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Document No. 352135ss
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
9/25/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE
SUBJECT:
CHICAGO, IL - FRIDAY, SEPT. 25
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The attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
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and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Grady, 9/22/92)
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1992
Thank you, Governor Edgar, for that introduction. Illinois'
most famous son, and the first Illinois Republican, Abraham
Lincoln, once said that: "The struggle of today is not altogether
for today -- it is for a vast future, also."
That is why I have come to this great University, to the city
in the heart of the most confident nation on earth, to talk to you
today. In less than six weeks, you face a fundamental choice about
the America's future -- about the kind of America we will seek to
build, about the direction we will take.
A few weeks ago in Detroit, I laid out the direction in which
I hope to go -- I called my plan an Agenda for American Renewal.
My strategy is integrated -- tying economic policy and foreign
policy and domestic policy together, because, in fact, they are
related.
I put it simply: our defining challenge is to win the
economic competition, to win the peace. So my Agenda outlines the
steps we can take today to make America more competitive both now
and in the future -- and one key step is to invest in technology.
Today I want to talk to you about my program for investing in
civilian research and development. And I want to talk about how we
can speed the process through which American businesses and
entrepreneurs can turn the fruits of that R&D into successful
products and American jobs.
I included investment in civilian R&D in my Agenda for
American Renewal for a very specific reason. In the information
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age, when capital and ideas can move around the world literally in
seconds, investments in R&D and in the technologies of tomorrow can
improve our productivity. That is the key to increasing economic
growth. And growth means an improved standard of living for the
American people.
In the old days, economists would tell you that capital and
labor were the two ingredients you needed to make the economy
produce. Today, it's universally accepted that a third ingredient
is needed: knowledge.
We need the best ideas in the world -- and we have always had
them. For decades, American scientists have produced the most
scientific literature, the most new patents, the most Nobel prizes.
And we are investing in basic research to keep that lead.
But to win today's economic competition, we need processes
that can speed their route from the laboratory to the marketplace.
We need investments in applied R&D. We need capital to turn the
abstract idea into the concrete reality. And we need a workforce
with the brainpower and the skills to take these technologies and
turn them into the best quality products anywhere on earth.
If we succeed in creating these building blocks, we will
succeed in creating jobs. Just look Illinois. 588,000 jobs in
this state are tied to high technology -- that's over 11 percent
of Illinois' work force. Illinois is America's number one
manufacturer of telecommunications equipment.
The dictionary defines technology as "the application of
knowledge for practical ends." And I have come to Illinois this
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morning with an example of technology's real life, practical
benefits.
Two years ago, we broke through a decade-long Congressional
logjam and passed a Clean Air Act that will mean better health and
cleaner air for millions of Americans. New monitors to measure
powerplant emissions made possible a trading system in sulfur
dioxide which will allow us to cut acid rain at a billion dollars a
year less cost to electric consumers than the old command-and-
control style regulations.
Today, I am pleased to announce the selection by: EPA of the
Chicago Board of Trade to run the auction and sale of these sulfur
dioxide allowances. Now they'll be traded right next to pork
bellies. Through this trading system, we can harness the power of
the marketplace in the service of the environment.
That example underlines a key element of the approach we take
to technology policy. My Agenda states that we must sharpen the
competitive edge of American business, but it rests on the core
belief that the source of America's success has always been the
immense power of entrepreneurial capitalism. And that is a key
difference from the vision of my opponent in this election.
You see, Governor Clinton has also been talking about
investing in civilian R&D during this election. But my opponent's
rhetoric falls short in four key respects.
First, he puts his faith in the ability of government to pick
the right investments, to control the resources, to determine which
particular products and processes will be favored by the
bureaucrats in Washington. I want to empower the entrepreneur to
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develop a range of products, picked not by the planner but by the
power of the marketplace.
Second, while Governor Clinton may be claiming he's going to
make the right play, Congress is intercepting the ball and running
it in the opposite direction. In each of the past four years, my
R&D budget has been cut by Governor Clinton's allies in the other
party -- the pork happy partisans on Capitol Hill.
In fact, right now, this year, the Democratic leaders in the
Congress -- with whom the Clinton campaign is consulting each and
every day -- have slashed my proposed increase for the National
Science Foundation, headed by Chicago's own Walter Massey. They've
zeroed out my proposed initiative in magnetically-levitated high
speed rail. They've reduced our investments in computers, and
advanced materials and manufacturing R&D.
And Governor Clinton's own plan -- for all his talk about
research -- would gut the foundation of America's science and
technology enterprise by cutting university reimbursements for R&D
by $3 billion -- almost one-third. Under his plan, the ability of
great universities like the University of Chicago to conduct world-
class research would be compromised.
Third, the promises of Candidate Clinton don't match the
record of Governor Clinton. The most recent report card on
technology indicators, published by the Corporation for Enterprise
Development, rated Arkansas near the very bottom among states in
virtually every category. For "technology resources", Arkansas
received an "F".
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After 12 years with Bill Clinton as Governor, Arkansas ranks
48th in percentage of adults with high school students. Three-
quarters of Arkansas' high school graduates need remedial education
when they get to college. So it's hard for Bill Clinton to talk
about high tech when the residents of his state have to worry about
getting out of high school.
Finally, and most importantly, he proposes to finance his many
promises with a massive tax increase that will smother the very
growth on which our success depends. I had a Freudian slip the
other day and called Governor Clinton "Governor Taxes."
Well, Bill Clinton has proposed the largest tax increase in
American history, $150 billion, and that's just for starters. To
pay for his other promises, he will tax small businesses -- the
main source of jobs in our economy and heroes of high technology.
So let's be clear: Bill Clinton's high tax policies will kill high
tech businesses.
What it comes down to is this. America is at a crossroads.
For the first time in 50 years, our country is involved today in no
major conflicts anywhere on earth. We face an unprecedented
opportunity. And there are two directions we can take.
The direction I propose, at its heart, is future-oriented,
outward looking. I do not believe that Americans should fear
competition. Because I believe we can compete and win. So I have
worked to open markets, to get our work force ready to compete,
and, both as a government and as a society, to invest in the
future.
In short, I believe we should compete, not retreat.
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And I believe we can do it without a massive expansion of the
Federal government that reaches into the pocket of every American
taxpayer.
Let me talk about the elements of this competition. First,
open markets. My opponent says America is in decline. But the
fact is that we are winning new markets for American goods and
services right now. Just look at our export performance over these
past four years. We have increased exports by 40%. We have gained
worldwide market share in manufacturing output. Our exports to
Japan have grown 12 times faster than our imports. And high tech
exports have led the way. Since 1987, our trade surplus in
advanced technology products has grown by more than 80%. So I have
a message for the pessimists: we can compete, and we can win.
For us to continue to win new markets for America, we need a
more open world trading regime. So we have worked to complete the
North American Free Trade Agreement -- NAFTA -- which will create
almost 200,000 jobs right here in the United States. We have
worked for a successful conclusion of the Uruguay round. We have
completed individual agreements to open markets in Japan, Korea,
Mexico, and countries around the world.
Those agreements have protected intellectual property rights,
and with it them the incentive to generate new ideas and create new
products. The results have been striking: exports to Mexico are
up 66% in just 4 years. Our exports to Japan have grown 12 times
as fast as our imports -- and the fastest growth has been in the
sectors we have worked to open, such as computers, satellites,
telecommunications equipment.
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Now my opponent has waffled on NAFTA. He would risk our
ability to expand trade by supporting anti-trade legislation on
Capitol Hill. And his tax on foreign investment in the United
States will not only lock out high wage, high skill jobs -- it will
invite retaliation that will undercut the growth in exports which
is so key to the growth in the economy.
Let's talk about education -- preparing our children to meet
the challenges of the 21st century economy. Governor Clinton has
said that we've reduced investment in education. He is wrong.
Education this year got the biggest increase in my budget -- it's
up 41% over 1989. And we've placed a particular emphasis on math
and science education, which has been increased by over 130
percent.
Our math science education initiative will use Federal assets
to help train over 770,000 teachers in the math and science skills
they need to teach our kids. But we've gone beyond that to true
reform of education -- stressing standards, accountability, and
choice. Because I believe that parents have a right to know which
schools are performing best, and they should have the right to
choose which schools will serve their children best.
And let's talk about investing in the future. We've been
working to promote the technologies that will make us more
competitive in the future. But it's time to set the record
straight on this. The Governor, unchallenged by these enterprising
reporters with us here today from the national media, has said that
we've "reduced investment in civilian R&D." That is simply untrue.
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Here is the record. My budget this year would increase
civilian R&D by 44% over 1989 levels. Civilian basic research is
up 36%. And applied civilian R&D is up 49%. So when the Governor
talks about investing in civilian R&D, the fact is we're already
doing it.
Let me explain what we're doing.
Two years ago, we pulled every Federal agency together to
launch a new program to develop the supercomputers of tomorrow --
computers 1000 times more powerful than today's. Our vision is to
develop a supercomputer the size of a desktop PC -- and to do it
within four years.
We also proposed a nationwide communications network -- an
information backbone that will transmit 1000 times more information
than we can today in one second. This year, we've proposed over
$800 million, a 23% increase, for this High Performance Computing
and Communications initiative.
Last year, we launched another crosscutting technology plan --
an investment of over $1.8 billion in the materials of tomorrow.
These new kinds of materials will help us make products that are
stronger, lighter, and faster -- everything from cars to airplanes
to military equipment.
We've launched a $4 billion program in biotechnology
research -- and proposed to knock down the regulatory barriers that
might prevent technologies in this area from helping us to cure
disease, grow more crops, and clean up the environment.
We're using technology to tackle an unfortunate legacy of the
Cold War -- the environmental problems left from making weapons
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that defended freedom around the globe. Winning the peace means
managing dangerous materials more effectively. Today, we're using
the scientific expertise of the Federal labs -- whose scientists
first devised these bombs -- to find new technologies for stopping
weapons proliferation, and for protecting our children from
environmental threats.
I'm here today, however, because a successful strategy for
winning the economic competition requires more than just investment
in R&D -- whether basic or applied. In a fast-paced world of
shorter product cycles and faster communications, the key to
victory is moving ideas and technologies from the laboratory bench
to the commercial marketplace faster than ever before.
That's what this National Technology Initiative, or NTI, is
all about. This is the eleventh NTI meeting we've had -- each in a
different part of the country; each designed to help speed the
transfer of technology from our Federal labs and universities to
the private and commercial sector.
We're working to make it easier to deal with the Federal
government as a partner. If you attend the workshops and visit the
technology fair, you'll get a window on today's opportunities, and
an early start on tomorrow's successes.
One year ago, I directed the Secretaries of Commerce and
Energy to increase the number of cooperative research and
development agreements signed between our Federal facilities and
private partners. These CRADAs ((CRAY-DAHS)), as they are called,
help speed the transfer of the most promising technologies to the
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private sector -- so they can be developed into commercial products
and services.
And in the one year since that directive was issued -- we've
doubled the number of these agreements. There are now more than
1,400 operating and in place. Computers. Ceramics. Environmental
cleanup. We are achieving an unprecedented level of success in
taking the best ideas from our labs and turning them into American
products and American jobs.
Today we are signing several new breakthrough agreements. One
involves two Federal labs and three private industry partners --
working to determine the right mix for burning pelletized trash
along with coal to generate electricity. The results will be
cleaner air, less trash in our landfills, and more jobs in
Illinois.
A second will bring the Oak Ridge National Lab together with
IBM to extend America's leadership in High Performance Computing.
The third involves a partnership between General Motors and the
National Institute of Standards and Technology -- NIST -- to
develop new software to solve problems in automated manufacturing
equipment.
These agreements provide rules of the road, protection of
patents and intellectual property, and other understandings -- so
that technology transfer is not a concept but a job-producing
reality.
Our program reflects a fundamental belief about the path to
successful technology development. Our efforts to transfer
technology from the labs, to invest in the most promising
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technologies of tomorrow, have recognized the fact that the private
sector must commercialize these technologies.
To help in that task, to spread information about best
practices and new processes, my Administration has also established
seven Manufacturing Technology Centers around the country. These
will introduce new equipment and improve manufacturing processes
for small and medium-sized firms. Since 1989, more than 6,000
companies have used the services provided by these centers -- and
we plan to start up four more next year.
In next year's budget, we will launch a new cross-cutting
initiative to increase our investment in R&D into new technologies
to advance the manufacturing process. Today's factories face a
different set of challenges from those a generation ago. In the
face of fast changing requirements, more flexibility is needed.
We want to advance the development of systems and software, of
robotics and artificial intelligence, to make this flexibility
possible for all kinds of companies. The government will help with
technological leaps -- so that the American firms can leap ahead in
the marketplace.
One of the most quintessentially American figures of our time,
John Wayne, once said that: "Tomorrow is the most important thing
in life."
When the shouting is finished, when the campaign winds down to
its end, it will come down to a very personal and serious decision
for every American. What kind of tomorrow do you want?
Do you want a tomorrow in which we look forward and take on
the competition, or one in which we turn inward in retreat?
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Do you want a tomorrow in which we invest in the technologies
that can make us more competitive, or in which we allow the patrons
of the past to spend our future away?
Do you want a tomorrow in which work and innovation are
rewarded, or in which we turn back down the path of higher taxes
and more regulation?
When Americans step into that booth this year, they will
face a fundamental choice about the kind of future they want. I
have come to Chicago today to offer my ideas for a future full of
promise. A future in which America works, America competes, and
America wins.
I ask you to join me in this future.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of
America.
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NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1992
THANK YOU, GOVERNOR EDGAR, FOR THAT INTRODUCTION.
ILLINOIS' MOST FAMOUS SON, AND THE FIRST ILLINOIS
REPUBLICAN, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, ONCE SAID THAT: "THE
STRUGGLE OF TODAY IS NOT ALTOGETHER FOR TODAY -- IT IS
FOR A VAST FUTURE, ALSO."
THAT IS WHY I HAVE COME TO THIS GREAT UNIVERSITY, TO
THE CITY IN THE HEART OF THE MOST CONFIDENT NATION ON
EARTH, TO TALK TO YOU TODAY. IN LESS THAN SIX WEEKS, YOU
FACE A FUNDAMENTAL CHOICE ABOUT THE AMERICA'S FUTURE -
- ABOUT THE KIND OF AMERICA WE WILL SEEK TO BUILD, ABOUT
THE DIRECTION WE WILL TAKE.
A FEW WEEKS AGO IN DETROIT, I LAID OUT THE DIRECTION
IN WHICH I HOPE TO GO -- I CALLED MY PLAN AN AGENDA FOR
AMERICAN RENEWAL.
MY STRATEGY IS INTEGRATED -- TYING ECONOMIC POLICY AND
FOREIGN POLICY AND DOMESTIC POLICY TOGETHER, BECAUSE, IN
FACT, THEY ARE RELATED.
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I PUT IT SIMPLY: OUR DEFINING CHALLENGE IN THE 90S
IS TO WIN THE ECONOMIC COMPETITION, TO WIN THE PEACE.
so MY AGENDA OUTLINES THE STEPS WE CAN TAKE TODAY TO MAKE
AMERICA MORE COMPETITIVE BOTH NOW AND IN THE FUTURE --
AND ONE KEY STEP IS TO INVEST IN TECHNOLOGY.
TODAY I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT MY PROGRAM FOR
INVESTING IN CIVILIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. AND I
WANT TO TALK ABOUT HOW WE CAN SPEED THE PROCESS THROUGH
WHICH AMERICAN BUSINESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS CAN TURN THE
FRUITS OF THAT R&D INTO SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTS AND AMERICAN
JOBS.
I INCLUDED INVESTMENT IN CIVILIAN R&D IN MY AGENDA
FOR AMERICAN RENEWAL FOR A VERY SPECIFIC REASON. IN THE
INFORMATION AGE, WHEN CAPITAL AND IDEAS CAN MOVE AROUND
THE WORLD LITERALLY IN SECONDS, INVESTMENTS IN R&D AND
IN THE TECHNOLOGIES OF TOMORROW CAN IMPROVE OUR
PRODUCTIVITY. THAT IS THE KEY TO INCREASING ECONOMIC
GROWTH. AND GROWTH MEANS AN IMPROVED STANDARD OF LIVING
FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
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IN THE OLD DAYS, ECONOMISTS WOULD TELL YOU THAT
CAPITAL AND LABOR WERE THE TWO INGREDIENTS YOU NEEDED TO
MAKE THE ECONOMY PRODUCE. TODAY, IT'S UNIVERSALLY
ACCEPTED THAT A THIRD INGREDIENT IS NEEDED: KNOWLEDGE.
WE NEED THE BEST IDEAS IN THE WORLD - -- AND WE HAVE
ALWAYS HAD THEM. FOR DECADES, AMERICAN SCIENTISTS HAVE
PRODUCED THE MOST SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE, THE MOST NEW
PATENTS, THE MOST NOBEL PRIZES. AND WE ARE INVESTING IN
BASIC RESEARCH TO KEEP THAT LEAD.
BUT TO WIN TODAY'S ECONOMIC COMPETITION, WE NEED
PROCESSES THAT CAN SPEED THEIR ROUTE FROM THE LABORATORY
TO THE MARKETPLACE. WE NEED INVESTMENTS IN APPLIED R&D.
WE NEED CAPITAL TO TURN THE ABSTRACT IDEA INTO THE
CONCRETE REALITY. AND WE NEED A WORKFORCE WITH THE
BRAINPOWER AND THE SKILLS TO TAKE THESE TECHNOLOGIES AND
TURN THEM INTO THE BEST QUALITY PRODUCTS ANYWHERE ON
EARTH.
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IF WE SUCCEED IN CREATING THESE BUILDING BLOCKS, WE
WILL SUCCEED IN CREATING JOBS. JUST LOOK ILLINOIS.
588,000 JOBS IN THIS STATE ARE TIED TO HIGH TECHNOLOGY
-- THAT'S OVER 11 PERCENT OF ILLINOIS' WORK FORCE.
ILLINOIS IS AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE MANUFACTURER OF
TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT.
MY AGENDA STATES THAT WE MUST SHARPEN THE COMPETITIVE
EDGE OF AMERICAN BUSINESS, BUT IT RESTS ON THE CORE
BELIEF THAT THE SOURCE OF AMERICA'S SUCCESS HAS ALWAYS
BEEN THE IMMENSE POWER OF ENTREPRENEURIAL CAPITALISM.
AND THAT IS A KEY DIFFERENCE FROM THE VISION OF MY
OPPONENT IN THIS ELECTION.
YOU SEE, GOVERNOR CLINTON HAS ALSO BEEN TALKING ABOUT
INVESTING IN CIVILIAN R&D DURING THIS ELECTION. BUT MY
OPPONENT'S RHETORIC FALLS SHORT IN FOUR KEY RESPECTS.
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FIRST, HE PUTS HIS FAITH IN THE ABILITY OF GOVERNMENT
TO PICK THE RIGHT INVESTMENTS, TO CONTROL THE RESOURCES,
TO DETERMINE WHICH PARTICULAR PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES WILL
BE FAVORED BY THE BUREAUCRATS IN WASHINGTON. I WANT TO
EMPOWER THE BUSINESSMAN OR THE BUSINESSWOMAN TO DEVELOP
A RANGE OF PRODUCTS, PICKED NOT BY THE PLANNER BUT BY THE
POWER OF THE MARKETPLACE.
SECOND, WHILE GOVERNOR CLINTON MAY BE CLAIMING HE'S
GOING TO MAKE THE RIGHT PLAY, CONGRESS IS INTERCEPTING
THE BALL AND RUNNING IT IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. IN
EACH OF THE PAST FOUR YEARS, MY R&D BUDGET HAS BEEN CUT
BY GOVERNOR CLINTON'S ALLIES IN THE OTHER PARTY -- THE
PORK HAPPY PARTISANS ON CAPITOL HILL.
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IN FACT, RIGHT NOW, THIS YEAR, THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS
IN THE CONGRESS - -- WITH WHOM THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN IS
CONSULTING EACH AND EVERY DAY -- HAVE SLASHED MY PROPOSED
INCREASE FOR THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, HEADED BY
CHICAGO'S OWN WALTER MASSEY. THEY'VE ZEROED OUT MY
PROPOSED INITIATIVE IN MAGNETICALLY-LEVITATED HIGH SPEED
RAIL. THEY'VE REDUCED OUR INVESTMENTS IN COMPUTERS, AND
ADVANCED MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING R&D. WHILE THE
GOVERNOR TALKS HIGH TECH, HIS ALLIED IN CONGRESS WALK
AWAY FROM IT.
AND GOVERNOR CLINTON'S OWN PLAN -- FOR ALL HIS TALK
ABOUT RESEARCH - -- WOULD GUT THE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA'S
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISE BY CUTTING UNIVERSITY
REIMBURSEMENTS FOR R&D BY $3 BILLION -- ALMOST ONE-
THIRD. UNDER HIS PLAN, THE ABILITY OF GREAT UNIVERSITIES
LIKE THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO TO CONDUCT WORLD-CLASS
RESEARCH WOULD BE COMPROMISED.
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THIRD, THE PROMISES OF CANDIDATE CLINTON DON'T MATCH
THE RECORD OF GOVERNOR CLINTON. THE MOST RECENT REPORT
CARD ON TECHNOLOGY INDICATORS, PUBLISHED BY THE
CORPORATION FOR ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT, RATED ARKANSAS
NEAR THE VERY BOTTOM AMONG STATES IN VIRTUALLY EVERY
CATEGORY. FOR "TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES", ARKANSAS RECEIVED
AN "F".
HE'S NOT EVEN LINING UP THE FUNDAMENTALS FOR A HIGH
TECH WORLD.
AFTER 12 YEARS WITH BILL CLINTON AS GOVERNOR,
ARKANSAS RANKS 48TH IN PERCENTAGE OF ADULTS WITH HIGH
SCHOOL DIPLOMAS. THREE-QUARTERS OF ARKANSAS' HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATES NEED REMEDIAL EDUCATION WHEN THEY GET TO
COLLEGE. SO IT'S ODD FOR BILL CLINTON TO TALK ABOUT HIGH
TECH WHEN THE RESIDENTS OF HIS STATE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT
GETTING OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL.
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FINALLY, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, HE PROPOSES TO FINANCE
HIS MANY PROMISES WITH A MASSIVE TAX INCREASE THAT WILL
SMOTHER THE VERY GROWTH ON WHICH OUR SUCCESS DEPENDS.
I HAD A FREUDIAN SLIP THE OTHER DAY AND CALLED GOVERNOR
CLINTON "GOVERNOR TAXES."
WELL, BILL CLINTON HAS PROPOSED THE LARGEST TAX
INCREASE IN AMERICAN HISTORY, $150 BILLION, AND THAT'S
JUST FOR STARTERS. TO PAY FOR HIS OTHER PROMISES, HE
WILL TAX SMALL BUSINESSES - -- THE MAIN SOURCE OF JOBS IN
OUR ECONOMY AND HEROES OF HIGH TECHNOLOGY. so LET'S BE
CLEAR: BILL CLINTON'S HIGH TAX POLICIES WILL KILL HIGH
TECH BUSINESSES.
WHAT IT COMES DOWN TO IS THIS. AMERICA IS AT A
CROSSROADS. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 50 YEARS, OUR COUNTRY
IS INVOLVED TODAY IN NO MAJOR CONFLICTS ANYWHERE ON
EARTH. WE FACE AN UNPRECEDENTED OPPORTUNITY. AND THERE
ARE TWO DIRECTIONS WE CAN TAKE.
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THE DIRECTION I PROPOSE, AT ITS HEART, IS FUTURE-
ORIENTED, OUTWARD LOOKING. I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT
AMERICANS SHOULD FEAR COMPETITION. BECAUSE I BELIEVE WE
CAN COMPETE AND WIN. so I HAVE WORKED TO OPEN MARKETS,
TO GET OUR WORK FORCE READY TO COMPETE, AND, BOTH AS A
GOVERNMENT AND AS A SOCIETY, TO INVEST IN THE FUTURE.
IN SHORT, I BELIEVE WE SHOULD COMPETE, NOT RETREAT.
AND I BELIEVE WE CAN DO IT WITHOUT A MASSIVE EXPANSION
OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT REACHES INTO THE POCKET
OF EVERY AMERICAN TAXPAYER.
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LET ME TALK ABOUT THE ELEMENTS OF THIS COMPETITION.
FIRST, OPEN MARKETS. MY OPPONENT SAYS AMERICA IS IN
DECLINE. BUT THE FACT IS THAT WE ARE WINNING NEW MARKETS
FOR AMERICAN GOODS AND SERVICES RIGHT NOW. JUST LOOK AT
OUR EXPORT PERFORMANCE OVER THESE PAST FOUR YEARS. WE
HAVE INCREASED EXPORTS BY 40%. WE HAVE GAINED WORLDWIDE
MARKET SHARE IN MANUFACTURING OUTPUT. OUR EXPORTS TO
JAPAN HAVE GROWN 12 TIMES FASTER THAN OUR IMPORTS. AND
HIGH TECH EXPORTS HAVE LED THE WAY. SINCE 1987, OUR
TRADE SURPLUS IN ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS HAS GROWN
BY MORE THAN 80%. so I HAVE A MESSAGE FOR THE
PESSIMISTS: WE CAN COMPETE, AND WE CAN WIN.
FOR US TO CONTINUE TO WIN NEW MARKETS FOR AMERICA,
WE NEED A MORE OPEN WORLD TRADING REGIME. SO WE HAVE
WORKED TO COMPLETE THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE
AGREEMENT -- NAFTA -- WHICH WILL CREATE ALMOST 200,000
JOBS RIGHT HERE IN THE UNITED STATES. WE HAVE WORKED FOR
A SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION OF THE URUGUAY ROUND. WE HAVE
COMPLETED INDIVIDUAL AGREEMENTS WITH JAPAN, KOREA,
MEXICO, AND COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD TO OPEN MARKETS
FOR TECHNOLOGY AND PROTECT AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
-- so THAT THE INCENTIVE TO GENERATE NEW IDEAS AND CREATE
NEW PRODUCTS REMAINS.
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NOW, MY OPPONENT HAS WAFFLED ON NAFTA. HE WOULD RISK
OUR ABILITY TO EXPAND TRADE BY SUPPORTING ANTI-TRADE
LEGISLATION ON CAPITOL HILL. AND HIS TAX ON FOREIGN
INVESTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES WILL NOT ONLY LOCK OUT
HIGH WAGE, HIGH SKILL JOBS -- IT WILL INVITE RETALIATION
THAT WILL UNDERCUT THE GROWTH IN EXPORTS WHICH IS SO KEY
TO THE GROWTH IN THE ECONOMY.
LET'S TALK ABOUT EDUCATION - -- PREPARING OUR CHILDREN
TO MEET THE CHALLENGES OF THE 21ST CENTURY ECONOMY.
GOVERNOR CLINTON HAS SAID THAT WE'VE REDUCED INVESTMENT
IN EDUCATION. HE IS WRONG. EDUCATION THIS YEAR GOT THE
BIGGEST INCREASE IN MY BUDGET -- IT'S UP 41% OVER 1989.
AND WE'VE PLACED A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON MATH AND
SCIENCE EDUCATION, MORE THAN DOUBLING FUNDING, SO THAT
THIS YEAR'S BUDGET WILL BE ABLE TO USE FEDERAL ASSETS TO
HELP TRAIN OVER 770,000 TEACHERS IN THE MATH AND SCIENCE
SKILLS THEY NEED TO TEACH OUR KIDS.
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AND LET'S TALK ABOUT INVESTING IN THE FUTURE. WE'VE
BEEN WORKING TO PROMOTE THE TECHNOLOGIES THAT WILL MAKE
US MORE COMPETITIVE IN THE FUTURE. BUT IT'S TIME TO SET
THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON THIS. THE GOVERNOR, UNCHALLENGED
BY THESE ENTERPRISING REPORTERS WITH US HERE TODAY FROM
THE NATIONAL MEDIA, HAS SAID THAT WE'VE "REDUCED
INVESTMENT IN CIVILIAN R&D." THAT IS SIMPLY UNTRUE.
HERE IS THE RECORD. MY BUDGET THIS YEAR WOULD
INCREASE CIVILIAN R&D BY 44% OVER 1989 LEVELS. CIVILIAN
BASIC RESEARCH IS UP 36%. AND APPLIED CIVILIAN R&D IS
UP 49%. SO WHEN THE GOVERNOR TALKS ABOUT INVESTING IN
CIVILIAN R&D, THE FACT IS WE'RE ALREADY DOING IT.
LET ME EXPLAIN WHAT WE'RE DOING.
TWO YEARS AGO, WE PULLED EVERY FEDERAL AGENCY
TOGETHER TO LAUNCH A NEW PROGRAM TO DEVELOP THE
SUPERCOMPUTERS OF TOMORROW - COMPUTERS 1000 TIMES MORE
POWERFUL THAN TODAY'S. OUR VISION IS TO DEVELOP A
SUPERCOMPUTER THE SIZE OF A DESKTOP PC -- AND TO DO IT
WITHIN FOUR YEARS.
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WE ALSO PROPOSED A NATIONWIDE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK
-- AN INFORMATION BACKBONE THAT WILL TRANSMIT 1000 TIMES
MORE INFORMATION THAN WE CAN TODAY IN ONE SECOND. THIS
YEAR, WE'VE PROPOSED OVER $800 MILLION, A 23% INCREASE,
FOR THIS HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS
INITIATIVE.
LAST YEAR, WE LAUNCHED ANOTHER CROSSCUTTING
TECHNOLOGY PLAN -- AN INVESTMENT OF OVER $1.8 BILLION IN
THE MATERIALS OF TOMORROW. THESE NEW KINDS OF MATERIALS
WILL HELP US MAKE PRODUCTS THAT ARE STRONGER, LIGHTER,
AND FASTER -- EVERYTHING FROM CARS TO AIRPLANES TO
MILITARY EQUIPMENT.
WE'VE LAUNCHED A $4 BILLION PROGRAM IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
RESEARCH -- AND PROPOSED TO KNOCK DOWN THE REGULATORY
BARRIERS THAT MIGHT PREVENT TECHNOLOGIES IN THIS AREA
FROM HELPING US TO CURE DISEASE, GROW MORE CROPS, AND
CLEAN UP THE ENVIRONMENT.
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WE'RE USING TECHNOLOGY TO TACKLE AN UNFORTUNATE
LEGACY OF THE COLD WAR -- THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS LEFT
FROM MAKING WEAPONS THAT DEFENDED FREEDOM AROUND THE
GLOBE. WINNING THE PEACE MEANS MANAGING DANGEROUS
MATERIALS MORE EFFECTIVELY. TODAY, WE'RE USING THE
SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE OF THE FEDERAL LABS -- WHOSE
SCIENTISTS FIRST DEVISED THESE BOMBS -- TO FIND NEW
TECHNOLOGIES FOR STOPPING WEAPONS PROLIFERATION, AND FOR
PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN FROM ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS.
I'M HERE TODAY, HOWEVER, BECAUSE A SUCCESSFUL
STRATEGY FOR WINNING THE ECONOMIC COMPETITION REQUIRES
MORE THAN JUST INVESTMENT IN R&D -- WHETHER BASIC OR
APPLIED. IN A FAST-PACED WORLD OF SHORTER PRODUCT CYCLES
AND FASTER COMMUNICATIONS, THE KEY TO VICTORY IS MOVING
IDEAS AND TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE LABORATORY BENCH TO THE
COMMERCIAL MARKETPLACE FASTER THAN EVER BEFORE.
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THAT'S WHAT THIS NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE, OR
NTI, IS ALL ABOUT. THIS IS THE ELEVENTH NTI MEETING
WE'VE HAD -- -- EACH IN A DIFFERENT PART OF THE COUNTRY;
EACH DESIGNED TO HELP SPEED THE TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY
FROM OUR FEDERAL LABS AND UNIVERSITIES TO THE PRIVATE AND
COMMERCIAL SECTOR.
WE'RE WORKING TO MAKE IT EASIER TO DEAL WITH THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS A PARTNER. IF YOU ATTEND THE
WORKSHOPS AND VISIT THE TECHNOLOGY FAIR, YOU'LL GET A
WINDOW ON TODAY'S OPPORTUNITIES, AND AN EARLY START ON
TOMORROW'S SUCCESSES.
ONE YEAR AGO, I DIRECTED THE SECRETARIES OF COMMERCE
AND ENERGY TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF COOPERATIVE RESEARCH
AND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS SIGNED BETWEEN OUR FEDERAL
FACILITIES AND PRIVATE PARTNERS. THESE CRADAS ((CRAY-
DUHS)), AS THEY ARE CALLED, HELP SPEED THE TRANSFER OF
THE MOST PROMISING TECHNOLOGIES TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR -
- SO THEY CAN BE DEVELOPED INTO COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS AND
SERVICES.
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AND IN THE ONE YEAR SINCE THAT DIRECTIVE WAS ISSUED
-- WE'VE DOUBLED THE NUMBER OF THESE AGREEMENTS. THERE
ARE NOW MORE THAN 1,400 OPERATING AND IN PLACE.
COMPUTERS. CERAMICS. ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP. WE ARE
ACHIEVING AN UNPRECEDENTED LEVEL OF SUCCESS IN TAKING THE
BEST IDEAS FROM OUR LABS AND TURNING THEM INTO AMERICAN
PRODUCTS AND AMERICAN JOBS.
TODAY WE ARE SIGNING SEVERAL NEW BREAKTHROUGH
AGREEMENTS. ONE INVOLVES TWO FEDERAL LABS AND THREE
PRIVATE INDUSTRY PARTNERS -- WORKING TO DETERMINE THE
RIGHT MIX FOR BURNING PELLETIZED TRASH ALONG WITH COAL
TO GENERATE ELECTRICITY. THE RESULTS WILL BE CLEANER
AIR, LESS TRASH IN OUR LANDFILLS, AND MORE JOBS IN
ILLINOIS.
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A SECOND WILL BRING THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LAB
TOGETHER WITH IBM TO EXTEND AMERICA'S LEADERSHIP IN HIGH
PERFORMANCE COMPUTING. THE THIRD INVOLVES A PARTNERSHIP
BETWEEN GENERAL MOTORS AND THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF
STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY -- NIST -- TO DEVELOP NEW
SOFTWARE TO SOLVE PROBLEMS IN AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING
EQUIPMENT.
THESE AGREEMENTS PROVIDE RULES OF THE ROAD,
PROTECTION OF PATENTS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, AND
OTHER UNDERSTANDINGS -- SO THAT TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER IS
NOT JUST A CONCEPT BUT A JOB-PRODUCING REALITY.
OUR PROGRAM REFLECTS A FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF ABOUT THE
PATH TO SUCCESSFUL TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT. OUR EFFORTS
TO TRANSFER TECHNOLOGY FROM THE LABS, TO INVEST IN THE
MOST PROMISING TECHNOLOGIES OF TOMORROW, HAVE RECOGNIZED
THE FACT THAT THE PRIVATE SECTOR MUST COMMERCIALIZE THESE
TECHNOLOGIES.
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TO HELP IN THAT TASK, TO SPREAD INFORMATION ABOUT
BEST PRACTICES AND NEW PROCESSES, MY ADMINISTRATION HAS
ALSO ESTABLISHED SEVEN REGIONAL MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
CENTERS AROUND THE COUNTRY. THESE WILL INTRODUCE NEW
EQUIPMENT AND IMPROVE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES FOR SMALL
AND MEDIUM-SIZED FIRMS. SINCE 1989, MORE THAN 6,000
COMPANIES HAVE USED THE SERVICES PROVIDED BY THESE
CENTERS AND WE PLAN TO START UP FOUR MORE NEXT YEAR.
NOW, MY OPPONENT PROPOSES TO CREATE HUNDREDS OF
CENTERS. HE DOESN'T SAY HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE TO BUILD
THEM. BUT I CAN TELL YOU THIS: WE DON'T NEED A MASSIVE
BUREAUCRACY. WE WANT TO SHARE BEST PRACTICES; NOT
NECESSARILY EVERY PRACTICE THAT A GOVERNMENT PLANNER
WANTS TO PUSH. THE POINT IS THIS: RATHER THAN WAITING
FOR THE BUREAUCRATS AND PLANNERS TO DECIDE WHAT'S BEST,
I BELIEVE WE SHOULD FOSTER THE KIND OF PARTNERSHIPS THAT
ALLOW THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO HELP IDENTIFY AND
COMMERCIALIZE THE MOST PROMISING TECHNOLOGIES -- THOSE
IN WHICH WE ARE PURSUING LEADERSHIP TODAY.
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IN NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET, WE WILL LAUNCH A NEW CROSS-
CUTTING INITIATIVE TO INCREASE OUR INVESTMENT IN R&D INTO
NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO ADVANCE THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS.
TODAY'S FACTORIES FACE A DIFFERENT SET OF CHALLENGES FROM
THOSE A GENERATION AGO. IN THE FACE OF FAST CHANGING
REQUIREMENTS, MORE FLEXIBILITY IS NEEDED.
WE WANT TO ADVANCE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SYSTEMS AND
SOFTWARE, OF ROBOTICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, TO
MAKE THIS FLEXIBILITY POSSIBLE FOR ALL KINDS OF
COMPANIES. THE GOVERNMENT WILL HELP WITH TECHNOLOGICAL
LEAPS -- so THAT THE AMERICAN FIRMS CAN LEAP AHEAD IN
THE MARKETPLACE.
ONE OF THE MOST QUINTESSENTIALLY AMERICAN FIGURES OF
OUR TIME, JOHN WAYNE, ONCE SAID THAT: "TOMORROW IS THE
MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE."
WHEN THE SHOUTING IS FINISHED, WHEN THE CAMPAIGN
WINDS DOWN TO ITS END, IT WILL COME DOWN TO A VERY
PERSONAL AND SERIOUS DECISION FOR EVERY AMERICAN. WHAT
KIND OF TOMORROW DO YOU WANT?
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DO YOU WANT A TOMORROW IN WHICH WE LOOK FORWARD AND
TAKE ON THE COMPETITION, OR ONE IN WHICH WE TURN INWARD
IN RETREAT?
DO YOU WANT A TOMORROW IN WHICH WE INVEST IN THE
TECHNOLOGIES THAT CAN MAKE US MORE COMPETITIVE, OR IN
WHICH WE ALLOW THE PATRONS OF THE PAST TO SPEND OUR
FUTURE AWAY?
DO YOU WANT A TOMORROW IN WHICH WORK AND INNOVATION
ARE REWARDED, OR IN WHICH WE TURN BACK DOWN THE PATH OF
HIGHER TAXES AND MORE REGULATION?
WHEN AMERICANS STEP INTO THAT BOOTH THIS YEAR,
THEY WILL FACE A FUNDAMENTAL CHOICE ABOUT THE KIND OF
FUTURE THEY WANT. I HAVE COME TO CHICAGO TODAY TO OFFER
MY IDEAS FOR A FUTURE FULL OF PROMISE. A FUTURE IN WHICH
AMERICA WORKS, AMERICA COMPETES, AND AMERICA WINS.
I ASK YOU TO JOIN ME IN THIS FUTURE.
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THANK YOU, GOD BLESS YOU, AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA.
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Document No. 352135
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 09/23/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 11:00 a.m. 09/24
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE, CHICAGO, IL -
SUBJECT:
09/25/92
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCBRIDE
BAKER
x MOORE
SCOWCROFT
X MULLINS
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BATES
PORTER
BRADY
X PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
X ZOELLICK
GRAY
MCGROARTY
HOLIDAY
KAUFMAN
HORNER
GROOMES
BOSKIN
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments directly to Dan McGroarty no later than
11:00 a.m. on Thursday, 09/24, with a copy to this office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
called 10:20
PHILLIP D. BRADY
11:15
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Grady, 9/22/92)
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS
NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1992
Thank you, Governor Edgar, for that introduction. At a
certain convention I attended last month in Houston, an 82-year
old American named Ronald Reagan said something very revealing
about our country. "Like most Americans," he said, "I live for the
future."
It is that spirit which defines America, and it is that spirit
which brings us together today.
A few weeks ago in Detroit, I presented my ideas for an Agenda
for American Renewal. That Agenda is guided by my fundamental
belief that the most important challenge we face as Americans --
the defining challenge of the 90s -- is to win the economic
competition.
That's what our future plans must be all about. Getting ready
to compete in an increasingly interdependent world. Our world is
tied together as never before by new technology and new information
systems. It is linked in seamless competition by the free flow of
capital across borders. And, most importantly, it filled with new
promise and new opportunity because of the explosion of new
freedoms and new markets in places where the light of liberty had
never before dared to shine.
Some will tell you that America is in trouble in this new
world of opportunity. But I have a simple vision -- and that is to
compete, not retreat.
In order to win that economic competition -- in order to win
the peace -- we must prepare to compete. We need an integrated
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strategy -- not one that places economic policy and foreign policy
and domestic policy in three different boxes --because, in fact,
they are related. My agenda ties them together, because that's
what's required to make America safe and strong.
My strategy is based on opening markets, on preparing our
workforce, on sharpening our competitive edge by investing in the
future, on creating opportunity by training our workers and fixing
our health care system, and on rightsizing government -- by cutting
spending and holding the line against taxes.
That strategy is not without controversy. Some want to close
access to our markets, and risk future growth in exports. Some in
the Congress are today sacrificing our investments in the future to
the irresistible appeal of spending on current consumption. Some
believe that higher taxes will give us the money to have the
government take over America's investment strategy. I want to talk
to you today about which strategy will work for America.
Let's be clear about one thing: despite what the pessimists
say, we have begun to succeed already in opening markets and
becoming more competitive. Just look at our export performance
over these past four years. We have increased exports by 40%. We
have gained worldwide market share in manufacturing output. In
just these last four years, our exports to Japan have grown 12
times faster than our imports. So we can win.
But in order to do so, we must sharpen the competitive edge of
American business by investing in knowledge, in new ideas, and in
the technologies we will need to compete. That is a key part of my
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agenda. This should be no surprise, because knowledge is an
historic American strength, and we must build on our strengths.
New knowledge and new technology will give us the chance to
increase productivity -- to help the economy grow -- to create
jobs. For proof of the relationship between technological success
and job creation, we need look no further than here in Illinois.
588,000 jobs in this state are tied to high technology -- that's
over 11 percent of Illinois' work force. Illinois is America's
number one manufacturer of telecommunications equipment. So
winning the race for new ideas, winning the technology race, means
jobs for Illinois, and jobs for America.
By every measure, the United States leads the world in the
generation of new knowledge. We have produced the most scientific
literature, the most new patents, the most Nobel prizes. We cannot
keep that lead without investing in new knowledge -- so my budget
for this year represents a 35% increase over 1989 in basic
research.
But basic research is only half the story For America to
lead, we need to take our ideas from the laboratory to the
marketplace -- and do it more quickly. And that is where this
Administration is making new strides.
Two years ago, we pulled every Federal agency together to
launch a new program to develop the supercomputers of tomorrow
computers 1000 times more powerful than today's -- within four
years Our vision is a Cray the size of a McIntosh
a
supercomputer you can put on your desktop.
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We also proposed a nationwide network -- an information
backbone that will transmit 1000 times more information than we can
today in one second. This year, we've proposed over $800 million,
a 23% increase, for this High Performance Computing and
Communications initiative.
Last year, we launched another crosscutting technology plan --
an investment of over $1.8 billion in the materials of tomorrow.
These new kinds of materials will help us make products that are
stronger, lighter, and faster -- everything from cars to airplanes
to military equipment. You've heard of
"planes, trains, and automobiles" -- we'll be more competitive in
all three with the investments we are making today in the
development of advanced materials.
And that's not all. We've launched a $4 billion program in
biotechnology -- and proposed to knock down the regulatory barriers
that might prevent technologies in this area from helping us to
cure disease, improve agricultural performance, and clean up the
environment.
We've turned some of the expertise at the Federal labs toward
the task of cleaning up the legacy of the Cold War -- forty years
worth of accumulated environmental problems left from making the
weapons that defended freedom around the globe. Winning the peace
means protecting the public from these hazards, and managing
dangerous materials in the Federal government's possession more
responsibly in the future.
The key to all of these initiatives is partnership. We cannot
move ideas and technologies from the laboratory bench to the
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commercial marketplace without bringing people together -- business
and government, universities and the Federal labs.
That's what this National Technology Initiative, or NTI, is
all about. This is the eleventh NTI meeting we've had -- each in a
different part of the country; each designed to get the word out
that we've going to make it easier to deal with the Federal
government as a partner. If you attend the workshops and visit the
technology fairs, we hope you'll get a window on today's
opportunities, and an early start on tomorrow's successes.
We've brought this cooperation to new heights. A year ago, I
directed the Secretaries of Commerce and Energy to increase the
number of cooperative research and development agreements signed
between our Federal facilities and private partners. These CRADAs
( (CRAY-DAHS)), as they are called, help speed the transfer of the
most promising technologies to the private sector -- so they can be
developed into commercial products and services.
And in the one year since that directive was issued -- we've
doubled the number of these agreements. There are now more than
1,400 operating and in place. Computers. Ceramics. Environmental
cleanup. We are achieving an unprecedented level of success in
taking the best ideas from our labs and turning them into American
products and American jobs.
In just a few minutes, we will sign several new breakthrough
agreements. The first one involves two Federal labs and three
industry partners -- working together to solve several problems at
once. The agreement will determine the right mix: for burning
pelletized trash along with coal to generate electricity. The
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results will be less sulfur dioxide emissions into the air, less
trash overflowing in our landfills, and more jobs created in here
in Illinois producing this new fuel.
A second one -- between Argonne Lab and Motorola -- will help
improve circuitry for communications and electronics. A third will
bring the Oak Ridge National Lab together with IBM to extend
America's leadership in High Performance Computing. The fourth
involves a partnership between General Motors and the National
Insistute of Standards and Technology to develop new software to
solve problems in automated manufacturing equipment.
These agreements bring the concept of partnership to life --
providing rules of the road, protection of patents and intellectual
property, and other understandings -- so that technology transfer
is not a concept but a job-producing reality.
This partnership will also take form in our Manufacturing
Technology Centers. This Administration has established seven such
centers around the country -- in order to help introduce new
equipment and improve manufacturing processes for small and medium-
sized firms. Just since 1989, more than 6,000 companies have used
the services provided by these centers, and we plan to start up
four more next year.
In next year's budget, we will launch a new cross-cutting
initiative to increase our investment in R&D into new technologies
to advance the manufacturing process. Today's factories face a
different set of challenges from those a generation ago. In the
face of fast changing requirements, more flexibility is needed.
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We want to advance the development of systems and software, of
robotics and artificial intelligence, to make this flexibility
possible for all kinds of companies. And the key is this: we will
pursue with the private sector.
I have used the word partnership advisedly today, because it
reflects a fundamental belief about the path to successful
technology development. Our efforts to transfer technology from
the labs, to invest in the most promising technologies of tomorrow,
have recognized the fact that the private sector must commercialize
these technologies.
We are providing the tools for the private sector to do the
job. No investment that is not guided by this technology pull from
the market is ultimately going to be successful.
And on this point, there is a real difference. The other side
believes that government experts can pick the best technologies and
push them out the door. My opponent's proposal is to create
hundreds of centers, with money he will not have unless he raises
your taxes. It is a prescription to "hurry up and wait. Rather
than waiting to build more government buildings, I believe we
should work to develop the technology we have right now. Rather
than waiting for the bureaucrats and planners decide what's best, I
believe we should build the kind of partnerships that allow the
private sector to help identify and commercialize promising
technologies in which we are pursuing leadership today.
Now, it's a political year, and my opponent has made a
specialty out of saying things that sound good, but that aren't
backed up by his record or his philosophy. And on the subject of
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R&D, as on so many other subjects, Governor Clinton has truly
earned his reputation as Governor Doublespeak.
Bill Clinton has told America that he would invest in civilian
R&D -- and he has said flat out, with a straight face, that we have
cut this investment. He must have been smoking something again on
that one.
The fact is that this Administration has increased the Federal
investment in civilian R&D by 28% just since 1989. We have
increased basic research. We have increased applied R&D. We have
invested in energy R&D and environmental R&D. Aeronautics and
magnetically levitated high speed rail. Computing and
communications. Protecting the public health and exploring the
frontiers of space.
Now here's the best part. In each and every year that we have
sent our budget to the pork-happy partisans on Capitol Hill, they
have cut our R&D budget. They have spent it on water projects.
They have spent it on providing subsidies to, get this, vacant
public housing units. They have funded every pet project from mink
research to subsidies for rich rural telephone cooperatives who
just happen to give big contributions to Congressmen.
This year, we proposed an increase for the National Science
Foundation to advance our plans in both basic and applied research.
And even as Governor Clinton called for more investment, and even
as his team consults with the Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill
every day, that increase was wiped out.
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So when Governor Doublespeak looks you in the eye and says he
wants to invest in civilian R&D, I say -- we're already doing it.
And your allies in Congress are not helping.
Governor Clinton says he wants to take every dollar we save in
defense R&D and spend it on civilian R&D. In this year's budget, I
increased civilian R&D by 8%, and defense R&D by only one percent.
Every cent from defense went to civilian.
But get this, when we sent the Congress a proposal to transfer
$50 million from weapons research to promote the kind of technology
partnerships we're talking about today, they denied the transfer.
And last week, when we proposed to transfer another $186 million
from unneeded nuclear weapons materials production to new
technologies which will help stop the spread of weapons around the
world and help clean up our weapons facilities, Congress denied
most of that transfer, too. They wanted to spend the money on pork
instead.
So when Governor Doublespeak looks you in the eye and says
he's for shifting R&D funds from defense to civilian, you tell him
we're already doing it. But you might ask him to speak to his
partners in pork on Capitol Hill.
And here's the best one of all. Bill Clinton says that he's
for our proposal to make the R&D tax credit permanent, and for a
modified reduction in capital gains taxes. At the exact moment he
is looking the American people in the eye and telling them these
things, his allies on Capitol Hill are blocking their enactment.
So when Governor Doublespeak looks you in the eye and saysche's for
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investment incentives, tell him we've already proposed and financed
them, but let's cut the partisan games and pass the bills.
I'm afraid that Bill Clinton on the subject of technology is
like Bill Clinton on any subject -- promise them anything, but keep
two fingers crossed behind your back.
Behind my opponent's charges lies the worst kind of cynicism -
- saying things he knows to be not true with the straight face of
the professional prevaricator.
For the real story on Bill Clinton and technology, let's look
at the record.
The most recent report card on technology indicators,
published by the Corporation for Enterprise Development, rated
Arkansas near the very bottom among states in virtually every
technology-related factor. For "technology resources", Arkansas
received an "F". And Bill Clinton has allowed Arkansas' incubator
program to die on the vine for lack of state funds.
Compare that to Illinois under Jim Thompson and Jim Edgar.
Right here at the University of Chicago, they've helped to launch
exactly the kind of partnership I'm talking about. The ARCH
Development Corporation, a partnership between state and university
and private sector, helps to identify and develop the most
promising new technologies coming out of this great University and
out of our Argonne National Lab. This cooperative venture has
helped to launch new companies that are doing everything from
improving the use of superconducting liquids to improving the
lighting of computer screens.
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Jim Thompson and Jim Edgar have started, in partnership with
the Federal government and the private sector, five technology
centers -- working on everything from advanced cement based
materials to magnetic resonance.
When the chips were down in Arkansas, Bill Clinton did not
deliver on technology. And when "Promise them Anything" Clinton
teams up with "Spend it on Anything" Congress, Lord knows what they
will deliver.
The fact is that Bill Clinton talks about the future, but his
ideas and his support come from the patrons of the past. For these
and so many other reasons, it is clear that Bill Clinton is the
wrong man for America.
One of the most quintessentially American figures of our time,
John Wayne, once said that: "Tomorrow is the most important thing
in life."
When the shouting is finished, when the campaign winds down to
its end, it will come down to a very personal and serious decision
for every American. What kind of tomorrow do you want?
Do you want a tomorrow in which we look forward and take on
the competition, or one in which we turn inward in retreat?
Do you want a tomorrow in which we invest in the technologies
that can make us more competitive, or in which we allow the patrons
of the past to spend our future away?
Do you want a tomorrow in which work and innovation are
rewarded, or in which we turn back down the path of higher taxes
and more regulation?
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Winston Churchill once said about elections: "What it all
comes down to is a little man, in a little booth, marking a little
"x" on a little piece of paper."
When Americans step into that booth this year, they will face
a fundamental choice about the kind of future they want. I have
come to Chicago today, to this city that works, to offer my ideas
for a future full of promise. A future in which America works,
America competes, and America wins.
I ask you to join me in this future. America today faces
opportunities that previous generations only dreamed about. Let us
seize them.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of
America.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September SEP 24, 24 1932 38
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MEMORANDUM FOR DAN McGROARTY
FROM:
ROGER B. PORTER RBP
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks: National Technology
Initiative
We have reviewed the attached remarks and have noted a few
suggested changes on the draft.
Please let us know if you have any questions or if we may
help in any other way.
CC: Phillip D. Brady
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DATE: 09/23/92
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SUBJECT:
09/25/92
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VICE PRESIDENT
MCBRIDE
BAKER
MOORE
SCOWCROFT
MULLINS
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BATES
PORTER
BRADY
PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
GRAY
MCGROARTY
HOLIDAY
KAUFMAN
HORNER
GROOMES
BOSKIN
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments directly to Dan McGroarty no later than
11:00 a.m. on Thursday, 09/24, with a copy to this office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Grady, 9/22/92)
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE
23
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1992
Thank you, Governor Edgar, for that introduction. At a
certain convention I attended last month in Houston, an 82-year
FORMER PRESIDENT
old American named Ronald Reagan said something very revealing
about our country. "Like most Americans," he said, "I live for the
future."
It is that spirit which defines America, and it is that spirit
which brings us together today.
A few weeks ago in Detroit, I presented my ideas for an Agenda
my
A
for American Renewal. That Agenda is guided by my fundamental
belief that the most important challenge we face as Americans --
the defining challenge of the 90s -- is to win the economic
competition.
That's what our future plans must be all about. & Getting ready
THE EOAC PLANNING MUST ACHIEVE
A ECOBAL ECONOMY
to compete in an increasingly interdependent world. Our world is
LINKED tied together as never before by ynew technology, and I new information
THE FLOW of
systems It is linked in seamless competition by the free flow of
AND capital across borders. And I most importantly, it filled with new
S
IES
promise\ and new I opportunity because of the explosion of new
S
freedoms and new markets in places where the light of liberty had
PUT AN END TO THE DARKNESSO
never before dared to shine. shine
Some will tell you that America is in trouble in this new
world of opportunity. But I have a simple vision -- and that is to
OUR PEOPLE AND OUR BUSINESSES
compete, not retreat.
In order to win that economic competition -- in order to win
the peace -- we must prepare to compete. We need an integrated
2
ADDRESSES
strategy -- not one that places economic policy and foreign policy
INDEPENDENTLY
and domestic policy in three different boxes -because, in fact,
they are related. My agenda ties them together, because that's
what's required to make America safe and strong.
STREMETHENING
My strategy is based on opening markets, on preparing our
workforce, on sharpening our competitive edge by investing in the
EXPANDING
REFORMING
future, on creating opportunity by training our workers and fixing
our health care system, and on rightsizing government -- by cutting
spending and holding the line against taxes.
That strategy is not without controversy. Some want to close
access to our markets, and risk future growth in exports. Some in
the Congress are today sacrificing our investments in the future to
the irresistible appeal of spending on current consumption. Some
believe that higher taxes will give us the money to have the
AND LET THE GOVERNMENT PICK
government take over America's investment strategy. I want to talk
to you today about which strategy will work for America.
Let's be clear about one thing: despite what the pessimists
say, we have begun to succeed already in opening markets and
WINNERS AND LOSERS.
becoming more competitive. Just look at our export performance
over these I past four years. We have increased exports by 40%. We
have gained worldwide market share in manufacturing output. In
just these last four years, our exports to Japan have grown 12
times faster than our imports. So we can win.
But in order to do so, we must sharpen the competitive edge of
American business by investing in knowledge, in new ideas, and in
ELEMENT
the technologies we will need to compete. That is a key part of my
3
agenda. This should be no surprise, because 9 knowledge is an
historic American strength, and we must build on our strengths.
New knowledge and new technology will give us the chance to
increase productivity -- to help the economy grow -- to create
jobs. For proof of the relationship between technological success
and job creation, we need look no further than here in Illinois.
588,000 jobs in this state are tied to high technology -- that's
over 11 percent of Illinois' work force. Illinois is America's
number one manufacturer of telecommunications equipment. So
winning the race for new ideas, winning the technology race, means
jobs for Illinois, and jobs for America.
By every measure, the United States leads the world in the
generation of new knowledge. We have produced the most scientific
literature, the most new patents, the most Nobel prizes. We cannot
keep that lead without investing in new knowledge -- so my budget
for this year represents a 35% increase over 1989 in basic
research.
TRANSFER
But basic research is only half the story. For America to
lead, we need to take our ideas from the laboratory to the
marketplace -- and do it more quickly. And that is where this
Administration is making new strides.
Two years ago, we pulled every Federal agency together to
launch a new program to develop the supercomputers of tomorrow --
computers 1000 times more powerful than today's -- within four
years. Our vision is a, Cray the size of a Mc Intosh -- a
supercomputer you can put on your desktop.
COMPUTER
4
We also proposed a nationwide network -- an information
backbone that will transmit 1000 times more information than we can
today in one second. This year, we've proposed over $800 million,
a 23% increase, for this High Performance Computing and
Communications initiative.
DEVELOPING
Last year, we launched another crosscutting technology plan --
an investment of over $1.8 billion in the materials of tomorrow.
These new kinds of materials will help us make products that are
stronger, lighter, and faster -- everything from cars to airplanes
to military equipment. You've heard of
"planes, trains, and automobiles" -- we'll be more competitive in
all three with the investments we are making today in the
development of advanced materials.
And that's not all. We've launched a $4 billion program in
biotechnology -- and proposed to knock down the regulatory barriers
that might prevent technologies in this area from helping us to
cure disease, improve agricultural performance, and clean up the
environment.
We've turned some of the expertise at the Federal labs toward
the task of cleaning up the legacy of the Cold War -- forty years
worth of accumulated problems left from making the
weapons that defended freedom around the globe. Winning the peace
CONTINUING TO
means protecting the public from these hazards, and/managing-6
note
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dangerous materials in the Federal government's possession
responsibly,in the future
The key to all of these initiatives is partnership. We cannot
move ideas and technologies from the laboratory bench to the
5
commercial marketplace without bringing people together -- business
and government, universities and the Federal labs.
That's what this National Technology Initiative, or NTI, is
all about. This is the eleventh NTI meeting we've had -- each in a
different part of the country; each designed to get the word out
that we've going to make it easier to deal with the Federal
government as a partner. If you attend the workshops and visit the
technology fairs, we hope you'll get a window on today's
opportunities, and an early start on tomorrow's successes.
We've brought this cooperation to new heights. A year ago, I
directed the Secretaries of Commerce and Energy to increase the
number of cooperative research and development agreements signed
between our Federal facilities and private partners. These CRADAs
( (CRAY-DAHS)), as they are called, help speed the transfer of the
most promising technologies to the private sector -- so they can be
developed into commercial products and services.
And in the one year since that directive was issued -- we've
doubled the number of these agreements. There are now more than
1,400 operating and in place. Computers. Ceramics. Environmental
cleanup. We are achieving an unprecedented level of success in
taking the best ideas from our labs and turning them into American
products and American jobs.
In just a few minutes, we will sign several new breakthrough
agreements. The first one involves two Federal labs and three
industry partners -- working together to solve several problems at
once. The agreement will determine the right mix for burning
pelletized I trash along with coal to generate electricity. The
6
results will be less sulfur dioxide emissions into the air, less
4
trash overflowing in our landfills, and more jobs created here
ENERGY
in Illinois producing this new fuel.
A second one -- between Argonne Lab and Motorola -- will help
improve circuitry for communications and electronics. A third will
bring the Oak Ridge National Lab together with IBM to extend
America's leadership in High Performance Computing. The fourth
involves a partnership between General Motors and the National
Insistute of Standards and Technology to develop new software to
solve problems in automated manufacturing equipment.
These agreements bring the concept of partnership to life --
providing rules of the road, protection of patents and intellectual
property, and other understandings -- so that technology transfer
is not a concept but a job-producing reality.
This partnership will also take form in our Manufacturing
Technology Centers. This Administration has established seven such
centers around the country -- in order to help introduce new
equipment and improve manufacturing processes for small and medium-
sized firms. Just I since 1989, more than 6,000 companies have used
the services provided by these centers -- and we plan to start up
four more next year.
In next year's budget, we will launch a new cross-cutting
initiative to increase our investment in R&D into new technologies
to advance the manufacturing process. Today's factories face a
different set of challenges from those a generation ago. In the
face of fast changing requirements, more flexibility is needed.
7
We want to advance the development of systems and software, of
robotics and artificial intelligence, to make this flexibility
possible for all kinds of companies. And the key is this: we will
THIS EOAL
pursue with the private sector.
I have used the word partnership advisedly today, because it
reflects a fundamental belief about the path to successful
technology development. Our efforts to transfer technology from
the labs, to invest in the most promising technologies of tomorrow,
have recognized the fact that the private sector must commercialize
these technologies.
We are providing the tools for the private sector to do the
job. No investment that is not guided by this technology pull from
is DEMAND FOR NEW TECHNOLOGY
the marketY is ultimately going to be successful.
And on this point, there is a real difference. The other side
believes that government experts can pick the best technologies and
push them out the door. My opponent's proposal is to create
hundreds of centers, with money he will not have unless he raises
your taxes. It is a prescription to "hurry up and wait." Rather
than waiting to build more government buildings, I believe we
should work to develop the technology we have right now. Rather
than waiting for the bureaucrats and planners decide what's best, I
believe we should build the kind of partnerships that allow the
private sector to help identify and commercialize promising
technologies in I which we are pursuing leadership today.
Now, it's a political year, and my opponent has made a
specialty out of saying things that sound good, but that aren't
backed up by his record or his philosophy. And on the subject of
8
R&D, as on so many other subjects, Governor Clinton has truly
earned his reputation as Governor Doublespeak.
Bill Clinton has told America that he would invest in civilian
R&D -- and he has said flat out, with a straight face, that we have
cut this investment. He must have been smoking something again on I
that one one
The fact is that this Administration has increased the Federal
investment in civilian R&D by 28% just 2 since 1989. We have
increased basic research. We have increased applied R&D. We have
invested in energy R&D and environmental R&D. Aeronautics and
magnetically levitated high speed rail. Computing and
communications. Protecting the public health and exploring the
frontiers of space.
IT IS ALSO HIGHLY INSTRUCTIVE TO NOTE THAT
Now here's the best partn In each and every year that we have
CONGRESS
sent our budget to the pork happy partisans on Capitol Hill, they
have cut our R&D budget. They have spent it on water projects.
They have spent it on providing subsidies to, get this, vacant
public housing units. They have funded every pet project from mink
research to subsidies for rich rural telephone cooperatives who
just happen to give big contributions to Congressmen.
This year, we proposed an increase for the National Science
Foundation to advance our plans in both basic and applied research.
And even as Governor Clinton called for more investment, and even
as his team consults with the Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill
every day, that increase was. wiped out.
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So when Governor Doublespeak looks you in the eye and says he
wants to invest in civilian R&D, I say -- we're already doing it.
And your allies in Congress are not helping.
Governor Clinton says he wants to take every dollar we save in
defense R&D and spend it on civilian R&D. In this year's budget, I
increased civilian R&D by 8%, and defense R&D by only one percent.
Every cent from defense went to civilian.
But get this, when we sent the Congress a proposal to transfer
$50 million from weapons research to promote the kind of technology
partnerships we're talking about today, they denied the transfer.
And last week, when we proposed to transfer another $186 million
from unneeded nuclear weapons materials production to new
technologies which will help stop the spread of weapons around the
world and help clean up our weapons facilities, Congress denied
most of that transfer, too. They wanted to spend the money on pork
instead.
So when Governor Doublespeak looks you in the eye and says
he's for shifting R&D funds from defense to civilian, you tell him
INSTEAD,
we're already doing it. But you might ask him to speak to his
partners in pork on Capitol Hill.
And here's the best one of all. Bill Clinton says that he's
for our proposal to make the R&D tax credit permanent, and for a
modified reduction in capital gains taxes. At the exact moment he
is looking the American people in the eye and telling them these
things, his allies on Capitol Hill are blocking their enactment.
So when Governor Doublespeak looks you in the eye and says he's for
THE DEMOCRATS must
10
investment incentives, tell him we've already proposed and financed
them, but let's cut the partisan games and pass the bills.
I'm afraid that Bill Clinton on the subject of technology is
like Bill Clinton on any subject HE promise them anything, but keep
S you
HIS
two fingers crossed behind your back.
Behind my opponent's charges lies the worst kind of cynicism -
- saying things he knows to be not true with the straight face of
the professional prevaricator.
For the real story on Bill Clinton and technology, let's look
at the record.
The most recent report card on technology indicators,
published by the Corporation for Enterprise Development, rated
Arkansas near the very bottom among states in virtually every
technology-related factor. For "technology resources", Arkansas
received an "F". And Bill Clinton has allowed Arkansas' incubator
program to die on the vine for lack of state funds.
Compare that to Illinois under Jim Thompson and Jim Edgar.
Right here at the University of Chicago, they've helped to launch
exactly the kind of partnership I'm talking about. The ARCH
Development Corporation, a partnership between state and university
and private sector, helps to identify and develop the most
promising new technologies coming out of this great University and
out of our Argonne National Lab. This cooperative venture has
helped to launch new companies that are doing everything from
improving the use of superconducting liquids to improving the
lighting of computer screens.
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Jim Thompson and Jim Edgar have started, in partnership with
the Federal government and the private sector, five technology
centers -- working on everything from advanced cement based
materials to magnetic resonance.
When the chips were down in Arkansas, Bill Clinton did not
deliver on technology. And when "Promise them Anything" Clinton
teams up with "Spend it on Anything" Congress, Lord knows what they
will deliver.
The fact is that Bill Clinton talks about the future, but his
ideas and his support come from the patrons of the past. For these
and so many other reasons, it is clear that Bill Clinton is the
wrong man for America.
One of the most quintessentially American figures of our time,
John Wayne, once said that: "Tomorrow is the most important thing
in life."
When the shouting is finished, when the campaign winds down to
its end, it will come down to a very personal and serious decision
for every American. What kind of tomorrow do you want?
Do you want a tomorrow in which we look forward and take on
the competition, or one in which we turn inward in retreat?
Do you want a tomorrow in which we invest in the technologies
that can make us more competitive, or in which we allow the patrons
of the past to spend our future away?
Do you want a tomorrow in which work and innovation are
rewarded, or in which we turn back down the path of higher taxes
and more regulation?
12
Winston Churchill once said about elections: "What it all
comes down to is a little man, in a little booth, marking a little
"x" on a little piece of paper."
When Americans step into that booth this year, they will face
a fundamental choice about the kind of future they want. I have
come to Chicago today, to this city that works, to offer my ideas
for a future full of promise. A future in which America works,
America competes, and America wins.
I ask you to join me in this future. America today faces
opportunities that previous generations only dreamed about. Let us
seize them.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of
America.
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MASTER
Document No. 352135
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 09/23/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 11:00 a.m. 09/24
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE, CHICAGO, IL - -
SUBJECT:
09/25/92
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
MCGROARTY
HOLIDAY
KAUFMAN
HORNER
GROOMES
BOSKIN
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments directly to Dan McGroarty no later than
11:00 a.m. on Thursday, 09/24, with a copy to this office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
September 24, 1992
TO:
DAN MCGROARTY
PHILLIP D. BRADY
The NSC staff concurs with the attached, as revised.
Assistant to the President
Brent Scowcroft
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
CC: Phillip Brady
(Grady, 9/22/92)
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS F8:
NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE
23
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1992
Thank you, Governor Edgar, for that introduction. At a
certain convention I attended last month in Houston, an 82-year
former President (PORTER)
old American named Ronald Reagan said something very revealing
about our country. "Like most Americans," he said, "I live for the
future."
It is that spirit which defines America, and it is that spirit
which brings us together today.
(PORTER)
A few weeks ago in Detroit, I presented my ideas for an Agenda
for American Renewal. That Mye Agenda is groundedin guided by my fundamental
belief that the most important challenge we face as Americans
--
the defining challenge of the 90s -- is to win the economic
competition.
the goal planning
achieve.
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and
systems, ^ It is linked in seamless competition by the free flow of
capital across borders. And, most importantly, it filled with new
promise and new opportunity because of the explosion of new
freedoms and new markets in places where the light of liberty had
been permited
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[never before dared to shine.
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our health care system, and on rightsizing government by cutting
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spending and holding the line against taxes.
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access to our markets, and risk future growth in exports. Some in
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strategy (DOE)
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agenda. This should be no surprise, because knowledge is an
historic American strength, and we must build on our strengths.
New knowledge and new technology will give us the chance to
increase productivity -- to help the economy grow -- to create
jobs. For proof of the relationship between technological success
and job creation, we need look no further than here in Illinois.
588,000 jobs in this state are tied to high technology -- that's
over 11 percent of Illinois' work force. Illinois is America's
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jobs for Illinois, and jobs for America.
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generation of new knowledge. We have produced the most scientific
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literature, the most new patents, the most Nobel prizes. N We cannot
keep that lead without investing in new knowledge -- so my budget
for this year represents a 35% increase over 1989 in basic
research.
But basic research is only half the story. For America to
transfer
lead, we need to: take our ideas from the laboratory to the
marketplace -- and do it more quickly. And that is where this
Administration is making new strides.
Two years ago, we pulled every Federal agency together to
launch a new program to develop the supercomputers of tomorrow
computers 1000 times more powerful than today's -- within four
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computer
We also proposed a nationwidejnetwork -- an information
backbone that will transmit 1000 times more information than we can
today in one second. This year, we've proposed over $800 million,
a 23% increase, for this High Performance Computing and
Communications initiative.
Last year, we launched another crosscutting technology plan --
developing
an investment of over $1.8 billion in the materials of tomorrow.
These new kinds of materials will help us make products that are
stronger, lighter, and faster -- everything from cars to airplanes
to military equipment. You've heard of
"planes, trains, and automobiles" -- we'll be more competitive in
all three with the investments we are making today in the
development of advanced materials.
research (COUNSEL)
And that's not all. We've launched a $4 billion program in
biotechnology -- and proposed to knock down the regulatory barriers
that might prevent technologies in this area from helping us to
cure disease, improve agricultural performance, and clean up the
environment.
We've turned some of the expertise at the Federal labs toward
the task of cleaning up the legacy of the Cold War -- forty years
worth of accumulated (PORTER) environmental problems left from making the
weapons that defended freedom around the globe. Winning the peace
environmental continuing to e
means protecting the public from these hazards, and managing
(PARTER)
dangerous materials in the Federal government's possession more-
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responsibly in the
The key to all of these initiatives is partnership. We cannot
move ideas and technologies from the laboratory bench to the
5
commercial marketplace without bringing people together -- business
and government, universities and the Federal labs.
That's what this National Technology Initiative, or NTI, is
all about. This is the eleventh NTI meeting we've had -- each in a
different part of the country; each designed to get the word out
re
that we've going to make it easier to deal with the Federal
government as a partner. If you attend the workshops and visit the
(DOE)
technology fairs, we hope you'll get a window on today's
opportunities, and an early start on tomorrow's successes.
public-private
We've brought this cooperation to new heights. A year ago, I
directed the Secretaries of Commerce and Energy to increase the
number of cooperative research and development agreements signed
between our Federal facilities and private partners. These CRADAs
( (CRAY-DAHS) ) as they are called, help speed the transfer of the
most promising technologies to the private sector -- so they can be
developed into commercial products and services.
And in the one year since that directive was issued -- we've
doubled the number of these agreements. There are now more than
1,400 operating and in place. Computers. Ceramics. Environmental
cleanup. We are achieving an unprecedented level of success in
taking the best ideas from our labs and turning them into American
products and American jobs.
In just a few minutes, we will sign several new breakthrough
agreements. The first one involves two Federal labs and three privater
industry partners -- working together to solve several problems at
once. The agreement will determine the right mix for burning
(PORTER)
pelletized trash along with coal to generate electricity. The
6
results will be less sulfur dioxide emissions into the air, less
trash overflowing in our landfills, and more jobs created here
in Illinois producing this new fuel.
energy (PORTER)
A second one -- between Argonne Lab and Motorola -- will help
improve circuitry for communications and electronics. A third will
bring the Oak Ridge National Lab together with IBM to extend
America's leadership in High Performance Computing. The fourth
involves a partnership between General Motors and the National
Insistute of Standards and Technology to develop new software to
solve problems in automated manufacturing equipment.
These agreements bring the concept of partnership to life --
providing rules of the road, protection of patents and intellectual
property, and other understandings -- so that technology transfer
just
is not лª concept but a job-producing reality.
This partnership will also take form in our Manufacturing
Technology Centers. This Administration has established seven such
centers around the country -- in order to help introduce new
equipment and improve manufacturing processes for small and medium-
sized firms. Just since 1989, more than 6, 000 companies have used
the services provided by these centers --- and we plan to start up
four more next year.
II
In next year's budget we will launch a new cross-cutting
initiative to increase our investment in R&D into new technologies
McGrozorty
to advance the manufacturing process. Today's factories face a
cut
different set of challenges from those a generation ago. In the
face of fast changing requirements, more flexibility is needed.
7
We want to advance the development of systems and software, of
McGroart
robotics and artificial intelligence, to make this flexibility
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possible for all kinds of companies And the key is this: we will
a joint 9 verment and
pursue with the private sector
partnership.
I have used the word partnership advisedly today, because it
reflects a fundamental belief about the path to successful
technology development. Our efforts to transfer technology from
the labs, to invest in the most promising technologies of tomorrow,
have recognized the fact that the private sector must commercialize
these technologies.
We are providing the tools for the private sector to do the
demand
job. No investment that is not guided by this technology pull from
can
the market is ultimately going to be successful.
between me and my opponent.
And on this point, there is a real difference. The other side
believes that the government experts can pick the best technologies. and
push them out the door. My opponent's proposal is to create
government
hundreds of centers, with money he will not have unless he raises
your taxes. It is a prescription to "hurry up and wait." Rather
than waiting to build more government buildings, I believe we
should work to develop the technology we have right now. Rather
than waiting for the bureaucrats and planners Taecide what's best, I
government
believe we should build the kind of partnerships that allow the
private sector to help identify and commercialize promising
technologies in which we are pursuing leadership today.
Now, it's a political year, and my opponent has made a
specialty out of saying things that sound pretty good, but that aren't
backed up by his record or his philosophy. And on the subject of
suggested sentence: Investments today cannot be successful
without this technology infusion!
8
R&D, as on so many other subjects, Governor Clinton has truly
earned his reputation as Governor Doublespeak.
Bill Clinton has told America that he would invest in civilian
R&D -- and he has said flat out, with a straight face, that we have
cut this investment. He must have been smoking (inhaling) something again on ant.
That's simply wrong!
that one Jand this time he must have inhaled. (DOE)
overall G(FORTER)
The fact is that this Administration has increased the Federal
investment in civilian R&D by 28% just since 1989. We have
increased basic research. We have increased applied R&D. We have
invested in energy R&D and environmental R&D. Aeronautics and
magnetically levitated high speed rail. Computing and
communications. Protecting the public health and exploring the
frontiers of space.
Each year
Now here's the best part. In each and every year that we have
sent our budget to the pork-happy partisans on Capitol Hill, they
have cut our R&D budget. They have spent it on water projects.
They have spent it on providing subsidies to, get this, vacant
public housing units. They have funded every pet project from mink
research to subsidies for rich rural telephone cooperatives who that
Democratic
just happen to give big contributions to Athe Congressmen.
This year, we Ie proposed an increase for the National Science
budget
Foundation to advance our plans in both basic and applied research.
And even as Governor Clinton called for more investment, and even
as his team consults with the Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill
every day, that increase was wiped out.
9
So when Governor Doublespeak looks you in the eye and says he
wants to invest in civilian R&D, I say -- we're already doing it.
And your Democratic allies in Congress are not helping.
Governor Clinton says he wants to take every dollar we save in
defense R&D and spend it on civilian R&D. In this year's budget, I
increased civilian R&D by 8%, and defense R&D by only one percent.
Every cent from defense went to civilian (doesn't make sense or follow!)
But get this, when we sent the Congress a proposal to transfer
$50 million from weapons research production to promote the kind of technology
partnerships we're talking about today, they denied the transfer.
And last week, when we proposed to transfer another $186 million
from unneeded nuclear weapons materials production to new
technologies which will help stop the spread of weapons around the
world and help clean up our weapons facilities, Congress denied
most of that transfer, too. They wanted to spend the money on pork
instead.
So when Governor Doublespeak looks you in the eye and says
he's for shifting R&D funds from defense to civilian, you tell him
I'm
Instead (PORTER)
we're already doing it. But you might ask him to speak to his
partners in pork on Capitol Hill.
And here's the best one of all. Bill Clinton says that he's
for our proposal to make the R&D tax credit permanent, and for a
modified reduction in capital gains taxes. At the exact moment he
is looking the American people in the eye and telling them these
Democratic
things, his allies on Capitol Hill are blocking their enactment.
So when Governor Doublespeak looks you in the eye and says he's for
the Democrats must
investment incentives, tell him we I've ve already proposed and financed
10
NOW
them but let s- cut the partisan games and pass the bills.
I'm afraid that Bill Clinton on the subject of technology is
like Bill Clinton on any subject he promise, S them anything, but keeps
you
his
(PORTER)
two fingers crossed behind your back.
Behind my opponent's charges lies the worst kind of cynicism -
- saying things he knows to be not true with the straight face of
slick &polished (DOE)
the professional prevaricator.
11 Tough
For the real story on Bill Clinton and technology, let's look
at the record.
The most recent report card on technology indicators,
published by the Corporation for Enterprise Development, rated
where? what (MCGROARM)
Arkansas near the very bottom among states in virtually every
technology-related factor. For "technology resources", Arkansas
received an "F". And Bill Clinton has allowed Arkansas' incubator
?
program to die on the vine for lack of state funds.
Governors
Compare that to Illinois under Jim Thompson and Jim Edgar.
Right here at the University of Chicago, they've helped to launch
exactly the kind of partnership I'm talking about. The ARCH
Development Corporation, a partnership between state and university
and private sector, helps to identify and develop the most
promising new technologies coming out of this great University and
out of our Argonne National Lab. This cooperative venture has
helped to launch new companies that are doing everything from
împroving the use of superconducting liquids to improving the
lighting of computer screens.
11
Jim Governors Thompson and Jim Edgar have started, in partnership with
the Federal government and the private sector, five technology
centers -- working on everything from advanced cement based
materials to magnetic resonance.
When the chips were down in Arkansas, Bill Clinton did not
deliver on technology. And when "Promise them Anything" Clinton
teams up with the "Spend it on Anything" Congress, Lord knows what they
will deliver.
He clearly knows more about buffalo chips than microchips. CDOE)
The fact is that Bill Clinton talks about the future, but his
ideas and his support come from the patrons of the past. For these
and so many other reasons, it is clear that Bill Clinton is the
wrong man for America.
One of the most quintessentially American figures of our time,
John Wayne, once said that: "Tomorrow is the most important thing
in life."
When the shouting is finished, when the campaign winds down to
its end, it will come down to a very personal and serious decision
for every American. What kind of tomorrow do you want?
Do you want a tomorrow in which we look forward and take on
the competition, or one in which we turn inward in retreat?
Do you want a tomorrow in which we invest in the technologies
that can make us more competitive, or in which we allow the patrons
of the past to spend our future away?
Do you want a tomorrow in which work and innovation are
rewarded, or in which we turn back down the path of higher taxes
and more regulation?
12
Winston Churchill once said about elections: "What it all
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letter
comes down to is a little man, in a little booth, marking a little
Butes
"x" on a little piece of paper."
When Americans step into that booth this year, they will face
a fundamental choice about the kind of future they want. I have
(it does?
come to Chicago today) X to this city that works to offer my ideas what
about
for a future full of promise. A future in which America works,
the
flood!)
America competes, and America wins.
I ask you to join me in this future. America today faces
opportunities that previous generations only dreamed about. Let us
seize them.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of
America.
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20506
17 SEP 24 All : On
September 24, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR DAN MACGROARTY
FROM:
D. ALLAN BROMLEY
SUBJECT:
Insert to Presidential Speech at Chicago/NTI (9/25)
Page 10
Insert after "For the real story on Bill Clinton..."
(begin insert)
Governor Clinton wants to reduce overhead payments for research and development to
universities by three-quarters of a billion dollars per year. Such a reduction would be a
tremendous blow to the single most important and productive component of our science
and technology enterprise. In his quest for technology development by government, he
would slight the very foundation hat has made American science and technology SQ
strong.
I have instructed the Directors of my Office of Management and Budget and Office of
Science and Technology Policy to work with a representative group of university
presidents to eliminate abuses involving indirect cost reimbursements which recognize
that these are entirely legitimate costs involved in the partnership between universities
and the federal government that has given us in the United States the strongest science
and technology enterprise that has ever existed.
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ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT D.UE BY: 11:00 a.m. 09/24
SUBJECT:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE, CHICAGO, IL -
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ACTION FYI
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VICE PRESIDENT
MCBRIDE
BAKER
MOORE
SCOWCROFT
MULLINS
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BATES
PORTER
BRADY
PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
GRAY
MCGROARTY
HOLIDAY
KAUFMAN
HORNER
GROOMES
BOSKIN
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JwUgtna Use 7983
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1992
Thank you, Governor Edgar, for that introduction. At a
certain convention I attended last month in Houston, an 82-year
old American named Ronald Reagan said something very revealing
about our country. "Like most Americans," he said, "I live for the
future."
It is that spirit which defines America, and it is that spirit
which brings us together today.
A few weeks ago in Detroit, I presented my ideas for an Agenda
for American Renewal. That Agenda is guided by my fundamental
belief that the most important challenge we face as Americans --
the defining challenge of the 90s -- is to win the economic
competition.
That's what our future plans must be all about. Getting ready
to compete in an increasingly interdependent world. Our world is
tied together as never before by new technology and new information
systems. It is linked in seamless competition by the free flow of
capital across borders. And, most importantly, filled is with new
promise and new opportunity because of the explosion of new
freedoms and new markets in places where the light of liberty had
never before dared to shine.
Some will tell you that America is in trouble in this new
world of opportunity. But I have a simple vision -- and that is to
compete, not retreat.
In order. to win that economic competition -- in order to win
the peace -- we must prepare to compete. We need an integrated
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strategy -- not one that places economic policy and foreign policy
and domestic policy in three different boxes --because, in fact,
they are related. My agenda ties them together, because that's
what's required to make America safe and strong.
My strategy is based on opening markets, on preparing our
workforce, on sharpening our competitive edge by investing in the
future, on creating opportunity by training our workers and fixing
our health care system, and on rightsizing government -- by cutting
spending and holding the line against taxes.
That strategy is not without controversy. Some want to close
access to our markets, and risk future growth in exports. Some in
the Congress are today sacrificing our investments in the future to
the irresistible appeal of spending on current consumption. Some
believe that higher taxes will give us the money to have the
government take over America's investment strategy. I want to talk
to you today about which strategy will work for America.
Let's be clear about one thing: despite what the pessimists
say, we have begun to succeed already in opening markets and
becoming more competitive. Just look at our export performance
over these past four years. We have increased exports by 40%. We
have gained worldwide market share in manufacturing output. In
just these last four years, our exports to Japan have grown 12
times faster than our imports. So we can win.
C₂
Exports within the high-tech Industries brane increased by
in the last 8 years
But in order to do so, we must sharpen the competitive edge of
American business by investing in knowledge, in new ideas, and in
the technologies we will need to compete. That is a key part of my
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agenda. This should be no surprise, because knowledge is an
historic American strength, and we must build on our strengths.
New knowledge and new technology will give us the chance to
increase productivity -- to help the economy grow -- to create
jobs. For proof of the relationship between technological success
and job creation, we need look no further than here in Illinois.
588,000 jobs in this state are tied to high technology -- that's
over 11 percent of Illinois' work force. Illinois is America's
number one manufacturer of telecommunications equipment. So
winning the race for new ideas, winning the technology race, means
jobs for Illinois, and jobs for America.
By every measure, the United States leads the world in the
generation of new knowledge. We have produced the most scientific
literature, the most new patents, the most Nobel prizes. We cannot
keep that lead without investing in new knowledge -- so my budget
for this year represents a 35% increase over 1989 in basic
research.
But basic research is only half the story. For America to
lead, we need to take our ideas from the laboratory to the
marketplace -- and do it more quickly. And that is where this
Administration is making new strides.
Two years ago, we pulled every Federal agency together to
launch a new program to develop the supercomputers of tomorrow --
computers 1000 times more powerful than today's -- within four
years Our vision is: a Cray the size of a McIntosh a
A*
supercomputer you can put on your desktop.
JBM PC
This is Apple product
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We also proposed a nationwide network - an information
backbone that will transmit 1000 times more information than we can
today in one second. This year, we've proposed over $800 million,
a 23% increase, for this High Performance Computing and
Communications initiative.
Last year, we launched another crosscutting technology plan --
an investment of over $1.8 billion in the materials of tomorrow.
These new kinds of materials will help us make products that are
stronger, lighter, and faster -- everything from cars to airplanes
to military equipment. You've heard of
"planes, trains, and automobiles" -- we'll be more competitive in
all three with the investments we are making today in the
development of advanced materials.
And that's not all. We've launched a $4 billion program in
biotechnology -- and proposed to knock down the regulatory barriers
that might prevent technologies in this area from helping us to
cure disease, improve agricultural performance, and clean up the
environment.
We've turned some of the expertise at the Federal labs toward
the task of cleaning up the legacy of the Cold War -- forty years
worth of accumulated environmental problems left from making the
weapons that defended freedom around the globe. Winning the peace
means protecting the public from these hazards, and managing
dangerous materials in the Federal government's possession more
responsibly in the future
The key to all of these initiatives is partnership. We cannot
move ideas and technologies from the laboratory bench to the
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commercial marketplace without bringing people together -- business
and government, universities and the Federal labs.
That's what this National Technology Initiative, or NTI, is
all about. This is the eleventh NTI meeting we've had -- each in a
different part of the country; each designed to get the word out
that we've we're going to make it easier to deal with the Federal
government as a partner. If you attend the workshops and visit the
technology fairs, we hope you'll get a window on today's
opportunities, and an early start on tomorrow's successes.
We've brought this cooperation to new heights. A year ago, I
directed the Secretaries of Commerce and Energy to increase the
number of cooperative research and development agreements signed
between our Federal facilities and private partners. These CRADAs
(CRAY-DAHS)), as they are called, help speed the transfer of the
most promising technologies to the private sector -- so they can be
developed into commercial products and services.
And in the one year since that directive was issued -- we've
doubled the number of these agreements. There are now more than
1,400 operating and in place. Computers. Ceramics. Environmental
cleanup. We are achieving an unprecedented level of success in
taking the best ideas from our labs and turning them into American
products and American jobs.
In just a few minutes, we will sign several new breakthrough
agreements. The first one involves two Federal labs and three
industry partners -- working together to solve several problems at
once. The agreement will determine the right mix for burning
pelletized trash along with coal to generate electricity. The
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results will be less sulfur dioxide emissions into the air, less
trash overflowing in our landfills, and more jobs created in here
in Illinois producing this new fuel.
A second one -- between Argonne Lab and Motorola - will help
improve circuitry for communications and electronics. A third will
bring the Oak Ridge National Lab together with IBM to extend
America's leadership in High Performance Computing. The fourth
involves a partnership between General Motors and the National
Insistute of Standards and Technology to develop new software to
solve problems in automated manufacturing equipment.
These agreements bring the concept of partnership to life --
providing rules of the road, protection of patents and intellectual
property, and other understandings -- so that technology transfer
is not a concept but a job-producing reality.
This partnership will also take form in our Manufacturing
Technology Centers. This Administration has established seven such
centers around the country -- in order to help introduce new
equipment and improve manufacturing processes for small and medium-
sized firms. Just since 1989, more than 6,000 companies have used
the services provided by these centers -- and we plan to start up
four more next year.
In next year's budget, we will launch a new cross-cutting
initiative to increase our investment in R&D into new technologies
to advance the manufacturing process. Today's factories face a
different set. of challenges from those a generation ago. In the
face of fast changing requirements, more flexibility is needed
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We want to advance the development of systems and software, of
robotics and artificial intelligence, to make this flexibility
possible for all kinds of companies. And the key is this: we will
pursue This with the private sector.
I have used the word partnership advisedly today, because it
reflects a fundamental belief about the path to successful
technology development. Our efforts to transfer technology from
the labs, to invest in the most promising technologies of tomorrow,
have recognized the fact that the private sector must commercialize
these technologies.
We are providing the tools for the private sector to do the
job.
the market is ultimately going to be successful.
No investment that is not guided by this technology 300 pull from
And on this point, there is a real difference. The other side
believes that government experts can pick the best technologies and
push them out the door. My opponent's proposal is to create
hundreds of centers, with money he will not have unless he raises
your taxes. It is a prescription to "hurry up and wait." Rather
than waiting to build more government buildings, I believe we
should work to develop the technology we have right now. Rather
than waiting for the bureaucrats and planners decide what's best, I
believe we should build the kind of partnerships that allow the
private sector to help identify and commercialize promising
technologies in which we are pursuing leadership today.
Now, it's a political year, and my opponent has made a
specialty out of saying things that sound good; but that: aren't
backed up by his record or his philosophy. And on the subject of
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R&D, as on so many other subjects, Governor Clinton has truly
earned his reputation as Governor Doublespeak.
Bill Clinton has told America that he would invest in civilian
R&D -- and he has said flat out, with a straight face, that we have
cut this investment. He must have been smoking something again on
that one.
The fact is that this Administration has increased the Federal
investment in civilian R&D by 28% just since 1989. We have
increased basic research. We have increased applied R&D. We have
invested in energy R&D and environmental R&D. Aeronautics and
magnetically levitated high speed rail. Computing and
communications. Protecting the public health and exploring the
frontiers of space.
Now here's the best part. In each and every year that we have
sent our budget to the pork-happy partisans on Capitol Hill, they
have cut our R&D budget. They have spent it on water projects.
They have spent it on providing subsidies to, get this, vacant
public housing units. They have funded every pet project from mink
research to subsidies for rich rural telephone cooperatives who:
just happen to give big contributions to Congressmen.
This year, we proposed an increase for the National Science
Foundation to advance our plans in both basic and applied research.
And even as Governor Clinton called for more investment, and even
as his team consults with the Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill
every day, that increase was wiped out.
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So when Governor Doublespeak looks you in the eye and says he
wants to invest in civilian R&D, I say -- we're already doing it.
And your allies in Congress are not helping.
Governor Clinton says he wants to take every dollar we save in
defense R&D and spend it on civilian R&D. In this year's budget, I
increased civilian R&D by 8%, and defense R&D by only one percent.
Every cent from defense went to civilian.
But get this, when we sent the Congress a proposal to transfer
$50 million from weapons research to promote the kind of technology
partnerships we're talking about today, they denied the transfer.
And last week, when we proposed to transfer another $186 million
from unneeded nuclear weapons materials production to new
technologies which will help stop the spread of weapons around the
world and help clean up our weapons facilities, Congress denied
most of that transfer, too. They wanted to spend the money on pork
instead.
So when Governor Doublespeak looks you in the eye and says
he's for shifting R&D funds from defense to civilian, you tell him
we're already doing it. But you might ask him to speak to his
partners in pork on Capitol Hill.
And here's the best one of all. Bill Clinton says that he's
for our proposal to make the R&D tax credit permanent, and for a
modified reduction in capital gains taxes. At the exact moment he
is looking the American people in the eye and telling them these
things, his allies on Capitol Hill are blocking their enactment.
So when Governor Doublespeak looks you in the eye and says he/s for
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investment incentives, tell him we've already proposed and financed
them, but let's cut the partisan games and pass the bills.
I'm afraid that Bill Clinton on the subject of technology is
like Bill Clinton on any subject -- promise them anything, but keep
two fingers crossed behind your back.
Behind my opponent's charges lies the worst kind of cynicism -
- saying things he knows to be not true with the straight face of
the professional prevaricator.
For the real story on Bill Clinton and technology, let's look
at the record.
The most recent report card on technology indicators,
published by the Corporation for Enterprise Development, rated
Arkansas near the very bottom among states in virtually every
technology-related factor. For "technology resources", Arkansas
received an "F". And Bill Clinton has allowed Arkansas' incubator
program to die on the vine for lack of state funds.
Compare that to Illinois under Jim Thompson and Jim Edgar.
Right here at the University of Chicago, they've helped to launch
exactly the kind of partnership I'm talking about. The ARCH
Development Corporation, a partnership between state and university
and private sector, helps to identify and develop the most
promising new technologies coming out of this great University and
out of our Argonne National Lab. This cooperative venture has
helped to launch new companies that are doing everything from
improving the use of superconducting liquids to improving the
lighting of computer screens.
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Jim Thompson and Jim Edgar have started, in partnership with
the Federal government and the private sector, five technology
centers -- working on everything from advanced cement based
materials to magnetic resonance.
When the chips were down in Arkansas, Bill Clinton did not
deliver on technology. And when "Promise them Anything" Clinton
teams up with "Spend it on Anything" Congress, Lord knows what they
will deliver.
The fact is that Bill Clinton talks about the future, but his
ideas and his support come from the patrons of the past. For these
and so many other reasons, it is clear that Bill Clinton is the
wrong man for America.
One of the most quintessentially American figures of our time,
John Wayne, once said that: "Tomorrow is the most important thing
in life."
When the shouting is finished, when the campaign winds down to
its end, it will come down to a very personal and serious decision
for every American. What kind of tomorrow do you want?
Do you want a tomorrow in which we look forward and take on
the competition, or one in which we turn inward in retreat?
Do you want a tomorrow in which we invest in the technologies
that can make us more competitive, or in which we allow the patrons
of the past to spend our future away?
Do you want a tomorrow in which work and innovation are
rewarded, or in which we turn back down the path of higher taxes
and more regulation?
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Winston Churchill once said about elections: "What it all
comes down to is a little man, in a little booth, marking a little
"x" on a little piece of paper."
When Americans step into that booth this year, they will face
a fundamental choice about the kind of future they want. I have
come to Chicago today, to this city that works, to offer my ideas
for a future full of promise. A future in which America works,
America competes, and America wins.
I ask you to join me in this future. America today faces
opportunities that previous generations only dreamed about. Let us
seize them.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of
America.
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DATE:
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SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE, CHICAGO, IL -
09/25/92
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
MCGROARTY
HOLIDAY
KAUFMAN
HORNER
GROOMES
BOSKIN
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments directly to Dan McGroarty no later than
11:00 a.m. on Thursday, 09/24, with a copy to this office. Thanks.
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Ede
Holiday sector too programatic -- not enough visionary
Too Clintonesque -- too much government, not enough private
RESPONSE: See comments Thanks
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Paul PK Kpitenta Paul Boby K.
PHILLIP D. BRADY
07/24
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1992
Thank you, Governor Edgar, for that introduction. At a
certain convention I attended last month in Houston, an 82-year
old American named Ronald Reagan said something very revealing
about our country. "Like most Americans," he said, "I live for the
future."
It is that spirit which defines America, and it is that spirit
which brings us together today.
A few weeks ago in Detroit, I presented my ideas for an Agenda
for American Renewal. That Agenda is guided by my fundamental
belief that the most important challenge we face as Americans --
the defining challenge of the 90s -- is to win the economic
competition.
That's what our future plans must be all about. Getting ready
to compete in an increasingly interdependent world. Our world is
tied together as never before by new technology and new information
systems. It is linked in seamless competition by the free flow of
capital across borders. And, most importantly, it filled with new
promise and new opportunity because of the explosion of new
freedoms and new markets in places where the light of liberty had
(DOE)
been permitted
never before litted to shine.
Some will tell you that America is in trouble in this new
world of opportunity. But I have a simple vision -- and that is to
compete, not retreat.
In order to win that economic competition -- in order to win
the peace -- we must prepare to compete. We need an integrated
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strategy -- not one that places economic policy and foreign policy
and domestic policy in three different boxes --because, in fact,
strategy for American renewal
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they are related. My ties them together, because that's
what's required to make America safe and strong.
My strategy is based on opening markets, on preparing our
workforce, on sharpening our competitive edge by investing in the
future, on creating opportunity by training our workers and fixing (DOE)
on utilizing partnerships between
our health care system, and on ightsizing government by cutting
government and industry to maximize resources to solve
spending and holding the line against taxes problems time. in minimum
That strategy is not without controversy. Some want to close
access to our markets, and risk future growth in exports. Some in
the Congress are today sacrificing our investments in the future to
the irresistible appeal of spending on current consumption. Some
believe that higher taxes will give us the money to have the
government take over America's investment strategy. I want to talk
to you today about which strategy will work for America.
Let's be clear about one thing: despite what the pessimists
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say, we have begun to succeed already in opening markets and
office says
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becoming more competitive. Just look at our export performance
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times faster than our imports. So we can win.
goods. ports of manufactured
But in order to do so, we must sharpen the competitive edge of
American business by investing in knowledge, in new ideas, and in
the technologies we will need to compete. That is a key part of my
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strategy.
agenda. This should be no surprise, because knowledge is an
historic American strength, and we must build on our strengths.
New knowledge and new technology will give us the chance to
increase productivity -- to help the economy grow -- to create
jobs. For proof of the relationship between technological success
and job creation, we need look no further than here in Illinois.
588,000 jobs in this state are tied to high technology -- that's
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over 11 percent of Illinois' work force. Illinois is America's
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winning the race for new ideas, winning the technology race, means
jobs for Illinois, and jobs for America.
By every measure, the United States leads the world in the
generation of new knowledge. We have produced the most scientific
literature, the most new patents, the most Nobel prizes. We cannot
keep that lead without investing in new knowledge -- so my budget
for this year represents a 35% increase over 1989 in basic
research.
But basic research is only half the story. For America to
lead, we need to take our ideas from the laboratory to the
marketplace -- and do it more quickly. And that is where this
Administration is making new strides.
Two years ago, we pulled every Federal agency together to
launch a new program to develop the supercomputers of tomorrow
--
computers 1000 times more powerful than today's -- within four
years. Our vision is a Cray the size of a McIntosh -- a
supercomputer you can put on your desktop:
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We also proposed a nationwide network -- an information
backbone that will transmit 1000 times more information than we can
today in one second. This year, we've proposed over $800 million,
a 23% increase, for this High Performance Computing and
Communications initiative.
Last year, we launched another crosscutting technology plan --
an investment of over $1.8 billion in the materials of tomorrow.
These new kinds of materials will help us make products that are
stronger, lighter, and faster -- everything from cars to airplanes
to military equipment. You've heard of
"planes, trains, and automobiles" -- we'll be more competitive in
all three with the investments we are making today in the
development of advanced materials.
And that's not all. We've launched a $4 billion program in
biotechnology -- and proposed to knock down the regulatory barriers
that might prevent technologies in this area from helping us to
cure disease, improve agricultural performance, and clean up the
environment.
We've turned some of the expertise at the Federal labs toward
the task of cleaning up the legacy of the Cold War -- forty years
worth of accumulated environmental problems left from making the
weapons that defended freedom around the globe. Winning the peace
means protecting the public from these hazards, and managing
dangerous materials in the Federal government's possession more
(DOE)
in the future
The key to all of these initiatives is partnership. We cannot
move ideas and technologies from the laboratory bench to the
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commercial marketplace without bringing people together -- business
and government, universities and the Federal labs.
That's what this National Technology Initiative, or NTI, is
all about. This is the eleventh NTI meeting we've had -- each in a
different part of the country; each designed to get the word out
that we've going to make it easier to deal with the Federal
government as a partner. If you attend the workshops and visit the
(DOE)
technology fair, we hope you'll get a window on today's
opportunities, and an early start on tomorrow's successes.
We've brought this cooperation to new heights. A year ago, I
directed the Secretaries of Commerce and Energy to increase the
number of cooperative research and development agreements signed
between our Federal facilities and private partners. These CRADAs
((CRAY-DAHS)), as they are called, help speed the transfer of the
most promising technologies to the private sector -- so they can be
developed into commercial products and services.
And in the one year since that directive was issued -- we've
doubled the number of these agreements. There are now more than
1,400 operating and in place. Computers. Ceramics. Environmental
cleanup. We are achieving an unprecedented level of success in
taking the best ideas from our labs and turning them into American
products and American jobs.
In just a few minutes, we will sign several new breakthrough
agreements. The first one involves two Federal labs and three
industry partners -- working together to solve several problems at
once. The agreement will determine the right mix for burning
pelletized trash along with coal to generate electricity. The
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results will be less sulfur dioxide emissions into the air, less
trash overflowing in our landfills, and more jobs created in here
in Illinois producing this new fuel.
A second one -- between Argonne Lab and Motorola -- will help
improve circuitry for communications and electronics. A third will
bring the Oak Ridge National Lab together with IBM to extend
America's leadership in High Performance Computing. The fourth
involves a partnership between General Motors and the National
Insistute of Standards and Technology to develop new software to
solve problems in automated manufacturing equipment.
These agreements bring the concept of partnership to life --
providing rules of the road, protection of patents and intellectual
property, and other understandings -- so that technology transfer
is not a concept but a job-producing reality.
This partnership will also take form in our Manufacturing
Technology Centers. This Administration has established seven such
centers around the country -- in order to help introduce new
equipment and improve manufacturing processes for small and medium-
sized firms. Just since 1989, more than 6,000 companies have used
the services provided by these centers -- and we plan to start up
four more next year.
In next year's budget, we will launch a new cross-cutting
initiative to increase our investment in R&D into new technologies
to advance the manufacturing process. Today's factories face à
different set of challenges from those a generation ago. In the
face of Fast changing requirements; more flexibility is needed:
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We want to advance the development of systems and software, of
robotics and artificial intelligence, to make this flexibility
possible for all kinds of companies. And the key is this: we will
pursue with the private sector.
I have used the word partnership advisedly today, because it
reflects a fundamental belief about the path to successful
technology development. Our efforts to transfer technology from
the labs, to invest in the most promising technologies of tomorrow,
have recognized the fact that the private sector must commercialize
these technologies.
We are providing the tools for the private sector to do the
job. No investment that is not guided by this technology pull from
the market is ultimately going to be successful.
And on this point, there is a real difference. The other side
believes that government experts can pick the best technologies and
push them out the door. My opponent's proposal is to create
hundreds of centers, with money he will not have unless he raises
your taxes. It is a prescription to "hurry up and wait." Rather
than waiting to build more government buildings, I believe we
should work to develop the technology we have right now. Rather
than waiting for the bureaucrats and planners decide what's best, I
believe we should build the kind of partnerships that allow the
private sector to help identify and commercialize promising
technologies in which we are pursuing leadership today.
Now, it's a political year, and my opponent has made a
specialty out of saying things that sound good, : but that aren't
backed up by his record or his philosophy. And on the subject of
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R&D, as on SO many other subjects, Governor Clinton has truly
earned his reputation as Governor Doublespeak.
Bill Clinton has told America that he would invest in civilian
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R&D -- and he has said flat out, with a straight face, that we have
that stuff
cut this investment. He must have been smoking something grain
on
again and this time he must have inhaled.
The fact is that this Administration has increased the Federal
investment in civilian R&D by 28% just since 1989. We have
increased basic research. We have increased applied R&D. We have
invested in energy R&D and environmental R&D. Aeronautics and
magnetically levitated high speed rail. Computing and
communications. Protecting the public health and exploring the
frontiers of space.
Now here's the best part. In each and every year that we have
sent our budget to the pork-happy partisans on Capitol Hill, they
have cut our R&D budget. They have spent it on water projects.
They have spent it on providing subsidies to, get this, vacant
public housing units. They have funded every pet project from mink
research to subsidies for rich rural telephone cooperatives who
just happen to give big contributions to Congressmen.
This year, we proposed an increase for the National science
Foundation to advance our plans in both basic and applied research.
And even as Governor Clinton called for more investment, and even
as his team consults with the Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill
every day, that increase was wiped out.
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so when Governor Doublespeak looks you in the eye and says he
wants to invest in civilian R&D, I say -- we're already doing it.
And your allies in Congress are not helping.
Governor Clinton says he wants to take every dollar we save in
defense R&D and spend it on civilian R&D. In this year's budget, I
increased civilian R&D by 8%, and defense R&D by only one percent.
Every cent from defense went to civilian.
But get this, when we sent the Congress a proposal to transfer
$50 million from weapons research to promote the kind of technology
partnerships we're talking about today, they denied the transfer.
And last week, when we proposed to transfer another $186 million
from unneeded nuclear weapons materials production to new
technologies which will help stop the spread of weapons around the
world and help clean up our weapons facilities, Congress denied
most of that transfer, too. They wanted to spend the money on pork
instead.
so when Governor Doublespeak looks you in the eye and says
he's for shifting R&D funds from defense to civilian, you tell him
we're already doing it. But you might ask him to speak to his
partners in pork on Capitol Hill.
And here's the best one of all. Bill Clinton says that he's
for our proposal to make the R&D tax credit permanent, and for a
modified reduction in capital gains taxes. At the exact moment he
is looking the American people in the eye and telling them these
things, his allies on Capitol Hill are blocking their enactment.
so when Governor Doublespeak looks you in the eye and says he's for
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investment incentives, tell him we've already proposed and financed
them, but let's cut the partisan games and pass the bills.
I'm afraid that Bill Clinton on the subject of technology is
like Bill Clinton on any subject -- promise them anything, but keep
two fingers crossed behind your back.
Behind my opponent's charges lies the worst kind of cynicism -
- saying things he knows to be not true with the straight face of
slick and polished
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the prevaricator.
For the real story on Bill Clinton and technology, let's look
at the record.
The most recent report card on technology indicators,
published by the Corporation for Enterprise Development, rated
Arkansas near the very bottom among states in virtually every
technology-related factor. For "technology resources", Arkansas
received an "F". And Bill Clinton has allowed Arkansas' incubator
program to die on the vine for lack of state funds.
Compare that to Illinois under Jim Thompson and Jim Edgar.
Right here at the University of Chicago, they've helped to launch
exactly the kind of partnership I'm talking about. The ARCH
Development Corporation, a partnership between state and university
and private sector, helps to identify and develop the most
promising new technologies coming out of this great University and
out of our Argonne National Lab. This cooperative venture has
helped to launch new companies that are doing everything from
improving the use of superconducting liquids to improving the
lighting of computer screens.
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Jim Thompson and Jim Edgar have started, in partnership with
the Federal government and the private sector, five technology
centers -- working on everything from advanced cement based
materials to magnetic resonance.
When the chips were down in Arkansas, Bill Clinton did not
deliver on technology. And when "Promise them Anything" Clinton
teams up with "Spend it on Anything" Congress, Lord knows what they
(DOE) will deliver.
He clearly knows more about buttalo chips
than microchips.
The fact is that Bill Clinton talks about the future, but his
ideas and his support come from the patrons of the past. For these
and SO many other reasons, it is clear that Bill Clinton is the
wrong man for America.
One of the most quintessentially American figures of our time,
John Wayne, once said that: "Tomorrow is the most important thing
in life."
When the shouting is finished, when the campaign winds down to
its end, it will come down to a very personal and serious decision
for every American. What kind of tomorrow do you want?
Do you want a tomorrow in which we look forward and take on
the competition, or one in which we turn inward in retreat?
Do you want a tomorrow in which we invest in the technologies
that can make us more competitive, or in which we allow the patrons
of the past to spend our future away?
DO you want a tomorrow in which work and innovation are
rewarded, or in which we turn back down the path of higher taxes
and more regulation?
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Winston Churchill once said about elections: "What it all
comes down to is a little man, in a little booth, marking a little
"X" on a little piece of paper."
When Americans step into that booth this year, they will face
a fundamental choice about the kind of future they want. I have
come to Chicago today, to this city that works, to offer my ideas
for a future full of promise. A future in which America works,
America competes, and America wins.
I ask you to join me in this future. America today faces
opportunities that previous generations only dreamed about. Let us
seize them.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of
America.
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Suggested comments on Presidential Remarks
Page 1, last sentence of 3rd paragraph.
Change "where the light of liberty had never before dared to
shine" to
"where the light of liberty had never before been permitted
to shine"
Rationale: the spirit of liberty can never be daunted but
it can be blocked temporarily.
Page 2, line 3
Change "My agenda ties them together" to "My strategy for
American renewal ties them together"
Rationale: A agenda is fundamentally a list; a strategy is
a thoughtfully developed plan that inherently integrates
separate parts into a focussed, cohesive whole.
Page 2, line 8
Add after "health care system," the phrase "on utilizing
partnerships between government and industry to maximize
resources to solve problems in minimum time,"
Rationale: Broadens the discussion of strategy in regards
to competitiveness beyond federal investment to include
cost-shared/cost-effective teaming.
Page 3, line 1
Replace the first word "agenda" with "strategy"
Rationale: See discussion regarding Page 2, line 3.
Page 4, line 25
Replace "responsibly" with "effectively"
Rationale: The current phrasing could be misused to charge
the Administration with having been irresponsible in its
waste management practices. Focusing on effectiveness
rather than responsibility indicates a recognition of the
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importance of meeting environmental objectives concurrently
with other needs, such as national security.
Page 5, line 8
Suggest making "fairs" singular
Rationale: The is usually only one exhibit area per NTI
event.
Page 8, lines 5-6.
Suggest replacing the current sentence with: "He must have
been smoking that stuff again and this time he must have
inhaled."
Rationale: Toxicologically speaking, the new articulation
is a better presumption.
Page 10, line 8.
Suggest replace "professional" with "slick and polished"
Rationale: There is no formal professional association in
this area.
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Suggest inserting the following sentence for amplification:
"He clearly knows more about buffalo chips than micro-
chips."
General comment:
The remarks are solid, sound and to the point. Somewhere a
little more meat on industry's willingness to partner could be
added. Consider at page 7, line 12 inserting the following
sentences: "You have come to this National Technology Initiative
because you recognize that the partnership concept is working and
that this Administration and the one before have made working
with federal laboratories fairer, more predictable, and more
focussed on enhancing our economic competitiveness."
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VICE PRESIDENT
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Please provide any comments directly to Dan McGroarty no later than
11:00 a.m. on Thursday, 09/24, with a copy to this office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
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Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS;
NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1992
Thank you, Governor Edgar, for that introduction. At a
certain convention I attended last month in Houston, an 82-year
FORMER PRESIDENT
old American named Ronald Reagan said something very revealing
about our country. "Like most Americans," he said, "I live for the
future."
It is that spirit which defines America, and it is that spirit
which brings us together today.
A few weeks ago in Detroit, I presented my ideas for an Agenda
MY
A
for American Renewal. That Agenda is guided by my fundamental
belief that the most important challenge we face as Americans --
the defining challenge of the 90s -- is to win the economic
competition.
That's what our future plans must be all about. I Getting ready
THE EOAC PLANNING MUST ACHIEVE O
A ECOBAL Economy
to compete in an increasingly interdependent world. Our world is
LINKED
tied together as never before by ynew technology, and I new information
THE FLOW of
systems It is linked in seamless competition by the free flow of
AND capital across borders. And And most importantly, it filled with new
S
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promise( and new new opportunity because of the explosion of new
S
freedoms and new markets in places where the light of liberty had
PUT AN END TO THE DARKNESSO
never before dared to shine I
Some will tell you that America is in trouble in this new
world of opportunity. But I have a simple vision -- and that is to
compete, not retreat
OUR PEOPLE AND OUR BUSINESSES
In order to win that economic competition -- in order to win
the peace -- we must prepare to compete. We need an integrated
2
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strategy -- not one that places economic policy and foreign policy
INDEPENDENTLY
and domestic policy in three different boxes --because, in fact,
they are related. My agenda ties them together, because that's
what's required to make America safe and strong.
STREMETHENING
My strategy is based on opening markets, on preparing our
workforce, on sharpening our competitive edge by investing in the
EXPANDING
REFORMING
future, on creating opportunity by training our workers and fixing
our health care system, and on rightsizing government -- by cutting
spending and holding the line against taxes.
That strategy is not without controversy. Some want to close
access to our markets, and risk future growth in exports. Some in
the Congress are today sacrificing our investments in the future to
the irresistible appeal of spending on current consumption. Some
believe that higher taxes will give us the money to have the
AND LET THE GOVERNMENT PICK
government take over America's investment strategy. I want to talk
to you today about which strategy will work for America.
Let's be clear about one thing: despite what the pessimists
say, we have begun to succeed already in opening markets and
WINNERS AND LOSERS.
becoming more competitive. Just look at our export performance
over these I past four years. We have increased exports by 40%.
We
have gained worldwide market share in manufacturing output. In
just these last four years, our exports to Japan have grown 12
times faster than our imports. So we can win.
But in order to do so, we must sharpen the competitive edge of
American business by investing in knowledge, in new ideas, and in
ELEMENT
the technologies we will need to compete. That is a key part of my
3
agenda. This should be no surprise, because knowledge is an
historic American strength, and we must build on our strengths.
New knowledge and new technology will give us the chance to
increase productivity -- to help the economy grow -- to create
jobs. For proof of the relationship between technological success
and job creation, we need look no further than here in Illinois.
588,000 jobs in this state are tied to high technology -- that's
over 11 percent of Illinois' work force. Illinois is America's
number one manufacturer of telecommunications equipment. So
winning the race for new ideas, winning the technology race, means
jobs for Illinois, and jobs for America.
By every measure, the United States leads the world in the
generation of new knowledge. We have produced the most scientific
literature, the most new patents, the most Nobel prizes. We cannot
keep that lead without investing in new knowledge -- so my budget
for this year represents a 35% increase over 1989 in basic
research.
TRANSFER
But basic research is only half the story. For America to
lead, we need to take our ideas from the laboratory to the
marketplace -- and do it more quickly. And that is where this
Administration is making new strides.
Two years ago, we pulled every Federal agency together to
launch a new program to develop the supercomputers of tomorrow
computers 1000 times more powerful than today's -- within four
years. Our vision is a. Cray the size of a McIntosh -- a
supercomputer you can put on your desktop.
?
COMPUTER
4
We also proposed a nationwide network -- an information
backbone that will transmit 1000 times more information than we can
today in one second. This year, we've proposed over $800 million,
a 23% increase, for this High Performance Computing and
Communications initiative.
DEVELOPING
Last year, we launched another crosscutting technology plan --
an investment of over $1.8 billion in the materials of tomorrow.
These new kinds of materials will help us make products that are
stronger, lighter, and faster -- everything from cars to airplanes
to military equipment. You've heard of
"planes, trains, and automobiles" -- we'll be more competitive in
all three with the investments we are making today in the
development of advanced materials.
And that's not all. We've launched a $4 billion program in
biotechnology -- and proposed to knock down the regulatory barriers
that might prevent technologies in this area from helping us to
cure disease, improve agricultural performance, and clean up the
environment.
We've turned some of the expertise at the Federal labs toward
the task of cleaning up the legacy of the Cold War -- forty years
worth of recumulatedZenvironmental problems left from making the
weapons that defended freedom around the globe. Winning the peace
CONTINUING TO
means protecting the public from these hazards, and/managing
dangerous materials in the Federal government's possession more
responsibly,in the future.
The key to all of these initiatives is partnership. We cannot
move ideas and technologies from the laboratory bench to the
5
commercial marketplace without bringing people together -- business
and government, universities and the Federal labs.
That's what this National Technology Initiative, or NTI, is
all about. This is the eleventh NTI meeting we've had -- each in a
different part of the country; each designed to get the word out
that we've going to make it easier to deal with the Federal
government as a partner. If you attend the workshops and visit the
technology fairs, we hope you'll get a window on today's
opportunities, and an early start on tomorrow's successes.
We've brought this cooperation to new heights. A year ago, I
directed the Secretaries of Commerce and Energy to increase the
number of cooperative research and development agreements signed
between our Federal facilities and private partners. These CRADAs
( (CRAY-DAHS) ) as they are called, help speed the transfer of the
most promising technologies to the private sector -- so they can be
developed into commercial products and services.
And in the one year since that directive was issued -- we've
doubled the number of these agreements. There are now more than
1,400 operating and in place. Computers. Ceramics. Environmental
cleanup. We are achieving an unprecedented level of success in
taking the best ideas from our labs and turning them into American
products and American jobs.
In just a few minutes, we will sign several new breakthrough
agreements. The first one involves two Federal labs and three
industry partners -- working together to solve several problems at
once. The agreement will determine the right mix for burning
pelietized trash along with coal to generate electricity. The
6
results will be less sulfur dioxide emissions into the air, less
trash overflowing in our landfills, and more jobs created in here
ENERGY
in Illinois producing this new fuel.
A second one -- between Argonne Lab and Motorola -- will help
improve circuitry for communications and electronics. A third will
bring the Oak Ridge National Lab together with IBM to extend
America's leadership in High Performance Computing. The fourth
involves a partnership between General Motors and the National
Insistute of Standards and Technology to develop new software to
solve problems in automated manufacturing equipment.
These agreements bring the concept of partnership to life --
providing rules of the road, protection of patents and intellectual
property, and other understandings -- so that technology transfer
is not a concept but a job-producing reality.
This partnership will also take form in our Manufacturing
Technology Centers. This Administration has established seven such
centers around the country -- in order to help introduce new
equipment and improve manufacturing processes for small and medium-
sized firms. J since 1989, more than 6,000 companies have used
the services provided by these centers -- and we plan to start up
four more next year.
In next year's budget, we will launch a new cross-cutting
initiative to increase our investment in R&D into new technologies
to advance the manufacturing process. Today's factories face a
different set of challenges from those a generation ago. In the
face of fast changing requirements, more flexibility is needed.
7
We want to advance the development of systems and software, of
robotics and artificial intelligence, to make this flexibility
possible for all kinds of companies. And the key is this: we will
THIS EOAL
pursue Y with the private sector.
I have used the word partnership advisedly today, because it
reflects a fundamental belief about the path to successful
technology development. Our efforts to transfer technology from
the labs, to invest in the most promising technologies of tomorrow,
have recognized the fact that the private sector must commercialize
these technologies.
We are providing the tools for the private sector to do the
job. No investment that is not guided by this technology pull from
is DEMAND FOR NEW TECHNOLOGY
the markety is ultimately going to be successful.
And on this point, there is a real difference. The other side
believes that government experts can pick the best technologies and
push them out the door. My opponent's proposal is to create
hundreds of centers, with money he will not have unless he raises
your taxes. It is a prescription to "hurry up and wait." Rather
than waiting to build more government buildings, I believe we
should work to develop the technology we have right now. Rather
than waiting for the bureaucrats and planners decide what's best, I
believe we should build the kind of partnerships that allow the
private sector to help identify and commercialize promising
technologies in which we are pursuing leadership today.
Now, it's a political year, and my opponent has made a
specialty out of saying things that sound good, but that aren't
backed up by his record or his philosophy. And on the subject of
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R&D, as on so many other subjects, Governor Clinton has truly
earned his reputation as Governor Doublespeak.
Bill Clinton has told America that he would invest in civilian
R&D -- and he has said flat out, with a straight face, that we have
cut this investment. He must have been smoking something again on
that one:
The fact is that this Administration has increased the Federal
investment in civilian R&D by 28% just since 1989. We have
increased basic research. We have increased applied R&D. We have
invested in energy R&D and environmental R&D. Aeronautics and
magnetically levitated high speed rail. Computing and
communications. Protecting the public health and exploring the
frontiers of space.
Now here's the best part. In each and every year that we have
sent our budget to the pork-happy partisans on Capitol Hill, they
have cut our R&D budget. They have spent it on water projects.
They have spent it on providing subsidies to, get this, vacant
public housing units. They have funded every pet project from mink
research to subsidies for rich rural telephone cooperatives who
just happen to give big contributions to Congressmen.
This year, we proposed an increase for the National Science
Foundation to advance our plans in both basic and applied research.
And even as Governor Clinton called for more investment, and even
as his team consults with the Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill
every day, that increase was. wiped out.
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So when Governor Doublespeak looks you in the eye and says he
wants to invest in civilian R&D, I say -- we're already doing it.
And your allies in Congress are not helping.
Governor Clinton says he wants to take every dollar we save in
defense R&D and spend it on civilian R&D. In this year's budget, I
increased civilian R&D by 8%, and defense R&D by only one percent.
Every cent from defense went to civilian.
But get this, when we sent the Congress a proposal to transfer
$50 million from weapons research to promote the kind of technology
partnerships we're talking about today, they denied the transfer.
And last week, when we proposed to transfer another $186 million
from unneeded nuclear weapons materials production to new
technologies which will help stop the spread of weapons around the
world and help clean up our weapons facilities, Congress denied
most of that transfer, too. They wanted to spend the money on pork
instead.
So when Governor Doublespeak looks you in the eye and says
he's for shifting R&D funds from defense to civilian, you tell him
INSTEAD,
we're already doing it. But you might ask him to speak to his
partners in pork on Capitol Hill.
And here's the best one of all. Bill Clinton says that he's
for our proposal to make the R&D tax credit permanent, and for a
modified reduction in capital gains taxes. At the exact moment he
is looking the American people in the eye and telling them these
things, his allies on Capitol Hill are blocking their enactment.
So when Governor Doublespeak looks you in the eye and says he's for
THE DEMOCRATS must
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investment incentives, tell him we've already proposed and financed
them, but let's cut the partisan games and pass the bills.
I'm afraid that Bill Clinton on the subject of technology is
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like Bill Clinton on any subject promise them anything, but keepS
HIS
two fingers crossed behind your back.
Behind my opponent's charges lies the worst kind of cynicism -
- saying things he knows to be not true with the straight face of
the professional prevaricator.
For the real story on Bill Clinton and technology, let's look
at the record.
The most recent report card on technology indicators,
published by the Corporation for Enterprise Development, rated
Arkansas near the very bottom among states in virtually every
technology-related factor. For "technology resources", Arkansas
received an "F". And Bill Clinton has allowed Arkansas' incubator
program to die on the vine for lack of state funds.
Compare that to Illinois under Jim Thompson and Jim Edgar.
Right here at the University of Chicago, they've helped to launch
exactly the kind of partnership I'm talking about. The ARCH
Development Corporation, a partnership between state and university
and private sector, helps to identify and develop the most
promising new technologies coming out of this great University and
out of our Argonne National Lab. This cooperative venture has
helped to launch new companies that are doing everything from
improving the use of superconducting liquids to improving the
lighting of computer screens.
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Jim Thompson and Jim Edgar have started, in partnership with
the Federal government and the private sector, five technology
centers -- working on everything from advanced cement based
materials to magnetic resonance.
When the chips were down in Arkansas, Bill Clinton did not
deliver on technology. And when "Promise them Anything" Clinton
teams up with "Spend it on Anything" Congress, Lord knows what they
will deliver.
The fact is that Bill Clinton talks about the future, but his
ideas and his support come from the patrons of the past. For these
and so many other reasons, it is clear that Bill Clinton is the
wrong man for America.
One of the most quintessentially American figures of our time,
John Wayne, once said that: "Tomorrow is the most important thing
in life."
When the shouting is finished, when the campaign winds down to
its end, it will come down to a very personal and serious decision
for every American. What kind of tomorrow do you want?
Do you want a tomorrow in which we look forward and take on
the competition, or one in which we turn inward in retreat?
Do you want a tomorrow in which we invest in the technologies
that can make us more competitive, or in which we allow the patrons
of the past to spend our future away?
Do you want a tomorrow in which work and innovation are
rewarded, or in which we turn back down the path of higher taxes
and more regulation?
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Winston Churchill once said about elections: "What it. all
comes down to is a little man, in a little booth, marking a little
"x" on a little piece of paper."
When Americans step into that booth this year, they will face
a fundamental choice about the kind of future they want. I have
come to Chicago today, to this city that works, to offer my ideas
for a future full of promise. A future in which America works,
America competes, and America wins.
I ask you to join me in this future. America today faces
opportunities that previous generations only dreamed about. Let us
seize them.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of
America.
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