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problems and continue to lead in the world.
direction of this country and also the new
Thank you very much.
century beyond.
I heard my grandson speak at our conven-
Note: The President spoke at 10:05 a.m. in
the main automotive shop area. In his re-
tion, and I was so very proud of that young
kid. It just reminded me on a very personal
marks, he referred to P.J. Santangelo, Lincoln
basis of what the Reverend Father was talk.
Technical Institute president and chief execu-
ing about and the job that lies ahead of us,
tive officer, and Donald T. DiFrancesco, New
to make life better for all.
Jersey State Senate president.
Now, we have witnessed, as I pointed out
down there, a world of change from Managua
to Moscow. Millions of men and women now
turn towards freedom. They're celebrating a
Remarks to the Chamber of
new birth of freedom. I believe people right
Commerce in Ansonia, Connecticut
here in the valley, many of whom came here
August 24, 1992
from other countries, many of whose family
came here, understand what I'm talking
The President. Thank you very, very
about when I say this Nation can take pride
much. Michael, thank you and all the others
in the freedom of others. Many right in this
at the Chamber. Thank you for that introduc-
room, because of family, not just because of
tion. Let me just explain what Michael was
freedom and democracy, because of family,
talking about. There has been this hurricane
prayed for this day of freedom to come to
down in Florida, and so we leave right from
Eastern Europe, to Russia, to the countries
here to go down to Newark, take the plane
south of our border. We've witnessed this re-
and head on down to look at that damage
markable change, and this miracle has come
true.
and express our concerns to the people there.
But I am just delighted to be here. A warm
So now the challenge for this country is
reception coming into town. I want to thank
to bring that spirit home from Warsaw, Po-
David Rifkin and especially the Mayor
land, to Warsaw Park and to focus this great
Nation on the mission ahead. We have lit-
Thomas Hallihan. Let me also mention an
old friend and a good man, Gary Franks,
erally changed the world with the help of
who's the Congressman here. I am so in-
the taxpayer, Presidents that preceded me,
fighting men and women that have served
debted to him. And another that you all know
this great country with distinction. We'
so well in this valley, John Rowland, he's a
changed the world, and now we must change
great man, and I want to see him do more.
America for the better.
I was touched by the Reverend Father Weiss'
Our challenge quite simply is to win the
invocation. And I want to ask today that we
global economic challenge, to win the peace,
now take a little political look ahead to the
be a military superpower, an economic su-
fall.
perpower, an export superpower. In this
I'll tell you something. I came out of that
election you're going to hear two very dif-
Houston convention, and the whole spirit
ferent visions of how to do this. Theirs is to
around this country is different. I am deter-
turn inward and protect; and ours is to look
mined to win this election, and I'm deter-
outward and open new markets and prepare
mined to do it fair and square. If I hadn't
our people to compete, to restore social fab-
been fired up when I walked in here, the
ric, to save and invest. When I'm talking
Company, that great music, would have got
about investment, I don't mean more tax-
it going, I'll tell you. That was fantastic. I
payer money going into Government invest-
don't even know where they are.
ment. I mean more private investment, small
But anyway, we're looking ahead to a great
business investment.
classic that takes place this fall. I'm not talk-
I don't want to get too personal in this
ing about Ansonia versus Derby-[laugh-
wonderful area that I understand has some
ter]-I'm talking about the November 3d
wonderfully smart Democrats because I
contest. That does have a lot to do with the
need you guys in the fall. But let me say this,
George Bush, 1992
Administration of George Bush, 1992 / Aug. 24
1493
and also the new
that my opponent has spent most of his adult
getting the regulatory burden off the back
life in government, and that's pretty much,
of these mom-and-pop, these small opera-
ak at our conven-
I think, all he knows about. But his idea
tors. We're going to keep doing it until we
oud of that young
about creating jobs is to have Government
get that job done.
n a very personal
jobs, public payroll jobs. And I come at things
You know my feeling about too many law-
Father was talk-
a different way. I spent, I computed it the
suits in this country. I've been fighting to
lies ahead of us,
other day, half of my adult life in government
change that, blocked by this gridlocked Con-
service, one kind or another, and half in the
gress. We sue each other too much. We care
as I pointed out
private sector. Long before I was in the pub-
for each other too little. We've got to break
ge from Managua
lic sector, I worked for a living out in the
the back of those that are breaking this coun-
and women now
oil fields of west Texas, built a company, and
try with these damn lawsuits.
y're celebrating a
did what many here has in small or larger
Audience members. Clean House!
Clean
lieve people right
operations, I met a payroll. I took risks, and
House! Clean House!
whom came here
I made it work. I happen to think having held
The President. I'll get to that.
New
, of whose family
a job is not a bad qualification even for Presi-
schools-and I know we've got some teach-
/hat I'm talking
dent of the United States of America.
ers here, and God bless them. But I'll tell
on can take pride
Look, the world economy is changing, and
you something. We need new schools to back
lany right in this
we've got to be in the lead of that change.
up these teachers, new ideas. Our whole pro-
it just because of
Think of the economic changes you've seen
gram, America 2000, is a good program to
ecause of family,
right here in Ansonia, from moving from that
literally revolutionize how we bring our kids
dom to come to
brass and copper age in the mills along the
into the next century. It's exciting program.
to the countries
Naugatuck to the new corporate head-
I might say, we've got to win this fight on
witnessed this re-
quarters in the industrial parks across the val-
narcotics. Teenage use of cocaine is down,
niracle has come
ley. Right now one in every six American
but we've just begun to fight. We've got to
manufacturing jobs is tied directly to exports.
win it, clean out these schoolyards.
r this country is
That doesn't count the economic ripple ef-
You know, a big difference is, a big one,
om Warsaw, Po-
fect created when those workers pay mort-
I do believe that they're too big in Govern-
) focus this great
gages or buy a car or feed the kids.
ment and spend too much. Last week I of-
ad. We have lit-
Since '88, since 1988, three-fifths of the
fered an idea to get the deficit down. We'll
with the help of
economic growth has come from people in
give you a special box-I believe that people
at preceded me,
other countries buying what we do best, the
should have it-a special box on that tax re-
that have served
products we make right here in America. We
turn to check so that up to 10 percent of
stinction. We've
are the best manufacturers in the world, and
your income tax can go for one purpose, and
we must change
don't let anybody tell you, don't you let that
that is to reduce the budget deficit. If Con-
gloomy opposition tell you we can't compete
gress doesn't like it-all these editorials that
oly is to win the
or say that we're a Nation in decline. We
you read around here on some of these so-
to win the peace,
are not.
phisticated journals don't like it-but the
an economic su-
As President, I'm working now to create
Congress has failed to do it. So let's get the
"rpower. In this
jobs, new markets, markets in Moscow, mar-
people a chance to check that box, and then
ar two very dif-
kets in Mexico City that mean new American
we have to live with it.
this. Theirs is to
jobs. I am convinced that the answer is not
Then there's something that's very impor-
d ours is to look
to build a wall around our economy, not to
tant to the valley that I talked about today
kets and prepare
put the Government in charge but to use the
in Union, New Jersey, a dramatic new ap-
estore social fab-
Government to help you literally go back to
proach to job training: To help young people
hen I'm talking
work in this country. That's what I want to
find that first job, a program we call the
mean more tax-
tell you, how I'm going to do it.
Youth Training Corps, to get inner-city kids
ernment invest-
Here are some of what we stand for: open
off the mean streets and get them a second
ivestment, small
markets for American products. Here's one
chance to build the skills they need to suc-
we have a big difference on: lower Govern-
ceed. For older workers who have lost their
personal in this
ment spending and tax relief, not spend and
job or worry that next pay envelope may have
rstand has some
tax; tax relief and less Federal Government
a pink slip, we've developed a new concept
rats because I
spending. And the other one is opportunities
called skill grants, vouchers worth $3,000 to
.t let me say this,
for small business. We've got to do better
be used towards the training program of their
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Aug. 24 / Administration of George Bush, 1992
Adm
choice. Our plan is based on empowering
the people. So it's of the people, by the peo-
to fin
people to get the kind of training they want,
ple, and for the people. Really, what's at
ily. I
not empowering the bureaucracies to hire
stake here is the future of this country.
to Ar
more people. That is a very different ap-
We're in choppy waters. I heard the Rev-
proach than the approach the others are tak-
erend. I know it. People that are hurting and
leve
ing toward job training.
can't find jobs when they need it. I'll tell you
and,
The Governor of Arkansas says he's all for
another area we've got a big difference: on
and
free enterprise. Then he proposes right out
the defense spending. I have cut defense, but
Th
of the box the largest tax increase in history,
we're not going to cut into the muscle of the
much of it on the back of small business.
defense. The other side wants to take $60
recep
I learned the hard way, holding out my hand
billion more than Colin Powell and Cheney
ley,
of Ar
to that gridlocked Congress, and they bit it
tell me is the right level. We still have a tough
off. Once you make one mistake you don't
world out there. We must still be strong.
Note
make it again. I am not going to go forward
While you're thinking about it, we don't
Wars
and go with this program of spending and
needlessly need to throw another million de-
ferre
taxes.
fense workers out of work by cutting back
Davi
We've literally proposed, and it's before
on defense below the levels needed for na-
Chan
Congress right now, eliminating over 200
tional security.
John
programs and 4,000 projects. It's there; it's
Let me just tell you, I wish Barbara Bush
put down in detail. It's before this gridlocked
were here. This would be great for her mo-
pasto
Congress. We've got to do something about
rale. This would be great for her spirits.
changing the Congress. If we had more peo-
But I'll tell you something. I want to be
ple like Gary Franks, we wouldn't have a
serious about this one point. When I drove
gridlock problem. But the Congress has been
in here today-and I've been here as some
Whi
controlled-they have been controlled by the
of you know many, many times. My dad was
Adju
same Party for 38 years. Everything else has
a Senator from this State, and we grew up
Augt
changed in the country, not the House of
down the way. Leave out the politics for just
Representatives. Help me change the House.
a minute. When I came in here this morning,
Th
Clean it. Clean the House.
a lot of the people out there were waving.
comp
My opponent says he's for fiscal respon-
I'm sure they were not for me. They were
ment
sibility. He's against a balanced budget
there because I am privileged to be the Presi-
ers h
amendment. Says he's for a line-item veto;
dent of the United States of America.
empl
but the gridlocked Congress refuses to give
But you sense something else out there
centu
it to the President. I stand for something dif-
along the highway. You sense this community
Th
ferent. I want to see us cut that Federal
feeling and this feeling of family. I want to
Un
spending with the help of a new Congress,
tell you something. The cynics, the liberal
ers W
get the taxes down so we can get the econ-
theoreticians, they can ridicule me all they
sistan
omy stimulated and let people keep a little
want when I talk about family values. But
Sk
more of what they earn. It's a big philosophi-
this one transcends Democrat. It transcends
would
cal difference between the Bush-Quayle tick-
Republican. It gets to the heart of what our
of pr
et on the one hand and Clinton-Gore on the
community is about. The community has
locate
other. Look at it, it is fundamentally dif-
been diminished by the decimation and
$1
ferent.
sometimes the decline of the American fam-
almo:
Now, in this campaign, we've got to call
ily.
voted
it as we see it. This year I believe the choice
I saw it today, that family spirit is still
ment
is very clear. We've got two different, fun-
strong. And I just want to pledge to you, I
5 yea
damentally different approaches. I believe in
am not going to get off talking about that
ensur
the Government. You get all this talk: Gov-
because we must find ways-whether it's
adjus
ernment, Government, of the Government,
welfare reform, whether it's making the fa-
servic
by the Government, for the Government.
thers that run away stay there, whether it's
That's not going to get the job done. We are
helping, as Barbara does, hold someone in
The 1
fighting against that because we happen to
the arms to demonstrate the compassion and
Th
believe still that the power should flow from
love we feel for our fellow man-we've got
the I
rge Bush, 1992
Administration of George Bush, 1992 / Aug. 24
1495
ble, by the peo-
to find ways to strengthen the American fam-
trained, and highly-skilled workforce in the
cally, what's at
ily. It is not demagoguery. It's fundamental
United States.
country.
to America.
First, world trade is expanding and prom-
heard the Rev-
She and I will continue to try to do our
ises to continue to expand during the coming
are hurting and
level-best to set a level of decency and honor
decade. The United States has been at the
d it. I'll tell you
and, hopefully, trust there in the Oval Office
forefront of this effort through the Uruguay
difference: on
and there in the White House.
round GATT negotiations and the North
ut defense, but
Thank you very much for this wonderful
American free trade agreement. Expanding
3 muscle of the
reception. May God bless the Naugatuck Val-
trade brings with it great opportunities for
its to take $60
ell and Cheney
ley, and may God bless the United States
exports and job creation. But, it also brings
of America.
with it the need for adjustment as nations
ill have a tough
concentrate on what they do best.
still be strong.
Note: The President spoke at 2:05 p.m. in
Second, the pace of technological change
t it, we don't
Warsaw Park Hall. In his remarks, he re-
has accelerated. Computers and innovations
her million de-
y cutting back
ferred to Michael Pacowta, president, and
in production technology have sharply in-
David Rifkin, chairman, Greater Valley
creased manufacturing productivity. Techno-
needed for na-
Chamber of Commerce; former Congressman
logical advances are reducing the need for
Barbara Bush
John Rowland; and Father Robert Weiss,
certain skills and increasing the need for oth-
at for her mo-
pastor, St. Joseph's Church.
ers.
Third, the end of the cold war provides
:r spirits.
the U.S. with an historic opportunity to re-
I want to be
evaluate and revise its national security re-
When I drove
White House Fact Sheet: Worker
quirements. This development inevitably in-
here as some
:S. My dad was
Adjustment Initiative
volves redeploying resources, including
human resources, from the defense to the
d we grew up
August 24, 1992
civilian economy.
politics for just
e this morning,
The President today announced a new,
These changes create new opportunities;
comprehensive $10 billion worker adjust-
they also involve adjustments. Adult workers
were waving.
ne. They were
ment initiative to assure that American work-
who lose their jobs need the training and
o be the Presi-
ers have the training and skills they need for
skills that will allow them to adjust and adapt
employment security today and into the next
in a dynamic economy, to make the transition
nerica.
else out there
to new industries and occupations, and to
century.
compete successfully in the global market-
his community
The President's proposal features:
place.
nily. I want to
Universal coverage. All dislocated work-
CS, the liberal
The problem and the challenge is how best
ers would have access to basic transition as-
to facilitate the development of a dynamic,
le me all they
sistance and training support.
ily values. But
well-trained workforce that will keep the
Skill grants. Vouchers of up to $3,000
t. It transcends
U.S. globally competitive.
would be available to help meet the costs
art of what our
of providing new skills and training for dis-
The President's Proposal
ommunity has
located workers.
In January, the President announced a
cimation and
$10 billion in Federal funding. The plan
comprehensive, streamlined Federal job
American fam-
almost triples the resources currently de-
training system that provides "one-stop shop-
voted to skill training and worker adjust-
ping" for job training services in every com-
spirit is still
ment-to $2 billion a year in each of the next
munity. This structure is designed to meet
edge to you, I
5 years. This level of funding is sufficient to
the Nation's workforce needs into the next
ng about that
ensure that workers anticipated to need these
century.
-whether it's
adjustment services will have access to those
Building on this plan, the President pro-
naking the fa-
services.
poses to complete the restructuring of Fed-
,, whether it's
The Problem
eral job training programs by replacing the
d someone in
current dislocated worker adjustment pro-
ompassion and
Three related developments have created
grams under the Economic Dislocation and
an-we've got
the need for a flexible, adaptable, well-
Worker Adjustment Assistance (EDWAA)
August 20, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
DAN MC GROARTY much
SUBJECT:
ANSONIA, CT. EVENT
On Monday, August 24, you will travel to Ansonia,
Connecticut, where you will deliver luncheon remarks at the
Warsaw Park Hall. Ansonia is a blue-collar town, with a good
number of Polish-Americans.
The remarks focus on the economy, with a short reprise of
the job training announcement you make earlier in the day in New
Jersey.
The remarks also include a section on defense -- Clinton's
promise on the Seawolf, contrasted with his plans to gut defense.
Connecticut ranks 8th in the nation in defense contracts.
McGroarty/Bunton
August 20, 1992
1:30 p.m.
[CT]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WARSAW PARK LUNCHEON
ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT
AUGUST 24, 1992
?:00 P.M.??
Thank you, , for those kind words. [Acknowledgements.]
I want to ask you today to look ahead with me to the great
contest that takes place this fall. No ... I'm not talking about
Ansonia versus Derby at [xxxx] Stadium. I'm talking about the
contest on November 3rd -- and the new course we'll set for the
next four years and the new century beyond.
We've witnessed a world of change. From Managua to Moscow,
millions of men and women now celebrate a new birth of freedom.
For the people here today -- people who came to America from the
Old Country -- who prayed for this day to come, the change we've
witnessed, this change we've worked for is a miracle come true.
Today, our challenge is to bring that spirit home -- home
from Warsaw, Poland to Warsaw Park. To focus this great nation
on the new mission at hand. America has changed the world -- now
we will change America. //
We all know the number one worry today is the economy,
it's jobs. Just as you can't drive a nail without a hammer, you
can't build a dream without a job.
If you want to talk to the most productive workers in the
world -- you don't have to brush up on your German, or take a
crash course in Japanese. You can start right here in the U.S.A.
2
-- because the American worker is the most productive worker in
the world. //
That simple fact is worth pointing out because it can help
us keep our economic problems in perspective. That's important -
- because we're hearing an awful lot these days from folks who've
got a vested interest in talking this economy down, feeding
fears, treating what's temporary as terminal.
You know as well as I do, we want to bring unemployment
down. For any worker without a job, the unemployment rate is
100%. But the economy is on the move. Inflation -- the stealth
tax that once upon a time in the 70s ravaged your paycheck --
inflation is under control. Interest rates are at 20 year lows.
Inventories are down -- a sure sign that production lines will be
gearing up to meet new demand. The signs point to recovery. The
question to ask yourselves between now and November 3rd is this:
Which candidate knows how to keep the economy up on its feet --
and which one would drive it to its knees? //
Two candidates seek your vote for President this year. We
have vastly different backgrounds. My opponent has spent most
of his years in government. //
My opponent's idea about creating jobs is to put people on
the public payroll. There are 144,000 government employees in
Arkansas, and 235,000 in private industry. That's the kind of
ratio we'd expect to see in the old U.S.S.R. -- not the U.S.A.
//
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I come at things a different way. Long before I came to
public service, I built a company
I met a payroll
took
the risks
made it work. And I happen to think that's not a
bad qualification for being President. //
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it if we want to compete. Think of the economic
changes you've seen right here in Ansonia, from the brass and
copper age, and the mills along the Naugatuck -- to the new
corporate headquarters and industrial parks across the Valley.
Right now, 1 in every 6 American manufacturing jobs are tied
directly to trade -- and that doesn't count the economic ripple
effect created when those workers pay the mortgage, buy a car or
feed their kids. Since 1988, three-fifths of all our economic
growth has come from people in other countries buying what's Made
in America.
As President, I've worked to create the new American markets
from Mexico City to Moscow that mean new American jobs here in
Ansonia and all across America. I'm convinced the answer is not
to build a wall around our economy, not to put the government in
charge -- but to use the government to help you -- literally --
go to work.
Earlier today in Union, New Jersey, I announced a dramatic
new in job training. To help young people find that first job, a
program I call Youth Training Corps -- to get at-risk youth off
the mean streets, and get them a second chance to build the
skills they need to succeed. For older workers who've lost their
4
jobs -- or worry that next pay envelope may contain a pink slip:
we've developed a new concept called Skills Grants -- vouchers
worth $3000 dollars to be used. toward the training program of
their choice.
That's our approach to job training: Meaningful work -- not
make-work. Real-world help
for real jobs. //
That's an approach the other side can't match. The other
side sees job training as just another reason to raise taxes. We
see it as a way to raise self-esteem -- restore productivity and
generate economic growth. //
You see, it's all part of a larger philosophy. Look at
every big issue we face. You'll see a choice -- a choice between
those who put their faith in everyday Americans, and those who
put their faith in government.
Bill Clinton says he's all for free enterprise -- then he
proposes the largest tax hike in history, much of it on the back
of small business.
Bill Clinton says he wants smaller government -- but of all
the thousands of government programs, he can find only one he's
willing to cut: The honey bee subsidy.
[[And they could still get stung on that one.]]
Bill Clinton says he's for fiscal responsibility -- and then
he comes out against the Balanced Budget Amendment.
I stand for something different. I propose to cut federal
spending -- and with the help of a new Congress, cut federal
taxes, so we can get this economy moving again.
5
My opponent says he agrees with me -- but his actions are
different.
There's a temptation some find hard to resist, to be all
things to all people. Remember the old movie, Zelig? The one
about the guy who could slip on a new personality as easily as he
could change his shirt?
Now, I think Governor Bill Clinton has seen the movie. Let
me give you one good example. Governor Clinton knows Connecticut
ranks 8th of all 50 states in terms of defense contracts. He
knew I'd made a tough decision -- a decision, quite frankly, that
would cost Connecticut -- to bring down the deficit by cutting
two Seawolf submarines. So when Bill Clinton came to town, on
the eve of the Connecticut primary, he told citizens of this
state exactly what he thought you'd want to hear. He swore to
save the Seawolf.
Now, while he was here -- he didn't mention his plans to put
our nation security on the line by carving out another $60
billion dollars in defense cuts, beyond what our military experts
deem is responsible.
He didn't tell you those cuts would throw another one
million defense-industry employees -- thousands from right here
in Connecticut -- out of work and onto welfare.
He didn't say that. Instead he said he will somehow sink
the Navy, but spare the Seawolf.
//
I can't tell you what to think -- but I can tell you what I
think. I owe you the straight story.
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I went on national TV last week and I admitted I made a
mistake by signing the Democrats tax increase. When was the last
time you saw a politician admit a mistake?
I came up here to Connecticut and said I don't support a
military project that is made here. I won't promise you I can
protect your favorite defense project, while telling the rest of
America I will gut the defense budget. In this campaign, I will
give you straight talk about what's right for America, and let
the chips fall where they may.
This year, the choice is clear. It's a choice between two
fundamentally different philosophies: of the government, by the
government, for the government" versus "of the people, by the
people, for the people."
Because what is at stake here is our future. We are in
choppy waters now, people in Connecticut and other states are
uneasy.
But I see the opportunity that global change has brought. I
see clear water ahead for America, if we don't go back to the
failed policies of the past. I see clear water ahead, if we have
the courage to sail for it.
What we need now is someone who sees the new horizon --
someone who understands America's place in the world is never to
be the patron of the past -- but the architect of the future.
I will take my message to the American people -- and
together we will do what's right for America. //
7
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
# # #
Document No. 34574955
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
8/24/92
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WARSAW PARK LUNCHEON
ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT
SUBJECT:
AUGUST 24, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
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SCOWCROFT
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PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
CALIO
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FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
KAUFMAN
GRAY
HOLIDAY
McMuarty
HORNER
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REMARKS:
The attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
to POTUS
8/21
August 20, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
DAN MC GROARTY much
SUBJECT:
ANSONIA, CT. EVENT
On Monday, August 24, you will travel to Ansonia,
Connecticut, where you will deliver luncheon remarks at the
Warsaw Park Hall. Ansonia is a blue-collar town, with a good
number of Polish-Americans.
The remarks focus on the economy, with a short reprise of
the job training announcement you make earlier in the day in New
Jersey.
The remarks also include a section on defense -- Clinton's
promise on the Seawolf, contrasted with his plans to gut defense.
Connecticut ranks 8th in the nation in defense contracts.
McGroarty/Bunton
August 20, 1992
1:30 p.m.
[CT]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WARSAW PARK LUNCHEON
ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT
AUGUST 24, 1992
?:00 P.M.??
Thank you, -----, for those kind words. [Acknowledgements.]
I want to ask you today to look ahead with me to the great
contest that takes place this fall. No
I'm not talking about
Ansonia versus Derby at [xxxx] Stadium. I'm talking about the
contest on November 3rd -- and the new course we'll set for the
next four years and the new century beyond.
We've witnessed a world of change. From Managua to Moscow,
millions of men and women now celebrate a new birth of freedom.
For the people here today -- people who came to America from the
Old Country -- who prayed for this day to come, the change we've
witnessed, this change we've worked for is a miracle come true.
Today, our challenge is to bring that spirit home -- home
from Warsaw, Poland to Warsaw Park. To focus this great nation
on the new mission at hand. America has changed the world -- now
we will change America. //
We all know the number one worry today is the economy,
it's jobs. Just as you can't drive a nail without a hammer, you
can't build a dream without a job.
If you want to talk to the most productive workers in the
world -- you don't have to brush up on your German, or take a
crash course in Japanese. You can start right here in the U.S.A.
2
-- because the American worker is the most productive worker in
the world. //
That simple fact is worth pointing out because it can help
us keep our economic problems in perspective. That's important -
- because we're hearing an awful lot these days from folks who've
got a vested interest in talking this economy down, feeding
fears, treating what's temporary as terminal.
You know as well as I do, we want to bring unemployment
down. For any worker without a job, the unemployment rate is
100%. But the economy is on the move. Inflation -- the stealth
tax that once upon a time in the 70s ravaged your paycheck --
inflation is under control. Interest rates are at 20 year lows.
Inventories are down -- a sure sign that production lines will be
gearing up to meet new demand. The signs point to recovery. The
question to ask yourselves between now and November 3rd is this:
Which candidate knows how to keep the economy up on Vits feet
--
and which one would drive it to its knees?
//
Two candidates seek your vote for President this year: We
have vastly different backgrounds. My opponent has spent most
of his years in government. //
My opponent's idea about creating jobs is to put people on
the public payroll. There are 144,000 government employees in
Arkansas, and 235,000 in private industry. That's the kind of
ratio we'd expect to see in the old U.S.S.R. -- not the U.S.A.
//
3
I come at things a different way. Long before I came to
public service,, I built a company
I met a payroll
took
the risks
made it work. And I happen to think that's not a
bad qualification for being President. //
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it if we want to compete. Think of the economic
changes you've seen right here in Ansonia, from the brass and
copper age, and the mills along the Naugatuck -- to the new
corporate headquarters and industrial parks across the Valley.
Right now, 1 in every 6 American manufacturing jobs are tied
directly to trade -- and that doesn't count the economic ripple
effect created when those workers pay the mortgage, buy a car or
feed their kids. Since 1988, three-fifths of all our economic
growth has come from people in other countries buying what's Made
in America.
As President, I've worked to create the new American markets
from Mexico City to Moscow that mean new American jobs here in
Ansonia and all across America. I'm convinced the answer is not
to build a wall around our economy, not to put the government in
charge -- but to use the government to help you -- literally --
go to work.
Earlier today in Union, New Jersey, I announced a dramatic
new in job training. To help young people find that first job, a
program I call Youth Training Corps -- to get at-risk youth off
the mean streets, and get them a second chance to build the
skills they need to succeed. For older workers who've lost their
4
jobs -- or worry that next pay envelope may contain a pink slip:
we've developed a new concept called Skills Grants -- vouchers
worth $3000 dollars to be used toward the training program of
their choice.
That's our approach to job training: Meaningful work -- not
make-work. Real-world help
for real jobs. //
That's an approach the other side can't match. The other
side sees job training as just another reason to raise taxes. We
sée it as a way to raise self-esteem -- restore productivity and
generate economic growth. //
You see, it's all part of a larger philosophy. Look at
every big issue we face. You'll see a choice -- a choice between
those who put their faith in everyday Americans, and those who
put their faith in government.
Bill Clinton says he's all for free enterprise -- then he
proposes the largest tax hike in history, much of it on the back
of small business.
Bill Clinton says he wants smaller government -- but of all
the thousands of government programs, he can find only one he's
willing to cut: The honey bee subsidy.
[[And they could still get stung on that one.]]
Bill Clinton says he's for fiscal responsibility -- and then
he comes out against the Balanced Budget Amendment.
I stand for something different. I propose to cut federal
spending -- and with the help of a new Congress, cut federal
taxes, so we can get this economy moving again.
5
My opponent says he agrees with me -- but his actions are
different.
There's a temptation some find hard to resist, to be all
things to all people. Remember the old movie, Zelig? The one
about the guy who could slip on a new personality as easily as he
could change his shirt?
Now, I think Governor Bill Clinton has seen the movie. Let
me give you one good example. Governor Clinton knows Connecticut
ranks 8th of all 50 states in terms of defense contracts. He
knew I'd made a tough decision -- a decision, quite frankly, that
would cost Connecticut -- to bring down the deficit by cutting
two Seawolf submarines. So when Bill Clinton came to town, on
the eve of the Connecticut primary, he told citizens of this
state exactly what he thought you'd want to hear. He swore to
save the Seawolf.
Now, while he was here -- he didn't mention his plans to put
our nation security on the line by carving out another $60
billion dollars in defense cuts, beyond what our military experts
deem is responsible.
He didn't tell you those cuts would throw another one
million defense-industry employees -- thousands from right here
in Connecticut -- out of work and onto welfare.
He didn't say that. Instead he said he will somehow sink
the Navy, but spare the Seawolf.
//
I can't tell you what to think -- but I can tell you what I
think. I owe you the straight story.
6
I went on national TV last week and I admitted I made a
mistake by signing the Democrats tax increase. When was the last
time you saw a politician admit a mistake?
I came up here to Connecticut and said I don't support a
military project that is made here. I won't promise you I can
protect your favorite defense project, while telling the rest of
America I will gut the defense budget. In this campaign, I will
give you straight talk about what's right for America, and let
the chips fall where they may.
This year, the choice is clear. It's a choice between two
fundamentally different philosophies: of the government, by the
government, for the government" versus "of the people, by the
people, for the people."
Because what is at stake here is our future. We are in
choppy waters now, people in Connecticut and other states are
uneasy.
But I see the opportunity that global change has brought. I
see clear water ahead for America, if we don't go back to the
failed policies of the past. I see clear water ahead, if we have
the courage to sail for it.
What we need now is someone who sees the new horizon --
someone who understands America's place in the world is never to
be the patron of the past -- but the architect of the future.
I will take my message to the American people -- and
together we will do what's right for America. //
7
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
# # #
MASTER
345749SS
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
8/18/92
2:00PM, WED., AUG. 19
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WARSAW PARK LUNCHEON
SUBJECT:
ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT
AUGUST 24, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
X
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
X
PROVOST
CALIO N/C
SMITH
DEMAREST N/C
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
KAUFMAN
GRAY
N/C
FINDLAY
MCGROARTY
V
HOLIDAY
BOSKIN
REMARKS:
Please provide comments on the attached directly
to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, with a copy to
this office NO LATER THAN 2:00PM, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19.
section
Thank you.
cleared
V= = comments received
RESPONSE:
by OMB, NSC,
called 1:00
X 4657 Bob Howard.
2:00
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Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
MASTER
Ext. 2702
NOTE
Dorrance will comment to you in
Houston (per Maria 5.)
McGroarty/Aarhus
August 18, 1992
2 AUG 18 P3: 07
12:30 p.m.
[CT]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WARSAW PARK LUNCHEON
ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT
AUGUST 24, 1992
?:00 P.M.??
Thank you,
,
for those kind words. [Acknowledgements.
[Local color: Saturday night dance at Warsaw Park
]
We've witnessed a world of change. From Managua to Moscow,
millions of men and women now celebrate a new birth of freedom.
For the people here today -- people who came to America from the
Old Country -- who prayed for this day to come, the change we've
witnessed, this change we've worked for is a miracle come true.
There are those -- to quote the poet -- who will say that
the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is
nothing but a dream.
And they are right. It is the American Dream.
Today, our challenge is to bring that spirit home -- home
from Warsaw, Poland to Warsaw Park. To focus this great nation
on the new mission at hand. America has changed the world -- now
we will change America. //
That's what November 3rd is all about. This election is
about the big issues. About the issues that shape the world --
about the values close to home: I'm talking about family and
faith -- about neighborhoods free from crime
about a world
free from fear. //
about schools that work,
that help educate our
children.
(C. Kolb)
2
But we all know the number-one worry today is the economy,
it's jobs. Just as you can't drive a nail without a hammer, you
can't build a dream without a job.
If you want to talk to the most productive workers in the
world, you don't have to brush up on your German, or take a crash
course in Japanese. You can start right here in the U.S.A. --
because the American worker is the most productive worker in the
world. //
That simple fact is worth pointing out because it can help
us keep our economic problems in perspective. That's important -
- because we're hearing an awful lot these days from folks who've
got a vested interest in talking this economy down, feeding
fears, treating what's temporary as terminal.
You know as well as I do, we want to bring unemployment
down. For any worker without a job, the unemployment rate is
100%. But the economy is on the move. Inflation -- the stealth
tax that once upon a time in the 70s ravaged your paycheck --
inflation is under control.
[Interest
bracket
rates
are
at
a
20-year
low
perJD
low (J.D.Fostericea)
Foster
Inventories are down -- a sure sign that production lines will be
CEA
gearing up to meet new demand. The signs point to recovery. The
question to ask yourselves between now and November 3rd is this:
put ( JD Foster, CEA)
Which candidate knows how to keep the economy up on its feet --
and which one would drive it to its knees. //
The simple fact is, there is only one candidate for
outside (C. Kolb)
President who has lived a life beyond government
...
who has
known a call above political ambition. Since the day he left law
see lastpg.
3
school, every paycheck Bill Clinton has earned has come out of
the taxpayer's pocket. He's put plenty of people on the public
payroll but he's never created a single job. //
I come at things a different way. Long before I came to
public service, I built a company
I met a payroll
took
the risks
made it work. And I happen to think that's not a
bad qualification for being President. //
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it if we want to compete. Think of the economic
changes you've seen right here in Ansonia, from the brass and
copper age, and the mills along the Naugatuck River -- to the new
corporate headquarters and industrial parks across the valley.
more than 1 in 6
manufacturing jobs are
per
Right now, 1 in every 14 Americans works in a job tied
NJ speech
exports
directly to foreign trade -- and that doesn't count the economic
ripple effect created when those workers pay the mortgage, buy a
car or feed their kids. [Reference to the Valley's largest
Since 1988 (NJ speech)
one-half (JDFoster)
export company. In the past [three] years (more than half
Ahmad
al-Sammame
of all our economic growth has come from people in other
commented inNJ
speech that we
countries buying what's Made in America.
should use 3/5 -
which is" more
We don't need more studies or statistics to prove that free than half".
It's your
trade is our future. America's real wealth isn't something we
call.
dig up from the ground -- it's the sweat and the smarts of the
American worker. Yes, the world's coming our way -- but I know:
we can play the game. //
As President, I've worked to create the new American markets
S
in
that mean^ new American jobs in Ansonia and all across
Europe and the
PacificRim:
Valley's lgst. is United Technologies (Sikorsky helicapter)
4
the Valley. I'm convinced the answer is not to build a wall
around our economy, not to put the government in charge -- but to
use the government to help you -- literally -- go to work.
[[JOB TRAINING REPRISE -- TWO PARAGRAPHS DRAWN FROM FINAL
NEW JERSEY LANGUAGE.
You see, it's all part of a larger philosophy. Look at
every big issue we face. You'll see a choice -- a choice between
those who put their faith in everyday Americans, and those who
put their faith in government.
Bill Clinton says he's all for free enterprise -- then he
proposes the largest tax hike in history, much of it on the back
of small business.
Bill Clinton says he wants smaller government -- but of all
the thousands of government programs, he can find only one he's
willing to cut: The honey bee subsidy.
[ [And he could still get stung on that one. ]]
Bill Clinton says he's for fiscal responsibility -- and then
he comes out against the Balanced Budget Amendment.
That's what Bill Clinton says
now let me tell you what a
former Democratic candidate -- more recently, a Connecticut
country innkeeper -- says that this year's Democratic ticket is a
Trojan Horse. He said, "They're much more liberal underneath --
fact-check
will
and
they 11 prove it when they're elected."
change
That's not me using the "L" word -- that's George McGovern.
There's a temptation some find hard to resist, to be all
things to all people. Remember the old Woody Allen movie, Zelig?
delete name
due to public perception
(OCA, Counsel,
5
The one about the guy who could slip on a new personality as
easily as he could change his shirt? In a word, Zelig was slick.
Now, I think Bill Clinton has seen the movie. He knows
Connecticut ranks 8th of all 50 states in terms of defense
contracts. He knew I'd made a tough decision -- a decision,
quite frankly, that would cost Connecticut -- to bring down the
deficit by cutting two Seawolf submarines. So when Bill Clinton
came to town, on the eve of the Connecticut primary, he told
citizens of this state exactly what he thought you'd want to
hear. He swore to save the Seawolf.
Now, while he was here -- did he tell you about his plans to
put our national security on the line by carving out another nearly $60
per speech NJ
billion dollars in defense cuts?
Did he tell you those cuts would throw another one million
as many as
per NJ
defense-industry employees possibly thousands from right here in
speech
Connecticut -- out of work and onto welfare?
Or did he just smile, wave goodbye, and get back on the bus?
So there you have it: Bill Clinton will sink the Navy --
but somehow, he'll spare the Seawolf. 11 I've got aplan in place on
defense conversion. (OCA)
I can't tell you what to think -- but I can tell you what I
think. I owe you the straight story. I stake my claim on a
simple philosophy: To lead a great nation
you must first
trust the people you lead.
This year, the choice is clear. It's a choice between two
fundamentally different philosophies: of the government, by the
or,
"It doesn't add up."
(c. Kolb)
6
government, for the government" versus "of the people, by the
people, for the people."
I trust parents -- not the government -- to make the important (OCA)
decisions that matter in life. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private or religious. //
I trust the people -- not the government -- to choose their
own health care.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. // When the other side says, "government
knows best" -- I say: Parents know better. Parents know better
than some bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. //
What we need now is someone who sees the new horizon --
someone who understands America's place in the world is never to
(Counsel)
e
(counsel)
be the patrons of the past -- but the architects of the future.
I intend to spend the last 71 days of this campaign winning
a mandate for the first 100 days of the next Congress. Send me a
Congress I can work with ... a responsible Congress -- ready to
do the will of the American people. Send me a Congress ready to
do the will of the American people -- and we will get the job
done. //
I will take my message to the American people -- and
together we will do what's right for America. //
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
# # #
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
19-Aug-1992 04:17PM
TO:
CHRISTINA M. MARTIN
FROM:
CAROL B. AARHUS
OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS
SUBJECT: SPEECH INSERT/CORRECTION
FAX TO CHRISTINA MARTIN: HOUSTON STAFF OFFICE: 713-688-0173
CHRISTINA - -- DAN ASKED ME TO FAX THIS TO YOU.
IN ANY SPEECH WHERE WE TALK ABOUT CLINTON NEVER RECEIEVING A
PAYCHECK OTHER THAN FROM THE TAXPAYER'S POCKET -- THAT IS WRONG.
IT IS ALSO INCORRECT TO STATE THAT HE'S NEVER CREATED ANY JOBS.
HE MAY HAVE DONE THAT WHILE HE SERVED ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OR
WHEN HE WAS WITH A LAW FIRM.
DAVID TELL SUGGESTED WE USE THE FOLLOWING LANGUAGE:
"ONCE BILL CLINTON GOT INTO PUBLIC OFFICE, THE ONLY WAY HE
GOT OUT WAS WHEN THE VOTERS KICKED HIM OUT."
CALL WITH ANY QUESTIONS. DAVID TELL IS IN HOUSTON, IN CASE YOU
NEED TO SPEAK WITH HIM FURTHER, REGARDING THIS.
McGroarty/Bunton
August 20, 1992
1:30 p.m.
[CT]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WARSAW PARK LUNCHEON
ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT
AUGUST 24, 1992
?:00 P.M.??
Thank you,
-----,
for those kind words. [Acknowledgements.]
I want to ask you today to look ahead with me to the great
contest that takes place this fall. No ... I'm not talking about
that annual football classic -- Ansonia versus Derby. I'm
talking about the contest on November 3rd -- and the new course
we'll set for the next four years and the new century beyond.
We've witnessed a world of change. From Managua to Moscow,
millions of men and women now celebrate a new birth of freedom.
For the people here today -- people who came to America from the
Old Country --- who prayed for this day to come, the change we've
witnessed, this change we've worked for is a miracle come true.
Today, our challenge is to bring that spirit home -- home
from Warsaw, Poland to Warsaw Park. To focus this great nation
on the new mission at hand. America has changed the world -- now
we will change America. //
The defining challenge of the 1990's is to win the global
economic competition -- to win the peace. America must be a
military superpower, an economic superpower, and an export
superpower.
In this election, you'll hear from candidates with two
visions of how to do this -- two backgrounds and philosophies.
2
Their philosophy is to look inward, and protect what we already
have. Ours is to look forward -- to open new markets, create
incentives, restore our social fabric and prepare our people to
compete, to save and invest -- WO we can win.
My opponent has spent most of his adult life in government -
- that's pretty much all he knows about. His idea about creating
jobs is to put people on the public payroll. There are 144,000 state
government employees in Arkansas, and 235,000 in private
10cal
industry. That's the kind of ratio we'd expect to see in the old
U.S.S.R. -- not the U.S.A. //
I come at things a different way. I've spent half of my
life in government -- half in the private sector. Long before I
came to public service, I built a company
I met a payroll
took the risks
made it work. And I happen to think that's
not a bad qualification for being President. //
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it if we want to compete. Think of the economic
changes you've seen right here in Ansonia, from the brass and
copper age, and the mills along the Naugatuck -- to the new
corporate headquarters and industrial parks across the Valley.
Right now, 1 in every 6 American manufacturing jobs are tied
directly to exports trade and that doesn't count the economic ripple
effect created when those workers pay the mortgage, buy a car or
feed their kids. Since 1988, three-fifths of all our economic
growth has come from people in other countries buying what's Made
in America.
3
As President, I've worked to create the new American markets
from Mexico City to Moscow that mean new American jobs here in
Ansonia and all across America. I'm convinced the answer is not
to build a wall around our economy, not to put the government in
charge -- but to use the government to help you -- literally ---
go to work.
Earlier today in Union, New Jersey, I announced a dramatic
new in job training. To help young people find that first job, a
program I call Youth Training Corps -- to get inner city kids off
the mean streets, and get them a second chance to build the
skills they need to succeed. For older workers who've lost their
jobs -- or worry that next pay envelope may contain a pink slip:
we've developed a new concept called Skills Grants -- vouchers
worth $3,000 dollars to be used toward the training program of
their choice.
Our plan is based on empowering people to get the training
they want -- not empowering bureaucracies to hire more people. //
That's an approach the other side can't match. The other
side sees job training as just another reason to raise taxes. //
Bill Clinton says he's all for free enterprise -- then he
proposes the largest tax hike in history, much of it on the back
of small business.
Bill Clinton says he wants smaller government -- but of all
the thousands of government programs, he can find only one he's
eliminate
willing to out. The honey bee subsidy.
[[And they could still get stung on that one. ]]
4
Bill Clinton says he's for fiscal responsibility -- and then
he comes out against the Balanced Budget Amendment.
I stand for something different. I propose to cut federal
spending -- and with the help of a new Congress, cut federal
taxes, so we can get this economy moving again.
My opponent says he agrees with me -- but his actions are
different.
There's a temptation some find hard to resist, to be all
things to all people. Remember the old movie, Zelig? The one
about the guy who could slip on a new personality as easily as he
could change his shirt?
Now, I think Governor Bill Clinton has seen the movie. Let
me give you one good example. Governor Clinton knows Connecticut
ranks 8th of all 50 states in terms of defense contracts. He
knew I'd made a tough decision -- a decision, quite frankly, that
would cost Connecticut -- to bring down the deficit by cutting
two Seawolf submarines. So when Bill Clinton came to town, on
the eve of the Connecticut primary, he told citizens of this
state exactly what he thought you'd want to hear. He swore to
save the Seawolf.
Now, while he was here -- he didn't mention his plans to put
our nation security on the line by carving out another $60
billion dollars in defense cuts, beyond what our military experts
deem is responsible.
5
He didn't tell you those cuts would throw another one
million defense-industry employees -- thousands from right here
in Connecticut -- out of work and onto welfare.
He didn't say that. Instead he said he will somehow sink
the Navy, but spare the Seawolf.
71
I can't tell you what to think -- but I can tell you what I
think. I will give you the straight story.
I won't promise you I can protect your favorite defense
project, while telling the rest of America I will gut the defense
budget. In this campaign, I will give you straight talk about
what's right for America, and let the chips fall where they may.
This year, the choice is clear. It's a choice between two
fundamentally different philosophies: Of the government, by the
government, for the government" versus "of the people, by the
people, for the people."
Because what is at stake here is our future. We are in
choppy waters now, people in Connecticut and other states are
uneasy.
But I see the opportunity that global change has brought. I
see clear water ahead for America, if we don't go back to the
failed policies of the past. I see clear water ahead, if we have
the courage to sail for it.
What we need now is someone who sees the new horizon --
someone who understands America's place in the world is never to
be the patron of the past -- but the architect of the future.
6
I will take my message to the American people -- and
together we will do what's right for America. //
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
# # #
345749SS
t No.
6350
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORAND
8/18/92
92 AUG 20 08.23
2:00PM, WED., AUG. 19
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WARSAW PARK LUNCHEON
SUBJECT:
ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT
AUGUST 24, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
KAUFMAN
FINDLAY
GRAY
MCGROARTY
HOLIDAY
BOSKIN
REMARKS:
Please provide comments on the attached directly
to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, with a copy to
this office NO LATER THAN 2:00PM, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
TO: DANIEL B. MCGROARTY
August 19, 1992
The NSC staff has reviewed the above-referenced matter and has no
objection, subject to the comment noted on the attached text.
Brent AP Scowcroft
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
CC: Phillip D. Brady
McGroarty/Aarhus
August 18, 1992
2 AUG 18 P3: 07
12:30 p.m.
[CT]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WARSAW PARK LUNCHEON
ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT
AUGUST 24, 1992
?:00 P.M.??
Thank you,
, for those kind words. [Acknowledgements.]
[Local color: Saturday night dance at Warsaw Park....]
We've witnessed a world of change. From Managua to Moscow,
millions of men and women now celebrate a new birth of freedom.
For the people here today -- people who came to America from the
Old Country -- who prayed for this day to come, the change we've
witnessed, this change we've worked for is a miracle come true.
which
There are those -- to quote the poet -- who will say that
poet
the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is
nothing but a dream.
And they are right. It is the American Dream.
Today, our challenge is to bring that spirit home -- home
from Warsaw, Poland to Warsaw Park. To focus this great nation
on the new mission at hand. America has changed the world -- now
we will change America. //
That's what November 3rd is all about. This election is
about the big issues. About the issues that shape the world --
about the values close to home: I'm talking about family and
faith -- about neighborhoods free from crime ... about a world
free from fear. 1 0 @ about hope for the future
2
But we all know the number-one worry today is the economy,
(
it's jobs. Just as you can't drive a nail without a hammer, you
can't build a dream without a job.
If you want to talk to the most productive workers in the
world, you don't have to brush up on your German, or take a crash
course in Japanese. You can start right here in the U.S.A. --
because the American worker is the most productive worker in the
world. //
That simple fact is worth pointing out because it can help
us keep our economic problems in perspective. That's important -
- because we're hearing an awful lot these days from folks who've
got a vested interest in talking this economy down, feeding
fears, treating what's temporary as terminal.
You know as well as I do, we want to bring unemployment
down. For any worker without a job, the unemployment rate is
100%. But the economy is on the move. Inflation -- the stealth
tax that once upon a time in the 70s ravaged your paycheck --
inflation is under control. Interest rates are at a 20-year low.
Inventories are down -- a sure sign that production lines will be
gearing up to meet new demand. The signs point to recovery. The
question to ask yourselves between now and November 3rd is this:
and improve
Which candidate knows how to keep the economy up on its feetA--
it
and which one would drive it to its knees. //
The simple fact is, there is only one candidate for
President who has lived a life beyond government ...
who has
known a call above political ambition. Since the day he left law
3
school, every paycheck Bill Clinton has earned has come out of
the taxpayer's pocket. He's put plenty of people on the public
payroll -- but he's never created a single job. //
I come at things a different way. Long before I came to
public service, I built a company
...
I met a payroll
...
took
the risks
made it work. And I happen to think that's not a
bad qualification for being President. //
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it if we want to compete. Think of the economic
changes you've seen right here in Ansonia, from the brass and
copper age, and the mills along the Naugatuck River -- to the new
corporate headquarters and industrial parks across the valley.
Right now, 1 in every 14 Americans works in a job tied
directly to foreign trade -- and that doesn't count the economic
ripple effect created when those workers pay the mortgage, buy a
car or feed their kids. [Reference to the Valley's largest
export company.] In the past [three] years -- [more than half]
of all our economic growth has come from people in other
countries buying what's Made in America.
We don't need more studies or statistics to prove that free
trade is our future. America's real wealth isn't something we
dig up from the ground -- it's the sweat and the smarts of the
American worker. Yes, the world's coming our way -- but I know:
we can play the game.
//
?? Not sure what this
means
As President, I've worked to create the new American markets
in
[....]
that mean new American jobs in Ansonia and all across
4
the Valley. I'm convinced the answer is not to build a wall
around our economy, not to put the government in charge -- but to
use the government to help you -- literally -- go to work.
[[JOB TRAINING REPRISE -- TWO PARAGRAPHS DRAWN FROM FINAL
NEW JERSEY LANGUAGE. ]]
You see, it's all part of a larger philosophy. Look at
every big issue we face. You'll see a choice -- a choice between
those who put their faith in everyday Americans, and those who
put their faith in government.
Bill Clinton says he's all for free enterprise -- then he
proposes the largest tax hike in history, much of it on the back
of small business.
Bill Clinton says he wants smaller government -- but of all
the thousands of government programs, he can find only one he's
willing to cut: The honey bee subsidy.
[[And he could still get stung on that one. ]]
Bill Clinton says he's for fiscal responsibility -- and then
he comes out against the Balanced Budget Amendment.
That's what Bill Clinton says ... now let me tell you what a
former Democratic candidate -- more recently, a Connecticut
country innkeeper -- says that this year's Democratic ticket is a
Trojan Horse. He said, "They're much more liberal underneath --
and they'll prove it when they're elected."
That's not me using the "L" word -- that's George McGovern.
There's a temptation some find hard to resist, to be all
things to all people. Remember the old Woody Allen movie, Zelig?
Suggest a different reference in view frent news.
5
The one about the guy who could slip on a new personality as
easily as he could change his shirt? In a word, Zelig was slick.
Now, I think Bill Clinton has seen the movie. He knows
economically
Connecticut Aranks 8th of all 50 states in terms of defense
contracts. He knew I'd made a tough decision -- a decision,
quite frankly, that would cost Connecticut -- to bring down the
deficit by cutting two Seawolf submarines. So when Bill Clinton
came to town, on the eve of the Connecticut primary, he told
citizens of this state exactly what he thought you'd want to
hear. He swore to save the Seawolf.
Now, while he was here -- did he tell you about his plans to
put our national security on the line by carving out another $60
billion dollars in defense cuts?
Did he tell you those cuts would throw another one million
defense-industry employees -- thousands from right here in
Connecticut -- out of work and onto welfare?
Or did he just smile, wave goodbye, and get back on the bus?
So there you have it: Bill Clinton will sink the Navy --
but somehow, he'll spare the Seawolf. //
I can't tell you what to think -- but I can tell you what I
think. I owe you the straight story. I stake my claim on a
simple philosophy: To lead a great nation
you must first
trust the people you lead.
This year, the choice is clear. It's a choice between two
fundamentally different philosophies: of the government, by the
6
government, for the government" versus "of the people, by the
people, for the people.'
I trust parents -- not the government -- to make the
decisions that matter in life. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private or religious. //
I trust the people -- not the government -- to choose their
own health care.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. // When the other side says, "government
knows best" -- I say: Parents know better. Parents know better
than some bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. //
What we need now is someone who sees the new horizon --
someone who understands America's place in the world is never to
be the patrons of the past -- but the architects of the future.
I intend to spend the last 71 days of this campaign winning
a mandate for the first 100 days of the next Congress. Send me a
Congress I can work with a responsible Congress -- ready to
do the will of the American people. Send me a Congress ready to
do the will of the American people -- and we will get the job
done. //
I will take my message to the American people -- and
together we will do what's right for America. //
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
# # #
345749SS
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
8/18/92
72 AUG 20 A10: 15
2:00PM, WED., AUG. 1.
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WARSAW PARK LUNCHEON
SUBJECT:
ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT
AUGUST 24, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
P
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
KAUFMAN
FINDLAY
GRAY
MCGROARTY
HOLIDAY
BOSKIN
REMARKS:
Please provide comments on the attached directly
to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, with a copy to
this office NO LATER THAN 2:00PM, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
See comment
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
McGroarty/Aarhus
August 18, 1992
2 AUG 18 P3: 07
12:30 p.m.
[CT]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WARSAW PARK LUNCHEON
ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT
AUGUST 24, 1992
?:00 P.M.??
Thank you,
-------,
for those kind words. [Acknowledgements.]
[Local color: Saturday night dance at Warsaw Park....]
We've witnessed a world of change. From Managua to Moscow,
millions of men and women now celebrate a new birth of freedom.
For the people here today -- people who came to America from the
Old Country -- who prayed for this day to come, the change we've
witnessed, this change we've worked for is a miracle come true.
There are those -- to quote the poet -- who will say that
the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is
nothing but a dream.
And they are right. It is the American Dream.
Today, our challenge is to bring that spirit home -- home
from Warsaw, Poland to Warsaw Park. To focus this great nation
on the new mission at hand. America has changed the world -- now
we will change America. //
That's what November 3rd is all about. This election is
about the big issues. About the issues that shape the world --
about the values close to home: I'm talking about family and
faith -- about neighborhoods free from crime ... about a world
free from fear. //
2
But we all know the number-one worry today is the economy,
it's jobs. Just as you can't drive a nail without a hammer, you
can't build a dream without a job.
If you want to talk to the most productive workers in the
world, you don't have to brush up on your German, or take a crash
course in Japanese. You can start right here in the U.S.A. --
because the American worker is the most productive worker in the
world. //
That simple fact is worth pointing out because it can help
us keep our economic problems in perspective. That's important -
- because we're hearing an awful lot these days from folks who've
got a vested interest in talking this economy down, feeding
fears, treating what's temporary as terminal.
You know as well as I do, we want to bring unemployment
down. For any worker without a job, the unemployment rate is
100%. But the economy is on the move. Inflation -- the stealth
tax that once upon a time in the 70s ravaged your paycheck --
inflation is under control. Interest rates are at a 20-year low.
Inventories are down -- a sure sign that production lines will be
gearing up to meet new demand. The signs point to recovery. The
question to ask yourselves between now and November 3rd is this:
Which candidate knows how to keep the economy up on its feet --
and which one would drive it to its knees. //
The simple fact is, there is only one candidate for
President who has lived a life beyond government who has
known a call above political ambition. Since the day he left law
3
school, every paycheck Bill Clinton has earned has come out of
the taxpayer's pocket. He's put plenty of people on the public
payroll -- but he's never created a single job. //
I come at things a different way. Long before I came to
public service, I built a company
I met a payroll
...
took
the risks made it work. And I happen to think that's not a
bad qualification for being President. //
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it if we want to compete. Think of the economic
changes you've seen right here in Ansonia, from the brass and
copper age, and the mills along the Naugatuck River -- to the new
corporate headquarters and industrial parks across the valley.
Right now, 1 in every 14 Americans works in a job tied
directly to foreign trade -- and that doesn't count the economic
ripple effect created when those workers pay the mortgage, buy a
car or feed their kids. [Reference to the Valley's three largest
export company.] In the past [three] years -- [more fths than half]
Since 1980
Al-Samarrie
of all our economic growth has come from people in other
5873,
countries buying what's Made in America.
We don't need more studies or statistics to prove that free
trade is our future. America's real wealth isn't something we
dig up from the ground -- it's the sweat and the smarts of the
American worker. Yes, the world's coming our way -- but I know:
we can play the game. //
As President, I've worked to create the new American markets
in
[....] that mean new American jobs in Ansonia and all across
4
the Valley. I'm convinced the answer is not to build a wall
around our economy, not to put the government in charge -- but to
use the government to help you -- literally -- go to work.
[[JOB TRAINING REPRISE -- TWO PARAGRAPHS DRAWN FROM FINAL
NEW JERSEY LANGUAGE. ]]
You see, it's all part of a larger philosophy. Look at
every big issue we face. You'll see a choice -- a choice between
those who put their faith in everyday Americans, and those who
put their faith in government.
Bill Clinton says he's all for free enterprise -- then he
proposes the largest tax hike in history, much of it on the back
of small business.
Bill Clinton says he wants smaller government -- but of all
the thousands of government programs, he can find only one he's
willing to cut: The honey bee subsidy.
[[And he could still get stung on that one.]]
Bill Clinton says he's for fiscal responsibility -- and then
he comes out against the Balanced Budget Amendment.
That's what Bill Clinton says now let me tell you what a
former Democratic candidate -- more recently, a Connecticut
country innkeeper -- says that this year's Democratic ticket is a
Trojan Horse. He said, "They're much more liberal underneath --
and they'll prove it when they're elected."
That's not me using the "L" word -- that's George McGovern.
little
There's a temptation some find hard to resist, to be all
>o dient to
things to all people. Remember the old Woody Allen movie, Zelig?
refer
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name
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5
The one about the guy who could slip on a new personality as
easily as he could change his shirt? In a word, Zelig was slick.
Now, I think Bill Clinton has seen the movie. He knows
Connecticut ranks 8th of all 50 states in terms of defense
contracts. He knew I'd made a tough decision -- a decision,
quite frankly, that would cost Connecticut -- to bring down the
deficit by cutting two Seawolf submarines. So when Bill Clinton
came to town, on the eve of the Connecticut primary, he told
citizens of this state exactly what he thought you'd want to
hear. He swore to save the Seawolf.
Now, while he was here -- did he tell you about his plans to
put our national security on the line by carving out another $60
billion dollars in defense cuts?
Did he tell you those cuts would throw another one million
defense-industry employees -- thousands from right here in
Connecticut -- out of work and onto welfare?
or did he just smile, wave goodbye, and get back on the bus?
So there you have it: Bill Clinton will sink the Navy --
but somehow, he'll spare the Seawolf. //
I can't tell you what to think -- but I can tell you what I
think. I owe you the straight story. I stake my claim on a
simple philosophy: To lead a great nation
you must first
trust the people you lead.
This year, the choice is clear. It's a choice between two
fundamentally different philosophies: Of the government, by the
6
government, for the government" versus "of the people, by the
people, for the people.'
I trust parents -- not the government -- to make the
decisions that matter in life. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private or religious. //
I trust the people -- not the government -- to choose their
own health care.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. // When the other side says, "government
knows best" -- I say: Parents know better. Parents know better
than some bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. //
What we need now is someone who sees the new horizon --
someone who understands America's place in the world is never to
be the patrons of the past -- but the architects of the future.
I intend to spend the last 71 days of this campaign winning
a mandate for the first 100 days of the next Congress. Send me a
Congress I can work with a responsible Congress -- ready to
do the will of the American people. Send me a Congress ready to
do the will of the American people -- and we will get the job
done. //
I will take my message to the American people -- and
together we will do what's right for America. //
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
# # #
J.D. Foster
32 AUG 19 P2: 35
CEA
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345749SS
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
8/18/92
92 AUG 19 A10: 00PM, WED., AUG. 19
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WARSAW PARK LUNCHEON
SUBJECT:
ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT
AUGUST 24, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
KAUFMAN
FINDLAY
GRAY
MCGROARTY
HOLIDAY
BOSKIN
REMARKS:
Please provide comments on the attached directly
to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, with a copy to
this office NO LATER THAN 2:00PM, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
Comments C.KriB
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
McGroarty/Aarhus
August 18, 1992
2 AUC 18 P3: 07
12:30 p.m.
[CT]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WARSAW PARK LUNCHEON
ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT
AUGUST 24, 1992
?:00 P.M.??
Thank you,
-------,
for those kind words. [Acknowledgements.]
[Local color: Saturday night dance at Warsaw Park....]
We've witnessed a world of change. From Managua to Moscow,
millions of men and women now celebrate a new birth of freedom.
For the people here today -- people who came to America from the
Old Country -- who prayed for this day to come, the change we've
witnessed, this change we've worked for is a miracle come true.
There are those -- to quote the poet -- who will say that
the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is
nothing but a dream.
And they are right. It is the American Dream.
Today, our challenge is to bring that spirit home -- home
from Warsaw, Poland to Warsaw Park. To focus this great nation
on the new mission at hand. America has changed the world -- now
we will change America. //
That's what November 3rd is all about. This election is
about the big issues. About the issues that shape the world --
about the values close to home: I'm talking about family and
faith -- about neighborhoods free from crime
about a world
free from fear. //
about schools That work,
that help educate our ch.7dren
2
But we all know the number-one worry today is the economy,
it's jobs. Just as you can't drive a nail without a hammer, you
can't build a dream without a job.
If you want to talk to the most productive workers in the
world, you don't have to brush up on your German, or take a crash
course in Japanese. You can start right here in the U.S.A. --
because the American worker is the most productive worker in the
world. //
That simple fact is worth pointing out because it can help
us keep our economic problems in perspective. That's important -
- because we're hearing an awful lot these days from folks who've
got a vested interest in talking this economy down, feeding
fears, treating what's temporary as terminal.
You know as well as I do, we want to bring unemployment
down. For any worker without a job, the unemployment raté is
100%. But the economy is on the move. Inflation -- the stealth
tax that once upon a time in the 70s ravaged your paycheck --
inflation is under control. Interest rates are at a 20-year low.
Inventories are down -- a sure sign that production lines will be
gearing up to meet new demand. The signs point to recovery. The
question to ask yourselves between now and November 3rd is this:
Which candidate knows how to keep the economy up on its feet --
and which one would drive it to its knees
7
//
The simple fact is, there is only one candidate for
outside
President who has lived a life beyond government who has
known a call above political ambition. Since the day he left law
3
school, every paycheck Bill Clinton has earned has come out of
the taxpayer's pocket. He's put plenty of people on the public
payroll -- but he's never created a single job. //
I come at things a different way. Long before I came to
public service, I built a company
...
I met a payroll
took
the risks
made it work. And I happen to think that's not a
bad qualification for being President. //
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it if we want to compete. Think of the economic
changes you've seen right here in Ansonia, from the brass and
copper age, and the mills along the Naugatuck River -- to the new
corporate headquarters and industrial parks across the valley.
Right now, 1 in every 14 Americans works in a job tied
directly to foreign trade -- and that doesn't count the economic
ripple effect created when those workers pay the mortgage, buy a
car or feed their kids. [Reference to the Valley's largest
export company.] In the past [three] years -- [more than half]
of all our economic growth has come from people in other
countries buying what's Made in America.
We don't need more studies or statistics to prove that free
trade is our future. America's real wealth isn't something we
dig up from the ground -- it's the sweat and the smarts of the
American worker. Yes, the world's coming our way -- but I know:
we can play the game. //
As President, I've worked to create the new American markets
in
[....] that mean new American jobs in Ansonia and all across
4
the Valley. I'm convinced the answer is not to build a wall
around our economy, not to put the government in charge -- but to
use the government to help you -- literally -- go to work.
[[JOB TRAINING REPRISE -- TWO PARAGRAPHS DRAWN FROM FINAL
NEW JERSEY LANGUAGE. ]]
You see, it's all part of a larger philosophy. Look at
every big issue we face. You'll see a choice -- a choice between
those who put their faith in everyday Americans, and those who
put their faith in government.
Bill Clinton says he's all for free enterprise -- then he
proposes the largest tax hike in history, much of it on the back
of small business.
Bill Clinton says he wants smaller government -- but of all
the thousands of government programs, he can find only one he's
willing to cut: The honey bee subsidy.
[[And he could still get stung on that one. 1]
Bill Clinton says he's for fiscal responsibility -- and then
he comes out against the Balanced Budget Amendment.
That's what Bill Clinton says
now let me tell you what a
former Democratic candidate -- more recently, a Connecticut
country innkeeper -- says that this year's Democratic ticket is a
Trojan Horse. He said, "They're much more liberal underneath --
and they'll prove it when they're elected."
That's not me using the "L" word -- that's George McGovern.
There's a temptation some find hard to resist, to be all
things to all people. Remember the old Woody Allen movie, Zelig?
5
The one about the guy who could slip on a new personality as
easily as he could change his shirt? In a word, Zelig was slick.
Now, I think Bill Clinton has seen the movie. He knows
Connecticut ranks 8th of all 50 states in terms of defense
contracts. He knew I'd made a tough decision -- a decision,
quite frankly, that would cost Connecticut -- to bring down the
deficit by cutting two Seawolf submarines. So when Bill Clinton
came to town, on the eve of the Connecticut primary, he told
citizens of this state exactly what he thought you'd want to
hear. He swore to save the Seawolf.
Now, while he was here -- did he tell you about his plans to
put our national security on the line by carving out another $60
billion dollars in defense cuts?
Did he tell you those cuts would throw another one million
defense-industry employees -- thousands from right here in
Connecticut -- out of work and onto welfare?
or did he just smile, wave goodbye, and get back on the bus?
So there you have it: Bill Clinton will sink the Navy --
but somehow, he'll spare the Seawolf. // It doesn't old up.
I can't tell you what to think -- but I can tell you what I
think. I owe you the straight story. I stake my claim on a
simple philosophy: To lead a great nation
you must first
trust the people you lead.
This year, the choice is clear. It's a choice between two
fundamentally different philosophies: Of the government, by the
6
government, for the government" versus "of the people, by the
people, for the people.'
I trust parents -- not the government -- to make the
decisions that matter in life. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private or religious. //
I trust the people -- not the government -- to choose their
own health care.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. // When the other side says, "government
knows best" -- I say: Parents know better. Parents know better
than some bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. //
What we need now is someone who sees the new horizon --
someone who understands America's place in the world is never to
be the patrons of the past -- but the architects of the future.
I intend to spend the last 71 days of this campaign winning
a mandate for the first 100 days of the next Congress. Send me a
Congress I can work with a responsible Congress -- ready to
do the will of the American people. Send me a Congress ready to
do the will of the American people -- and we will get the job
done. //
I will take my message to the American people -- and
together we will do what's right for America. //
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
12 AUG 19 P12 : 38
August 19, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR DANIEL B. MCGROARTY
FROM:
STEPHEN G. RADEMAKER SR
ASSOCIATE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks: Warsaw Park Luncheon,
Ansonia, Connecticut
Pursuant to Phil Brady's request, Counsel's Office has reviewed
the above-referenced matter and has no objection, subject to the
comments noted on the attached text.
Attachment
CC: Phillip D. Brady
McGroarty/Aarhus
August 18, 1992
2 AUG 18 P3: 07
12:30 p.m.
[CT]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WARSAW PARK LUNCHEON
ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT
AUGUST 24, 1992
?:00 P.M.??
Thank you,
1 for those kind words. [Acknowledgements.]
[Local color: Saturday night dance at Warsaw Park....]
We've witnessed a world of change. From Managua to Moscow,
millions of men and women now celebrate a new birth of freedom.
For the people here today -- people who came to America from the
Old Country -- who prayed for this day to come, the change we've
witnessed, this change we've worked for is a miracle come true.
There are those -- to quote the poet -- who will say that
the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is
nothing but a dream.
And they are right. It is the American Dream.
Today, our challenge is to bring that spirit home -- home
from Warsaw, Poland to Warsaw Park. To focus this great nation
on the new mission at hand. America has changed the world --- now
we will change America. //
That's what November 3rd is all about. This election is
about the big issues. About the issues that shape the world --
about the values close to home: I'm talking about family and
faith -- about neighborhoods free from crime ... about a world
free from fear. //
2
But we all know the number-one worry today is the economy,
it's jobs. Just as you can't drive a nail without a hammer, you
can't build a dream without a job.
If you want to talk to the most productive workers in the
world, you don't have to brush up on your German, or take a crash
course in Japanese. You can start right here in the U.S.A. --
because the American worker is the most productive worker in the
world. / /
That simple fact is worth pointing out because it can help
us keep our economic problems in perspective. That's important -
- because we're hearing an awful lot these days from folks who've
got a vested interest in talking this economy down, feeding
fears, treating what's temporary as terminal.
You know as well as I do, we want to bring unemployment
down. For any worker without a job, the unemployment rate is
100%. But the economy is on the move. Inflation -- the stealth
tax that once upon a time in the 70s ravaged your paycheck --
inflation is under control. Interest rates are at a 20-year low.
Inventories are down -- a sure sign that production lines will be
gearing up to meet new demand. The signs point to recovery. The
question to ask yourselves between now and November 3rd is this:
Which candidate knows how to keep the economy up on its feet --
and which one would drive it to its knees. //
The simple fact is, there is only one candidate for
President who has lived a life beyond government
who has
known a call above political ambition. Since the day he left law
3
school, every paycheck Bill Clinton has earned has come out of
the taxpayer's pocket. He's put plenty of people on the public
payroll -- but he's never created a single job. //
I come at things a different way. Long before I came to
public service, I built a company
I met a payroll
took
the risks ... made it work. And I happen to think that's not a
bad qualification for being President. //
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it if we want to compete. Think of the economic
changes you've seen right here in Ansonia, from the brass and
copper age, and the mills along the Naugatuck River -- to the new
corporate headquarters and industrial parks across the valley.
Right now, 1 in every 14 Americans works in a job tied
directly to foreign trade -- and that doesn't count the economic
ripple effect created when those workers pay the mortgage, buy a
car or feed their kids. [Reference to the Valley's largest
export company.] In the past [three] years -- [more than half]
of all our economic growth has come from people in other
countries buying what's Made in America.
We don't need more studies or statistics to prove that free
trade is our future. America's real wealth isn't something we
dig up from the ground -- it's the sweat and the smarts of the
American worker. Yes, the world's coming our way -- but I know:
we can play the game. //
As President, I've worked to create the new American markets
in
[....] that mean new American jobs in Ansonia and all across
4
the Valley. I'm convinced the answer is not to build a wall
around our economy, not to put the government in charge -- but to
use the government to help you -- literally - -- go to work.
[[JOB TRAINING REPRISE -- TWO PARAGRAPHS DRAWN FROM FINAL
NEW JERSEY LANGUAGE. ]]
You see, it's all part of a larger philosophy. Look at
every big issue we face. You'll see a choice -- a choice between
those who put their faith in everyday Americans, and those who
put their faith in government.
Bill Clinton says he's all for free enterprise -- then he
proposes the largest tax hike in history, much of it on the back
of small business.
Bill Clinton says he wants smaller government -- but of all
the thousands of government programs, he can find only one he's
willing to cut: The honey bee subsidy.
[[And he could still get stung on that one. ]]
Bill Clinton says he's for fiscal responsibility -- and then
he comes out against the Balanced Budget Amendment.
That's what Bill Clinton says ... now let me tell you what a
former Democratic candidate -- more recently, a Connecticut
country innkeeper -- says that this year's Democratic ticket is a
Trojan Horse. He said, "They're much more liberal underneath --
and they'll prove it when they're elected."
That's not me using the "L" word -- that's George McGovern.
There's a temptation some find hard to resist, to be all
things to all people. Remember the old Woody Allen movie, Zelig?
Suggest a different reference in view of recent news.
6
government, for the government" versus "of the people, by the
people, for the people."
I trust parents -- not the government -- to make the
decisions that matter in life. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private or religious. //
I trust the people -- not the government -- to choose their
own health care.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. // When the other side says, "government
knows best" -- I say: Parents know better. Parents know better
than some bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. //
What we need now is someone who sees the new horizon --
someone who understands America's place in the world is never to
be the patrons of the past -- but the architects of the future.
I intend to spend the last 71 days of this campaign winning
a mandate for the first 100 days of the next Congress. Send me a
Congress I can work with ... a responsible Congress -- ready to
do the will of the American people. Send me a Congress ready to
do the will of the American people -- and we will get the job
done. / /
I will take my message to the American people -- and
together we will do what's right for America. //
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
# # #
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8/18/92
32 AUG 19 P2.31 2:00PM, WED., AUG. 1
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WARSAW PARK LUNCHEON
SUBJECT:
ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT
AUGUST 24, 1992
ACTION FYI
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VICE PRESIDENT
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SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
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GRAY
FINDLAY
MCGROARTY
HOLIDAY
BOSKIN
REMARKS:
Please provide comments on the attached directly
to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, with a copy to
this office NO LATER THAN 2:00PM, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
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Pk
and Staff Secretary
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August 18, 1992
2 AUC 18 P3: 07
12:30 p.m.
[CT]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WARSAW PARK LUNCHEON
ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT
AUGUST 24, 1992
7:00 P.M.??
Thank you,
, for those kind words. [Acknowledgements.]
[Local color: Saturday night dance at Warsaw Park....)
We've witnessed a world of change. From Managua to Moscow,
millions of men and women now celebrate a new birth of freedom.
For the people here today -- people who came to America from the
old Country -- who prayed for this day to come, the change we've
witnessed, this change we've worked for is a miracle come true.
There are those -- to quote the poet -- who will say that
the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is
nothing but a dream.
And they are right. It is the American Dream.
Today, our challenge is to bring that spirit home - home
from Warsaw, Poland to Warsaw Park. To focus this great nation
on the new mission at hand. America has changed the world - now
we will change America. 11
That's what November 3rd is all about. This election is
about the big issues. About the issues that shape the world GOME
about the values close to home: I'm talking about family and
faith -- about neighborhoods free from crime ... about a world
free from fear. 11
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2
But we all know the number-one worry today is the economy,
it's jobs. Just as you can't drive a nail without a hammer, you
can't build a dream without a tab.
If you want to talk to the most productive workers in the
world, you don't have to brush up on your German, or take & crash
course in Japanese. You can start right here in the U.S.A. --
because the American worker is the most productive worker in the
world. 11
That simple fact is worth pointing out because it can help
us keep our economic problems in perspective. That's important -
- because we're hearing an awful lot these days from folks who've
got a vested interest in talking this economy down, feeding
fears, treating what's temporary as terminal.
You know as well as I do, we want to bring unemployment
down. For any worker without a job, the unemployment rate is
100%. But the economy is on the move. Inflation -- the stealth
tax that once upon a time in the 70m ravaged your paycheck --
inflation is under control. Interest rates are at a 20-year low.
Inventories are down -- a sure sign that production lines will be
gearing up to meet new demand. The signs point to recovery. The
question to ask yourselves between now and November 3rd is this:
Which candidate knows how to keep the economy up on its fast --
and which one would drive it to its knees. 11
The simple fact is, there is only one candidate for
President who has lived a life beyond government ... who has
known a call above political ambition. Since the day he left law
c
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school, every paycheck Bill Clinton has earned has come out of
the taxpayer's pocket. He's put plenty of people on the public
payroll - but he's never created a single job. 11
I come at things a different way. Long before I came to
public service, I built a company ... I met a payroll ... took
the risks made it work. And I happen to think that's not a
bad qualification for being President. 11
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it if we want to compete. Think of the economic
changes you've seen right here in Ansonia, from the brass and
dopper age, and the mills along the Naugatuck River -- to the new
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Right now, 1 in every Americans works in a job tied
directly to foreign trads -- and that doesn't count the economic
ripple effect created when those workers pay the mortgage, buy
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car or feed their kids. [Raference to the Valley's largest
United Technologies
(DOC)
export company.] In the past [three] years -- [more than half]
of all our economic growth has come from people in other
countries buying what's Made in America.
We don't need more studies or statistics to prove that free
trade is our future. America's real wealth isn't something we
dig up from the ground -- it's the sweat and the smarts of the
American worker. Yes, the world's coming our way -- but I know:
we can play the game. 11
As President, I've worked to create the new American markets
in [....] that mean new American jobs in Ansonia and all across
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around our economy, not to put the government in charge ea but to
use the government to help you -- literally www go to work.
[[JOB TRAINING REPRISE -- TWO PARAGRAPHS DRAWN FROM FINAL
NEW JERSEY LANGUAGE. 11
You see, it's all part of a larger philosophy. Look at
every big issue we face. You'll 50e a choice -- a choice between
those who put their faith in everyday Americans, and those who
put their faith in government.
Bill Clinton says he's all for free enterprise -- then he
proposes the largest tax hike in history, much of it on the back
of small business.
Bill Clinton says he wants smaller government -- but of all
the thousands of government programs, he can find only one he's
willing to cut: The honey bee subsidy.
([And he could still get stung on that one.]]
Bill Clinton says he's for fiscal responsibility -- and then
he comes out against the Balanced Budget Amendment.
That's what Bill Clinton says now let me tell you what a
former Democratic candidate -- more recently, a Connecticut
country innkeeper - says that this year's Democratic ticket is a
Trojan Horse. He said, "They're much more liberal underneath --
and they'll prove it when they're elected."
That's not me using the "L" word BO that's George McGovern.
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easily as he could change his shirt? In a word, Zelig was alick.
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Connecticut ranks 8th of all 50 states in terms of defense
contracts. He knew I'd made a tough decision -- a decision,
1 've got a plan place on
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deficit by cutting two Seawolf submarines. so when Bill Clinton
came to town, on the ave of the Connecticut primary, he told
defense conversion
citizens of this state exactly what he thought you'd want to
hear. Re swore to save the Seawolf.
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put our national security on the line by carving out another $60
billion dollars in defense cuts?
Did he tell you those outs would throw another one million
defense-industry employees --- thousands from right here in
Connecticut - out of work and onto welfare?
Or did he just smile, wave goodbye, and get back on the bus?
So there you have it: Bill Clinton Will sink the Navv --
but somehow. he'll spare the Seawolf. 11
I can't tell you what to think -- but I can tell you what I
think. I owe you the straight story. I stake my claim on a
simple philosophy: To lead a great nation
you must first
trust the people you lead.
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fundamentally different philosophies: or the government. by the
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6
government. for the government" versus "of the people, by the
people, for the people."
I trust parents -- not the government -- to make the
important
decisions that matter in life. 11
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public. private or relicious. 11
I trust the people -- not the government - to choose their
own health care.
I trust parents - not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. 11 When the other side says, "government
knows best" -- I say: Parents know better. Parents know batter
than some bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. 11
What we need now is someone who sees the new horizon --
someone who understands America's place in the world is never to
be the patrons of the past - but the architects of the futura.
I intend to spend the last 71 days of this campaign winning
a mandate for the first 100 davs of the next Congress. Send me a
Congress I can work with ... a responsible Congress -- ready to
do the will of the American people. Send me a Congress ready to
do the will of the American people -- and we will get the job
done. 11
I will take my message to the American people -- and
together we will do what's right for America. 11
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
PhilBrady's
Staffed for 2pm
was office the said best Hey do.
8/19
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McGroarty/Aarhus
August 18, 1992
12:30 p.m.
[CT]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WARSAW PARK LUNCHEON
ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT
AUGUST 24, 1992
?:00 P.M.??
Thank you,
, for those kind words. [Acknowledgements.]
[Local color: Saturday night dance at Warsaw Park....]
We've witnessed a world of change. From Managua to Moscow,
millions of men and women now celebrate a new birth of freedom.
For the people here today -- people who came to America from the
Old Country -- who prayed for this day to come, the change we've
witnessed, this change we've worked for is a miracle come true.
There are those -- to quote the poet -- who will say that
the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is
nothing but a dream.
And they are right. It is the American Dream.
Today, our challenge is to bring that spirit home -- home
from Warsaw, Poland to Warsaw Park. To focus this great nation
on the new mission at hand. America has changed the world -- now
we will change America. //
That's what November 3rd is all about. This election is
about the big issues. About the issues that shape the world --
about the values close to home: I'm talking about family and
faith -- about neighborhoods free from crime ... about a world
free from fear. //
2
But we all know the number-one worry today is the economy,
it's jobs. Just as you can't drive a nail without a hammer, you
can't build a dream without a job.
If you want to talk to the most productive workers in the
world, you don't have to brush up on your German, or take a crash
course in Japanese. You can start right here in the U.S.A. --
because the American worker is the most productive worker in the
world. / /
That simple fact is worth pointing out because it can help
us keep our economic problems in perspective. That's important -
- because we're hearing an awful lot these days from folks who've
got a vested interest in talking this economy down, feeding
fears, treating what's temporary as terminal.
You know as well as I do, we want to bring unemployment
down. For any worker without a job, the unemployment rate is
100%. But the economy is on the move. Inflation -- the stealth
tax that once upon a time in the 70s ravaged your paycheck --
inflation is under control. Interest rates are at a 20-year low.
Inventories are down -- a sure sign that production lines will be
gearing up to meet new demand. The signs point to recovery. The
question to ask yourselves between now and November 3rd is this:
Which candidate knows how to keep the economy up on its feet --
and which one would drive it to its knees. //
The simple fact is, there is only one candidate for
President who has lived a life beyond government
who has
known a call above political ambition. Since the day he left law
3
school, every paycheck Bill Clinton has earned has come out of
the taxpayer's pocket. He's put plenty of people on the public
payroll -- but he's never created a single job. //
I come at things a different way. Long before I came to
public service, I built a company
I met a payroll
took
the risks made it work. And I happen to think that's not a
bad qualification for being President. //
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it if we want to compete. Think of the economic
changes you've seen right here in Ansonia, from the brass and
copper age, and the mills along the Naugatuck River -- to the new
corporate headquarters and industrial parks across the valley.
Right now, 1 in every 14 Americans works in a job tied
directly to foreign trade -- and that doesn't count the economic
ripple effect created when those workers pay the mortgage, buy a
car or feed their kids. [Reference to the Valley's largest
export company.] In the past [three] years -- [more than half]
of all our economic growth has come from people in other
countries buying what's Made in America.
We don't need more studies or statistics to prove that free
trade is our future. America's real wealth isn't something we
dig up from the ground -- it's the sweat and the smarts of the
American worker. Yes, the world's coming our way -- but I know:
we can play the game. //
As President, I've worked to create the new American markets
in
[....] that mean new American jobs in Ansonia and all across
4
the Valley. I'm convinced the answer is not to build a wall
around our economy, not to put the government in charge -- but to
use the government to help you -- literally -- go to work.
[[JOB TRAINING REPRISE -- TWO PARAGRAPHS DRAWN FROM FINAL
NEW JERSEY LANGUAGE. ]]
You see, it's all part of a larger philosophy. Look at
every big issue we face. You'll see a choice -- a choice between
those who put their faith in everyday Americans, and those who
put their faith in government.
Bill Clinton says he's all for free enterprise -- then he
proposes the largest tax hike in history, much of it on the back
of small business.
Bill Clinton says he wants smaller government -- but of all
the thousands of government programs, he can find only one he's
willing to cut: The honey bee subsidy.
[[And he could still get stung on that one.]]
Bill Clinton says he's for fiscal responsibility -- and then
he comes out against the Balanced Budget Amendment.
That's what Bill Clinton says
now let me tell you what a
former Democratic candidate -- more recently, a Connecticut
country innkeeper -- says that this year's Democratic ticket is a
Trojan Horse. He said, "They're much more liberal underneath --
and they'll prove it when they're elected."
That's not me using the "L" word -- that's George McGovern.
There's a temptation some find hard to resist, to be all
things to all people. Remember the old Woody Allen movie, Zelig?
5
The one about the guy who could slip on a new personality as
easily as he could change his shirt? In a word, Zelig was slick.
Now, I think Bill Clinton has seen the movie. He knows
Connecticut ranks 8th of all 50 states in terms of defense
contracts. He knew I'd made a tough decision -- a decision,
quite frankly, that would cost Connecticut -- to bring down the
deficit by cutting two Seawolf submarines. So when Bill Clinton
came to town, on the eve of the Connecticut primary, he told
citizens of this state exactly what he thought you'd want to
hear. He swore to save the Seawolf.
Now, while he was here -- did he tell you about his plans to
put our national security on the line by carving out another $60
billion dollars in defense cuts?
Did he tell you those cuts would throw another one million
defense-industry employees -- thousands from right here in
Connecticut -- out of work and onto welfare?
or did he just smile, wave goodbye, and get back on the bus?
So there you have it: Bill Clinton will sink the Navy --
but somehow, he'll spare the Seawolf. //
I can't tell you what to think -- but I can tell you what I
think. I owe you the straight story. I stake my claim on a
simple philosophy: To lead a great nation
you must first
trust the people you lead.
This year, the choice is clear. It's a choice between two
fundamentally different philosophies: of the government, by the
6
government, for the government" versus "of the people, by the
people, for the people.'
I trust parents -- not the government -- to make the
decisions that matter in life. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private or religious. //
I trust the people -- not the government -- to choose their
own health care.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. // When the other side says, "government
knows best" -- I say: Parents know better. Parents know better
than some bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. //
What we need now is someone who sees the new horizon --
someone who understands America's place in the world is never to
be the patrons of the past -- but the architects of the future.
I intend to spend the last 71 days of this campaign winning
a mandate for the first 100 days of the next Congress. Send me a
Congress I can work with
a responsible Congress -- ready to
do the will of the American people. Send me a Congress ready to
do the will of the American people -- and we will get the job
done. //
I will take my message to the American people -- and
together we will do what's right for America. //
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
# # #
McGroarty/Aarhus
August 18, 1992
12:30 p.m.
[CT]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WARSAW PARK LUNCHEON
ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT
AUGUST 24, 1992
?:00 P.M.??
Thank you,
, for those kind words. [Acknowledgements. ]
[Local color: Saturday night dance at Warsaw Park....]
We've witnessed a world of change. From Managua to Moscow,
millions of men and women now celebrate a new birth of freedom.
For the people here today -- people who came to America from the
Old Country -- who prayed for this day to come, the change we've
witnessed, this change we've worked for is a miracle come true.
There are those -- to quote the poet -- who will say that
the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is
nothing but a dream.
And they are right. It is the American Dream.
Today, our challenge is to bring that spirit home -- home
from Warsaw, Poland to Warsaw Park. To focus this great nation
on the new mission at hand. America has changed the world -- now
we will change America. //
That's what November 3rd is all about. This election is
about the big issues. About the issues that shape the world --
about the values close to home: I'm talking about family and
faith -- about neighborhoods free from crime ...
about a world
free from fear. //
2
But we all know the number-one worry today is the economy,
it's jobs. Just as you can't drive a nail without a hammer, you
can't build a dream without a job.
If you want to talk to the most productive workers in the
world, you don't have to brush up on your German, or take a crash
course in Japanese. You can start right here in the U.S.A. --
because the American worker is the most productive worker in the
world. //
That simple fact is worth pointing out because it can help
us keep our economic problems in perspective. That's important -
- because we're hearing an awful lot these days from folks who've
got a vested interest in talking this economy down, feeding
fears, treating what's temporary as terminal.
You know as well as I do, we want to bring unemployment
down. For any worker without a job, the unemployment rate is
100%. But the economy is on the move. Inflation -- the stealth
tax that once upon a time in the 70s ravaged your paycheck --
inflation is under control. Interest rates are at a 20-year low.
Inventories are down -- a sure sign that production lines will be
gearing up to meet new demand. The signs point to recovery. The
question to ask yourselves between now and November 3rd is this:
Which candidate knows how to keep the economy up on its feet --
and which one would drive it to its knees. //
The simple fact is, there is only one candidate for
President who has lived a life beyond government
who has
known a call above political ambition. Since the day he left law
3
school, every paycheck Bill Clinton has earned has come out of
the taxpayer's pocket. He's put plenty of people on the public
payroll -- but he's never created a single job. //
I come at things a different way. Long before I came to
public service, I built a company
I met a payroll
took
the risks
made it work. And I happen to think that's not a
bad qualification for being President. //
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it if we want to compete. Think of the economic
changes you've seen right here in Ansonia, from the brass and
copper age, and the mills along the Naugatuck River -- to the new
corporate headquarters and industrial parks across the valley.
Right now, 1 in every 14 Americans works in a job tied
directly to foreign trade -- and that doesn't count the economic
ripple effect created when those workers pay the mortgage, buy a
car or feed their kids. [Reference to the Valley's largest
export company.] In the past [three] years -- [more than half]
of all our economic growth has come from people in other
countries buying what's Made in America.
We don't need more studies or statistics to prove that free
trade is our future. America's real wealth isn't something we
dig up from the ground -- it's the sweat and the smarts of the
American worker. Yes, the world's coming our way -- but I know:
we can play the game. //
As President, I've worked to create the new American markets
in
[....]
that mean new American jobs in Ansonia and all across
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the Valley. I'm convinced the answer is not to build a wall
around our economy, not to put the government in charge -- but to
use the government to help you -- literally -- go to work.
[[JOB TRAINING REPRISE -- TWO PARAGRAPHS DRAWN FROM FINAL
NEW JERSEY LANGUAGE. ]]
You see, it's all part of a larger philosophy. Look at
every big issue we face. You'll see a choice -- a choice between
those who put their faith in everyday Americans, and those who
put their faith in government.
Bill Clinton says he's all for free enterprise -- then he
proposes the largest tax hike in history, much of it on the back
of small business.
Bill Clinton says he wants smaller government -- but of all
the thousands of government programs, he can find only one he's
willing to cut: The honey bee subsidy.
[[And he could still get stung on that one.]]
Bill Clinton says he's for fiscal responsibility -- and then
he comes out against the Balanced Budget Amendment.
That's what Bill Clinton says
now let me tell you what a
former Democratic candidate -- more recently, a Connecticut
country innkeeper -- says that this year's Democratic ticket is a
Trojan Horse. He said, "They're much more liberal underneath --
and they'll prove it when they're elected."
That's not me using the "L" word -- that's George McGovern.
There's a temptation some find hard to resist, to be all
things to all people. Remember the old Woody Allen movie, Zelig?
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The one about the guy who could slip on a new personality as
easily as he could change his shirt? In a word, Zelig was slick.
Now, I think Bill Clinton has seen the movie. He knows
Connecticut ranks 8th of all 50 states in terms of defense
contracts. He knew I'd made a tough decision -- a decision,
quite frankly, that would cost Connecticut -- to bring down the
deficit by cutting two Seawolf submarines. So when Bill Clinton
came to town, on the eve of the Connecticut primary, he told
citizens of this state exactly what he thought you'd want to
hear. He swore to save the Seawolf.
Now, while he was here -- did he tell you about his plans to
put our national security on the line by carving out another $60
billion dollars in defense cuts?
Did he tell you those cuts would throw another one million
defense-industry employees -- thousands from right here in
Connecticut -- out of work and onto welfare?
or did he just smile, wave goodbye, and get back on the bus?
So there you have it: Bill Clinton will sink the Navy --
but somehow, he'll spare the Seawolf. //
I can't tell you what to think -- but I can tell you what I
think. I owe you the straight story. I stake my claim on a
simple philosophy: To lead a great nation
you must first
trust the people you lead.
This year, the choice is clear. It's a choice between two
fundamentally different philosophies: of the government, by the
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government, for the government" versus "of the people, by the
people, for the people."
I trust parents -- not the government -- to make the
decisions that matter in life. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private or religious. //
I trust the people -- not the government -- to choose their
own health care.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. // When the other side says, "government
knows best" -- I say: Parents know better. Parents know better
than some bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. //
What we need now is someone who sees the new horizon --
someone who understands America's place in the world is never to
be the patrons of the past -- but the architects of the future.
I intend to spend the last 71 days of this campaign winning
a mandate for the first 100 days of the next Congress. Send me a
Congress I can work with
a responsible Congress -- ready to
do the will of the American people. Send me a Congress ready to
do the will of the American people -- and we will get the job
done. 11
I will take my message to the American people -- and
together we will do what's right for America. //
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
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August 20, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
DAN MC GROARTY much
SUBJECT:
ANSONIA, cT. EVENT
On Monday, August 24, you will travel to Ansonia,
Connecticut, where you will deliver luncheon remarks at the
Warsaw Park Hall. Ansonia is a blue-collar town, with a good
number of Polish-Americans.
The remarks focus on the economy, with a short reprise of
the job training announcement you make earlier in the day in New
Jersey.
The remarks also include a section on defense -- Clinton's
promise on the Seawolf, contrasted with his plans to gut defense.
Connecticut ranks 8th in the nation in defense contracts.
McGroarty/Bunton
August 20, 1992
1:30 p.m.
[CT]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WARSAW PARK LUNCHEON
ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT
AUGUST 24, 1992
?:00 P.M.??
Thank you, -----, for those kind words. [Acknowledgements.]
I want to ask you today to look ahead with me to the great
contest that takes place this fall.
No
...
I'm not talking about
Ansonia versus Derby at [xxxx] Stadium. I'm talking about the
contest on November 3rd -- and the new course we'll set for the
next four years and the new century beyond.
We've witnessed a world of change. From Managua to Moscow,
millions of men and women now celebrate a new birth of freedom.
For the people here today -- people who came to America from the
Old Country -- who prayed for this day to come, the change we've
witnessed, this change we've worked for is a miracle come true.
Today, our challenge is to bring that spirit home -- home
from Warsaw, Poland to Warsaw Park. To focus this great nation
on the new mission at hand. America has changed the world -- now
we will change America. //
We all know the number one worry today is the economy,
it's jobs. Just as you can't drive a nail without a hammer, you
can't build a dream without a job.
If you want to talk to the most productive workers in the
world -- you don't have to brush up on your German, or take a
crash course in Japanese. You can start right here in the U.S.A.
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-- because the American worker is the most productive worker in
the world. //
That simple fact is worth pointing out because it can help
us keep our economic problems in perspective. That's important -
- because we're hearing an awful lot these days from folks who've
got a vested interest in talking this economy down, feeding
fears, treating what's temporary as terminal.
You know as well as I do, we want to bring unemployment
down. For any worker without a job, the unemployment rate is
100%. But the economy is on the move. Inflation -- the stealth
tax that once upon a time in the 70s ravaged your paycheck
inflation is under control. Interest rates are at 20 year lows.
Inventories are down -- a sure sign that production lines will be
gearing up to meet new demand. The signs point to recovery. The
But now coving out of the shoot TS Arhausas Gover we
question to ask yourselves between now and November 3rd is this:
has already proposed tax increaseo may of which -- would
Which candidate knows how to keep the economy up on Vits feet
No
and his which small one business would drive people it to its and knees? the brens above proposed
massive sprudg increases Tax - special tax a purel. We
Two candidates seek your vote for President this year
I
have vastly different backgrounds. My opponent has spent most
control spring
of his years in government. //
My opponent's idea about creating jobs is to put people on
reduction ad tax
the public payroll. There are 144,000 government employees in
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Arkansas, and 235,000 in private industry. That's the kind of
chift.
ratio we'd expect to see in the old U.S.S.R. -- not the U.S.A.
to
approve
//
economic
recair
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I come at things a different way. Long before I came to
I world m the feeled thin
public service X I built a company
I met a payroll
took
the risks
made it work. And I happen to think that's not a
bad qualification for being President. //
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it if we want to compete. Think of the economic
changes you've seen right here in Ansonia, from the brass and
copper age, and the mills along the Naugatuck --- to the new
corporate headquarters and industrial parks across the Valley.
Right now, 1 in every 6 American manufacturing jobs are tied
directly to trade -- and that doesn't count the economic ripple
effect created when those workers pay the mortgage, buy a car or
feed their kids. Since 1988, three-fifths of all our economic
growth has come from people in other countries buying what's Made
in America.
As President, I've worked to create the new American markets
from Mexico City to Moscow that mean new American jobs here in
Ansonia and all across America. I'm convinced the answer is not
to build a wall around our economy, not to put the government in
charge -- but to use the government to help you -- literally --
go to work
Earlier today in Union, New Jersey, I announced a dramatic
new in job training. To help young people find that first job, a
program I call Youth Training Corps -- to get at-risk youth off
the mean streets, and get them a second chance to build the
skills they need to succeed. For older workers who've lost their
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jobs -- or worry that next pay envelope may contain a pink slip:
we've developed a new concept called Skills Grants -- vouchers
worth $3000 dollars to be used toward the training program of
their choice.
That's our approach to job training: Meaningful work -- not
make-work. Real-world help for real jobs. //
That's an approach the other side can't match. The other
side sees job training as just another reason to raise taxes. We
see it as a way to raise self-esteem -- restore productivity and
generate economic growth. //
You see, it's all part of a larger philosophy. Look at
every big issue we face. You'll see a choice -- a choice between
those who put their faith in everyday Americans, and those who
put their faith in government.
Bill Clinton says he's all for free enterprise -- then he
proposes the largest tax hike in history, much of it on the back
of small business.
Bill Clinton says he wants smaller government -- but of all
the thousands of government programs, he can find only one he's
willing to cut: The honey bee subsidy.
[[And they could still get stung on that one.]]
Bill Clinton says he's for fiscal responsibility -- and then
he comes out against the Balanced Budget Amendment.
I stand for something different. I propose to cut federal
spending -- and with the help of a new Congress, cut federal
taxes, so we can get this economy moving again.
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My opponent says he agrees with me -- but his actions are
different.
There's a temptation some find hard to resist, to be all
things to all people. Remember the old movie, Zelig? The one
about the guy who could slip on a new personality as easily as he
could change his shirt?
Now, I think Governor Bill Clinton has seen the movie. Let
me give you one good example. Governor Clinton knows Connecticut
ranks 8th of all 50 states in terms of defense contracts. He
knew I'd made a tough decision -- a decision, quite frankly, that
would cost Connecticut -- to bring down the deficit by cutting
two Seawolf submarines. So when Bill Clinton came to town, on
the eve of the Connecticut primary, he told citizens of this
state exactly what he thought you'd want to hear. He swore to
save the Seawolf.
Now, while he was here -- he didn't mention his plans to put
our nation security on the line by carving out another $60
billion dollars in defense cuts, beyond what our military experts
deem is responsible.
He didn't tell you those cuts would throw another one
million defense-industry employees -- thousands from right here
in Connecticut -- out of work and onto welfare.
He didn't say that. Instead he said he will somehow sink
the Navy, but spare the Seawolf.
//
I can't tell you what to think -- but I can tell you what I
think. I owe you the straight story.
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I went on national TV last week and I admitted I made a
mistake by signing the Democrats tax increase. When was the last
time you saw a politician admit a mistake?
I came up here to Connecticut and said I don't support a
military project that is made here. I won't promise you I can
protect your favorite defense project, while telling the rest of
America I will gut the defense budget. In this campaign, I will
give you straight talk about what's right for America, and let
the chips fall where they may.
This year, the choice is clear. It's a choice between two
fundamentally different philosophies: of the government, by the
government, for the government" versus "of the people, by the
people, for the people."
Because what is at stake here is our future. We are in
choppy waters now, people in Connecticut and other states are
uneasy.
But I see the opportunity that global change has brought.
I
see clear water ahead for America, if we don't go back to the
failed policies of the past. I see clear water ahead, if we have
the courage to sail for it.
What we need now is someone who sees the new horizon --
someone who understands America's place in the world is never to
be the patron of the past -- but the architect of the future.
I will take my message to the American people -- and
together we will do what's right for America. //
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Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
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