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No. 300916
0492
92 JAN24 P2: 24 28
HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE.
1/22/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE-COMMENT DUE BY: 1:00 pm, Thurs., 1/23/9
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: Religious Broadcasters
Sheraton Washington Hotel
SUBJECT:
Monday, January 27, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
-
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
-
SKINNER
MCCLURE
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
ROGICH
BROMLEY
SMITH
CARD
Findlay
Snow
DEMAREST
Porter Rose
FITZWATER
Martinez
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your remarks directly to Tony Snow in Room
122 EOB, Ext. 2930, NO LATER THAN THURSDAY, JAN., 23, with
a copy to this office.
THANK YOU.
RESPONSE:
MEMORANDUM FOR TONY SNOW
January 24, 1992
The NSC staff concurs in the proposed presidential remarks subject to
the changes noted in the attached text.
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
Brent Scowcroft
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
CC: Phillip D. Brady
(Smith/Grossman)
January 21, 1992
Draft Two
02 JAN 22 P5: 17
RELIGION
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS
SHERATON WASHINGTON HOTEL
MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1992
10:00 A.M.
President Rose and Director Cook -- and let me salute your
leadership of the NRB. Ladies and gentlemen. Fellow
communicators. // This marks the fifth time I have had the honor
of addressing the annual convention of the National Religious
Broadcasters. ((It's always a pleasure driving over here from
the White House. I think if Moses were around today, he'd be
called upon to part the traffic. )) //
( (First, I'm glad to see my friend Jerry Fallwell. I
invited Jerry to go jogging with me this morning, but he had his
own exercise plans. / He walked across the Potomac. )) //
((Then, there's my other friend, Pat Robertson. Pat was
telling me you have the lowest catering bill of any convention
that comes to this hotel. // It's amazing how you can feed this
entire multitude on seven loaves and fishes. )) //
A year ago we met in the first week of a crusade to protect
what is right, and true. I came before you to talk of what was
not a Christian or Jewish war -- not a Moslem war. It was a just
war. // In the Persian Gulf we fought for good versus evil /
lote:
right versus wrong / dignity against oppression. America stood
wedid
forcing a tyrant to stand down.
not
fast -- SO that liberty could stand tall. //
Fight
wanto
Today, I want to thank you for helping America, as Christ
bring
ordained, "be a light unto the world." Your support honored the
libertyor Freedom
kowast
2
airmen
finest sailors / soldiers / Marines / Air Force / and Coast
Guardsmen any Nation has ever known. // What they did in war,
let us now do in peace. // Just as our forces fought to defend
all that is best in America, we need you to help instill the
traditional values that make life and liberty worth defending. //
Let me begin with some good news for modern man. According
to Gallup surveys, no society is more religious than the United
States of America. // Seven in ten Americans believe in life
after death -- eight in ten that God works miracles. Nine in ten
Americans pray. And more than nine in ten believe in God. // To
which I say: Thank God. //
Now, I know this is an election year. ( (I don't know about
Damascus -- but this Primary Season, we're hearing plenty about
conversions on the road to New Hampshire. )) // We hear
candidates promising this, and that -- espousing policies
suddenly in fashion. // Today, I want to speak of values which
sustain America -- values that are always in fashion. /
The first value is not simply American -- but universal. I
refer to the sanctity of life. You know my position -- but I'll
restate it now. We need policies that encourage adoption, not
abortion. //
Next comes a value which gives each life meaning: The self-
reliance central to the dignity of work. // Go to the barrios of
San Antonio, or the suburbs of St. Paul. There you will find
people who ask only what our forefathers had: The same
opportunity which helped us brave independence / push back the
3
wilderness / win two World Wars / and create the highest standard
of living in the history of man. //
The Bible reminds us: "By thy sweat shall Ye know them."
What we must do is give working Americans the level playing field
to keep us rich in goods, and spirit. //
Tomorrow, my State of the Union Address will detail how we
can nurture the creativity as old as 1776 -- harness it to the
needs of a new American Century. // Remember: To this day, the
only footprints on the moon are American footprints. / The only
flag on the moon is the stars and stripes. // The knowledge that
put it there is stamped: "Made in USA. " // The world looks to
us to lead -- and lead we will. // Tune in tomorrow, and see if
you don't agree: I will announce a program to help Americans
outwork / outproduce / and outcompete any Nation in the world. //
The next value I speak of must be forever cast in stone. //
I speak of decency -- the moral courage to say what is right, and
condemn what's wrong. // We need a nation closer to The Waltons
than the Bundys or the Simpsons -- an America which rejects the
rising tide of incivility and intolerance. //
We see this tide in the naked epithet -- and in the code
words -- that play to our worst prejudices. / We see it when
groups like Public Enemy soil the memory of Martin Luther King,
Sundy he Jr. with vengeance and violence. // There is join no place in America
is not
I
for
such
apostles
of
hate.
//
If
proposing
you
agree
with
me
write
that
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call
picket
petition: 1 Demand an end to the trash which
Public
Enemy
poisons our kids's minds and debases their souls. //
(whoever they and
be deported.
4
This brings me to a fourth value crucial to America: Belief
in family -- the foundation of our strength. ((I admit it: I've
been lucky -- a wonderful wife and five great kids. // Having
helped put them through college, I remember receiving letters
from them, and there would always be a P.S. at the bottom. It
was those three words that say so much about the bond between
parents at home and kids at school. "Please send money. ") ) //
Phillippians reminds us, "Whatsoever things are pure
think on these things.' " To me, this is what family is: A pure
and priceless bequest. // Too often today, the family is under
siege. I say to you: Each one of us -- parents, preachers,
politicians, and teachers -- must lift it from the valley of
indifference to the high plateau of Canaan. //
That is why I demanded that the child-care bill I signed in
1990 allow parents -- not bureaucrats -- to decide how to care
for their children. I refused to see the option of religious-
based child care restricted or eliminated. // The family is also
why our education program -- America 2000 --- insists that choice
include both private and public schools. // Last week, I
announced another policy to strengthen the family: Expanding the
pre-school program to serve all those who are eligible -- the
largest funding increase in the history of Project Head Start. //
Finally, families will stay together only if drugs do not drive
them apart. As Elijah drove the false prophet Baal [BALE] out of
Israel, we must erase drugs from every corner of America. //
5
I will be honest: We have not erased them yet. But in the
spirit of the occasion, let me add: Our progress has been
miraculous. // Over the past four years, marijuana, crack, and
cocaine use has declined. What's more, today kids aged 9 to 12
are the most anti-drug group in America. The highest at-risk is
ages 13 to 17 -- but last year / for the first time / 13-year-
olds mirrored the behavior of pre-teenagers. //
Drugs effect a multitude of issues. They contribute to AIDS
and homelessness -- shattering families and futures / hopes and
dreams. / That's why -- literally -- we should thank God for the
drug use decline. The drop in use doesn't just prove we were
right in our assault on substance use: It shows how we can
achieve drugs' unconditional surrender. //
We will triumph through tough enforcement -- and through
education: Increasing awareness of the damage drugs do. // Over
the last four years, more kids talked about drugs with their
parents and teachers. Another force has been America's print and
electronic media -- the major source of drug information and the
primary "influencer" on drug use, especially among the young. //
Together, they have helped reawaken America's conscience --
which, in turn, inspires America's greatness. / Later today, I
will unveil our fourth National Drug Control Strategy to build on
these beginnings. It will say no to drugs. It will also say yes
to life. / /
To stop drug use will require caring, and community --
above all, abundant love. / Let me tell you a story. Once, a
6
great First Lady -- Pat Nixon -- toured a medical center and
stopped to embrace a little girl blinded by rubella. For a few
minutes, she talked to the girl and held her close. Later,
someone told her that the child was deaf as well as blind. //
Pat answered that she had known that. // "But she knows what
love is," Mrs. Nixon said. "She can feel love." //
America's love is conveyed in many ways. In what we oppose:
Injustice and tyranny. In what we support: The inalienable
rights that include the freedom to think, dream, worship, and,
yes, vote as we please. // To preserve our liberty, America once
threw off the yohe of
deposed a king / fought a great Civil War / five times this
you
Seorge
III
Century sent Americans into major battle. Yet freedom is not
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ours alone -- so we have exported it as our ideal. Today, we
to rule
must also export it economically and, above all, spiritually. //
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look around you.
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to the former Soviet Union, where those once enslaved crowd
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churches and synagogues. / Look to Eastern Europe, where
Christmas carols warm the bright winter chill. // It is written:
"deposed"
"In the beginning was the Word." Here is the word for 1992:
Today, the times are on the side of peace -- because the world,
increasingly, is on the side of God. //
This brings me to the ultimate value that sustains America,
and the values I have already cited: A belief in prayer --and
through prayer, in the One through whom all things are possible.
// No country can claim a special place in God's heart. Yet we
are better as a people because He has a special place in ours. //
7
I once asked one of my grandkids how he felt about prayer.
He said: "Just try getting through a math test without it." //
In Sunday school, children learn that God is everywhere -- but in
public school they find that He's absent from class. It's time
to end this mockery. // I continue to believe -- as do the
overwhelming majority of Americans -- in the right to voluntary
school prayer. / I call on the Congress to pass a Constitutional
Amendment putting the Faith of our Fathers back in our schools. /
The values I have spoken of reminds us of the truth that
comes on one's knees. // I believe with all my heart that one
cannot be America's President without a belief in God and in
prayer. I also believe America will be a better place if the
Golden Rule becomes our daily guide. //
The poet Walt Whitman was once asked to name America's true
grandeur. He replied, simply: "Its religion. Without that,
America is not America.' // Let that be our essence as a people
-- and our message as a Nation. Thank you for this occasion.
God bless this most wondrous land on earth -- the United States
of America.
#
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 23, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
DAVID DEMAREST
TONY SNOW
FROM:
T5.s
CURT SMITH
SUBJECT:
NATIONAL RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS
On Monday, January 27, 1992, at noon, you will deliver
remarks (approximately 14 minutes/teleprompted) to the National
Religious Broadcasters' annual conference. Roughly 1,500 will
attend.
Your speech strives to cut through the political vagaries
of campaign season by focusing on values -- the values that
sustain America and that this administration shares with our
nation's religious broadcasters. You talk about the sanctity of
unborn life, opportunity and empowerment, decency and tolerance,
family and choice, the war against drugs, and the power of
prayer.
(Smith/Grossman)
January 23, 1992
Draft Three
RELIGION
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS
SHERATON WASHINGTON HOTEL
MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1992
12:00 P.M.
President David Clark and Executive Director Brandt
Gustafson -- and let me salute your leadership of the NRB. Liddy
Dole. FCC Chairman Sykes. I see my good friend Rev. Billy
Graham. Jim Dobson, Pat Robertson, and Jerry Falwell. Ladies
and gentlemen. Fellow communicators. // This marks the fifth
time I have had the honor of addressing the annual convention of
the National Religious Broadcasters. ((It's always a pleasure
driving over here from the White House. I think if Moses were
around today, he'd be called upon to part the traffic.) ) //
((First, I'm glad to see Jerry Falwell. I invited Jerry to
go jogging with me this morning, but he had his own exercise
plans. / He walked across the Potomac. )) //
((Then, there's my other friend, Pat Robertson. Pat was
telling me you have the lowest catering bill of any convention
that comes to this hotel. // It's amazing how you can feed this
entire multitude on five loaves and two fishes.) ) //
A year ago we met in the first week of a struggle to protect
what is right, and true. I came before you to talk of what was
not a Christian or Jewish war -- not a Moslem war. It was a just
war. // In the Persian Gulf we fought for good versus evil /
2
right versus wrong / dignity against oppression. America
stood
fast -- so that liberty could stand tall. //
Today, I want to thank you for helping America, as Christ
ordained, be "a light unto the world." Your support honored the
finest soldiers / sailors / Marines / airmen / and Coast
Guardsmen any Nation has ever known. // What they did in war,
let us now do in peace. // Just as our forces fought to defend
all that is best in America, we need you to help instill the
traditional values that make life and liberty worth defending. //
Let me begin with some good news for modern man. According
to Gallup surveys, no society is more religious than the United
States of America. // Seven in ten Americans believe in life
after death -- eight in ten that God works miracles. Nine in ten
Americans pray. And more than ninety percent believe in God. //
To which I say: Thank God. 11
Now, I know this is an election year. ( (I don't know about
Damascus -- but this Primary Season, we're seeing a lot of
conversions on the road to New Hampshire. )) // We hear
candidates promising this, and that -- espousing policies
suddenly in fashion. // Today, I want to speak of values which
sustain America -- values that are always in fashion. /
The first value is not simply American -- but universal. I
refer to the sanctity of life. You know my position -- but I'll
restate it. In the words of Deuteronomy: "Let us choose life."
/ We need policies that encourage adoption, not abortion. //
3
Next comes a value which gives each life meaning: The self-
reliance central to the dignity of work. // Go to the barrios of
San Antonio, or the suburbs of St. Paul. There you will find
people who ask for only what our forefathers had: The same
opportunity which helped us brave independence / push back the
wilderness / win two World Wars / and create the highest standard
of living in the history of man. //
The Bible reminds us: "By thy works shall Ye know them. "
What we must do is give working Americans the level playing field
to keep us rich in goods, and spirit. //
Tomorrow, my State of the Union Address will detail how we
can nurture creativity as old as 1776 -- harness it to the needs
of a new American Century. // Remember: To this day, the only
footprints on the moon are American footprints. / The only flag
on the moon is the stars and stripes. // The knowledge that put
it there is stamped: "Made in USA. " // The world looks to us to
lead -- and lead we will. // Tune in tomorrow, and see if you
don't agree: I will announce a program to help Americans outwork
/ outproduce / and outcompete any Nation in the world. //
The next value I speak of must be forever cast in stone. //
I speak of decency -- the moral courage to say what is right, and
condemn what's wrong. // We need a nation closer to The Waltons
than The Simpsons -- an America which rejects the rising tide of
incivility and intolerance. //
We see this tide in the naked epithet -- and in the code
words -- that play to our worst prejudices. / We see it when
4
people ridicule religion and religious leaders -- like the group
which crushed a consecrated host on the steps of St. Patrick's
Cathedral. / We see it in bigotry, discrimination, and anti-
Semitism. / I will continue to speak out against these apostles
of hate who poison our kids' minds and debase their souls. //
This brings me to a fourth value crucial to America: Belief
in family -- the foundation of our strength. ((I admit it: I've
been lucky -- a wonderful wife and five great kids. // Having
helped put them through college, I remember receiving letters
from them, and there would always be a P.S. at the bottom. It
was those three words that say so much about the bond between
parents at home and kids at school. "Please send money. ")) 11
Too often today, the family is under siege. I say to you:
Each one of us -- parents, preachers, politicians, and teachers -
- must do our part to defend it. // I do not want one single
action I take as President to weaken the American family. I want
to strengthen it in every way I can. //
That is why I insisted that the child-care bill I signed in
1990 allow parents -- not bureaucrats -- to decide how to care
for their children. I refused to see the option of religious-
based child care restricted or eliminated. // The family is also
why our education program --- America 2000 -- insists that choice
include both private and public schools. // Last week, I
announced another policy to strengthen the family: Expanding the
pre-school program to serve all those who are eligible -- the
largest funding increase in the history of Project Head Start. //
5
Finally, families will stay together only if drugs do not drive
them apart. //
There is more to do to win the final victory in our war on
drugs. But we are winning. // Over the past four years,
marijuana, crack, and cocaine use has declined. What's more,
today kids aged 9 to 12 are the most anti-drug group in America.
The highest at-risk group remains 13 to 17-year-olds -- but last
year / for the first time / 13-year-olds mirrored the behavior of
pre-teenagers. //
Drugs effect a multitude of issues. They contribute to AIDS
and homelessness -- shattering families and futures / hopes and
dreams. / That's why -- literally -- we should thank God for the
drug use decline. The drop in use doesn't just prove we were
right in our assault on substance use: It shows how we can
achieve drugs' unconditional surrender. //
We will triumph through tough enforcement -- and through
education: Increasing awareness of the damage drugs do. // Over
the last four years, more kids talked about drugs with their
parents and teachers. Another force has been America's print and
electronic media -- the major source of drug information and the
primary "influencer" on drug use, especially among the young. //
Together, they have helped reawaken America's conscience --
which, in turn, inspires America's greatness. / Later today, I
will unveil our fourth National Drug Control Strategy to build on
these beginnings. It will say no to drugs. It will also say yes
to life. //
6
To stop drug use will require caring, and community --
above all, abundant love. / Let me tell you a story. Once, a
great First Lady -- Pat Nixon -- toured a medical center and
stopped to embrace a little girl blinded by rubella. For a few
minutes, she talked to the girl and held her close. Later,
someone told her that the child was deaf as well as blind. //
Pat answered that she had known that. // "But she knows what
love is, Mrs. Nixon said. "She can feel love. " //
America's love is conveyed in many ways. In what we oppose:
Injustice and tyranny. In what we support: The inalienable
rights that include the freedom to think, dream, worship, and,
yes, vote as we please. // To preserve our liberty, America once
deposed a king / fought a great Civil War / five times this
Century sent Americans into major battle. Yet freedom is not
ours alone -- it is our most treasured export. // If you doubt
freedom's victory, look to the Persian Gulf. / Look to the
former Soviet Union, where those once oppressed crowd reopened
churches and synagogues. / Look to Eastern Europe, where
Christmas carols warm the bright winter chill. // It is written:
"In the beginning was the Word." Here is the word for 1992:
Today, the times are on the side of peace -- because the world,
increasingly, is on the side of God. //
This brings me to the ultimate value that sustains America,
and the values I have already cited: A belief in prayer -- and
through prayer, in the One through whom all things are possible.
7
// No country can claim a special place in God's heart. Yet we
are better as a people because He has a special place in ours. //
I once asked one of my grandkids how he felt about prayer.
He said: "Just try getting through a math test without it." //
In Sunday school, children learn that God is everywhere -- but in
public school they find that He's absent from class. // I
continue to believe -- as do the overwhelming majority of
Americans -- in the right to voluntary school prayer. / I once
again call on the Congress to pass a Constitutional Amendment
putting the Faith of our Fathers back in our schools. /
The values I have spoken of remind us of the truth that
comes on one's knees. // I believe with all my heart that one
cannot be America's President without a belief in God and in
prayer. I also believe America will be a better place if the
Golden Rule becomes our daily guide. //
The poet Walt Whitman was once asked what made America /
America. He replied, simply: "[Its] religion. Otherwise there
is no real and permanent grandeur." // Let that be our essence
as a people -- and our message as a Nation. Thank you for this
occasion. God bless this most wondrous land on earth -- the
United States of America.
#
#
#
#
Document No. 300916
92
WHITE/HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
15
DATE.
1/22/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE-COMMENT DUE BY: 1:00 pm, Thurs., 1/23,
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: Religious Broadcasters
SUBJECT:
Sheraton Washington Hotel
Monday, January 27, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
-
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
1
SKINNER
MCCLURE
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
ROGICH
BROMLEY
SMITH
CARD
Findlay
DEMAREST
Snow
FITZWATER
Porter Rose
Martinez
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your remarks directly to Tony Snow in Room
122 EOB, Ext. 2930, NO LATER THAN THURSDAY, JAN., 23, with
a copy to this office.
THANK YOU.
RESPONSE:
see service changes
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
January 21, 1992
Draft Two
02 JAN 22 P5: 17
RELIGION
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS
SHERATON WASHINGTON HOTEL
MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1992
10:00 A.M.
President Rose and Director Cook -- and let me salute your
leadership of the NRB. Ladies and gentlemen. Fellow
communicators. // This marks the fifth time I have had the honor
of addressing the annual convention of the National Religious
Broadcasters. ((It's always a pleasure driving over here from
the White House. I think if Moses were around today, he'd be
called upon to part the traffic.) " 77
((First, I'm glad to see my friend Jerry Fallwell. I
invited Jerry to go jogging with me this morning, but he had his
own exercise plans. / He walked across the Potomac. )) //
((Then, there's my other friend, Pat Robertson. Pat was
telling me you have the lowest catering bill of any convention
that comes to this hotel. // It's amazing how you can feed this
entire multitude on seven loaves and fishes. )) //
A year ago we met in the first week of a crusade to protect
what is right, and true. I came before you to talk of what was
not a Christian or Jewish war -- not a Moslem war. It was a just
war. // In the Persian Gulf we fought for good versus evil /
right versus wrong / dignity against oppression. America stood
fast -- so that liberty could stand tall. //
Today, I want to thank you for helping America, as Christ
ordained, "be a light unto the world." Your support honored the
2
finest sailors / soldiers / Marines / Air Force / and Coast
Guardsmen any Nation has ever known. // What they did in war,
let us now do in peace. // Just as our forces fought to defend
all that is best in America, we need you to help instill the
traditional values that make life and liberty worth defending. //
Let me begin with some good news, for modern man. According
to Gallup surveys, no society is more religious than the United
States of America. // Seven in ten Americans believe in life
after death -- eight in ten that God works miracles. Nine in ten
Americans pray. And more than nine in ten believe in God. // To
which I say: Thank God. //
Now, I know this is an election year. ((I don't know about
Damascus -- but this Primary Season, we're hearing plenty about
conversions on the road to New Hampshire. )) // We hear
candidates promising this, and that -- espousing policies
suddenly in fashion. // Today, I want to speak of values which
sustain America -- values that are always in fashion. /
The first value is not simply American -- but universal. I
refer to the sanctity of life. You know my position -- but I'll
restate it now. We need policies that encourage adoption, not
abortion. //
Next comes a value which gives each life meaning: The self-
reliance central to the dignity of work. // Go to the barrios of
San Antonio, or the suburbs of St. Paul. There you will find
people who ask only what our forefathers had: The same
opportunity which helped us brave independence / push back the
3
wilderness / win two World Wars / and create the highest standard
of living in the history of man. //
The Bible reminds us: "By thy sweat shall Ye know them." "
What we must do is give working Americans the level playing field
to keep us rich in goods, and spirit. //
Tomorrow, my State of the Union Address will detail how we
can nurture the creativity as old as 1776 -- harness it to the
needs of a new American Century. // Remember: To this day, the
only footprints on the moon are American footprints. / The only
flag on the moon is the stars and stripes. // The knowledge that
put it there is stamped: "Made in USA." // The world looks to
us to lead -- and lead we will. // Tune in tomorrow, and see if
you don't agree: I will announce a program to help Americans
outwork / outproduce / and outcompete any Nation in the world. //
The next value I speak of must be forever cast in stone. //
I speak of decency -- the moral courage to say what is right, and
condemn what's wrong. // We need a nation closer to The Waltons
than the Bundys or the Simpsons -- an America which rejects the
rising tide of incivility and intolerance. //
We see this tide in the naked epithet -- and in the code
words -- that play to our worst prejudices. / We see it when
groups like Public Enemy soil the memory of Martin Luther King,
Jr. with vengeance and violence. // There is no place in America
for such apostles of hate. // If you agree with me, write --
call -- picket -- petition: Demand an end to the trash which
poisons our kids's minds and debases their souls. //
4
This brings me to a fourth value crucial to America: Belief
in family -- the foundation of our strength. ((I admit it: I've
been lucky -- a wonderful wife and five great kids. // Having
helped put them through college, I remember receiving letters
from them, and there would always be a P.S. at the bottom. It
was those three words that say so much about the bond between
parents at home and kids at school. "Please send money. ") ) //
Phillippians reminds us, "Whatsoever things are pure
think on these things." To me, this is what family is: A pure
and priceless bequest. // Too often today, the family is under
siege. I say to you: Each one of us -- parents, preachers,
politicians, and teachers -- must lift it from the valley of
indifference to the high plateau of Canaan. //
That is why I demanded that the child-care bill I signed in
1990 allow parents -- not bureaucrats -- to decide how to care
for their children. I refused to see the option of religious-
based child care restricted or eliminated. // The family is also
why our education program -- America 2000 -- insists that choice
include both private and public schools. // Last week, I
announced another policy to strengthen the family: Expanding the
pre-school program to serve all those who are eligible -- the
largest funding increase in the history of Project Head Start. //
Finally, families will stay together only if drugs do not drive
them apart. As Elijah drove the false prophet Baal [BALE] out of
Israel, we must erase drugs from every corner of America. //
5
I will be honest: We have not erased them yet. But in the
spirit of the occasion, let me add: Our progress has been
miraculous. // Over the past four years, marijuana, crack, and
cocaine use has declined. What's more, today kids aged 9 to 12
are the most anti-drug group in America. The highest at-risk is
ages 13 to 17 -- but last year / for the first time / 13-year-
olds mirrored the behavior of pre-teenagers. //
Drugs effect a multitude of issues. They contribute to AIDS
and homelessness -- shattering families and futures / hopes and
dreams. / That's why -- literally -- we should thank God for the
drug use decline. The drop in use doesn't just prove we were.
right in our assault on substance use: It shows how we can
achieve drugs' unconditional surrender. //
We will triumph through tough enforcement -- and through
education: Increasing awareness of the damage drugs do. // Over
the last four years, more kids talked about drugs with their
parents and teachers. Another force has been America's print and
electronic media -- the major source of drug information and the
primary "influencer" on drug use, especially among the young. //
Together, they have helped reawaken America's conscience --
which, in turn, inspires America's greatness. / Later today, I
will unveil our fourth National Drug Control Strategy to build on
these beginnings. It will say no to drugs. It will also say yes
to life. //
To stop drug use will require caring, and community --
above all, abundant love. / Let me tell you a story. Once, a
6
great First Lady -- Pat Nixon -- toured a medical center and
stopped to embrace a little girl blinded by rubella. For a few
minutes, she talked to the girl and held her close. Later,
someone told her that the child was deaf as well as blind. //
Pat answered that she had known that. // "But she knows what
love is," Mrs. Nixon said. "She can feel love. " //
America's love is conveyed in many ways. In what we oppose:
Injustice and tyranny. In what we support: The inalienable
rights that include the freedom to think, dream, worship, and,
yes, vote as we please. // To preserve our liberty, America once
deposed a king / fought a great Civil War / five times this
Century sent Americans into major battle. Yet freedom is not
ours alone -- so we have exported it as our ideal. Today, we
must also export it economically and, above all, spiritually. //
If you doubt freedom's victory, look to the Persian Gulf. / Look
to the former Soviet Union, where those once enslaved crowd
churches and synagogues. / Look to Eastern Europe, where
Christmas carols warm the bright winter chill. // It is written:
"In the beginning was the Word." Here is the word for 1992:
Today, the times are on the side of peace -- because the world,
increasingly, is on the side of God. //
This brings me to the ultimate value that sustains America,
and the values I have already cited: A belief in prayer --and
through prayer, in the One through whom all things are possible.
// No country can claim a special place in God's heart. Yet we
are better as a people because He has a special place in ours. //
7
I once asked one of my grandkids how he felt about prayer.
He said: "Just try getting through a math test without it. " //
In Sunday school, children learn that God is everywhere -- but in
public school they find that He's absent from class. It's time
to end this mockery. // I continue to believe -- as do the
overwhelming majority of Americans -- in the right to voluntary
school prayer. / I call on the Congress to pass a Constitutional
Amendment putting the Faith of our Fathers back in our schools. /
The values I have spoken of reminds us of the truth that
comes on one's knees. // I believe with all my heart that one
cannot be America's President without a belief in God and in
prayer. I also believe America will be a better place if the
Golden Rule becomes our daily guide. //
The poet Walt Whitman was once asked to name America's true
grandeur. He replied, simply: "Its religion. Without that,
America is not America." // Let that be our essence as a people
-- and our message as a Nation. Thank you for this occasion.
God bless this most wondrous land on earth -- the United States
of America.
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VICE PRESIDENT
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(Smith/Grossman)
January 21, 1992
Draft Two
92 JAN 22 P5: 17
RELIGION
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS
SHERATON WASHINGTON HOTEL
MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1992
10:00 A.M.
President Rose and Director Cook -- and let me salute your
leadership of the NRB. Ladies and gentlemen. Fellow
communicators. // This marks the fifth time I have had the honor
of addressing the annual convention of the National Religious
Broadcasters. ( (It's always a pleasure driving over here from
the White House. I think if Moses were around today, he'd be
called upon to part the traffic.) )) //
ART
((First, I'm glad to see my friend Jerry Fallwell. I
invited Jerry to go jogging with me this morning, but he had his
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own exercise from Dan to Barsheba. // (Gardnee)
plans. / He walked across the Potomac
((Then, there's my other friend, Pat Robertson. Pat was
telling me you have the lowest catering bill of any convention
that comes to this hotel. // It's amazing how you can feed this
(Peters)
5
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entire multitude on seven loaves and fishes.) //
yes
struggle (Gardnes)
A year ago we met in the first week of a crusade to protect
what is right, and true. I came before you to talk of what was
not a Christian or Jewish war -- not a Moslem war. It was a just
yes
war. // In the Persian Gulf we fought for good versus evil /
(vall)
right versus wrong / dignity against oppression. America stood
fast -- so that liberty could stand tall. //
Today, I want to thank you for helping America, as Christ
ordained, "be a light unto the world." Your support honored the
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finest sailors / soldiers / Marines / Air Force / and Coast
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AND WOMEN
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yes
let us now do in peace. 11 Just as our forces fought to defend
all that is best in America, we need you to help instill the
traditional values that make life and liberty worth defending. //
Let me begin with some good news for modern man. According
to Gallup surveys, no society is more religious than the United
States of America. // Seven in ten Americans believe in life
after death eight in ten that God works miracles. Nine in ten
yes
Americans pray. And more than nine 90% in ten believe in God. // To
(Tron)
which I say: Thank God. // it's either 9 or 10.
Now, I know this is an election year. ( (I don't know about
seeing a lot of
yes
Damascus -- but this Primary Season, we're hearing plenty about
conversions on the road to New Hampshire. )) // We hear
candidates promising this, and that -- espousing policies
suddenly in fashion. // Today, I want to speak of values which
sustain America -- values that are always in fashion. /
The first value is not simply American -- but universal. I
refer to the sanctity of life. You know my position -- but I'll
ASS
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restate it now. We need policies that encourage adoption, not
abortion. //
In the words of Deuteronomy.
Let us choose life." (crandree)
Next comes a value which gives each life meaning: The self-
reliance central to the dignity of work. // Go to the barrios of
San Antonio, or the suburbs of St. Paul. There you will find
people who ask only what our forefathers had: The same
opportunity which helped us brave independence / push back the
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What we must do is give working Americans the level playing field
to keep us rich in goods, and spirit. 11
Tomorrow, my State of the Union Address will detail how we
can nurture the creativity as old as 1776 -- harness it to the
needs of a new American Century. // Remember: To this day, the
only footprints on the moon are American footprints. / The only
flag on the moon is the stars and stripes. // The knowledge that
put it there is stamped: "Made in USA." // The world looks to
us to lead -- and lead we will. 11 Tune in tomorrow, and see if
you don't agree: I will announce a program to help Americans
outwork / outproduce / and outcompete any Nation in the world. //
The next value I speak of must be forever cast in stone. //
I speak of decency the moral courage to say what is right, and
condemn what's wrong. // We need a nation closer to The Waltons
than the Dundys or the Simpsons -- an America which rejects the
rising tide of incivility and intolerance. //
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helped put them through college, I remember receiving letters
from them, and there would always be a P.S. at the bottom. It
was those three words that say so much about the bond between
parents at home and kids at school. "Please send money. ")) //
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primary "influencer" on drug use, especially among the young. //
Together, they have helped reawaken America's conscience --
which, in turn, inspires America's greatness. / Later today, I
will unveil our fourth National Drug Control Strategy to build on
these beginnings. It will say no to drugs. It will also say yes
to life. 11
To stop drug use will require caring, and community --
above all, abundant love. / Let me tell you a story. Once, a
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Through the 100's of 1,000s of act of selflessness
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great First Lady -- Pat Nixon -- toured a medical center and
stopped to embrace a little girl blinded by rubella. For a few
minutes, she talked to the girl and held her close. Later,
someone told her that the child was deaf as well as blind. //
Pat answered that she had known that. // "But she knows what
love is, Mrs. Nixon said. "She can feel love." //
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it is our most treasure el export 1 yes
ours alone -- BO freedom we have exported it as our ideal Today, we
must also export x economically and, above all, spiritually. //
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(Gard) yes reopened
^churches and synagogues. / Look to Eastern Europe, where
(Petus). "In the beginning was the Word. " Here is the word for 1992:
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Christmas carols warm the bright winter chill. // It is written:
Today, the times are on the side of peace -- because the world.
increasingly, is on the side of God. //
This brings me to the ultimate value that sustains America,
and the values I have already cited: A belief in prayer --and
through prayer, in the One through whom all things are possible.
// No country can claim a special place in God's heart. Yet we
are better as a people because He has a special place in ours. //
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7
(Peters)
I once asked one of my grandkide how he felt about prayer.
He said: "Just try getting through a math test without it. //
No
In Sunday school, children learn that God is everywhere - but in
public school they find that He's absent from class. It's time
to end this mockery. // I continue to believe -- as do the
overwhelming majority of Americans - in the right to voluntary
yes
school prayer. / I call on the Congress to pass a Constitutional
once again (Gand)
Amendment putting the Faith of our Fathers back in our schools. /
No
(Petus)
The values I have spoken of reminds us of the truth that
comes on one's knees. 11 I believe with all my heart that one
cannot be America's President without a belief in God and in
prayer. I also believe America will be a better place if the
Golden Rule becomes our daily guide. //
The poet Walt Whitman was once asked to name America's true
grandeur. He replied, simply: "Its religion. Without that,
America is not America." 11 Let that be our essence as a people
-- and our message as a Nation. Thank you for this occasion.
God bless this most wondrous land on earth -- the United States
of America.
#
#
(Smith/Grossman)
January 23, 1992
Draft Three
RELIGION
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS
SHERATON WASHINGTON HOTEL
MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1992
12:00 P.M.
President David Clark and Executive Director Brandt
Gustafson -- and let me salute your leadership of the NRB. Liddy
Dole. FCC Chairman Sykes. I see my good friend Rev. Billy
Graham. Jim Dobson, Pat Robertson, and Jerry Falwell. Ladies
and gentlemen. Fellow communicators. // This marks the fifth
time I have had the honor of addressing the annual convention of
the National Religious Broadcasters. ((It's always a pleasure
driving over here from the White House. I think if Moses were
around today, he'd be called upon to part the traffic. )) //
( (First, I'm glad to see Jerry Falwell. I invited Jerry to
go jogging with me this morning, but he had his own exercise
plans. / He walked across the Potomac. )) //
((Then, there's my other friend, Pat Robertson. Pat was
telling me you have the lowest catering bill of any convention
that comes to this hotel. // It's amazing how you can feed this
entire multitude on five loaves and two fishes. )) //
A year ago we met in the first week of a struggle to protect
what is right, and true. I came before you to talk of what was
not a Christian or Jewish war -- not a Moslem war. It was a just
war. // In the Persian Gulf we fought for good versus evil /
2
right versus wrong / dignity against oppression. America
stood
fast -- so that liberty could stand tall. //
Today, I want to thank you for helping America, as Christ
ordained, be "a light unto the world." Your support honored the
finest soldiers / sailors / Marines
/
Air Forsemen
/
and Coast
Guardsmen any Nation has ever known. // What they did in war,
let us now do in peace. // Just as our forces fought to defend
all that is best in America, we need you to help instill the
traditional values that make life and liberty worth defending. //
Let me begin with some good news for modern man. According
to Gallup surveys, no society is more religious than the United
States of America. // Seven in ten Americans believe in life
after death -- eight in ten that God works miracles. Nine in ten
Americans pray. And more than ninety percent believe in God. //
To which I say: Thank God. //
Now, I know this is an election year. ( (I don't know about
Damascus -- but this Primary Season, we're seeing a lot of
conversions on the road to New Hampshire. )) // We hear
candidates promising this, and that -- espousing policies
suddenly in fashion. // Today, I want to speak of values which
sustain America -- values that are always in fashion. /
The first value is not simply American -- but universal. I
refer to the sanctity of life. You know my position -- but I'll
restate it. In the words of Deuteronomy: "Let us choose life."
/ We need policies that encourage adoption, not abortion. //
3
Next comes a value which gives each life meaning: The self-
reliance central to the dignity of work. // Go to the barrios of
San Antonio, or the suburbs of St. Paul. There you will find
people who ask only what our forefathers had: The same
opportunity which helped us brave independence / push back the
wilderness / win two World Wars / and create the highest standard
of living in the history of man. //
The Bible reminds us: "By thy works shall Ye know them."
What we must do is give working Americans the level playing field
to keep us rich in goods, and spirit. //
Tomorrow, my State of the Union Address will detail how we
can nurture the creativity as old as 1776 -- harness it to the
needs of a new American Century. // Remember: To this day, the
only footprints on the moon are American footprints. / The only
flag on the moon is the stars and stripes. // The knowledge that
put it there is stamped: "Made in USA. " // The world looks to
us to lead -- and lead we will. // Tune in tomorrow, and see if
you don't agree: I will announce a program to help Americans
outwork / outproduce / and outcompete any Nation in the world. //
The next value I speak of must be forever cast in stone. //
I speak of decency -- the moral courage to say what is right, and
condemn what's wrong. // We need a nation closer to The Waltons
than The Simpsons -- an America which rejects the rising tide of
incivility and intolerance. //
We see this tide in the naked epithet -- and in the code
words -- that play to our worst prejudices. / We see it when
4
people ridicule religion and religious leaders -- like the group
which crushed a consecrated host on the steps of St. Patrick's
Cathedral. / We see it in bigotry, discrimination, and anti-
Semitism. / I will continue to speak out against these apostles
of hate who poison our kids' minds and debase their souls. //
This brings me to a fourth value crucial to America: Belief
in family -- the foundation of our strength. ( (I admit it: I've
been lucky -- a wonderful wife and five great kids. // Having
helped put them through college, I remember receiving letters
from them, and there would always be a P.S. at the bottom. It
was those three words that say so much about the bond between
parents at home and kids at school. "Please send money. ")) //
Too often today, the family is under siege. I say to you:
Each one of us -- parents, preachers, politicians, and teachers -
- must do our part to defend it. // I do not want one single
action I take as President to weaken the American family. I
want to strengthen it in every way I can. //
That is why I insisted that the child-care bill I signed in
1990 allow parents -- not bureaucrats -- to decide how to care
for their children. I refused to see the option of religious-
based child care restricted or eliminated. // The family is also
why our education program -- America 2000 -- insists that choice
include both private and public schools. // Last week, I
announced another policy to strengthen the family: Expanding the
pre-school program to serve all those who are eligible -- the
largest funding increase in the history of Project Head Start. //
5
Finally, families will stay together only if drugs do not drive
them apart. / /
There is more to do to win the final victory in our war on
drugs. But we are winning. // Over the past four years,
marijuana, crack, and cocaine use has declined. What's more,
today kids aged 9 to 12 are the most anti-drug group in America.
The highest at-risk group remains 13 to 17-year-olds -- but last
year / for the first time / 13-year-olds mirrored the behavior of
pre-teenagers. //
Drugs effect a multitude of issues. They contribute to AIDS
and homelessness -- shattering families and futures / hopes and
dreams. / That's why -- literally -- we should thank God for the
drug use decline. The drop in use doesn't just prove we were
right in our assault on substance use: It shows how we can
achieve drugs' unconditional surrender. //
We will triumph through tough enforcement -- and through
education: Increasing awareness of the damage drugs do. // Over
the last four years, more kids talked about drugs with their
parents and teachers. Another force has been America's print and
electronic media -- the major source of drug information and the
primary "influencer" on drug use, especially among the young. //
Together, they have helped reawaken America's conscience --
which, in turn, inspires America's greatness. / Later today, I
will unveil our fourth National Drug Control Strategy to build on
these beginnings. It will say no to drugs. It will also say yes
to life. //
6
To stop drug use will require caring, and community --
above all, abundant love. / Let me tell you a story. Once, a
great First Lady -- Pat Nixon -- toured a medical center and
stopped to embrace a little girl blinded by rubella. For a few
minutes, she talked to the girl and held her close. Later,
someone told her that the child was deaf as well as blind. //
Pat answered that she had known that. // "But she knows what
love is, " Mrs. Nixon said. "She can feel love. " //
America's love is conveyed in many ways. In what we oppose:
Injustice and tyranny. In what we support: The inalienable
rights that include the freedom to think, dream, worship, and,
yes, vote as we please. // To preserve our liberty, America once
deposed a king / fought a great Civil War / five times this
Century sent Americans into major battle. Yet freedom is not
ours alone -- it is our most treasured export. // If you doubt
freedom's victory, look to the Persian Gulf. / Look to the
former Soviet Union, where those once oppressed crowd reopened
churches and synagogues. / Look to Eastern Europe, where
Christmas carols warm the bright winter chill. // It is written:
"In the beginning was the Word.' Here is the word for 1992:
Today, the times are on the side of peace -- because the world,
increasingly, is on the side of God. //
This brings me to the ultimate value that sustains America,
and the values I have already cited: A belief in prayer --and -
through prayer, in the One through whom all things are possible.
7
// No country can claim a special place in God's heart. Yet we
are better as a people because He has a special place in ours. //
I once asked one of my grandkids how he felt about prayer.
He said: "Just try getting through a math test without it. " //
In Sunday school, children learn that God is everywhere -- but in
public school they find that He's absent from class.
It's time
to end this mockery. // I continue to believe -- as do the
overwhelming majority of Americans -- in the right to voluntary
school prayer. / I once again call on the Congress to pass a
Constitutional Amendment putting the Faith of our Fathers back in
our schools. /
The values I have spoken of reminds us of the truth that
comes on one's knees. // I believe with all my heart that one
cannot be America's President without a belief in God and in
prayer. I also believe America will be a better place if the
Golden Rule becomes our daily guide. //
The poet Walt Whitman was once asked what made America /
America. He replied, simply: "[Its] religion. Otherwise there
is no real and permanent grandeur." // Let that be our essence
as a people -- and our message as a Nation. Thank you for this
occasion. God bless this most wondrous land on earth -- the
United States of America.
#
#
#
#
Document No.
300916
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
92 JAN 22 P6:17
1/22/92
DATE.
ACTION/CONCURRENCE-COMMENT DUE BY: 1:00 pm, Thurs., 1/23/9
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: Religious Broadcasters
Sheraton Washington Hotel
SUBJECT:
Monday, January 27, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
-
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
-
SKINNER
MCCLURE N/C
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
)
DARMAN
>
PORTER
\
BRADY
ROGICH
BROMLEY
SMITH
CARD
Findlay
Snow
DEMAREST
Porter Rose
FITZWATER
Martinez
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your remarks directly to Tony Snow in Room
122 EOB, Ext. 2930, NO LATER THAN THURSDAY, JAN., 23, with
a copy to this office.
THANK YOU.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
January 21, 1992
Draft Two
02 JAN 22 P5: 17
RELIGION
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS
SHERATON WASHINGTON HOTEL
MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1992
10:00 A.M.
President Rose and Director Cook -- and let me salute your
leadership of the NRB. Ladies and gentlemen. Fellow
communicators. // This marks the fifth time I have had the honor
of addressing the annual convention of the National Religious
Broadcasters. ((It's always a pleasure driving over here from
the White House. I think if Moses were around today, he'd be
called upon to part the traffic.) ) //
( (First, I'm glad to see my friend Jerry Fallwell. I
invited Jerry to go jogging with me this morning, but he had his
own exercise plans. / He walked across the Potomac. )) //
((Then, there's my other friend, Pat Robertson. Pat was
telling me you have the lowest catering bill of any convention
that comes to this hotel. // It's amazing how you can feed this
entire multitude on seven loaves and fishes. )) //
A year ago we met in the first week of a crusade to protect
what is right, and true. I came before you to talk of what was
not a Christian or Jewish war -- not a Moslem war. It was a just
war. // In the Persian Gulf we fought for good versus evil /
right versus wrong / dignity against oppression. America stood
fast -- so that liberty could stand tall. //
Today, I want to thank you for helping America, as Christ
ordained, "be a light unto the world." Your support honored the
2
finest sailors / soldiers / Marines / Air Force / and Coast
Guardsmen any Nation has ever known. // What they did in war,
let us now do in peace. // Just as our forces fought to defend
all that is best in America, we need you to help instill the
traditional values that make life and liberty worth defending. //
Let me begin with some good news for modern man. According
to Gallup surveys, no society is more religious than the United
States of America. // Seven in ten Americans believe in life
after death -- eight in ten that God works miracles. Nine in ten
Americans pray. And more than nine in ten believe in God. // To
which I say: Thank God. //
Now, I know this is an election year. ( (I don't know about
Damascus -- but this Primary Season, we're hearing plenty about
conversions on the road to New Hampshire. )) // We hear
candidates promising this, and that -- espousing policies
suddenly in fashion. // Today, I want to speak of values which
sustain America -- values that are always in fashion. /
The first value is not simply American -- but universal. I
refer to the sanctity of life. You know my position -- but I'll
restate it now. We need policies that encourage adoption, not
abortion. //
Next comes a value which gives each life meaning: The self-
reliance central to the dignity of work. // Go to the barrios of
San Antonio, or the suburbs of St. Paul. There you will find
people who ask only what our forefathers had: The same
opportunity which helped us brave independence / push back the
3
wilderness / win two World Wars / and create the highest standard
of living in the history of man. //
The Bible reminds us: "By thy sweat shall Ye know them. "
What we must do is give working Americans the level playing field
to keep us rich in goods, and spirit. //
Tomorrow, my State of the Union Address will detail how we
can nurture the creativity as old as 1776 -- harness it to the
needs of a new American Century. // Remember: To this day, the
only footprints on the moon are American footprints. / The only
flag on the moon is the stars and stripes. // The knowledge that
put it there is stamped: "Made in USA. " // The world looks to
us to lead -- and lead we will. // Tune in tomorrow, and see if
you don't agree: I will announce a program to help Americans
outwork / outproduce / and outcompete any Nation in the world. //
The next value I speak of must be forever cast in stone. //
I speak of decency -- the moral courage to say what is right, and
condemn what's wrong. // We need a nation closer to The Waltons
than the Bundys or the Simpsons -- an America which rejects the
rising tide of incivility and intolerance. //
We see this tide in the naked epithet -- and in the code
words -- that play to our worst prejudices. / We see it when
groups like Public Enemy soil the memory of Martin Luther King,
Jr. with vengeance and violence. // There is no place in America
for such apostles of hate. // If you agree with me, write --
call -- picket -- petition: Demand an end to the trash which
poisons our kids's minds and debases their souls. //
4
This brings me to a fourth value crucial to America: Belief
in family -- the foundation of our strength. ( (I admit it: I've
been lucky -- a wonderful wife and five great kids. // Having
helped put them through college, I remember receiving letters
from them, and there would always be a P.S. at the bottom. It
was those three words that say so much about the bond between
parents at home and kids at school. "Please send money. ") ) //
Phillippians reminds us, "Whatsoever things are pure
think on these things. " To me, this is what family is: A pure
and priceless bequest. // Too often today, the family is under
siege. I say to you: Each one of us -- parents, preachers,
politicians, and teachers -- must lift it from the valley of
indifference to the high plateau of Canaan. //
That is why I demanded that the child-care bill I signed in
1990 allow parents -- not bureaucrats -- to decide how to care
for their children. I refused to see the option of religious-
based child care restricted or eliminated. // The family is also
why our education program -- America 2000 -- insists that choice
include both private and public schools. // Last week, I
announced another policy to strengthen the family: Expanding the
pre-school program to serve all those who are eligible -- the
largest funding increase in the history of Project Head Start. //
Finally, families will stay together only if drugs do not drive
them apart. As Elijah drove the false prophet Baal [BALE] out of
Israel, we must erase drugs from every corner of America. //
5
I will be honest: We have not erased them yet. But in the
spirit of the occasion, let me add: Our progress has been
miraculous. // Over the past four years, marijuana, crack, and
cocaine use has declined. What's more, today kids aged 9 to 12
are the most anti-drug group in America. The highest at-risk is
ages 13 to 17 -- but last year / for the first time / 13-year-
olds mirrored the behavior of pre-teenagers. //
Drugs effect a multitude of issues. They contribute to AIDS
and homelessness -- shattering families and futures / hopes and
dreams. / That's why -- literally -- we should thank God for the
drug use decline. The drop in use doesn't just prove we were
right in our assault on substance use: It shows how we can
achieve drugs' unconditional surrender. //
We will triumph through tough enforcement -- and through
education: Increasing awareness of the damage drugs do. // Over
the last four years, more kids talked about drugs with their
parents and teachers. Another force has been America's print and
electronic media -- the major source of drug information and the
primary "influencer" on drug use, especially among the young. //
Together, they have helped reawaken America's conscience --
which, in turn, inspires America's greatness. / Later today, I
will unveil our fourth National Drug Control Strategy to build on
these beginnings. It will say no to drugs. It will also say yes
to life. / /
To stop drug use will require caring, and community --
above all, abundant love. / Let me tell you a story. Once, a
6
great First Lady -- Pat Nixon -- toured a medical center and
stopped to embrace a little girl blinded by rubella. For a few
minutes, she talked to the girl and held her close. Later,
someone told her that the child was deaf as well as blind. //
Pat answered that she had known that. // "But she knows what
love is, " Mrs. Nixon said. "She can feel love. " //
America's love is conveyed in many ways. In what we oppose:
Injustice and tyranny. In what we support: The inalienable
rights that include the freedom to think, dream, worship, and,
yes, vote as we please. // To preserve our liberty, America once
deposed a king / fought a great Civil War / five times this
Century sent Americans into major battle. Yet freedom is not
ours alone -- so we have exported it as our ideal. Today, we
must also export it economically and, above all, spiritually. //
If you doubt freedom's victory, look to the Persian Gulf. / Look
to the former Soviet Union, where those once enslaved crowd
churches and synagogues. / Look to Eastern Europe, where
Christmas carols warm the bright winter chill. // It is written:
"In the beginning was the Word." Here is the word for 1992:
Today, the times are on the side of peace -- because the world,
increasingly, is on the side of God. //
This brings me to the ultimate value that sustains America,
and the values I have already cited: A belief in prayer --and
through prayer, in the One through whom all things are possible.
// No country can claim a special place in God's heart. Yet we
are better as a people because He has a special place in ours. //
7
I once asked one of my grandkids how he felt about prayer.
He said: "Just try getting through a math test without it. " //
In Sunday school, children learn that God is everywhere -- but in
public school they find that He's absent from class. It's time
to end this mockery. // I continue to believe -- as do the
overwhelming majority of Americans -- in the right to voluntary
school prayer. / I call on the Congress to pass a Constitutional
Amendment putting the Faith of our Fathers back in our schools. /
The values I have spoken of reminds us of the truth that
comes on one's knees. // I believe with all my heart that one
cannot be America's President without a belief in God and in
prayer. I also believe America will be a better place if the
Golden Rule becomes our daily guide. //
The poet Walt Whitman was once asked to name America's true
grandeur. He replied, simply: "Its religion. Without that,
America is not America. " // Let that be our essence as a people
-- and our message as a Nation. Thank you for this occasion.
God bless this most wondrous land on earth -- the United States
of America.
#
#
#
#
Document
No. 300916
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
92 JAN 23 P3: 57
DATE.
1/22/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE-COMMENT DUE BY: 1:00 pm, Thurs., 1/23/9
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: Religious Broadcasters
Sheraton Washington Hotel
SUBJECT:
Monday, January 27, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
-
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
1
SKINNER
MCCLURE
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
ROGICH
BROMLEY
SMITH
CARD
Findlay
Snow
DEMAREST
Porter Rose
FITZWATER
Martinez
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your remarks directly to Tony Snow in Room
122 EOB, Ext. 2930, NO LATER THAN THURSDAY, JAN., 23, with
a copy to this office.
THANK YOU.
RESPONSE:
See comments
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
January 21, 1992
Draft Two
02 JAN 22 P5: 17
RELIGION
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS
SHERATON WASHINGTON HOTEL
MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1992
10:00 A.M.
President Rose and Director Cook -- and let me salute your
leadership of the NRB. Ladies and gentlemen. Fellow
communicators. // This marks the fifth time I have had the honor
of addressing the annual convention of the National Religious
Broadcasters. ((It's always a pleasure driving over here from
the White House. I think if Moses were around today, he'd be
called upon to part the traffic. )) //
((First, I'm glad to see my friend Jerry Fallwell. I
invited Jerry to go jogging with me this morning, but he had his
own exercise plans. / He walked across the Potomac. )) //
((Then, there's my other friend, Pat Robertson. Pat was
telling me you have the lowest catering bill of any convention
that comes to this hotel. // It's amazing how you can feed this
entire multitude on seven loaves and fishes. )) //
A year ago we met in the first week of a crusade to protect
what is right, and true. I came before you to talk of what was
not a Christian or Jewish war -- not a Moslem war. It was a just
war. // In the Persian Gulf we fought for good versus evil /
right versus wrong / dignity against oppression. America stood
fast -- so that liberty could stand tall. //
Today, I want to thank you for helping America, as Christ
ordained, "be a light unto the world." Your support honored the
2
finest sailors / soldiers / Marines / Air Force / and Coast
Guardsmen any Nation has ever known. // What they did in war,
let us now do in peace. // Just as our forces fought to defend
all that is best in America, we need you to help instill the
traditional values that make life and liberty worth defending. //
Let me begin with some good news for modern man. According
to Gallup surveys, no society is more religious than the United
States of America. // Seven in ten Americans believe in life
after death -- eight in ten that God works miracles. Nine in ten
Americans pray. And more than nine in ten believe in God. // To
which I say: Thank God. //
Now, I know this is an election year. ( (I don't know about
Damascus -- but this Primary Season, we're hearing plenty about
conversions on the road to New Hampshire. )) // We hear
candidates promising this, and that -- espousing policies
suddenly in fashion. // Today, I want to speak of values which
sustain America -- values that are always in fashion. /
The first value is not simply American -- but universal. I
refer to the sanctity of life. You know my position -- but I'll
restate it now. We need policies that encourage adoption, not
abortion. //
Next comes a value which gives each life meaning: The self-
reliance central to the dignity of work. // Go to the barrios of
San Antonio, or the suburbs of St. Paul. There you will find
people who ask only what our forefathers had: The same
opportunity which helped us brave independence / push back the
3
wilderness / win two World Wars / and create the highest standard
of living in the history of man. //
The Bible reminds us: "By thy sweat shall Ye know them."
What we must do is give working Americans the level playing field
to keep us rich in goods, and spirit. //
Tomorrow, my State of the Union Address will detail how we
can nurture the creativity as old as 1776 -- harness it to the
needs of a new American Century. // Remember: To this day, the
only footprints on the moon are American footprints. / The only
flag on the moon is the stars and stripes. // The knowledge that
put it there is stamped: "Made in USA. " // The world looks to
us to lead -- and lead we will. // Tune in tomorrow, and see if
you don't agree: I will announce a program to help Americans
outwork / outproduce / and outcompete any Nation in the world. //
The next value I speak of must be forever cast in stone. //
I speak of decency -- the moral courage to say what is right, and
condemn what's wrong. // We need a nation closer to The Waltons
than the Bundys or the Simpsons -- an America which rejects the
rising tide of incivility and intolerance. //
We see this tide in the naked epithet -- and in the code
words -- that play to our worst prejudices. / We see it when
groups like Public Enemy soil the memory of Martin Luther King,
Jr. with vengeance and violence. // There is no place in America
for such apostles of hate. // If you agree with me, write --
call -- picket -- petition: Demand an end to the trash which
poisons our kids's minds and debases their souls. //
4
This brings me to a fourth value crucial to America: Belief
in family -- the foundation of our strength. ((I admit it: I've
been lucky -- a wonderful wife and five great kids. // Having
helped put them through college, I remember receiving letters
from them, and there would always be a P.S. at the bottom. It
was those three words that say so much about the bond between
parents at home and kids at school. "Please send money. ")) //
Phillippians reminds us, "Whatsoever things are pure
think on these things." To me, this is what family is: A pure
and priceless bequest. // Too often today, the family is under
siege. I say to you: Each one of us -- parents, preachers,
politicians, and teachers -- must lift it from the valley of
indifference to the high plateau of Canaan. //
That is why I demanded that the child-care bill I signed in
1990 allow parents -- not bureaucrats -- to decide how to care
for their children. I refused to see the option of religious-
based child care restricted or eliminated. // The family is also
why our education program -- America 2000 -- insists that choice
include both private and public schools. // Last week, I
announced another policy to strengthen the family: Expanding the Head Start
pre-school program to serve all those who are eligible -- the
its
Parental involvement is a critical
largest funding increase in the history of Project Head Start. // element
in its
Finally, families will stay together only if drugs do not drive
success.
them apart. As Elijah drove the false prophet Baal [BALE] out of
Israel, we must erase drugs from every corner of America. //
smelly
$5178
5
I will be honest: We have not erased them yet. But in the
spirit of the occasion, let me add: Our progress has been
miraculous. // Over the past four years, marijuana, crack, and
cocaine use has declined. What's more, today kids aged 9 to 12
are the most anti-drug group in America. The highest at-risk is
ages 13 to 17 -- but last year / for the first time / 13-year-
olds mirrored the behavior of pre-teenagers. //
Drugs effect a multitude of issues. They contribute to AIDS
and homelessness -- shattering families and futures / hopes and
dreams. / That's why -- literally -- we should thank God for the
drug use decline. The drop in use doesn't just prove we were
right in our assault on substance use: It shows how we can
achieve drugs' unconditional surrender. //
We will triumph through tough enforcement -- and through
education: Increasing awareness of the damage drugs do. // Over
the last four years, more kids talked about drugs with their
parents and teachers. Another force has been America's print and
electronic media -- the major source of drug information and the
primary "influencer" on drug use, especially among the young. //
Together, they have helped reawaken America's conscience --
which, in turn, inspires America's greatness. / Later today, I
will unveil our fourth National Drug Control Strategy to build on
these beginnings. It will say no to drugs. It will also say yes
to life. //
To stop drug use will require caring, and community --
above all, abundant love. / Let me tell you a story. Once, a
6
great First Lady -- Pat Nixon -- toured a medical center and
stopped to embrace a little girl blinded by rubella. For a few
minutes, she talked to the girl and held her close. Later,
someone told her that the child was deaf as well as blind. //
Pat answered that she had known that. // "But she knows what
love is," Mrs. Nixon said. "She can feel love. " //
America's love is conveyed in many ways. In what we oppose:
Injustice and tyranny. In what we support: The inalienable
rights that include the freedom to think, dream, worship, and,
yes, vote as we please. // To preserve our liberty, America once
deposed a king / fought a great Civil War / five times this
Century sent Americans into major battle. Yet freedom is not
ours alone -- so we have exported it as our ideal. Today, we
must also export it economically and, above all, spiritually. //
If you doubt freedom's victory, look to the Persian Gulf. / Look
to the former Soviet Union, where those once enslaved crowd
churches and synagogues. / Look to Eastern Europe, where
Christmas carols warm the bright winter chill. // It is written:
"In the beginning was the Word." Here is the word for 1992:
Today, the times are on the side of peace -- because the world,
increasingly, is on the side of God. //
This brings me to the ultimate value that sustains America,
and the values I have already cited: A belief in prayer --and
through prayer, in the One through whom all things are possible.
// No country can claim a special place in God's heart. Yet we
are better as a people because He has a special place in ours. //
7
I once asked one of my grandkids how he felt about prayer.
He said: "Just try getting through a math test without it. " //
In Sunday school, children learn that God is everywhere -- but in
public school they find that He's absent from class. It's time
to end this mockery. // I continue to believe -- as do the
overwhelming majority of Americans -- in the right to voluntary
school prayer. / I call on the Congress to pass a Constitutional
Amendment putting the Faith of our Fathers back in our schools. /
The values I have spoken of reminds us of the truth that
comes on one's knees. // I believe with all my heart that one
cannot be America's President without a belief in God and in
prayer. I also believe America will be a better place if the
Golden Rule becomes our daily guide. //
The poet Walt Whitman was once asked to name America's true
grandeur. He replied, simply: "Its religion. Without that,
America is not America." // Let that be our essence as a people
-- and our message as a Nation. Thank you for this occasion.
God bless this most wondrous land on earth -- the United States
of America.
#
#
#
#
Document 300916
No.
92 JAN 23
WHIT EHOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE.
1/22/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 1:00 pm, Thurs., 1/23/
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: Religious Broadcasters
Sheraton Washington Hotel
SUBJECT:
Monday, January 27, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
-
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCCLURE
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
1
BRADY
ROGICH
BROMLEY
SMITH
CARD
Findlay
DEMAREST
Snow
Porter Rose
FITZWATER
Martinez
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your remarks directly to Tony Snow in Room
122 EOB, Ext. 2930, NO LATER THAN THURSDAY, JAN., 23, with
a copy to this office.
THANK YOU.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
January 21, 1992
Draft Two
92 JAN 22 P5: 17
RELIGION
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS
SHERATON WASHINGTON HOTEL
MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1992
10:00 A.M.
President Rose and Director Cook -- and let me salute your
leadership of the NRB. Ladies and gentlemen. Fellow
communicators. // This marks the fifth time I have had the honor
of addressing the annual convention of the National Religious
Broadcasters. ((It's always a pleasure driving over here from
the White House. I think if Moses were around today, he'd be
called upon to part the traffic.) //
( (First, I'm glad to see my friend Jerry Fallwell. I
invited Jerry to go jogging with me this morning, but he had his
own exercise plans. / He walked across the Potomac. )) //
((Then, there's my other friend, Pat Robertson. Pat was
telling me you have the lowest catering bill of any convention
that comes to this hotel. // It's amazing how you can feed this
Fix
two
entire multitude on seven loaves and fishes. )) //
A year ago we met in the first week of a crusade to protect
what is right, and true. I came before you to talk of what was
not a Christian or Jewish war -- not a Moslem war. It was a just
war. // In the Persian Gulf we fought for good versus evil /
right versus wrong / dignity against oppression. America stood
fast -- so that liberty could stand tall. //
Today, I want to thank you for helping America, as Christ
ordained, "be a light unto the world." Your support honored the
2
finest sailors / soldiers / Marines / Air Force / and Coast
Guardsmen any Nation has ever known. // What they did in war,
let us now do in peace. // Just as our forces fought to defend
all that is best in America, we need you to help instill the
traditional values that make life and liberty worth defending. //
Let me begin with some good news for modern man. According
to Gallup surveys, no society is more religious than the United
States of America. // Seven in ten Americans believe in life
after death -- eight in ten that God works miracles. Nine in ten
Americans pray. And more than nine in ten believe in God. // To
which I say: Thank God. //
Now, I know this is an election year. ((I don't know about
Damascus -- but this Primary Season, we're hearing plenty about
conversions on the road to New Hampshire. )) // We hear
candidates promising this, and that -- espousing policies
suddenly in fashion. // Today, I want to speak of values which
sustain America -- values that are always in fashion. /
The first value is not simply American -- but universal. I
refer to the sanctity of life. You know my position -- but I'll
restate it now. We need policies that encourage adoption, not
abortion. //
Next comes a value which gives each life meaning: The self-
reliance central to the dignity of work. // Go to the barrios of
San Antonio, or the suburbs of St. Paul. There you will find
people who ask only what our forefathers had: The same
opportunity which helped us brave independence / push back the
3
wilderness / win two World Wars / and create the highest standard
of living in the history of man. //
The Bible reminds us: "By thy sweat shall Ye know them. "
What we must do is give working Americans the level playing field
to keep us rich in goods, and spirit. //
Tomorrow, my State of the Union Address will detail how we
can nurture the creativity as old as 1776 -- harness it to the
needs of a new American Century. // Remember: To this day, the
only footprints on the moon are American footprints. / The only
flag on the moon is the stars and stripes. // The knowledge that
put it there is stamped: "Made in USA. " // The world looks to
us to lead --- and lead we will. // Tune in tomorrow, and see if
you don't agree: I will announce a program to help Americans
outwork / outproduce / and outcompete any Nation in the world. 11
The next value I speak of must be forever cast in stone. //
I speak of decency -- the moral courage to say what is right, and
condemn what's wrong. // We need a nation closer to The Waltons
than the Bundys or the Simpsons -- an America which rejects the
rising tide of incivility and intolerance. //
We see this tide in the naked epithet -- and in the code
words -- that play to our worst prejudices. / We see it when
groups like Public Enemy soil the memory of Martin Luther King,
Jr. with vengeance and violence. // There is no place in America
for such apostles of hate. // If you agree with me, write --
call -- picket -- petition: Demand an end to the trash which
poisons our kids's minds and debases their souls. //
4
This brings me to a fourth value crucial to America: Belief
in family -- the foundation of our strength. ( (I admit it: I've
been lucky -- a wonderful wife and five great kids. // Having
helped put them through college, I remember receiving letters
from them, and there would always be a P.S. at the bottom. It
was those three words that say so much about the bond between
parents at home and kids at school. "Please send money. ") ) //
Phillippians reminds us, "Whatsoever things are pure
think on these things." To me, this is what family is: A pure
and priceless bequest. // Too often today, the family is under
siege. I say to you: Each one of us -- parents, preachers,
politicians, and teachers -- must lift it from the valley of
indifference to the high plateau of Canaan. //
That is why I demanded that the child-care bill I signed in
1990 allow parents -- not bureaucrats -- to decide how to care
for their children. I refused to see the option of religious-
based child care restricted or eliminated. // The family is also
why our education program -- America 2000 -- insists that choice
include both private and public schools. // Last week, I
announced another policy to strengthen the family: Expanding the
pre-school program to serve all those who are eligible -- the
largest funding increase in the history of Project Head Start. //
Finally, families will stay together only if drugs do not drive
them apart. As Elijah drove the false prophet Baal [BALE] out of
Israel, we must erase drugs from every corner of America. //
5
I will be honest: We have not erased them yet. But in the
spirit of the occasion, let me add: Our progress has been
miraculous. // Over the past four years, marijuana, crack, and
cocaine use has declined. What's more, today kids aged 9 to 12
are the most anti-drug group in America. The highest at-risk is
ages 13 to 17 -- but last year / for the first time / 13-year-
olds mirrored the behavior of pre-teenagers. //
Drugs effect a multitude of issues. They contribute to AIDS
and homelessness -- shattering families and futures / hopes and
dreams. / That's why -- literally -- we should thank God for the
drug use decline. The drop in use doesn't just prove we were
right in our assault on substance use: It shows how we can
achieve drugs' unconditional surrender. //
But government alone
We will triumph through tough enforcement,
and through
Can not defeat This scourge my Leaders in everycommunity must help increase
education: Increasing awareness of the damage drugs do. // Over
the last four years, more kids talked about drugs with their
parents and teachers. Another force has been America's print and
electronic media -- the major source of drug information and the
primary "influencer" on drug use, especially among the young. //
Together, they have helped reawaken America's conscience --
which, in turn, inspires America's greatness. / Later today, I
will unveil our fourth National Drug Control Strategy to build on
these beginnings. It will say no to drugs. It will also say yes
to life. / /
To stop drug use will require caring, and community --
above all, abundant love. / Let me tell you a story. Once, a
6
great First Lady -- Pat Nixon -- toured a medical center and
stopped to embrace a little girl blinded by rubella. For a few
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minutes, she talked to the girl and held her close. Later,
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deposed a king / fought a great Civil War / five times this
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ours alone so we have exported it as our ideal. Today, we
ideals we
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must also export it economically and, above all, spiritually. //
stand for:
If you doubt freedom's victory, look to the Persian Gulf. / Look
to the former Soviet Union, where those once enslaved crowd
churches and synagogues. / Look to Eastern Europe, where
Christmas carols warm the bright winter chill. // It is written:
"In the beginning was the Word " Here is the word for 1992:
Today, the times are on the side of peace -- because the world,
increasingly, is on the side of God. //
This brings me to the ultimate value that sustains America,
and the values I have already cited: A belief in prayer -and
through prayer, in the One through whom all things are possible.
// No country can claim a special place in God's heart. Yet we
are better as a people because He has a special place in ours. //
7
I once asked one of my grandkids how he felt about prayer
He said: "Just try getting through a math test without it.
In Sunday school, children learn that God is everywhere -- but in
public school they find that He's absent from class. It's time
to end this mockery. // I continue to believe -- as do the
overwhelming majority of Americans -- in the right to voluntary
school prayer. / I call on the Congress to pass a Constitutional
Amendment putting the Faith of our Fathers back in our schools. /
The values I have spoken of reminds us of the truth that
comes on one's knees. / I believe with all my heart that one
cannot be America's President without a belief in God and in
prayer. I also believe America will be a better place if the
Golden Rule becomes our daily guide. //
The poet Walt Whitman was once asked to name America's true
grandeur. He replied, simply: "Its religion. Without that,
America is not America." // Let that be our essence as a people
-- and our message as a Nation. Thank you for this occasion.
God bless this most wondrous land on earth -- the United States
of America.
#
#
#
#
Document 300916
No.
WHITE HOUSE P2: 46
STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE.
1/22/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 1:00 pm, Thurs., 1/23,
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: Religious Broadcasters
Sheraton Washington Hotel
SUBJECT:
Monday, January 27, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCCLURE
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
ROGICH
BROMLEY
SMITH
CARD
Findlay
DEMAREST
Snow
Porter Rose
FITZWATER
Martinez
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your remarks directly to Tony Snow in Room
122 EOB, Ext. 2930, NO LATER THAN THURSDAY, JAN., 23, with
a copy to this office.
THANK YOU.
RESPONSE:
See comments. Thanks.
PK
Paul Korfonta
PHILLIP D. BRADY
01/23/92
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
General Comment: (OCA) seed"
wasn't "weed to be and announced
going at this speech?
(Smith/Grossman)
January 21, 1992
Draft Two
92 JAN 22 P5: 17
RELIGION
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS
SHERATON WASHINGTON HOTEL
MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1992
10:00 A.M.
President Rose and Director Cook -- and let me salute your
leadership of the NRB. Ladies and gentlemen. Fellow
communicators. // This marks the fifth time I have had the honor
of addressing the annual convention of the National Religious
Broadcasters. ((It's always a pleasure driving over here from
the White House. I think if Moses were around today, he'd be
called upon to part the traffic.) ) //
( (First, I'm glad to see my friend Jerry Fallwell. I
invited Jerry to go jogging with me this morning, but he had his
own exercise plans. / He walked across the Potomac. )) //
((Then, there's my other friend, Pat Robertson. Pat was
telling me you have the lowest catering bill of any convention
that comes to this hotel. // It's amazing how you can feed this
entire multitude on seven loaves and fishes. )) //
A year ago we met in the first week of a crusade to protect
what is right, and true. I came before you to talk of what was
not a Christian or Jewish war -- not a Moslem war. It was a just
war. // In the Persian Gulf we fought for good versus evil /
right versus wrong / dignity against oppression. America stood
fast -- so that liberty could stand tall. //
Today, I want to thank you for helping America, as Christ
ordained, "be a light unto the world." Your support honored the
2
finest sailors / soldiers / Marines / Air Force / and Coast
Guardsmen any Nation has ever known. // What they did in war,
let us now do in peace. // Just as our forces fought to defend
all that is best in America, we need you to help instill the
traditional values that make life and liberty worth defending. 11
Let me begin with some good news for modern man. According
to Gallup surveys, no society is more religious than the United
States of America. // Seven in ten Americans believe in life
after death -- eight in ten that God works miracles. Nine in ten
Americans pray. And more than nine in ten believe in God. // To
which I say: Thank God. //
Now, I know this is an election year. ((I don't know about
Damascus -- but this Primary Season, we're hearing plenty about
conversions on the road to New Hampshire. )) // We hear
candidates promising this, and that -- espousing policies
suddenly in fashion. // Today, I want to speak of values which
sustain America --- values that are always in fashion. /
The first value is not simply American -- but universal. I
refer to the sanctity of life. You know my position -- but I'll
restate it now. We need policies that encourage adoption, not
abortion. //
Next comes a value which gives each life meaning: The self-
reliance central to the dignity of work. // Go to the barrios of
San Antonio, or the suburbs of St. Paul. There you will find
people who ask only what our forefathers had: The same
opportunity which helped us brave independence / push back the
3
wilderness / win two World Wars / and create the highest standard
of living in the history of man. //
The Bible reminds us: "By thy sweat shall Ye know them. "
What we must do is give working Americans the level playing field
to keep us rich in goods, and spirit. //
Tomorrow, my State of the Union Address will detail how we
can nurture the creativity as old as 1776 -- harness it to the
needs of a new American Century. // Remember: To this day, the
only footprints on the moon are American footprints. / The only
flag on the moon is the stars and stripes. // The knowledge that
put it there is stamped: "Made in USA. " // The world looks to
us to lead -- and lead we will. // Tune in tomorrow, and see if
you don't agree: I will announce a program to help Americans
outwork / outproduce / and outcompete any Nation in the world. 11
The next value I speak of must be forever cast in stone. //
I speak of decency -- the moral courage to say what is right, and
condemn what's wrong. // We need a nation closer to The Waltons
than the Bundys or the Simpsons -- an America which rejects the
rising tide of incivility and intolerance. //
We see this tide in the naked epithet -- and in the code
words -- that play to our worst prejudices. / We see it when
groups like Public Enemy soil the memory of Martin Luther King,
Jr. with vengeance and violence. // There is no place in America
for such apostles of hate. // If you agree with me, write --
call -- picket -- petition: Demand an end to the trash which
poisons our kids's minds and debases their souls. //
4
This brings me to a fourth value crucial to America: Belief
in family -- the foundation of our strength. ((I admit it: I've
been lucky -- a wonderful wife and five great kids. // Having
helped put them through college, I remember receiving letters
from them, and there would always be a P.S. at the bottom. It
was those three words that say so much about the bond between
parents at home and kids at school. "Please send money. ")) //
Phillippians reminds us, "Whatsoever things are pure
think on these things." To me, this is what family is: A pure
and priceless bequest. // Too often today, the family is under
siege. I say to you: Each one of us -- parents, preachers,
what
?
politicians, and teachers -- must lift it from the valley of
(HHS)
indifference to the high plateau of Canaan. //
That is why I demanded that the child-care bill I signed in
1990 allow parents -- not bureaucrats -- to decide how to care
for their children. I refused to see the option of religious-
based child care restricted or eliminated. // The family is also
why our education program -- America 2000 -- insists that choice
include both private and public schools. // Last week, I
announced another policy to strengthen the family: Expanding the
pre-school program to serve all those who are eligible -- the
largest funding increase in the history of Project Head Start. //
Delete
Finally, families will stay together only if drugs do not drive
them apart. I As Elijah drove the false prophet Baal [BALE] out of
Israel, we must crase drugs from every corner of America. //
driver(s)
(HHS)
But there is reason for hope.
Delete CHITS)
I will be honest: We have not erased them yet. But in the
spirit of the occasion, let me add: Our progress has been
miraculous. ]' Over the past four years, marijuana, crack, and
cocaine use has declined. What's more, today kids aged 9 to 12
more drug resistant than ever before
are the most-anti drug group in America. The highest at-risk is
Delete
ages 13 to 17 -- but last year / for the first time / 13-year-
olds mirrored the behavior of pre-teenagers. ],
(HHS)
Drugs effect a multitude of issues. They contribute to AIDS
and homelessness -- shattering families and futures / hopes and
dreams. / That's why -- literally -- we should thank God for the
drug use decline. The drop in use doesn't just prove we were
right in our assault on substance use: It shows how we can
achieve drugs' unconditional surrender. //
We will triumph through tough enforcement -- and through
education: Increasing awareness of the damage drugs do. // Over
the last four years, more kids talked about drugs with their
parents and teachers. Another force has been America's print and
electronic media -- the major source of drug information and the
primary "influencer" on drug use, especially among the young. //
Together, they have helped reawaken America's conscience --
which, in turn, inspires America's greatness. / Later today, I
will unveil our fourth National Drug Control Strategy to build on
these beginnings. It will say no to drugs. It will also say yes
to life. //
To stop drug use will require caring, and community --
above all, abundant love. / Let me tell you a story. Once, a
6
great First Lady -- Pat Nixon -- toured a medical center and
stopped to embrace a little girl blinded by rubella. For a few
minutes, she talked to the girl and held her close. Later,
someone told her that the child was deaf as well as blind. //
Pat answered that she had known that. // "But she knows what
love is, " Mrs. Nixon said. "She can feel love. //
America's love is conveyed in many ways. In what we oppose:
Injustice and tyranny. In what we support: The inalienable
rights that include the freedom to think, dream, worship, and,
yes, vote as we please. // To preserve our liberty, America once
deposed a king / fought a great Civil War / five times this
Century sent Americans into major battle. Yet freedom is not
ours alone -- so we have exported it as our ideal. Today, we
must also export it economically and, above all, spiritually. //
If you doubt freedom's victory, look to the Persian Gulf. / Look
to the former Soviet Union, where those once enslaved crowd
churches and synagogues. / Look to Eastern Europe, where
Christmas carols warm the bright winter chill. // It is written:
"In the beginning was the Word. " Here is the word for 1992:
Today, the times are on the side of peace -- because the world,
increasingly, is on the side of God. //
This brings me to the ultimate value that sustains America,
and the values I have already cited: A belief in prayer --and
through prayer, in the One through whom all things are possible.
// No country can claim a special place in God's heart. Yet we
are better as a people because He has a special place in ours. //
7
I once asked one of my grandkids how he felt about prayer.
He said: "Just try getting through a math test without it. " 11
In Sunday school, children learn that God is everywhere -- but in
public school they find that He's absent from class. It's time
to end this mockery. // I continue to believe -- as do the
overwhelming majority of Americans -- in the right to voluntary
school prayer. / I call on the Congress to pass a Constitutional
Amendment putting the Faith of our Fathers back in our schools. /
The values I have spoken of reminds us of the truth that
comes on one's knees. // I believe with all my heart that one
cannot be America's President without a belief in God and in
prayer. I also believe America will be a better place if the
Golden Rule becomes our daily guide. //
The poet Walt Whitman was once asked to name America's true
grandeur. He replied, simply: "Its religion. Without that,
America is not America." // Let that be our essence as a people
--- and our message as a Nation. Thank you for this occasion.
God bless this most wondrous land on earth -- the United States
of America.
#
#
#
#
Document 300916
No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING 92 JANA MEMORANDUM
P12:51
212
DATE.
1/22/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 1:00 pm, Thurs., 1/23,
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: Religious Broadcasters
Sheraton Washington Hotel
SUBJECT:
Monday, January 27, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
-
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
-
SKINNER
MCCLURE
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
ROGICH
BROMLEY
SMITH
CARD
Findlay
DEMAREST
Snow
FITZWATER
Porter Rose
Martinez
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your remarks directly to Tony Snow in Room
122 EOB, Ext. 2930, NO LATER THAN THURSDAY, JAN., 23, with
a copy to this office.
THANK YOU.
RESPONSE:
A few suggetion.
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Bo is SR
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Grossman)
January 21, 1992
Draft Two
92 JAN 22 P5: 17
RELIGION
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS
SHERATON WASHINGTON HOTEL
MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1992
10:00 A.M.
President Rose and Director Cook -- and let me salute your
leadership of the NRB. Ladies and gentlemen. Fellow
communicators. // This marks the fifth time I have had the honor
of addressing the annual convention of the National Religious
Broadcasters. ((It's always a pleasure driving over here from
the White House. I think if Moses were around today, he'd be
called upon to part the traffic.) ) //
( (First, I'm glad to see my friend Jerry Fallwell. I
invited Jerry to go jogging with me this morning, but he had his
own exercise plans. / He walked across the Potomac. )) //
((Then, there's my other friend, Pat Robertson. Pat was
telling me you have the lowest catering bill of any convention
that comes to this hotel. // It's amazing how you can feed this
entire multitude on seven loaves and fishes. )) //
A year ago we met in the first week of a crusade to protect
what is right, and true. I came before you to talk of what was
not a Christian or Jewish war -- not a Moslem war. It was a just
war. // In the Persian Gulf we fought for good versus evil /
right versus wrong / dignity against oppression. America stood
fast -- so that liberty could stand tall. //
Today, I want to thank you for helping America, as Christ
ordained, "be a light unto the world." Your support honored the
2
finest sailors / soldiers / Marines / Air Force / and Coast
and women
Guardsmen any Nation has ever known. // What they did in war,
let us now do in peace. // Just as our forces fought to defend
all that is best in America, we need you to help instill the
traditional values that make life and liberty worth defending. //
Let me begin with some good news for modern man. According
to Gallup surveys, no society is more religious than the United
States of America. // Seven in ten Americans believe in life
after death -- eight in ten that God works miracles. Nine in ten
90 percent
Americans pray. And more than nine in ten believe in God. // To
which I say: Thank God. 11
it's either nine 05 ten
Now, I know this is an election year. ( (I don't know about
Damascus -- but this Primary Season, we're hearing plenty about
conversions on the road to New Hampshire. )) // We hear
candidates promising this, and that -- espousing policies
suddenly in fashion. // Today, I want to speak of values which
sustain America -- values that are always in fashion. /
The first value is not simply American -- but universal. I
refer to the sanctity of life. You know my position -- but I'll
restate it now. We need policies that encourage adoption, not
abortion. //
Next comes a value which gives each life meaning: The self-
reliance central to the dignity of work. // Go to the barrios of
San Antonio, or the suburbs of St. Paul. There you will find
people who ask only what our forefathers had: The same
opportunity which helped us brave independence / push back the
3
wilderness / win two World Wars / and create the highest standard
of living in the history of man. //
The Bible reminds us: "By thy sweat shall Ye know them. "
What we must do is give working Americans the level playing field
to keep us rich in goods, and spirit. //
Tomorrow, my State of the Union Address will detail how we
can nurture the creativity as old as 1776 -- harness it to the
needs of a new American Century. // Remember: To this day, the
only footprints on the moon are American footprints. / The only
flag on the moon is the stars and stripes. // The knowledge that
put it there is stamped: "Made in USA. " // The world looks to
us to lead -- and lead we will. // Tune in tomorrow, and see if
you don't agree: I will announce a program to help Americans
outwork / outproduce / and outcompete any Nation in the world. //
The next value I speak of must be forever cast in stone. //
I speak of decency -- the moral courage to say what is right, and
condemn what's wrong. // We need a nation closer to The Waltons
two Fox Network
than the Bundys or the Simpsons -- an America which rejects the
programs
1
-
perhaps
rising tide of incivility and intolerance. //
can
We see this tide in the naked epithet -- and in the code
hit another
words -- that play to our worst prejudices. / We see it when
network groups like Public Enemy soil the memory of Martin Luther King,
Jr. with vengeance and violence. // There is no place in America
for such apostles of hate. // If you agree with me, write --
call -- picket -- petition: Demand an end to the trash which
poisons our kids's minds and debases their souls. //
4
This brings me to a fourth value crucial to America: Belief
in family -- the foundation of our strength. ((I admit it: I've
been lucky -- a wonderful wife and five great kids // Having
helped put them through college, I remember receiving letters
from them, and there would always be a P.S. at the bottom. It
was those three words that say so much about the bond between
parents at home and kids at school. "Please send money. ")) //
Phillippians reminds us, "Whatsoever things are pure
think on these things." To me, this is what family is: A pure
and priceless bequest. // Too often today, the family is under
siege. I say to you: Each one of us -- parents, preachers,
politicians, and teachers -- must lift it from the valley of
indifference to the high plateau of Canaan. //
That is why I demanded that the child-care bill I signed in
1990 allow parents -- not bureaucrats -- to decide how to care
for their children. I refused to see the option of religious-
based child care restricted or eliminated. // The family is also
why our education program -- America 2000 -- insists that choice
include both private and public schools. // Last week, I
-announced another policy to strengthen the family: Expanding the
pre-school program to serve all those who are eligible -- the
largest funding increase in the history of Project Head Start. //
Finally, families will stay together only if drugs do not drive
them apart. As Elijah drove the false prophet Baal [BALE] out of
Israel, we must erase drugs from every corner of America. //
5
I will be honest: We have not erased them yet. But in the
spirit of the occasion, let me add: Our progress has been
miraculous. // Over the past four years, marijuana, crack, and
cocaine use has declined. What's more, today kids aged 9 to 12
are the most anti-drug group in America. The highest at-risk is
ages 13 to 17 -- but last year / for the first time / 13-year-
olds mirrored the behavior of pre-teenagers. //
Drugs effect a multitude of issues. They contribute to AIDS
and homelessness -- shattering families and futures / hopes and
dreams. / That's why -- literally -- we should thank God for the
drug use decline. The drop in use doesn't just prove we were
right in our assault on substance use: It shows how we can
achieve drugs' unconditional surrender. //
We will triumph through tough enforcement -- and through
education: Increasing awareness of the damage drugs do. // Over
the last four years, more kids talked about drugs with their
parents and teachers. Another force has been America's print and
electronic media -- the major source of drug information and the
primary "influencer" on drug use, especially among the young. //
Together, they have helped reawaken America's conscience --
which, in turn, inspires America's greatness. / Later today, I
will unveil our fourth National Drug Control Strategy to build on
these beginnings. It will say no to drugs. It will also say yes
to life. //
To stop drug use will require caring, and community --
above all, abundant love. / Let me tell you a story. Once, a
6
great First Lady -- Pat Nixon -- toured a medical center and
stopped to embrace a little girl blinded by rubella. For a few
minutes, she talked to the girl and held her close. Later,
someone told her that the child was deaf as well as blind. //
Pat answered that she had known that. // "But she knows what
love is, " Mrs. Nixon said. "She can feel love. " //
America's love is conveyed in many ways. In what we oppose:
Injustice and tyranny. In what we support: The inalienable
rights that include the freedom to think, dream, worship, and,
yes, vote as we please. // To preserve our liberty, America once
deposed a king / fought a great Civil War / five times this
Century sent Americans into major battle. Yet freedom is not
ours alone -- so we have exported it as our ideal. Today, we
must also export it economically and, above all, spiritually. 11
If you doubt freedom's victory, look to the Persian Gulf. / Look
to the former Soviet Union, where those once enslaved crowd
churches and synagogues. / Look to Eastern Europe, where
Christmas carols warm the bright winter chill. // It is written:
"In the beginning was the Word." Here is the word for 1992:
Today, the times are on the side of peace -- because the world,
increasingly, is on the side of God. //
This brings me to the ultimate value that sustains America,
and the values I have already cited: A belief in prayer --and
through prayer, in the One through whom all things are possible.
// No country can claim a special place in God's heart. Yet we
are better as a people because He has a special place in ours. //
7
I once asked one of my grandkids how he felt about prayer.
He said: "Just try getting through a math test without it. " //
In Sunday school, children learn that God is everywhere -- but in
public school they find that He's absent from class. It's time
to end this mockery. // I continue to believe -- as do the
overwhelming majority of Americans -- in the right to voluntary
school prayer. / I call on the Congress to pass a Constitutional
Amendment putting the Faith of our Fathers back in our schools. /
The values I have spoken of reminds us of the truth that
comes on one's knees. // I believe with all my heart that one
cannot be America's President without a belief in God and in
prayer. I also believe America will be a better place if the
Golden Rule becomes our daily guide. //
The poet Walt Whitman was once asked to name America's true
grandeur. He replied, simply: "Its religion. Without that,
America is not America." // Let that be our essence as a people
-- and our message as a Nation. Thank you for this occasion.
God bless this most wondrous land on earth -- the United States
of America.
#
#
#
#
(Smith/Grossman)
January 21, 1992
Draft Two
RELIGION
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS
SHERATON WASHINGTON HOTEL
MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1992
10:00 A.M.
President Rose and Director Cook -- and let me salute your
leadership of the NRB. Ladies and gentlemen. Fellow
communicators. //
This marks the fifth time I have had the honor of addressing
the annual convention of the National Religious Broadcasters.
((It's always a pleasure driving over here from the White House.
I think if Moses were around today, he'd be called upon to part
the traffic.) ) / /
((First, I'm glad to see my friend Jerry Fallwell. I
invited Jerry to go jogging with me this morning, but he had his
own exercise plans. / He walked across the Potomac. )) //
((Then, there's my other friend, Pat Robertson. Pat was
telling me you have the lowest catering bill of any convention
that comes to this hotel. // It's amazing how you can feed this
entire multitude on seven loaves and fishes. )) //
A year ago we met in the first week of a crusade to protect
what is right, and true. I came before you to talk of what was
not a Christian or Jewish war -- not a Moslem war. It was a just
war. // In the Persian Gulf we fought for good versus evil /
right versus wrong / dignity against oppression. America stood
fast -- so that liberty could stand tall. //
2
Today, I want to thank you for helping America, as Christ
ordained, "be a light unto the world." Your support honored the
finest sailors / soldiers / Marines / Air Force / and Coast
Guardsmen any Nation has ever known. // What they did in war,
let us now do in peace. // Just as our forces fought to defend
our way of life, we need you to help instill the traditional
values that make our way of life worth defending. //
Let me begin with some good news for modern man. According
to Gallup surveys, no society is more religious than the United
States of America. // Seven in ten Americans believe in life
after death -- eight in ten that God works miracles. Nine in ten
Americans pray. And more than nine in ten believe in God. // To
which I say: Thank God. //
You know I'm praying: This is an Election Year. ( (The
Bible tells us about the conversion that took place on the Road
to Damascus. / This being Primary Season, we're hearing more
about conversions on the road to New Hampshire. )) // We hear
candidates promising this, and that -- espousing policies
suddenly in fashion. // Today, I want to talk of values which
sustain America -- values that are always in fashion. /
The first value is a universal value. I refer to the
sanctity of life. You know my position -- but I'll restate it
now. We need policies that encourage adoption, not abortion. //
Next comes a value which gives that life meaning: The self-
reliance central to the dignity of work. // Go to the barrios of
San Antonio, or the suburbs of St. Paul. There you will find
3
people who ask only what our forefathers had: The same
opportunity which helped us brave independence / push back the
wilderness / end the Depression / and create the highest standard
of living in the history of man. //
The Bible reminds us: "By thy sweat shall Ye know them. "
What we must do is give working Americans the level playing field
to keep us rich in goods, and spirit. // Tomorrow, my State of
the Union Address will detail how we can nurture the creativity
as old as 1776. Remember: // To this day, the only footprints
on the moon are American footprints. / The only flag on the moon
is the stars and stripes. // The knowledge that put it there is
stamped: "Made in USA. " // Tune in tomorrow, and see if you
don't agree: I will announce a program to help Americans outwork
/ outproduce / and outcompete any Nation in the world. //
( (You know, I feel I'm among friends today. I know many of
you personally. There's also television: Some of you make more
appearances on the Nation's screens than Johnny Carson. // I am
aware how you're steadfastly reminding Americans that the 10
Commandments mean what they say, and they're not going to be sent
back for a re-write. )) //
The next value I speak of must be forever cast in stone. //
I speak of decency -- the moral courage to say what is right, and
wrong. What good are possessions if we are spiritually bankrupt?
"What does it profit a man to gain the world if he shall lose his
own soul?" // We need a Nation closer to The Waltons than the
Bundys -- more like Mayberry than Geraldo, Madonna, and Public
4
Enemy. // Today, a rap song by the group "Ice Cube" urges
burning Korean-owned stores. There is no place in America for
such apostles of hate. // If you agree with me, write -- call -
- picket -- petition: Demand an end to the trash which poisons
our kids's minds and debases their souls. //
This brings me to a fourth value crucial to America: Belief
in family -- the foundation of our strength. ( (I admit it: I've
been lucky -- a wonderful wife and five great kids. // Having
helped put them through college, I remember receiving letters
from them, and there would always be a P.S. at the bottom. It
was those three words that say so much about the bond between
parents at home and kids at school. "Please send money. ") ) //
Phillippians reminds us, "Whatsoever things are pure
think on these things." To me, this is what family is: A pure
and priceless bequest. // Too often today, the family is under
siege. I say to you: Each one of us -- individually, and as a
government -- must lift it from the valley of indifference to the
high plateau of Canaan. //
That is why I demanded that the child-care bill I signed in
1990 allow parents -- not bureaucrats -- to decide how to care
for their children. I refused to see the option of religious-
based child care restricted or eliminated. // The family is also
why our education program -- America 2000 -- insists that choice
include private as well as public schools. // We need more
emphasis on the three R's -- and less on kooky left-wing
curricula. // Last week, I announced another policy to
5
strengthen the family: Expanding the pre-school program to serve
all those who are eligible -- the largest funding increase in the
history of Project Head Start. // Finally, families will stay
together only if drugs do not drive them apart. As Elijah drove
the false prophet Baal [BALE] out of Israel, we must erase drugs
from the face of America. //
I will be honest: We have not yet done that. But in the
spirit of the occasion, let me add: Our progress has been
miraculous. // Over the past four years, marijuana, crack, and
cocaine use has declined. What's more, today kids aged 9 to 12
are the most anti-drug group in America. The highest at-risk is
ages 13 to 17 -- but last year / for the first time / 13-year-
olds mirrored the behavior of pre-teenagers. //
Drugs effect a Rubik's Cube of issues. They contribute to
AIDS and homelessness. They impair judgement, and hard work. //
That's why -- literally -- we should thank God for the drug use
decline. The drop in use doesn't just prove we were right in our
assault on substance use: It shows how we can achieve drugs'
unconditional surrender. // Over the last four years, more kids
talked about drugs with their parents and teachers. Another
force has been America's print and electronic media -- the major
source of drug information and the primary "influencer" on drug
use, especially among the young. // Together, they have helped
reawaken America's conscience -- which, in turn, is America's
greatness. / Later today, I will unveil our drug strategy to
6
build on these beginnings. It will say no to drugs. It will
also say yes to life. //
To stop drug use will require caring, and community: As
The Sound of Music says, "All the love [we] can give. // Let me
tell you a story. Once, a great First Lady -- Pat Nixon -- toured
a medical center and stopped to embrace a little girl blinded by
rubella. For a few minutes, she talked to the girl and held her
close. Later, someone told her that the child was deaf as well
as blind. // Pat answered that she had known that. // "But she
knows what love is,' Mrs. Nixon said. "She can feel love. " //
America's love is conveyed in many ways. In what it
detests: Injustice and tyranny. In what it reveres: The
inalienable rights that include the freedom to think, dream,
worship, and, yes, vote as we please. // To preserve our
liberty, America once deposed a king / fought a great Civil War /
twice this Century sent brave troops to every corner of the
globe. // Yet freedom is not ours alone. So we have exported it
to brave peoples in Korea, the Gulf, and yes, Viet Nam. Today,
we must also export it economically and, above all, spiritually.
// If you doubt freedom's victory, look to the Persian Gulf,
where a Nation is liberated. / Look to the Soviet Union, where
those once enslaved crowd churches and synagogues. / Look to
Eastern Europe, where Christmas carols now warm the bright winter
chill. // It is said: "In the beginning was the Word." Here is
the word for 1992: Today, the times are on the side of peace --
because the world, increasingly, is on the side of God. //
7
This brings me to the final value that sustains America, and
sustains the values I have already cited: A belief in prayer --
and through prayer, in the One through whom all things are
possible. // No country can claim a special place in God's
heart. Yet we are better as a people because He has a special
place in ours. //
I once asked one of my grandkids how he felt about prayer.
He said: "Just try getting through a math test without it.' " //
In Sunday school, children learn that God is everywhere -- but in
public school they find that He's absent from class. It's time
to end this mockery. // I continue to believe -- as do the
overwhelming majority of Americans -- in the right to voluntary
school prayer. / I call on the Congress to pass a Constitutional
Amendment putting the Faith of our Fathers back in our schools. /
The values I have spoken of can find the daily truth that
comes on one's knees. // I believe with all my heart that God
cannot be America's President without a belief in God and in
prayer. I also believe America will be a better place if the
Golden Rule becomes our daily guide. //
The poet Walt Whitman was once asked to name America's true
grandeur. He replied, simply: "Its religion. Without that,
America is not America." // Let that be our essence as a people
-- and our message as a Nation. Thank you for this occasion.
God bless you, and the most wondrous land on earth -- these
United States of America.
#
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Date: 1/23
92 JAN 23 P2: P 45
TO:
Tony (Cunt
FROM: JOHN S. GARDNER
Special Assistant to the President
and Assistant Staff Secretary
Information
Action
Let's Discuss
Nice speech. just a few comments.
Thanks
Jr.
(Smith/Grossman)
January 21, 1992
Draft Two
92 JAN 22 P5: 17
RELIGION
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS
SHERATON WASHINGTON HOTEL
MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1992
10:00 A.M.
President Rose and Director Cook -- and let me salute your
leadership of the NRB. Ladies and gentlemen. Fellow
communicators. // This marks the fifth time I have had the honor
of addressing the annual convention of the National Religious
Broadcasters. ((It's always a pleasure driving over here from
the White House. I think if Moses were around today, he'd be
called upon to part the traffic. )) //
from Dan to Burshaba
( (First, I'm glad to see my friend Jerry Fallwell. I
invited Jerry to go jogging with me this morning, but he had his
?
own exercise plans. / He walked across the Potomac )) //
((Then, there's my other friend, Pat Robertson. Pat was
telling me you have the lowest catering bill of any convention
that comes to this hotel. // It's amazing how you can feed this
entire multitude on seven loaves and fishes. ))
[Crusade will be badly
struggle // received and used against
A year ago we met in the first week of a crusade to protect us - in the
what is right, and true. I came before you to talk of what was and work]
not a Christian or Jewish war -- not a Moslem war. It was a just
war. // In the Persian Gulf we fought for good versus evil /
right versus wrong / dignity against oppression. America stood
fast -- so that liberty could stand tall. //
Today, I want to thank you for helping America, as Christ
ordained, "be a light unto the world." Your support honored the
2
finest sailors / soldiers / Marines / Air Force / and Coast
Guardsmen any Nation has ever known. // What they did in war,
let us now do in peace. // Just as our forces fought to defend
all that is best in America, we need you to help instill the
traditional values that make life and liberty worth defending. //
Let me begin with some good news for modern man. According
to Gallup surveys, no society is more religious than the United
States of America. // Seven in ten Americans believe in life
after death -- eight in ten that God works miracles. Nine in ten
Americans pray. And more than nine in ten believe in God. // To
which I say: Thank God. //
Now, I know this is an election year. ( (I don't know about
Damascus -- but this Primary Season, we're hearing plenty about
conversions on the road to New Hampshire. )) // We hear
candidates promising this, and that -- espousing policies
suddenly in fashion. // Today, I want to speak of values which
sustain America -- values that are always in fashion. /
The first value is not simply American -- but universal. I
refer to the sanctity of life. You know my position -- but I'll
restate it now. We need policies that encourage adoption, not
abortion. //
the words of Denteronomy, book life."
Next comes a value which gives each life meaning: The self-
reliance central to the dignity of work. // Go to the barrios of
San Antonio, or the suburbs of St. Paul. There you will find
people who ask only what our forefathers had: The same
opportunity which helped us brave independence / push back the
3
wilderness / 'win two World Wars / and create the highest standard
of living in the history of man. //
The Bible reminds us: "By thy sweat shall Ye know them. "
What we must do is give working Americans the level playing field
to keep us rich in goods, and spirit. //
Tomorrow, my State of the Union Address will detail how we
can nurture the creativity as old as 1776 -- harness it to the
needs of a new American Century. // Remember: To this day, the
only footprints on the moon are American footprints. / The only
flag on the moon is the stars and stripes. // The knowledge that
put it there is stamped: "Made in USA. " // The world looks to
us to lead -- and lead we will. // Tune in tomorrow, and see if
you don't agree: I will announce a program to help Americans
outwork / outproduce / and outcompete any Nation in the world. //
The next value I speak of must be forever cast in stone. //
I speak of decency -- the moral courage to say what is right, and
condemn what's wrong. // We need a nation closer to The Waltons
than the Bundys or the Simpsons -- an America which rejects the
rising tide of incivility and intolerance. //
We see this tide in the naked epithet -- and in the code
words -- that play to our worst prejudices. / We see it when
the Rw.
groups like Public Enemy soil the memory of Martin Luther King,
Jr. with vengeance and violence, // There is no place in America
for such apostles of hate. // If you agree with me, write --
call -- picket -- petition: Demand an end to the trash which
poisons our kids's minds and debases their souls. //
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indicate religion and religious bader,
as when one group crushed a consisted has on the stepsat HiPatrik's Cathefral or
of 4 not sigh president stake the as american weaken L and family this earlier on.] like
This brings me to a fourth value crucial to America: Belief
in family -- the foundation of our strength. ( (I admit it: I've
been lucky -- a wonderful wife and five great kids. // Having
helped put them through college, I remember receiving letters
from them, and there would always be a P.S. at the bottom. It
was those three words that say so much about the bond between
parents at home and kids at school. "Please send money. ")) //
Phillippians reminds us, "Whatsoever things are pure
honally noble
think on these things." To me, this is what family is: A pure
and priceless bequest. // Too often today, the family is under
siege. I say to you: Each one of us -- parents, preachers,
politicians, and teachers -- must lift it from the valley of
indifference to the high plateau of Canaan. //
That is why I demanded that the child-care bill I signed in
1990 allow parents -- not bureaucrats -- to decide how to care
for their children. I refused to see the option of religious-
based child care restricted or eliminated. // The family is also
why our education program -- America 2000 -- insists that choice
include both private and public schools. // Last week, I
announced another policy to strengthen the family: Expanding the
pre-school program to serve all those who are eligible -- the
largest funding increase in the history of Project Head Start. //
Finally, families will stay together only if drugs do not drive
them apart. As Elijah drove the false prophet Baal [BALE] out of
Israel, we must erase drugs from every corner of America. //
[Baal a you, not a prophet]
5
I will be honest: We have not erased them yet. But in the
spirit of the occasion, let me add: Our progress has been
miraculous. // Over the past four years, marijuana, crack, and
cocaine use has declined. What's more, today kids aged 9 to 12
are the most anti-drug group in America. The highest at-risk is
ages 13 to 17 -- but last year / for the first time / 13-year-
olds mirrored the behavior of pre-teenagers. //
Drugs effect a multitude of issues. They contribute to AIDS
and homelessness -- shattering families and futures / hopes and
dreams. / That's why -- literally -- we should thank God for the
drug use decline. The drop in use doesn't just prove we were
right in our assault on substance use: It shows how we can
achieve drugs' unconditional surrender. //
We will triumph through tough enforcement -- and through
education: Increasing awareness of the damage drugs do. // Over
the last four years, more kids talked about drugs with their
parents and teachers. Another force has been America's print and
electronic media -- the major source of drug information and the
primary "influencer" on drug use, especially among the young. //
Together, they have helped reawaken America's conscience --
which, in turn, inspires America's greatness. / Later today, I
will unveil our fourth National Drug Control Strategy to build on
these beginnings. It will say no to drugs. It will also say yes
to life. / /
To stop drug use will require caring, and community --
above all, abundant love. / Let me tell you a story. Once, a
6
great First Lady -- Pat Nixon -- toured a medical center and
stopped to embrace a little girl blinded by rubella. For a few
minutes, she talked to the girl and held her close. Later,
someone told her that the child was deaf as well as blind. //
Pat answered that she had known that. // "But she knows what
love is, " Mrs. Nixon said. "She can feel love. " //
America's love is conveyed in many ways. In what we oppose:
Injustice and tyranny. In what we support: The inalienable
rights that include the freedom to think, dream, worship, and,
yes, vote as we please. // To preserve our liberty, America once
deposed a king / fought a great Civil War / five times this
Century sent Americans into major battle. Yet freedom is not
ours alone -- so we have exported it as our ideal. Today, we
must also export it economically and, above all, spiritually. //
If you doubt freedom's victory, look to the Persian Gulf. / Look
to the former Soviet Union, where those once enslaved crowd
respond
churches and synagogues. / Look to Eastern Europe, where
Christmas carols warm the bright winter chill. // It is written:
"In the beginning was the Word. " Here is the word for 1992:
Today, the times are on the side of peace -- because the world,
increasingly, is on the side of God. //
This brings me to the ultimate value that sustains America,
and the values I have already cited: A belief in prayer --and
through prayer, in the One through whom all things are possible.
//
No country can claim a special place in God's heart. Yet we
are better as a people because He has a special place in ours. //
7
I once asked one of my grandkids how he felt about prayer.
He said: "Just try getting through a math test without it. " //
In Sunday school, children learn that God is everywhere -- but in
public school they find that He's absent from class. It's time
to end this mockery. // I continue to believe -- as do the
overwhelming majority of Americans -- in the right to voluntary
are again
school prayer. / I call on the Congress to pass a Constitutional
Amendment putting the Faith of our Fathers back in our schools. /
The values I have spoken of reminds us of the truth that
comes on one's knees. // I believe with all my heart that one
cannot be America's President without a belief in God and in
prayer. I also believe America will be a better place if the
Golden Rule becomes our daily guide. //
The poet Walt Whitman was once asked to name America's true
grandeur. He replied, simply: "Its religion. Without that,
America is not America." // Let that be our essence as a people
-- and our message as a Nation. Thank you for this occasion.
God bless this most wondrous land on earth -- the United States
of America.
#
#
#
#
Document 300916
No.
0492
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
92 JAN 23 P2: 46
V
DATE.
1/22/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE-COMMENT DUE BY: 1:00 pm, Thurs., 1/23
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: Religious Broadcasters
Sheraton Washington Hotel
SUBJECT:
Monday, January 27, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
1
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
1
SKINNER
MCCLURE
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
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BRADY
ROGICH
BROMLEY
SMITH
CARD
Findlay
DEMAREST
Snow
Porter Rose
FITZWATER
Martinez
GRAY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please forward your remarks directly to Tony Snow in Room
122 EOB, Ext. 2930, NO LATER THAN THURSDAY, JAN., 23, with
a copy to this office.
THANK YOU.
RESPONSE:
MEMORANDUM FOR TONY SNOW
The NSC staff concurs in the proposed presidential remarks subject to
the changes noted in the attached text.
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
Brent Scowcroft
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
CC: Phillip D. Brady
(Smith/Grossman)
January 21, 1992
Draft Two
02 JAN 22 P5: 17
RELIGION
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS
SHERATON WASHINGTON HOTEL
MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1992
10:00 A.M.
President Rose and Director Cook -- and let me salute your
leadership of the NRB. Ladies and gentlemen. Fellow
communicators. // This marks the fifth time I have had the honor
of addressing the annual convention of the National Religious
Broadcasters. ((It's always a pleasure driving over here from
the White House. I think if Moses were around today, he'd be
called upon to part the traffic.) ) //
((First, I'm glad to see my friend Jerry Fallwell. I
invited Jerry to go jogging with me this morning, but he had his
own exercise plans. / He walked across the Potomac. )) //
((Then, there's my other friend, Pat Robertson. Pat was
telling me you have the lowest catering bill of any convention
that comes to this hotel. // It's amazing how you can feed this
entire multitude on seven loaves and fishes. )) //
A year ago we met in the first week of a crusade to protect
what is right, and true. I came before you to talk of what was
not a Christian or Jewish war -- not a Moslem war. It was a just
war. // In the Persian Gulf we fought for good versus evil /
right versus wrong / dignity against oppression. America stood
fast -- so that liberty could stand tall. //
Today, I want to thank you for helping America, as Christ
ordained, "be a light unto the world." Your support honored the
2
airmen
finest sailors / soldiers / Marines / Air Force / and Coast
Guardsmen any Nation has ever known. 11 What they did in war,
let us now do in peace. // Just as our forces fought to defend
all that is best in America, we need you to help instill the
traditional values that make life and liberty worth defending. //
Let me begin with some good news for modern man. According
to Gallup surveys, no society is more religious than the United
States of America. // Seven in ten Americans believe in life
after death -- eight in ten that God works miracles. Nine in ten
Americans pray. And more than nine in ten believe in God. // To
which I say: Thank God. //
Now, I know this is an election year. ( (I don't know about
Damascus -- but this Primary Season, we're hearing plenty about
conversions on the road to New Hampshire. )) // We hear
candidates promising this, and that -- espousing policies
suddenly in fashion. // Today, I want to speak of values which
sustain America -- values that are always in fashion. /
The first value is not simply American -- but universal. I
refer to the sanctity of life. You know my position -- but I'll
restate it now. We need policies that encourage adoption, not
abortion. 11
Next comes a value which gives each life meaning: The self-
reliance central to the dignity of work. // Go to the barrios of
San Antonio, or the suburbs of St. Paul. There you will find
people who ask only what our forefathers had: The same
opportunity which helped us brave independence / push back the
3
wilderness / win two World Wars / and create the highest standard
of living in the history of man. 11
The Bible reminds us: "By thy sweat shall Ye know them.' "
What we must do is give working Americans the level playing field
to keep us rich in goods, and spirit. 11
Tomorrow, my State of the Union Address will detail how we
can nurture the creativity as old as 1776 -- harness it to the
needs of a new American Century. // Remember: To this day, the
only footprints on the moon are American footprints. / The only
flag on the moon is the stars and stripes. // The knowledge that
put it there is stamped: "Made in USA. " // The world looks to
us to lead -- and lead we will. // Tune in tomorrow, and see if
you don't agree: I will announce a program to help Americans
outwork / outproduce / and outcompete any Nation in the world. //
The next value I speak of must be forever cast in stone. //
I speak of decency -- the moral courage to say what is right, and
condemn what's wrong. // We need a nation closer to The Waltons
than the Bundys or the Simpsons -- an America which rejects the
rising tide of incivility and intolerance. //
We see this tide in the naked epithet -- and in the code
words -- that play to our worst prejudices. / We see it when
groups like Public Enemy soil the memory of Martin Luther King,
sundy he Jr. with vengeance and violence. // There is no place in America
is
proposing not. for such apostles of hate. // If you agree with join me write
that
Public
call picket petition Л Demand ing an end to the trash which
Enemy
poisons our kids's minds and debases their souls. //
4
This brings me to a fourth value crucial to America: Belief
in family -- the foundation of our strength. ((I admit it: I've
been lucky -- a wonderful wife and five great kids. // Having
helped put them through college, I remember receiving letters
from them, and there would always be a P.S. at the bottom. It
was those three words that say so much about the bond between
parents at home and kids at school. "Please send money. ")) //
Phillippians reminds us, "Whatsoever things are pure
think on these things." To me, this is what family is: A pure
and priceless bequest. 11 Too often today, the family is under
siege. I say to you: Each one of us -- parents, preachers,
politicians, and teachers -- must lift it from the valley of
indifference to the high plateau of Canaan. //
That is why I demanded that the child-care bill I signed in
1990 allow parents -- not bureaucrats -- to decide how to care
for their children. I refused to see the option of religious-
based child care restricted or eliminated. // The family is also
why our education program -- America 2000 -- insists that choice
include both private and public schools. // Last week, I
announced another policy to strengthen the family: Expanding the
pre-school program to serve all those who are eligible -- the
largest funding increase in the history of Project Head Start. //
Finally, families will stay together only if drugs do not drive
them apart. As Elijah drove the false prophet Baal [BALE] out of
Israel, we must erase drugs from every corner of America. //
5
I will be honest: We have not erased them yet. But in the
spirit of the occasion, let me add: Our progress has been
miraculous. // Over the past four years, marijuana, crack, and
cocaine use has declined. What's more, today kids aged 9 to 12
are the most anti-drug group in America. The highest at-risk is
ages 13 to 17 -- but last year / for the first time / 13-year-
olds mirrored the behavior of pre-teenagers. //
Drugs effect a multitude of issues. They contribute to AIDS
and homelessness -- shattering families and futures / hopes and
dreams. / That's why -- literally -- we should thank God for the
drug use decline. The drop in use doesn't just prove we were
right in our assault on substance use: It shows how we can
achieve drugs' unconditional surrender. //
We will triumph through tough enforcement -- and through
education: Increasing awareness of the damage drugs do. // Over
the last four years, more kids talked about drugs with their
parents and teachers. Another force has been America's print and
electronic media -- the major source of drug information and the
primary "influencer" on drug use, especially among the young. //
Together, they have helped reawaken America's conscience --
which, in turn, inspires America's greatness. / Later today, I
will unveil our fourth National Drug Control Strategy to build on
these beginnings. It will say no to drugs. It will also say yes
to life. //
To stop drug use will require caring, and community --
above all, abundant love. / Let me tell you a story. Once, a
6
great First Lady -- Pat Nixon -- toured a medical center and
stopped to embrace a little girl blinded by rubella. For a few
minutes, she talked to the girl and held her close. Later,
someone told her that the child was deaf as well as blind. //
Pat answered that she had known that. // "But she knows what
love is," Mrs. Nixon said. "She can feel love." //
America's love is conveyed in many ways. In what we oppose:
Injustice and tyranny. In what we support: The inalienable
rights that include the freedom to think, dream, worship, and,
yes, vote as we please. // To preserve our liberty, America once
threw
deposed) a king 7 fought a great Civil War / five times this
George
III
Century sent Americans into major battle. Yet freedom is not
continued
ours alone -- so we have exported it as our ideal. Today, we
to rule
in
must also export it economically and, above all, spiritually. //
Britain
If you doubt freedom's victory, look to the Persian Gulf. / Look
he
therefore
to the former Soviet Union, where those once enslaved crowd
word not
churches and synagogues. / Look to Eastern Europe, where
deposed:
Christmas carols warm the bright winter chill. // It is written:
"In the beginning was the Word." Here is the word for 1992:
Today, the times are on the side of peace -- because the world,
increasingly, is on the side of God. //
This brings me to the ultimate value that sustains America,
and the values I have already cited: A belief in prayer --and
through prayer, in the One through whom all things are possible.
// No country can claim a special place in God's heart. Yet we
are better as a people because He has a special place in ours. //
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I once asked one of my grandkids how he felt about prayer.
He said: "Just try getting through a math test without it. " //
In Sunday school, children learn that God is everywhere -- but in
public school they find that He's absent from class. It's time
to end this mockery. // I continue to believe -- as do the
overwhelming majority of Americans -- in the right to voluntary
school prayer. / I call on the Congress to pass a Constitutional
Amendment putting the Faith of our Fathers back in our schools. /
The values I have spoken of reminds us of the truth that
comes on one's knees. // I believe with all my heart that one
cannot be America's President without a belief in God and in
prayer. I also believe America will be a better place if the
Golden Rule becomes our daily guide. //
The poet Walt Whitman was once asked to name America's true
grandeur. He replied, simply: "Its religion. Without that,
America is not America." // Let that be our essence as a people
-- and our message as a Nation. Thank you for this occasion.
God bless this most wondrous land on earth -- the United States
of America.
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