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Draft Two
TOAST
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
STATE DINNER TOAST TO PRESIDENT
AYLWIN OF CHILE
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1992
President Aylwin, I am pleased to welcome you and Donna
Leonor to the White House -- and to return the warm reception you
gave me during my visit to your country. / I learned many things
on that trip -- including a Chilean proverb. It goes: "The
shrimp that falls asleep, it is taken by the current." I use it
to scare Ranger. 11
Among my memories of my visit EXIP was a lunch we shared at your
home in Santiago -- where I still recall the pride and delight
you took in your children and your grandchildren. / Mr.
President, it has been said that "the greatest glory of a free-
born people is to transmit that freedom to their children." Your
country's bright future lies in the hands and hearts of a free-
born people, determined to see their children born free ---
passing liberty from mother to daughter, and father to son. 11
Today, I was reminded how your father, an esteemed Supreme
Court Justice, passed his love of law and liberty to his son:
you, yourself a revered legal scholar. And I thought of, how
over sixty years ago, our Louis Brandeis observed that "the final
end of the State was to make men free to develop their
faculties." He added that those who love freedom know "liberty
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to be the secret of happiness / and courage to be the secret of
liberty." 11
Mr. President, Justice Brandeis could find no better example
of courage in pursuit of liberty than the Chilean people and
their leader. Today, Chileans are "free to develop their
faculties" to the fullest - having at/ong/ast inherited the political and
economic rights their parents worked to achieve. They've also
assumed liberty's responsibilities: the knowledge that freedom
taken for granted can become freedom taken away. / Chile
continues the hard work of freedom: defending democracy in Haiti
and Venezuela -- promoting peace in Central America and the
Middle East. //
Need to herpthes on 2pgs,
My friend President Alywin and I first met nearly two years
ago at the White House. Today, I have again had the chance to
observe his insight and eloquence. ( (The President, of course,
is fluent in both English and French.
I'm jealous.
/
Some say
English is my only Prendut foreign language. " 11
Talking MR to him today, I know that Chile will continue to
export its material goods. I know also it will export its
dreams: the courage, hope, and imagination of free markets and
free peoples. Chile teaches others that political differences
never excuse indifference to the law - and that social needs are
better met by the invisible hand of the free market than by the
iron
fist of bureaucracy. <why the
arrivel T.R.
Thirty years ago, President Eisenhower spoke to your people,
WOULD mose SHORTER THE TOAST
saying: "We in the Western Hemisphere are still young nations,
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still growing, still experimenting. 10 / I believe that's still
true today - because democracy is as young as our children -- as
all the children of the world. //
Mr. President, I am honored to lift my glass to you, to
Chile, and to the bonds of friendship between our two peoples.
#
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Robert NSC
Morley X4592
(Smith/Aarhus)
May 8, 1992
Draft Two
CHILE
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
ARRIVAL STATEMENT FOR CHILEAN
PRESIDENT AYLWIN
SOUTH LAWN
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1992
Friends of Chile and the United States, ladies and
gentlemen. / President Aylwin, I am honored to welcome you to
the White House -- an opportunity not only to exchange views, but
to return hospitality. //
I remember visiting Santiago with my daughter Doro in
draft
December of 1990. I will never forget how warmly you, Dona
Leonor, your family, and the Chilean people received us. //
[Anecdote to come].
Mr. President, you once described Chile's success in this
dualt
dutE
way: "the reflection of a mature country that knows what it
wants and is able to achieve it by means of the democratic
process. " / That maturity has been hard-won: Americans shared
your pain during Chile's dark years -- when democracy was a
fading dream and peace, a faded hope. / But it has been won.
Today, your government serves its people -- and serves as a model
to others.
The same may be said of your leadership: since taking
office, you have revived Chilean democracy. / In 1913 Theodore
TRuisit
Roosevelt visited Chile and spoke of a "democratic experiment on
speech 11/24/13
a far vaster scale than has ever been attempted anywhere else in
the world. / Next month, your people will salute that
draft?
experiment through Chile's first local elections in twenty years.
2
the world." / Next month, your people will salute that
experiment through Chile's first local elections in twenty years.
Democracy has also spurred your economy -- where Chile has
and in the last decade, your
married free people with free markets: union of economic growth
economy growth faster than any other economy in Latin America. / A
has gram
successful conclusion to the Uruguay Round of GATT will enhance
that trend. / Already, your trade barriers are falling -- your
exports rising -- largely because as a member of the Cairnes
drafts
Group, you are leading the way against agricultural subsidies and
protectionism. //
I applaud these achievements. So did the Inter-Americar
Development Bank -- turning first to Chile to implement its
drafts
investment policy support program. And under our Enterprise for the
aportion ofits
Americas Initiative, Chile was first to have official debt to the
United States forgiven -- because we want democracy to succeed.
Urifrom
// Not only do our peoples share what your government called the
Chignt.
"community of ideas, of feelings and needs" -- we share this
3/11/1811
land. We share more than the New World -- we share a
responsibility to keep our world new. //
So, last February, under the Enterprise for the Americans
Initiative, we signed an agreement helping Chile create an
draft
environmental project fund with money which would have otherwise
serviced debt -- though we'll continue to address hilatoral
concerns under our 1990 trade and investment framework agreement.
// Our challenge now is to build on those beginnings -- and show
12/6/915
Chile's great champton of freedom
why Bernardo O'Higgins, the father of free Chilean independence
3
wrote that "the Americas [give] aregiving hopes to philosophers and
patriots alike. //
Today, Chile gives hope to an entire hemisphere. / With
market-oriented reforms, you've led by example. In international
relations, you're leading through integrity: Other nations count
on Chilean leadership in the Organization of American States / in
the United Nations / and in the community of nations. Your
are working for peace
draft
people did the hard work of freedom in Kuwait, El Salvador,
Guatemala, and Cambodia. You joined your neighbors to defend
democracy -- first at last year's OAS General Assembly, then most
recently in Haiti and Venezuela. / /
There's a poem I heard when I was in Chile. It's called
Machado's "Caminante." / There's one line I remember: "Traveler,
there is no road, you make a road in traveling." //
Mr. President, I believe Chile is that traveler. Traveling
the road of history -- a history made one step at a time. Chile
offers an eloquent rebuke to those enemies of democracy -- on the
extremes of left or right -- who try to mislead and confuse the
people. Chile shows how liberty can not only shape a nation of
great promise -- but ensure its people a legacy of promises kept.
Traveling together, Mr. President, we will keep our
promises, and make ours a road to a better tomorrow. / We are
honored to welcome you to Washington, as our guest, one of this
hemisphere's great leaders.
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May 8, 1992
Draft Two
TOAST
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
STATE DINNER TOAST TO PRESIDENT
AYLWIN OF CHILE
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1992
P
President Aylwin, I am pleased to welcome you and Dona
Leonor to the White House -- and to return the warm reception you
gave me during my visit to your country. / I learned many things
uc{
on that trip -- including a Chilean proverb. It goes: "The
shrimp that falls asleep, it is taken away the current." I use it
?
to scare my dog Ranger. //
Among my memories of my visit was a lunch we shared at your
drafts
home in Santiago -- where I still recall the pride and delight
you took in your children and your grandchildren. /. Mr.
draft
President, it has been said that "the greatest glory of a free-
born people is to transmit that freedom to their children." Your
country's bright future lies in the hands and hearts of a free-
born people, determined to see their children born free --
passing liberty from mother to daughter, and father to son. //
Today, I was reminded how your father, an esteemed Supreme
Court Justice, passed his love of law and liberty to his son:
you, yourself a revered legal scholar. And I thought of, how
more than sixty years ago, our Louis Brandeis observed that "the
drafts
final end of the State was to make men free to develop their
faculties." He added that those who love freedom know "liberty
2
draft
to be the secret of happiness / and courage to be the secret of
liberty." //
Justice Brandeis could find no better example of courage in
pursuit of liberty than the Chilean people and their leader.
Today, Chileans are "free to develop their faculties" to the
fullest -- having at long last inherited the political and
economic rights their parents worked to achieve. They've also
assumed liberty's responsibilities: the knowledge that freedom
taken for granted can become freedom taken away. / Chile
draft<
continues the hard work of freedom: defending democracy in Haiti
and Venezuela -- promoting peace in Central America and the
Middle East. //
Mr. President, I know that Chile will continue to export its
material goods. I know also it will export its dreams: the
courage, hope, and imagination of free markets and free peoples.
Chile teaches others that political differences never excuse
indifference to the law -- and that social needs are better met
by the invisible hand of the free market than by the iron fist of
bureaucracy.
Thirty years ago, President Eisenhower spoke to your people,
Jen's
saying: "We in the Western Hemisphere are still young nations,
notes
still growing, still experimenting. " / I believe that's still
true today -- because democracy is as young as our children -- as
all the children of the world. //
Mr. President, I am honored to lift my glass to you, to
Chile, and to the bonds of friendship between our two peoples.
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From: Everette Larson, Head, Ref. Sect., Hispanic Div
Message: Quotes for Pres. Patricio Aylwin of Chile
The next two pages in this transmission contain quotes from: (1) Antonio
Machado, a noted poet from Spain; (2) Bernardo O'Higgins, who freed Chile
from Spain in 1818 and then went on with General José de San Martin to
also liberate Peru; and (3) four quotes from the following works: Jorge
Dahm, Refranes V dichos de Chile y los Chilenos (Santiago, Chile: Ediciones
Delfin, 1973) and from Agustin Cannobbio G., Refranes Chilenos (Santiago
de Chile: Imprenta, Litografía i encuadernación Barcelona, 1901).
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In a Proclamation to the people of Peru in 1820:
"The day of liberty has arrived for the Americas! From the
Mississipi River to Cape Horn, an area comprising almost half the
world, we now proclaim the independence of the New World! Mexico
fights; Caracas triumphs; Chile and Buenos Aires finally
enjoy the fruits of victory
"
Alejandro Witker (ed.)
O'Higgins; la herencia del Libertador (1978), p. 125.
In a letter to a philosopher who aided the cause of Chilean
independence, Camilo Henriquez, dated 1824:
"It is evident that the republics of the New World are at
vanguard of freedom in the whole world
the Americas are
giving great hopes to philosophers and patriots alike II
Ibid., p. 134.
In another letter, O'Higgins said: "Aristocracy is naturally
abhorrent to me... and adored equality is my idol." Quoted in,
Stephen Clissold, Bernardo O'Higgins and the independence of
Chile (1968), P- 150.
Dahn
1) Le puso las peras a cuatro
[Talk straight]
Cannobio
2) El que deja de andar, atrás se queda
[Trans.: He who stops walking, remains behind]
[Interpretation: It is mentioned to induce people to work hard
to achieve something in life] p.25
3) Camaron que se duerme, se lo lleva la corriente
[Trans.: The shrimp that falls asleep, it is taken away by the
current]
[Interpretation: In the same line as the previous one]
4) La claridad preserva la amistad
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[Trans.: Openness (or straightforwardness) preserves
friendship]
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QUOTES
Machado, Antonio "Caminante"
22. "Traveler your footsteps are/the road"
Caminante, son tus huellas
el camino, y nada más;
caminante, no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar.
Al andar se hace camino,
y al vovler la vista atrás
se ve la senda que nunca
se ha de volver a pisar.
Caminante, no hay camino,
sino estelas en la mar.
Eng:
Traveler, your footsteps are
the road and nothing more.
Traveler, there is no road,
you make a road in traveling.
Traveling you make a road
and upon your gazing back
appears the path which
ne'er again is to be trod.
Traveler, there is no road.
Nought but a wake upon the sea.
Hutman, Norma Louise. Machado; A dialogue with time, nature as an
expression of temporality (Albuquerque, UNM Press, 1969)
PQ6623.A3Z6 1969.
CHILNOT
"renew and strengthen the ties that between our two nations
that trace back to the first days of Chilean independence: To
your first Congress, convened on the 4th of July, 1811.
From the day Diego de Almagro first set foot on what is now
Chilean soil, your life-blood and link to the world has been
trade.
today, the farmer in San Fernando labors not just to
feed his family or even his village -- but to deliver products to
the dinner tables of Japan, Europe and the U.S.
--When Theodore Roosevelt visited Chile almost 80 years ago, he
told your people: "We republics of the Western Hemisphere are
working out the democratic experiment on a far vaster scale than
has ever been attempted anywhere else in the world."
--On March 11, 1811, the government of Chile sent a note to the
American president initiating diplomatic relations with the
United States. The note cited "the community of ideas, of
feelings and needs"
--Chilean sayings:
"The house is small, but the heart is bigger."
"If you're not going to drink the water, let it flow." "
"The Devil knows more because he is old, not because he is
clever."
--In 1960, when Dwight Eisenhower addressed a Joint Session of
your National Congress, he described the bond between our
countries as "a shared philosophy -- faith in God, respect for
the spiritual dignity of man, and the conviction that government
must be the servant of the people."
--Thirty years ago, Dwight Eisenhower told your people, "We in
the Western Hemisphere are still young nations, still growing,
still experimenting."
end
State Dinner
Toast in Honor of President Aylwin
President Aylwin, it is a privilege and a pleasure to welcome you
and Dona Leonor to the White House this evening.
Over sixty years ago, my countryman Louis Brandeis, like you, a
legal scholar, and like your father an esteemed Supreme Court
Justice, observed that "the final end of the State was to make
men free to develop their faculties." He adds that those who
love freedom know "liberty to be the secret of happiness and
courage to be the secret of liberty."
Mr. President, Justice Brandeis could find no better example of
courage in pursuit of liberty than the Chilean people under your
determined leadership.
I rank among the fondest memories of my trip to South America,
our lunch in your home in Santiago. I particularly remember the
pride and delight you took in your children and grandchildren.
Mr. President, it has been said that "the greatest glory of a
free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children."
Your country's bright future is due in large measure to the
sacrifices made by you and many of your countrymen so that
freedom might be passes from mother to daughter, from father to
son.
2
Today, Chileans are "free to develop their faculties" to the
fullest, they enjoy the fruits of political and economic liberty,
and the reconciliation of a nation proceeds. You understand that
freedom cannot be taken for granted, and have assumed a
leadership role in defending democracy in Haiti and Venezuela,
and promoting peace in Central America and the Middle East.
Chileans, and all the people of this hemisphere, have benefited
from your labors.
President Aylwin, your country gives proof to all the world that
courage, hope, and imagination thrive best in a free society;
that political differences are not an excuse for extra-legal
interference in the constitutional process; and that social needs
are best met through free markets that allow economic initiative
to flourish.
Democracy is neither easy nor tidy, but no other system of
government yet devised can match it, and the people of this
hemisphere demand and deserve no less.
Mr. President, I am honored to lift my glass to you, to Chile,
and to the bonds of friendship between our two peoples.
From State
Phil Mclean
Rm
White House Arrival Ceremony
122
in Honor of President Aylwin of Chile
Welcome to the White House, Mr. President. When Doro and I
visited Santiago in December 1990, you, Dona Leonor, your family,
and the Chilean people received us warmly. Barbara and I welcome
this opportunity to return your hospitality.
It is a special pleasure to welcome you as President of a
democratic Chile. The world has long admired Chile's proud
democratic tradition; a beacon to the Americas, an example of
what so many nations aspire to be. We shared your anguish during
the dark years that your people were denied their right to govern
themselves. Today, we share your joy as you and your nation have
reclaimed those cherished democratic traditions and resumed your
position of leadership in the community of democratic nations.
At the help
Mr. President, you represent Latin America's new leadership,
bright with promise, which is consolidating democracy, opening
markets, and reaching out to establish new and positive
relationships with the world. We want to be constructive
partners and friends in this endeavor.
Since taking office, you have led the way in revitalizing Chilean
democratic institutions and next month your people will vote in
Chile's first local elections in two decades. Your economic
policies show equal faith in the wisdom of a free people making
their own choices in a fair and competitive marketplace.
2
In the last decade your economy has grown faster than any other
in Latin America and today Chile is one of the world's most
successful countries in attracting foreign investment, a sure
sign of the international confidence your government inspires.
Because Chile dropped its trade barriers, your own industries
have become more competitive and your exports have grown
dramatically. As a member of the Cairnes Group you are a leader
in the fight against agricultural subsidies and protectionism.
The United States proudly works with Chile and other Group
members to open world trade in agricultural goods.
Recognizing Chile's achievements, the Inter-American Development
Bank turned first to Chile to implement its investment policy
support program. Chile also earned the distinction of being the
first country to have a portion of its official debt to the
United States forgiven under the Enterprise for the Americas
Initiative.
Last February, the United States and Chile signed an
environmental framework agreement that will enable you to create
would
gent
an environmental project fund with money you would have paid to
the United States to service debt. We continue to address
bilateral economic concerns under the terms of our 1990 trade and
investment framework agreement.
3
Your economy is a model for the region and the world, and we
believe the progress you have made serves as a demonstration of
what can be achieved through market-oriented economic reforms.
President, you have shown what a committed leader may accomplish
when guided by the popular will. Chile's place in the world
community is clear: Other nations count on Chilean leadership in
the Organization of American States, the United Nations and other
international bodies. Chileans are working for peace in Kuwait,
El Salvador, Guatemala, and Cambodia. You have joined your
neighbors across this hemisphere in vigorous defense of
democracy, first at the OAS General Assembly a year ago, and more
recently, and more directly, in Haiti and Venezuela.
Earlier this year, Mr. President, a delegation from the U.S.
Council on Foreign Relations visited Santiago, and you told them
that "Chile's success is the reflection of a mature country that
knows what it wants and is able to achieve it by means of the
democratic process."
I wholeheartedly agree.
Mr. President, you have spoken of the importance of revitalizing
Latin America's political and economic pulse, and of preserving
and strengthening democracy throughout the hemisphere. Chile's
free and open society shows the region and the world that
4
democracy and free markets are the best and the only way to
develop new sources of wealth, lift people from poverty, accord
them the dignity that goes with a decent and improving quality of
life, and give them the means to resolve their grievances fairly
and peacefully.
Chile offers an eloquent rebuke to those enemies of democracy on
the far left and right who have long offered false promises to
the people of this hemisphere.
Chile is not only a nation of great promise, but a nation of
promises kept.
Mr. President. We are honored to welcome to Washington, as our
guest, one of our hemisphere's premier statesmen.
" He who stopswalky remains behid
-example is an imitation
a canto walk."
- Address of Colonel Roosevelt at the Municipal Theatre, -
Santiago de Chile, November 24, 1913
I have been greatly interested in the learned address of
Mr. Vargas on the history of Chile. I have already been fairly familiar
with that history; for when I was doing my part in preparing my own
country for war, at the time I was assistant secretary of the Navy
under President Mackinley, I studied with minute attention Chilfan
military and naval history. Among the many things that I have enjoyed
here in Chile, one of the chief has been the chance of seeing the admir-
able work of the officers and enlisted men of the Chilian Army, and I
look forward to getting at least a glimpse of the Chilian navy. I am
acquainted with the really notable poem of Ercilla. I was already
aware of the remarkable character of the Araucania Indian. I recognize
to the full the high value of the new ethnological entity arising in
Chile from the mixture of the two virile types, that of the Spanish
conquistadores and of the valiant Indian by whom Chile was originally popu-
lated. The ruling class, I was also aware, included not only these men
of pure descent from the early Spanish conquerors, but also many men
descended from the biscayan and other newcomers of a very high type who
come thither in the Eighteenth Century. I have also in outline the
history which has been so interestingly sketched this evening.
I also wish to thank most sincerely the distinguished and
eloquent orator and public man Senator Bulnes, who has just addressed
you. I deeply appreciate his courteous references, not only to myself,
but to the great Republic of which I am a citizen. And, moreover, I
cordially agree with the entire tone and tenor of his address. Certain
Souvenir of the visit of Col. Theodore Roosevelt to chile. 1914.
(2)
of the allusions he has made, notably to the Monroe Doctrine, and ofthe
has
question which he has so courteously put, and the wishes he uttered,
make it proper and desirable that I should myself speak on the points
to which he alludes.
We republics of the Western Hemisphere are working out the
democratic experiment on a far vaster scale than has ever been attempted
anywhere else in the world. We are meeting many new problems; and,
though we act with certain advantages in our favour we also suffer under
certain disadvantages. Moreover, each of us, each republic, yours, mine,
each among all the other American nations of importance, has made certain
failures and attained certain successes that were peculiarly its own;
and each has something to learn from as well as to teach every other.
For example the nation to which I belong handled the whole question of
slavery much worse than it was handled by any other free republic of
the entire Western world. Again, it was my own nation, which, in solving
the problem of slavery, was brought to the verge of destruction by four
years of civil war, during which it became impotent to aid its sister
republics of the New World, or to enforce the Monroe Doctrine, or in
any shape or way to be of service to mankind or to secure respect for
itself among the nations of the Earth. My friends, I hold that, normally,
each nation can do best by concerning itself with its own faults and
shortcomings, and not with the faults and shortcomings of others, and
that each of our nations should find its chief work in advancing the
cause of social and industrial betterment among its own people at home;
and that it should endeavour always to deal with other nations in a
spirit of justice, of courtesy, of consideration and forbearance.
But there are other duties, less important, and nevertheless
of great importance. There must be international relations. I hold
that these relations between nations should be handled on the sameplan
of the relations between individuals. The same principles should apply
(3)
in one case as in the other, although the methods of achieving the
principles must differ because international law does not exist in the
sense that municipal law or law within each nation exists; for there is
in no law in any real sense unless there is both a judge to declare the
law and a representative of the police power able and ready to put that
declaration into execution.
I speak to a gallant people, a proud and patriotic people,
with a great military record, with a fine Army and Navy. Therefore, I
am certain of being understood when I say that an honorable private man
will indignantly refuse to wrong others, or will also refuse himself
tamely to submit to wrong by others. In similar fashion, an honorable
nation, a free nation, fit to do its part in the world-wide struggle
for civilization, for liberty, for order, and for the only peace worth
having, the peace of righteousness, must both be able and ready to de-
fend itself against wrong-doing, and also be proudly eager never to
wrong others. This must be the attitude of my country toward all other
countries both of the Old and of the New World. It should also be the
attitude of every other country. All of us in our several nations
should by word and deed strive to bring nearer the day when this shall
be the world's attitude among all the nations of mankind.
In addition to our duties as members of the great family of
civilized nations throughout the world, we of the Western Hemisphere
have certain special interests of our own. A hundred years ago the
only American nation that had achieved its independence was the United
States of the North. Ninety years ago the other free nations had just
begun their independent careers. As yet they were wholly unable to
speak with authority abroad. At that time, and for many years after-
wards, even the United States could not always make itself heard by
old-world powers, and it was listened to at all only when it spoke with
the utmost decision, while at that time no other American power
(4)
received any heed whatever. It was under these circumstances that the
Monroe Doctrine was promulgated. This doctrine was perfectly simple.
It declared that the soil of the Western Hemisphere was no longer to
be treated as a subject for territorial conquest or acquisitions by
old-world powers. I wish you to remember just what the Monroe-Doctrine
is. If any man tells you that it is dead, ask him if he really means
that Old-World powers are to be permited to acquire territory by con-
quest or colonization in the Western Hemisphere. Unless he so believes,
he cannot assert that the doctrine is dead. So far from its being dead,
I think it is a great deal more alive than ever before. I believe that
there is a less chance than ever before of the American nations permitting
any species of conquest or colonization on this Continent by Old-World
powers. Moreover, I believe that the time has now come when the doctrine
in reality has the guarantee not only of the United States, my own
country, but of your country, Chile, and of every other American nation
which has risen to a sufficient point of emonomic well-being, of stable
and orderly government, of power to do justice to others and to exact
justice from others; and therefore of potential armed strength to enable
it thus to act as a guarantor of the doctrine.
In other words, keep these two facts distinctly in your minds:
1) the doctrine itself; 2) the question as to who the guarantor or
that
guarantors of the doctrine shall be. I am wholly unable to understand
how any farsighted patriot of the two Americas could fail to recognize
the vital importance of the doctrine to the liberty and well-being of
the nations of the Western Hemisphere. The only differences that can
arise are as to the methods of its enforcement, and as to who shall be
its guarantors. On these points there must of necessity be change as
conditions change.
When the doctrine was promulgated the United States was the
only power able to secure any respect whatever for it from the
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Old-World nations. Without armed strength back of it, the Monroe
Doctrine is not worth the paper on which it is written, or the breath of
the orators who speak it. It was at the beginning rendered respectable
only because back of it lay the Army and Navy of the United States.
When in 1861 our Civil War broke out, and we became powerless to secure
respect from other nations in international matters, while no South
American nation had yet advanced to a degree that would enable it to
take our place, the Monroe Doctrine vanished into thin air. Old-World
nations at once began a course of conquest and agressions on the American
Continent, and a foreign Empire was established immediately South of the
United States. When the Civil War ended and the United States once
more became a power able to speak with self-respect in international
affairs, that foreign empire at once crumbled to dust and ashes.
During all this early period, various causes to which the two
eminent speakers who have preceded me have alluded, combined to keep the
nations of Southern and Central America weak, and to retard their growth
to influence and power. But within the last quarter of a century there
has been a great change. Certain republics have achieved a position of
assured and orderly liberty. These republics do justice to the other
peoples. To them there has come a great material prosperity and moral
growth such as to make them in character and in potential strength fit to
handle their own Monroe Doctrine, or, to speak more accurately, fit to
act as co-guarantors of the Doctrine. Your own Republic of Chile is one
of these republics.
In short, the Doctrine is as emphatically a living doctrine to-
day as it ever was. But, for many years after it was promulgated, it
was of necessity a unilateral doctrine, because only one country had
power to enforce it. Now other nations of the Western Hemisphere have
come to a position where by international conduct and by strength they
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they are entitled to stand on a full equality with the United States in
this as in all other matters. Therefore in this as in other matters re-
lations between them and the United States are based on an exact equality
of right and mutuality of respect. Among those nations is your own, Chile
As yet, unfortunately, there still remain other nations in the
Western Hemisphere of which this assertion cannot truthfully be made. AS
long as a nation is from any cause, but specially from chronic revolutions
and anarchy reduced to a condition where she is impotent to perform her
duties toward others, or exact the performance by others of their duties
toward her, then it is a waste of words to pretend that what does not
exist does exist. It is untruthful fully to assert that it is possible
for the United States, or for any other great nation to treat an anarchic
and wrongdoing country on that footing of real and full equality, of which
I have above spoken as representing that plane of conduct which should
characterize all the dealings between my nation and your own, and my
nation and certain other South American republics. I hope and I am
reasonably confident that the less advanced nations of the New World will
in their turn gradually advance just as my nation and yours, as well as
certain others, have already advanced. As soon as any such nation in the
course of its advance reaches a position of self-respecting strength and
orderly liberty and achieved power to do and to exact justice, then it
should at once step out of the position of tutelage in any respect. Then,
as regards it, likewise, the Monroe Doctrine should be treated as no
longer a unilateral doctrine, but one in the upholding of which this
nation herself shall take part as an equal among equals. I hope and I
believe that ultimately the day will come when this will be true of all
the nations of the Western Hemisphere. When that day comes, the Monroe
Doctrine in the sense of being a unilateral doctrine, enforced only by
the United States, will entirely disappear. It will remain as much as
ever a doctrine to be believed in and enforced, but it will be enforced
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by all the nations of the Western Hemisphre as co-guarantors on a foot-
ing of equality. However, when that day has come, I believe that every
nation of the Old World will have accepted the doctrine as a matter of
course.
The doctrine partly represents the self-interest of each nation,
and partly the disinterested belief that it is essentially in the inter-
est of the nations of the Western Hemisphere. When promulgated by the
United States, and as since adopted and followed by the United States, it
had, and has always since had, and ought always to have, both of those
b bases of justification. The United States in its own interest cannot
afford to see a great Old World military power acquire territory on this
continent. Moreover the United States from a disinterested friendship
for the free peoples of this continent, must object to seeing any of
their territory thus acquired. This after all is simply to feel as every
other nation on this continent will feel. Chile could no more afford to
tolerate conquest by some Old World military power on or near her Northern
border than we could afford to tolerate such conquest on or near our
Southern border.
At the present day, then so far as the United States is con-
cerned, the doctrine must still be one of unilateral enforcement in
regions where her interests are vital, and where unfortunately no other
American nation has achieved a position of such stable and orderly power
as to enable it to be a co-guarantor of the doctrine.
This applies to the lands both continental and insular which
cover the approaches to the Panama Canal. The time had come when it was
imperatively necessary that the canal should be built. The United
States ought not to, and, in my judgment, will not permit any great Old-
World power to establish itself along the line of approach to the Canal.
This is not only vitally important to the United States, but it is also
eminently to the interest of the other New-World nations. For example,
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your own nation, Chile, will, I believe be benefitted at least as much
as the United States itself by the building of the Canal--which, I may
remark parenthetically, would not have been built at all if I had not
acted precisely and exactly as I did act. We of the United States are
solemnly pledged to administer that Canal in the equal interest of all
the nations of mankind, and we are pledged to defend it by our army and
our navy, by fortifications and by ships, along the canal, and along the
lines of approach to the canal. Therefore, we are obliged to see that
the Monroe Doctrine applies in full to the territory controlling the
approach to the canal, and this both because of our vital interest in the
matter, and especially because, as yet, no other power along the approach
is able to act as a co-guarantor.
But in other parts of South America there are nations such as
your own, such as Chile, which have now reached a position that entitles
them to stand on a footing of exact equality in all international rela-
tions with the United States. I believe that I have the right to expect
such treatment. I have done and always shall do all in my power to see
that they receive such treatment. All our dealings with one another must
be such as are compatible with the self-respect of each, with the respect
due from equals to equals.
Now, gentlemen, as you know, I believe that words are worse than
useless except as they represent or are translated into actual deeds. I
ask you to judge what I now say about the proper attitude of the United
States in foreign relations, by what I actually did when I was president.
My host, your fellow-citizen and distinguished public servant, Senator
Walker Martinez, was Minister from Chile to Washington during my term.
He can tell you, of his own knowledge from the inside, that I strove my
best throughtout those years to act in a spirit of the most cordial and
genuine friendship and justice towards all our fellow republics of the
New World. He can tell you this especially in reference to Chile. When
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I said a thing, I meant it and acted on it. When in response to the
unanimously expressed wish of the Pan-American Congress, I said that the
time had come to build an isthmian canal, I meant it, and I saw to it
that the words were translated into deeds. When, on the other hand, my
country had promised that Cuba should be a free and independent republic,
I saw that the promise was kept. The Cuban Minister here in this city
can tell you all about our relations with Cuba. All I wished of Cuba,
as of each one of our Central American neighbors, was that she should
be stable and prosperous. All I did, was to try to help her to achieve
such stability and prosperity as enabled me to see that every representa-
tive of the United States, civil or military, left her during my term of
service, SO that she could begin her career as a sovereign and independent
republic.
Perhaps my conception of the Monroe Doctrine, and of proper
international relations between the strong and the weak powers, is best
illustrated by what occurred in San Domingo.
Revolutionary
disturbance
had brought San Domingo to such utter anarchy that her government was
impotent, and all her creditors unpaid. Finally, I learned that no less
than three old-World powers intended to land troops and seize ports, so
as to take control of the customhouses of San Domingo. If this had been
done, San Domingo as a nation would have disappeared, and those Old-
World powers would have been in practical possession of the island to-day.
This I did not intend to permit; and I did not permit it. But I intended
also to try to secure justice for their citizens, as San Domingo by her-
self could neither do justice to others nor protect even her own national
life. I made an arrangement with San Domingo by which one American civi
official, and only one, was sent in to supervise the entire work of the
customs. I notified the foreign powers that they must not seize San
Domingto soil. I also notified the people themselves that in any revo-
lution the customhouses were not to be interfered with. The receipts
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were thus collected without interference. Forty five per cent was given
to San Domingo to run her government, and fifty five per cent allotted to
the creditors. As a result, San Domingo received more on the forty five
per cent basis than ever she had received in the days when she collected
all the revenues for herself. The improper claims of the creditors were
rejected. Their just claims were complete ly satisfied. Old-World nations
were kept off the island, and a measure of peace, prosperity and stability
came to the island, such as she had never in her history previously en-
joyed. So absolutely is she now mistress of her own affairs, that I am
unable to tell you whether the single American official does or does not
still do the work of superintending her customhouses. Remember that not
a penny went to the United States, that we did not gain a penny from our
action except the indirect advantage that followed from having San
Domingo prosperous and stable, and preventing any territorial agrandise-
ment by Old-World powers in the New World.
I do not believe that the United States should meddle in its
neighbors affairs, when such meddling could possibly be avoided. While
I was president, I declined to interfere in any disputes between any
nation of this continent or elsewhere, unless both the nations asked me
to aid in settling their differences. We never acted towards any other
nation save as our own self-respect demanded, and if the other nation
showed respect for itself and for us, we showed it respect in return.
These are the principles upon which I believe that the foreign policy of
my country should be founded. Specifically, I desire the United States
and Chile to treat each the other on a footing of absolute equality, and,
of self-respect combined with respect for the rights of the other. The
essentials of the Monroe Doctrine are vital to the welfare of all our
people in the Western Hemisphere. Chile has achieved a position where
she is entitled herself to stand as one of the guarantors of that doctrine.
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I hail her advent to this position of assured international power and dig-
nity, and I am glad to be the guest of her hardworking and valiant people
to-night.
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PRESIDENT AYLWIN
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1992
Friends of Chile and the United States, ladies and
gentlemen. / President Aylwin, I am honored to welcome you to
the White House -- an opportunity not only to exchange views, but
to return hospitality. 11
I remember visiting Santiago with my daughter Doro in
December of 1990. I will never forget how warmly you, Dona
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reflection of a mature country that knows what it wants and is
able to achieve it by means of the democratic process." / That
maturity has been hard-won: Americans shared your pain during
Chile's dark years - when democracy was a fading dream and
peace, a faded hope. / But it has been won. Today, your
government serves its people -- and serves as a model to others.
The same may be said of your leadership: since taking
office, you have revived Chilean democray. 0 / In 19 , Theodore
Roosevelt visited Chile and spoke of a "democratic experiment one
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market-oriented reforms, you've led by example. In international
relations, you're leading through integrity: Other nations count
on Chilean leadership in the Organization of American States / in
the United Nations / and in the community of nations. Your
people did the hard work of freedom in Kuwait, El Salvador,
Guatemala, and Cambodia. You joined your neighbors to defend
democracy -- first at last year's OAS General Assembly, then most
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especially likes it. It's called Machado's "Caminante." /
There's one line I remember: "Traveler, there is no road, you
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the road of history -- a history made one step at a time. Chile
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Adagio, from the Toccata in C Major for Organ
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Three Preludes (1926)
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Yo-Yo Ma gave his first public recital at age 5 and by the time he was 19 was being
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of our time, Mr. Ma has appeared with eminent conductors and orchestras in all the music
capitals of the world.
In addition to his extensive work as at soloist, Mr. Ma is deeply committed to the vast
chamber music literature. He regularly performs due recitals with Jeffrey Kahane and with
Emanuel Ax, the latter in a partnership that has produced many recordings, most recently, a
pairing of the Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev Sonatas. Messrs. Ax and Ma also play in trio
performances with Isaac Stern, with whom they gave a concert last May as part of Camegie
Hall's centennial celebration.
An exclusive Sony Classical recording artist, Yo-Yo Ma earned his sixth Grammy award
in 1992 for his record of the Brahms Piano Quartets, Op. 25 & 26 with Ax, Stem and Jaime
Laredo. His most recent release, "Hush," is a collaboration with vocalist and composer Bobby
McFerrin, featuring both classical favorites and original compositions by McFerrin.
Bom in Paris in 1955 of Chinese parents, Yo-Yo Ma began his cello studies with his
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interpretations have made him a popular guest with orchestras such as the New York
Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia
Orchestra and London's Royal Philharmonic, among many others.
Mr. Kahane made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1983 in a special concert tribute to Arthur
Rubinstein. He has since been heard as recitcalist in New York's concert halls and in the
leading music centers throughout the country. A much sought-after collaborator, Mr. Kahane
performs regularly with Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Jospeh Swensen and the Tokyo and Ridge string
quartets. He is heard frequently at summer festivals including Caramoor, Ravinia, Mostly
Mozart, the Hollywood Bowl and London's Proms.
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Nonesuch and Virgin Classics. A graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, he was
a medal winner at the 1981 Van Clibum Competition and has been honored with several other
prestigious music prizes. He now lives in Rochester, New York, where he is a professor of
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May 12, 1992
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
IN CEREMONY HONORING WINNERS
OF THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AWARDS
The Rose Garden
3:05 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Please be seated, and welcome. On
perhaps the most beautiful day we've had here in the Rose Garden, I
want to welcome all of you -- single out our Secretary of the
Treasury, standing up here with me; Boyden Gray, my Counsel; and, of
course, Pat Saiki, the SBA Administrator, who's back from a very good
mission, well-executed mission to a very troubling scene in Los
Angeles. Pat runs the SBA, and she was with me out there in L.A. as
we surveyed what can be done to help the city; and she's moving out
on that.
Let me also welcome our new Chief Counsel for Advocacy,
Tom Kerester -- right over here. (Applause.) Welcome, sir. And
also single out Shirley Peterson, the Commissioner at IRS.
Shirley? (Applause.) And next to her is the Deputy Secretary of the
Treasury, John Robson. Welcome, sir. (Applause.)
It's hard on this Small Business Day not to think of the
thousands of small businesspeople who suffered damage out there in
Los Angeles. And my commitment to them is this: We are working to
get whatever disaster assistance the federal government can provide
into their hands in record time. And they have suffered enough. And
I'm trying to make sure that frustration with red tape and
bureaucratic stumbling doesn't add to their troubles. I know the SBA
has been out there in the forefront of this effort working with our
task force that we put together under the able leadership of David
Kearns and Al DelliBovi.
As you know, today I called the congressional leaders of
both parties to the White House. And I'm pleased with the early
results of our efforts to forge a bipartisan basis and from which to
support the opportunity agenda for America's inner cities. It's a
promising start, and we will push ahead.
We're here today because it is Small Business Week. And
we have with us from all 50 states and beyond the Small Business
Persons of the Year. Welcome to the White House -- America's
ultimate mom and pop operation. (Laughter.)
I computed this a while back, and I've spent 50 percent
of my adult life in the private sector and 50 percent in government.
And I started in small business out there in west Texas. And I thus
know something of what you all go through in starting something from
scratch, working with it night and day and then hoping that you
succeed. Success goes to those who work hard, refuse to give up and
learn from their mistakes.
Pat was telling me of the remarkable record of the
winners that we have here with us today.
I also know what it's like to cope with regulation and
paperwork from the government. And sometimes the bureaucracy makes
things needlessly complicated. We're supposed to serve the taxpayers
in the same way the business has to serve its customers.
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So making things needlessly complex in government is not
only wrong, it is bad for business. And so today, we're going to do
something about that. To honor these outstanding businesspeople,
we're going to do something outstanding for small businesses across
the country.
Every businessman and woman sitting here can tell you
how burdensome it is to comply with IRS's payroll tax rules. And if
they can't tell you, it's because they're probably paying somebody
else to cope with all the headaches for them.
But today the IRS is implementing faster, cheaper and
simpler ways for businesses, large and small, to deal with the
payroll tax system. This week, the IRS will issue a proposed rule to
reduce the complicated deposit schedule.
Large companies will be able to make payroll tax
deposits on a fixed day of the week. Moreover, as many as 75 percent
of all businesses will make payments just once a month. Now, these
simplifications will significantly reduce the cost, confusion and
complexity of the payroll tax system.
We're also moving forward to eliminate all the duplicate
W-2 forms and other payroll tax information that employers have been
required to supply. We're working to set up a single wage reporting
system so that separate forms don't have to be sent to the IRS and
then the Department of Labor and Social Security, and state and local
governments.
In June, an experimental program in Georgia, South
Carolina and Florida will let employers make tax payments
electronically, without even leaving their office. And no more paper
coupons to file, or standing in line at the bank.
Small business learned long ago that computers could do
more work in less time for less cost. And it's time we, therefore,
bring the government out of the horse-and-buggy era, into the
Information Age, and stop having business do the government's
paperwork. (Applause.) I felt that would go over reasonably well
here.
The IRS may not be -- with all respect, Commissioner --
the most popular agency in town. But, look, they're working hard now
not to be the most infuriating agency in town. (Laughter.) And we
have a new, able leader and some very able people dedicated to that
end.
Last month, the IRS center in Ogden, Utah won our award,
the President's Award for Quality, which goes to the government
office that provides excellent public service in a cost-effective
manner. It is this new kind of attitude in government service that
must be brought to every federal bureaucracy -- putting people first,
treating taxpayers as customers. (Applause.) Now, there's a man who
knows what I'm talking about.
The Small Business winners here know, also, what I'm
talking about. James Fleming -- where is he now? Right here, sir.
James Fleming started his metal component business in his basement,
and he turned it into a $15-million international business. Jim's
designed everything from medical equipment used in hip replacements
to an assembly line for Jiffy Pop popcorn. And Richard Stewart --
Mr. Stewart, right here -- turned a part-time hobby selling natural
spices into America's largest supplier of bulk herbs, spices, gourmet
coffee and tea to the natural foods industry.
And then there's Amelia McCoy. Amelia? Right here,
sitting here. Her business began, I'm told, as an act of love,
making hair ribbons for her granddaughters. And now the hair bows
that her company sells are handmade by 450 people in rural Oklahoma
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who work at home and generate $5 million in sales. And for that,
Amelia is this year's Small Business Person of the Year.
Maybe you should stand up so everybody can see you.
(Applause.)
Since I announced our new moratorium on new regulations
in January, our administration has worked to reduce the burden
government places on the businesses of this country. And we've also
looked at existing regulations, like the ones I spoke of today, to
see how we could help the economy by eliminating or by simplifying
regulations that impede economic growth for no good reason. And I'm
sure Amelia would rather be tying a red ribbon for her granddaughter
than spending all day untying red tape. So maybe this will help out.
(Laughter.)
Every business dollar that goes into complying with some
government mandate is a dollar that won't be spent hiring new
workers. Two-thirds or more of the new jobs in this country -- two-
thirds -- are created by small business. And you are the heart and
soul of what makes this economy work and what makes the American
dream possible for your employees and for their families.
I will do my level best, working with the officials I've
introduced here today and others, to keep government under control
and out of your way so you can go out and do what you do best --
create jobs, create goods and services for the American people.
So thank you all for being here. Again, my
congratulations to the winner. And may God bless our great country
on this beautiful day. Thank you so much. (Applause.)
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