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eorge Bush, 1992
Administration of George Bush, 1992 / Aug. 22
1483
more. About 460
eral-controlled Congress, and I don't believe
I know this is a long race and that some
sent my first plan
the Governor can stand up to them. The last
have counted us out. Oh boy, are we having
awsuits up to the
here, blocked by
thing we need is a rubber-check Congress
some problems with the national media.
nat powerful law-
and a rubber-stamp President. We don't
They don't know good news when they see
need that.
is liberal Demo-
it. They are going to know change when they
say: Let's change
And look, I've tried to work with this Con-
see it. And we're going to win this in the
gress. You all remember at the Inaugural Ad-
final analysis on this basis because I trust the
use.
ean the House!
dress I said, "People didn't send us here to
American people, and I hope I have earned
House!
bicker, they sent us here to get something
the trust of the American people.
ue. Elect these
done." I held out my hand, and these old
When I think of the great patriotism
n just a minute.
mossbacks bit it off. Enough! We've got to
shown by this wonderful State of Alabama
change the Congress.
and I think of those men and women that
te to ruin a won-
me remind you
So we're talking clean House. We need
served in Desert Storm and I think of the
Spencer Bachus here for the 6th District. We
opposition I had in the Congress, I say let's
3.
-0-0!
need Terry Everett for the 2d District; Don
change it. So if we're faced with a problem
otten the fever.
Sledge for the 3d; Mickey Strickland for the
again, we can solve it just as quick as we
emocratic fever,
4th; Terry Smith for the 5th; and Kevin Jones
did Desert Storm in spite of that opposition.
de wants to raise
for the 7th. And then we can clean House.
So, my message is this: After-once again
dready proposed
While we're at it, the Senate needs a little
saying thanks. I can't tell you what this does
its to raise taxes,
work. Those liberals that control that Senate
for the spirit, this, the largest rally, as Emory
told me, he's ever seen around here.
'ry, by $150 bil-
are blocking me every inch of the way. Give
way, Governor.
us Richard Sellers for the Senate. Make
Audience members. Four more years!
change. Make change.
Four more years! Four more years!
The only thing
Look, I know this and you know it: Ameri-
The President. So you tell the opposition
:ket, if this guy
we stand for family values. And the best evi-
cans are tired of the blame game, sick of all
u that. They al-
the excuses, tired of these people up there
dence of this, standing right here with me
ent first. That's
today, is Barbara Bush, who does so much
acting like they're the candidates for the next
i've spent most
for literacy in this country.
episode of "American Gladiators". But I'll
Audience members. Barbara! Barbara!
Government is
tell you this: I am tired of it, too. Every
Barbara!
nt half my adult
American knows the truth. Congress-look
The President. You tell them we stand
private sector. I
at the post office, look at the bank-they
:d Government
for family and faith and one Nation under
have become corrupt, conceited, confused,
job, holding a
God. And then go tell the gridlocked Con-
a body of these PAC's, perks, privileges, par-
building a busi-
gress and Governor Clinton: If you can't run
tisanship, and paralysis. We must change the
That is a good
with the big dogs, stay under the porch.
Congress with which Bill Clinton is
ants to be Presi-
Thank you all very much.
interlocked.
merica.
You ask him when he comes south. He
have learned and
Note: The President spoke at 2:55 p.m. at
talks about change. What about changing the
That's where I
the Riverchase Galleria shopping mall. In his
one institution whose control hasn't changed
that you can't
remarks, he referred to Emory Fowler,
in 38 years, since he was 7 years old? The
ployers. That's
Mayor of Montgomery. A tape was not avail-
Congress. They have a lower rate of turnover
able for verification of the content of these
ry that Govern-
than the Soviet Politburo.
remarks.
it the other way
So it's time to say, "Enough is enough."
If you want to get rid of that deadlock, give
less-we've got
mè some new faces in that Congress and
overnor Clinton
watch this country move forward. There is
Remarks at the National Affairs
forgotten that
here's a whole
so much to do: a balanced budget amend-
Briefing in Dallas, Texas
) there on Cap-
ment, locking this line-item veto into place
August 22, 1992
who have spent
so we can cut that spending. Give the parents
some choice in the schools that their kids
mment payroll.
Thank you very much. Hey, listen, this is
Democratic lib-
attend-private, public, or religious. Give us
a nonpolitical gathering. Thank you. Life is
that kind of a positive change.
not fair. For me to get up here after Dr.
1484
Aug. 22 / Administration of George Bush, 1992
Adrian Rogers, one of the great religious
Let me just say it's a pleasure to be here.
leaders of this country, it just doesn't seem
I've got a very difficult assignment. I plan
fair. Adrian, thank you, sir, for that introduc-
to fulfill it to the letter. I was told that this
tion. I mean, seven standing ovations in the
is a nonpolitical event. We're just coming off
introduction, my heavens, what's going on
of a fantastic campaign swing, so I'm going
here? [Laughter]
to cool it down, though, and talk about things
But I am so pleased to be here. I have
that I think are near and dear to our hearts.
great respect for the man that did the intro-
You see, we meet tonight at a time of great
ducing and so many here with us tonight.
change. It's exciting change; makes me wish
I'd like to recognize a true fighter for the
I were about 40 years younger at times. In
American family. I heard him when Barbara
both the world and our Nation this change
and I were standing in the wings; we heard
is exciting. Changes are taking place, and
him. I'm talking about one of this Nation's
they literally defy the imagination. I remem-
truly great and, I would say, spiritual Gov-
ber 10 years ago when one of God's great
ernors, Governor John Ashcroft from Mis-
soldiers, a friend to all here, I'm sure, visited
souri. He gets it on his own and also from
Europe and the Soviet Union. Returning to
his wonderful dad that is so well known to,
America, Dr. Billy Graham predicted that
I'm sure, many people here.
freedom would outlast tyranny. He'd sensed
Thanks to Denee Varnum for that singing
something as he traveled across that mono-
and the First Baptist Church choir and or-
lithic Communist empire. The doubters said
chestra for that assist on "The Battle Hymn
he'd been tricked. But Dr. Graham, Billy,
of the Republic." May I salute-I think Con-
knew something they didn't. He knew the
gressmen Sam Johnson of Dallas and Dick
chains of oppression forged by men were no
Armey of a neighboring district are here with
match for the keys to salvation forged by
us tonight, both doing a superb job.
God. Over the past 3½ years bayonets have
Of course, another old friend for Barbara
been no match for the righteousness of God.
Now, look to Bulgaria, where at last people
and me, now doing a superb job for this city,
wish Merry Christmas not only in the privacy
Mayor Steve Bartlett. You're lucky to have
of their homes but in public, in the streets.
him. You Dallas folks are lucky to have him
Look to Russia, where a cathedral that was
as your leader.
called the All Union Museum of Religion and
In my line of work, loyalty and friendship
Atheism now houses God's apostles, or the
really count, and I want to single out Dr.
former East Germany, where Bible studies
Jerry Falwell, who is with us tonight, because
are like bluebonnets in Texas in the spring.
he sure fits that description as far as the Bush
They're busting out all over.
family goes. I'm sorry that I missed Dr. E.V.
In a season of thanksgiving the world says
Hill. I was with him in his church in South
grace. And by God's providence the cold war
Central out there in Los Angeles. I under-
is over, and freedom finished first. Because
stand he just wowed them here tonight. But
of the changes that have been wrought out-
here's a real man of the cloth and a man
side our Nation, our children and our grand-
I respect enormously. I wish he were here
children now sleep in the sweet sunshine of
now.
peace. And now it is our challenge, it is our
Of course, special thanks to our organizer
sacred challenge to build for them a Nation
and wonderfully dedicated chairman, Ed
that is as secure from the inside as it is safe
McAteer; a man who I was sitting next to,
from the outside.
he and I go back many, many years out here
I met not long ago with some of the mayors
in Texas, and he was reminding me of a
of our great cities in this country. It was the
meeting we had some 36 years ago out in
directors or the executive board of the Na-
west Texas, Ed Drake, chairman of the na-
tional League of Cities. I asked what was the
tional NAB. Or is he the local chairman?
root of the ills with which they are afflicted
Which are you? Local chairman, all right.
in these cities, problems like crime, drug
And Dr. Jack Graham, the chairman of the
abuse, unemployment. They could have com-
ministerial committee.
plained of the lack of Government money,
eorge Bush, 1992
Administration of George Bush, 1992 / Aug. 22
1485
sure to be here.
but they didn't. They could have complained
opponents accuse me of mouthing slogans.
ignment. I plan
at the lack of Government programs, but
But it is no slogan that America remains the
as told that this
they didn't. These mayors, including those
most resolutely religious Nation on God's
e just coming off
from the other party, liberal, conservative,
great Earth. It is no slogan to say that Amer-
ig, so I'm going
Republican, Democrat, large city, small city,
ica will always occupy a special place in God's
talk about things
said that all their problems could be traced
heart. But that is true only as long as we
ar to our hearts.
to the breakdown of the American family.
keep Him in a special place in our hearts.
at a time of great
I would simply add to that, an erosion of tra-
So I believe that now that the world has
makes me wish
ditional moral and religious values on which
become more like America, it is time for
ger at times. In
our very Nation was founded.
America to become more like herself. That
tion this change
Some want us to get away from that. Some
means strengthening the American family,
king place, and
want us to get off of that theme, get away
and yes, it means increasing our faith in God.
nation. I remem-
from that. I simply cannot do it. It is too
Government policy can make a difference.
of God's great
fundamental. Leave out the election. It is
That's why I fought for changes-some that
I'm sure, visited
fundamental that we restore and strengthen
Steve was generous enough to talk about-
on. Returning to
the American family.
in our welfare laws to encourage families to
predicted that
Now, this week you saw a very charismatic,
stay together, fathers to stick around, chil-
ny. He'd sensed
dynamic, insightful Bush family member ap-
dren to be able to save a little money when
ross that mono-
pear on television and talk to the Nation. I'm
their mother's on welfare so they can get
he doubters said
speaking, of course, of our First Lady, Bar-
themselves educated. We've got to change
Graham, Billy,
bara. By the way, I recall the Book of Prov-
erbs said that "Grandchildren are the crown
the way the old welfare system has worked.
t. He knew the
of the aged." Well, while I wouldn't quite
When Congress was considering a new law
by men were no
ation forged by
put myself up there with the aged yet-some
giving parents help with child care, I fought
rs bayonets have
will, but I don't put myself there-I must
to make sure that parents would be able to
cousness of God.
tell you I felt like I was wearing a crown
choose the child care provider of their
ere at last people
the other night when I listened to one of
choice. I fought especially hard, and we were
our grandkids, George P., speak to this Na-
successful on this one, to allow care provided
ily in the privacy
C, in the streets.
tion. This is a family night here, and I hope
in religious settings. We had to fight, but we
you'll understand how emotional Barbara
won that fight. You see, when it comes to
thedral that was
and I felt when we saw this little guy get
deciding who should care for children when
n of Religion and
apostles, or the
up. I asked him ahead of time, "Are you
parents are working, I believe Government
re Bible studies
scared?" Oh, no, no, he wasn't scared at all.
doesn't know best; parents know best. Par-
But he carried it off well, and he spoke from
ents should choose.
as in the spring.
the heart.
The same is true of education. I have spo-
g the world says
Then yesterday, we were over in Gulfport,
ken often of roots and wings. Wings, of
nce the cold war
Mississippi, and then at this marvelous coun-
course, are the subjects our children learn,
ed first. Because
try music town of Branson, Missouri, and we
math, science, English, that allow them to
en wrought out-
saw a sign, "George P. in 2024. Viva Bush."
make their way in our complex world econ-
7 and our grand-
It's wonderful, this politics. But you know,
omy. But just as important are the roots, the
weet sunshine of
in a tough political year-it's been pretty
moral values taught around the kitchen table
allenge, it is our
tough, let's face it, and all the criticism, but
or in our churches, and yes, as Dr. Rogers
r them a Nation
it all subsides. It all gets into proper perspec-
said, I believe, in our schools. For without
side as it is safe
tive when you see your own grandkid up
roots our children will never fly in a moral
there and can take pride in what your family
and good direction.
ne of the mayors
does.
Many parents want their children to attend
intry. It was the
You know, Barbara in her speech said
religious schools, but they simply can't afford
oard of the Na-
something I remember. She said, "To us,
it. So I am fighting for a "GI bill" for chil-
ted what was the
family means putting your arms around each
dren. It will give Federal money to working
hey are afflicted
other and being there." Now, those are truly
parents so that they can choose the best
ike crime, drug
words of insight and wisdom. When I speak
school for their children. The choice should
could have com-
of family values, of restoring a little moral
include all schools, public, private, and reli-
ernment money,
and religious fiber to our Nation's diet, my
gious.
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I happen to believe that just as we fix our
As I looked over the crowd, the rain was
economy and improve our schools, we've got
pouring down, falling, and I saw a little girl
to strengthen our moral foundation. If I
with blond ringlets perched upon her dad's
could make one political comment, I was
shoulders. She had a little ball cap on her
struck by the fact that the other party took
head, an American flag in one hand. As Lee
words to put together their platform but left
Greenwood began to sing she began to wave
out three simple letters, G-O-D. As you may
the flag, and I looked and in her other hand
have heard, Governor Casey of Pennsylvania
she had scrawled a sign. All the rain had
was also shut out of the convention because
smudged the ink, but I could still make out
he wanted to talk about the rights of the un-
the words "I love America. America loves
born. At least he's in good company. My par-
God."
ty's platform is different. We are proud to
That little girl will grow up in a world filled
celebrate our country's Judeo-Christian her-
with miracle medicines, a world where all the
itage unrivaled in the world. [Applause]
volumes of all the books in the Library of
While you're still standing may I say, as
Congress will be able to be stored on one
I said, I happen to believe that all human
tiny little disk. While scientific progress is
life is precious, born or unborn. I think it's
good, it is my fervent hope that she will also
ridiculous that a 13-year-old girl here in Dal-
come of age in a Nation where family is al-
las has to get her mother's permission to get
ways first and where the Creator is wor-
her ears pierced in a mall but can get an
shipped above all else. That is what has made
abortion without telling her mom and dad.
America the greatest Nation on God's Earth.
That doesn't make sense to me. I don't be-
It is our faith which will guarantee that the
lieve it makes sense to most Americans.
Sun never sets on our Nation.
Something's wrong when kids can get birth
I'm just delighted to have been with you.
control in school but can't say a prayer in
Thank you for inviting us. And may God bless
this most wondrous land on the face of the
school. If Congress can debate the merits of
Earth, the United States of America. Thank
Vanna White appearing on the Home Shop-
ping Network, surely Congress can find
you very, very much.
enough time to pass an amendment to allow
Note: The President spoke at 9:25 p.m. at
our kids to thank God. So I call on the Con-
the Dallas Convention Center. In his re-
gress again, and I'll keep calling on them to
marks, he referred to Adrian Rogers, pastor,
pass a constitutional amendment allowing
Bellevue Baptist Church, Memphis, TN;
voluntary prayer. Let us bring the faith of
evangelists Jerry Falwell and Billy Graham;
our fathers back to schools.
Edward V. Hill, pastor, Mount Zion Mission-
These are the kinds of issues that I care
ary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, CA; and
about and, certainly, I know you care about.
National Affairs Briefing officers Ed
So I'm not going to be dissuaded by the crit-
McAteer, national chairman, Ed Drake, Dal-
ics who call family values a cliche, who say
las steering committee chairman, and Jack
that family values have no place in our na-
Graham, ministerial committee chairman.
tional debate. I will ignore those who would
rather not talk about a moral revival in Amer-
ica because I believe it is as important as
any other challenge that we face.
Remarks to the Community in
Barbara and I have crisscrossed the coun-
Springfield, Illinois
try today, started out in Missouri, went to
August 23, 1992
Georgia, spent our afternoon in Birmingham,
Alabama, where a crowd of 20,000 people
The President. Thank you, thank you.
were kind enough to wait in the rain to see
Thank you, Jim Edgar. You in Illinois are
us. As we came out on the stage, singer Lee
lucky to have Jim Edgar and Brenda here
Greenwood was just beginning that mar-
in Springfield, I'll tell you. And of course,
velous anthem you know, a beautiful version
I'm very pleased that Illinois' own Ed Mad-
of the song, "I'm Proud To Be an American."
igan is our Secretary of Agriculture. He un-
34604155
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
8/21/92
17 AUG 21 P4: 55
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NATIONAL AFFAIRS BRIEFING
DALLAS, TEXAS
SUBJECT:
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FINDLAY
FITZWATER
KAUFMAN
GRAY
MCGROARTY
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
The attached has been forwarded the President.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
2 AUG 20 P7:16
August 20, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
STEVEN PROVOST
FROM:
CURT SMITH 10
SUBJECT:
NATIONAL AFFAIRS BRIEFING / DALLAS, TEXAS
On Saturday, August 22 at 9:15 p.m., you will address a
largely evangelical, conservative audience of approximately 7000
at the National Affairs Briefing at the Dallas Convention Center.
Your remarks are 12 minutes in length and focus on issues
important to the conservative community.
(Smith/Aarhus)
August 19, 1992
ANGELIC
Draft Three
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NATIONAL AFFAIRS BRIEFING
DALLAS CONVENTION CENTER
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1992
Thank you for that introduction. Fellow Americans. ((I am
pleased to be at this "Woodstock" for conservatives. I don't
think there's been so much conservative passion in one room since
the last time Pat Buchanan first met Ronald Reagan. )) //
I'm especially glad to be in the home of the Dallas Cowboys
-- who've traveled a long way since Jerry Jones came from Little
Rock to buy the team. / ((It's good to see someone from Arkansas
who's kept his eye on the ball.) ) //
We meet today as great challenges face America -- good
schools / safe streets / a sound economy / a world at peace. But
we will meet them as Americans always have. Not -- as some do -
- by running America down. / We will spend our time / the next
four years / helping families lift America up. //
Let us start by recalling why the Pilgrims sought a New
Jerusalem -- why to an entire world, we became less a place than
an ideal. It was because America meant a better life -- a life
based on values which enrich America just as God enriches lives.
I don't mean values with the half-life of a sound bite --
but timeless things like community / self-reliance / opportunity.
These things link your family -- and bind the Family called
America. They matter because life without family would be as
empty as a universe without faith. //
2
Wednesday night you saw the most charismatic member of the
Bush family on television. Here's what she said about the family
-- your's and mine. She said, "To us -- family means putting
your arms around each other and being there. // No wonder
America loves Barbara Bush. //
Family is why conservatives support lower tax rates, limits
on government spending, and greater competition -- to empower
people, not government, to make decisions. / Why we want less
economic regulation and more open trade -- to unleash growth
which gives people jobs. It's why our policies reward hard work
and self-discipline: We believe in an America closer to The
Waltons than The Simpsons.
I may be the underdog in this campaign -- but I'm going to
fight to keep the Democrats from reversing our policies and
putting the family in the doghouse. / Back in the late 50's and
early 60's there was a TV program starring Johnny Carson. / Back
then, "Who Do You Trust" was a game show. Today it's a
fundamental question that defines the very soul of this campaign.
Trust matters. It matters when, late at night in the White
House, the phone rings. Sometimes it's a madman threatening
peace halfway around the world. / The man who answers that phone
needs the right stuff to do the right thing. My friends: I am
that man. / Yet trust matters, too, right here at home -- and
here's why. //
Trust colors the Grand Canyon of a divide between me and my
opponent. Think of the issues that affect the family --
3
economic, social, military. Our positions are wider apart than
Madonna and Guy Lombardo. /
On one side is the Democrat's nominee. Oh, I know: He'd
like us to believe his party has waded into the mainstream. The
fact is they don't even have their feet wet. / The other party
still thinks that more government is the answer to everything.
( (Sometimes I think that, if they had their way, Mother's Day and
Father's Day would be replaced by Big Brother Day.) ) On the
other side stand you and me. We believe government should serve
the people -- not the other way around. //
Look first at what trust means to our number one issue today
-- the economy -- jobs. //
The simple fact is only one candidate for President has
lived a life beyond government -- and known a call beyond
politics. I built a company / met a payroll / shared friends'
dreams in Midland and Odessa. / My opponent, on the other hand,
thinks most paychecks should come out of the taxpayer's pocket.
Maybe that explains why he wants the largest tax increase in
history -- $150 billion. He'd also raise spending by more than
$200 billion -- and cost us 2.6 million jobs. / ( (Folks ask me
why he keeps saying these things as he wanders around the
country. I don't know. Guess he's inhaled too many bus fumes. ))
I reject my opponent's knee-jerk reaction to every problem:
Raising taxes. / You know that problem: When their knee jerks -
- you get kicked. / It all comes down to trust. Don't expect a
Democrat President to restrain spending in a Democrat Congress.
4
There'd be so much overspending, their sessions could be covered
on the commodities page under "pork futures. " / My view is
different -- it's Middle American. We've built on the Executive
Order Ronald Reagan signed in 1987 to strengthen the family.
How? By trusting parents -- not the government -- to make
decisions. Especially on family social issues. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private, or religious.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. // Few things please me more than the
legislation we passed in 1990 to protect religious and home-
based care.
Think of health care. Here, too, I trust parents. / My
opponent says: Let the government play doctor. I say: Pass my
pro-family plan that will use tax credits to buy health insurance
and will reform malpractice. Today, there are too many
malpractice suits -- too many lawyers looking to soak the system.
The last thing we need is an America where kids sue their
parents. //
I was struck, for example, by the fact that not once was God
mentioned in the Democrats' 10,000-word platform. ( (Since
Governor Casey of Pennsylvania was also shut out of the
convention, at least he's in good company.) ) // Our platform's
different. We are proud to celebrate our country's Judeo-
Christian heritage unrivaled in the world. //
5
That is why the political costs don't count to me. What
does is to "let thy conscience be thy guide". / Let my opponent
explain why he prefers abortion on demand when adoption is a
moral alternative. 111 I revere the sanctity of life. //
I also want to help the family by upholding prayer. /
Something's wrong when kids can get condoms at school but can't
say a prayer. / That's why I say: If Congress can debate the
merits of Vanna White appearing on the Home Shopping Network --
surely, Congress can allow our kids to thank God. / So I throw
down the gauntlet. I call on Congress to pass a Constitutional
Amendment allowing voluntary prayer. Let's bring the Faith of our
Fathers back to our schools.
Finally, we can help the family by freeing our-kids from
worry about a nuclear Armageddon. / Today, this Nation is a
better place because this planet is a safer place. Safer than it
was a decade ago -- safer even than two months ago, when your
kids walked out of school and into summer vacation. /
I am proud how we've reduced some of the world's most
dangerous nuclear weapons -- and how we've turned the world
right-side up. Today, Israeli and Arab are talking at the
conference table. Israel knows it can count on loan guarantees /
on support for its qualitative edge / and always on our strength.
In Berlin, a wall crumbled. In Kuwait, aggression did not stand.
Ronald Reagan was right when he called Imperial Communism a four-
letter word: E-V-I-L. Today, it's D-E-A-D. / It didn't happen
6
by magic. It took guts, and vision. The Cold War is over -- and
America won.
Look to Lithuania -- where the main Catholic cathedral, once
a government archives building, has been reconsecrated. / Look
to Bulgaria. Last year, my great running mate, Dan Quayle, spoke
at the reopening of another cathedral in Sofia. / All over
Eastern Europe, churches and synagogues are being repainted /
rebuilt / reborn. / Now that we've got the Russians to stop
knocking our country -- maybe we can convince my opponent to stop
knocking it.
We don't need to knock America. We need to lift America.
We need a land where we love, not hate, one another. An America
which protects the family -- all that we are, and believe. / We
must preserve the family -- and with your support, we will. /
Thank you. And God bless the most wondrous land on the face of
the earth -- the United States of America.
#
#
#
#
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
8/19/92
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: NOON, THURS., AUG. 20
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONSERVATIVE BRIEFING
SUBJECT:
DALLAS, TEXAS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
X MOORE
DARMAN N/C
PETERSMEYER N/C
BRADY
A
PORTER
BROMLEY
X PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
FINDLAY
GRAY
N/C
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY N/C
BOSKIN N/C
PORTER ROSE
REMARKS:
MCGROARTY
Please provide comments on the attached directly to
Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, with a copy to this
office NO LATER THAN NOON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
called 11:00
11:00
-MASTER- PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Aarhus)
August 19, 1992
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS (fact-v)
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
CONSERVATIVE BRIEFING
DALLAS, TEXAS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1992
Thank you for that introduction. Fellow Americans. ((I am
Pentecost (Calio)
pleased to be at this "Woodstock" for conservatives. I don't
think there's been so much conservative passion in one room since
first met Ronald Reagan. (Calio)
the last time Pat Buchanan played solitaire. )) //
I'm especially glad to be in the home of the Dallas Cowboys
-- who've traveled a long way since Jerry Jones came from Little
Rock to buy the team. / ((It's good to see someone from Arkansas
who's kept his eye on the ball.)) //
We meet today as great challenges face America -- good
schools / safe streets / a sound economy / a world at peace. But
we will meet them as Americans always have. Not -- as some do -
- by running America down. / We will spend our time / the next
four years / helping families lift America up. //
Let us start by recalling why the Pilgrims sought a New
Jerusalem -- why to an entire world, we became less a place than
an ideal. It was because America meant a better life -- a life
based on values which enrich America just as God enriches lives.
I don't mean values with the half-life of a sound bite --
but timeless things like community / self-reliance / opportunity.
These things link your family -- and bind the Family called
America. They matter because life without family would be as
empty as a universe without faith. //
2
Wednesday night you saw the most charismatic member of the
Bush family on television. Here's what she said about the family
-- your's and mine. [[QUOTE FROM MRS. BUSH]]. // No wonder
America loves Barbara Bush. //
Family is why conservatives support lower tax rates, limits
on government spending, and greater competition -- to empower
not bureaucracy (kolb)
people^ to make decisions. / Why we want less economic regulation
and more open trade -- to unleash growth which gives people jobs.
It's why our policies reward hard work and self-discipline: We
believe in an America closer to The Waltons than The Simpsons.
I may be the underdog in this campaign -- but I'm going to
fight to keep the Democrats from reversing our policies and
putting the family in the doghouse. / Back in the late 50's and
early 60's there was a TV program starring Johnny Carson. / Back
fundamental (Kolb)
then, "Who Do You Trust" was a game show. Today it's anquestion
that defines the very soul of this campaign. //
(kolb) It matters
Trust matters. when, late at night in the White House, the
phone rings. Sometimes it's a madman threatening peace halfway
around the world. / The man who answers that phone needs the
right stuff to do the right thing. My friends: I am that man. /
right here (kolb)
Yet trust matters, too, at home -- and here's why. //
that
S (kolb)
Trust colors the Grand Canyon of a divide, between me and my
opponent. Think of the issues that affect the family --
economic, social, military. Our positions are wider apart than
Madonna and Guy Lombardo. /
3
On one side is the Democrat's nominee. Oh, I know: He'd
waded (kolb)
like us to believe his party has dived into the mainstream. The
fact is they don't even have their feet wet. / The other party
still thinks that more government is the answer to everything.
( (Sometimes I think that, if they had their way, Mother's Day and
Father's Day would be replaced by Big Brother S Day. (Calio) )) On the
other side stand you and me. We believe government should serve
the people -- not the other way around. //
Look first at what trust means to our number one issue today
-- the economy -- jobs. //
The simple fact is only one candidate for President has
lived a life beyond government -- and known a call beyond
politics. I built a company / met a payroll / shared friends'
dreams from Midland to Odessa. / My apponent, on the other hand,
NOT
has never earned an adult paycheck that didn't come out of the
TRUE
FIND NEW
taxpayer pocket. Maybe that explains why he wants the largest
(fact-v) SEGUE
tax increase in history -- $150 billion / would raise spending by more than
$200 billion / cost us 2.6 million jobs. / ( (Folks ask me why he
(factv)
keeps saying these things as he wanders around the country. I
don't know. Guess he's inhaled too many bus fumes. )) //
I reject my opponent's kneejerk reaction to every problem:
Raising taxes. / You know that problem: When their knee jerks -
- you get kicked. / It all comes down to trust. Don't expect a
Democrat President to restrain spending in a Democrat Congress.
There'd be so much overspending, their sessions could be covered
on the commodities page under "pork futures. / My view is
not counting Minz new health care payroll tax (Findlay)
Cut per kolb. We ignoved
4
it. Don't bring if up.
different -- it's Middle American. We ve built on the Executive
Order Ronald Reagan signed in 1989 1987 to strengthen We want to the strengthen family. the (Kolb) family.
How? By trusting parents -- not the government -- to make
decisions. Especially on family social issues. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private, or religious.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. //
Kolb says mention our 1990 accomplishments.
Think of health care. Here, too, I trust parents. / My
opponent says: Let the government play doctor. I say: Pass my
(fact-v) and will
pro-family plan that will use tax credits to buy health insurance,
reform malpractice. / Today, there are too many malpractice
suits -- too many lawyers looking to soak the system. / The last
thing we need is an America where kids sue their parents. //
I was struck, for example, by the fact that not once was God
mentioned in the Democrats' 10,000-word platform. ((Since
Governor Casey of Pennsylvania was also shut out of the
convention, at least he's in good company.) )) // Our platform's
different. We are proud to celebrate, and I quote -- Xour (fact-v)
country's Judeo-Christian heritage" unrivaled in the world. //
That is why the political costs don't count to me. What
does is to "let thy conscience be thy guide". / Let my opponent
explain why he prefers abortion, to adoption I revere the
ondernandwhen isa moral alternative. (Findlay)
sanctity of life. //
I also want to help the family by upholding prayer. /
(Kolb)
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can
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prayer. / That's why I say: If Congress can raise its pay in a
debate the ments of Vanna white
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midnight session + if Congress can spend $25,000 just to study
appearing on the Home Shopping Network
the location of a new House gym / if it can subsidize a study of
the feud between the Hatfields and McCoys -- Congress can allow
our kids to thank God. / So I throw down the gauntlet. I call
on Congress to pass a Constitutional Amendment allowing voluntary
prayer. Let's bring the Faith of our Fathers back to our schools.
Finally, we can help the family by freeing our kids from
worry about a nuclear Armageddon. / Today, this Nation is a
better place because this planet is a safer place. Safer than it
was a decade ago -- safer even than two months ago, when your
kids walked out of school and into summer vacation. /
I am proud how we've reduced some of the world's most
dangerous nuclear weapons -- and how we've turned the world
Israeli (Haass)
right-side up. Today, Jew and Arab are talking at the conference
table. Israel knows it can count on loan guarantees / on support
for area its qualitative edge (Haass)
for secure borders / and always on our trust / In Berlin, a wall
strength (Hass)
crumbled. In Kuwait, aggression did not stand. Ronald Reagan
was right when he called Imperial Communism a four-letter word:
E-V-I-L. Today, it's D-E-A-D. / It didn't happen by magic. It
took guts, and vision. The Cold War is over -- and America won.
Look to Lithuania -- where the main Catholic cathedral, once
a government archives building, has been reconsecrated. / Look
to Bulgaria. Last year, my great running mate, Dan Quayle, spoke
at the reopening of another cathedral in Sofia. / All over
6
Eastern Europe, churches and synagogues are being repainted /
rebuilt / reborn. / Now that we've got the Russians to stop
knocking our country -- maybe we can convince my opponent to stop
knocking it. We don't need to knock America. We need to lift
America. We need a land where we love, not hate, one another.
An America which protects the family -- all that we are, and
believe. / We must preserve the family -- and with your support,
we will. / Thank you. And God bless the most wondrous land on
the face of the earth -- the United States of America.
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I'm especially glad to be in the home of the Dallas Cowboys
-- who've traveled a long way since Jerry Jones came from Little
Rock to buy the team. / ((It's good to see someone from Arkansas
who's kept his eye on the ball.)) 11
We meet today as great challenges face America -- good
schools / safe streets / a sound economy / a world at peace. But
we will meet them as Americans always have. Not - as some do -
- by running America down. / We will spend our time / the next
four years / helping families lift America up. 11
Let us start by recalling why the Pilgrims sought a New
Jerusalem -- why to an entire world, we became less a place than
an ideal. It was because America meant a better life -- a life
based on values which enrich America just as God enriches lives.
I don't mean values with the half-life of a sound bite --
but timeless things like community / self-reliance / opportunity.
These things link your family -- and bind the Family called
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empty as a universe without faith. "
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I may be the underdog in this campaign -- but I'm going to
fight to keep the Democrats from reversing our policies and
putting the family in the doghouse. / Back in the late 50's and
early 60's there was a TV program starring Johnny Carson. / Back
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yes
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- you get kicked. / It all comes down to trust. Don't expect a
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on Congress to pass a Constitutional Amendment allowing voluntary
prayer. Let's bring the Faith of our Fathers back to our schools.
Finally, we can help the family by freeing our kids from
worry about a nuclear Armageddon. / Today, this Nation is a
better place because this planet is a safer place. Safer than it
was a decade ago -- safer even than two months ago, when your
kids walked out of school and into summer vacation. /
I am proud how we've reduced some of the world's most
dangerous nuclear weapons - and how we've turned the world
Israeli (Haass)
right-side up. Today, Date and Arab are talking at the conference
table. Israel knows it can count on loan guarantees / on support
for ave its qualitative edge (Haass)
strength (Hass)
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crumbled. In Kuwait, aggression did not stand. Ronald Reagan
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took guts, and vision. The Cold War is ever -- and America won.
Look to Lithuania -- where the main Catholic cathedral, once
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ANN decisions. Especially on family social issues. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private, or religious.
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children's child care. At Kolb says mention our 1990 accomplishments.
Think of health care. Here, too, I trust parents. / My
opponent says: Let the government play doctor. I say: Pass my
yes
pro-family plan that will use tax credits to buy health insurance,
(faot.
and will reform malpractice. / Today, there are too many malbractice
suits -- too many lawyers looking to soak the svstem. / The last
thing we need is an America where kids sue their parents. 11
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mentioned in the Democrats' 10, 10,000-word platform. ((Since
Governor Casey of Pennsylvania was also shut out of the
convention, at least he's in good company.) // our platform's
yes
different. We are proud to celebrate, and I quote -- Xour (fact-v)
country's Judeo-Christian heritage unrivaled in the world. //
That is why the political costs don't count to me. What
does is to "let thy conscience be thy guide". / Let my opponent
you
ondemandwhen isa moral alternative. (Findley)
explain why he prefers abortion, adoption, I revere the
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Eastern Europe, churches and synagogues are being repainted /
rebuilt / reborn. / Now that we've got the Russians to stop
knocking our country -- maybe we can convince my opponent to stop
knocking it. LL We don't need to knock America. We need to lift
America. We need a land where we love, not hate, one another.
An America which protects the family -- all that we are, and
believe. / We must preserve the family -- and with your support,
we will. / Thank you. And God bless the most wondrous land on
the face of the earth -- the United States of America.
# # # #
August 20, 1992
FAX TO DAN MCGROARTY
713-688-0173
FROM MRS. AARHUS
RE: FLOTUS QUOTE
Here is the quote we would like to insert for Curt's National
Affairs Briefing speech:
"To us -- family means putting your arms around each other
and being there
"
Call me if you have any questions.
NOTE -- Tom Scully needs you to call him at x5178 up here ASAP
re: Lincoln Technical Institute.
6580
345979SS
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
8/19/92
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: NOON, THURS., AUG. 20
72 AUG 20 02.29
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONSERVATIVE BRIEFING
SUBJECT:
DALLAS, TEXAS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
A
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
>
FINDLAY
KAUFMAN
GRAY
HOLIDAY
BOSKIN
PORTER ROSE
REMARKS:
MCGROARTY
Please provide comments on the attached directly to
Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, with a copy to this
office NO LATER THAN NOON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
TO: DANIEL B. MCGROARTY
August 20, 1992
The NSC staff has reviewed the above-referenced matter and has no
objection, subject to the changes noted on the attached text.
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Brent Scowcroft
Ext. 2702
CC: Phillip D. Brady
(Smith/Aarhus)
August 19, 1992
ANGELIC
2 AUG 19 P I : 10
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONSERVATIVE BRIEFING
DALLAS, TEXAS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1992
Thank you for that introduction. Fellow Americans. ((I am
pleased to be at this "Woodstock" for conservatives. I don't
think there's been so much conservative passion in one room since
the last time Pat Buchanan played solitaire.) ) //
I'm especially glad to be in the home of the Dallas Cowboys
-- who've traveled a long way since Jerry Jones came from Little
Rock to buy the team. / ((It's good to see someone from Arkansas
who's kept his eye on the ball.) ) //
We meet today as great challenges face America -- good
schools / safe streets / a sound economy / a world at peace. But
we will meet them as Americans always have. Not -- as some do -
- by running America down. / We will spend our time / the next
four years / helping families lift America up. //
Let us start by recalling why the Pilgrims sought a New
Jerusalem -- why to an entire world, we became less a place than
an ideal. It was because America meant a better life -- a life
based on values which enrich America just as God enriches lives.
I don't mean values with the half-life of a sound bite --
but timeless things like community / self-reliance / opportunity.
These things link your family -- and bind the Family called
America. They matter because life without family would be as
empty as a universe without faith. //
2
Wednesday night you saw the most charismatic member of the
Bush family on television. Here's what she said about the family
-- your's and mine. [[QUOTE FROM MRS. BUSH]]. // No wonder
America loves Barbara Bush. //
Family is why conservatives support lower tax rates, limits
on government spending, and greater competition -- to empower
people to make decisions. / Why we want less economic regulation
and more open trade -- to unleash growth which gives people jobs.
It's why our policies reward hard work and self-discipline: We
believe in an America closer to The Waltons than The Simpsons.
I may be the underdog in this campaign -- but I'm going to
fight to keep the Democrats from reversing our policies and
putting the family in the doghouse. / Back in the late 50's and
early 60's there was a TV program starring Johnny Carson. / Back
then, "Who Do You Trust" was a game show. Today it's a question
that defines the very soul of this campaign. //
Trust matters when, late at night in the White House, the
phone rings. Sometimes it's a madman threatening peace halfway
around the world. / The man who answers that phone needs the
right stuff to do the right thing. My friends: I am that man. /
Yet trust matters, too, at home -- and here's why. //
Trust colors the Grand Canyon of a divide between me and my
opponent. Think of the issues that affect the family --
economic, social, military. Our positions are wider apart than
Madonna and Guy Lombardo. /
3
On one side is the Democrat's nominee. Oh, I know: He'd
like us to believe his party has dived into the mainstream. The
fact is they don't even have their feet wet. / The other party
still thinks that more government is the answer to everything.
( (Sometimes I think that, if they had their way, Mother's Day and
Father's Day would be replaced by Big Brother's Day.) ) On the
other side stand you and me. We believe government should serve
the people -- not the other way around. //
Look first at what trust means to our number one issue today
-- the economy -- jobs. //
The simple fact is only one candidate for President has
lived a life beyond government -- and known a call beyond
politics. I built a company / met a payroll / shared friends'
dreams from Midland to Odessa. / My opponent, on the other hand,
has never earned an adult paycheck that didn't come out of the
taxpayer's pocket. Maybe that explains why he wants the largest
tax increase in history -- $150 billion / would raise spending by
$200 billion / cost us 2.6 million jobs. / ( (Folks ask me why he
keeps saying these things as he wanders around the country. I
don't know. Guess he's inhaled too many bus fumes. )) //
I reject my opponent's kneejerk reaction to every problem:
Raising taxes. / You know that problem: When their knee jerks -
- you get kicked. / It all comes down to trust. Don't expect a
Democrat President to restrain spending in a Democrat Congress.
There'd be so much overspending, their sessions could be covered
on the commodities page under "pork futures." / My view is
Burd President
4
different -- it's Middle American. We've built on the Executive
Order Ronald Reagan signed in 1989 to strengthen the family.
How? By trusting parents -- not the government -- to make
decisions. Especially on family social issues. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private, or religious.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. //
Think of health care. Here, too, I trust parents. / My
opponent says: Let the government play doctor. I say: Pass my
pro-family plan that will use tax credits to buy health insurance
and reform malpractice. / Today, there are too many malpractice
suits -- too many lawyers looking to soak the system. / The last
thing we need is an America where kids sue their parents. //
I was struck, for example, by the fact that not once was God
mentioned in the Democrats' 10,000-word platform. ((Since
Governor Casey of Pennsylvania was also shut out of the
convention, at least he's in good company.) ) // Our platform's
different. We are proud to celebrate, and I quote -- "our
country's Judeo-Christian heritage" unrivaled in the world. //
That is why the political costs don't count to me. What
does is to "let thy conscience be thy guide". / Let my opponent
explain why he prefers abortion to adoption. I revere the
sanctity of life. //
I also want to help the family by upholding prayer. /
5
Something's wrong when kids get condoms at school but can't say a
prayer. / That's why I say: If Congress can raise its pay in a
midnight session / if Congress can spend $25,000 just to study
the location of a new House gym / if it can subsidize a study of
the feud between the Hatfields and McCoys -- Congress can allow
our kids to thank God. / So I throw down the gauntlet. I call
on Congress to pass a Constitutional Amendment allowing voluntary
prayer. Let's bring the Faith of our Fathers back to our schools.
Finally, we can help the family by freeing our kids from
worry about a nuclear Armageddon. / Today, this Nation is a
better place because this planet is a safer place. Safer than it
was a decade ago -- safer even than two months ago, when your
kids walked out of school and into summer vacation. /
I am proud how we've reduced some of the world's most
dangerous nuclear weapons -- and how we've turned the world
Israelis
right-side up. Today, Jew and Arab 5 are talking at the conference
table. Israel knows it can count on loan guarantees / on support
its qualitative edge
strensth
for secure borders / and always on our trust. / In Berlin, a wall
crumbled. In Kuwait, aggression did not stand. Ronald Reagan
was right when he called Imperial Communism a four-letter word:
E-V-I-L. Today, it's D-E-A-D. / It didn't happen by magic. It
took guts, and vision. The Cold War is over -- and America won.
Look to Lithuania -- where the main Catholic cathedral, once
a government archives building, has been reconsecrated. / Look
to Bulgaria. Last year, my great running mate, Dan Quayle, spoke
at the reopening of another cathedral in Sofia. / All over
6
Eastern Europe, churches and synagogues are being repainted /
rebuilt / reborn. / Now that we've got the Russians to stop
knocking our country -- maybe we can convince my opponent to stop
knocking it. We don't need to knock America. We need to lift
America. We need a land where we love, not hate, one another.
An America which protects the family -- all that we are, and
believe. / We must preserve the family -- and with your support,
we will. / Thank you. And God bless the most wondrous land on
the face of the earth -- the United States of America.
#
#
#
#
345979SS
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
8/19/92
32 AUG 19 P3: 03
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: NOON, THURS., AUG. 20
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONSERVATIVE BRIEFING
SUBJECT:
DALLAS, TEXAS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
P
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
>
FINDLAY
KAUFMAN
GRAY
HOLIDAY
BOSKIN
PORTER ROSE
REMARKS:
MCGROARTY
Please provide comments on the attached directly to
Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, with a copy to this
office NO LATER THAN NOON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
Comments will come from
Dorrauce Smith at the convention.
Marca Sheel
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Aarhus)
August 19, 1992
ANGELIC
2 AUG 19 P | : 10
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONSERVATIVE BRIEFING
DALLAS, TEXAS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1992
Thank you for that introduction. Fellow Americans. ((I am
pleased to be at this "Woodstock" for conservatives. I don't
think there's been so much conservative passion in one room since
the last time Pat Buchanan played solitaire.) ) //
I'm especially glad to be in the home of the Dallas Cowboys
-- who've traveled a long way since Jerry Jones came from Little
Rock to buy the team. / ((It's good to see someone from Arkansas
who's kept his eye on the ball.) ) //
We meet today as great challenges face America -- good
schools / safe streets / a sound economy / a world at peace. But
we will meet them as Americans always have. Not -- as some do -
- by running America down. / We will spend our time / the next
four years / helping families lift America up. //
Let us start by recalling why the Pilgrims sought a New
Jerusalem -- why to an entire world, we became less a place than
an ideal. It was because America meant a better life -- a life
based on values which enrich America just as God enriches lives.
I don't mean values with the half-life of a sound bite --
but timeless things like community / self-reliance / opportunity.
These things link your family -- and bind the Family called
America. They matter because life without family would be as
empty as a universe without faith. //
2
Wednesday night you saw the most charismatic member of the
Bush family on television. Here's what she said about the family
-- your's and mine. [[QUOTE FROM MRS. BUSH]]. // No wonder
America loves Barbara Bush. //
Family is why conservatives support lower tax rates, limits
on government spending, and greater competition -- to empower
people to make decisions. / Why we want less economic regulation
and more open trade -- to unleash growth which gives people jobs.
It's why our policies reward hard work and self-discipline: We
believe in an America closer to The Waltons than The Simpsons.
I may be the underdog in this campaign -- but I'm going to
fight to keep the Democrats from reversing our policies and
putting the family in the doghouse. / Back in the late 50's and
early 60's there was a TV program starring Johnny Carson. / Back
then, "Who Do You Trust" was a game show. Today it's a question
that defines the very soul of this campaign. //
Trust matters when, late at night in the White House, the
phone rings. Sometimes it's a madman threatening peace halfway
around the world. / The man who answers that phone needs the
right stuff to do the right thing. My friends: I am that man. /
Yet trust matters, too, at home -- and here's why. //
Trust colors the Grand Canyon of a divide between me and my
opponent. Think of the issues that affect the family --
economic, social, military. Our positions are wider apart than
Madonna and Guy Lombardo. /
3
On one side is the Democrat's nominee. Oh, I know: He'd
like us to believe his party has dived into the mainstream. The
fact is they don't even have their feet wet. / The other party
still thinks that more government is the answer to everything.
( (Sometimes I think that, if they had their way, Mother's Day and
Father's Day would be replaced by Big Brother's Day.) )) On the
other side stand you and me. We believe government should serve
the people -- not the other way around. //
Look first at what trust means to our number one issue today
-- the economy -- jobs. //
The simple fact is only one candidate for President has
lived a life beyond government -- and known a call beyond
politics. I built a company / met a payroll / shared friends'
dreams from Midland to Odessa. / My opponent, on the other hand,
has never earned an adult paycheck that didn't come out of the
taxpayer's pocket. Maybe that explains why he wants the largest
tax increase in history -- $150 billion / would raise spending by
$200 billion / cost us 2.6 million jobs. / ( (Folks ask me why he
keeps saying these things as he wanders around the country. I
don't know. Guess he's inhaled too many bus fumes. )) //
I reject my opponent's kneejerk reaction to every problem:
Raising taxes. / You know that problem: When their knee jerks -
- you get kicked. / It all comes down to trust. Don't expect a
Democrat President to restrain spending in a Democrat Congress.
There'd be so much overspending, their sessions could be covered
on the commodities page under "pork futures.' / My view is
4
different -- it's Middle American. We've built on the Executive
Order Ronald Reagan signed in 1989 to strengthen the family.
How? By trusting parents -- not the government -- to make
decisions. Especially on family social issues. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private, or religious.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. //
Think of health care. Here, too, I trust parents. / My
opponent says: Let the government play doctor. I say: Pass my
pro-family plan that will use tax credits to buy health insurance
and reform malpractice. / Today, there are too many malpractice
suits -- too many lawyers looking to soak the system. / The last
thing we need is an America where kids sue their parents. //
I was struck, for example, by the fact that not once was God
mentioned in the Democrats' 10,000-word platform. ((Since
Governor Casey of Pennsylvania was also shut out of the
convention, at least he's in good company.) ) // Our platform's
different. We are proud to celebrate, and I quote -- "our
country's Judeo-Christian heritage" unrivaled in the world. //
That is why the political costs don't count to me. What
does is to "let thy conscience be thy guide". / Let my opponent
explain why he prefers abortion to adoption. I revere the
sanctity of life. //
I also want to help the family by upholding prayer. /
5
Something's wrong when kids get condoms at school but can't say a
prayer. / That's why I say: If Congress can raise its pay in a
midnight session / if Congress can spend $25,000 just to study
the location of a new House gym / if it can subsidize a study of
the feud between the Hatfields and McCoys -- Congress can allow
our kids to thank God. / So I throw down the gauntlet. I call
on Congress to pass a Constitutional Amendment allowing voluntary
prayer. Let's bring the Faith of our Fathers back to our schools.
Finally, we can help the family by freeing our kids from
worry about a nuclear Armageddon. / Today, this Nation is a
better place because this planet is a safer place. Safer than it
was a decade ago -- safer even than two months ago, when your
kids walked out of school and into summer vacation. /
I am proud how we've reduced some of the world's most
dangerous nuclear weapons -- and how we've turned the world
right-side up. Today, Jew and Arab are talking at the conference
table. Israel knows it can count on loan guarantees / on support
for secure borders / and always on our trust. / In Berlin, a wall
crumbled. In Kuwait, aggression did not stand. Ronald Reagan
was right when he called Imperial Communism a four-letter word:
E-V-I-L. Today, it's D-E-A-D. / It didn't happen by magic. It
took guts, and vision. The Cold War is over -- and America won.
Look to Lithuania -- where the main Catholic cathedral, once
a government archives building, has been reconsecrated. / Look
to Bulgaria. Last year, my great running mate, Dan Quayle, spoke
at the reopening of another cathedral in Sofia. / All over
6
Eastern Europe, churches and synagogues are being repainted /
rebuilt / reborn. / Now that we've got the Russians to stop
knocking our country -- maybe we can convince my opponent to stop
knocking it. We don't need to knock America. We need to lift
America. We need a land where we love, not hate, one another.
An America which protects the family -- all that we are, and
believe. / We must preserve the family -- and with your support,
we will. / Thank you. And God bless the most wondrous land on
the face of the earth -- the United States of America.
# # # #
TO: DAN (Speech writing) MCGROARTY
DAN-
Here is a new pg. 4
that Curt wrote for the Nat'l
Affairs Briefing Speech. I've
starred the new language.
Curt wants to know ifwe
can keep it in.
Tell the President to break
a leg tonight ! We're pulling for
you all back here !
Mrs. Clarkus
VTSIAOSIC
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 19, 1992
- ИАСТ
MEMORANDUM FOR ALL WHITE HOUSE OFFICE EMPLOYEES AND
ALL EMPLOYEES OF THE OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
FROM:
TIMOTHY J. MCBRIDE
tont
ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR
MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
SUBJECT:
Notification of Participation in Employee Records
Matching Programs
The Debt Collection Act of 1982 authorized agencies to recover
delinquent debt owed to the government by their employees through
salary deductions. Beginning in 1987, The Reagan Administration
instituted a computer matching program of delinquent debt files
from the major credit agencies and Executive and Judicial Branch
employees. These programs identify federal employees who owe
federal debts (including tax debts) and identify retired military
members who are subject to dual compensation and pay cap
restrictions. The Executive Office of the President, with the
exception of the White House Office (WHO) and the Office of the
Vice President (OVP), has been participating in these computer
matching programs.
Computer matching has proven to be a fiscally sound approach.
Over $157 million dollars has been recovered as a result of these
programs, either through negotiated payments or offsets of up to
15 percent of employee's net salaries. WHO and OVP will now
participate in the computer matching program for debt collection.
I want to assure you that the Computer Matching and Privacy
Protection Act of 1988 provides for the protection of your
privacy and due process when matching different federal systems
of records as a means of complying with the Debt Collection Act.
Your employee record will be protected by strict adherence to the
provisions of the Privacy Act. Access will be limited to only
those who have a legitimate need as part of performing a match.
Your records will not be used for any other purpose and no
information will be extracted if there is no match. Any match
which indicates delinquent debt will be carefully verified and
handled with the utmost confidentiality.
Thank you for your cooperation and participation in this
important program.
4
different -- it's Middle American. We've built on the Executive
Order Ronald Reagan signed in 1989 to strengthen the family.
How? By trusting parents -- not the government -- to make
decisions. Especially on family social issues. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private, or religious. That's
why
I've called for school choice in our America 2000 initiative.
I
call on Congress to finally answer education's wakeup call. ]]
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose® their
children's child care. / <02 Few things please me more than the
legislation we passed in 1990 to protect religious and home-
based care. ]]
Think of health care. Here, too, I trust parents. / My
opponent says: Let the government play doctor. I say: Pass my
pro-family plan that will use tax credits to buy health insurance
and reform malpractice. / Today, there are too many malpractice
suits -- too many lawyers looking to soak the system. / The last
thing we need is an America where kids sue their parents. / /
I was struck, for example, by the fact that not once was God
mentioned in the Democrats' 10, , 000-word platform. ( (Since
Governor Casey of Pennsylvania was also shut out of the
convention, at least he's in good company.) ) // Our platform's
different. We are proud to celebrate, and I quote -- "our
country's Judeo-Christian heritage" unrivaled in the world. //
That is why the political costs don't count to me. What
does is to "let thy conscience be thy guide". / Let my opponent
DELIVER DELI - URGENT
August 20, 1992
FAX TO DAN MCGROARTY &
713-688-0173
FROM MRS. AARHUS
RE: FLOTUS QUOTE
Here is the quote we would like to insert for Curt's National
Affairs Briefing speech:
"To us -- family means putting your arms around each other
and being there
"
Call me if you have any questions.
NOTE -- Tom Scully needs you to call him at x5178 up here ASAP
re: Lincoln Technical Institute.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
77 AUG 20 P2:30
August 20, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR DAN MCGROARTY
SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
FOR COMMUNICATION
FROM:
misfor GREGORY S. WALDEN
ASSOCIATE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks: Conservative Briefing
Dallas, Texas
At your request, the Counsel's office has reviewed the above-
referenced matter. We have no legal objection or comments.
CC: Phillip D. Brady
345979SS
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
32 AUG 20 A10:
8/19/92
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: NOON, THURS., AUG. 20
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONSERVATIVE BRIEFING
SUBJECT:
DALLAS, TEXAS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1992
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
PORTER ROSE
REMARKS:
MCGROARTY
Please provide comments on the attached directly to
Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, with a copy to this
office NO LATER THAN NOON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
Comments from.
C. KOLB
8/20/52
PHILLIP D. BRADY
93Am
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Aarhus)
August 19, 1992
ANGELIC
2 2 A00 19 P | : 10
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONSERVATIVE BRIEFING
DALLAS, TEXAS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1992
Thank you for that introduction. Fellow Americans. ((I am
pleased to be at this "Woodstock" for conservatives. I don't
think there's been so much conservative passion in one room since
the last time Pat Buchanan played solitaire.) ) //
I'm especially glad to be in the home of the Dallas Cowboys
-- who've traveled a long way since Jerry Jones came from Little
Rock to buy the team. / ((It's good to see someone from Arkansas
who's kept his eye on the ball.) ) //
We meet today as great challenges face America -- good
schools / safe streets / a sound economy / a world at peace. But
we will meet them as Americans always have. Not -- as some do -
- by running America down. / We will spend our time / the next
four years / helping families lift America up. //
Let us start by recalling why the Pilgrims sought a New
Jerusalem -- why to an entire world, we became less a place than
an ideal. It was because America meant a better life -- a life
based on values which enrich America just as God enriches lives.
I don't mean values with the half-life of a sound bite --
but timeless things like community / self-reliance / opportunity.
These things link your family -- and bind the Family called
America. They matter because life without family would be as
empty as a universe without faith. //
2
Wednesday night you saw the most charismatic member of the
Bush family on television. Here's what she said about the family
-- your's and mine. [[QUOTE FROM MRS. BUSH]]. // No wonder
America loves Barbara Bush. //
Family is why conservatives support lower tax rates, limits
on government spending, and greater competition -- to empower
not
people to make decisions. / Why we want less economic regulation
bureaucrary,
and more open trade -- to unleash growth which gives people jobs.
It's why our policies reward hard work and self-discipline: We
believe in an America closer to The Waltons than The Simpsons.
I may be the underdog in this campaign -- but I'm going to
fight to keep the Democrats from reversing our policies and
putting the family in the doghouse. / Back in the late 50's and
early 60's there was a TV program starring Johnny Carson. / Back
fundamental
then, "Who Do You Trust" was a game show. Today it's a question
that defines the very soul of this campaign. //
It matters
Trust matters when, late at night in the White House, the
phone rings. Sometimes it's a madman threatening peace halfway
around the world. / The man who answers that phone needs the
right stuff to do the right thing. My friends: I am that man. /
Yet trust matters, too at home -- and here's why. //
night here
That
Trust colors the Grand Canyon of a divide between me and my
opponent. Think of the issues that affect the family --
economic, social, military. Our positions are wider apart than
Madonna and Guy Lombardo. /
3
On one side is the Democrat's nominee. Oh, I know: He'd
Waded
like us to believe his party has dived into the mainstream. The
fact is they don't even have their feet wet. / The other party
still thinks that more government is the answer to everything.
((Sometimes I think that, if they had their way, Mother's Day and
Father's Day would be replaced by Big Brother's Day.) ) On the
other side stand you and me. We believe government should serve
the people -- not the other way around. //
Look first at what trust means to our number one issue today
-- the economy -- jobs. //
The simple fact is only one candidate for President has
lived a life beyond government -- and known a call beyond
politics. I built a company / met a payroll / shared friends'
dreams from Midland to Odessa. / My opponent, on the other hand,
has never earned an adult paycheck that didn't come out of the
taxpayer's pocket. Maybe that explains why he wants the largest
tax increase in history -- $150 billion / would raise spending by
$200 billion / cost us 2.6 million jobs. / ( (Folks ask me why he
keeps saying these things as he wanders around the country. I
don't know. Guess he's inhaled too many bus fumes. )) //
I reject my opponent's kneejerk reaction to every problem:
Raising taxes. / You know that problem: When their knee jerks -
- you get kicked. / It all comes down to trust. Don't expect a
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and reform malpractice. / Today, there are too many malpractice
suits -- too many lawyers looking to soak the system. / The last
thing we need is an America where kids sue their parents. //
I was struck, for example, by the fact that not once was God
mentioned in the Democrats' 10,000-word platform. ((Since
Governor Casey of Pennsylvania was also shut out of the
convention, at least he's in good company.) ) // Our platform's
different. We are proud to celebrate, and I quote -- "our
country's Judeo-Christian heritage" unrivaled in the world. //
That is why the political costs don't count to me. What
does is to "let thy conscience be thy guide". / Let my opponent
explain why he prefers abortion to adoption. I revere the
sanctity of life. //
I also want to help the family by upholding prayer. /
5
Something's wrong when kids get condoms at school but can't say a
prayer. / That's why I say: If Congress can raise its pay in a
midnight session / if Congress can spend $25,000 just to study
the location of a new House gym / if it can subsidize a study of
the feud between the Hatfields and McCoys -- Congress can allow
our kids to thank God. / So I throw down the gauntlet. I call
on Congress to pass a Constitutional Amendment allowing voluntary
prayer. Let's bring the Faith of our Fathers back to our schools.
Finally, we can help the family by freeing our kids from
worry about a nuclear Armageddon. / Today, this Nation is a
better place because this planet is a safer place. Safer than it
was a decade ago -- safer even than two months ago, when your
kids walked out of school and into summer vacation. /
I am proud how we've reduced some of the world's most
dangerous nuclear weapons -- and how we've turned the world
right-side up. Today, Jew and Arab are talking at the conference
table. Israel knows it can count on loan guarantees / on support
for secure borders / and always on our trust. / In Berlin, a wall
crumbled. In Kuwait, aggression did not stand. Ronald Reagan
was right when he called Imperial Communism a four-letter word:
E-V-I-L. Today, it's D-E-A-D. / It didn't happen by magic. It
took guts, and vision. The Cold War is over -- and America won.
Look to Lithuania -- where the main Catholic cathedral, once
a government archives building, has been reconsecrated. / Look
to Bulgaria. Last year, my great running mate, Dan Quayle, spoke
at the reopening of another cathedral in Sofia. / All over
6
Eastern Europe, churches and synagogues are being repainted /
rebuilt / reborn. / Now that we've got the Russians to stop
knocking our country -- maybe we can convince my opponent to stop
knocking it. We don't need to knock America. We need to lift
America. We need a land where we love, not hate, one another.
An America which protects the family -- all that we are, and
believe. / We must preserve the family -- and with your support,
we will. / Thank you. And God bless the most wondrous land on
the face of the earth -- the United States of America.
# # # #
7
Con. Brieting
N/C
J.D Foster
CEA
92 AUG 20 P12 : 06
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; 8-20-92 ; 1:14PM ; LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS-
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Document No. 3459795S
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
92 AUG 20 P1:21
8/19/92
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: NOON, THURS., AUG. 20
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONSERVATIVE BRIEFING
SUBJECT:
DALLAS, TEXAS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22. 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
1
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALI
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
>
FINDLAY
KAUFMAN
GRAY
HOLIDAY
BOSKIN
PORTER ROSE
REMARKS:
MCGROARTY
Please provide comments on the attached directly to
Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, with a copy to this
office NO LATER THAN NOON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
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; 8-20-92 ; 1:14PM ; LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS-
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ANGELIC
2 203 P1:10 ?
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONSERVATIVE BRIEFING
DALLAS, TEXAS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1992
Thank you for that Pentacost introduction. Fellow Americans. ((I am
pleased to be at this "woodstock" for conservatives. I don't
think there's been so much conservative passion in one room since
first met Ronald Kengan
the last time Pat Buchanan played selitaire. " 11
I'm especially glad to be in the home of the Dallas Cowboys
-- who've traveled a long way since Jerry Jones came from Little
Rock to buy the team. / ((It's good to see someone from Arkansas
who's kept his eye on the ball.) ) 11
We meet today as great challenges face America -- good
schools / safe streets / a sound economy / a world at peace. But
we will meet them as Americans always have. Not -- as some do -
- by running America down. / We will spend our time / the next
four vears / helping families lift America up. 11
Lat us start by recalling why the Pilgrims sought a New
Jerusalem - why to an entire world, we became less a place than
an ideal. It was because America meant a better life -- a life
based on values which enrich America just as God enriches lives.
I don't mean values with the half-life of a sound bite --
but timeless things like community / self-reliance / opportunity.
These things link your family -- and bind the Family called
America. They matter because life without family would be as
empty as a universe without faith. 11
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; 8-20-92 ; 1:15PM ; LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS-
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2
Wednesday night you saw the most charismatic member of the
Bush family on television. Here's what she said about the family
-- your's and mine. [[QUOTE FROM MRS. BUSH]]. // No wonder
America loves Barbara Bush. //
Family is why conservatives support lower tax rates, limits.
on government spending, and greater competition -- to empower
people to make decisions. / Why we want less economic regulation
and more open trade -- to unleash growth which gives people jobs.
It's why our policies reward hard work and self-discipline: We
believe in an America closer to The Waltons than The Simpsons.
I may be the underdog in this campaign -- but I'm going to
fight to keep the Democrats from reversing our policies and
putting the family in the doghouse. / Back in the late 50's and
early 60's there was a TV program starring Johnny Carson. / Back
then, "Who Do You Trust" was a game show. Today it's a question
that defines the very soul of this campaign. 11
Trust matters when, late at night in the White House, the
phone rings. Sometimes it's a madman threatening peace halfway
around the world. / The man who answers that phone needs the
right stuff to do the right thing. My friends: I am that man. /
Yet trust matters, too, at home -- and here's why. 11
Trust colors the Grand Canyon of a divide between me and my
opponent. Think of the issues that affect the family --
economic, social, military. Our positions are wider apart than
Madonna and Guy Lombardo. /
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3
On one side is the Democrat's nominee. oh, I know: He'd
like us to believe his party has dived into the mainstream. The
fact is they don't even have their feet wet. / The other party
still thinks that more government is the answer to everything.
( (Sometimes I think that, if they had their way, Mother's Day and
Father's Day would be replaced by Big Brother Day. " On the
other side stand you and me. We believe government should serve
the people -- not the other way around. 11
Look first at what trust means to our number one issue today
-- the economy -- jobs. 11
The simple fact is only one candidate for President has
lived a life beyond government -- and known a call beyond
politics. I built a company / met a payroll / shared friends'
dreams from Midland to Odessa. / My opponent, on the other hand,
has never earned an adult paycheck that didn't come out of the
taxpayer's pocket. Maybe that explains why he wants the largest
tax increase in history -- $150 billion / would raise spending by
$200 billion / cost us 2.6 million jobs. / (Folks ask me why he
keeps saving these things as he wanders around the country. I
don't know. Guess he's inhaled too many bus fumes. )) 11
I reject my opponent's kneejerk reaction to every problem:
Raising taxes. / You know that problem: When their knee jerks
-
- you get kicked. / It all comes down to trust. Don't expect a
Democrat President to restrain spending in a Democrat Congress.
There'd be so much overspending, their sessions could be covered
on the commodities page under "pork futures." / My view is
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4
different -- it's Middle American. We've built on the Executive
Order Ronald Reagan signed in 1989 to strengthen the family.
How? By trusting parents -- not the government -- to make
decisions. Especially on family social issues. 11
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private, or religious.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. 11
Think of health care. Here, too, I trust parents. / My
opponent says: Let the government play doctor. I say: Pass my
pro-family plan that will use tax credits to buy health insurance
and reform malpractice. / Today, there are too many malpractice
suits -- too many lawyers looking to soak the system. / The last
thing we need is an America where kids sue their parents. 11
I was struck, for example, by the fact that not once was God
mentioned in the Democrats' 10,000-word platform. ((Since
Governor Casey of Pennsylvania was also shut out of the
convention, at least he's in good company.) 11 our platform's
different. We are proud to celebrate, and I quote -- "our
country's Judeo-Christian heritage" unrivaled in the world. 11
That is why the political costs don't count to me. What
does is to "let thy conscience be thy guide". / Let my opponent
explain why he prefers abortion to adoption. I revere the
sanctity of life. 11
I also want to help the family by upholding prayer. /
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5
Something's wrong when kids get condoms at school but can't say a
prayer. / That's why I say: If Congress can raise its pay in a
midnight session / if Congress can spend $25,000 just to study
the location of a new House gym / if it can subsidize a study of
the feud between the Hatfields and McCoys -- Congress can allow
our kids to thank God. / So I throw down the gauntlet. I call
on Congress to pass a Constitutional Amendment allowing voluntary
prayer. Let's bring the Faith of our Fathers back to our schools.
Finally, we can help the family by freeing our kids from
worry about a nuclear Armageddon. / Today, this Nation is a
better place because this planet is a safer place. Safer than it
was a decade ago -- safer even than two months ago, when your
kids walked out of school and into summer vacation. /
I am proud how we've reduced some of the world's most
dangerous nuclear weapons - and how we've turned the world
right-side up. Today, Jew and Arab are talking at the conference
table. Israel knows it can count on loan quarantees / on support
for secure borders / and always on our trust. / In Berlin, a wall
crumbled. In Kuwait, aggression did not stand. Ronald Reagan
was right when he called Imperial Communism a four-letter word:
E-V-I-L. Today, it's D-E-A-D. / It didn't happen by magic. It
took guts, and vision. The Cold War is over -- and America won.
Look to Lithuania -- where the main Catholic cathedral, once
a government archives building, has been reconsecrated. / Look
to Bulgaria. Last year, my great running mate, Dan Quayle, spoke
at the reopening of another cathedral in Sofia. / All over
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6
Eastern Europe, churches and synagogues are being repainted /
rebuilt / reborn. / Now that we've got the Russians to stop
knocking our country -- maybe we can convince my opponent to stop
knocking it. We don't need to knock America. We need to lift
America. We need a land where we love, not hate, one another.
An America which protects the family -- all that we are, and
believe. / We must preserve the family -- and with your support,
we will. / Thank you. And God bless the most wondrous land on
the face of the earth -- the United States of America.
#
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8/19/92
DATE:
ACTION/CONOURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: NOON, THURS AUG. 20
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONSERVATIVE BRIEFING
SUBJECT:
DALLAS, TEXAS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22. 1992
ACTION FYI
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VICE PRESIDENT
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MOORE
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office NO LATER THAN NOON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20.
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PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
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August 19, 1992
ANGELIC
is P 1 : 10
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONSERVATIVE BRIEFING
DALLAS, TEXAS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1992
Thank you for that introduction. Fellow Americans. ((I am
pleased to be at this "Woodstock" for conservatives. I don't
think there's been so much conservative passion in one room since
the last time Pat Buchanan played solitaire.) ) 11
I'm especially glad to be in the home of the Dallas Cowboys
-- who've traveled a long way since Jerry Jones came from Little
Rock to buy the team. / ((It's good to see someone from Arkansas
who's kept his eye on the ball.) ) 11
We meet today as great challenges face America -- good
schools / safe streets / a sound economy / a world at peace. But
we will meet them as Americans always have. Not -- as some do -
- by running America down. / We will spend our time / the next
four years / helping families lift America up. 11
Let us start by recalling why the Pilgrims sought a New
Jerusalem - why to an entire world, we became less a place than
an ideal. It was because America meant a better life -- a life
based on values which enrich America just as God enriches lives.
I don't mean values with the half-life of a sound bite --
but timeless things like community / self-reliance / opportunity.
These things link vour
Extended Page 3.1
your ramily -- and bind the Family called
America. They matter because life without family would be as
empty as a universe without faith. 11
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Wednesday night you saw the most charismatic member of the
Bush family on television. Here's what she said about the family
-- your's and mine. [[QUOTE FROM MRS. BUSH]]. 11 No wonder
America loves Barbara Bush. 11
Family is why conservatives support lower tax rates, limits
on government spending, and greater competition - to empower
people to make decisions. / why we want less economic regulation
and more open trade -- to unleash growth which gives people jobs.
It's why our policies reward hard work and self-discipline: We
believe in an America closer to The Waltons than The Simpsons.
I may be the underdog in this campaign -- but I'm going to
fight to keep the Democrate from reversing our policies and
putting the family in the dochouse. / Back in the late 50's and
early 60's there was a TV program starring Johnny Carson. / Back
then, "Who Do You Trust" was a game show. Today it's a question
that defines the very soul of this campaign. 11
Trust matters when, late at night in the White House, the
phone rings. Sometimes it's a madman threatening peace halfway
around the world. / The man who answers that phone needs the
#
right stuff to do the right thing. My friends: I an that man. /
Yet trust matters, too, at home -- and here's why. 11
Trust colors the Grand Canyon of a divide between me and my
opponent. Think of the issues that affect the family -
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4.1
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Madonna and Guy Lombardo. /
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( (Sometimes I think that, if they had their way, Mother's Day and
Father's Day would be replaced by Big Brother's Day. " on the
other side stand you and me. We believe government should serve
the people - not the other way around. 11
Look first at what trust means to our number one issue today
--- the economy - jobs. 11
The simple fact is only one candidate for President has
lived a life beyond government - and known a call beyond
politics. I built a company / met a payroll / shared friends'
dreams from Midland to Odessa. / My opponent, on the other hand,
has never earned an adult psycheck that didn't come out of the
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Order Ronald Reagan signed in 1989 to strengthen the family.
How? By trusting parents --- not the government -- to make
decisions. Empecially on family social issues. 11
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private, or religious.
I trust parents - not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. 11
Think of health care. Here, too, M trust parents. / My
opponent says: Let the government play doctor. I say: Pass my
pro-family plan that will use tax credits to buy health insurance
and reform malpractice. / Today, there are too many malpractice
suits -- too many lawyers looking to seak the system. / The last
thing we need is an America where kids sue their parents. 11
I was struck, for example, by the fact that not once was God
mentioned in the Democrats' 10,000-word platform. ((Since
Governor Casey of Pennsylvania was also shut out of the
convention, at least he's in good company.) 11 Our platform's
different. We are proud to celebrate, and I quote - "our
country's Judeo-Christian heritage" unrivaled in the world. 11
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Something's wrong when kids get condoms at school but can't say
a
prayer. / That's why I say: If Congress can raise its pay in a
midnight session / if Congress can spend $25,000 just to study
the location of & new House gym / if it can subsidize a study of
the feud between the Hatfields and McCoys - Congress can allow
our kids to thank God. / So I throw down the gauntlet. I call
on Congress to pass a Constitutional Amendment allowing voluntary
prayer. Let's bring the Faith of our Fathers back to our schools.
Finally, we can help the family by freeing our kids from
worry about a nuclear Armageddon. / Today, this Nation is a
better place because this planet is a safer place. Safer than it
was a decade ago -- safer even than two months age, when your
kids walked out of school and into summer vacation. /
I am proud how we've reduced some of the world's most
dangerous nuclear weapons - and how wa've turned the world
right-side UD. Today, Jew and Arab are talking at the conference
table. Israel knows it can count on loan quarantees / on support
for secure borders / and always on our trust. / In Berlin, a wall
crumbled. In Kuwait, aggression did not stand. Ronald Reagan
was right when he called Imperial Communism a four-letter word:
E-V-I-L. Today, it's D-E-A-D. / It didn't happen by magic. It
took guts, and vision. The Cold War is over -- and America won.
Look to Lithuania -- where the main Catholic cathedral, once
& government archives building, has been reconsecrated
Extended Page
7.1
/
LOOK
to Bulgaria. Last year, my great running mate, Dan Quayle, spoke
at the recpening of another cathedral in Sofia. / All over
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Eastern Europe, churches and synagogues are being repainted /
rebuilt / reborn. / Now that we've got the Russians to stop
knocking our country -- maybe we can convince my opponent to stop
knocking it. We don't need to knock America. We need to lift
America. We need a land where we love, not hate. one another.
An America which protects the family -- all that we SEE. and
believe. / We must preserve the family -- and with your support,
ye will. / Thank you. And God bless the most wondrous land on
the face of the earth This the United States of America.
#
#
(Smith/Aarhus)
August 19, 1992
ANGELIC
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONSERVATIVE BRIEFING
DALLAS, TEXAS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1992
Thank you for that introduction. Fellow Americans. ((I am
pleased to be at this "Woodstock" for conservatives. I don't
think there's been so much conservative passion in one room since
the last time Pat Buchanan played solitaire.) ) //
I'm especially glad to be in the home of the Dallas Cowboys
-- who've traveled a long way since Jerry Jones came from Little
Rock to buy the team. / ((It's good to see someone from Arkansas
who's kept his eye on the ball.) ) //
We meet today as great challenges face America -- good
schools / safe streets / a sound economy / a world at peace. But
we will meet them as Americans always have. Not -- as some do -
- by running America down. / We will spend our time / the next
four years / helping families lift America up. //
Let us start by recalling why the Pilgrims sought a New
Jerusalem -- why to an entire world, we became less a place than
an ideal. It was because America meant a better life -- a life
based on values which enrich America just as God enriches lives.
I don't mean values with the half-life of a sound bite --
but timeless things like community / self-reliance / opportunity.
These things link your family -- and bind the Family called
America. They matter because life without family would be as
empty as a universe without faith. //
2
Wednesday night you saw the most charismatic member of the
Bush family on television. Here's what she said about the family
-- your's and mine. [[QUOTE FROM MRS. BUSH]]. // No wonder
America loves Barbara Bush. //
Family is why conservatives support lower tax rates, limits
on government spending, and greater competition -- to empower
people to make decisions. / Why we want less economic regulation
and more open trade -- to unleash growth which gives people jobs.
It's why our policies reward hard work and self-discipline: We
believe in an America closer to The Waltons than The Simpsons.
I may be the underdog in this campaign -- but I'm going to
fight to keep the Democrats from reversing our policies and
putting the family in the doghouse. / Back in the late 50's and
early 60's there was a TV program starring Johnny Carson. / Back
then, "Who Do You Trust" was a game show. Today it's a question
that defines the very soul of this campaign. //
Trust matters when, late at night in the White House, the
phone rings. Sometimes it's a madman threatening peace halfway
around the world. / The man who answers that phone needs the
right stuff to do the right thing. My friends: I am that man. /
Yet trust matters, too, at home -- and here's why. //
Trust colors the Grand Canyon of a divide between me and my
opponent. Think of the issues that affect the family --
economic, social, military. Our positions are wider apart than
Madonna and Guy Lombardo. /
3
On one side is the Democrat's nominee. Oh, I know: He'd
like us to believe his party has dived into the mainstream. The
fact is they don't even have their feet wet. / The other party
still thinks that more government is the answer to everything.
( (Sometimes I think that, if they had their way, Mother's Day and
Father's Day would be replaced by Big Brother's Day. )) On the
other side stand you and me. We believe government should serve
the people -- not the other way around. //
Look first at what trust means to our number one issue today
-- the economy -- jobs. //
The simple fact is only one candidate for President has
lived a life beyond government -- and known a call beyond
politics. I built a company / met a payroll / shared friends'
dreams from Midland to Odessa. / My opponent, on the other hand,
has never earned an adult paycheck that didn't come out of the
taxpayer's pocket. Maybe that explains why he wants the largest
tax increase in history -- $150 billion / would raise spending by
$200 billion / cost us 2.6 million jobs. / ((Folks ask me why he
keeps saying these things as he wanders around the country. I
don't know. Guess he's inhaled too many bus fumes. )) //
I reject my opponent's kneejerk reaction to every problem:
Raising taxes. / You know that problem: When their knee jerks -
- you get kicked. / It all comes down to trust. Don't expect
a
Democrat President to restrain spending in a Democrat Congress.
There'd be so much overspending, their sessions could be covered
on the commodities page under "pork futures." / My view is
4
different -- it's Middle American. We've built on the Executive
Order Ronald Reagan signed in 1989 to strengthen the family.
How? By trusting parents -- not the government -- to make
decisions. Especially on family social issues. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private, or religious.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. //
Think of health care. Here, too, I trust parents. / My
opponent says: Let the government play doctor. I say: Pass my
pro-family plan that will use tax credits to buy health insurance
and reform malpractice. / Today, there are too many malpractice
suits -- too many lawyers looking to soak the system. / The last
thing we need is an America where kids sue their parents. //
I was struck, for example, by the fact that not once was God
mentioned in the Democrats' 10,000-word platform. ((Since
Governor Casey of Pennsylvania was also shut out of the
convention, at least he's in good company.) ) // Our platform's
different. We are proud to celebrate, and I quote -- "our
country's Judeo-Christian heritage" unrivaled in the world. //
That is why the political costs don't count to me. What
does is to "let thy conscience be thy guide". / Let my opponent
explain why he prefers abortion to adoption. I revere the
sanctity of life. //
I also want to help the family by upholding prayer. /
5
Something's wrong when kids get condoms at school but can't say a
prayer. / That's why I say: If Congress can raise its pay in a
midnight session / if Congress can spend $25,000 just to study
the location of a new House gym / if it can subsidize a study of
the feud between the Hatfields and McCoys -- Congress can allow
our kids to thank God. / So I throw down the gauntlet. I call
on Congress to pass a Constitutional Amendment allowing voluntary
prayer. Let's bring the Faith of our Fathers back to our schools.
Finally, we can help the family by freeing our kids from
worry about a nuclear Armageddon. / Today, this Nation is a
better place because this planet is a safer place. Safer than it
was a decade ago -- safer even than two months ago, when your
kids walked out of school and into summer vacation. /
I am proud how we've reduced some of the world's most
dangerous nuclear weapons -- and how we've turned the world
right-side up. Today, Jew and Arab are talking at the conference
table. Israel knows it can count on loan guarantees / on support
for secure borders / and always on our trust. / In Berlin, a wall
crumbled. In Kuwait, aggression did not stand. Ronald Reagan
was right when he called Imperial Communism a four-letter word:
E-V-I-L. Today, it's D-E-A-D. / It didn't happen by magic. It
took guts, and vision. The Cold War is over -- and America won.
Look to Lithuania -- where the main Catholic cathedral, once
a government archives building, has been reconsecrated. / Look
to Bulgaria. Last year, my great running mate, Dan Quayle, spoke
at the reopening of another cathedral in Sofia. / All over
6
Eastern Europe, churches and synagogues are being repainted /
rebuilt / reborn. / Now that we've got the Russians to stop
knocking our country -- maybe we can convince my opponent to stop
knocking it. We don't need to knock America. We need to lift
America. We need a land where we love, not hate, one another.
An America which protects the family -- all that we are, and
believe. / We must preserve the family -- and with your support,
we will. / Thank you. And God bless the most wondrous land on
the face of the earth -- the United States of America.
# # # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 20, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
STEVEN PROVOST
FROM:
CURT SMITH
V
SUBJECT:
NATIONAL AFFAIRS BRIEFING / DALLAS, TEXAS
On Saturday, August 22 at 9:15 p.m., you will address a
largely evangelical, conservative audience of approximately 7000
at the National Affairs Briefing at the Dallas Convention Center.
Your remarks are 12 minutes in length and focus on issues
important to the conservative community.
(Smith/Aarhus)
August 19, 1992
ANGELIC
Draft Three
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NATIONAL AFFAIRS BRIEFING
DALLAS CONVENTION CENTER
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1992
Thank you for that introduction. Fellow Americans. ((I am
pleased to be at this "Woodstock" for conservatives. I don't
think there's been so much conservative passion in one room since
the last time Pat Buchanan first met Ronald Reagan. )) //
I'm especially glad to be in the home of the Dallas Cowboys
-- who've traveled a long way since Jerry Jones came from Little
Rock to buy the team. / ((It's good to see someone from Arkansas
who's kept his eye on the ball.) ) //
We meet today as great challenges face America -- good
schools / safe streets / a sound economy / a world at peace. But
we will meet them as Americans always have. Not -- as some do -
- by running America down. / We will spend our time / the next
four years / helping families lift America up. //
Let us start by recalling why the Pilgrims sought a New
Jerusalem -- why to an entire world, we became less a place than
an ideal. It was because America meant a better life -- a life
based on values which enrich America just as God enriches lives.
I don't mean values with the half-life of a sound bite --
but timeless things like community / self-reliance / opportunity.
These things link your family -- and bind the Family called
America. They matter because life without family would be as
empty as a universe without faith. //
2
Wednesday night you saw the most charismatic member of the
Bush family on television. Here's what she said about the family
-- your's and mine. She said, "To us -- family means putting
your arms around each other and being there.' // No wonder
America loves Barbara Bush. / /
Family is why conservatives support lower tax rates, limits
on government spending, and greater competition -- to empower
people, not government, to make decisions. / Why we want less
economic regulation and more open trade -- to unleash growth
which gives people jobs. It's why our policies reward hard work
and self-discipline: We believe in an America closer to The
Waltons than The Simpsons.
I may be the underdog in this campaign -- but I'm going to
fight to keep the Democrats from reversing our policies and
putting the family in the doghouse. / Back in the late 50's and
early 60's there was a TV program starring Johnny Carson. / Back
then, "Who Do You Trust" was a game show. Today it's a
fundamental question that defines the very soul of this campaign.
Trust matters. It matters when, late at night in the White
House, the phone rings. Sometimes it's a madman threatening
peace halfway around the world. / The man who answers that phone
needs the right stuff to do the right thing. My friends: I am
that man. / Yet trust matters, too, right here at home -- and
here's why. //
Trust colors the Grand Canyon of a divide between me and my
opponent. Think of the issues that affect the family --
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economic, social, military. Our positions are wider apart than
Madonna and Guy Lombardo. /
On one side is the Democrat's nominee. Oh, I know: He'd
like us to believe his party has waded into the mainstream. The
fact is they don't even have their feet wet. / The other party
still thinks that more government is the answer to everything.
( (Sometimes I think that, if they had their way, Mother's Day and
Father's Day would be replaced by Big Brother Day.) ) On the
other side stand you and me. We believe government should serve
the people -- not the other way around. //
Look first at what trust means to our number one issue today
-- the economy -- jobs. //
The simple fact is only one candidate for President has
lived a life beyond government -- and known a call beyond
politics. I built a company / met a payroll / shared friends'
dreams in Midland and Odessa. / My opponent, on the other hand,
thinks most paychecks should come out of the taxpayer's pocket.
Maybe that explains why he wants the largest tax increase in
history -- $150 billion. He'd also raise spending by more than
$200 billion -- and cost us 2.6 million jobs. / ( (Folks ask me
why he keeps saying these things as he wanders around the
country. I don't know. Guess he's inhaled too many bus fumes.) )
I reject my opponent's knee-jerk reaction to every problem:
Raising taxes. / You know that problem: When their knee jerks -
- you get kicked. / It all comes down to trust. Don't expect a
Democrat President to restrain spending in a Democrat Congress.
4
There'd be so much overspending, their sessions could be covered
on the commodities page under "pork futures." / My view is
different -- it's Middle American. We've built on the Executive
Order Ronald Reagan signed in 1987 to strengthen the family.
How? By trusting parents -- not the government -- to make
decisions. Especially on family social issues. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private, or religious.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. // Few things please me more than the
legislation we passed in 1990 to protect religious and home-
based care.
Think of health care. Here, too, I trust parents. / My
opponent says: Let the government play doctor. I say: Pass my
pro-family plan that will use tax credits to buy health insurance
and will reform malpractice. Today, there are too many
malpractice suits -- too many lawyers looking to soak the system.
The last thing we need is an America where kids sue their
parents. //
I was struck, for example, by the fact that not once was God
mentioned in the Democrats' 10,000-word platform. ((Since
Governor Casey of Pennsylvania was also shut out of the
convention, at least he's in good company.) ) // Our platform's
different. We are proud to celebrate our country's Judeo-
Christian heritage unrivaled in the world. //
5
That is why the political costs don't count to me. What
does is to "let thy conscience be thy guide". / Let my opponent
explain why he prefers abortion on demand when adoption is a
moral alternative. III I revere the sanctity of life. //
I also want to help the family by upholding prayer. /
Something's wrong when kids can get condoms at school but can't
say a prayer. / That's why I say: If Congress can debate the
merits of Vanna White appearing on the Home Shopping Network --
surely, Congress can allow our kids to thank God. / So I throw
down the gauntlet. I call on Congress to pass a Constitutional
Amendment allowing voluntary prayer. Let's bring the Faith of our
Fathers back to our schools.
Finally, we can help the family by freeing our kids from
worry about a nuclear Armageddon. / Today, this Nation is a
better place because this planet is a safer place. Safer than it
was a decade ago -- safer even than two months ago, when your
kids walked out of school and into summer vacation. /
I am proud how we've reduced some of the world's most
dangerous nuclear weapons -- and how we've turned the world
right-side up. Today, Israeli and Arab are talking at the
conference table. Israel knows it can count on loan guarantees /
on support for its qualitative edge / and always on our strength.
In Berlin, a wall crumbled. In Kuwait, aggression did not stand.
Ronald Reagan was right when he called Imperial Communism a four-
letter word: E-V-I-L. Today, it's D-E-A-D. / It didn't happen
6
by magic. It took guts, and vision. The Cold War is over -- and
America won.
Look to Lithuania -- where the main Catholic cathedral, once
a government archives building, has been reconsecrated. / Look
to Bulgaria. Last year, my great running mate, Dan Quayle, spoke
at the reopening of another cathedral in Sofia. / All over
Eastern Europe, churches and synagogues are being repainted /
rebuilt / reborn. / Now that we've got the Russians to stop
knocking our country -- maybe we can convince my opponent to stop
knocking it.
We don't need to knock America. We need to lift America.
We need a land where we love, not hate, one another. An America
which protects the family -- all that we are, and believe. / We
must preserve the family -- and with your support, we will. /
Thank you. And God bless the most wondrous land on the face of
the earth -- the United States of America.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 20, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
STEVEN PROVOST
FROM:
CURT SMITH
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SUBJECT:
NATIONAL AFFAIRS BRIEFING / DALLAS, TEXAS
On Saturday, August 22 at 9:15 p.m., you will address a
largely evangelical, conservative audience of approximately 7000
at the National Affairs Briefing at the Dallas Convention Center.
Your remarks are 12 minutes in length and focus on issues
important to the conservative community.
(Smith/Aarhus)
August 19, 1992
ANGELIC
Draft Three
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NATIONAL AFFAIRS BRIEFING
DALLAS CONVENTION CENTER
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1992
Thank you for that introduction. Fellow Americans. ( (I am
pleased to be at this "Woodstock" for conservatives. I don't
think there's been so much conservative passion in one room since
the last time Pat Buchanan first met Ronald Reagan. )) //
I'm especially glad to be in the home of the Dallas Cowboys
-- who've traveled a long way since Jerry Jones came from Little
Rock to buy the team. / ((It's good to see someone from Arkansas
who's kept his eye on the ball.) ) //
We meet today as great challenges face America -- good
schools / safe streets / a sound economy / a world at peace. But
we will meet them as Americans always have. Not -- as some do -
- by running America down. / We will spend our time / the next
four years / helping families lift America up. //
Let us start by recalling why the Pilgrims sought a New
Jerusalem -- why to an entire world, we became less a place than
an ideal. It was because America meant a better life -- a life
based on values which enrich America just as God enriches lives.
I don't mean values with the half-life of a sound bite --
but timeless things like community / self-reliance / opportunity.
These things link your family -- and bind the Family called
America. They matter because life without family would be as
empty as a universe without faith. 11
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Wednesday night you saw the most charismatic member of the
Bush family on television. Here's what she said about the family
-- your's and mine. She said, "To us -- family means putting
your arms around each other
and being there. // No wonder
America loves Barbara Bush. //
Family is why conservatives support lower tax rates, limits
on government spending, and greater competition -- to empower
people, not government, to make decisions. / Why we want less
economic regulation and more open trade -- to unleash growth
which gives people jobs. It's why our policies reward hard work
and self-discipline: We believe in an America closer to The
Waltons than The Simpsons.
I may be the underdog in this campaign -- but I'm going to
fight to keep the Democrats from reversing our policies and
putting the family in the doghouse. / Back in the late 50's and
early 60's there was a TV program starring Johnny Carson. / Back
then, "Who Do You Trust" was a game show. Today it's a
fundamental question that defines the very soul of this campaign.
Trust matters. It matters when, late at night in the White
House, the phone rings. Sometimes it's a madman threatening
peace halfway around the world. / The man who answers that phone
needs the right stuff to do the right thing. My friends: I am
that man. / Yet trust matters, too, right here at home -- and
here's why. //
Trust colors the Grand Canyon of a divide between me and my
opponent. Think of the issues that affect the family --
3
economic, social, military. Our positions are wider apart than
Madonna and Guy Lombardo. /
On one side is the Democrat's nominee. Oh, I know: He'd
like us to believe his party has waded into the mainstream. The
fact is they don't even have their feet wet. / The other party
still thinks that more government is the answer to everything.
( (Sometimes I think that, if they had their way, Mother's Day and
Father's Day would be replaced by Big Brother Day.) ) On the
other side stand you and me. We believe government should serve
the people -- not the other way around. 11
Look first at what trust means to our number one issue today
-- the economy -- jobs. //
The simple fact is only one candidate for President has
lived a life beyond government -- and known a call beyond
politics. I built a company / met a payroll / shared friends'
dreams in Midland and Odessa. / My opponent, on the other hand,
thinks most paychecks should come out of the taxpayer's pocket.
Maybe that explains why he wants the largest tax increase in
history -- $150 billion. He'd also raise spending by more than
$200 billion -- and cost us 2.6 million jobs. / ( (Folks ask me
why he keeps saying these things as he wanders around the
country. I don't know. Guess he's inhaled too many bus fumes ))
I reject my opponent's knee-jerk reaction to every problem:
Raising taxes. / You know that problem: When their knee jerks -
- you get kicked. / It all comes down to trust. Don't expect a
Democrat President to restrain spending in a Democrat Congress.
4
There'd be so much overspending, their sessions could be covered
on the commodities page under "pork futures." / My view is
different -- it's Middle American. We've built on the Executive
Order Ronald Reagan signed in 1987 to strengthen the family.
How? By trusting parents -- not the government -- to make
decisions. Especially on family social issues. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private, or religious.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. // Few things please me more than the
legislation we passed in 1990 to protect religious and home-
based care.
Think of health care. Here, too, I trust parents. / My
opponent says: Let the government play doctor. I say: Pass my
pro-family plan that will use tax credits to buy health insurance
and will reform malpractice. Today, there are too many
malpractice suits -- too many lawyers looking to soak the system.
The last thing we need is an America where kids sue their
parents. //
I was struck, for example, by the fact that not once was God
mentioned in the Democrats' 10,000-word platform. ((Since
Governor Casey of Pennsylvania was also shut out of the
convention, at least he's in good company.) ) // Our platform's
different. We are proud to celebrate our country's Judeo-
Christian heritage unrivaled in the world. //
5
That is why the political costs don't count to me. What
does is to "let thy conscience be thy guide". / Let my opponent
explain why he prefers abortion on demand when adoption is a
moral alternative. 111 I revere the sanctity of life. //
I also want to help the family by upholding prayer. /
Something's wrong when kids can get condoms at school but can't
say a prayer. / That's why I say: If Congress can debate the
merits of Vanna White appearing on the Home Shopping Network --
surely, Congress can allow our kids to thank God. / So I throw
down the gauntlet. I call on Congress to pass a Constitutional
Amendment allowing voluntary prayer. Let's bring the Faith of our
Fathers back to our schools.
Finally, we can help the family by freeing our kids from
worry about a nuclear Armageddon. / Today, this Nation is a
better place because this planet is a safer place. Safer than it
was a decade ago -- safer even than two months ago, when your
kids walked out of school and into summer vacation. /
I am proud how we've reduced some of the world's most
dangerous nuclear weapons -- and how we've turned the world
right-side up. Today, Israeli and Arab are talking at the
conference table. Israel knows it can count on loan guarantees /
on support for its qualitative edge / and always on our strength.
In Berlin, a wall crumbled. In Kuwait, aggression did not stand.
Ronald Reagan was right when he called Imperial Communism a four-
letter word: E-V-I-L. Today, it's D-E-A-D. / It didn't happen
6
by magic. It took guts, and vision. The Cold War is over -- and
America won.
Look to Lithuania -- where the main Catholic cathedral, once
a government archives building, has been reconsecrated. / Look
to Bulgaria. Last year, my great running mate, Dan Quayle, spoke
at the reopening of another cathedral in Sofia. / All over
Eastern Europe, churches and synagogues are being repainted /
rebuilt / reborn. / Now that we've got the Russians to stop
knocking our country -- maybe we can convince my opponent to stop
knocking it.
We don't need to knock America. We need to lift America.
We need a land where we love, not hate, one another. An America
which protects the family -- all that we are, and believe. / We
must preserve the family -- and with your support, we will. /
Thank you. And God bless the most wondrous land on the face of
the earth -- the United States of America.
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