nor will our
Administration support the practice of "race-norming" -- which
insults minorities by separating their test scores from whites.
Race-norming drives Americans apart instead of bringing them
together. //
4
Our Administration will fight any legislation that lessens
opportunity for the Asian/Pacific community. / Instead, we
propose actions that broaden opportunity. Because education is
the great uplifter, we have launched the America 2000 Education
strategy. / And I am proud to have named more Asians to top
management and advisory roles than any President in history / the
first Asian deputy secretary of a Cabinet department / the first
Asian-American as an ambassador. // I am proud not because they
were Asian -- but because they were the best men and women for
the job. //
At home, our policies will spur justice and prosperity. Let
me speak now of an area abroad where the same equation holds. I
refer to East Asia, and how this dynamic region can spur
America's growth. //
Already, our trans-Pacific trade as a whole has more than
doubled that between America and Europe. In 1990, we exported to
Singapore more than to Spain or Italy / to Malaysia more than to
the Soviet Union / to Indonesia more than to all or Central
Europe. // The FAA also estimates that by 1993 traffic on
Pacific routes will surpass the Atlantic on a passenger mile
basis. // Consider, too, that more than 1,200 U.S. companies
have invested over $4 billion in the People's Republic of China
-- and that China buys about $5 billion worth of American
products -- from computers to cotton. Take away these products -
- and you take American jobs. //
5
Two weeks ago, I moved to expand this growth by extending
Most Favored Nation status to China. I knew that ending MFN
would dramatically increase the cost of Chinese imports, and also
cripple Hong Kong -- a bastion of freedom and free trade and
investor in South China's export industries. // Moreover, I
recognized what many critics of MFN have either forgotten or
never knew. To influence China, one cannot isolate China. //
This Nation's foreign policy has always been more than an
expression of American interests. It is an extension of American
principles. This moral dimension requires us to advance the
cause of freedom by understanding that often countries confront
moral ambiguity. Some argue that a nation as moral and just as
ours should not taint itself by dealing with nations less moral
and just. But this counsel offers up self-righteousness draped
in a false morality. You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
// This is the reason we have taken an intelligent stand on
China -- not grandstand at liberty's expense. / Here are the
results: Between 1988 and 1990, emigration from China rose by 84
per cent; prominent dissidents were released; and the regime has
accounted for many of the casualties of Tienanmen Square. //
Is it enough? Not nearly -- and we will continue to urge
China to internally reform and externally rejoin the community of
nations. We cannot be sure of success. We can be sure that
without American dialogue, the free exchange of goods and ideas
between East Asia and the United States would die a certain death
through critics who now denounce MFN. //
6
I spoke earlier of the ideals which enrich the Asian/Pacific
community. Let me close with a passage from a Chinese author --
Lin Yutang -- who wrote brilliantly of their importance. //
"Today," he said, "we are afraid of the simple words like
goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good
old words because we don't believe in the good old values. II //
Asian-Americans have always believed in these values.
Respect for dignity / the primacy of the individual / the need
to join a cause larger than ourselves. God bless what you done
for our country, and thank you for this occasion. And God bless
the Nation you so richly love -- the United States of America.
#
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
June 12, 1991
9/JUN12 P5:38
MEMORANDUM FOR TONY SNOW
FROM:
ROGER B. PORTER RBP/CMS
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks: Asia/Pacific Rally
We have reviewed the attached remarks and have noted
several suggested changes on the draft.
Please let us know if you have any questions or if we may
help in any other way.
CC: Phillip D. Brady
Document No. 245053SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 6/11/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: WEDNESDAY 6/12/91 3:00p.m
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ASIA/PACIFIC RALLY
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
PETERSMEYER
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
SMITH
A
BROMLEY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930,
no later than 3:00 p.m., . WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, with a copy to this
office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
91 JUN 11 FM12:26
June 11, 1991
Draft Three
PACIFIC
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ASIA/PACIFIC RALLY
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1991
Yee Hang Chang -- the first Hmong from Laos to graduate from
the United States Military Academy -- thank you for that
introduction. / Mr. Kwan, Miss Nahkirunkanok [NA Kee-run-kah-
nook), Elizabeth Szu (SOO), Inder Singh (SING), Ky (KEE) Ngo (Nn-
GO), John Tsu ($00), my fellow Americans. //
An Oriental proverb says, "The two words, 'peace' and
'tranquility,' are worth a thousand pieces of gold." My pleasure
in being here is worth a thousand times that total. //
((This is one of the largest crowds I've spoken to since my
election to the Presidency. // Actually, since we are on a golf
course, I'm used to crowds this size. Last time I played, it
took this many people to help find my ball. )) //
((I'm also glad to be with you on Father's Day. / I'm like
many dads. My kids know me as a Father who guided them through
life by using those three magic words, "Ask your mother." // Let
moreme
say, too, that as someone who's just had a birthday, it's a
Asians than
5
to be with people whose culture reveres old age.) ) //
Most of all, I am proud to have the chance to salute the
various ethnic groups who form the Asian/Pacific community.
Groups diverse in name but united by ideals. Ideals like belief
in work. Discipline, self-sacrifice, and a love of freedom. /
beliefin hARD work
2
They are ideals which brought your grand-parents, parents, and
some of you to America. Ideals which are now uplifting America. //
For more than 200 years, this Nation has been the home of
free markets and free people. There is no question: Opportunity
in America is the envy of the world. // You came in search of
opportunity -- and you're finding it. You came to build a better
America -- and you're building it. // You've enhanced our
schools, our professions, our small and large businesses. For
the Asian/Pacific community, growth is not a codeword. It is a
watchword which has helped enrich the American community. //
Consider how according to Census data on average family
incomes, Japanese Americans and Asian Indians have made the
American Dream reality. // or how the latest National Assessment
of Educational Progress shows Asian-Americans excelling in
subjects such as math. // Yet the best is still ahead. Over the
past decade, the Asian/Pacific community has grown by 105 per
cent -- faster than any group. I look forward to more pioneers
like An Wang, founder of Wang Laboratories, and Henry Tang and
NOT
I.M. Pei and physicist Leo Esaki. They know how merit and
ORGENTAL
opportunity begets the growth that is America. //
( (Let me tell a story of a restaurant in China where three
THIS JOKE
American tourists walked in. They were wearing the most
DOESN'T
outrageous safari clothes / complete with Panama hats, backpacks,
MAKE
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video cameras, and a few Chinese phrases picked up from a
stateside friend who happens to own a wok ) //
3
( (The friends stood around looking for a waiter, and finally
one asked in a loud voice: "How do we attract attention?") )
That's one way to attract attention. You've chosen another way.
// You haven't asked what government can do for you. You've
asked what you can do -- for yourself -- for your family and your
community. //
No people understands more than Asians what really counts:
competence, not color. You know what matters is the human heart
GENDER
and will -- not sex or creed or national orgin. // Historically,
Americans have thought of themselves not as special interest
groups -- one pitted against the other -- but as individuals --
judged by what we are, and what we dream. // Some propose
policies that judge people by the pigment of their skin. I say -
- as you do -- what we need are equal rights for all Americans -
- not preferential treatment for some. //
You know what I'm talking about: Quotas that harm talented
like the thousands of Asian students in our
THEY
and are
who study science and engineering // Our
Administration has a splendid record on civil rights. We have
nurtured equality of opportunity and equality under the law.
That is why I will not sign any Civil Rights bill which allows
quotas -- explicitly, or implicitly. / Nor will our
Administration support the practice of "race-norming" -- which
insults minorities by separating their test scores from whites.
Race-norming drives Americans apart instead of bringing them
together. //
4
Our Administration will fight any legislation that lessens
opportunity for the Asian/Pacific community. / Instead, we
propose actions that broaden opportunity. Because education is
the great uplifter, we have launched the America 2000 Education
strategy. / And I am proud to have named more Asians to top
management and advisory roles than any President in history / the
first Asian deputy secretary of a Cabinet department / the first
Asian-American as an ambassador. // I am proud not because they
were Asian -- but because they were the best men and women A for
A
the job. //
At home, our policies will spur justice and prosperity. Let
me speak now of an area abroad where the same equation holds. I
refer to East Asia, and how this dynamic region can spur
America's growth. //
Already, our trans-Pacific trade as a whole has more than
doubled that between America and Europe. In 1990, we exported to
Singapore more than to Spain or Italy / to Malaysia more than to
the Soviet Union / to Indonesia more than to all or Central
Europe. // The FAA also estimates that by 1993 traffic on
Pacific routes will surpass the Atlantic on a passenger mile
basis. // Consider, too, that more than 1,200 U.S. companies
have invested over $4 billion in the People's Republic of China
-- and that China buys about $5 billion worth of American
products -- from computers to cotton. Take away these products -
- and you take American jobs. //
5
Two weeks ago, I moved to expand this growth by extending
Most Favored Nation status to China. I knew that ending MFN
would dramatically increase the cost of Chinese imports, and also
cripple Hong Kong -- a bastion of freedom and free trade and
investor in South China's export industries. // Moreover, I
recognized what many critics of MFN have either forgotten or
never knew. To influence China, one cannot isolate China. //
This Nation's foreign policy has always been more than an
expression of American interests. It is an extension of American
principles. This moral dimension requires us to advance the
like ours
S.
cause of freedom by understanding that often countries/confront
moral ambiguity. Some argue that a nation as moral and just as
ours should not taint itself by dealing with nations less moral
and just. But this counsel offers up self-righteousness draped
in a false morality. You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
// This is the reason we have taken an intelligent stand on
China -- not grandstand at liberty's expense. / Here are the
results: Between 1988 and 1990, emigration from China rose by 84
per cent; prominent dissidents were released; and the regime has
accounted for many of the casualties of Tienanmen Square. //
Is it enough? Not nearly -- and we will continue to urge
China to
internally
reform and externally rejoin the community of
nations. We cannot be sure of success. We can be sure that
without American dialogue, the free exchange of goods and ideas
between East Asia and the United States would die a certain death
through critics who now denounce MFN. //
6
I spoke earlier of the ideals which enrich the Asian/Pacific
community. Let me close with a passage from a Chinese author --
Lin Yutang -- who wrote brilliantly of their importance. //
"Today," he said, "we are afraid of the simple words like
goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good
old words because we don't believe in the good old values. " //
Asian-Americans have always believed in these values.
Respect for dignity / the primacy of the individual / the need
to join a cause larger than ourselves. God bless what you done
for our country, and thank you for this occasion. And God bless
the Nation you so richly love -- the United States of America.
#
#
#
#
Document No. 245053SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
91 JUN 12
DATE: 6/11/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: WEDNESDAY 6/12/91 3:00p.m.
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ASIA/PACIFIC RALLY
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
PETERSMEYER
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
SMITH
A
BROMLEY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930,
no later than 3:00 p.m., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, with a copy to this
office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
91 JUN 11 Fil 12: 26
June 11, 1991
Draft Three
PACIFIC
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ASIA/PACIFIC RALLY
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1991
Yee Hang Chang -- the first Hmong from Laos to graduate from
the United States Military Academy -- thank you for that
introduction. / Mr. Kwan, Miss Nahkirunkanok [NA Kee-run-kah-
nook), Elizabeth Szu (soo), Inder Singh (SING), Ky (KEE) Ngo (Nn-
GO), John Tsu (SOO), my fellow Americans. //
An Oriental proverb says, "The two words, 'peace' and
'tranquility,' are worth a thousand pieces of gold." My pleasure
in being here is worth a thousand times that total. //
((This is one of the largest crowds I've spoken to since my
election to the Presidency. // Actually, since we are on a golf
course, I'm used to crowds this size. Last time I played, it
took this many people to help find my ball.) ) //
((I'm also glad to be with you on Father's Day. / I'm like
many dads. My kids know me as a Father who guided them through
life by using those three magic words, "Ask your mother." // Let
me say, too, that as someone who's just had a birthday, it's a
pleasure to be with people whose cultures reveres old age.)) //
Most of all, I am proud to have the chance to salute the
various ethnic groups who form the Asian/Pacific community.
Groups diverse in name but united by ideals. Ideals like belief
in work. Discipline, self-sacrifice, and a love of freedom. /
5
acted
continue
Two weeks ago, trade I moved to expand this growth by extending for
amother
Most Favored Nationstatus. to China. I knew that ending MFN
would dramatically increase the cost of Chinese imports, and also
cripple Hong Kong -- a bastion of freedom and free trade and
investor in South China's export industries. // Moreover, I
recognized what many critics of MFN have either forgotten or
never knew. To influence China, one cannot isolate China. //
This Nation's foreign policy has always been more than an
expression of American interests. It is an extension of American
principles. This moral dimension requires us to advance the
cause of freedom by understanding that often countries confront
moral ambiguity. Some argue that a nation as moral and just as
ours should not taint itself by dealing with nations less moral
and just. But this counsel offers up self-righteousness draped
in a false morality. You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
// This is the reason we have taken an intelligent stand on
China -- not grandstand at liberty's expense. / Here are the
results: Between 1988 and 1990, emigration from China rose by 84
per cent; prominent dissidents were released; and the regime has
accounted for many of the casualties of Tienanmen Square. //
Is it enough? Not nearly -- and we will continue to urge
China to internally reform and externally rejoin the community of
nations. We cannot be sure of success. We can be sure that
without American dialogue, the free exchange of goods and ideas
between East Asia and the United States would die a certain death
through critics who now denounce MFN. //
Forthe files
FAXed 6/3/303
Document No. 245053SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 6/11/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: WEDNESDAY 6/12/91 3:00p.m
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ASIA/PACIFIC RALLY
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 3:00 p.m., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, with a copy to this
office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
App
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
91 JUN 11 Fill2:26
June 11, 1991
Draft Three
PACIFIC
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ASIA/PACIFIC RALLY
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1991
Yee Hang Chang -- the first Hmong from Laos to graduate from
the United States Military Academy -- thank you for that
introduction. / Mr. Kwan, Miss Nahkirunkanok [NA Kee-run-kah-
nook), Elizabeth Szu (SOO), Inder Singh (SING), Ky (KEE) Ngo (Nn-
GO), John Tsu (SOO), my fellow Americans. //
An Oriental proverb says, "The two words, 'peace' and
'tranquility,' are worth a thousand pieces of gold." My pleasure
in being here is worth a thousand times that total. //
((This is one of the largest crowds I've spoken to since my
election to the Presidency. // Actually, since we are on a golf
course, I'm used to crowds this size. Last time I played, it
took this many people to help find my ball.) ) //
((I'm also glad to be with you on Father's Day. / I'm like
many dads. My kids know me as a Father who guided them through
life by using those three magic words, "Ask your mother." // Let
me say, too, that as someone who's just had a birthday, it's a
pleasure to be with people whose culture reveres old age.)) //
Most of all, I am proud to have the chance to salute the
various ethnic groups who form the Asian/Pacific community.
Groups diverse in name but united by ideals. Ideals like belief
in work. Discipline, self-sacrifice, and a love of freedom. /
2
They are ideals which brought your grand-parents, parents, and
some of you to America. Ideals which are now uplifting America. / /
For more than 200 years, this Nation has been the home of
free markets and free people. There is no question: Opportunity
in America is the envy of the world. // You came in search of
opportunity -- and you're finding it. You came to build a better
America -- and you're building it. // You've enhanced our
schools, our professions, our small and large businesses. For
the Asian/Pacific community, growth is not a codeword. It is a
watchword which has helped enrich the American community. //
Consider how according to Census data on average family
incomes, Japanese Americans and Asian Indians have made the
American Dream reality. // or how the latest National Assessment
of Educational Progress shows Asian-Americans excelling in
subjects such as math. // Yet the best is still ahead. Over the
past decade, the Asian/Pacific community has grown by 105 per
cent -- faster than any group. I look forward to more pioneers
like An Wang, founder of Wang Laboratories, and Henry Tang and
I.M. Pei and physicist Leo Esaki. They know how merit and
opportunity begets the growth that is America. //
( (Let me tell a story of a restaurant in China where three
American tourists walked in. They were wearing the most
outrageous safari clothes / complete with Panama hats, backpacks,
video cameras, and a few Chinese phrases picked up from a
stateside friend who happens to own a wok.) ) //
3
((The friends stood around looking for a waiter, and finally
one asked in a loud voice: "How do we attract attention?") )
That's one way to attract attention. You've chosen another way.
// You haven't asked what government can do for you. You've
asked what you can do -- for yourself -- for your family and your
community. //
No people understands more than Asians what really counts:
competence, not color. You know what matters is the human heart
and will -- not sex or creed or national orgin. // Historically,
Americans have thought of themselves not as special interest
groups -- one pitted against the other -- but as individuals --
judged by what we are, and what we dream. // Some propose
policies that judge people by the pigment of their skin. I say -
- as you do -- what we need are equal rights for all Americans -
- not preferential treatment for some. //
You know what I'm talking about: Quotas that harm talented
Americans like the thousands of Asian students in our
universities who study science and engineering. // Our
Administration has a splendid record on civil rights. We have
nurtured equality of opportunity and equality under the law.
That is why I will not sign any Civil Rights bill which allows
quotas -- explicitly, or implicitly. / Nor will our
Administration support the practice of "race-norming" -- which
insults minorities by separating their test scores from whites.
Race-norming drives Americans apart instead of bringing them
together. //
4
Our Administration will fight any legislation that lessens
opportunity for the Asian/Pacific community. / Instead, we
propose actions that broaden opportunity. Because education is
the great uplifter, we have launched the America 2000 Education
strategy. / And I am proud to have named more Asians to top
management and advisory roles than any President in history / the
first Asian deputy secretary of a Cabinet department / the first
Asian-American as an ambassador. // I am proud not because they
were Asian -- but because they were the best men and women for
the job. //
ensure
At home, our policies will spur justice and prosperity. Let
me speak now of an area abroad where the same equation holds. I
refer to East Asia, and how this dynamic region can spur
America's growth. //
Already, our trans-Pacific trade as a whole has more than
doubled that between America and Europe. In 1990, we exported to
Singapore more than to Spain or Italy / to Malaysia more than to
the Soviet Union / to Indonesia more than to all or Central
Europe. // The FAA also estimates that by 1993 traffic on
Pacific routes will surpass the Atlantic on a passenger mile
basis. // Consider, too, that more than 1,200 U.S. companies
have invested over $4 billion in the People's Republic of China
-- and that China buys about $5 billion worth of American
products -- from computers to cotton. Take away these products -
- and you take American jobs. //
5
Two weeks ago, I moved to expand this growth by extending
Most Favored Nation status to China. I knew that ending MFN
would dramatically increase the cost of Chinese imports, and also
cripple Hong Kong -- a bastion of freedom and free trade and
investor in South China's export industries. // Moreover, I
recognized what many critics of MFN have either forgotten or
never knew. To influence China, one cannot isolate China. //
This Nation's foreign policy has always been more than an
expression of American interests. It is an extension of American
principles. This moral dimension requires us to advance the
cause of freedom by understanding that often countries confront
moral ambiguity. Some argue that a nation as moral and just as
ours should not taint itself by dealing with nations less moral
and just. But this counsel offers up self-righteousness draped
in a false morality. You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
// This is the reason we have taken an intelligent stand on
China -- not grandstand at liberty's expense. / Here are the
results: Between 1988 and 1990, emigration from China rose by 84
per cent; prominent dissidents were released; and the regime has
accounted for many of the casualties of Tienanmen Square. //
Is it enough? Not nearly -- and we will continue to urge
China to internally reform and externally rejoin the community of
nations. We cannot be sure of success. We can be sure that
without American dialogue, the free exchange of goods and ideas
the movement for reform on
Clima will be set back not advanced. That
between East Asia and the United States would die a certain death
through is not critics in the who interest now denounce of the MFN. Chinese people and
it certainly is not in the interest 88 the
United Stats of Ameria.
6
I spoke earlier of the ideals which enrich the Asian/Pacific
community. Let me close with a passage from a Chinese author --
Lin Yutang -- who wrote brilliantly of their importance. //
"Today," he said, "we are afraid of the simple words like
goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good
old words because we don't believe in the good old values. " //
Asian-Americans have always believed in these values.
Respect for dignity / the primacy of the individual / the need
to join a cause larger than ourselves. God bless what you done
for our country, and thank you for this occasion. And God bless
the Nation you so richly love -- the United States of America.
#
#
#
#
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
91 JUNiT P3: 46
DATE: 6/11/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: WEDNESDAY 6/12/91 3:00p.n
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ASIA/PACIFIC RALLY
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 3:00 p.m., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, with a copy to this
office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
su consuments
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
91 JUN 11 Fi112: 26
June 11, 1991
Draft Three
PACIFIC
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ASIA/PACIFIC RALLY
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1991
Yee Hang Chang -- the first Hmong from Laos to graduate from
the United States Military Academy -- thank you for that
introduction. / Mr. Kwan, Miss Nahkirunkanok [NA Kee-run-kah-
nook), Elizabeth Szu (SOO), Inder Singh (SING), Ky (KEE) Ngo (Nn-
GO), John Tsu (SOO), my fellow Americans. //
An Oriental proverb says, "The two words, 'peace' and
'tranquility,' are worth a thousand pieces of gold." My pleasure
in being here is worth a thousand times that total. //
((This is one of the largest crowds I've spoken to since my
election to the Presidency. // Actually, since we are on a golf
course, I'm used to crowds this size. Last time I played, it
took this many people to help find my ball.) ) //
((I'm also glad to be with you on Father's Day. / I'm like
many dads. My kids know me as a Father who guided them through
life by using those three magic words, "Ask your mother." // Let
me say, too, that as someone who's just had a birthday, it's a
pleasure to be with people whose culture reveres old age.) ) //
Most of all, I am proud to have the chance to salute the
various ethnic groups who form the Asian/Pacific community.
Groups diverse in name but united by ideals. Ideals like belief
in work. Discipline, self-sacrifice, and a love of freedom. /
2
They are ideals which brought your grand-parents, parents, and
some of you to America. Ideals which are now uplifting America. //
For more than 200 years, this Nation has been the home of
free markets and free people. There is no question: Opportunity
in America is the envy of the world. // You came in search of
opportunity -- and you're finding it. You came to build a better
America -- and you're building it. // You've enhanced our
schools, our professions, our small and large businesses. For
the Asian/Pacific community, growth is not a codeword. It is a
watchword which has helped enrich the American community. //
HELP
MAKE AMERICA WHOLE F GOOD.
Consider how according to Census data on average family
incomes, Japanese Americans and Asian Indians have made the
American Dream reality. // or how the latest National Assessment
of Educational Progress shows Asian-Americans excelling in
subjects such as math. // Yet the best is still ahead. Over the
past decade, the Asian/Pacific community has grown by 105 per
cent -- faster than any group. I look forward to more pioneers
like An Wang, founder of Wang Laboratories, and Henry Tang and
I.M. Pei and physicist Leo Esaki. They know how merit and
opportunity begets the growth that is America. //
( (Let me tell a story of a restaurant in China where three
American tourists walked in. They were wearing the most
outrageous safari clothes / complete with Panama hats, backpacks,
video cameras, and a few Chinese phrases picked up from a
stateside friend who happens to own a wok. )) 11
?
3
1
((The friends stood around looking for a waiter, and finally
one asked in a loud voice: "How do we attract attention?") )
Not that
That's one way to attract attention. You've chosen another way.
// You haven't asked what government can do for you. You've
asked what you can do -- for yourself -- for your family and your
community. //
No people understands more than Asians what really counts:
competence, not color. You know what matters is the human heart
and will -- not sex or creed or national orgin. // Historically,
Americans have thought of themselves not as special interest
groups -- one pitted against the other -- but as individuals --
judged by what we are, and what we dream. // Some propose
policies that judge people by the pigment of their skin. I say -
- as you do -- what we need are equal rights for all Americans -
- not preferential treatment for some. //
You know what I'm talking about: Quotas that harm talented
Americans like the thousands of Asian students in our
universities who study science and engineering. // Our
Administration has a splendid record on civil rights. We have
nurtured equality of opportunity and equality under the law.
That is why I will not sign any Civil Rights bill which allows
quotas -- explicitly, or implicitly. / Nor will our
Administration support the practice of "race-norming" -- which
insults minorities by separating their test scores from whites.
Race-norming drives Americans apart instead of bringing them
together. //
must understand that LABOR still
practices "race norming "with GAT8
test- could get nailed on this.'
4
Our Administration will fight any legislation that lessens
opportunity for the Asian/Pacific community. / Instead, we
propose actions that broaden opportunity. Because education is
the great uplifter, we have launched the America 2000 Education
is this
strategy. / And I am proud to have named more Asians to top
management and advisory roles than any President in history / the
first Asian deputy secretary of a Cabinet department / the first
hoth ways
Asian-American as an ambassador. // I am proud not because they
were Asian -- but because they were the best men and women for
the job. //
At home, our policies will spur justice and prosperity. Let
me speak now of an area abroad where the same equation holds. I
refer to East Asia, and how this dynamic region can spur
America's growth. //
Already, our trans-Pacific trade as a whole has more than
doubled that between America and Europe. In 1990, we exported to
Singapore more than to Spain or Italy / to Malaysia more than to
the Soviet Union / to Indonesia more than to all or Central
Europe. // The FAA also estimates that by 1993 traffic on
Pacific routes will surpass the Atlantic on a passenger mile
basis. // Consider, too, that more than 1,200 U.S. companies
have invested over $4 billion in the People's Republic of China
-- and that China buys about $5 billion worth of American
products -- from computers to cotton. Take away these products -
- and you take American jobs. //
I RECOGNICE THIS IS n CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE
But THREE ARE VERY VAMO REASONS WHY
CHINA DESERVES MEN.
5
Two weeks ago, I moved to expand this growth by extending
Most Favored Nation status to China. I knew that ending MFN
would dramatically increase the cost of Chinese imports, and also
cripple Hong Kong -- a bastion of freedom and free trade and
investor in South China's export industries. // Moreover, I
recognized what many critics of MFN have either forgotten or
never knew. To influence China, one cannot isolate China. //
PASS
This Nation's foreign policy has always been more than an
expression of American interests. It is an extension of American
I'I>
mean.,ry 6/THE bn peary
x
principles. This moral dimension requires us to advance the
cause of freedom by understanding that often countries confront
moral ambiguity. Some argue that a nation as moral and just as
ours should not taint itself by dealing with nations less moral
and just. But this counsel offers up self-righteousness draped
in a false morality. You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
// This is the reason we have taken an intelligent stand on
TAUL ABOUT
China -- not grandstand at liberty's expense. / Here are the
results: Between 1988 and 1990, emigration from China rose by 84
VAULITY PLEASONING
per cent; prominent dissidents were released; and the regime has
accounted for many of the casualties of Tienanmen Square. //
Is it enough? Not nearly -- and we will continue to urge
China to internally reform and externally rejoin the community of
nations. We cannot be sure of success. We can be sure that
without American dialogue, the free exchange of goods and ideas
between East Asia and the United States would die a certain death
through critics who now denounce MFN. //
6
I spoke earlier of the ideals which enrich the Asian/Pacific
community. Let me close with a passage from a Chinese author --
Lin Yutang -- who wrote brilliantly of their importance. //
"Today," he said, "we are afraid of the simple words like
goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good
old words because we don't believe in the good old values. " //
Asian-Americans have always believed in these values.
Respect for dignity / the primacy of the individual / the need
to join a cause larger than ourselves. God bless what you done
for our country, and thank you for this occasion. And God bless
the Nation you so richly love -- the United States of America.
#
#
#
#
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PITTS
DUGAN
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SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ASIA/PACIFIC RALLY
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 3:00 p.m., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, with a copy to this
office. Thank you.
P.2+6
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
91 JUN 11 F:112:26
June 11, 1991
Draft Three
PACIFIC
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ASIA/PACIFIC RALLY
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1991
Yee Hang Chang -- the first Hmong from Laos to graduate from
the United States Military Academy -- thank you for that
introduction. / Mr. Kwan, Miss Nahkirunkanok [NA Kee-run-kah-
nook), Elizabeth Szu (soo), Inder Singh (SING), Ky (KEE) Ngo (Nn-
GO), John Tsu (soo), my fellow Americans. //
An Oriental proverb says, "The two words, 'peace' and
'tranquility,' are worth a thousand pieces of gold." My pleasure
in being here is worth a thousand times that total. //
((This is one of the largest crowds I've spoken to since my
election to the Presidency. // Actually, since we are on a golf
course, I'm used to crowds this size. Last time I played, it
took this many people to help find my ball.) //
((I'm also glad to be with you on Father's Day. / I'm like
many dads. My kids know me as a Father who guided them through
life by using those three magic words, "Ask your mother.' // Let
me say, too, that as someone who's just had a birthday, it's a
pleasure to be with people whose culture reveres old age.)) //
Most of all, I am proud to have the chance to salute the
various ethnic groups who form the Asian/Pacific community.
Groups diverse in name but united by ideals. Ideals like belief
in work. Discipline, self-sacrifice, and a love of freedom. /
2
They are ideals which brought your grand-parents, parents, and
some of you to America. Ideals which are now uplifting America. //
For more than 200 years, this Nation has been the home of
free markets and free people. There is no question: Opportunity
in America is the envy of the world. // You came in search of
opportunity -- and you're finding it. You came to build a better
America -- and you're building it. // You've enhanced our
schools, our professions, our small and large businesses. For
the Asian/Pacific community, growth is not a codeword. It is a
watchword which has helped enrich the American community. //
Consider how according to Census data on average family
incomes,
Japanese Americans and Asian Indians have made the
American Dream reality // or how the latest National Assessment
of Educational Progress shows Asian-Americans excelling in
subjects such as math. // Yet the best is still ahead. Over the
past decade, the Asian/Pacific community has grown by 105 per
cent -- faster than any group. I look forward to more pioneers
like An Wang, founder of Wang Laboratories, and Henry Tang and
I.M. Pei and physicist Leo Esaki. They know how merit and
opportunity begets the growth that is America. //
( (Let me tell a story of a restaurant in China where three
American tourists walked in. They were wearing the most
outrageous safari clothes / complete with Panama hats, backpacks,
video cameras, and a few Chinese phrases picked up from a
stateside friend who happens to own a wok. )) //
within
Should different nationalities one thnic group
be singled out? P.3 referes to being seen as
"indeviduals" not part of A group
3
( (The friends stood around looking for a waiter, and finally
one asked in a loud voice: "How do we attract attention?") )
That's one way to attract attention. You've chosen another way.
// You haven't asked what government can do for you. You've
asked what you can do -- for yourself -- for your family and your
community. //
No people understands more than Asians what really counts:
competence, not color. You know what matters is the human heart
and will -- not sex or creed or national orgin. // Historically,
Americans have thought of themselves not as special interest
groups -- one pitted against the other -- but as individuals --
judged by what we are, and what we dream. 11 Some propose
policies that judge people by the pigment of their skin. I say -
- as you do -- what we need are equal rights for all Americans -
- not preferential treatment for some. //
You know what I'm talking about: Quotas that harm talented
Americans like the thousands of Asian students in our
universities who study science and engineering. // Our
Administration has a splendid record on civil rights. We have
nurtured equality of opportunity and equality under the law.
That is why I will not sign any Civil Rights bill which allows
quotas -- explicitly, or implicitly. / Nor will our
Administration support the practice of "race-norming" -- which
insults minorities by separating their test scores from whites.
Race-norming drives Americans apart instead of bringing them
together. //
4
Our Administration will fight any legislation that lessens
opportunity for the Asian/Pacific community. / Instead, we
propose actions that broaden opportunity. Because education is
the great uplifter, we have launched the America 2000 Education
strategy. / And I am proud to have named more Asians to top
management and advisory roles than any President in history / the
first Asian deputy secretary of a Cabinet department / the first
Asian-American as an ambassador. // I am proud not because they
were Asian -- but because they were the best men and women for
the job. //
At home, our policies will spur justice and prosperity. Let
me speak now of an area abroad where the same equation holds. I
refer to East Asia, and how this dynamic region can spur
America's growth. //
Already, our trans-Pacific trade as a whole has more than
doubled that between America and Europe. In 1990, we exported to
Singapore more than to Spain or Italy / to Malaysia more than to
the Soviet Union / to Indonesia more than to all or Central
Europe. // The FAA also estimates that by 1993 traffic on
Pacific routes will surpass the Atlantic on a passenger mile
basis. // Consider, too, that more than 1,200 U.S. companies
have invested over $4 billion in the People's Republic of China
-- and that China buys about $5 billion worth of American
products -- from computers to cotton. Take away these products -
- and you take American jobs. //
5
Two weeks ago, I moved to expand this growth by extending
Most Favored Nation status to China. I knew that ending MFN
would dramatically increase the cost of Chinese imports, and also
cripple Hong Kong -- a bastion of freedom and free trade and
investor in South China's export industries. // Moreover, I
recognized what many critics of MFN have either forgotten or
never knew. To influence China, one cannot isolate China. //
This Nation's foreign policy has always been more than an
expression of American interests. It is an extension of American
principles. This moral dimension requires us to advance the
cause of freedom by understanding that often countries confront
moral ambiguity. Some argue that a nation as moral and just as
ours should not taint itself by dealing with nations less moral
and just. But this counsel offers up self-righteousness draped
in a false morality. You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
// This is the reason we have taken an intelligent stand on
China -- not grandstand at liberty's expense. / Here are the
results: Between 1988 and 1990, emigration from China rose by 84
per cent; prominent dissidents were released; and the regime has
accounted for many of the casualties of Tienanmen Square. //
Is it enough? Not nearly -- and we will continue to urge
China to internally reform and externally rejoin the community of
nations. We cannot be sure of success. We can be sure that
without American dialogue, the free exchange of goods and ideas
between East Asia and the United States would die a certain death
through critics who now denounce MFN. //
who does this refere to
chinese ? All
6
ASIANS
other emericans ?
I spoke earlier of the ideals which enrich the Asian/Pacific
community. Let me close with a passage from a Chinese author --
Lin Yutang -- who wrote brilliantly of their importance. //
"Today," he said, we are afraid of the simple words like
goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good
old words because we don't believe in the good old values. " 11
Asian-Americans have always believed in these values.
Respect for dignity / the primacy of the individual / the need
to join a cause larger than ourselves. God bless what you done
for our country, and thank you for this occasion. And God bless
the Nation you so richly love -- the United States of America.
#
#
#
#
the author soys
"we" don't believe in
good old values -
but the President
SAYS ASIAN American
have plways" belowed
in Them. This is
confusing.
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SUNUNU
PETERSMEYER
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ROGICH
BRADY
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BROMLEY
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
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no later than 3:00 p.m., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, with a copy to this
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Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
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PACIFIC
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ASIA/PACIFIC RALLY
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1991
Yee Hang Chang -- the first Hmong from Laos to graduate from
the United States Military Academy -- thank you for that
introduction. / Mr. Kwan, Miss Nahkirunkanok [NA Kee-run-kah-
nook), Elizabeth Szu (800), Inder Singh (SING), Ky (KEE) Ngo (Nn-
GO), John Tsu (soo), my fellow Americans. 11
An Oriental proverb says, "The two words, 'peace' and
'tranquility,' are worth a thousand pieces of gold." My pleasure
in being here is worth a thousand times that total. 11
((This is one of the largest crowds I've spoken to since my
election to the Presidency. // Actually, since we are on a golf
course, I'm used to crowds this size. Last time I played, it
took this many people to help find my ball.) 11
((I'm also glad to be with you on Father's Day. / I'm like
many dads. My kids know me as a Father who guided them through
life by using those three magic words, "Ask your mother." 11 Let
me say, too, that as someone who's just had a birthday, it's a
pleasure to be with people whose culture reveres old age.) 11
Most of all, I am proud to have the chance to salute the
various ethnic groups who form the Asian/Pacific community.
Groups diverse in name but united by ideals. Ideals like belief
in work. Discipline, self-sacrifice, and a love of freedom. /
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2
They are ideals which brought your grand-parents, parents, and
some of you to America. Ideals which are now uplifting America. 11
For more than 200 years, this Nation has been the home of
free markets and free people. There is no question: Opportunity
in America is the envy of the world. 11 You came in search of
opportunity - and you're finding it. You came to build a better
America -- and you're building it, 11 You've enhanced our
schools, our professions, our small and large businesses. For
the Asian/Pacific community, growth is not a codeword. It is a
watchword which has helped enrich the American community. 11
Consider how according to Census data on average family
incomes, Japanese Americans and Asian Indians have made the
American Dream reality. 11 or how the latest National Assessment
of Educational Progress shows Asian-Americans excelling in
subjects such as math. // Yet the best is still ahead. Over the
past decade, the Asian/Pacific community has grown by 105 per
cent -- faster than any group. I look forward to more pioneers
like An Wang, founder of Wang Laboratories, and Henry Tang and
I.M. Pei and physicist Leo Esaki. They know how merit and
opportunity begets the growth that is America. //
( (Let me tell a story of a restaurant in China where three
American tourists walked in. They were wearing the most
outrageous safari clothes / complete with Panama hats, backpacks,
video cameras, and a few Chinese phrases picked up from a
stateside friend who happens to own a wok.) 11
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((The friends stood around looking for a waiter, and finally
one asked in a loud voice: "How do we attract attention?"))
That's one way to attract attention. You've chosen another way.
11 You haven't asked what government can do for you. You've
asked what you can do -- for yourself -- for your family and your
community. 11
No people understands more than Asians what really counts:
competence, not color. You know what matters is the human heart
and will -- not sex or creed or national orgin. 11 Historically,
Americans have thought of themselves not as special interest
groups -- one pitted against the other -- but as individuals --
judged by what we are, and what we dream. // Some propose
policies that judge people by the pigment of their skin. I say -
- as you do -- what we need are equal rights for all Americans -
- not preferential treatment for some. 11
You know what I'm talking about: Quotas that harm talented
Americans like the thousands of Asian students in our
universities who study science and engineering. 11 Our
Administration has a splendid record on civil rights. We have
nurtured equality of opportunity and equality under the law.
That is why I will not sign any Civil Rights bill which allows
quotas -- explicitly, or implicitly. / Nor will our
Administration support the practice of "race-norming" -- which
insults minorities by separating their test scores from whites.
Race-norming drives Americans apart instead of bringing them
together. 11
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Our Administration will fight any legislation that lessens
opportunity for the Asian/Pacific community. / Instead, we
propose actions that broaden opportunity. Because education is
the great uplifter, we have launched the America 2000 Education
strategy. / And I am proud to have named more Asians to top
management and advisory roles than any President in history / the
first Asian deputy secretary of a Cabinet department / the first
Asian-American as an ambassador. 11 I am proud not because they
were Asian -- but because they were the best men and women for
the job. 11
ensure
At home, our policies will spur justice and prosperity. Let
me speak now of an area abroad where the same equation holds. I
refer to East Asia, and how this dynamic region can spur
America's growth. 11
Already, our trans-Pacific trade as a whole has more than
doubled that between America and Europe. In 1990, we exported to
Singapore more than to Spain or Italy / to Malaysia more than to
the Soviet Union / to Indonesia more than to all or Central
Europe. 11 The FAA also estimates that by 1993 traffic on
Pacific routes will surpass the Atlantic on a passenger mile
basis. 11 Consider, too, that more than 1,200 U.S. companies
have invested over $4 billion in the People's Republic of China
-- and that China buys about $5 billion worth of American
products -- from computers to cotton. Take away these products -
- and you take American jobs. 11
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5
Two weeks ago, I moved to expand this growth by extending
Most Favored Nation status to China. I knew that ending MFN
would dramatically increase the cost of Chinese imports, and also
cripple Hong Kong -- a bastion of freedom and free trade and
investor in South China's export industries. 11 Moreover, I
recognized what many critics of MFN have either forgotten or
never knew. To influence China, one cannot isolate China. 11
This Nation's foreign policy has always been more than an
expression of American interests. It is an extension of American
principles. This moral dimension requires us to advance the
cause of freedom by understanding that often countries confront
moral ambiguity. Some argue that a nation as moral and just as
ours should not taint itself by dealing with nations less moral
and just. But this counsel offers up self-righteousness draped
in a false morality. You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
11 This is the reason we have taken an intelligent stand on
China -- not grandstand at liberty's expense. / Here are the
results: Between 1988 and 1990, emigration from China rose by 84
per cent; prominent dissidents were released; and the regime has
accounted for many of the casualties of Tienanmen Square. 11
Is it enough? Not nearly -- and we will continue to urge
China to internally reform and externally rejoin the community of
nations. We cannot be sure of success. We can be sure that
without American dialogue, the movent the free exchange for of goods ufom and ideas on
between East Asia and the United States would die & certain death
Clima will be set - back not advanced. That
through is not critics in the who interest now denounce of the MFN. Chinese people and
it certainly is not in the interest 88 the
United Stats of Amena.
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I spoke earlier of the ideals which enrich the Asian/Pacific
community. Let me close with a passage from a Chinese author --
Lin Yutang -- who wrote brilliantly of their importance. 11
"Today," he said, "we are afraid of the simple words like
goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good
old words because we don't believe in the good old values." //
Asian-Americans have always believed in these values.
Respect for dignity / the primacy of the individual / the need
to join at cause larger than ourselves. God bless what you done
for our country, and thank you for this occasion. And God bless
the Nation you so richly love -- the United States of America.
#
#
Document No. 245053SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
91 JUN 12 P3: 39
DATE: 6/11/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: WEDNESDAY 6/12/91 3:00p.m
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ASIA/PACIFIC RALLY
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 3:00 p.m., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, with a copy to this
office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
the
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
91 JUN 11 Fill2:26
June 11, 1991
Draft Three
PACIFIC
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ASIA/PACIFIC RALLY
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1991
Yee Hang Chang - the first Hmong from Laos to graduate from
the United States Military Academy -- thank you for that
introduction. / Mr. Kwan, Miss Nahkirunkanok [NA Kee-run-kah-
nook), Elizabeth Szu (SOO), Inder Singh (SING), Ky (KEE) Ngo (Nn-
GO), John Tsu (SOO), my fellow Americans. //
An Oriental proverb says, "The two words, 'peace' and
'tranquility,' are worth a thousand pieces of gold." My pleasure
in being here is worth a thousand times that total. //
((This is one of the largest crowds I've spoken to since my
election to the Presidency. // Actually, since we are on a golf
course, I'm used to crowds this size. Last time I played, it
took this many people to help find my ball. )) //
((I'm also glad to be with you on Father's Day. / I'm like
many dads. My kids know me as a Father who guided them through
life by using those three magic words, "Ask your mother." // Let
me say, too, that as someone who's just had a birthday, it's a
pleasure to be with people whose culture reveres old age.) ) //
Most of all, I am proud to have the chance to salute the
various ethnic groups who form the Asian/Pacific community.
Groups diverse in name but united by ideals. Ideals like belief
in work. Discipline, self-sacrifice, and a love of freedom. /
2
They are ideals which brought your grand-parents, parents, and
some of you to America. Ideals which are now uplifting America. //
For more than 200 years, this Nation has been the home of
free markets and free people. There is no question: Opportunity
in America is the envy of the world. // You came in search of
opportunity -- and you're finding it. You came to build a better
America -- and you're building it. // You've enhanced our
schools, our professions, our small and large businesses. For
the Asian/Pacific community, growth is not a codeword. It is a
watchword which has helped enrich the American community. //
Consider how according to Census data on average family
incomes, Japanese Americans and Asian Indians have made the
American Dream reality. // Or how the latest National Assessment
of Educational Progress shows Asian-Americans excelling in
subjects such as math. // Yet the best is still ahead. Over the
past decade, the Asian/Pacific community has grown by 105 per
cent -- faster than any group. I look forward to more pioneers
like An Wang, founder of Wang Laboratories, and Henry Tang and
I.M. Pei and physicist Leo Esaki. They know how merit and
opportunity begets the growth that is America. //
( (Let me tell a story of a restaurant in China where three
American tourists walked in. They were wearing the most
outrageous safari clothes / complete with Panama hats, backpacks,
video cameras, and a few Chinese phrases picked up from a
stateside friend who happens to own a wok. )) //
3
( (The friends stood around looking for a waiter, and finally
one asked in a loud voice: "How do we attract attention?") )
That's one way to attract attention. You've chosen another way.
// You haven't asked what government can do for you. You've
asked what you can do -- for yourself -- for your family and your
community. //
No people understands more than Asians what really counts:
competence, not color. You know what matters is the human heart
and will -- not sex or creed or national orgin. // Historically,
Americans have thought of themselves not as special interest
groups -- one pitted against the other -- but as individuals --
judged by what we are, and what we dream. // Some propose
policies that judge people by the pigment of their skin. I say -
- as you do -- what we need are equal rights for all Americans -
- not preferential treatment for some. //
You know what I'm talking about: Quotas that harm talented
Americans like the thousands of Asian students in our
universities who study science and engineering. // Our
Administration has a splendid record on civil rights. We have
nurtured equality of opportunity and equality under the law.
That is why I will not sign any Civil Rights bill which allows
quotas -- explicitly, or implicitly. / Nor will our
Administration support the practice of "race-norming" -- which
insults minorities by separating their test scores from whites.
Race-norming drives Americans apart instead of bringing them
together. //
4
Our Administration will fight any legislation that lessens
opportunity for the Asian/Pacific community. / Instead, we
propose actions that broaden opportunity. Because education is
the great uplifter, we have launched the America 2000 Education
strategy. / And I am proud to have named more Asians to top
management and advisory roles than any President in history / the
first Asian deputy secretary of a Cabinet department / the first
Asian-American as an ambassador. 11 I am proud not because they
were Asian -- but because they were the best men and women for
the job. //
At home, our policies will spur justice and prosperity. Let
me speak now of an area abroad where the same equation holds. I
refer to East Asia, and how this dynamic region can spur
America's growth. //
Already, our trans-Pacific trade as a whole has more than
doubled that between America and Europe. In 1990, we exported to
Singapore more than to Spain or Italy / to Malaysia more than to
the Soviet Union / to Indonesia more than to all or Central
Europe. // The FAA also estimates that by 1993 traffic on
Pacific routes will surpass the Atlantic on a passenger mile
basis. // Consider, too, that more than 1,200 U.S. companies
have invested over $4 billion in the People's Republic of China
-- and that China buys about $5 billion worth of American
products -- from computers to cotton. Take away these products -
- and you take American jobs. //
5
Two weeks ago, I moved to expand this growth by extending
Most Favored Nation status to China. I knew that ending MFN
would dramatically increase the cost of Chinese imports, and also
cripple Hong Kong -- a bastion of freedom and free trade and
investor in South China's export industries. // Moreover, I
recognized what many critics of MFN have either forgotten or
never knew. To influence China, one cannot isolate China. //
This Nation's foreign policy has always been more than an
expression of American interests. It is an extension of American
principles. This moral dimension requires us to advance the
cause of freedom by understanding that often countries confront
moral ambiguity. Some argue that a nation as moral and just as
ours should not taint itself by dealing with nations less moral
and just. But this counsel offers up self-righteousness draped
in a false morality. You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
// This is the reason we have taken an intelligent stand on
China -- not grandstand at liberty's expense. / Here are the
results: Between 1988 and 1990, emigration from China rose by 84
per cent; prominent dissidents were released; and the regime has
accounted for many of the casualties of Tienanmen Square. //
Is it enough? Not nearly -- and we will continue to urge
China to internally reform and externally rejoin the community of
nations. We cannot be sure of success. We can be sure that
without American dialogue, the free exchange of goods and ideas
between East Asia and the United States would die a certain death
through critics who now denounce MFN. //
6
I spoke earlier of the ideals which enrich the Asian/Pacific
community. Let me close with a passage from a Chinese author --
Lin Yutang -- who wrote brilliantly of their importance. //
"Today," he said, "we are afraid of the simple words like
goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good
old words because we don't believe in the good old values. " //
Asian-Americans have always believed in these values.
Respect for dignity / the primacy of the individual / the need
to join a cause larger than ourselves. God bless what you done
for our country, and thank you for this occasion. And God bless
the Nation you so richly love -- the United States of America.
#
#
#
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Document No. 245053SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
91 JUN 12
DATE: 6/11/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: WEDNESDAY 6/12/91 3:00p.m
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ASIA/PACIFIC RALLY
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 3:00 p.m., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, with a copy to this
office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
Aee comments. Thanks.
Holls Williamson
PHILLIP D. BRADY
6-12-91
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
Jenifer
(Smith/Grossman)
91 JUN 11 PM12:26
June 11, 1991
Draft Three
PACIFIC
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ASIA/PACIFIC RALLY
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1991
Yee Hang Chang -- the first Hmong from Laos to graduate from
the United States Military Academy -- thank you for that
introduction. / Mr. Kwan, Miss Nahkirunkanok [NA Kee-run-kah-
nook), Elizabeth Szu (soo), Inder Singh (SING), Ky (KEE) Ngo (Nn-
GO), John Tsu (SOO), my fellow Americans. //
An Oriental proverb says, "The two words, 'peace' and
'tranquility,' are worth a thousand pieces of gold." My pleasure
in being here is worth a thousand times that total. //
((This is one of the largest crowds I've spoken to since my
election to the Presidency. // Actually, since we are on a golf
course, I'm used to crowds this size. Last time I played, it
(00c)
took this many people to help find my ball. )) //
doesn
((I'm also glad to be with you on Father's Day. / I'm like
seem
many dads. My kids know me as a Father who guided them through
life by using those three magic words, "Ask your mother." // Let
Ne's involved
me say, too, that as someone who's just had a birthday, it's a
father.
pleasure to be with people whose culture reveres old age.) ) //
Most of all, I am proud to have the chance to salute the
various ethnic groups who form the Asian/Pacific community.
Groups diverse in name but united by ideals. Ideals like belief
in work. Discipline, self-sacrifice, and a love of freedom. /
2
They are ideals which brought your grand-parents, parents, and
some of you to America. Ideals whichware now apliiting America. / / (Doc)
have always uplifted
For more than 200 years, this Nation has been the home of
free markets and free people. There is no question: Opportunity
in America is the envy of the world. // You came in search of
opportunity -- and you're finding it. You came to build a better
America -- and you're building it. // You've enhanced our
schools, our professions, our small and large businesses. For
the Asian/Pacific community, growth is not a codeword. It is a
watchword which has helped enrich the American community. //
(DOC)
Consider how according to Census data on average family what isthe data?
incomes, Japanese Americans and Asian Indians have made the
American Dream reality. // or how the latest National Assessment
of Educational Progress shows Asian-Americans excelling in
subjects such as math. // Yet the best is still ahead. Over the
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opportunity begets the growth that is America. //
( (Let me tell a story of a restaurant in China where three
American tourists walked in. They were wearing the most
outrageous safari clothes / complete with Panama hats, backpacks,
video cameras, and a few Chinese phrases picked up from a
stateside friend who happens to own a wok. )) //
3
((The friends stood around looking for a waiter, and finally
one asked in a loud voice: "How do we attract attention?") )
That's one way to attract attention. You've chosen another way.
// You haven't asked what government can do for you. You've
asked what you can do -- for yourself -- for your family and your
community. //
No people understands more than Asians what really counts:
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groups -- one pitted against the other -- but as individuals --
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You know what I'm talking about: Quotas that harm talented
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universities who study science and engineering. // Our
Administration has a splendid record on civil rights. We have
nurtured equality of opportunity and equality under the law.
That is why I will not sign any Civil Rights bill which allows
quotas -- explicitly, or implicitly. / Nor will our
Administration support the practice of "race-norming" -- which
insults minorities by separating their test scores from whites.
Race-norming drives Americans apart instead of bringing them
together. //
4
Our Administration will fight any legislation that lessens
opportunity for the Asian/Pacific community. / Instead, we
propose actions that broaden opportunity. Because education is
the great uplifter, we have launched the America 2000 Education
strategy. / And I am proud to have named more Asians to top
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refer to East Asia, and how this dynamic region can spur
America's growth. //
Already, our trans-Pacific trade as a whole has more than
doubled that between America and Europe. In 1990, we exported to
Singapore more than to Spain or Italy / to Malaysia more than to
the Soviet Union / to Indonesia more than to all or Central
Europe. // The FAA also estimates that by 1993 traffic on
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cripple Hong Kong -- a bastion of freedom and free trade and
investor in South China's export industries. // Moreover, I
recognized what many critics of MFN have either forgotten or
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for our country, and thank you for this occasion. And God bless
the Nation you so richly love -- the United States of America.
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See card 2and 3 in reference to pg. 5
of Asia Pacific Speech. No other comments on
FROM
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Asian Speech.
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CARD 1 OF 5
POINTS TO BE MADE FOR MEETING WITH
REPUBLICAN SENATORS
IN MY MESSAGE TO THE CONGRESS ARGUING THE CASE
FOR MFN FOR CHINA, I TOLD YOU I WANT TO WORK
WITH YOU.
TODAY, I WOULD LIKE TO BEGIN WITH A FEW POINTS
AND THEN GET YOUR VIEWS.
FIRST, I FIRMLY BELIEVE MFN IS THE STRONGEST
TOOL WE HAVE TO BRING ABOUT LONG-TERM POSITIVE
CHANGE IN CHINA. TEN YEARS OF TRADE AND
OPENNESS SET IN MOTION THE FORCES WE SAW IN
THOSE PROTESTS AT TIANANMEN.
WE SHOULD NOT PUT THIS TREMENDOUS ADVANTAGE AT
RISK. WE SHOULD NOT GIVE THE HARDLINERS IN
CHINA AN OPPORTUNITY - BY OUR PLACING
CONDITIONS ON MFN -- so THAT THEY CAN RESIST,
so THAT THEY CAN DEFEAT THEIR REFORMIST
RIVALS.
CARD 2 OF 5
SECOND, OUR CHINA POLICY IS A PACKAGE
APPROACH. WHEN THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES TO
COOPERATE WITH CHINA -- IN THE UN, KOREA,
CAMBODIA -- WE WILL DO so.
JUST LAST WEEK THE CHINESE TOOK A MAJOR STEP
IN AGREEING TO JOIN THE TALKS IN PARIS ON MY
MIDDLE EAST ARMS CONTROL INITIATIVE.
THIS IS A POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE IT MAY
OPEN THE WAY TO MAKE PROGRESS ON THE
PROLIFERATION PROBLEMS IN THE REGION, AND IT
GOES TO THE HEART OF THE REASONS FOR EXTENDING
MFN FOR CHINA.
YOU GET MORE FLIES WITH HONEY THAN WITH
VINEGAR.
NONETHELESS, WHERE THERE ARE PROBLEMS WITH
CHINA, I WILL NOT KOWTOW, I WILL TAKE ACTION.
I HAVE ALREADY DONE so ON HUMAN RIGHTS, TRADE,
AND PROLIFERATION.
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CARD 3 OF 5
YOU KNOW WE STILL HAVE SANCTIONS ON OPIC, TDP,
INTERNATIONAL LENDING THAT IS NOT FOR BASIC
HUMAN NEEDS, ALL MILITARY SALES AND HIGH-LEVEL
EXCHANGES.
WE HAVE DESIGNATED CHINA A PRIORITY COUNTRY
UNDER SPECIAL 301 FOR COPYRIGHT PIRATING; WE
HAVE LIFTED CHINESE TEXTILE VISAS IN
RETALIATION FOR ILLEGAL THIRD-COUNTRY
TRANSFERS; WE WILL SOON BEGIN MARKET ACCESS
TALKS.
THE CHINESE HAVE RESPONDED WITH A BUYING
MISSION, AND THEY SAY MORE WILL FOLLOW.
WE ARE PRESSING CHINA TO CONFORM TO
INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ON MISSILE TRANSFERS.
THERE WILL BE NO NEW SATELLITE LICENSES OR
HIGH-SPEED COMPUTER TRANSFERS TO CHINA UNTIL
IT MEETS THOSE STANDARDS. THERE WILL BE NO
TRANSFERS OF MISSILE TECHNOLOGY OR EQUIPMENT
TO CHINESE COMPANIES ENGAGED IN PROLIFERATION.
CARD 4 OF 5
I AM NOT SITTING ON MY HANDS. I AM PREPARED
TO DO MORE WHEN CIRCUMSTANCES REQUIRE.
THIRD, WE NEED TO STEP BACK FROM THE EMOTIONS
OF THE MOMENT AND CALCULATE OUR LONG-TERM
NATIONAL INTERESTS.
WE ARE THE ONLY TRADING NATION IN THE WORLD
THAT WOULD CONTEMPLATE REMOVING OR
CONDITIONING MFN. IF WE PULL BACK, WE ISOLATE
OURSELVES, NOT CHINA.
--
WE MAY NOT LIKE IT, BUT CHINA IS A NECESSARY
PART OF THE SOLUTION TO SOME IMPORTANT
PROBLEMS. IT HAS A VETO IN THE UN SECURITY
COUNCIL.
THE SYSTEM THAT RULES CHINA TODAY WILL NOT
CHANGE DRAMATICALLY OVERNIGHT. BUT THAT
SYSTEM CANNOT INSULATE ITSELF FROM INEVITABLE
CHANGE.
I BELIEVE THE BEST COURSE IS TO USE ECONOMIC
INVOLVEMENT AND ALL THE HUMAN INTERCHANGES
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THAT GO WITH IT -- TO ENCOURAGE LONG-TERM
EVOLUTION IN CHINA. I THINK THE ANNOUNCEMENT
ON MIDDLE EAST ARMS CONTROL HELPS PROVE THE
POINT.
NOW I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR YOUR VIEWS.
THERE IS A PROCESS IN PLACE TO DEAL WITH CHINA
AND MFN. I AM ASKING YOU TODAY TO LOOK
CAREFULLY AT THE BIG PICTURE.
PLEASE DON'T RUSH TO A CONCLUSION. GIVE US A
CHANCE TO ADDRESS YOUR CONCERNS BEFORE YOU
DECIDE.
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
91 JUNii P4: 05
June 11, 1991
MEMORANDUM FOR TONY SNOW
FROM:
John S. Gardner Jos
SUBJECT:
Asian-Pacific Rally
This is a good speech, and I have just a few comments besides what
is marked on the draft.
1. Elementary though it seems, I think something would be gained by
including at least one phrase for each of the ethnic groups represen-
ted (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Cambodian,
Laotian, Pacific islander, Thai (?), and South Asian. For these
communiities to be singled out by the President would be a real hit,
particularly for the younger and less-established communities.
2. In that regard, some specific mention should be made of South
Asians -- the South Asian community is growing (and becoming more
Republican, as a recent article in the Far Eastern Economic Review
noted). All these references can be accomplished in a phrase (e.g.,
"and in recent years we have seen an increase in those who have come
to these shores from the lands of South Asia").
3. How will this audience react to MFN?
Thanks.
(Smith/Grossman)
June 11, 1991
91 JUN 11 PM 12: 26
Draft Three
PACIFIC
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ASIA/PACIFIC RALLY
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1991
Yee Hang Chang the first Hmong from Laos to graduate from
the United States Military Academy -- thank you for that
introduction. / Mr. Kwan, Miss Nahkirunkanok [NA Kee-run-kah-
nook), Elizabeth Szu (S00), Inder Singh (SING), Ky (KEE) Ngo (Nn-
GO), John Tsu (SOO), my fellow Americans. //
An Oriental Asian proverb says, "The two words, 'peace' and
'tranquility,' are worth a thousand pieces of gold." My pleasure
in being here is worth a thousand times that total. //
((This is one of the largest crowds I've spoken to since my
election to the Presidency. // Actually, since we are on a golf
course, I'm used to crowds this size. Last time I played, it
took this many people to help find my ball.) ) //
((I'm also glad to be with you on Father's Day. / I'm like
many dads. My kids know me as a Father who guided them through
life by using those three magic words, "Ask your mother." // Let
me say, too, that as someone who's just had a birthday, it's a
pleasure to be with people whose culture reveres old age.) ) //
Most of all, I am proud to have the chance to salute the
various ethnic groups who form the Asian/Pacific community.
Groups diverse in name but united by ideals. Ideals like belief
in work. Discipline, self-sacrifice, and a love of freedom. /
2
They are ideals which brought your grand-parents, parents, and
some of you to America. Ideals which are now uplifting America. //
For more than 200 years, this Nation has been the home of
free markets and free people. There is no question: Opportunity
in America is the envy of the world. // You came in search of
opportunity -- and you're finding it. You came to build a better
America -- and you're building it. // You've enhanced our
schools, our professions, our small and large businesses. For
the Asian/Pacific community, growth is not a codeword. It is a
watchword which has helped enrich the American community. //
that sorrany Asian- Americans
Consider how according to Census data on average family
incomes, Japanese Americans and Asian Indians have made the
American Dream reality. // Or how the latest National Assessment
of Educational Progress shows Asian-Americans excelling in
subjects such as math. // Yet the best is still ahead. Over the
past decade, the Asian/Pacific community has grown by 105 per
cent -- faster than any group. I look forward to more pioneers
like An Wang, founder of Wang Laboratories, and Henry Tang and
I.M. Pei and physicist Leo Esaki. They know how merit and
opportunity begets the growth that is America. //
( (Let me tell a story of a restaurant in China where three
American tourists walked in. They were wearing the most
outrageous safari clothes / complete with Panama hats, backpacks,
video cameras, and a few Chinese phrases picked up from a
stateside friend who happens to own a wok.) )) //
Hasn't the President taken out this joke before?
3
( (The friends stood around looking for a waiter, and finally
one asked in a loud voice: "How do we attract attention?") )
That's one way to attract attention. You've chosen another way.
// You haven't asked what government can do for you. You've
asked what you can do -- for yourself -- for your family and your
community. //
No people understands more than Asians what really counts:
competence, not color. You know what matters is the human heart
and will -- not sex or creed or national orgin. // Historically,
Americans have thought of themselves not as special interest
groups -- one pitted against the other -- but as individuals --
judged by what we are, and what we dream. // Some propose
policies that judge people by the pigment of their skin. I say -
- as you do -- what we need are equal rights for all Americans -
- not preferential treatment for some. //
You know what I'm talking about: Quotas that harm talented
Americans like the thousands of Asian students in our
and other onlyets
[Wh
sounds
universities who study science ) and engineering JA
//
Our
sterestyped
otherwise]
Administration has a splendid record on civil rights. We have
nurtured equality of opportunity and equality under the law.
That is why I will not sign any Civil Rights bill which allows
quotas -- explicitly, or implicitly. / Nor will our
Administration support the practice of "race-norming" -- which
insults minorities by separating their test scores from whites.
Race-norming drives Americans apart instead of bringing them
together. //
4
Our Administration will fight any legislation that lessens
opportunity for the Asian/Pacific community. / Instead, we
propose actions that broaden opportunity. Because education is
the great uplifter, we have launched the America 2000 Education
strategy. / And I am proud to have named more Asians to top
management and advisory roles than any President in history / the
first Asian deputy secretary of a Cabinet department / the first
Asian-American as an ambassador. // I am proud not because they
were Asian -- but because they were the best men and women for
the job. //
At home, our policies will spur justice and prosperity. Let
me speak now of an area abroad where the same equation holds. I
refer to East Asia, and how this dynamic region can spur
America's growth. //
Already, our trans-Pacific trade as a whole has more than
doubled that between America and Europe. In 1990, we exported to
Singapore more than to Spain or Italy / to Malaysia more than to
the Soviet Union / to Indonesia more than to all or Central
Europe. // The FAA also estimates that by 1993 traffic on
Pacific routes will surpass the Atlantic on a passenger mile
basis. // Consider, too, that more than 1,200 U.S. companies
have invested over $4 billion in the People's Republic of China
-- and that China buys about $5 billion worth of American
products -- from computers to cotton. Take away these products -
- and you take American jobs. //
5
Two weeks ago, I moved to expand this growth by extending
Most Favored Nation status to China. I knew that ending MFN
would dramatically increase the cost of Chinese imports, and also
cripple Hong Kong -- a bastion of freedom and free trade and
investor in South China's export industries. // Moreover, I
recognized what many critics of MFN have either forgotten or
never knew. To influence China, one cannot isolate China. //
This Nation's foreign policy has always been more than an
expression of American interests. It is an extension of American
principles. This moral dimension requires us to advance the
cause of freedom by understanding that often countries confront
moral ambiguity. Some argue that a nation as moral and just as
ours should not taint itself by dealing with nations less moral
and just. But this counsel offers up self-righteousness draped
in a false morality. You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
// This is the reason we have taken an intelligent stand on
China -- not grandstand at liberty's expense. / Here are the
results: Between 1988 and 1990, emigration from China rose by 84
per cent; prominent dissidents were released; and the regime has
accounted for many of the casualties of Tienanmen Square. //
Is it enough? Not nearly -- and we will continue to urge
China to internally reform and externally rejoin the community of
nations. We cannot be sure of success. We can be sure that
without American dialogue, the free exchange of goods and ideas
between East Asia and the United States would die a certain death
through critics who now denounce MFN. //
6
I spoke earlier of the ideals which enrich the Asian/Pacific
community. Let me close with a passage from a Chinese author --
Lin Yutang -- who wrote brilliantly of their importance. //
"Today," he said, "we are afraid of the simple words like
goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good.
old words because we don't believe in the good old values. " //
Asian-Americans have always believed in these values.
Respect for dignity / the primacy of the individual / the need
to join a cause larger than ourselves. God bless what you done
for our country, and thank you for this occasion. And God bless
the Nation you so richly love -- the United States of America.
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MCCLURE
SUNUNU
PETERSMEYER
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BRADY
SMITH
BROMLEY
UNTERMEYER
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no later than 3:00 p.m., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, with a copy to this
office. Thank you.
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Brent Scowcroft
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and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
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91
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11
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26
June 11, 1991
Draft Three
PACIFIC
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ASIA/PACIFIC RALLY
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1991
Yee Hang Chang -- the first Hmong from Laos to graduate from
the United States Military Academy -- thank you for that
introduction. / Mr. Kwan, Miss Nahkirunkanok [NA Kee-run-kah-
nook), Elizabeth Szu (SOO), Inder Singh (SING), Ky (KEE) Ngo (Nn-
GO), John Tsu (SOO), my fellow Americans. //
An Oriental proverb says, "The two words, 'peace' and
'tranquility,' are worth a thousand pieces of gold.' My pleasure
in being here is worth a thousand times that total. //
((This is one of the largest crowds I've spoken to since my
election to the Presidency. // Actually, since we are on a golf
course, I'm used to crowds this size. Last time I played, it
took this many people to help find my ball. )) //
((I'm also glad to be with you on Father's Day. / I'm like
many dads. My kids know me as a Father who guided them through
life by using those three magic words, "Ask your mother.' // Let
me say, too, that as someone who's just had a birthday, it's a
pleasure to be with people whose culture reveres old age.)) //
Most of all, I am proud to have the chance to salute the
various ethnic groups who form the Asian/Pacific community.
Groups diverse in name but united by ideals. Ideals like belief
in work. Discipline, self-sacrifice, and a love of freedom. /
2
They are ideals which brought your grand-parents, parents, and
some of you to America. Ideals which are now uplifting America. //
For more than 200 years, this Nation has been the home of
free markets and free people. There is no question: Opportunity
in America is the envy of the world. // You came in search of
opportunity -- and you're finding it. You came to build a better
America -- and you're building it. // You've enhanced our
schools, our professions, our small and large businesses. For
the Asian/Pacific community, growth is not a codeword. It is a
watchword which has helped enrich the American community. //
Consider how according to Census data on average family
incomes, Japanese Americans and Asian Indians have made the
American Dream reality. // Or how the latest National Assessment
of Educational Progress shows Asian-Americans excelling in
subjects such as math. // Yet the best is still ahead. Over the
past decade, the Asian/Pacific community has grown by 105 per
cent -- faster than any group. I look forward to more pioneers
like An Wang, founder of Wang Laboratories, and Henry Tang and
I.M. Pei and physicist Leo Esaki. They know how merit and
opportunity begets the growth that is America. //
((Let me tell a story of a restaurant in China where three
American tourists walked in. They were wearing the most
outrageous safari clothes / complete with Panama hats, backpacks,
video cameras, and a few Chinese phrases picked up from a
stateside friend who happens to own a wok. )) //
3
( (The friends stood around looking for a waiter, and finally
one asked in a loud voice: "How do we attract attention?") )
That's one way to attract attention. You've chosen another way.
// You haven't asked what government can do for you. You've
asked what you can do -- for yourself -- for your family and your
community. //
No people understands more than Asians what really counts:
competence, not color. You know what matters is the human heart
and will -- not sex or creed or national orgin. // Historically,
Americans have thought of themselves not as special interest
groups -- one pitted against the other -- but as individuals --
judged by what we are, and what we dream. // Some propose
policies that judge people by the pigment of their skin. I say -
- as you do -- what we need are equal rights for all Americans -
- not preferential treatment for some. //
You know what I'm talking about: Quotas that harm talented
Americans like the thousands of Asian students in our
universities who study science and engineering. // Our
Administration has a splendid record on civil rights. We have
nurtured equality of opportunity and equality under the law.
That is why I will not sign any Civil Rights bill which allows
quotas -- explicitly, or implicitly. / Nor will our
Administration support the practice of "race-norming" -- which
insults minorities by separating their test scores from whites.
Race-norming drives Americans apart instead of bringing them
together. //
4
Our Administration will fight any legislation that lessens
opportunity for the Asian/Pacific community. / Instead, we
propose actions that broaden opportunity. Because education is
the great uplifter, we have launched the America 2000 Education
strategy. / And I am proud to have named more Asians to top
management and advisory roles than any President in history / the
first Asian deputy secretary of a Cabinet department / the first
Asian-American as an ambassador. // I am proud not because they
were Asian -- but because they were the best men and women for
the job. //
At home, our policies will spur justice and prosperity. Let
me speak now of an area abroad where the same equation holds. I
refer to East Asia, and how this dynamic region can spur
America's growth. //
Already, our trans-Pacific trade as a whole has more than
doubled that between America and Europe. In 1990, we exported to
Singapore more than to Spain or Italy / to Malaysia more than to
the Soviet Union / to Indonesia more than to all or Central
Europe. // The FAA also estimates that by 1993 traffic on
Pacific routes will surpass the Atlantic on a passenger mile
basis. // Consider, too, that more than 1,200 U.S. companies
have invested over $4 billion in the People's Republic of China
-- and that China buys about $5 billion worth of American
products -- from computers to cotton. Take away these products -
- and you take American jobs. //
5
Two weeks ago, I moved to expand this growth by extending
Most Favored Nation status to China. I knew that ending MFN
would dramatically increase the cost of Chinese imports, and also
cripple Hong Kong -- a bastion of freedom and free trade and
investor in South China's export industries. // Moreover, I
recognized what many critics of MFN have either forgotten or
never knew. To influence China, one cannot isolate China. //
This Nation's foreign policy has always been more than an
expression of American interests. It is an extension of American
principles. This Through moral engalement dimension requires with China us to advance and in the response
to my extending MFN last year Protessor 7ang Lizhi is
cause of freedom by understanding that often countries confront
free moral today in this country, He even enjoys that precious freedim
ambiguity. Some argue that a nation as moral and just as
before the
ours should not taint itself by dealing with nations less moral
the freedom to differ publicky with this country's policies, as he has done
Congress.
n and just. But this counsel offers up self-righteousness draped
I have another example of The benefit of engagement,
in a false morality. You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
no matter how distateful we may tind dealing with
// is the reason we have taken an intelligent stand on
those This who violate human rights. Last year, over strong
China -- grandstand at liberty's expense. / Here are the
objections not in the Congress and in The nation at large,
/ vetoed the Pelosi Bill legislation intended to
results: Between 1988 and 1990, emigration from China rose by 84
protect students in this country, If that bill had become
per cent; prominent dissidents were released; and the regime has
accounted for many of the casualties of Tienanmen Square. //
law, / am convinced Beijing would have seized on it as a
pretixt Is it to end the practice of permitting Chinese young people
enough? Not nearly and we will continue to urge
China to Internally reform and externally rejoin the community of
to study in The United States. Instead, / extended
nations. We cannot be sure of success. We can be sure that
even greater protections than provided in The Pelosi BILL
without through an Executive order. The results of continued
American dialogue, the free exchange of goods and ideas
between East Asia and the United States would die a certain death
engagement are clear: in the last year alone, the
through who now denounce MFN. //
number critics of visas issued to Chinese students and schotars to
study in the United States was 11,500. That's 11500
opportunities fulfilled that might have been torgone
i- hil did not stares encared
6
I spoke earlier of the ideals which enrich the Asian/Pacific
community. Let me close with a passage from a Chinese author --
Lin Yutang -- who wrote brilliantly of their importance. //
"Today," he said, "we are afraid of the simple words like
goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good
old words because we don't believe in the good old values. " //
Asian-Americans have always believed in these values.
Respect for dignity / the primacy of the individual / the need
to join a cause larger than ourselves. God bless what you done
for our country, and thank you for this occasion. And God bless
the Nation you so richly love -- the United States of America.
#
#
#
#
Gary Curran Rohrabacher's staff
(Smith/Grossman)
June 11, 1991
Draft Three
PACIFIC
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ASIA/PACIFIC RALLY
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1991
Yee Hang Chang the first Hmong from Laos to graduate from
the United States Military Academy -- thank you for that
introduction. / Mr. Kwan, Miss Nahkirunkanok [NA Kee-run-kah-
nook), Elizabeth Szu (SOO), Inder Singh (SING), Ky (KEE) Ngo (Nn-
GO), John Tsu (S00), my fellow Americans. //
An Oriental proverb says, "The two words, 'peace' and
'tranquility,' are worth a thousand pieces of gold." My pleasure
in being here is worth a thousand times that total. //
((This is one of the largest crowds I've spoken to since my
election to the Presidency. // Actually, since we are on a golf
course, I'm used to crowds this size. Last time I played, it
took this many people to help find my ball.) ) //
((I'm also glad to be with you on Father's Day. / I'm like
many dads. My kids know me as a Father who guided them through
life by using those three magic words, "Ask your mother." // Let
me say, too, that as someone who's just had a birthday, it's a
pleasure to be with people whose culture reveres old age.) ) //
Most of all, I am proud to have the chance to salute the
various ethnic groups who form the Asian/Pacific community.
Groups diverse in name but united by ideals. Ideals like belief
in work. Discipline, self-sacrifice, and a love of freedom. /
2
They are ideals which brought your grand-parents, parents, and
some of you to America. Ideals which are now uplifting America. //
For more than 200 years, this Nation has been the home of
free markets and free people. There is no question: Opportunity
in America is the envy of the world. // You came in search of
opportunity -- and you're finding it. You came to build a better
America -- and you're building it. // You've enhanced our
schools, our professions, our small and large businesses. For
the Asian/Pacific community, growth is not a codeword. It is a
watchword which has helped enrich the American community. //
Consider how according to Census data on average family
incomes, Japanese Americans and Asian Indians have made the
American Dream reality. // Or how the latest National Assessment
of Educational Progress shows Asian-Americans excelling in
subjects such as math. // Yet the best is still ahead. Over the
past decade, the Asian/Pacific community has grown by 105 per
cent -- faster than any group. I look forward to more pioneers
like An Wang, founder of Wang Laboratories, and Henry Tang and
I.M. Pei and physicist Leo Esaki. They know how merit and
opportunity begets the growth that is America. //
( (Let me tell a story of a restaurant in China where three
American tourists walked in. They were wearing the most
outrageous safari clothes / complete with Panama hats, backpacks,
video cameras, and a few Chinese phrases picked up from a
stateside friend who happens to own a wok. )) //
3
( (The friends stood around looking for a waiter, and finally
one asked in a loud voice: "How do we attract attention?") )
That's one way to attract attention. You've chosen another way.
// You haven't asked what government can do for you. You've
asked what you can do -- for yourself -- for your family and your
community. //
No people understands more than Asians what really counts:
competence, not color. You know what matters is the human heart
and will -- not sex or creed or national orgin. // Historically,
Americans have thought of themselves not as special interest
groups -- one pitted against the other -- but as individuals --
judged by what we are, and what we dream. // Some propose
policies that judge people by the pigment of their skin. I say -
- as you do -- what we need are equal rights for all Americans -
- not preferential treatment for some. //
You know what I'm talking about: Quotas that harm talented
Americans like the thousands of Asian students in our
universities who study science and engineering. // Our
Administration has a splendid record on civil rights. We have
nurtured equality of opportunity and equality under the law.
That is why I will not sign any Civil Rights bill which allows
quotas -- explicitly, or implicitly. / Nor will our
Administration support the practice of "race-norming" -- which
insults minorities by separating their test scores from whites.
Race-norming drives Americans apart instead of bringing them
together. //
4
Our Administration will fight any legislation that lessens
opportunity for the Asian/Pacific community. / Instead, we
propose actions that broaden opportunity. Because education is
the great uplifter, we have launched the America 2000 Education
strategy. / And I am proud to have named more Asians to top
management and advisory roles than any President in history / the
first Asian deputy secretary of a Cabinet department / the first
Asian-American as an ambassador. // I am proud not because they
were Asian -- but because they were the best men and women for
the job. //
At home, our policies will spur justice and prosperity. Let
me speak now of an area abroad where the same equation holds. I⁻
refer to East Asia, and how this dynamic region can spur
America's growth. //
Already, our trans-Pacific trade as a whole has more than
doubled that between America and Europe. In 1990, we exported to
Singapore more than to Spain or Italy / to Malaysia more than to
the Soviet Union / to Indonesia more than to all or Central
Europe. // The FAA also estimates that by 1993 traffic on
Pacific routes will surpass the Atlantic on a passenger mile
basis. // Consider, too, that more than 1,200 U.S. companies
have invested over $4 billion in the People's Republic of China
-- and that China buys about $5 billion worth of American
products -- from computers to cotton. Take away these products -
- and you take American jobs. //
5
Two weeks ago, I moved to expand this growth by extending
Most Favored Nation status to China. I knew that ending MFN
would dramatically increase the cost of Chinese imports, and also
cripple Hong Kong -- a bastion of freedom and free trade and
investor in South China's export industries. // Moreover, I
recognized what many critics of MFN have either forgotten or
never knew. To influence China, one cannot isolate China. //
This Nation's foreign policy has always been more than an
expression of American interests. It is an extension of American
principles. This moral dimension requires us to advance the
cause of freedom by understanding that often countries confront
moral ambiguity. Some argue that a nation as moral and just as
ours should not taint itself by dealing with nations less moral
and just. But this counsel offers up self-righteousness draped
in a false morality. You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
// This is the reason we have taken an intelligent stand on
China -- not grandstand at liberty's expense. / Here are the
results: Between 1988 and 1990, emigration from China rose by 84
per cent; prominent dissidents were released; and the regime has
accounted for many of the casualties of Tienanmen Square. //
Is it enough? Not nearly -- and we will continue to urge
China to internally reform and externally rejoin the community of
nations. We cannot be sure of success. We can be sure that
without American dialogue, the free exchange of goods and ideas
between East Asia and the United States would die a certain death
through critics who now denounce MFN. //
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I spoke earlier of the ideals which enrich the Asian/Pacific
community. Let me close with a passage from a Chinese author --
Lin Yutang -- who wrote brilliantly of their importance. //
"Today," he said, "we are afraid of the simple words like
goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good
old words because we don't believe in the good old values. " //
Asian-Americans have always believed in these values.
Respect for dignity / the primacy of the individual / the need
to join a cause larger than ourselves. God bless what you done
for our country, and thank you for this occasion. And God bless
the Nation you so richly love -- the United States of America.
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