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Document No. 348266ss
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
9/4/92
---
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: POLISH LABOR DAY PARADE
SUBJECT:
HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN - MON. 9/7/92 - 3:45
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCBRIDE
BAKER
MOORE
SCOWCROFT
MULLINS
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BATES
PORTER
BRADY
PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
GRAY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
HORNER
REMARKS:
The attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
2 SEP 4 A9:23
September 4, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
STEVEN PROVOST sp
FROM:
KEN ASKEW
SUBJECT:
POLISH LABOR DAY PARADE REMARKS
HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN
On Monday, September 7 at 3:45 p.m., you will address a
crowd of 200,000 (estimated) Polish-Americans immediately
following the Hamtramck Polish Labor Day Parade in Hamtramck,
Michigan. Your remarks are twenty minutes in length, and discuss
the progress made in regard to your April 1989 address to the
citizens of Hamtramck.
NOTE: The mention of Dombrowski on page three refers to a line in
Poland's National Anthem that asks Dombrowski to "lead
us on to greet our homeland, lead us back again".
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 4, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
STEVE PROVOST Sp
SUBJECT:
HAMTRAMCK SPEECH
Ken Askew, our new speechwriter, has written an eloquent
address discussing the changes in Poland. The speech will be
teleprompted, but it is written in a definite rhythm. It is a
challenging speech to deliver and given the size of the crowd,
you may want to practice it out loud.
(Askew/Aarhus)
September 3, 1992
11:00 p.m.
HAMTRAMCK
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
LABOR DAY PARADE
HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN
SEPTEMBER 7, 1992
1:30 P.M.
Thank you, Governor.
Archbishop Maida, your Eminence. Governor and Mrs. Engler,
members of the Michigan Congressional delegation, friends,
distinguished guests
My fellow Americans.
This past Independence Day, I traveled to the heartland of
Poland
to bury a treasure.
In the crypt of an ancient cathedral
I stood with
President Walesa
as the remains of the great patriot and
artist, Ignacy Paderewski [[Ig-NAH-see pader-EV-ski]], were
finally laid to rest
in the rich and free Polish soil that
conceived and sustained him.
And it struck me
this was not so much a burial
as it
was a resurrection -- the resurrection of a nation's dreams.
A patriot was at long last laid to rest in Polish soil
in
Polish soil
that was finally free.
And the ripples from that moment, as his remains were
consecrated to earth on that warm summer day in Warsaw..
are
passing through this crowd, here and now.
Sons and daughters of Hamtramck
your forebears came to
this great country because they too could not countenance a
1
Poland
shackled by repression.
Rather than cling to native soil bled dry by empty
promises
they chose instead to flourish free on foreign
soil
and to make it their own.
Today you are part of the great family that is America.
And fellow Americans
I am proud to be with you in
Hamtramck on Labor Day.
You are the blood and bone of Copernicus
Chopin
and
Curie.
You are the sweat and sinew that built this city and its
industry.
You are the voice and vision of your parents, who struggled
to be heard -- and won that struggle, that labor's voice may be
heard always. Always.
You are the inspiration for Americans to watch and pray and
cheer through recent years
as the great nation of Poland,
wracked by the rhythms of war and oppression, rose like a phoenix
-- a free nation once again.
We watched this new force, not pushing down from a tyrant,
but up from the people.
We prayed for the nation of Poland reborn, brimming with a
new and different fluid of life
inspired by a Pope
and by a
passion for freedom, for freedom at last.
We cheered a Gdansk electrician who electrified the world
with the charge that all people should be free and be heard.
And we stood proud, as American Labor took to the forefront
2
during the struggle, standing with Solidarity in its darkest
hour, firm in the belief that the dream was real.
Fellow Americans the dream is real. It is real. It was
a long time coming
but on, on, from Italy's fair plain
Dombrowski [[dum-BRUHV-skee] has led Poland back again!
Back to a cause whose heartbeat grew faint but never
faltered within the breast of a nation.
Back to a cause which finally prevailed
and toppled the
tyranny of rule by sheer force.
And back to a cause that now understands
toppling tyrants
is easier than building democracies.
I stood before you three years ago, Hamtramck
with this
message: Communism has left an ugly scar on Poland. It will
heal
but with pain. The pain of insecurity and insolvency.
And I, pledged America's help.
Today, I return to say to you that this country and our
allies have responded forcefully.
First, our concern for Poland's security.
On that day here three years ago, I called for an end to the
Cold War. And thank God, it has ended. And thank God, freedom
won
and America will do what's right to make certain Poland
never again braves the chilling tomb of communism.
And second, our concern for Polish solvency.
It's been said that communism is not a form of economics; it
is the death of economics.
So three years ago, I called for all to rally 'round with
3
economic efforts to help pull Poland from an economic grave.
I called for giving Poland preferred trade treatment, so she
can reach out to the world through exports.
I called for reducing Poland's debt, to ease her heavy
burden.
I called for investors to help unleash the explosive
entrepreneurial energy of the Polish people.
I called for loans so the Polish private sector can help her
economy blossom.
I called for international financial agreements, so Poland
can build a financial base worthy of a great nation.
In 1989, these and other major initiatives marked a radical
new direction in our foreign policy toward Poland and other new
democracies.
In 1992, I've returned to tell you: They've all come true.
Every
single
one.
And more. The United States has worked with the Polish and
German governments during German unification to secure a friendly
border between the two.
We've produced a housing-loan guarantee program which
invested in new Polish building for a new Polish age.
We've organized a billion-dollar stabilization fund to
secure the value of the Zloty [[ZLAH-tee]].
And we've announced other initiatives to help cut Polish
debt in half
to encourage Polish enterprise
to enhance
Polish-American trade to forgive most of Poland's official
4
U.S. debt
and put some of the rest to work, cleaning Poland's
environment.
All this we've done with a willing and eager heart.
But why? Why has America put its money where its mouth is?
Very simple: We recognize that the noble experiment taking
place in that great nation today
is in fact an inspiration for
her neighbors and the rest of the world.
Yes, once again
the eyes of the world are on Poland.
And friends
we Americans know freedom is hard work.
By turning to face her dreams, Poland also faces harsh
economic and social realities in the way. Difficult reforms and
tough choices lie ahead.
In short order, Poland must strengthen its political base,
pass a sound budget and re-generate momentum toward free-market
and democratic reforms.
The United States stands by to help.
We look forward to the day when Poland stands tall
shoulder-to-shoulder with the economic powers of our time.
So we pledge our support for Poland's security.
We pledge our support for Poland's solvency.
We pledge to work for a democratic peace -- an enduring
peace anchored in economic and political freedom.
And most of all
we pledge to keep our word.
(Brief pause; shift gears.)
Fellow Americans, we stand today in the twilight of one
millennium
and the dawn of the next.
5
Never before has humankind beheld such a view.
And never before has our nation been pressured by such deep
energies of change and growth
reshaping America like the
strong hands of a potter on wet clay.
But we will survive
and we will thrive.
Why? Because the American people are like the great Statue
of Liberty that stands in New York Harbor.
We're like that great Statue, brought over in pieces from
the Old World
strapped together with bolts and steel right
here on our own American soil
assembled, raised and anchored
on a rock in our own American waters
We're like that statue because the family that is America
came over in pieces as well.
We came as Poles
Hungarians
Chinese
Germans
Japanese
Irish
Swedes
and French.
Italians
Russians
Spaniards
Cubans
Koreans
Hondurans
Brazilians
and Finns.
Hungarians
Bulgarians
English and Mexicans
Russians
Israelis
Arabs
and Thais.
Filipinos
Indonesians
Indians
Malaysians
Turks
and Norwegians
Angolans and Czechs.
And that roster of new Americans goes on and never ends.
Like that great statue, we came over in pieces
our
cultures were bolted together by hope.
Our cross-struts are many. Our strengths are internal. Our
hopes unite us
and our vision is one.
6
That vision's of prosperous peace for our children, and the
last best hope for that vision is you.
My fellow Americans
what I'm here to tell you
is that
is the point and the crux of this day.
It's now time to take those same heartfelt urges that
made us become that statue
and put them to work here at home.
This fight for freedom isn't fought on dark, treacherous
borders far from home.
This fight for freedom is fought on the economic
battlefront
by creating new jobs
opening new markets
building new American strengths, here and abroad.
The fight is fought with creativity
determination
and
investment in the hearts and minds of the American people.
Here in Hamtramck
and across this nation
these are the
forces Americans must bring to bear on our future
so every
American's human potential is stretched to its God-given best.
(Brief pause; shift gears.)
The Mayor tells me there are 200,000 of us here today.
That's almost a full one-thousandth of this nation's population -
- right here, right now.
Hamtramck -- you can change the world with a gift your
mothers and fathers left behind.
Today, I challenge you to redeem the struggles they endured.
Make their labors mean something.
Redeem the struggles Solidarity suffered. Redeem the
struggles of Kosciuszko and Pulaski
and in fact of all the
7
Kowalskis [ [ kuh-VAWL-ske]] and Janowskis [[yuh-NAHV-skee] who
lived and died and aimed at one simple thing:
To be heard.
To have a voice.
To vote.
Come November 3rd, I challenge you to breathe life into the
meaning of Labor Day
and into the meaning of Solidarity
and
into the hopes and dreams of the thousands who have died for that
precious right we so often ignore.
I challenge you to vote your conscience. I would hope you
vote for me and my party, of course
but only you can know your
own heart.
And as you cast that vote, observe
how easy it is. And
remember
how costly -- how terribly costly -- this great gift
was, to win and to earn and to pass down to us here today.
Ladies and gentlemen
that is the legacy of Hamtramck.
That is the legacy of your ancestors' homeland.
That is the legacy of the family that is America.
Make her proud.
Thank you all.
God bless Hamtramck.
God bless Poland.
And God bless America.
8
Document No. 348266ss
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
9/4/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: POLISH LABOR DAY PARADE
SUBJECT:
HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN - MON. 9/7/92 - 3:45
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCBRIDE
BAKER
MOORE
SCOWCROFT
MULLINS
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BATES
PORTER
BRADY
PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
GRAY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
HORNER
REMARKS:
The attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
2,227.4 4 A9: A 23
September 4, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
STEVEN PROVOST sp
FROM:
KEN ASKEW
KD
SUBJECT:
POLISH LABOR DAY PARADE REMARKS
HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN
On Monday, September 7 at 3:45 p.m., you will address a
crowd of 200,000 (estimated) Polish-Americans immediately
following the Hamtramck Polish Labor Day Parade in Hamtramck,
Michigan. Your remarks are twenty minutes in length, and discuss
the progress made in regard to your April 1989 address to the
citizens of Hamtramck.
NOTE: The mention of Dombrowski on page three refers to a line in
Poland's National Anthem that asks Dombrowski to "lead
us on to greet our homeland, lead us back again".
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 4, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
STEVE PROVOST sp
SUBJECT:
HAMTRAMCK SPEECH
Ken Askew, our new speechwriter, has written an eloquent
address discussing the changes in Poland. The speech will be
teleprompted, but it is written in a definite rhythm. It is a
challenging speech to deliver and given the size of the crowd,
you may want to practice it out loud.
(Askew/Aarhus)
September 3, 1992
11:00 p.m.
HAMTRAMCK
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
LABOR DAY PARADE
HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN
SEPTEMBER 7, 1992
1:30 P.M.
Thank you, Governor.
Archbishop Maida, your Eminence. Governor and Mrs. Engler,
members of the Michigan Congressional delegation, friends,
distinguished guests
My fellow Americans.
This past Independence Day, I traveled to the heartland of
Poland
to bury a treasure.
In the crypt of an ancient cathedral
I stood with
President Walesa
as the remains of the great patriot and
artist, Ignacy Paderewski [[Ig-NAH-see pader-EV-ski]], were
finally laid to rest in the rich and free Polish soil that
conceived and sustained him.
And it struck me
this was not so much a burial
as it
was a resurrection -- the resurrection of a nation's dreams.
A patriot was at long last laid to rest in Polish soil...
in
Polish soil
that was finally free.
And the ripples from that moment, as his remains were
consecrated to earth on that warm summer day in Warsaw
are
passing through this crowd, here and now.
Sons and daughters of Hamtramck
your forebears came to
this great country because they too could not countenance a
1
Poland
shackled by repression.
Rather than cling to native soil bled dry by empty
promises
they chose instead to flourish free on foreign
soil
and to make it their own.
Today you are part of the great family that is America.
And fellow Americans
I am proud to be with you in
Hamtramck on Labor Day.
You are the blood and bone of Copernicus
Chopin
and
Curie.
You are the sweat and sinew that built this city and its
industry.
You are the voice and vision of your parents, who struggled
to be heard -- and won that struggle, that labor's voice may be
heard always. Always.
You are the inspiration for Americans to watch and pray and
cheer through recent years
as the great nation of Poland,
wracked by the rhythms of war and oppression, rose like a phoenix
-- a free nation once again.
We watched this new force, not pushing down from a tyrant,
but up from the people.
We prayed for the nation of Poland reborn, brimming with a
new and different fluid of life
inspired by a Pope
and by a
passion for freedom, for freedom at last.
We cheered a Gdansk electrician who electrified the world
with the charge that all people should be free and be heard.
And we stood proud, as American Labor took to the forefront
2
during the struggle, standing with Solidarity in its darkest
hour, firm in the belief that the dream was real.
Fellow Americans
the dream is real. It is real. It was
a long time coming
but on, on, from Italy's fair plain
Dombrowski [[dum-BRUHV-skee]] has led Poland back again!
Back to a cause whose heartbeat grew faint but never
faltered within the breast of a nation.
Back to a cause which finally prevailed
and toppled the
tyranny of rule by sheer force.
And back to a cause that now understands
toppling tyrants
is easier than building democracies.
I stood before you three years ago, Hamtramck
with this
message: Communism has left an ugly scar on Poland. It will
heal
but with pain. The pain of insecurity and insolvency.
And I pledged America's help.
Today, I return to say to you that this country and our
allies have responded forcefully.
First, our concern for Poland's security.
On that day here three years ago, I called for an end to the
Cold War. And thank God, it has ended. And thank God, freedom
won
and America will do what's right to make certain Poland
never again braves the chilling tomb of communism.
And second, our concern for Polish solvency.
It's been said that communism is not a form of economics; it
is the death of economics.
So three years ago, I called for all to rally 'round with
3
economic efforts to help pull Poland from an economic grave.
I called for giving Poland preferred trade treatment, so she
can reach out to the world through exports.
I called for reducing Poland's debt, to ease her heavy
burden.
I called for investors to help unleash the explosive
entrepreneurial energy of the Polish people.
I called for loans so the Polish private sector can help her
economy blossom.
I called for international financial agreements, so Poland
can build a financial base worthy of a great nation.
In 1989, these and other major initiatives marked a radical
new direction in our foreign policy toward Poland and other new
democracies.
In 1992, I've returned to tell you: They've all come true.
Every single one.
And more. The United States has worked with the Polish and
German governments during German unification to secure a friendly
border between the two.
We've produced a housing-loan guarantee program which
invested in new Polish building for a new Polish age.
We've organized a billion-dollar stabilization fund to
secure the value of the Zloty [[ZLAH-tee]].
And we've announced other initiatives to help cut Polish
debt in half
to encourage Polish enterprise
to
enhance
Polish-American trade
to forgive most of Poland's official
4
U.S. debt
and put some of the rest to work, cleaning Poland's
environment.
All this we've done with a willing and eager heart.
But why? Why has America put its money where its mouth is?
Very simple: We recognize that the noble experiment taking
place in that great nation today
is in fact an inspiration for
her neighbors and the rest of the world.
Yes, once again
the eyes of the world are on Poland.
And friends
we Americans know freedom is hard work.
By turning to face her dreams, Poland also faces harsh
economic and social realities in the way. Difficult reforms and
tough choices lie ahead.
In short order, Poland must strengthen its political base,
pass a sound budget and re-generate momentum toward free-market
and democratic reforms.
The United States stands by to help.
We look forward to the day when Poland stands tall
shoulder-to-shoulder with the economic powers of our time.
So we pledge our support for Poland's security.
We pledge our support for Poland's solvency.
We pledge to work for a democratic peace -- an enduring
peace anchored in economic and political freedom.
And most of all
we pledge to keep our word.
(Brief pause; shift gears.)
Fellow Americans, we stand today in the twilight of one
millennium
and the dawn of the next.
5
Never before has humankind beheld such a view.
And never before has our nation been pressured by such deep
energies of change and growth
reshaping America like the
strong hands of a potter on wet clay.
But we will survive
and we will thrive.
Why? Because the American people are like the great Statue
of Liberty that stands in New York Harbor.
We're like that great Statue, brought over in pieces from
the Old World
strapped together with bolts and steel right
here on our own American soil
assembled, raised and anchored
on a rock in our own American waters
We're like that statue because the family that is America
came over in pieces as well.
We came as Poles
Hungarians
Chinese
Germans
Japanese
Irish
Swedes
and French.
Italians
Russians
Spaniards
Cubans
Koreans
Hondurans
Brazilians
and Finns.
Hungarians
Bulgarians
English and Mexicans
Russians
Israelis
Arabs
and Thais.
Filipinos
Indonesians
Indians
Malaysians
Turks
and Norwegians Angolans and Czechs.
And that roster of new Americans goes on and never ends.
Like that great statue, we came over in pieces
our
cultures were bolted together by hope.
Our cross-struts are many. Our strengths are internal. Our
hopes unite us
and our vision is one.
6
That vision's of prosperous peace for our children, and the
last best hope for that vision is you.
My fellow Americans
what I'm here to tell you
is that
is the point and the crux of this day.
It's now time to take those same heartfelt urges
that
made us become that statue
and put them to work here at home.
This fight for freedom isn't fought on dark, treacherous
borders far from home.
This fight for freedom is fought on the economic
battlefront
by creating new jobs
opening new markets
building new American strengths, here and abroad.
The fight is fought with creativity
determination
and
investment in the hearts and minds of the American people.
Here in Hamtramck
and across this nation
these are the
forces Americans must bring to bear on our future
so every
American's human potential is stretched to its God-given best.
(Brief pause; shift gears.)
The Mayor tells me there are 200,000 of us here today.
That's almost a full one-thousandth of this nation's population -
- right here, right now.
Hamtramck -- you can change the world with a gift your
mothers and fathers left behind.
Today, I challenge you to redeem the struggles they endured.
Make their labors mean something.
Redeem the struggles Solidarity suffered. Redeem the
struggles of Kosciuszko and Pulaski
and in fact of all the
7
Kowalskis [[kuh-VAWL-skee] and Janowskis [[yuh-NAHV-skee]] who
lived and died and aimed at one simple thing:
To be heard.
To have a voice.
To vote.
Come November 3rd, I challenge you to breathe life into the
meaning of Labor Day
and into the meaning of Solidarity
and
into the hopes and dreams of the thousands who have died for that
precious right we so often ignore.
I challenge you to vote your conscience. I would hope you
vote for me and my party, of course
but only you can know your
own heart.
And as you cast that vote, observe
how easy it is. And
remember
how costly -- how terribly costly -- this great gift
was, to win and to earn and to pass down to us here today.
Ladies and gentlemen
that is the legacy of Hamtramck.
That is the legacy of your ancestors' homeland.
That is the legacy of the family that is America.
Make her proud.
Thank you all.
God bless Hamtramck.
God bless Poland.
And God bless America.
8
Document No. 348266
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
09/02/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2:00 p.m. 09/03
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: LABOR DAY PARADE, HAMTRAMCK, MI - - 09/07
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
A
X
MOORE
BAKER
x
MULLINS
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER N/C
BRADY
x PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS to DMCG
see.
By phone
CALIO N/C
>
This coxyp6.
SMITH
DEMAREST N/C
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
X
ZOELLICK
GRAY
MCGROARTY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
)
HORNER
MCBRIDE
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments directly to Dan McGroarty no later than
2:00 p.m. on Thursday, 09/03, with a copy to this office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
called 11:00
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
1:15
and Staff Secretary
2:15
Ext. 2702
(Askew/Aarhus)
September 2, 1992
6:40 p.m.
C2 SEP 2 P6: 58
HAMTRAMCK
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
LABOR DAY PARADE
HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN
SEPTEMBER 7, 1992
1:30 P.M.
Archbishop Maida, your Eminence. Governor and Mrs. Engler,
mëmbers of the Michigan congressional delegation, friends,
distinguished guests
My fellow Americans.
This past Independence Day, I traveled to the heartland of
Poland
to bury a treasure.
In the crypt of an ancient cathedral
I stood with
President Walesa
as the remains of the great patriot and
artist, Ignacy Paderewski, were finally laid to rest in the
rich and free Polish soil that conceived and sustained him.
And it struck me
this was not so much a burial
as it
was a resurrection -- the resurrection of a nation's dreams.
Paderewski's fervent hope, to be buried in Polish soil when
it was once again free soil was at long last fulfilled.
And the ripples from that moment, as his remains were
consecrated to earth on that warm summer day in Warsaw
are
passing through this crowd, here and now.
Sons and daughters of Hamtramck
your forebears came to
this great country because they too could not countenance a
Poland
shackled by repression.
1
Rather than cling to native soil bled dry by empty
promises
they chose instead to flourish free on foreign
soil
and to make it their own.
Today you are part of the great family that is America.
America is the richer to have you at our table.
And fellow Americans
I am proud to be with you in
Hamtramck on Labor Day.
You are the blood and bone of Copernicus
Chopin
and
Curie.
You are the sweat and sinew that built this city and its
industry.
You are the voice and vision of your parents, who struggled
to be heard -- and won that struggle, that labor's voice may be
heard always. Always.
But I'm here
not to talk about the past.
I'm here today to face a new struggle, together with you.
We Americans have watched and prayed and given support
through recent years
as the great nation of Poland, wracked by
the rhythms of war and oppression, rose like a phoenix -- a free
nation once again.
We Americans watched as a Gdansk electrician electrified the
world with the charge that all people should be free and be
heard.
We watched the nation of Poland reborn, brimming with a new
and different fluid of life
of a passion for freedom, for
freedom at last.
2
We watched this new force push not from a tyrant down, but
from the people up.
And we watched as American Labor took to the forefront
during the struggle, standing with Solidarity in its darkest
hour, firm in the belief that the dream was real.
Fellow Americans
the dream is real. It is real. It was
a long time coming, but Dombrowski has led Poland back.
Back to a cause whose heartbeat may have grown faint but
never faltered within the breast of a nation.
A cause which finally prevailed
and toppled the tyranny
of rule by force.
And a cause that now knows
toppling tyrants is easier
than building democracy.
I stood before you three years ago, Hamtramck
with this
message: Communism has left an ugly scar on Poland. It will
heal
but with pain. The pain of insecurity and insolvency.
And I pledged America's help.
Today, I return to say to you that this country and our
allies have responded forcefully.
First, our concern for Poland's security.
On that day here three years ago, I called for an end to the
Cold War. And thank God, it has ended. And thank God, freedom
won
and America will do what's right to make certain Poland
never again braves the chilling corridors of communism.
And second, our concern for Polish solvency.
It's been said that communism is not a form of economics; it
3
is the death of economics.
So three years ago, I called for all to rally 'round with
sound economic practices, to help pull Poland from an economic
grave.
Specifically, I called for Poland's access to our
Generalized System of Preferences, to lighten her heavy burden.
I called for reduction of Poland's Paris Club debt to help
her economy blossom.
I called for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to
let Polish and American investors unleash the explosive
entrepreneurial energy of the Polish people.
I called for the International Finance Corporation to
provide loans so the Polish private sector can fuel her economic
resurrection.
I called for roundtable agreements so Poland can work with
the International Monetary Fund to build a financial base worthy
of a great nation.
In 1989, these and other major initiatives marked a radical
new direction in U.S. foreign policy toward Poland.
In 1992, I've returned to tell you: They've all come true.
Every single one.
And more. The United States has organized a $1 billion
allied stabilization fund, and arranged to convert any leftover
funds to new uses.
We've announced a new Trade Enhancement Initiative which,
with others I've mentioned, cuts Polish debt in half.
4
We've signed the U.S.-Polish Business and Economic Agreement
with plans to cut Polish debt even further.
We've worked with the Polish and German governments during
German reunification to secure a friendly border between the two.
We've produced a housing-loan guarantee program which
invested $25 million in new Polish homes for this new Polish age.
And we have done all this with a willing and eager heart.
But why? Why has America put its money where its mouth is?
Very simple: We love freedom. We love Poland.
And we recognize that the noble experiment taking place in
that great nation today
is in fact an inspiration for her
neighbors and the rest of the world.
Yes, once again
the eyes of the world are on Poland.
And friends
we Americans know freedom is hard work.
By turning to face her dreams, Poland also faces harsh
economic and social realities in the way. Difficult reforms and
tough choices lie ahead.
The unavoidable fact is, Poland's courageous choice for a
free market has begged an economic transition harsh enough to
strain her mandate for reform. And Poland's burgeoning private
sector cannot yet fill the vacuum left by a failed state.
Here, I believe, is what must be done.
In short order, Poland must organize its political base,
pass a sound budget and re-generate momentum toward free-market
and democratic reforms.
The United States stands by to help in what ways we can.
5
We pledge our continued support for Poland's step-by-step
integration into the Western structure for security.
We pledge our continued financial support through reasonable
and friendly fiscal policies.
Weplidge to work to build a democration peace. - in
And we pledge to keep our word.
DROSS
(Brief pause.)
endurg
peace
MUST MUST.
Fellow Americans, we stand today in the twilight of one
on
founder
millennium
and the dawn of the next.
econ.
Never before has humankind beheld such a view.
freedom. polit
And never before has our nation been pressured by such deep
energies of change and growth
reshaping America like the
strong hands of a potter on wet clay.
But we will survive
and we will thrive.
Why? Because the American people are like the great Statue
of Liberty that stands in New York Harbor
We're like that great Statue, brought over in pieces from
the Old World
strapped together with bolts and steel right
here on American soil
assembled, raised and anchored on a rock
in our own American waters off Manhattan
We're like that statue because the family that is America
came over in pieces as well.
Poles
Czechs
Chinese
Germans
Irish
British
Swedes
and French
Italians
Russians
Japanese
Spanish
Vietnamese
Koreans
and the list goes on and on.
Like that great statue, we came over in pieces
our
cultures were bolted together by hope.
6
Our cross-struts are many. Our strengths are internal. Our
hopes unite us
and our vision is one.
That vision is one of peace for our children, and the last
best hope for that vision is you.
My fellow Americans
what I'm here to tell you
is that
is the point and the crux of this day.
The Mayor tells me there are 200,000 Americans here in
Hamtramck's streets today. That's a full one-thousandth of this
nation's population -- right here, right now.
Hamtramck -- you can change the world with a gift your
mothers and fathers left behind.
Today, I challenge you to redeem the struggles they endured.
Make their labors mean something.
Redeem the struggles Solidarity suffered. Redeem the
struggles of Kosciusko and Pulaski
and in fact of all the
Kowalskis and Janowskis and Kozlowskis who lived and died and
aimed at one simple thing:
To be heard.
To have a voice.
To vote.
Come November 3rd, I challenge you to breathe life into the
meaning of Labor Day
and into the meaning of Solidarity
and
into the hopes and dreams of the thousands who have died for that
precious right we so often ignore.
I challenge you to vote your conscience. I would hope you
vote for me, but only you know your heart.
7
And as you cast that vote, observe
how easy it is. And
remember
how costly -- how terribly costly -- this great gift
was, to win and to earn and to pass down to us here today.
Ladies and gentlemen
that is the legacy of Hamtramck.
Make her proud.
Thank you all.
God bless Hamtramck.
God bless Poland.
And God bless America.
8
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 4, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
STEVEN PROVOST sp
FROM:
KEN ASKEW
SUBJECT:
POLISH LABOR DAY PARADE REMARKS
HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN
On Monday, September 7 at 3:45 p.m., you will address a
crowd of 200,000 (estimated) Polish-Americans immediately
following the Hamtramck Polish Labor Day Parade in Hamtramck,
Michigan. Your remarks are twenty minutes in length, and discuss
the progress made in regard to your April 1989 address to the
citizens of Hamtramck.
NOTE: The mention of Dombrowski on page three refers to a line in
Poland's National Anthem that asks Dombrowski to "lead
us on to greet our homeland, lead us back again".
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 4, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
STEVE PROVOST sp
SUBJECT:
HAMTRAMCK SPEECH
Ken Askew, our new speechwriter, has written an eloquent
address discussing the changes in Poland. The speech will be
teleprompted, but it is written in a definite rhythm. It is a
challenging speech to deliver and given the size of the crowd,
you may want to practice it out loud.
(Askew/Aarhus)
September 3, 1992
11:00 p.m.
HAMTRAMCK
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
LABOR DAY PARADE
HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN
SEPTEMBER 7, 1992-
1:30 P.M.
Thank you, Governor.
Archbishop Maida, your Eminence. Governor and Mrs. Engler,
members of the Michigan Congressional delegation, friends,
distinguished guests
My fellow Americans.
This past Independence Day, I traveled to the heartland of
Poland
to bury a treasure.
In the crypt of an ancient cathedral
I stood with
President Walesa
as the remains of the great patriot and
artist, Ignacy Paderewski [[Ig-NAH-see pader-EV-ski]] were
finally laid to rest
in the rich and free Polish soil that
conceived and sustained him.
And it struck me
this was not so much a burial
as it
was a resurrection -- the resurrection of a nation's dreams.
A patriot was at long last laid to rest in Polish soil
in
Polish soil
that was finally free.
And the ripples from that moment, as his remains were
consecrated to earth on that warm summer day in Warsaw
are
passing through this crowd, here and now.
Sons and daughters of Hamtramck
your forebears came to
this great country because they too could not countenance a
1
Poland
shackled by repression.
Rather than cling to native soil bled dry by empty
promises
they chose instead to flourish free on foreign
soil
and to make it their own.
Today you are part of the great family that is America.
And fellow Americans
I am proud to be with you in
Hamtramck on Labor Day.
You are the blood and bone of Copernicus
Chopin
and
Curie.
You are the sweat and sinew that built this city and its
industry.
You are the voice and vision of your parents, who struggled
to be heard -- and won that struggle, that labor's voice may be
heard always. Always.
You are the inspiration for Americans to watch and pray and
cheer through recent years
as the great nation of Poland,
wracked by the rhythms of war and oppression, rose like a phoenix
-- a free nation once again.
We watched this new force, not pushing down from a tyrant,
but up from the people.
We prayed for the nation of Poland reborn, brimming with a
new and different fluid of life
inspired by a Pope
and by a
passion for freedom, for freedom at last.
We cheered a Gdansk electrician who electrified the world
with the charge that all people should be free and be heard.
And we stood proud, as American Labor took to the forefront
2
during the struggle, standing with Solidarity in its darkest
hour, firm in the belief that the dream was real.
Fellow Americans
the dream is real. It is real. It was
a long time coming
but on, on, from Italy's fair plain
Dombrowski [[dum-BRUHV-skee]] has led Poland back again!
Back to a cause whose heartbeat grew faint but never
faltered within the breast of a nation.
Back to a cause which finally prevailed
and toppled the
tyranny of rule by sheer force.
And back to a cause that now understands
toppling tyrants
is easier than building democracies.
I stood before you three years ago, Hamtramck
with this
message: Communism has left an ugly scar on Poland. It will
heal
but with pain. The pain of insecurity and insolvency.
And I pledged America's help.
Today, I return to say to you that this country and our
allies have responded forcefully.
First, our concern for Poland's security.
On that day here three years ago, I called for an end to the
Cold War. And thank God, it has ended. And thank God, freedom
won
and America will do what's right to make certain Poland
never again braves the chilling tomb of communism.
And second, our concern for Polish solvency.
It's been said that communism is not a form of economics; it
is the death of economics.
So three years ago, I called for all to rally 'round with
3
economic efforts to help pull Poland from an economic grave.
I called for giving Poland preferred trade treatment, so she
can reach out to the world through exports.
I called for reducing Poland's debt, to ease her heavy
burden.
I called for investors to help unleash the explosive
entrepreneurial energy of the Polish people.
I called for loans so the Polish private sector can help her
economy blossom.
I called for international financial agreements, so Poland
can build a financial base worthy of a great nation.
In 1989, these and other major initiatives marked a radical
new direction in our foreign policy toward Poland and other new
democracies.
In 1992, I've returned to tell you: They've all come true.
Every single one.
And more. The United States has worked with the Polish and
German governments during German unification to secure a friendly
border between the two.
We've produced a housing-loan guarantee program which
invested in new Polish building for a new Polish age.
We've organized a billion-dollar stabilization fund to
secure the value of the Zloty [[ZLAH-tee]].
And we've announced other initiatives to help cut Polish
debt in half
to encourage Polish enterprise
to enhance
Polish-American trade
to forgive most of Poland's official
4
U.S. debt
and put some of the rest to work, cleaning Poland's
environment.
All this we've done with a willing and eager heart.
But why? Why has America put its money where its mouth is?
Very simple: We recognize that the noble experiment taking
place in that great nation today
is in fact an inspiration for
her neighbors and the rest of the world.
Yes, once again
the eyes of the world are on Poland.
And friends
we Americans know freedom is hard work.
By turning to face her dreams, Poland also faces harsh
economic and social realities in the way. Difficult reforms and
tough choices lie ahead.
In short order, Poland must strengthen its political base,
pass a sound budget and re-generate momentum toward free-market
and democratic reforms.
The United States stands by to help.
We look forward to the day when Poland stands tall
shoulder-to-shoulder with the economic powers of our time.
So we pledge our support for Poland's security.
We pledge our support for Poland's solvency.
We pledge to work for a democratic peace -- an enduring
peace anchored in economic and political freedom.
And most of all...
we pledge to keep our word.
(Brief pause; shift gears.)
Fellow Americans, we stand today in the twilight of one
millennium
and the dawn of the next.
5
Never before has humankind beheld such a view.
And never before has our nation been pressured by such deep
energies of change and growth
reshaping America like the
strong hands of a potter on wet clay.
But we will survive
and we will thrive.
Why? Because the American people are like the great Statue
of Liberty that stands in New York Harbor.
We're like that great Statue, brought over in pieces from
the Old World
strapped together with bolts and steel right
here on our own American soil
assembled, raised and anchored
on a rock in our own American waters
We're like that statue because the family that is America
came over in pieces as well.
We came as Poles
Hungarians
Chinese
Germans
Japanese Irish Swedes and French.
Italians
Russians
Spaniards
Cubans
Koreans
Hondurans
Brazilians
and Finns.
Hungarians
Bulgarians
English and Mexicans
Russians
Israelis
Arabs
and Thais.
Filipinos
Indonesians
Indians
Malaysians
Turks
and Norwegians
Angolans and Czechs.
And that roster of new Americans goes on and never ends.
Like that great statue, we came over in pieces
our
cultures were bolted together by hope.
Our cross-struts are many. Our strengths are internal. Our
hopes unite us
and our vision is one.
6
That vision's of prosperous peace for our children, and the
last best hope for that vision is you.
My fellow Americans
what I'm here to tell you
is that
is the point and the crux of this day.
It's now time to take those same heartfelt urges
that
made us become that statue
and put them to work here at home.
This fight for freedom isn't fought on dark, treacherous
borders far from home.
This fight for freedom is fought on the economic
battlefront
by creating new jobs
opening new markets
building new American strengths, here and abroad.
The fight is fought with creativity
determination
and
investment in the hearts and minds of the American people.
Here in Hamtramck
and across this nation
these are the
forces Americans must bring to bear on our future
so every
American's human potential is stretched to its God-given best.
(Brief pause; shift gears.)
The Mayor tells me there are 200,000 of us here today.
That's almost a full one-thousandth of this nation's population -
- right here, right now.
Hamtramck -- you can change the world with a gift your
mothers and fathers left behind.
Today, I challenge you to redeem the struggles they endured.
Make their labors mean something.
Redeem the struggles Solidarity suffered. Redeem the
struggles of Kosciuszko and Pulaski
and in fact of all the
7
Kowalskis [[kuh-VAWL-skee]] and Janowskis [[yuh-NAHV-skee]] who
lived and died and aimed at one simple thing:
To be heard.
To have a voice.
To vote.
Come November 3rd, I challenge you to breathe life into the
meaning of Labor Day
and into the meaning of Solidarity
and
into the hopes and dreams of the thousands who have died for that
precious right we so often ignore.
I challenge you to vote your conscience. I would hope you
vote for me and my party, of course
but only you can know your
own heart.
And as you cast that vote, observe
how easy it is. And
remember
how costly -- how terribly costly -- this great gift
was, to win and to earn and to pass down to us here today.
Ladies and gentlemen
that is the legacy of Hamtramck.
That is the legacy of your ancestors' homeland.
That is the legacy of the family that is America.
Make her proud.
Thank you all.
God bless Hamtramck.
God bless Poland.
And God bless America.
8
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 4, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
STEVEN PROVOST sp
FROM:
KEN ASKEW
SUBJECT:
POLISH LABOR DAY PARADE REMARKS
HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN
On Monday, September 7 at 3:45 p.m., you will address a
crowd of 200,000 (estimated) Polish-Americans immediately
following the Hamtramck Polish Labor Day Parade in Hamtramck,
Michigan. Your remarks are twenty minutes in length, and discuss
the progress made in regard to your April 1989 address to the
citizens of Hamtramck.
NOTE: The mention of Dombrowski on page three refers to a line in
Poland's National Anthem that asks Dombrowski to "lead
us on to greet our homeland, lead us back again".
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 4, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
STEVE PROVOST sp
SUBJECT:
HAMTRAMCK SPEECH
Ken Askew, our new speechwriter, has written an eloquent
address discussing the changes in Poland. The speech will be
teleprompted, but it is written in a definite rhythm. It is a
challenging speech to deliver and given the size of the crowd,
you may want to practice it out loud.
(Askew/Aarhus)
September 3, 1992
11:00 p.m.
HAMTRAMCK
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
LABOR DAY PARADE
HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN
SEPTEMBER 7, 1992
1:30 P.M.
Thank you, Governor.
Archbishop Maida, your Eminence. Governor and Mrs. Engler,
members of the Michigan Congressional delegation, friends,
distinguished guests
My fellow Americans.
This past Independence Day, I traveled to the heartland of
Poland
to bury a treasure.
In the crypt of an ancient cathedral
I stood with
President Walesa
as the remains of the great patriot and
artist, Ignacy Paderewski [[Ig-NAH-see pader-EV-ski]], were
finally laid to rest
in the rich and free Polish soil that
conceived and sustained him.
And it struck me
this was not so much a burial
as it
was a resurrection -- the resurrection of a nation's dreams.
A patriot was at long last laid to rest in Polish soil
in
Polish soil
that was finally free.
And the ripples from that moment, as his remains were
consecrated to earth on that warm summer day in Warsaw
are
passing through this crowd, here and now.
Sons and daughters of Hamtramck your forebears came to
this great country because they too could not countenance a
1
Poland
shackled by repression.
Rather than cling to native soil bled dry by empty
promises
they chose instead to flourish free on foreign
soil
and to make it their own.
Today you are part of the great family that is America.
And fellow Americans
I am proud to be with you in
Hamtramck on Labor Day.
You are the blood and bone of Copernicus
Chopin
and
Curie.
You are the sweat and sinew that built this city and its
industry.
You are the voice and vision of your parents, who struggled
to be heard --- and won that struggle, that labor's voice may be
heard always. Always.
You are the inspiration for Americans to watch and pray and
cheer through recent years
as the great nation of Poland,
wracked by the rhythms of war and oppression, rose like a phoenix
-- a free nation once again.
We watched this new force, not pushing down from a tyrant,
but up from the people.
We prayed for the nation of Poland reborn, brimming with a
new and different fluid of life
inspired by a Pope
and by a
passion for freedom, for freedom at last.
We cheered a Gdansk electrician who electrified the world
with the charge that all people should be free and be heard.
And we stood proud, as American Labor took to the forefront
2
during the struggle, standing with Solidarity in its darkest
hour, firm in the belief that the dream was real.
Fellow Americans
the dream is real. It is real. It was
a long time coming
but on, on, from Italy's fair plain
Dombrowski [[dum-BRUHV-skee]] has led Poland back again!
Back to a cause whose heartbeat grew faint but never
faltered within the breast of a nation.
Back to a cause which finally prevailed
and toppled the
tyranny of rule by sheer force.
And back to a cause that now understands
toppling tyrants
is easier than building democracies.
I stood before you three years ago, Hamtramck
with this
message: Communism has left an ugly scar on Poland. It will
heal
but with pain. The pain of insecurity and insolvency.
And I pledged America's help.
Today, I return to say to you that this country and our
allies have responded forcefully.
First, our concern for Poland's security.
On that day here three years ago, I called for an end to the
Cold War. And thank God, it has ended. And thank God, freedom
won
and America will do what's right to make certain Poland
never again braves the chilling tomb of communism.
And second, our concern for Polish solvency.
It's been said that communism is not a form of economics; it
is the death of economics.
So three years ago, I called for all to rally 'round with
3
economic efforts to help pull Poland from an economic grave.
I called for giving Poland preferred trade treatment, so she
can reach out to the world through exports.
I called for reducing Poland's debt, to ease her heavy
burden.
I called for investors to help unleash the explosive
entrepreneurial energy of the Polish people.
I called for loans so the Polish private sector can help her
economy blossom.
I called for international financial agreements, so Poland
can build a financial base worthy of a great nation.
In 1989, these and other major initiatives marked a radical
new direction in our foreign policy toward Poland and other new
democracies.
In 1992, I've returned to tell you: They've all come true.
Every single one.
And more. The United States has worked with the Polish and
German governments during German unification to secure a friendly
border between the two.
We've produced a housing-loan guarantee program which
invested in new Polish building for a new Polish age.
We've organized a billion-dollar stabilization fund to
secure the value of the Zloty [[ZLAH-tee]].
And we've announced other initiatives to help cut Polish
debt in half
to encourage Polish enterprise
to enhance
Polish-American trade
to forgive most of Poland's official
4
U.S. debt
and put some of the rest to work, cleaning Poland's
environment.
All this we've done with a willing and eager heart.
But why? Why has America put its money where its mouth is?
Very simple: We recognize that the noble experiment taking
place in that great nation today
is in fact an inspiration for
her neighbors and the rest of the world.
Yes, once again
the eyes of the world are on Poland.
And friends
we Americans know freedom is hard work.
By turning to face her dreams, Poland also faces harsh
economic and social realities in the way. Difficult reforms and
tough choices lie ahead.
In short order, Poland must strengthen its political base,
pass a sound budget and re-generate momentum toward free-market
and democratic reforms.
The United States stands by to help.
We look forward to the day when Poland stands tall
shoulder-to-shoulder with the economic powers of our time.
So we pledge our support for Poland's security.
We pledge our support for Poland's solvency.
We pledge to work for a democratic peace -- an enduring
peace anchored in economic and political freedom.
And most of all
we pledge to keep our word.
(Brief pause; shift gears.)
Fellow Americans, we stand today in the twilight of one
millennium
and the dawn of the next.
5
Never before has humankind beheld such a view.
And never before has our nation been pressured by such deep
energies of change and growth
reshaping America like the
strong hands of a potter on wet clay.
But we will survive
and we will thrive.
Why? Because the American people are like the great Statue
of Liberty that stands in New York Harbor.
We're like that great Statue, brought over in pieces from
the Old World
strapped together with bolts and steel right
here on our own American soil assembled, raised and anchored
on a rock in our own American waters
We're like that statue because the family that is America
came over in pieces as well.
We came as Poles
Hungarians
Chinese
Germans
Japanese
Irish
Swedes
and French.
Italians
Russians
Spaniards
Cubans
Koreans
Hondurans
Brazilians
and Finns.
Hungarians
Bulgarians
English and Mexicans
Russians
Israelis
Arabs
and Thais.
Filipinos
Indonesians
Indians
Malaysians
Turks
and Norwegians
Angolans and Czechs.
And that roster of new Americans goes on and never ends.
Like that great statue, we came over in pieces
our
cultures were bolted together by hope.
Our cross-struts are many. Our strengths are internal.
Our
hopes unite us
and our vision is one.
6
That vision's of prosperous peace for our children, and the
last best hope for that vision is you.
My fellow Americans
what I'm here to tell you
is that
is the point and the crux of this day.
It's now time to take those same heartfelt urges
that
made us become that statue
and put them to work here at home.
This fight for freedom isn't fought on dark, treacherous
borders far from home.
This fight for freedom is fought on the economic
battlefront
by creating new jobs
opening new markets
building new American strengths, here and abroad.
The fight is fought with creativity
determination
and
investment in the hearts and minds of the American people.
Here in Hamtramck
and across this nation
these are the
forces Americans must bring to bear on our future
so every
American's human potential is stretched to its God-given best.
(Brief pause; shift gears.)
The Mayor tells me there are 200,000 of us here today.
That's almost a full one-thousandth of this nation's population -
- right here, right now.
Hamtramck -- you can change the world with a gift your
mothers and fathers left behind.
Today, I challenge you to redeem the struggles they endured.
Make their labors mean something.
Redeem the struggles Solidarity suffered. Redeem the
struggles of Kosciuszko and Pulaski
and in fact of all the
7
Kowalskis [[kuh-VAWL-skee]] and Janowskis [[yuh-NAHV-skee]] who
lived and died and aimed at one simple thing:
To be heard.
To have a voice.
To vote.
Come November 3rd, I challenge you to breathe life into the
meaning of Labor Day
and into the meaning of Solidarity
and
into the hopes and dreams of the thousands who have died for that
precious right we so often ignore.
I challenge you to vote your conscience. I would hope you
vote for me and my party, of course
but only you can know your
own heart.
And as you cast that vote, observe
how easy it is. And
remember
how costly -- how terribly costly -- this great gift
was, to win and to earn and to pass down to us here today.
Ladies and gentlemen
that is the legacy of Hamtramck.
That is the legacy of your ancestors' homeland.
That is the legacy of the family that is America.
Make her proud.
Thank you all.
God bless Hamtramck.
God bless Poland.
And God bless America.
8
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Document No. 348266
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
09/02/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2:00 p.m. 09/03
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: LABOR DAY PARADE, HAMTRAMCK, MI - - 09/07
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MOORE
BAKER
MULLINS
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
GRAY
MCGROARTY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
HORNER
MCBRIDE
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments directly to Dan McGroarty no later than
2:00 p.m. on Thursday, 09/03, with a copy to this office. Thanks.
RESPONSE: see sec. Derwinski Paul Korfonta
comments.
apages- 9
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
PK
and Staff Secretary
09/03
Ext. 2702
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The White House->
OPD:# 5
(Askew/Aarhus)
September 2, 1992
6:40 p.m.
12 SEP 2 P6: 58
HAMTRAMCK
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
LABOR DAY PARADE
HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN
SEPTEMBER 7, 1992
1:30 P.M.
Archbishop Maida, your Eminence. Governor and Mrs. Engler,
members of the Michigan congressional delegation, friends,
distinguished guests
My fellow Americans.
This past Independence Day, I traveled to the heartland of
Poland
to bury a treasure.
In the crypt of an ancient cathedral
I stood with
President Walesa
as the remains of the great patriot and
artist, Ignacy Paderewski, were finally laid to rest... in the
rich and free Polish soil that conceived and sustained him.
And it struck me
this was not so much a burial
as it
was a resurrection -- the resurrection of a nation's dreams.
Paderewski's fervent hope, to be buried in Polish soil when
it was once again free soil
was at long last fulfilled.
And the ripples from that moment, as his remains were
consecrated to earth on that warm summer day in Warsaw are
passing through this crowd, here and now.
Sons and daughters of Hamtramck your forebears came to
this great country because they too could not countenance a
Poland.
shackled by repression.
1
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;
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OPD:# 6
Rather than cling to native soil bled dry by empty
promises
they chose instead to flourish free on foreign
soil
and to make it their own.
Today you are part of the great family that is America.
America is the richer to have you at our table.
And fellow Americans
I am proud to be with you in
Hamtramck on Labor Day.
You are the blood and bone of Copernicus
Chopin
and
Curie.
You are the sweat and sinew that built this city and its
industry.
You are the voice and vision of your parents, who struggled
to be heard -- and won that struggle, that labor's voice may be
heard always. Always.
But I'm here
not to talk about the past.
I'm here today to face a new struggle, together with you.
We Americans have watched and prayed and given support
through recent years
as the great nation of Poland, wracked by
the rhythms of war and oppression, rose like a phoenix -- a free
nation once again.
We Americans watched as a Gdansk electrician electrified the
world with the charge that all people should be free and be
heard.
We watched the nation of Poland reborn, brimming with a new
and different fluid of life of a passion for freedom, for
freedom at last.
2
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The White House->
OPD:# 7.
(nec. Just woods The stivring of "March, march " Domb rows from Italy to
Berwinski)
poland
was the march of the
Polish legion during the Napoleanic wars.
We watched this new force push not from a tyrant down, but
from the people up.
And we watched as American Labor took to the forefront
during the struggle, standing with Solidarity in its darkest
hour, firm in the belief that the dream was real.
Fellow Americans
the dream is real. It is real. It was
a long time coming, but Dombrowski has led Poland back.
Back to a cause whose heartbeat may have grown faint but
never faltered within the breast of a nation.
A cause which finally prevailed
and toppled the tyranny
of rule by force.
And a cause that now knows
toppling tyrants is easier
than building democracy.
I stood before you three years ago, Hamtramck
with this
message: Communism has left an ugly scar on Poland. It will
heal
but with pain. The pain of insecurity and insolvency.
And I pledged America's help.
Today, I return to say to you that this country and our
allies have responded forcefully.
First, our concern for Poland's security.
On that day here three years ago, I called for an end to the
Cold War. And thank God, it has ended. And thank God, freedom
won
and America will do what's right to make certain Poland
never again braves the chilling corridors of communism.
And second, our concern for Polish solvency.
It's been said that communism is not a form of economics; it
3
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The White House->
OPD;# 8
is the death of economics.
so three years ago, I called for all to rally 'round with
(hec. Derwiski)
sound economic practices, to help pull Poland from an economic
grave.
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Specifically, I called for Poland's access to our
on
Generalized System of Preferences, to lighten her heavy burden.
this
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describe
her economy blossom.
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of a great nation.
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new direction in U.S. foreign policy toward Poland.
out what
it means.
In 1992, I've returned to tell you: They've all come true.
Every single one.
And more. The United States has organized a $1 billion
allied stabilization fund, and arranged to convert any leftover
funds to new uses.
We've announced a new Trade Enhancement Initiative which,
with others I've mentioned, cuts Polish debt in half.
expanding two. way frade
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;
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OPD:# 9
We've signed the U.S.-Polish Business and Economic Agreement
with plans to cut Polish debt even further.
We've worked with the Polish and German governments during
German reunification to secure a friendly border between the two.
We've produced a housing-loan guarantee program which
invested $25 million in new Polish homes for this new Polish age.
And we have done all this with a willing and eager heart.
But why? Why has America put its money where its mouth is?
Very simple: We love freedom. We love Poland.
And we recognize that the noble experiment taking place in
that great nation today
is in fact an inspiration for her
neighbors and the rest of the world.
Yes, once again
the eyes of the world are on Poland.
And friends
we Americans know freedom is hard work.
By turning to face her dreams, Poland also faces harsh
economic and social realities in the way. Difficult reforms and
tough choices lie ahead.
The unavoidable fact is, Poland's courageous choice for a
free market has begged an economic transition harsh enough to
strain her mandate for reform. And Poland's burgeoning private
sector cannot yet fill the vacuum left by a failed state.
Here, I believe, is what must be done.
In short order, Poland must organize its political base,
pass a sound budget and re-generate momentum toward free-market
and democratic reforms.
The United States stands by to help in what ways we can.
5
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The White House->
OPD;#10
We pledge our continued support for Poland's step-by-step
integration into the Western structure for security.
We pledge our continued financial support through reasonable
and friendly fiscal policies.
And we pledge to keep our word.
(Brief pause.)
Fellow Americans, we stand today in the twilight of one
millennium
and the dawn of the next.
Never before has humankind beheld such a view.
And never before has our nation been pressured by such deep
energies of change and growth
reshaping America like the
strong hands of a potter on wet clay.
But we will survive
and we will thrive.
Why? Because the American people are like the great Statue
of Liberty that stands in New York Harbor
We're like that great Statue, brought over in pieces from
the old World
strapped together with bolts and steel right
here on American soil
assembled, raised and anchored on a rock
in our own American waters off Manhattan
We're like that statue because the family that is America
came over in pieces as well.
Poles
Czechs
Chinese
Germans
Irish
British
Swedes
and French
Italians
Russians
Japanese
Spanish
Vietnamese
Koreans
and the list goes on and on.
Like that great statue, we came over in pieces
our
cultures were bolted together by hope.
6
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;
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OPD;#11
Our cross-struts are many. Our strengths are internal. Our
hopes unite us... and our vision is one.
That vision is one of peace for our children, and the last
best hope for that vision is you.
My fellow Americans..
what I'm here to tell you is that
is the point and the crux of this day.
The Mayor tells me there are 200,000 Americans here in
Hamtramck's streets today. That's a full one-thousandth of this
nation's population -- right here, right now.
Hamtramck -- you can change the world with a gift your
mothers and fathers left behind.
Today, I challenge you to redeem the struggles they endured.
Make their labors mean something.
Redeem the struggles Solidarity suffered. Redeem the
struggles of Kosciusko and Pulaski
and in fact of all the
Kowalskis and Janowskis and Kozlowskis who lived and died and
aimed at one simple thing:
To be heard.
To have a voice.
To vote.
Come November 3rd, I challenge you to breathe life into the
meaning of Labor Day
and into the meaning of solidarity..
and
into the hopes and dreams of the thousands who have died for that
precious right we SO often ignore.
I challenge you to vote your conscience. I would hope you
vote for me, but only you know your heart.
7
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;
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OPD;#12
And as you cast that vote, observe
how easy it is. And
remember
how costly -- how terribly costly -- this great gift
was, to win and to earn and to pass down to us here today.
Ladies and gentlemen that is the legacy of Hamtramck.
Make her proud.
Thank you all.
God bless Hamtramck.
God bless Poland.
And God bless America.
8
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
9-4 8:00A
September 3, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR DAN McGROARTY
FROM:
ROGER B. PORTER
RBP
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks: Labor Day Parade
We have reviewed the attached draft and have no suggested
changes from a policy standpoint. We approve of the draft
remarks in their current form.
CC: Phillip D. Brady
Document No. 348266
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
WARREN
WARREN
DATE:
09/02/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2:00 p.m. 09/03
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: LABOR DAY PARADE, HAMTRAMCK, MI - 09/07
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MOORE
BAKER
MULLINS
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
GRAY
MCGROARTY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
HORNER
MCBRIDE
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments directly to Dan McGroarty no later than
2:00 p.m. on Thursday, 09/03, with a copy to this office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Askew/Aarhus)
September 2, 1992
6:40 p.m.
02 SEP 2 P6: 58
HAMTRAMCK
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
LABOR DAY PARADE
HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN
SEPTEMBER 7, 1992
1:30 P.M.
Archbishop Maida, your Eminence. Governor and Mrs. Engler,
members of the Michigan congressional delegation, friends,
distinguished guests
My fellow Americans.
This past Independence Day, I traveled to the heartland of
Poland
to bury a treasure.
In the crypt of an ancient cathedral
I stood with
President Walesa
as the remains of the great patriot and
artist, Ignacy Paderewski, were finally laid to rest
in the
rich and free Polish soil that conceived and sustained him.
And it struck me
this was not so much a burial
as
it
was a resurrection
--
the resurrection of a nation's dreams.
Paderewski's fervent hope, to be buried in Polish soil when
it was once again free soil was at long last fulfilled.
And the ripples from that moment, as his remains were
consecrated to earth on that warm summer day in Warsaw
are
passing through this crowd, here and now.
Sons and daughters of Hamtramck
your forebears came to
this great country because they too could not countenance a
Poland
shackled by repression.
1
Rather than cling to native soil bled dry by empty
promises
they chose instead to flourish free on foreign
soil
and to make it their own.
Today you are part of the great family that is America.
America is the richer to have you at our table.
And fellow Americans
I am proud to be with you in
Hamtramck on Labor Day.
You are the blood and bone of Copernicus
Chopin
and
Curie.
You are the sweat and sinew that built this city and its
industry.
You are the voice and vision of your parents, who struggled
to be heard -- and won that struggle, that labor's voice may be
heard always. Always.
But I'm here
not to talk about the past.
I'm here today to face a new struggle, together with you.
We Americans have watched and prayed and given support
through recent years
as the great nation of Poland, wracked by
the rhythms of war and oppression, rose like a phoenix -- a free
nation once again.
We Americans watched as a Gdansk electrician electrified the
world with the charge that all people should be free and be
heard.
We watched the nation of Poland reborn, brimming with a new
and different fluid of life
of a passion for freedom, for
freedom at last.
2
We watched this new force push not from a tyrant down, but
from the people up.
And we watched as American Labor took to the forefront
during the struggle, standing with Solidarity in its darkest
hour, firm in the belief that the dream was real.
Fellow Americans
the dream is real. It is real. It was
a long time coming, but Dombrowski has led Poland back.
Back to a cause whose heartbeat may have grown faint but
never faltered within the breast of a nation.
A cause which finally prevailed
and toppled the tyranny
of rule by force.
And a cause that now knows
toppling tyrants is easier
than building democracy.
I stood before you three years ago, Hamtramck
with this
message: Communism has left an ugly scar on Poland. It will
heal
but with pain. The pain of insecurity and insolvency.
And I pledged America's help.
Today, I return to say to you that this country and our
allies have responded forcefully.
First, our concern for Poland's security.
On that day here three years ago, I called for an end to the
Cold War. And thank God, it has ended. And thank God, freedom
won
and America will do what's right to make certain Poland
never again braves the chilling corridors of communism.
And second, our concern for Polish solvency.
It's been said that communism is not a form of economics; it
3
is the death of economics.
So three years ago, I called for all to rally 'round with
sound economic practices, to help pull Poland from an economic
grave.
Specifically, I called for Poland's access to our
Generalized System of Preferences, to lighten her heavy burden.
I called for reduction of Poland's Paris Club debt to help
her economy blossom.
I called for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to
let Polish and American investors unleash the explosive
entrepreneurial energy of the Polish people.
I called for the International Finance Corporation to
provide loans so the Polish private sector can fuel her economic
resurrection.
I called for roundtable agreements so Poland can work with
the International Monetary Fund to build a financial base worthy
of a great nation.
In 1989, these and other major initiatives marked a radical
new direction in U.S. foreign policy toward Poland.
In 1992, I've returned to tell you: They've all come true.
Every single one.
And more. The United States has organized a $1 billion
allied stabilization fund, and arranged to convert any leftover
funds to new uses.
We've announced a new Trade Enhancement Initiative which,
with others I've mentioned, cuts Polish debt in half.
4
We've signed the U.S.-Polish Business and Economic Agreement
with plans to cut Polish debt even further.
We've worked with the Polish and German governments during
German reunification to secure a friendly border between the two.
We've produced a housing-loan guarantee program which
invested $25 million in new Polish homes for this new Polish age.
And we have done all this with a willing and eager heart.
But why? Why has America put its money where its mouth is?
Very simple: We love freedom. We love Poland.
And we recognize that the noble experiment taking place in
that great nation today
is in fact an inspiration for her
neighbors and the rest of the world.
Yes, once again
the eyes of the world are on Poland.
And friends
we Americans know freedom is hard work.
By turning to face her dreams, Poland also faces harsh
economic and social realities in the way. Difficult reforms and
tough choices lie ahead.
The unavoidable fact is, Poland's courageous choice for a
free market has begged an economic transition harsh enough to
strain her mandate for reform. And Poland's burgeoning private
sector cannot yet fill the vacuum left by a failed state.
Here, I believe, is what must be done.
In short order, Poland must organize its political base,
pass a sound budget and re-generate momentum toward free-market
and democratic reforms.
The United States stands by to help in what ways we can.
5
We pledge our continued support for Poland's step-by-step
integration into the Western structure for security.
We pledge our continued financial support through reasonable
and friendly fiscal policies.
And we pledge to keep our word.
(Brief pause.)
Fellow Americans, we stand today in the twilight of one
millennium
and the dawn of the next.
Never before has humankind beheld such a view.
And never before has our nation been pressured by such deep
energies of change and growth
reshaping America like the
strong hands of a potter on wet clay.
But we will survive
and we will thrive.
Why? Because the American people are like the great Statue
of Liberty that stands in New York Harbor
We're like that great Statue, brought over in pieces from
the Old World
strapped together with bolts and steel right
here on American soil
assembled, raised and anchored on a rock
in our own American waters off Manhattan
We're like that statue because the family that is America
came over in pieces as well.
Poles
Czechs
Chinese
Germans
Irish
British
Swedes
and French
Italians
Russians
Japanese
Spanish
Vietnamese
Koreans
and the list goes on and on.
Like that great statue, we came over in pieces
our
cultures were bolted together by hope.
6
Our cross-struts are many. Our strengths are internal.
Our
hopes unite us and our vision is one.
That vision is one of peace for our children, and the last
best hope for that vision is you.
My fellow Americans
what I'm here to tell you
is that
is the point and the crux of this day.
The Mayor tells me there are 200,000 Americans here in
Hamtramck's streets today. That's a full one-thousandth of this
nation's population -- right here, right now.
Hamtramck -- you can change the world with a gift your
mothers and fathers left behind.
Today, I challenge you to redeem the struggles they endured.
Make their labors mean something.
Redeem the struggles Solidarity suffered. Redeem the
struggles of Kosciusko and Pulaski
and in fact of all the
Kowalskis and Janowskis and Kozlowskis who lived and died and
aimed at one simple thing:
To be heard.
To have a voice.
To vote.
Come November 3rd, I challenge you to breathe life into the
meaning of Labor Day
and into the meaning of Solidarity
and
into the hopes and dreams of the thousands who have died for that
precious right we so often ignore.
I challenge you to vote your conscience. I would hope you
vote for me, but only you know your heart.
7
And as you cast that vote, observe
how easy it is. And
remember
how costly -- how terribly costly -- this great gift
was, to win and to earn and to pass down to us here today.
Ladies and gentlemen
that is the legacy of Hamtramck.
Make her proud.
Thank you all.
God bless Hamtramck.
God bless Poland.
And God bless America.
8
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members of the Michigan congressional delegation, friends,
distinguished guests
My fellow Americans.
This past Independence Day, I traveled to the heartland of
Poland
to bury a treasure.
In the crypt of an ancient cathedral
I stood with
President Walesa
as the remains of the great patriot and
artist, Ignacy Paderewski, were finally laid to rest
in the
rich and free Polish soil that conceived and sustained him.
And it struck me
this was not so much a burial
as it
was a resurrection -- the resurrection of a nation's dreams.
Paderewski's fervent hope, to be buried in Polish soil when
it was once again free soil
was at long last fulfilled.
And the ripples from that moment, as his remains were
consecrated to earth on that warm summer day in Warsaw
are
passing through this crowd, here and now.
Sons and daughters of Hamtramck
your forebears came to
this great country because they too could not countenance a
Poland
shackled by repression.
1
Rather than cling to native soil bled dry by empty
promises
they chose instead to flourish free on foreign
soil
and to make it their own.
Today you are part of the great family that is America.
America is the richer to have you at our table.
And fellow Americans
I am proud to be with you in
Hamtramck on Labor Day.
You are the blood and bone of Copernicus
Chopin
and
Curie.
You are the sweat and sinew that built this city and its
industry.
You are the voice and vision of your parents, who struggled
to be heard -- and won that struggle, that labor's voice may be
heard always. Always.
But I'm here
not to talk about the past.
I'm here today to face a new struggle, together with you.
We Americans have watched and prayed and given support
through recent years
as the great nation of Poland, wracked by
the rhythms of war and oppression, rose like a phoenix -- a free
nation once again.
We Americans watched as a Gdansk electrician electrified the
world with the charge that all people should be free and be
heard.
We watched the nation of Poland reborn, brimming with a new
and different fluid of life
of a passion for freedom, for
freedom at last.
2
We watched this new force push not from a tyrant down, but
from the people up.
And we watched as American Labor took to the forefront
during the struggle, standing with Solidarity in its darkest
hour, firm in the belief that the dream was real.
Fellow Americans
the dream is real. It is real. It was
Im
sorry
a long time coming, but Dombrowski has led Poland back.
I dont
Back to a cause whose heartbeat may have grown faint but
never faltered within the breast of a nation.
this
pliet me or Know
A cause which finally prevailed
and toppled the tyranny
of rule by force.
And a cause that now knows
toppling tyrants is easier
than building democracy.
I stood before you three years ago, Hamtramck
with this
message: Communism has left an ugly scar on Poland. It will
heal
but with pain. The pain of insecurity and insolvency.
And I pledged America's help.
Today, I return to say to you that this country and our
allies have responded forcefully.
First, our concern for Poland's security.
On that day here three years ago, I called for an end to the
Cold War. And thank God, it has ended. And thank God, freedom
won
and America will do what's right to make certain Poland
never again braves the chilling corridors of communism.
And second, our concern for Polish solvency.
It's been said that communism is not a form of economics; it
3
is the death of economics.
So three years ago, I called for all to rally 'round with
sound economic practices, to help pull Poland from an economic
grave.
granting
tade preferences
Specifically, I called for Poland's access to our
help her
earn money
Generalized System of Preferences, to lighten her heavy burden.
they
expnts
?
I called for reduction of Poland's Paris Club debt to help
her economy blossom.
our
I called for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to
let Polish and American investors unleash the explosive
entrepreneurial energy of the Polish people.
I called for the International Finance Corporation to
provide loans so the Polish private sector can fuel her economic
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economic and social realities in the way. Difficult reforms and
tough choices lie ahead.
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free market has begged an economic transition harsh enough to
strain her mandate for reform. And Poland's burgeoning private
sector cannot yet fill the vacuum left by a failed state.
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and we will thrive.
Why? Because the American people are like the great Statue
of Liberty that stands in New York Harbor
We're like that great Statue, brought over in pieces from
the Old World
strapped together with bolts and steel right
here on American soil
assembled, raised and anchored on a rock
in our own American waters off Manhattan
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came over in pieces as well.
Poles
Czechs
Chinese
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Irish
British
Swedes
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Italians
Russians
Japanese
Spanish
Vietnamese
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hopes unite us
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best hope for that vision is you.
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what I'm here to tell you
is that
is the point and the crux of this day.
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Hamtramck's streets today. That's a full one-thousandth of this
nation's population -- right here, right now.
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mothers and fathers left behind.
Today, I challenge you to redeem the struggles they endured.
Make their labors mean something.
Redeem the struggles Solidarity suffered. Redeem the
struggles of Kosciusko and Pulaski
and in fact of all the
Kowalskis and Janowskis and Kozlowskis who lived and died and
aimed at one simple thing:
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To have a voice.
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precious right we so often ignore.
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TO:
(See Below)
Due: 2pm
FROM:
Claire F. Turney
Office of Communications
SUBJECT: Staffed speech - Labor Day Parade
(Askew/Aarhus)
September 2, 1992
FACT-CHECK COPY
6:40 p.m.
HAMTRAMCK
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
LABOR DAY PARADE
HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN
SEPTEMBER 7, 1992
1:30 P.M.
Archbishop Maida, your Eminence. Governor and Mrs. Engler,
members of the Michigan congressional delegation, friends,
Advance
distinguished guests
My fellow Americans.
This past Independence Day, I traveled to the heartland of
Poland
to bury a treasure.
In the crypt of an ancient cathedral
I stood with
President Walesa
as the remains of the great patriot and
artist, Ignacy Paderewski, were finally laid to rest in the
rich and free Polish soil that conceived and sustained him.
And it struck me... this was not so much a burial as it
was a resurrection the resurrection of a nation's dreams.
Paderewski's fervent hope, to be buried in Polish soil when
State
than State Dept, decision to remains here.
it was once again free soil
was at long last fulfilled.
And the ripples from that moment, as his remains were
consecrated to earth on that warm summer day in Warsaw
are
passing through this crowd, here and now.
Sons and daughters of Hamtramck
your forebears came to
this great country because they too could not countenance a
Poland
shackled by repression.
Rather than cling to native soil bled dry by empty
promises
they chose instead to flourish free on foreign
soil
and to make it their own.
Today you are part of the great family that is America.
America is the richer to have you at our table.
And fellow Americans
I am proud to be with you in
Hamtramck on Labor Day.
You are the blood and bone of Copernicus
Chopin
and
Curie.
You are the sweat and sinew that built this city and its
industry.
You are the voice and vision of your parents, who struggled
to be heard --- and won that struggle, that labor's voice may be
heard always. Always.
But I'm here
not to talk about the past.
I'm here today to face a new struggle, together with you.
We Americans have watched and prayed and given support
through recent years
as the great nation of Poland, wracked by
the rhythms of war and oppression, rose like a phoenix -- a free
nation once again.
We Americans watched as a Gdansk electrician electrified the
world with the charge that all people should be free and be
NEXAS
heard.
We watched the nation of Poland reborn, brimming with a new
and different fluid of life
of a passion for freedom, for
freedom at last.
We watched this new force push not from a tyrant down, but
from the people up.
And we watched as American Labor took to the forefront
during the struggle, standing with Solidarity in its darkest
hour, firm in the belief that the dream was real.
Fellow Americans
the dream is real. It is real. It was
a long time coming, but Dombrowski has led Poland back.
Back to a cause whose heartbeat may have grown faint but
never faltered within the breast of a nation.
A cause which finally prevailed and toppled the tyranny
of rule by force.
And a cause that now knows
toppling tyrants is easier
than building democracy.
I stood before you three years ago, Hamtramck
with this
message: Communism has left an ugly scar on Poland. It will
heal
but with pain. The pain of insecurity and insolvency.
And I pledged America's help.
Today, I return to say to you that this country and our
allies have responded forcefully.
First, our concern for Poland's security.
On that day here three years ago, I called for an end to the
SP.
Cold War. And thank God, it has ended. And thank God, freedom
won
and America will do what's right to make certain Poland
never again braves the chilling corridors of communism.
And second, our concern for Polish solvency.
It's been said that communism is not a form of economics; it
NEXIS
is the death of economics.
So three years ago, I called for all to rally 'round with
sound economic practices, to help pull Poland from an economic
grave.
Specifica ly, I called for Poland's access to our
Generalized System of Preferences, to lighten her heavy burden.
SPEC
I callet for reduction of Poland's Paris Club debt to help
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her economy blossom.
I called for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to
let Polish and American investors unleash the explosive
sp.
entreprereutial energy of the Polish people.
NSC
I called for the International Finance Corporation to
sp.
provide loans so the Polish private sector can fuel her economic
resurrection.
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I called for roundtable agreements so Poland can work with
Sp.
the International Monetary Fund to build a financial base worthy
NC
of a great nation.
In 1989, these and other major initiatives marked a radical
new direction in U.S. foreign policy toward Poland.
In 1992, I've returned to tell you: They've all come true.
NSC
Every single one.
And more. The United States has organized a $1 billion
allied stabilization fund, and arranged to convert any leftover
NSC
funds to new uses.
We've announced a new Trade Enhancement Initiative which,
with others I've mentioned, cuts Polish debt in half.
NSC
We've signed the U.S. -Polish Business and Economic Agreement
with plans to cut Polish debt even further.
We've worked with the Polish and German governments during
NSC
German reunification to secure a friendly border between the two.
We've produced a housing-loan guarantee program which
invested $25 million in new Polish homes for this new Polish age.
And we have done all this with a willing and eager heart.
But why? Why has America put its money where its mouth is?
Very simple: We love freedom. We love Poland.
And we recognize that the noble experiment taking place in
that great nation today
is in fact an inspiration for her
neighbors and the rest of the world.
Yes, once again
the eyes of the world are on Poland.
And friends
we Americans know freedom is hard work.
By turning to face her dreams, Poland also faces harsh
economic and social realities in the way. Difficult reforms and
tough choices lie ahead.
The unavoidable fact is, Poland's courageous choice for a
free market has begged an economic transition harsh enough to
strain her mandate for reform. And Poland's burgeoning private
sector cannot yet fill the vacuum left by a failed state.
Here, I believe, is what must be done.
In short order, Poland must organize its political base,
pass a sound budget and re-generate momentum toward free-market
and democratic reforms.
The United States stands by to help in what ways we can.
We pledge our continued support for Poland's step-by-step
integration into the Western structure for security.
We pledge our continued financial support through reasonable
and friendly fiscal policies.
And we pledge to keep our word.
(Brief pause.)
Fellow Americans, we stand today in the twilight of one
millennium
and the dawn of the next.
Never before has humankind beheld such a view.
And never before has our nation been pressured by such deep
energies of change and growth
reshaping America like the
strong hands of a potter on wet clay.
But we will survive
and we will thrive.
Why? Because the American people are like the great Statue
of Liberty that stands in New York Harbor
We're like that great Statue, brought over in pieces from
the Old World
strapped together with bolts and steel right
here on American soil
assembled, raised and anchored on a rock
in our own American waters off Manhattan
We're like that statue because the family that is America
came over in pieces as well.
Poles
Czechs
Chinese
Germans
Irish
British
Swedes
and French
Italians
Russians
Japanese
Spanish
Vietnamese
Koreans
and the list goes on and on.
Like that great statue, we came over in pieces
our
cultures were bolted together by hope.
Our cross-struts are many. Our strengths are internal. Our
hopes unite us
and our vision is one.
That vision is one of peace for our children, and the last
best hope for that vision is you.
My fellow Americans
what I'm here to tell you
is that
is the point and the crux of this day.
The Mayor tells me there are 200,000 Americans here in
Hamtramck's streets today. That' almost full one-thousandth of this
nation's population -- right here, right now.
Hamtramck -- you can change the world with a gift your
mothers and fathers left behind.
Today, I challenge you to redeem the struggles they endured.
Make their labors mean something.
Redeem the struggles Solidarity suffered. Redeem the
struggles of Kosciusko and Pulaski
and in fact of all the
Kowalskis and Janowskis and Kozlowskis who lived and died and
aimed at one simple thing:
To be heard.
To have a voice.
To vote.
Come November 3rd, I challenge you to breathe life into the
meaning of Labor Day
and into the meaning of Solidarity
and
into the hopes and dreams of the thousands who have died for that
precious right we so often ignore.
I challenge you to vote your conscience. I would hope you
vote for me, but only you know your heart.
And as you cast that vote, observe how easy it is. And
remember
how costly -- how terribly costly -- this great gift
was, to win and to earn and to pass down to us here today.
Ladies and gentlemen
that is the legacy of Hamtramck.
Make her proud.
Thank you all.
God bless Hamtramck.
God bless Poland.
And God bless America.
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DATE:
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SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: LABOR DAY PARADE, HAMTRAMCK, MI - 09/07
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MOORE
BAKER
MULLINS
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
GRAY
MCGROARTY
KAUFMAN
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2:00 p.m. on Thursday, 09/03, with a copy to this office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
See communts
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Askew/Aarhus)
September 2, 1992
6:40 p.m.
J2 SEP 2 P6: 58
HAMTRAMCK
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
LABOR DAY PARADE
HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN
SEPTEMBER 7, 1992
1:30 P.M.
Archbishop Maida, your Eminence. Governor and Mrs. Engler,
members of the Michigan congressional delegation, friends,
distinguished guests
My fellow Americans.
This past Independence Day, I traveled to the heartland of
Poland
to bury a treasure.
In the crypt of an ancient cathedral
I stood with
President Walesa
as the remains of the great patriot and
artist, Ignacy Paderewski, were finally laid to rest
in the
rich and free Polish soil that conceived and sustained him.
And it struck me
this was not so much a burial
as it
was a resurrection -- the resurrection of a nation's dreams.
Paderewski's fervent hope, to be buried in Polish soil when
it was once again free soil
was at long last fulfilled.
And the ripples from that moment, as his remains were
consecrated to earth on that warm summer day in Warsaw
are
passing through this crowd, here and now.
Sons and daughters of Hamtramck
your forebears came to
this great country because they too could not countenance a
Poland
shackled by repression.
1
Rather than cling to native soil bled dry by empty
promises
they chose instead to flourish free on foreign
soil
and to make it their own.
Today you are part of the great family that is America.
America is the richer to have you at our table.
And fellow Americans I am proud to be with you in
Hamtramck on Labor Day.
You are the blood and bone of Copernicus
Chopin
and
Curie.
You are the sweat and sinew that built this city and its
industry.
You are the voice and vision of your parents, who struggled
to be heard -- and won that struggle, that labor's voice may be
heard always. Always.
But I'm here
not to talk about the past.
I'm here today to face a new struggle, together with you.
We Americans have watched and prayed and given support
through recent years
as the great nation of Poland, wracked by
the rhythms of war and oppression, rose like a phoenix -- a free
nation once again.
We Americans watched as a Gdansk electrician electrified the
world with the charge that all people should be free and be
heard.
We watched the nation of Poland reborn, brimming with a new
and different fluid of life
of a passion for freedom, for
freedom at last.
2
We watched this new force push not from a tyrant down, but
from the people up.
And we watched as American Labor took to the forefront
during the struggle, standing with Solidarity in its darkest
hour, firm in the belief that the dream was real.
Fellow Americans
the dream is real. It is real. It was
a long time coming, but Dombrowski has led Poland back.
Back to a cause whose heartbeat may have grown faint but
never faltered within the breast of a nation.
A cause which finally prevailed
and toppled the tyranny
of rule by force.
And a cause that now knows
toppling tyrants is easier
than building democracy.
I stood before you three years ago, Hamtramck
with this
message: Communism has left an ugly scar on Poland. It will
heal
but with pain. The pain of insecurity and insolvency.
And I pledged America's help.
Today, I return to say to you that this country and our
allies have responded forcefully.
First, our concern for Poland's security.
On that day here three years ago, I called for an end to the
Cold War. And thank God, it has ended. And thank God, freedom
won
and America will do what's right to make certain Poland
never again braves the chilling corridors of communism.
And second, our concern for Polish solvency.
It's been said that communism is not a form of economics; it
3
is the death of economics.
So three years ago, I called for all to rally 'round with
sound economic practices, to help pull Poland from an economic
grave.
Specifically, I called for Poland's access to our
Generalized System of Preferences, to lighten her heavy burden.
I called for reduction of Poland's Paris Club debt to help
her economy blossom.
I called for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to
let Polish and American investors unleash the explosive
entrepreneurial energy of the Polish people.
I called for the International Finance Corporation to
provide loans so the Polish private sector can fuel her economic
resurrection.
I called for roundtable agreements so Poland can work with
the International Monetary Fund to build a financial base worthy
of a great nation.
In 1989, these and other major initiatives marked a radical
new direction in U.S. foreign policy toward Poland.
In 1992, I've returned to tell you: They've all come true.
Every single one.
And more. The United States has organized a $1 billion
allied stabilization fund, and arranged to convert any leftover
funds to new uses.
We've announced a new Trade Enhancement Initiative which,
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But why? Why has America put its money where its mouth is?
Very simple: We love freedom. We love Poland.
And we recognize that the noble experiment taking place in
that great nation today
is in fact an inspiration for her
neighbors and the rest of the world.
Yes, once again
the eyes of the world are on Poland.
And friends
we Americans know freedom is hard work.
By turning to face her dreams, Poland also faces harsh
economic and social realities in the way. Difficult reforms and
tough choices lie ahead.
The unavoidable fact is, Poland's courageous choice for a
free market has begged an economic transition harsh enough to
strain her mandate for reform. And Poland's burgeoning private
sector cannot yet fill the vacuum left by a failed state.
Here, I believe, is what must be done.
In short order, Poland must organize its political base,
pass a sound budget and re-generate momentum toward free-market
and democratic reforms.
The United States stands by to help in what ways we can.
5
We pledge our continued support for Poland's step-by-step
integration into the Western structure for security.
We pledge our continued financial support through reasonable
and friendly fiscal policies.
And we pledge to keep our word.
(Brief pause.)
Fellow Americans, we stand today in the twilight of one
millennium
and the dawn of the next.
Never before has humankind beheld such a view.
And never before has our nation been pressured by such deep
energies of change and growth
reshaping America like the
strong hands of a potter on wet clay.
But we will survive
and we will thrive.
Why? Because the American people are like the great Statue
of Liberty that stands in New York Harbor
We're like that great Statue, brought over in pieces from
the Old World
strapped together with bolts and steel right
here on American soil
assembled, raised and anchored on a rock
in our own American waters off Manhattan
We're like that statue because the family that is America
came over in pieces as well.
Poles
Czechs
Chinese
Germans
Irish
British
Swedes
and French
Italians
Russians
Japanese
Spanish
Vietnamese
Koreans
and the list goes on and on.
Like that great statue, we came over in pieces
our
cultures were bolted together by hope.
6
Our cross-struts are many. Our strengths are internal. Our
hopes unite us
and our vision is one.
That vision is one of peace for our children, and the last
best hope for that vision is you.
My fellow Americans
what I'm here to tell you
is that
is the point and the crux of this day.
The Mayor tells me there are 200,000 Americans here in
Hamtramck's streets today. That's a full one-thousandth of this
nation's population -- right here, right now.
Hamtramck -- you can change the world with a gift your
mothers and fathers left behind.
Today, I challenge you to redeem the struggles they endured.
Make their labors mean something.
Redeem the struggles Solidarity suffered. Redeem the
struggles of Kosciusko and Pulaski
and in fact of all the
Kowalskis and Janowskis and Kozlowskis who lived and died and
aimed at one simple thing:
To be heard.
To have a voice.
To vote.
Come November 3rd, I challenge you to breathe life into the
meaning of Labor Day
and into the meaning of Solidarity
and
into the hopes and dreams of the thousands who have died for that
precious right we so often ignore.
I challenge you to vote your conscience. I would hope you
vote for me, but only you know your heart.
7
And as you cast that vote, observe
how easy it is. And
remember
how costly -- how terribly costly -- this great gift
was, to win and to earn and to pass down to us here today.
Ladies and gentlemen
that is the legacy of Hamtramck.
Make her proud.
Thank you all.
God bless Hamtramck.
God bless Poland.
And God bless America.
8
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUN
DATE:
09/02/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2:00 p.m. 09/03
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: LABOR DAY PARADE, HAMTRAMCK, MI - - 09/07
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MOORE
BAKER
MULLINS
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
GRAY
MCGROARTY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
HORNER
MCBRIDE
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments directly to Dan McGroarty no later than
2:00 p.m. on Thursday, 09/03, with a copy to this office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
TO:
DAN MCGROARTY
overdone? PHILLIP D. BRADY
The NSC staff concurs with the draft
Assistant to the President
presidential remarks as amended.
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
Brent Scowcroft
CC: Phillip D. Brady
(Askew/Aarhus)
September 2, 1992
6:40 p.m.
02 SEP 2 P6: 58
HAMTRAMCK
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
LABOR DAY PARADE
HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN
SEPTEMBER 7, 1992
1:30 P.M.
Archbishop Maida, your Eminence. Governor and Mrs. Engler,
members of the Michigan congressional delegation, friends,
distinguished guests
My fellow Americans.
This past Independence Day, I traveled to the heartland of
return
Poland
to bury a treasure.
In the crypt of an ancient cathedral
I stood with
President Walesa
as the remains of the great patriot and
artist, Ignacy Paderewski, were finally laid to rest
in the
rich and free Polish soil that conceived and sustained him.
And it struck me
this was not so much a burial
as it
was a resurrection -- the resurrection of a nation's dreams.
Paderewski's fervent hope, to be buried in Polish soil when
it was once again free soil
was at long last fulfilled.
And the ripples from that moment, as his remains were
consecrated to earth on that warm summer day in Warsaw
are
passing through this crowd, here and now.
Sons and daughters of Hamtramck
your forebears came to
this great country because they too could not countenance a
Poland
shackled by repression.
1
Rather than cling to native soil bled dry by empty
promises
they chose instead to flourish free on foreign
soil
and to make it their own.
Today you are part of the great family that is America.
America is the richer to have you at our table.
And fellow Americans
I am proud to be with you in
Hamtramck on Labor Day.
You are the blood and bone of Copernicus
Chopin
and
Curie.
You are the sweat and sinew that built this city and its
industry.
You are the voice and vision of your parents, who struggled
to be heard -- and won that struggle, that labor's voice may be
heard always. Always.
But I'm here. not to talk about the past.
I'm here today to face a new struggle, together with you.
This
mean,
We Americans have watched and prayed and given support
through recent years
as the great nation of Poland, wracked by
the rhythms of war and oppression, rose like a phoenix -- a free
nation once again.
We Americans watched applaxed as a Gdansk electrician electrified the we
Too passive
supported
world with the charge that all people should be free and be
them
heard.
We watched the nation of Poland reborn, brimming with a new
and different fluid of life
of a passion for freedom, for
freedom at last.
2
We watched this new force push not from a tyrant down, but
from the people up.
And we watched as American Labor took to the forefront
during the struggle, standing with Solidarity in its darkest
hour, firm in the belief that the dream was real.
Fellow Americans
the dream is real. It is real. It was
a long time coming, but Dombrowski has led Poland back.
Back to a cause whose heartbeat may have grown faint but
never faltered within the breast of a nation.
A cause which finally prevailed
and toppled the tyranny
of rule by force.
And a cause that now knows
toppling tyrants is easier
than building democracy.
I stood before you three years ago, Hamtramck
with this
message: Communism has left an ugly scar on Poland. It will
heal
but with pain. The pain of insecurity and insolvency.
And I pledged America's help.
Today, I return to say to you that this country and our
allies have responded forcefully.
First, our concern for Poland's security.
On that day here three years ago, I called for an end to the
Cold War. And thank God, it has ended. And thank God, freedom
won
and America will do what's right to make certain Poland
never again braves the chilling corridors of communism.
revitalization
And second, our concern for Polish solvency.
It's been said that communism is not a form of economics; it
3
is the death of economics.
So three years ago, I called for all to rally 'round with
sound economic practices, to help pull Poland from an economic
grave.
Specifically, I called for Poland's access to our
allow More Polish exports.
Generalized System of Preferences, to lighten her heavy burden.
I called for reduction of Poland's Paris Club debt to help
her economy blossom.
I called for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to
let Polish and American investors unleash the explosive
entrepreneurial energy of the Polish people.
I called for the International Finance Corporation to
to
to
provide loans so the Polish private sector can fuel her economic
resurrection.
the esta blishment of imaginative educational, cultural
I called for roundtable agreements so Poland can work with
and training programs to liberate me creative evergies of the people.
the International Monetary Fund to build a financial base worthy
of a great nation.
Round table afreements were already in Mace +
the Pres. applanded them.]
In 1989, these and other major initiatives marked a radical
new direction in U.S. foreign policy toward Poland.
In 1992, I've returned to tell you: They've all come true.
Every single one.
And more. The United States has organized a $1 billion
Multi-donor
allied stabilization fund, and arranged to convert any leftover- this
Having achieved ourganls we are now
$1 binion
^
funds to introduced new uses spur land's economic ing. revitalization.
We 've announced a new Trade Enhancement Initiative which,
substantially expanding Market access to Polish exporters.
with others I've mentioned, cuts Polish debt in half.
We created the Polish- American Enterprise Fund, which
actively supports the development of Po land's private sector. Thus far,
we have lent over $100 mithin to to⁴ over 1,000 Polish small businesses.
HAnd we also have made iteasier for Americans to do
We've signed the U.S. Polish Business and Economic Agreement
with plans to cut Polish debt even further.
business in poland through the American Business Initia live, OPSC
of
EximBank programs and by sending four high- level investment missions
We've worked with the Polish and Cerman governments during
to Poland. These worked with the Polish government to encourage U.S. investment in
German reunification to secure a friendly border between the two.
Poland.
We ve produced a housing loan guarantee program which
invested $25 million in new Polish homes for this new Polish age.
All told, Poland IS the largest mcipienty u.s. resistion is central f Eastern Europe.
And we have done all this with a willing and eager heart.
But why? Why has America put its money where its mouth is?
is also important to on resion of a transformation monestable, send and
Very simple: We love freedom. We love Poland. a fee Poland
And we recognize that the noble experiment taking place in
that great nation today
is in fact an inspiration for her
neighbors and the rest of the world.
Yes, once again
the eyes of the world are on Poland.
And friends
we Americans know freedom is hard work.
has come to I
By turning to face her dreams, Poland, also, faces harsh
economic and social realities in the way. Difficult reforms and
tough choices lie ahead. And yet, when / stood before the Polish people
in Wonsawfast 2 short months afo, 1 was stunned by how much already has
been achieved. Freedom has come to Po land. And what's more, the economic
The unavoidable fact is, Poland's courageous choice for a
free market has begged an economic transition harsh enough to
reforms working.
strain her mandate for reform. And Poland's burgeoning private
sector cannot yet fill the vacuum left by a failed state
Here, I believe, is what must be done.
In short order, Poland must organize its political base,
pass a sound budget and re-generate momentum toward free market
and democratic reforms.
The United States stands by to help in what ways we can.
While there is much more to do, as I told Pres. Walesa and the
people of Poland,
5
We pledge our continued support for Poland's step-by-step
integration into the Western structure for security.
We pledge our continued financial support through reasonable
and friendly fiscal policies.
And we pledge to keep our word.
Brief pause.)
Fellow Americans, we stand today in the twilight of one
millennium
and the dawn of the next.
Never before has humankind beheld such a view.
And never before has our nation been pressured by such deep
energies of change and growth
reshaping America like the
strong hands of a potter on wet clay.
But we will survive
and we will thrive.
Why? Because the American people are like the great Statue
of Liberty that stands in New York Harbor
We're like that great Statue, brought over in pieces from
the Old World
strapped together with bolts and steel right
here on American soil
assembled, raised and anchored on a rock
in our own American waters off Manhattan
We're like that statue because the family that is America
came over in pieces as well.
Poles
Czechs
Chinese
Germans
Irish
British
Swedes
and French
Italians
Russians
Japanese
Spanish
Vietnamese
Koreans
and the list goes on and on.
Like that great statue, we came over in pieces
our
cultures were bolted together by hope.
6
Our cross-struts are many. Our strengths are internal. Our
hopes unite us
and our vision is one.
That vision is one of peace for our children, and the last
best hope for that vision is you.
My fellow Americans
what I'm here to tell you
is that
is the point and the crux of this day.
The Mayor tells me there are 200,000 Americans here in
Hamtramck's streets today. That's a full one-thousandth of this
nation's population -- right here, right now.
Hamtramck -- you can change the world with a gift your
mothers and fathers left behind.
Today, I challenge you to redeem the struggles they endured.
Make their labors mean something.
Redeem the struggles Solidarity suffered. Redeem the
struggles of Kosciusko and Pulaski
and in fact of all the
Kowalskis and Janowskis and Kozlowskis who lived and died and
aimed at one simple thing:
To be heard.
To have a voice.
To vote.
Come November 3rd, I challenge you to breathe life into the
meaning of Labor Day and into the meaning of Solidarity
and
into the hopes and dreams of the thousands who have died for that
precious right we so often ignore.
I challenge you to vote your conscience. I would hope you
vote for me, but only you know your heart.
7
And as you cast that vote, observe
how easy it is. And
remember
how costly -- how terribly costly -- this great gift
was, to win and to earn and to pass down to us here today.
Ladies and gentlemen
that is the legacy of Hamtramck.
Make her proud.
Thank you all.
God bless Hamtramck.
God bless Poland.
And God bless America.
8
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6670
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUN
DATE:
09/02/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2:00 p.m. 09/03
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: LABOR DAY PARADE, HAMTRAMCK, MI - 09/07
ACTION FYI
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VICE PRESIDENT
MOORE
BAKER
MULLINS
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
CALIO
SMITH
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DEMAREST
TUTWILER
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GRAY
MCGROARTY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
HORNER
MCBRIDE
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments directly to Dan McGroarty no later than
2:00 p.m. on Thursday, 09/03, with a copy to this office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
TO:
DAN MCGROARTY
Nerdone?
PHILLIP D. BRADY
The NSC staff concurs with the draft
Assistant to the President
presidential remarks as amended.
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
Brent Scowcroft
CC: Phillip D. Brady
(Askew/Aarhus)
September 2, 1992
6:40 p.m.
02 SEP 2 P6: 58
HAMTRAMCK
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
LABOR DAY PARADE
HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN
SEPTEMBER 7, 1992
1:30 P.M.
Archbishop Maida, your Eminence. Governor and Mrs. Engler,
members of the Michigan congressional delegation, friends,
distinguished guests
My fellow Americans.
This past Independence Day, I traveled to the heartland of
return
Poland
to bury a treasure.
In the crypt of an ancient cathedral
I stood with
President Walesa
as the remains of the great patriot and
artist, Ignacy Paderewski, were finally laid to rest... in
the
rich and free Polish soil that conceived and sustained him.
And it struck me... this was not so much a burial as it
was a resurrection -- the resurrection of a nation's dreams.
Paderewski's fervent hope, to be buried in Polish soil when
it was once again free soil was at long last fulfilled.
And the ripples from that moment, as his remains were
consecrated to earth on that warm summer day in Warsaw
are
passing through this crowd, here and now.
Sons and daughters of Hamtramck your forebears came to
this great country because they too could not countenance a
Poland
shackled by repression.
1
Rather than cling to native soil bled dry by empty
promises
they chose instead to flourish free on foreign
soil
and to make it their own.
Today you are part of the great family that is America.
America is the richer to have you at our table.
And fellow Americans
I am proud to be with you in
Hamtramck on Labor Day.
You are the blood and bone of Copernicus
Chopin
and
Curie.
You are the sweat and sinew that built this city and its
industry.
You are the voice and vision of your parents, who struggled
to be heard -- and won that struggle, that labor's voice may be
heard always. Always.
But I'm here
not to talk about the past.
I'm here today to face a new struggle, together with you.
mean? This
We Americans have watched and prayed and given support
through recent years
as the great nation of Poland, wracked by
the rhythms of war and oppression, rose like a phoenix -- a free
nation once again.
We Americans watched applached as a Gdansk electrician electrified the we
Too passive
Sapper
world with the charge that all people should be free and be
them
heard.
We watched the nation of Poland reborn, brimming with a new
and different fluid of life
of a passion for freedom, for
freedom at last.
2
We watched this new force push not from a tyrant down, but
from the people up.
And we watched as American Labor took to the forefront
during the struggle, standing with Solidarity in its darkest
hour, firm in the belief that the dream was real.
Fellow Americans
the dream is real. It is real. It was
a long time coming, but Dombrowski has led Poland back.
Back to a cause whose heartbeat may have grown faint but
never faltered within the breast of a nation.
A cause which finally prevailed and toppled the tyranny
of rule by force.
And a cause that now knows
toppling tyrants is easier
than building democracy.
I stood before you three years ago, Hamtramck
with this
message: Communism has left an ugly scar on Poland. It will
heal
but with pain. The pain of insecurity and insolvency.
And I pledged America's help.
Today, I return to say to you that this country and our
allies have responded forcefully.
First, our concern for Poland's security.
On that day here three years ago, I called for an end to the
Cold War. And thank God, it has ended. And thank God, freedom
won
and America will do what's right to make certain Poland
never again braves the chilling corridors of communism.
revitalization
And second, our concern for Polish solvency.
It's been said that communism is not a form of economics; it
3
is the death of economics.
So three years ago, I called for all to rally 'round with
sound economic practices, to help pull Poland from an economic
grave.
Specifically, I called for Poland's access to our
allow More Polish exports.
Generalized System of Preferences, to lighten her heavy burden.
I called for reduction of Poland's Paris Club debt to help
her economy blossom.
I called for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to
let Polish and American investors unleash the explosive
entrepreneurial energy of the Polish people.
I called for the International Finance Corporation to
to
provide loans se the Polish private sector can to fuel her economic
resurrection.
the esta blishment of imaginal five educational, cultural
I called for roundtable agreements so Poland can work with
and training programs to liberate me creative evergies of the people.
the International Monetary Fund to build a financial base worthy
of a great nation
Round table agreement were already in Male +
the Pres. applanded them.]
In 1989, these and other major initiatives marked a radical
new direction in U.S. foreign policy toward Poland.
In 1992, I've returned to tell you: They've all come true.
Every single one.
And more. The United States has organized a $1 billion
Multi-denor
Having achieve ourganls we are now
$10.11.00 allied stabilization fund, and arranged to convert any leftover this
funds to introduced new uses spur Poland's economic ing. revitalization.
We've announced a new Trade Enhancement Initiative which,
substantially expanding Market access to Polish exporters.
with others I've mentioned, cuts Polish debt in half.
We created the Polish- American Enterprise Fund, which
actively supports the development of Poland's private sector. Thus far,
we have lent over $100 million to to⁴ over 1,000 Polish small businesses.
HAnd we also have made iteasier, for Americans to do
We 've signed the U.S. Polish Business and Economic Agreement
with plans cut Polish debt even further.
business to in poland through h the American Business Initia five, oric
+
EximBank programs and by sending four high. level investment missim
to Poland. These worked with the Polish government to encourage U.S. investment
We ve worked with the Polish and Cerman governments during
German Poland. reunification to secure a friendly border between the two.
We've produced a housing loan guarantee program which
invested $25 million in new Polish homes for this new Polish age.
All told, Poland is the largest micipienty u.s. resister is is central f Eastern Europe.
And we have done all this with a willing and eager heart.
But why? Why has America put its money where its mouth is?
is also important to our resion of a transfermation monestable seend and pacifition
Very simple: We love freedom. We love Poland. a fee Polard
And we recognize that the noble experiment taking place in
that great nation today
is in fact an inspiration for her
neighbors and the rest of the world.
Yes, once again
the eyes of the world are on Poland.
And friends
we Americans know freedom is hard work.
By turning to face her dreams, Poland also, faces harsh
has come to I
economic and social realities, in the way. Difficult reforms and
tough choices lie ahead. And yet, when Introd before the Polish people
he 2 short months afo, 1 was stunned by how much already has
been achieved. Freedom has come to Po land. And what's more, the economic
The unavoidable fact is, Poland's courageous choice for a
free market has begged an economic transition harsh enough to
reforms are working.
strain her mandate for reform. And Poland's burgeoning private
sector cannot yet fill the vacuum left by a failed state
Here, I believe, is what must be done.
In short order, Poland must organize its political base,
pass a sound budget and re-generate momentum toward free market
and democratic reforms.
The United States stands by to help, in what ways we can.
While there is much more to do, as 1 told Pres. Walesa and the
people of Poland,
5
-
We pledge our continued support for Poland's step-by-step
integration into the Western structure for security.
We pledge our continued financial support through reasonable
and friendly fiscal policies.
And we pledge to keep our word.
(Brief pause.)
Fellow Americans, we stand today in the twilight of one
millennium
and the dawn of the next.
Never before has humankind beheld such a view.
And never before has our nation been pressured by such deep
energies of change and growth
reshaping America like the
strong hands of a potter on wet clay.
But we will survive
and we will thrive.
Why? Because the American people are like the great Statue
of Liberty that stands in New York Harbor
We're like that great Statue, brought over in pieces from
the Old World
strapped together with bolts and steel right
here on American soil
assembled, raised and anchored on a rock
in our own American waters off Manhattan
We're like that statue because the family that is America
came over in pieces as well.
Poles
Czechs
Chinese
Germans
Irish
British
Swedes
and French
Italians
Russians
Japanese
Spanish
Vietnamese
Koreans
and the list goes on and on.
Like that great statue, we came over in pieces
our
cultures were bolted together by hope.
6
Our cross-struts are many. Our strengths are internal.
Our
hopes unite us
and our vision is one.
That vision is one of peace for our children, and the last
best hope for that vision is you.
My fellow Americans
what I'm here to tell you
is that
is the point and the crux of this day.
The Mayor tells me there are 200,000 Americans here in
Hamtramck's streets today. That's a full one-thousandth of this
nation's population -- right here, right now.
Hamtramck -- you can change the world with a gift your
mothers and fathers left behind.
Today, I challenge you to redeem the struggles they endured.
Make their labors mean something.
Redeem the struggles Solidarity suffered. Redeem the
struggles of Kosciusko and Pulaski
and in fact of all the
Kowalskis and Janowskis and Kozlowskis who lived and died and
aimed at one simple thing:
To be heard.
To have a voice.
To vote.
Come November 3rd, I challenge you to breathe life into the
meaning of Labor Day
and into the meaning of Solidarity
and
into the hopes and dreams of the thousands who have died for that
precious right we so often ignore.
I challenge you to vote your conscience. I would hope you
vote for me, but only you know your heart.
7
And as you cast that vote, observe
how easy it is. And
remember
how costly -- how terribly costly -- this great gift
was, to win and to earn and to pass down to us here today.
Ladies and gentlemen
that is the legacy of Hamtramck.
Make her proud.
Thank you all.
God bless Hamtramck.
God bless Poland.
And God bless America.
8
September 3, 1992
5:15pm
MEMORANDUM FOR BOB ZOELLICK
FROM:
KEN ASKEW
SUBJECT:
HAMTRAMCK SPEECH
Bob, attached is a revised draft for the President's Labor Day
talk in Hamtramck.
1.
I believe all your concerns have been met, with one
exception: we don't go into investments overseas --
especially GM's -- because of current UAW tension. Poletown
OK
(Hamtramck) hasn't shown indication of a strike, but as you
know quite a few GM plants elsewhere are striking. Not the
best climate for raising the question of 'U.S. jobs going
overseas' -- which is how it might be received.
2.
NSC has reviewed the reworked 'list of what we did for
ok however.
Poland' with minor changes. They nixed the NATO reference,
3.
The Dombrowski reference is a line taken directly from the
on Polish national anthem.
Steve has asked you to please give this a quick read if possible,
so we can get it to the President this evening.
Thank you.
P/o just change the one quims
Then of to sad in
(Askew/Aarhus)
September 3, 1992
5:00 p.m.
HAMTRAMCK
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
LABOR DAY PARADE
HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN
SEPTEMBER 7, 1992
1:30 P.M.
Thank you, Governor.
Archbishop Maida, your Eminence. Governor and Mrs. Engler,
members of the Michigan Congressional delegation, friends,
distinguished guests
My fellow Americans.
This past Independence Day, I traveled to the heartland of
Poland
to bury a treasure.
In the crypt of an ancient cathedral
I stood with
President Walesa
as the remains of the great patriot and
artist, Ignacy Paderewski, were finally laid to rest
in the
rich and free Polish soil that conceived and sustained him.
And it struck me
this was not so much a burial
as it
was a resurrection -- the resurrection of a nation's dreams.
A patriot was at long last laid to rest in Polish soil
in
Polish soil
that was finally free.
And the ripples from that moment, as his remains were
consecrated to earth on that warm summer day in Warsaw
are
passing through this crowd, here and now.
Sons and daughters of Hamtramck
your forebears came to
this great country because they too could not countenance a
1
Poland
shackled by repression.
Rather than cling to native soil bled dry by empty
promises
they chose instead to flourish free on foreign
soil
and to make it their own.
Today you are part of the great family that is America.
And fellow Americans
I am proud to be with you in
Hamtramck on Labor Day.
You are the blood and bone of Copernicus
Chopin
and
Curie.
You are the sweat and sinew that built this city and its
industry.
You are the voice and vision of your parents, who struggled
to be heard -- and won that struggle, that labor's voice may be
heard always. Always.
But I'm here
not to talk about the past.
I'm here today to face a new struggle, together with you.
We Americans have watched and prayed and given support
through recent years
as the great nation of Poland, wracked by
the rhythms of war and oppression, rose like a phoenix -- a free
nation once again.
We Americans watched as a Gdansk electrician electrified the
world with the charge that all people should be free and be
heard.
We watched the nation of Poland reborn, brimming with a new
and different fluid of life
inspired by a Pope
and by a
passion for freedom, for freedom at last.
2
We watched this new force, not pushed down from a tyrant,
but up from the people.
And we watched as American Labor took to the forefront
during the struggle, standing with Solidarity in its darkest
hour, firm in the belief that the dream was real.
Fellow Americans
the dream is real. It is real. It was
a long time coming
but marching, marching
Dombrowski has
led Poland back.
Back to a cause whose heartbeat grew faint but never
faltered within the breast of a nation.
Back to a cause which finally prevailed
and toppled the
tyranny of rule by sheer force.
And back to a cause that now understands
toppling tyrants
is easier than building democracies.
I stood before you three years ago, Hamtramck
with this
message: Communism has left an ugly scar on Poland. It will
heal
but with pain. The pain of insecurity and insolvency.
And I pledged America's help.
Today, I return to say to you that this country and our
allies have responded forcefully.
First, our concern for Poland's security.
On that day here three years ago, I called for an end to the
Cold War. And thank God, it has ended. And thank God, freedom
won
and America will do what's right to make certain Poland
never again braves the chilling corridors of communism.
And second, our concern for Polish solvency.
3
This clean to
It's been said that communism is not a form of economics; it
is the death of economics.
So three years ago, I called for all to rally 'round with
sound economic practices, to help pull Poland from an economic
grave.
I called for giving Poland preferred trade treatment so she
can reach out to the world through exports.
I called for reducing Poland's debt to ease her heavy
burden.
I called for investors to help unleash the explosive
entrepreneurial energy of the Polish people.
I called for loans so the Polish private sector can help her
economy blossom.
I called for international financial agreements so Poland
can build a financial base worthy of a great nation.
In 1989, these and other major initiatives marked a radical
new direction in U.S. foreign policy toward Poland and other new
democracies.
In 1992, I've returned to tell you: They've all come true.
Every single one.
And more. The United States has worked with the Polish and
German governments during German unification to secure a friendly
border between the two.
We've produced a housing-loan guarantee program which
invested in new Polish building for a new Polish age.
We've organized a billion-dollar stabilization fund to
4
secure the value of the Zloty.
And we've announced other initiatives to help cut Polish
debt in half
to encourage Polish enterprise
to enhance
Polish-American trade
to forgive most of Poland's official
U.S. debt
and put some of the rest to work, cleaning Poland's
environment.
All this we've done with a willing and eager heart.
But why? Why has America put its money where its mouth is?
Very simple: We love freedom. We love Poland.
And we recognize that the noble experiment taking place in
that great nation today
is in fact an inspiration for her
neighbors and the rest of the world.
Yes, once again
the eyes of the world are on Poland.
And friends
we Americans know freedom is hard work.
By turning to face her dreams, Poland also faces harsh
economic and social realities in the way. Difficult reforms and
tough choices lie ahead.
In short order, Poland must strengthen its political base,
pass a sound budget and re-generate momentum toward free-market
and democratic reforms.
The United States stands by to help.
We look forward to the day when Poland stands tall
shoulder-to-shoulder with the economic powers of our time.
So we pledge our support for Poland's security.
We pledge our support for Poland's solvency.
We pledge to work for a democratic peace an enduring
5
peace anchored in economic and political freedom.
And most of all
we pledge to keep our word.
(Brief pause; shift gears.)
Fellow Americans, we stand today in the twilight of one
millennium
and the dawn of the next.
Never before has humankind beheld such a view.
And never before has our nation been pressured by such deep
energies of change and growth
reshaping America like the
strong hands of a potter on wet clay.
But we will survive
and we will thrive.
Why? Because the American people are like the great Statue
of Liberty that stands in New York Harbor.
We're like that great Statue, brought over in pieces from
the Old World
strapped together with bolts and steel right
here on our own American soil
assembled, raised and anchored
on a rock in our own American waters
We're like that statue because the family that is America
came over in pieces as well.
We came as Poles
Czechs
Chinese
Germans
Japanese
Irish
Swedes
and French
Italians
Russians
Spaniards
Cubans
Koreans
Hondurans
Brazilians
and Fins
English
Hungarians
Bulgarians
Britons and Mexicans
Russians
Laotians
Arabs
and Thais.
Filipinos
Indonesians
Indians and Malaysians
Turks
and Norwegians
Angolans and Scots
Scobane Brits
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And that roster of new Americans never ends.
Like that great statue, we came over in pieces
our
cultures were bolted together by hope.
Our cross-struts are many. Our strengths are internal. Our
hopes unite us
and our vision is one.
That vision's of prosperous peace for our children, and the
last best hope for that vision is you.
My fellow Americans
what I'm here to tell you
is that
is the point and the crux of this day.
It's now time to put those same heartfelt urges
that made
us that statue
to work here at home.
This fight for freedom isn't fought on dark, treacherous
borders far from home.
This fight for freedom is fought on the economic
battlefront
by creating new jobs
opening new markets
building new American strengths both here and abroad.
The fight is fought with creativity
determination
and
investment in the hearts and minds of the American people.
Here in Hamtramck
and across this nation
these are the
forces Americans must bring to bear on our future
so every
American's human potential is stretched to its God-given best.
(Brief pause; shift gears.)
The Mayor tells me there are 200,000 of us here today.
That's almost a full one-thousandth of this nation's population -
- right here, right now.
Hamtramck -- you can change the world with a gift your
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mothers and fathers left behind.
Today, I challenge you to redeem the struggles they endured.
Make their labors mean something.
Redeem the struggles Solidarity suffered. Redeem the
struggles of Kosciuszko and Pulaski
and in fact of all the
Kowalskis and Janowskis who lived and died and aimed at one
simple thing:
To be heard.
To have a voice.
To vote.
Come November 3rd, I challenge you to breathe life into the
meaning of Labor Day
and into the meaning of Solidarity
and
into the hopes and dreams of the thousands who have died for that
precious right we so often ignore.
I challenge you to vote your conscience. I would hope you
vote for me and my party, of course
but only you can know your
own heart.
And as you cast that vote, observe
how easy it is. And
remember
how costly -- how terribly costly -- this great gift
was, to win and to earn and to pass down to us here today.
Ladies and gentlemen
that is the legacy of Hamtramck.
That is the legacy of your ancestors' homeland.
That is the legacy of the family that is America.
Make her proud.
Thank you all.
God bless Hamtramck.
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God bless Poland.
And God bless America.
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