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Document No. 294074
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
91 DEC 20 All : 34
DATE: 12/19/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: FRIDAY, 12/20/91 10:00 am
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT
SUBJECT:
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 2, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCCLURE
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
ROGICH
BROMLEY
SMITH
CARD
DELAND
DEMAREST
FINDLAY
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930,
no later than 10:00 a.m., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, with a copy to this
office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
comment
P.5
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
CI DEC 18 P6: 46
(Duggan/Nix)
December 16, 1991
Draft One
Parliament
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA
JANUARY 2, 1992
[time]
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for that warm welcome. I
am deeply grateful for the honor of appearing before the Houses
of the Australian Parliament. I know that Members of Parliament
have gone to extraordinary lengths to arrange this special
session. I want to offer special greetings and thanks to the
members of the Australia/USA Parliamentary Group, who have done
so much to deepen the friendship between our countries. [Other
acknowledgments -- e.g. PM Hawke?]
Any visitor from the United States cannot help but feel a
warm kinship with Australia. We share ancient traditions and
far-sighted optimism. Explorers, pioneers, and immigrants built
each of our young nations. Australia and America have been
destinations of freedom and opportunity for yearners and toilers
from England and Ireland, Poland and Italy, Vietnam and Cambodia
and dozens of other points of departure.
This Parliament Building displays an original copy of the
Magna Carta -- one of only four such manuscripts to have survived
to this day. Fittingly, the United States National Archives is
home to another of these original manuscripts. I can think of no
stronger symbol of our shared commitment to the rights of the
2
individual, to the rule of law, and to government by consent of
the people.
With our common ancestries and shared ideals, Americans and
Australians also find great similarities in our lands. Each of
our countries spans a continent. Each abounds in agricultural
and mineral riches. Each is endowed with seaports important to
world strategy and trade.
Australians and Americans share a belief in the
indivisibility of human freedom and a willingness to struggle and
sacrifice for the peace and security of other nations. Five
times this century Australians and Americans have fought side by
side in the cause of peace and freedom: In Europe in the First
World War; in Europe, Africa and the Pacific in the Second World
War; in Korea; in Vietnam; and, just last year, in the Persian
Gulf.
This year we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fateful
Battle of the Coral Sea. We remember the courage and fighting
skill of the Australian and American naval forces. Their valor
spared Australia from invasion and preserved for the Allied
forces in the Pacific their most valuable material and moral
resources.
In Korea and Vietnam, Australians and Americans again joined
forces. Their sacrifices were not in vain. Had we not taken our
stand, the wildfire of communist violence and tyranny very likely
would have enveloped far greater expanses of Northeast and
Southeast Asia.
3
In the Persian Gulf, we stood together again in opposing
Saddam Hussein's aggression. Indeed, the first two coalition
partners to carry out a joint boarding exercise to enforce the
United Nations resolutions were Australians from the HMAS Darwin
and Americans from the USS Brewerton. And today, two of the
three navies represented in operations enforcing the embargo
against Iraq are Australia's and America's.
Let me assure you: The United States will continue to work
in firm alliance with Australia, no matter what changes may come
about in our defense expenditures or in the makeup of threats to
international peace.
We will continue keep our defenses strong and to seek
through diplomacy to curb threats to world stability. I salute
Australia's leadership in stemming the spread of weapons of mass
destruction -- especially chemical and nuclear weapons.
A moment ago I recalled the sacrifices Australians made
during our long involvement in opposing communist expansion in
Southeast Asia. No matter how disappointing and thankless that
military engagement may have seemed, Australians have never lost
sight of their aim of advancing freedom and human rights in
Southeast Asia. Years of principled diplomatic efforts by
Australians in the United Nations have been a major factor in the
progress toward peace and self-government in Cambodia.
Both the United States and Australia have renewed diplomatic
representation in Phnom Penh in order to move the peace process
forward. Australia is making an additional contribution by
4
sending one of its senior military officers to head the new U.N.
peacekeeping force in Cambodia. While Cambodia still faces a
difficult transition, I am confident that dictatorship will give
way to democracy not only in Cambodia but in Vietnam as well.
[Placeholder for any further statements about Cambodia, e.g.
lifting of trade embargo]
The coming era promises unparalleled opportunities for
economic growth in the nations of the Pacific. The Asia-Pacific
region accounts for more than $300 billion in annual two-way
commerce with the United States -- a total nearly one-third
larger than America's volume of trade across the Atlantic.
Australia has been one of the most constructive parties to
e Uruguay Round of the GATT negotiations. Australian leaders
1: 19 employed great skill and energy in seeking deep reductions
O. the European Community's heavy and harmful agricultural
su: idies. I am acutely aware that such interim United States
trade programs as the Export Enhancement Program for wheat cause
pain to Australia's farmers even as they apply needed pressure to
the European Community. I want to assure you that my
Administration is working as hard as possible -- as I know the
Australian government is -- for an historic new GATT agreement
that liberates and revolutionizes world agriculture trade. In
the long run, this is the best policy either of us could offer
our farmers and ranchers.
Like Australians, Americans see the possibilities for using
regional organizations to expand and liberalize trade around the
5
globe. We seek to make all of North America -- Mexico, the
United States and Canada -- a free trade area.
I assure you: The North American Free Trade Agreement will
not become an exclusive trade bloc. It will lower internal
America
barriers without raising external barriers. We envision a day
Sector
when a thriving North American trade group can engage in
level
increasingly open trade with the Asian-Pacific nations. We
are
playms hild
especially encouraged by Australia's leadership in organizing and
hosting the recent founding meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic
Arstralim
Cooperation Group.
understand
Our common aspirations for the future are evident in our And we
increasing cooperation on such matters as environmental
will be
protection and educational and social issues. Australians and 'fnir" m
Americans can take pride in the important joint actions our
ovr
governments have taken toward conservation of tropical forests,
dealings
protecting endangered species, and promoting technologies for
not
clean-burning coal.
As a democracy with a solid moral anchor, Australia plays a
"firm"
leading role in the international fight against illicit drugs. I
know I speak for millions of American parents in expressing
thanks for your efforts in the fight against drug abuse and drug
trafficking.
Steadfast cooperation on security and trade will offer a
great boon to the next generations of Australians and Americans.
I foresee a steady expansion of travel and cultural exchanges in
years to come. Australia's natural beauty is a powerful magnet
6
for American tourists. But more than this, it is the spirit of
your country that earns Australia so much admiration in America
and around the world. Your artists' contributions to film, dance
and music have whetted my countrymen's appetites for more and
more things Australian. ((One of the sports television networks
in the U.S. carries "Australian rules football," and many
Americans enjoy the rough and tumble of hard hitting with
reckless abandon. \ We have something similar, but we call it
politics. \\))
I credit the clear air of Australia for its effect on one of
the freshest minds now working in Washington -- our Secretary of
Education, Lamar Alexander. In 1987, after completing eight
years as Goverhor of Tennessee, Lamar Alexander decided to take
his wife and children and spend half a year in Australia. He
envisioned Australia as a sanctuary from the rat race of business
and politics in the United States.
For six months the Alexanders enjoyed the beauty and comfort
of Australia's coastal cities and the adventure of the bush
country. They succeeded splendidly in getting to know one
another better as a family while experiencing a place as far as
anywhere on earth from America's workaday world. For all the
difference in setting, though, Lamar Alexander continually was
struck with a powerful sense of kinship between Australians and
Americans. As he neared the end of his visit, he told an
Australian, "sometimes I think I'm at a family reunion on another
planet."
7
Now that he has joined my Cabinet as Secretary of Education,
Lamar Alexander is working for revolutionary changes we believe
are necessary to improve our schools. He is promoting innovative
ideas he saw in practice in Australia -- for instance the large
measure of freedom Australians have in choosing among private,
religious, or state-operated schools. When we succeed with some
of these reforms, I'll inform my Education Secretary that we have
arrived in the same orbit -- yes, even on the same planet -- as
Australians.
of course, we've always shared fraternal ties and a spirit
of freedom -- ever since an American vessel named the
Philadelphia became the first trading ship to call at Sydney's
Port Jackson in 1792. Almost a century later, Mark Twain visited
Australia and spoke for all Americans when he said: "You have a
spirit of independence here which cannot be overpraised. "
Fifty years ago in the Coral Sea, Australians and Americans
paid a high price, but they proved to the world that the future
belongs to the brave and the free. For the half century since,
we have deepened our habits of friendship, trade and mutual
defense. Now more clearly than ever, we can see a hopeful future
for the far-flung kinsmen of Australia and America -- and for all
who share our ideals. We're prepared to work as partners in the
next century -- to break new ground for freedom, cooperation, and
economic progress.
Thank you again for the extraordinary honor of allowing me
to address this distinguished Parliament. May God bless you, and
1
8
may He always smile on the kinship and friendship of Australia
and the United States of America.
# # #
Document No.
294074
WHITE HOUSE DEC 20 STAFFING MEMORANDUM
91
DATE: 12/19/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: FRIDAY, 12/20/91 10:00 am
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2, 1992
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCCLURE
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
ROGICH
BROMLEY
SMITH
CARD
DELAND
FINDLAY
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930,
no later than 10:00 a.m., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, with a copy to this
office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
See comments. Thanks.
EL
Elizabeth 12/20/91 Luttig
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
CI DEC 18 P6: 46
(Duggan/Nix)
December 16, 1991
Draft One
Parliament
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA
JANUARY 2, 1992
[time]
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for that warm welcome. I
am deeply grateful for the honor of appearing before the Houses
of the Australian Parliament. I know that Members of Parliament
have gone to extraordinary lengths to arrange this special
session. I want to offer special greetings and thanks to the
members of the Australia/USA Parliamentary Group, who have done
acknowleg
so much to deepen the friendship between our countries. [Other
acknowledgments -- e.g. PM Hawke?]
Keating
Any visitor from the United States cannot help but feel a
warm kinship with Australia. We share ancient traditions and
far-sighted optimism. Explorers, pioneers, and immigrants built
each of our young nations. Australia and America have been
destinations of freedom and opportunity for yearners and toilers
from England and Ireland, Poland and Italy, Vietnam and Cambodia
and dozens of other points of departure.
This Parliament Building displays an original copy of the
Magna Carta -- one of only four such manuscripts to have survived
to this day. Fittingly, the United States National Archives is
home to another of these original manuscripts. I can think of no
stronger symbol of our shared commitment to the rights of the
2
individual, to the rule of law, and to government by consent of
the people.
With our common ancestries and shared ideals, Americans and
Australians also find great similarities in our lands. Each of
our countries spans a continent. Each abounds in agricultural
and mineral riches. Each is endowed with seaports important to
world strategy and trade.
Australians and Americans share a belief in the
indivisibility of human freedom and a willingness to struggle and
sacrifice for the peace and security of other nations. Five
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times this century Australians and Americans have fought side by
would
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side in the cause of peace and freedom: In Europe in the First
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WWI.
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This year we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fateful
Battle of the Coral Sea. We remember the courage and fighting
skill of the Australian and American naval forces. Their valor
spared Australia from invasion and preserved for the Allied
forces in the Pacific their most valuable material and moral
resources.
In Korea and Vietnam, Australians and Americans again joined
forces. Their sacrifices were not in vain. Had we not taken our
stand, the wildfire of communist violence and tyranny very likely
would have enveloped far greater expanses of Northeast and
Southeast Asia.
3
In the Persian Gulf, we stood together again in opposing
Saddam Hussein's aggression. Indeed, the first two coalition
partners to carry out a joint boarding exercise to enforce the
United Nations resolutions were Australians from the HMAS Darwin
and Americans from the USS Brewerton. And today, two of the
three navies represented in operations enforcing the embargo
against Iraq are Australia's and America's.
Let me assure you: The United States will continue to work
in firm alliance with Australia, no matter what changes may come
about in our defense expenditures or in the makeup of threats to
international peace.
We will continue keep our defenses strong and to seek
through diplomacy to curb threats to world stability. I salute
Australia's leadership in stemming the spread of weapons of mass
destruction -- especially chemical and nuclear weapons.
A moment ago I recalled the sacrifices Australians made
during our long involvement in opposing communist expansion in
Southeast Asia. No matter how disappointing and thankless that
military engagement may have seemed, Australians have never lost
sight of their aim of advancing freedom and human rights in
Southeast Asia. Years of principled diplomatic efforts by
Australians in the United Nations have been a major factor in the
progress toward peace and self-government in Cambodia.
Both the United States and Australia have renewed diplomatic
representation in Phnom Penh in order to move the peace process
forward. Australia is making an additional contribution by
4
sending one of its senior military officers to head the new U.N.
peacekeeping force in Cambodia. While Cambodia still faces a
difficult transition, I am confident that dictatorship will give
way to democracy not only in Cambodia but in Vietnam as well.
[Placeholder for any further statements about Cambodia, e.g.
lifting of trade embargo]
The coming era promises unparalleled opportunities for
economic growth in the nations of the Pacific. The Asia-Pacific
region accounts for more than $300 billion in annual two-way
commerce with the United States -- a total nearly one-third
larger than America's volume of trade across the Atlantic.
Australia has been one of the most constructive parties to
the Uruguay Round of the GATT negotiations. Australian leaders
have employed great skill and energy in seeking deep reductions
of the European Community's heavy and harmful agricultural
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Like Australians, Americans see the possibilities for using
regional organizations to expand and liberalize trade around the
5
globe. We seek to make all of North America -- Mexico, the
United States and Canada -- a free trade area.
I assure you: The North American Free Trade Agreement will
not become an exclusive trade bloc. It will lower internal
barriers without raising external barriers. We envision a day
when a thriving North American trade group can engage in
increasingly open trade with the Asian-Pacific nations. We are
especially encouraged by Australia's leadership in organizing and
hosting the recent founding meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation Group.
Our common aspirations for the future are evident in our
increasing cooperation on such matters as environmental
protection and educational and social issues. Australians and
Americans can take pride in the important joint actions our
governments have taken toward conservation of tropical forests,
protecting endangered species, and promoting technologies for
clean-burning coal.
As a democracy with a solid moral anchor, Australia plays a
leading role in the international fight against illicit drugs. I
know I speak for millions of American parents in expressing
thanks for your efforts in the fight against drug abuse and drug
trafficking.
Steadfast cooperation on security and trade will offer a
great boon to the next generations of Australians and Americans.
I foresee a steady expansion of travel and cultural exchanges in
years to come. Australia's natural beauty is a powerful magnet
6
for American tourists. But more than this, it is the spirit of
your country that earns Australia so much admiration in America
and around the world. Your artists' contributions to film, dance
and music have whetted my countrymen's appetites for more and
more things Australian. ((One of the sports television networks
in the U.S. carries "Australian rules football," and many
Americans enjoy the rough and tumble of hard hitting with
reckless abandon. \ We have something similar, but we call it
politics. \\))
I credit the clear air of Australia for its effect on one of
the freshest minds now working in Washington -- our Secretary of
Education, Lamar Alexander. In 1987, after completing eight
years as Governor of Tennessee, Lamar Alexander decided to take
his wife and children and spend half a year in Australia. He
envisioned Australia as a sanctuary from the rat race of business
and politics in the United States.
For six months the Alexanders enjoyed the beauty and comfort
of Australia's coastal cities and the adventure of the bush
country. They succeeded splendidly in getting to know one
another better as a family while experiencing a place as far as
anywhere on earth from America's workaday world. For all the
difference in setting, though, Lamar Alexander continually was
struck with a powerful sense of kinship between Australians and
Americans. As he neared the end of his visit, he told an
Australian, "sometimes I think I'm at a family reunion on another
planet. "
7
Now that he has joined my Cabinet as Secretary of Education,
Lamar Alexander is working for revolutionary changes we believe
are necessary to improve our schools. He is promoting innovative
ideas he saw in practice in Australia -- for instance the large
measure of freedom Australians have in choosing among private,
religious, or state-operated schools. When we succeed with some
of these reforms, I'll inform my Education Secretary that we have
arrived in the same orbit -- yes, even on the same planet -- as
Australians.
of course, we've always shared fraternal ties and a spirit
of freedom -- ever since an American vessel named the
Philadelphia became the first trading ship to call at Sydney's
Port Jackson in 1792. Almost a century later, Mark Twain visited
Australia and spoke for all Americans when he said: "You have a
spirit of independence here which cannot be overpraised."
Fifty years ago in the Coral Sea, Australians and Americans
paid a high price, but they proved to the world that the future
belongs to the brave and the free. For the half century since,
we have deepened our habits of friendship, trade and mutual
defense. Now more clearly than ever, we can see a hopeful future
for the far-flung kinsmen of Australia and America -- and for all
who share our ideals. We're prepared to work as partners in the
next century -- to break new ground for freedom, cooperation, and
economic progress.
Thank you again for the extraordinary honor of allowing me
to address this distinguished Parliament. May God bless you, and
8
may He always smile on the kinship and friendship of Australia
and the United States of America.
#
#
#
Document No.
294074
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 12/19/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: FRIDAY, 12/20/91 10:00 am
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 2, 1992
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCCLURE
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
ROGICH
BROMLEY
SMITH
CARD
DELAND
FINDLAY
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930,
no later than 10:00 a.m., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, with a copy to this
office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
Ok- - perhaps incurporate Some comments on
DEC 19 57 P2:57
earlier events of the ! THE Maritime Museum,
PHILLIP D. BRADY
spending New year's, etc.
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
BT for SP-
01 DEC 18 P6: 46
(Duggan/Nix)
December 16, 1991
Draft One
Parliament
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA
JANUARY 2, 1992
[time]
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for that warm welcome. I
am deeply grateful for the honor of appearing before the Houses
of the Australian Parliament. I know that Members of Parliament
have gone to extraordinary lengths to arrange this special
session. I want to offer special greetings and thanks to the
members of the Australia/USA Parliamentary Group, who have done
so much to deepen the friendship between our countries. [Other
acknowledgments -- e.g. PM Hawke?]
Any visitor from the United States cannot help but feel a
warm kinship with Australia. We share ancient traditions and
far-sighted optimism. Explorers, pioneers, and immigrants built
each of our young nations. Australia and America have been
destinations of freedom and opportunity for yearners and toilers
from England and Ireland, Poland and Italy, Vietnam and Cambodia
and dozens of other points of departure.
This Parliament Building displays an original copy of the
Magna Carta -- one of only four such manuscripts to have survived
to this day. Fittingly, the United States National Archives is
home to another of these original manuscripts. I can think of no
stronger symbol of our shared commitment to the rights of the
2
individual, to the rule of law, and to government by consent of
the people.
With our common ancestries and shared ideals, Americans and
Australians also find great similarities in our lands. Each of
our countries spans a continent. Each abounds in agricultural
and mineral riches. Each is endowed with seaports important to
world strategy and trade.
Australians and Americans share a belief in the
indivisibility of human freedom and a willingness to struggle and
sacrifice for the peace and security of other nations. Five
times this century Australians and Americans have fought side by
side in the cause of peace and freedom: In Europe in the First
World War; in Europe, Africa and the Pacific in the Second World
War; in Korea; in Vietnam; and, just last year, in the Persian
Gulf.
This year we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fateful
Battle of the Coral Sea. We remember the courage and fighting
skill of the Australian and American naval forces. Their valor
spared Australia from invasion and preserved for the Allied
forces in the Pacific their most valuable material and moral
resources.
In Korea and Vietnam, Australians and Americans again joined
forces. Their sacrifices were not in vain. Had we not taken our
stand, the wildfire of communist violence and tyranny very likely
would have enveloped far greater expanses of Northeast and
Southeast Asia.
3
In the Persian Gulf, we stood together again in opposing
Saddam Hussein's aggression. Indeed, the first two coalition
partners to carry out a joint boarding exercise to enforce the
United Nations resolutions were Australians from the HMAS Darwin
and Americans from the USS Brewerton. And today, two of the
three navies represented in operations enforcing the embargo
against Iraq are Australia's and America's.
Let me assure you: The United States will continue to work
in firm alliance with Australia, no matter what changes may come
about in our defense expenditures or in the makeup of threats to
international peace.
We will continue keep our defenses strong and to seek
through diplomacy to curb threats to world stability. I salute
Australia's leadership in stemming the spread of weapons of mass
destruction -- especially chemical and nuclear weapons.
A moment ago I recalled the sacrifices Australians made
during our long involvement in opposing communist expansion in
Southeast Asia. No matter how disappointing and thankless that
military engagement may have seemed, Australians have never lost
sight of their aim of advancing freedom and human rights in
Southeast Asia. Years of principled diplomatic efforts by
Australians in the United Nations have been a major factor in the
progress toward peace and self-government in Cambodia.
Both the United States and Australia have renewed diplomatic
representation in Phnom Penh in order to move the peace process
forward. Australia is making an additional contribution by
4
sending one of its senior military officers to head the new U.N.
peacekeeping force in Cambodia. While Cambodia still faces a
difficult transition, I am confident that dictatorship will give
way to democracy not only in Cambodia but in Vietnam as well.
[Placeholder for any further statements about Cambodia, e.g.
lifting of trade embargo]
The coming era promises unparalleled opportunities for
economic growth in the nations of the Pacific. The Asia-Pacific
region accounts for more than $300 billion in annual two-way
commerce with the United States -- a total nearly one-third
larger than America's volume of trade across the Atlantic.
Australia has been one of the most constructive parties to
the Uruguay Round of the GATT negotiations. Australian leaders
have employed great skill and energy in seeking deep reductions
of the European Community's heavy and harmful agricultural
subsidies. I am acutely aware that such interim United States
trade programs as the Export Enhancement Program for wheat cause
pain to Australia's farmers even as they apply needed pressure to
the European Community. I want to assure you that my
Administration is working as hard as possible -- as I know the
Australian government is -- for an historic new GATT agreement
that liberates and revolutionizes world agriculture trade. In
the long run, this is the best policy either of us could offer
our farmers and ranchers.
Like Australians, Americans see the possibilities for using
regional organizations to expand and liberalize trade around the
5
globe. We seek to make all of North America -- Mexico, the
United States and Canada -- a free trade area.
I assure you: The North American Free Trade Agreement will
not become an exclusive trade bloc. It will lower internal
barriers without raising external barriers. We envision a day
when a thriving North American trade group can engage in
increasingly open trade with the Asian-Pacific nations. We are
especially encouraged by Australia's leadership in organizing and
hosting the recent founding meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation Group.
Our common aspirations for the future are evident in our
increasing cooperation on such matters as environmental
protection and educational and social issues. Australians and
Americans can take pride in the important joint actions our
governments have taken toward conservation of tropical forests,
protecting endangered species, and promoting technologies for
clean-burning coal.
As a democracy with a solid moral anchor, Australia plays a
leading role in the international fight against illicit drugs. I
know I speak for millions of American parents in expressing
thanks for your efforts in the fight against drug abuse and drug
trafficking.
Steadfast cooperation on security and trade will offer a
great boon to the next generations of Australians and Americans.
I foresee a steady expansion of travel and cultural exchanges in
years to come. Australia's natural beauty is a powerful magnet
6
for American tourists. But more than this, it is the spirit of
your country that earns Australia so much admiration in America
and around the world. Your artists' contributions to film, dance
and music have whetted my countrymen's appetites for more and
more things Australian. ((One of the sports television networks
in the U.S. carries "Australian rules football," and many
Americans enjoy the rough and tumble of hard hitting with
reckless abandon. \ We have something similar, but we call it
politics. 11 ))
I credit the clear air of Australia for its effect on one of
the freshest minds now working in Washington -- our Secretary of
Education, Lamar Alexander. In 1987, after completing eight
years as Governor of Tennessee, Lamar Alexander decided to take
his wife and children and spend half a year in Australia. He
envisioned Australia as a sanctuary from the rat race of business
and politics in the United States.
For six months the Alexanders enjoyed the beauty and comfort
of Australia's coastal cities and the adventure of the bush
country. They succeeded splendidly in getting to know one
another better as a family while experiencing a place as far as
anywhere on earth from America's workaday world. For all the
difference in setting, though, Lamar Alexander continually was
struck with a powerful sense of kinship between Australians and
Americans. As he neared the end of his visit, he told an
Australian, "sometimes I think I'm at a family reunion on another
planet." "
7
Now that he has joined my Cabinet as Secretary of Education,
Lamar Alexander is working for revolutionary changes we believe
are necessary to improve our schools. He is promoting innovative
ideas he saw in practice in Australia -- for instance the large
measure of freedom Australians have in choosing among private,
religious, or state-operated schools. When we succeed with some
of these reforms, I'll inform my Education Secretary that we have
arrived in the same orbit -- yes, even on the same planet -- as
Australians.
Of course, we've always shared fraternal ties and a spirit
the
of freedom -- ever since an American vessel named the
stet
Philadelphia became the first trading ship to call at Sydney's
Port Jackson in 1792. Almost a century later, Mark Twain visited
Australia and spoke for all Americans when he said: "You have a
spirit of independence here which cannot be overpraised."
Fifty years ago in the Coral Sea, Australians and Americans
paid a high price, but they proved to the world that the future
belongs to the brave and the free. For the half century since,
we have deepened our habits of friendship, trade and mutual
defense. Now more clearly than ever, we can see a hopeful future
for the far-flung kinsmen of Australia and America -- and for all
who share our ideals. We're prepared to work as partners in the
next century -- to break new ground for freedom, cooperation, and
economic progress.
Thank you again for the extraordinary honor of allowing me
to address this distinguished Parliament. May God bless you, and
8
may He always smile on the kinship and friendship of Australia
and the United States of America.
#
#
#
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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2, 1992
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MEMORANDUM FOR TONY SNOW
FROM:
RONALD E. VONLEMBKE
ASSISTANT COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks: Australian Parliament,
Canberra, Australia -- January 2, 1992
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reviewed the above-referenced matter. We have no objection to
the proposed presidential remarks subject to the changes on
pages 1 and 3 as indicated on the attached text.
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01 DEC 18 P6: 46
(Duggan/Nix)
December 16, 1991
Draft One
Parliament
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA
JANUARY 2, 1992
[time]
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for that warm welcome. I
am deeply grateful for the honor of appearing before the Houses
of the Australian Parliament. I know that Members of Parliament
have gone to extraordinary lengths to arrange this special
session. I want to offer special greetings and thanks to the
members of the Australia/USA Parliamentary Group, who have done
so much to deepen the friendship between our countries. [Other
acknowledgments -- e.g. PM Hawke?] Hawke? Prime MINISTOR)
(No longer
Any visitor from the United States cannot help but feel a
warm kinship with Australia. We share ancient traditions and
far-sighted optimism. Explorers, pioneers, and immigrants built
each of our young nations. Australia and America have been
destinations of freedom and opportunity for yearners and toilers
from England and Ireland, Poland and Italy, Vietnam and Cambodia
and dozens of other points of departure.
This Parliament Building displays an original copy of the
Magna Carta -- one of only four such manuscripts to have survived
to this day. Fittingly, the United States National Archives is
home to another of these original manuscripts. I can think of no
stronger symbol of our shared commitment to the rights of the
3
In the Persian Gulf, we stood together again in opposing
Saddam Hussein's aggression. Indeed, the first two coalition
partners to carry out a joint boarding exercise to enforce the
United Nations resolutions were Australians from the HMAS Darwin
and Americans from the USS Brewerton. And today, two of the
three navies represented in operations enforcing the embargo
against Iraq are Australia's and America's.
Let me assure you: The United States will continue to work
in firm alliance with Australia, no matter what changes may come
about in our defense expenditures or in the makeup of threats to
international peace.
to
We will continue keep our defenses strong and to seek
through diplomacy to curb threats to world stability. I salute
Australia's leadership in stemming the spread of weapons of mass
destruction -- especially chemical and nuclear weapons.
A moment ago I recalled the sacrifices Australians made
during our long involvement in opposing communist expansion in
Southeast Asia. No matter how disappointing and thankless that
military engagement may have seemed, Australians have never lost
sight of their aim of advancing freedom and human rights in
Southeast Asia. Years of principled diplomatic efforts by
Australians in the United Nations have been a major factor in the
progress toward peace and self-government in Cambodia.
Both the United States and Australia have renewed diplomatic
representation in Phnom Penh in order to move the peace process
forward. Australia is making an additional contribution by
01 DEC 18 P6: 46
(Duggan/Nix)
December 16, 1991
Draft One
Parliament
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA
JANUARY 2, 1992
[time]
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for that warm welcome. I
am deeply grateful for the honor of appearing before the Houses
of the Australian Parliament. I know that Members of Parliament
have gone to extraordinary lengths to arrange this special
session. I want to offer special greetings and thanks to the
members of the Australia/USA Parliamentary Group, who have done
so much to deepen the friendship between our countries. [Other
acknowledgments -- e.g. PM Hawke?]
Any visitor from the United States cannot help but feel a
warm kinship with Australia. We share ancient traditions and
far-sighted optimism. Explorers, pioneers, and immigrants built
each of our young nations. Australia and America have been
destinations of freedom and opportunity for yearners and toilers
from England and Ireland, Poland and Italy, Vietnam and Cambodia
and dozens of other points of departure.
This Parliament Building displays an original copy of the
Magna Carta -- one of only four such manuscripts to have survived
to this day. Fittingly, the United States National Archives is
home to another of these original manuscripts. I can think of no
stronger symbol of our shared commitment to the rights of the
2
individual, to the rule of law, and to government by consent of
the people.
With our common ancestries and shared ideals, Americans and
Australians also find great similarities in our lands. Each of
our countries spans a continent. Each abounds in agricultural
and mineral riches. Each is endowed with seaports important to
world strategy and trade.
Australians and Americans share a belief in the
indivisibility of human freedom and a willingness to struggle and
sacrifice for the peace and security of other nations. Five
times this century Australians and Americans have fought side by
side in the cause of peace and freedom: In Europe in the First
World War; in Europe, Africa and the Pacific in the Second World
War; in Korea; in Vietnam; and, just last year, in the Persian
Gulf.
This year we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fateful
Battle of the Coral Sea. We remember the courage and fighting
skill of the Australian and American naval forces. Their valor
spared Australia from invasion and preserved for the Allied
forces in the Pacific their most valuable material and moral
resources.
In Korea and Vietnam, Australians and Americans again joined
forces. Their sacrifices were not in vain. Had we not taken our
stand, the wildfire of communist violence and tyranny very likely
would have enveloped far greater expanses of Northeast and
Southeast Asia.
3
In the Persian Gulf, we stood together again in opposing
Saddam Hussein's aggression. Indeed, the first two coalition
partners to carry out a joint boarding exercise to enforce the
United Nations resolutions were Australians from the HMAS Darwin
and Americans from the USS Brewerton. And today, two of the
three navies represented in operations enforcing the embargo
against Iraq are Australia's and America's.
Let me assure you: The United States will continue to work
in firm alliance with Australia, no matter what changes may come
about in our defense expenditures or in the makeup of threats to
international peace.
to
We will continue keep our defenses strong and to seek
through diplomacy to curb threats to world stability. I salute
Australia's leadership in stemming the spread of weapons of mass
destruction -- especially chemical and nuclear weapons.
A moment ago I recalled the sacrifices Australians made
during our long involvement in opposing communist expansion in
Southeast Asia. No matter how disappointing and thankless that
military engagement may have seemed, Australians have never lost
sight of their aim of advancing freedom and human rights in
Southeast Asia. Years of principled diplomatic efforts by
Australians in the United Nations have been a major factor in the
progress toward peace and self-government in Cambodia.
Both the United States and Australia have renewed diplomatic
representation in Phnom Penh in order to move the peace process
forward. Australia is making an additional contribution by
4
sending one of its senior military officers to head the new U.N.
peacekeeping force in Cambodia. While Cambodia still faces a
difficult transition, I am confident that dictatorship will give
way to democracy not only in Cambodia but in Vietnam as well.
[Placeholder for any further statements about Cambodia, e.g.
lifting of trade embargo]
The coming era promises unparalleled opportunities for
economic growth in the nations of the Pacific. The Asia-Pacific
region accounts for more than $300 billion in annual two-way
commerce with the United States -- a total nearly one-third
larger than America's volume of trade across the Atlantic.
Australia has been one of the most constructive parties to
the Uruguay Round of the GATT negotiations. Australian leaders
have employed great skill and energy in seeking deep reductions
of the European Community's heavy and harmful agricultural
subsidies. I am acutely aware that such interim United States
trade programs as the Export Enhancement Program for wheat cause
pain to Australia's farmers even as they apply needed pressure to
the European Community. I want to assure you that my
Administration is working as hard as possible -- as I know the
Australian government is -- for an historic new GATT agreement
that liberates and revolutionizes world agriculture trade. In
the long run, this is the best policy either of us could offer
our farmers and ranchers.
Like Australians, Americans see the possibilities for using
regional organizations to expand and liberalize trade around the
5
globe. We seek to make all of North America -- Mexico, the
United States and Canada -- a free trade area.
I assure you: The North American Free Trade Agreement will
not become an exclusive trade bloc. It will lower internal
barriers without raising external barriers. We envision a day
when a thriving North American trade group can engage in
increasingly open trade with the Asian-Pacific nations. We are
W
especially encouraged by Australia's leadership in organizing and
Nov
hosting the recent founding meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic
1989
Cooperation Group.
Our common aspirations for the future are evident in our
increasing cooperation on such matters as environmental
protection and educational and social issues. Australians and
Americans can take pride in the important joint actions our
governments have taken toward conservation of tropical forests,
protecting endangered species, and promoting technologies for
clean-burning coal.
As a democracy with a solid moral anchor, Australia plays a
leading role in the international fight against illicit drugs. I
know I speak for millions of American parents in expressing
thanks for your efforts in the fight against drug abuse and drug
trafficking.
Steadfast cooperation on security and trade will offer a
great boon to the next generations of Australians and Americans.
I foresee a steady expansion of travel and cultural exchanges in
years to come. Australia's natural beauty is a powerful magnet
6
for American tourists. But more than this, it is the spirit of
your country that earns Australia so much admiration in America
and around the world. Your artists' contributions to film, dance
and music have whetted my countrymen's appetites for more and
more things Australian. ((One of the sports television networks
in the U.S. carries "Australian rules football," and many
Americans enjoy the rough and tumble of hard hitting with
reckless abandon. \ We have something similar, but we call it
politics. 11 ))
I credit the clear air of Australia for its effect on one of
the freshest minds now working in Washington -- our Secretary of
Education, Lamar Alexander. In 1987, after completing eight
years as Governor of Tennessee, Lamar Alexander decided to take
his wife and children and spend half a year in Australia. He
envisioned Australia as a sanctuary from the rat race of business
and politics in the United States.
For six months the Alexanders enjoyed the beauty and comfort
of Australia's coastal cities and the adventure of the bush
country. They succeeded splendidly in getting to know one
another better as a family while experiencing a place as far as
anywhere on earth from America's workaday world. For all the
difference in setting, though, Lamar Alexander continually was
struck with a powerful sense of kinship between Australians and
Americans. As he neared the end of his visit, he told an
Australian, "sometimes I think I'm at a family reunion on another
planet."
7
Now that he has joined my Cabinet as Secretary of Education,
Lamar Alexander is working for revolutionary changes we believe
are necessary to improve our schools. He is promoting innovative
ideas he saw in practice in Australia -- for instance the large
measure of freedom Australians have in choosing among private,
religious, or state-operated schools. When we succeed with some
of these reforms, I'll inform my Education Secretary that we have
arrived in the same orbit -- yes, even on the same planet -- as
Australians.
of course, we've always shared fraternal ties and a spirit
of freedom -- ever since an American vessel named the
Philadelphia became the first trading ship to call at Sydney's
Port Jackson in 1792. Almost a century later, Mark Twain visited
Australia and spoke for all Americans when he said: "You have a
spirit of independence here which cannot be overpraised."
Fifty years ago in the Coral Sea, Australians and Americans
paid a high price, but they proved to the world that the future
belongs to the brave and the free. For the half century since,
we have deepened our habits of friendship, trade and mutual
defense. Now more clearly than ever, we can see a hopeful future
for the far-flung kinsmen of Australia and America -- and for all
who share our ideals. We're prepared to work as partners in the
next century -- to break new ground for freedom, cooperation, and
economic progress.
Thank you again for the extraordinary honor of allowing me
to address this distinguished Parliament. May God bless you, and
8
may He always smile on the kinship and friendship of Australia
and the United States of America.
#
#
#
01 DEC 18 P6: 46
(Duggan/Nix)
December 16, 1991
Draft One
Parliament
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA
JANUARY 2, 1992
[time]
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for that warm welcome. I
am deeply grateful for the honor of appearing before the Houses
of the Australian Parliament. I know that Members of Parliament
have gone to extraordinary lengths to arrange this special
session. I want to offer special greetings and thanks to the
members of the Australia/USA Parliamentary Group, who have done
so much to deepen the friendship between our countries. [Other
acknowledgments -- e.g. PM Hawke?]
Any visitor from the United States cannot help but feel a
warm kinship with Australia. We share ancient traditions and
far-sighted optimism. Explorers, pioneers, and immigrants built
each of our young nations. Australia and America have been
destinations of freedom and opportunity for yearners and toilers
from England and Ireland, Poland and Italy, Vietnam and Cambodia
and dozens of other points of departure.
This Parliament Building displays an original copy of the
Magna Carta -- one of only four such manuscripts to have survived
to this day. Fittingly, the United States National Archives is
home to another of these original manuscripts. I can think of no
stronger symbol of our shared commitment to the rights of the
2
individual, to the rule of law, and to government by consent of
the people.
With our common ancestries and shared ideals, Americans and
Australians also find great similarities in our lands. Each of
our countries spans a continent. Each abounds in agricultural
and mineral riches. Each is endowed with seaports important to
world strategy and trade.
Australians and Americans share a belief in the
indivisibility of human freedom and a willingness to struggle and
sacrifice for the peace and security of other nations. Five
times this century Australians and Americans have fought side by
side in the cause of peace and freedom: In Europe in the First
World War; in Europe, Africa and the Pacific in the Second World
War; in Korea; in Vietnam; and, just last year, in the Persian
Gulf.
This year we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fateful
Battle of the Coral Sea. We remember the courage and fighting
skill of the Australian and American naval forces. Their valor
spared Australia from invasion and preserved for the Allied
forces in the Pacific their most valuable material and moral
resources.
In Korea and Vietnam, Australians and Americans again joined
forces. Their sacrifices were not in vain. Had we not taken our
stand, the wildfire of communist violence and tyranny very likely
would have enveloped far greater expanses of Northeast and
Southeast Asia.
3
In the Persian Gulf, we stood together again in opposing
Saddam Hussein's aggression. Indeed, the first two coalition
partners to carry out a joint boarding exercise to enforce the
United Nations resolutions were Australians from the HMAS Darwin
and Americans from the USS Brewerton. And today, two of the
three navies represented in operations enforcing the embargo
against Iraq are Australia's and America's.
Let me assure you: The United States will continue to work
in firm alliance with Australia, no matter what changes may come
about in our defense expenditures or in the makeup of threats to
international peace.
We will continue keep our defenses strong and to seek
through diplomacy to curb threats to world stability. I salute
Australia's leadership in stemming the spread of weapons of mass
destruction -- especially chemical and nuclear weapons.
A moment ago I recalled the sacrifices Australians made
during our long involvement in opposing communist expansion in
Southeast Asia. No matter how disappointing and thankless that
military engagement may have seemed, Australians have never lost
sight of their aim of advancing freedom and human rights in
Southeast Asia. Years of principled diplomatic efforts by
Australians in the United Nations have been a major factor in the
progress toward peace and self-government in Cambodia.
Both the United States and Australia have renewed diplomatic
representation in Phnom Penh in order to move the peace process
forward. Australia is making an additional contribution by
4
sending one of its senior military officers to head the new U.N.
peacekeeping force in Cambodia. While Cambodia still faces a
difficult transition, I am confident that dictatorship will give
way to democracy not only in Cambodia but in Vietnam as well.
[Placeholder for any further statements about Cambodia, e.g.
lifting of trade embargo]
The coming era promises unparalleled opportunities for
economic growth in the nations of the Pacific. The Asia-Pacific
region accounts for more than $3.00 billion in annual two-way
commerce with the United States -- a total nearly one-third
larger than America's volume of trade across the Atlantic.
Australia has been one of the most constructive parties to
the Uruguay Round of the GATT negotiations. Australian leaders
have employed great skill and energy in seeking deep reductions
of the European Community's heavy and harmful agricultural
subsidies. I am acutely aware that such interim United States
trade programs as the Export Enhancement Program for wheat cause
pain to Australia's farmers even as they apply needed pressure to
the European Community. I want to assure you that my
Administration is working as hard as possible -- as I know the
Australian government is -- for an historic new GATT agreement
that liberates and revolutionizes world agriculture trade. In
the long run, this is the best policy either of us could offer
our farmers and ranchers.
Like Australians, Americans see the possibilities for using
regional organizations to expand and liberalize trade around the
5
globe. We seek to make all of North America -- Mexico, the
United States and Canada -- a free trade area.
I assure you: The North American Free Trade Agreement will
not become an exclusive trade bloc. It will lower internal
barriers without raising external barriers. We envision a day
when a thriving North American trade group can engage in
increasingly open trade with the Asian-Pacific nations. We are
especially encouraged by Australia's leadership in organizing and
hosting the recent founding meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation Group.
Our common aspirations for the future are evident in our
increasing cooperation on such matters as environmental
protection and educational and social issues. Australians and
Americans can take pride in the important joint actions our
governments have taken toward conservation of tropical forests,
protecting endangered species, and promoting technologies for
clean-burning coal.
As a democracy with a solid moral anchor, Australia plays a
leading role in the international fight against illicit drugs. I
know I speak for millions of American parents in expressing
thanks for your efforts in the fight against drug abuse and drug
trafficking.
Steadfast cooperation on security and trade will offer a
great boon to the next generations of Australians and Americans.
I foresee a steady expansion of travel and cultural exchanges in
years to come. Australia's natural beauty is a powerful magnet
6
for American tourists. But more than this, it is the spirit of
your country that earns Australia so much admiration in America
and around the world. Your artists' contributions to film, dance
and music have whetted my countrymen's appetites for more and
more things Australian. ((One of the sports television networks
in the U.S. carries "Australian rules football," and many
Americans enjoy the rough and tumble of hard hitting with
reckless abandon. \ We have something similar, but we call it
politics. 11 ))
I credit the clear air of Australia for its effect on one of
the freshest minds now working in Washington -- our Secretary of
Education, Lamar Alexander. In 1987, after completing eight
years as Governor of Tennessee, Lamar Alexander decided to take
his wife and children and spend half a year in Australia. He
envisioned Australia as a sanctuary from the rat race of business
and politics in the United States.
For six months the Alexanders enjoyed the beauty and comfort
of Australia's coastal cities and the adventure of the bush
country. They succeeded splendidly in getting to know one
another better as a family while experiencing a place as far as
anywhere on earth from America's workaday world. For all the
difference in setting, though, Lamar Alexander continually was
struck with a powerful sense of kinship between Australians and
Americans. As he neared the end of his visit, he told an
Australian, "sometimes I think I'm at a family reunion on another
planet."
7
Now that he has joined my Cabinet as Secretary of Education,
Lamar Alexander is working for revolutionary changes we believe
are necessary to improve our schools. He is promoting innovative
ideas he saw in practice in Australia -- for instance the large
measure of freedom Australians have in choosing among private,
religious, or state-operated schools. When we succeed with some
of these reforms, I'll inform my Education Secretary that we have
arrived in the same orbit -- yes, even on the same planet -- as
Australians.
Of course, we've always shared fraternal ties and a spirit
of freedom -- ever since an American vessel named the
Philadelphia became the first trading ship to call at Sydney's
Port Jackson in 1792. Almost a century later, Mark Twain visited
Australia and spoke for all Americans when he said: "You have a
spirit of independence here which cannot be overpraised."
Fifty years ago in the Coral Sea, Australians and Americans
paid a high price, but they proved to the world that the future
belongs to the brave and the free. For the half century since,
we have deepened our habits of friendship, trade and mutual
defense. Now more clearly than ever, we can see a hopeful future
for the far-flung kinsmen of Australia and America -- and for all
who share our ideals. We're prepared to work as partners in the
next century -- to break new ground for freedom, cooperation, and
economic progress.
Thank you again for the extraordinary honor of allowing me
to address this distinguished Parliament. May God bless you, and
8
may He always smile on the kinship and friendship of Australia
and the United States of America.
#
#
#
Determined To Be an Administrative
Marking Per E.O. 12356 Sec. 1.1 (a)
Ran 9/29/04
CONF IDENTIAL
DECL: OADR
ARRIVAL STATEMENT - JAPAN
Prime Minister Kaifu, (insert other appropriate
names), distinguished friends:
Barbara and I are delighted to be here today and
deeply appreciate your coming out to greet us. We left
Washington over a week ago to come to Asia for meetings
and discussions with some of our key friends and allies in
the region. No ally and friend is more important than
Japan.
As you know, I made my first overseas trip as
President to Japan in 1989. We had hoped to be able to
follow up that visit last year, and I'm sorry it took us
so long to get back. I appreciate your patience and
understanding for the delays.
Over the next few days I will be meeting with Prime
Minister Miyazawa and other Japanese leaders to discuss
the full range of issues on which the US and Japan
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cooperate and to explore ways to strengthen even further
the sound, vibrant relationship between our two
countries.
The changes that have taken place around the world in
the past two years present us with a tremendous challenge
to build a new international structure to promote
democracy, prosperity, and a stable and peaceful world.
As the world's two strongest economies and industrialized
democracies, Japan and the United States have a special
role to play in meeting these challenges. I firmly
believe that, working together, we will meet them.
Again, Barbara and I are grateful to you all for being
here to meet us and to get our visit to Japan off to a
good start. Thank you very much.
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DECL: OADR
LUNCH WITH FORMER PM KAIFU
SCENESETTER
PURPOSE
You should use this opportunity to thank Kaifu for his
contributions to strengthening relations and resolving
economic/trade problems. Kaifu took difficult stands in
support of US and multilateral efforts in the Gulf War. He
was an advocate of consumer welfare, a break from the
traditional GOJ emphasis on producers, that lent
considerable momentum to the Structural Impediments
Initiative at critical junctures. His public statements
were important to progress in the SII talks.
You may also wish to use this occasion to explain to Kaifu
and other distinguished guests the broad themes of the
visit: shaping the visit to meet the needs of the post-cold
war world; demonstrating our global partnership in both the
political and economic areas; working together to resolve
bilateral economic differences; reaffirming our commitment
to the security relationship. As a former prime minister,
Kaifu has some influence but is far from the center of party
activity and not likely to move closer.
Kaifu and others present will wish to offer their comments
on your visit and bilateral relations in general.
THE SETTING
About 18 guests will attend, including Ambassador and Mrs.
Armacost and seven members of the President's party. In
addition to former PM and Mrs. Kaifu, the GOJ side will
include Vice Foreign Minister Owada, North America Director
General Matsuura, and Chief of Protocol Nakamura.
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NARA, Date 05/30/23
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POINTS TO BE MADE AT THE LUNCH WITH
FORMER PRIME MINISTER KAIFU
ACHIEVEMENTS UNDER FORMER PM KAIFU
I very much appreciated the close personal
relationship I enjoyed with you. Under your
leadership, Japan has taken unprecedented steps in
strengthening relations with the US.
Japan's support for US and coalition forces in the
Gulf War is greatly appreciated in the U.S. Japan's
contribution is emblematic of our global partnership.
Our January 1991 new Host Nation Support (HNS)
agreement has reduced Congressional criticism of Japan
on burdensharing issues and ensured our ability to
maintain our forward deployed strategy.
Your efforts on the Structural Impediments Initiative
can have far-reaching positive effects on our economic
integration. We hope to continue to build on your
work in SII to achieve results and demonstrate that
SII is constructive for both our countries.
US-JAPAN GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP
The collapse of communism and the Soviet empire
represents an historic victory for the forces of
democracy and market economics.
The alliance between Japan and the United States
played a critical role in achieving this victory.
We are faced with new challenges as economic issues
become the focus of government and public attention.
I am confident that the leadership of the US and Japan
will meet these challenges. No other bilateral
relationship is more important for the future
prosperity and stability of the world.
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BILATERAL TENSIONS
Our global partnership can succeed only if we manage
divisive forces in our relationship. The public mood in
both countries toward the other is deteriorating.
We need to demonstrate that the alliance works, and that our
people benefit from it; and to step up efforts to resolve
trade and investment issues that erode support for the
relationship.
We must also maintain our commitment to fostering
understanding between our peoples.
I am especially grateful for Japan's generous commitment to
help expand Japanese-language teaching in our secondary
schools, and to improve understanding of Japanese business
practices among our business people. These initiatives will
stand us all in good stead in the coming years.
ECONOMICS AND TRADE
:
I urge Japan to make progress on reducing its global trade
surplus, which is destabilizing politically and economically
and will fuel protectionist pressures.
Under your leadership, we made solid progress in the
Structural Impediments Initiative (SII). SII brought us
closer together on economic issues and can continue to be a
constructive factor in our economic relationship. It is
essential we continue to expand SII by making new
commitments to foster policies that correct imbalances and
address the changes in our dynamic economic relationship.
Stronger market opening efforts in public procurement by
your government will set an effective example for the
private sector.
The key to dealing with protectionist pressure is to expand
our trade flows and achieve more equitable trade
relationships.
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Akasaka Detached Palace, January 9, 11:00-11:30 a.m.
SCENESETTER
PURPOSE
You may wish to use the joint press event with the Prime
Minister to review for the media the results of your
discussions during the visit, and to emphasize the
importance of the global partnership in meeting the
challenges ahead. The event will also provide an
appropriate occasion to announce and distribute the Tokyo
Declaration and provide our unilateral (though
coordinated) press statements.
THE SETTING
This meeting with the press will be the only time
journalists will be able to query you directly, and there
will be great media interest in what transpired in your
two meetings with the Prime Minister and about the meaning
of the Tokyo Declaration.
Owing to the weather, this event will be conducted inside
Akasaka detached palace. You and Prime Minister Miyazawa
will have just finished your second meeting, focusing on
international issues.
We expect the joint press conference to be heavily
attended, with several hundred journalists seeking to
participate.
Interpretation will be consecutive.
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AUDIENCE WITH THEIR IMPERIAL MAJESTIES
EMPEROR AKIHITO AND EMPRESS MICHIKO
SCENESETTER
PURPOSE
To highlight the close bonds between the American and Japanese
people.
THE SETTING
You last met the Emperor and Empress in February 1989 at the
state funeral for the late Emperor Showa (Hirohito). January 7
was the second anniversary of his death. The Emperor will have
completed extensive, and tiring, ceremonies the evening of the
7th to mark that anniversary.
This audience is purely ceremonial. Conversation is
appropriately limited to expressions of mutual respect and
commitment to friendly relations between the two countries.
PARTICIPANTS
US
Japan
President Bush
Emperor Akihito
Mrs. Bush
Empress Michiko
Grand Master of
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AUDIENCE WITH THEIR IMPERIAL MAJESTIES
EMPEROR AKIHITO AND EMPRESS MICHIKO
Mrs. Bush and I are delighted to meet again with Your
Imperial Majesties and enjoy your hospitality and that of
your beautiful country.
Please allow us to express our deepest condolences to Your
Imperial Majesties and all members of the Imperial Family
on occasion of the second anniversary on January 7 of the
passing away of the late Emperor Showa.
It is always a pleasure to visit Japan and renew our
friendships here.
We are impressed and gratified as always by the great sense
of warmth and goodwill we feel from the Japanese people.
We hope that you will do us the honor of visiting the
United States at a convenient time for you, so that we can
reciprocate your hospitality.
Kyoto was the perfect place to begin our stay in Japan. In
our hectic schedule, our brief stop in Kyoto offered a very
relaxing and contemplative break for us.
We would like to congratulate you on the birth of your
first grandchild. We understand that both the mother and
the baby girl are doing well.
I am looking forward to our tennis match.
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Akasaka Palace Annex, January 9, 1:15-2:30 p.m.
SCENESETTER
PURPOSE
This informal luncheon marks the end of your substantive
work with the Prime Minister. It offers an opportunity to
address any discussion items remaining after your two
official meetings with the Prime Minister, as well as the
chance to establish a solid personal relationship with
him. Prime Minister Miyazawa will probably use English
during the luncheon.
THE SETTING
The luncheon, at a Japanese style annex on the palace
grounds, will follow your joint press event with the Prime
Minister.
We expect 18 persons to attend, including you and Mrs.
Bush, Ambassador and Mrs. Armacost, and five members of
your party. On the Japanese side, Prime Minister and Mrs.
Miyazawa, Foreign Minister and Mrs. Watanabe, Chief
Cabinet Secretary Kato, Vice Foreign Minister Kakizawa,
Ambassador Murata, North American Affairs Director General
Matsuura, and Chief of Protocol Nakamura will attend.
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Honored by your hospitality.
--
Appreciate the efforts you and members of your staff
have gone to, shortening or even forgoing your new year
holidays to bid us welcome.
We are both dedicated to further strengthening US-Japan
relationship and turning it into a true global partnership.
:
We are fortunate to have the benefit of your
leadership, wisdom, great experience, and unsurpassed
international insight at the helm in Japan as we
prepare to meet the challenges of the 1990's.
Last year the world faced down the threat of Saddam Hussein
and his invasion of Kuwait.
:
Japanese financial contributions helped restore peace.
--
Japanese Self-Defense Force minesweepers helped clear
the Persian Gulf.
The world seems more peaceful now. But it is a world in
transition, and it is marked by the emergence of new
challenges that need to be addressed.
--
Maintaining an open global trading regime that will
help enrich all countries.
--
The North Korean nuclear threat.
:
Human rights abuses in China.
--
Making peace work in Cambodia.
--
The disintegration of the Soviet Union.
--
Supporting the development of democracy and free market
economies in Eastern Europe and Central America.
--
Supporting the Middle East peace process.
We can face these challenges with the knowledge that the
US-Japan global partnership offers the world a powerful
engine for progress, and with confidence that we are doing
our utmost to make that partnership strong and effective.
But to sustain public support for global partnership, we
need to deal effectively with trade and investment issues.
Appreciate your efforts on these problems.
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SCENESETTER
PURPOSE
You should use your breakfast meeting with U.S. and Japanese
executives to: 1) emphasize the mutual benefits of U.S. -Japan
business ties; 2) stress the central role of business in U.S.-
Japan relations; 3) urge greater receptiveness of Japanese firms
to U.S. goods and services; and 4) remind that Japanese firms
benefit greatly from an open trading system and should give
strongest support for GOJ liberalization measures in the Round.
THE SETTING
You will give opening remarks to an audience of top executives
from U.S. and Japanese companies doing business in Japan.
Your opening remarks will provide the opportunity to highlight
the benefits to U.S. firms that make the effort to establish a
presence in the high-cost Japanese market. Although start-up
costs seem prohibitive, long-term benefits to U.S. investors in
Japan include access to Japan's cutting-edge research and
development and the ability to service Japan's very demanding
customers. Japan's market gives U.S. business one of the
highest returns on foreign investment in the world.
You should also point out that Japan's business environment can
be difficult for foreign newcomers. Inefficient
transportation, agricultural, construction and distribution
sectors hamper U.S. exports and investment and keep Japanese
costs high for domestic firms as well. This is compounded by
long-term relationships among Japanese firms which may inhibit
their willingness to purchase foreign products that are
competitive in price and quality. These complaints have been
echoed by Japan's Asian trading partners.
Trade into and out of Japan is highly concentrated among a few
firms. In 1987, Japan's nine leading trading companies handled
74% of Japan's imports and 42% of its exports. In the early
1980's, Japanese trading companies handled as much as 10% of
all of all U.S. exports. The business leaders in your audience
have it in their power to significantly affect U.S.-Japan trade.
You may wish to ask their views on what is needed to increase
the presence of U.S. firms in the Japanese market.
Finally, you want to underscore the importance to Japan of open
global markets--which requires Japan to protect its global
interests and exercise the leadership necessary to bring the
Uruguay Round to a successful conclusion, including on
tariffication.
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U.S.-JAPAN BUSINESS COOPERATION
-- As I look out at this distinguished audience, I find it
encouraging to see so many American and Japanese business
leaders sitting side-by-side, partners in our shared goal
of ensuring the continued economic prosperity enjoyed by
both of our countries.
-- I want to to commend you for the valuable contributions you
and your firms make every day to the welfare of Americans
and Japanese alike.
I would especially like to recognize the American firms
represented here today, for their success in developing a
strong presence in Japan, one of the world's most important
commercial markets.
-- The strong and growing presence of U.S. firms in the
Japanese market shows that your hard work and perseverance
can make many American firms household names in Japan.
--
It is often said the Japanese market is one of the toughest
in the world to crack. Labor and land costs are high, and
certain structural impediments work against foreign entry
into the market.
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In particular, overregulation and inefficiency in the
transportation, agricultural, construction and
distribution sectors hamper U.S. exports and investment
and keep costs high for domestic firms as well.
-- I call upon you business leaders of Japan, American and
Japanese alike, to make the case to your elected officials
that free trade and open markets are the best hope for our
continued prosperity.
-- I applaud recent efforts by the Japanese Government to
deregulate certain sectors of the economy and promote
healthy competition through better enforcement of its
anti-monopoly laws.
o
I also welcome MITI's proposal for a Global Business
Partnership, which would expand its import promotion
program to include efforts to promote local sourcing
for overseas transplants. The success of that effort
will depend on the cooperation of our private sectors.
However, more work needs to be done on eliminating
structural impediments to the Japanese market. While
efforts by U.S. companies have resulted in strong trade
surpluses with the European Community and other important
markets, the U.S. trade balance with Japan is worsening.
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I will continue to request that Japanese leaders take
steps to facilitate entry of U.S. firms into Japan.
-- I strongly urge the Japanese companies represented here
today to purchase American products that are competitive in
price and quality, and I ask that Japanese firms do their
part in our global business partnership by opening up their
supplier networks to U.S. firms.
o
You will be the determining factor in making MITI's
import promotion program successful, which will bring
Japan into more constructive relations with the United
States.
-- Of course, my focus is not limited to the Japanese market
alone. Successful conclusion of the Uruguay Round trade
negotiations will lead to more open markets around the
world, offering new opportunities for U.S. and Japanese
firms alike.
The U.S. and Japanese business communities have the
greatest stake in the Round's success.
American and Japanese leadership is essential to
achieve this goal, and I urge you to give your
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officials both in Tokyo and Washington.
--
I hope the Japanese Government will act now to protect its
interests in maintaining an open global economy by
exercising leadership in the Round.
-- I want to thank you for this opportunity to meet with you
today, and I would be interested in hearing your thoughts
on what is needed to promote the presence of U.S. firms in
the Japanese market.
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I have had three very productive and enjoyable days in
Japan. Barbara and I saw some of your beautiful country,
and we had the opportunity to meet a large number of
Japanese from many walks of life. We leave with very fond
feelings for Japan and the Japanese people and look
forward to returning soon.
Prime Minister Miyazawa and I had a series of very
useful discussions on many areas of mutual interest. I
was impressed once again with the wide range of issues on
which Japan and the United States share a common
perspective and cooperate closely. As we move into the
post-Cold War era, the importance of such cooperation - of
our global partnership - will only increase as we prepare
to meet the challenges of the next century.
As my trip to Asia comes to a close, I want to
re-emphasize what I hope for most people is obvious -- the
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ties to Asia and her peoples. We share many values, and
the human, political and economic ties which bind us are
strong and growing. We are determined to meet our
obligations in the region, and to work with our friends
and allies in Japan and elsewhere to strengthen the ties
between us and to build a Pacific community.
Barbara and I want to express our appreciation and
respect to their Imperial Majesties for their gracious
hospitality and to my old friend Prime Minister Miyazawa
and Mrs. Miyazawa for the warmth of the reception they
extended to us. We look forward to seeing them in the
United States soon.
Thank you very much.
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RECEPTION FOR KANSAI LEADERS AND AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN
SCENESETTER
PURPOSE
Your visit can bring the message to Japan's traditional
commercial center that more needs to be done to make the
bilateral trade relationship mutually advantageous.
Stress the key role that the private sector must play to
achieve a more equitable trade relationship.
Note the commitment of the US to a strengthened world trade
system and to enhancing American competitiveness.
Urge Japan to do more to open markets, with a focus on taking
the action necessary to bring the Uruguay Round to a successful
conclusion.
THE SETTING
Kansai is Japan's second most important industrial and
commercial center, accounting for about one-fifth of Japan's
economic output and population. The region is home to some of
Japan's major auto makers, consumer goods manufacturers, and
advanced industries such as aerospace and biotechnology.
You will meet 100-200 Japanese government and business leaders
and key members of the American community. Kyoto Governor
Aramaki will welcome you; you will offer brief remarks.
POINTS TO BE MADE AT THE MEETING WITH KANSAI
LEADERS AND US BUSINESS PEOPLE IN KANSAI
-- Just as Kyoto is famous in America for its triumph of art
and architecture, the Kansai has become famous as well in
the United States for product innovation and quality --
Panasonic, Sumitomo, Kyocera, to name a few.
The traditions of hard work and persistence, which we think
of as American attributes, are clearly Kansai attributes as
well.
The Kansai and the United States have enjoyed a very close
relationship. The products of Kansai companies have become
fixtures in American life, and a large number of American
firms are located here.
In the United States, interest in Japan has never been
stronger. As more American students study Japanese and
about Japan, as Americans come to Kansai to work -- as
academics, company employees, engineers, researchers -- and
to study, real understanding grows and our friendship
deepens.
Our economic systems are based on healthy competition, and
our trade and investment relationship is rooted in the free
trade system.
-- Free trade and investment benefit consumers, make our firms
more competitive, quicken the pace of technology
development and in doing so extend the frontiers of
knowledge.
The strains in our commercial relationship over trade and
investment have become evident. All Americans and all
Japanese have a stake in solving these problems. Solutions
lie in private sector actions as well as in government
policies.
The United States is committed to doing its part to
strengthen the world trade system:
We are making a maximum effort to reach a Uruguay
Round agreement.
We continue market access talks with Japan and our
other major trading partners. Serious problems
remain, but I believe that our export performance
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We are determined to create a business environment
that makes our companies more competitive, by cutting
capital costs and expanding planning horizons.
We are working to raise education standards so that
our young people can meet the demands of the modern
workplace.
O
We are working with Japanese officials on the
Structural Impediments Initiative. Through SII,
Americans have learned much about Japan's economic
structure and about how national economic policies
affect trade flows. Japanese consumers, I believe,
have also learned much through SII about rigidities in
Japan's economy that raise prices of many goods and
services here. We believe it would be useful to
reinvigorate and expand the SII process.
-- We appreciate the hard work of Japan to resolve many trade
issues over the last few years, but more needs to be done.
The most immediate and critical problem is the Uruguay
Round. It is essential that Japan take the steps necessary
to bring the Uruguay Round to a successful conclusion. We
all must overcome very difficult domestic issues to reach
agreement, but our prosperity depends on the success of
this effort. Please join me in supporting efforts to make
the Round succeed.
-- I will close by emphasizing that Americans greatly value
our strong relationship with Japan and we are committed to
maintaining and strengthening the bonds of friendship and
cooperation that ties us together. I know that you in the
Kansai share this commitment.
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SCENESETTER
PURPOSE
To highlight the importance of educational and research
exchanges in increasing mutual understanding and forging a
strong partnership between our two nations.
THE SETTING
You will have an informal exchange with a group of American
(and Japanese?) students at the Imperial Palace (or Stanford
Japan Center) in Kyoto.
The American students participating in this event attend
several different universities in the Kyoto area. The majority
of the students are from the Stanford Japan Center and Doshisha
University. The Stanford Center, established two years ago in
Kyoto, features an undergraduate program with courses in
Japanese language, culture, history and politics and is
co-sponsored by nine US universities. There is also a graduate
program for engineers focusing on technological exchange and a
graduate research program. Doshisha University has
longstanding ties to Amherst College. Approximately fifty
students from various US universities are currently enrolled in
the exchange program which features intensive language training
and area studies.
The setting of the event in the Imperial Palace provides an
excellent opportunity to showcase to both US and Japanese
publics our appreciation for the history and traditions of the
Japanese people and the strong efforts Americans are making to
gain firsthand knowledge of Japanese language and culture. It
also underscores the importance we place on the next generation
to maintain and strengthen the US-Japan relationship.
The setting of the event at the Stanford Japan Center will
underscore for both the US and Japanese publics the commitment
on the part of American universities and students to improve
our understanding of Japan, its culture, economy, history,
technology and, most importantly, people.
PARTICIPANTS
US
Japan
President Bush
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Ambassador Armacost
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I am pleased to see so many of you here today.
Your efforts to learn firsthand about this fascinating and
important country and its people are truly commendable. I
look around me at the beautiful and historic city of Kyoto
and fully understand what drew you to study here.
I applaud your efforts to forge strong personal ties with
the Japanese people. I hope each of you will take every
opportunity to learn about Japan's culture and society and
share your own personal, family and regional experiences
with your colleagues and friends here.
It is these personal ties and the increased understanding
that flows from them that form the foundation of the
partnership that has grown between our two nations.
Too often we hear complaints that Americans are too
ethnocentric, unwilling to invest the time and effort
needed to understand other cultures, languages, and
business and scientific practices. Your presence here
tells a different story.
But these programs are more than an exercise in cross
cultural communication. To compete in today's world we
need academics, professionals, scientists and engineers
who are able and committed, linguistically and personally,
to operate in key countries such as Japan. To this end, I
recently signed a bill establishing a $180 million trust
fund for language, area, and international studies.
We now have about 2,000 American students studying at the
post-secondary level in Japan. These figures suggest what
you already know: the US is committed to a strong,
personal, and lasting US-Japan relationship; from these
students and their successors will come the next
generation's leaders in a wide variety of fields, and
their familiarity with Japan will form a strong bond
between our two countries.
I note with special pleasure the growing number of US
science and engineering students and researchers working
in Japan. To promote this exchange, we and the Japanese
government sponsor a Summer Institute to provide US
science and engineering graduate students with experience
working in a Japanese laboratory and in language study.
As evidence of how deeply I value US-Japan cooperation in
this area, the Prime Minister and I will endorse a package
of joint S&T and environmental projects during my visit.
I am proud of your efforts and I urge you all to make the
most out of your stay in Japan. And please bring back
what you have learned and share it with your fellow
Americans. The benefits of mutual understanding are
amplified when they are spread as widely as possible.
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SCENESETTER
PURPOSE
Your visit to the Japanese High School is an excellent occasion
to reaffirm your commitment to superior, universal education,
which has been the basis for U.S. strength and competitiveness.
THE SETTING
You will visit Mita High School and be greeted by Education
Minister Hatoyama and other officials. You will tour
classrooms for 15-20 minutes, including a science laboratory
and an English or math class. There will be media coverage of
your conversations with students in these classes. You will
proceed to a small auditorium to meet with about 200-300
students, parents and teachers and will make brief remarks and
take questions from the audience with simultaneous
interpretation. There will be live television coverage.
The economic achievements of the U.S. and Japan are rooted in
the universality and competence of their respective educational
systems. As we enter an era in which cooperation between the
two countries becomes increasingly crucial to world stability,
our need to learn about each other and from each other takes on
major new significance.
Our respective strengths can assist each other as we reform and
improve our educational systems. The strong community sense
and high level of achievement that are features of elementary
and secondary level Japanese education are balanced by the
extraordinary creativity and scholarship of post-secondary
American education.
The high school visit and town meeting with parents, teachers
and children offers a unique framework within which to focus on
the positive benefits our close bilateral relationship can
provide to both nations.
PARTICIPANTS
US
Japan
President Bush
Minister of Education Hatoyama
Mrs. Bush
Other MOFA and Education
Ambassador Armacost
officials
Japanese students, teachers,
parents
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POINTS TO BE MADE AT THE VISIT
TO THE JAPANESE HIGH SCHOOL
U.S. -JAPAN EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE
-- The economic achievements of the U.S. and Japan are rooted
in the universality and competence of their respective
educational systems.
Our commitment to major national investment in superior,
universal education must be renewed.
-- As we enter an era in which cooperation between the two
countries becomes increasingly crucial to world stability,
our need to learn about each other and from each other
takes on new significance.
-- As we reform our educational systems to meet the needs of
the twenty-first century, we should learn from each other's
educational successes.
o
Japan's disciplined, achievement-oriented primary and
secondary education system is virtually unmatched the
world over; I believe the creativity and scholarship
of American university system is equally unparalleled.
-- We need to expand our knowledge of each other through
increased educational exchanges and language study.
Fulbright, Japan Exchange Teachers (JET), and the Center
for Global Partnership are examples of programs that
encourage this.
-- The number of Japanese students studying in the U.S. is
nearly forty times larger than the number of Americans
studying in Japan. This imbalance should be corrected.
We need to coordinate policies and support each other in
our joint efforts to ensure a peaceful and prosperous
world. Since this process relies on mutual respect and
understanding, we must begin this effort in the education
of our children.
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GET-TOGETHER WITH TOKYO AMERICAN COMMUNITY
Ambassador's Residence, January 7, at 7:00 p.m.
SCENESETTER
PURPOSE
This all-American event provides an opportunity to hear,
informally and directly, the views of prominent Americans who
live and work in Japan.
THE SETTING
Senior US business executives, our top military commanders,
outstanding Americans in the arts and education, and senior
embassy personnel will attend this informal get-together on
the eve of your first substantive meetings with the Japanese.
Ambassador Armacost's reception will provide a good
opportunity to hear the views of these prominent Americans,
who work at the leading edge of our relationship with Japan
and, in many respects, play pivotal roles as decision and
opinion makers.
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REMARKS: AMERICAN COMMUNITY GET-TOGETHER
We are especially pleased to be here with you this
evening. You live and work at the heart of our daily
interaction with Japan where the "rubber meets the road".
Your presence here in Tokyo reflects the size and variety
of American-Japanese contact in so many different
undertakings. The dimensions of this relationship -- and
its potential -- make it absolutely vital to both sides.
So I'm delighted to be here with you and to spend some
time in this great country meeting with people who want to
make the U.S. -Japan relationship as mutually beneficial
and productive as possible.
Some at home think the end of the Cold War means
America can retreat into isolationism and that time spent
abroad is not relevant to America's current concerns. If
there is one lesson we've learned over the last 50 years,
it is that American interests can only be protected by
active American involvement abroad. Nowhere is this more
true than the Asia/Pacific region, where the U.S. is the
key stabilizing force in an area still beset by tensions
and where American economic interests continue to grow.
-2-
And there is no relationship more important to U.S.
interests than the U.S.-Japan relationship. Our growing
economic interdependence, our critical security
relationship, and our shared foreign policy interests and
objectives make it essential that we work together even
more closely.
This is not always easy. Competitive elements in our
economic relationship, while basically healthy, at times
cause great strain to our relationship, especially when
there is a lack of reciprocal access to each other's
markets.
We need to make our global partnership work to address
continuing problems in the economic relationship. We have
much to do at home, and my State of the Union message will
set out a broad active agenda to restore American
competitiveness. At the same time, we need greater access
to Japan's markets, and many of you here can testify that,
though this is not an easy task, it can be done.
-3-
These are objectives that can and will be achieved,
not by turning our backs on strong and cooperative
relationships, but by applying the strengths of those
relationships to find solutions.
I want to thank each and every one of you here tonight
for the daily contribution you make toward building
stronger U.S. -Japan relations. And I urge you to keep up
the good work.
Thank you.
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 12/19/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: FRIDAY, 12/20/91 10:00 am
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2, 1992
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCCLURE
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
ROGICH
BROMLEY
SMITH
CARD
DELAND
FINDLAY
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Tony Snow, Rm. 122, x2930,
no later than 10:00 a.m., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, with a copy to this
office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
December 21, 1991
NSC concurs with changes as noted.
Need to see next draft.
ARR Brent Scowcroft
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
CC: Phillip Brady
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
01 DEC 18 P6: 46
(Duggan/Nix)
December 16, 1991
Draft One
Parliament
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA
JANUARY 2, 1992
[time]
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for that warm welcome. I
am deeply grateful for the honor of appearing before the Houses
of the Australian Parliament. I know that Members of Parliament
have gone to extraordinary lengths to arrange this special
session. I want to offer special greetings and thanks to the
members of the Australia/USA Parliamentary Group, who have done
so much to deepen the friendship between our countries. [Other
Keating Leo McLeay, Speaker of the House
acknowledgments -- e.g. PM Hawke?] Kerry Sibraa, President of the Senate
Any visitor from the United States cannot help but feel a
warm kinship with Australia. We share ancient traditions and
far-sighted optimism. Explorers, pioneers, and immigrants built
each of our young nations. Australia and America have been
destinations of freedom and opportunity for yearners and toilers
Britain
from England and Ireland, Poland and Italy, Vietnam and Cambodia
and dozens of other points of departure.
This Parliament Building displays an original copy of the
Magna Carta -- one of only four such manuscripts to have survived
to this day. Fittingly, the United States National Archives is
home to another of these original manuscripts. I can think of no
stronger symbol of our shared commitment to the rights of the
2
individual, to the rule of law, and to government by consent of
the people.
With our common ancestries and shared ideals, Americans and
Australians also find great similarities in our lands. Each of
our countries spans a continent. Each abounds in agricultural
and mineral riches. Each is endowed with seaports important to
world strategy and trade.
Australians and Americans share a belief in the
indivisibility of human freedom and a willingness to struggle and
sacrifice for the peace and security of other nations. Five
times this century Australians and Americans have fought side by
side in the cause of peace and freedom: In Europe in the First
World War; in Europe, Africa and the Pacific in the Second World
War; in Korea; in Vietnam; and, just last year, in the Persian
Gulf.
This year we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fateful
Battle of the Coral Sea. We remember the courage and fighting
skill of the Australian and American naval forces. Their valor
spared Australia from invasion and preserved for the Allied
forces in the Pacific their most valuable material and moral
resources.
In Korea and Vietnam, Australians and Americans again joined
forces. Their sacrifices were not in vain. Had we not taken our
stand, the wildfire of communist violence and tyranny very likely
would have enveloped far greater expanses of Northeast and
Southeast Asia.
During the war, our joint defense facilities played an invaluable
pole in detecting the lauches 1 of Ilaqi SCUD missiles. The
facilities will continue to our shared global nonproliferation
bjectwes.
enhance
3
In the Persian Gulf, we stood together again in opposing
Saddam Hussein's aggression. Indeed, the first two coalition
partners to carry out a joint boarding exercise to enforce the
United Nations resolutions were Australians from the HMAS Darwin
and Americans from the USS Brewerton.
And today, two of the
currently
three navies represented in operations enforcing the embargo
in
pereddea
against Iraq are Australia's and America's.
Let me assure you: The United States will continue to work
in firm alliance with Australia, no matter what changes may come
about in our defense expenditures or in the makeup of threats to
international peace.
Security
Insert
We will continue keep our defenses strong and to seek
through diplomacy to curb threats to world stability. I salute
Australia's leadership in stemming the spread of weapons of mass
brotogical
destruction -- especially chemical and nuclear weapons.
A moment ago I recalled the sacrifices Australians made
during our long involvement in opposing communist expansion in
Southeast Asia. No matter how disappointing and thankless that
military engagement may have seemed, Australians have never lost
sight of their aim of advancing freedom and human rights in
initiatives
Southeast Asia. Years of principled diplomatic efforts by
Australians in the United Nations have been a major factor in the
progress toward peace and self-government in Cambodia.
Both the United States and Australia have renewed diplomatic
representation in Phnom Penh in order to move the peace process
forward. Australia is making an additional contribution by
Canberra speech: Add after second graph on p.3: Security
More than 150 years ago, President Andrew Jackson
Insert
appointed J.H. Williams as the first American counsel
here. Arriving from Boston, Williams was greeted by an
editorial: "We regard his arrival, read the Australian
paper, "as a pledge of increasing intimacy between the two
countries, from, which mutual advantages may be expected
to flow."
The bonds of intimacy, trust, and political moorings
of our alliance have seen us through these five wars.
They have brought victory in the long twilight struggle
against communist oppression. And as we now strive to
forge a new, post-Cold War order, our alliances are the
key building blocks to a new century of peace and
prosperity, to the emerging Pacific Community.
As our alliance with Japan is the keystone of our
engagement in the Asia Pacific, our alliance with
Australia is our southern anchor in the network of
bilateral security ties- se vital to stability in the
region
we have the -Pacific IS
ZANZUS IS a Andamental parto
Australia is a bridge between Southeast Asia and the
South Pacific island states I must add that Canberra
also is an important bridge to New Zealand. I hope our
efforts to encourage Wellington to make the policy changes
necessary to reactivate the ANZUS alliance. My September
27th initiative should have provided a catalyst for New
Zealanders to think anew about nuclear issues
The future of Asian security will require more
multilateral cooperation based on our sustained presence
in the region to meet the new and complex challenges
ahead. I can assure you that this President intends to
keep our defenses strong and remain engaged in a region of
vital and growing importance to America.
I salute Australias activism in regional and global
affairs, particularly in stemming the spread of weapons of
mass destruction -- especially chemical, biological and
nuclear weapons. As we face the new transnational
security challenges of proliferation, illicit drug
trafficking, environmental protection, this can-do spirit
will help ensure our success.
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drop the third graph "We will keep our defenses
and continue with text
peace and representative government will
eplace years of horror and dictatership.
4
sending one of its senior military officers to head the new U.N.
peacekeeping force in Cambodia. While Cambodia still faces a
difficult transition, I am confident that dictatorship will give
way to democracy not only in Cambodia but in Vietnam as well.
[Placeholder for any further statements about Cambodia, e.g.
lifting of trade embargo]
The coming era promises unparalleled opportunities for
economic growth in the nations of the Pacific. The Asia-Pacific
region accounts for more than $300 billion in annual two-way
commerce with the United States -- a total nearly one-third
larger than America's volume of trade across the Atlantic.
a leaders in e fforts
Australia has been one of the most constructive parties to
successfully carchole
^
the Uruguay Round of the GATT negotiations. Australian leaders
have employed great skill and energy in seeking deep reductions
and
of the European Community 1/8 heavy and harmful agricultural
subsidies. I am acutely aware that such interim United States
are of
our
cancers
trade programs as the Export Enhancement Program for wheat causes
We hare
#
pain to Australia's farmers. even as they apply needed pressure to
In every EEP initiative we take-gicatip make every effort possible to
the European Community
I
want to assure you that my
factor in the interests
of non-subsidietes
such as
Administration is working as hard as possible -- as I know the
Australia
our target
Australian government is -- for an historic new GATT agreement
IS not
Austraka,
butta but 1
that liberates and revolutionizes world agriculture trade. In
subsidies
lather the
the long run, this is the best policy either of us could offer
suchaste EC
others
our farmers and ranchers, hurt both 000 countries farmers H
understand your concerns 1+1 want + be reasonable your concernstate and account. take
Like Australians, Americans see the possibilities for using
regional organizations to expand and liberalize trade around the
We are decreasing on this visit the prospect
for a US-Austarlia Trade and Investment
Framewark Agreement.
5
globe. We seek to make all of North America -- Mexico, the
United States and Canada -- a free trade area.
I assure you: The North American Free Trade Agreement will
not become an exclusive trade bloc. It will lower internal
barriers without raising external barriers. We envision a day
economies will
when Sa} thriving North American Trade group can engage in
that have own markets
increasingly open trade with the Asian-Pacific nations. GiWe We are
especially encouraged by Australia's leadership in organizing and
hosting the recent founding meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic
The November APEC inimsterial m Seoul was proof that APEC
Cooperation,
Group
/
has matured into the premier trade forum m the Pacific and
IS emerging as an important force building a suse of community across the rim. Pacific
Our common aspirations for the future are evident in our
increasing cooperation on such matters as environmental
protection and educational and social issues. Australians and
Americans can take pride in the important joint actions our
governments have taken toward conservation of tropical forests,
protecting endangered species, and promoting technologies for
clean-burning coal.
As a democracy with a solid moral anchor, Australia plays a
leading role in the international fight against illicit drugs. I
know I speak for millions of American parents in expressing
thanks for your efforts in the fight against drug abuse and drug
trafficking.
Steadfast cooperation on security and trade will offer a
great boon to the next generations of Australians and Americans.
I foresee a steady expansion of travel and cultural exchanges in
years to come. Australia's natural beauty is a powerful magnet
6
for American tourists. But more than this, it is the spirit of
your country that earns Australia so much admiration in America
and around the world. Your artists' contributions to film, dance
and music have whetted my countrymen's appetites for more and
more things Australian. ((One of the sports television networks
in the U.S. carries "Australian rules football," and many
Americans enjoy the rough and tumble of hard hitting with
reckless abandon. \ We have something similar, but we call it
politics. 11 ))
I credit the clear air of Australia for its effect on one of
the freshest minds now working in Washington -- our Secretary of
Education, Lamar Alexander. In 1987, after completing eight
years as Governor of Tennessee, Lamar Alexander decided to take
his wife and children and spend half a year in Australia.
He
envisioned Australia as a sanctuary from the rat race of business
Detete - wan't be well (CU.
and politics in the United States.
condescending
For six months the Alexanders enjoyed the beauty and comfort
of Australia's coastal cities and the adventure of the bush
country. They succeeded splendidly in getting to know one
won't godown well
another better as a family while experiencing a place [as far as
anywhere on earth from America's workaday world.) For all the
difference in setting, though, Lamar Alexander continually was
struck with a powerful sense of kinship between Australians and
Americans. [AS he neared the end of his visit, he told an
Australian, "sometimes I think I'm at a family reunion on another
planet ] delete: connotations are very negative - Aistralia
isolated, 0 tot marks tream. Concept f
learning from Avstraba is good, bit
not m a way that seens condiscends to
the AUS.
7
Now that he has joined my Cabinet as Secretary of Education,
Lamar Alexander is working for revolutionary changes we believe
are necessary to improve our schools. He is promoting innovative
ideas he saw in practice in Australia -- for instance the large
measure of freedom Australians have in choosing among private,
public
religious, or state operated schools. When we succeed with some
of these reforms, I'm inform my Education Secretary that we have
arrived in the same orbit yes, even on the same planet -- as
Australians
we'll owe countries like Austration the debt
that followers, one the forerunner.
of course, we've always shared fraternal ties and a spirit
of freedom -- ever since an American vessel named the
Philadelphia became the first trading ship to call at Sydney's
Port Jackson in 1792. Almost a century later, Mark Twain visited
Australia and spoke for all Americans when he said: "You have a
spirit of independence here which cannot be overpraised."
Fifty years ago in the Coral Sea, Australians and Americans
paid a high price, but they proved to the world that the future
belongs to the brave and the free. For the half century since,
we have deepened our habits of friendship, trade and mutual
defense. Now more clearly than ever, we can see a hopeful future
for the far-flung kinsmen of Australia and America -- and for all
who share our ideals. We're prepared to work as partners in the
next century -- to break new ground for freedom, cooperation, and
economic progress.
Thank you again for the extraordinary honor of allowing me
to address this distinguished Parliament. May God bless you, and
8
may He always smile on the kinship and friendship of Australia
and the United States of America.
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#
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 12/27/91
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - 1/2/92
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCCLURE
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
ROGICH
BROMLEY
SMITH
DELAND
CARD
FINDLAY
DEMAREST
SNOW
FITZWATER
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
The attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Duggan/Nix)
December 26, 1991
Draft Three
31 DEC 26 P3: 12
Parliament
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA
JANUARY 2, 1992
[time]
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for that warm welcome. I
am deeply grateful for the honor of appearing before the Houses
of the Australian Parliament. I know that Members of Parliament
have gone to extraordinary lengths to arrange this special
session. I want to offer special greetings and thanks to the
members of the Australia/USA Parliamentary Group, who have done
so much to deepen the friendship between our countries. [Also
acknowledge: PM Keating, President of the Senate Sebraa, others?]
Any visitor from the United States cannot help but feel a
warm kinship with Australia. We share ancient traditions and
far-sighted optimism. Explorers, pioneers, and immigrants built
each of our young nations. Australia and America have been
destinations of freedom and opportunity for yearners and toilers
from Britain and Ireland, Poland and Italy, Vietnam and Cambodia
and dozens of other places on the globe.
This Parliament Building displays an original copy of the
Magna Carta -- one of only four such manuscripts to have survived
to this day. The United States National Archives is home to
another of these original manuscripts. I can think of no
stronger symbol of our shared commitment to the rights of the
2
individual, to the rule of law, and to government by consent of
the people.
With our common ancestries and shared ideals, Americans and
Australians also find great similarities in our lands. Each of
our countries spans a continent. Each abounds in agricultural
and mineral riches. Each is endowed with seaports important to
world security and trade.
Australians and Americans share a belief in the
indivisibility of human freedom. \ We share a willingness to
struggle and sacrifice for the peace and security of other
nations. Five times this century Australians and Americans have
fought side by side in the cause of peace and freedom: In the
First World War; in the Second World War; in Korea; in Vietnam;
and, just last year, in the Persian Gulf. 11
This year we mark the 50th anniversary of the fateful Battle
of the Coral Sea. We remember the courage and fighting skill of
the Australian and American naval forces. Their valor spared
Australia from invasion and preserved for the Allied forces in
the Pacific their most valuable material and moral resources.
In Korea and Vietnam, Australians and Americans again joined
forces. Their sacrifices were not in vain. \ Had we not taken
our stand, the wildfire of communist violence and tyranny very
likely would have enveloped far greater expanses of Northeast and
Southeast Asia.
In the Persian Gulf, we stood together again in opposing
Saddam Hussein's aggression. Indeed, the first two coalition
3
partners to carry out a joint boarding exercise to enforce the
United Nations resolutions were Australians from the HMAS Darwin
and Americans from the USS Brewerton. During the war, our joint
defense facilities played an invaluable role in detecting
launches of Iraqi Scud missiles. These facilities will continue
to serve our global aims for nonproliferation. And today, two of
the three navies represented in operations enforcing the embargo
against Iraq are Australia's and America's.
Let me assure you: The United States will continue to work
in firm alliance with Australia, no matter what changes may come
about in our defense expenditures or in the makeup of threats to
international peace.
The ANZUS alliance is fundamental to the future stability of
the Asia-Pacific region. I am solidly committed to keep our
defenses strong and remain engaged with you in this region of
such vital and growing importance to America. 11
Australia is more than a friend and an ally to the United
States. Australia is a good citizen of the world community. 11
I want to salute especially Australia's leadership in stemming
the threat of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
A moment ago I recalled the sacrifices Australians made
during our long involvement in opposing communist expansion in
Southeast Asia. No matter how disappointing and thankless that
military engagement may have seemed, Australians have never lost
sight of their aim of advancing freedom and human rights in
Southeast Asia. Principled diplomatic initiatives by Australia
4
in the United Nations have been a major factor in the progress
toward peace and self-government in Cambodia.
Both the United States and Australia have renewed diplomatic
representation in Phnom Penh in order to move the peace process
forward. Australia is making an additional contribution by
sending one of its senior military officers to head the new U.N.
peacekeeping force in Cambodia. While Cambodia still faces a
difficult transition, I am confident that years of horror and
dictatorship there will give way to peace and representative
government. [Placeholder for any further statements about
Cambodia, e.g. lifting of trade embargo]
The coming era promises unparalleled opportunities for
economic growth in the nations of the Pacific. The Asia-Pacific
region accounts for more than $300 billion in annual two-way
commerce with the United States -- a total nearly one-third
larger than America's volume of trade across the Atlantic.
My highest priority as President of the United States is to
promote economic growth and jobs for Americans. 11 Happily, that
goal is fully consistent with economic growth and jobs for
Australians. You and I know that free and fair trade is not a
zero-sum game. 11 All nations share the responsibilities and the
rewards of a vibrant and growing international trading system. 11
Australia indeed is a leader in efforts to reach a
successful conclusion to the Uruguay Round of the GATT
negotiations. Australian leaders have employed great skill and
energy in seeking deep reductions in trade-distorting
5
agricultural subsidies. I am aware that such interim United
States trade programs as the Export Enhancement Program are
causes of concern to Australian farmers.
But let me assure you, that in every EEP initiative we make
every possible effort to factor in the interests of non-
subsidizers, such as Australia. We want to make it clear that we
do not consider your policies a problem.
The European Community has driven world grain prices down
with heavy subsidies and predatory trade practices. EEP applies
needed pressure directly on the European Community. It is
designed and implemented to avoid affecting countries that do not
subsidize -- including Australia. Without EEP, the European
Community would usurp additional markets and prices would
continue their downward trend.
I don't like having to use any of the instruments of trade
war. That is why my Administration is working hard -- as I know
the Australian government is -- for an historic new GATT
agreement that liberates and revolutionizes world agriculture
trade. We want to create a trade environment where all producers
can compete fairly. In the long run, this is the best policy
either of us could offer our hard-working farmers and ranchers.
Like Australians, Americans see the possibilities for using
regional organizations to expand and liberalize trade around the
globe. We seek to make all of North America -- Mexico, the
United States and Canada -- a free trade area.
6
I assure you: The North American Free Trade Agreement will
not become an exclusive trade bloc. It will lower internal
barriers without raising external barriers. We envision a day
when thriving North American economies will engage in
increasingly robust trade with Asian-Pacific nations that have
opened their own markets. On this visit, I am discussing with
Australian leaders the prospect for a United States-Australia
Trade and Investment Framework Agreement.
We are especially encouraged by Australia's leadership in
the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Group. The November APEC
ministerial in Seoul was proof that APEC has matured into the
premier trade forum in the Pacific and is emerging as an
important force building a sense of community around the Pacific
Rim.
Our common aspirations for the future are evident in our
increasing cooperation on such matters as environmental
protection and educational and social issues. Australians and
Americans can take pride our governments' joint actions toward
conservation of tropical forests, protecting endangered species,
and promoting technologies for clean-burning coal.
As a democracy with a solid moral anchor, Australia plays a
leading role in the international fight against illicit drugs. I
know I speak for millions of American parents in expressing
thanks for your efforts to fight drug abuse and drug trafficking.
Steadfast cooperation on security and trade will offer a
great boon to the next generations of Australians and Americans.
7
I foresee a steady expansion of travel and cultural exchanges in
years to come. Australia's natural beauty is a powerful magnet
for American tourists. But more than this, it is the spirit of
your country that earns Australia so much admiration in America
and around the world. Your artists' contributions to film, dance
and music have whetted my countrymen's appetites for more and
more things Australian. ( (One of the sports television networks
in the U.S. carries "Australian rules football,' and many
Americans enjoy the rough and tumble of hard hitting with
reckless abandon. \ We have something similar, but we call it
politics. 11 ))
I credit the clear air of Australia for its effect on one of
the freshest minds now working in Washington -- our Secretary of
Education, Lamar Alexander. In 1987, after completing eight
years as Governor of Tennessee, Lamar Alexander decided to take
his wife and children and spend half a year in Australia.
For six months the Alexanders enjoyed the beauty and comfort
of Australia's coastal cities and the adventure of the bush
country. They succeeded splendidly in getting to know one
another better as a family. For all the difference in setting,
though, Lamar Alexander continually was struck with a powerful
sense of kinship between Australians and Americans.
Now that he has joined my Cabinet as Secretary of Education,
Lamar Alexander is working for revolutionary changes to improve
our schools. He is promoting innovative ideas he saw in practice
in Australia -- for instance the large measure of freedom
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Australians have in choosing among private, religious, or state-
operated schools. When we succeed with some of these reforms,
we'll thank pathfinders such as Australians for their example.
Of course, we've always shared fraternal ties and a spirit
of freedom -- ever since an American vessel named the
Philadelphia became the first trading ship to call at Sydney's
Port Jackson in 1792. \ Almost a century later, Mark Twain
visited Australia and spoke for all Americans when he said: "You
have a spirit of independence here which cannot be overpraised."
Fifty years ago in the Coral Sea, Australians and Americans
paid a high price, but they proved to the world that the future
belongs to the brave and the free. For the half century since,
we have deepened our habits of friendship, trade and mutual
defense. Now more clearly than ever, we can see a hopeful future
for the far-flung kinsmen of Australia and America -- and for all
who share our ideals. We're prepared to work as partners in the
next century -- to break new ground for freedom, cooperation, and
economic progress.
Thank you again for the extraordinary honor of allowing me
to address this distinguished Parliament. May God bless you, and
may He always smile on the kinship and friendship of Australia
and the United States of America.
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