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Originally Processed With FOIA(s): FOIA Number: S S FOIA MARKER This is not a textual record. This is used as an administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential Library Staff. Record Group/Collection: George H.W. Bush Presidential Records Collection/Office of Origin: Speechwriting, White House Office of Series: Speech File Draft Files Subseries: Chron File, 1989-1993 OA/ID Number: 13620 Folder ID Number: 13620-003 Folder Title: Annual Volunteer Awards 5/1/92 [OA 6101] Stack: Row: Section: Shelf: Position: G 26 18 1 7 VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION \ EAST ROOM FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1992 \ 1:00 P.M. THANK YOU, AND WELCOME TO THE EAST ROOM. BARBARA AND I ARE PROUD TO BE HERE WITH SUCH AN IMPRESSIVE GROUP -- AND WITH THIS TRULY REMARKABLE SPECIAL GUEST, MICHAEL JACKSON. 11 - 2 - TODAY, WE ALSO WANT TO EXTEND A PARTICULARLY WARM WELCOME TO OUR DISTINGUISHED CABINET MEMBERS, SECRETARY MARTIN AND SECRETARY SULLIVAN; 11 AND TO THE JUDGES OF THIS YEAR'S AWARDS -- ACTION DIRECTOR JANE KENNY; RABBI NAIMAN [NY-MAN] OF THE COUNCIL OF JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS; OUR SURGEON GENERAL, ANTONIA NOVELLO; JAMES RENIER [RAY-NEAR], CHAIRMAN AND CEO OF HONEYWELL; AND THANKS TO ANITA BAKER AND FRANCES HESSELBEIN WHO COULDN'T JOIN US TODAY. - 3 - MY SPECIAL THANKS TO THE POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION AND ACTION FOR THEIR HELP WITH THESE AWARDS. WELCOME ALSO TO THE BOARD MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION ON NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE. AND THE WARMEST WELCOME TO YOU WHO MAKE UP THE HEART OF AMERICA -- OUR VOLUNTEERS. III AND A SPECIAL WELCOME TO OUR GUEST PRESENTER TODAY -- OUR UNPARALLELED OLYMPIC GOLDEN GIRL -- FLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER. FLO Jo WAS JUST HELPING OUT OVER AT THE GREAT AMERICAN WORKOUT -- AND SAID TO ME: - 4 - "You WANT TO WORK OUT DOING RUNNING, THE OBSTACLE COURSE, AND THE HURDLES?" I SAID, "No, I DO ENOUGH OF THAT JUST CAMPAIGNING." 11 FLO-Jo WANTS EVERYONE TO WORK OUT -- AND SHE'S TARGETED LAZY AMERICANS -- THOUGH I GUESS WITH ALL THIS PC TALK, WE SHOULD CALL THEM "EXERTIONALLY CHALLENGED." SHE'S GOING TO WIPE OUT COUCH POTATOES. Now IF WE COULD ONLY GET HER GOING ON BROCCOLI. III - 5 - BUT I'M HERE TODAY TO TALK ABOUT SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY VERY PERSONALLY IMPORTANT TO ME. You ALL KNOW I LOVE MUSIC -- ANITA'S ALWAYS BEEN A FAVORITE -- AND I ESPECIALLY LOVE COUNTRY MUSIC BECAUSE IT GETS To THE HEART OF THE BASIC DECENCY AND COMPASSION OF PEOPLE WHO ARE PROUD TO CALL THEMSELVES AMERICANS. WELL, RANDY TRAVIS HAS A LINE IN ONE OF HIS SONGS THAT'S LIKE A SPOTLIGHT ON AN ANSWER FOR US. HE SINGS: - 6 - "THERE ARE DREAMERS WHO ARE MAKING DREAMS COME TRUE GIVING HOPE TO THOSE WITHOUT -- ISN'T THAT WHAT THIS LAND'S ALL ABOUT." You SEE, FOR ALL THE GOOD THAT GOVERNMENT CAN DO, TO SOLVE OUR COUNTRY'S SOCIAL PROBLEMS, WE NEED PEOPLE -- WE NEED EVERY INDIVIDUAL -- TO RESPOND TO THE PROBLEMS RIGHT AROUND THEM. - 7 - WHEN EACH AMERICAN IS NO LONGER WILLING TO ACCEPT THAT SOMEONE ON THEIR STREET OR IN THEIR TOWN IS HOMELESS, JOBLESS, FRIENDLESS -- THEN THAT'S WHEN WE WILL TRULY RENEW AMERICA. 11 WE ALREADY HAVE SHINING HEROES IN THIS QUEST -- I CALL THEM "POINTS OF LIGHT" == AND THAT'S THE NAME OF RANDY'S SONG. THEY'RE AMERICANS IN TOWNS AND CITIES JUST LIKE YOURS ACROSS THIS LAND, DISCOVERING THAT SERVICE TO OTHERS IS A RICH SOURCE OF MEANING IN LIFE. - 8 - I HONOR THESE MEN AND WOMEN AND CHILDREN FOR SHOWING "THE BETTER ANGELS OF THEIR NATURE" BY VOLUNTEERING TO HELP OTHERS. THEY SUM UP THE GENIUS OF THIS GREAT AND GENEROUS LAND -- ORDINARY PEOPLE DOING EXTRAORDINARY THINGS. 11 DAY IN AND DAY OUT, THESE AMERICANS WAGE OUR WAR FOR HUMAN LIFE AND DIGNITY. THEY DON'T SAY: "THIS IS WHY I CAN'T HELP" 11 -- THEY SAY "THIS IS WHY I CAN". THEY SAY: "MAYBE I DON'T HAVE MONEY, BUT I HAVE TIME". - 9 - "MAYBE I CAN'T HELP SOMEONE BUILD A HOUSE, BUT I'M A GOOD LISTENER." WE CELEBRATE THAT SPIRIT. WHOEVER YOU ARE, YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SHARE -- FOR AMERICANS ARE THE GREATEST NATURAL RESOURCE OF THIS, THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH. III - 10 - I'M PROUD TO BE HERE FOR THIS VERY SPECIAL -- VERY IMPORTANT -- EVENT. WE COME TOGETHER TODAY AS THE CULMINATION OF NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK, HONORING THE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WHO TRANSFORM COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY THROUGH VOLUNTARY SERVICE. IN PARTICULAR, FOR THE 11TH YEAR WE RECOGNIZE WITH THESE AWARDS THE INSPIRATIONAL EXAMPLE OF PEOPLE WHO MEET A SIMPLE THREE-PART TEST: - 11 - ONE: THEY LOOKED AROUND. Two: THEY SAW A NEED. THREE: THEY FILLED IT. III WHAT A CROSS-SECTION OF WONDERFUL AMERICANS ARE REPRESENTED HERE TODAY, AMONG THESE 21 WINNERS OF THE 1992 PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL POINTS OF LIGHT AWARDS. THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS, LIKE 17-YEAR-OLD ROBERT ZAMORA, WHO CREATED THE GETTING BUSY TEEN CLUB AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO GANGS IN EAST Los ANGELES. THERE ARE BUSINESSES, LIKE IBM, WHICH GIVES ITS EMPLOYEES ENCOURAGEMENT AND TIME OFF TO VOLUNTEER -- 90,000 OF THEM DO. - 12 - AND OUR WINNERS REPRESENT NEIGHBORHOODS, PLACES OF WORSHIP, EVERY KIND OF GROUP ACROSS THIS BROAD AND GOOD LAND. THEY AND ALL THE OTHERS LIKE THEM ARE SHAPING A NATION WHOSE GOODNESS GROWS OUT OF THE SMALL ACTS OF CONSEQUENCE MADE BY MANY PEOPLE. AMERICA'S PIONEER DAYS AREN'T BEHIND US. WE STILL HAVE FRONTIERS LEFT TO CROSS -- THE THRILL OF ADVENTURE YET TO DISCOVER -- AN AMERICAN RENAISSANCE YET To SPARK. - 13 - I BELIEVE THERE ARE FIVE CORE ELEMENTS OF THE NEW AMERICA WE ALL SEEK -- WHICH ARE REFLECTED IN THE AWARDS CATEGORIES. TODAY I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU HOW SOME OF OUR AWARD WINNERS ARE DRAWING US CLOSER TO EACH GOAL. FIRST: EVERY AMERICAN COMMUNITY MUST HAVE EXCELLENT SCHOOLS AND A CULTURE THAT FOSTERS LIFELONG LEARNING. 11 - 14 - KENTUCKY'S BEREA [вин-REE-ин] COLLEGE STUDENTS SAW A CRITICAL NEED RIGHT AROUND THEM IN APPALACHIA -- so THEY VOLUNTEERED AS MENTORS AND TUTORS TO NEEDY PEOPLE FROM GRADE-SCHOOL KIDS THROUGH ADULTS STRUGGLING To OVERCOME ILLITERACY. - 15 - SECOND: EVERY AMERICAN COMMUNITY MUST BE A DECENT, DRUG-FREE AND SAFE PLACE TO LIVE. 11 EIGHTEEN-HUNDRED MEMBERS OF THE EMMANUEL REFORMED CHURCH SAW THE NEED AROUND THEM, JOINED WITH THEIR CITY OF PARAMOUNT, CALIFORNIA AND STARTED TACKLING THE CRISES THAT THREATENED THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD -- LIKE GANGS, ILLITERACY, AND CRIME. - 16 - THIRD: EVERY AMERICAN COMMUNITY MUST OFFER QUALITY HEALTH CARE FOR ALL. 11 TWENTY-FOUR LABOR UNIONS IN OMAHA SAW THE NEED OF FAMILIES WHOSE CHILDREN WERE HOSPITALIZED FOR TRANSPLANT OPERATIONS. So THESE UNIONS JOINED TOGETHER TO BUY A BUILDING -- AND THEN MORE THAN 500 SKILLED UNION VOLUNTEERS RENOVATED IT TO HOUSE THESE FAMILIES. - 17 - FOURTH: EVERY AMERICAN COMMUNITY MUST OFFER ITS MEMBERS THE HOPE OF GOOD JOBS WITH A FUTURE. 11 URBAN MIYARES [MY-AR-AZE] CAN TELL YOU FIRST-HAND ABOUT THIS NEED. A VIETNAM VET WHO BECAME BLIND, HE FOUND THERE WERE NO BUSINESS COUNSELING SERVICES AVAILABLE TO PEOPLE LIKE HIM. HE RECEIVED TRAINING AND NOW VOLUNTEERS TO PROVIDE JOB COUNSELING TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. - 18 - FIFTH: EVERY AMERICAN COMMUNITY MUST BE A PLACE WITH A COMMITMENT TO CHILDREN; YOUTH DEVELOPING GOOD CHARACTER AND VALUES; AND STRONG FAMILIES. 11 A PENNSYLVANIA GROUP CALLED "MAGIC MIX" SAW THE NEEDS OF TWO GENERATIONS -- AND BROUGHT LATCHKEY KIDS AND AT- RISK STUDENTS TOGETHER WITH RESIDENTS OF LOCAL NURSING HOMES WHO TUTOR, TEACH, AND BEFRIEND THEM. III - 19 - WITH ROLE MODELS LIKE THESE, I'M CONFIDENT THAT, TOGETHER, WE CAN SHAPE OUR FUTURE -- NOT THROUGH OUR FEARS -- BUT THROUGH OUR DREAMS. YÉS, WE'LL CONTINUE TO WORK FOR LEGISLATION TO MAKE THIS A SAFER AMERICA -- A FAIRER AMERICA -- A BETTER- EDUCATED AMERICA -- A MORE EFFICIENT AMERICA. BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT LEGACY OF ALL IS ONE THAT EACH PERSON IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY CAN HELP CREATE -- THE LEGACY OF A MORE CARING AMERICA. III - 20 - Look CLOSELY AT OUR WORLD. PEOPLE SAY THE PROBLEM IS CRACK 11 OR CRIME 11 OR BABIES HAVING BABIES. THOSE ARE ONLY SYMPTOMS. THE PROBLEM IS MORAL EMPTINESS. 11 IF AS PRESIDENT I HAD THE POWER TO GIVE JUST ONE THING TO THIS NATION, IT WOULD BE THE RETURN OF AN INNER MORAL COMPASS NURTURED BY THE FAMILY AND VALUED BY SOCIETY. THIS COMPASS WOULD GUIDE US TO VALUE EVERY LIFE. - 21 - IT WOULD SHOW US THAT EACH LIFE LOST TO DESPAIR DEVALUES US ALL. IT WOULD REMIND US THAT CARING AND CONSCIENCE ARE WHAT MAKE US HUMAN. III So LET'S MAKE THIS NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK AN EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT IN OUR NATION -- OUR COMMUNAL COMMITMENT TO A TRUE AMERICAN RENEWAL. I URGE EACH OF YOU TO STEP FORWARD, TAKE THIS COUNTRY'S FUTURE IN YOUR OWN HANDS, AND BECOME A POINT OF LIGHT. 11 - 22 - AND I ASK LEADERS OF BUSINESSES, PLACES OF WORSHIP, SCHOOLS, NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, TO LEAD THEIR MEMBERS TOWARD THE BRIGHT GOAL OF SERVICE. WHEREVER PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE WORK TOGETHER AND CLAIM THEIR COMMUNITY'S PROBLEMS AS THEIR OWN -- THEY CREATE "COMMUNITIES OF LIGHT" TO GUIDE THIS NATION'S PATH. III As YOU CROSS THIS LAND, I'D LIKE YOU To REMEMBER SOME SPECIAL WORDS. - 23 - RECENTLY BARBARA AND I HAD THE MAGNIFICENT HONOR OF MEETING MOTHER TERESA, WHOSE VERY LIFE SPEAKS ONLY OF SERVICE TO OTHERS. I WAS TOUCHED BY HER WORDS. SHE SAID: "IT IS NOT HOW MUCH WE DO -- BUT HOW MUCH LOVE WE PUT INTO IT." III MAY AMERICANS CONTINUE TO PUT LOVE INTO ALL OUR WORKS. - 24 - BARBARA JOINS ME IN SAYING CONGRATULATIONS -- To YOU AND THE MILLIONS MORE LIKE YOU ACROSS AMERICA -- FOR WHAT YOU DO. MAY GOD BLESS YOU, AND THIS WONDERFUL NATION WE SHARE. 11 Now, BARBARA AND I WILL PRESENT THE AWARDS. I'LL ASK OUR FRIEND FLO-Jo TO COME UP TO READ THE CITATIONS. # # # VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION \ EAST ROOM FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1992 \ 1:00 P.M. THANK YOU, AND WELCOME TO THE EAST ROOM. BARBARA AND I ARE PROUD TO BE HERE WITH SUCH AN IMPRESSIVE GROUP -- AND WITH THIS TRULY REMARKABLE SPECIAL GUEST, MICHAEL JACKSON. 11 - 2 - TODAY, WE ALSO WANT TO EXTEND A PARTICULARLY WARM WELCOME TO OUR DISTINGUISHED CABINET MEMBERS, SECRETARY MARTIN AND SECRETARY SULLIVAN; 11 AND To THE JUDGES OF THIS YEAR'S AWARDS -- ACTION DIRECTOR JANE KENNY; RABBI NAIMAN [NY-MAN] OF THE COUNCIL OF JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS; OUR SURGEON GENERAL, ANTONIA NOVELLO; JAMES RENIER [RAY-NEAR], CHAIRMAN AND CEO OF HONEYWELL; AND THANKS TO ANITA BAKER AND FRANCES HESSELBEIN WHO COULDN'T JOIN US TODAY. - 3 - MY SPECIAL THANKS TO THE POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION AND ACTION FOR THEIR HELP WITH THESE AWARDS. WELCOME ALSO TO THE BOARD MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION ON NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE. AND THE WARMEST WELCOME TO YOU WHO MAKE UP THE HEART OF AMERICA -- OUR VOLUNTEERS. III AND A SPECIAL WELCOME TO OUR GUEST PRESENTER TODAY -- OUR UNPARALLELED OLYMPIC GOLDEN GIRL -- FLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER. FLo Jo WAS JUST HELPING OUT OVER AT THE GREAT AMERICAN WORKOUT -- AND SAID TO ME: - 4 - "You WANT TO WORK OUT DOING RUNNING, THE OBSTACLE COURSE, AND THE HURDLES?" I SAID, "No, I DO ENOUGH OF THAT JUST CAMPAIGNING." 11 FLO-JO WANTS EVERYONE TO WORK OUT -- AND SHE'S TARGETED LAZY AMERICANS -- THOUGH I GUESS WITH ALL THIS PC TALK, WE SHOULD CALL THEM "EXERTIONALLY CHALLENGED." SHE'S GOING TO WIPE OUT COUCH POTATOES. Now IF WE COULD ONLY GET HER GOING ON BROCCOLI. III - 5 - BUT I'M HERE TODAY TO TALK ABOUT SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY VERY PERSONALLY IMPORTANT TO ME. You ALL KNOW I LOVE MUSIC -- ANITA'S ALWAYS BEEN A FAVORITE -- AND I ESPECIALLY LOVE COUNTRY MUSIC BECAUSE IT GETS TO THE HEART OF THE BASIC DECENCY AND COMPASSION OF PEOPLE WHO ARE PROUD TO CALL THEMSELVES AMERICANS. WELL, RANDY TRAVIS HAS A LINE IN ONE OF HIS SONGS THAT'S LIKE A SPOTLIGHT ON AN ANSWER FOR US. HE SINGS: - 6 - "THERE ARE DREAMERS WHO ARE MAKING DREAMS COME TRUE GIVING HOPE TO THOSE WITHOUT -- ISN'T THAT WHAT THIS LAND'S ALL ABOUT." You SEE, FOR ALL THE GOOD THAT GOVERNMENT CAN DO, TO SOLVE OUR COUNTRY'S SOCIAL PROBLEMS, WE NEED PEOPLE -- WE NEED EVERY INDIVIDUAL -- To RESPOND TO THE PROBLEMS RIGHT AROUND THEM. - 7 - WHEN EACH AMERICAN IS NO LONGER WILLING TO ACCEPT THAT SOMEONE ON THEIR STREET OR IN THEIR TOWN IS HOMELESS, JOBLESS, FRIENDLESS -- THEN THAT'S WHEN WE WILL TRULY RENEW AMERICA. 11 WE ALREADY HAVE SHINING HEROES IN THIS QUEST -- I CALL THEM "POINTS OF LIGHT" -- AND THAT'S THE NAME OF RANDY'S SONG. THEY'RE AMERICANS IN TOWNS AND CITIES JUST LIKE YOURS ACROSS THIS LAND, DISCOVERING THAT SERVICE To OTHERS IS A RICH SOURCE OF MEANING IN LIFE. - 8 - I HONOR THESE MEN AND WOMEN AND CHILDREN FOR SHOWING "THE BETTER ANGELS OF THEIR NATURE" BY VOLUNTEERING TO HELP OTHERS. THEY SUM UP THE GENIUS OF THIS GREAT AND GENEROUS LAND -- ORDINARY PEOPLE DOING EXTRAORDINARY THINGS. 11 DAY IN AND DAY OUT, THESE AMERICANS WAGE OUR WAR FOR HUMAN LIFE AND DIGNITY. THEY DON'T SAY: "THIS IS WHY I CAN'T HELP" 11 -- THEY SAY "THIS IS WHY I CAN". THEY SAY: "MAYBE I DON'T HAVE MONEY, BUT I HAVE TIME". - 9 - "MAYBE I CAN'T HELP SOMEONE BUILD A HOUSE, BUT I'M A GOOD LISTENER." WE CELEBRATE THAT SPIRIT. WHOEVER YOU ARE, YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SHARE -- FOR AMERICANS ARE THE GREATEST NATURAL RESOURCE OF THIS, THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH. III - 10 - I'M PROUD TO BE HERE FOR THIS VERY SPECIAL -- VERY IMPORTANT -- EVENT. WE COME TOGETHER TODAY AS THE CULMINATION OF NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK, HONORING THE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WHO TRANSFORM COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY THROUGH VOLUNTARY SERVICE. IN PARTICULAR, FOR THE 11TH YEAR WE RECOGNIZE WITH THESE AWARDS THE INSPIRATIONAL EXAMPLE OF PEOPLE WHO MEET A SIMPLE THREE-PART TEST: - 11 - ONE: THEY LOOKED AROUND. Two: THEY SAW A NEED. THREE: THEY FILLED IT. 111 WHAT A CROSS-SECTION OF WONDERFUL AMERICANS ARE REPRESENTED HERE TODAY, AMONG THESE 21 WINNERS OF THE 1992 PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL POINTS OF LIGHT AWARDS. THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS, LIKE 17-YEAR-OLD ROBERT ZAMORA, WHO CREATED THE GETTING BUSY TEEN CLUB AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO GANGS IN EAST Los ANGELES. THERE ARE BUSINESSES, LIKE IBM, WHICH GIVES ITS EMPLOYEES ENCOURAGEMENT AND TIME OFF TO VOLUNTEER -- 90,000 OF THEM DO. - 12 - AND OUR WINNERS REPRESENT NEIGHBORHOODS, PLACES OF WORSHIP, EVERY KIND OF GROUP ACROSS THIS BROAD AND GOOD LAND. THEY AND ALL THE OTHERS LIKE THEM ARE SHAPING A NATION WHOSE GOODNESS GROWS OUT OF THE SMALL ACTS OF CONSEQUENCE MADE BY MANY PEOPLE. AMERICA'S PIONEER DAYS AREN'T BEHIND US. WE STILL HAVE FRONTIERS LEFT TO CROSS -- THE THRILL OF ADVENTURE YET TO DISCOVER -- AN AMERICAN RENAISSANCE YET TO SPARK. - 13 - I BELIEVE THERE ARE FIVE CORE ELEMENTS OF THE NEW AMERICA WE ALL SEEK -- WHICH ARE REFLECTED IN THE AWARDS CATEGORIES. TODAY I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU HOW SOME OF OUR AWARD WINNERS ARE DRAWING US CLOSER TO EACH GOAL. FIRST: EVERY AMERICAN COMMUNITY MUST HAVE EXCELLENT SCHOOLS AND A CULTURE THAT FOSTERS LIFELONG LEARNING. 11 - 14 - KENTUCKY'S BEREA [вин-RЕЕ-ин] COLLEGE STUDENTS SAW A CRITICAL NEED RIGHT AROUND THEM IN APPALACHIA -- so THEY VOLUNTEERED AS MENTORS AND TUTORS TO NEEDY PEOPLE FROM GRADE-SCHOOL KIDS THROUGH ADULTS STRUGGLING TO OVERCOME ILLITERACY. - 15 - SECOND: EVERY AMERICAN COMMUNITY MUST BE A DECENT, DRUG-FREE AND SAFE PLACE TO LIVE. 11 EIGHTEEN-HUNDRED MEMBERS OF THE EMMANUEL REFORMED CHURCH SAW THE NEED AROUND THEM, JOINED WITH THEIR CITY OF PARAMOUNT, CALIFORNIA AND STARTED TACKLING THE CRISES THAT THREATENED THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD -- LIKE GANGS, ILLITERACY, AND CRIME. - 16 - THIRD: EVERY AMERICAN COMMUNITY MUST OFFER QUALITY HEALTH CARE FOR ALL. 11 TWENTY-FOUR LABOR UNIONS IN OMAHA SAW THE NEED OF FAMILIES WHOSE CHILDREN WERE HOSPITALIZED FOR TRANSPLANT OPERATIONS. So THESE UNIONS JOINED TOGETHER TO BUY A BUILDING -- AND THEN MORE THAN 500 SKILLED UNION VOLUNTEERS RENOVATED IT TO HOUSE THESE FAMILIES. - 17 - FOURTH: EVERY AMERICAN COMMUNITY MUST OFFER ITS MEMBERS THE HOPE OF GOOD JOBS WITH A FUTURE. 11 URBAN MIYARES [MY-AR-AZE] CAN TELL YOU FIRST-HAND ABOUT THIS NEED. A VIETNAM VET WHO BECAME BLIND, HE FOUND THERE WERE NO BUSINESS COUNSELING SERVICES AVAILABLE TO PEOPLE LIKE HIM. HE RECEIVED TRAINING AND NOW VOLUNTEERS TO PROVIDE JOB COUNSELING TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. - 18 - FIFTH: EVERY AMERICAN COMMUNITY MUST BE A PLACE WITH A COMMITMENT TO CHILDREN; YOUTH DEVELOPING GOOD CHARACTER AND VALUES; AND STRONG FAMILIES. 11 A PENNSYLVANIA GROUP CALLED "MAGIC MIX" SAW THE NEEDS OF TWO GENERATIONS -- AND BROUGHT LATCHKEY KIDS AND AT- RISK STUDENTS TOGETHER WITH RESIDENTS OF LOCAL NURSING HOMES WHO TUTOR, TEACH, AND BEFRIEND THEM. III - 19 - WITH ROLE MODELS LIKE THESE, I'M CONFIDENT THAT, TOGETHER, WE CAN SHAPE OUR FUTURE -- NOT THROUGH OUR FEARS -- BUT THROUGH OUR DREAMS. YÉS, WE'LL CONTINUE TO WORK FOR LEGISLATION TO MAKE THIS A SAFER AMERICA -- A FAIRER AMERICA -- A BETTER- EDUCATED AMERICA -- A MORE EFFICIENT AMERICA. BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT LEGACY OF ALL IS ONE THAT EACH PERSON IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY CAN HELP CREATE -- THE LEGACY OF A MORE CARING AMERICA. III - 20 - Look CLOSELY AT OUR WORLD. PEOPLE SAY THE PROBLEM IS CRACK 11 OR CRIME 11 OR BABIES HAVING BABIES. THOSE ARE ONLY SYMPTOMS. THE PROBLEM IS MORAL EMPTINESS. 11 IF AS PRESIDENT I HAD THE POWER TO GIVE JUST ONE THING TO THIS NATION, IT WOULD BE THE RETURN OF AN INNER MORAL COMPASS NURTURED BY THE FAMILY AND VALUED BY SOCIETY. THIS COMPASS WOULD GUIDE US TO VALUE EVERY LIFE. - 21 - IT WOULD SHOW US THAT EACH LIFE LOST TO DESPAIR DEVALUES US ALL. IT WOULD REMIND US THAT CARING AND CONSCIENCE ARE WHAT MAKE US HUMAN. III So LET'S MAKE THIS NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK AN EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT IN OUR NATION -- OUR COMMUNAL COMMITMENT TO A TRUE AMERICAN RENEWAL. I URGE EACH OF YOU TO STEP FORWARD, TAKE THIS COUNTRY'S FUTURE IN YOUR OWN HANDS, AND BECOME A POINT OF LIGHT. 11 - 22 - AND I ASK LEADERS OF BUSINESSES, PLACES OF WORSHIP, SCHOOLS, NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, TO LEAD THEIR MEMBERS TOWARD THE BRIGHT GOAL OF SERVICE. WHEREVER PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE WORK TOGETHER AND CLAIM THEIR COMMUNITY'S PROBLEMS AS THEIR OWN -- THEY CREATE "COMMUNITIES OF LIGHT" To GUIDE THIS NATION'S PATH. III As YOU CROSS THIS LAND, I'D LIKE YOU TO REMEMBER SOME SPECIAL WORDS. - 23 - RECENTLY BARBARA AND I HAD THE MAGNIFICENT HONOR OF MEETING MOTHER TERESA, WHOSE VERY LIFE SPEAKS ONLY OF SERVICE To OTHERS. I WAS TOUCHED BY HER WORDS. SHE SAID: "IT IS NOT HOW MUCH WE DO -- BUT HOW MUCH LOVE WE PUT INTO IT." III MAY AMERICANS CONTINUE TO PUT LOVE INTO ALL OUR WORKS. - 24 - BARBARA JOINS ME IN SAYING CONGRATULATIONS -- TO YOU AND THE MILLIONS MORE LIKE YOU ACROSS AMERICA -- FOR WHAT YOU DO. MAY GOD BLESS YOU, AND THIS WONDERFUL NATION WE SHARE. 11 Now, BARBARA AND I WILL PRESENT THE AWARDS. I'LL ASK OUR FRIEND FLO-Jo TO COME UP TO READ THE CITATIONS. # # # THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON April 29, 1992 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT THROUGH: DAVID DEMAREST to FROM: BETH HINCHLIFFE PH SUBJECT: ANNUAL VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION On Friday, May 1, in the East Room, you will address an audience of 2-300 at a ceremony in honor of National Volunteer Week. Your remarks follow a State Dining Room luncheon with these attendees. The time period for the entire event is 11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Your remarks (10 minutes, cards) focus on the ideals and goals of voluntary service, with particular reference to the 21 winners of the 1992 President's Annual Points of Light Awards. The First Lady; Directors of the Points of Light Foundation, the Commission on National and Community Service, and ACTION will attend -- as will the award judges: singer Anita Baker, Jane Kenny (ACTION Director), Rabbi Elimelech Naiman (Council of Jewish Organizations), Surgeon General Novello and Jim Renier, Chairman and CEO of Honeywell. The name of the Master of Ceremonies will be announced later. (Hinchliffe/Nix) April 28, 1992 11 a.m. VOLUNTEER Draft Two PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION EAST ROOM FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1992 11:45 a.m. Thank you, and welcome to the East Room. [ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS] I just ran over here from the Great American Workout -- led by a guy who could really straighten things out on Capitol Hill -- the Terminator himself. Arnold said to me: "You want to work out doing running, the obstacle course, and the hurdles?" I said, "No, I do enough of that just campaigning." 11 Arnold's targeted lazy Americans -- I guess with all this PC talk, we should call them "exertionally challenged." 11 He's going to wipe out couch potatoes. Now if we could only get him going on broccoli. III But I'm here today to talk about something that's really very personally important to me. You all know I love music -- Anita's always been a favorite -- and I especially love country music because it gets to the heart of the basic decency and compassion of people who are proud to call themselves Americans. Well, Randy Travis has a line in one of his songs that's like a spotlight on an answer for us. He sings: "There are dreamers who are making dreams come true ... giving hope to those without -- isn't that what this land's all about." You see, for all the good government can do, to solve our country's social problems, we need people -- we need every individual -- to respond to the problems right around them. When each American is no longer willing to accept that someone on their street or in their town is homeless, jobless, friendless: that's when we will truly 2 renew America. We already have shining heroes in this quest -- I call them "Points of Light" -- and that's the name of Randy's song. They're Americans in towns and cities just like yours, discovering that service to others is a rich source of meaning in life. I honor them for showing "the better angels of their nature" by volun- teering to help others. They sum up the genius of this great and generous land -- ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Day in and day out, these Americans wage our war for human life and dignity. They don't say: this is why I can't help -- they say this is why I can. They say: maybe I don't have money, but I have time. Maybe I can't help someone build a house, but I'm a good listener. We celebrate that spirit. Whoever you are, you have something to share -- for Americans are the greatest natural resource of this, the greatest nation on earth. I'm proud to be here today, along with the Points of Light Foundation and ACTION, our federal domestic volunteer agency, for this very special -- very important -- event. We come together today as the culmination of National Volunteer Week, honoring millions of Americans who transform communities across the country through voluntary service. In particular, for the 11th year we recognize with these awards the inspirational example of people who meet a simple three-part test: One: They looked around. Two: They saw a need. Three: They filled it. What a cross-section of wonderful Americans are represented among 21 winners of the 1992 President's Annual Points of Light 3 Awards. There are individuals, like 17-year-old Robert Zamora, who created the Getting Busy Teen Club as an alternative to gangs in East Los Angeles. There are businesses, like IBM, which gives its employees encouragement and time off to volunteer -- 90,000 of them do. And our winners represent neighborhoods, places of worship, every kind of group across this broad and good land. They and all the others like them are shaping a nation whose goodness grows out of the small acts of consequence made by many people. America's pioneer days aren't behind us. We still have frontiers left to cross: the thrill of adventure yet to discover: an American renaissance yet to spark. I believe there are five core elements of the new America we all seek -- I want to share with you today how some of our winners are drawing us closer to each goal. First: every American community must have excellent schools and a culture that fosters lifelong learning. Kentucky's Berea College students saw a critical need right around them in Appalachia -- so they volunteered as mentors and tutors to needy people from grade-school kids through adults struggling to overcome illiteracy. Second: every American community must be a decent, drug- free and safe place to live. 1800 members of the Emmanuel Reformed Church saw the need around them, joined with their city of Paramount, California and started tackling the crises that threatened their neighborhood: like gangs, illiteracy, and crime. Third: every American community must offer quality health 4 care for all. Twenty-four labor unions in Omaha saw the need of families whose children were hospitalized for transplant oper- ations and joined together to buy a building: then more than 500 skilled union volunteers renovated it to house these families. Fourth: every American community must offer its members the hope of good jobs with a future. Urban Miyares [My-AR-aze] can tell you first-hand about this need. A Vietnam vet who became blind, he found there were no business counseling services available to people like him. He received training and now volunteers to provide job counseling to people with disabilities. Fifth: every American community must be a place with a commitment to children, youth developing good character and values, and strong families. A Pennsylvania group called "Magic Mix" saw the needs of two generations -- and brought latchkey kids and at-risk students together with residents of local nursing homes who tutor, teach, and befriend them. With role models like these, I'm confident that, together, we can shape our future -- not through our fears -- but through our dreams. Yes, we'll continue to work for legislation to make this a safer America; a fairer America; a better-educated America; a more efficient America. But the most important legacy of all is one that each person in this great country can help create -- the legacy of a more caring America. Look closely at our problems. People say the problem is crack or crime or babies having babies. Those are only symptoms. The problem is moral emptiness. If as President I had the power to 5 give just one thing to this nation, it would be the return of an inner moral compass nurtured by the family and valued by society. This compass would guide us to value every life. It would show us that each life lost to despair devalues us all. It would remind us that caring and conscience are what make us human. So let's make this National Volunteer Week an extraordinary moment in our nation: our communal commitment to a true American renewal. I urge each of you to step forward, take this country's future in your own hands, and become a Point of Light. And I ask leaders of businesses, places of worship, schools, neighborhood groups and other organizations, to lead their members toward the bright goal of service. Wherever people from all walks of life work together and claim their community's problems as their own, they create "Communities of Light" to guide this nation's path. As you cross this land as beacons of hope, I'd like you to remember some special words. Recently Barbara and I had the mag- nificent honor of meeting Mother Teresa, whose very life speaks only of service to others. I was touched by her words. She said: "It is not how much we do -- but how much love we put into it." May Americans continue to put love into all our works. Barbara joins me in saying thank you -- to you and the millions more like you across America -- for what you do. May God bless you, and this wonderful nation we share. Now, let's get on with presenting the awards. I'll ask my friend [NAME] to come up to read the citations. # # # THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON April 29, 1992 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT THROUGH: DAVID DEMAREST to FROM: BETH HINCHLIFFE PH SUBJECT: ANNUAL VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION On Friday, May 1, in the East Room, you will address an audience of 2-300 at a ceremony in honor of National Volunteer Week. Your remarks follow a State Dining Room luncheon with these attendees. The time period for the entire event is 11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Your remarks (10 minutes, cards) focus on the ideals and goals of voluntary service, with particular reference to the 21 winners of the 1992 President's Annual Points of Light Awards. The First Lady; Directors of the Points of Light Foundation, the Commission on National and Community Service, and ACTION will attend -- as will the award judges: singer Anita Baker, Jane Kenny (ACTION Director), Rabbi Elimelech Naiman (Council of Jewish Organizations), Surgeon General Novello and Jim Renier, Chairman and CEO of Honeywell. The name of the Master of Ceremonies will be announced later. (Hinchliffe/Nix) April 28, 1992 11 a.m. VOLUNTEER Draft Two PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION EAST ROOM FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1992 11:45 a.m. Thank you, and welcome to the East Room. [ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS] I just ran over here from the Great American Workout -- led by a guy who could really straighten things out on Capitol Hill -- the Terminator himself. Arnold said to me: "You want to work out doing running, the obstacle course, and the hurdles?" I said, "No, I do enough of that just campaigning." 11 Arnold's targeted lazy Americans -- I guess with all this PC talk, we should call them "exertionally challenged." 11 He's going to wipe out couch potatoes. Now if we could only get him going on broccoli. 111 But I'm here today to talk about something that's really very personally important to me. You all know I love music -- Anita's always been a favorite -- and I especially love country music because it gets to the heart of the basic decency and compassion of people who are proud to call themselves Americans. Well, Randy Travis has a line in one of his songs that's like a spotlight on an answer for us. He sings: "There are dreamers who are making dreams come true ... giving hope to those without -- isn't that what this land's all about." You see, for all the good government can do, to solve our country's social problems, we need people -- we need every individual -- to respond to the problems right around them. When each American is no longer willing to accept that someone on their street or in their town is homeless, jobless, friendless: that's when we will truly 2 renew America. We already have shining heroes in this quest -- I call them "Points of Light" -- and that's the name of Randy's song. They're Americans in towns and cities just like yours, discovering that service to others is a rich source of meaning in life. I honor them for showing "the better angels of their nature" by volun- teering to help others. They sum up the genius of this great and generous land -- ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Day in and day out, these Americans wage our war for human life and dignity. They don't say: this is why I can't help -- they say this is why I can. They say: maybe I don't have money, but I have time. Maybe I can't help someone build a house, but I'm a good listener. We celebrate that spirit. Whoever you are, you have something to share -- for Americans are the greatest natural resource of this, the greatest nation on earth. I'm proud to be here today, along with the Points of Light Foundation and ACTION, our federal domestic volunteer agency, for this very special -- very important -- event. We come together today as the culmination of National Volunteer Week, honoring millions of Americans who transform communities across the country through voluntary service. In particular, for the 11th year we recognize with these awards the inspirational example of people who meet a simple three-part test: One: They looked around. Two: They saw a need. Three: They filled it. What a cross-section of wonderful Americans are represented among 21 winners of the 1992 President's Annual Points of Light 3 Awards. There are individuals, like 17-year-old Robert Zamora, who created the Getting Busy Teen Club as an alternative to gangs in East Los Angeles. There are businesses, like IBM, which gives its employees encouragement and time off to volunteer -- 90,000 of them do. And our winners represent neighborhoods, places of worship, every kind of group across this broad and good land. They and all the others like them are shaping a nation whose goodness grows out of the small acts of consequence made by many people. America's pioneer days aren't behind us. We still have frontiers left to cross: the thrill of adventure yet to discover: an American renaissance yet to spark. I believe there are five core elements of the new America we all seek -- I want to share with you today how some of our winners are drawing us closer to each goal. First: every American community must have excellent schools and a culture that fosters lifelong learning. Kentucky's Berea College students saw a critical need right around them in Appalachia -- so they volunteered as mentors and tutors to needy people from grade-school kids through adults struggling to overcome illiteracy. Second: every American community must be a decent, drug- free and safe place to live. 1800 members of the Emmanuel Reformed Church saw the need around them, joined with their city of Paramount, California and started tackling the crises that threatened their neighborhood: like gangs, illiteracy, and crime. Third: every American community must offer quality health 4 care for all. Twenty-four labor unions in Omaha saw the need of families whose children were hospitalized for transplant oper- ations and joined together to buy a building: then more than 500 skilled union volunteers renovated it to house these families. Fourth: every American community must offer its members the hope of good jobs with a future. Urban Miyares [My-AR-aze] can tell you first-hand about this need. A Vietnam vet who became blind, he found there were no business counseling services available to people like him. He received training and now volunteers to provide job counseling to people with disabilities. Fifth: every American community must be a place with a commitment to children, youth developing good character and values, and strong families. A Pennsylvania group called "Magic Mix" saw the needs of two generations -- and brought latchkey kids and at-risk students together with residents of local nursing homes who tutor, teach, and befriend them. With role models like these, I'm confident that, together, we can shape our future -- not through our fears -- but through our dreams. Yes, we'll continue to work for legislation to make this a safer America; a fairer America; a better-educated America; a more efficient America. But the most important legacy of all is one that each person in this great country can help create -- the legacy of a more caring America. Look closely at our problems. People say the problem is crack or crime or babies having babies. Those are only symptoms. The problem is moral emptiness. If as President I had the power to 5 give just one thing to this nation, it would be the return of an inner moral compass nurtured by the family and valued by society. This compass would guide us to value every life. It would show us that each life lost to despair devalues us all. It would remind us that caring and conscience are what make us human. So let's make this National Volunteer Week an extraordinary moment in our nation: our communal commitment to a true American renewal. I urge each of you to step forward, take this country's future in your own hands, and become a Point of Light. And I ask leaders of businesses, places of worship, schools, neighborhood groups and other organizations, to lead their members toward the bright goal of service. Wherever people from all walks of life work together and claim their community's problems as their own, they create "Communities of Light" to guide this nation's path. As you cross this land as beacons of hope, I'd like you to remember some special words. Recently Barbara and I had the mag- nificent honor of meeting Mother Teresa, whose very life speaks only of service to others. I was touched by her words. She said: "It is not how much we do -- but how much love we put into it." May Americans continue to put love into all our works. Barbara joins me in saying thank you -- to you and the millions more like you across America -- for what you do. May God bless you, and this wonderful nation we share. Now, let's get on with presenting the awards. I'll ask my friend [NAME] to come up to read the citations. # # # Document No. 324557ss WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM DATE: ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: --- 4/30/92 PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ANNUAL VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION SUBJECT: FRIDAY, MAY 1 - 11:45 a.m. ACTION FYI ACTION FYI VICE PRESIDENT HORNER SKINNER MCBRIDE SCOWCROFT MOORE DARMAN PETERSMEYER BRADY PORTER BROMLEY ROGICH CALIO ROLLINS DEMAREST SMITH YEUTTER FITZWATER FINDLAY GRAY HOLIDAY KAUFMAN FIRESTONE MCGROARTY REMARKS: The attached has been forwarded to the President. RESPONSE: PHILLIP D. BRADY Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary Ext. 2702 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON April 29, 1992 S2 APR 29 P4: 46 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT THROUGH: DAVID DEMAREST PHD FROM: BETH HINCHLIFFE PH SUBJECT: ANNUAL VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION On Friday, May 1, in the East Room, you will address an audience of 2-300 at a ceremony in honor of National Volunteer Week. Your remarks follow a State Dining Room luncheon with these attendees. The time period for the entire event is 11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Your remarks (10 minutes, cards) focus on the ideals and goals of voluntary service, with particular reference to the 21 winners of the 1992 President's Annual Points of Light Awards. The First Lady; Directors of the Points of Light Foundation, the Commission on National and Community Service, and ACTION will attend -- as will the award judges: singer Anita Baker, Jane Kenny (ACTION Director), Rabbi Elimelech Naiman (Council of Jewish Organizations), Surgeon General Novello and Jim Renier, Chairman and CEO of Honeywell. The name of the Master of Ceremonies will be announced later. (Hinchliffe/Nix) April 28, 1992 11 a.m. VOLUNTEER Draft Two PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION EAST ROOM FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1992 11:45 a.m. Thank you, and welcome to the East Room. [ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS] I just ran over here from the Great American Workout -- led by a guy who could really straighten things out on Capitol Hill -- the Terminator himself. Arnold said to me: "You want to work out doing running, the obstacle course, and the hurdles?" I said, "No, I do enough of that just campaigning." 11 Arnold's targeted lazy Americans -- I guess with all this PC talk, we should call them "exertionally challenged." 11 He's going to wipe out couch potatoes. Now if we could only get him going on broccoli. 111 But I'm here today to talk about something that's really very personally important to me. You all know I love music -- Anita's always been a favorite -- and I especially love country music because it gets to the heart of the basic decency and compassion of people who are proud to call themselves Americans. Well, Randy Travis has a line in one of his songs that's like a spotlight on an answer for us. He sings: "There are dreamers who are making dreams come true ... giving hope to those without -- isn't that what this land's all about." You see, for all the good government can do, to solve our country's social problems, we need people -- we need every individual -- to respond to the problems right around them. When each American is no longer willing to accept that someone on their street or in their town is homeless, jobless, friendless: that's when we will truly 2 renew America. We already have shining heroes in this quest -- I call them "Points of Light" -- and that's the name of Randy's song. They're Americans in towns and cities just like yours, discovering that service to others is a rich source of meaning in life. I honor them for showing "the better angels of their nature" by volun- teering to help others. They sum up the genius of this great and generous land -- ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Day in and day out, these Americans wage our war for human life and dignity. They don't say: this is why I can't help -- they say this is why I can. They say: maybe I don't have money, but I have time. Maybe I can't help someone build a house, but I'm a good listener. We celebrate that spirit. Whoever you are, you have something to share -- for Americans are the greatest natural resource of this, the greatest nation on earth. I'm proud to be here today, along with the Points of Light Foundation and ACTION, our federal domestic volunteer agency, for this very special -- very important -- event. We come together today as the culmination of National Volunteer Week, honoring millions of Americans who transform communities across the country through voluntary service. In particular, for the 11th year we recognize with these awards the inspirational example of people who meet a simple three-part test: One: They looked around. Two: They saw a need. Three: They filled it. What a cross-section of wonderful Americans are represented among 21 winners of the 1992 President's Annual Points of Light 3 Awards. There are individuals, like 17-year-old Robert Zamora, who created the Getting Busy Teen Club as an alternative to gangs in East Los Angeles. There are businesses, like IBM, which gives its employees encouragement and time off to volunteer -- 90,000 of them do. And our winners represent neighborhoods, places of worship, every kind of group across this broad and good land. They and all the others like them are shaping a nation whose goodness grows out of the small acts of consequence made by many people. America's pioneer days aren't behind us. We still have frontiers left to cross: the thrill of adventure yet to discover: an American renaissance yet to spark. I believe there are five core elements of the new America we all seek -- I want to share with you today how some of our winners are drawing us closer to each goal. First: every American community must have excellent schools and a culture that fosters lifelong learning. Kentucky's Berea College students saw a critical need right around them in Appalachia -- so they volunteered as mentors and tutors to needy people from grade-school kids through adults struggling to overcome illiteracy. Second: every American community must be a decent, drug- free and safe place to live. 1800 members of the Emmanuel Reformed Church saw the need around them, joined with their city of Paramount, California and started tackling the crises that threatened their neighborhood: like gangs, illiteracy, and crime. Third: every American community must offer quality health 4 care for all. Twenty-four labor unions in Omaha saw the need of families whose children were hospitalized for transplant oper- ations and joined together to buy a building: then more than 500 skilled union volunteers renovated it to house these families. Fourth: every American community must offer its members the hope of good jobs with a future. Urban Miyares [My-AR-aze] can tell you first-hand about this need. A Vietnam vet who became blind, he found there were no business counseling services available to people like him. He received training and now volunteers to provide job counseling to people with disabilities. Fifth: every American community must be a place with a commitment to children, youth developing good character and values, and strong families. A Pennsylvania group called "Magic Mix" saw the needs of two generations -- and brought latchkey kids and at-risk students together with residents of local nursing homes who tutor, teach, and befriend them. With role models like these, I'm confident that, together, we can shape our future -- not through our fears -- but through our dreams. Yes, we'll continue to work for legislation to make this a safer America; a fairer America; a better-educated America; a more efficient America. But the most important legacy of all is one that each person in this great country can help create -- the legacy of a more caring America. Look closely at our problems. People say the problem is crack or crime or babies having babies. Those are only symptoms. The problem is moral emptiness. If as President I had the power to 5 give just one thing to this nation, it would be the return of an inner moral compass nurtured by the family and valued by society. This compass would guide us to value every life. It would show us that each life lost to despair devalues us all. It would remind us that caring and conscience are what make us human. So let's make this National Volunteer Week an extraordinary moment in our nation: our communal commitment to a true American renewal. I urge each of you to step forward, take this country's future in your own hands, and become a Point of Light. And I ask leaders of businesses, places of worship, schools, neighborhood groups and other organizations, to lead their members toward the bright goal of service. Wherever people from all walks of life work together and claim their community's problems as their own, they create "Communities of Light" to guide this nation's path. As you cross this land as beacons of hope, I'd like you to remember some special words. Recently Barbara and I had the mag- nificent honor of meeting Mother Teresa, whose very life speaks only of service to others. I was touched by her words. She said: "It is not how much we do -- but how much love we put into it." May Americans continue to put love into all our works. Barbara joins me in saying thank you -- to you and the millions more like you across America -- for what you do. May God bless you, and this wonderful nation we share. Now, let's get on with presenting the awards. I'll ask my friend [NAME] to come up to read the citations. # # # to mN. yel lode dues. Names 122 (Hinchliffe/Nix) April 30, 1992 12 p.m. achi, VOLUNTEER Draft Three PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION EAST ROOM latest FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1992 11:45 a.m. Thank you, and welcome to the East Room. Barbara and I are proud to be here with such an impressive group. We want to extend a particularly warm welcome to our distinguished Cabinet members, Secretary Martin and Secretary Sullivan; 11 and to the judges of this year's awards -- the pronumsation Per dynamic Anita Baker; ACTION director Jane Kenny; Rabbi Elimelech Every Naiman of the Council of Jewish Organizations; our Surgeon General, Antonia Novello; James Renier Chairman and CEO of Anita Baker Honeywell; and thanks to Frances Hesselbein who couldn't join us MN today My special thanks to Dick Schubert, President of the Points and ACTION Fortheishelpwith these awards. of Light Foundation; and John Curley and Marcia Bullard of USA WEEKEND, who just completed their terrific "Make A Difference" project which generated 68,000 volunteers. Q Welcome also to the Board Members, directors and staff of The Points of Light Foundation, the Commission on National and and a special quest Michael Jackson. Community Service; ACTION; and to our Office of National Service, headed up by Gregg Petersmeyer. And the warmest welcome to you who make up the heart of America -- our volunteers. III And a special welcome to our guest presenter today -- our unparalleled Olympic Golden Girl -- Florence Griffith Joyner. Flo Jo was just helping out over at the Great American Workout - - and said to me: "You want to work out doing running, the to readitations intronichael. 2 obstacle course, and the hurdles?" I said, "No, I do enough of that just campaigning. This Workout was led by a guy who could really straighten things out on Capitol Hill -- the Terminator himself, Arnold 7 Schwarzenegger. Arnold has targeted lazy Americans -- though I guess with all this PC talk, we should call them "exertionally challenged." He's going to wipe out couch potatoes. Now if we could only get him going on broccoli. III But I'm here today to talk about something that's really very personally important to me. You all know I love music -- Anita's always been a favorite -- and I especially love country music because it gets to the heart of the basic decency and compassion of people who are proud to call themselves Americans. stat Well, Randy Travis has a line in one of his songs that's like a spotlight on an answer for us. He sings: "There are dreamers who are making dreams come true giving hope to those without -- isn't that what this land's all about." You see, for all the good that government can do, to solve our country's social problems, we need people -- we need every individual -- to respond to the problems right around them. When each American is no longer willing to accept that someone on their street or in their town is homeless, jobless, friendless - - then that's when we will truly renew America. 11 We already have shining heroes in this quest -- I call them "Points of Light" -- and that's the name of Randy's song. They're Americans in towns and cities just like yours across this land, discovering that service to others is a rich source of 3 meaning in life. I honor these men and women and children for showing "the better angels of their nature" by volunteering to help others. They sum up the genius of this great and generous land -- ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Day in and day out, these Americans wage our war for human life and dignity. They don't say: "this is why I can't help" 11 -- they say "this is why I can". They say: "maybe I don't have money, but I have time". 11 "Maybe I can't help someone build a house, but I'm a good listener." We celebrate that spirit. Whoever you are, you have something to share -- for Americans are the greatest natural resource of this, the greatest nation on earth. III I'm proud to be here along with the Points of Light Foundation and ACTION, our federal domestic volunteer agency, for this very special -- very important -- event. We come together today as the culmination of National Volunteer Week, honoring the millions of Americans who transform communities across the country through voluntary service. In particular, for the 11th year we recognize with these awards the inspirational example of people who meet a simple three-part test: One: They looked around. Two: They saw a need. Three: They filled it. III What a cross-section of wonderful Americans are represented here today, among these 21 winners of the 1992 President's Annual Points of Light Awards. There are individuals, like 17-year-old 4 Robert Zamora, who created the Getting Busy Teen Club as an alternative to gangs in East Los Angeles. There are businesses, like IBM, which gives its employees encouragement and time off to volunteer -- 90,000 of them do. And our winners represent neighborhoods, places of worship, every kind of group across this broad and good land. They and all the others like them are shaping a nation whose goodness grows out of the small acts of consequence made by many people. America's pioneer days aren't behind us. We still have frontiers left to cross -- the thrill of adventure yet to discover -- an American renaissance yet to spark. I believe there are five core elements of the new America we which are reflected in the award catagories. all seek A and today I want to share with you how some of our award winners are drawing us closer to each goal. First: every American community must have excellent schools and a culture that fosters lifelong learning. 11 Kentucky's Berea [buh-REE-uh] College students saw a critical need right around them in Appalachia -- so they volunteered as mentors and tutors to needy people from grade-school kids through adults struggling to overcome illiteracy. Second: every American community must be a decent, drug- free and safe place to live. Eighteen-hundred members of the Emmanuel Reformed Church saw the need around them, joined with their city of Paramount, California and started tackling the crises that threatened their neighborhood -- like gangs, illiteracy, and crime. 5 Third: every American community must offer quality health care for all. 11 Twenty-four labor unions in Omaha saw the need of families whose children were hospitalized for transplant operations. So these unions joined together to buy a building - - and then more than 500 skilled union volunteers renovated it to house these families. Fourth: every American community must offer its members the hope of good jobs with a future. 11 Urban Miyares [My-AR-aze] can tell you first-hand about this need. A Vietnam vet who became blind, he found there were no business counseling services available to people like him. He received training and now volunteers to provide job counseling to people with disabilities. Fifth: every American community must be a place with a commitment to children; youth developing good character and values; and strong families. 11 A Pennsylvania group called "Magic Mix" saw the needs of two generations -- and brought latchkey kids and at-risk students together with residents of local nursing homes who tutor, teach, and befriend them. III With role models like these, I'm confident that, together, we can shape our future -- not through our fears -- but through our dreams. Yes, we'll continue to work for legislation to make this a safer America -- a fairer America -- a better-educated America - - a more efficient America. But the most important legacy of all is one that each person in this great country can help create -- the legacy of a more caring America. 6 Look closely at our world. People say the problem is crack 11 or crime 11 or babies having babies. Those are only symptoms. The problem is moral emptiness. 11 If as President I had the power to give just one thing to this nation, it would be the return of an inner moral compass nurtured by the family and valued by society. This compass would guide us to value every life. It would show us that each life lost to despair devalues us all. It would remind us that caring and conscience are what make us human. III So let's make this National Volunteer Week an extraordinary moment in our nation -- our communal commitment to a true American renewal. I urge each of you to step forward, take this country's future in your own hands, and become a Point of Light. 11 And I ask leaders of businesses, places of worship, schools, neighborhood groups and other organizations, to lead their members toward the bright goal of service. Wherever people from all walks of life work together and claim their community's problems as their own -- they create "Communities of Light" to guide this nation's path. III As you cross this land, I'd like you to remember some special words. Recently Barbara and I had the magnificent honor of meeting Mother Teresa, whose very life speaks only of service to others. I was touched by her words. She said: "It is not how much we do -- but how much love we put into it." " III May Americans continue to put love into all our works. 7 Barbara joins me in saying congratulations -- to you and the millions more like you across America -- for what you do. May God bless you, and this wonderful nation we share. 11 Now, Barbara and I will present the awards. I'll ask our friend Flo-Jo to come up to read the citations. # # # THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON April 92 APR 30 29, 1992 A 8:53 MEMORANDUM FOR DAN McGROARTY FROM: ROGER B. PORTER RBP SUBJECT: Presidential Remarks: Volunteer Awards Presentation We have reviewed the attached presidential remarks and have noted a few suggested changes on the draft. If you have any questions or we can be of further assistance, please let us know. CC: Phillip D. Brady Document No. 324557ss _RN WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM -GW DATE: 4/28/92 ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: WED. 4/29/92 3:00 pm PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION SUBJECT: EAST ROOM FRIDAY, MAY 1 - 11:45 a.m. ACTION FYI ACTION FYI VICE PRESIDENT > HORNER SKINNER MCBRIDE SCOWCROFT MOORE DARMAN PETERSMEYER BRADY R PORTER BROMLEY ROGICH CALIO R ROLLINS DEMAREST SMITH FITZWATER \ YEUTTER GRAY FINDLAY KAUFMAN HOLIDAY FIRESTONE MCGROARTY REMARKS: Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, RM. 122, x2930, no later than 3:00 pm, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, with a copy to this office. Thank you. RESPONSE: PHILLIP D. BRADY Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary Ext. 2702 (Hinchliffe/Nix) April 28, 1992 11 a.m. VOLUNTEER Draft Two PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION EAST ROOM FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1992 11:45 a.m. [ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS] You all know I love country music because it gets to the heart of the basic decency and compassion of people who are proud to call themselves Americans. Well, Randy Travis has a line in one of his songs that's like a spotlight on an answer for us. He sings: "There are dreamers who are making dreams come true ... giving hope to those without -- isn't that what this land's all about." You see, for all the good government can do, to solve our country's social problems, we need people -- every individual -- to respond to the problems right I around them. When each American is unwilling to accept that someone on their street or in their town is homeless, jobless, friendless: that's when we will truly renew America. We already have shining heroes in this quest -- I call them "Points of Light." They're Americans just like you, in towns and cities just like yours -- discovering that service to others is a rich source of meaning in life. I honor them for showing "the better angels of their nature" by volunteering to help others. They sum up the genius of this great and generous land -- ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Day in and day out, these Americans wage our war for human life and dignity. They don't say: this is why I can't help -- they say this is why I can. They say: maybe I don't have money, but I have time. Maybe I can't help someone build a house, but 2 I'm a good listener. We celebrate that spirit. Whoever you are, you have something to share -- for Americans are the greatest natural resource of this, the greatest nation on earth. I'm proud to be here today, along with the Points of Light Foundation and ACTION, our federal domestic volunteer agency, for this very special -- very important -- event. And I also want to recognize a unique partnership between the Foundation and USA WEEKEND to promote community service through the "Make a Differ- ence Day" project. I was astounded by the results: over 70,000 Americans of every age participated, and USA WEEKEND devoted its entire issue last weekend to describing the innovative ways men, women, and children came up with to help their neighbors in need -- and bring themselves a little more fulfillment in the process. So, a special thanks to John Curley, GANNETT President and CEO, and Marcia Bullard, editor-in-chief of USA Weekend. We come together today as the culmination of National Volunteer Week, honoring millions of Americans who transform communities across the country through voluntary service. For the 11th year we recognize with these awards the inspirational example of people who met a simple three-part test: One: They looked around. Two: They saw a need. Three: They filled it. What a cross-section of wonderful Americans are represented here. There are individuals, like Robert Zamora, who at 14 created the Getting Busy Teen Club as an alternative to gangs in East Los Angeles. There are businesses, like IBM, which gives its employees encouragement and time off to volunteer -- 90,000 3 of them do. And our winners represent neighborhoods, churches, every kind of group across this broad and good land. They and all the others like them are shaping a nation whose goodness grows out of the small acts of consequence made by many people. America's pioneer days aren't behind us. We still have frontiers left to cross: the thrill of adventure yet to discover: an American renaissance yet to spark. I believe there are five ideals in this new America -- I want to share with you today how some of our winners are drawing us closer to each goal. First: our America must have excellent schools and a culture that fosters lifelong learning. Students at Berea College saw a critical need right around them in Appalachia -- so they volunteer as mentors and tutors to ASSIST needy people from grade- school kids through adults struggling to overcome illiteracy. NS HAVE Second: our America must be a decent, drug-free and safe place to live. 1800 members of the Emmanuel Reformed Church of Paramount, California saw the need around them and started tackling the crises that threatened their neighborhood -- like gangs, illiteracy, drugs and crime. ENSURE SOUNDS Third: our America must ensure HAVE quality health care for all. 24 labor unions in Omaha saw the need of families whose children LIKE were hospitalized for transplant operations and joined together to buy a building -- then more than 500 skilled union volunteers renovated it to house these families. NS HAVE Fourth: our America) must guarantee good jobs with a future. FUARANTEE Urban Miyares can tell you first-hand about this need. A Vietnam SOUNDS AN 4 vet who lost his eyesight, he found there were no business COMPLETED HIS counseling services available to people like him. He went to training and now volunteers to provide job counseling to people with disabilities. Fifth: our America must be a place of plentiful child care and youth developing good character and values. A Pennsylvania group called "Magic Mix" saw the needs of two generations -- and brings latchkey kids and at-risk students together with residents of local nursing homes who tutor, teach, and befriend them. With role models like these, I'm confident that, together, we can shape our future not through our fears -- but through our dreams. Yes, we'll continue to work for legislation to make this a safer America, a fairer America, a better educated America, a more efficient America. But the most important legacy of all is one that each person in this great country can help create -- the legacy of a more caring America. Take a close look at the problems confronting us. People say the problem is crack \ or crime \ or babies having babies. Those are only symptoms. The problem is moral emptiness. If as President I had the power to give just one thing to this nation, it would be the return of an inner moral compass nurtured by the family and valued by society. This compass would guide us to value every life. It would show us that each life lost to despair devalues us all. It would remind us that caring and conscience are what make us human. So let's make this National Volunteer Week an extraordinary 5 moment in our nation -- our public and communal commitment to a true American renewal. I urge each of you to step forward this week, take this country's future in your own hands, and become a Point of Light. And I ask leaders of businesses, places of worship, schools, neighborhood groups and other organizations, to lead their members toward the bright goal of service. Wherever leaders from all walks of life work together and claim their community's problems as their own, they can create "Communities of Light" to guide this nation's path. Congratulations, and thank you, all of you here -- and the millions more like you across America. May God bless you, and this wonderful nation we share. # # # Document No. 324557ss WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM 92 APR 29 P3:09 DATE: 4/28/92 ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: WED. 4/29/92 3:00 pm PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION SUBJECT: EAST ROOM FRIDAY, MAY 1 - 11:45 a.m. ACTION FYI ACTION FYI VICE PRESIDENT HORNER SKINNER MCBRIDE SCOWCROFT MOORE DARMAN PETERSMEYER BRADY PORTER BROMLEY ROGICH CALIO ROLLINS DEMAREST SMITH YEUTTER FITZWATER GRAY FINDLAY HOLIDAY KAUFMAN FIRESTONE MCGROARTY REMARKS: Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, RM. 122, x2930, no later than 3:00 pm, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, with a copy to this office. Thank you. RESPONSE: Please comments. see Well done MASTER Thank you. PHILLIP D. 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A Congratula and thank you, all of you here -- and the - for what you do. millions more like you across America A May God bless you, and this wonderful nation we share. # Now, let's ser on with presenting the awards. I'llhava-ssk ash my Friend — to come up to read the citations. # # # Document No. 324557ss WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM DATE: 4/28/92 ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: WED. 4/29/92 3:00 pm PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION SUBJECT: EAST ROOM - FRIDAY, MAY 1 - 11:45 a.m. ACTION FYI ACTION FYI VICE PRESIDENT > HORNER SKINNER \ MCBRIDE SCOWCROFT X MOORE DARMAN PETERSMEYER BRADY PORTER BROMLEY X ROGICH CALIO V/U ROLLINS N/C SMITH NK X DEMAREST YEUTTER FITZWATER GRAY V/U FINDLAY KAUFMAN HOLIDAY FIRESTONE MCGROARTY REMARKS: Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, RM. 122, x2930, no later than 3:00 pm, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, with a copy to this office. Thank you. RESPONSE: PHILLIP D. BRADY Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary Ext. 2702 (Hinchliffe/Nix) April 28, 1992 11 a.m. VOLUNTEER Draft Two PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION EAST ROOM FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1992 11:45 a.m. [ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS] You all know I love country music because it gets to the heart of the basic decency and compassion of people who are proud to call themselves Americans. Well, Randy Travis has a line in one of his songs that's like a spotlight on an answer for us. He sings: "There are dreamers who are making dreams come true ... giving hope to those without -- isn't that what this land's all about." " You see, for all the good government can do, to solve our country's social problems, we need people -- every individual -- to respond to the problems right around them. When each American is unwilling to accept that someone on their street or in their town is homeless, jobless, friendless: that's when we will truly renew America. We already have shining heroes in this quest -- I call them "Points of Light." They're Americans just like you, in towns and cities just like yours -- discovering that service to others is a rich source of meaning in life. I honor them for showing "the better angels of their nature" by volunteering to help others. They sum up the genius of this great and generous land -- ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Day in and day out, these Americans wage our war for human life and dignity. They don't say: this is why I can't help -- they say this is why I can. They say: maybe I don't have money, but I have time. Maybe I can't help someone build a house, but 2 I'm a good listener. We celebrate that spirit. Whoever you are, you have something to share -- for Americans are the greatest natural resource of this, the greatest nation on earth. I'm proud to be here today, along with the Points of Light Foundation and ACTION, our federal domestic volunteer agency, for this very special -- very important -- event. And I also want to recognize a unique partnership between the Foundation and USA WEEKEND to promote community service through the "Make a Differ- ence Day" project. I was astounded by the results: over 70,000 Americans of every age participated, and USA WEEKEND devoted its entire issue last weekend to describing the innovative ways men, women, and children came up with to help their neighbors in need -- and bring themselves a little more fulfillment in the process. So, a special thanks to John Curley, GANNETT President and CEO, and Marcia Bullard, editor-in-chief of USA Weekend. We come together today as the culmination of National Volunteer Week, honoring millions of Americans who transform communities across the country through voluntary service. For the 11th year we recognize with these awards the inspirational example of people who met a simple three-part test: One: They looked around. Two: They saw a need. Three: They filled it. What a cross-section of wonderful Americans are represented here. There are individuals, like Robert Zamora, who at 14 created the Getting Busy Teen Club as an alternative to gangs in East Los Angeles. There are businesses, like IBM, which gives its employees encouragement and time off to volunteer -- 90,000 3 of them do. And our winners represent neighborhoods, churches, every kind of group across this broad and good land. They and all the others like them are shaping a nation whose goodness grows out of the small acts of consequence made by many people. America's pioneer days aren't behind us. We still have frontiers left to cross: the thrill of adventure yet to discover: an American renaissance yet to spark. I believe there are five ideals in this new America -- I want to share with you today how some of our winners are drawing us closer to each goal. First: our America must have excellent schools and a culture that fosters lifelong learning. Students at Berea College saw a critical need right around them in Appalachia -- so they volunteer as mentors and tutors to needy people from grade- school kids through adults struggling to overcome illiteracy. Second: our America must be a decent, drug-free and safe place to live. 1800 members of the Emmanuel Reformed Church of Paramount, California saw the need around them and started tackling the crises that threatened their neighborhood -- like gangs, illiteracy, drugs and crime. Third: our America must ensure quality health care for all. 24 labor unions in Omaha saw the need of families whose children were hospitalized for transplant operations and joined together to buy a building -- then more than 500 skilled union volunteers renovated it to house these families. Fourth: our America must guarantee good jobs with a future. Urban Miyares can tell you first-hand about this need. A Vietnam 4 vet who lost his eyesight, he found there were no business counseling services available to people like him. He went to training and now volunteers to provide job counseling to people with disabilities. Fifth: our America must be a place of plentiful child care and youth developing good character and values. A Pennsylvania group called "Magic Mix" saw the needs of two generations -- and brings latchkey kids and at-risk students together with residents of local nursing homes who tutor, teach, and befriend them. With role models like these, I'm confident that, together, we can shape our future not through our fears -- but through our dreams. Yes, we'll continue to work for legislation to make this a safer America, a fairer America, a better educated America, a more efficient America. But the most important legacy of all is one that each person in this great country can help create -- the legacy of a more caring America. Take a close look at the problems confronting us. People say the problem is crack \ or crime \ or babies having babies. Those are only symptoms. The problem is moral emptiness. If as President I had the power to give just one thing to this nation, it would be the return of an inner moral compass nurtured by the family and valued by society. This compass would guide us to value every life. It would show us that each life lost to despair devalues us all. It would remind us that caring and conscience are what make us human. So let's make this National Volunteer Week an extraordinary 5 moment in our nation -- our public and communal commitment to a true American renewal. I urge each of you to step forward this week, take this country's future in your own hands, and become a Point of Light. And I ask leaders of businesses, places of worship, schools, neighborhood groups and other organizations, to lead their members toward the bright goal of service. Wherever leaders from all walks of life work together and claim their community's problems as their own, they can create "Communities of Light" to guide this nation's path. Congratulations, and thank you, all of you here -- and the millions more like you across America. May God bless you, and this wonderful nation we share. # # # HOLDAY geep.3 (Hinchliffe/Nix) April 28, 1992 11 a.m. VOLUNTEER Draft Two PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION EAST ROOM FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1992 11:45 a.m. [ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS] You all know I love country music because it gets to the heart of the basic decency and compassion of people who are proud to call themselves Americans. Well, Randy Travis has a line in one of his songs that's like a spotlight on an answer for us. He sings: "There are dreamers who are making dreams come true giving hope to those without -- isn't that what this land's all about." You see, for all the good government can do, to solve our country's social problems, we need people -- every individual -- to respond to the problems right around them. When each American is unwilling to accept that someone on their street or in their town is homeless, jobless, friendless: that's when we will truly renew America. We already have shining heroes in this quest -- I call them "Points of Light." They're Americans just like you, in towns and cities just like yours -- discovering that service to others is a rich source of meaning in life. I honor them for showing "the better angels of their nature" by volunteering to help others. They sum up the genius of this great and generous land -- ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Day in and day out, these Americans wage our war for human life and dignity. They don't say: this is why I can't help -- they say this is why I can. They say: maybe I don't have money, but I have time. Maybe I can't help someone build a house, but 2 I'm a good listener. We celebrate that spirit. Whoever you are, you have something to share -- for Americans are the greatest natural resource of this, the greatest nation on earth. I'm proud to be here today, along with the Points of Light Foundation and ACTION, our federal domestic volunteer agency, for this very special -- very important -- event. And I also want to recognize a unique partnership between the Foundation and USA WEEKEND to promote community service through the "Make a Differ- ence Day" project. I was astounded by the results: over 70,000 Americans of every age participated, and USA WEEKEND devoted its entire issue last weekend to describing the innovative ways men, women, and children came up with to help their neighbors in need -- and bring themselves a little more fulfillment in the process. So, a special thanks to John Curley, GANNETT President and CEO, and Marcia Bullard, editor-in-chief of USA Weekend. We come together today as the culmination of National Volunteer Week, honoring millions of Americans who transform communities across the country through voluntary service. For the 11th year we recognize with these awards the inspirational example of people who met a simple three-part test: One: They looked around. Two: They saw a need. Three: They filled it. What a cross-section of wonderful Americans are represented here. There are individuals, like Robert Zamora, who at 14 created the Getting Busy Teen Club as an alternative to gangs in East Los Angeles. There are businesses, like IBM, which gives its employees encouragement and time off to volunteer -- 90,000 3 places fworship of them do. And our winners represent neighborhoods, churches, every kind of group across this broad and good land. They and all the others like them are shaping a nation whose goodness grows out of the small acts of consequence made by many people. America's pioneer days aren't behind us. We still have frontiers left to cross: the thrill of adventure yet to discover: an American renaissance yet to spark. I believe there are five ideals in this new America -- I want to share with you today how some of our winners are drawing us closer to each goal. First: our America must have excellent schools and a culture that fosters lifelong learning. Students at Berea College saw a critical need right around them in Appalachia -- so they volunteer as mentors and tutors to needy people from grade- school kids through adults struggling to overcome illiteracy. Second: our America must be a decent, drug-free and safe place to live. 1800 members of the Emmanuel Reformed Church of Paramount, California saw the need around them and started tackling the crises that threatened their neighborhood -- like gangs, illiteracy, drugs and crime. Third: our America must ensure quality health care for all. 24 labor unions in Omaha saw the need of families whose children were hospitalized for transplant operations and joined together to buy a building -- then more than 500 skilled union volunteers renovated it to house these families. Fourth: our America must guarantee good jobs with a future. Urban Miyares can tell you first-hand about this need. A Vietnam 4 vet who lost his eyesight, he found there were no business counseling services available to people like him. He went to training and now volunteers to provide job counseling to people with disabilities. Fifth: our America must be a place of plentiful child care and youth developing good character and values. A Pennsylvania group called "Magic Mix" saw the needs of two generations -- and brings latchkey kids and at-risk students together with residents of local nursing homes who tutor, teach, and befriend them. With role models like these, I'm confident that, together, we can shape our future not through our fears -- but through our dreams. Yes, we'll continue to work for legislation to make this a safer America, a fairer America, a better educated America, a more efficient America. But the most important legacy of all is one that each person in this great country can help create -- the legacy of a more caring America. Take a close look at the problems confronting us. People say the problem is crack \ or crime \ or babies having babies. Those are only symptoms. The problem is moral emptiness. If as President I had the power to give just one thing to this nation, it would be the return of an inner moral compass nurtured by the family and valued by society. This compass would guide us to value every life. It would show us that each life lost to despair devalues us all. It would remind us that caring and conscience are what make us human. So let's make this National Volunteer Week an extraordinary 5 moment in our nation -- our public and communal commitment to a true American renewal. I urge each of you to step forward this week, take this country's future in your own hands, and become a Point of Light. And I ask leaders of businesses, places of worship, schools, neighborhood groups and other organizations, to lead their members toward the bright goal of service. Wherever leaders from all walks of life work together and claim their community's problems as their own, they can create "Communities of Light" to guide this nation's path. Congratulations, and thank you, all of you here -- and the millions more like you across America. May God bless you, and this wonderful nation we share. # # # EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503 92 APR 29 P2:31 NOTICE: Enclosed are comments from staff members of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Such comments do not necessarily represent the official position of the Director of OMB or of the Office of Management and Budget. If you wish to have the Director's personal comments, please let me know -- and contact me if you have any questions. If our proposed substantive changes are not made, please let us know before the material is prepared in final. James UM C. Marr Associate Director for Legislative Reference and Administration Document No. 324557ss WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM DATE: 4/28/92 ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: WED. 4/29/92 3:00 pm PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION SUBJECT: EAST ROOM - FRIDAY, MAY 1 - 11:45 a.m. ACTION FYI ACTION FYI VICE PRESIDENT > HORNER SKINNER > MCBRIDE SCOWCROFT MOORE DARMAN PETERSMEYER BRADY PORTER BROMLEY ROGICH CALIO R ROLLINS DEMAREST SMITH YEUTTER FITZWATER GRAY FINDLAY KAUFMAN HOLIDAY FIRESTONE MCGROARTY REMARKS: Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, RM. 122, x2930, no later than 3:00 pm, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, with a copy to this office. Thank you. RESPONSE: See Comments PHILLIP D. BRADY Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary Ext. 2702 (Hinchliffe/Nix) April 28, 1992 11 a.m. VOLUNTEER Draft Two PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION EAST ROOM FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1992 11:45 a.m. [ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS] You all know I love country music because it gets to the heart of the basic decency and compassion of people who are proud to call themselves Americans. Well, Randy Travis has a line in one of his songs that's like a spotlight on an answer for us. He sings: "There are dreamers who are making dreams come true giving hope to those without -- isn't that what this land's all about." You see, for all the good government can do, to solve our country's social problems, we need people -- every individual -- to respond to the problems right around them. When each American is unwilling to accept that someone on their street or in their town is homeless, jobless, friendless: that's when we will truly renew America. We already have shining heroes in this quest -- I call them "Points of Light.' They're Americans just like you, in towns and cities just like yours -- discovering that service to others is willing this should a Note: Sculler by 5/78 rich source of meaning in life. I honor them for showing "the better angels of their nature" by volunteering to help others. They sum up the genius of this great and generous land -- ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Day in and day out, these Americans wage our war for human life and dignity. They don't say: this is why I can't help -- they say this is why I can. They say: maybe I don't have money, but I have time. Maybe I can't help someone build a house, but 2 I'm a good listener. We celebrate that spirit. Whoever you are, you have something to share -- for Americans are the greatest natural resource of this, the greatest nation on earth. I'm proud to be here today, along with the Points of Light Foundation and ACTION, our federal domestic volunteer agency, for this very special -- very important -- event. And I also want to recognize a unique partnership between the Foundation and USA WEEKEND to promote community service through the "Make a Differ- ence Day" project. I was astounded by the results: over 70,000 Americans of every age participated, and USA WEEKEND devoted its entire issue last weekend to describing the innovative ways men, women, and children came up with to help their neighbors in need -- and bring themselves a little more fulfillment in the process. So, a special thanks to John Curley, GANNETT President and CEO, and Marcia Bullard, editor-in-chief of USA Weekend. We come together today as the culmination of National Volunteer Week, honoring millions of Americans who transform communities across the country through voluntary service. For the 11th year we recognize with these awards the inspirational example of people who met a simple three-part test: One: They looked around. Two: They saw a need. Three: They filled it. What a cross-section of wonderful Americans are represented here. There are individuals, like Robert Zamora, who at 14 created the Getting Busy Teen Club as an alternative to gangs in East Los Angeles. There are businesses, like IBM, which gives its employees encouragement and time off to volunteer -- 90,000 3 of them do. And our winners represent neighborhoods, churches, every kind of group across this broad and good land. They and all the others like them are shaping a nation whose goodness grows out of the small acts of consequence made by many people. America's pioneer days aren't behind us. We still have frontiers left to cross: the thrill of adventure yet to discover: an American renaissance yet to spark. I believe there are five ideals in this new America I want to share with you today how The goals do not seen well thought out saily5175 Note: Wouldn't such ideals include family etc. some of our winners are drawing us closer to each goal. First: our America must have excellent schools and a culture that fosters lifelong learning. Students at Berea College saw a critical need right around them in Appalachia -- so they volunteer as mentors and tutors to needy people from grade- school kids through adults struggling to overcome illiteracy. Second: our America must be a decent, drug-free and safe place to live. 1800 members of the Emmanuel Reformed Church of Paramount, California saw the need around them and started tackling the crises that threatened their neighborhood -- like gangs, illiteracy, drugs and crime. Third: our America must ensure quality health care for all. 24 labor unions in Omaha saw the need of families whose children were hospitalized for transplant operations and joined together to buy a building -- then more than 500 skilled union volunteers renovated it to house these families. Fourth: our America must guarantee good jobs with a future. Urban Miyares can tell you first-hand about this need. A Vietnam 4 vet who lost his eyesight, he found there were no business counseling services available to people like him. He went to training and now volunteers to provide job counseling to people with disabilities. Scully/5178 where children are cared for and Fifth: our America must be a place of plentiful child care youth developi good character and values. A Pennsylvania group called "Magic Mix" saw the needs of two generations -- and brings latchkey kids and at-risk students together with residents of local nursing homes who tutor, teach, and befriend them. With role models like these, I'm confident that, together, we can shape our future not through our fears -- but through our dreams. Yes, we'll continue to work for legislation to make this a safer America, a fairer America, a better educated America, a more efficient America. But the most important legacy of all is one that each person in this great country can help create -- the legacy of a more caring America. Take a close look at the problems confronting us. People say the problem is crack or crime or babies having babies. Those are only symptoms. The problem is moral emptiness. If as President I had the power to give just one thing to this nation, it would be the return of an inner moral compass nurtured by the family and valued by society. This compass would guide us to value every life. It would show us that each life lost to despair devalues us all. It would remind us that caring and conscience are what make us human. So let's make this National Volunteer Week an extraordinary 5 moment in our nation -- our public and communal commitment to a true American renewal. I urge each of you to step forward this week, take this country's future in your own hands, and become a Point of Light. And I ask leaders of businesses, places of worship, schools, neighborhood groups and other organizations, to lead their members toward the bright goal of service. Wherever leaders from all walks of life work together and claim their community's problems as their own, they can create "Communities of Light" to guide this nation's path. Congratulations, and thank you, all of you here -- and the millions more like you across America. May God bless you, and this wonderful nation we share. # # # Simon Memorandum for Speechwriting Staff From: Dan McGroarty Regarding: Volunteer Please return your comments to Room 122 by: 2pm today Today's Date: AP (Hinchliffe/Nix) April 28, 1992 11 a.m. VOLUNTEER Draft Two PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION EAST ROOM FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1992 11:45 a.m. [ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS] You all know I love country music because it gets to the heart of the basic decency and compassion of people who are proud to call themselves Americans. Well, Randy Travis has a line in one of his songs that's like a spotlight on an answer for us. He sings: "There are dreamers who are making dreams come true ... giving hope to, those without ((He sings it better then -- isn't that what this land's all about." You see, for all the d good government can do, to solve our country's social problems, can we need people -- every individual -- to respond to the problems say right around them. When each American is unwilling to accept it.)) that someone on their street or in their town is homeless, jobless, friendless: that's when we will truly renew America. We already have shining heroes in this quest -- I call them "Points of Light." They're Americans just like you, in towns and cities just like yours -- discovering that service to others is a rich source of meaning in life. I honor them for showing "the better angels of their nature" by volunteering to help others. They sum up the genius of this great and generous land -- ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Day in and day out, these Americans wage our war for human life and dignity. They don't say: this is why I can't help -- they say this is why I can. They say: maybe I don't have money, but I have time. Maybe I can't help someone build a house, but 2 I'm a good listener. We celebrate that spirit. Whoever you are, you have something to share -- for Americans are the greatest natural resource of this, the greatest nation on earth. I'm proud to be here today, along with the Points of Light Foundation and ACTION, our federal domestic volunteer agency, for this very special -- very important -- event. And I also want to recognize a unique partnership between the Foundation and USA WEEKEND to promote community service through the "Make a Differ- ence Day" project. I was astounded by the results: over 70,000 Americans of every age participated, and USA WEEKEND devoted its entire issue last weekend to describing the innovative ways men, women, and children came up with to help their neighbors in need -- and bring themselves a little more fulfillment in the process. So, a special thanks to John Curley, GANNETT President and CEO, and Marcia Bullard, editor-in-chief of USA Weekend. We come together today as the culmination of National Volunteer Week, honoring millions of Americans who transform communities across the country through voluntary service. For the 11th year we recognize with these awards the inspirational example of people who met a simple three-part test: One: They looked around. Two: They saw a need. Three: They filled it. What a cross-section of wonderful Americans are represented here. There are individuals, like Robert Zamora, who at 14 created the Getting Busy Teen Club as an alternative to gangs in - East Los Angeles. There are businesses, like IBM, which gives its employees encouragement and time off to volunteer -- 90,000 3 of them do. And our winners represent neighborhoods, churches, every kind of group across this broad and good land. They and all the others like them are shaping a nation whose goodness grows out of the small acts of consequence made by many people. America's pioneer days aren't behind us. We still have frontiers left to cross: the thrill of adventure yet to discover: an American renaissance yet to spark. I believe there are five ideals in this new America -- I want to share with you today how some of our winners are drawing us closer to each goal. First: our America must have excellent schools and a culture that fosters lifelong learning. Students at Berea College saw a critical need right around them in Appalachia -- so they volunteer as mentors and tutors to needy people from grade- school kids through adults struggling to overcome illiteracy. Second: our America must be a decent, drug-free and safe place to live. 1800 members of the Emmanuel Reformed Church of Paramount, California saw the need around them and started tackling the crises that threatened their neighborhood -- like gangs, illiteracy, drugs and crime. Third: our America must ensure quality health care for all. 24 labor unions in Omaha saw the need of families whose children were hospitalized for transplant operations and joined together to buy a building -- then more than 500 skilled union volunteers renovated it to house these families. Fourth: our America must guarantee good jobs with a future. Urban Miyares can tell you first-hand about this need. A Vietnam 4 vet who lost his eyesight, he found there were no business counseling services available to people like him. He went to training and now volunteers to provide job counseling to people with disabilities. Fifth: our America must be a place of plentiful child care and youth developing good character and values. A Pennsylvania group called "Magic Mix" saw the needs of two generations -- and brings latchkey kids and at-risk students together with residents of local nursing homes who tutor, teach, and befriend them. With role models like these, I'm confident that, together, we can shape our future not through our fears -- but through our dreams. Yes, we'll continue to work for legislation to make this a safer America, a fairer America, a better educated America, a more efficient America. But the most important legacy of all is one that each person in this great country can help create -- the legacy of a more caring America. Take a close look at the problems confronting us. People say the problem is crack \ or crime \ or babies having babies. Those are only symptoms. The problem is moral emptiness. If as President I had the power to give just one thing to this nation, it would be the return of an inner moral compass nurtured by the family and valued by society. This compass would guide us to value every life. It would show us that each life lost to despair devalues us all. It would remind us that caring and conscience are what make us human. So let's make this National Volunteer Week an extraordinary 5 moment in our nation -- our public and communal commitment to a true American renewal. I urge each of you to step forward this week, take this country's future in your own hands, and become Point of Light. And I ask leaders of businesses, places of worship, schools, neighborhood groups and other organizations, to lead their members toward the bright goal of service. Wherever leaders from all walks of life work together and claim their community's problems as their own, they can create "Communities of Light" to guide this nation's path. Congratulations, and thank you, all of you here -- and the millions more like you across America. May God bless you, and this wonderful nation we share. # # # THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON 92 APR 28 P4: 31 April 28, 1992 MEMORANDUM FOR DANIEL B. McGROARTY Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Speechwriting FROM: Associate Counsel to the President JANET REHNQUIST gR SUBJECT: Presidential Remarks -- Volunteer Awards Presentation; East Room; Friday, May 1, 1992 At your request, Counsel's Office has reviewed the above- referenced matter. We have no legal objections. Thank you for the opportunity to review this matter. CC: Phil Brady Document No. 324557ss WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM 92 APR 28 P2:51 DATE: 4/28/92 ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: WED. 4/29/92 3:00 pm PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION SUBJECT: EAST ROOM - FRIDAY, MAY 1 - 11:45 a.m. ACTION FYI ACTION FYI VICE PRESIDENT HORNER SKINNER A MCBRIDE SCOWCROFT MOORE DARMAN PETERSMEYER BRADY PORTER BROMLEY ROGICH CALIO R ROLLINS DEMAREST SMITH YEUTTER FITZWATER GRAY FINDLAY HOLIDAY KAUFMAN FIRESTONE MCGROARTY REMARKS: Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, RM. 122, x2930, no later than 3:00 pm, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, with a copy to this office. Thank you. RESPONSE: N/C for DS PHILLIP D. BRADY Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary Ext. 2702 (Hinchliffe/Nix) April 28, 1992 11 a.m. VOLUNTEER Draft Two PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION EAST ROOM FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1992 11:45 a.m. [ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS] You all know I love country music because it gets to the heart of the basic decency and compassion of people who are proud to call themselves Americans. Well, Randy Travis has a line in one of his songs that's like a spotlight on an answer for us. He sings: "There are dreamers who are making dreams come true giving hope to those without -- isn't that what this land's all about." You see, for all the good government can do, to solve our country's social problems, we need people -- every individual -- to respond to the problems right around them. When each American is unwilling to accept that someone on their street or in their town is homeless, jobless, friendless: that's when we will truly renew America. We already have shining heroes in this quest -- I call them "Points of Light." They're Americans just like you, in towns and cities just like yours -- discovering that service to others is a rich source of meaning in life. I honor them for showing "the better angels of their nature" by volunteering to help others. They sum up the genius of this great and generous land -- ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Day in and day out, these Americans wage our war for human life and dignity. They don't say: this is why I can't help -- they say this is why I can. They say: maybe I don't have money, but I have time. Maybe I can't help someone build a house, but 2 I'm a good listener. We celebrate that spirit. Whoever you are, you have something to share -- for Americans are the greatest natural resource of this, the greatest nation on earth. I'm proud to be here today, along with the Points of Light Foundation and ACTION, our federal domestic volunteer agency, for this very special -- very important -- event. And I also want to recognize a unique partnership between the Foundation and USA WEEKEND to promote community service through the "Make a Differ- ence Day" project. I was astounded by the results: over 70,000 Americans of every age participated, and USA WEEKEND devoted its entire issue last weekend to describing the innovative ways men, women, and children came up with to help their neighbors in need -- and bring themselves a little more fulfillment in the process. So, a special thanks to John Curley, GANNETT President and CEO, and Marcia Bullard, editor-in-chief of USA Weekend. We come together today as the culmination of National Volunteer Week, honoring millions of Americans who transform communities across the country through voluntary service. For the 11th year we recognize with these awards the inspirational example of people who met a simple three-part test: One: They looked around. Two: They saw a need. Three: They filled it. What a cross-section of wonderful Americans are represented here. There are individuals, like Robert Zamora, who at 14 created the Getting Busy Teen Club as an alternative to gangs in East Los Angeles. There are businesses, like IBM, which gives its employees encouragement and time off to volunteer -- 90,000 3 of them do. And our winners represent neighborhoods, churches, every kind of group across this broad and good land. They and all the others like them are shaping a nation whose goodness grows out of the small acts of consequence made by many people. America's pioneer days aren't behind us. We still have frontiers left to cross: the thrill of adventure yet to discover: an American renaissance yet to spark. I believe there are five ideals in this new America -- I want to share with you today how some of our winners are drawing us closer to each goal. First: our America must have excellent schools and a culture that fosters lifelong learning. Students at Berea College saw a critical need right around them in Appalachia -- so they volunteer as mentors and tutors to needy people from grade- school kids through adults struggling to overcome illiteracy. Second: our America must be a decent, drug-free and safe place to live. 1800 members of the Emmanuel Reformed Church of Paramount, California saw the need around them and started tackling the crises that threatened their neighborhood -- like gangs, illiteracy, drugs and crime. Third: our America must ensure quality health care for all. 24 labor unions in Omaha saw the need of families whose children were hospitalized for transplant operations and joined together to buy a building -- then more than 500 skilled union volunteers renovated it to house these families. Fourth: our America must guarantee good jobs with a future. Urban Miyares can tell you first-hand about this need. A Vietnam 4 vet who lost his eyesight, he found there were no business counseling services available to people like him. He went to training and now volunteers to provide job counseling to people with disabilities. Fifth: our America must be a place of plentiful child care and youth developing good character and values. A Pennsylvania group called "Magic Mix" saw the needs of two generations -- and brings latchkey kids and at-risk students together with residents of local nursing homes who tutor, teach, and befriend them. With role models like these, I'm confident that, together, we can shape our future not through our fears -- but through our dreams. Yes, we'll continue to work for legislation to make this a safer America, a fairer America, a better educated America, a more efficient America. But the most important legacy of all is one that each person in this great country can help create -- the legacy of a more caring America. Take a close look at the problems confronting us. People say the problem is crack \ or crime \ or babies having babies. Those are only symptoms. The problem is moral emptiness. If as President I had the power to give just one thing to this nation, it would be the return of an inner moral compass nurtured by the family and valued by society. This compass would guide us to value every life. It would show us that each life lost to despair devalues us all. It would remind us that caring and conscience are what make us human. So let's make this National Volunteer Week an extraordinary 5 moment in our nation -- our public and communal commitment to a true American renewal. I urge each of you to step forward this week, take this country's future in your own hands, and become a Point of Light. And I ask leaders of businesses, places of worship, schools, neighborhood groups and other organizations, to lead their members toward the bright goal of service. Wherever leaders from all walks of life work together and claim their community's problems as their own, they can create "Communities of Light" to guide this nation's path. Congratulations, and thank you, all of you here -- and the millions more like you across America. May God bless you, and this wonderful nation we share. # # # (Hinchliffe/Nix) April 28, 1992 11 a.m. VOLUNTEER Draft Two PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOLUNTEER AWARDS PRESENTATION EAST ROOM FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1992 11:45 a.m. [ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS] You all know I love country music because it gets to the heart of the basic decency and compassion of people who are proud to call themselves Americans. Well, Randy Travis has a line in one of his songs that's like a spotlight on an answer for us. He sings: "There are dreamers who are making dreams come true giving hope to those without -- isn't that what this land's all about." You see, for all the good government can do, to solve our country's social problems, we need people -- every individual -- to respond to the problems right around them. When each American is unwilling to accept that someone on their street or in their town is homeless, jobless, friendless: that's when we will truly renew America. We already have shining heroes in this quest -- I call them "Points of Light." They're Americans just like you, in towns and cities just like yours -- discovering that service to others is a rich source of meaning in life. I honor them for showing "the better angels of their nature" by volunteering to help others. They sum up the genius of this great and generous land -- ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Day in and day out, these Americans wage our war for human life and dignity. They don't say: this is why I can't help -- they say this is why I can. They say: maybe I don't have money, but I have time. Maybe I can't help someone build a house, but 2 I'm a good listener. We celebrate that spirit. Whoever you are, you have something to share -- for Americans are the greatest natural resource of this, the greatest nation on earth. I'm proud to be here today, along with the Points of Light Foundation and ACTION, our federal domestic volunteer agency, for this very special -- very important -- event. And I also want to recognize a unique partnership between the Foundation and USA WEEKEND to promote community service through the "Make a Differ- ence Day" project. I was astounded by the results: over 70,000 Americans of every age participated, and USA WEEKEND devoted its entire issue last weekend to describing the innovative ways men, women, and children came up with to help their neighbors in need -- and bring themselves a little more fulfillment in the process. So, a special thanks to John Curley, GANNETT President and CEO, and Marcia Bullard, editor-in-chief of USA Weekend. We come together today as the culmination of National Volunteer Week, honoring millions of Americans who transform communities across the country through voluntary service. For the 11th year we recognize with these awards the inspirational example of people who met a simple three-part test: One: They looked around. Two: They saw a need. Three: They filled it. What a cross-section of wonderful Americans are represented here. There are individuals, like Robert Zamora, who at 14 created the Getting Busy Teen Club as an alternative to gangs in East Los Angeles. There are businesses, like IBM, which gives its employees encouragement and time off to volunteer -- 90,000 3 of them do. And our winners represent neighborhoods, churches, every kind of group across this broad and good land. They and all the others like them are shaping a nation whose goodness grows out of the small acts of consequence made by many people. America's pioneer days aren't behind us. We still have frontiers left to cross: the thrill of adventure yet to discover: an American renaissance yet to spark. I believe there are five ideals in this new America -- I want to share with you today how some of our winners are drawing us closer to each goal. First: our America must have excellent schools and a culture that fosters lifelong learning. Students at Berea College saw a critical need right around them in Appalachia -- so they volunteer as mentors and tutors to needy people from grade- school kids through adults struggling to overcome illiteracy. Second: our America must be a decent, drug-free and safe place to live. 1800 members of the Emmanuel Reformed Church of Paramount, California saw the need around them and started tackling the crises that threatened their neighborhood -- like gangs, illiteracy, drugs and crime. Third: our America must ensure quality health care for all. 24 labor unions in Omaha saw the need of families whose children were hospitalized for transplant operations and joined together to buy a building -- then more than 500 skilled union volunteers renovated it to house these families. Fourth: our America must guarantee good jobs with a future. Urban Miyares can tell you first-hand about this need. A Vietnam 4 vet who lost his eyesight, he found there were no business counseling services available to people like him. He went to training and now volunteers to provide job counseling to people with disabilities. Fifth: our America must be a place of plentiful child care and youth developing good character and values. A Pennsylvania group called "Magic Mix" saw the needs of two generations -- and brings latchkey kids and at-risk students together with residents of local nursing homes who tutor, teach, and befriend them. With role models like these, I'm confident that, together, we can shape our future not through our fears -- but through our dreams. Yes, we'll continue to work for legislation to make this a safer America, a fairer America, a better educated America, a more efficient America. But the most important legacy of all is one that each person in this great country can help create -- the legacy of a more caring America. Take a close look at the problems confronting us. People say the problem is crack \ or crime \ or babies having babies. Those are only symptoms. The problem is moral emptiness. If as President I had the power to give just one thing to this nation, it would be the return of an inner moral compass nurtured by the family and valued by society. This compass would guide us to value every life. It would show us that each life lost to despair devalues us all. It would remind us that caring and conscience are what make us human. So let's make this National Volunteer Week an extraordinary 5 moment in our nation -- our public and communal commitment to a true American renewal. I urge each of you to step forward this week, take this country's future in your own hands, and become a Point of Light. And I ask leaders of businesses, places of worship, schools, neighborhood groups and other organizations, to lead their members toward the bright goal of service. Wherever leaders from all walks of life work together and claim their community's problems as their own, they can create "Communities of Light" to guide this nation's path. Congratulations, and thank you, all of you here -- and the millions more like you across America. May God bless you, and this wonderful nation we share. # # #