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WOODWARD
Journal of Negro History. In 1921 he organized
Woodward was also the editor of The Compara-
Associated Publishers, Inc., to afford blacks the
tive Approach to American History, 1968.
opportunity to publish works on Negro culture
that other publishers would not readily accept.
Woodward, Robert Burns (1917-1979), chemist.
He himself wrote many books on black history,
Born in Boston on April 10, 1917, Woodward
including The Negro in Our History, 1922, long
graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of
a widely used textbook; African Myths, 1928;
Technology (MIT) in 1936 and one year later, at
The Rural Negro, 1930; The African Background
the age of twenty, took his doctorate in chemistry
Outlined, 1936; and African Heroes and Heroines,
at the same institution. In 1938 he became a fel-
1939. In 1926, the year he was awarded the
low of Harvard College, and two years later he
Spingarn Medal of the National Association for
became an instructor in chemistry there. He
the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
remained at Harvard throughout his teaching and
he inaugurated the observance of Negro History
research career, advancing to full professor in 1951
Week, and in 1937 began publication of the Negro
and to the Morris Loeb professorship in 1953. He
History Bulletin, designed for use in schools. He
also served as consultant to various companies, in-
devoted much time to urging other blacks to take
cluding the Pfizer Chemical and Polaroid com-
up the study of the history of their people, thus
panies. His main area of work was the laboratory
laying the foundation for widespread adoption of
synthesis of organic compounds. During World
black studies in schools in the 1960s. From 1944
War II he and his associates successfully achieved
until his death Woodson was engaged in editing
a total synthesis of quinine, a substance in short
the six-volume Encyclopedia Africana. He died in
supply because of the war. In 1947 he announced
Washington, D.C., on April 4, 1950.
the synthesis of protein analogues, an attain-
ment useful in medical research and in the manu-
Woodward, Comer Vann (1908- ), historian.
facture of plastics and antibiotics. The first
Born on November 13, 1908, in Vanndale, Cross
successful synthesis of a steroid, a highly complex
County, Arkansas, a town named after his
type of organic molecule, was achieved in 1951.
mother's family, C. Vann Woodward graduated
This led to the greater production and availability
from Emory University in 1930, studied at
of rare drugs such as cortisone. During the next
Columbia University and took his M.A. there in
decade he and his coworkers were able to synthe-
1932, and then obtained his Ph.D. from the Uni-
size a great number of steroids and alkaloids, in-
versity of North Carolina in 1937. His post-
cluding strychnine (1954), lysergic acid (1954),
graduate studies were interrupted by teaching as-
reserpine (1956), chlorophyll (1961), and tetracy-
signments at the Georgia Institute of Technology
cline (1962). Woodward also contributed to the
in 1930-1931 and 1932-1933; he taught history at
understanding of the structures of such substances
the University of Florida, 1937-1939, at the Uni-
as penicillin and other antibiotics. In 1965 he
versity of Virginia, 1939-1940, and at Scripps
was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for
College, 1940-1943, before serving in the navy
his work in chemical synthesis, the citation noting
during World War II. Returning from active ser-
particularly his synthesis of chlorophyll. In 1972
vice in 1946, he joined the faculty at The Johns
he synthesized vitamin B-12, the most intricate
Hopkins University that year and remained until
molecule synthesized up to that time. He died
1961, when he became Sterling Professor of His-
on July 8, 1979, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
tory at Yale. He was also from time to time a
visiting professor at several American institutions
Woollcott, Alexander (1887-1943), critic and actor.
and was Harmsworth Professor of American His-
Born in Phalanx, Monmouth County, New Jersey,
tory at Oxford, 1954-1955. He was the author of
on January 19, 1887, Woollcott grew up there and
a number of influential books which gained him a
in Kansas City, Missouri, and Philadelphia. He
reputation as the dean of historians of the South.
graduated from Hamilton College in 1909, and
In 1968-1969 he became the first historian to serve
went to work as a reporter for the New York
concurrently as president of both the American
Times. In 1914 he became the drama critic of the
Historical Association and the Organization of
Times, thus launching a career that saw him be-
American Historians. His books included Tom
come one of the most influential arbiters of taste
Watson: Agrarian Rebel, 1938; The Battle of
in theater and literature in the years between the
Leyte Gulf, 1947; Origins of the New South, 1877-
World Wars. Except for service in Europe during
1913, 1951, winner of the 1952 Bancroft Prize for
World War I (where he worked on the staff of the
history; Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise
army newspaper Stars and Stripes) he remained
of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction, 1951; The
with the Times until 1922. He then successively
Strange Career of Jim Crow, 1955; The Burden of
worked as drama critic for the New York Herald
Southern History, 1961; and American Counter-
(1922-1924), the New York Sun (1924-1925), and
point: Slavery and Race in the North-South Dia-
the New York World (1925-1928). Along with
logue, 1971. In his later works, and especially in
E. B. White and James Thurber, Woollcott was
widely discussed magazine articles in the 1960s,
also a steady contributor to the New Yorker
he emphasized the necessity for American his-
magazine in its early years. From 1929 to 1942 he
torians to reconsider Southern and especially
was the "Town Crier" of network radio. This was
Negro history in order to arrive at a truer under-
an interview program with guests who discussed
standing of the nation's past and also its future.
with Woollcott topics of literary and social im-
WOOLWORTH 1159
as also the editor of The Compara-
portance and on which the moderator gave his own
Woolsey grew up there and in New Haven, Con-
1 to American History, 1968.
very definite views. As drama critic, Woollcott was
necticut. He graduated from Yale in 1820, and
also an actor at heart, and during the 1930s found
during the next decade pursued theological studies
Robert Burns (1917-1979), chemist.
several opportunities to appear on stage. His most
at the Princeton Theological Seminary and at Yale
on on April 10, 1917, Woodward
memorable performance was in The Man Who
and classical studies in Germany and France. In
om the Massachusetts Institute of
Came To Dinner, 1939, written by George S. Kauf-
1831 he was appointed professor of Greek lan-
MIT) in 1936 and one year later, at
man and Moss Hart with Woollcott in mind as the
guage and literature at Yale; he became president
enty, took his doctorate in chemistry
lead character, Sheridan Whiteside. A prolific
of Yale in 1846. The years of his presidency saw
nstitution. In 1938 he became a fel-
author of reviews and articles, he collected many
great changes at the school, for it was a time of
rd College, and two years later he
of them in books, including Shouts and Murmurs,
much agitation, ferment, and criticism in higher
nstructor in chemistry there. He
1922, Enchanted Aisles, 1924, and While Rome
education in the United States. The older colleges
larvard throughout his teaching and
Burns, 1934. He was a member of the famed
were being expanded into universities with courses
r, advancing to full professor in 1951
literary "Round Table" at the Algonquin Hotel in
for advanced degrees, and the great state uni-
orris Loeb professorship in 1953. He
New York City and a popular storyteller and
versities were being founded in the Midwest
consultant to various companies, in-
molder of opinion. But primarily Woollcott was a
largely under the stimulus of the Morrill Land
'fizer Chemical and Polaroid com-
"personality" who attracted a wide following as a
Grant Act of 1862. New fields of study, particularly
ain area of work was the laboratory
popularizer of culture because of his wit and force-
those concerned with agriculture and technology,
organic compounds. During World
ful opinions. He was stricken with a heart attack
were being added to curriculums. In 1847 Yale es-
his associates successfully achieved
during a radio broadcast on January 23, 1943, and
tablished a department of philosophy and the arts
sis of quinine, a substance in short
died in New York City later the same evening.
to be responsible for graduate instruction in the
e of the war. In 1947 he announced
arts and sciences and for undergraduate work in
of protein analogues, an attain-
Woolman, John (1720-1772), social reformer and
applied sciences. In the same year a school of ap-
I medical research and in the manu-
religious leader. Born on October 19, 1720, at Ran-
plied chemistry was started, and in 1854 it was
lastics and antibiotics. The first
cocas, in the present Burlington County, New
merged with the school of engineering as the Yale
thesis of a steroid, a highly complex
Jersey, Woolman worked on his father's farm until
Scientific School. In 1861 it was renamed the
ic molecule, was achieved in 1951.
moving to Mount Holly, New Jersey, in 1741.
Sheffield Scientific School after the philanthropist
e greater production and availability
Deeply religious from his early youth, he had a
whose gifts had made it possible. The Yale cur-
such as cortisone. During the next
Quaker education and read voraciously. At twenty-
riculum was otherwise diversified, the campus en-
his coworkers were able to synthe-
three he took up the Quaker ministry and opened
larged, and endowment funds increased. In 1871
umber of steroids and alkaloids, in-
a tailor shop to support himself, thereafter styling
Woolsey retired as president of the university but
nine (1954), lysergic acid (1954),
himself the "Tailor (or Quaker) of Mount Holly."
remained as a member of the Yale Corporation
6), chlorophyll (1961), and tetracy-
During 1743-1771 he traveled throughout the
until 1885. During the years he was president, he
Woodward also contributed to the
colonies attending meetings of the Society of
left the teaching of Greek and gave instruction
of the structures of such substances
Friends, and spread the Quaker doctrine from
instead in political science and international law.
and other antibiotics. In 1965 he
North Carolina to New Hampshire. His principal
In his various fields of interest he also wrote a
the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for
mission was the ending of slavery, an institution
number of books, including Introduction to the
emical synthesis, the citation noting
that he viewed as utterly inconsistent with religion.
Study of International Law, 1860; Essay on Divorce
is synthesis of chlorophyll. In 1972
Through his travels and writings-Some Consider-
and Divorce Legislation, 1869; Political Science,
1 vitamin B-12, the most intricate
ations on the Keeping of Negroes, 1754 and 1762;
1878, and Communism and Socialism, 1880. After
hesized up to that time. He died
Considerations on Pure Wisdom and Human Poli-
his retirement he served as chairman of the New
'9, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
cy, on Labour, on Schools, on the Right Use of the
Testament committee that aided in producing the
Lord's Outward Gifts, 1758; and Considerations on
American Standard Version of the Bible, published
xander (1887-1943), critic and actor.
the True Harmony of Mankind, and How It Is to
in 1901. Woolsey died in New Haven, Connecticut,
nx, Monmouth County, New Jersey,
Be Maintained, 1770-he had a wide influence; in
on July 1, 1889.
1887, Woollcott grew up there and
fact, he was able to persuade the Philadelphia
y, Missouri, and Philadelphia. He
Yearly Meeting to forbid its members to own slaves.
Woolworth, Frank Winfield (1852-1919), mer-
m Hamilton College in 1909, and
He aided Moravian missionaries in Indian camps
chant. Born on April 13, 1852, near Rodman,
as a reporter for the New York
on the Pennsylvania frontier in securing conver-
Jefferson County, New York, Woolworth attended
I he became the drama critic of the
sions, in stopping the sale of liquor to the Indians,
country schools and studied for a brief time at a
unching a career that saw him be-
and in attempting to secure more just land policies.
business school at Watertown, New York. He
he most influential arbiters of taste
He gave up his tailor shop because it was making
worked on his father's farm, although he craved a
literature in the years between the
more money than he needed and abandoned horse-
mercantile career and attempted to obtain jobs as
Except for service in Europe during
back riding as a vanity, making his later journeys
a store clerk. Inexperienced and awkward, he con-
where he worked on the staff of the
on foot. He ate no sugar because it was produced
sented to work for negligible wages in various
er Stars and Stripes) he remained
by slaves, and wore clothing of undyed materials
concerns. By the time he was twenty-one, still on
'S until 1922. He then successively
because fabric dyes were often injurious to
a tiny salary, he convinced his employer that a
ma critic for the New York Herald
workers. While working with the poor in England
five-cent counter he had seen in another store
e New York Sun (1924-1925), and
he contracted smallpox and died in York on Oc-
would work. Goods that were slightly damaged or
k World (1925-1928). Along with
tober 7, 1772. His famous Journal, which he began
overstocked were placed on a special counter and
nd James Thurber, Woollcott was
when he was thirty-five, and continued until his
priced at five cents. They sold immediately. In
contributor to the New Yorker
death, was first published in 1774 and has often
1879 Woolworth began a store of his own in Utica,
5 early years. From 1929 to 1942 he
been republished.
New York, which contained a variety of goods, all
1 Crier" of network radio. This was
priced at five cents. The store was unsuccessful, but
rogram with guests who discussed
Woolsey, Theodore Dwight (1801-1889), educator.
later in the year he opened another store in Lan-
t topics of literary and social im-
Born in New York City on October 31, 1801,
caster, Pennsylvania, offering goods at prices up to
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790 PAINE
We
moved to the St. Louis Browns and was their most
clerk and by 1794 he had determined on a
years after graduation, but he was not happy
valuable relief pitcher in 1951, 1952, and 1953. He
continued to play in exhibition games. Called by
Am
and theatrical career. In October of that ye
Joe DiMaggio in 1937 "the best pitcher I have
founded the Federal Orrery, but the magar
ever faced," he was one of the all-time great
satirical contents belied its name; his father
American baseball players. In 1971 Paige was
his father's conservative Federalist friends dro
Biog
enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame
him as he became more and more Jacobin and
after it opened to stars of the Negro league. He
publican in his sentiments. Not at all disconce
died in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 5, 1982.
by these social rebuffs, which led him to sell
Orrery in 1796, he wrote a series of poems
Paine, Robert Treat (1731-1814), public official and
songs that were successful enough financiall
judge. Born in Boston on March 11, 1731, Paine
support him, and one of which, "Adams
looking
came of a noted Massachusetts family and was
Liberty," composed in June 1798, was the
significa
educated at the Boston Latin School and at Har-
alent of a national best seller. In that year he
vard, from which he graduated in 1749. Although
reconciled with his father and agreed to study
find
he was first destined for the ministry and served
but his conversion was short-lived, and by
Amer
as chaplain to the New England troops on the
he was once again deeply involved in his
new book
Crown Point expedition of 1755, he soon adopted
habits, although he was never able to regain
the law as his calling and was admitted to the bar
youthful verve. He was very ill in 1804 and alm
live refer
in 1757, moving his practice from Portland, Maine,
died; after several years of dismal poverty he
hand WO
to Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1761. A member of
die, in the attic of his father's house in Boston
of Ameri
the provincial assembly several times during the
November 13, 1811.
1770s, he was chosen one of the five Massachusetts
ter's Ame
delegates to the First Continental Congress, which
Paine, Thomas (1737-1809), author, political
met in Philadelphia in 1774. He had earlier been
orist, and humanitarian. Born in Thetford,
than
one of the prosecuting attorneys in the murder
gland, on January 29, 1737, Paine received lift
life suc
trial of British soldiers following the Boston Mas-
formal education and spent the first 37 years
honor:
sacre, and his spirited argument to the effect that
his life in poverty, wandering from job to job W
Parliament had no right to quarter troops in a
few prospects for the future. He served an
the shap
town against its consent had made his name
prenticeship under his father, a corset make
ext of surr
known throughout the colonies. He also served in
served briefly on a privateer in 1756, as
the Second Continental Congress, voted for the
was twice dismissed from a post as excis
dare po
selection of George Washington as commander in
man, apparently as a result of agitating
not to mei
chief, and signed John Dickinson's Olive Branch
higher wages. A fortuitous meeting with Benjami
groes, Ho
Petition of July 1775, the final appeal by Congress
Franklin in London encouraged him to seek
to the Crown to settle colonial differences short
fortune in America and in November 1774
deeds ma
of war; when he later also signed the Declaration
arrived in Philadelphia with introductions from
of Independence he became one of the very few
Franklin, and worked for a time as editor for th
men to have signed both documents. Although he
Pennsylvania Magazine. In January 1776 he pub
Ent attent
was elected to Congress in 1777 he did not go to
lished the pamphlet Common Sense; in powerfu
Philadelphia but remained in Massachusetts, in
and stirring language he called for independenci
Sthe Amer
that year being elected the state's first attorney
from England and marshaled a number of sup
hort shrift
general, a post he retained until 1790, when he
porting arguments for his thesis. The pamphle
referenc
was appointed by Governor John Hancock to the
was a huge success and may have sold as many
indus
state supreme court. He served on the court until
as half a million copies; it was issued in Europe
1804, when he retired because of increasing deaf-
as well as in the colonies. Paine soon enlisted in
pioneers.
ness. In 1779-1780 he had participated in the draft-
the Continental Army, became an aide to Gen
ing of the Massachusetts state constitution, and
Nathanael Greene, and began a series of 16 pam
arate
he was active in the suppression of Shays's Re-
phlets entitled The Crisis that appeared over some
book
bellion. In 1780, reflecting his lifelong interest in
seven years; the first of these appeared in Decem
profe
astronomy, he was one of the founders of the
ber 1776 and began with the memorable line,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died
"These are the times that try men's souls." The
in Boston on May 11, 1814.
pamphlet had an electrifying effect on the dispir
ited Continental Army and on the country at
Paine, Robert Treat (1773-1811), poet and editor.
large. In April 1777 he was appointed secretary of
Born in Taunton, Massachusetts, on December 9,
the congressional committee on foreign affairs, a
1773, Paine was the son of Robert Treat Paine
post he held until forced to resign two years later
(1731-1814). He was christened Thomas but took⁻
for his indiscreet publication of certain secret
his oldest brother's name after the latter died of
papers. In November 1779 he became clerk of the
yellow fever in 1789. Paine was educated at the
Pennsylvania assembly and in 1781 he accom-
Boston Latin School and at Harvard, from which
panied John Laurens to France to seek money and
he graduated in 1792. His first poems were writ-
supplies for the Continental forces. He continued
ten during his college years and he read one of
writing effectively in support of the Revolution
them, a poem on liberty, at his commencement. He
and of the government's policies and as a result
made some attempt at a business career for a few
he was given a Loyalist's confiscated farm by New
PALMER 791
ter d graduation, but he was not happy
by 1794 he had determined on a
and a sum of money by Pennsylvania at the
York ntt's end. Until 1787 he lived rather quietly,
Custodian when World War I began. During less
trical the career. In October of that literary
than 18 months between October 1917 and March
Federal Orrery, but the year
waking on a design for a pierless iron bridge he
1919 he sequestered some $600 million worth of
contents belied its name; his father magazine
trying to perfect. In 1787 he went to England
property and funds owned by or owed to enemy
r's became conservative Federalist friends dropped
market his bridge, but again was caught up in
aliens and in the process became a highly contro-
e more and more Jacobin and
aditics; in answer to Edmund Burke's highly
versial figure. Named attorney general on the
in his sentiments. Not at
nical view of the French Revolution he issued in
retirement of Thomas W. Gregory in March 1919,
social rebuffs, which led all disconcerted
1791 the first part of his Rights of Man, to which
he conducted the office vigorously and became
1 1796, he wrote a series of poems
second part was added the next year. The U.S.
even more controversial as he led the govern-
at were successful enough financially and
eblication of the work was arranged for by
ment's attack on supposed radicals. The pre-
him, and one of which, "Adams to
Romas Jefferson as a means of combating the
eminent figure in the "Red Scare" of 1919-1920,
composed in June 1798, was the and
federalist heresy." The book, an extended and
Palmer himself participated in raids on private
national best seller. In that year he equip.
&tailed piece of republican and constitutional
homes and the premises of suspect organizations
onversion was short-lived, and by 1804 law,
I with his father and agreed to study was
propaganda, sold so well in England that the
and mercilessly pressed for the deportation of
overnment indicted Paine for treason and out-
aliens and agitators, among them Emma Gold-
(swed him; he escaped to Paris and, having been
man and Alexander Berkman. During the last
once again deeply involved in his
though he was never able to regain old his
made an honorary French citizen, was then
months of his tenure in office he was faced by a
verve. He was very ill in 1804 and almost
elected to the Revolutionary Convention in Sep-
number of congressional investigations of his
r several years of dismal poverty he did
tember 1792. When the Revolutionary moderates
actions, which were notorious as the "Palmer
attic of his father's house in Boston, on
fell from favor and the Terror ensued, Paine, who
raids," but he managed to sail through unscathed.
13, 1811.
had advocated exile rather than execution for the
A candidate for the Democratic presidential
king, was imprisoned for a year during 1793-1794,
nomination in 1920, he lost out to James M. Cox,
omas (1737-1809), author, political the-
by Robespierre. After Robespierre's fall he was
and retired from office in 1921. But he continued
humanitarian. Born in Thetford, En-
released at the request of James Madison, then
to be a leading Democrat throughout the 1920s,
minister to France, who claimed Paine as an Amer-
campaigning vigorously for John W. Davis in
January 29, 1737, Paine received little
ican citizen. On his release he was readmitted to
1924 and for Alfred E. Smith in 1928, and he sup-
ucation and spent the first 37 years of
the Convention. In 1794 and 1796 appeared the
ported Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 and wrote
poverty, wandering from job to job with
first and second parts of The Age of Reason, a
most of the party's platform that year. He died in
ects for the future. He served an ap-
long work of deistic and humanistic apologetics
Washington, D.C., on May 11, 1936. His name and
P under his father, a corset maker,
that won its author the unwarranted reputation of
iefly on a privateer in 1756, and
fame were recalled during the McCarthy years of
an atheist because of his attack upon sectarianism.
dismissed from a post as excise-
the early 1950s, when another "Red Scare" swept
The imputation of atheism weighed more heavily
arently as a result of agitating for
the country under the impetus of charges made by
with many people than did Paine's undeniable and
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.
es. A fortuitous meeting with Benjamin
invaluable
services
to
the
American Revolution;
London encouraged him to seek his
when
he
returned
to
New
York City in 1802 he
America and in November 1774 he
Palmer, Alice Elvira Freeman (1855-1902), educa-
found no welcome, and he lived in a virtual state
Philadelphia with introductions from
tor. Born in Colesville, near Binghampton, New
of ostracism until his death in New York City, on
nd worked for a time as editor for the
York, on February 21, 1855, Alice Freeman taught
June 8, 1809. In 1819 his remains were taken to
ia Magazine. In January 1776 he pub-
herself to read at the age of three and, on the
England by William Cobbett and eventually
pamphlet Common Sense; in powerful
family's moving later to the nearby town of Wind-
knowledge of his resting place was lost. He was
; language he called for independence
sor, entered Windsor Academy, where she be-
elected to the Hall of Fame in 1945.
nd and marshaled a- number of sup-
came engaged to a young teacher at the age of
fourteen. When her fiance left to enter Yale
uments for his thesis. The pamphlet
Palmer, Alexander Mitchell (1872-1936), lawyer
success and may have sold as many
Divinity School in 1870 she decided that she
illion copies; it was issued in Europe
and public official. Born in Moosehead, Pennsyl-
would rather have a college education than be
vania, on May 4, 1872, A. Mitchell Palmer, as he
n the colonies. Paine soon enlisted in
married, and she determined to get one even if,
ntal Army, became an aide to Gen.
styled himself, was an ardent Quaker all of his
as she said, it took her 50 years to do it. In fact,
Greene, and began a series of 16 pam-
life, although his reputation for combativeness
it took her nearly seven years, for she faced many
ed The Crisis that appeared over some
later led to his acquiring the contradictory nick-
obstacles, not only those hindering all American
the first of these appeared in Decem-
name "the Fighting Quaker." A dedicated student,
women seeking an education at the time but also
nd began with the memorable line,
he graduated from. Swarthmore College summa
family financial difficulties. She received her B.A.-
the times that try men's souls." The
cum laude at the age of nineteen, in 1891, and
from the University of Michigan in 1876 and a
d an electrifying effect on the dispir-
after studying law with a Pennsylvania judge he
Ph.D. from the same institution in 1882-but by
was admitted to the bar in 1893. While building a
1882 she had received a success of which she
ental Army and on the country at
il 1777 he was appointed secretary of
successful practice in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania,
could never have dreamed and was president of
ional committee on foreign affairs,
he became interested in Democratic politics and
Wellesley College. She had been first invited to
a
until forced to resign two years later
was elected to the House of Representatives on a
Wellesley in 1877, on the recommendation of
reform ticket in 1908 and reelected in 1910 and
screet publication of certain secret
President James B. Angell of Michigan, but she
ovember 1779 he became clerk of the
1912. His legislative career was distinguished, and
declined the offer of an instructorship in math-
in 1912 he moved onto the national scene when
assembly and in 1781 he accom-
ematics on the grounds that she did not yet know
Laurens to France to seek money and
he managed Woodrow Wilson's successful cam-
enough. A second invitation came in 1878, this
the Continental forces. He continued
paign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
time to teach Greek, but again she declined, on
tively in support of the Revolution
He declined Wilson's offer of appointment as sec-
the grounds that her sister was ill and the family
retary of war because of his Quaker beliefs but,
needed her. On the death of her sister the next
overnment's policies and as a result
after an unsuccessful campaign for the Senate in
a Loyalist's confiscated farm by New
year Henry Fowle Durant, Wellesley's founder,
1914, accepted an appointment as Alien Property
asked her again, and this time she accepted the
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PAINE
PAINE, pãn, Robert Treat (1731-1814), American
judge and signer of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence. He was born in Boston, Mass., on March
11, 1731. After graduating from Harvard College
in 1749, he studied theology and then law and
was admitted to the bar in 1757. He practiced
law in Taunton, Mass., and was assistant prose-
cuting attorney in the "Boston Massacre" trial.
Paine represented Taunton in the Massachu-
setts legislature from 1773 to 1777, with the
exception of 1776. He was a Massachusetts del-
egate to the First and Second Continental Con-
gresses and one of the few to sign both the "Ol-
ive Branch Petition" to King George III and the
Declaration of Independence.
After returning to Taunton, Paine in 1777 was
elected the first attorney general of Massachu-
setts, a position he held until 1790. He played
an important role in the drafting of the state con-
stitution of 1780. He declined an appointment
to the Massachusetts supreme court in 1783, but
accepted in 1790 and served until 1804. He was
one of the founders of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences. Paine died in Boston on May
11, 1814.
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY,
Thomas Paine, from an engraving by George
PAINE, pãn, Thomas (1737-1809), Anglo-Ameri-
can pamphleteer, political scientist, and reli-
gious thinker, who issued the first public call for
men's souls." The inspiration generated by
the American colonies to declare their indepen-
pamphlet is credited with contributing to
dence from Britain. During the course of the
American success at the Battle of Trenton
revolution, he dedicated his pen to proclaiming
CRISIS, THE.
the American cause throughout Europe and to
In April 1777, largely because of his writing
keeping spirits high at home. When a subse-
Paine was elected secretary of the congression
quent revolution broke out in France, he used in
Committee of Foreign Affairs. However, he
its behalf principles identical to those in his
forced to resign two years later when it was
American writings, becoming an international
covered that he had released in a newspaper arti-
spokesman for political equality, natural rights,
cle privileged information concerning treaty ne
and civil liberties. Inspired by events in
gotiations with France. After the war, Paine
France, he applied to religion the principles of
conducted various scientific experiments and
natural reason that formed the basis of his polit-
vented a method of constructing an iron bridge
ical works, developing a system of deism based
In an attempt to promote the bridge, he returned
on science and abstract morality.
to Europe in 1787, living in England and
Life. Paine was born in Thetford, England, on
France.
Jan. 29, 1737. After a checkered career as corset
French Revolution. In 1791, Paine publisher
maker, schoolmaster, itinerant preacher, and cus-
the first part of The Rights of Man-a defense
toms inspector, he traveled to America, arriving
the French Revolution in reply to the attack by
in Philadelphia in November 1774. With a letter
Edmund Burke. (The second part was issued
of recommendation from Benjamin Franklin,
1792.) As a result, Paine left England, where
who at the time was an agent for the colonies in
was subsequently declared a traitor and out
England, Paine was employed for six months as
lawed, and went to France, where he was grant
managing editor of a new periodical, the Penn-
ed citizenship and, in September 1792, elected
sylvania Magazine, to which he contributed mis-
to the National Convention. In the convention.
cellaneous poems and essays.
Paine associated with such moderates as Condo
American Revolution. At first an advocate of
cet and voted against the execution of Louis XVL
reconciliation in the contest with Britain, Paine
He thereby aroused the suspicion of the radical
adopted the doctrine of separation as a result of
majority and was arrested by the Committee of
the Battles of Lexington and Concord in April
General Safety, which confined him in the Lux-
1775 and brought out his pamphlet Common
embourg prison from December 1793 to Novem
Sense, calling for independence, in January
ber 1794.
1776. Common Sense, which sold more than
While in prison, Paine worked on the state
100,000 copies in three months, had a profound
ment of his religious beliefs, The Age of Reason
impact on public opinion and on the delibera-
(Part I, 1794; Part II, 1796). It opens with the
tions of the Continental Congress, then meeting
words: "I believe in one God and no more, and
in Philadelphia. See COMMON SENSE.
hope for happiness beyond this life." For gen
During the Revolution, in the bleak days fol-
erations The Age of Reason was misunderstood
lowing Washington's forced retreat across New
and assailed as an atheistic tract, when, in fact, if
Jersey and the Delaware River in December
is an expression of deistic principles, accepted
1776, Paine's writing revived the flagging morale
by Franklin, Jefferson, and other 18th century
of the troops and the civilian population. On
intellectuals.
December 19, while serving in the Continental
In 1796, Paine also issued a public Letter to
Army, he published the first of a series of propa-
George Washington, voicing his disillusionment
ganda pieces, entitled The American Crisis,
with Washington's failure to have used offical
which begins, "These are the times that try
channels to secure his release from prison. In
PAINE-PAINT
205
Following year for Paine published Agrarian
absorbent paints increase the efficiency of solar
a broad government-spon-
collectors. Paints containing fungicides and
welfare program covering youth and old
pesticides help prevent mildew growth on
on notions he had set forth in Phila-
bia based before the American Revolution.
houses, and antifouling paints discourage the
buildup of barnacles on ship bottoms.
1802, Paine left France and went to the
Phosphorescent paints absorb energy from
States, where he devoted his major ef-
the sun during daylight and then glow at night.
newspaper articles jointly defending the
Special fluorescent coatings afford greater visi-
inistration to of President Jefferson and the po-
bility both day and night and are used on adver-
principles espoused in 1776. During this
tising billboards and signs, safety clothing, and
he advised James Monroe in his negotia-
many novelties. Paints can be made electrically
for the purchase of Louisiana and suggest-
conductive or nonconductive to suit special pur-
President Jefferson that the United States
poses. They even can be designed to indicate
Id serve as mediator of Haiti. between Paine died France and
temperatures by color change. The United
black City on June 8, 1809, and was buried on his
republic
in
New
States produces approximately one billion gal-
lons of paint products annually.
in New Rochelle N.Y. In 1819, William
Types of Paints and Coatings-Architectural Coat-
bett, an English journalist, exhumed Paine's
ings. Architectural paints are used for decorating
for reburial in England, but all trace of it
and protecting homes, apartments, farm build-
since been lost.
ings, office buildings, and other commercial
influence. Paine's vast influence is due in
structures. They include both solvent-type and
measure to his luminous literary style, not-
water-type paints for interior and exterior sur-
for its striking metaphors, colloquial vigor,
faces. In the United States architectural paints
rational directness. From a long-range per-
compose about 51% of all paint products pro-
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY,
ective, the importance of Common Sense lies
duced and amount to more than 500 million gal-
from an engraving by George
its insistence that America adopt a new system
lons each year.
republican government rather than simply re-
Product Finishes for Original Equipment Manufac-
ecting British rule, and that the American Revo-
turers. This group of paints is applied by original
The inspiration generated by
nation was a philosophical movement based on
equipment manufacturers to all types of newly
credited with contributing to
natural rights and not just a change of govern-
produced articles as part of the manufacturing
ess at the Battle of Trenton.
ment. Later, it helped formulate the policy of
process. Included among such finishes are
American noninvolvement in European political
marine paints as well as coatings for automo-
77, largely because of his writing
affairs and was an instrument in the indepen-
biles, trucks, aircraft, railroad equipment, home
eted secretary of the congression
dence movement in Latin America.
appliances, office machines, furnaces, and air-
Foreign Affairs. However, he
The Rights of Man, by defending the dignity
conditioning equipment.
n two years later when it was dir
of men in all countries against those who consid-
Each product finish is formulated for a specif-
e had released in a newspaper art/
et the average person to be merely one of the
ic use. Because of the need to protect manufac-
information concerning treaty as
"winish multitude," transcends national bound-
tured products from a broad spectrum of harmful
h France. After the war, Paine
aries. In the United States it fostered sympathy
environments, this group of coatings makes use
ious scientific experiments and is
for France, helping to check a growing anti-
of the greatest variety of chemical raw materials.
od of constructing an iron bridge
French sentiment during the Federal period and
Depending on the equipment and its intended
o promote the bridge, he returned
reducing pressure for war with France. In
use, the coating may be designed to protect
1787, living in England and
Britain it circulated among republican clubs and
against the weather, corrosion by fresh or, salt
became a classic document in the working-class
water, chemicals, abrasion and wear, or heat and
ution. In 1791, Paine publisher
movement.
sunlight. In many cases product finishes also
The Rights of Man-a defense
A. OWEN ALDRIDGE
must be colorful and attractive to add sales ap-
volution in reply to the attack by
Author of "Man of Reason"
peal to the products.
e. (The second part was issued
Product finishes account for some 31% of all
sult, Paine left England, where
Further Reading: Aldridge, A. Owen, Man of Reason:
The Life of Thomas Paine (Lippincott 1959); id., Thomas
paints and coatings produced-more than 300
ntly declared a traitor and out
Paine's American Idealogy (Univ. of|Del. Press 1984); Fon-
million gallons each year-in the United
nt to France, where he was grant
er. Eric, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (Oxford
States.
and, in September 1792, elected
1977); Hawke, David F., Paine (Harper 1974); Powell, Da-
vid, Tom Paine: The Greatest Exile (St. Martin's 1985); Wil-
Special-Purpose Coatings. Paints and coatings
Convention. In the convention
lismson, Audrey, Thomas Paine (St. Martin's 1973).
included in this category account for slightly
d with such moderates as Condor
more than 18% of all paints manufactured in the
gainst the execution of Louis XVI
PAINT, a pigment-bearing liquid designed for ap-
United States or about 185 million gallons annu-
oused the suspicion of the radical
plication to a surface in a thin layer that cures to
ally. The special-purpose category includes
as arrested by the Committee of
an opaque solid film.
paint products generally used for maintenance
which confined him in the Lus
Paint is used for many purposes. It was used
work and coatings for the transportation aftermar-
1 from December 1793 to Novem
for decoration long before the beginning of re-
ket. They differ from architectural paints in that
corded history, and this is still a major -use.
they are designed for special applications and for
ison, Paine worked on the state
Closely related to decoration is the use of paint
withstanding unusual environmental conditions.
igious beliefs, The Age of Reason
for better distribution of light in homes, offices,
For example, special-purpose coatings are for-
Part II, 1796). It opens with the
and industrial plants.
mulated specifically to stand up under extremes
ve in one God and no more, and
An even more important function of paint is
of heat and cold, to resist chemical attack in oil
ness beyond this life." For gen-
the protection of wood and metal structures, ma-
refineries and chemical plants, to prevent fungus
ge of Reason was misunderstood
chinery, and other artifacts that are exposed to
growth in meat and food packing plants, and to
an atheistic tract, when, in fact, it
the weather. Paint protects wood surfaces from
withstand steam cleaning and high humidity.
n of deistic principles, accepted
rot and decay, and metal surfaces from oxidation
Special-purpose coatings are used widely in
efferson, and other 18th century
and corrosion.
the transportation aftermarket for repainting au-,
Specialized paints are used for a wide variety
tomobiles, trucks, aircraft, ships and pleasure
ne also issued a public Letter to
of purposes, especially in industry. Skid-resis-
boats. They are also used widely for traffic-
gton, voicing his disillusionment
tant paints are used on steps and floors. Heat-
marking paints for highways as well as for the
on's failure to have used offical
reflective paints keep oil-storage tanks from be-
surfaces of parking lots and the floor areas of
ure his release from prison. In
coming too hot in sunny locations, and heat-
manufacturing plants. Paints containing metal-
(Smith/Blessey)
September 8, 1989
Draft Two
JERSEY
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: COURTER FUNDRAISER
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1989
Let me begin, Tom, by saying how much I appreciate that
introduction. And by adding that I am delighted to be with you.
I say that for several reasons. First, because it is always
good to be back in a State whose motto is "Liberty and
prosperity." And which in the last eight years has been devoted
to both. Indeed, if I could borrow a phrase, under Governor Kean
liberty and prosperity have gone "perfect together."
Then, there's a second reason I am pleased to be here.
Perhaps a writer best expressed it when -- referring to New
Jersey -- he called this State "America's main road."
Tonight, we are headed down that road toward a November
victory for the Republican Party. And the cause of good
government. A victory for our generation. And our children's
generation. A victory for the new New Jersey -- Tom Kean's New
Jersey. And for my friend and your next Governor --- Congressman
James Courter.
I know Jim Courter. Respect him, admire him. Like you, I
know how Jim has already enriched the length and breadth of the
Garden State. And how come November 7, he can -- and will -- do
infinitely still more.
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And the thing is: We must ensure that Jim gets that chance.
For he can help keep New Jersey proud. And its economy strong.
How do I know that? Let me quote one of New Jersey's favorite
adopted sons -- the noted philosopher, Montclair's Yogi Berra.
Once, Yogi ruminated, "You can observe a lot just by watching."
Well, we've observed a lot about Jim Courter by watching him over
the years.
Horio
super
We've seen Jim fight to clean up our environment. And to
\
clean up our schools. We've seen him fight the scourge of crime.
And its companion midwife, drugs. We've seen him fight to slash
auto insurance rates through a progressive and pioneering plan.
compolicy
And we've seen Jim Courter embrace six of the most beautiful
words in the English language [PAUSE]
Yes, you've got 'em
[PAUSE]
"Read my lips -- no new taxes."
These positions embody the new New Jersey -- old values plus
new thinking. And will reinforce, not wreck, the glory of the
last eight years. They express the belief that a record is
something not to stand upon -- but to build upon. And will
reaffirm the renaissance that makes New Jersey's success story
worth retelling.
First, education: For here, as elsewhere, that story
includes many chapters bearing Jim Courter's name. In Trenton,
Tom Kean has been the Education Governor. And in Washington, our
Administration has proposed an "Educational Excellence Act of
1989" to reward excellence, demand accountability, and enhance
local flexibility. Congressman Jim Courter helped fashion this
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legislation. Governor Jim Courter can ensure that what Tom Kean
has started is carried on and, yes, enhanced.
Secondly, the environment -- for here too, Jim has been a
visionary. He has drafted initiatives in the area of plastic
1
recycling. And co-sponsored legislation to ban ocean dumping.
He delivered New Jersey's first successful Superfund cleanup.
Their
And blocked oil drilling off the Jersey shore to save our
beaches. Congressman Jim Courter has helped renew, and recover,
our national heritage. Governor Jim Courter will put polluters
in prison.
Then, we come to taxes! And here, the cleavage between the
old and new New Jersies is especially clear.
Take's
The new New Jersey -- [Jim Courter's New Jersey -- believes
that economic development can help the powerless -- not merely
powerful -- be heard and understood. And that private enterprise
can meet the needs of distressed locales from Camden to Paterson.
The new New Jersey -- Jim Courter's New Jersey -- knows that
1980s tax cuts helped make prosperity a reality. For the more
money people have to spend, the more they can help create Growth,
Opportunity, and Progress -- yes, a non-partisan "GOP."
That's the new New Jersey. The old New Jersey -- Jim's
opponent's New Jersey -- enshrines quite another creed. For it
believes in policy of, by, and for the government. It regards
the private sector as an enemy, not ally. And it repeats this
equation, like sleepwalkers in the night: If it's commerce,
FLORIO
I
1)
\ ! taxes
voted against Reagans 1981 tax cuts
snogest More tax rev. to cut deficit
hints that N.J. taxes may have
to be increased
higher taxes on industry
2) spending- continues to support increased
spending for specific groups
3) voted against Gramm - Rudm
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regulate it. If it's a budget, break it. If there's a problem,
Federalize it. And if it's income, penalize it.
Sound discredited? It is. In fact, I heard a story
recently which typified this thinking. It seems these two men
were sitting in a Trenton restaurant talking about politicians.
The first noted that the syntax of a certain official needed a
lot of working on. "Sintax?" roared the second man. "You mean
to tell me those liberals down in Washington are putting a tax on
that, too?"
Well, that says it all for the ideas of Jim's opponent:
"Tax and tax, spend and spend." I'm sure you've heard the adage,
"You're not getting older, you're just getting better." " Well,
the ideas I'm referring to are quite the opposite. You see,
they're not getting better. They're just getting older.
Nowhere is the division of new versus old more clear-cut
than in the areas of crimes, drugs, and punishment.
On the one hand -- the left hand, naturally -- Jim Courter's
opponent thinks New Jersey's death penalty law is fine as it is.
Even though not one cop-killer has ever been executed. Well,
I'll tell you what I think: Anyone who believes that doesn't
deserve to be Governor of New Jersey.
On the other hand, here's what Jim Courter believes. And I
support his beliefs. As a former local prosecutor, he believes
that when we ask what kind of society Americans deserve, our
answer is a Nation in which law-abiding people are safe and feel
safe. And toward that end, he supports our plan which attacks
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violent criminals on four fronts. New laws -- to punish them.
New agents -- to arrest them. New prosecutors -- to convict
them. And new prisons -- to hold them.
Jim Courter proposes to change the rules of the game
dramatically -- new and honest solutions for a new New Jersey.
He wants mandatory time for firearms. And no deals when
criminals use a gun. And for the most heinous crimes -- well,
Jim believes no penalty is too tough. For anyone who kills, a
law-enforcement officer, here is Jim's response -- and my
response: To riff-raff and cop-killers, you deserve not charity
-- but the recompense of the chair.
To repeat: New solutions -- honest solutions -- for a new
New Jersey. And that's especially true in our crusade against
drugs.
Two weeks ago, I announced America's first national
comprehensive strategy to outlast drug abuse. Our drug budget
totals almost $8 billion. And our plan has four major elements.
First, enforcement. We need more jails, more prisons, more
prisons, more courts, more prosecutors. And tougher sentences.
You know where drug dealers belong? They belong in the slammer.
And the second part of our plan is interdiction. Working with
other governments, we're going to break the international drug
rings who grow and process docaine and crack.
Then, there is the third part of our strategy: treatment to
help addicts who want to get clean. With special emphasis on
expectant mothers. And, finally, our drug program aims to stop
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use before it starts. Through education and prevention. From
grade school to graduate school.
We can win this war, and will. Through the values of self-
discipline, self-reliance, and accountability. Perhaps no one
more embodies those values than Jim Courter. And not
surprisingly, no one has been more supportive of our drug program
than Jim Courter. For no one better knows that the old ways will
not work.
Congressman Courter sponsored bills to toughen drug
penalties, coordinate law enforcement efforts, and involve the
military in combating drugs. Governor Courter can fight drugs on
any front, and every front. Supply and demand. Fighting block-
by-block. Winning kid-by-kid. Facing old problems in a new way
-- by putting emphasis where the crisis is -- locally, in the
community. The communities that will decide the future of New
Jersey.
That future will demand independent, tough-minded, forward-
looking thinking. Thinking unencumbered by bosses or graft. It
will require leaders who know, with Jefferson, that "The whole
art of government lies in being honest." And who have the vision
that Jim Courter has shown, for instance, in his auto insurance
plan. Discarding what has not worked. Trying what will
doubtless work. Urging re-regulation -- not only deregulation.
?
Rejecting -- unlike his opponent -- more of the same.
Because more of the same's not good enough. Not for New
Jersey. Or America. Not in terms of drugs, or crime, or
Florio's Business Ethics
Since taking office, Florio has run a very quid-pro-quo district.
His close political advisors, who are also his business,
associates, have all profited from government decisions. Florio
has also benefitted from such decisions. In fact, he sold
questionable real estate in preparation for the gubernatorial
race.
His business associate, Joe Salema, is considered the "county
political boss". All county post appointments and other perks
seem to have been channellled through Salema.
Florio campaign contributors have also landed government
contracts in the state.
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education, or the environment. Not in our hope -- our children's
hope -- for a tomorrow even brighter than today.
Tom Kean knows that. That's why he's becoming President of
. And why he agreed to serve as honorary chairman of our
STATUS
"Points of Light Initiative" to bring community service to every
corner of America. And Jim Courter -- he knows it, too. That's
why he intends to build on Tom Kean's beginnings. For he knows
what's on New Jersey's mind, and in its heart. And his goal is
to use that heart to build a better life for all.
Can we achieve that goal? Of course we can -- both here and
across America. How? Through the old values and new thinking
embodied by this campaign.
Look at Jim Courter -- a moral man, a family man. A
collegial man, a man -- unlike some candidates --- respected by
his colleagues. Look at his background. Peace Corps volunteer.
Legal aide to the poor. Lawyer, author, prosecutor, Congressman.
Look at how he knows this State. Pearl Buck once said, "I do not
Amer,
need books to tell me about New Jersey." Well, neither does Jim
Courter. He knows its market gardens and dairy farms. Its
wetlands and highlands. He loves its Pine Barrens and Eastern
Shore. Its diversity and beauty.
Look, too, at this State -- a State of pioneers, architects,
and heroes of enterprise. Look at James Fenimore Cooper [PAUSE]
yes, New York claims him -- but the Garden State knows
better. Or in science, to Thomas Edison. Look in statecraft, to
Alexander Woolcott. Or in sports, to an American icon: Vince
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Lombardi. Their values like Jim's -- embody the new New
Jersey.
Look, finally, to the kids -- and how new thinking can help
build their new New Jersey. You know, the great statesman Tom
Paine lived in
And he once said, "We fight not to enslave,
but to set a country free. And to make room upon the earth for
honest men to live in." Well, this election is about creating a
State for our children to live in. Old values -- new thinking --
the definition of New Jersey.
Coach Lombardi often said that, "Winning's not everything
-- it's the only thing." Fellow Republicans, winning may not be
the only thing, but -- here! I speak from experience -- it's
vastly preferable to the alternative.
So, let us help Jim Courter build the new New Jersey. And
help this State enrich our future, and our kids.
To New Jersey's Republican Party, a splendid fall of 1989.
To Jim Courter come November 7, many happy returns.
And to all of you personally, my deepest thanks for allowing
me to share this wonderful occasion. God bless you, and God
bless this land we love -- the United States of America.
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(Smith/Blessey)
September 14, 1989
Draft Four
JERSEY
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: COURTER FUNDRAISER
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1989
Let me begin, Tom, by saying how much I appreciate that
introduction. And by adding that I am pleased to be with you.
I say that for several reasons. First, because it is always
good to be back in a State whose motto is "Liberty and
prosperity." And which in the last eight years has been devoted
to both. If I could borrow a phrase, under Governor Kean liberty
and prosperity have gone "perfect together."
Then, there's a second reason I am pleased to be here. It's
that New Jersey is not merely the Garden State. In 1989, it is
also among America's most politically crucial States.
Tonight, I make this prediction. This State will cast a
November vote for the cause of good government. A vote for our
generation. And our children's generation. A vote for the new
New Jersey ---- Tom Kean's New Jersey. And for the man who can
build upon what Tom's begun. Your next Governor -- Congressman
Jim Courter.
Now, Jim's a long-time friend -- and I wanted to come up
here and, personally, support him. I know you wanted to hear a
few words from a prominent national figure who can really fire up
a crowd and generate some excitement [PAUSE]
...
Unfortunately,
Boris Yelstin had to go back to Moscow -- so I'm here instead.
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Believe me, I'm delighted. And believe me, too, when I say
how much I admire Jim Courter. Like you, I know how Jim has
enriched the length and breadth of the Garden State. And how
come November 7, he can -- and must -- get the chance to do
infinitely still more.
For the thing is: Jim Courter can help keep New Jersey
proud. And its economy strong. Let me quote one of New Jersey's
favorite adopted sons -- the noted philosopher, Montclair's Yogi
Berra. Once, Yogi ruminated, "You can observe a lot just by
watching." Well, we've observed a lot about Jim by watching him
over the years.
We've seen Jim fight to clean up our environment. And our
schools. We've seen him fight the scourge of crime. And its
companion midwife, drugs. We've seen him fight to slash auto
insurance rates through a progressive and pioneering plan. And
we've seen Jim embrace six of the most beautiful words in the
English language [PAUSE]
"Read my lips -- no new taxes."
These positions embody Tom Kean's new New Jersey -- old
values plus new thinking. And will reinforce, not wreck, the
glory of the last eight years They express the belief that a
record is something not to stand upon -- but to expand upon. And
will reaffirm the renaissance that makes New Jersey's success
story worth retelling.
First, education: For here, as elsewhere, that story
includes chapters bearing Jim Courter's name. Our Administration
has proposed an "Educational Excellence Act of 1989" to reward
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achievement and demand accountability. Well, the truth is: That
Act really began here.
In 19 Tom Kean unveiled a great idea called Alternative
Certification. A concept allowing talented Americans from every
field to teach in the classroom. Today, Alternative
Certification is a flagship of our Federal plan. And from the
start, Congressman Jim Courter has supported the idea. Governor
or
Jim Courter can do even more -- keeping academic excellence a New
STAL
Jersey byword.
Secondly, the environment -- for here too, Jim has been a
visionary. He has drafted initiatives in the area of plastic
recycling. And co-sponsored legislation to ban ocean dumping.
He delivered New Jersey's first successful Superfund cleanup.
And blocked oil drilling off the Jersey shore to save our
beaches. Congressman Jim Courter has helped renew, and recover,
office
our national heritage. Governor Jim Courter will put polluters
in prison.
Then, we come to taxes. And here, the cleavage between the
old and new New Jersies is especially clear.
The new New Jersey has been shaped by Tom Kean. It knows
that private enterprise can meet the needs of distressed locales
from Camden to Paterson. The new New Jersey -- the State Jim
Courter has helped build -- knows that 1980s tax cuts helped make
prosperity a reality. For the more money people have to spend,
the more they can help create Growth, Opportunity, and Progress
-- yes, a non-partisan "GOP."
way
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That's the new New Jersey. The old New Jersey -- Jim's
opponent's New Jersey -- enshrines quite another creed. For it
believes in policy of, by, and for the government. It regards
the private sector as an enemy, not ally. And it repeats this
equation, like sleepwalkers in the night: If it's commerce,
regulate it. If it's a budget, break it. If there's a problem,
Federalize it. And if it's income, penalize it.
Sound discredited? It is. In fact, I heard a story
recently which typified this thinking. It seems these two men
were sitting in a Trenton restaurant talking about politicians.
The first noted that the syntax of a certain official needed a
lot of working on. "Sintax?" roared the second man. "You mean
to tell me those liberals down in Washington are putting a tax on
that, too?"
Well, that says it all for Jim's opponent: "Tax and tax,
spend and spend." I'm sure you've heard the adage, "You're not
getting older, you're just getting better." Well, the ideas I'm
referring to are quite the opposite. You see, they're not
getting better. They're just getting older.
Nowhere is the division of new versus old more clear-cut
than in the areas of crimes, drugs, and punishment.
On the one hand -- the left hand, naturally -- Jim Courter's
opponent thinks New Jersey's death penalty law is fine as it is.
Even though not one cop-killer has ever been executed. My fellow
Americans, anyone who believes that doesn't deserve to be
Governor of New Jersey.
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On the other hand, here's what Jim Courter believes. As a
former local prosecutor, he believes that when we ask what kind
of society Americans deserve, our answer is a Nation in which
law-abiding people are safe and feel safe. And toward that end,
he supports our plan which attacks violent criminals on four
fronts. New laws -- to punish them. New agents -- to arrest
them. New prosecutors -- to convict them. And new prisons -- to
hold them.
Jim Courter proposes to change the rules of the game
dramatically -- new and honest solutions for a new New Jersey.
He wants mandatory time for firearms. And no deals when
criminals use a gun. And for the most heinous crimes -- well,
Jim believes no penalty is too tough. For anyone who kills a
law-enforcement officer, here is Jim's response -- To riff-raff
and cop-killers, you deserve not charity -- but the recompense of
the chair.
To repeat: New solutions -- honest solutions -- for a new
New Jersey. And that's especially true in our war on drugs.
Two weeks ago, I announced America's first national
comprehensive strategy to outlast drug abuse. Our drug budget
totals almost $8 billion. And our plan has four major elements.
First, enforcement. We need more jails, more prisons, more
prisons, more courts, more prosecutors. And tougher sentences.
You know where drug dealers belong? They belong in the slammer.
The second part of our plan is interdiction; the third,
treatment. Finally, our drug program aims to stop use before it
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starts. Through education and prevention. From grade school to
graduate school.
We can win this war, and will. Through the values of self-
discipline, self-reliance, and accountability. Perhaps no one
better grasps those values than Jim Courter. And not
surprisingly, few have more loyally supported our program.
Congressman Courter sponsored bills to toughen drug
penalties, coordinate law enforcement efforts, and involve the
military in combating drugs. Governor Courter can fight drugs on
any front, and every front. Facing old problems in a new way --
by putting emphasis where the crisis is -- locally, in the
community. The communities that will decide the future of New
Jersey.
That future will demand independent, tough-minded thinking.
Thinking unburdened by bosses or graft. Leaders who know, with
Jefferson, that "The whole art of government lies in being
honest." And who have the vision that Jim has shown, for
instance, in his auto insurance plan. Rejecting -- unlike his
opponent -- the failed policies of pre-Tom Kean.
Because those failed policies aren't good enough. Not for
New Jersey. Or America. Not in terms of drugs, or crime, or
education, or the environment. Not in our hope -- our children's
hope -- for a tomorrow even brighter than today.
Tom Kean knows that. That's why he's becoming President of
Drew University. And why he agreed to serve as honorary chairman
of our "Points of Light Initiative" to bring community service to
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every corner of America. And Jim Courter -- he knows it, too.
For he knows what's on New Jersey's mind, and in its heart. And
his goal is to use that heart to build a better life for all.
Can we achieve that goal? Of course we can -- both here and
across America. How? Through the old values and new thinking
embodied by this campaign.
Look at Jim Courter --
a moral man, a family man. A man
respected by his colleagues.
A man you can depend upon. I mean,
if the voters of New Jersey want to gamble, they can go to
Atlantic City. They don't need to risk everything on a big-
spending liberal like Jim's opponent.
Next, look at Jim's background. Peace Corps volunteer.
Legal aide to the poor. Lawyer, author, prosecutor, Congressman.
Look at how he knows this State. Pearl Buck once said, "I do not
need books to tell me about New Jersey." Well, neither does Jim.
He knows its market gardens and dairy farms. Its wetlands and
highlands. He loves its Pine Barrens and Eastern Shore. Its
diversity and beauty.
Look, then, at the State itself -- a State of pioneers and
heroes. In diplomacy, look to Alexander Woolcott. Or in
science, to Thomas Edison.
Or in sports, to an American icon:
Vince Lombardi. Their values like Jim's -- reflect the new New
Jersey.
Look, finally, to the kids -- and how new thinking can help
build their new New Jersey.
You know, the great statesman Tom
Paine lived in Bordertown.
And once he, "We fight to make room
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upon this land for honest men to live in." Well, this election
is about ensuring a great State for our kids to live in.
You know, 46 days from tonight is Election Day. Not a lot
of time. A lot to do. And I know some are concerned with what
polls say about this race. Well, I'm not. At one point in last
year's Presidential campaign I was 17 points behind, and if you
want to know what happened, just ask President Dukakis.
Vor,
So, let us help Jim Courter preserve the new New Jersey.
And help this State enrich our future, and our kids.
To New Jersey's Republican Party, a splendid fall of 1989.
To Jim Courter come November 7, many happy returns.
And to all of you personally, my deepest thanks for allowing
me to share this wonderful exciting occasion. God bless you, and God
bless this land we love ---- the United States of America.
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Paine
Paine
.v.] of Con-
by Paine, expresses his idea of philanthropy. He
paternal trade. At nineteen he left home, ship-
was a director of the American Prison Asso-
ping on the King of Prussia for a brief career as
obert Treat
ciation and of the Boston Children's Aid Society
a privateer at the outbreak of war in 1756. His
ion of Inde-
and was influential in raising the prevailing
formal education can hardly have gone beyond
educated at
standards of social responsibility and in securing
the rudiments; indeed, as his enemies were de-
ard College,
legislation for social projects. He was an active
lighted to point out, he never learned to write
the head of
arvard Law
supporter of the peace movement, president of
faultlessly grammatical English. In after life he
the American Peace Society from 1891 to his
referred frequently and proudly to his Quaker
nd travel in
death, and prominent at national and interna-
antecedents, and no doubt his feeling for the
al study, he
tional peace conferences and at those held at Lake
sanctity of the inner citadel of human conscious-
practised in
Mohonk.
ness had Quaker origins. But Paine had no
success. On
Paine's only political office was his member-
trace of Quaker humility, no capacity for mystic
/illiams Ly-
ship in the Massachusetts House of Represen-
self-surrender, and, since he fought in two wars,
five daugh-
tatives for the session of 1884-85, during which
no absolute doctrines of non-resistance. He
wise invest-
time he carried on investigations in connection
never, indeed, formally joined the Society of
property he
with the committee on charitable institutions, of
Friends. Nor, in spite of the efforts of a pious
atively early
which he was chairman. Loyalty to his convic-
aunt, did he become an Anglican. He relates
and profes-
tions drove him, at considerable cost to himself,
that a sermon on the Redemption, heard at the
clusively to
into the Mugwump movement of 1884, and he was
age of eight, impressed him with the cruelty im-
an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the
plicit in Christianity, and made him a precocious
nent for bet-
Forty-ninth Congress that year. Originally a
rebel (Van der Weyde, ed., Life and Works,
had built in
Unitarian, he went with his family to Trinity
VIII, 71). Probably the most permanent influ-
ed suburban
Church in 1870 and remained thereafter a promi-
ence of these twenty years upon him lay in the
encouraged
nent member of the Episcopal Church, to the
monotony of his occupation, in the ugliness of
ccessful and
General Convention of which he was many times
his poverty, in the gap-evident to himself at
[emorial In-
a delegate. He was chairman of the building
least-between his abilities and his apparent
in 1879, a
committee of Trinity Church, and was primarily
destiny.
kind in the
reponsible for securing the site and raising the
For nearly twenty years more those abilities
;I at Paine's
funds for its present edifice. He was always
were concealed from the world. From 1757 to
al and trade-
either vestryman or warden of Trinity, and be-
1774 he was successively, and in various towns,
tive bank, a
tween him and its rector, Phillips Brooks, there
corset maker, exciseman, school-teacher, excise-
and even a
existed a rich and lifelong friendship. He was
man again, tobacconist, and grocer. These last
Iis activities
president of the board of trustees of the Episcopal
occupations he was able to carry on while main-
lated in the
Theological School in Cambridge and a founder
taining his place in the excise. He went through
on and the
of the Phillips Brooks House at Harvard, at the
two brief, childless marriages. His first wife,
both formed
dedication of which he made the address. He
Mary Lambert, died within a year of their mar-
nt. He was
was large in mind and body, a genuine idealist,
riage at Sandwich on Sept. 27, 1759; the second,
social prob-
an executive of tact and force, with a rare capac-
Elizabeth Ollive, whom he married on Mar. 26,
and in 1887
ity for winning adherents to a cause in which his
1771, while he was stationed at Lewes, was legal-
Treat Paine
convictions were enlisted. His death occurred
ly separated from him in 1774. The separation
ites to study,
in Waltham, Mass.
seems to have been due, not to any scandal, but
blems of so-
[S. C. Paine and C. H. Pope, Paine Ancestry (1912),
to temperamental difficulties on both sides. The
of ameliorat-
C. H. Paine, ed. M. C. Crawford, Famous Families of
mere fact of separation, however, proved later
In 1890 he
Mass., vol. II (1930) ; Who's Who in America, 1910-
II; Survey, Aug. 20, 1910; Outldok, Aug. 27, I910;
a boon to Paine's enemies, and was generously
200,000, the
National Conference of Charities and Correction, In
he-Help and
Memoriam (1911) ; Boston Transcript, Aug. 12, 1910.]
embroidered to discredit him (George Chalmers,
F.T.P.
oceeds of the
_Life of Thomas Paine, 1791, pp. 33-35; James
PAINE, THOMAS (Jan. 29, 1737-June 8,
Cheetham, Life of Thomas Paine, 1809, p. 30).
5, charitable,
1809), revolutionary political pamphleteer, agi-
He was twice dismissed from the excise: first,
:iated Chari-
tator, deist author of The Age of Reason, was
in 1765, for having, as he himself admitted,
he principal
born in Thetford, England, the son of Joseph
stamped as examined goods he had not examined
and Frances (Cocke) Paine. Joseph Paine was
at all; and finally, after a reinstatement which
to 1907, that
a poor Quaker corset maker, rather unhappily
shows that his first offense was regarded as
umerous ad-
arity, which
married to a lady who, as an
Anglican
and
an
venial, for overstaying a leave of absence. The
rm, brought
attorney's daughter, must have been somewhat
real motive for this second dismissal was prob-
brity on the
his social superior. Young Thomas went to gram-
ably Paine's activity as agent for the excisemen
Associated
mar-school until he reached thirteen, when pov-
in their attempt to get Parliament to raise their
1." invented
erty made it necessary to apprentice him at the
wages, a form of agitation then rather novel, and
I 59
Paine
Paine
even revolutionary. He drew up a brief for his
in Philadelphia on Jan. IO, 1776. It urged the
fellow excisemen, The Case of the Officers of Ex-
immediate declaration of independence, not mere-
cise, privately printed in 1772 (published also in
ly as a striking practical gesture that would help
1793). Cut off from his salary as exciseman, he
unite the colonies and secure French and Spanish
was obliged to go into an ordinary and by no
aid, but as the fulfillment of America's moral
means discreditable bankruptcy. Like many an-
obligation to the world. The colonies must fall
other defeated European, he decided to try the
away eventually, Paine said; a continent could
new world. In London as lobbyist for his fellow-
not remain tied to an island. If now, while
excisemen, Paine had had the luck to meet Frank-
their society was still uncorrupt, natural, and
lin, and to make a favorable impression upon
democratic, these colonies should free themselves
him. In October 1774, bearing invaluable letters
from a vicious monarchy, they could alter human
of introduction from Franklin, this "ingenious,
destiny by their example. Paine was the first
worthy young man" left for Philadelphia (A. H.
publicist to discover America's mission. It is
Smyth, Writings of Benjamin Franklin, VI,
curious that, though his political ideology was
1906, pp. 248-49). Those years of failure and
thoroughly Jeffersonian, he insisted in all his
poverty had given Paine an education. He had
writings of this period on the necessity for a
not precisely learned from failure; he had, in-
strong federal union, emphasizing the dangers
deed, failed in business partly through too great
of particularism and state sovereignty. These
a devotion to abstract learning. Ever since he
centralizing doctrines, emphatic in Common
had left school he had spent his spare time and
Sense, were expanded in Public Good (1780), a
money on books, lectures, scientific apparatus.
pamphlet directed against Virginia's western
He read widely but always seriously, worked
land claims. Paine undoubtedly consulted such
hard at mathematics, experimented with me-
leaders as Franklin and Rush about Common
chanical contrivances. He thus achieved what
Sense, but the pamphlet itself was entirely his
was rare in Europe at the time, an education
own, and was launched on his own responsibil-
strictly confined to contemporaneous matters.
ity. Its success was amazing. Paine himself
No conservative, no evaluating discipline stood
wrote that 120,000 copies had been sold in less
between his temperament and his times. Eigh-
than three months, and his best biographer as-
teenth-century science taught him to revolt
serts that 500,000 were sold in all (Conway, Life,
against a society quite unscientifically con-
I, 67-69). Even allowing for exaggeration, these
structed.
are impressive figures.
In Philadelphia, where he arrived on Nov. 30,
Paine's authorship soon became known. After
1774, Paine fell naturally into journalism. He
defending himself as "Forester" in the Penn-
supported himself largely by contributions to
sylvania Journal from the attacks of the Loyalist
Robert Aitken's Pennsylvania Magazine. His
William Smith, he enlisted in the army in time
first year's work covered a wide range, from
to join in the retreat across New Jersey. At
recent inventions to "Cupid & Hymen." He was
Newark he set to work on his first Crisis, which
a pioneer in the movement for the abolition of
appeared in the Pennsylvania Journal on Dec.
negro slavery (Pennsylvania Journal, Mar. 8,
19, and in pamphlet form on Dec. 23. The fa-
1775), but he cannot be numbered among the
mous words with which it begins, "These are the
first defenders of women's rights. An article on
times that try men's souls," probably did not win
that subject in the Pennsylvania Magazine, in-
the battle of Trenton, but its eloquence did
cluded by Conway in his edition of Paine's works,
hearten many. Cheetham, Paine's bitter enemy,
has been shown to be a translation from the
writes that "the number was read in the camp,
French, a language Paine could not read (Frank
to every corporal's guard, and in the army and
Smith, in American Literature, Nov. 1930, p.
out of it had more than the intended effect"
277). Nor is it likely that Paine had any per-
(Cheetham, Life, p. 56). Eleven other numbers
sonal influence in establishing the text of the
of the Crisis, with four supernumerary ones, ap-
Declaration of Independence (Albert Matthews,
peared in the course of the war. The whole work
Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society,
shows Paine at his best as a political journalist.
XLIII, 1910, pp. 241-53). Common Sense gives
Characteristic are number three (April 1777)
him sufficient title to originality and fame, and
suggesting vigorous measures against American
his acknowledged writings are extensive enough
Tories, and The Crisis Extraordinary (October
without uncertain additions based on "internal
1780) pointing out how an efficient federal and
evidence."
state tax system could readily shoulder the bur-
Common Sense was published as an anony-
den of the war.
mous, two-shilling pamphlet of forty-seven pages
Paine's services obviously merited some re-
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Paine
Paine
It urged the
ward. Occasional journalism was not, in his de-
New Rochelle, and Pennsylvania £500 in cash.
ice, not mere-
voted but careless hands, an adequate means of
For Paine's modest needs this was enough, and
at would help
self-support. In April 1777, he was appointed
until 1787 he lived in Bordentown, N. J., and in
and Spanish
by Congress secretary to its committee on for-
New York, mildly lionized, writing, and work-
erica's moral
eign affairs, a position he filled well enough until
ing on his most cherished invention, an iron
ies must fall
he was drawn into the extraordinary affair of
bridge (D. C. Seitz, "Thomas Paine, Bridge
ntinent could
Beaumarchais. Before France dared risk active
Builder," Virginia Quarterly Review, Oct. 1927,
now, while
alliance with the revolting colonies, supplies had
p. 571). In 1786 he published Dissertations on
natural, and
been sent to America through the medium of
Government, The Affairs of the Bank, and Pa-
ee themselves
Beaumarchais. Payment for these supplies was
per-Money, in which he asserted that paper
alter human
disputed. Silas Deane [q.v.], American agent
money involved inevitable inflation and injus-
was the first
recalled from France, upheld Beaumarchais'
tice to creditors, and insisted that the state of
ission. It is
claim. Congress, however, relying largely on
Pennsylvania could not legally repeal its charter
deology was
Arthur Lee [q.v.], who was still in France, re-
of the Bank of North America.
ed in all his
fused payment. Deane, denied what he con-
Because of his bridge (which he despaired of
cessity for a
sidered justice, rashly took to the newspapers in
getting erected in America), and no doubt his
the dangers
his own defense. Paine had the true revolution-
temperamental restlessness, he went to Europe
gnty. These
ist's scent for corruption, and an optimist's trust
in 1787. The fall of the Bastille found him in
in Common
in the disinterestedness of the French govern-
Yorkshire making desperate efforts to get his
od (1780), a
ment. He replied to Deane in the Philadelphia
bridge built. He had passed two pleasant years,
ia's western
Packet, notably on Dec. 15, 1778, Jan. 2, and 9,
partly in France and partly in England, wel-
nsulted such
1779. In these letters he committed a double in-
comed by liberals like Condorcet, Fox, and even
out Common
discretion: he supported his contentions by refer-
Burke, as the author of Common Sense and the
entirely his
ences to documents (reports from Lee), to which
friend of Washington. The bridge did get built,
responsibil-
his position gave him confidential access; and
and stood up, though Paine lost money in the
aine himself
by his statements he made it appear that the
affair. He went to Paris late in 1789, and for
I sold in less
French government had sent supplies to the re-
nearly three years alternated between Paris and
ographer as-
volting colonies while it was still at peace with
London, a self-appointed missionary of the
Conway, Life,
Great Britain. Under pressure from the French
world revolution. England, Paine felt, needed
eration, these
minister, Gérard, Paine resigned his position
his efforts if the revolutionary movement were
(Jan. 8, 1779). Gérard asserts that he immedi-
to continue its spread, and Burke's downright
nown. After
ately thereafter got Paine to accept a thousand
and immediately popular condemnation of the
n the Penn-
dollars a year to write anonymously in the papers
French Revolution late in 1790 provided an ex-
the Loyalist
in support of France, but that he proved an un-
cellent opportunity for him to exert them. Paine
army in time
reliable press agent, and had to be released. The
replied to Burke early in 1791 with the first
T Jersey. At
statement has only Gérard's authority, and is in-
part of his Rights of Man. A second part fol-
Crisis, which
consistent with Paine's character. He had, in-
lowed in February 1792.
nal on Dec.
deed, as his conduct in the Beaumarchais affair
The Rights of Man was first of all a party
23. The fa-
shows, an idealistic devotion to the revolutionary
pamphlet, an excellent piece of special pleading
These are the
cause quite proof against the limitations of pro-
in defense of specific measures taken in revolu-
did not win
priety and tact; but he was incapable of financial
tionary France. It is also an exposition of the
oquence did
dishonesty (Conway, Life, I, chap. IX).
"principles of 1776 and 1789." Government
itter enemy,
Paine was soon (November 1779) given an
exists, Paine said, to guarantee to the individual
in the camp,
appointment as clerk of the Pennsylvania As-
that portion of his natural rights of which un-
ne army and
sembly. He continued his Crisis, and in 1780
aided he could not ensure himself. These rights,
nded effect"
showed further his devotion to the revolutionary
with respect to which all men are equal, are lib-
her numbers
cause by heading with a subscription of $500 out
erty, property, security, and resistance to op-
ary ones, ap-
of a salary installment of $1,699 (paper) a fund
pression. Only a republican form of govern-
whole work
for the relief of Washington's army. In 1781 he
ment can be trusted to maintain these rights;
al journalist.
accompanied John Laurens to France in search
and the republic must have a written constitu-
April 1777)
of further financial relief, and returned success-
tion, including a bill of rights, manhood suf-
st American
fully in the same year with money and stores.
frage, executive officers chosen for short terms
ry (October
federal and
Beyond his expenses, he got nothing for the trip,
and subjected to rotation in office, a judiciary
and further, he was obliged to give up his po-
der the bur-
not beyond ultimate control by the people, a leg-
sition in the Assembly. The successful peace
islative body popularly elected at regular inter-
ed some re-
found him honored but poor. New York, how-
vals, and a citizenry undivided by artificial dis-
ever, gave him a confiscated Loyalist farm at
tinctions of birth and rank, by religious intol-
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Paine
Paine
erance, by shocking economic inequalities. Such
There has grown up an exaggerated account
a republic will be well- and cheaply governed, or
of Paine's tribulations in France. His imprison-
rather, little governed, for "government is no
ment has been seen as a plot devised by his bit-
farther necessary than to supply the few cases
ter enemy, the American minister, Gouverneur
to which society and civilisation are not con-
Morris [q.v.], and consented to by violent Jaco-
veniently competent" (Van der Weyde, VI,
bin politicians anxious to rid themselves of a
241). Part II contains, rather inconsistently,
dangerous opponent. It is much more likely that
numerous proposals for social legislation which
the simple, official explanation is the true one.
show that Paine was not unaware of the class
Paine was generally regarded by French poli-
struggle. Finally, the Rights of Man was an
ticians as a harmless humanitarian. Even his
appeal to the English people to overthrow their
heresy on the execution of Louis XVI was for-
monarchy and set up a republic. Paine clearly
given on the ground that, as a Quaker, he could
hoped that his pamphlet would do in England
not vote for the death penalty. The debates in
what Common Sense had done in America. It
the Convention make it clear that he lost his
did indeed become immensely popular with Eng-
French citizenship chiefly because patriotism,
lish radicals, and is said to have sold 200,000
fanned by military defeat into hysteria, demand-
copies by 1793 (Conway, Life, I, 346). It was
ed extreme measures against foreigners. The
suppressed by Pitt's government, and its author,
very fact that he was never brought to trial is
safe for the moment in France, was tried for
conclusive proof that the Jacobins did not desire
treason and outlawed in December 1792.
his death. Morris had a conservative's dislike
Paine, with Washington, Hamilton, Madison,
for Paine's ideas and activities, a social con-
and certain Europeans of adequate virtue, had
formist's dislike for his Bohemian habits. When
been made a French citizen by the Assembly on
Paine formally applied to him for protection,
Aug. 26, 1792. In September the new French-
Morris sent the French foreign minister a letter
man was elected to the Convention from four
which mildly disclaimed responsibility for
departments, choosing to sit for the Pas de Ca-
Paine's acts since his acceptance of French citi-
lais. As he could not speak French, and had to
zenship, but which did at least request that in-
have his speeches read for him, his rôle in that
formation be communicated to the American
assembly was inconsiderable. His friends, no-
government. The minister's reply denied Paine's
tably Condorcet, who knew English well, were
claim to American citizenship. Morris did not
mostly among the respectable, prosperous, mod-
press the matter, and wrote Jefferson that Paine,
erate republicans of the Gironde group, and
even were the French brought to admit him an
Paine attached himself to their party. He did,
American citizen, would still be liable under
however, assert his independence and his hu-
French criminal law for offenses alleged to have
manity at the trial of Louis XVI by urging that
been committed in France, and that he was bet-
the king be imprisoned to the end of the war and
ter off unnoticed in jail than publicly on trial
then banished for life. After the fall of the Gi-
before the pitiless revolutionary courts. It seems
rondins in June 1793 Paine ceased, on his own
gratuitous to attribute hypocrisy to Morris in an
admission, to attend an assembly which was but
act displaying such obvious common sense and
a subordinate part of the tyrannical government
tact.
of the Terror (Van der Weyde V, 308). With
On his release from the Luxembourg, Paine,
a few congenial friends, he lived peacefully in
weakened by illness and without means of sup-
the semi-rural Faubourg St. Denis until, a vote
port, was hospitably cared for by Monroe and
of the Convention having deprived him of his
nursed back to health. Restored to his seat in the
French citizenship and parliamentary immunity,
Convention, he appeared before that body in
he was imprisoned on Dec. 28, 1793, under a
July 1795 and reiterated his faith in the Rights
law providing for the imprisonment of nationals
of Man. He next took up residence with Nico-
of countries at war with France. Poor Paine,
las de Bonneville, a moderate republican jour-
outlawed in England, was now arrested in France
nalist whom he had known before the Terror.
as an Englishman. His imprisonment in the
Until 1802, when the Peace of Amiens made it
Luxembourg was not very harsh, for he was
safe for him to return to America, he lived in
able to compose part of The Age of Reason there.
Paris, his slender resources eked out by the kind-
He was never brought to trial and, after the fall
ness of friends. He wrote variously, and helped
of Robespierre had ended the Terror, was re-
to organize a little group of "Theophilanthro-
leased in November 1794 at the request of the
pists," a sort of ethical culture society which
new American minister, Monroe, who claimed
aimed to supplant Christian superstitions with
him as an American citizen.
an orderly faith in humanity. He published a
162
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Paine
ated account
Dissertation on First-Principles of Government
son's note as a sort of official preface (P. L.
Iis imprison-
(1795), and an essay, Agrarian Justice,
Ford, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, V, 1895,
ed by his bit-
(1797). The Letter to George Washington
pp. 328 ff.). The Federalists at once took up the
Gouverneur
(1796), in which he accused the president of
phrase "political heresies" as leveled at John
violent Jaco-
bad faith or at least indifference, and Morris of
Adams-as indeed it was. J. Q. Adams as "Pub-
nselves of a
deliberate plotting against him, was the outburst
licola" attacked Paine's principles and Jeffer-
re likely that
of a disappointed man not wholly free from de-
son's indiscretion in the Columbian Centinel
he true one.
lusions of persecution, and did much to injure his
(June-July 1791), and Paine found himself vica-
French poli-
reputation in America.
riously in the midst of the bitterest possible
n. Even his
The great work of this period was The Age
party warfare. The Age of Reason and the Let-
IVI was for-
of Reason (Part I, 1794; Part II, 1796). This
ter to Washington served to maintain his highly
ker, he could
so-called "atheist's bible" begins with the asser-
controversial position in America. In 1801, Jef-
e debates in
tion, "I believe in one God, and no more; and I
ferson involved himself further by offering
he lost his
hope for happiness beyond this life." Paine, of
Paine passage home in a public vessel, the Mary-
patriotism,
course, was not an atheist, but a deist, and The
land. By this time, as Henry Adams temperately
ria, demand-
Age of Reason was begun asla final justification
puts it, Paine was "regarded by respectable so-
igners. The
for the metaphysical ultimates of his belief. He
ciety, both Federalist and Republican, as a per-
ht to trial is
starts out with the familiar proofs of the exist-
son to be avoided, a character to be feared"
id not desire
ence of God, the argument from design and the
(History of the United States, vol. I, 1889, p.
ive's dislike
argument from a first cause.
He defines knowl-
317). Paine wisely refused the offer, and re-
social con-
edge in the customary way of his century as
turned on a private vessel.
abits. When
clear, mathematical, and scientific. He then
The last seven years of Paine's life were spent
protection,
proceeds to show that man's knowledge of the
partly in Bordentown, partly in New York City
ister a letter
Christian God is not that sort of knowledge. The
and in New Rochelle. They were marked by
sibility for
second part of the work is an analysis of both
poverty, declining health, and social ostracism.
French citi-
testaments, book by book, designed to show that
Paine wrote little of importance in these years.
est that in-
the Bible is inconsistent, and therefore not in-
In New York he mixed with radical society,
e American
fallible. Almost everything that Paine brings
and especially with the rationalists gathered
nied Paine's
forward here is today a commonplace of critical
around Elihu Palmer as the "Columbian Illumi-
rris did not
scholarship. His attempts at a treatment of com-
nati." Madame de Bonneville, wife of his old
1 that Paine,
parative religions, such as his reference to
Parisian friend, had come to America with her
imit him an
"Christian mythology" and his scandalous anal-
three children, one of whom was Benjamin
liable under
ogy between the paternity of
the
first
person
of
de Bonneville [q.v.], of later fame. Paine gener-
eged to have
the Trinity and the paternities of Zeus, are
ously helped to support the family, stranded in
he was bet-
modern enough in spirit, and today would offend
America when Napoleon refused to allow the
cly on trial
many professing Christians
by
their
manner
father to leave France. In these final years of
ts. It seems
rather than their matter-a
remark which in-
Paine's life center many of the tales told to his
Morris in an
deed holds true of the whole
book.
Having
de-
discredit-that he was a drunkard, a coward, an
n sense and
molished Christianity, Paine returns to his God,
adulterer, a tavern atheist. Many of these have
whose power is apparent "in the immensity of
no basis at all. But one thing is certain; whether
ourg, Paine,
the creation," whose wisdom is seen "in the un-
deservedly or not, his last years were those of
ans of sup-
changeable order by which the incomprehensible
an outcast. He died in New York on June 8,
Monroe and
whole is governed" (Ibid., VIII, 43).
1809. There is no evidence of a death-bed re-
S seat in the
In October I802 Paine at last returned home
pentance, though naturally enough such stories
at body in
to America. Mere physical absence, however,
were industriously circulated (Conway, Life,
the Rights
had not prevented his playing his usual conten-
II,-420). Since consecrated ground was closed
with Nico-
tious part in American politics. The first copy
to the infidel, he was buried in a corner-of his
olican jour-
of the Rights of Man to arrive in America was
farm in New Rochelle. In 1819 William Cob-
the Terror.
lent by its recipient, J. Beckley, to Jefferson,
bett [q.v.], to atone for his bitter attacks on
ens made it
with the request that he pass it on to the printer
Paine in the nineties, had the latter's bones dug
he lived in
to get out an American edition. Jefferson [q.v.]
up, and took them back to England, intending to
by the kind-
passed it on, and wishing, as he characteristi-
raise a great monument to the patriotic author
and helped
cally explained later, to take off a little of the
of the Rights of Man. The monument was never
philanthro-
"dryness" of a formal accompanying note, added
erected, and on Cobbett's death in 1835 the bones
:iety which
some genial remarks about the pamphlet's uses
passed into the hands of a receiver in probate.
titions with
as an antidote to the "political heresies" of the
The court refused to regard them as an asset,
published a
time. The printer proceeded to publish Jeffer-
and, with the coffin, they were acquired by a fur-
163
Paine
Paine
niture dealer in 1844, at which point they are
escape the conclusion that in some respects Paine
lost to history.
was the professional radical, the persecuted wit-
Any attempt at a calm appraisal of Paine's
ness against the sins of the mighty. No doubt he
character runs the risk of shading hostile black
was badly treated by respectable people on his
and friendly white into a neutral gray. Men al-
return to America. No doubt he really was per-
ways described him in superlatives, and in any-
secuted for his failures, big and little, to conform
thing less than superlatives he seems unreal. He
to current standards. But he gained an easy if
took an extreme, partisan stand on two issues
somewhat shabby martyrdom thereby. And,
that still divide Americans: in politics, that of
cruel though the remark may seem, a happy, hon-
the Jeffersonians against the Hamiltonians; in
ored Paine is inconceivable in any world short
religion, that of the modernists against the fun-
of his own ideal one.
damentalists. That Paine was a revolutionary
Of many of the aspersions spread by the pious
by temperament is a statement on which his ad-
and the conservative against Paine's character,
mirers and his detractors can agree; but it does
we can make short shrift. Like most hated pub-
but form the start for an analysis of his charac-
lic men, he was accused of sexual irregularities,
ter. The repressed circumstances of his youth
but all the evidence makes him out a singularly
taught him that something was wrong with the
chaste man. After his death, Cheetham accused
world. His familiarity with the scientific and
him of adultery with Madame de Bonneville,
sociological writings of his contemporaries gave
thirty-one years his junior. She brought a libel
him a definite idea of a much better world. Ex-
action against Cheetham and won it trium-
perience helped him to fill in the outlines of this
phantly (Conway, Life, II, 399). Nor can Paine
picture of a better world, but hardly to alter
be accused of financial dishonesty. He had nu-
them. To the end, Paine would put up with
merous connections, especially in France, with
nothing less than the Republic of Man. In Amer-
men who were enriching themselves at public
ica, in England, in France, he was serving, not
expense, but no one has succeeded in pinning a
men, but Reason.
single job on him. Neither the charge that he
This devotion to an abstraction, combined
beat his first wife nor that of his cowardice dur-
with a temperament naturally rebellious, made
ing the New Jersey campaign rests on any real
Paine extraordinarily sure of himself. His suc-
evidence. That of drunkenness is a different mat-
cess as a writer sustained his self-confidence,
ter. Too many people, friends and foes alike,
while his failure at everything else supplied him
have mentioned Paine's fondness for the brandy
with an abundance of grievances. This quality
bottle for the fact of his drinking to be disputed.
appeared to his enemies as a colossal vanity.
In his old age, he probably drank rather fre-
Étienne Dumont wrote that he "was drunk with
quently. But he never was, as fanatics have
vanity.
It was he who had done everything
charged, a dipsomaniac, nor did he die in de-
in America.
He fancied that his book upon
lirium tremens. He seems always to have been
the Rights of Man ought to be substituted for
careless about his personal appearance, and age
every other book in the world" (Recollections of
and ostracism made him in his last years a trifle
Mirabeau, 1832, p. 271). Even in the pages of
unlovely.
his friend Monroe, this vanity comes out, per-
This opinionated and temperamental revolu-
haps in a truer light, as an extraordinary con-
tionary never could bear to inflict physical suf-
viction of his own rightness, of his superior ob-
fering on any creature. He could not, like Robes-
ligation to follow the light of his own reason (S.
pierre, be cruel to men under the comfortable il-
M.- Hamilton, Writings of James Monroe, II,
lusion that he was destroying abstractions. He
1899, p. 441). He had also the unworldliness of
did- at times incline to think the great mass of
the true revolutionary. Much has been made of
people fools. He-is reported-in a work of fic-
This failure to enrich himself out of the hundreds
tion, indeed, but with great psychological truth
of thousands of pamphlets he scattered over the
-as having defended the proposition that the
western world, of his selling Common Sense at
minority is, even in a legislative body, more apt
a loss, of his gift of the profits from the Rights
to be right than the majority (Royall Tyler, The
of Man to the radical London Corresponding So-
Algerine Captive, 1802, vol. I, chap. XXVIII).
ciety. But he did these things perhaps as much
But this paradox has become almost a traditional
from indifference as from generosity. He sim-
property of modern liberalism. It was one of
ply lacked, as his early failures in business show,
the beliefs that helped disarm Paine for action,
the gift of managing his own affairs. One sus-
and prevent him from turning persecutor. In
pects that towards the end he came to nurse this
the last madness of the French Revolution he ap-
weakness as a virtue. Indeed, it is difficult to
pears touchingly sane and modest. He cared too
164
Paine
Paine
spects Paine
much for his ideal state-for liberty, equality,
Voltaire, his Rousseau and his Holbach at second
secuted wit-
and fraternity-to risk trying to realize it. His
hand.
No doubt he
ideals, his sense of martyrdom and election, his
Fundamental to this pattern of Paine's is the
:ople on his
softness, all the qualities that made him a good
notion that mechanical causation in the New-
lly was per-
agitator, combined to turn him against the Ter-
tonian sense is an absolutely universal phe-
to conform
ror.
nomenon. The laws of Nature, in his opinion,
1 an easy if
Paine seems never to have labored to learn to
apply to politics as to astronomy, and in both
reby. And,
write, but to have written easily and well from
fields men can, by discovering these laws and
happy, hon-
the moment, near middle age, when he decided
adapting their conduct to them, make their lives
world short
to make writing his occupation. Now he did not
orderly and agreeable. Now in politics the ma-
write romantic prose, nor Augustan prose. He
jority of men have, through ignorance, dis-
by the pious
has nothing to do with mystery nor with majesty.
obeyed these laws and have reaped the conse-
S
But his prose is not pedestrian. He wrote neatly,
quence in unhappiness. To set up kings and
t hated pub-
lucidly, argumentatively, with the simplicity that
priests to secure political health is as foolish as
regularities,
apes artlessness. His sentences are brief, or at
to set up magical incantations to secure physical
a
least relatively free from inversions and other
health. An enlightened people will abolish old
am accused
Latin tricks. All his rhetoric is centred on the
institutions as old superstitions, and in their
Bonneville,
epithet, not on the sentence structure. He is full
place put the law of Nature, codified in the Rights
ought a libel
of telling and quotable phrases: "government is
of Man. Force as we know it will cease to exist,
n it trium-
for the living, and not for the dead"; "society is
and all government will be self-government.
or can Paine
produced by our wants and government by our
Paine does not, of course, put things quite as
He had nu-
wickedness"; "the ragged relic and the anti-
baldly as this. He fills in the pattern with many
France, with
quated precedent, the monk and the monarch,
and sometimes contradictory details. In partic-
es at public
will molder together" (Van der Weyde, VI, 26;
ular, he hesitated before a dilemma familiar to
in pinning a
II, 97; VI, 302). If, as in the last quotation, the
his contemporaries are common men to be trust-
arge that he
epithets are a trifle theatrical, the effect on his
ed to manage their own affairs, or must the en-
wardice dur-
audience is all the more telling. Jefferson thought
lightened central government restrain selfish or
on any real
Paine's style resembled Franklin's. Both men,
ignorant particularism? Though the theoretical
ifferent mat-
indeed, wrote simply in a century fond of pe-
bases of his thought are all on the anarchic side,
1 foes alike,
riodic eloquence. But Paine is moving, almost
he often proposes practical measures on the au-
r the brandy
passionate, in a curiously contentious way; his
thoritarian side (Van der Weyde, VII, 18; IV,
be disputed.
aphorisms lack the sleek touch of common sense.
219 ff.). He makes no real attempt to sound the
: rather fre-
Paine was always pleading a cause; his books
meaning of his favorite abstractions-rights, lib-
inatics have
are arguments, rather than expositions. Occa-
erty, equality. His thought lacks subtlety and
e die in de-
sionally his pleading seems unnecessarily in-
shading. Like most of his contemporaries, he is
to have been
volved, or descends to endless chicanery. But
a confirmed environmentalist. But Paine is
nce, and age
in general he succeeds admirably in being inter-
blunter than any one but a propagandist may be.
years a trifle
esting, understandable, and irritating-necessary
"Man is not the enemy of man," he asserts, "but
virtues of a revolutionary journalist.
through the medium of a false system of govern-
ental revolu-
Paine belongs rather to the history of opinion
ment" (Ibid., VI, 209). Heredity is a mere po-
physical suf-
than to the history of thought; he is the propa-
litical imposition. It has no justification in na-
t, like Robes-
gandist, through whom the ideas of great orig-
ture. Wisdom, in particular, is a "seedless plant"
mfortable il-
inal thinkers are transmitted to the crowd. Yet
(Ibid., 263).
ractions. He
one cannot in fairness deny him that measure of
These political ideas, save where they are pre-
reat mass of
originality which makes stereotypes of philo-
served in such pieces of ritual as the preamble to
work of fic-
sophical abstractions. His written work, and
the Declaration of Independence or the French
logical truth
in particular his major writings, Common Sense,
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citi-
ion that the
the Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason can
zen, seem now outmoded enough. Much in
dy, more apt
be taken as one of the typical patterns of eigh-
Paine's writings is almost quaint, as when he
11 Tyler, The
teenth-century thought in Europe and America
argues that his deist God created the solar sys-
). XXVIII).
-in some respects, perhaps, as the most typical
tem in order to teach men mathematics (Ibid.,
a traditional
of such patterns. At first sight, his surprising
VIII, 83). The nineteenth century pointed out
was one of
ignorance of French may seem to have limited
adequately enough the weakness of his political
le for action,
his command over the materials common to his
philosophy-the abuse of the deductive method,
rsecutor. In
contemporaries. But he mixed with the leading
the assumption that men are capable of guiding
olution he ap-
radicals of both continents, learned a great deal
their conduct wholly by reason, the contempt for
He cared too
by talking, and thus absorbed his Bayle and his
history, the faith in written constitutions, the
165
Paine
Painter
neglect of economic conflicts. The twentieth
Sense, The Crisis, the Rights of Man, and The Age of
century is bidding fair to undermine the mechan-
Reason.
Early examples of hostile lives are those of George
ical concept of causation on which his whole sys-
Chalmers, or "Francis Oldys" (1791) and James
tem rests. But of the work of Paine and men like
Cheetham (1809) of friendly lives, those of T. C.
Rickman (1819), and Gilbert Vale (1841). The stand-
him this much at least remains: the final de-
ard biography is M. D. Conway, The Life of Thomas
struction of the idea of a society hierarchically
Paine (2 vols., 1892) this was translated by Félix
organized under a pessimistic and static cosmol-
Rabbe, and published, with additional material, as
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) et la Révolution dans les
ogy; and the belief, now apparently rising again
deux Mondes (1900). Conway is an uncritical admirer,
in a chastened form after the anti-rationalism of
and constantly exaggerates Paine's achievements; he
is somewhat careless about giving exact references to
the nineteenth century, that human reason is
his authorities. But he did a thorough piece of research
man's best guide in politics and in ethics.
in Europe and in America, and generously publishes his
evidence as well as his conclusions. Subsequent lives
As to how much influence Paine's writings
by Ellery Sedgwick (1899), F. J. Gould (1925), W.M.
exerted on the course of history, there can be no
Van der Weyde (1925, vol. I of the same author's edi-
final answer. Conceivably the United States of
tion of the Works), and M. A. Best (1927), have added
no important facts, and little critical interpretation.
America might have become a free nation had
For Paine's political and theological ideas, see Leslie
Common Sense never been written. But even
Stephen, Hist. of English Thought in the 18th Century
(2 vols., 1876), I, 458-64; II, 260-64; M. C. Tyler,
those who see history determined by economic
The Lit. Hist. of the Am. Revolution (1897), I, 452-
and other physical, concrète forces can hardly
74; C. E. Merriam, "Thomas Paine's Political Theo-
deny that Common Sense helped to humanize
ries," Pol. Science Quart., Sept. 1899, pp. 389-403; F.
J. C. Hearnshaw, ed., Social and Political Ideas of
and to concentrate such forces. Since his death
the Revolutionary Era (1931), 100-40. A recent arti-
Paine has lived on as a hero to a relatively small
cle is H. H. Clark, "Toward a Reinterpretation of
Thomas Paine," Am. Literature, May 1933. An obitu-
band of free-thinkers, of which men like Inger-
ary is in N. Y. Evening Post, June 10, 1809. There are
soll and Bradlaugh were leaders. He has played
no critical bibliographies; see the "Brief List of Paine's
Works" in Conway, Life, II, 482-83; "Selected Read-
in both Anglo-Saxon countries a rôle similar to
ing List" in A. W. Peach, Selections from the Works
that played by Voltaire on the Continent. To the
of Thomas Paine (1928), i-iii.]
C.B-n.
majority of Englishmen and Americans, his
name has been anathema.
Not even his services
PAINTER, GAMALIEL (May 22, 1743-May
during the Revolution have made him popular in
21, 1819), Revolutionary soldier and one of the
the land which, after the abstract Republic of
founders of Middlebury College, was born in
Man, he held most dear. There are signs, how-
New Haven, Conn., the third son and the young--
ever, that the "atheist" is being forgotten in the
est of the six children of Shubael and Elizabeth
patriot. At the celebration of the centenary of
(Dunbar) Painter. He was a descendant of
his death in New Rochelle in 1909, a Son of the
Thomas Painter who was living in Massachu-
American Revolution, in full Continental uni-
setts in 1637 and later moved to Rhode Island.
form, shared the platform with Painite free-think-
Gamaliel received only a common-school educa-
ers. But there are still many to whom Paine is,
tion, perhaps at Salisbury, Conn. Here, on Aug.
as he was to Theodore Roosevelt, a "filthy little
20, 1767, he married Abigail Chipman. With
atheist" (Gouverneur Morris, 1888, p. 289). The
her brother, John, he purchased land in the town-
discredit into which Paine fell is no doubt ex-
ship of Middlebury, Vt., possibly from his own
plicable partly by the fact that he was tempera-
brother, Elisha, who was one of the original
mentally a rebel, a socially disreputable profes-
grantees in 1761. After preliminary explorations
sional agitator, and that America has done its
he took his wife and two sons to Vermont in
best to live down this aspect of its origins; partly
1773. Until the outbreak of the Revolution he
by the fact that his life was an unheroic sequence
was busy with the usual duties of the backwoods-
of purely literary struggles
man, clearing and planting his land, making sur-
veys, opening roads, and, like most early settlers
[Paine's unpublished letters and papers were de-
in western Vermont, resisting New York claim-
stroyed by fire while in the possession of General
Bonneville. Most of his letters to Jefferson and other
ants to his lands. With the outbreak of hostili-
contemporaries have been used by Conway in his Life.
ties he promptly joined the army, apparently
Further scholarly research like that of Frank Smith,
"New Light on Thomas Paine's First Year in Amer-
serving with the expedition to Canada in 1775.
ica," American Literature, Jan. 1930 "The Author-
The next year he became a lieutenant in War-
ship of 'An Occasional Letter upon the Fair Sex,"
Ibid., Nov. 1930, can no doubt add somewhat to our
ner's Additional Continental Regiment. Later,
knowledge of Paine's minor journalistic writings. The
he held a captain's commission in Baldwin's Ar-
first critical and complete edition of his works is that of
M. D. Conway, The Writings of Thomas Paine (4 vols.,
tillery Artificer Regiment. He retired from the
1894-96). The edition of W. M. Van der Weyde, The
service in April 1782. Meanwhile, he had repre-
Life and Works of Thomas Paine (I0 vols., 1925), adds
nothing of importance to that of Conway. There are
sented Middlebury at the two conventions at
numerous separate and inexpensive editions of Common
Dorset, Jan. I6 and Sept. 25, 1776; and in the
166
THE
WIT
AND
WISDOM
OF
YOGI BERRA
isdom of Yogi Berra
ogi Berra's Health and Racquet
atterymate with the Yankees, said
f in a golfing foursome with for-
is they played the round, the talk
racquetball included.
Glossary of Berraisms
r. President?" Berra asked.
Ford.
lent," Berra said. "You must try it.
'd like to have you come and play
ey Ford, Berra handed the former
it the bearer was welcome to play
On the Mets' chances in the 1973 National League East pen-
nant race: "It's not over 'til it's over."
ed the card over," Whitey said,
Explaining declining attendance in Kansas City: "If people
od Tuesdays."
don't want to come to the ball park, how are you gonna stop
them?"
ter of the malaprop, the father of
It isn't the strongest aspect of his
Why the Yankees lost the 1960 World Series to the Pittsburgh
int. Those who have been associ-
Pirates: "We made too many wrong mistakes."
ed with him over the years, know
Why he thought he would be a good manager: "You observe a
lot by watching."
naking Yogi Berra necessary.
On becoming a good defensive catcher: "Bill Dickey is learn-
ing me all his experience."
Explaining why he wasn't dancing at a Yankees' victory party:
"I got rubber shoes on."
His theory on baseball, a thinking man's game: "Ninety per-
cent of the game is half mental."
When fellow coach Joe Altobelli turned 50: "Now you're an
old Italian scallion."
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The Wit and Wisdom of Yogi Berra
When a friend said he was afraid it was too late to get into a
popular Fort Lauderdale restaurant: "Well, why did you wait so
long to go now?"
When a Yankee player walked into the hotel bar and said he
was waiting for Bo Derek to meet him: "Well, I haven't seen
him."
Explaining his variety of sweaters in assorted colors: "The only
color I don't have is navy brown."
When Billy Martin locked his keys in his car: "You gotta call a
blacksmith."
To Carmen, about the movie, The Magnificent Seven, starring
Steve McQueen: "He made that picture before he died."
To the clubhouse man after a workout on a hot, humid day:
"Hey, Nick, get me a diet Tab."
To a sportswriter complaining that the hotel coffee shop
charged $8.95 for a breakfast of orange juice, coffee, and an
English muffin: "That's because they have to import those En-
glish muffins."
His theory on golf: "Ninety percent of the putts that fall short
don't go in."
When Ken Boswell of the Mets said he was having trouble at
bat because of a propensity to uppercut the ball: "Well, swing
down."
Giving telephone directions to Joe Garagiola, who called to say
he got lost driving to the Berra home in Montclair, New Jersey:
"You ain't too far, just a couple of blocks. Only don't go that way,
come this way."
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TEXT OF STATEMENT BY CONGRESSMAN JIM COURTER
Morris County Courthouse
Morristown, New Jersey
August 7, 1989
WHEN I ANNOUNCED MY CANDIDACY FOR GOVERNOR
EARLIER IN THE YEAR, I MADE IT VERY CLEAR TO THE PEOPLE OF
NEW JERSEY THAT ONE OF MY PRIMARY OBJECTIVES WAS TO
ENSURE THAT VIOLENT CRIMINALS -- THE CONVICTED
MURDERERS, DRUG KINGPINS AND COP-KILLERS - ARE MET WITH
THE MOST SEVERE PENALTIES OUR STATE'S CRIMINAL JUSTICE
SYSTEM CAN MUSTER.
AND, EVERYWHERE I GO THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF NEW
JERSEY, PEOPLE TELL ME HOW WORRIED THEY ARE ABOUT
VIOLENT CRIME; AND HOW CONCERNED THEY ARE FOR THE
SAFETY AND WELL-BEING OF THEIR FAMILIES.
ON SUNDAY, THE F.B.I. RELEASED NEW STATISTICS THAT
SHOW VIOLENT CRIME NATIONWIDE IS UP 5.5% AND MURDERS
ARE
UP
2.9%,
AND,
HERE
IN
NEW
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JERSEY, STATE POLICE IN MAY RELEASED STATISTICS THAT
REVEALED A SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE IN MURDER, RAPE,
ROBBERY AND AGGRAVATED ASSAULT.
AS A FORMER PROSECUTOR - -- AND NOW AS A CANDIDATE FOR
GOVERNOR -- I BELIEVE THAT THE VICTIMS OF CRIME, NOT THE
VIOLENT CRIMINALS, DESERVE THE FIRST CALL ON OUR
COMPASSION.
I OPENED THE NEWSPAPER LAST WEEK TO READ THAT THE
DEATH SENTENCE OF A MAN WHO STRANGLED HIS VICTIM WITH
AN ELECTRICAL CORD AND THEN REPEATEDLY STABBED HER
WITH A SCREWDRIVER WAS REVERSED BY THE STATE SUPREME
COURT.
JUST LIKE MOST OTHER CITIZENS, I AM OUTRAGED -- NOT
JUST BECAUSE THE DEFENDANT PLEADED GUILTY TO THE
MURDER -- BUT BECAUSE THIS WAS THE FOURTEENTH
CONSECUTIVE DEATH SENTENCE REVERSED OR PROHIBITED BY
THE STATE SUPREME COURT SINCE THE REINSTATEMENT OF
NEW JERSEY'S DEATH PENALTY LAW.
Rshal
THE MORRIS COUNTY COURTHOUSE IS THE SITE OF ONE OF
THE MOST WELL KNOWN MURDER TRIALS IN MORRIS COUNTY
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HISTORY. AFTER ALMOST SIX YEARS OF APPEALS, IT IS STILL IN
THE COURTS -- AND THE APPEALS PROCESS HAS YET TO BE
EXHAUSTED.
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WHEN JIM FLORIO AND I MET WITH THE NEW JERSEY COUNTY
PROSECUTORS ASSOCIATION TWO WEEKS AGO, I DISCUSSED MY
PLAN TO PUT TEETH IN WHAT IS NOW A PAPER TIGER DEATH
PENALTY LAW -- A LAW THAT PROTECTS OUR CITIZENS AND
FAMILIES IN THEORY, BUT NOT IN PRACTICE.
THE CONGRESSMAN FROM CAMDEN, ON THE OTHER HAND,
SAID TOUGHENING THE NEW JERSEY DEATH PENALTY STATUTE
WOULD ONLY ADD TO CONFUSION OVER INTERPRETATION AND
SQUANDER PROGRESS MADE TOWARD MASTERING THE EXISTING
STATUTE.
HE ONLY THING I'M HAVING TROUBLE INTERPRETING IS JIM
FLORIO'S POSITION: DOES HE WANT AN INEFFECTIVE DEATH
PENALTY LAW THAT FAILS TO PUNISH MURDERERS, DRUG
KINGPINS AND COP-KILLERS?.. OR DOES HE SUPPORT MY -- AND
THE LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY'S -- EFFORT TO PUNISH
THOSE GUILTY OF HEINOUS CRIMES?
YOU CANT PRETEND TO BE A MAINSTREAM CANDIDATE ON
THE DEATH PENALTY BUT THEN ACT LIKE A LIBERAL WHEN IT
COMES TO ADDRESSING, AND PUTTING FORTH A PLAN TO
RECTIFY, THE MOST DRAMATIC
SHORTFALL IN NEW JERSEY'S
CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
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JIM FLORIO GIVES LIP SERVICE TO THE DEATH PENALTY BUT
WON'T USE IT AS GOVERNOR- -- I WILL.
MY PROPOSED REFORMS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
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THE NEW JERSEY CONSTITUTION SHOULD BE AMENDED
SO THAT THE DEATH PENALTY CAN BE APPLIED TO THOSE
CRIMINALS WHO DEMONSTRATE A RECKLESS
DISREGARD FOR HUMAN LIFE AND CAUSES A VICTIM'S
DEATH;
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WE SHOULD MODIFY THE CURRENT REQUIREMENT THAT
A DEFENDANT CAUSE THE DEATH "BY HIS OWN
CONDUCT." THERE ARE CASES IN WHICH THE
ACCOMPLICE IS ACTUALLY THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND
THE MURDER;
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THE LIST OF AGGRAVATING FACTORS SHOULD BE REVISED
TO INCLUDE A DEFENDANTS INVOLVEMENT IN
DRUG-RELATED CRIMES AND HISTORY OF SERIOUS
VIOLENT OFFENSES;
# WE SHOULD REVISE THE PROVISION THAT ALLOWS ONE
JUROR TO PROHIBIT THE DEATH PENALTY; AND,
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# WE SHOULD ELIMINATE THE "PROPORTIONALITY REVIEW"
SECTION OF THE STATUTE. BECAUSE THE UNITED STATES
SUPREME COURT HAS HELD THAT PROPORTIONALITY
REVIEW IS NOT REQUIRED BY OUR FEDERAL
CONSTITUTION, WE SHOULD REMOVE THIS UNCLEAR
PROVISION FROM THE NEW JERSEY STATUTE.
IF JIM FLORIO CANNOT ACCEPT THESE REFORMS, HE SHOULD
AT LEAST BE HONEST ENOUGH TO ADMIT THAT HE IS AGAINST
THE DEATH PENALTY. ANYONE CAN VOTE FOR THE DEATH
PENALTY IN CONGRESS... THE QUESTION TODAY IS WHAT ARE
YOU GOING TO DO IN NEW JERSEY -- AS GOVERNOR - TO
PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH?
I HAVE NEW SOLUTIONS FOR NEW JERSEYS FUTURE AND I
STAND BY MY COMMITMENT TO THE PEOPLE OF NEW JERSEY TO
MAKE CONVICTED VIOLENT OFFENDERS PAY THE PRICE FOR
THEIR BRUTAL CRIMES.
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BIOGRAPHY OF CONGRESSMAN JIM COURTER
Prior to his election to the U.S. House of
Representatives in 1978, Congressman Jim
Courter served in the Peace Corps in Venezuela,
founded a law firm, established a legal aid
bureau for the poor, and served as first assis-
tant prosecutor in his home county of Warren.
Mr. Courter won reelection to Congress by
wide margins in 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, and
most recently in 1988 by receiving 70% of the
vote. In 1984 he was asked by President Reagan
to serve as State Chairman of the New Jersey
Reagan-Bush campaign, and has campaigned on
behalf of numerous state and local Republican
candidates throughout his career. In 1981 he was
the first major elected official to endorse Tom
Kean's gubernatorial bid and served as Gover-
nor Kean's Campaign Chairman for that race.
In Congress, Mr. Courter is a member of the Armed Services Committee and Select Committee
on Aging. Addressing New Jersey's pressing environmental problems, Congressman Courter has
co-sponsored legislation to ban ocean dumping and has recognized the importance of developing
new initiatives in the area of plastics recycling. In other areas, he has spoken forcefully on the
importance of education and issues affecting New Jersey's youth, and through his work on the
Select Committee on Aging, has addressed issues affecting the State's older population as well.
Mr. Courter has distinguished himself in the war against drugs by sponsoring legislation to toughen
penalties on drug users and drug kingpins, coordinate federal law enforcement efforts, and in-
crease the use of the military to combat drugs. Finally, in the important area of insurance reform,
Congressman Courter has proposed an innovative plan to reduce insurance costs and expand con-
sumer choice for all New Jersey drivers.
Mr. Courter was born on October 14, 1941 in Montclair, New Jersey, and has been a lifelong
resident of the State. He graduated from Colgate University with a B.A. degree in 1963 and three
years later earned a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. The author of a book en-
titled Defending Democracy, Mr. Courter has also written numerous articles appearing in the Wall
Street Journal, the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Philadelphia In-
quirer. Congressman Courter is married to the former Carmen McCalman; they have two daughters,
Donica and Katrina, and make their home in Hackettstown, New Jersey.
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ANNOUNCER: Jim Courter has been
working for honest solutions all
his life.
First as a Peace Corps volunteer
in South America
Then as a legal aide to the poor
in Union County.
Soon, Jim Courter earned the
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As ove Congressman,
In Congress, he's pushed hard for
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Jim Courter is on our side on the
environment, too.
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He helped begin New Jersey's first
pact
successful Superfund cléan-up along
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the Upper Passaio River
He
helped block oil drilling off
the Jersey shore to save our
beaches.
As Governor, Jim Courter will put
polluters in jail.
Listen to Jim Courter:
COURTER: People ask me why I want
to be Governor there's just one
reason: to help make New Jersey
a better place to live.
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A New Jersey where our streets
are safe
Our schoolyards are free of drugs
And our beaches, lakes and streams
are clean
We can build a better New Jersey.
ANNOUNCER: Jim Courter. Honest
Solutions for New Jersey's Future.
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JERSEY
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: GOP FUNDRAISER
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1989
Governor Kean, Congressman Courter, Other superb members of
the New Jersey Congressional delegation -- Dean Gallo, Marge
Roukema, Chris Smith, Matt Rinaldo, Jim Saxton. Mr. Sullivan, Mr.
Bathgate, Ms. Donovan, and other great New Jersey Republican
leaders.
Let me begin, Jim, by saying how much I appreciate that
introduction. And by adding that I am pleased to be with you.
It is always good to be back in a State whose motto is
"Liberty and prosperity." And which in the last eight years has
had a Governor devoted to both. If I could borrow a phrase,
under Governor Kean liberty and prosperity have been "perfect
together."
It is always a pleasure, too, to return to a State which was
SO very kind to me in 1988. And to salute the entire Republican
ticket. Its candidates. Its ideas and vision. And especially,
those of you who toil so long and hard at the grass-roots level.
But I've come to Newark today for an even more important
reason. This reason goes beyond party to the essence of this
campaign. New Jersey's elections are among the most crucial in
America.
This election will decide whether New Jersey builds on what
you began eight years ago. Or whether it risks everything by
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returning to the past. Whether New Jersey has the inspired
leadership it needs to win the war on drugs and crime. Or
whether it reverts to failed social policies that blame everyone
but the criminal.
This election will decide whether New Jersey continues to
have the kind of leadership which balances a sound economy and
sound ecology. And whether its leadership says "No" to higher
taxes and "Yes" to extending the prosperity of the last eight
years.
That's what this election will decide. It's that important.
It's that clear-cut. And today I make a prediction. This
November, New Jersey will make the right decision. A decision to
cast its vote for the future
for the cause of good
government
for the Republican Party [PAUSE]
A vote,
in short, for the new New Jersey.
That means a vote for Republicans running for the General
Assembly -- Republicans who will help ensure fair redistricting
in the 1990s. And a vote for Republicans running at the local
and county level. It means a vote for candidates who'll take a
tough approach to crooks and thugs. And perhaps most of all, it
means a vote for the man who can move your State into the coming
decade stronger than ever. Your next Governor -- Congressman Jim
Courter.
Now, Jim's a long-time friend -- and I wanted to come up
here and, personally, support him and the great party that's
behind him. I know you wanted to hear a few words from a
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prominent national figure who can really fire up a crowd and
generate some excitement
[PAUSE]
...
Unfortunately, Arnold
Schwarzenegger had to go back to Los Angeles -- so I'm here
instead.
Believe me, I'm delighted. And believe me, too, when I say
that the entire Republican ticket -- led Jim Courter -- can help
"keep New Jersey proud," as the banner behind me says. How? By
keeping a Republican Governor. And a Republican General
Assembly. By "keeping New Jersey Republican." Let me quote one
of New Jersey's favorite adopted sons -- the noted philosopher,
Montclair's Yogi Berra. Once, Yogi ruminated, "You observe a lot
by watching." Well, we've observed a lot by watching New Jersey
Republicans over the years.
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We've seen them fight to clean up our environment. And to
you
clean up our schools. And We've seen them fight the scourge of drugs
and crime. We ve seen them create over 500,000 new jobs in the
we've seen
last eight years. And school test scores go up twice the
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national rate. And we've seen them oppose those liberal
Democrats who cherish new taxes like moths drawn to a flame.
These Republican positions embody the new New Jersey -- old
values plus new thinking. And will reinforce the progress of the
last eight years. Eight years of enlightened leadership --
Republican leadership. Yet Republicans know that a record is
something not to stand upon -- but to build upon. And our
party's leadership into the '90s will reaffirm the renaissance
that makes New Jersey's success story worth retelling.
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First, the environment. For here, as elsewhere, Republicans
has helped build the new New Jersey. Republicans have blocked
oil drilling off the Jersey shore to save our beaches. Pushed
legislation to ban ocean dumping. Made New Jersey the first
State to mandate recycling! And launched the most aggressive
toxic waste cleanup program in America.
Next, education. For here, too, Republicans have moved
forward, not back. In 1983, Tom Kean unveiled a great idea
called Alternative Certification. A concept allowing talented
Americans to teach in the classroom. Today, Alternative
Certification is a flagship of the Federal plan we introduced
earlier this year. Tom Kean has been the Education Governor.
Republicans -- led by Jim Courter -- can keep academic excellence
a New Jersey byword.
Then, we come to taxes. And here, the difference between
the old and new New Jerseys is especially clear.
The new New Jersey knows that creating opportunity can help
meet the needs of distressed locales from Camden to Paterson.
J
And in particular, let me salute Tom Kean's pioneering concept of
Urban Enterprise Zones. The new New Jersey -- a Republican New
Jersey -- knows that the decade's tax cuts helped make prosperity
a reality. For the more money people have to spend, the more
they can help create growth, jobs, and progress.
That's the new New Jersey. The old New Jersey -- the
Democratic Party's New Jersey -- believes something quite
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different. It regards the private sector as an enemy, not ally.
And in policy of, by, and for the government.
Sound outdated? It is. In fact, I heard a story recently
which typified this thinking. Two men were sitting in a Trenton
restaurant talking about politicians. One of them said he
thought the syntax of a public official needed a lot of work.
Well, naturally, at first I thought he meant me. But then
the fellow said he was really talking about a liberal
Congressman. "Sintax?" roared the second man. "You mean to tell
me those Democrats down in Washington are putting a tax on that,
too?"
That says it all for our Democratic opponents: "Tax and
tax, spend and spend." I'm sure you've heard the adage, "You're
not getting older, you're just getting better." Well, when it
comes to the Democrats' notion of "fiscal sanity," their ideas
never get any better. Just older and more discredited.
Nowhere is the division of new versus old more clear-cut
than in the areas of crime, drugs, and punishment.
Republicans believe that when ask what kind of society
Americans deserve, our answer must be: a Nation in which people
are safe and feel safe. That's why they want to change the rules
of the game dramatically -- new solutions for a new New Jersey.
For instance, the are strong advocates of America's first
national comprehensive strategy to end drug use, which I
announced earlier this month. Republicans want tougher
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enforcement. More prisons, more courts, more prosecutors. And
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tougher sentences -- many, like Jim Courter, have spent a career
demanding them. You know where drug dealers belong? Republicans
you
say: In jail. They back more interdiction and treatment. And
our plan to stop use before it begins. Through education and
prevention. From grade school to graduate school.
Republicans like Jim Courter want to fight drugs on any and
every front. Facing new problems in a new way -- by putting
emphasis where the crisis is -- in the community. The
communities that will decide the future of New Jersey. And with
a Republican Governor and State Assembly, that future will also
include not just a war against drugs / -- but a crusade against
all crime. Supporting tougher laws. Giving our lawmen more
resources. Declaring open warfare on the con-artists and the
hoods.
Look at Jim Courter, who's spent a lifetime fighting crime.
For he embodies the values and positions siden I'm talking about -- all
that's best in the Republican Party.
Look at Jim's background. Peace Corps volunteer. Legal aide
to the poor. Lawyer, author, prosecutor, Congressman. A moral
man, a family man. A man respected by his colleagues. A man you
can trust.
Look, next, at Jim's record on the environment. He has
helped renew, and recover, our national heritage. As Governor,
Jim Courter will put polluters in prison. Or education. Where
Jim has been a vocal advocate of Alternative Certification. Or
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taxes. Jim doesn't want government to tax more. He wants to cut
taxes -- so that people will be able to spend more.
Look, then, at Jim's opposition to drugs. He has strongly
supported bills to coordinate law enforcement efforts and involve
the military in combating drugs. Or his magnificent record in
combating crime. Jim served as first assistant prosecutor in his
home county of Warren. He's seen the drug peddlers and users.
He knows the terrible toll caused by crime.
That's why Jim wants mandatory time for firearms offenses.
And no deals when criminals use a gun. And unlike his opponent,
he wants to amend New Jersey's Constitution so that the death
penalty law on the books will be strengthened and enforced.
Let me ask you a question. You make the choice. Do you
want a Democratic Governor -- and a Democratic State Assembly --
who thinks New Jersey's death penalty law is fine as it is?
[PAUSE]
Or do you want a Republican Governor -- and a
Republican State Assembly -- who says that murderers, drug
kingpins, and cop-killers should get exactly what they deserve?
[PAUSE]
I agree. We need a Governor who will make the
death penalty law even stronger. And we need a State Assembly
which will help get the job done.
For when all is said and done, here's what the 1989
elections come down to. On the one hand, Democratic candidates
whose policies produced the bad old days of the 1970s. High
unemployment. Failing schools. Criminal-coddling and rampant
corruption. And on the other hand -- for New Jersey, a winning
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hand -- honesty and independence. Republican candidates who
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Because those failed policies aren't good enough. Not for
New Jersey. Or America. They're not good enough to tackle drugs
or crime. Or to protect the environment and education. And
they're not good enough for our kids. Because they won't "keep
New Jersey proud."
Tom Kean knows that. That's why he's becoming President of
Drew University. And why he agreed to serve as honorary chairman
of our "Points of Light Initiative" to bring community service to
every corner of America. And Jim Courter -- he knows it, too.
For he knows what's on New Jersey's mind, and in its heart. And
his goal is to use that heart to build a better life for all.
Can we achieve that goal? Of course we can -- both here and
across America. How? Through a unified Republican Party --
working together to support the entire ticket. And through the
old values and new thinking embodied by this campaign.
The future versus the past. Policies that work versus
policies that don't. A better future for our children, or one of
lost opportunity. Yes, there's a lot at stake. And let me
remind you: Election Day is only 46 days away.
So, let's lift up our sights. And roll up our sleeves.
Let's "keep New Jersey proud by keeping it Republican." And
together, help Jim Courter and a Republican State Assembly
preserve the new New Jersey.
God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
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THE SALE of $85 million in bonds to revitalize depressed urban centers - a
sale that voters will be asked to authorize next week - is frequently associated
with pending legislation to establish Urban Enterprise Zones.
Although the only connection between the bond issue and Urban Enterprise
Zones is that both are designed to bring life back into the state's sagging
inner cities, they are considered complementary.
''It's a misconception that the bond money could be used to finance aspects
of the Enterprise Zones,' said Jeffrey Laurenti, executive director of the
State Senate, ''but it could be channeled into the same geographic areas that
receive Urban Enterprise Zone designation and strengthen them.
Should the legislation be enacted, an Urban Enterprise Zone would be an
area designated to receive tax incentives for businesses that create new jobs
and hire a percentage of people who were previously unemployed.
The New Jersey Committee of the Regional Plan Association, an independent
nonprofit planning and advocacy organization, considers the bond issue's
potential for making Urban Enterprise Zones more attractive a positive
factor.
Dr. James L.Wunsch, associate director of the association, calls the bond
issue a ''comprehensive approach to meeting urban needs'' and points to a
paragraph in the association's position paper stating that ' 'without up-front
capital such as can be provided in the bond issue, it is uncertain how effective
Urban Enterprise Zones can be in attracting new businesses.'
The Community Development Bond Act, which predates the legislation for
Urban Enterprise Zones, is designed to establish a state equivalent of the
Federal Urban Development Action Grant program, known more commonly by the
acronym UDAG. The measure was sponsored by Joseph P. Merlino of Trenton, the
former President of the State Senate, and signed into law by former Gov. Brendan
T. Byrne before he left office.
Of the total amount to be voted on, $45 million would establish a revolving
loan fund, called the Local Development Financing Fund, to assist businesses in
distressed urban areas that put up at least dollar for dollar in matching money.
As the loan is repaid, it would become available for other projects.
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Modeled after the UDAG program, which has been cut by 30 percent, the state
program is expected to stimulate commercial and industrial development.
According to figures provided by the state's Department of Commerce and Economic
Development, the first round of loans is expected to generate about $420 million
in private investment, 8,000 to 11,500 permanent jobs and 4,800 construction
jobs.
The prediction is based, in part, on the UDAG experience wherein $92 million
lent to New Jersey businesses generated $596 million in private investment.
Of the remainder of the bond-issue money, $30 million would be used for loans
or seed-money grants to the urban counties and municipalities to make them more
attractive to businesses. Suggested projects include the construction of museums
and performing arts and civic centers.
The final $10 million would be used to expand the Industrial Parks program of
the state's Economic Development Authority, a program that already has created
such parks in Newark, Elizabeth, Jersey City and Trenton. Under this project,
the authority assembles and prepares sites for private development.
According to Richard W. Roper, director of the program for New Jersey
Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton
University, the bond issue addresses problems in areas with high unemployment,
low levels of new capital investment and a deteriorating tax base.
''Many private companies which might be interested in developing such areas
are now unable to secure the financing that would make their involvement
feasible,' he said, ' 'and counties and municipalities have difficulty raising
the money necessary to stimulate private spending.'
Not everyone favors the bond issue. Samuel Terelli, chairman of the United
Taxpayers of New Jersey, which represents some 200 independent taxpayers'
organizations, said that all bond issues 'indenture future generations and put
us deeper and deeper in debt.'
Mr. Terelli says government is trying to manipulate business to move into
areas where it does not want to be. ''Let business run business, and government
run government,' he said. ''If business can't make it in a certain area or if
people aren't buying certain products, there's usually a good reason. Why should
our taxes subsidize industry?''
The final form of the Urban Enterprise Zone legislation has not been
decided. Two bills among the several being considered by the Legislature are the
most significant, according to Mr. Laurenti. One, sponsored by Senator Wynona M.
Lipman, Democrat of Newark, is favored by Governor Kean; the other, sponsored
by Senators John A. Lynch, Democrat of New Brunswick; Edward T. O'Connor,
Democrat of Jersey City, and others, is favored by the majority of the
Democrats.
Senator Lipman is also named as a co-sponsor of the Lynch-0' Connor measure.
The Lipman bill would permit up to four Urban Enterprise Zones; the
0' Connor measure, six. The bills differ in requirements for zone designation and
in the benefits they confer.
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The Lipman measure would create a New Jersey Enterprise Zone Authority,
headed by the Commissioner of Commerce and Economic Development, to designate
Urban Enterprise Zones and monitor their operations. They would give
preference to areas with the greatest potential for success and the highest
levels of poverty, unemployment and general distress.
For a business to be eligible for
the benefits, at least 25 percent of its
work force would have to live within
the zone or have been unemployed for a year
before being hired. The state's Department of Labor would develop and coordinate
a skill-training program tailored to the needs of the private sector.
Incentives for both the Lipman and Lynch-O'Connor legislation include
exemption from the corporate net-worth tax, permission to carry operating losses
forward or backward and tax credits for new employees who have been out of work.
Under the -ynch-O'Connor bill, Urban Enterprise Zones would be
administered by the Economic Development Authority. An amendment to the State
Constitution would be required to implement tax abatements for businesses
situated in the zones.
To cover half of the tax revenues lost by the municipalities, the state would
provide financial aid from an Enterprise Zone Assistance Fund. Retail sales of
all items except motor vehicles and certain manufacturing equipment would be
exempt from the state sales and use taxes, and tax deductions would be provided
for job training.
The Political Action Committee of the New Jersey Coalition of 100 Black
Women has committed itself to furthering discussion of the Urban Enterprise
Zone concept, contending there is insufficient awareness of the impending
legislation.
The committee recently sponsored a forum at Rutgers University on both the
zone concept and the bond issue, and
is now encouraging community groups and
urban centers that would be eligible for zone designation to organize their own
forums.
''This is a subject that needs to be discussed in cities like Newark, Jersey
City, Camden and Trenton, said Janet Haynes, cochairman of the committee.
'These are the cities that need rejuvenation.'
Senator Lipman, one of the speakers at the Rutgers forum, said that she
supported the concept because Newark was a logical candidate to become an
Urban Enterprise Zone.
''But this program must not become just another noble experiment, she
warned. 'The nation's cities have seen too many noble experiments that were
doomed to failure because they underestimated the complexity of the problems
they addressed.'
Kenneth D. Merin, deputy chief counsel to Governor Kean, told the forum that
the Urban Enterprise Zone was a concept that had never been tried before.
It will create 50,000 jobs within the next decade, he predicted.
However, Dr. John D. Retting, a professor at Seton Hall Law School, said he
did not believe it would work. ''The tax incentives won't counterbalance
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problems of crime and shortage of skilled labor in the target areas,' he said.
'They won't draw businesses and, if they do, they will create more problems
than they eliminate.'
A better idea than tax abatements, Dr. Retting said, would be to collect the
taxes and use the revenue for better police protection. Meanwhile, the Federal
Urban Enterprise Zone legislation awaits hearings in the House Ways and
Means Committee. A Senate bill has been approved by the Finance Committee and
awaits approval by the full Senate.
SUBJECT: LAW AND LEGISLATION; GOVERNMENT BONDS; REFERENDUMS; AREA PLANNING AND
RENEWAL
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GOVERNOR THOMAS KEAN (R-NJ)
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GOV. KEAN: Thank you very much for a kind -- overly kind introduction. And
thank you for the invitation. And good afternoon.
I was thinking, as I was getting ready to make these remarks, about the time I
was a young graduate student 25 years ago, approximately. And we used to listen
to records by a fellow called Tom Lehrer. And Tom Lehrer was a political
comedian some of you who are as old as I am will remember - a satirist who
wrote songs that made fun of a lot of the very unfunny things that were about
our nation in the early 1960s --- the possibility of nuclear annihilation, racial
discrimination, and the wanton destruction of our earth through pollution. And
in 1965, Lehrer wrote a song about -- called "Pollution." As I was preparing
these remarks, I remembered those words: "If you visit an American city, you
will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don't drink
the water, and don't breathe the air." (Scattered laughter.)
Lehrer's humor contributed to a growing clamor that had been started by a
remarkable woman named Rachel Carson with a book called "Silent Spring." We were
a dirty nation, destroying in decades what God had given us and what had been in
place, after all, for millions of years. Of course, back then not everyone
believed that we had to protect the environment. At its most benign, resistance
to that took the form of gently mocking humor. And I remember when I was a
freshman in the New Jersey Assembly around 1965 or '66, and I introduced a
bill -- it was before environmentalism was known ------------------------- called a conservation bill
to preserve a pristine glacial pond in the northwest part of our state. And I
remember one grizzled Democrat on the other side of the aisle jumping up and
saying, "Now I've seen everything. Essex County has sent down a bird watcher."
(Laughter.)
All too often, however, the resistance to the environmental movement was much
more malicious. It stemmed from people who knew the danger, but chose to either
ignore it or sometimes even to lie about it. As the Love Canal scandal
unfolded, for example, Hooker Chemical stubbornly refused to admit that it had
been dumping toxic chemicals in the Canal for some 20 years. In fact, Hooker
executives put an ad in the local newspaper that insisted "You'd be hard-pressed
to find any group of people who care as much about the environmental well being
of Niagara Falls as the people at Hooker."
Even more recently, there was the Cabinet secretary who said, "The
environmentalists' real thrust is not clean air or clean water or parks or
wildlife, but the form of government under which America will live. Look what
happened to Germany in the 1940s. The dignity of man was subordinated to the
power of Naziism, and those are the forces that this thing can evolve into."
Now in 1988, most of us, most Americans, would consider those remarks absurd.
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The reason is that acid rain and ocean pollution, toxic waste and the greenhouse
effect are no longer mere phrases. They're real problems that threaten everyday
Americans from every single walk of life. Even the simplest act, like going to
the back door and trying to throw out your garbage has become for some an
environmental nightmare. Acid rain is ruining up to 20 percent of the lakes on
the entire eastern seaboard. Polluted water has closed beaches and ruined
vacations from New Jersey to California, while decimating fish harvests from
Chesapeake Bay to Puget Sound. Leaking toxic waste sites threaten a number of
families, threaten their health, in hundreds of communities across this land,
while mountains of garbage choke landfills and cause property taxes to soar in
industrial states and crowded states like mine.
As 50 often happens in this democratic system of ours, these problems have led
to political consequences. Americans have reached, I believe, a consensus about
the environment and that consensus transforms -- transcends every party line and
I think transforms at the same time every region.
Eleven years ago, the people of my state were asked whether they would rather
maintain strict anti-pollution laws or relax them to create jobs. Eleven years
ago, people of my state split in a poll - 46 percent on each side. Last year,
we asked them the same question. And 69 percent said they wanted tougher laws.
Only 24 percent wanted to relax any law. In ten years, half of the people of my
state have changed their mind on that question. Last Tuesday, NBC asked
Americans leaving the polls whether they would pay higher taxes to preserve the
environment, and two-thirds said, yes, they would, for that cause.
But do you know how I really know that attitudes have changed? Let me read you
something I came across recently. "The summer of 1988 may well have marked a
turning point in political consciousness where the problem of pollution is
concerned. The issue has been building for years. But, this summer, it
crested. The environment is no longer a cult issue." Now, take a guess where
that came from. If you guessed the Sierra Club magazine, the New York Times
editorial page, or even the Nation, you're wrong. That pro-environmental
opinion comes from the National Review, a publication you'd find, I guess, on
Barry Goldwater's coffee table, not Ted Kennedy's.
The people of America, liberal and conservative alike, understand this challenge
that is facing our generation. They cry out for leadership, and too often in
the past, that leadership has not been provided.
The wetlands -- that, to me, is a perfect example of where we've failed. For
years, Lee Thomas, the head of EPA, has been trying to focus the Congress on our
national and on our nation's disappearing wetlands. Lee knew well that wetlands
were disappearing so fast that in 212 years we've destroyed more than half of
the wetlands that existed when Columbus first sighted this nation. Each year,
we're losing nearly another half a million acres, and some states - states like
California, and Iowa -- have lost 90 percent of their wetlands. Children alive
today may see the first man on Mars, and at this rate, the last wetland in the
United States.
Now, few people outside of the environmental movement seemed to care that we are
destroying the spawning ground of 60 to 90 percent of the US commercial fish
catch. They didn't care that we are wiping out the home of 1/3 of the nation's
endangered species, nor did anyone seem to realize that all over the country, we
are destroying natural flood protection that otherwise we would have to build in
at simply astronomic cost to the taxpayer. The examples -- we call them horror
stories - are really endless. We know, for example, that all of the ducks,
geese, and other migratory birds in the Midwest need small ponds. They need
wetlands to survive as they pass through the heartland, and they call these
wetlands "prairie potholes." But you know, we're paving those prairie potholes.
The ducks and geese are crowding into the few remaining holes, and avian
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cholera is on the rise.
And how about the grandfather of our
waters, the Mississippi? There, we're our
own worst enemy. We built levees on
the river to prevent farms and towns from
flooding, and now, those same levees prevent sediment from reaching the vast
Mississippi wetlands, and as a result, those wetlands are literally sinking
down. We're losing more than 36 square miles a year of irreplaceable breeding
grounds for fish, for the shrimp industry, and for many other things as well.
And some day, if it continues at this rate, we might have to add the city of New
Orleans to what is sinking, since it's built on those same Delta wetlands.
Lee Thomas understood the damage that was occurring, but he was frustrated by
the Congress' seeming inability to act in the face of so many interests. When
it came to the wetlands, the timber industry had a very definite stake, and they
wanted one thing. The housing industry, another. The environmentalists wanted
a third thing. So, last year, when Congress reauthorized the Clean Water Act,
they felt they better just ignore the problem of wetlands. That's why Lee
Thomas called me and called Bill Reilly of the Conservation Foundation, and
asked us to convene the National Wetlands Policy Forum. You see, he wanted to
prove that even on an issue as contentious as this, that good people
representing various interests could sit down and find a common interest and
achieve a consensus.
Coming up with an answer to the incredibly shrinking wetlands problem required
compromise. It required imagination and it required an awful lot of creativity.
And the members of this panel succeeded. They succeeded, not just because they
were a bunch of what my son sometimes calls "granola heads." (Faint laughter).
Yes, we had the heads of environmental groups, and good people like Jay Hair,
fron the National Wildlife Federation, and Fred Krupp (sp?) from the
Environmental Defense Fund, but we also had two governors. We had Carroll
Campbell of South Carolina and Governor Booth Gardner of Washington. And yet,
we also had developers. People like Shirley Weisman (sp?), the president-elect
of the National Homebuilders Association, and Mel Simon (sp?), whose shopping
malls have simply changed the landscape of suburban America. And we had
business leaders like Bill Chamberlain, of the Atlantic Richfield Oil Company,
also serving in the forum. We had farmers, good representation from the farm
community. We had professors. We had government officials, like Nancy Elliott
(sp?) of Yorktown, New York, and Peter Brunell (sp?) of the California Coastal
Conservancy. And of course we can't forget the man who kicked off the project
and stayed through hour after hour, and hour and hours at end of meetings, Lee
Thomas, who never left until we achieved what we were after.
Now, a lot of people thought this was simply a recipe for stalemate and simply
thought if you got those particular people in a room there was no way that we
were going to agree on this kind of a contentious issue. But, you know, the
lions laid down with the lambs, and it worked. We discovered that, despite (?)
we had disagreements, we knew that, but that overall, we shared some goals. We
produced a document that should, I hope, be a model for future attempts to get
these contentious issues behind us and move ahead on environmental protection.
And the greatest success we achieved was to agree that we must in this nation of
ours set a goal, no net loss of wetlands anymore for our nation. This is very
important -- important for a couple of reasons. This 15 the first time ever
that we've been able to set this sort of a goal. And second, we made that goal
a premise to every other decision that we reached. I'll go into detail later or
in question and answers, but briefly, what we do is we told Congress to put in
place a national wetlands policy, including identification of all the nation's
wetlands. We asked federal and state leaders to end government programs that
inadvertently destroy wetlands, for states to be given the flexibility to adapt
programs to their own needs, and for the private sector to be involved and be
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more creative in ways that they can help to protect wetlands.
More importantly, we agreed that we simply have to agree for everybody's
interest --- and the real significance of this report I don't think can be
overstated --- yes we announced a major wetlands policy today, but what we did I
think transcends the wetlands. A group of totally diverse Americans, with
sometimes mutually exclusive interests, were able to come to consensus.
Developers sat in the same room and agreed with environmentalists, industry
chieftains sat in the same room and agreed with government leaders.
We can get that same kind of cooperation. We can do wonders. We can clean our
oceans. We can reduce acid rain. We can turn down the thermostat on the
greenhouse effect. On acid rain, for example, the Midwest and the East simply
have to break bread together. That's the only way the problems is going to be
solved rather than break heads trying to figure out who's going to pay for a
solution we all know has to come.
On ocean pollution, we can no longer
have neighboring states play Cain and Abel
with one another. New York and New
Jersey had a fued about ocean dumping
for so long that sometimes I thought interstate commerce between us meant
trading accusations rather than goods and services.
Well, Governor Cuomo and I finally sat down together on the issue. And we
negotiated an agreement to end dumping off the New Jersey shore. And once
that agreement was in place, the logjam in Congress just sort of naturally
broke. These problems can be solved. We can craft an acid rain version, I
believe, of the wetlands agreement, but it requires that most elusive of
commodities, it requires leadership. Now, who will provide that leadership?
Today, I think it has to be my Party, I think it has to be the Republican Party,
and after the selection, obviously it has to be the Bush administration.
I believe we stand in this nation and in my party at a historic moment. For the
first time in 40 years, the party in power for two elections now holds power for
a third. For the first time in 60 years, one Republican administration has been
elected to succeed another. The voters have given a mandate that says
basically, "Full speed ahead."
America has entrusted us with what I think is just an awesome responsibility.
They have made us the nation's stewards again, and I don't believe in any way we
can afford to let them down. I know that Republican environmentalists still
sounds to some like an oxymoron. Sometimes you'd sooner expect Morton Downey to
talk about the virtues of silence (laughter) -- then the - then the party of
Jim Watt to talk about the virtues of protecting the environment. But, you'd
make a very serious mistake if you were to believe that.
My party has its roots in freedom freedom for black Americans from slavery;
freedom for all Americans from the twin tyrannies of unemployment and inflation;
and yes, I believe freedom for all Americans from the tyrannies and ravages of
pollution. Yes, our first environmental President, Teddy Roosevelt, was a
Republican. I know many of you heard that before.
Two years ago, I gave a lecture on Republican environmentalism to the Natural
Resources Defense Council, and I was told by a member of my staff that Mike
Barrone (?) of the Washington Post told - said later on, "Oh no, not another
Teddy Roosevelt with a Republican environmentalist speech." (Laughter.)
But, these are our roots as a party, and they extend right into modern times.
It was the Nixon administration that put 15 separate environmental laws on the
federal books, including the Clean Air Act, the Coastal Zone Management Act,
EPA, and RCRA, among others. The convention that nominated Presidnet Bush is a
good barometer that I believe this Republican party of mine has returned to its
roots.
Look at what the Sierra Club found when it polled the delegates to New Orleans
about the environment. Three-fourths of the delegates said they wanted
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government - government - I said the "G" word - (laughter) -- to do more to
reduce acid rain. By a two-to-one margin, the delegates said, if necessary,
they'd even pay higher federal taxes to pay for a cleaner environment. This
poll wasn't conducted in Atlanta. It was conducted in New Orleans. And it was
also in New Orleans that George Bush devoted a good three minutes of his
acceptance speech to the problems of
acid rain, toxic waste, and ocean
pollution.
And
he
carried
the
theme
of environmental protection right through
the fall campaign.
I know that the post-election analyses have all focused on negative campaigning.
But, I think that too many people may have been just reading the
President-elect's lips and not paying close enough attention to what he was
actually saying. Because, in Seattle, Washington, and in Gibraltar, Michigan,
and on the shores of New Jersey, George Bush laid out an environmental
agenda in detail that is as sensitive and as thoughtful as any candidate for
president in my lifetime.
The President-elect endorsed our goal of no net loss of the nation's wetlands.
He said the time for talk about acid rain is over. The time for action is now.
He vowed to strengthen the Superfund Toxic Waste Cleanup Program. And he called
for a new trust fund to protect parks and recreation areas.
Yes, I know the Vice President pointed out the facts on Boston Harbor and that
that received a great deal of attention. But, what received less attention was
his pledge to cut national production of toxic waste by 25 percent and to try to
do that in his first term; his VOW to convene an international conference on
global warming; his zero tolerance policy for polluters; and his clear decision
to enforce an end to ocean dumping and of sewerage sludge, and to do 50 within
three years.
George Bush called for a new way of thinking - a conservation ethic, he called
it --- that must guide all our policies in the 1990's. Like Teddy Roosevelt
before him, George Bush, I believe, will make the environment a Republican
priority -- a national priority. As a result, I think you'll see the kind of
consensus being built on other environmental issues that we have built here on
the wetlands. I don't think we can wait any longer for leadership.
Look what we've done to our globe. We've probed it, excavated it, burned it,
ripped things from it, and buried things in it. If we were renters and we did
that to an apartment, we would have been evicted a long, long time ago. Make no
mistake, we're tenants on this planet. And we have violated that biblical
injunction found in Revelations, "Hurt not the earth, neither the sea nor the
trees." Later in Revelations, you know, St. John describes the aftermath of the
apocalypse, saying, "Heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was
no sea." We need no Armageddon to reach that apocalypse. In fact, if things go
unchecked, we are approaching this apocalypse now. But we have within us, I
believe, the ability to alter the course. We can change the way we do business
with one another, and certainly with this earth. That is most of all what this
agreement in Vail today goes to prove, and that is what I hope we will see
occurring over the next four years. Thank you very much. (Applause)
MR. RODERICK: Thank you, Governor. A couple of questions regarding wetlands.
Is it true that you declared an 18-month moratorium of development in wetlands
in New Jersey? Why? And what was the effect?
GOV. KEAN: We were trying to push for a goal of how to preserve some inland
wetlands, and a bill was moving through the legislature, but very, very slowly.
I used my executive power to declare a moratorium on further destruction of the
wetlands until that bill reached my desk. The bill reached my desk in about two
weeks after that moratorium was declared. It did have the effect of
concentrating people's attention tremendously -- (laughter) -- and it got
together some folks who had thought their interest was in delay, and once that
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moratorium was on the table, felt their interest was in reaching a compromise
and a solution. So, I think it helped substantially in preserving some wetlands
and stopping increased destruction.
MR. RODERICK: In what ways do you feel that the private sector can help in the
preservation of wetlands, as you have suggested? Why should the private sector
be trusted to help resolve this dilemma when private interests have placed the
survival of the wetlands in jeopardy?
GOV. KEAN: Well, first of all, I think the private sector simply has to help,
because without it certainly government can't do it alone, nor should they. The
private sector - and by "the private sector," I mean, obviously, industry,
which was represented 50 constructively on the wetlands forum, has to be a
player, has to be part of it. And their legitimate interests have got to be
recognized. Without the private sector's involvement, no constructive
resolution of these problems is really going to be found. But when they come in
with constructive arguments, when they come in trying to achieve, as they often
do, the same goal, then through talk, then through discussion, then through the
kind of thing we went through on the Wetlands Forum, then I believe we can be
successful. But the private sector, I think, has got to be involved. Yes, I
think they can be trusted. I think very often we've got to put our cards on the
table. They've got to recognize that it's in their long-range interests to
preserve some of these areas, to help with the solution of some of these
problems. I don't -- I'm one of those who doesn't believe, necessarily, there
is an absolute conflict between, for instance, development and the environment.
In fact, I believe that economic progress often can't occur, unless at the same
time we have a certain amount of preservation of open space, of clean water, of
clean air, and the other things which actually make people who create economic
development want to come to a region. There's no worse degradation ----- where you
find real degradation of the environment, you find people also unwilling to come
in and create economic development. So, I think the two have got to come
together, and I think the private sector not only has a role to play, I think
the private sector has to be a player if we're going to come to the solutions.
MR. RODERICK: Given what you have said, Governor, do you support the upgrading
of the Environmental Protection Agency to Cabinet-level status? And if so,
would you be interested in being this nation's first Secretary of the Department
of Environmental Protection?
GOV. KEAN: (Laughs) -- The first part's much easier than the second. The -- I
think it would be a very good thing, to upgrade -- upgrade it. I think the
environmental problems are 50 great now, that I think to have a Department
designated to deal with them and Cabinet-level status, would be a good thing,
and I think very helpful in moving on the agenda. I'm Governor of New
Jersey. I hope to stay as Governor of New Jersey, to finish out my term,
no matter how attractive something like that might be.
MR. RODERICK: We can get back to this later, but let's try it again now. I
think New Jersey allows what? Two terms as governor? (Laughter) You must
have something in mind following your second term? Could you give us an idea of
what it might be, or what kind of job could attract you to a Bush
administration?
GOV. KEAN: I know my wife is listening to the answer -- (Laughter) -- but the
-- I purposely, and it may sound strange, but I purposely have not focused.
I've got a year and three or four months, I guess, left on my -- on my term of
office. I really haven't focused extensively on what I'm going to do next,
because I think, if you have a job like the one I do, if you focus too
extensively on what you're going to do next, you sort of take your eye off the
ball of what you're trying to do now. And we've got not only a number of
environmental priorities, like the establishment of a coastal commission, but
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we've got a lot of other things we're trying to do in the state of New
Jersey. I know, if you ask me this question a year from now and I don't have
an answer, that I'm going to be a little disturbed, and 50 is my family. But up
to this point, up to this point I really haven't concentrated on what I'm going
to do next, other than trying to be a good governor of the state.
MR. RODERICK: You are still keeping your teaching certificate current, then, I
take it?
GOV. KEAN: Yes, that I'm doing, that I'm doing. (Laughter.)
MR. RODERICK: Could you list the top -- say, three top priorities, as you see
them, for the national environmental agenda over the next few years?
GOV. KEAN: Wow. Top three priorities? I think we've gotten to the point now
where I think some of these priorities have got to be global in nature, and
we've got to bring our friends in on the solutions. We cannot, as we - in 50
many other ways, you know, as a nation we can't solve our own problems anymore
without bringing the rest of the world in. I think the environmental priorities
are almost the same.
I mean, global warming, I believe in; I believe that is something that's
happening, and I believe it has incredible consequences for the policy,
governmental policy, in the future. And if that is the case, then I think this
has got to be a priority, not only of the United States, but we've got to bring
in our friends, our allies, and even people who have not been our friends and
allies, and get them in a room and see whether or not we can come up with a
solution. I think George Bush's idea of a conference at the White House, you
know, under American sponsorship to try and work on some of these problems, is
an exciting one.
The whole idea of the oceans - I happen to believe the oceans may be finite,
that you cannot continue to dump garbage all over the world, an unspeakable
fault (?) of one kind or another, and chemicals and toxics in the ocean forever,
without having terrible consequences. After all, life came from the ocean, and
I think if we destroy the ocean and the wetlands and the estuary zones and all
of that, that we're -- 50 I think the ocean has got to be, has got to be a
priority.
Obviously, clean air, with all its ramifications, has got to be a priority; and
then, sort of rounding out, the water. We know, in a number of states -- our
state, for one - where there was over-building without planning. We find out
the very water that people want to drink becomes unusable, and you have this
terrible business of people having to live with bottled water while you try to
bring in a clean supply. We've got to pay a lot of attention to ground water,
to the water that we use in the majority of this country to drink. We don't
have the problems the rest of the world does. All of you who travel know, if
you go to other countries, the value, the actual value of clean water, how
important it is. We have never had that problem in most of this country. We've
got to start recognizing that water is a real resource and we'd better work
environmentally on preserving it.
MR. RODERICK: How do you feel about nuclear energy?
GOV. KEAN: I personally feel that nuclear energy has got to be a transitional
form of energy until we come up with what I think are cleaner and better
solutions. Every solution that I've seen under present technology for nuclear
energy has some pretty bad environmental consequences. I happen to believe
that, though, that we shouldn't say nuclear is going to solve our energy
problems -- that we should look at it as a transitional source of power until we
can move beyond it. And that takes research. And that takes technology into
solar -- a number of other sources of energy which we hope will come -- our
scientists and engineers will make ready for us coming into the next century.
MR. RODERICK: President-elect Bush has pledged to do a better job on the
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environment, but he also has called for a flexible freeze on the budget. Where
is he going to get the money?
GOV. KEAN: Well, this is, of course, the big question on a number of these
priorities. A lot of the priorities we're talking about don't, however, require
a tremendous amount of money. What they take is leadership. On the wetlands
forum that we just met on, an awful lot of the priorities which we've
recommended in the changing of the law take very little, if any, money.
We also think we have to be a lot more creative in finding resources. For
instance, in New Jersey, we have a system of permit fees, where if somebody
wants a permit, we use the small fee for that purpose to do the enforcement and
do the regulation involving that area. There are tax checkoffs in a number of
states. There are a number of things going on that are looking for creative
ways to establish trust funds or to find the means to do these various programs.
And then, of course, there is the establishment of the priorities -- of
priorities. The one problem I have, I guess, with policy in Washington - or
one of the problems I've had in recent years with problems in Washington - is
that, recognizing that we all have a terrible budget problem, policy makers
often start from the idea that everything that's now being done is fine. And
therefore, we just simply can't increase. You know, just practically, that's
not right, that there are a lot of things that we're talking about doing in the
future that may be a higher priority than some of the things we're doing now.
Then you make adjustments and changes. They're difficult. They involve
bureaucracy sometimes or are attached to a different policy and program you
don't want to go. But, that's what leadership's all about --- switching around
priorities, making changes. We -- for heaven's sake, when I was elected
Governor we went immediately almost into the worst recession in our state since
the Great Depression. I was faced with a starting gap of $600 million, which
then grew from there on. And I had a budget gap to solve, which was comparable
to about three-quarters of the present debt - except we had a balanced budget
requirement at the end of the year. We couldn't simply put it off or borrow it
or anything else. We had to make some very, very difficult choices.
But let me tell you something, we did not cut funds for environmental
protection, we increased them. We did not cut funds for education, we increased
them. We took a number of human service programs and increased them. And to do
SO, we cut back on a number of programs - we brought a team in that cut $100
million off ongoing government expenses. We laid off some folks and we raised
some revenues and we put the thing together. But I think the idea of setting
priorities doesn't mean you can't do anything new. And it doesn't mean you
necessarily can't change what's going on in the past.
MR. RODERICK: Vice President Bush tried to claim the environmentalist mantel in
this election even though leading environmental groups said he didn't deserve
it. How do you rate the Reagan Administration's record on the environment and
Mr. Bush's interest in it?
GOV. KEAN: Well, I've criticized the Reagan record on the environment, not
since Lee Thomas has been around -- (laughs) -- but earlier on. And I was
fairly forceful, I think, in those criticisms. I tell you my feeling about
George Bush. This is probably -- and I think is the first real outdoorsman -
the first real person who's made his living in the ocean and takes his
recreation in the ocean. The first one who enjoys, if he has a holiday, going
out camping in the national parks. This is the first man like this we've
elected, I think, since Teddy Roosevelt in either Party. This is a man who
loves the outdoors, and therefore, who cares about it and understands the
environment.
When he came to New Jersey to talk about the ocean, he wasn't just -- I
didn't feel -- saying something for the campaign, he was somebody who really
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loves the ocean and wants to do something about it. Because as you know, if he
gets a vacation that's where he goes, into the ocean to find his recreation in
one way or another.
So, I believe this is somebody who deeply cares about the environment, who has
an understanding of it, who enjoys it, and who will move ahead on an
environmental agenda.
MR. RODERICK: This is a similar question. To really improve the quality of the
environment, clearly more federal regulation and better enforcement of
anti-pollution is needed. But the Reagan administration is hardly in favor of
strong efforts to protect the environment. Do you think the Bush administration
will be different in this regard?
GOV. KEAN: I think the Bush administration will put a lot more emphasis on the
protection of the environment, but I - you know, with Lee Thomas sitting here,
I can't say the Reagan administration hasn't done a great deal to help us in the
states in that regard under Lee's leadership and under Bill Ruckelshaus'
leadership within the administration. There have been a lot of strides made
forward in that area. I happen to think that the Bush administration will put
more of a stress on environmental protection based from the President on down in
the administration. What was the last part of that question?
MR. RODERICK: How he would differ from the Reagan administration.
GOV. KEAN: Yeah. I think also you'll see -- and we recommended some of this
in our forum -- I think you will see more delegation of the states under a
federal umbrella. I think you will see more of the "look, these are the ends to
be achieved, and as long as you achieve these ends, how do you as states want to
achieve them." It think you'll see a Bush administration, in other words, adding
emphasis, and in priority will put the environment very, very high on the list
of this country's priorities.
MR. RODERICK: Could you tell us what the current state of New Jersey's
beaches are after a summer of notorious pollution? And can you give the public
any assurance that this situation won't recur next summer?
GOV. KEAN: We've got a situation on the New Jersey beaches which has two
facets. One is the real problem which is the most important, we have been, as
you know, flows come up and down the East Coast, you can't do something in one
state alone. But WE have put into effect a program that's costing us as a state
a quarter of a billion dollars which does everything from address the problems
of storm water run-off which is one of the main problems we have, to the
out-fall problems to sweeping beaches to upgrading old sewage plants to
preservind dunes, all sorts of things which in one way or another will improve
the ocean. We've also worked, due to the compromise that Governor Cuomo and I
came up with, we have worked out in the United States Congress action -- under
the leadership of the New Jersey -- we have worked out an end to ocean
dumping. We're not going to have that sewage sludge in a number of years dumped
off the New Jersey shore and the New York bight anymore.
We are moving to ways in which we can clean our ocean. Can I guarantee that
next summer there'll be no problems along the New Jersey shore? No, because
a lot of these things are a long-term process to cure just a they were a
long-term process to create. But I can say is that this summer there were no
problems -- no problems really from, to those of you who know New Jersey,
from Monmouth County south, which was the majority of the New Jersey shore
-- not one beach closed, not one test that found any kind of pollution, not one
area that found any unsafety -- lack of safety for anybody swimming.
And I can say beyond that, that if you do come and decide to swim in New
Jersey, from this point of view it'll be the safest place in the country
because we test more. We go in and tell you if there's a problem. There are
number of places in this country where you go in the water, you might hope
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it's all right, and it may look all right, but you don't know it's all right.
Let me tell you this, in New Jersey, we test every -- almost every day on
every major beach area up and down the shore, and if there's a problem, we will
close the beach and we'll tell you you can't swim. So, if you swim on the New
Jersey shore, beleive me, you're going to be safe, so come. (Laughter and
applause.)
MR. RODERICK: Governor, someone from here has been to Atlantic City and they're
not very impressed -- (laughter) -- according to the card here. They say, why
is the promise to revitalize Atlantic City from the tax receipts of the casinos
have been broken? Anyone visiting Atlantic City can see that the communities
and long-time residents of the city are not prospering. What went wrong?
GOV. KEAN: Well, the first thing is, you see, the tax receipts cannot be used
to revive Atlantic City. The way in which those who are promoting casino
gambling got the referendum passed to allow gambling in Atlantic City was to
tell the senior citizens and the handicapped people in the State of New
Jersey that every cent of money that the state made through casinos would be
given to senior citizens and handicapped. So, we've got a lot of senior citizen
programs in the State of New Jersey that no other state has, and that's
helpful. But, we cannot use that money to revive Atlantic City.
What we have got - I'll tell you the way we have tried to address the problems
of Atlantic City because it is true. We've got that gleaming waterfront of the
casinos and a lot of poverty still behind the casinos. We have got developed
now a casino reinvestment fund where the casinos have to put aside monies to
reinvest in housing and the redevelopment of that city. In fact, the first
contract for the worst area of the city, I think, has been signed either this
week or next week. But, what it amounts to is almost $1 billion over the next
10 to 15 years; it has to be reinvested to redevelop that city. This will mean
the housing ---- a tremendous amount of new housing; this will mean stores; this
will mean restaurants; this will mean the areas of the city that have not kept
up with the redevelopment of the casino waterfront. (Inaudible) - will come
into their own. We're also -- there's a rail line that's opening this year from
Philadelphia to Altantic City. We got a new Convention Hall; new airport coming
on line, I hope. A number of things coming which is going to work together, I
hope, to fulfill the promise of Atlantic City. That city decayed over a long
number of years, and simply putting a bunch of gambling houses on the water was
not going to reverse that urban decay in a short period of time. But our belief
is that through this casino redevelopment fund, due to that billion dollars
that's going to be reinvested, that you will see Atlantic City again develop
into a resort that all of us certainly in New Jersey want it to.
MR. RODERICK: Governor, do you agree that Canada contributes acid rain which is
destroying the Adirondack and New England/ New Jersey forests?
GOV. KEAN: Canada has a problem because --- and Canada doesn't like to admit
this --- but when Canada is talking about the fact we've got to do something
about acid rain, Canada's own standards for what it is polluting the air with
are not very strong. The only thing we can say is that the prevailing winds are
such that not an awful lot of that blows into states like New Jersey and
New England; ours is more apt to blow at them. So I don't think Canada
contributes, from what I've heard, as much to the degradation of our environment
frankly as we contribute to theirs. But that doesn't mean we should't hold
Canada to the same kind of standards they want to hold us to.
And I believe to address acid rain as we try to work an agreement between the
North East and the Midwest and get a way to really significantly reduce acid
rain, then -- and one of the things, by the way - going back to George - is
George Bush never once said in this campaign - at least in my hearing -- "it's
a problem that has to be studied" when he talked about acid rain. (Light
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laughter.) I said once we're going to have the most studied environmental
disaster in the nation's history. (Laughter.) He never said that. He said,
it's time to ACT (speaker's emphasis) on acid rain.
And I believe acting -- and I believe Canada -- and we talk about treaties and
we talk about everything else - I believe that we ought to hold them to
standards as to what they do with their own emissions the same as they would
like us to have the same kind of good standards.
MR. RODERICK: The Clean Air Act has not been enforced with Congress and the
administration unable to agree on sanctions and deadlines as cities continue to
pollute their air. What is the answer to cleaning up the air?
GOV. KEAN: Well, I feel -- you know, I feel very - sort of embarrassed
talking in front of Lee Thomas who knows much more about this subject than I do.
(Laughs.) But my feeling is that we will not really be able to clean up the air
until we solve a problem that we call transport. In other words, you can
sanction us in New Jersey right down to the fact where we don't have any
more people driving around and not a single piece of industry left in New
Jersey, we're still going to violate the Clean Air Act standards. And the
reason is the flow of air that comes over us from Pennsylvania, from Ohio, from
a number of other areas, brings with it the problems of pollution because of
what we call "transport."
Now, until we can agree on regional solutions, until we can agree on standards
that are somewhat universal, it doesn't help, as was thought in the Clean Air
Act at one time, to simply ratchet down state by state. We all have got to, I
think, regionally agree that there are certain standards in this world we live
in that all of us have got to agree to, and whether you're putting up a higher
smokestack 50 the stuff doesn't really come down in five miles, but comes down
instead in 100 miles, that doesn't really solve the problem. And we'll only
solve the problem, I believe, when we hold everybody to reasonably ---- the same
reasonable standards.
MR. RODERICK: "How did you get 60 percent of the black vote of New Jersey? H
"What advice would you give to the national Republican organization, which could
muster only about ten percent of that vote last week"?
GOV. KEAN: The first thing I'd say to the National Republican Party is, "You
didn't try." The National Republican Party had no outreach into the black
community. They made -- they had an ethnic outreach into almost every other
community. They didn't spend any time. They didn't really try, I don't think,
to address the black community. The first thing you've got to do is talk to
people. The first thing you've got to do is communicate your ideas. The first
thing you've got to do is have an outreach. And we've got to do a much better
job of that in the Republican Party.
I didn't do that by accident. I worked very, very hard. I went into areas that
the Mayor of Newark once said, "He's not only in areas that no Republican has
before, he's in some areas that I haven't seen a white man in a long time."
(Laughter). You go into the community. You let them know you, and you've got
to exchange ideas.
Secondly, in my own view, the black voter is not looking for an awful lot that
every other voter isn't looking for. First of all -- I'll tell you what I
campaigned on when I went into the black community, very traditional issues,
very Republican issues, if you like. I talked about creating jobs, not just in
vague terms, but creating jobs in people's neighborhoods, because in a lot of
places where black people live, they do not have the opportunity to get the kind
of job that so many other Americans have the opportunity to get, jobs that they
can advance and jobs which they can make a better life for themselves and their
kids. So, I talked about things like urban enterprise zones, I talked
about ways -- we created, by the way, 20,000 new jobs using enterprise zones
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in the most depressed cities in the states, in riot-torn areas. I talked about
programs like this, to bring jobs into areas where people lived. I talked about
education a lot, urban education.
The schools in our nation's cities are an unmitigated disaster; we ought to
admit it. Not every school -- there are some shining examples of urban
educators who are doing a wonderful job. But all too many schools are simply
warehousing kids, instead of teaching them. Why is it, do you think, that so
many good black Baptists are working seven days a week to send their kids to
Catholic schools? It's not because they've been converted. (Laughter) It's
because they recognize that they want the same opportunity for their kids that
our parents wanted for us, to do better than they're doing. And no matter how
menial a job, no matter how much some mother is on welfare, she wants, if she
can, to provide a better -- so, I talked about schools, and I talked about a
number of strategies to really improve urban schools, even to the extent of,
where a school responded to nothing else, simply taking it over, firing the
school board, firing the principal, and bringing the parents and bringing in
urban educators who could educate those kids, giving them hope. And I talked
about crime.
You know, you talk about crime in this country, and everybody says somehow
that's appealing to a white community or something. It's not. The black
community suffers more from crime in this country than any other community in
our population, and we ought to realize it and try to do something about it. I
did something once -- I supplied, with state funds, matching funds, about 2,000
extra policemen on the streets and corners of the city. I remember talking at a
black church one time when I was running for office, and a woman stood up and
said, "I only want one thing from you." And I said, "What's that?" She said, "I
work, I work hard. I have a small apartment, and I walk one block from my
apartment to the bus stop. Three Fridays," she told me, "in the last three or
four months," she said, "I've been mugged, and my paycheck has been taken away.
If you can simply find some way to get a policeman on that street corner, it's
all I want."
I talked about law enforcement and ways to improve law enforcement in the
cities. I think, if the Republican Party goes in -- and I could -- a couple of
more things there, but if the Republican Party will go in with some basic
solutions to the problems in people's lives, if they will communicate that, they
will find a good response in the black community, as they found a good response
in a number of other communities. They simply have to try.
MR. RODERICK: Thank you, Governor. We have come very close to the end of our
allotted time. Before asking you one more question, I would like to present you
with a certificate of our appreciation for being here and a replica of the Press
Club seal on a paperweight.
GOV. KEAN: Oh, thank you.
MR. RODERICK: Now, somebody out there - and maybe this would be helpful to a
number of people in our audience would like to know if you have any advice on
how to beat the slots in Atlantic City? (Laughter)
GOV. KEAN: Well, the first thing you've got to do is come and try. (Laughter
and applause) Thank you.
MR. RODERICK: Thank you very much. That ends our luncheon. (Applause)
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JERSEY
10:00p,m.
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: GOP FUNDRAISER
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1989
Governor Kean, Congressman Courter, Other superb members of
the New Jersey Congressional delegation -- Dean Gallo, Marge
Roukema, Chris Smith, Matt
Rinaldo, Jim Saxton. Mr. Sullivan, Mr.
Bathgate, Ms. Donovan, and other great New Jersey Republican
leaders.
Let me begin, Jim, by saying how much I appreciate that
introduction. And by adding that I am pleased to be with you.
It is always good to be back in a State whose motto is
"Liberty and prosperity." And which in the last eight years has
had a Governor devoted to both. If I could borrow a phrase,
under Governor Kean liberty and prosperity have been "perfect
together."
It is always a pleasure, too, to return to a State which was
SO very kind to me in 1988! And to salute the entire Republican
ticket. Its candidates. Its ideas and vision. And especially,
those of you who toil SO long and hard at the grass-roots level.
But I've come to Newark today for an even more important
reason. This reason goes beyond party to the essence of this
campaign. New Jersey's elections are among the most crucial in
America.
This election will decide whether New Jersey builds on what
you began eight years ago.
Or whether it risks everything by
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returning to the past. Whether New Jersey has the inspired
leadership it needs to win the war on drugs and crime. Or
whether it reverts to failed social policies that blame everyone
but the criminal.
This election will decide whether New Jersey continues to
have the kind of leadership which balances a sound economy and
sound ecology. And whether its leadership says "No" to higher
taxes and "Yes" to extending the prosperity of the last eight
years.
That's what this election will decide. It's that important.
It's that clear-cut. And today I make a prediction. This
November, New Jersey will make the right decision. A decision to
cast its vote for the future
for the cause of good
government
for the Republican Party [PAUSE]
A vote,
in short, for the new New Jersey.
That means a vote for Republicans running for the General
Assembly -- Republicans who will help ensure fair redistricting
in the 1990s. And a vote for Republicans running at the local
and county level. It means a vote for candidates who'll take a
tough approach to crooks and thugs. And perhaps most of all, it
means a vote for the man who can move your State into the coming
decade stronger than ever. Your next Governor -- Congressman Jim
Courter.
Now, Jim's a long-time friend -- and I wanted to come up
here and, personally, support him and the great party that's
behind him. I know you wanted to hear a few words from a
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prominent national figure who can really fire up a crowd and
generate some excitement [PAUSE]
Unfortunately, Arnold
Schwarzenegger had to go back to Los Angeles -- so I'm here
instead.
Believe me, I'm delighted. And believe me, too, when I say
that the entire Republican ticket -- led Jim Courter -- can help
"keep New Jersey proud," as the banner behind me says. How? By
keeping a Republican Governor. And a Republican General
Assembly. By "keeping New Jersey Republican." Let me quote one
of New Jersey's favorite adopted sons -- the noted philosopher,
Montclair's Yogi Berra. Once, Yogi ruminated, "You observe a lot
by watching. " Well, we've observed a lot by watching New Jersey
Republicans over the years.
We've seen them fight to clean up our environment. And to
clean up our schools. We've seen them fight the scourge of drugs
and crime. We've seen them create over 500,000 new jobs in the
last eight years. And school test scores go up twice the
national rate. And we've seen them oppose those liberal
Democrats who cherish new taxes like moths drawn to a flame.
These Republican positions embody the new New Jersey -- old
values plus new thinking. And will reinforce the progress of the
last eight years. Eight years of enlightened leadership --
Republican leadership. Yet Republicans know that a record is
something not to stand upon -- but to build upon. And our
party's leadership into the '90s will reaffirm the renaissance
that makes New Jersey's success story worth retelling.
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First, the environment. For here, as elsewhere, Republicans
has helped build the new New Jersey. Republicans have blocked
oil drilling off the Jersey shore to save our beaches. Pushed
legislation to ban ocean dumping. Made New Jersey the first
State to mandate recycling. And launched the most aggressive
toxic waste cleanup program in America.
Next, education. For here, too, Republicans have moved
forward, not back. In 1983, Tom Kean unveiled a great idea
called Alternative Certification. A concept allowing talented
Americans to teach in the classroom. Today, Alternative
Certification is a flagship of the Federal plan we introduced
earlier this year. Tom Kean has been the Education Governor.
Republicans -- led by Jim Courter -- can keep academic excellence
a New Jersey byword.
Then, we come to taxes. And here, the difference between
the old and new New Jerseys is especially clear.
The new New Jersey knows that creating opportunity can help
meet the needs of distressed locales from Camden to Paterson.
And in particular, let me salute Tom Kean's pioneering concept of
Urban Enterprise Zones. The new New Jersey -- a Republican New
Jersey -- knows that the decade's tax cuts helped make prosperity
a reality. For the more money people have to spend, the more
they can help create growth, jobs, and progress.
That's the new New Jersey. The old New Jersey -- the
Democratic Party's New Jersey -- believes something quite
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different. It regards the private sector as an enemy, not ally.
And in policy of, by, and for the government.
Sound outdated? It is. In fact, I heard a story recently
which typified this thinking. Two men were sitting in a Trenton
restaurant talking about politicians. One of them said he
thought the syntax of a public official needed a lot of work.
Well, naturally, at first I thought he meant me. But then
the fellow said he was really talking about a liberal
Congressman. "Sintax?" roared the second man. "You mean to tell
me those Democrats down in Washington are putting a tax on that,
too?"
That says it all for our Democratic opponents: "Tax and
tax, spend and spend." I'm sure you've heard the adage, "You're
not getting older, you're just getting better." Well, when it
comes to the Democrats' notion of "fiscal sanity," their ideas
never get any better. Just older and more discredited.
Nowhere is the division of new versus old more clear-cut
than in the areas of crime, drugs, and punishment.
Republicans believe that when ask what kind of society
Americans deserve, our answer must be: a Nation in which people
are safe and feel safe. That's why they want to change the rules
of the game dramatically new solutions for a new New Jersey.
For instance, they are strong advocates of America's first
national comprehensive strategy to end drug use, which I
announced earlier this month. Republicans want tougher
enforcement. More prisons, more courts, more prosecutors. And
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tougher sentences -- many, like Jim Courter, have spent a career
demanding them. You know where drug dealers belong? Republicans
say: In jail. They back more interdiction and treatment. And
our plan to stop use before it begins. Through education and
prevention. From grade school to graduate school.
Republicans like Jim Courter want to fight drugs on any and
every front. Facing new problems in a new way -- by putting
emphasis where the crisis is -- in the community. The
communities that will decide the future of New Jersey. And with
a Republican Governor and State Assembly, that future will also
include not just a war against drugs -- but a crusade against
all crime. Supporting tougher laws. Giving our lawmen more
resources. Declaring open warfare on the con-artists and the
hoods.
Look at Jim Courter, who's spent a lifetime fighting crime.
For he embodies the values and positions I'm talking about -- all
that's best in the Republican Party.
Look at Jim's background. Peace Corps volunteer. Legal aide
to the poor. Lawyer, author, prosecutor, Congressman. A moral
man, a family man. A man respected by his colleagues. A man you
can trust.
Look, next, at Jim's record on the environment. He has
helped renew, and recover, our national heritage. As Governor,
Jim Courter will put polluters in prison. Or education. Where
Jim has been a vocal advocate of Alternative Certification. Or
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taxes. Jim doesn't want government to tax more. He wants to cut
taxes -- so that people will be able to spend more.
Look, then, at Jim's opposition to drugs. He has strongly
supported bills to coordinate law enforcement efforts and involve
the military in combating drugs. Or his magnificent record in
combating crime. Jim served as first assistant prosecutor in his
home county of Warren. He's seen the drug peddlers and users.
He knows the terrible toll caused by crime.
That's why Jim wants mandatory time for firearms offenses.
And no deals when criminals use a gun. And unlike his opponent,
he wants to amend New Jersey's Constitution so that the death
penalty law on the books will be strengthened and enforced.
Let me ask you a question. You make the choice. Do you
want a Democratic Governor and a Democratic State Assembly --
who thinks New Jersey's death penalty law is fine as it is?
[PAUSE]
Or do you want a Republican Governor -- and a
Republican State Assembly who says that murderers, drug
kingpins, and cop-killers should get exactly what they deserve?
[PAUSE]
I agree. We need a Governor who will make the
death penalty law even stronger. And we need a State Assembly
which will help get the job done.
For when all is said and done, here's what the 1989
elections come down to. On the one hand, Democratic candidates
whose policies produced the bad old days of the 1970s. High
unemployment. Failing schools. Criminal-coddling and rampant
corruption. And on the other hand -- for New Jersey, a winning
8
hand -- honesty and independence. Republican candidates who
reject the liberalism practiced by the national Democratic Party.
Because those failed policies aren't good enough. Not for
New Jersey. Or America. They're not good enough to tackle drugs
or crime. Or to protect the environment and education. And
they're not good enough for our kids. Because they won't "keep
New Jersey proud. "
Tom Kean knows that. That's why he's becoming President of
Drew University. And why he agreed to serve as honorary chairman
of our "Points of Light Initiative" to bring community service to
every corner of America. And Jim Courter -- he knows it, too.
For he knows what's on New Jersey's mind, and in its heart. And
his goal is to use that heart to build a better life for all.
Can we achieve that goal? Of course we can -- both here and
across America. How? Through a unified Republican Party --
working together to support the entire ticket. And through the
old values and new thinking embodied by this campaign.
The future versus the past. Policies that work versus
policies that don't. A better future for our children, or one of
lost opportunity. Yes, there's a lot at stake. And let me
remind you: Election Day is only 46 days away.
So, let's lift up our sights. And roll up our sleeves.
Let's "keep New Jersey proud by keeping it Republican." And
together, help Jim Courter and a Republican State Assembly
preserve the new New Jersey.
God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
#
#
#
#
May 15 / Administration of George Bush, 1989
2. Pursuant to section 1121 of the 1988
The annex to the proclamation will be
Act, the tariff provisions necessary to give
printed in the Federal Register of May 17.
effect to the Nairobi Protocol were enacted
in terms of the provisions of the Tariff
Schedules of the United States (TSUS) (19
U.S.C. 1202). However, because of the
Remarks at the National Peace
repeal of the TSUS and the enactment of
Officers' Memorial Day Ceremony
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States (HTS), effective on January 1,
May 15, 1989
1989, and pursuant to section 1204 of the
Thank you, Suzy. If it doesn't start clear-
1988 Act (19 U.S.C. 3004), it is necessary to
ing up, we're issuing snorkels to everybody
provide for the equivalent tariff treatment
out there. [Laughter] Thank you, Suzy
in the HTS of the articles covered by sec-
Sawyer, and of course, to Dewey Stokes and
tion 1121.
Craig Floyd, my respects as well. You have
3. Section 1204(b) of the 1988 Act directs
great leadership, and I salute them. I want
the President to proclaim such modifica-
to say how pleased I am that the Secretary
tions to the HTS as are necessary or appro-
of the Treasury is with me, Nick Brady; our
priate to implement the applicable provi-
Attorney General, the able Dick Thorn-
sions of statutes enacted, executive actions
burgh; and our drug czar, Secretary Bill
taken, and final judicial decisions rendered
Bennett. The fact that we four are here is
after January 1, 1988, and before the effec-
intentional. It sends the signal of our com-
tive date of the HTS.
mitment and of our interest. And I know
4. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974
Members of Congress are here as well. I
(19 U.S.C. 2483), as amended, authorized
spotted my own Senator, Senator Phil
the President to embody in the HTS the
Gramm of Texas, and Senator Pete Wilson.
substance of the provisions of that act, of
But I'm going to be in trouble because I
other acts affecting import treatment, and
can't see over there-who else is there. But
of actions taken thereunder.
I know many are sitting right over here,
Now, Therefore, I, George Bush, Presi-
and we salute them. I see Senator Ford and
dent of the United States of America, acting
others. And we're just delighted that they
under the authority vested in me by the
are here today.
Constitution and laws of the United States,
Last fall a retired New York police lieu-
including but not limited to sections 1121
tenant gave me badge number 14072, and I
and 1204 of the 1988 Act and section 604 of
have it with me today-the badge his son
the Trade Act of 1974, do proclaim that:
wore the day he was gunned down by a
(1) The HTS is modified as provided in
gang of cocaine cowards. Matt Byrne asked
the annex to this proclamation
me to keep Eddie's badge as a "reminder of
(2) The amendments to the HTS made by
all the brave police officers who put their
this proclamation shall be effective with re-
lives on the line for us every single day."
spect to articles entered, or withdrawn
Matt, your son's badge, as I have told you, is
from warehouse for consumption, on or
kept in my desk at the Oval Office. And
after May 30, 1989.
during the debate on gun-related violence
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set
that has raged in this country the past sev-
my hand this twelfth day of May, in the
eral months, neither it nor what it repre-
year of our Lord nineteen hundred and
sents has ever been far from my mind. I've
eighty-nine, and of the Independence of
heard the many voices, the courageous and
the United States of America the two hun-
the compassionate, the wounded and the
dred and thirteenth.
widowed, and I salute the survivors that are
here today.
We gather today to respond to those
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Regis-
voices and to honor the fallen by launching
ter, 10:22 a.m., May 16, 1989]
a national strategy, a partnership with
Note: The proclamation was released by the
America's cities and States, to take back the
Office of the Press Secretary on May 15.
streets. It calls for a return to common
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Administration of George Bush, 1989 / May 15
sense. And it begins with a clear-eyed vision
honor roll that will be read today: of 161
of the kind of problems we face, the kind of
officers killed in the line of duty last year,
people we are, the kind of values that we
152 were State or local cops. And you are
hold, and the kind of nation we intend to
the first line of defense, and your respective
bequeath to our children.
governments have an obligation to adopt
The problem is violent crime, and in par-
tough legislation and provide the re-
ticular, the blood that's been shed by in-
sources-in police, prosecutors, and pris-
creasingly sophisticated guns in the hands
ons-to fully back you up.
of a new class of criminals. Usually, but not
At the trial of Eddie Byrne's executioners,
always, the deaths are tied to a cycle of
there was testimony that the hit was or-
dollars and drugs and dependency. The
dered from prison to send a message to the
principles are simple. My generation well
people behind the badge. And one witness
remembers what some believe was FDR's
said that they hoped to see the attack on
finest speech: The "Four Freedoms," an ad-
the television news at Riker's Island. Well,
dress to a joint session of the Congress. And
today we have a message of our own: We're
the last, often forgotten, but arguably the
going to take back the streets by taking
most fundamental of those freedoms was
criminals off the streets. And it is an attack
simply this: freedom from fear. Our sworn
on all four fronts: new laws to punish them,
duty to "insure domestic Tranquility" is as
old as the Republic, placed in the Constitu-
new agents to arrest them, new prosecutors
tion's preamble even before the common
to convict them, and new prisons to hold
them.
defense and the general welfare. And so,
when we ask what kind of society the
I am announcing today-and there is no
American people deserve, our goal must be
more fitting place than right here-a com-
a nation in which law-abiding citizens are
prehensive new offensive for combating
safe and feel safe.
violent crime-for Eddie Byrne, for every
To achieve this goal, people must be held
officer we honor here today, and for Amer-
accountable for their actions, and that's
ica. The first front of this campaign, new
common sense. Most Americans are law-
laws, starts with the semiautomatic and so-
abiding, and most believe that there is such
called assault weapons that criminals have
a thing as right and wrong, good and evil.
taken as their gun of choice. And again,
And whether it's the brutalization of a
common sense has to play an important
young runner in a park or terrorizing a
part in this discussion. The fact of the
young man on to a crowded highway, these
matter is, nearly half the households in this
are acts that cannot be excused or ex-
country have guns, and guns are already
plained away. A common sense approach to
out there. And the overwhelming majority
crime means that if we're going to affect
are legitimately owned for legitimate pur-
people's behavior we must have a criminal
poses. But in contrast to legitimate gun
justice system in which there is an expecta-
ownership is the chilling fact that some-
tion that if you commit a crime you will be
thing like 80 percent of all firearms used by
caught; and if caught, you will be prosecut-
felons are stolen or otherwise unlawfully ob-
ed; and if convicted, you will do time. For
tained. Throughout our nation's history, the
far too long, a privileged class of violent and
hard lesson we've learned is that criminals
repeat offenders have calculated that crime
will get guns. And so, let me be very clear
really does pay, that our criminal justice
about our response: The right to own a gun
system is a crapshoot where the risks are
is not a license to harm others.
worth the rewards. Well, it's time we
And so, first I am calling on Congress
change the odds and up the stakes enor-
today to do for dangerous firearms what it
mously.
has wisely done for dangerous drugs: to
And we will lead the way. We'll do our
double the mandatory minimum penalties
part and then some. But no Federal effort
for the use of semiautomatic weapons in
can succeed without the full partnership of
crimes involving violence or drugs. And the
the cities and the States that you so nobly
math is simple. Anyone who uses a semi-
represent. Unfortunately, nowhere is your
automatic for crime, or SO much as has one
front-line role more evident than in the
on them during a crime, will do an auto-
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matic 10 extra years in Federal prison. No
The current debate was first sparked
probation. No parole. No matter which
when an unstable gunman in Stockton, Cali-
judge they get.
fornia, purchased an AKS-47 over the
And secondly, we just can't plea bargain
counter and used it to lay waste to an ele-
away the lives of your loved ones, the lives
mentary school playground. Patrick Edward
of our cops and kids. And I'm directing the
Purdy had no business buying that gun. He
Attorney General to advise America's pros-
was arrested on his first weapons charge
ecutors to end plea bargaining for violent
before his 15th birthday. And by his fourth
Federal firearms offenses. Those who use
firearms arrest, Purdy had finally turned 18,
guns will do time-hard time.
and with it chalked up the first of two adult
And third, when a criminal carries a gun
convictions. Although for violent and weap-
and someone dies, they must pay with their
ons offenses, both convictions were misde-
own lives. We are calling on Congress today
meanors. Purdy crawled through the loop-
to enact the steps necessary to implement
hole that bars only felons from buying guns
the death penalty and to newlv designate
and got that deadly AKS-47. That is outra-
Stephanie,
ng factor
geous.
ath sen-
And therefore, we also propose that Con-
Note that here
gress close this Purdy loophole and others
rnors to
like it that allow deadly weapons to fall into
propose
deadly hands. Again, that's just plain
he says "no plea-
e: man-
common sense. We must not allow deadly
peration,
ropriate.
weapons to fall into deadly hands. But we
bargaining", but
day, and
need to do more than just enact new laws.
And in a recent movie about the L.A. gang
wars, a woman shouts encouragement to a
on the Fact Sheet
y direc-
CCO and
cop on patrol, telling him: "You get them
1 of cer-
off the street." And he answers: "Lady,
it says reformed
is con-
we're trying." And the woman offers a four
e which,
word solution: "You need more help." And
ceptable
believe me, we know it. Our police need
d at the
more help. And I'm here today to tell you
plea- bargaining :
careful
that we're prepared to match rhetoric with
ban any
resources and call on our cities and States to
0 these
do the same.
(P.720)
The second front, if you will, of our new
tory on
offensive calls for increased manpower and
ge: "the
a new strategy on guns, a strategy based on
separate
models of proven effectiveness. I have di-
n semi-
rected the Attorney General and the Treas-
gitimate
ury Secretary, working together with State
stantial
and local enforcement, to launch a compre-
point.
hensive, coordinated offensive against our
e thing
nation's most violent criminals. And I am
t weap-
requesting funding for hiring 825 new Fed-
quipped
eral agents and staff-375 at ATF, 300 at
The no-
the FBI, and 150 Deputy U.S. Marshals.
with a
Many of these hirings will permit experi-
ive bul-
enced investigators from all three agencies
why-
to promptly combat violent crime in the
front of
field.
the Capitol and ask its support for legisla-
Of course, arresting these thugs doesn't
tion prohibiting the importation, manufac-
help if we don't have the muscle to pros-
ture, sale, or transfer of these insidious gun
ecute each criminal to the fullest extent of
magazines of more than 15 rounds.
the law. And that's why the third front of
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Administration of George Bush, 1989 / May 15
this campaign calls for Congress to back up
turked Cali-
White House Fact Sheet on Combating
these new troops with
1,600 new prosecu-
Violent Crime
X
the
tors and staff. And now there probably isn't
prr
a police officer here who hasn't seen a case
May 15, 1989
in
ele-
3
Edward
where a dangerous felon-properly arrest-
ed, fully prosecuted, and sentenced to the
The President outlined today a compre-
gun.
He
charge
maximum-walked out of jail early, some-
hensive program to combat violent crime.
times years early, because prisons are burst-
The program is designed to strengthen the
to fourth
ing at the seams. That is not right.
Nation's criminal justice system and the
groed
18.
100 adult
Part of our common sense approach is a
Federal, State, and local law enforcement
simple recognition that it doesn't do any
partnership. The program is grounded in
and weap-
good to provide new Federal agents, new
the President's belief that greater certainty
misde-
be loop-
assistant U.S. Attorneys and new laws with
of apprehension, prosecution, and punish-
long-term penalties if we don't have the
ment will help deter crimes of violence. It
pay guns
$ outra-
prison cells to keep criminals where they
includes proposals to strengthen current
belong. A chain is only as strong as its weak-
Federal, State, and local laws, to step up
est link. And so, as the fourth front in this
enforcement and to hold perpetrators of
NI Con-
out others
comprehensive effort, I am calling on the
crimes fully accountable for their actions.
fall into
Congress to authorize an additional $1 bil-
The President is proposing a common
ist plain
lion, over and above the $500 million al-
sense approach to crime with initiatives to
deadly
ready slated for 1990, for Federal prison
limit access to weapons by criminals, to
But we
construction. These 24,000 new beds will
reform the criminal justice system, to en-
new laws.
boost Federal prison capacity by nearly 80
hance enforcement and prosecution, and to
LA. gang
percent.
expand prison capacity to ensure both the
crent to a
Not since Lincoln has a President stood in
certainty and severity of punishment.
get them
front of the Capitol and been just a few
# "Lady,
miles from the front lines of a war, never
fors a four
was the toll more visible than in the faces of
Fundamental Principles
Arip." And
the brave men and women, the families,
rebece need
gathered here today. And when I first stood
Four principles underlie the goals of our
here as President, over there, only mo-
criminal justice system and the means for
& tell you
storic with
ments after taking the oath of office, I
accomplishing them.
States to
made a promise: "This scourge will stop."
A primary purpose of government is to
And that's a promise that we intend to
protect citizens and their property.
# our new
keep. Ladies and gentlemen, I offer my
Americans deserve to live in a society
power and
condolences for your fallen loved ones and
in which they are safe and feel secure.
based on
for your fellow officers. And I salute your
Those who commit violent criminal of-
I have di-
commitment, and I salute your courage,
fenses should, and must, be held ac-
the Treas-
and as a citizen-grateful for the protection
countable for their actions.
with State
you have provided for me and my family
Our criminal justice system must have
1 compre-
and my fellow countrymen. I thank you,
Munst our
and I wish you Godspeed.
as its objective the swift and certain
And I am
Thank you all, and God bless the United
apprehension, prosecution, and incar-
new Fed-
States of America. Thank you very much.
ceration of those who break the law.
ITF. 300 at
Success in accomplishing our criminal
Marshals.
Note: The President spoke at 12:29 p.m. on
justice system goals requires a sus-
experi-
the West Front of the Capitol. In his open-
tained, cooperative effort by Federal,
agencies
ing remarks, he referred to Suzy Sawyer,
State, and local law enforcement au-
in the
executive director of the Fraternal Order of
thorities.
Police Ladies Auxiliary Dewey Stokes, na-
The President today proposed a compre-
doesn't
tional president of the Fraternal Order of
hensive four-part program to strengthen
to pros-
Police; and Craig Floyd, president of the
current laws, enhance enforcement and ap-
extent of
National Law Enforcement Officers Memo-
and front of
prehension of criminals, facilitate prosecu-
rial Fund.
tions, and expand Federal prison capacity.
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May 15 / Administration of George Bush, 1989
Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1989
ance through the Law Enforcement Coordi-
nating Committees (LECC's). At present, 30
I. STRENGTHENING CURRENT LAWS
States have some provision for mandatory
To ensure that those who commit violent
terms of imprisonment for use of firearms
in the commission of a crime.
criminal offenses are held fully accountable
for their actions, it is essential to eliminate
The President proposed providing a 5
certain gaps in existing law and to strength-
percent bonus to the formula portion of
en some existing statutes.
drug law enforcement grants for those
States which adopt this model legislation.
A. Enhanced Penalties for Firearms
B. Restricting Plea Bargaining
Violations
If our criminal justice system is to achieve
The President proposed seven changes in
its objective of ensuring that those who
Federal firearms laws which would:
commit violent firearms offenses are held
1. double the mandatory penalty from 5
fully accountable for their actions, plea bar-
to 10 years under 18 U.S.C. 924(c) for
gaining practices nationwide must be re-
the use of a semiautomatic firearm
formed. Too often, serious felons walk away
during the commission of a violent
from court after pleading guilty to minor
crime or drug felony;
offenses and misdemeanors because over-
2. amend the Armed Career Criminal
burdened prosecutors have accepted plea
statute to count as predicate offenses
agreements rather than going to trial. The
acts of juvenile delinquency which if
lesser charges result in lesser sentences or
committed by an adult would consti-
probation, and repeat offenders continue to
tute a serious drug offense; many
beat the system. To speed an end to such
youthful repeat offenders now escape
plea bargaining:
the enhanced career criminal penalties
1. The President directed the Attorney
because most of their prior offenses
General to issue and fully implement
were charged as juvenile delinquency;
guidelines for Federal prosecutors re-
3. allow for pretrial preventive detention
garding plea bargaining under the Sen-
of defendants in cases involving certain
tencing Reform Act to ensure that Fed-
serious Federal firearms and explosive
eral charges always reflect both the se-
offenses;
riousness of the defendant's conduct
4. authorize criminal penalties and man-
and the Department's commitment to
datory minimum sentences for theft of
statutory sentencing goals and proce-
a firearm;
dures. This will ensure that Federal
5. enhance penalties for smuggling fire-
prosecutors seek minimum mandatory
arms into the United States while en-
penalties for all violent firearms of-
gaged in, or in the furtherance of, drug
fenses.
trafficking;
2. The President urged State and local
6. require mandatory revocation of Fed-
governments to reform their plea bar-
eral supervised release for those pos-
gaining and sentencing practices along
sessing a firearm anytime before the
similar lines and to devote increased
term of their supervised release ex-
resources to prosecutions.
pires;
C. Enacting Death Penalty Procedures
7. double the current penalty for a know-
The criminal justice system must accord
ing and materially false statement on
paramount importance to the protection of
ATF Form 4473 to a maximum sen-
innocent life. The murderous assault
tence of 10 years imprisonment.
weapon armed gang member, the terrorist,
The President also urged all States to
the traitor, and the assassin, who threaten
adopt model legislation providing mandato-
American lives and the Nation's security,
ry minimum sentences for criminal offenses
must know that they will face the death
involving firearms to parallel Federal man-
penalty for their crimes.
datory minimum provisions.
The President proposed to restore an en-
He directed the Attorney General to pro-
forceable death penalty for the most aggra-
vide the States with related technical assist-
vated Federal crimes. His proposal includes
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Administration of George Bush, 1989 / May 15
adequate
standards
and constitutionally
by, persons who are convicted of any seri-
w
sound procedures for applying the Federal
ous drug offense.
X
death penalty provisions that now appear in
2. Improving Mechanisms for Identifying
on
Federal statutes for homicide, espionage,
Criminals Who Attempt to Purchase Fire-
you
and treason. It would also authorize the
arms. The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 re-
death penalty for a number of new offenses,
quires the Attorney General to develop a
such as murder for hire. In direct response
system for the immediate and accurate
to the increase in firearms-related violence,
identification of felons and others who at-
For
the proposal specifies that the use of a fire-
tempt to purchase firearms, but are barred
arm in committing the offense or a previous
by Federal law [18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1)] from
conviction of a violent felony involving a
buying or possessing firearms. The initial
firearm constitute aggravating factors justi-
fying capital punishment.
stage of the study must be completed by
November 18, 1989.
s/d
D. Restricting Imported Weapons
a. The President directed the Attorney
A
15.
When the study of imported weapons by
General to expand the National Criminal
you
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire-
Records Identification System Implementa-
arms is completed, the administration will
tion study to include a review and evalua-
make permanent the temporary suspension
tion of State and local procedures which
are
plea
on the imported weapons, if any, that fail to
have effectively limited criminal access to
The
meet the criteria specified in the Gun Con-
firearms and, based on that review and in
of
trol Act of 1968 (18 U.S.C. 925).
consultation with the Bureau of Alcohol, To-
to
bacco and Firearms, to develop recommen-
wh
E. Preventing Circumvention of Import
dations for model State legislation and pro-
Laws
cedures to complement and enhance efforts
The administration will propose an
to reduce felons' access to firearms.
Cant
amendment to ensure that actions taken
Model State legislation or procedures
in.
under the provisions of the Gun Control
might include a reasonably structured wait-
È
Act of 1968 shall not be circumvented by
ing period or use other devices to facilitate
in
domestic assembly of such weapons or any
accuracy in determining whether an indi-
combination of domestic and foreign assem-
vidual seeking to purchase a weapon from a
Axt
bly of such weapons.
licensed gun dealer is ineligible by reason
10
F. Restricting Gun Clips and Magazines
of Federal law. At present, more than 20
m
States have waiting periods, identification
teral
The administration will propose legisla-
requirements, or other procedures which
Cary
tion prohibiting the importation, manufac-
effectively limit criminal access to weapons.
of.
ture, transfer, or sale of gun magazines of
b. The President urged States to transfer
over 15 rounds for use by private citizens.
criminal history conviction, sentencing, and
real
G. Limiting Access to Weapons by
other case disposition records to the proper
Criminals
Federal authorities. He also directed the At-
ting
torney General to recommend additional
bed
In addition to greater penalties for misus-
improvements in the criminal records data
ing firearms, it is also important to limit
system. The quality of criminal history data
access to weapons by criminals. This can be
facilitated in three ways:
is a critical factor in crime control and pre-
and
vention. At present, the only criminal histo-
of
1. Strengthening and Expanding Prohibi-
ry records consistently reported by States
milt
tions on Access to Weapons by Criminals.
and localities are arrest records.
a. The President proposed to bar the sale
st.
Timely and accurate reporting of convic-
den
of firearms to, or possession of firearms by,
tion, sentencing, and other case disposition
persons convicted of any violent offense, ex-
records is essential to the effective oper-
nth
panding the existing prohibition to cover
individuals convicted of violent misdemean-
ation of the Nation's criminal justice system.
or offenses.
To improve the national data base, States
à
b. The President also proposed to bar the
should make such criminal record reporting
sale of firearms to, or possession of firearms
mandatory and take steps to ensure that
centralized State criminal history repositor-
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May 15 / Administration of George Bush, 1989
ies are adequately funded and managed. In
II. AUGMENTING ENFORCEMENT
addition, States should maintain records and
report on all serious crimes committed by
A primary purpose of government is to
juveniles who frequently continue their
protect citizens and their property. This re-
criminal careers into adulthood, but often
quires the sustained cooperative commit-
escape early identification as repeat offend-
ment of Federal, State, and local law en-
ers and recidivists because their juvenile
forcement officials. Apprehending violent
records are not reported
offenders requires increased enforcement
3. Eliminating Loopholes and Clarifying
personnel, improved cooperation among
Existing Offenses. The President also pro-
law enforcement authorities, and not per-
posed to eliminate loopholes and clarify ex-
mitting the exclusion of evidence on legal
isting offenses related to the sale or transfer
technicalities.
of firearms, in order to:
a. facilitate the prosecution of unlicensed
A. Additional ATF Special Agents
gun dealers engaged in illegal weapons
The President proposed to increase funds
transfers to aliens or transients;
for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
b. expand Federal jurisdiction to permit
Firearms to provide for the hiring, training,
prosecution of transactions in stolen
and equipping of 375 ATF special agents,
firearms and weapons lacking serial
inspectors, and support personnel to investi-
numbers in cases where the firearms
gate assault weapon and other firearms vio-
have previously moved in interstate or
lations by armed career criminal and repeat
foreign commerce (present law re-
offenders.
quires the firearms be moving in inter-
state commerce at the time of the of-
B. Additional U.S. Marshals
fense);
C. provide a uniform standard to deter-
The President proposed to increase funds
mine whether a person is under Feder-
for the U.S. Marshals to provide for about
al firearms disabilities based upon State
150 additional positions for the Marshals
convictions;
Fugitive Investigations and Court Orders
d. require that persons convicted under
Program. This would direct greater Federal
State law of a serious drug offense or
efforts to capturing fugitives and career
violent felony apply to Federal authori-
criminals.
ties in order to have their firearms
rights restored;
C. Additional FBI Agents
e. amend provisions regarding the dispos-
The President proposed to increase funds
al of forfeited firearms; and
for the FBI to provide for about 300 addi-
f. clarify the definition of burglary in the
tional positions for the Bureau's Violent
Armed Career Criminal Act to elimi-
Crime and Major Offenders Program and
nate loopholes caused by differing State
Organized Crime Program and to assist
laws.
States and localities improve their efforts in
H. Making Drug Testing a Condition of
fighting violent crime through greater Fed-
Release
eral/State cooperation.
The President also proposed to authorize
and fund nationwide implementation in
D. Coordinated Task Forces
1990 of drug testing as a mandatory condi-
The President directed the Attorney
tion of Federal probation, parole, or super-
General and Secretary of the Treasury to
vised release. It is estimated that 81,500
develop a coordinated strategy for the de-
people will be on some form of Federal
ployment of the additional U.S. Marshals,
supervised release in 1990. The Justice De-
ATF and FBI agents. Their deployment will
partment and the Federal Judiciary will co-
emphasize working closely with State and
ordinate implementation of this program.
local authorities in task forces to target and
The President urged States to adopt simi-
investigate career criminals who are subject
lar mandatory drug testing programs as a
to prosecution as repeat offenders under
condition of parole.
Federal firearms laws and related statutes.
722
Administration of George Bush, 1989 / May 15
EMENT
E. State and Local Resources
ciary by: $40 million for FY 1990 to cover
government is to
The President urged State and local au-
costs associated with processing increased
property. This re-
thorities to increase their law enforcement
numbers of criminal defendants and for ad-
operative commit-
resources devoted to identifying and appre-
ditional Federal criminal prosecutions.
and local law en-
hending violent criminal offenders.
rehending violent
E. Habeas Corpus Reform
F. Exclusionary Rule Reform
ased enforcement
The President proposed to establish a
The President proposed immediate enact-
poperation among
general "good faith" exception to the exclu-
ment of habeas corpus reform to establish a
ities, and not per-
sionary rule which would permit evidence
general 1-year time limit on Federal appli-
evidence on legal
to be admitted if the officers carrying out a
cations by State prisoners and to require
search or seizure acted with an objectively
deference in Federal proceedings to the re-
reasonable belief that their conduct was in
sults of fair and reasonable State court de-
l Agents
conformity with fourth amendment re-
terminations. This will correct the existing
d to increase funds
quirements. The reform legislation would
system of review, under which over 10,000
hol, Tobacco and
clarify that in the absence of explicit statu-
cases are annually filed in Federal court.
he hiring, training,
tory authority for doing so Federal courts
TF special agents,
may only exclude evidence on the basis of
IV. EXPANDING PRISON CAPACITY
ersonnel to investi-
constitutional violations.
other firearms vio-
riminal and repeat
III. ENHANCING PROSECUTION
Prison overcrowding remains a national
problem. The most acute problem is at the
In order to assure that criminals are held
Federal level. At both the Federal and
accountable for their offenses, certainty of
State level prison overcrowding is a factor
als
prosecution must accompany severity of
in sentencing. At the State and local levels
d to increase funds
punishment. Federal, State, and local au-
it is often responsible for the early release
provide for about
thorities must expand and coordinate their
of convicted criminals.
prosecutorial efforts.
for the Marshals
and Court Orders
A. Additional Assistant U.S. Attorneys
A. Expanding Federal Prison Construction
ect greater Federal
The President proposed to increase funds
The President proposed an additional $1
gitives and career
for the U.S. Attorneys Offices to support
billion for Federal prison construction,
1,600 additional positions to handle the in-
bringing the total 1990 budget to over $1.5
creased number of Federal defendants and
billion. This will increase prison capacity by
to prosecute more drug cases, weapons of-
about 77 percent, adding over 24,000 new
d to increase funds
fenses, and other priority matters.
Federal prison beds. The present rated Fed-
or about 300 addi-
eral prison capacity is 30,951 beds; the
Bureau's Violent
B. Additional Criminal Division Attorneys
present Federal prison population is ap-
ders Program and
The President proposed to increase funds
proximately 48,000.
ram and to assist
for the Justice Department Criminal Divi-
ove their efforts in
sion to support 168 additional positions to
B. Converting Unused Federal Properties
rough greater Fed-
focus on drug cases, weapons offenses, and
The President directed the Secretary of
other priority matters, including activities
Defense, the Secretary of Education, and
to foster State and lodal cooperation and
the Administrator of the General Services
coordinated law enforcement strategies.
ces
Administration to work with the Attorney
C. Additional Housing for Unsentenced
General to identify expeditiously properties
ted the Attorney
Prisoners
and facilities suitable for conversion for use
of the Treasury to
The President proposed additional funds
as Federal prisons or jails.
trategy for the de-
onal U.S. Marshals,
for the U.S. Marshals Service to provide
C. Deporting Criminal Aliens
eir deployment will
transportation and 300,000 added jail days
ely with State and
for unsentenced prisoners and pretrial de-
The President proposed to provide the
orces to target and
tainees.
Attorney General with $14 million for the
als who are subject
D. Additional Judicial Branch Resources
Immigration and Naturalization Service
it offenders under
(INS) and the Executive Office for Immigra-
id related statutes.
The President proposed increasing the
tion Review in order to expedite the depor-
administration's budget request for the Judi-
tation of convicted criminal aliens.
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May 15 / Administration of George Bush, 1989
Crimes committed by aliens are rising
FUNDING SUMMARY-Continued
disproportionately in relation to the general
population and entailing more violent and
EOIR (Executive Office
drug-related crime.
for
Immigration
The Federal Bureau of Prisons has identi-
Review)
$1.6 million
State Grant Bonus:
fied 9,254 aliens in its facilities, 20.6 per-
Office of Justice Pro-
cent of its total inmate population.
grams (Bonus)
$6.0 million
D. Encouraging State Prison Construction
Subtotal (nonprison)
$189.1 million
Prisons:
The President commended and encour-
Federal Prison Construc-
aged State prison construction efforts. States
tion
$1.0 billion
currently have construction of 63,452 new
bedspaces underway. An additional 78,094
This will bring the total 1990 prison construction
budget to over $1.5 billion, which includes
bedspaces are planned and funding has
$115 million available from the Special Forfeit-
been secured for their construction. More-
ure Fund available to the Office of National
over, States have requested construction of
Drug Control Policy, and $401 million in the
72,190 additional bedspaces.
original Bush Budget.
Total Increase
1 $1,189.1 billion
E. Review of Court-Ordered Prison Caps
1 This total can be accommodated within the
The President directed the Attorney
overall domestic discretionary spending cap set
General to conduct a review of the role of
in the Bipartisan Budget Agreement.
court orders and consent decrees in prison
crowding situations, including an assess-
ment of the scope of judicial authority in
formulating and issuing such orders, the
impact of such orders on the operation of
prison systems and public security, and non-
judicial means of addressing prison crowd-
ing. The Attorney General will report his
findings to the President and recommend
White House Statement on the
any necessary remedial actions.
President's Meeting With Cornelio
Sommaruga
Legislation to implement elements of this
initiative will be transmitted shortly by the
May 15, 1989
Attorney General.
The President met today with Cornelio
Sommaruga, president of the International
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The
FUNDING SUMMARY
visit provided an opportunity for President
Bush to express American appreciation for
Enforcement:
the impressive humanitarian and human
BATF
$18.8 million
rights work of the ICRC around the world.
U.S. Marshals
$12.0 million
ICRC efforts on behalf of refugees, the
FBI
$19.5 million
Prosecution:
hungry, the displaced, political prisoners,
U.S. Attorneys
and prisoners of war are well-known and
$49.6 million
Criminal Division
$5.4 million
well-respected.
Unsentenced
Prisoner
Support
The President and Mr. Sommaruga spe-
$13.0 million
Courts
cifically discussed ICRC activities in Af-
$40.0 million
Drug Testing:
ghanistan and Sudan, and Mr. Sommaruga
Mandatory Testing
$10.7 million
thanked President Bush for the recent spe-
Criminal Alien Deporta
cial contribution of $10 million as a humani-
tion:
tarian gesture for ICRC activities in these
INS
$12.5 million
countries.
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REMARKS: GOP FUNDRAISER
EAST BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1989
GOVERNOR AND MRS. KEAN, CONGRESSMAN AND MRS.
COURTER, OTHER SUPERB MEMBERS OF THE NEW JERSEY
CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION -- DEAN GALLO, MARGE ROUKEMA;
CHRIS SMITH, MATT RINALDO, JIM SAXTON. MR. SULLIVAN,
MR. BATHGATE, Ms. DONOVAN, AND OTHER GREAT NEW JERSEY
REPUBLICAN LEADERS.
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LET ME BEGIN, JIM, BY SAYING HOW MUCH I APPRECIATE
THAT INTRODUCTION. AND BY ADDING THAT I AM PLEASED TO
BE WITH YOU.
IT IS ALWAYS GOOD TO BE BACK IN A STATE WHOSE MOTTO
IS "LIBERTY AND PROSPERITY." AND WHICH IN THE LAST
EIGHT YEARS HAS HAD A GOVERNOR DEVOTED TO BOTH. IF I
COULD BORROW A PHRASE, UNDER GOVERNOR KEAN LIBERTY AND
PROSPERITY HAVE BEEN "PERFECT TOGETHER."
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IT IS ALWAYS A PLEASURE, Too, TO RETURN TO A STATE
WHICH WAS so VERY KIND TO ME IN 1988. AND TO SALUTE
THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN TICKET. ITS CANDIDATES. ITS
IDEAS AND VISION. AND ESPECIALLY, THOSE OF YOU WHO
TOIL so LONG AND HARD AT THE GRASS-ROOTS LEVEL.
BUT I'VE COME TO EAST BRUNSWICK TODAY FOR AN EVEN
MORE IMPORTANT REASON.
THIS REASON GOES BEYOND PARTY
TO THE ESSENCE OF THIS CAMPAIGN. NEW JERSEY'S
ELECTIONS ARE AMONG THE MOST CRUCIAL IN AMERICA.
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THIS ELECTION WILL DECIDE WHETHER NEW JERSEY BUILDS
ON WHAT YOU BEGAN EIGHT YEARS AGO. OR WHETHER IT RISKS
EVERYTHING BY RETURNING TO THE PAST. WHETHER NEW
JERSEY HAS THE INSPIRED LEADERSHIP IT NEEDS TO WIN THE
WAR ON DRUGS AND CRIME. OR WHETHER IT REVERTS TO
FAILED SOCIAL POLICIES THAT BLAME EVERYONE BUT THE
CRIMINAL.
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THIS ELECTION WILL DECIDE WHETHER NEW JERSEY
CONTINUES TO HAVE THE KIND OF LEADERSHIP WHICH BALANCES
A SOUND ECONOMY AND SOUND ECOLOGY. AND WHETHER ITS
LEADERSHIP SAYS "No" TO HIGHER TAXES AND "Yes" TO
EXTENDING THE PROSPERITY OF THE LAST EIGHT YEARS.
THAT'S WHAT THIS ELECTION WILL DECIDE. It's THAT
IMPORTANT. It's THAT CLEAR-CUT. AND TODAY I MAKE A
PREDICTION. THIS NOVEMBER, NEW JERSEY WILL MAKE THE
RIGHT DECISION.
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A DECISION TO CAST ITS VOTE FOR THE FUTURE
FOR
THE CAUSE OF GOOD GOVERNMENT
FOR THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY [PAUSE]
A VOTE, IN SHORT, FOR THE NEW NEW
JERSEY.
THAT MEANS A VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS RUNNING FOR THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- REPUBLICANS WHO WILL HELP ENSURE
FAIR REDISTRICTING IN THE 1990s. AND A VOTE FOR
REPUBLICANS RUNNING AT THE LOCAL AND COUNTY LEVEL.
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IT MEANS A VOTE FOR CANDIDATES WHO'LL TAKE A TOUGH
APPROACH TO CROOKS AND THUGS. AND PERHAPS MOST OF ALL,
IT MEANS A VOTE FOR THE MAN WHO CAN MOVE YOUR STATE
INTO THE COMING DECADE STRONGER THAN EVER. YOUR NEXT
GOVERNOR -- CONGRESSMAN JIM COURTER.
Now, JIM'S A LONG-TIME FRIEND -- AND I WANTED TO
COME UP HERE AND, PERSONALLY, SUPPORT HIM AND THE GREAT
PARTY THAT'S BEHIND HIM.
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I KNOW YOU WANTED TO HEAR A FEW WORDS FROM A PROMINENT
NATIONAL FIGURE WHO CAN REALLY FIRE UP A CROWD AND
GENERATE SOME EXCITEMENT [PAUSE] UNFORTUNATELY,
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER HAD TO GO BACK TO Los ANGELES --
so I'M HERE INSTEAD.
BELIEVE ME, I'M DELIGHTED. AND BELIEVE ME, Too,
WHEN I SAY THAT THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN TICKET -- LED BY
JIM COURTER -- CAN HELP "KEEP NEW JERSEY PROUD," AS THE
BANNER BEHIND ME SAYS.
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How? BY KEEPING A REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR. AND A
REPUBLICAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY. By KEEPING "NEW JERSEY
REPUBLICAN." LET ME QUOTE ONE OF NEW JERSEY'S FAVORITE
ADOPTED SONS -- THE NOTED PHILOSOPHER, MONTCLAIR'S
Yogi BERRA. ONCE, Yogi RUMINATED, "You OBSERVE A LOT
BY WATCHING." WELL, WE'VE OBSERVED A LOT BY WATCHING
NEW JERSEY REPUBLICANS OVER THE YEARS.
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WE'VE SEEN YOU FIGHT TO CLEAN UP OUR ENVIRONMENT.
AND TO CLEAN UP OUR SCHOOLS. WE'VE SEEN YOU FIGHT THE
SCOURGE OF DRUGS AND CRIME. WE'VE SEEN YOU CREATE OVER
500,000 NEW JOBS IN THE LAST EIGHT YEARS. AND SCHOOL
TEST SCORES GO UP TWICE THE NATIONAL RATE. AND WE'VE
SEEN YOU OPPOSE THOSE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS WHO CHERISH NEW
TAXES LIKE MOTHS DRAWN TO A FLAME.
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THESE REPUBLICAN POSITIONS EMBODY THE NEW NEW
JERSEY -- OLD VALUES PLUS NEW THINKING. AND WILL
REINFORCE THE PROGRESS OF THE LAST EIGHT YEARS. EIGHT-
YEARS OF ENLIGHTENED LEADERSHIP -- REPUBLICAN
LEADERSHIP. YET REPUBLICANS KNOW THAT A RECORD IS
SOMETHING NOT TO STAND UPON -- BUT TO BUILD UPON. AND
OUR PARTY'S LEADERSHIP INTO THE '90s WILL REAFFIRM THE
RENAISSANCE THAT MAKES NEW JERSEY'S SUCCESS STORY WORTH
RETELLING.
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FIRST, THE ENVIRONMENT. FOR HERE, AS ELSEWHERE,
REPUBLICANS HAVE HELPED BUILD THE NEW NEW JERSEY.
REPUBLICANS HAVE PUSHED LEGISLATION TO BAN OCEAN
DUMPING. MADE NEW JERSEY A LEADER IN RECYCLING. AND
LAUNCHED THE MOST AGGRESSIVE TOXIC WASTE CLEANUP
PROGRAM IN AMERICA.
NEXT, EDUCATION. FOR HERE, Too, REPUBLICANS HAVE
MOVED FORWARD, NOT BACK. IN 1983, ToM KEAN UNVEILED A
GREAT IDEA CALLED ALTERNATIVE CERTIFICATION.
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A CONCEPT ALLOWING TALENTED AMERICANS TO TEACH IN THE
CLASSROOM. TODAY, ALTERNATIVE CERTIFICATION IS A
FLAGSHIP OF THE FEDERAL PLAN WE INTRODUCED EARLIER THIS
YEAR. ToM KEAN HAS BEEN THE EDUCATION GOVERNOR.
REPUBLICANS -- LED BY JIM COURTER -- CAN KEEP ACADEMIC
EXCELLENCE A NEW JERSEY BYWORD.
THEN, WE COME TO TAXES. AND HERE, THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW NEW JERSEYS IS ESPECIALLY
CLEAR.
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THE NEW NEW JERSEY KNOWS THAT CREATING OPPORTUNITY
CAN HELP MEET THE NEEDS OF DISTRESSED LOCALES FROM
CAMDEN TO PATERSON. AND IN PARTICULAR, LET ME SALUTE
THIS STATE'S MAGNIFICENT SUPPORT OF URBAN ENTERPRISE
ZONES. THE NEW NEW JERSEY -- A REPUBLICAN NEW
JERSEY -- KNOWS THAT THE DECADE'S TAX CUTS HELPED MAKE
PROSPERITY A REALITY.
FOR THE MORE MONEY PEOPLE HAVE
TO SPEND, THE MORE THEY CAN HELP CREATE GROWTH, JOBS,
AND PROGRESS.
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THAT'S THE NEW NEW JERSEY. THE OLD NEW JERSEY'S
ATTITUDE WAS: IF ONE TAX DIDN'T WORK, TRY ANOTHER. IN
FACT, THE OLD NEW JERSEY REMINDS ME OF A STORY ABOUT
MARK TWAIN.
IN LATER LIFE TWAIN SUFFERED FROM ARTHRITIS. AND
WHENEVER THE PAPERS REPORTED THAT HE'D HAD ANOTHER
ATTACK, STRANGERS WOULD SEND HIM HOMEMADE REMEDIES TO
SPUR HIS RECOVERY.
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WELL, TWAIN HAD A STANDARD REPLY: "DEAR SIR: I TRY
EVERY REMEDY SENT TO ME. I AM NOW ON NUMBER 87. YOURS
IS 2,653. I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO ITS BENEFICIAL
RESULTS."
FELLOW REPUBLICANS, ALL THOSE REMEDIES DIDN'T CAUSE
MARK TWAIN'S RECOVERY. AND ALL THE DEMOCRATS' TAXES
DIDN'T CAUSE NEW JERSEY'S RECOVERY. THE NEW NEW JERSEY
KNOWS THAT. THE OLD NEW JERSEY DOESN'T.
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BUT, NOWHERE IS THE DIVISION OF NEW VERSUS OLD MORE
CLEAR-CUT THAN IN THE AREAS OF CRIME, DRUGS, AND
PUNISHMENT.
REPUBLICANS BELIEVE THAT WHEN ASKED WHAT KIND OF
SOCIETY AMERICANS DESERVE, OUR ANSWER MUST BE: A
NATION IN WHICH PEOPLE ARE SAFE AND FEEL SAFE. THAT'S
WHY WE WANT TO CHANGE THE RULES OF THE GAME
DRAMATICALLY -- NEW SOLUTIONS FOR A NEW NEW JERSEY.
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FOR INSTANCE, WE ARE STRONG ADVOCATES OF AMERICA'S
FIRST NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY TO END DRUG USE,
WHICH I ANNOUNCED EARLIER THIS MONTH. REPUBLICANS WANT
TOUGHER ENFORCEMENT. MORE PRISONS, MORE COURTS, MORE
PROSECUTORS. AND TOUGHER SENTENCES - -- MANY, LIKE JIM
COURTER, HAVE SPENT A CAREER DEMANDING THEM. You KNOW
WHERE DRUG DEALERS BELONG? REPUBLICANS SAY: IN JAIL.
You BACK MORE INTERDICTION AND TREATMENT. AND OUR PLAN
TO STOP USE BEFORE IT BEGINS.
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THROUGH EDUCATION AND PREVENTION. FROM GRADE SCHOOL TO
GRADUATE SCHOOL.
REPUBLICANS LIKE JIM COURTER WANT TO FIGHT DRUGS ON
ANY AND EVERY FRONT. FACING NEW PROBLEMS IN A NEW
WAY -- BY PUTTING EMPHASIS WHERE THE CRISIS IS -- IN
THE COMMUNITY. THE COMMUNITIES THAT WILL DECIDE THE
FUTURE OF NEW JERSEY.
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AND WITH A REPUBLICAN
GOVERNOR AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
THAT FUTURE WILL ALSO INCLUDE NOT JUST A WAR AGAINST
DRUGS -- BUT A CRUSADE AGAINST ALL CRIME. SUPPORTING
TOUGHER LAWS. GIVING OUR LAWMEN MORE RESOURCES.
DECLARING OPEN WARFARE ON THE CON-ARTISTS AND THE
HOODS.
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LOOK AT JIM COURTER, WHO'S SPENT A LIFETIME
FIGHTING CRIME. FOR HE EMBODIES THE VALUES AND IDEAS
I'M TALKING ABOUT -- ALL THAT'S BEST IN THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY.
LOOK AT JIM'S BACKGROUND. PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER.
LEGAL AIDE TO THE POOR. LAWYER, AUTHOR, PROSECUTOR,
CONGRESSMAN. A MORAL MAN, A FAMILY MAN. A MAN
RESPECTED BY HIS COLLEAGUES. A MAN YOU CAN TRUST.
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Look, NEXT, AT JIM'S RECORD ON THE ENVIRONMENT. As
CONGRESSMAN, HE HAS HELPED RENEW, AND RECOVER, OUR
NATIONAL HERITAGE. As GOVERNOR, JIM COURTER WILL PUT
POLLUTERS IN PRISON. OR EDUCATION. WHERE JIM HAS BEEN
A VOCAL ADVOCATE OF ALTERNATIVE CERTIFICATION. OR
TAXES. JIM DOESN'T WANT GOVERNMENT TO TAX MORE. HE
WANTS TO CUT TAXES -- SO THAT PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO
SPEND MORE.
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Look, THEN, AT JIM'S OPPOSITION TO DRUGS. HE HAS
STRONGLY SUPPORTED BILLS TO COORDINATE LAW ENFORCEMENT
EFFORTS AND INVOLVE THE MILITARY IN COMBATING DRUGS.
OR HIS MAGNIFICENT RECORD IN COMBATING CRIME. JIM
SERVED AS FIRST ASSISTANT PROSECUTOR IN HIS HOME COUNTY
OF WARREN. HE'S SEEN THE DRUG PEDDLERS AND USERS. HE
KNOWS THE TERRIBLE TOLL CAUSED BY CRIME.
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THAT'S WHY JIM WANTS MANDATORY TIME FOR FIREARMS
OFFENSES. AND NO DEALS WHEN CRIMINALS USE A GUN. AND
UNLIKE HIS OPPONENT, HE WANTS TO AMEND NEW JERSEY'S
CONSTITUTION SO THAT THE DEATH PENALTY LAW ON THE BOOKS
WILL BE STRENGTHENED AND ENFORCED.
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LET MF ASK YOU A QUESTION. You MAKE THE CHOICE.
DC
YOU /ANT A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR -- AND A DEMOCRATIC
SSEMBLY -- WHO THINKS NEW JERSEY'S DEATH
LAW IS FINE AS IT IS? [PAUSE]
...
OR DO YOU
REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR -- AND A REPUBLICAN GENERAL
AURDERERS, DRUG KINGPINS, AND
KEET EXACTLY WHAT THEY DESERVE?
[PAUSE]
I AGREE.
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We
MELD A GOVERNOR WHO WILL MAKE THE DEATH PENALTY LAW
EVEN STRONGER. AND WE NEED A GENERAL ASSEMBLY WHICH
WELL WHE DE DONE.
OLICIES OF THE 70's JUST AREN'T GOOD
ENOUGH. NEW JERSEY, OR AMERICA. THEY'RE NOT
GOOD FN TO CKLE DRUGS Qt CRIME. OR TO PROTECT
THe TRONMENT AND EDUCATION. AND THEY'RE NOT GOOD
KIDS. RECAUSE THEY WON'T "KEEP NEW
PROUD."
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ToM KEAN KNOWS THAT. THAT'S WHY HE'S BECOMING
PRESIDENT OF DREW UNIVERSITY. AND WHY HE'S HEADING THE
ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE "POINTS OF LIGHT INITIATIVE"
FOUNDATION TO BRING COMMUNITY SERVICE TO EVERY CORNER
OF AMERICA. AND JIM COURTER KNOWS IT, TOO. FOR HE
KNOWS WHAT'S ON NEW JERSEY'S MIND, AND IN ITS HEART.
AND HIS GOAL IS TO USE THAT HEART To BUILD A BETTER
LIFE FOR ALL.
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CAN WE ACHIEVE THAT GOAL? OF COURSE WE CAN -- BOTH
HERE AND ACROSS AMERICA. How? THROUGH A UNIFIED
REPUBLICAN PARTY -- WORKING TOGETHER TO SUPPORT THE
ENTIRE TICKET. AND THROUGH THE OLD VALUES AND NEW
THINKING EMBODIED BY THIS CAMPAIGN.
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THE FUTURE VERSUS THE PAST. POLICIES THAT WORK
VERSUS POLICIES THAT DON'T. A BETTER FUTURE FOR OUR
CHILDREN, OR ONE OF LOST OPPORTUNITY. YES, THERE'S A
LOT AT STAKE. AND let ME REMIND YOU: ELECTION DAY IS
ONLY 46 DAYS AWAY.
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So, LET'S LIFT UP OUR SIGHTS. AND ROLL UP OUR
SLEEVES. LET'S "KEEP NEW JERSEY PROUD" BY KEEPING IT
REPUBLICAN. AND TOGETHER, HELP JIM COURTER AND A
REPUBLICAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESERVE THE NEW NEW
JERSEY.
GOD BLESS YOU, AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA.
# # # #
Hang orto STATE or Securitory unified
(Smith/Blessey)
September 20, 1989
Draft Six
JERSEY
GOP
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: GOP FUNDRAISER
Eastionmu NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1989
Governor Kean, Congressman Courter, other superb members of
the New Jersey Congressional delegation -- Dean Gallo, Marge
Roukema, Chris Smith, Matt Rinaldo, Jim Saxton. Mr. Sullivan, Mr.
Bathgate, Ms. Donovan, and other great New Jersey Republican
leaders.
Let me begin, Jim, by saying how much I appreciate that
introduction. And by adding that I am pleased to be with you.
It is always good to be back in a State whose motto is
"Liberty and prosperity." And which in the last eight years has
had a Governor devoted to both. If I could borrow a phrase,
under Governor Kean liberty and prosperity have been "perfect
together."
It is always a pleasure, too, to return to a State which was
so party very kind to me in 1988. And to salute the entire Republican
ticket. Its candidates. Its ideas and vision. And especially,
those of you who toil so long and hard at the grass-roots level. State
East Brunswick
GOP
But I've come to Newark today for an even more important
reason. This reason goes beyond party to the essence of this
campaign. New Jersey's elections are among the most crucial in
America.
This élection will decide whether New Jersey builds on what
you began eight years ago. Or whether it risks everything by
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gambling
This election will decide whether New Jersey builds on what
you began eight years ago. Or whether it risks everything by
returning to the past. Whether New Jersey has the inspired
leadership it needs to win the war on drugs and crime. or
whether it reverts to failed social policies that blame everyone
but the criminal.
This election will decide whether New Jersey continues to
have the kind of leadership which balances a sound economy and
sound ecology. And whether its leadership says "No" to higher
taxes and "Yes" to extending the prosperity of the last eight
years.
liberty 4 prosperity
That's what this election will decide. It's that important.
It's that clear-cut. And today I make a prediction. This
November, New Jersey will make the right decision. A decision to
cast its vote for the future
for the cause of good
government
for the Republican Party [PAUSE]
A vote,
in short, for the new New Jersey.
That means a vote for Republicans running for the General
Assembly -- Republicans who will help ensure fair redistricting
in the 1990s. And a vote for Republicans running at the local
and county level. It means a vote for candidates who'll take a
tough approach to crooks and thugs. And perhaps most of all, it
means a vote for the man who can move your State into the coming
decade stronger than ever. Your next Governor -- Congressman Jim
Courter.
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Now, Jim's a long-time friend -- and I wanted to come up
here and, personally, support him and the great party that's
behind him. I know you wanted to hear a few words from a
prominent national figure who can really fire up a crowd and
generate some excitement [PAUSE]
Unfortunately, Arnold
Schwarzenegger had to go back to Los Angeles -- so I'm here
instead.
Believe me, I'm delighted. And believe me, too, when I say
that the entire Republican ticket -- led by Jim Courter -- can
help "keep New Jersey proud," as the banner behind me says. How?
By keeping a Republican Governor. And a Republican General
Assembly. By keeping "New Jersey Republican." Let me quote one
of New Jersey's favorite adopted sons -- the noted philosopher,
Montclair's Yogi Berra. Once, Yogi ruminated, "You observe a lot
by watching." Well, we've observed a lot by watching New Jersey
Republicans over the years.
We've seen you fight to clean up our environment. And to
clean up our schools. We've seen you fight the scourge of drugs
and crime. We've seen you create over 500,000 new jobs in the
who stick
last eight years. And school test scores go up twice the
new taxes
national rate. And we've seen you oppose those liberal Democrats
who cherish new taxes like moths drawn to a flame.
to like ugly
These Republican positions embody the new New Jersey -- old
& E
values plus new thinking. And will reinforce the progress of the
last eight years. Eight years of enlightened leadership --
Republican leadership. Yet Republicans know that a record is
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something not to stand upon -- but to build upon. And our
party's leadership into the '90s will reaffirm the renaissance
that makes New Jersey's success story worth retelling.
First, the environment. For here, as elsewhere, Republicans
have helped build the new New Jersey. Republicans have pushed
legislation to ban ocean dumping. Made New Jersey a leader in
recycling. And launched the most aggressive toxic waste cleanup
program in America.
Next, education. For here, too, Republicans have moved
forward, not back. In 1983, Tom Kean unveiled a great idea
called Alternative Certification. A concept allowing talented
Americans to teach in the classroom. Today, Alternative
Certification is a flagship of the Federal plan we. introduced
earlier this year. Tom Kean has been the Education Governor.
Republicans -- led by Jim Courter -- can keep academic excellence
a New Jersey byword.
Then, we come to taxes. And here, the difference between
the old and new New Jerseys is especially clear.
The new New Jersey knows that creating opportunity can help
meet the needs of distressed locales from Camden to Paterson.
And in particular, let me salute this State's magnificent support
of Urban Enterprise Zones. The new New Jersey -- a Republican
New Jersey -- knows that the decade's tax cuts helped make
prosperity a reality. For the more money people have to spend,
the more they can help create growth, jobs, and progress.
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Sound outdated? It is. In fact, I heard a story recently
which typified this thinking. Two men were sitting in a Trenton
restaurant talking about politicians. One of them said he
thought the syntax of a public official needed a lot of work.
Well, naturally, at first I thought he meant me. But then
the fellow said he was really talking about a liberal
Congressman. "Sintax?" roared the second man. "You mean to tell
me those Democrats down in Washington are putting a tax on that,
too?"
Nowhere is the division of new versus old more clear-cut
than in the areas of crime, drugs, and punishment.
Republicans believe that when asked what kind of society
Americans deserve, our answer must be: a Nation in which people
are safe and feel safe. That's why we want to change the rules
of the game dramatically -- new solutions for a new New Jersey.
For instance, we are strong advocates of America's first
national comprehensive strategy to end drug use, which I
announced earlier this month. Republicans want tougher
enforcement. More prisons, more courts, more prosecutors. And
tougher sentences -- many, like Jim Courter, have spent a career
demanding them. You know where drug dealers belong? Republicans
say: In jail. You back more interdiction and treatment. And
our plan to stop use before it begins. Through education and
prevention. From grade school to graduate school.
Republicans like Jim Courter want to fight drugs on any and
every front. Facing new problems in a new way -- by putting
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our plan to stop use before it begins. Through education and
prevention. From grade school to graduate school.
Republicans like Jim Courter want to fight drugs on any and
every front. Facing new problems in a new way -- by putting
emphasis where the crisis is -- in the community. The
communities that will decide the future of New Jersey. And with
a Republican Governor and State Assembly, that future will also
include not just a war against drugs -- but a crusade against all
crime. Supporting tougher laws. Giving our lawmen more
resources. Declaring open warfare on the con-artists and the
hoods.
Look at Jim Courter, who's spent a lifetime fighting crime.
For he embodies the values and ideas I'm talking about -- all
that's best in the Republican Party.
Look at Jim's background. Peace Corps volunteer. Legal aide
to the poor. Lawyer, author, prosecutor, Congressman. A moral
man, a family man. A man respected by his colleagues. A man you
can trust.
Look, next, at Jim's record on the environment. As
Congressman, he has helped renew, and recover, our national
heritage. As Governor, Jim Courter will put polluters in prison.
or education. Where Jim has been a vocal advocate of Alternative
Certification. Or taxes. Jim doesn't want government to tax
more. He wants to cut taxes -- so that people will be able to
spend more.
not the government
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Look, then, at Jim's opposition to drugs. He has strongly
supported bills to coordinate law enforcement efforts and involve
the military in combating drugs. or his magnificent record in
combating crime. Jim served as first assistant prosecutor in his
home county of Warren. He's seen the drug peddlers and users.
He knows the terrible toll caused by crime.
That's why Jim wants mandatory time for firearms offenses.
And no deals when criminals use a gun. And unlike his opponent,
he wants to amend New Jersey's Constitution so that the death
penalty law on the books will be strengthened and enforced.
Let me ask you a question. You make the choice. Do you
want a Democratic Governor
-- and a Democratic State Assembly
:
Repubs
who thinks New Jersey's death penalty law is fine as it is?
say
[PAUSE]
or do you want a Republican Governor -- and a
Republican General Assembly -- who says that murderers, drug
kingpins, and cop-killers should get exactly what they deserve?
[PAUSE]
I agree. We need a Governor who will make the
death penalty law even stronger. And we need a State Assembly
which will help get the job done.
The failed policies of the 70's just aren't good enough.
Not for New Jersey. or America. They're not good enough to
tackle drugs or crime. or to protect the environment and
education. And they're not good enough for our kids. Because
they won't "keep New Jersey proud.'
Tom Kean knows that. That's why he's becoming President of
Drew University. And why he's heading the advisory committee of
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Can we achieve that goal? Of course we can -- both here and
across America. How? Through a unified Republican Party --
working together to support the entire ticket. And through the
old values and new thinking embodied by this campaign.
The future versus the past. Policies that work versus
policies that don't. A better future for our children, or one of
lost opportunity. Yes, there's a lot at stake. And let me
remind you: Election Day is only 46 days away.
So, let's lift up our sights. And roll up our sleeves.
Let's "keep New Jersey proud by keeping it Republican." And
together, help Jim Courter and a Republican General Assembly
preserve the new New Jersey.
God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
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