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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: DRUG ADVISORY COUNCIL
ROSE GARDEN
WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1992
9:15 A.M.
Michael Walsh.
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Other members of the
President's Drug Advisory Council. / [[ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS]]
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drama than last week's All-Star Game. )) / I also want to welcome
you to the White House -- and salute people who've helped achieve
the improbable: Ask anyone with a teenager or grandchild --
drugs are no longer "cool. " //
Nearly three years ago, I created the President's Drug
Advisory Council to help mobilize the private sector in our
Drug
crusade against drugs. / Today, I want to thank Jim Burke, Bill
Moss, and all of you for a job well done. /
It is true that we have only begun. It is also true that we
have begun well. / That great broadcaster, Dizzy Dean, used to
call statistics statics. Well, listen to these statics about
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from groups like the PDAC -- and policies that are idealistic,
but practical. ((I'm reminded of a writer who was asked what he
would take if his house were on fire and he could remove only one
thing. His reply? "I would take the fire. ") ) // He knew -- as
we've proved -- that Americans like what works.
That is why in the last two years your crusade has stirred
grass-roots America. Think of it. Nearly a thousand community
coalitions many led by:Alvah Chapman / Last January I met
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with coalition members. One explained your impact: "What is
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happening in America on the drug problem," he said, "is a radical ??
old idea, new to most Americans -- called democracy. //
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America will build on this freedom of neighbor to helping neighbor.
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initiative of the PDAC. / months ago, I met with the
Nine months ago
Council's Workplace Committee. As a result, I am proud to
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announce a program which seeks to make every workplace in America
drug-free. Its title: Drugs Don't Work. //
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companies have anti-drug programs. The bad news is that almost 3
in 4 workers are in small and medium-sized businesses who often
don't have such programs. / Here you will find many of the more
than 2 and 12 million Americans, respectively, who use cocaine
and drugs.
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Tasco, George Dillon, and David Clare have teamed to provide
freedom from drugs -- in short, freedom from fear. //
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Program. One day, Alton Perkins called its toll-free line for
help against addiction and alcoholism. / Today, he says: "Its
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substance abuse program was a Godsend." // That's also true of
the long-term employee of New England Telephone who sent a thank-
you note to CEO Paul O'Brien. Each week Paul re-reads it. The
letter described how the company's tough stand forced the woman
to confront alcohol and drugs. //
Right now, America is focused on big issues that drug use
affects. Whether America can compete and win in the global
economy. How we will educate our citizens for a new century.
How we will open opportunity to all Americans -- preserve One
Nation, Under God. //
These are issues whose solutions literally start close to
home. The question is: Can we stop the assult on the American
family -- can we help parents pass on the morals and character
that sustain us as a Nation? Only then can we defend our values
against drug abuse: Values like discipline and self-reliance /
values like mutual courtesy and belief in God. //
Drugs destroy the family / destroy freedom / drugs destroy
our future: That is why we must win this war. Call me old-
fashioned. ((Don't worry: I've been called worse. )) / I know
politicians often do the easy things -- the popular things. But
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it's the tough things -- saying no to special interests;
upholding principle -- that tell you about character. / Anyone
can demagogue. Only Presidents make decisions. That is why I've
relied on right versus wrong to decide what is right, and true.
( (I was reminded of this several weeks ago. Here in the
Rose Garden -- in my appearance on CBS This Morning -- I was
questioned by people from all over the country. / I could tell
they weren't members of the news media -- they asked better
questions. )) // Whatever the issue -- schools / neighborhoods /
crime / the economy -- these Americans know that moral values are
our compass. Losing them, we lose all that is America. //
You and I know that we must stop the drug use that costs
incomes and jobs -- and wrecks children and marriages. / That
we have doubled the intered inom
why our Federal anti drug budget for Fiscal Year 1997.is up 82
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percent since we took office. / It's why I call on the Congress
for full funding -- to spur effective treatment and prevention. /
Above all, it's why I call on Congress to pass crime legislation
now on the Hill -- including a death penalty for drug-peddlers
who kill our cops. / Let those who SOW the wind of crime reap
the whirlwind of punishment. //
Each of you is helping win a crusade as historic as Normandy
-- as deadly as Pork Chop Hill -- as monumental as the fall of
Communism. / It is a crusade to take drugs off the streets --
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so that Americans can take back the streets. / For that, I thank
you, and pledge my full support. God bless you, and the United
States of America.
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DOUG GAMBLE
424-36th Place
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
July 15/92
(310) 546-6409
TO: CHRISTINA MARTIN
BOB TeeTeR
DRUG ADVISORY COUNCIL (Curt Smith)
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IT'S GOOD TO BE AT AN EVENT THAT HAS MORE SUSPENSE THAN LAST WEEK'S
ALL-STAR GAME.
I ALWAYS ENJOY SPENDING TIME WITH A GROUP OF BUSINESS PEOPLE --
YOU
ESPECIALLY WHEN ONE OF
ISN'T RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT.
IT'S GOOD TO BE WITH SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO CREATE JOBS FOR AMERICANS.
WHICH REMINDS ME -- 1 NOTICED SOMEONE DEMONSTRATING OUTSIDE THE
WHITE HOUSE WITH A SIGN THAT SAID "I NEED A JOB." I DIDN'T HAVE
TIME TO CHAT WITH HIM, BUT I WAS GLAD TO SEE ED ROLLINS AGAIN.
BEING BACK HERE IN THE ROSE GARDEN REMINDS ME OF MY RECENT
APPEARANCE
ON THE CBS MORNING SHOW, WHEN I WAS QUESTIONED BY AVERAGE AMERICANS
FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. I COULD TELL THEY WEREN'T MEMBERS OF THE
NEWS MEDIA -- THEY ASKED BETTER QUESTIONS.
I ASKED BARBARA IF SHE'D COOK UP THE FISH I BROUGHT BACK WITH ME FROM
MY FISHING TRIP IN WYOMING. SHE SAID SHE WOULD, IF I UNWRAPPED THEM
FROM THEIR SUPERMARKET PACKAGING.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
16-Jul-1992 03:02pm
TO:
Carol B. Aarhus
FROM:
Jennifer A. Grossman
Office of Communications
SUBJECT: re: drug speech
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Staff to P.D.A.C
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drugs. / Today, I want to thank Jim Durke,
you for a job well done. /
It is true that we have only begun. It is also true that we
have begun well. / That great broadcaster, Dizzy Dean, used to
call statistics statics. Well, listen to these statics about
your work to stop the drug use that declares death, bondage, and
open season on the innocent. //
Our Administration had hoped to cut overall drug use by 10
percent. You helped surpass that goal. / We wanted to cut
occasional drug use by 10 percent. It's down 29. / Our goal for
adolescent cocaine use was a 30 percent decrease. Three studies
show it down by almost twice that much. /
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For Immediate Release
July 22, 1992
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO DRUG ADVISORY COUNCIL
The Rose Garden
9:15 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Please be seated, and thank you very,
very much. I don't know why they get such a distinguished group here
so early. I would like the record to show that Jim and I are almost
on time. And I saw some nervous looks up at the sky. But here we
are in the Rose Garden. and I look around this audience and I am
very grateful not just for your being here, but for this wonderful
level of participation in the fight against drugs.
Obviously, I remain not only grateful to, but most
impressed with, the work that Jim Burke is doing. Bill Moss is with
us today; Michael Walsh And then other members of the President's
Drug Advisory Council. Alvah Chapman, my heavens, what he's done not
only on the national scene, but in the community there in Florida is
remarkable. And so many other business and community leaders, I
salute you all.
And I would say this: I would like to salute people who
have helped achieve the improbable. You ask anyone with a teenager
or a grandchild and drugs are no longer cool. And when we presented
this bipartisan -- and we want to keep it that way -- bipartisan drug
strategy almost three years ago, we put great emphasis on the role of
prevention in the private sector. And today, I just want to thank
all of you for what you've done to help curb the drug use that
declares open season on the innocent.
The administration had hoped to cut the overall drug use
by 10 percent. And you all helped surpass that goal. We wanted to
slash occasional cocaine use by 15 percent; it went down 22. Three
separate studies confirm that adolescence use of cocaine dropped 63
percent from 1988 to 1991. And America -- a lot of America, put it
this way, is clearly giving up drugs, and especially the young. And
therein lies an awful lot of hope.
This is an important start -- and I emphasize that word,
start -- in a difficult fight. Today, according to the National Drug
Control Policy, there are still up to 12 million users of illegal
drugs. And that's why in November of 1989, we created the
President's Drug Advisory Council to further mobilize the private
sector in our antidrug strategy. And thus began a great crusade of
citizen-formed community coalitions against drugs.
In January, I saw it firsthand when I met with more than
700 coalition leaders attending your National Leadership Forum. And
I am told there are more than 900 of these community organizations,
with more being formed daily.
I look forward to this October when they will be helped
by a new organization growing out of the President's Drug Advisory
Council, the Community Antidrug Coalitions of America. Now, this
group is going to work with business, with labor, with community
leaders to eliminate drugs.
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So will another major initiative of our Council, which
I'm pleased to announce today. Eight months ago, I met with the
Council's Workplace Committee, and from that has come a program which
seeks to make every workplace in America drug-free. And its title, a
very simple one: Drugs don't work.
Today the good news is that close to 90 percent of large
companies do have antidrug programs. And we know that they do work.
The bad news is that we don't have programs where now they are needed
the most, in small- and medium-sized businesses. And here you'll
find many of the more than two million Americans who use cocaine and
the 12 million overall who use drugs, it's for them that you and
council members like Frank Tasco and Al Casey and David Clare, George
Dillon have teamed to provide freedom from drugs in the marketplace.
And last year I went down to the Tropicana plant, to
Tropicana Products in Florida and heard about their employee
assistance program. And one day an employee called this program's
toll-free line for help in battling addiction and alcoholism. And
then, very recently, he wrote the local newspaper saying -- and
here's his quote -- "The substance abuse treatment program was a
godsend." Well, there's stories like this all over the country.
It's also true of the employee of New England Telephone
who sent a thank-you note to Paul O'Brien. The letter described how
the company's tough stand forced the woman to confront her alcohol
and drug problem. And today she's back at work healthy and
productive.
From coast to coast business and labor are working to
drive drugs out of the workplace. And let me salute these beginnings
and let me also challenge you to build upon them.
Today drugs cost the economy more than $60 billion
annually in lost productivity, health care and other expenses. And
this harms the ability of our businesses to succeed and compete. By
defeating drugs we will help America win in the global economy.
We'll help educate our citizens for a new century and we'll open more
opportunity than ever for all Americans preserving one nation under
God.
Stopping drug abuse will help put America back to work,
instill pride, increase productivity, improve quality, and then again
heighten our competitiveness. Stopping drugs will also strengthen
the family, reaffirming values like discipline and self-reliance,
courtesy and belief in God.
If you ever want to understand the importance of your
work do as I did yesterday when I met with the Black Mayors
Association, or do what I did a couple of months before that when I
met with the mayors from the National League of Cities. They talked
about the decline of the American family as the major source of urban
decay. And they went on to emphasize the need to win' this battle
against drugs as the way not just to whip the drug problem, but to
reunite and strengthen the American family. They know that drug
abuse costs incomes and jobs, hurts the children, destroys marriages.
And we've got to end it, and we will.
We must all just pledge renewal that we're going to get
this job done. And that's why we have worked with the private sector
to expand and improve workplace programs. It's why our antidrug
budget for '93, Fiscal '93 is up by 93 percent since I took office.
And today I would urge the Congress, once again, call on
the United States Congress to fund this request to spur effective
treatment prevention. Above all, I call on the Congress to pass
crime legislation now up on the Hill. And I still strongly favor a
death penalty for drug kingpins who kill our police officers. And
let those who SOW the wind of crime reap the whirlwind of punishment.
- 3 -
As business and community leaders, each of you is
helping with a crusade. It really is as historic as Normandy and as
deadly as Pork Chop Hill, as monumental as the fall of imperial
communism. It's a crusade to take drugs off the streets so that
Americans can take back the streets. We've got our work cut out for
us, but I know that we're going to triumph.
And I am very grateful to all of you for what we've
already done. I'm not sure the American -- maybe this is something I
can help with -- I'm not sure the American people know that we have
had some dramatic successes, thanks to the work of the private sector
and dedicated individuals sitting right here. We've got our work cut
out for us, but we've done a lot. And with this new initiative, I'm
confident that what you'll do in the future will get the job done.
So thank you all very, very much. Thanks for coming.
And may God bless our great country. Thank you. (Applause.)
END
9:25 A.M. EDT
July 20, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
STEVEN PROVOST
FROM:
CURT SMITH
SUBJECT:
REMARKS TO THE PRESIDENT'S DRUG
ADVISORY COUNCIL
On Wednesday, July 22 at. 9:15 a.m., you will address an
audience of 200 in the Rose Garden, where you will announce a
program which seeks to make every workplace in America drug-free
-- entitled "Drugs Don't Work". In addition to calling for
business leadership to help rid the American workplace of drugs,
your remarks (8 minutes, cards) focus on the Administration's
accomplishments in the war on drugs.
July 20, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
STEVEN PROVOST
FROM:
CURT SMITH
SUBJECT:
REMARKS TO THE PRESIDENT'S DRUG
ADVISORY COUNCIL
On Wednesday, July 22 at 9:15 a.m., you will address an
audience of 200 in the Rose Garden, where you will announce a
program which seeks to make every workplace in America drug-free
-- entitled "Drugs Don't Work". In addition to calling for
business leadership to help rid the American workplace of drugs,
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accomplishments in the war on drugs.
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