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of George Bush, 1992
Administration of George Bush, 1992 / Aug. 3
1371
many frivolous law-
Remarks at the Twelfth Annual
America the laughingstock, or said that we
orthwest Republican Family Picnic
were ridiculed around the world. Let me tell
stake here. If the
Elk Grove Village, Illinois
you something: The United States is the lead-
is elected with a
August 2, 1992
er of the entire world, the most respected
d a new Democratic
country on the face of the Earth. So don't
-hin a year the Gov-
Thank you very much. Hey, you guys ready
let these pessimists start downgrading our
care in this country.
for a 45-minute speech, okay? Thank you
great country.
vill combine the effi-
very much. Thank you very much. Here is
Now, here's my view. I love this political
office with the com-
a man suggesting that we change control of
rally, but I've got a confession to make. I've
im not going to let
the United States Congress. He is right.
said that until our convention in Houston I'm
That's what some of this election is going to
going to hold back a little bit. But I'll tell
be about.
ason in the Senate,
you something: I can't wait for that conven-
Let me salute the Governor, let me salute
those who put the
tion to be over. It's going to be strong. It's
time. We'll fight for
Governor Edgar, and say what a great job
going to be good. And then I am going to
he and the Lieutenant Governor and others
We will fight for
set the record straight.
1. That's what this
are doing for this country. Let me tell you,
For 6 months the opposition has been dis-
about change alone
it is absolutely essential that we get more
torting a good, solid world leadership record,
appens. The ques-
support in the United States Senate. So vote
and we're not going to let that stand. So to
for Rich Williamson here, and send him to
to change America?
all you Georgians who believe you can ac-
lucation, and every
Washington.
complish things, who are demonstrating right
Let me just say this-I won't talk but a
here in Dalton to the rest of the world what
and I say the same
the polls; let others
second-we have indeed changed the world.
the American worker can do: Stay in there
and I want to fight
Now I need your help in getting this country
and help me. We are going to win.
United States of
on the move, changing America for the val-
Thank you very, very much.
es we all believe in. And we can do it.
I've never seen such a strange political
Note: The President spoke at 8:40 a.m. at
nd he and I share
ear, but I'll tell you this: When that conven-
the Multitex Corp.
n proud American
tion in Houston is over, I am going to come
Is, Ricky and Lisa,
out and go after that opponent. He's been
day. I want to close
on my case for 6 months. We are going to
sten once again to
define it, and we are going to win the elec-
Remarks to Shaw Industries
elieve with all my
tion-6 months, 6 months of distorting the
Employees in Dalton
ust join and once
great Republican record. I'm going to take
O the finest vision
August 3, 1992
the case to the people, and we will win in
herica: "one nation,
November.
Thank you very, very much for that wel-
ith liberty and jus-
Thank you all very much. Thank you very,
come back to Georgia, and Bob, thank you,
very much. Now go dry out.
sir. I don't know if I detected a note of relief
ve, the country Rich
on Anna Sue's face that this event, that I'm
e. When I ask you
Note: The President spoke at 1:25 p.m. at
sure has taken everybody's time, is here at
lieving in this good
Ned Brown Preserve.
hand and about to end. But thank you for
nd voting for him,
making us feel so welcome in this wonderful
the words of the
corner of Georgia.
Chicago: "I will."
I want to greet our other hosts, Bill Lusk
Remarks to Multitex Employees in
and Norris Little, Carl Rollins of Shaw, and
nk you very, very
nout and this won-
Dalton, Georgia
my Georgia political team here: Fred Coo-
very much.
August 3, 1992
per, my dear friend, and also another dear
friend, Alec Poitevint, who are doing a great
We wanted to come down here and see
job for us.
3 at 12:15 p.m. até
tremendous job that Dalton does in sell-
I would like to single out one department
Hotel. In his re-
ing product all over the world. Don't tell me
in this magnificent, enormous facility, and
Williamson, wife
the United States can't compete when you
I'm talking about the area rug department,
Clark, master of
see a place like this. We are number one.
who made a nice little souvenir for me to
You know, the guy I'm running against called
take home with my own name on it. I'll tell
1372
Aug. 3 / Administration of George Bush 1332
you, I can't think of a nicer, more personal-
When you get down to it, leadersh 22 about
ized remembrance than that. So wherever
trust. Trust runs both ways. You need =
you may be, thank you very, very much, and
er who you can trust, but you aiso, 1
thank the computers that spelled my name
leader who trusts in the American people,
right. [Laughter]
trusts you and not the Government to make
Now, it is great to be in Dalton. I came
the important decisions about your Irver.
here-I want to be first in line for the Cat-
When you forget about this kind of trust,
amount tickets when they go on sale, and
trusting people, you get some crazy ideas. I'll
I've come for another reason, too. America,
give you an example. These days the other
our great country, is moving into a new age,
side is pushing an idea that the way to fix
and Dalton gives us a glimpse of the future.
this economy is to raise taxes by $150 billion.
Dalton takes challenges and reinvents them
And at least half of that will fall OTI family
as opportunities. With the flexibility of com-
farmers and small businesses. They call that
panies like this one, like Shaw, with the
change. I guess it makes sense because if the
brainpower and grit of your chemists and
other side get in power, change is all you'll
your maintenance mechanics and your de-
have left in your pocket. [Laughter]
signers, Dalton shows America the face of
Here's another crazy idea that's being
the 21st century. Dalton shows the way.
pushed. They think they can fix health care
In the history of your industry you find
by slapping you with at least a 7-percent pay-
a parable of American progress. It starts sim-
roll tax to finance a Government takeover
ply, families selling hand-tufted bedspreads
scheme. Well, we'll have a health care system
that they made themselves out on Highway
with the efficiency of the motor vehicles if
41, Peacock Alley. It continues with the
we do that, the motor vehicles division, and
sprawling factories that sprung up after the
also the KGB, the same compassion. As long
war, rolling their carpets into homes and of-
as i am President, I am not going to let ou
fices in every corner of America. And it con-
medical system be socialized or nationalize
tinues today with an industry retooled by
We have a plan that will provide insurance
high tech, a work force more highly skilled
to all, those who need it, those who cannot
than ever before, and a marketplace as big
afford it, and will protect the basic quality
as the entire world.
of American health care.
The story has important lessons, lessons
So trusting the people, it's an idea that ap-
about how America grows and prospers. This
plies to almost every issue in this election,
election year, these lessons could not be
especially when it comes to how we can com-
more timely. The question today is not, can
pete in this whole new world global economy,
America compete in the global economy. I
how we can take on the new global competi-
know and you know that we can. The ques-
tion head-on-head and win it.
tion is how: How do we stay number one?
Let me tell you how I learned about com-
How do we create jobs for every American
peting in the world. I'm a Texan, moved
and create opportunities for our kids, our
there in 1948, built a business there, raised
children, and our families?
my family there. Incidentally, I think it's a
Some people say, "Well, let the Govern-
pretty good credential, for being President
ment do it. Let the Government get in
of the United States even, if you held a job
there." But Government does not create
in the private sector. I think that's good. In
jobs; people do. Government does not pro-
Texas I saw businesses and cities and towns
vide opportunity; hard work does. Look
rise up from those dusty plains, a place where
around. This company, this industry was not
you'd never expect it. The reason was that
built by some industrial planning congres-
the whole world thirsted for what Texans had
sional subcommittee in Washington, DC. It
to offer, crude and cattle and cotton. W
was born and built right here in Dalton,
knew the more goods we sold outside of
where the men and women take the risks
borders, the more jobs we created within
and reap the rewards.
them. I never forgot that lesson.
That's a lesson we shouldn't forget even
And I saw it again when I went into public
given the hue and cry of this election year.
life. And yes, I was Ambassador up there at
of George Bush, 1992
Administration of George Bush, 1992 / Aug. 3
1373
it, leadership is about
the United Nations and lived overseas in
a leader who trusts you and someone who
ways. You need a lead
China-just talking to Bob Shaw about
knows that Americans are the most produc-
but you also need
hat-ran the CIA, and as Vice President,
tive, the most competitive workers the world
he American people,
traveled around the world some. And every
has ever seen. All you need is a chance to
Government to make
day I was outside of this country I learned
show your stuff. As long as I am President,
about your lives.
again how important America was to the en-
I'm going to fight to see that you get the
out this kind of trust,
tire world and how important the world was
chance to sell these products anywhere
some crazy ideas. I'll
to America. I'm talking about creating Amer-
around the world.
These days the other
ican jobs, about making this economy grow
Let me give you one example. Some peo-
a that the way to fix
and prosper, and making sure our kids have
ple look at the former Soviet Union and see
taxes by $150 billion.
an even better life than we've had.
300 million former Communists over there.
at will fall on family
I've seen this every day for 3½ years as
Well, we look at it, and we see 300 million
lesses. They call that
President. I heard a certain southern Gov-
future customers. Now, math was never my
3 sense because if the
ernor say the other day that this country was
favorite subject, but I've done some comput-
:, change is all you'll
being ridiculed around the world. Well, I sus-
ing on this one. Let's say there's 50 million
[Laughter]
pect-and I'm not going to name names
homes-I don't know, give or take-50 mil-
y idea that's being
quite yet-I suspect that he hasn't been
lion homes in the former Soviet Union;
y can fix health care
around much. I'd like to have him walk the
maybe 4.5 billion square yards of floor space,
least a 7-percent pay-
streets of Warsaw, as I did a few days ago,
bare floor space. That's 4.5 billion isquare
Government takeover
or Moscow or maybe sit down with Boris
yards just waiting to be covered by your finest
a health care system
Yeltsin or Helmut Kohl or Miyazawa or a
patterned berber. Of course, I'm factoring
he motor vehicles if
myriad of leaders south of our border. And
in kitchens and bathtubs, too. But I have faith
vehicles division, and
they'd tell him what you and I already know:
compassion. As long
The United States is the undisputed leader
in your sales force. They can sell anything,
not going to let ou
of the world. That did not happen by acci-
anyplace, anytime.
lized or nationalize
ent. It happened by leadership and by the
Another example: Since 1989-now, listen
ill provide insurance
sons and daughters of America doing what
to this one-since 1989, exports, carpet ex-
they had to do from Iraq all the way across
ports to Mexico are up by 60 percent. That's
it, those who cannot
ect the basic quality
a major spectrum of other places. It's the
pretty darn good. But here in Dalton, pretty
spirit of the United States. To tear down this
good isn't good enough. We're going to build
country, to stand there and try to make the
on that success. Right now we're hammering
:, it's an idea that ap-
ssue in this election,
American people think we're a second-rate
out a new free trade deal with Canada and
S to how we can com-
power, they simply don't understand the
Mexico. We call it the NAFTA. I'm sure
vorld global economy,
greatness of the United States of America.
you've read about it. Here's what it will do.
Here's one way we're going to dem-
It will create 300,000 American jobs by 1995
new global competi-
onstrate it: trade, exports, open up markets
and one of the largest free trade areas in the
in it.
learned about com-
so you can sell the goods you make right
world. Free trade opens up the road, and
'm a Texan, moved
here. I heard Bob Shaw talk about it, and
on the open road, American workers' leave
usiness there, raised
he is 100 percent correct. The day is long
the competition in the dust. Or as my friend
intally, I think it's a
gone when you could sell carpets and rugs
Arnold Schwarzenegger would say "Hasta la
for being President
in 50 States and leave it just there. These
vista, baby!" We are on the move, and we're
en, if you held a job
days, standing still means falling behind. It's
going to keep it on the move.
think that's good. In
a new world. Markets are opening up in Gua-
Now, it may be hard to believe, but the
and cities and towns
dalajara and Jakarta and Santiago and Mos-
other side looks at these barriers falling and
plains, a place where
cow. And I'm going to see to it that Ameri-
they say, "Hold everything." They see these
The reason was that
cans get there first.
unbelievable opportunities, these vast mar-
for what Texans had
It's not going to be easy. This export busi-
kets to sell your goods, and they say, "Well,
tle and cotton. W
ess is not easy. If you want America to lead
we'd better not try. The challenge is too
we sold outside of
he world, you need somebody who under-
great; the odds are too long." They just by
we created within
stands; you need a leader who understands
implication say the Americans can't compete.
lesson.
the territory, someone you can trust to ham-
They say these other countries are going to
en I went into public
mer out a good deal around the negotiating
walk all over us. Well, let me tell you some-
bassador up there at
table. But you need even more. You need
thing. In a way they are going to walk all
1374
Aug. 3 / Administration of George Bush, 1992
over us. They're going to walk all over carpet
Thank you. And may God bless our grea
made right here in Dalton, Georgia.
country. Thank you very, very much.
This is the year-for 6 months we've been
subjected to the darnedest pessimism about
Note: The President spoke at 8:58 a.m. it
our great country that I have ever heard.
the Shaw Industries Distribution Ceni.
Every time you turn on that television at
South. In his remarks, he referred to com
night, somebody telling you what's wrong.
pany officials Robert Shaw, president am
Well, let me tell you what's right.
chief executive officer, and his wife, Ann
They say that America can't compete. I say
Sue, William Lusk, senior vice president an
we can compete and that we'll win. They say,
treasurer, Norris Little, senior vice presiden
"Pull the blinds and lock the door; the Amer-
for operations, and Carl Rollins, vice presi
ican worker can't hack it anymore." I say the
dent; Fred Cooper, State chairman, Bush
American worker can outthink, outwork,
Quayle '92; and Alec Poitevint, Georgia Re
outcompete anyone, anytime, anywhere.
publican Party chairman.
Here's a fact these pessimists better un-
derstand: Foreign trade supports the jobs of
153,000 Georgians, more than 7 million
Americans. Here's my pledge to you: I will
Remarks on Arrival in Jacksonville,
not let anyone endanger a single one of those
Florida
jobs by going protectionist and closing up
August 3, 1992
trade.
Let the other side criticize and say our
The President. What a great rally. Wh
country is ridiculed, laughed at around the
a fantastic Jacksonville turnout. Thank yo
world. They ought to open their eyes. Let
all very, very much. This is good for the sou
them worry and whine. I am going to fight
Audience members. Four more year
for these open markets because that means
Four more years! Four more years!
more jobs in this country, right here in Dal-
The President. Thank you so very, vel
ton, Georgia, among others, every city and
much. Senator Mack, Connie, my frien
State of our country. Let them run this coun-
thank you for that warm introduction. L
try down; let them carp on what's wrong with
me just tell you something that you mu
America. I'm going to do what's right. That's
know well: When the going got tough
what leadership is, and that's what trust is.
Desert Storm days, you could turn to Conn
I'd like to bring these pessimists down
Mack for success, for trust, for convictio
here to this part of Georgia. I'd like to bring
He was right on the ball all the way. Ar
them right here to see this town, this indus-
he is right: If you really want to chang
try. They might discover they've got nothing
America, change control of the United Stat
to fear from American workers and that
Congress, and let us get this country movin
American workers have nothing to fear from
I want to thank the Mayor for that war
competition. This is one work force that can
introduction. I'll forgive him for being
beat the pants off any competition.
Democrat; he's a good! man, and-[laug
That is the lesson of Dalton. That's why
ter]-1 was delighted to have him say tho
I'm here. I want that lesson to reverberate
pleasant things. To Mark Little: Mark, you'
all across our entire country. You didn't fear
got a great voice, you ought to go in radi
the future; you shaped it. Your industry
[Laughter] Thank you. Thank you very mu
didn't retreat from foreign markets; you went
for being here and getting this gang all fire
out and conquered them. And with leader-
up. When I say fired up, I'm talking literal
ship that trusts in you, you'll keep beating
I saw you when I came by on Air For
the pants off the competition.
One-a little warm out there. And may I
You and I do not feel that we are the
lute Cliff Stearns and Craig James, both gre
laughingstock of the world. We are the undis-
Congressmen. And let me say this: Plea
puted leader. So let's keep it just exactly that
elect Kelly Fowler and send her to the Un
way in the future. Let's keep America num-
ed States Congress. You want to chan
ber one.
things; there's a good way to do it. And m
SHAW INDUSTRIES \ DALTON, GEORGIA
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1992 \ 9:00 A.M.
THANK YOU FOR THAT KIND INTRODUCTION, BoB (SHAW)
AND LET ME THANK ME OTHER HOSTS AS WELL: BILL LUSK,
NORRIS LITTLE AND CARL ROLLINS OF SHAW INDUSTRIES
AND MY GEORGIA POLITICAL TEAM: FRED COOPER AND ALEC
POITEVINT.
IT'S GREAT TO BE IN DALTON. // ((I THINK YOU KNOW
WHY I'VE COME HERE TODAY. I WANT TO MAKE SURE I'M
FIRST IN LINE WHEN CATAMOUNT TICKETS GO ON SALE.))
- 2 -
I'VE COME FOR ANOTHER REASON TOO. AMERICA IS
MOVING INTO A NEW AGE, AND DALTON GIVES US A GLIMPSE OF
THAT FUTURE. DALTON TAKES CHALLENGES AND REINVENTS
THEM AS OPPORTUNITIES. WITH THE FLEXIBILITY OF
COMPANIES LIKE SHAW -- WITH THE BRAINPOWER AND GRIT OF
YOUR CHEMISTS AND MAINTENANCE MECHANICS AND DESIGNERS
-- DALTON SHOWS AMERICA THE FACE OF THE 21st CENTURY.
DALTON SHOWS THE WAY.
- 3 -
IN THE HISTORY OF YOUR INDUSTRY YOU FIND A PARABLE
OF AMERICAN PROGRESS. IT STARTS SIMPLY -- FAMILIES
SELLING HAND-TUFTED BEDSPREADS THEY MADE THEMSELVES,
OUT ON HIGHWAY 41, PEACOCK ALLEY. IT CONTINUES WITH
THE SPRAWLING FACTORIES THAT SPRUNG UP AFTER THE WAR,
ROLLING THEIR CARPETS INTO HOMES AND OFFICES IN EVERY
CORNER OF AMERICA.
- 4 -
AND IT CONTINUES TODAY --- WITH AN INDUSTRY RETOOLED BY
HIGH TECHNOLOGY, A WORKFORCE MORE HIGHLY SKILLED THAN
EVER BEFORE, AND A MARKETPLACE AS BIG AS THE WORLD.
THE STORY HAS IMPORTANT LESSONS -- LESSONS ABOUT
HOW AMERICA GROWS AND PROSPERS. THIS ELECTION YEAR,
THOSE LESSONS COULDN'T BE MORE TIMELY. THE QUESTION
TODAY IS NOT CAN AMERICA COMPETE IN THE NEW GLOBAL
ECONOMY. I KNOW // AND YOU KNOW // WE CAN.
- 5 -
THE QUESTION IS HOW -- HOW DO WE STAY NUMBER ONE -- HOW
DO WE CREATE JOBS FOR EVERY AMERICAN, AND CREATE
OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR KIDS.
SOME PEOPLE SAY: LET GOVERNMENT DO IT. BUT
GOVERNMENT DOESN'T CREATE JOBS -- PEOPLE DO.
GOVERNMENT DOESN'T PROVIDE OPPORTUNITY -- HARD WORK
DOES. LOOK AROUND. THIS COMPANY -- THIS INDUSTRY --
WASN'T BUILT BY SOME CONGRESSIONAL SUBCOMMITTEE.
- 6 -
IT WAS BORN AND BUILT RIGHT HERE IN DALTON -- WHERE
FREE MEN AND WOMEN TOOK THE RISKS AND REAPED THE
REWARDS.
THAT'S A LESSON WE SHOULDN'T FORGET THIS ELECTION
YEAR. WHEN YOU GET DOWN TO IT, LEADERSHIP IS ABOUT
TRUST. TRUST RUNS BOTH WAYS. You NEED A LEADER YOU
CAN TRUST, BUT YOU ALSO NEED A LEADER WHO TRUSTS YOU
-- TRUSTS YOU, AND NOT THE GOVERNMENT TO MAKE THE
IMPORTANT DECISIONS ABOUT YOUR LIVES.
- 7 -
WHEN YOU FORGET ABOUT THIS KIND OF TRUST --
TRUSTING THE PEOPLE -- YOU GET SOME CRAZY IDEAS. I'LL
GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. THESE DAYS THE OTHER SIDE IS
PUSHING THE IDEA THAT THE WAY TO FIX THIS ECONOMY IS TO
RAISE TAXES -- $150 BILLION DOLLARS WORTH. AND AT
LEAST HALF OF THAT WILL FALL ON FAMILY FARMERS AND
SMALL BUSINESSES. THEY CALL THAT CHANGE. I GUESS IT
MAKES SENSE. BECAUSE IF THE OTHER GUY GETS IN OFFICE
-- CHANGE IS ALL YOU'LL HAVE LEFT IN YOUR POCKET.
- 8 -
HERE'S ANOTHER CRAZY IDEA THEY'RE PUSHING. THEY
THINK THEY CAN FIX HEALTH CARE BY SLAPPING YOU WITH A 7
PERCENT PAYROLL TAX -- TO FINANCE A GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER
SCHEME. WE'LL HAVE A HEALTH CARE SYSTEM WITH THE
EFFICIENCY OF THE MOTOR VEHICLES DEPARTMENT AND THE
COMPASSION OF THE KGB. As LONG AS I AM PRESIDENT, I'M
NOT GOING TO LET THAT HAPPEN. //
- 9 -
TRUSTING THE PEOPLE -- IT'S AN IDEA THAT APPLIES TO
ALMOST EVERY ISSUE THIS ELECTION. ESPECIALLY WHEN IT
COMES TO HOW WE CAN COMPETE IN THIS NEW GLOBAL
ECONOMY -- HOW WE CAN TAKE ON THE NEW GLOBAL
COMPETITION HEAD TO HEAD AND WIN.
LET ME TELL YOU HOW I LEARNED ABOUT COMPETING IN
THE WORLD. I'M A TEXAN -- BUILT MY BUSINESS THERE,
RAISED MY FAMILY THERE.
- 10 -
AND IN TEXAS I SAW BUSINESSES AND CITIES AND TOWNS RISE
UP FROM THOSE DUSTY PLAINS -- A PLACE WHERE YOU'D NEVER
EXPECT IT. AND THE REASON WAS THAT THE WHOLE WORLD
THIRSTED FOR WHAT TEXANS HAD TO OFFER -- TEXAS CRUDE
AND CATTLE AND COTTON. WE KNEW THE MORE GOODS WE SOLD
OUTSIDE OUR BORDERS, THE MORE JOBS WE CREATED WITHIN
THEM. I NEVER FORGOT THAT LESSON.
- 11 -
AND I SAW IT AGAIN WHEN I WENT INTO PUBLIC LIFE. I
WAS AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N., SERVED IN CHINA, RAN THE
C.I.A.-- -- TRAVELED THE WORLD A BIT. AND EVERYDAY I WAS
OUTSIDE THIS COUNTRY I LEARNED AGAIN HOW IMPORTANT
AMERICA WAS TO THE WORLD -- AND HOW IMPORTANT THE WORLD
WAS TO AMERICA. I'M TALKING ABOUT CREATING AMERICAN
JOBS -- ABOUT MAKING THIS ECONOMY GROW AND PROSPER, AND
MAKING SURE OUR KIDS HAVE AN EVEN BETTER LIFE THAN
WE'VE HAD.
- 12 -
I'VE SEEN THIS EVERY DAY FOR THREE-AND-A-HALF
YEARS AS PRESIDENT. I HEARD A CERTAIN SOUTHERN
GOVERNOR SAY THE OTHER DAY THAT THIS COUNTRY WAS THE
"BEING RIDICULED AROUND THE WORLD." WELL, I SUSPECT
THIS GUY -- I WON'T NAME NAMES -- HASN'T BEEN AROUND
MUCH. I'D LIKE TO HAVE HIM WALK THE STREETS OF WARSAW
OR Moscow -- MAYBE SIT HIM DOWN WITH BORIS YELTSIN OR
HELMUT KOHL OR PRIME MINISTER MIYAZAWA. THEY'D TELL
HIM WHAT YOU AND I ALREADY KNOW:
- 13 -
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS THE UNDISPUTED LEADER
OF THE WORLD. THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT, IT
HAPPENED BY LEADERSHIP -- MY LEADERSHIP WILL KEEP
AMERICA NUMBER ONE.
AND HERE'S ONE WAY WE'RE GOING TO DO IT: TRADE //
EXPORTS // OPEN UP MARKETS so YOU CAN SELL THE GOODS
YOU MAKE RIGHT HERE. THE DAY IS LONG GONE WHEN YOU
COULD SELL CARPETS AND RUGS IN THE 50 STATES AND LEAVE
IT AT THAT.
= 14 -
THESE DAYS, STANDING STILL MEANS FALLING BEHIND. IT'S
A NEW WORLD -- MARKETS OPENING UP IN GUADALAJARA //
JAKARTA // SANTIAGO // Moscow. AND I'M GOING TO SEE TO
IT THAT AMERICANS GET THERE FIRST.
IT WON'T BE A CAKEWALK. IF YOU WANT AMERICA TO
LEAD THE WORLD, YOU NEED A LEADER WHO KNOWS THE
TERRITORY -- SOMEONE YOU CAN TRUST TO HAMMER OUT A GOOD
DEAL AROUND THE NEGOTIATING TABLE.
- 15 -
BUT YOU NEED EVEN MORE: YOU NEED A LEADER WHO TRUSTS
YOU -- SOMEONE WHO KNOWS THAT AMERICANS ARE THE MOST
PRODUCTIVE, MOST COMPETITIVE WORKERS THE WORLD HAS EVER
SEEN. ALL YOU NEED IS A CHANCE TO SHOW YOUR STUFF.
AND AS LONG AS I'M PRESIDENT, YOU'RE GOING TO GET THAT
CHANCE.
I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE: SOME PEOPLE LOOK AT THE
FORMER SOVIET UNION AND SEE 300 MILLION FORMER
COMMUNISTS -- WE LOOK AT IT AND SEE 300 MILLION FUTURE
CUSTOMERS.
- 16 -
Now, MATH WAS NEVER MY FAVORITE SUBJECT, BUT I'VE DONE
A LITTLE COMPUTING ON THIS. LET'S SAY THERE'S FIFTY
MILLION HOMES IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION ... MAYBE
FOUR-AND-A-HALF BILLION SQUARE YARDS OF FLOOR SPACE
...
BARE FLOOR SPACE ... THAT'S FOUR=AND-A-HALF BILLION
SQUARE YARDS JUST WAITING TO BE COVERED BY YOUR FINEST
PATTERNED BERBER. OF COURSE, I'M FACTORING IN KITCHENS
AND BATHTUBS, TOO /// BUT I HAVE FAITH IN YOUR
SALESMEN. ////
- 17 -
ANOTHER EXAMPLE: SINCE 1989, CARPET EXPORTS TO
MEXICO ARE UP 60 PERCENT. PRETTY GOOD. BUT HERE IN
DALTON, PRETTY GOOD ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH. WE'RE GOING TO
BUILD ON THAT SUCCESS. RIGHT NOW, WE'RE HAMMERING OUT
A NEW FREE TRADE DEAL WITH CANADA AND MEXICO -- WE CALL
IT NAFTA. HERE'S WHAT IT'LL DO: CREATE 300,000
AMERICAN JOBS BY 1995 -- AND ONE OF THE LARGEST FREE
TRADE AREAS IN THE WORLD.
- 18 -
FREE TRADE OPENS UP THE ROAD -- AND ON THE OPEN ROAD,
AMERICAN WORKERS LEAVE THE COMPETITION IN THE DUST. OR
AS MY BUDDY ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER WOULD PUT IT: HASTA
LA VISTA, BABY! [AH-STAH LA VEE-STAH]//
Now IT MAY BE HARD TO BELIEVE, BUT THE OTHER SIDE
LOOKS AT THESE BARRIERS FALLING, AND THEY SAY: HOLD
EVERYTHING. THEY SEE THESE UNBELIEVABLE OPPORTUNITIES,
THESE VAST MARKETS TO SELL YOUR GOODS, AND THEY SAY: WE
BETTER NOT TRY.
- 19 -
THE CHALLENGE IS TOO GREAT, THE ODDS ARE TOO LONG.
THEY SAY: AMERICA CAN'T COMPETE. THEY SAY: THESE OTHER
COUNTRIES ARE GOING TO WALK ALL OVER US.
You KNOW WHAT? IN A WAY THEY ARE GOING TO WALK ALL
OVER US. THEY'RE GOING TO WALK ALL OVER CARPET MADE
RIGHT HERE IN DALTON, GEORGIA. ////
THEY SAY: AMERICA CAN'T COMPETE. //
- 20 -
I SAY: AMERICA CAN COMPETE, AND AMERICA WILL WIN.
THEY SAY: PULL THE BLINDS, LOCK THE DOOR, THE
AMERICAN WORKER CAN'T HACK IT. //
I SAY: THE AMERICAN WORKER CAN OUT-THINK, OUT-
WORK, OUT-COMPETE ANYONE, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE. ////
HERE'S A FACT THEY BETTER LEARN: FOREIGN TRADE
SUPPORTS THE JOBS OF 153,000 GEORGIANS, MORE THAN 7
MILLION AMERICANS. AND HERE'S MY pledge TO YOU:
are 21 -
I WON'T LET ANYONE ENDANGER A SINGLE ONE OF THOSE JOBS
BY CLOSING UP TRADE.
LET THEM WORRY AND WHINE: I WILL FIGHT FOR OPEN
MARKETS, BECAUSE THAT MEANS MORE JOBS HERE IN DALTON,
AND IN EVERY CITY AND STATE OF OUR COUNTRY. LET THEM
RUN THIS COUNTRY DOWN -- LET THEM CARP ON WHAT'S WRONG
WITH AMERICA.
I'M GOING TO DO WHAT'S RIGHT FOR AMERICA.
- 22 -
THAT'S WHAT LEADERSHIP IS -- THAT'S WHAT TRUST IS.
I'D LIKE TO BRING THESE PESSIMISTS DOWN TO DALTON,
TO SEE THIS TOWN, THIS INDUSTRY. THEY MIGHT DISCOVER
THEY'VE GOT NOTHING TO FEAR FROM AMERICAN WORKERS --
AND THAT AMERICAN WORKERS HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR FROM
COMPETITION. THIS IS ONE WORKFORCE THAT' LL BEAT THE
PANTS OFF ANY COMPETITION.
- 23 -
THAT'S THE LESSON OF DALTON. You DIDN'T FEAR THE
FUTURE, YOU SHAPED IT. YOUR INDUSTRY DIDN'T RETREAT
FROM FOREIGN MARKETS; YOU CONQUERED THEM. AND WITH
LEADERSHIP THAT TRUSTS IN YOU, YOU' LL KEEP BEATING THE
PANTS OFF THE COMPETITION.
THANK YOU FOR THE CHANCE TO VISIT WITH YOU. GOD
BLESS YOU AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES.
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
JULY 31, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
DAN MCGROARTY our
FROM:
ANDY FERGUSON at
Summary:
On Monday, August 3, 1992, at approximately 9:00 a.m., you
will address 400 workers in the Terminal Building at Shaw
Industries in Dalton, Georgia, the world's largest carpet
manufacturer. You will be introduced by Robert E. Shaw, the
company's President and Chief Executive Officer.
Your remarks (approximately 12 minutes / cards) touch on
health care and your economic growth package, and conclude with a
discussion of the importance of free trade in expanding economic
growth and creating jobs.
(Ferguson/Gershowitz)
July 29, 1992
DALTON
Draft Three
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: SHAW INDUSTRIES
DALTON, GEORGIA
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1992
9:00 A.M.
Thank you for that kind introduction.
(Acknowledgments)
It's great to be in Dalton. 11 ((I think you know why I've
come here today. I want to make sure I'm first in line when
Catamount tickets go on sale.))
I've come for another reason too. As Americans prepare for
the global economy, Dalton offers a glimpse into the future.
Dalton takes challenges and reinvents them as opportunities.
With the flexibility of companies like Shaw, with the know-how
and talents of your chemists and maintenance mechanics and
designers, Dalton shows America the face of the 21st century.
Dalton shows the way.
In the history of your industry you find a parable of
American progress. It starts simply -- families selling hand-
tufted bedspreads they made themselves, out on Highway 41,
Peacock Alley. It continues with the sprawling factories that
sprung up after the war, rolling their carpets into homes and
offices in every corner of America. And it continues today --
with an industry retooled by high technology, a workforce more
highly skilled than ever before, and a marketplace as big as the
world.
2
The story has important lessons -- lessons about how America
grows and prospers. This election year, those lessons couldn't
be more timely. The question today is not can America compete in
the new global economy. I know 11 and you know // we can. The
question is how -- how do we stay number one -- how do we create
jobs for every American, and create opportunity for our children.
Some people say: let the government do it. But government
doesn't create jobs -- people do. Government doesn't provide
opportunity -- hard work does. Look around. This company --
this industry -- wasn't built by some congressional subcommittee.
It was born and built right here in Dalton -- where free men and
women took the risks and reaped the rewards.
That's a lesson we shouldn't forget this election year.
When you get down to it, leadership is about trust. Many times,
in the White House late at night, the phone rings. Usually it's
a young aide double-checking the next day's schedule. But
occasionally, it's another voice -- more serious, solemn --
carrying news of a coup in a powerful country, or asking how
America should stand up to a bully halfway around the world. The
American people need to know that the man who answers that phone
has the experience, the seasoning, the guts, to do the right
thing.
That's trust in the traditional sense, but this election
year we need to remember that trust is even more than that.
Trust runs both ways. You need a leader you can trust, but you
also need a leader who trusts you.
3
I spent half my adult life building a business, creating
jobs / meeting a payroll. Out in west Texas, I watched towns and
cities and businesses bloom from those dusty plains, and I
learned this: what keeps America growing is the drive and
enterprise of Americans themselves. In America a leader must
trust the people he leads. And that means putting people before
government.
Now, there are others -- the government-first crowd -- who
take a different view. Most of them have spent their lives in
government. So I guess it's not surprising: they think the way
to get America moving is to make government bigger, fatten up the
public payroll, then raise your taxes to pay for it.
I've been coming up against the government-firsters for
three-and-a-half years. I'll give you an example: health care.
All of us want health care reform, and I've put forward a
comprehensive plan to fix the system -- without bringing it under
government control.
But the government-firsters advocate something called "Pay
or Play" -- a plan for government-run health care that would slap
a new 7 percent payroll tax on workers and employers. Maybe that
makes sense to people who've spent their lives in government.
But anybody who's tried to build a small business -- in fact,
anybody who's spent a day waiting in line at the DMV -- knows the
government has no business playing doctor. Nationalized health
care would be a national disaster.
4
And you see the same difference in today's most pressing
issue -- the economy, jobs. Last January, I put forward a
comBOn-sense plan to help American businesses create new jobs
right now. More than half a million jobs would have been created
since February -- if Congress had passed my plan.
But that's not what happened. Congress took my plan, tossed
it in a bottom drawer, and sent me back a tax increase.
That's right: a tax increase. Now think about it: Already,
here in Georgia, you have to work 123 days just to pay your
taxes. 123 days. Correct me if I'm wrong -- but I don't think
you want to make it 124.
So I told the Congress: don't even think about it. I
vetoed their plan -- because the last thing this country needs -
- the last thing you need -- is a tax increase.
Again, it's a question of trust: I think Americans know
better than any budget planner in Washington how to spend and
save the money they earn.
I told Congress: Try again. Now, 187 days after I sent them
my plan, I'm still waiting. Apparently, the only thing Congress
wants to try is the patience of the American people.
Today, I say again to the Congress: We need those half a
million jobs. Don't hold the American economy hostage to
politics. Vote for my economic recovery program, and let
Americans get back to work -- now!
That short-term plan is important, but we've got to do more,
today, to make sure America continues to lead the world tomorrow.
,
5
Let me give you another example -- one that's vitally important
to your industry. For three years I've worked to keep America
the leader of the global economy. The day is long past when you
could sell carpeting in the 50 states and leave it at that. New
markets are opening up in Guadalajara, in Santiago, in Jakarta.
And I want Americans to get there first.
The key is trade -- tearing down the barriers that keep
American products out of world markets, so American businesses
can create jobs here at home.
Now, it's not an easy task. If you want America to lead the
world, America needs a leader who knows the territory. You need
a leader you can trust to hammer out a good deal when the
negotiating gets tough. But you need even more: you need
someone who trusts you -- someone who knows that Americans are
the most productive, most competitive workers the world has ever
seen -- who knows all you need is a chance to show your stuff.
Look at the facts: We are the largest exporter in the
world. Over the last three years, our exports have increased
$100 billion dollars -- a 31 percent increase. Here in Georgia,
exports have doubled in three years. And a lot of that growth
has been in this industry. Last year alone, carpet exports
increased 54 percent.
That success has been good for the carpeting industry -- and
good for America. But I won't stop there. Right now, we're
close to reaching a historic trade agreement with Mexico.
Together with Canada, we'll create a $6 trillion market -- one of
6
the largest trading areas the world has ever seen, from the
northern reaches of Canada to the southern tip of Mexico. I
can't give you the square footage, but you can be sure: that's a
lot of carpet.
Now it may be hard to believe, but the government-first
crowd -- the special interests and their clients in Congress --
they look at these barriers falling, see these remarkable
opportunities opening up, and they say: Hold everything. They
say: the challenge is too great, the odds are too long. They
say: America can't compete.
Well, I say: America will compete, and America will win.
Already some of the government-firsters want to block our
free trade agreement with Mexico. You see, they may say they
want change, but when it comes to creating new American jobs by
opening new markets, change is the thing they fear most of all.
Here's another fact for them: foreign trade supports the
jobs of 153,000 Georgians. And here's my pledge to you: I won't
let them endanger a single one of those jobs by cutting off
trade. Let them worry and whine: I will fight for open markets,
because that means more jobs here in Dalton, and in every state
of our country. Let them run this country down -- let them focus
on what's wrong with America. I'm going to do what's right for
America.
That's what leadership is -- that's what trust is. I will
fight for open markets because I know that Americans can out-
work, out-think, out-compete anyone, anytime, anywhere.
7
I'd like to bring these pessimists down to Dalton, to see
this town, this industry. The people who want to put government
first might discover they've got nothing to fear from American
workers -- and that American workers have nothing to fear from
competition.
I'd like them to hear about your "Education is Essential"
program, or see Shaw's G.E.D. program in action. When the
changing economy demanded a better-educated workforce, Dalton
didn't wait. Your businessmen and community leaders and workers
met the challenge. The government-firsters might learn
something: this is one workforce that'll beat the pants off any
competition.
That's the lesson of Dalton. You didn't fear the future,
you shaped it. Your industry didn't retreat from foreign
markets; you conquered them. And -- miracle of miracles -- it
happened without a single industrial planner from Washington
telling you what to do.
That's why I say Dalton gives us a glimpse of the 21st
century. America will continue to lead the world, Dalton will
still reign as the world's carpet capital, if America has a
government that knows its limits -- and if America has a leader
who trusts
who has faith in the people he leads.
Thank you for the chance to visit with you. God bless you
and God bless the United States.
###
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
JULY 31, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
DAN MCGROARTY our
FROM:
ANDY FERGUSON at
Summary:
On Monday, August 3, 1992, at approximately 9:00 a.m., you
will address 400 workers in the Terminal Building at Shaw
Industries in Dalton, Georgia, the world's largest carpet
manufacturer. You will be introduced by Robert E. Shaw, the
company's President and Chief Executive Officer.
Your remarks (approximately 12 minutes / cards) touch on
health care and your economic growth package, and conclude with a
discussion of the importance of free trade in expanding economic
growth and creating jobs.
(Ferguson/Gershowitz)
July 29, 1992
DALTON
Draft Three
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: SHAW INDUSTRIES
DALTON, GEORGIA
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1992
9:00 A.M.
Thank you for that kind introduction.
(Acknowledgments)
It's great to be in Dalton. // ((I think you know why I've
come here today. I want to make sure I'm first in line when
Catamount tickets go on sale.))
I've come for another reason too. As Americans prepare for
the global economy, Dalton offers a glimpse into the future.
Dalton takes challenges and reinvents them as opportunities.
With the flexibility of companies like Shaw, with the know-how
and talents of your chemists and maintenance mechanics and
designers, Dalton shows America the face of the 21st century.
Dalton shows the way.
In the history of your industry you find a parable of
American progress. It starts simply -- families selling hand-
tufted bedspreads they made themselves, out on Highway 41,
Peacock Alley. It continues with the sprawling factories that
sprung up after the war, rolling their carpets into homes and
offices in every corner of America. And it continues today --
with an industry retooled by high technology, a workforce more
highly skilled than ever before, and a marketplace as big as the
world.
2
The story has important lessons -- lessons about how America
grows and prospers. This election year, those lessons couldn't
be more timely. The question today is not can America compete in
the new global economy. I know // and you know // we can. The
question is how -- how do we stay number one -- how do we create
jobs for every American, and create opportunity for our children.
Some people say: let the government do it. But government
doesn't create jobs -- people do. Government doesn't provide
opportunity -- hard work does. Look around. This company --
this industry -- wasn't built by some congressional subcommittee.
It was born and built right here in Dalton -- where free men and
women took the risks and reaped the rewards.
That's a lesson we shouldn't forget this election year.
When you get down to it, leadership is about trust. Many times,
in the White House late at night, the phone rings. Usually it's
a young aide double-checking the next day's schedule. But
occasionally, it's another voice -- more serious, solemn --
carrying news of a coup in a powerful country, or asking how
America should stand up to a bully halfway around the world. The
American people need to know that the man who answers that phone
has the experience, the seasoning, the guts, to do the right
thing.
That's trust in the traditional sense, but this election
year we need to remember that trust is even more than that.
Trust runs both ways. You need a leader you can trust, but you
also need a leader who trusts you.
3
I spent half my adult life building a business, creating
jobs / meeting a payroll. Out in west Texas, I watched towns and
cities and businesses bloom from those dusty plains, and I
learned this: what keeps America growing is the drive and
enterprise of Americans themselves. In America a leader must
trust the people he leads. And that means putting people before
government.
Now, there are others -- the government-first crowd -- who
take a different view. Most of them have spent their lives in
government. So I guess it's not surprising: they think the way
to get America moving is to make government bigger, fatten up the
public payroll, then raise your taxes to pay for it.
I've been coming up against the government-firsters for
three-and-a-half years. I'll give you an example: health care.
All of us want health care reform, and I've put forward a
comprehensive plan to fix the system -- without bringing it under
government control.
But the government-firsters advocate something called "Pay
or Play" -- a plan for government-run health care that would slap
a new 7 percent payroll tax on workers and employers. Maybe that
makes sense to people who've spent their lives in government.
But anybody who's tried to build a small business -- in fact,
anybody who's spent a day waiting in line at the DMV -- knows the
government has no business playing doctor. Nationalized health
care would be a national disaster.
4
And you see the same difference in today's most pressing
issue -- the economy, jobs. Last January, I put forward a
comBon-sense plan to help American businesses create new jobs
right now. More than half a million jobs would have been created
since February -- if Congress had passed my plan.
But that's not what happened. Congress took my plan, tossed
it in a bottom drawer, and sent me back a tax increase.
That's right: a tax increase. Now think about it: Already,
here in Georgia, you have to work 123 days just to pay your
taxes. 123 days. Correct me if I'm wrong -- but I don't think
you want to make it 124.
So I told the Congress: don't even think about it. I
vetoed their plan -- because the last thing this country needs -
- the last thing you need -- is a tax increase.
Again, it's a question of trust: I think Americans know
better than any budget planner in Washington how to spend and
save the money they earn.
I told Congress: Try again. Now, 187 days after I sent them
my plan, I'm still waiting. Apparently, the only thing Congress
wants to try is the patience of the American people.
Today, I say again to the Congress: We need those half a
million jobs. Don't hold the American economy hostage to
politics. Vote for my economic recovery program, and let
Americans get back to work -- now!
That short-term plan is important, but we've got to do more,
today, to make sure America continues to lead the world tomorrow.
5
Let me give you another example -- one that's vitally important
to your industry. For three years I've worked to keep America
the leader of the global economy. The day is long past when you
could sell carpeting in the 50 states and leave it at that. New
markets are opening up in Guadalajara, in Santiago, in Jakarta.
And I want Americans to get there first.
The key is trade -- tearing down the barriers that keep
American products out of world markets, so American businesses
can create jobs here at home.
Now, it's not an easy task. If you want America to lead the
world, America needs a leader who knows the territory. You need
a leader you can trust to hammer out a good deal when the
negotiating gets tough. But you need even more: you need
someone who trusts you -- someone who knows that Americans are
the most productive, most competitive workers the world has ever
seen -- who knows all you need is a chance to show your stuff.
Look at the facts: We are the largest exporter in the
world. Over the last three years, our exports have increased
$100 billion dollars -- a 31 percent increase. Here in Georgia,
exports have doubled in three years. And a lot of that growth
has been in this industry. Last year alone, carpet exports
increased 54 percent.
That success has been good for the carpeting industry -- and
good for America. But I won't stop there. Right now, we're
close to reaching a historic trade agreement with Mexico.
Together with Canada, we'll create a $6 trillion market -- one of
6
the largest trading areas the world has ever seen, from the
northern reaches of Canada to the southern tip of Mexico. I
can't give you the square footage, but you can be sure: that's a
lot of carpet.
Now it may be hard to believe, but the government-first
crowd -- the special interests and their clients in Congress --
they look at these barriers falling, see these remarkable
opportunities opening up, and they say: Hold everything. They
say: the challenge is too great, the odds are too long. They
say: America can't compete.
Well, I say: America will compete, and America will win.
Already some of the government-firsters want to block our
free trade agreement with Mexico. You see, they may say they
want change, but when it comes to creating new American jobs by
opening new markets, change is the thing they fear most of all.
Here's another fact for them: foreign trade supports the
jobs of 153,000 Georgians. And here's my pledge to you: I won't
let them endanger a single one of those jobs by cutting off
trade. Let them worry and whine: I will fight for open markets,
because that means more jobs here in Dalton, and in every state
of our country. Let them run this country down -- let them focus
on what's wrong with America. I'm going to do what's right for
America.
That's what leadership is -- that's what trust is. I will
fight for open markets because I know that Americans can out-
work, out-think, out-compete anyone, anytime, anywhere.
7
I'd like to bring these pessimists down to Dalton, to see
this town, this industry. The people who want to put government
first might discover they've got nothing to fear from American
workers -- and that American workers have nothing to fear from
competition.
I'd like them to hear about your "Education is Essential"
program, or see Shaw's G.E.D. program in action. When the
changing economy demanded a better-educated workforce, Dalton
didn't wait. Your businessmen and community leaders and workers
met the challenge. The government-firsters might learn
something: this is one workforce that'll beat the pants off any
competition.
That's the lesson of Dalton. You didn't fear the future,
you shaped it. Your industry didn't retreat from foreign
markets; you conquered them. And -- miracle of miracles -- it
happened without a single industrial planner from Washington
telling you what to do.
That's why I say Dalton gives us a glimpse of the 21st
century. America will continue to lead the world, Dalton will
still reign as the world's carpet capital, if America has a
government that knows its limits -- and if America has a leader
who trusts
who has faith in the people he leads.
Thank you for the chance to visit with you. God bless you
and God bless the United States.
###
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
7/30/92
1:00PM, FRIDAY, JUL 3:
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: SHAW INDUSTRIES
DALTON, GEORGIA
SUBJECT:
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1992
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and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Ferguson/Gershowitz)
July 29, 1992
02 JUL 30 P5: 03
DALTON
Draft Two
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: SHAW INDUSTRIES
DALTON, GEORGIA
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1992
Thank you for that kind introduction.
(Acknowledgments)
It is a pleasure to be here in Dalton. I think you know why
I've come here today. I want to make sure I'm first in line when
Catamount tickets go on sale.
I've come for another reason too. As this great nation
prepares itself for the global economy, Dalton offers a glimpse
into the future. Dalton has taken the challenges of a new world
and turned them into opportunities. With the flexibility of
companies like Shaw, with the ingenuity of your chemists and XX
and xx, Dalton is showing America the face of the 21st century.
Dalton is showing the way.
In the history of your industry you can find a parable of
American progress. It starts simply, with a craftsman working
solo at a handloom, selling her wares from her home. It
continues into the sprawling factories of decades ago, pumping
their products into every region of a vast country. And it
continues today -- with an industry retooled by high technology,
a workforce more highly skilled than ever before, and a
marketplace as big as the world.
The story has an important lesson -- a lesson about how
America grows and prospers. It couldn't be more timely. The
question today is not can America compete in the new global
2
economy. I know and you know we can. The question is how -- how
do we stay number one in a changing world -- how do we create
jobs for every American, and create opportunity for our children.
I believe, when you get down to it, it's a question of
trust. Americans need a leader they can trust to do the right
thing -- whether it's standing up to a bully halfway around the
world, or hammering out a tough trade negotiation with a foreign
leader. Trust -- in that traditional sense -- is crucial. But
it's only part of the picture.
I spent half my adult life building a business, creating
jobs and meeting a payroll. Out in west Texas, watching towns
and cities and businesses bloom from those dusty plains, I
learned this: to lead a great nation, you must trust the people
you lead.
Ane that means putting people before government. Government
doesn't create America's jobs. Our prosperity wasn't designed
around a conference table at the White House or in some
subcommittee on Capitol Hill. It was hatched right here, in
places like Dalton, where free men and women took the risks /
weighed the odds / and reaped the rewards.
Now, some people take a different view. Most of them have
spent their lives in government. So I guess it's not surprising:
they think the way to get our economy moving is to make
government bigger, fatten up the public payroll, and then raise
your taxes to pay for it.
3
I've been coming up against them all my years in public
life. Last January, I put forward a specific plan to create new
jobs right now -- cutting taxes to encourage businesses to hire
new workers and help young couples who want to buy their first
home. If Congress had acted on my plan, more than half a million
jobs would have been created since February.
Well, Congress acted, all right. They took my plan, tossed
in a bottom drawer, and sent me back a tax increase.
I told them: don't even think about it. I vetoed their plan
the minute it hit my desk. The fact is, the last thing this
country needs is a tax increase. Again, it's a question of
trust: I think Americans know better than any budget planner in
Washington how to spend and save the money they earn.
So I told Congress: Try again. Now, 188 days after I sent
them my plan, I'm still waiting. Today, I say to the Congress,
we need those half a million jobs, and we need them today. Don't
hold the American economy hostage to politics. Vote for an
economic recovery program, and let Americans get back to work --
now!
That short-term plan is important, but we've got to do more,
today, to make sure America continues to lead the world tomorrow.
Let me give you another example -- one that's vitally important
to your industry. For three years I've worked to keep America
the leader of the global economy. The key is trade -- tear down
the barriers that keep American products out of world markets, so
American businesses can create jobs here at home.
4
Now, it's not an easy job. If you want America to lead the
world, America needs a leader who knows the territory. And you
need this: someone who trusts the American people -- someone who
knows that Americans are the most productive, most competitive
workers the world has ever seen -- if they're given the chance.
Look at the facts: We are the largest exporter in the world.
For the last three years, our exports have accounted for 70
percent of our economic growth. And a lot of that growth has
been right here in the carpeting industry. Last year alone,
carpet exports increased 43 percent.
That success has been good for America, good for the
carpeting industry. But I've vowed that I won't stop there.
Right now, we're on the verge of reaching a historic trade
agreement with Mexico. Together with Canada, we'll create a $6
trillion market -- one of the largest trading areas the world has
ever seen, from the Yukon to the Yucatan. I wish I could give
you the square footage, but you can be sure: that's a lot of
carpet.
Now it may be hard to believe, but some people look at these
barriers falling, see these remarkable opportunities opening up,
and they say: Hold everything. In Washington, in the United
States Congress, the forces are lined up against us, powerful
protectionists who see the challenge of an open market and think:
the American worker can't do it. The challenge is too great, the
odds are too long. The protectionists may say they want change,
but change is the thing they fear most of all.
5
Of course they don't use the "p" word -- protectionists
never do. Some have even learned the language of free trade and
open markets.
But they always seem to find an excuse why Americans
shouldn't be allowed to compete. I'll say it again: it's a
question of trust. If we're going to open markets to American
products, we need to do more than get the words right.
Leadership is more than lip service. Leadership is getting the
job done, taking the risks. It means knowing that Americans can
outwork, outcompete, outthink anyone, anytime, anywhere.
I'd like to bring the protectionists down here to Dalton.
I'd like them to see what I've seen. I'd like them to think a
little about this town, about this industry. Maybe they'd
discover they've got nothing to fear from American enterprise,
and that American enterprise has nothing to fear from
competition. When the world changed, the people of Dalton
changed with it. You didn't fear the future, you shaped it.
Your industry didn't cringe from foreign markets; you conquered
them. And -- miracle of miracles -- it happened without a
government regulator, without an industrial planner from
Washington, to show the way.
That's why I say Dalton gives us a glimpse of the 21st
century. America will continue to lead the world, Dalton will
still reign as the world's carpet capital, if America has a
government that knows its limits -- and if America has a leader
who trusts
a leader who believes in the people he leads.
6
Thank you for the chance to visit with you. God bless you
and God bless the United States.
###
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
JUL 3 A10: 09
July 31, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR DAN McGROARTY
FROM:
ROGER B. PORTER
RBP
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks: Shaw Industries
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
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7/30/92
1:00PM, FRIDAY, JUL
DATE:
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: SHAW INDUSTRIES
JMH
DALTON, GEORGIA
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SUBJECT:
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1992
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ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
FINDLAY
KAUFMAN
GRAY
HOLIDAY
BOSKIN
MCGROARTY
REMARKS:
Please provide comments on the attached directly
to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, with a copy to
this office NO LATER THAN 1:00PM, FRIDAY, JULY 31.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
see suggestions
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Ferguson/Gershowitz)
July 29, 1992
12 JUL 30 P5: 03
DALTON
Draft Two
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: SHAW INDUSTRIES
DALTON, GEORGIA
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1992
Thank you for that kind introduction.
(Acknowledgments)
It is a pleasure to be here in Dalton. I think you know why
I've come here today. I want to make sure I'm first in line when
Catamount tickets go on sale.
OUR
I've come for another reason too. Asthis great nation IS
CONTINUENG TO EXPAND ITS ROLE IN} 7
AND
prepares itself for the global economy, VDalton offers a glimpse
into the future. Dalton has taken the challenges of a new world
and turned them into opportunities. With the flexibility of
companies like Shaw, with the ingenuity of your chemists and XX
and xx, Dalton is showing America the face of the 21st century.
Dalton is showing the way.
In the history of your industry you can find a parable of
American progress. It starts simply, with a craftsman working
sole at a handloom, selling her wares from her home. It
continues into the sprawling factories of decades ago, pumping
their products into every region of a vast country. And it
continues today with an industry retooled by high technology,
a workforce more highly skilled than ever before, and a
marketplace as big as the world.
The story has an important lesson -- a lesson about how
America grows and prospers. It couldn't be more timely. The
question today is not can America compete in the new global
2
economy. I know and you know we can. The question is how -- how
do we stay number one in a changing world -- how do we create
jobs for every American, and create opportunity for our children.
I believe, when you get down to it, it's a question of
trust. Americans need a leader they can trust to do the right
thing -- whether it's standing up to a bully halfway around the
world, or hammering out a tough trade negotiation with a foreign
leader. Trust -- in that traditional sense -- is crucial. But
it's only part of the picture.
I spent half my adult life building a business, creating
jobs and meeting a payroll. Out in west Texas, watching towns
and cities and businesses bloom from those dusty plains, I
learned this: to lead a great nation, you must trust the people
you lead.
Ane that means putting people before government. Government
doesn't create America's jobs. Our prosperity wasn't designed
around a conference table at the White House or in some
subcommittee on Capitol Hill. It was hatched right here, in
places like Dalton, where free men and women took the risks /
weighed the odds / and reaped the rewards.
Now, some people take a different view. Most of them have
spent their lives in government. So I guess it's not surprising:
they think the way to get our economy moving is to make
government bigger, fatten up the public payroll, and then raise
your taxes to pay for it.
3
I've been coming up against them all my years in public
life. Last January, I put forward a specific plan to create new
jobs right now -- cutting taxes to encourage businesses to hire
new workers and help young couples who want to buy their first
home. If Congress had acted on my plan, more than half a million
jobs would have been created since February.
Well, Congress acted, all right. They took my plan, tossed
in a bottom drawer, and sent me back a tax increase.
I told them: don't even think about it. I vetoed their plan
the minute it hit my desk. The fact is, the last thing this
country needs is a tax increase. Again, it's a question of
trust: I think Americans know better than any budget planner in
Washington how to spend and save the money they earn.
So I told Congress: Try again. Now, 188 days after I sent
them my plan, I'm still waiting. Today, I say to the Congress,
we need those half a million jobs, and we need them today. Don't
hold the American economy hostage to politics. Vote for an
economic recovery program, and let Americans get back to work --
now!
That short-term plan is important, but we've got to do more,
today, to make sure America continues to lead the world tomorrow.
Let me give you another example -- one that's vitally important
to your industry. For three years I've worked to keep America
the leader of the global economy. The key is trade -- tear down
the barriers that keep American products out of world markets, so
American businesses can create jobs here at home.
4
Tit's not an easy job. If you want America to lead the
world, America needs a leader who knows the territory. And you
need this: someone who trusts the American people -- someone who
knows that Americans are the most productive, most competitive
workers the world has ever sount -- if they're given the chance.
A FAIR
Look at the facts: We are the largest exporter in the world.
OVER
For the last three years, our I exports have accounted for 70
percent of our economic growth. And a lot of that Vgrowth has
been right here in the carpeting industry. Last year alone,
carpet exports increased 43 percent.
That success has been good for America, good for the
carpeting industry. But I've vowed that I won't stop there.
Right now, we're on the verge of reaching a historic trade
agreement with Mexico. Together with Canada, we'll create a $6
trillion market -- one of the largest trading areas the world has
ever seen, from the Yukon to the Yucatan. I wish I could give
you the square footage, but you can be sure: that's a lot of
carpet.
Now it may be hard to believe, but some people look at these
barriers falling, see these remarkable opportunities opening up,
and they I say: Hold everything. In Washington, in the United
States Congress, the forces are lined up against us, powerful
protectionists who see the challenge of an open market and think:
the American worker can't do it. The challenge is too great, the
odds are too long. The protectionists may say they want change,
but change is the thing they fear most of all.
5
of course they don't use the "p" word -- protectionists
never do. Some have even learned the language of free trade and
open markets.
But they always seem to find an excuse why Americans
ONCE
shouldn't be allowed to compete. 1'11 say it again: it's a
question of trust. If we're going to open markets to American
products, we need to do more than get the words right.
Leadership is more than lip service. Leadership is getting the
job done, taking the risks. It means knowing that Americans can
outwork, outcompete, outthink anyone, anytime, anywhere.
I'd like to bring the protectionists down here to Dalton.
I'd like them to see what I've seen. I'd like them to think a
little about this town, about this industry. Maybe they'd
discover they've got nothing to fear from American enterprise,
and that American enterprise has nothing to fear from
competition. When the world changed, the people of Dalton
changed with it. You didn't fear the future, you shaped it.
Your industry didn't cringe from foreign markets; you conquered
them. And -- miracle of miracles -- it happened without a
government regulator, without an industrial planner from
Washington, to show the way.
That's why I say Dalton gives us a glimpse of the 21st
century. America will continue to lead the world, Dalton will
still reign as the world's carpet capital, if America has a
government that knows its limits -- and if America has a leader
who trusts
a leader who believes in the people he leads.
6
Thank you for the chance to visit with you. God bless you
and God bless the United States.
###
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 1, 1992
NOTE FOR GENERAL SCOWCROFT:
This speech contains some
new language, particularly
the foreign policy section
at the top of p. 4 and the
section on NAFTA. Please
forward your comments to
Steve Provost.
Thank you.
J.S.S.
John S. Gardner
Comments care
outher margins
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 1, 1992
I
P8: 43
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THOUGH:
STEVE PROVOST
SP
FROM:
ANDY FERGUSON at
SUBJECT:
SHAW INDUSTRIES
On Monday, August 3rd, at 9:00 a.m., you will deliver
remarks (12 minutes) to a crowd of 400 workers in the Terminal
Building of Shaw Industries. Located in Dalton, Georgia, Shaw is
the world's largest carpet manufacturer. Shaw's CEO Robert Shaw
introduces you.
Your speech argues the case for free trade in general and
NAFTA in particular -- stressing that freer trade will spur
growth and create jobs.
(Ferguson/Gershowitz)
August 1, 1992
DALTON
Draft Four
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
SHAW
INDUSTRIES
DALTON, GEORGIA
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1992
9:00 A.M.
Thank you for that kind introduction.
(Acknowledgments)
It's great to be in Dalton. // ((I think you know why I've
come here today. I want to make sure I'm first in line when
Catamount tickets go on sale.))
I've come for another reason too. America is moving into a
new age, and Dalton gives us a glimpse of that future. Dalton
takes challenges and reinvents them as opportunities. With the
flexibility of companies like Shaw -- with the brainpower and
grit of your chemists and maintenance mechanics and designers --
Dalton shows America the face of the 21st century. Dalton shows
the way.
In the history of your industry you find a parable of
American progress. It starts simply -- families selling hand-
tufted bedspreads they made themselves, out on Highway 41,
Peacock Alley. It continues with the sprawling factories that
sprung up after the war, rolling their carpets into homes and
offices in every corner of America. And it continues today --
with an industry retooled by high technology, a workforce more
highly skilled than ever before, and a marketplace as big as the
world.
2
The story has important lessons -- lessons about how America
grows and prospers. This election year, those lessons couldn't
be more timely. The question today is not can America compete in
the new global economy. I know // and you know // we can. The
question is how -- how do we stay number one -- how do we create
jobs for every American, and create opportunity for our kids.
Some people say: let government do it. But government
doesn't create jobs -- people do. Government doesn't provide
opportunity -- hard work does. Look around. This company --
this industry -- wasn't built by some congressional subcommittee.
It was born and built right here in Dalton -- where free men and
women took the risks and reaped the rewards.
That's a lesson we shouldn't forget this election year.
When you get down to it, leadership is about trust. Trust runs
both ways. You need a leader you can trust, but you also need a
leader who trusts you -- trusts you, and not the government to
make the important decisions about your lives.
When you forget about this kind of trust -- trusting the
people -- you get some crazy ideas. I'll give you an example.
These days the other side is pushing the idea that the way to fix
this economy is to raise taxes -- $150 billion dollars worth.
And at least half of that will fall on family farmers and small
businesses. They call that change. I guess it makes sense.
Because if the other guy gets in office -- change is all you'll
have left in your pocket.
3
Here's another crazy idea they're pushing. They think they
can fix health care by slapping you with a 7 percent payroll tax
-- to finance a government takeover scheme. We'll have a health
care system with the efficiency of the Motor Vehicles Department
and the compassion of the KGB. As long as I am President, I'm
not going to let that happen.
Trusting the people -- it's an idea that applies to almost
every issue this election. Especially when it comes to how we
can compete in this new global economy -- how we can take on the
new global competition head to head and win.
Let me tell you how I learned about competing in the world.
I'm a Texan -- built my business there, raised my family there.
And in Texas I saw businesses and cities and towns rise up from
those dusty plains -- a place where you'd never expect it. And
the reason was that the whole world thirsted for what Texans had
to offer -- Texas crude and cattle and cotton. We knew the more
goods we sold outside our borders, the more jobs we created
within them. I never forgot that lesson.
And I saw it again when I went into public life. I was
ambassador to the U.N., served in China, ran the CIA -- traveled
the world a bit. And everyday I was outside this country I
cook
learned again how important America was to the world -- and how
important the world was to America. I'm talking about creating
American jobs -- about making this economy grow and prosper, and
making sure our kids have an even better life than we've had.
That dilividation
happen by world accident
Too much like
and there we my
"I cem not a
crook"
4
I've seen this every day for three-and-a-half years as
President. I heard someone the other day say that this country
was the "laughingstock of the world." Well, I suspect this guy -
- I won't name names hasn't been around much. I'd like to
have him walk the streets of Warsaw or Moscow -- maybe sit him
down with Boris Yeltsin or Helmut Kohl or Prime Minister
Miyazawa. They'd tell him what you and I already know:
This
country is no laughingstock. The United States of America is the
undisputed leader of the world and I intend to keep it that way
And here's one way we re going to do it: trade 11 exports //
open up markets so you can sell the goods you make right here.
we
The day is long gone when you could sell carpets and rugs in the
will with tind do oliet
50 states and leave it at that. These days, standing still means
falling behind. It's a new world -- markets opening up in
Guadalajara // Jakarta // Santiago // Moscow. And I'm going to
open
see to it that Americans
get can there compete first. are an equal basis these,
for for reports
It won't be a cakewalk. If you want America to lead the
world, you need a leader who knows the territory -- someone you
can trust to hammer out a good deal around the negotiating table.
But you need even more: you need a leader who trusts you --
someone who knows that Americans are the most productive, most
competitive workers the world has ever seen. All you need is a
compete,To
chance to show your stuff. And as long as I'm President, you're
going to get that chance.
I'll give you an example: some people look at the former
Soviet Union and see 300 million former communists -- we look at
5
it and see 300 million future customers. Now, math was never my
favorite subject, but I've done a little computing on this.
Let's say there's fifty million homes in the former Soviet Union
maybe four-and-a-half billion square yards of floor space
bare floor space
that's four-and-a-half billion square yards
just waiting to be covered by your finest patterned berber. of
course, I'm factoring in kitchens and bathtubs, too /// but I
have faith in your salesmen. ////
Another example: Since 1989, carpet exports to Mexico are
up 60 percent. Pretty good. But here in Dalton, pretty good
isn't good enough. We're going to build on that success. Right
deal
Canada and
now, we're hammering out a new free trade agreement with Mexico -
- we call it NAFTA. Here's what it'll do: create 300,000
markets
American jobs by 1995 -- and one of the largest free trade areas
in the world. Free trade opens up the road -- and on the open
road, American workers leave the competition in the dust. or as
my buddy Arnold Schwarzenegger would put it: Hasta la vista,
baby! [AH-stah la VEE-stah] ////
Now it may be hard to believe, but the other side looks at
these barriers
falling,
and they say: Hold everything. They see
these unbelievable opportunities, these vast markets to sell your
goods, and they say: We better not try. The challenge is too
great, the odds are too long. They say: America can't compete.
They say: these other countries are going to walk all over us.
to Rather than compete, we better erect
Tariff varriers- 90 protectionst.
6
You know what? In a way they are going to walk all over us.
They're going to walk all over carpet made right here in Dalton,
Georgia. ////
They say: America can can't compete. the opportunity
I say: America will compete, and America will win
They say: Pull the blinds, lock the door, the American
worker can't hack it. //
I say: The American worker can out-think, out-work, out-
compete anyone, anytime, anywhere. ////
Here's a fact they better learn: foreign trade supports the
jobs of 153,000 Georgians, more than 7 million Americans. And
here's my pledge to you: I won't let anyone endanger a single
one of those jobs by closing up trade.
Let them worry and whine: I will fight for open markets,
because that means more jobs here in Dalton, and in every city
and state of our country. Let them run this country down -- let
them carp on what's wrong with America.
I'm going to do what's right for America.
That's what leadership is -- that's what trust is.
I'd like to bring these pessimists down to Dalton, to see
this town, this industry. They might discover they've got
about
nothing to fear from American workers -- and that American
workers have nothing to fear from competition. This is one
workforce that 'll beat the pants off any competition.
That's the lesson of Dalton. You didn't fear the future,
you shaped it. Your industry didn't retreat from foreign
7
markets; you conquered them. And with leadership that trusts in
you, you'll keep beating the pants off the competition.
Thank you for the chance to visit with you. God bless you
and God bless the United States.
###
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
7/30/92
1:00PM, FRIDAY, JUL 31
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: SHAW INDUSTRIES
DALTON, GEORGIA
SUBJECT:
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
P
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
S
FINDLAY
>
GRAY
X
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
BOSKIN
MCGROARTY
REMARKS:
Please provide comments on the attached directly
to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, with a copy to
this office NO LATER THAN 1:00PM, FRIDAY, JULY 31.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
TO:
DAN MCGROARTY
July 31, 1992
NSC concurs with the attached. Please note comments
on pages 1 and 2.
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Brent B Scowcroft
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
CC: Phillip Brady
(Ferguson/Gershowitz)
July 29, 1992
02 JUL 30 P5: 03
DALTON
Draft Two
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: SHAW INDUSTRIES
DALTON, GEORGIA
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1992
Thank you for that kind introduction.
(Acknowledgments)
It is a pleasure to be here in Dalton. I think you know why
I've come here today. I want to make sure I'm first in line when
Catamount tickets go on sale.
I've come for another reason too. As this great nation
prepares itself for the global economy, Dalton offers a glimpse
into the future. Dalton has taken the challenges of a new world
and turned them into opportunities. With the flexibility of
companies like Shaw, with the ingenuity of your chemists and XX
and xx, Dalton is showing America the face of the 21st century.
Dalton is showing the way.
In the history of your industry you can find a parable of
American progress. It starts simply, with a craftsman working
WATCH
solo at a handloom, selling her wares from her home. It
outsexism
continues into the sprawling factories of decades ago, pumping
their products into every region of a vast country. And it
continues today -- with an industry retooled by high technology,
a workforce more highly skilled than ever before, and a
marketplace as big as the world.
The story has an important lesson -- a lesson about how
America grows and prospers. It couldn't be more timely. The
question today is not can America compete in the new global
2
economy. I know and you know we can. The question is how -- how
do we stay number one in a changing world -- how do we create
jobs for every American, and create opportunity for our children.
CARTERISM
I believe, when you get down to it, it's a question of
trust. Americans need a leader they can trust to do the right
thing -- whether it's standing up to a bully halfway around the
world, or hammering out a tough trade negotiation with a foreign
leader. Trust -- in that traditional sense -- is crucial. But
it's only part of the picture.
I spent half my adult life building a business, creating
jobs and meeting a payroll. Out in west Texas, watching towns
and cities and businesses bloom from those dusty plains, I
what does
learned this: to lead a great nation, you must trust the people
that
you lead.
Ane that means putting people before government. Government
doesn't create America's jobs. Our prosperity wasn't designed
around a conference table at the White House or in some
subcommittee on Capitol Hill. It was hatched right here, in
places like Dalton, where free men and women took the risks /
weighed the odds / and reaped the rewards.
OK
Now, some people take a different view. Most of them have
but
this
treast
spent their lives in government. So I guess it's not surprising:
they think the way to get our economy moving is to make
government bigger, fatten up the public payroll, and then raise
your taxes to pay for it.
3
I've been coming up against them all my years in public
life. Last January, I put forward a specific plan to create new
jobs right now -- cutting taxes to encourage businesses to hire
new workers and help young couples who want to buy their first
home. If Congress had acted on my plan, more than half a million
jobs would have been created since February.
Well, Congress acted, all right. They took my plan, tossed
in a bottom drawer, and sent me back a tax increase.
I told them: don't even think about it. I vetoed their plan
the minute it hit my desk. The fact is, the last thing this
country needs is a tax increase. Again, it's a question of
trust: I think Americans know better than any budget planner in
Washington how to spend and save the money they earn.
So I told Congress: Try again. Now, 188 days after I sent
them my plan, I'm still waiting. Today, I say to the Congress,
we need those half a million jobs, and we need them today. Don't
hold the American economy hostage to politics. Vote for an
economic recovery program, and let Americans get back to work --
now!
That short-term plan is important, but we've got to do more,
today, to make sure America continues to lead the world tomorrow.
Let me give you another example -- one that's vitally important
to your industry. For three years I've worked to keep America
the leader of the global economy. The key is trade -- tear down
the barriers that keep American products out of world markets, so
American businesses can create jobs here at home.
4
Now, it's not an easy job. If you want America to lead the
world, America needs a leader who knows the territory. And you
need this: someone who trusts the American people -- someone who
knows that Americans are the most productive, most competitive
workers the world has ever seen -- if they're given the chance.
Look at the facts: We are the largest exporter in the world.
For the last three years, our exports have accounted for 70
percent of our economic growth. And a lot of that growth has
been right here in the carpeting industry. Last year alone,
carpet exports increased 43 percent.
That success has been good for America, good for the
carpeting industry. But I've vowed that I won't stop there.
Right now, we're on the verge of reaching a historic trade
agreement with Mexico. Together with Canada, we'll create a $6
trillion market -- one of the largest trading areas the world has
ever seen, from the Yukon to the Yucatan. I wish I could give
you the square footage, but you can be sure: that's a lot of
carpet.
Now it may be hard to believe, but some people look at these
barriers falling, see these remarkable opportunities opening up,
and they say: Hold everything. In Washington, in the United
States Congress,
the
forces are lined up against us, powerful
protectionists who see the challenge of an open market and think:
the American worker can't do it. The challenge is too great, the
odds are too long. The protectionists may say they want change,
but change is the thing they fear most of all.
5
of course they don't use the "p" word -- protectionists
never do. Some have even learned the language of free trade and
open markets.
But they always seem to find an excuse why Americans
shouldn't be allowed to compete. I'll say it again: it's a
question of trust. If we're going to open markets to American
products, we need to do more than get the words right.
Leadership is more than lip service. Leadership is getting the
job done, taking the risks. It means knowing that Americans can
outwork, outcompete, outthink anyone, anytime, anywhere.
I'd like to bring the protectionists down here to Dalton.
I'd like them to see what I've seen. I'd like them to think a
little about this town, about this industry. Maybe they'd
discover they've got nothing to fear from American enterprise,
and that American enterprise has nothing to fear from
competition. When the world changed, the people of Dalton
changed with it. You didn't fear the future, you shaped it.
Your industry didn't cringe from foreign markets; you conquered
them. And -- miracle of miracles -- it happened without a
government regulator, without an industrial planner from
Washington, to show the way.
That's why I say Dalton gives us a glimpse of the 21st
century. America will continue to lead the world, Dalton will
still reign as the world's carpet capital, if America has a
government that knows its limits -- and if America has a leader
who trusts
a leader who believes in the people he leads.
6
Thank you for the chance to visit with you. God bless you
and God bless the United States.
###
342074SS
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
7/30/92
1:00PM, FRIDAY, JUL 3]
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: SHAW INDUSTRIES
DALTON, GEORGIA
SUBJECT:
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
P
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
C
FITZWATER
FINDLAY
V
KAUFMAN
GRAY
HOLIDAY
BOSKIN
MCGROARTY
REMARKS:
Please provide comments on the attached directly
to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, with a copy to
this office NO LATER THAN 1:00PM, FRIDAY, JULY 31.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
no comments
17 pd 1877
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Ferguson/Gershowitz)
July 29, 1992
02 JUL 30 P5: 03
DALTON
Draft Two
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: SHAW INDUSTRIES
DALTON, GEORGIA
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1992
Thank you for that kind introduction.
(Acknowledgments)
It is a pleasure to be here in Dalton. I think you know why
I've come here today. I want to make sure I'm first in line when
Catamount tickets go on sale.
I've come for another reason too. As this great nation
prepares itself for the global economy, Dalton offers a glimpse
into the future. Dalton has taken the challenges of a new world
and turned them into opportunities. With the flexibility of
companies like Shaw, with the ingenuity of your chemists and XX
and xx, Dalton is showing America the face of the 21st century.
Dalton is showing the way.
In the history of your industry you can find a parable of
American progress. It starts simply, with a craftsman working
solo at a handloom, selling her wares from her home. It
continues into the sprawling factories of decades ago, pumping
their products into every region of a vast country. And it
continues today -- with an industry retooled by high technology,
a workforce more highly skilled than ever before, and a
marketplace as big as the world.
The story has an important lesson -- a lesson about how
America grows and prospers. It couldn't be more timely. The
question today is not can America compete in the new global
2
economy. I know and you know we can. The question is how -- how
do we stay number one in a changing world -- how do we create
jobs for every American, and create opportunity for our children.
I believe, when you get down to it, it's a question of
trust. Americans need a leader they can trust to do the right
thing -- whether it's standing up to a bully halfway around the
world, or hammering out a tough trade negotiation with a foreign
leader. Trust -- in that traditional sense -- is crucial. But
it's only part of the picture.
I spent half my adult life building a business, creating
jobs and meeting a payroll. Out in west Texas, watching towns
and cities and businesses bloom from those dusty plains, I
learned this: to lead a great nation, you must trust the people
you lead.
Ane that means putting people before government. Government
doesn't create America's jobs. Our prosperity wasn't designed
around a conference table at the White House or in some
subcommittee on Capitol Hill. It was hatched right here, in
places like Dalton, where free men and women took the risks /
weighed the odds / and reaped the rewards.
Now, some people take a different view. Most of them have
spent their lives in government. So I guess it's not surprising:
they think the way to get our economy moving is to make
government bigger, fatten up the public payroll, and then raise
your taxes to pay for it.
3
I've been coming up against them all my years in public
life. Last January, I put forward a specific plan to create new
jobs right now -- cutting taxes to encourage businesses to hire
new workers and help young couples who want to buy their first
home. If Congress had acted on my plan, more than half a million
jobs would have been created since February.
Well, Congress acted, all right. They took my plan, tossed
in a bottom drawer, and sent me back a tax increase.
I told them: don't even think about it. I vetoed their plan
the minute it hit my desk. The fact is, the last thing this
country needs is a tax increase. Again, it's a question of
trust: I think Americans know better than any budget planner in
Washington how to spend and save the money they earn.
So I told Congress: Try again. Now, 188 days after I sent
them my plan, I'm still waiting. Today, I say to the Congress,
we need those half a million jobs, and we need them today. Don't
hold the American economy hostage to politics. Vote for an
economic recovery program, and let Americans get back to work --
now!
That short-term plan is important, but we've got to do more,
today, to make sure America continues to lead the world tomorrow.
Let me give you another example -- one that's vitally important
to your industry. For three years I've worked to keep America
the leader of the global economy. The key is trade -- tear down
the barriers that keep American products out of world markets, so
American businesses can create jobs here at home.
4
Now, it's not an easy job. If you want America to lead the
world, America needs a leader who knows the territory. And you
need this: someone who trusts the American people -- someone who
knows that Americans are the most productive, most competitive
workers the world has ever seen -- if they're given the chance.
Look at the facts: We are the largest exporter in the world.
For the last three years, our exports have accounted for 70
percent of our economic growth. And a lot of that growth has
been right here in the carpeting industry. Last year alone,
carpet exports increased 43 percent.
That success has been good for America, good for the
carpeting industry. But I've vowed that I won't stop there.
Right now, we're on the verge of reaching a historic trade
agreement with Mexico. Together with Canada, we'll create a $6
trillion market -- one of the largest trading areas the world has
ever seen, from the Yukon to the Yucatan. I wish I could give
you the square footage, but you can be sure: that's a lot of
carpet.
Now it may be hard to believe, but some people look at these
barriers falling, see these remarkable opportunities opening up,
and they say: Hold everything. In Washington, in the United
States Congress, the forces are lined up against us, powerful
protectionists who see the challenge of an open market and think:
the American worker can't do it. The challenge is too great, the
odds are too long. The protectionists may say they want change,
but change is the thing they fear most of all.
5
of course they don't use the "p" word -- protectionists
never do. Some have even learned the language of free trade and
open markets.
But they always seem to find an excuse why Americans
shouldn't be allowed to compete. I'll say it again: it's a
question of trust. If we're going to open markets to American
products, we need to do more than get the words right.
Leadership is more than lip service. Leadership is getting the
job done, taking the risks. It means knowing that Americans can
outwork, outcompete, outthink anyone, anytime, anywhere.
I'd like to bring the protectionists down here to Dalton.
I'd like them to see what I've seen. I'd like them to think a
little about this town, about this industry. Maybe they'd
discover they've got nothing to fear from American enterprise,
and that American enterprise has nothing to fear from
competition. When the world changed, the people of Dalton
changed with it. You didn't fear the future, you shaped it.
Your industry didn't cringe from foreign markets; you conquered
them. And -- miracle of miracles -- it happened without a
government regulator, without an industrial planner from
Washington, to show the way.
That's why I say Dalton gives us a glimpse of the 21st
century. America will continue to lead the world, Dalton will
still reign as the world's carpet capital, if America has a
government that knows its limits -- and if America has a leader
who trusts
a leader who believes in the people he leads.
6
Thank you for the chance to visit with you. God bless you
and God bless the United States.
###
action. K. C, Jung
2074SS
Document N
CC: DFB & JDF
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
7/30/92
DATE:
JUL 3 ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
1:00PM, FRIDAY, JUL 3
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: SHAW INDUSTRIES
DALTON, GEORGIA
SUBJECT:
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
P
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
>
FITZWATER
S
FINDLAY
P
GRAY
X
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
BOSKIN
MCGROARTY
REMARKS:
Please provide comments on the attached directly
to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, with a copy to
this office NO LATER THAN 1:00PM, FRIDAY, JULY 31.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
Camments P.4
KC 7ung
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
7/31/92
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Ferguson/Gershowitz)
July 29, 1992
02 JUL 30 P5: 03
DALTON
Draft Two
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: SHAW INDUSTRIES
DALTON, GEORGIA
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1992
Thank you for that kind introduction.
(Acknowledgments)
It is a pleasure to be here in Dalton. I think you know why
I've come here today. I want to make sure I'm first in line when
Catamount tickets go on sale.
I've come for another reason too. As this great nation
prepares itself for the global economy, Dalton offers a glimpse
into the future. Dalton has taken the challenges of a new world
and turned them into opportunities. With the flexibility of
companies like Shaw, with the ingenuity of your chemists and XX
and xx, Dalton is showing America the face of the 21st century.
Dalton is showing the way.
In the history of your industry you can find a parable of
American progress. It starts simply, with a craftsman working
solo at a handloom, selling her wares from her home. It
continues into the sprawling factories of decades ago, pumping
their products into every region of a vast country. And it
continues today -- with an industry retooled by high technology,
a workforce more highly skilled than ever before, and a
marketplace as big as the world.
The story has an important lesson -- a lesson about how
America grows and prospers. It couldn't be more timely. The
question today is not can America compete in the new global
2
economy. I know and you know we can. The question is how -- how
do we stay number one in a changing world -- how do we create
jobs for every American, and create opportunity for our children.
I believe, when you get down to it, it's a question of
trust. Americans need a leader they can trust to do the right
thing -- whether it's standing up to a bully halfway around the
world, or hammering out a tough trade negotiation with a foreign
leader. Trust -- in that traditional sense -- is crucial. But
it's only part of the picture.
I spent half my adult life building a business, creating
jobs and meeting a payroll. Out in west Texas, watching towns
and cities and businesses bloom from those dusty plains, I
learned this: to lead a great nation, you must trust the people
you lead.
Ane that means putting people before government. Government
doesn't create America's jobs. Our prosperity wasn't designed
around a conference table at the White House or in some
subcommittee on Capitol Hill. It was hatched right here, in
places like Dalton, where free men and women took the risks /
weighed the odds / and reaped the rewards.
Now, some people take a different view. Most of them have
spent their lives in government. So I guess it's not surprising:
they think the way to get our economy moving is to make
government bigger, fatten up the public payroll, and then raise
your taxes to pay for it.
3
I've been coming up against them all my years in public
life. Last January, I put forward a specific plan to create new
jobs right now -- cutting taxes to encourage businesses to hire
new workers and help young couples who want to buy their first
home. If Congress had acted on my plan, more than half a million
jobs would have been created since February.
Well, Congress acted, all right. They took my plan, tossed
in a bottom drawer, and sent me back a tax increase.
I told them: don't even think about it. I vetoed their plan
the minute it hit my desk. The fact is, the last thing this
country needs is a tax increase. Again, it's a question of
trust: I think Americans know better than any budget planner in
Washington how to spend and save the money they earn.
So I told Congress: Try again. Now, 188 days after I sent
them my plan, I'm still waiting. Today, I say to the Congress,
we need those half a million jobs, and we need them today. Don't
hold the American economy hostage to politics. Vote for an
economic recovery program, and let Americans get back to work --
now!
That short-term plan is important, but we've got to do more,
today, to make sure America continues to lead the world tomorrow.
Let me give you another example -- one that's vitally important
to your industry. For three years I've worked to keep America
the leader of the global economy. The key is trade -- tear down
the barriers that keep American products out of world markets, so
American businesses can create jobs here at home.
4
Now, it's not an easy job. If you want America to lead the
world, America needs a leader who knows the territory. And you
need this: someone who trusts the American people -- someone who
knows that Americans are the most productive, most competitive
workers the world has ever seen -- if they're given the chance.
Look at the facts: We are the largest exporter in the world.
For the last three years, our exports have accounted for 70
percent of our economic growth. And a lot of that growth has
been right here in the carpeting industry. Last year alone,
of cap carpets and rugs
Current Industrial
carpet exports increased 54 43 percent. [source : Reports, Bureau of
That success has been good for America, good for the Census
carpeting industry. But I've vowed that I won't stop there. MA 22Q]
Right now, we're on the verge of reaching a historic trade
agreement with Mexico. Together with Canada, we'll create a $6
thee e
trillion market -- one of the largest trading areas the world has
ever seen, from the Yukon to the Yucatan. I wish I could give
you the square footage, but you can be sure: that's a lot of
carpet.
Now it may be hard to believe, but some people look at these
barriers falling, see these remarkable opportunities opening up,
and they say: Hold everything. In Washington, in the United
States Congress, the forces are lined up against us, powerful
protectionists who see the challenge of an open market and think:
the American worker can't do it. The challenge is too great, the
odds are too long. The protectionists may say they want change,
but change is the thing they fear most of all.
5
of course they don't use the "p" word -- protectionists
never do. Some have even learned the language of free trade and
open markets.
But they always seem to find an excuse why Americans
shouldn't be allowed to compete. I'll say it again: it's a
question of trust. If we're going to open markets to American
products, we need to do more than get the words right.
Leadership is more than lip service. Leadership is getting the
job done, taking the risks. It means knowing that Americans can
outwork, outcompete, outthink anyone, anytime, anywhere.
I'd like to bring the protectionists down here to Dalton.
I'd like them to see what I've seen. I'd like them to think a
little about this town, about this industry. Maybe they'd
discover they've got nothing to fear from American enterprise,
and that American enterprise has nothing to fear from
competition. When the world changed, the people of Dalton
changed with it. You didn't fear the future, you shaped it.
Your industry didn't cringe from foreign markets; you conquered
them. And -- miracle of miracles -- it happened without a
government regulator, without an industrial planner from
Washington, to show the way.
That's why I say Dalton gives us a glimpse of the 21st
century. America will continue to lead the world, Dalton will
still reign as the world's carpet capital, if America has a
government that knows its limits -- and if America has a leader
who trusts
a leader who believes in the people he leads.
6
Thank you for the chance to visit with you. God bless you
and God bless the United States.
###
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
30-Jul-1992 05:21pm
TO:
Maria L. Kalorides
FROM:
Drucillia S. Scaling
Office of Communications
SUBJECT: Acknowledgement material
Hey guys -- not sure if T's gonna be back before Sunday trip, BUT
following are Congressional acknowledgments to date for POTUS
trips:
ILLINOIS (picnic)
Congressman Henry Hyde (R-IL)
Congressman Denny Hastert (R-IL)
Congressman Phil Crane (R-IL)
GEORGIA (no Members of Congress)
FLORIDA
Senator Connie Mack (R-FL) (introducing the President at the
Rally)
Congressman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) (will represent Jacksonville
after redistricting)
Congressman Craig James (R-FL) (currently represents Jacksonville)
Kirsten will let you know if there are any changes -- I am outta
here!!! Start spreadin the news ---- I'm leavin today --- I want
to be a part of it NEW YORK NEW YORK
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
30-Jul-1992 06:22pm
TO:
(See Below)
FROM:
Drucillia S. Scaling
Office of Communications
SUBJECT: SHAW INDUSTRIES comments due 1 pm tomorrow, July 31
(Ferguson/Gershowitz)
July 29, 1992
DALTON
Draft Two
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
SHAW INDUSTRIES
DALTON, GEORGIA
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1992
Thank you for that kind introduction.
(Acknowledgments)
It is a pleasure to be here in Dalton. I think you know why
I've come here today. I want to make sure I'm first in line when
Catamount tickets go on sale.
I've come for another reason too. As this great nation
prepares itself for the global economy, Dalton offers a glimpse
into the future. Dalton has taken the challenges of a new world
and turned them into opportunities. With the flexibility of
companies like Shaw, with the ingenuity of your chemists and XX
and XX, Dalton is showing America the face of the 21st century.
Dalton is showing the way.
In the history of your industry you can find a parable of
American progress. It starts simply, with a craftsman working
solo at a handloom, selling her wares from her home. It
continues into the sprawling factories of decades ago, pumping
their products into every region of a vast country. And it
continues today -- with an industry retooled by high technology,
a workforce more highly skilled than ever before, and a
marketplace as big as the world.
The story has an important lesson -- a lesson about how
America grows and prospers. It couldn't be more timely. The
question today is not can America compete in the new global
economy. I know and you know we can. The question is how -- how
do we stay number one in a changing world -- how do we create
jobs for every American, and create opportunity for our children.
I believe, when you get down to it, it's a question of
trust. Americans need a leader they can trust to do the right
thing -- whether it's standing up to a bully halfway around the
world, or hammering out a tough trade negotiation with a foreign
leader. Trust -- in that traditional sense -- is crucial. But
it's only part of the picture.
I spent half my adult life building a business, creating
jobs and meeting a payroll. Out in west Texas, watching towns
and cities and businesses bloom from those dusty plains, I
learned this: to lead a great nation, you must trust the people
you lead.
Ane that means putting people before government. Government
doesn't create America's jobs. Our prosperity wasn't designed
around a conference table at the White House or in some
subcommittee on Capitol Hill. It was hatched right here, in
places like Dalton, where free men and women took the risks /
weighed the odds / and reaped the rewards.
Now, some people take a different view. Most of them have
spent their lives in government. So I guess it's not surprising:
they think the way to get our economy moving is to make
government bigger, fatten up the public payroll, and then raise
your taxes to pay for it.
I've been coming up against them all my years in public
life. Last January, I put forward a specific plan to create new
jobs right now -- cutting taxes to encourage businesses to hire
new workers and help young couples who want to buy their first
home. If Congress had acted on my plan, more than half a million
jobs would have been created since February.
Well, Congress acted, all right. They took my plan, tossed
it
in a bottom drawer, and sent me back a tax increase.
I told them: don't even think about it. I vetoed their plan
the minute it hit my desk. The fact is, the last thing this
country needs is a tax increase. Again, it's a question of
trust: I think Americans know better than any budget planner in
Washington how to spend and save the money they earn.
So I told Congress: Try again. Now, 188 days after I sent
them my plan, I'm still waiting. Today, I say to the Congress,
we need those half a million jobs, and we need them today. Don't
hold the American economy hostage to politics. Vote for an
economic recovery program, and let Americans get back to work --
now!
That short-term plan is important, but we've got to do more,
today, to make sure America continues to lead the world tomorrow.
Let me give you another example -- one that's vitally important
to your industry. For three years I've worked to keep America
the leader of the global economy. The key is trade -- tear down
the barriers that keep American products out of world markets, so
American businesses can create jobs here at home.
Now, it's not an easy job. If you want America to lead the
world, America needs a leader who knows the territory. And you
need this: someone who trusts the American people -- someone who
knows that Americans are the most productive, most competitive
workers the world has ever seen -- if they're given the chance.
Look at the facts: We are the largest exporter in the world.
For the last three years, our exports have accounted for 70
percent of our economic growth. And a lot of that growth has
been right here in the carpeting industry. Last year alone,
carpet exports increased 43 percent.
That success has been good for America, good for the
carpeting industry. But I've vowed that I won't stop there.
Right now, we're on the verge of reaching a historic trade
agreement with Mexico. Together with Canada, we'll create a $6
trillion market -- one of the largest trading areas the world has
ever seen, from the Yukon to the Yucatan. I wish I could give
you the square footage, but you can be sure: that's a lot of
carpet.
Now it may be hard to believe, but some people look at these
barriers falling, see these remarkable opportunities opening up,
and they say: Hold everything. In Washington, in the United
States Congress, the forces are lined up against us, powerful
protectionists who see the challenge of an open market and think:
the American worker can't do it. The challenge is too great, the
odds are too long. The protectionists may say they want change,
but change is the thing they fear most of all.
Of course they don't use the "p" word -- protectionists
never do. Some have even learned the language of free trade and
open markets.
But they always seem to find an excuse why Americans
shouldn't be allowed to compete. I'll say it again: it's a
question of trust. If we're going to open markets to American
products, we need to do more than get the words right.
Leadership is more than lip service. Leadership is getting the
job done, taking the risks. It means knowing that Americans can
outwork, outcompete, outthink anyone, anytime, anywhere.
I'd like to bring the protectionists down here to Dalton.
I'd like them to see what I've seen. I'd like them to think a
little about this town, about this industry. Maybe they'd
discover they've got nothing to fear from American enterprise,
and that American enterprise has nothing to fear from
competition. When the world changed, the people of Dalton
changed with it. You didn't fear the future, you shaped it.
Your industry didn't cringe from foreign markets; you conquered
them. And -- miracle of miracles -- it happened without a
government regulator, without an industrial planner from
Washington, to show the way.
That's why I say Dalton gives us a glimpse of the 21st
century. America will continue to lead the world, Dalton will
still reign as the world's carpet capital, if America has a
government that knows its limits -- and if America has a leader
who trusts
a leader who believes in the people he leads.
Thank you for the chance to visit with you. God bless you
and God bless the United States.
###
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