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ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: MON. 7/20/92 2:00 pm
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE RALLY - THREE SAINTS ORTHODOX
SUBJECT:
CHURCH - GARFIELD, N.J. - 7/21/92
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
-
PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
FINDLAY
GRAY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, RM. 122,
x2930, no later than 2:00 p.m., MONDAY, JULY 20, with a copy to
this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
NSC concurs with changes indicated.
Brent Scowcroft
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Duggan/Walters)
July 16, 1992
.2 JUL 17 P2: 31
Draft Three
Garfield
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE RALLY
THREE SAINTS RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
GARFIELD, NEW JERSEY
TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1992
2:30 p.m.
[Acknowledgments] Father Golubov and members of Three
Saints parish, thank you for welcoming me and so many thousands
of your New Jersey neighbors. You represent a rich array of
heritage: Russian and Cuban, Jewish and Christian, African and
Polish, Chinese and Ukrainian, and so many others. You're
Americans all. 11 Your spirit enriches our country and fuels the
flame of freedom all over our world.
These gleaming Russia. church domes remind me of the skyline of a
in
great city, Since my last trip to Moscow, the Russian people
have toppled the idols of Soviet Communism. They've begun
renewing the Russian nation. Just consider the signs of the
times: In Red Square this Easter, the gigantic picture of Lenin
was gone: In its place was a massive icon of the risen Lord.
Soon I'll see the changes with my own eyes. Later this year I'll
make my first state visit to a free and democratic Russia 11
Yes, Russia once again is free to be Russia. Ukraine is
Armenic to be Armenia
free to be Ukraine,, Poland to be Poland. The roll call of
freedom now includes Hungary \ the Czech and Slovak Republics \
Bulgaria \ Lithuania \ Estonia \ Latvia \ and still more. 11
But our work is not finished. 0 That is why, with your
support, I want to serve four more years as your President. 11
I want to use my energy and experience to consolidate the
nation more secure these and
historic changes that have made led 2 our to the creation of
to
around thed
^ new democracies, and make more gains for liberty and peace As
we
celebrate the new birth of freedom in so many countries around
the world, let's look just 90 miles south of our Florida coast:
The Castro dictatorship in Cuba is on its last legs. I'm firmly
convinced of that. Within the next four years, I'm expecting to
become the first President of the United States to set foot on and
the
In
Asia,
latin
america
the soil of a free and democratic Cuba. nation regions struggling - to till be jui. captive
Little more than two years ago, I welcomed to the White
House Poland's first non-communist prime minister since Stalin's
conquest of Eastern Europe. This brave man, Tadeusz Mazowiecki,
spoke some of the clearest and wisest words I have heard about
the times we live in. He said: "History is accelerating."
With those words, he foretold the fall of Communism in
Russia, and throughout Europe. And this wave of history, this
surge of hope, is not confined to Europe. The Afghan people have
Africa, in Asia, in tab
won back their homeland. [In Ethiopia and other African nations,
If our leadualis
people are digging out from under the rubble of tyranny is wive have and the creative chance
to create a
And mark my words: During my second term as President, the 3 med for of
greater
hope
probability is high -- it's very high -- that true freedom will
}
children
come to more than a billion people in Vietnam and China. 11
Let's have some plain talk about China. I know that country
and love its people. Our strategic relationship with China, for
all the faults of that regime, played a crucial part in halting
the Soviet threat. It's my policy to keep trade ties open to
scope to hope their
China as her system evolves and the people win more freedom.
own lives, including the right J every human being to washing freely, intertence. government
This policy is based on my experience and my commitment to the
The end
These events affact every American. lay
the
steadfastness of America and my And the
of the cold war braught a bout allies gives usa
histeris mamentors arms reduction signed since the
chance fn a qener m of real Seace with
President Yeltsin in June will provide dawn of the decurity nuclem age,
3
peaceful advance of freedom for the Chinese people. 11 And it
will be one of the highest aims of my second term to bring this
goal to fruition. 11
I'm determined to keep America the leader in the struggle
for world freedom. And I'm every bit as determined to protect
the sources of our strength at home. During the next four years,
I'll keep helping American workers and entrepreneurs carry us to
new heights of achievement. And I will fight for the rights of
American parents and families.
The American family is under siege. The New Age Liberals
and the big-government bureaucracies have an aggressive agenda -
- an agenda at odds with the values you and I share:
They want to tighten the government monopoly on our kids'
education. I'm fighting on your side -- for parents' rights to
choose their children's schools -- public, private or religious.
Two years ago, they tried to create a new bureaucracy --
this one for child care. I won my fight to let parents choose
their children's care -- including church-based child care.
They say there's no role in the Democratic Party for people
of conscience who want to curb abortion on demand. I say we
should make this nation a better place. No child, born or
unborn, should go unwanted, uncared for, or unloved.
They want public schools to hand out birth control pills and
devices to teenage kids. They believe this is no business of
parents -- that it's strictly a matter between our children and
the government. They even encourage kids to hire lawyers and
4
haul their parents into court.
I believe kids need Moms and Dads -- not Big Brother
bureaucracy. The bond between parent and child is sacred; it's
fundamental. I'm ready to fight the next four years to protect
the traditional rights of parents and families. 11
Families are central to civilization in any country, in any
era. More than a century ago, Dostoyevsky imagined a nightmare
world -- a place where an all-powerful state crushed the natural
rights of individuals and families. "If God is dead," he wrote,
"then everything is permitted."
Well, looking out over this magnificent audience, I know
your faith is alive. And family is the most important thing we
have here on this earth. We take to heart the words of "America
the Beautiful" -- "confirm thy soul in self-control." We know
that the America we love -- the America that's such a powerful
beacon to the world -- will not stay strong if the culture and
the government teach our kids that "anything goes."
Think about it: If we can tear down the Berlin Wall, we can
build a strong economy. If we can lift the Iron Curtain, we can
bring the curtain down on immorality and indifference. If we can
help people walk free through the streets of Europe, there's no
reason we can't take back our streets here in America.
Being here reminds me that next month marks the first
the attempted coup in Moscow, of
democratic
anniversary of, those fateful days of August, when Russia's future
was on the line -- when world peace hung in the balance.
I'm sure each one of us has indelible memories of those
do, and I am very proud that we had the and vision
courage
to I stand by then Russan lemocrate in their hour agreed.
Earlier this year,
5
days. Recently I had the privilege to hear Slava Rostropovich
recount his memories at the National Prayer Breakfast in
Washington. Slava had flown to Moscow at first news of the coup,
President Yeltsin and
and he stood for three days and nights with, the defenders of
freedom and democracy, protecting the Russian White House.
He told us that deep in the night, the only sound was from
the movement of tank treads. He said: "the aura of faith was
almost palpable. That moment, and the salvation of all of us --
and of the future of the country -- came only from God."
My fellow Americans, we have the good fortune not to live in
Because
are
and
-
have
bern
wise
in
our
leadership,
we
tace
the shadow of machine guns and tanks. And Barbara and I count it
a
bright
andsecun dsecure
a great blessing that when your kids and our grandchildren go to
future.
bed each night, they don't have to fear the kind of nuclear
until just a few months ago.
threat that we faced, just a few years ago.
Still we face tests. We have hard work ahead. We must keep
our national security second to none. We must prove the
pessimists wrong about America's ability to compete \ to create
jobs \ to expand opportunity. And we must protect and renew our
most precious resource -- America's families.
To meet these challenges, to lead the nation, to fight on
your side for the values we share: That's why I'm asking your
help to win another term as President. 11
Thank you, and may God bless the freest, greatest, most
generous country on earth -- the United States of America.
#
#
#
S.Provast:
(Duggan/Walters)
July 16, 1992
Draft Three
Garfield
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE RALLY
THREE SAINTS RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
GARFIELD, NEW JERSEY
TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1992
2:30 p.m.
[Acknowledgments] Father Golubov and members of Three
Saints parish, thank you for welcoming me and so many thousands
of your New Jersey neighbors. You represent a rich array of
heritage: Russian and Cuban, Jewish and Christian, African and
Polish, Chinese and Ukrainian, and so many others. You're
Americans all. 11 Your spirit enriches our country and fuels the
flame of freedom all over our world.
Sourt Empire
These gleaming church domes remind me of the skyline of a
great city. Since my last trip to Moscow, the Russian people
have toppled the idols of Soviet Communism. They've begun
The cap At long last,
the Capture Nations
renewing the Russian nation. Just consider the signs of the
times: In Red Square this Easter, the gigantic picture of Lenin
was gone: In its place was a massive icon of the risen Lord.
Soon I'll see the changes with my own eyes. Later this year I'll
make my first state visit to a free and democratic Russia. 11
Yes, Russia once again is free to be Russia. Ukraine is
free to be Ukraine, Poland to be Poland. The roll call of
freedom now includes Hungary \ the Czech and Slovak Republics \
Bulgaria \ Lithuania \ Estonia \ Latvia \ and still more. 11
But our work is not finished. That is why, with your
support, I want to serve four more years as your President. 11
I want to use my energy and experience to consolidate the
2
new democracies and make more gains for liberty and peace. As we
celebrate the new birth of freedom in so many countries around
the world, let's look just 90 miles south of our Florida coast:
The Castro dictatorship in Cuba is on its last legs. I'm firmly
convinced of that. Within the next four years, I'm expecting to
become the first President of the United States to set foot on
the soil of a free and democratic Cuba.
Little more than two years ago, I welcomed to the White
House Poland's first non-communist prime minister since Stalin's
conquest of Eastern Europe. This brave man, Tadeusz Mazowiecki,
spoke some of the clearest and wisest words I have heard about
the times we live in. He said: "History is accelerating."
With those words, he foretold the fall of Communism in
Russia, and throughout Europe. And this wave of history, this
surge of hope, is not confined to Europe. The Afghan people have
won back their homeland. In Ethiopia and other African nations,
people are digging out from under the rubble of tyranny.
And mark my words: During my second term as President, the
probability is high -- it's very high -- that true freedom will
come to more than a billion people in Vietnam and China. 11
Let's have some plain talk about China. I know that country
and love its people. Our strategic relationship with China, for
all the faults of that regime, played a crucial part in halting
the Soviet threat. It's my policy to keep trade ties open to
China as her system evolves and the people win more freedom.
This policy is based on my experience and my commitment to the
3
Lwak
peaceful advance of freedom for the Chinese people. And it
will be one of the highest aims of my second term to bring this
goal to fruition
I'm determined to keep America the leader in the struggle
for world freedom. And I'm every bit as determined to protect
the sources of our strength at home. During the next four years,
I'll keep helping American workers and entrepreneurs carry us to
new heights of achievement. And I will fight for the rights of
American parents and families.
The American family is under siege. A ATATIME The New Age Liberals have
and the big-government bureaucracies have an aggressive agenda
-
an agenda at odds with the values you and I share:
do
They want to tighten the government monopoly on our kids'
we
is education.
I'm fighting on your side -- for parents' rights to
choose their children's schools -- public, private or religious.
2
found,
Two years ago, they tried to create a new bureaucracy --
back...
this one for child care. I won my fight to let parents choose
their children's care -- including church-based child care.
They say there's no role in the Democratic Party for people
of conscience who want to curb abortion on demand. I say we
should make this nation a better place. No child, born or
unborn, should go unwanted, uncared for, or unloved.
They want public schools to hand out birth control pills and
devices to teenage kids. They believe this is no business of
parents -- that it's strictly a matter between our children and
the government. They even encourage kids to hire lawyers and
applaud Sof nef for. welfare : Hildren we responsbility want
4
haul their parents into court.
I believe kids need Moms and Dads -- not Big Brother
bureaucracy. The bond between parent and child is sacred; it's
fundamental. I'm ready to fight the next four years to protect
the traditional rights of parents and families. 11
Families are central to civilization in any country, in any
era. More than a century ago, Dostoyevsky imagined a nightmare
world -- a place where an all-powerful state crushed the natural
rights of individuals and families. "If God is dead, " he wrote,
"then everything is permitted."
Well, looking out over this magnificent audience, I know
your faith is alive. And family is the most important thing we
have here on this earth. We take to heart the words of "America
the Beautiful" -- "confirm thy soul in self-control. " We know
that the America we love -- the America that's such a powerful
beacon to the world -- will not stay strong if the culture and
the government teach our kids that "anything goes."
Think about it: If we can tear down the Berlin Wall we can
build a strong economy. If we can lift the Iron Curtain we can
bring the curtain down on immorality and indifference. If we can
help people walk free through the streets of Europe A there's no
reason we can't take back our streets here in America.
Being here reminds me that next month marks the first
anniversary of those fateful days of August, when Russia's future
was on the line -- when world peace hung in the balance.
I'm sure each one of us has indelible memories of those
(bean-
wolnes
5
days. Recently I had the privilege to hear Slava Rostropovich
recount his memories at the National Prayer Breakfast in
Washington. Slava had flown to Moscow at first news of the coup,
and he stood for three days and nights with the defenders of
freedom and democracy, protecting the Russian White House.
He told us that deep in the night, the only sound was from
the movement of tank treads. He said: "the aura of faith was
almost palpable. That moment, and the salvation of all of us --
and of the future of the country -- came only from God. "
My fellow Americans, we have the good fortune not to live in
the shadow of machine guns and tanks. And Barbara and I count it
a great blessing that when your kids and our grandchildren go to
bed each night, they don't have to fear the kind of nuclear
threat that we faced just a few years ago.
Still we face tests. We have hard work ahead. We must keep
our national security second to none. We must prove the
pessimists wrong about America's ability to compete \ to create
jobs \ to expand opportunity. And we must protect and renew our
most precious resource -- America's families.
To meet these challenges, to lead the nation, to fight on
your side for the values we share: That's why I'm asking your
help to win another term as President. 11
Thank you, and may God bless the freest, greatest, most
generous country on earth -- the United States of America.
#
#
#
(Duggan/Walters)
July 20, 1992
Draft Four
Garfield
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE RALLY
THREE SAINTS RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
GARFIELD, NEW JERSEY
TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1992
2:30 p.m.
[Acknowledgments] Father Golubov and members of Three
Saints parish, thank you for welcoming me and so many thousands
of your New Jersey neighbors. The wonderful people in this
audience represent the rich diversity of New Jersey. Your
heritage is Cuban and Vietnamese, Jewish and Christian, African
and Polish, Chinese and Armenian, and so many others. You're
Americans all. Your spirit enriches our country and fuels the
flame of freedom all over our world.
These gleaming church domes remind me of the skyline of a
great city. Since my last trip to Moscow, the Russian people
have toppled the idols of Soviet Communism. They've begun
renewing the Russian nation. Just consider the signs of the
times: In Red Square this Easter, the gigantic picture of Lenin
was gone: In its place was a massive icon of the risen Lord. It
was a powerful symbol of the new birth of freedom for believers
From
to
Mistak
I
not just Moscow but Berlin and Minsk and Bratislava
In the new world we are helping to shape, Ukraine is free to
be Ukraine, Poland to be Poland. The roll call of freedom
includes Hungary \ Armenia \ the Czech and Slovak Republics \
Bulgaria \ Belarus \ Lithuania \ Estonia \ Latvia \ and more.
But our work is not finished That is why, with your
support, I want to serve four more years as your President. 11
X
Let what
2
I want to use my energy and experience to solidify
Prenilums PMs-
historic changes that have given birth to new democracies abroad
or
and made us more secure at home.
Instructions
The Free World's triumph in the Cold War gives us a chance
to establish a long-lasting peace. The perseverance of all those
who struggled against Communism made possible the momentous arms
but
for
reduction agreement I signed last month with President Yeltsin.
parents
Those sweeping cuts in nuclear weapons will make us more secure
&
then
than at any time since the dawn of the nuclear age.
chilbren:
Little more than two years ago, I welcomed to the White
it
means
House Poland's first non-communist prime minister since Stalin's
freedom
conquest of Eastern Europe. This brave man, Tadeusz Mazowiecki,
spoke some of the clearest and wisest words I have heard about
from
from
fear.
the times we live in. He said: "History is accelerating.
With those words, he foretold the fall of the Soviet Empire.
This wave of history, this surge of hope, is not confined to
Europe. The Afghan people have won back their homeland. In
Angola, Ethiopia and other African nations, people are digging
out from under the rubble of tyranny. And mark my words: During
my second term as President, the probability is high -- it's very
high -- that (greater freedom will come to more than a billion
people in Vietnam, in North Korea, and in China.
Let's have some plain talk about China. I know that country
and love its people. Our strategic relationship with China, for
all the faults of that regime, played a crucial part in halting
the Soviet threat. It's my policy to keep trade ties open to
3
China as her system evolves and the people win more scope to
shape their own lives -- including the right of every human being
to worship freely, without government interference. My China
policy is based on experience and on my commitment to the
peaceful advance of freedom for the Chinese people. It will
33
for
be one of the highest aims of my second term to bring this goal
to
fruition
freedom and democracy in China. 11
Closer to home, we'll also have more victories for freedom.
The Castro dictatorship in Cuba is on its last legs. Here's what
I envision: Within the next four years, I will be the first
President of the United States to set foot on the soil of a free
and democratic Cuba.
I'm determined to keep America the leader in the struggle
for world freedom. And I'm every bit as determined to protect
the sources of our strength at home. During the next four years,
I'll keep helping American workers and entrepreneurs carry us to
new heights of achievement. And I will fight for the rights of
American parents and families.
The American family is under siege. Σ The New Age Liberals
and the big-government bureaucracies have an aggressive agenda -
- an agenda at odds with the values you and I share:
7
They want to tighten the government monopoly on our kids'
education. I'm fighting on your side -- for parents' rights to
choose their children's schools -- public, private or religious.
Two years ago, they tried to create a new bureaucracy --
this one for child care. I won my fight to let parents choose
"CAPTIVE JATIONS of The
Sorub Empre m nowfree! 1.
4
their children's care -- including church-based child care.
They say there's no rolé in the Democratic Party for people
of conscience who want to curb abortion on demand. I say we
puprono
should make this nation a better place. No child, born or
unborn, should go unwanted, uncared for, or unloved.
They want public schools to hand out birth control pills and
devices to teenage kids. They believe this is no business of
parents -- that it's strictly a matter between our children and
the government. They even encourage kids to hire lawyers and
haul their parents into court.
I believe kids need the loving guidance-of Moms and Dads --
STET
not entang lement Big Brother bureaucracy. The bond between
parent and child is sacred; it's fundamental. The big-government
liberal approach to welfare has failed -- that's why just
yesterday I enthusiastically approved New Jersey's request to try
a new approach to make parents in the welfare system more
Appluuse
responsible, to put more parents back to work. And I'm ready to
fight four more years to protect the traditional rights of
line?
parents and families. 11
Families are central to any civilization. More than a
century ago, Dostoyevsky imagined a nightmare world -- a place
where an all-powerful state crushed the natural rights of
individuals and families. "If God is dead," he wrote, "then
everything is permitted."
Well, looking out over this magnificent audience, I know
your faith is alive. And family is the most important thing we
5
have here on this earth. We take to heart the words of "America
the Beautiful" -- "confirm thy soul in self-control. " We know
that the America we love -- the America that's such a powerful
beacon to the world -- will not stay strong if the culture and
the government teach our kids that "anything goes."
Think about it: If we can tear down the Berlin Wall, we can
build a strong economy. If we can lift the Iron Curtain, we can
bring the curtain down on immorality and indifference. If we can
help people walk free through the streets of Europe, there's no
reason we can't take back our streets here in America.
Being here reminds me that next month marks the first
anniversary of the attempted coup in Moscow, of those fateful
days in August, when freedom's future was on the line -- when
world peace hung in the balance. I'm sure each one of us has
indelible memories of those days. I certainly do. And I'm very d
I
proud we had the vision and the courage to stand by the Russian
democrats in their hour of need.
Earlier this year, I had the privilege to hear Slava
Rostropovich recount his memories at the National Prayer
Breakfast in Washington. Slava had flown to Moscow at first news
of the coup, and he stood for three days and nights with
President Yeltsin and the defenders of freedom and democracy,
protecting the Russian White House.
He told us that deep in the night, the only sound was from
the movement of tank treads. He said: "the aura of faith was
almost palpable. That moment, and the salvation of all of us --
6
and of the future of the country -- came only from God."
My fellow Americans, we have the good fortune not to live in
the shadow of machine guns and tanks. Because we are strong,
because we have been wise in our leadership, we face a brighter
and more secure future. Barbara and I count it a great blessing
that when your kids and our grandchildren go to bed each night,
they don't have to fear the kind of nuclear threat that we faced
until just a few months ago.
Still we face tests. We have hard work ahead. We must keep
our national security second to none. We must prove the
pessimists wrong about America's ability to compete \ to create
jobs \ to expand opportunity. And we must protect and renew our
most precious resource -- America's families.
To meet these challenges, to lead the nation, to fight on
your side for the values we share: That's why I'm asking your
help to win another term as President. 11
Thank you, and may God bless the freest, greatest, most
generous country on earth -- the United States of America.
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
17-Jul-1992 05:18pm
TO:
Daniel B. McGroarty
FROM:
Mary A. McClure Thery
Intergovernmental Affairs
CC:
Barbara B. Kilberg
SUBJECT: GARFIELD, NJ, SPEECH COMMENTS
The speech should make note of two important events taking place
in New Jersey during the week of the President's visit:
1) HHS will sign a welfare reform waiver for New Jersey on
Monday, July 20. See attached draft press release.
2) The Legislature is currently considering a Resolution calling
for a Constitutional Convention for a Balanced Budget Amendment.
According to Article V of the Constitution, states can force a
constitutional convention for the purpose of considering an
amendment to the constitution. Two-thirds of the states (34) must
make the call. New Jersey would be the 30th state to do so.
The Resolution came out of the Assembly's State Government
committee 5-0 on Thursday, July 16. Floor action is expected on
Thursday, July 23.
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DRAFT
DRAFT
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
July XX, 1992
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
I am pleased that Federal waivers required to implement
New Jersey's welfare reform have been approved. These waivers
will allow New Jersey to try a new approach to moving families
from dependence on welfare to independence.
New Jersey's approach, called "The Family Development
Program," will encourage responsible behavior by parents
receiving welfare. It will also offer incentives for such
parents to work.
New ideas for reforming welfare abound in the states. I
am pleased New Jersey will add to the growing effort at welfare
reform being done in the states, the "laboratories of
democracy." Without careful efforts to try new ideas and
evaluate how well they work, we will have no better a welfare
system in the future than we have today. New Jersey's efforts
today will make for smarter policy tomorrow.
###
07/15/92ddv
Document ID
001714
SG 0055
SR XXXX
TR XXXX
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
ASSEMBLY CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, No. 30
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
By Assemblymen KAMIN, GARRETT and Solomon
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION applying to the Congress of the
United States for the calling of a convention for the purpose of
proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United
States.
WHEREAS, The federal budget has not been balanced in 21
consecutive years and has been balanced just once in the past
30 years; and
WHEREAS, The Congress of the United States has repeatedly
repealed statutory requirements that mandate a balanced
federal budget; and
WHEREAS, The failure of the federal budget process has
produced a large and permanent federal budget deficit and
growing national debt; and
WHEREAS, Such large deficits and debt endanger the jobs,
incomes and retirement security of the American people; and
WHEREAS, Such deficits and debt also divert scarce public
resources from crucial programs to pay interest on the national
debt; and
WHEREAS, Such deficits and debt also constrict the federal
government's ability to address national problems and respond
to new needs; and
WHEREAS, Such deficits and debt also increase pressures to raise
taxes on the American people; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the General Assembly of the State of
New Jersey (the Senate concurring):
1. The Legislature of the State of New Jersey makes
application to the Congress of the United States for a convention
to be called under Article V of the Constitution of the United
States for the sole, specific and exclusive purpose of proposing an
amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require a
balanced federal budget.
2. An amendment to the Constitution of the United States to
be proposed by a convention for submission to the states for
ratification shall:
a. Require that, with certain exceptions, each fiscal year the
President of the United States shall submit and the Congress of
Assembly Committee Substitute for ACR No. 30
Page 2
b. Restrict federal debt, tax increases and the growth of total
federal government revenue and spending; and
C. Prohibit the federal government from taking any action that
will have the effect of requiring any state or local government to
incur any net cost increase, unless the federal government pays
for the entire net cost increase.
3. If Congress adopts, before 90 days after the legislatures of
two-thirds of the states have made application for a convention
as described in section 1 of this resolution, an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States containing provisions similar in
subject matter to that contained in section 2 of this resolution,
then this application for a convention shall no longer be of any
force or effect.
4. With the exception noted in section 3, the application
contained in section 1 constitutes a continuing application in
accordance with Article V of the Constitution of the United
States until at least two-thirds of the legislatures of the several
states have made application for a convention to propose an
amendment similar in subject matter to that contained in section
2 of this resolution.
5. This application for a limited constitutional convention shall
be automatically rescinded if the Supreme Court of the United
States holds that the Congress of the United States cannot call a
constitutional convention limited solely and exclusively to the
subject requested by two-thirds of the several states.
6. This application shall be deemed null and void, rescinded,
and of no effect in the event that a convention called pursuant to
this resolution is not limited to the specific and exclusive purpose
set forth in section 1 of this resolution.
7. Duly authenticated copies of this resolution, signed by the
Speaker of the General Assembly and the President of the Senate
and attested by the Clerk of the General Assembly and the
Secretary of the Senate, shall be transmitted to the President of
the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House
of Representatives, each member of Congress elected thereto
from New Jersey and the presiding officer of each house of each
state legislature in the United States.
Applies to Congress for constitutional convention for proposing
amendment to balance federal budget.
Document No. 338936ss
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
7/17/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: MON. 7/20/92 2:00 pm
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE RALLY - THREE SAINTS ORTHODOX
SUBJECT:
CHURCH - GARFIELD, N.J. - 7/21/92
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x2930, no later than 2:00 p.m., e MONDAY, JULY 20, with a copy to
this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Duggan/Walters)
July 16, 1992
Draft Three
2 JUL 17 P2: 31
Garfield
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE RALLY
THREE SAINTS RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
GARFIELD, NEW JERSEY
TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1992
2:30 p.m.
[Acknowledgments] Father Golubov and members of Three
Saints parish, thank you for welcoming me and so many thousands
of your New Jersey neighbors. You represent a rich array of
heritage: Russian and Cuban, Jewish and Christian, African and
Polish, Chinese and Ukrainian, and so many others. You're
Americans all. 11 Your spirit enriches our country and fuels the
flame of freedom all over our world.
These gleaming church domes remind me of the skyline of a
great city. Since my last trip to Moscow, the Russian people
have toppled the idols of Soviet Communism. They've begun
renewing the Russian nation. Just consider the signs of the
times: In Red Square this Easter, the gigantic picture of Lenin
was gone: In its place was a massive icon of the risen Lord.
Soon I'll see the changes with my own eyes. Later this year I'll
make my first state visit to a free and democratic Russia. 11
Yes, Russia once again is free to be Russia. Ukraine is
free to be Ukraine, Poland to be Poland. The roll call of
freedom now includes Hungary \ the Czech and Slovak Republics \
Bulgaria \ Lithuania \ Estonia \ Latvia \ and still more. 11
But our work is not finished. That is why, with your
support, I want to serve four more years as your President. 11
I want to use my energy and experience to consolidate the
2
new democracies and make more gains for liberty and peace. As we
celebrate the new birth of freedom in so many countries around
the world, let's look just 90 miles south of our Florida coast:
The Castro dictatorship in Cuba is on its last legs. I'm firmly
convinced of that. Within the next four years, I'm expecting to
become the first President of the United States to set foot on
the soil of a free and democratic Cuba. 11
Little more than two years ago, I welcomed to the White
House Poland's first non-communist prime minister since Stalin's
conquest of Eastern Europe. This brave man, Tadeusz Mazowiecki,
spoke some of the clearest and wisest words I have heard about
the times we live in. He said: "History is accelerating."
With those words, he foretold the fall of Communism in
Russia, and throughout Europe. And this wave of history, this
surge of hope, is not confined to Europe. The Afghan people have
won back their homeland. In Ethiopia and other African nations,
people are digging out from under the rubble of tyranny.
And mark my words: During my second term as President, the
probability is high -- it's very high -- that true freedom will
come to more than a billion people in Vietnam and China. 11
Let's have some plain talk about China. I know that country
and love its people. Our strategic relationship with China, for
all the faults of that regime, played a crucial part in halting
the Soviet threat. It's my policy to keep trade ties open to
China as her system evolves and the people win more freedom.
This policy is based on my experience and my commitment to the
3
peaceful advance of freedom for the Chinese people. 11 And it
will be one of the highest aims of my second term to bring this
goal to fruition. 11
I'm determined to keep America the leader in the struggle
for world freedom. And I'm every bit as determined to protect
the sources of our strength at home. During the next four years,
I'll keep helping American workers and entrepreneurs carry us to
new heights of achievement. And I will fight for the rights of
American parents and families.
The American family is under siege. The New Age Liberals
and the big-government bureaucracies have an aggressive agenda -
- an agenda at odds with the values you and I share:
They want to tighten the government monopoly on our kids'
education. I'm fighting on your side -- for parents' rights to
choose their children's schools -- public, private or religious.
Two years ago, they tried to create a new bureaucracy --
this one for child care. I won my fight to let parents choose
their children's care -- including church-based child care.
They say there's no role in the Democratic Party for people
of conscience who want to curb abortion on demand. I say we
should make this nation a better place. No child, born or
unborn, should go unwanted, uncared for, or unloved.
They want public schools to hand out birth control pills and
devices to teenage kids. They believe this is no business of
parents -- that it's strictly a matter between our children and
the government. They even encourage kids to hire lawyers and
4
haul their parents into court.
I believe kids need Moms and Dads -- not Big Brother
bureaucracy. The bond between parent and child is sacred; it's
fundamental. I'm ready to fight the next four years to protect
the traditional rights of parents and families. 11
Families are central to civilization in any country, in any
era. More than a century ago, Dostoyevsky imagined a nightmare
world -- a place where an all-powerful state crushed the natural
rights of individuals and families. "If God is dead,' he wrote,
"then everything is permitted."
Well, looking out over this magnificent audience, I know
your faith is alive. And family is the most important thing we
have here on this earth. We take to heart the words of "America
the Beautiful" -- "confirm thy soul in self-control." We know
that the America we love -- the America that's such a powerful
beacon to the world -- will not stay strong if the culture and
the government teach our kids that "anything goes."
Think about it: If we can tear down the Berlin Wall, we can
build a strong economy. If we can lift the Iron Curtain, we can
bring the curtain down on immorality and indifference. If we can
help people walk free through the streets of Europe, there's no
reason we can't take back our streets here in America.
Being here reminds me that next month marks the first
anniversary of those fateful days of August, when Russia's future
was on the line -- when world peace hung in the balance.
I'm sure each one of us has indelible memories of those
5
days. Recently I had the privilege to hear Slava Rostropovich
recount his memories at the National Prayer Breakfast in
Washington. Slava had flown to Moscow at first news of the coup,
and he stood for three days and nights with the defenders of
freedom and democracy, protecting the Russian White House.
He told us that deep in the night, the only sound was from
the movement of tank treads. He said: "the aura of faith was
almost palpable. That moment, and the salvation of all of us --
and of the future of the country -- came only from God."
My fellow Americans, we have the good fortune not to live in
the shadow of machine guns and tanks. And Barbara and I count it
a great blessing that when your kids and our grandchildren go to
bed each night, they don't have to fear the kind of nuclear
threat that we faced just a few years ago.
Still we face tests. We have hard work ahead. We must keep
our national security second to none. We must prove the,
pessimists wrong about America's ability to compete \ to create
jobs \ to expand opportunity. And we must protect and renew our
most precious resource -- America's families.
To meet these challenges, to lead the nation, to fight on
your side for the values we share: That's why I'm asking your
help to win another term as President. 11
Thank you, and may God bless the freest, greatest, most
generous country on earth -- the United States of America.
#
#
#
(Duggan/Walters)
July 16, 1992
Draft Three
Garfield
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE RALLY
THREE SAINTS RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
GARFIELD, NEW JERSEY
TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1992
2:30 p.m.
[Acknowledgments] Father Golubov and members of Three
Saints parish, thank you for welcoming me and so many thousands
of your New Jersey neighbors. You represent a rich array of
heritage: Russian and Cuban, Jewish and Christian, African and
Polish, Chinese and Ukrainian, and so many others. You're
Americans all. 11 Your spirit enriches our country and fuels the
flame of freedom all over our world.
These gleaming church domes remind me of the skyline of a
great city. Since my last trip to Moscow, the Russian people
have toppled the idols of Soviet Communism. They've begun
renewing the Russian nation. Just consider the signs of the
times: In Red Square this Easter, the gigantic picture of Lenin
was gone: In its place was a massive icon of the risen Lord.
Soon I'll see the changes with my own eyes. Later this year I'll
make my first state visit to a free and democratic Russia. 11
Yes, Russia once again is free to be Russia J Now
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freedom now includes Hungary \ the Czech and Slovak Republics \
Bulgaria \ Lithuania \ Estonia \ Latvia 1 Armania and still Beparus more. 11
But our work is not finished. That is why, with your
support, I want to serve four more years as your President. 11
I want to use my energy and experience to consolidate the
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The Castro dictatorship in Cuba is on its last legs. I'm firmly
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Within the next four years, I'm expecting to
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Little more than two years ago, I welcomed to the White
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conquest of Eastern Europe. This brave man, Tadeusz Mazowiecki,
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spoke some of the clearest and wisest words I have heard about
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the times we live in. He said: "History is accelerating."
With those words, he foretold the fall of Communism in
Russia, and throughout Europe. And this wave of history, this
surge of hope, is not confined to Europe. The Afghan people have
won back their homeland. In Ethiopia and other African nations,
people are digging out from under the rubble of tyranny.
And mark my words: During my second term as President, the
probability is high -- it's very high -- that true freedom will
come to more than a billion people in Vietnam and China. 11
Let's have some plain talk about China. I know that country
and love its people. Our strategic relationship with China, for
all the faults of that regime, played a crucial part in halting
the Soviet threat. It's my policy to keep trade ties open to
China as her system evolves and the people win more freedom.
This policy is based on my experience and my commitment to the
3
peaceful advance of freedom for the Chinese people. 11 And it
will be one of the highest aims of my second term to bring this
goal to fruition. 11
I'm determined to keep America the leader in the struggle
for world freedom. And I'm every bit as determined to protect
the sources of our strength at home. During the next four years,
I'll keep helping American workers and entrepreneurs carry us to
new heights of achievement. And I will fight for the rights of
American parents and families.
The American family is under siege. The New Age Liberals
and the big-government bureaucracies have an aggressive agenda -
- an agenda at odds with the values you and I share:
They want to tighten the government monopoly on our kids'
education. I'm fighting on your side -- for parents' rights to
choose their children's schools -- public, private or religious.
Two years ago, they tried to create a new bureaucracy --
this one for child care. I won my fight to let parents choose
their children's care -- including church-based child care.
They say there's no role in the Democratic Party for people
of conscience who want to curb abortion on demand. I say we
should make this nation a better place. No child, born or
unborn, should go unwanted, uncared for, or unloved.
They want public schools to hand out birth control pills and
devices to teenage kids. They believe this is no business of
parents -- that it's strictly a matter between our children and
the government. They even encourage kids to hire lawyers and
4
haul their parents into court.
I believe kids need Moms and Dads -- not Big Brother
bureaucracy. The bond between parent and child is sacred; it's
fundamental. I'm ready to fight the next four years to protect
the traditional rights of parents and families. 11
Families are central to civilization in any country, in any
era. More than a century ago, Dostoyevsky imagined a nightmare
world -- a place where an all-powerful state crushed the natural
rights of individuals and families. "If God is dead," he wrote,
"then everything is permitted."
Well, looking out over this magnificent audience, I know
your faith is alive. And family is the most important thing we
have here on this earth. We take to heart the words of "America
the Beautiful" -- "confirm thy soul in self-control." We know
that the America we love -- the America that's such a powerful
beacon to the world -- will not stay strong if the culture and
the government teach our kids that "anything goes. "
Think about it: If we can tear down the Berlin Wall, we can
build a strong economy. If we can lift the Iron Curtain, we can
bring the curtain down on immorality and indifference. If we can
help people walk free through the streets of Europe, there's no
reason we can't take back our streets here in America.
Being here reminds me that next month marks the first
anniversary of those fateful days of August, when Russia's future
was on the line -- when world peace hung in the balance.
I'm sure each one of us has indelible memories of those
5
days. Recently I had the privilege to hear Slava Rostropovich
recount his memories at the National Prayer Breakfast in
Washington. Slava had flown to Moscow at first news of the coup,
and he stood for three days and nights with the defenders of
freedom and democracy, protecting the Russian White House.
He told us that deep in the night, the only sound was from
the movement of tank treads. He said: "the aura of faith was
almost palpable. That moment, and the salvation of all of us --
and of the future of the country -- came only from God."
My fellow Americans, we have the good fortune not to live in
the shadow of machine guns and tanks. And Barbara and I count it
a great blessing that when your kids and our grandchildren go to
bed each night, they don't have to fear the kind of nuclear
threat that we faced just a few years ago.
Still we face tests. We have hard work ahead. We must keep
our national security second to none. We must prove the
pessimists wrong about America's ability to compete \ to create
jobs \ to expand opportunity. And we must protect and renew our
most precious resource -- America's families.
To meet these challenges, to lead the nation, to fight on
your side for the values we share: That's why I'm asking your
help to win another term as President. 11
Thank you, and may God bless the freest, greatest, most
generous country on earth -- the United States of America.
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TO:
(See Below)
FROM:
Drucillia S. Scaling
Office of Communications
SUBJECT: GARFIELD comments due Monday, July 20, 1992, 12 Noo
(Duggan/Walters)
July 16, 1992
Draft Three
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE RALLY
THREE SAINTS RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
GARFIELD, NEW JERSEY
TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1992
2:30 p.m.
[Acknowledgments] Father Golubov and members of Three
Saints parish, thank you for welcoming me and so many thousands
of your New Jersey neighbors. You represent a rich array of
heritage: Russian and Cuban, Jewish and Christian, African and
Polish, Chinese and Ukrainian, and so many others. You're
reps at (Baltice
Americans all. 11 Your spirit enriches our country and fuels the
flame of freedom all over our world.
These gleaming church domes remind me of the skyline of a
great city. Since my last trip to Moscow, the Russian people
have toppled the idols of Soviet Communism. They've begun
renewing the Russian nation. Just consider the signs of the
times: In Red Square this Easter, the gigantic picture of Lenin
was gone: In its place was a massive icon of the risen Lord.
Soon I'll see the changes with my own eyes. Later this year I'll
make my first state visit to a free and democratic Russia. 11
Yes, Russia once again is free to be Russia. Ukraine is
free to be Ukraine, Poland to be Poland. The roll call of
freedom now includes Hungary \ the Czech and Slovak Republics \
Bulgaria \ Lithuania \ Estonia \ Latvia \ and still more. 11
But our work is not finished. That is why, with your
support, I want to serve four more years as your President. 11
I want to use my energy and experience to consolidate the
new democracies and make more gains for liberty and peace. As we
celebrate the new birth of freedom in so many countries around
the world, let's look just 90 miles south of our Florida coast:
The Castro dictatorship in Cuba is on its last legs. I'm firmly
convinced of that. Within the next four years, I'm expecting to
become the first President of the United States to set foot on
the soil of a free and democratic Cuba. 11
Little more than two years ago, I welcomed to the White
House Poland's first non-communist prime minister since Stalin's
conquest of Eastern Europe. This brave man, Tadeusz Mazowiecki,
spoke some of the clearest and wisest words I have heard about
the times we live in. He said: "History is accelerating."
With those words, he foretold the fall of Communism Soviet in
the
Bmpire
Russia, and throughout Europe. And this wave of history, this
surge of hope, is not confined to Europe. The Afghan people have
won back their homeland. In Ethiopia and other African nations,
people are digging out from under the rubble of tyranny.
And mark my words: During my second term as President, the
probability is high -- it's very high -- that true freedom will
come to more than a billion people in Vietnam and China. 11
Let's have some plain talk about China. I know that country
and love its people. Our strategic relationship with China, for
all the faults of that regime, played a crucial part in halting
the Soviet threat. It's my policy to keep trade ties open to
China as her system evolves and the people win more freedom.
This policy is based on my experience and my commitment to the
peaceful advance of freedom for the Chinese people. 11 And it
will be one of the highest aims of my second term to bring this
goal to fruition. 11
I'm determined to keep America the leader in the struggle
for world freedom. And I'm every bit as determined to protect
the sources of our strength at home. During the next four years,
I'll keep helping American workers and entrepreneurs carry us to
new heights of achievement. And I will fight for the rights of
American parents and families.
The American family is under siege. The New Age Liberals
and the big-government bureaucracies have an aggressive agenda --
an agenda at odds with the values you and I share:
They want to tighten the government monopoly on our kids'
education. I'm fighting on your side -- for parents' rights to
choose their children's schools -- public, private or religious.
Two years ago, they tried to create a new bureaucracy --this
one for child care. I won my fight to let parents choose their
children's care -- including church-based child care.
They say there's no role in the Democratic Party for people
of conscience who want to curb abortion on demand. I say we
should make this nation a better place. No child, born or
unborn, should go unwanted, uncared for, or unloved.
They want public schools to hand out birth control pills and
devices to teenage kids. They believe this is no business of
parents -- that it's strictly a matter between our children and
the government. They even encourage kids to hire lawyers and
haul their parents into court.
I believe kids need Moms and Dads -- not Big Brother
bureaucracy. The bond between parent and child is sacred; it's
fundamental. I'm ready to fight the next four years to protect
the traditional rights of parents and families. 11
Families are central to civilization in any country, in any
era. More than a century ago, Dostoyevsky imagined a nightmare
world -- a place where an all-powerful state crushed the natural
rights of individuals and families. "If God is dead," he wrote,
"then everything is permitted."
Well, looking out over this magnificent audience, I know
your faith is alive. And family is the most important thing we
have here on this earth. We take to heart the words of "America
the Beautiful" -- "confirm thy soul in self-control." We know
that the America we love -- the America that's such a powerful
beacon to the world -- will not stay strong if the culture and
the government teach our kids that "anything goes."
Think about it: If we can tear down the Berlin Wall, we can
build a strong economy. If we can lift the Iron Curtain, we can
bring the curtain down on immorality and indifference. If we can
help people walk free through the streets of Europe, there's no
reason we can't take back our streets here in America.
Being here reminds me that next month marks the first
anniversary of those fateful days of August, when Russia's future
likecine
was on the line -- when world peace hung in the balance.
I'm sure each one of us has indelible memories of those
not Just Rossa
days. Recently I had the privilege to hear Slava Rostropovich
recount his memories at the National Prayer Breakfast in
Washington. Slava had flown to Moscow at first news of the coup,
and he stood for three days and nights with the defenders of
freedom and democracy, protecting the Russian White House.
He told us that deep in the night, the only sound was from
the movement of tank treads. He said: "the aura of faith was
almost palpable. That moment, and the salvation of all of us --
and of the future of the country -- came only from God."
My fellow Americans, we have the good fortune not to live in
the shadow of machine guns and tanks. And Barbara and I count it
a great blessing that when your kids and our grandchildren go to
bed each night, they don't have to fear the kind of nuclear
threat that we faced just a few years ago.
Still we face tests. We have hard work ahead. We must keep
our national security second to none. We must prove the
pessimists wrong about America's ability to compete \ to create
jobs \ to expand opportunity. And we must protect and renew our
most precious resource -- America's families.
To meet these challenges, to lead the nation, to fight on
your side for the values we share: That's why I'm asking your
help to win another term as President. 11
Thank you, and may God bless the freest, greatest, most
generous country on earth -- the United States of America.
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DATE:
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ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: MON. 7/20/92 2:00 pm
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE RALLY - THREE SAINTS ORTHODOX
SUBJECT:
CHURCH - GARFIELD, N.J. - 7/21/92
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
\
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
X
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
R
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
1
PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
\
DEMAREST
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YEUTTER
FITZWATER
FINDLAY
GRAY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, RM. 122,
x2930, no later than 2:00 p.m., MONDAY, JULY 20, with a copy to
this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
no comments
- (R. Brady may respond
PHILLIP D. BRADY
at a later tem)
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Duggan/Walters)
July 16, 1992
Draft Three
12 JUL 17 P2:31
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE RALLY
THREE SAINTS RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
GARFIELD, NEW JERSEY
TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1992
2:30 p.m.
[Acknowledgments] - Father Golubov and members of Three
Saints parish, thank you for welcoming me and so many thousands
of your New Jersey neighbors. You represent a rich array of
heritage: Russian and Cuban, Jewish and Christian, African and
Polish, Chinese and Ukrainian, and so many others. You're
Americans all. 11 Your spirit enriches our country and fuels the
flame of freedom all over our world.
These gleaming church domes remind me of the skyline of a
great city. Since my last trip to Moscow, the Russian people
have toppled the idols of Soviet Communism. They've begun
renewing the Russian nation. Just consider the signs of the
times: In Red Square this Easter, the gigantic picture of Lenin
was gone: In its place was a massive icon of the risen Lord.
Soon I'll see the changes with my own eyes. Later this year I'll
make my first state visit to a free and democratic Russia. 11
Yes, Russia once again is free to be Russia. Ukraine is
free to be Ukraine, Poland to be Poland. The roll call of
freedom now includes Hungary \ the Czech and Slovak Republics \
Bulgaria \ Lithuania \ Estonia \ Latvia \ and still more. 11
But our work is not finished. That is why, with your
support, I want to serve four more years as your President. 11
I want to use my energy and experience to consolidate the
2
new democracies and make more gains for liberty and peace. As we
celebrate the new birth of freedom in so many countries around
the world, let's look just 90 miles south of our Florida coast:
The Castro dictatorship in Cuba is on its last legs. I'm firmly
convinced of that. Within the next four years, I'm expecting to
become the first President of the United States to set foot on
the soil of a free and democratic Cuba. 11
Little more than two years ago, I welcomed to the White
House Poland's first non-communist prime minister since Stalin's
conquest of Eastern Europe. This brave man, Tadeusz Mazowiecki,
spoke some of the clearest and wisest words I have heard about
the times we live in. He said: "History is accelerating."
With those words, he foretold the fall of Communism in
Russia, and throughout Europe. And this wave of history, this
surge of hope, is not confined to Europe. The Afghan people have
won back their homeland. In Ethiopia and other African nations,
people are digging out from under the rubble of tyranny.
And mark my words: During my second term as President, the
probability is high -- it's very high -- that true freedom will
come to more than a billion people in Vietnam and China. 11
Let's have some plain talk about China. I know that country
and love its people. Our strategic relationship with China, for
all the faults of that regime, played a crucial part in halting
the Soviet threat. It's my policy to keep trade ties open to
China as her system evolves and the people win more freedom.
This policy is based on my experience and my commitment to the
3
peaceful advance of freedom for the Chinese people. 11 And it
will be one of the highest aims of my second term to bring this
goal to fruition. 11
I'm determined to keep America the leader in the struggle
for world freedom. And I'm every bit as determined to protect
the sources of our strength at home. During the next four years,
I'll keep helping American workers and entrepreneurs carry us to
new heights of achievement. And I will fight for the rights of
American parents and families.
The American family is under siege. The New Age Liberals
and the big-government bureaucracies have an aggressive agenda -
- an agenda at odds with the values you and I share:
They want to tighten the government monopoly on our kids'
education. I'm fighting on your side -- for parents' rights to
choose their children's schools -- public, private or religious.
Two years ago, they tried to create a new bureaucracy --
this one for child care. I won my fight to let parents choose
their children's care -- including church-based child care.
They say there's no role in the Democratic Party for people
of conscience who want to curb abortion on demand. I say we
should make this nation a better place. No child, born or
unborn, should go unwanted, uncared for, or unloved.
They want public schools to hand out birth control pills and
devices to teenage kids. They believe this is no business of
parents -- that it's strictly a matter between our children and
the government. They even encourage kids to hire lawyers and
4
haul their parents into court.
I believe kids need Moms and Dads -- not Big Brother
bureaucracy. The bond between parent and child is sacred; it's
fundamental. I'm ready to fight the next four years to protect
the traditional rights of parents and families. 11
Families are central to civilization in any country, in any
era. More than a century ago, Dostoyevsky imagined a nightmare
world -- a place where an all-powerful state crushed the natural
rights of individuals and families. "If God is dead, he wrote,
"then everything is permitted."
Well, looking out over this magnificent audience, I know
your faith is alive. And family is the most important thing we
have here on this earth. We take to heart the words of "America
the Beautiful" -- "confirm thy soul in self-control." We know
that the America we love -- the America that's such a powerful
beacon to the world -- will not stay strong if the culture and
the government teach our kids that "anything goes."
Think about it: If we can tear down the Berlin Wall, we can
build a strong economy. If we can lift the Iron Curtain, we can
bring the curtain down on immorality and indifference. If we can
help people walk free through the streets of Europe, there's no
reason we can't take back our streets here in America.
Being here reminds me that next month marks the first
anniversary of those fateful days of August, when Russia's future
was on the line -- when world peace hung in the balance.
I'm sure each one of us has indelible memories of those
5
days. Recently I had the privilege to hear Slava Rostropovich
recount his memories at the National Prayer Breakfast in
Washington. Slava had flown to Moscow at first news of the coup,
and he stood for three days and nights with the defenders of
freedom and democracy, protecting the Russian White House.
He told us that deep in the night, the only sound was from
the movement of tank treads. He said: "the aura of faith was
almost palpable. That moment, and the salvation of all of us --
and of the future of the country -- came only from God."
My fellow Americans, we have the good fortune not to live in
the shadow of machine guns and tanks. And Barbara and I count it
a great blessing that when your kids and our grandchildren go to
bed each night, they don't have to fear the kind of nuclear
threat that we faced just a few years ago.
Still we face tests. We have hard work ahead. We must keep
our national security second to none. We must prove the
pessimists wrong about America's ability to compete \ to create
jobs \ to expand opportunity. And we must protect and renew our
most precious resource -- America's families.
To meet these challenges, to lead the nation, to fight on
your side for the values we share: That's why I'm asking your
help to win another term as President. 11
Thank you, and may God bless the freest, greatest, most
generous country on earth -- the United States of America.
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approximately 5,000 supporters on the grounds of the Three Saints
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DATE:
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ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: MON. 7/20/92 2:00 pm
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE RALLY - THREE SAINTS ORTHODOX
SUBJECT:
CHURCH - GARFIELD, N.J. - 7/21/92
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
X
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
FINDLAY
GRAY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, RM. 122,
x2930, no later than 2:00 p.m., MONDAY, JULY 20, with a copy to
this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Duggan/Walters)
July 16, 1992
Draft Three
2 JUL 17 P2: 31
Garfield
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE RALLY
THREE SAINTS RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
GARFIELD, NEW JERSEY
TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1992
2:30 p.m.
[Acknowledgments] Father Golubov and members of Three
Saints parish, thank you for welcoming me and so many thousands
of your New Jersey neighbors. You represent a rich array of
heritage: Russian and Cuban, Jewish and Christian, African and
Polish, Chinese and Ukrainian, and so many others. You're
Americans all. 11 Your spirit enriches our country and fuels the
flame of freedom all over our world.
These gleaming church domes remind me of the skyline of a
great city. Since my last trip to Moscow, the Russian people
have toppled the idols of I Soviet Communism. They've begun
renewing the Russian nation. Just consider the signs of the
9
times: In Red Square this Easter, the gigantic picture of Lenin
was gone: In its place was a massive icon of the risen Lord.
Soon I'll see the changes with my own eyes. Later this year I'll
make my first state visit to a free and democratic Russia. 11
Yes, Russia once again is free to be Russia. Ukraine is
free to be Ukraine, Poland to be Poland. The roll call of
freedom now includes Hungary \ the Czech and Slovak Republics \
Bulgaria \ Lithuania \ Estonia \ Latvia \ and still more. 11
But our work is not finished. That is why, with your
support, I want to serve four more years as your President. 11
I want to use my energy and experience to consolidate the
2
solidify the
new democracies and make more gains for liberty and peace.
As we
celebrate the new birth of freedom in so many countries around
the world, let's look just 90 miles south of our Florida coast:
The Castro dictatorship in Cuba is on its last legs. I'm firmly
I will expect to
convinced of that. Within the next four years, I'm expecting to
become the first President of the United States to set foot on
the soil of a free and democratic Cuba. 11
Little more than two years ago, I welcomed to the White
House Poland's first non-communist prime minister since Stalin's
conquest of Eastern Europe. This brave man, Tadeusz Mazowiecki,
spoke some of the clearest and wisest words I have heard about
told us
the times we live in. He said: "History is accelerating."
With those words, he foretold the fall of Communism in
Russia, and throughout Europe. And this wave of history, this
surge of hope, is not confined to Europe. The Afghan people have
won back their homeland. In Ethiopia and other African nations,
people are digging out from under the rubble of tyranny.
[
And mark my words: During my second term as President, the
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probability is high -- it's very high --- that true freedom will
come to more than a billion people in Vietnam and China.
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Let's have some plain talk about China. I know that country
and love its people. Our strategic relationship with China, for
all the faults of that regime, played a crucial part in halting
the Soviet threat. It's my policy to keep trade ties open to
China as her system evolves and the people win more freedom.
This policy is based on my experience and my commitment to the
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3
peaceful advance of freedom for the Chinese people. 11 And it
will be one of the highest aims of my second term to bring this
goal to fruition.
I'm determined to keep America the leader in the struggle
for world freedom. And I'm every bit as determined to protect
the sources of our strength at home. During the next four years,
I'll keep helping American workers and entrepreneurs carry us to
new heights of achievement. And I will fight for the rights of
American parents and families.
The American family is under siege. The New Age Liberals
ts in Washington
and the big-government bureaucracies have an aggressive agenda -
- an agenda at odds with the values you and I share:
They want to tighten the government monopoly on our kids'
education. I'm fighting on your side -- for parents' rights to
choose their children's schools -- public, private or religious.
Two years ago, they tried to create a new bureaucracy --
this one for child care. I won my fight to let parents choose
their children's care -- including church-based child care.
They say there's no role in the Democratic Party for people
of conscience who want to curb abortion on demand. I say we
should make this nation a better place. No child, born or
unborn, should go unwanted, uncared for, or unloved.
They want public schools to hand out birth control pills and
devices to teenage kids. They believe this is no business of
parents -- that it's strictly a matter between our children and
the government. They even encourage kids to hire lawyers and
believedien
4
the loving of their the faceless, uncaring "
haul their parents into court.
Children
"help of
I believe kids need Moms and Dads -- not Big Brother
Stet,
bureaucracy. The bond between parent and child is sacred; it's
fundamental. I'm ready to fight the next four years to protect
the traditional rights of parents and families. 11
Families are central to civilization in any country, in any
era. More than a century ago, Dostoyevsky imagined a nightmare
world -- a place where an all-powerful state crushed the natural
rights of individuals and families. "If God is dead," he wrote,
"then everything is permitted."
Well, looking out over this magnificent audience, I know
your faith is alive. And family is the most important thing we
have here on this earth. We take to heart the words of "America
the Beautiful" -- "confirm thy soul (in self-control."
We know
that the America we love -- the America that's such a powerful
out
beacon to the world -- will not stay strong if the culture and
of
the government teach our kids that "anything goes."
plane
Think about it: If we can tear down the Berlin Wall, we can
build a strong economy. If we can lift the Iron Curtain, we can
bring the curtain down on immorality and indifference. If we can
help people walk free through the streets of Europe, there's no
reason we can't take back our streets here in America.
Being here reminds me that next month marks the first
anniversary of those fateful days of August, when Russia's future
was on the line -- when world peace hung in the balance.
I'm sure each one of us has indelible memories of those
5
days. Recently I had the privilege to hear Slava Rostropovich
recount his memories at the National Prayer Breakfast in
Washington. Slava had flown to Moscow at first news of the coup,
and he stood for three days and nights with the defenders of
freedom and democracy, protecting the Russian White House.
He told us that deep in the night, the only sound was from
the movement of tank treads. He said: "the aura of faith was
almost palpable. That moment, and the salvation of all of us --
and of the future of the country -- came only from God."
My fellow Americans, we have the good fortune not to live in
the shadow of machine guns and tanks. And Barbara and I count it
a great blessing that when your kids and our grandchildren go to
bed each night, they don't have to fear the kind of nuclear
threat that we faced just a few years ago.
Still we face tests. We have hard work ahead. We must keep
our national security second to none. We must prove the
pessimists wrong about America's ability to compete \ to create
jobs \ to expand opportunity. And we must protect and renew our
most precious resource -- America's families.
To meet these challenges, to lead the nation, to fight on
your side for the values we share: That's why I'm asking your Is
help to win another term as President
11
Thank you, and may God bless the freest, greatest, most appropriate
generous country on earth -- the United States of America.
in 9
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chunch?
continue the [fill in tho lank] in # #
(Duggan/Walters)
July 16, 1992
Draft Three
Garfield
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE RALLY
THREE SAINTS RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
GARFIELD, NEW JERSEY
TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1992
2:30 p.m.
[Acknowledgments] Father Golubov and members of Three
Saints parish, thank you for welcoming me and so many thousands
of your New Jersey neighbors. You represent a rich array of
heritage: Russian and Cuban, Jewish and Christian, African and
Polish, Chinese and Ukrainian, and so many others. You're
Americans all. 11 Your spirit enriches our country and fuels the
flame of freedom all over our world.
These gleaming church domes remind me of the skyline of a
great city. Since my last trip to Moscow, the Russian people
have toppled the idols of Soviet Communism. They've begun
renewing the Russian nation. Just consider the signs of the
times: In Red Square this Easter, the gigantic picture of Lenin
was gone: In its place was a massive icon of the risen Lord.
Soon I'll see the changes with my own eyes. Later this year I'll
make my first state visit to a free and democratic Russia. 11
Yes, Russia once again is free to be Russia. Ukraine is
free to be Ukraine, Poland to be Poland. The roll call of
freedom now includes Hungary \ the Czech and Slovak Republics \
Bulgaria \ Lithuania \ Estonia \ Latvia \ and still more. 11
But our work is not finished. That is why, with your
support, I want to serve four more years as your President. 11
I want to use my energy and experience to consolidate the
2
new democracies and make more gains for liberty and peace. As we
celebrate the new birth of freedom in so many countries around
the world, let's look just 90 miles south of our Florida coast:
The Castro dictatorship in Cuba is on its last legs. I'm firmly
convinced of that. Within the next four years, I'm expecting to
become the first President of the United States to set foot on
the soil of a free and democratic Cuba.
Little more than two years ago, I welcomed to the White
House Poland's first non-communist prime minister since Stalin's
conquest of Eastern Europe. This brave man, Tadeusz Mazowiecki,
spoke some of the clearest and wisest words I have heard about
the times we live in. He said: "History is accelerating."
With those words, he foretold the fall of Communism in
Russia, and throughout Europe. And this wave of history, this
surge of hope, is not confined to Europe. The Afghan people have
won back their homeland. In Ethiopia and other African nations,
people are digging out from under the rubble of tyranny.
And mark my words: During my second term as President, the
probability is high -- it's very high -- that true freedom will
come to more than a billion people in Vietnam and China. 11
Let's have some plain talk about China. I know that country
and love its people. Our strategic relationship with China, for
all the faults of that regime, played a crucial part in halting
the Soviet threat. It's my policy to keep trade ties open to
China as her system evolves and the people win more freedom.
This policy is based on my experience and my commitment to the
3
peaceful advance of freedom for the Chinese people. 11 And it
will be one of the highest aims of my second term to bring this
goal to fruition.
I'm determined to keep America the leader in the struggle
for world freedom. And I'm every bit as determined to protect
the sources of our strength at home. During the next four years,
I'll keep helping American workers and entrepreneurs carry us to
new heights of achievement. And I will fight for the rights of
American parents and families.
The American family is under siege. The New Age Liberals
and the big-government bureaucracies have an aggressive agenda -
- an agenda at odds with the values you and I share:
They want to tighten the government monopoly on our kids'
education. I'm fighting on your side -- for parents' rights to
choose their children's schools -- public, private or religious.
Two years ago, they tried to create a new bureaucracy --
this one for child care. I won my fight to let parents choose
their children's care -- including church-based child care.
They say there's no role in the Democratic Party for people
of conscience who want to curb abortion on demand. I say we
should make this nation a better place. No child, born or
unborn, should go unwanted, uncared for, or unloved.
They want public schools to hand out birth control pills and
devices to teenage kids. They believe this is no business of
parents -- that it's strictly a matter between our children and
the government. They even encourage kids to hire lawyers and
4
haul their parents into court.
I believe kids need Moms and Dads -- not Big Brother
bureaucracy. The bond between parent and child is sacred; it's
fundamental. I'm ready to fight the next four years to protect
the traditional rights of parents and families. 11
Families are central to civilization in any country, in any
era. More than a century ago, Dostoyevsky imagined a nightmare
world -- a place where an all-powerful state crushed the natural
rights of individuals and families. "If God is dead," he wrote,
"then everything is permitted."
Well, looking out over this magnificent audience, I know
your faith is alive. And family is the most important thing we
have here on this earth. We take to heart the words of "America
the Beautiful" -- "confirm thy soul in self-control. " We know
that the America we love -- the America that's such a powerful
beacon to the world -- will not stay strong if the culture and
the government teach our kids that "anything goes."
Think about it: If we can tear down the Berlin Wall, we can
build a strong economy. If we can lift the Iron Curtain, we can
bring the curtain down on immorality and indifference. If we can
help people walk free through the streets of Europe, there's no
reason we can't take back our streets here in America.
Being here reminds me that next month marks the first
anniversary of those fateful days of August, when Russia's future
was on the line -- when world peace hung in the balance.
I'm sure each one of us has indelible memories of those
5
days. Recently I had the privilege to hear Slava Rostropovich
recount his memories at the National Prayer Breakfast in
Washington. Slava had flown to Moscow at first news of the coup,
and he stood for three days and nights with the defenders of
freedom and democracy, protecting the Russian White House.
He told us that deep in the night, the only sound was from
the movement of tank treads. He said: "the aura of faith was
almost palpable. That moment, and the salvation of all of us --
and of the future of the country -- came only from God."
My fellow Americans, we have the good fortune not to live in
the shadow of machine guns and tanks. And Barbara and I count it
a great blessing that when your kids and our grandchildren go to
bed each night, they don't have to fear the kind of nuclear
threat that we faced just a few years ago.
Still we face tests. We have hard work ahead. We must keep
our national security second to none. We must prove the
pessimists wrong about America's ability to compete \ to create
jobs \ to expand opportunity. And we must protect and renew our
most precious resource -- America's families.
To meet these challenges, to lead the nation, to fight on
your side for the values we share: That's why I'm asking your
help to win another term as President. 11
Thank you, and may God bless the freest, greatest, most
generous country on earth -- the United States of America.
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