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THE WHITE HOUSE
To: Joe Duggan/Curt Smith WASHINGTON
From: Steve Provost
givertsAF
Re: Wednesday's speeches.
Your drafts of Wednesday's speeches are very strong. However, as
I explained last night, we would now like the President to
deliver basically the same speech at both events. We want to do
this because 1: It is easier on him and he will deliver them
better. 2. The media constantly accusses us of mixing messages
and we have drifted into a "campaign mode," where we want to
drive the same message home to national media and to local media
on both costs.
The challenge is to meld both speeches together coherently. I
think the key is the concept of "personal responsibility, and
tieing it to specific issues, including foreign policy. Taking
off from Joe's bottom of page 3, (after the great "ship of state"
reference here's a very specific outline that I'd like to see
incorporated in both speeches.
After Joe's "ship of state" reference, explain:
I do see this job as more than managing the economy, even serving
as commander in chief, I see it as being the moral leader of our
nation, and today our moral compass needs to be repaired, all
around us we see a decline in the simple concept of personal
responsibility.
(deadbeat Dad /gulscout trop for Homeler girls
(Here, add two vivid anecdotes on the breakdown in personal
responsibility. Maybe contrast one from the poor inner cities
with one from wealthier environs. FYI. Our speeches continue to
get hit for not making the case for what's wrong upfront in
simple, layman's terms.)
After making the case that responsibilility is on the wane, say
that turning our nation's moral compass north again is one of the
greatest challenges facing our country. As you look at this
election, you have two sides (we are still in the "other side
mode") one offering real change to get back to moral virtue, the
other mouthing the words, but is there commitment for real?
Issues tell the story.
One (at most two paragraphs) on the following:
"our welfare system is mither well nor fair
Welfare: other side now agrees with us that their must be
something in return for the check. But, 1) they refuse to
propose "tough love" steps like denying benefits to families that
have more kids and stopping welfare shopping among states. (2)
They are now advocating a return to guaranteed government jobs
for recipients, totally undermining the concept of
responsibility. Words don't match actions.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Education: Other side proposesnchoboe, but not religious
schools.
Prayer: Other side says okay to pray at political convention, but
won't allow kids to pray in school.
Abortion: Other side says party of compassion and inclusion, but
won't even listen to responsible view that says why not adoption,
instead of abortion.
Point: (should be news of speech) Who do you trust to change
America back to timeless values like personal responsibility?
The side who has the courage to stand for what may not be popular
in all places, or the side whose recent conversion to these
values is undermined by the ultimate timidity of their ideas.
Why buy synthetic moral leadership when you can get 100 percent
cotton moral leadership?
After this, say test of responsibility is not just popular
policies you put forward, but when you stand up for what is not
popular, but is right. Use foreign policy as example.
Make this one page in Knights speech, two pages in DAV, use some
stuff from Curt's draft. Curt, you have some good rhetoric, but
tie to specific charges we are leveling in this campaign:
1: "other side" proposes $60 billion in defense cuts beyond
what we see responsible.
2.
"other side" says America is "ridiculed" around the world.
Both speeches should close with ringing conclusion praising the
fact that the American ideal is now accepted around the world,
but ackowledging that we must return to a fundamental part of the
idea -- personal responsibility -- if we are to stay on top of
this new world.
The line that is working, and that I'd like to see you work in,
is "I'm going to do what's right for America."
As much as possible, please work together to make sure that the
words are the same in both speeches. This will ensure that he
delivers it better and that the message sinks in with the media.
Also, both speeches need the same joke upfront that shows
"humor in the face of criticism." Last weeks Pablo Morales joke
is a perfect example of the tone we'd like.
Finally, sorry for the change in direction. These things are
frankly evolving daily as the President gets more comfortable on
the attack and we realize the only way we are going to keep
negative stories off the air is to stay on the offensive.
Please turn around these quickly and fax to me on Air Force One.
I'd like to see the new drafts staffed by early afternoon.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Call me with any questions.
WASHINGTON
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them away.
diseases and his mother's age.
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author.
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Nancy Mitford (1904-73) British writer.
Dr Benjamin Spock (1903- ) US pediatrician
W. J. Linton (1812-97) British writer.
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Attrib.
and psychiatrist. Attrib.
Nature's Gentleman
cian
"The
father
to
have
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52 I have a big house - and I hide a
8 It is almost a definition of a.
nickr
children
to
have
a
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
gentleman to say that he is one
en's
lot.
Mary Ure (1933-75) British actress. Explain-
who never inflicts pain.
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
6 I'll
Angelo
Roncalli;
1881
ing how she coped with her large family of chil-
Cardinal Newman (1801-90) British theologi-
Thursday's child has far to go,
Her
Attrib.
dren. Attrib.
an. The Idea of a University, 'Knowledge and
ish
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Religious Duty'
fice,
the
maximum
Saturday's child works hard for his
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shee
have something
living,
grandchildren.
9 0, young Lochinvar is come out of
don't ignore
And the child that is born on the Sab-
Gore Vidal (1925- ) US novelist. Two Sis-
the west,
ters
Through all the wide Border his
years.
bath day
steed was the best.
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Is bonny and blithe, and good and
See
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XIV
Walter Scott (1771-1832) Scottish novelist.
gay.
just because your child hates it.
Marmion, V
1 Th
in dealing with a
Nursery Rhyme Traditions of Devonshire (A.
Katherine Whitehorn (1926- ) British jour-
Wi
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in no time at all
nalist. How to Survive Children
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Wh
like a five-year-
in war,
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Wh
CHIVALRY
There never was knight like the
of adults, in a child's eyes, is that
C.
dramatist.
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young Lochinvar.
US
the child is usually looking upwards,
er.
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and few faces are at their best
2 Ch
child
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when seen from below.
1 A gentleman is any man who
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jou
the
real
George Orwell (Eric Blair; 1903-50) British
wouldn't hit a woman with his hat
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English
Art
the
thorns
novelist. Essays
on.
dramatist. Henry IV, Part 1, V:1
In
plucked from his
Fred Allen (1894-1956) US comedian. Attrib.
faul
47 But at three, four, five, and even
12 Love of honour and honour of love.
jour
six years the childish nature will
2 Even nowadays a man can't step up
Philip Sidney (1554-86) English poet and
Ch.
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require sports; now is the time to
Century of the Child, Ch. 3
and kill a woman without feeling
courtier. Referring to the ideal of chivalry.
get rid of self-will in him, punishing
just a bit unchivalrous.
English Literature: Mediaeval (W. P. Ker)
3 Or
easier
to
head
him, but not so as to disgrace him.
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Robert Benchley (1889-1945) US humorist.
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study
of
child
Plato (c. 427 BC-347 BC) Greek philosopher.
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sheaves,
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being.
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make a nobleman, but he cannot
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tho
(1893-1970) US essay-
a child!
leaves
Sol
If You Don't Mind My
make a gentleman.
Picket
Tonight?'
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English
Edmund Burke (1729-97) British politician.
And flamed upon the brazen graves
dramatist. Richard III, II:3
Letter to William Smith, 29 Jan 1795
Of bold Sir Lancelot.
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th
fellows
in
their
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92) British
their
mates;
but
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fo
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poet. The Lady of Shalott, Pt. III
esome companions
earth my hell.
worthy man,
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CHOICE
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British essayist.
me;
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infancy;
curteisie.
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an
Thy school-days frightful, desperate,
Referring to the color options offered for the
a
for
hour.
wild and furious;
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Model-T Ford car. Attrib.
hi
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knyght.
Thy prime of manhood daring, bold,
St
llections
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and venturous;
poet. The Canterbury Tales, Prologue
I -
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to
man.
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coastal
shelf.
sly, and bloody,
5 Madame, I would have given you
And that has made all the difference.
6 0
as
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can,
More mild, but yet more harmful,
another!
Robert Frost (1875-1963) US poet. The
at
any kids yourself.
kind in hatred;
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Road Not Taken
yo
British poet. High
What comfortable hour canst thou
dramatist. On being reprimanded by a woman
y
Verse'
for firing his pistol in the vicinity of her child, who
3 More ways of killing a cat than
is
name
might have been killed. Recollections of a Pic-
choking her with cream.
hildren I might
That ever grac'd me in thy company?
bi
ture Dealer (A. Vollard)
Charles Kingsley (1819-75) British writer.
bu
nay suppose I might
William Shakespeare Richard III, IV:4
Westward Ho!, Ch. 20
Drowned to the
6 Some say that the age of chivalry is
pl
the rattling of a
50 Parents learn a lot from their
past, that the spirit of romance is
4 We have to believe in free will.
C
bags.
children about coping with life.
dead. The age of chivalry is never
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We've got no choice.
09-57)
British
novelist.
Muriel Spark (1918- ) British novelist. The
past, so long as there is a wrong
01
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 ) Polish-born
10
Comforters, Ch. 6
left unredressed on earth.
US writer. The Times, 21 June 1982
ai
Charles Kingsley (1819-75) British writer.
y
especially when
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Life (Mrs C. Kingsley), Vol. II, Ch. 28
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1ST STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format.
Copyright 1992 The New York Times Company
The New York Times
May 15, 1992, Friday, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section A; Page 1; Column 5; Metropolitan Desk
LENGTH: 950 words
HEADLINE: Girl's Plan to Save for College Runs Afoul of Welfare Rules
BYLINE: By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Special to The New York Times
DATELINE: NEW HAVEN, May 13
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Working part time at a community center, Sandra Rosado saved $4,900 to go
to college and to escape the web of welfare that is all her family has known
since they moved here 12 years ago.
But her thrift and industry have led to a bureaucratic nightmare for Miss
Rosado and her family. First state officials, who discovered her savings
account, told her mother to spend the money so the family could remain eligible
for the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program. Then Federal
authorities ordered the mother, Cecilia Mercado, to repay $9,342 in benefits she
received while her daughter's money was in the bank.
The case, which has been in and out of state courts as Mrs. Mercado
challenged the order, highlights what critics across the political spectrum say
is a major flaw in American social policy toward the poor - a rule that limits
a welfare family's assets.
Under Federal law, people who receive assistance under the Aid to Families
with Dependent Children program become ineligible if their assets exceed $1,000.
Such assets include property, like cars, and children's bank accounts.
"The rationale is that the public shouldn't be supporting families that have
their own resources," said Michael Sherraden, an associate professor of social
work at Washington University in St. Louis, whose 1991 book, "Assets and the
Poor," has been cited by Housing Secretary Jack Kemp and others seeking new ways
to alleviate poverty. "But it's a very short-sighted policy. Savings are the way
that families get out of poverty. So this policy doesn't make much sense."
In budget recommendations announced since the Los Angeles riots, President
Bush has proposed raising the asset limits to $10,000 for families already
receiving family aid. The current limit was establised in 1981. The President
also proposed setting up escrow accounts, which families would receive once they
got off family assistance. Such a plan represents "the beginnings of a new and
different approach to help families achieve self-sufficiency," the budget
states.
Other critics of the welfare system say asset limits are minor compared with
the amount of cheating that the system encourages. "The bottom line has a lot
more to do with the fundamental nature of the system, which pays people a
maximum benefit for having zero income, and every step they take away from
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zero reduces their benefits,' said Robert Rector, a welfare-policy analyst for
the Heritage Foundation in Washington.
Perfume Instead of College
Most welfare programs set asset limits. But those limits often do not
recognize fiscal realities, and, as in the case of Miss Rosado and her brother,
Angel, who had saved another $900, discourage people from breaking away from
their dependency on public assistance.
"Here you have a situation where other children would have been commended for
what these kids did," said Joanne G. Gibau, the New Haven Legal Assistance
lawyer who represented Miss Rosado's mother in court. "They went to school
full-time. They worked part time. And they saved their money. The sad part of
this is, Sandra wasn't able to use this money for the purpose she had intended."
Instead of spending her savings on college, Miss Rosado bought clothes,
jewelry, shoes and perfume, her mother said. "The state told us to spend it,"
she said. Then, when the order for repayment arrived, "I was very shocked,' she
said. "I wasn't intentionally cheating, because I didn't know about those bank
accounts." Mrs. Mercado has eight children, all of whom live with her in
subsidized housing. Sandra, at 20, is the oldest; the youngest is 5.
In an effort to discourage cheating, the state government routinely runs
computer checks of the Social Security numbers of bank account holders to see if
any of them are welfare recipients.
Miss Rosado was upset by what happened. "I worked a lot of hours for that
money," she said. Her job was at a neighborhood community center here,
supervising after-school basketball games and running a small candy store. "I
have friends who used to get money and spend it on other things. It was
tempting. But I knew I had a dream I wanted to fulfill."
Mrs. Mercado won the case she brought against the state's Commissioner of
Income Maintenance at the trial court level, and the state appealed. This week
the State Supreme Court, Connecticut's highest court, ruled against Mrs.
Mercado, meaning she must somehow come up with the money the Government says she
owes.
'Task for Congress'
Ms. Gibau is seeking a waiver from the Federal Government on the repayment,
but others say that may be difficult. "It is much more problematic to apply
retroactively for some kind of waiver," said the state Attorney General, Richard
Blumenthal, whose office argued the case for the state. He added: "Whatever the
injustice or lack of merit that may be perceived in the law, it is a task for
Congress, not the courts, to correct it."
Will Marshall, president of the Progressive Policy Institute, a Washington
research organization, said: "We've got to get rid of these perverse policies
that penalize poor people when they exercise personal initiative and
responsibility. One of the themes that's emerging is that we have to look at the
poor as just like everybody else. It's ironic that we're willing to lavish
incentives like tax deductions for home buying on middle-class people, on the
assumption that they 11 take advantage of them. It's true, but it's also true
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for the poor."
Miss Rosado did enroll in South Central Community College here last fall
after getting a scholarship and a grant, Ms. Gibau said, awarded for good
grades. She is the first person in her family to go to college.
GRAPHIC: Photos: Sandra Rosado (pg. A1); "I have friends who used to get money
and spend it on other things," said Sandra Rosado. "It was tempting. But I
knew I had a dream I wanted to fulfill." She is shown working with children at a
center in New Haven. (pg. B4) (Joyce Dopkeen/The New York Times)
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NAME: HAYS, CONSTANCE L; MERCADO, SANDRA; MERCADO, CECILIA
GEOGRAPHIC: CONNECTICUT; NEW HAVEN (CONN)
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HOW WOULD THE "CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE" RESPOND TO THE FOLLOWING
CASES?
The "Children's Initiative" (H.R. 5600) is being touted as an important "new" program to
1) prevent child abuse and neglect, removal of children from their families, foster care
and adoption and 2) provide services to support and preserve families. In addition to
the $3.5 billion of new money into the child welfare system for so-called "family
preservation" activities, an additional $3.5 billion will address "hunger" issues.
The following are some recent cases taken from newspapers where children have been
abused enough to attract the attention of the media. How would the "Children's
Initiative" help these kids?
June 4, 1992. Boy Beaten to Death on Second Birthday. Toddler had been living with
his aunt since January when his mother abandoned him. The Department of Human
Services placed him with his aunt. The aunt left the boy in the care of her boyfriend
who has been arrested and charged with his second degree murder. The first emphasis
in "family preservation" is to place children with relatives. Unfortunately, relatives do
not usually undergo the same strict screening as other foster parents because social
workers are hesitant to question family. The Children's Initiative does not address the
issue of more rigid screening of relatives. However, it recommends more relative
placements. With passage of the Children's Initiative we may expect similar cases.
June 22, 1992. Sexually Abused Girl Infected with AIDS. The nine-year-old girl had
previously contracted other sexually transmitted diseases but was not removed from her
family until one month after she was found to be infected with AIDS. The girl had
suffered years of sexual abuse and came under the scrutiny of the state social worker in
1988. The Children's Initiative's purpose is to prevent the removal of children from their
families and work with their families to preserve them. How many other "families" like
this one will be "preserved" under the Children's Initiative?
June 25, 1992. Baby Abandoned; Mother is Charged. A mother abandoned her
newborn child in the restroom of a Connecticut mall. The mother went to the hospital
for treatment and told them she had abandoned the baby. The baby is now in the
custody of the State Department of Children and Youth Services. The Children's
Initiative would encourage the return of the child to the mother SO that the "family" can
be preserved.
July 17, 1992. Five Siblings Allegedly Kept Locked Up. Over DC Agency's Advice,
Removal From Mother Ordered. Five children imprisoned in two small unlighted, foul
smelling, roach infested rooms for four years were removed yesterday. DHS first became
involved with the family in 1982. Two of the children's limbs were broken by their
father, one as recent as last month. DHS did not classify the case as an emergency and
stated that the children were not in imminent danger. DHS's recommendation is in
accordance with the principles of the Children's Initiative.
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April 1992. 17-Year-Old Mother charged with Death of Abandoned Baby. A teenager
in New York was charged with the death of her baby whom she abandoned next to the
East River. As she was taken away in handcuffs, her aunt asked why the social worker,
who returned the child to her niece after she had already abandoned him once, wasn't
also arrested for his death. The Children's Initiative would encourage returning other
babies like him to their "families."
July 14, 1992. Abandoned Baby Taken from Adoptive Parents, Returned to Birthmother.
Over a year ago the 19-year-old mother checked into the hospital under a false name
and delivered a baby. She left the hospital without the baby and the authorities had no
way to find her. Her parental rights were terminated and the baby placed with an
adoptive couple. Four months after the birth, the birthmother retained the help of an
attorney and a judge has now ruled that the child be taken from the adoptive couple and
returned to the birthmother. The state's Attorney General is appealing the judge's
decision. The Children's Initiative would require that the child be returned to the
birthmother to "preserve the family."
June 4, 1992. "Family Preservation" Excuse to Deny Trans-ethnic Adoption. Anglo
foster parents are denied the right to adopt Hispanic twelve-month-old baby whom they
have cared for since she was three-days-old. State child welfare agency denies that
ethnicity is the reason, but states that they want to place her with her older sister (with
whom she has had no relationship.) State cites "family preservation" as the determining
factor in their placements. Two other siblings who are living with relatives will not be
placed with these two little girls, so it appears that complete "family preservation" is not
necessary. Children's Initiative defines "family" to be preserved as the "blood" family, not
the "psychological" or "real" family of the child. Child development needs have no place
under the "family preservation" scheme.
July 10, 1992. Boy Wins Right to Sue Parents for Divorce An 11-year-old boy who has
not lived with his mother since he was 4 has been given the go ahead to sue his parents
for divorce so that he can be adopted by his foster parents. The case may establish a
terrible precedent placing children in the inappropriate role of being responsible for
their welfare. However, in this case, it is seen as the only recourse for a child who is not
being adequately protected by the child welfare system which is intent on "family
preservation."
HOW WOULD THE CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE HAVEHELPED THESE CHILDREN?
It would continue business as usual, but with more money. It would encourage social
workers to leave children in severely dysfunctional families under the guise of "preserving
families". It would increase the length of foster care for children who are in imminent
danger as social workers "preserve" the biological family which may or may not have any
physical or psychological relationship with the child. In other words, these kids could
expect the same treatment.
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THE CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE OR BUREAUCRACY RELIEF ACT?
*
The number of children in foster care is at an all time high because of abuse and
neglect suffered at the hands of their multi-problem parents. In 1990, the American
Public Welfare Association (APWA) estimated 617,000 were served in out-of-home
placement. This represents a 45.4% increase since 1987. Much of this increase is
related to increasing problems of parental substance abuse. The Children's Initiative
counters common sense and says that State social workers can "preserve"all families.
"Family preservation" programs have been touted by those who receive funding for
them, yet there is no conclusive evidence that they work. There is no doubt that they
have been effective for some families, but some have charged that they have only been
offered to highly motivated, high functioning families with less severe problems. Which
interventions, if any, were effective? Or were the families served families in a crisis
situation who would have emerged healthily with their own resources? The Children's
Initiative says give the bureaucrats more money to experiment on children and families.
The family preservation bill adds increased emphasis to the goal of "family
preservation" and ignores the permanency planning needs of children whose families
cannot be preserved. According to the APWA, in the past decade, "it appears that
disproportionately more resources have been spent on programs for placement
prevention (e.g., family preservation programs) than on programs for reunifying
substitute care children with their families. However, this emphasis on placement
prevention by the child welfare community is now taking its toll at a time when greater
success in reunification efforts is needed." The Children's Initiative says let's continue
the same failed path of the last decade and let's spend more money to do it, never mind
the toll it takes on kids who must be removed from their families.
*
According to the APWA, "Historically, this country has relied almost totally (and
perhaps unrealistically) on the public child welfare system to ameliorate all the problems
of children and families. Yet, it is clear that most of these problems are deeply rooted in
very difficult societal problems (e.g., poverty, job-lessness, inadequate housing, poor
education), which are far beyond the expertise and resources of the system. The
Children's Initiative says that the child welfare system can save America's families, but
it needs more money. The Children's Initiative says the State can be an adequate parent
when biological parents fail.
*
The bill has a bias against children served by private agencies or entities, even though
the services may be more effective than those provided through the public child welfare
system. The private sector has demonstrated its ability to provide more effective and
efficient services, yet the bill discourages public/private partnerships. The Children's
Initiative's support of the public welfare system and not private programs which are
more effective and efficient suggests that its primary purpose is "bureaucracy relief,' not
protecting children.
ACTION NEEDED: Contact your Representative at his home office and in Washington
(202-224-3121) and tell him to vote against H.R. 5600 The Children's Initiative and for
H.R. 5530 so that States can provide real assistance to children and families.
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WHY WOULD ANYONE BE AGAINST MONEY FOR "FAMILYPRESERVATION"?
It's rare that an organization that is interested in helping families stay together and
in promoting good temporary foster care services would oppose a "family preservation"
bill. But the National Council For Adoption, a 13-year old national voluntary
organization, does oppose a bill that is expected to soon emerge from the U.S. House of
Representatives. Here's why.
The basic problem with the child welfare system is not simply a lack of money. The
basic problem is a lack of results from a public welfare system that is unable to cope.
The public welfare system is in such a state of crisis that if it were a corporation, it
would be in bankruptcy. As it is, the public welfare system is in a kind of "receivership,"
and the American Civil Liberties Union and other child advocates are going to the
courts to get minimal services mandated by judges. The public welfare system has been
failing families and children, despite open-ended entitlement programs. Instead of
providing families and children in crisis with real choice, by empowering community-
based, private charitable organizations with the chance to use those same tax dollars to
help families, the "family preservation" bill really just props up the disintegrating public
welfare system with a few billion additional dollars.
NCFA calls for choice in family and child services by mandating competition and
allowing the grass-roots, voluntary agencies equal access to child welfare dollars.
"Family preservation" is the kind of phrase that sounds as wholesome as the U.S. flag
and motherhood, but what it actually represents is a retreat from the main purpose for
child welfare services: protecting innocent children from abuse and neglect.
The current fad inside the Beltway and inside the Welfare Establishment is "family
preservation" because the public welfare system has failed miserably with the other
alternatives: temporary foster care and adoption. Foster care has become a mismanaged
dumping ground, uninspected and unmonitored, where kids are so endangered yet cost
the taxpayers so much that many have thrown up their hands and said, "leave the kids
where they are: if they are going to be abused, it might as well be by their parents."
Adoption as a solution has been brushed off for several reasons, but mainly because it is
so far down as a priority in a system which sees family preservation as its only goal. The
agencies that are finding Black, Hispanic and other families for kids in crisis are the
charitable agencies.
NCFA refuses to give up on child welfare services which are appropriately provided
in the name of a retreat from protecting kids mislabeled "family preservation."
Giving the public welfare system more money without requiring real reforms is like
reopening failed savings and loans, bringing back the former incompetent managers from
prison and giving them a blank check on the U.S. Treasury.
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BUSH ADMINISTRATION'SBILL HELPS STATES RESPOND TO
REAL NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
* The current system under the Social Security Act includes an open-ended entitlement
for foster care and adoption, while preventive services are funded through an
appropriated State formula grant program. This system is highly categorical, it places
highly burdensome requirements on the States for cost allocations plans and procedures
for receiving federal funds, and administrative costs have experienced runaway increases.
* The House is currently considering two approaches to reforming the child welfare
system: Rep. Tom Downey's Children's Initiative and the Bush Administration's
Comprehensive Child Welfare Amendments. We view this as a choice between throwing
more money into a broken system without any fixes by raising taxes or creating a more
flexible system by cutting down on federal red tape that detracts from providing vital
services.
* H.R. 5600, billed as the "Children's Initiative" combines Rep. Downey's Family
Preservation Act (HR 3603) and Rep. Panetta's Mickey Leland Childhood Hunger Relief
Act (HR 1202), at a cost of $3.5 billion each. The bill is financed by a "millionaire's
surcharge" of 10 percent to raise $8.2 billion in new taxes.
* H.R. 5530, the Administration's comprehensive child welfare proposal, was introduced
with bipartisan support. It establishes the largest single source of federal funding for
child protective and child welfare services, yet it is cost neutral under the Budget
Enforcement Act. The Administration bill would not require a tax increase.
* While the sponsors of the Children's Initiative admit the child welfare system is
broken, they continue politics as usual by throwing $3.5 billion at the system without
including anything in their bill that actually fixes the problems in the system. Instead of
reducing the administrative burden currently on states, they dramatically increase the
burden with new categorical earmarks and additional reporting requirements.
*
The Administration bill creates a new flexible funding system for child welfare
services eliminating all categorical requirements for the use of these new funds, and
allows states to better plan knowing at the beginning of each fiscal year what their
Federal funds are rather than receiving them on a reimbursement basis.
* The Children's Initiative does nothing to address the problem of runaway increases in
foster care administrative costs. There is no evidence that services to children are any
better today because of huge increases in administrative costs of over 2,000% since 1981.
The Administration bill provides a mechanism for controlling runaway administrative
costs.
* Although both proposals create a new capped entitlement for child welfare services,
the Children's Initiative is financed by raising taxes by $8.2 billion. In contrast, the
Administration's proposal allows the new capped entitlement program to grow by
amounts currently projected under the budget agreement -- a total of $9 billion over the
next five years.
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The Children's Initiative is a combination of Rep. Tom Downey's Family Preservation
Act and Rep. Panetta's Mickey Leland's Child Hunger Bill. It is an $8 billion bill which
will be paid for by a 10% surtax on income over $1 million. It is purely a political move
as the Democratic leadership knows that Bush will veto any tax increases. The plan is to
play it as pro-millionaire, anti-children.
The Family Preservation Act was developed by a coalition of child welfare organizations
over the past 4 years. The Children's Defense Fund, of which Hillary Clinton is the
chair, has been the lead organization with most of the meetings in their offices.
Jeannie Bunton
456- 456-7750
August 4, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
STEVE PROVOST
FROM:
JOSEPH P. DUGGAN
SUBJECT:
PROPOSED REMARKS TO KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
I. SUMMARY
On Wednesday, August 5 at 9:30 a.m., in you will deliver
remarks to an audience of 2,200 members of the Knights of
Columbus at their annual meeting at the Marriott Marquis in New
York City.
II. DISCUSSION
Your remarks (approximately 15 minutes / teleprompter),
focus on .... follow the there That change must be buen
primale never change,
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July 31, 1992
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
NEW YORK MARRIOTT MARQUIS
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1992
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Thank you, Virgil Dechant. Your Eminence, Cardinal O'Connor
and reverend clergy; distinguished Knights; ladies and gentlemen:
[more acknowledgments, jokes]
A report came across my desk the other day. It stated that
most people in the Western world "felt exceedingly gloomy about
the future." It said that "institutions were decaying, well-
meaning people were growing cynical."
My first thought was: That's what happens when people spend
too much time watching the network evening news. 11
But what I was reading was not a report about 1992. It was
a history of public attitudes in 1492.
Public moods are prone to change. We know the gloom of 1492
was not to last for long. It was dispelled by the achievement of
a man of humble birth.
a man of vision and courage.
a man
of faith who like the Lord he worshipped "looked at the world and
saw that it was good"
a man named Christopher Columbus. 11
Columbus opened up a new world of opportunity
for the
spread of commerce \ and culture \ and faith. \ In this 500th
anniversary year of his voyage of discovery, I'm honored to meet
with a group of Americans dedicated to his ideals.
All around us today, we hear a chorus of pessimism about the
future. Let me assure you, I don't sing in that choir. 11 I
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trust the men and women of this country -- I trust the people to
use their freedom and their talents to build a bright future for
our children. I believe America's finest days are still to come.
This year we hear a lot of talk about change. And sure,
there are things I'd like to change. Though maybe a better word
is renewal -- because the changes we need must be based on
principles that never change.
My mother and father brought me up to understand that
mankind's fundamental moral standards were established by
Almighty God. They're as natural and unchangeable as the laws of
physics. Our common law, our Constitution and our Bill of Rights
are firmly rooted in this tradition -- the Judaeo-Christian
Speech to
tradition. Only recently in America have we seen the rise of
legal theories and practices that reject our tradition. Cardinal
Conterence on Apr.4,91
O'Connor eloquently describes this as an "inversion of values.
It's a deeply disturbing trend -- and it is diametrically opposed
to my idea of change that's good for our country. 11
Marriott on
Last month on a stage just 12 blocks from here, there was 34th St.
move to
another convention -- very different from this one. Now, I MSG on 46th
P.6.
didn't hear any of those speeches I was up in the mountains
abortion?
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fishing. But I understand one of the speakers, known for his
Cuomo
florid language, called me "the captain of the ship of state. "
Speech to
DNC in
He didn't mean it as a compliment, but as an old Navy man at a
NY-Juy
Knights of Columbus convention
the term suits me just fine.
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Whoever is chosen to pilot the ship of state must have a
reliable moral compass. 11 And I'd like to chart with you a
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journey I believe we must take to renew America's strengths --
both material and moral. With the spirit that sent a man to the
Moon and won the Cold War, I know we'll find a new world of hope
just over the horizon. 11
First, we must keep to the course of freedom for people to
invent and produce -- to engage in enterprise. We need to curb
the cost of government and the expanse of bureaucracy. We need
to shoulder our responsibility, to spare our children an
unbearable burden of federal debt.
In the years ahead, the United States will flourish as a
Admiral
partner with our neighbors in the Americas. In 1492, Columbus
of the Ocean
wrote in his ship's log that trade and investment in the lands of Sea
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the New World would produce "profitable things without number.
Samuel
He was right. And to reap new benefits from that vision, I've
Eliot
Movison
[just concluded] an agreement opening the markets of the United
States, Mexico and Canada. Our North American Free Trade
Agreement will create hundreds of thousands of jobs for Americans
and generate billions of dollars in new American exports. Over
the next decade, we aim to open up trade and generate new jobs
and investment in every country of the Western Hemisphere. This
will certainly improve our material quality of life. But that's
not all: Open trade also will enhance the spirit of friendship
among all the neighbors of the New World.
Second, we must take action worthy of the great blessing
we've received through the fall of Soviet Communism. We must
work to build a just and lasting peace.
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Saint Ignatius said, "Work as though all depended upon
yourself, and pray as though all depended on God." The practice
of that motto conquered Communism. Ceaseless prayer and tireless
work halted the Cold War \ and spared us from the catastrophe of
a third World War.
Believers behind the Iron Curtain defied persecution;
believers in the West defied indifference. Because of their
prayers and your prayers -- because of this resolute faith -- the
people of Poland and Ukraine and Russia are free.
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Over four decades our servicemen trained -- our taxpayers
10n9,
paid three $4 trillion dollars -- to keep our defenses strong. We
deterred the Soviet threat. As President, I'll always be
grateful for the Knights of Columbus' support on the morality of
our strategic deterrence. Because Americans understood the moral
stakes in the Cold War, because we persevered -- we're now able
to work at building a lasting peace between East and West.
We're working with our friends in democratic Russia to
reduce the arsenals that once threatened to unleash a nuclear
war. We've even agreed with Russia to cooperate on strategic
defenses to protect against ballistic missiles. My great
predecessor, President Reagan, envisioned both these things --
and now they're coming to pass.
the (done)
When we faced the first challenge to peace after Cold War,
we didn't shrink. We stood up to Saddam Hussein's aggression and
expelled him from Kuwait. We protected the people of Israel and
Saudi Arabia. Now we've brought age-old adversaries to the peace
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table for the first time. We've gained the greatest opportunity
in centuries to establish peace and stability in the Holy Land.
His Holiness, Pope John Paul, has spent many sleepless
nights in prayer and endeavor for peace in the Middle East. As
long as I am President, I assure you I'll do everything I can to
bring that peace to fulfillment. 11
Respect for life for freedom for human dignity \ forms
the common basis both for peace in the world and for renewal at
home. This brings me to the final course I want to map for you
today: a way to strengthen our foundation -- the family.
The Knights of Columbus are in the forefront of this effort.
In countless ways you help your neighbors: Helping local sports
teams and serving as major sponsors of that magnificent program,
can Aggie/in Anderson
the Special Olympics. Supporting charities and schools;
hourishing minds and souls that hunger for sound values. You
kit
bear solid witness to the fact that real compassion and tol
cannot abide abandonment of standards of right and wrong.
On the tragic issue of abortion, I stand with you for
double check
right to life.
Six
times the Congress has sent me legislat
permitting federal funding of abortion, and times I've
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them no and vetoed those bills.
Now we're facing another fight. My opponent in this
election and his allies in Congress are trying to pass a new
bill. They call it the "Freedom of Choice Act."
Let me tell you what this bill would do:
It would impose on all 50 states an unprecedented regime of
7
In the long term, the only effective answer to the tragedy
of abortion is the kind of patient effort you're supporting:
helping babies find adoptive families, providing positive
alternatives to abortion.
I'm working with you to renew the rights of parents and
families in educating our young people. My G.I. Bill for
Children will help us revolutionize education by giving parents
more financial freedom to choose their children's schools. Right
now, if parents choose a Catholic school or any other alternative
to the public schools, they have to pay twice. First they pay
tuition, then they pay again through taxation. As a group of
Catholic parents made clear to me in Philadelphia last month,
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that makes it hard to exercise your religious freedom.
At the college and university level -- and even now in day
care -- people who choose private and religious institutions get
their fair share of government support. We offer vouchers or
scholarships that go wherever the child or the student goes.
It's time to extend that principle to grade schools and high
schools. That's what my G.I. Bill would do. It will be the
greatest catalyst we've ever had for renewing American education.
You see, I trust parents -- not the government -- to make
the decisions that matter in life.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's care.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools -- public, private or religious schools.
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And the strong support you're giving will make my plan a reality.
When families' rights are overridden, when families falter
and fail -- our society suffers. We could increase taxes and
spending a hundredfold for schools, for "human services," for
crime prevention. But we'd never fill the void if we let the
family institution fall apart. That's why my first principle in
domestic policy is to put the family first. My favorite silver-
haired philosopher is Barbara Bush 11 She puts it this way:
What happens in the White House isn't half as important as what
happens in your house. 11
G.K. Chesterton once said: "The Christian ideal has not
been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and
left untried." If Chesterton were around today, I'd tell him to
think again. I'd point him to the Knights of Columbus. You live
true to difficult ideals. You stand firm for vital principles.
You see what's good in America; you see the potential in our
families and our kids. You're helping to renew this country.
And more than a million strong, you'll help us navigate our way
to shining new horizons. 11
Thank you. May God bless you and our beloved country.
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Remarks by Preside ush on eedom of Choice Act"
from speech to the National Association of Evangelicals,
March 3, 1992
Let me be clear: I support the right to life. Six times the Congress
has sent me legislation permitting federal funding of abortion, and six
times I've told them no and vetoed these bills.
Now we've got another fight. The Democratic Congress has opened up yet
another front in this battle. Tomorrow, they will begin hearings on new
legislation. They call it the "Freedom of Choice Act."
It would impose on all 50 states an unprecedented regime of abortion on
demand, going well beyond even Roe versus Wade.
It would block many state laws requiring that parents be told about
abortions being performed on their young daughters, even though the Supreme
Court has upheld such laws five times.
It would override state laws restricting sex-selection abortions.
It would severely limit the state's ability to impose meaningful
restrictions on abortions performed in the eighth or even the ninth month of
pregnancy.
This is not right. And it will not become law as long as I am
President of the United States of America.
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Some brochures we have on hand.
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Hope this is more helpful than
confusing.
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of C INSURANCE FITS
available upon initiation, complete with increasing
Every K of C council provides a variety of
cash values and dividends. Wives of new members
opportunities for family involvement. Dances,
HE NEEDS OF ITS MEMBERS.
are also eligible to participate in this special plan.
parties, athletic events. Communion breakfasts,
family Masses, father/daughter and mother/son
e Knights of Columbus, as a fraternal organization,
Today the amount of Knights' insurance in force is
activities, outings and lots more. All revolving
well beyond $13 billion, which testifies to its value.
around the family, and the warmth and joy that
wides low-cost insurance "For Brother Knights
K of C insurance offers a complete portfolio from
comes with being an integral part of it.
Brother Knights." It's truly a family affair.
which to choose. The strength of the program is
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"Family of the Month" and "International Family
[ new members, a special low-cost policy is
evidenced by the fact that the amount of money paid
of the Year" awards programs recognize families
out to members in the form of dividends is
that serve as strong role models.
consistently greater than the funds paid to
beneficiaries of deceased members. So it's really
Commitment to family begins with the basics: the
"insurance for the family."
Crusade for Life. Recognizing that 1.5 million
unborn babies are killed by abortions each year in
North America, the Knights have made a
FAMILIES ALWAYS FIT
determined effort to aid pro-life activities and
INTO THE KNIGHTS.
groups, and will continue to do SO until the lives
of the innocent unborn are saved.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Family is important in the Knights of
The K of C's commitment extends to education.
Columbus. In fact, it's almost like one
There are a host of different K of C merit
big family - husbands, wives, children,
scholarships available on the Supreme, state and
widows, college students and religious.
local council level.
A federally guaranteed Student Loan program
is also available to assist members and their
families pursuing higher education.
KNIGHTS FIT INTO THE
LIVES OF YOUNG PEOPLE.
A dynamic organization must build from the
ground up. That's why there's the Columbian
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Squires, an organization of young Catholic men,
age 12 to 18. The purpose? The training of
members in the art and techniques of leadership.
With a motto of "Esto Dignus - Be Worthy,"
it's quite literally the junior organization of the
Knights.
Another place that young Knights can be found
is in councils on college and university campuses.
Young Catholic men have the opportunity to
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KNIGHTS FIT INTO
Last year, the Knights of Columbus donated
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$79 million to charitable and benevolent causes.
THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH.
That includes $11.6 million in donations to the
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mentally retarded.
Making sure the Catholic Church remains vigorous
The
and undiminished is one of the primary missions of
But donating money is only part of it. Knights also
prov
the Knights of Columbus.
give away something more valuable: their time.
By 1
Take the priesthood, for instance. To counter the
Last year alone, the Knights of Columbus gave over
For
ongoing decline in the number of candidates to the
27 million manhours to volunteer services.
priesthood and religious life, there's RSVP- the
Everything from blood drives to meals-on-wheels.
Refund Support Vocations Program. Through local
A Donations to needy. sick, disabled, handicapped $11.5 Million to retanded).
council involvement, the RSVP program provides
B. Disaster relief.
moral and financial support to individual
a Churches, arphanages, homes for the aged.
D. Wellare organizations, community projects, scouting etc.
seminarians and postulants pursuing religious
E. Schobiships, schools, etc.
vocations.
F. Estimated value of food
10 needy.
That's not all. Recently, the Knights funded the
G. Youth activities
H. Church and
massive restoration of the four-century-old facade of
community.
St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.
There's also the $10 million Vicarius Christi Fund,
established in 1982. The interest generated from this
fund is annually given to the Pope for his personal
charities. Since 1982, the fund has generated over
$7 million. Annual contributions will continue in
perpetuity.
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The Knights can also be found lending their support
to the Church at the diocesan and local level. From
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providing manpower and funds for church projects to
playing a role in the life of the parish, the Knights fit
The Knights served as a principal sponsor
into the Church.
of the 1987 International Special
Olympics Summer Games, providing
financial support, manpower and on-site
KNIGHTS FIT INTO THE
support. These types of efforts prompted
COMMUNITY.
Eunice Shriver, the founder of Special
Olympics to say, "I don't think there is any
Knights don't believe in sitting by and just looking
organization in the country that has given
at life.
as much in personal help and in financial
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support fas the Knights] since we started
Knights feed the hungry and help shelter the
19 years ago."
homeless. They help senior citizens remain healthy
and active. They conduct blood drives and fight to
:
The Knights certainly fit into the community.
protect the rights of the unborn.
But they don't stop there.
THE K OF C. WHERE EVERY MAN
AND HIS FAMILY COUNT.
How much do you know about the Knights of
and a half members in over 9,000 local units
Columbus?
throughout the world. Knights can be found in the
United States, Canada, Mexico, the Philippines,
You've probably seen the local K of C council
Puerto Rico, Guatemala, Panama, Cuba, Guam,
building, where Knights and their families meet. But
the Dominican Republic, and the Virgin Islands.
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what do the Knights of Columbus stand for? What
are they all about?
His initial plan of providing financial security for his
parishioners has developed into an extensive life
The Knights stand for many things. Good things.
insurance program open to every member and
K of C programs and projects make a difference
his family. The Knights of Columbus now ranks
in every community of every country where
in the top 6% of life insurance companies in
they're found.
North America, with more than $13 billion of
In the K of C, you can really count. If you're a
insurance in force and over $2 billion in assets.
Catholic man aged 18 or over, you owe it to
The K of C is a diverse organization. Its
yourself to find out more about the Knights
members belong to many races. They
of Columbus.
speak many languages. But they all fit
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
together in one way: they expect
WHERE DO YOU
every day to be better, and they work
to make it happen.
FIT INTO
What can you expect from the
THE KNIGHTS
Knights of Columbus?
OF COLUMBUS?
Plenty.
WHERE DO YOU FIT
COUNT THE WAYS.
"I always tell them they can be as active
as they want to be. We do want them to be
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active the Knights of Columbus is really
The Knights of Columbus was founded in
an organization that not only wants to know
NIGHTS OF COLUMBUS?
1882, when Father Michael McGivney
what you can do for them, but what we
and a small group of men founded a
can do for you.'
D.S., Council 1121
society designed to provide some security
"The Knights can take an individual who
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for widows and orphans of
might not have a sound direction or a
Catholic parishioners.
planned purpose, and in that circle of
friends and members he can, in helping
Father McGivney's idea grew into an
others, find a motivating direction as to
Order of Catholic men and their families,
which way he'd like his life to go."
dedicated to promoting the ideas of
- B.T., Council 4944
charity, unity, fraternity and patriotism.
Today, there are nearly a million
get involved in the college and local community
through activities and projects sponsored by the
council.
K of C activities for young people include Easter
egg hunts, picnics, free throw contests, spelling
bees, softball tournaments and more.
Church
community
insurance
family
youth. As you can see, there are few areas of life
that Knights don't touch and make better.
DO YOU FIT
INTO THE KNIGHTS?
The challenge to become involved has never been
greater. If you're a practical Catholic man aged
18 or over, the K of C may be just what you're
looking for You can become as involved as you
want. Just remember that the Knights offer an
opportunity for fellowship with people who share
the same beliefs, and who recognize the same duty
to God, to family, and to folks down the block.
Contact your local K of C council about signing
up today. (The name and phone number may be
stamped on this flyer. If not, just look in the White
Pages under "Knights of Columbus" or in the
Yellow Pages under "fraternal organizations.")
Why not join the Knights of Columbus?
You'll find that it's a perfect fit.
"The K of C is a fraternal organization of
some of the best men in the world doing good
things for the underprivileged, the handicapped,
anyone that needs any type of help. And it's
done a lot for me. It's made me a better person.
I participate in the insurance program which
gives me a real sense of security."
- C.L., Council 353
You belong in the Knights of Columbus.
as a Knight
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Provided $879,000 of direct assistance to 1,460
individual seminarians and postulants with re
bates of $170,000 from the Supreme Council to
988 councils which participated in the Refund
of Columbus
Support Vocations Program (RSVP). Since 1981,
some $3,073,000, and $710,000 in rebates have
been generated for vocations by RSVP:
you
Erected the Knight's Tower and carillon of bells at
the National Shrine of the Immaculate Concep-
tion, completely renovated it recently, and raised
a $500,000 memorial fund in honor of Past
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Supreme Knight Luke E. Hart to promote Marian
devotion at the Shrine and to preserve the Shrine
1
Created the $10 million "Knights of Columbus
in perpetuity?
Vicarius Christi" fund-increased in August, 1988
to $20 million-the earnings from which are con-
9
Provide the entire budget of the Natural Family
veyed annually to the Holy Father for His personal
Planning offices of the U.S. and Canadian Bish-
charitable purposes. In seven years this fund has
ops, assist the NFP office of the Mexican Bishops
generated more than $8.4 million for the Pope's
and donate $100,000 and $25,000 annually,
good works:
respectively, to the U.S. and Canadian Pro-Life
Activities committees:
2
Bring the Pope to the world at least three times a
year by providing the uplink cost for the televising
during Holy Week-and the downlink in poor
10
Underwrote the erection of the Chapel of Sts.
of papal ceremonies, especially at Christmas and
Benedict, Cyril and Methodius, co-patrons of
Europe, and the expansion of the Chapel of Our
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mission countries?
Lady of Czestchowa, both in the grottoes of St.
Peter's Basilica, Rome:
3
Presented a mobile television production unit to
the Vatican Television Center for the taping, re-
11
Created the Father Michael J. McGivney Memo-
cording and transmission of Vatican ceremonies
rial Fund for New Initiatives in Catholic Education
and fund a worldwide production of videocas-
in the amount of one million dollars to develop
settes of the Pope's weekly audience messages:
improvement in religious education in the U.S.
and Canada?
4
Established the $1.3 million Count Enrico Gal-
eazzi Fund for the Pontifical North American
College for the benefit of the College and for U.S.
Bishop-and priest-students there; and the Fa-
12
Raised and distributed almost $80 million and
contributed 27 million man-hours in service to
Church, community, youth, and fellowman in
ther McGivney Fund for the Pontifical Canadian
1987 through the "Surge With Service" out-
College, the Father McGivney Fund for the Colle-
reach program:
gio Pontificio Filipino and the Our Lady of Guada-
lupe Fund for the Pontifical Mexican College:
13
Sponsor the Pope John XXIII Center's seminars
for the Bishops of the U.S., Canada, Mexico,
5
Underwrote completely the renovation of the
Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and the Philippines on
entire facade of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the
the vital life-death issues:
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most famous church in the world, the statues of
Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter's Square, and the
historic Rooms of the Architects in the Basilica
14
Underwrite, through an annual assessment of
80c per member, the Order's Catholic Advertis-
proper:
ing Program, which provides free information on
the Catholic faith to interested inquirers-135,000
6
Made a $2 million grant for the construction of
inquirers and 10,000 enrollees in correspon-
the chapel in the new headquarters of the National
dence courses annually?
Conference of Catholic Bishops dedicated to Mary,
Mother of the Church, and identified as the
"Knights" Chapel" in honor of Bishop Greco; and
areraising $1 million for the Bishop de Laval Fund
15
Have distributed more than two million special
Knights of Columbus rosaries at the rate ofsome
10,000 per month, especially to new members,
to help support the work of the Canadian Confer-
and now to former members who are
ence of Catholic Bishops:
readmitted?
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Support a multimillion dollar Student Loan Pro-
gram for members and their children pursuing
KOFC
higher education, with all seminarians eligible:
17
Provide support for such varied apostolates as
the National Clergy Conference on Alcoholism;
Morality in Media; the National Catholic Office for
Persons with Disabilities; the National Catholic
Office for the Deaf; the National Foundation for
Mexican-American Vocations; the National Apos-
tolate with Mentally Retarded Persons; the Na-
tional Catholic Conference for Interracial
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Provide $76 million-plus dollars in Church-re-
lated mortgages to Catholic dioceses and institu-
tions at low interest rates?
19
Renovated St. Mary's Church in New Haven, the
birthplace of the Order, and entombed the re-
mains of the founder, Rev. Michael J. McGivney,
therein on March 29, 1982. Completed the 110-
year-old construction plan of the Church by erect-
ing a 179-foot steeple, including a carillon of
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three bronze bells, atop St. Mary's:
20
Support the spiritual welfare of armed services
personnel and their families around the globe
through a $900,000 fund for the Archdiocese for
Military Services:
21
Sponsor daily Mass for deceased Brother Knights
at St. Mary's Church in New Haven and enable
widows of Knights to receive COLUMBIA maga-
zine each month:
22
Refunded $32 million in death benefits to the
families of deceased Brother Knights during 1988
and allocated $111.4 million in dividends to in-
surance members?
23
Established a North American campus of the
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for Study of Marriage and the Family in Washing-
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Volunteerism for the Knights of Columbus is more than a pledge to serve others. It's been a tradition for 106 years now, and
continues as an integral part of who we are today.
We're proud of our commitment to helping others. Our parish assistance projects help the entire Catholic Church. Our
educational programs provide increased opportunities for young people. Our efforts to feed the hungry, aid the elderly,
shelter the homeless, and assist the mentally and physically handicapped enrich their lives and ours.
In communities large and small across the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Philippines and the Caribbean, Knights of
Columbus are reaching out to others and helping make the world a better place for everyone.
Last year, our Order volunteered more than 27 million man-hours to community service and disbursed more than $79
million to charitable causes. And over the past ten years, we have volunteered over 145 million man-hours to community
service and donated more than $506 million to charity.
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KNIGHTS GAVE $95 MILLION, 42 MILLION
HOURS TO CHARITABLE CAUSES DURING 1991
NEW HAVEN, Conn:--Knights of Columbus gave close to 42 million
hours in volunteer service to church, community and youth
programs last year while also contributing over $95 million to
such causes.
Both figures are new record highs for the organization.
of the $95,053,733 given by Knights of Columbus in 1991,
almost $80 million was raised and contributed by local and state
units to programs and institutions entirely within their own
jurisdictions.
The remainder, a little over $15 million coming from
earnings of the Knights' insurance operations, was given by the
organization's Supreme Council to programs at the national and
international levels.
These figures are contained in the Order's annual Survey of
Fraternal Activity for 1991.
Ten-year cumulative figures in the survey show that since
1982 Knights of Columbus at all levels have contributed a total
of $740,839,038 to charitable causes. They also have given an
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estimated 247,466,049 hours in volunteer service.
The Knights of Columbus is a Catholic family fraternal
service organization with over 1.5 million members in the United
States, Canada, Mexico, the Philippines and several other
countries.
The international headquarters, located here, conducts the
annual survey and compiles the information received from state
and local units.
"Here is a record of remarkable generosity by Catholic
laymen committed to the highest ideals of service to their Church
and their communities," said Supreme Knight Virgil C. Dechant.
"The figure of more than $95 million given last year to
charitable and benevolent activities would be an outstanding
achievement at any time. It is especially commendable coming
during a period of economic slowdown which prompted financial
retrenchment on the part of many groups and individuals.
"Even more significant than the money are the nearly 42
million hours contributed by Knights of Columbus to serving other
people in a wide variety of church, community and youth programs.
This willingness to give--of oneself as well as one's material
resources--is the measure of volunteerism. Members of the Knights
of Columbus pass the test with flying colors."
Besides contributing a total of 41,971,740 hours to
volunteer service involving church, community and youth
activities outside the Knights of Columbus, members of the Order
gave another 5,858,112 hours of their time to "fraternal service"
of various sorts--meetings, functions and the internal activities
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of the Order.
Knights made 4,720,159 visits to the sick and bereaved,
according to the survey. The Order also had 383,448 blood donors
in 1991.
The local and state units of the Knights of Columbus
contributed a combined total of $79,996,690 to charitable and
benevolent causes last year. Another $15,057,023 was contributed
to such causes nationally and internationally by the Supreme
Council.
The money given by local and state units was raised by them
and contributed by them to projects within their own
jurisdictions, with none going to the Supreme Council.
The survey figures also showed that the Knights of Columbus
had activity expenses totaling $63,089,930. At the state and
local levels, the figure was $50,399,013 for meetings, functions,
projects, publications, postage and other costs. The fraternal
expenses of the Supreme Council, including national publications
and support of membership operations, totaled $12,895,582.
By category of activity, the contributions at the state and
local levels were as follows:
*Church activities (assistance to churches, schools and
religious education, seminaries, seminarians and religious in
formation, vocations programs, etc.)--$28,240,492. The 10-year
cumulative figure in this category is $189,577,462.
*Community activities (institutions and programs for the
elderly and disabled, Special Olympics, assistance to the
mentally retarded, programs for the poor and disaster victims,
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pro-life activities, hospital and health projects, other
community service activities)--$38,488,685. The 10-year total is
$359,756,789.
*Youth activities (Columbian Squires--the youth organization
of the Knights of Columbus, Scouting, other youth groups, youth
welfare including programs on substance abuse and child abuse,
foster parenting, athletic programs, etc.)--$13,267,533. The 10-
year total is $100,295,082.
The average per member contribution by members of the
Knights of Columbus in 1991 was $62.83. The highest per member
figure was recorded by the Order's 7,748 members in British
Columbia--$188.76.
The largest sum given by Knights in a state or comparable
jurisdiction was the $7,523,281 contributed by members in
Ontario. Other jurisdictions in the top five were Quebec,
$5,309,661; Illinois, $4,769,881; New York, $3,910,544; and
California, $3,780,012.
THREATS AGAINST AND DEFENSE OF HUMAN LIFE
4 APRIL 1991
JOHN CARDINAL 'CONNOR
Most Holy Father and my brothers of the College of Cardinals:
I have been asked to represent North America concerning threats to human
life. In this paper, I confine myself primarily to abortion and secondarily
to euthanasia. The Canadian Catholic Conference has provided me with certain
data on the situation in Canada.
First, a synthesis of the situation in Canada as provided me by the
Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. In 1987 the abortion rate in Canada
was 17.2 abortions per 100 live births. On January 28, 1988, the existing
law in Canada was struck down as unconstitutional. In the three years that
followed the Conference endeavoured to have a new law passed that would
provide the maximum possible protection for unborn children given the legal
and political realities in Canada.
Regrettably, these efforts were not successful. The legislation was
defeated in the Senate at the end of January 1991, and there is no indication
that the government will introduce a new bill. The unborn child is,
therefore, without any legal protection in Canada.
Both the pro-life and pro-choice advocacy groups opposed passage of the
bill in the Senate; the pro-life groups because it did not go far enough; the
pro-choice groups because it went too far. Although the bill was seriously
flawed, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops believed it was preferable
to continuing the legislative vacuum. The bill rejected a gestational
approach, and confirmed that abortion is a matter of public morality and a
criminal offence.
The Conference has urged the government to introduce a new bill but is
not optimistic that this will happen in the near future. For their part, the
Conference is formally committed to concentrating its future efforts on
educational projects. Through these, it shall continue to inform and persuade
public opinion of the sacredness of all human life.
Last spring, a Royal Commission was established to examine the social,
ethical, health, research, legal, economic, and public interest implications
of the new reproductive technologies. Extensive consultations are being held
throughout the country. The Conference has filed a brief urging the
Commission to give priority to the dignity of the human person, the covenant
of marriage and the family unit, and to develop their recommendations within
the framework of an overall philosophy that respects the sacredness and
giftedness of human life.
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops is very conscious of the need
to mobilize the community to protect and promote human life and dignity at all
stages of development. This is even more important in the wake of the defeat
of the legislation on abortion. The Conference is cooperating with the
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Catholic Health Association of Canada on guidelines for issues such as
euthanasia, hydration, etc.
(Since this synthesis was compiled, the Court in Canada has taken further
action. On March 21, 1991 the Court ruled unanimously that a fetus is not a
person and has no guarantee of life and no other rights. The ruling came in a
case where, after 15 hours of labor, the baby's head emerged from the mother,
but the baby suffocated when the mother was unable to complete the delivery.)
The Canadian Catholic Conference has made numerous interventions on
behalf of life to the parliament and the people of Canada. Excellent
educational material and fine episcopal statements have been distributed.
(cf. "Submission to the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies";
"Working Paper 58: Crimes Against the Foetus"; "Submission Made on Behalf of
the Permanent Council of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops to the
Parliamentary Committee on Abortion"; "The Gift of Life -- The Right to Life";
"In the Name of Life".)
Before turning to the United States, permit me to make some general
remarks about deep-rooted, worldwide problems.
I can not speak of abortion or euthanasia merely in academic terms even
though we must be able to argue the issues reasonably, logically and
convincingly. The Lord Jesus Christ wept bitterly over the death of Lazarus
and cried out in rebellion in the Garden of Gethsemane against His own
impending death. I suggest that what is happening all over the world demands
that we His servants suffer the horror in our own persons, as Christ did in
His, if our own cries of protest are one day to be heard.
I am personally deeply grateful to our Holy Father for calling this
extraordinary consistory. We are in extremis. For the first time in the
history of the human race we have turned against life itself. Under the
Nazis, Jews were the target of torture and death because they were Jews. In
the Cambodian genocide, the Cambodians were killed because they were
Cambodian. This has happened to various peoples. But I can find no
indication that ever before in history has there been an attack against human
beings only because they are alive.
THE ULTIMATE THREAT TO HUMAN LIFE: REJECTION OF GOD
For many years I have been fighting against abortion, believing it to
be the ultimate evil. In recent years, however, I have come to believe that
abortion, the killing of 30 to 50 million pre-born babies every year
throughout the world, tragic as it is, is not the ultimate evil, nor is
euthanasia. Both are symptoms and results of the ultimate evil: the rejection
of God by those who would themselves become gods.
It's the basic story of the creation and the fall of the human race. The
primal act of disobedience was the attempt by human beings to usurp divinity,
to expropriate the authority to determine what is evil, what is good. This
original sin resulted immediately in the alienation of Adam from Eve, and was
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followed by the killing of Cain by Abel.
I suggest these thoughts for a pragmatic reason. I am coming to believe
that if we are going to turn back the tide of killings we may well have to
redefine our objectives. It may be that before we can save lives, we must
save souls. The world is in desperate need of an overpowering moral metanoia.
Ignorance of the moral law abounds. I do not wish to underestimate the
goodness of countless numbers of people, but I believe profoundly that St.
Paul's warning to the Romans is shockingly applicable today to much of our
society. [Rom. 1: 18-32]
The Second Vatican Council warned of such an outcome, if in less dramatic
terms than St. Paul's. First, the Council said: "Whatever is opposed to life
itself, such as any type of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia or willful
self-destruction; whatever violates the integrity of the human person,
whatever insults human dignity
all these things and others of their like
are infamies indeed." [G.S. 27]
Then the Council warned of the results of these evils: they poison human
society; they do more harm to those who practice them than to those who suffer
from the injury; they are a supreme dishonor to the Creator.
Let me turn now to the United States. I first present only the negative
side of the story. I will follow this, however, by describing some of the
highly positive and gratifying things our people are engaged in.
SOME THREATS TO HUMAN LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES
The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States intended to
safeguard religious rights in a religiously pluralistic society. Today,
however, society is increasingly becoming morally pluralistic. The entwined
notions of tolerance, privacy and choice are creating a moral climate in which
an individual may determine for himself what is morally right, what is morally
wrong, without any objective norms. The only civil sin becomes that of
requiring conformity to any objective moral norm. We are seeing a growing
acceptance of Nietzsche's 'inversion of values".
In such a climate no one can claim an absolute right to life, for every
right becomes relative. The state is mightier than any individual, hence can
declare any individual, such as a pre-born baby, to be a "non-person" with no
rights. The state can determine that an individual's "quality of life" no
longer merits defense by the state hence, can be extinguished by euthanasia
or legalized suicide. Morality is determined by majority vote. It is coming
to be presumed by some that for the infirm, the aged, the helpless to remove
themselves as burdens upon their families or upon society at large is not only
morally licit but morally obligatory. Young women who are pregnant are led to
believe that they have not only the right, but the obligation, to themselves,
to their families, to an already overburdened society to abort their pre-born
babies. They are told they have no "right" to impose babies on society.
Perversely, those granted rights by both natural and divine law are
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deprived of those rights by civil law, including the parents of a young,
pregnant daughter, the father of the pre-born baby, and the pre-born baby
himself. Parents may be deprived of even knowing about their young daughter's
pregnancy or of preventing an abortion. Even the father of an unborn baby is
forbidden by law from preventing the destruction of his unborn baby. The
woman alone has the power over life and death, good and evil. One can hardly
help thinking of Our Lord's warning to His followers: "The time will come
when anyone who kills you will think that by doing this he is serving God."
[Jn. 16:2]
In other words, our national moral climate is changing drastically.
Thomas Jefferson, who formulated our Declaration of Independence, stated:
"The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the just
and only legitimate object of good government." That was on March 31, 1809.
On January 22, 1973 the Supreme Court of the United State radically reversed
that political philosophy and essentially declared government to be
indifferent to the destruction of human life. The unborn were
disenfranchised, stripped of every human right, beginning with the right to
life. No greater blow has ever been struck at the family, or at society
itself.
In contrast to the consistent ethic of life called for by the bishops,
various forces are developing a consistent ethic of death. The legalization
of abortion is opening the door to legalized suicide and euthanasia, under
such euphemisms as "death with dignity". Many medical doctors, once
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consecrated to life, now make fortunes on death through abortion. Again we
see the inversion of values.
Worst of all, perhaps is the real danger that the developing pro-death
ethic in the United States will be exported to the newly emerging democracies
in Eastern Europe. They are looking to the United States for assistance in
forming their constitutions and rule of law. In recent months, pro-abortion
groups in my country have asked constituents to write to government officials
in Eastern Europe to protest any limitation on abortion rights. They have
threatened to lobby the United States Congress to condition economic aid to
developing democracies on recognition of abortion rights.
The United States has historically been a nation of law. Legislatures
and the courts have always been influential in shaping our lives. Once,
however, civil law was deliberately designed to conform with Divine Law or the
Natural Moral Law and helped foster a "common morality" which recognized an
objective moral order. Justice James Wilson, appointed to the Supreme Court
by the first President of the United States, George Washington, stated it
clearly:
that our Creator has a supreme right to prescribe a
law for conduct, and that we are under the most perfect
obligation to obey that law, are truths established on the
clearest and most solid principles
God being infinitely and eternally happy in Himself, His
goodness alone could move Him to create us and give us the
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means of happiness. The same principle that moved His
creating moves His governing power. The rule of His
government we shall find to be reduced to this one
paternal command: let man pursue his own perfection and
happiness.
What is the efficient cause and moral obligation, of
the eminent distinction between right and wrong?
the Will of God. This is the Supreme Law.
We are at grave risk in our country of falling far from that ideal of law.
Today civil law largely rejects any objective norm outside itself, divine or
natural. Yet frequently the civil law, not the Church, not the schools, not
the family is the most powerful teacher in the nation. I believe that many
now perceive that if it is legal to kill the unborn, it must be moral to kill
the unborn; the right to privacy prevails over the right to life; the right to
choose prevails over every other right. Why? The law says so. Catholics are
not immune to such perversions.
CATHOLIC "PRAXIS" IN THIS CONTEXT
In my judgment, this is one reason why some Catholics today are tempted
to ignore everything the Church teaches except what they decide the Church
should teach. If the law tells me I may destroy my unborn baby, what right
has the Church to tell me I may not? And if the Church has no right to tell
me this, by what authority does the Church tell me anything? Thus, in my
judgment, is the widespread acceptance of abortion undermining the faith of a
significant number of Catholics.
This situation is intertwined with and is further confused by such
problems as: the demands of "radical feminists"; organizations that identify
themselves as Catholic and publicly declare that abortion is a right; Catholic
colleges and universities that authorize "pro-choice" clubs on campus, or give
honorary degrees to public figures who are notoriously "pro-choice"; religious
who support the "rights" of women over Church teaching, such as the "right to
choose"; priests who refuse to preach about abortion because they consider it
a much lesser evil than other social evils; Catholic college or university
professors who ridicule Church teaching in the classroom; Catholics in public
life who support abortion. All such positions have helped make abortion
"respectable". When governments use tax monies to fund abortions they place
every citizen at risk of violating his or her conscience by being an
accomplice to the destruction of human life.
Misinterpretations of what Vatican II had to say about conscience further
confuse the problem. The Council's careful reasoning about the role of
conscience and the obligation to assure that one has a correctly "informed"
conscience are often ignored or manipulated, and the individual conscience,
informed or not, is seen as the only arbiter. Even St. Thomas is quoted as
giving such autonomy to conscience. Obviously, this is not what the Second
Vatican Council said. I quote from the "Declaration on Religious Freedom".
In all his activity a man is bound to follow his
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conscience faithfully in order that he may come to know
God for whom he was created. It follows that he is not to
be forced to act in a manner contrary to his conscience.
(3)
In the depths of his conscience, man detects a
law which he does not impose upon himself, but which holds
him to obedience. Always summoning him to love good and
avoid evil, the voice of conscience can when necessary
speak to his heart more specifically: do this, shun that.
For man has in his heart a law written by God. To obey it
is the very dignity of man; according to it he will be
judged. (16)
Conscience frequently errs from
invincible ignorance without losing its dignity. The same
cannot be said of a man who cares but little for truth and
goodness, or of a conscience which by degrees grows
practically sightless as a result of habitual sin. (19)
But whatever the weaknesses of some Catholics, or the mistakes of others,
the Church in the United States has been far from passive.
THE DEFENSE OF HUMAN LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES
Since 1973, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, acting
principally through its Committee for Pro-Life Activities, has addressed the
life issues intensively and with increasing vigor. Great thanks are due to my
two predecessors who chaired the Committee, Cardinal Cooke and Cardinal
Bernardin. His Eminence, Cardinal Bernardin, particularly, brought a new
dimension to the pro-life movement in introducing the principle that we must
be consistent in our approach to every threat to human life, such as war,
poverty, racism, homelessness. Thus is our argument strengthened in support
of the unborn. I will describe some of the efforts of the bishops, priests,
religious, and laity, large numbers of whom have been passionately dedicated
to the cause of life and have made amazing sacrifices.
In 1973, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops developed the
"Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities" which calls for:
1. a public information and education effort to deepen
understanding of the humanity of the unborn, the sanctity
of human life, the moral evil of abortion, and the
consistent efforts of the Church to witness on behalf of
all human life;
2. a pastoral effort addressed to the special needs of women
with problems related to pregnancy, of men and women struggling
to accept responsibility for their power to generate human
life, and of all persons who have had or have taken part in an
abortion; and
3. a public policy effort directed to ensuring effective
legal protection for the right to life of the unborn.
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This Pastoral Plan was revised in 1985, introducing the "Consistent Ethic
of Life", as noted above, and was unanimously reaffirmed by the bishops of the
United States in November of 1989 in a resolution stating: "At this
particular time, abortion has become the fundamental human rights issue for
all men and women of good will. No Catholic can responsibly take a
'pro-choice' stand when the 'choice' in question involves the taking of
innocent human life."
The bishops, in conjunction with various organized lay groups, spend
considerable effort in addressing public policy and attempting to bring about
a change in legislation, in Supreme Court interpretations of the Constitution
and in trying to achieve a constitutional amendment which would restore legal
protection for the unborn. This requires immense effort on a national scale
and depends on millions of people at the grassroots of our country. Important
to our effort is the National Committee for a Human Life Amendment, supported
by contributions from individual bishops throughout the country, which has
organized a massive letter-writing campaign, "Project Life" in support of pro-
life legislation.
Many individual bishops give major addresses on human life in every
available forum and publish pastoral letters for the benefit of their priests
and people. Some bishops, along with priests, religious and lay persons, have
been imprisoned for participating in an effort to block abortion clinics and
to plead with pregnant women about to enter such clinics not to do so
Some bishops have widely publicized in their own dioceses or
archdioceses, that any woman of any religious persuasion or racial or ethnic
background who is pregnant and in financial need may come to the Church and be
given free medical care, free hospitalization, free counselling and legal
services, so that she will not feel it necessary to have an abortion. Making
this kind of help available is crucial. God alone knows the number of women,
particularly very young women, who have nowhere to turn, no one to help them
when they are pregnant. Confused, lonely, often penniless, they see abortion
as the only escape Even their parents may have rejected them.
Many bishops have highly advanced programs of post-abortion counseling
under such titles as "Project Rachel", including programs to help reconcile
women and others to Almighty God and to be at peace with themselves after
expressing their sorrow over an abortion.
The National Conference of Catholic Bishops has recently undertaken a
very expensive and extensive communications and education effort to dispel
ignorance about abortion, counter pro-abortion propaganda, and encourage
people to recognize the sacredness of every human life. In this effort, with
the generous financial support of the Knights of Columbus and others, the
Conference has employed the services of a major research and communications
agency. We believe that a more thorough understanding of the problems and a
more professional means of publicizing the real issues can help significantly
to reduce the number of abortions and influence legislators and other public
policy decision-makers.
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Aware of the critical need for a sense of urgency among all our priests
and the crucial nature of their role in preaching about abortion, some bishops
have initiated workshops for priests to familiarize them with the issues and
to provide better teaching and preaching tools. The National Conference of
Catholic Bishops has designed a National Plan for Natural Family Planning for
implementation by bishops all over the United States.
The National Catholic Educational Association in conjunction with the
bishops' Pro-Life Activities Committee is currently developing new educational
materials for use in classrooms.
Bishops are increasingly emphasizing prayer and special pro-life Masses
to advance the cause of human life.
In many cases the bishops have also organized efforts to oppose the
"condom mentality" and the promiscuity which it fosters, which in our view
only leads to more pregnancies which end in abortion.
One of the latest efforts on the part of the bishops' Pro-Life Activities
Committee is to bring together all of the lay organizations devoted to the
protection and advancement of human life, together with all of those lay
organizations which carry out religious and charitable activities even if they
have not been specifically dedicated to the protection and advancement of
human life. We are in process of forming what will be called a National
Federation for Life which will include all of these diverse groups, as well as
many non-Catholic Christian and Jewish organizations willing to join in the
protection and advancement of human life. This National Federation for Life
will provide several opportunities:
1. it will serve as a means of communicating very widely
with grassroots throughout the United States;
2. it will make possible rapid appeals to millions of
people to take action in regard to legislation affecting
human life; and
3. of exceeding importance, it will help unify pro-life
forces and reduce the natural tensions that arise from
diversities of approach and individual perspectives.
Forgive me now for referring to an activity of my own, which is close to
my heart and which I believe could have a significant influence on the whole
pro-life movement.
On the first day of June of 1991 I will open the doors of a new religious
institute of women in New York that will be called Sisters of Life. I have
interviewed and selected a small number of candidates -- approximately 12--
as the founding group. Others are preparing to enter at some point within the
next year. The charism of the Sisters of Life will be to do everything they
can by prayer and action to protect the unborn and to advance a sense of the
sacredness of human life. This religious institute will be
contemplative/active in nature, spending several hours a day in liturgical and
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informal prayer and several hours a day in pro-life activities.
These religious will live in community and it is hoped that in God's own
time they will establish a major center and retreat house for people who work
for the cause of human life. Those engaged in pro-life work are subject to
loneliness, abuse and weariness; I want them to have a place that they can
come for a day, a week, a month in a prayerful, loving environment.
I suspect that the Sisters of Life will become a major community in the
United States. Judging by the number of requests that I have received, there
are many longing for the consecrated life and for a combination of
contemplation and action. Most of the applicants are 28-30 years of age, some
are lawyers, some are nurses, school teachers, journalists and representatives
of various other professions. Some are older women who have been married and
are widowed. I ask your prayers for this venture.
The Knights of Columbus have been fearless and persistent in trying to
bring about favorable changes in legislation. They have spent large sums of
money in the publication and distribution of pro-life materials.
A broad spectrum of organizations have formed under such titles as
National Right to Life, Americans United for Life, American Life League,
Athletes for Life, Doctors for Life, Lawyers for Life, Pro-Life Action League,
and March for Life. Some have many thousands of constituents. They and many
other organizations too numerous to mention have constantly fought the battle
for life at great personal expense and sacrifice and sometimes in danger of
even losing their livelihoods.
Now we see a number of women's groups forming under such titles as, Women
Affirming Life, Feminists for Life, and so on. One very significant movement
is called "The Nurturing Network". It concerns itself with trying to help
pregnant women in a variety of ways so that they will not feel it necessary to
have abortions.
Annually in Washington, the capital of our nation, thousands of people
from all over the United States join in a March for Life that ends outside the
Supreme Court. This march takes place on the 22nd of January, the anniversary
of the infamous Supreme Court decision of 1973. A pro-life rally in
Washington in April 1990 drew approximately a half-million people.
Many lay persons join in Rosary Crusades, praying at a short distance
from abortion clinics, or in sidewalk counseling, not interfering with the
activities of the clinic or with women en route to the clinic to have
abortions, but highly visible in their prayer. Sometimes they are led by
bishops.
I am grateful to be able to report that these many movements are growing
in numbers and in the commitment of the people. They make it impossible to
feel hopeless about the future.
On an international level, some positive things have happened. The
United Nations' 1984 International Conference on Population, held in Mexico
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City, urged governments "to take appropriate steps to help women avoid
abortion, which in no case should be promoted as a method of family planing,
and whenever possible, provide for the humane treatment and counseling of
women who have had recourse to abortion."
OBSTACLES TO THE DEFENSE OF HUMAN LIFE
But there are weaknesses and problems.
I have already noted that there are some priests who seem unwilling or
feel unable to preach about the sacredness of human life and the tragedy of
abortion, and some nuns unwilling to support Church teaching. Various
nominally Catholic "pro-choice" or "pro-abortion" organizations publicize
their positions with little rebuttal, so that at times the public perceives
the Church as uncertain or disunited.
One organization headquartered in the United States and calling itself
Catholic has begun trying to advance abortion in Latin America. Its efforts
have prompted a response from the bishops of Uruguay and the Peruvian
Episcopal Commission on the Family. The Commission stated emphatically that
the organization "does not belong to any official branch of the Catholic
hierarchy," and called their use of the name "Catholic" a "deceitful strategy"
because "they reject and even mock" the teachings of the Church.
Further, since the Church has perhaps not adequately publicized its
teaching about the rights of women and its denunciation of real injustices
against women, we are accused by some of being ignorant of or indifferent to
women. We must widely publicize the great number of Catholic agencies and
institutions devoted to the care of both women and children. Even more
importantly, perhaps, we must express our compassion and understanding for
women who are unexpectedly pregnant or for the parents of a young girl who
feel it their parental duty to encourage an abortion. We must address the
role and obligations of the men who are responsible for pregnancies. Too
often, they abandon the girl or woman who is pregnant, or even pressure her to
have an abortion.
There are other powerful pro-abortion forces at work in our society.
Studies have suggested that some 85% of the press support abortion rights and
many news reports and editorials make that very clear. Moreover, it is
exceedingly difficult to tell the pro-life story through the newspapers,
magazines, radio or television; such efforts are simply rebuffed.
Next, I regret to say that anti-Catholicism still influences aspects of
our culture. Despite the fact that many Orthodox Jews and Protestants are
pro-life, the pro-life movement is generally perceived as Catholic. The most
restrictive anti-abortion law in the nation was recently passed by the
legislature of the State of Utah, whose population is overwhelmingly Mormon*.
*The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Nevertheless, the pro-life movement is seen by some as the Church's attempt to
impose its morality on a pluralistic society. This plays directly into the
hands of those Catholic politicians who place their political ambitions above
their loyalty to Church teaching.
Continuing in the list of powerful anti-life forces, I would have to
include subtle attempts to commit genocide against Blacks, poor Hispanics and
other poverty-stricken people.
Sexual permissiveness, too, has contributed to the development of an
abortion mentality. Abortion is one of the more common forms of contraception
in the United States. Yet opposition to abortion remains strong among
Catholics and many members of other religious bodies, and government policy
has always separated contraception and abortion. Since the beginning of the
government family planning program in 1970, no government funds have been
provided for abortion as a means of birth control.
Another growing problem is the fear of AIDS, which, instead of reducing
sexual promiscuity, results in the abortion of babies who might otherwise be
born with AIDS because one or the other sexual partner has AIDS.
The socio-economic culture of our society is another force which
encourages abortion. It is becoming increasingly common that both partners in
a marriage have to work for a living. They therefore either do not want
children, or believe that they can not support children economically; hence,
if a pregnancy occurs, an abortion may follow.
Ignorance remains one of the prime reasons for abortion. A great many of
people simply do not understand that human life begins at conception.
Moreover, they have been deluged with propaganda and have become completely
confused. Powerful and wealthy organizations convince them that the
destruction of the "fetus" is a radically different thing from destroying a
baby, or at least less of an "evil" than bringing an "unwanted" baby into the
world. At the same time, studies demonstrate clearly that, once properly
educated about the real meaning of abortion, the majority of people reject it
under restricted circumstances despite all propaganda to the contrary. A
significant number reject abortion under all circumstances.
The need for education about when life begins is critical, particularly
in light of the development, production and use of the pill RU 486. Although
not yet legal in the United States, RU 486 will render irrelevant all
arguments about hominization, viability of the unborn and in which trimester
and abortion may be performed for which reasons. The overwhelming number of
abortions will take place secretly, unknown except to the women who bring them
about by the use of RU 486, unless we can influence them to recognize that
every procured abortion, under every circumstance, no matter how it is brought
about, is a grave evil in the words of Vatican II, an "abominable crime".
(In my country, many of us have taken a strong position opposing the
importation of RU 486. I don't know if our position will prevail, but that is
far less important than our convincing people of the fact that even a spark of
human life comes from God, and may not be snuffed out.)
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Admittedly, one weakness of the pro-life movement lies in unfortunate
misunderstandings and conflicts among various pro-life groups, all of whom
have wonderful intentions, but differing and sometimes conflicting approaches.
One source of contention is the question about supporting "imperfect
legislation", if it is impossible to achieve "perfect legislation" at a given
time. Some pro-life activists believe strongly that one may not support the
passage of any legislation except that which prohibits all procured abortions
under any circumstances. Other equally dedicated pro-life activists believe
that if perfect legislation seems politically impossible at a given time, it
is better to support legislation which permits abortion when the life or
health of the mother is at stake, or the pregnancy is the result of rape or
incest, than for all abortion to go unrestricted. It is hoped that recent
efforts, such as that of establishing the National Federation for Life, will
prove to be helpful in achieving unity.
THE THREAT OF EUTHANASIA
Let me turn very briefly to the question of euthanasia and its various
corollaries, such as legalized assisted suicide. (In the United States, these
are often referred to as "death with dignity" and the "right to die".)
Virtually everything said about the mind-set that encourages abortion can be
said about the mind-set that encourages euthanasia, suicide, and so on,
ceteris paribus. Since 1973, abortions have greatly increased until they have
reached the rate of some 1.6 million annually. I predict that we will meet
the same phenomenon of rapidly increasing numbers regarding euthanasia, unless
we act firmly and clearly now. Reasons given for this phenomenon are the
increase in sophistication of medical technology, the lengthening of life
spans and the impossible costs of medical treatment. I suggest other reasons
that are quite the same as for abortion: avoidance of suffering, relieving
others of a burden, making "choice" the prevailing virtue, rejection of the
Divine Will, assumption of authority to equate the convenient with what is
"good", and the inconvenient with what is "evil".
Another problem, I would suggest, is that in a society with ready
availability of drugs, alcohol and other palliatives, suffering is generally
seen as evil. We have not always done a good job of helping our people
understand the great potential of uniting their sufferings with those of
Christ on the Cross. Not everyone appreciates the mystery that the human
person takes on new significance in light of the Incarnation, or that the
meaning of human personhood becomes clear only in view of Christ's existence
and continuing presence in the world.
Living wills, advance directives or medical power of attorney laws abound
in the United States and again we see the law acting as teacher. Those
promoting such laws claim that they are necessary to allow a person full
autonomy over the dying process or to insure the right to refuse useless
treatment and/or prolonged suffering when death can not be avoided. While
many of these laws are not inherently evil, they are often part of a more
comprehensive legal framework and are often intended as a first step toward
legally sanctioned euthanasia.
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Unfortunately, the Church does not yet seem to have been able to
articulate a clear, unambiguous position on certain aspects of euthanasia or
suicide. Obviously, we condemn euthanasia*, but what about, for example, the
withdrawal of nutrition and hydration and similar complex problems? What
about laws permitting a "proxy" to make decisions for a comatose patient? The
principles of the Vatican Declaration on Euthanasia of 1981 remain valid, but
even Catholic theologians are divided over their application in some of these
cases. Hospitals, medical practitioners, legislators, and judges are, in many
cases, pleading with the Church for clarification. When confusion prevails
people come to believe that the Church either has nothing to say or is not
united. Laws are formulated and quickly serve as teachers.
That which is legal becomes moral. Mental sets solidify, practices once
thought abhorrent become routine. Doctors and nurses and hospital
administrators can find themselves even obligated by law or by a patient's
choice to put people to death, or to abandon them to death.
In my country, although we are designing a response, the hour is already
very late. The thought of euthanasia and assisted suicide is rapidly becoming
"respectable". We want to respond now, knowing that the retarded, the
crippled, the aged, the helpless, even the poor, could be at risk of legal
extermination. Yet we are well aware that we are dealing with highly complex
moral and technical questions. We do not want to mislead, simply in order to
act quickly. Hence, we are working at the moment toward providing a statement
of basic principles, while still studying specific applications.
An example of the time pressure is found in the statement of a Nobel
Prize winner, who is quoted as recommending that
If a child were not declared alive until three days after
birth, then all parents could be allowed the choice that
only a few are given under the present system. The doctor
could allow the child to die if the parents so chose and
save a lot of misery and suffering. [Nobel Prize winner
Dr. James D. Watson, as quoted in The Abortion Holocaust
by William Brennan. (Landmark Press, St. Louis. 1983)
p. 83]
In fact there has been considerable debate about treating seriously defective
newborn children or allowing them to die. Recent cases, including one where
an infant with Down's Syndrome was denied a simple treatment that would have
saved its life, and that would have been given to any healthy infant, have
prompted government guidelines.
* In order to assist the bishops and church agencies and organizations in
dealing with such legislative proposals, the National Conference of Catholic
or Bishops' Pro-Life Committee has issued two statements: (1) Guidelines for
Legislation on Life Sustaining Treatment (1984); (2) Statement on Uniform
Rights of the Terminally Ill Act (1986). Both statements contain moral
principles and their applicability to legislation.
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In two highly publicized cases, physicians assisted patients in suicide,
and news reports indicate that many other doctors admit to doing the same
secretly. One doctor wrote in a medical journal of actually administering a
lethal dose of a drug to a dying woman to end her suffering. Another doctor
has invented a "suicide machine". This is a new dimension of the public
debate because it shows a breakdown in the ethical responsibility of
physicians to sustain life and to cure or care for the patient. We are indeed
developing a "consistent ethic" of death.
THE POSSIBLE THREAT OF "NEW TECHNOLOGIES"
New technology is posing problems both in the area of the "prolongation"
of human life, and in reproductive and prenatal science. Moral dilemmas arise
because some technological advances can help or enable infertile couples to
have children which they strongly desire. These technologies include
artificial insemination (by husband or third party); in vitro fertilization;
surrogate motherhood; gamete intrafallopian transfer and tubal ovum transfer.
The morality of the latter two have not been Judged by the magisterium, while
the other techniques have been judged morally objectionable in Donum Vitae.
There is much opposition to surrogate motherhood and to the use of third-
party sperm or ova in almost all techniques. There is no specific government
funding either for individual patients or for the development of a specific
service. With the exception of surrogate motherhood there has been little
public debate in this area.
At one point, controversy developed over the use of amniocenteses*. Some
believed that amniocentesis would lead to the abortion of "defective" pre-born
babies. Others argued that amniocentesis could save the pre-born by assuring
parents that there was no disease, enabling parents to prepare for treatment
after birth, and enabling physicians to treat the unborn in the womb or to
deliver the baby by caesarean section and begin early treatment immediately
after birth.
Other prenatal diagnostic techniques have been developed, including:
ultrasound, fetoscopy and chorionic villi sampling. These techniques are
becoming increasingly accurate in diagnosing certain disorders that can be
treated in utero or immediately upon birth.
In all these areas research continues and some earlier controversies seem
to have decreased. Positive results have taken place without seeming to
encourage increased abortion, but obviously caution is essential.
One final area of concern is the use of fetal tissue in research and as a
cure (to Parkinson's disease, for example). Experiments seem to indicate that
*In this procedure amniotic fluid is withdrawn from the womb and the
cells are cultured and studied for various genetic diseases.
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this is possible, but it requires research on fetal tissue which is obtained
from aborted fetuses. Both the President of the United States and his
predecessor have opposed funding such research.
In regard to all these issues it is clear that there is continuing need
for ethical discussion and research. There is much work ahead for all of us.
I must conclude, but first I must apologize for not being sufficiently
familiar with the situation in Canada to include far more in this paper. I
know that the Church there is totally committed to the protection and
advancement of human life and deserves a fuller report.
I submit, Most Holy Father and my brother Cardinals, that we have grave
problems. While we want to take prudent, thoughtful and prayerful action,
lives are being destroyed both physically and spiritually at this very moment.
May we implore the "Theotokos" who had to defend her own Child from Herod, to
show us the way -- and quickly.
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JUL 24 '92 10:49
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
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Donation brings music to Camp David Chapel
A
newly constructed chapel at Camp David, the U.S.
and individuals contributing a total of $1 million for
president's retreat, was dedicated in an ecumenical
the chapel, described as "a gift to the United States
service April 21 attended by President and Mrs. George
from the people of the nation as a house of prayer for
Bush, Supreme Knight Virgil C. Dechant and his wife
all peoples." The Order's contribution financed the
Ann, several U.S. senators and high-ranking represen-
purchase of the chapel's pipe organ and was given in
tatives from various religious denominations. including
response to a request from Cardinal Hickey, a Camp
Cardinal James A. Hickey of Washington, and Arch-
David Chapel board member.
bishop William H. Keeler of Baltimore. Camp David is
Supreme Knight Dechant said the Order's contri-
located in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
bution reflected the Knights' love of God and country
The Knights of Columbus was among many groups
and respect for the office of president.
continued on page 2
President Bush accepted the wood-and-stone
or Star of David which would be inappropriate in a
chapel on behalf of the office of president and the
setting designed to be used by people of all faiths,
U.S. government. In his remarks, the president thanked
he said.
God and those "whose generosity and labor made
Besides the Camp David Chapel organ, Moller has
this occasion possible."
designed and installed organs at the U.S. Military
In his homily during the ecumenical service,
Academy at West Point, N.Y., the U.S. Naval Academy
Cardinal Hickey said the chapel symbolized the princi-
at Annapolis, Md.. and the U.S. Air Force Academy at
pie of religious freedom in the United States.
Colorado Springs, Colo. The organ built for Camp
"We are a people diverse in our beliefs, yet united
David is the company's 11,822nd.
in common convictions and ready to work together
Camp David, located about 70 miles north of
for the good of our nation pluribus unum," he said
Washington, D.C., in the Catoctin Mountains, had
The organ donated by the Order has two key-
been without a chapel since it started serving as the
boards and 827 pipes, the longest of which meas-
president's retreat during President Rooseveit's ad-
ures 20 feet. It was built by M.P. Moller, Inc., of
ministration in 1942. Services had previously been
Hagerstown, Md., from Dec. 1989 to Dec. 1990.
held in a small movie room, in a mess hall and in
Constructed specifically for the Camp David
various other rooms on the Navy-run base. Located
Chapel. the organ is described as "the focal point
in a natural clearing of large oak and beech trees. the
of the chapel." by Dr. Ronald F. Ellis. president of
Camp David Chapel offers visitors an intimate setting
M.P. Moller.
for reflection and meditation. It features windows
"The organ pipes clearly say this is a chapel." said Dr.
displaying symbols of various faiths. The chapel bell
Ellis. The organ pipes take the place of more tradi-
came from the USS Endicott
tional symbols for a house of worship such as a crucifix
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yesterday to offer some input for the Knights of Columbus speech. me
was that American church leaders who visit or work in the Vatican
convention with the President. One of the points Melady made
were quite offended by Governor Casey's treatment at the
Democratic Convention. This gives an opportunity for the
President to draw a contrast between the Knights of Columbus
other convention in New York."
convention (which happens to be this year in New York) and "that
Carl Anderson, Washington office head of the Knights of
Reagan Administration held the job Leigh Ann Metzger now has.
Columbus, also called yesterday. Carl, you may know, during the
Carl hopes the speech will be the prototype for the President's
blue-collar, "Reagan Democrat" group with more than a million
fall speeches to Catholic audiences. The Knights are & largely
members in the U.S., most of them heads of families.
security issues, and the economy. (Sounds like jobs, family,
Carl suggests that the speech cover social issues, peace and
social issues, Carl says this audience should be very receptive
peace.) Besides the obvious connection the President can make on
to an intellectual argument for the continuity between Bush's
his defense and arms control efforts and in his planning and
respect for life in social policy and Bush's respect for life in
conduct of the Gulf war as a classic "just war."
While the overwhelming majority of delegates will be from
Mexico and the Philippines. Carl said it would therefore be
the U.S., the Knights are big in Canada and have some presence in
highly appropriate to mention NAFTA. Inter-American relations of
voyage. course also tie in well with the 500th anniversary of Columbus's
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we've started a journey -- We're not finished yet
Columbus' dream team were the Nina, Pinta, and Sanata Maria --
mine are
maps -- compass -- what guides us
Marriott Marquis is 12 blocks from Madison Square Garden, where
the Liberal Dems would not let one lone voice be heard on the
right to life
the things we've known all along -- the other party has just
discovered --
vessels // shipmates // all hands on deck // to the water's edge
// how we sail // land ho // armchair navagation // old thinking
-- the world is round // would still believe the world is flat //
ocean crossings // four voyages of Columbus [four voyages to
America]
Knights of Columbus over the Knights of Gloom and Doom
...
start spreading the news
It's good to be back in the city that never sleeps
Will Rogers Follies
in a New York Minute
Mario Cuomo line // This is your Captain speaking
Broadway Bound
nowhere bound
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our welfare system is neither well nor fair
...
let's make welfare work
now with the fall of imperial communism -- the old world is
given a new chance --
renew our faith in God and the human spirit : "A new
envisagement of the world has begun, and men are no longer
sighing after the imaginary golden age that lay in the distant
past, but speculating as to the golden age that might possibly
lie in the oncoming future" --Sir Charles Oman from "On the
Writing of History"
Columbus was a man of action -- a man ahead of his time
he
knew how to navigate through hurricanes // anchor
"The whole hisotry of the Americas stems from the four voyages of
Columbus"
500 years later America is still making news in Barcelona --
Genoa -- a noble and powerful city by the sea
notes from "Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher
Columbus" by Samuel Eliot Morison
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Knights of
Knights Columbus Give $95 Million, 42 Million Hours
gave close to 42 million
levels. These figures are con-
tained in the Order's annual
nated blood in 1991.
hours in volunteer service
to church, community and
Survey of Fraternal Activity
The survey figures also
by the Order's 7,748 mem-
for 1991.
showed that the Knights of
bers in British Columbia
youth programs last year
Columbus had activity ex-
$188.76.
$4,769,881; New Illinois, York,
$5,309,661;
while also contributing over
Ten-year cumulative fig-
ures in the survey show that,
penses
$95 million to such causes.
$63,089,930. At the totaling state
The largest sum given by
$3,780,012. $3,910,544; and California,
Both figures are new
since 1982, Knights of Co-
Knights in a state or compa-
lumbus at all levels have
and local levels, the figure
rable jurisdiction was the
The Knights of Colum-
zation. record highs for the organi-
contributed a total of
was $50,399,013 for meet-
$7,523,281 contributed by
bus maintains over 1.5 mil-
Of the $95,053,733 do-
$740,839,038 to charitable
ings, functions, projects,
members in Ontario. The
lion members in the United
States, Canada, Mexico, the
nated by Knights of Colum-
causes. They also have
publications, postage and
five other jurisdictions in the top
bus in 1991, almost $80 mil-
given an estimated
other costs. The fraternal
were
Quebec,
countries. Philippines and several other
lion was raised and contrib-
247,466,049 hours in vol-
expenses of the Supreme
uted by local and state units to
unteer service.
Council, including national
programs and institutions
Members of the Order
publications and support of
within their own jurisdictions.
gave another 5,858,112
membership operations, to-
hours of their time to "fra-
taled $12,895,582.
The remainder, a little
ternal service" of various
The average per member
over $15 million coming
from earnings of the
sorts - meetings, functions
contribution by the Knights
Knights' insurance opera-
and the internal activities of
of Columbus in 1991 was
tions, was given by the
the Order. According to the
$62.83. The highest per
organization's Supreme-
survey, Knights also made
member figure was recorded
Council to programs at the
4,720,159 visits to the sick
national and international
and bereaved and 383,448
members of the Order do-
ACKS
knights of Columbus
WASHINGTON OFFICE
1275 PENNSYLVANIA AVE., N.W.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. 20004-2404
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MEMORANDUM FOR KATHY RUST
FROM:
CARL A. ANDERSON Cul A. Andreson
SUBJECT:
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CONVENTION
DATE:
JULY 15, 1992
Enclosed is the agenda for the Knights of Columbus convention August 4-6. As was
mentioned in the letter of June 5, the President is invited to speak during any of the
business sessions during the convention. Namely, Tuesday from 1:30 to 5:00 in the
afternoon, Wednesday from 9:30 to noon and 2:00 to 4:00 in the afternoon, and
Thursday from 9:30 to noon. Any time during the business sessions on these days is
available, especially Wednesday, August fifth.
The list of honored guests will include the ecclesiastic guests John Cardinal O'Connor,
Archbishop of New York, Edouard Cardinal Gagnon, former President of the Pontifical
Council for the Family, and William Cardinal Baum, former Prefect of the Congregation
POSIBLE Acks
for Catholic Education and current Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary,
Archbishop John Foley, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications,
along with 31 American archbishops and bishops. The Attorney General is also
expected at attend.
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Columbus:
publication is called "Columbia"
we've started a journey -- We're not finished yet
Columbus' dream team were the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria --
mine are
maps -- compass -- what guides us
Marriott Marquis is 12 blocks from Madison Square Garden, where
the one lone voice be heard on the right to life
the things we've known all along -- the other party has just
discovered --
vessels // shipmates // all hands on deck // to the water's edge
// how we sail // land ho // armchair navagation // old thinking
-- the world is round // would still believe the world is flat //
ocean crossings // four voyages of Columbus [four voyages to
America]
Knights of Columbus over the Knights of Gloom and Doom
start spreading the news
It's good to be back in the city that never sleeps
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in a New York Minute
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Broadway Bound
nowhere bound
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our welfare system is neither well nor fair
let's make welfare work
now with the fall of imperial communism -- the old world is
given a new chance --
renew our faith in God and the human spirit : "A new
envisagement of the world has begun, and men are no longer
sighing after the imaginary golden age that lay in the distant
past, but speculating as to the golden age that might possibly
lie in the oncoming future" -Sir Charles Oman from "On the
Writing of History"
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he
knew how to navigate through hurricanes // anchor
"The whole hisotry of the Americas stems from the four voyages of
Columbus"
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Genoa -- a noble and powerful city by the sea
notes from "Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher
Columbus" by Samuel Eliot Morison
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Knights
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
NEW YORK MARRIOTT MARQUIS (34th)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1992
[TIME]
Thank you, Virgil Dechant. Your Eminence, Cardinal O'Connor
and reverend clergy; distinguished Knights; ladies and gentlemen:
[more acknowledgments, jokes]
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A report came across my desk the other day. It stated that
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most people in the Western world "felt exceedingly gloomy about
the future.' " It said that "institutions were decaying, well-
meaning people were growing cynical."
My first thought was: That's what happens when people spend
too much time watching the network evening news. 11
But what I was reading was not a report about 1992. It was
a history of public attitudes in 1492.
Public moods are prone to change. We know the gloom of 1492
was not to last for long. It was dispelled by the achievement of
a man of humble birth.
a man of vision and courage
a man
of faith who like the Lord he worshipped "looked at the world and
saw that it was good"
a man named Christopher Columbus. 11
Columbus opened up a new world of opportunity
for the
spread of commerce \ and culture \ and faith. \ In this 500th
anniversary year of his voyage of discovery, I'm honored to meet
with a group of Americans dedicated to his ideals.
All around us today, we hear a chorus of pessimism about the
future. Let me assure you, I don't sing in that choir. 11 I
knights on prayer in school
public
2
free
of America
trust the men and women of this country -- I trust the people to
use their freedom and their talents to build a bright future for
our kids and our grandkids. I believe America's finest days are
still to come. And it's in that spirit that I'm seeking to lead
the American people for another term as President. 11
This year we hear a lot of talk about change. There are
some things I'd like to change from the status quo. Though maybe
a better word is renewal -- because the changes we need must be
based on principles that never change.
My mother and father brought me up to understand that
was
mankind's fundamental moral norms were established by Almighty
God. They're as natural and unchangeable as the laws of physics.
Our common law, our Constitution and our Bill of Rights are
firmly rooted in this tradition -- the Judaeo-Christian
tradition. Only recently in America have we seen the rise of
legal theories and practices that reject our tradition. Cardinal
O'Connor eloquently describes this as an "inversion of values."
It's a deeply disturbing trend -- and it is diametrically opposed
to my idea of change that's good for our country. 11
Last month there was another convention here in New York --
very different from this one. One of the speakers, known for his
didn't hear /was fishing 1 heard he
florid language, called me "the captain of the ship of state." "
He didn't mean it as a compliment, but as an old Navy man at a
Knights of Columbus convention
the term suits me just fine.
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Whoever is chosen to pilot the ship of state must have a
reliable moral compass. And I'd like to chart with you a journey
3
I believe we must take to renew America's strengths -- both
material and moral.
First, we must keep to the course of freedom for people to
invent and produce -- to engage in enterprise. We need to curb
the cost of government and the expanse of bureaucracy. We need
to shoulder our responsibility, to spare our children an
unbearable burden of federal debt. 11
In the years ahead, the United States will flourish as a
500 yrs. ago
partner with our neighbors in the Americas. In 1492, Columbus
wrote in his ship's log that trade and investment in the lands of
the New World would produce "profitable things without number." "
He was right. And to reap new benefits from that vision, I've
[just concluded] an agreement opening the markets of the United
States, Mexico and Canada. Our North American Free Trade
Agreement will create hundreds of thousands of jobs for Americans
and generate billions of dollars in new American exports. Over
the next decade, we aim to open up trade and generate new jobs
and investment in every country of the Western Hemisphere. This
will certainly improve our material quality of life. But that's
not all: Open trade also will enhance the spirit of friendship
among all the neighbors of the New World.
Second, we must take action worthy of the great blessing
we've received through the fall of Soviet Communism. We must
work to build a just and lasting peace.
Saint Ignatius said, "Work as though all depended upon
yourself, and pray as though all depended on God." The practice
4
of that motto conquered Communism. Ceaseless prayer and tireless
work halted the Cold War \ and spared us from the catastrophe of
a third World War.
Believers behind the Iron Curtain defied persecution;
believers in the West defied indifference. Because of their
prayers and your prayers -- because of this resolute faith -- the
people of Poland and Ukraine and Russia are free.
Over four decades our servicemen trained -- our taxpayers
double
paid three trillion dollars -- to keep our defenses strong. We
deterred the Soviet threat. As President, I'll always be
grateful for the Knights of Columbus support on the morality of
our strategic deterrence. Because Americans understood the moral
stakes in the Cold War, because we persevered -- we're now able
to work at building a lasting peace between East and West.
We're working with our friends in democratic Russia to
reduce the arsenals that once threatened to unleash a nuclear
war. We've even agreed with Russia to cooperate on strategic
defenses to protect against ballistic missiles.
I'd be remiss if I failed to mention my predecessor, Ronald
Reagan. He predicted Soviet communism would perish in our time -
- not in a war, but because we in the West would "transcend
communism." He proposed that we develop strategic defenses
against ballistic missiles -- he even offered to share such
defenses with Russia. He stood fast against the scorn heaped on
him by the phony sophisticates. And all these things he
envisioned are now coming to pass.
5
When we faced the first challenge to peace after Cold War,
we didn't shrink. We stood up to Saddam Hussein's aggression and
expelled him from Kuwait. We protected the people of Israel and
Saudi Arabia. Now we've brought age-old adversaries to the peace
table for the first time. We've gained the greatest opportunity
in centuries to establish peace and stability in the Holy Land.
His Holiness, Pope John Paul, has spent many sleepless
nights in prayer and endeavor for peace in the Middle East. As
long as I am President, I assure you I'll do everything I can to
bring that peace to fulfillment. 11
Respect for life respect for freedom respect for human
dignity are the common basis both for peace in the world and for
renewing our nation at home.
That brings me to the final course I want to map for you
today: a way to strengthen our foundation -- the family.
The Knights of Columbus are in the forefront of this effort.
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In countless ways, Knights help the handicapped and the helpless;
you nourish minds and souls that hunger for sound values. You
bear solid witness to the fact that real compassion and tolerance
cannot abide abandonment of standards of right and wrong.
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On the tragic issue of abortion, I stand with you for the
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right to life. Six times the Congress has sent me legislation
put p.6 on 6
permitting federal funding of abortion, and six times I've told
them no and vetoed those bills.
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Now we're facing another fight. My opponent in this
election and his allies in Congress are trying to pass a new
6
bill. They call it the "Freedom of Choice Act."
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Let me tell you what this bill would do:
It would impose on all 50 states an unprecedented regime of
abortion on demand, going well beyond even Roe versus Wade.
It would block many state laws requiring that parents be
told about abortions being performed on their tunage young daughters,
even though the Supreme Court has upheld such laws five times.
It would override state laws restricting sex-selection
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abortions. It would severely limit states' ability to impose
each
meaningful restrictions on abortions performed in the eighth or
even the ninth month of pregnancy.
It would threaten the autonomy of Catholic hospitals and
other private institutions that refuse as a matter of conscience
to perform abortions.
It would nullify the will of the people of Pennsylvania to
impose humane restraints on abortion -- the modest restrictions
that were upheld just this year by the Supreme Court.
When I think about the Pennsylvania law, I remember once
again that other convention here in New York last month. The
party that met here has millions of traditional members who are
pro-life. Like you and me, they believe there must be a better
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way for this country than a million and a half abortions each
year. The Governor of Pennsylvania is pro-life. But when he
from
heat
asked to speak on this vital issue at his own party's convention,
the people in charge told him to forget it. Pro-lifers are not
welcome in the national policy councils of his party.
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their bill, I'll veto it. It will never become law as long as I
am President of the United States of America. 11
In the long term, the only effective answer to the tragedy
of abortion is the kind of patient effort you're supporting:
helping babies find adoptive families, providing positive
alternatives to abortion.
I'm working to renew the rights of parents and families in
educating our young people. My G.I. Bill for Children will help
us revolutionize education by giving parents more financial
freedom to choose their children's schools. Right now, if
parents choose a Catholic school or any other alternative to the
public schools, they have to pay twice. First they pay tuition,
then they pay again through taxation. As a group of Catholic
parents made clear to me in Philadelphia last month, that makes
it hard to exercise your religious freedom.
At the college and university level -- and even now in day
care -- people who choose private and religious institutions get
their fair share of government support. We offer vouchers or
scholarships that go wherever the child or the student goes.
It's time to extend that principle to grade schools and high
schools. That's what my G.I. Bill for Children would do. And I
believe it will be the greatest catalyst we've ever had for
renewing American education.
You see, I trust parents -- not the government -- to make
the decisions that matter in life.
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8
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's care.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools -- public, private or religious schools. 11
When families' rights are overridden, when families falter
and fail -- our society suffers. We could increase taxes and
spending a hundredfold for schools, for "human services," for
crime prevention. But we'd never fill the void if we let the
family institution fall apart. That's why my first principle in
domestic policy is to put the family first. My favorite silver-
haired philosopher is Barbara Bush. 11 She puts it this way:
What happens in the White House isn't half as important as what
happens in your house. 11
G.K. Chesterton once said: "The Christian ideal has not
been tried and found wanting," he wrote, "it has been found
difficult and left untried."
If Chesterton were around today, I'd tell him to think
again. I'd point him to the Knights of Columbus. You live true
to difficult ideals. You stand firm for vital principles. You
see what's good in America; you see the potential in our families
and our kids. Your efforts in charity, in education, for
tolerance and peace are helping renew this country. And when I
think of all the work that lies ahead, you give me hope. 11
Thank you. May God bless you and our beloved country.
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July 28, 1992
Draft One
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Knights
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
NEW YORK MARRIOTT MARQUIS
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1992
[TIME]
Thank you, Virgil Dechant. Your Eminence, Cardinal O'Connor
and reverend clergy; officers and members of the Knights of
Columbus; distinguished delegates from Canada, Mexico and the
Philippines; ladies and gentlemen: [Acks-Joke]
Samuel Eliot Morison described the year 1492 as a moment
when "most men in Western Europe felt exceedingly gloomy about
the future." Documents of the time showed that "institutions
were decaying, well-meaning people were growing cynical." Network illus John
That episode of gloom was not to last for long. It was
dispelled by the achievement of a man of humble birth.
a man
of vision and courage.
a man of faith who like the Lord he
worshipped "looked at the world and saw that it was good"
a
man named Christopher Columbus.
[
Columbus opened up a new world of opportunity
for the
spread of commerce \ and culture and faith. In this 500th
anniversary year of his voyage of discovery, I'm honored to meet
with a group of Americans dedicated to his ideals.
There's surely one similarity between this year and 1492:
All around us, we hear a chorus of pessimism about the future.
Thust
Let me assure you, I don't sing in that choir. I believe our
the people
best days are yet to come. And it's in that spirit that I'm
asking the American people for another term as President. 11
more personal
more moral
less launly lit
2
Today, I'd like to talk with you about my aims for the next
four years: what I want to initiate \ what I want to achieve \
what principles will guide me. I'd like to chart with you a
journey I believe America must take to renew our strengths --
both material and moral.
we medy must be band on proples
never change
First, we must keep to the course of freedom for people to
buy and sell, to invent and produce. We need to curb the cost of
government and the expanse of bureaucracy. We need new
discipline in government spending. We need to shoulder our
responsibility, to spare our children an unbearable burden of
federal debt. 11
The President needs a line-item veto. The nation needs a
constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget. I've
fought for these reforms. Americans want these reforms. We will
win these reforms. 11
We need to open up more markets for American products. I've
X
negotiated an unprecedented agreement to knock down trade
barriers between the United States, Mexico and Canada -- the
North American Free Trade Agreement. Partial lowering of
Mexico's trade barriers already has resulted in billions of
dollars of American exports and hundreds of thousands of new
American jobs. Before my second term is finished, we'll be
reaping big benefits from open trade with Canada and Mexico.
Everyone in each of our countries will be a winner.
In 1492, Columbus wrote that the lands of the New World
would offer "profitable things without number." My Enterprise of
"the family Imoral values"
3
the Americas Initiative will build upon the agreement with Canada
and Mexico. Our aim is nothing less than to open up trade and
generate new jobs and investment in every country of the Western
Hemisphere. And in doing so, we'll bring to ever greater
fulfillment the vision of Christopher Columbus.
Second, we must take action worthy of the great blessing
we've received through the fall of Soviet Communism. We must
work to build a just and lasting peace.
Saint Ignatius said, "Work as though all depended upon
yourself, and pray as though all depended on God." The practice
of that motto conquered Communism. Ceaseless prayer and tireless
work halted the Cold War \ and spared us the catastrophe of a
third World War.
Believers behind the Iron Curtain defied persecution;
believers in the West defied indifference. Because of their
prayers and your prayers -- because of this resolute faith -- the
people of Poland and Ukraine and Russia are free. Over four
decades our servicemen trained, and our taxpayers paid three
trillion dollars, to keep our defenses strong -- to keep our
"the
alliances firm in deterring the Soviet threat. And as President,
moral
I'll forever be grateful for the strong support that the Knights thing
of Columbus gave on the morality of maintaining our strategic
deterrence. Because Americans understood the moral stakes in the
Cold War, because we persevered -- we're now able to work at
building a lasting peace between East and West. We're working
with our friends in democratic Russia to reduce the arsenals that
4
once threatened to unleash a nuclear war.
When we faced the first challenge to peace after Cold War,
we didn't shrink. We stood up to Saddam Hussein's aggression and
expelled him from Kuwait. We protected the people of Israel and
Saudi Arabia. Now we've brought age-old adversaries to the peace
table for the first time. We've gained the greatest opportunity
in centuries to establish peace and stability in the Holy Land.
His Holiness, Pope John Paul, has spent many sleepless
nights in prayer and endeavor for peace in the Middle East. As
long as I am President, I assure you I'll do everything I can to
bring that peace to fulfillment. 11
Respect for life, respect for freedom, respect for human
dignity are the common basis both for peace in the world and for
renewing our nation at home.
That brings me to the final course I want to chart for you
today: a way to strengthen the foundation of our society -- to
strengthen the family.
I commend the Knights of Columbus for your outstanding works
of charity and education. In countless ways, Knights help the
handicapped and the helpless; Knights nourish minds and souls
that hunger for truth and sound values. You bear solid witness
to the fact that real compassion and tolerance cannot abide
abandonment of standards of right and wrong.
On the tragic issue of abortion, I stand with you for the
right to life. Six times the Congress has sent me legislation
permitting federal funding of abortion, and six times I've told
5
them no and vetoed those bills.
Now we're facing another fight. My opponent in this
election and his allies in Congress are trying to pass a new
bill. They call it the "Freedom of Choice Act."
It would impose on all 50 states an unprecedented regime of
abortion on demand, going well beyond even Roe versus Wade.
It would block many state laws requiring that parents be
told about abortions being performed on their young daughters,
even though the Supreme Court has upheld such laws five times.
It would override state laws restricting sex-selection
abortions. It would severely limit states' ability to impose
meaningful restrictions on abortions performed in the eighth or
even the ninth month of pregnancy.
It would threaten the autonomy of Catholic hospitals and
other private institutions that now refuse as a matter of
conscience to perform abortions.
It would nullify the will of the people of Pennsylvania to
impose humane restraints on abortion -- the modest restrictions
that were upheld just this year by the Supreme Court.
When I think about the Pennsylvania law, I can't help but
remember that other convention here in New York City just three
weeks ago. We know there are millions of traditional Democrats
who are pro-life, who believe as I do that there must be a better
way for this country than a million and a half abortions each
year. Governor Casey of Pennsylvania is a pro-life Democrat.
When he asked the Clinton organization for an opportunity to
6
present his views to the Democratic National Convention, they
told him to forget it. Pro-lifers are not welcome in the
national policy councils of the other party.
Now, if the Clinton Democrats manage to pass their abortion-
on-demand bill, the so-called Freedom of Choice Act, I'll veto
it. It will never become law as long as I am President of the
United States of America.
In the long term, the only effective answer to the tragedy
of abortion is the kind of patient effort you're supporting:
helping babies find adoptive families, providing positive
alternatives to abortion.
I'm working to renew the rights of parents and families in
the education of our young people. My G.I. Bill for Children
will help us revolutionize American education by giving parents
more financial freedom to choose their children's schools. Right
now, if parents choose a Catholic school or any other alternative
to the public schools, they have to pay twice. First they pay
tuition, then they pay again through taxation.
At the college and university level -- and even now in day
care -- people who choose private and religious institutions get
their fair share of government support. We offer vouchers or
scholarships that go wherever the child or the student goes.
It's time to extend that principle to grade schools and high
schools. That's what my G.I. Bill for Children would do. And I
believe it will be the greatest catalyst we've ever had for
renewing American education.
7
When families' rights are overridden, when families falter
and fail -- our society suffers. We could increase taxes and
spending a hundredfold for schools, for "human services," for
crime prevention. But that could never fill the void we'd have
if the family institution fell apart. That's why the first
principle of my domestic policy is putting the family first.
That is how we will renew our nation.
Earlier this century, G.K. Chesterton wrote a book which he
titled in his characteristic fashion, What's Wrong with the
World. He summed up his theme with this epigram: "The Christian
ideal has not been tried and found wanting," he wrote, "it has
been found difficult and left untried."
If Chesterton were around today, I'd tell him to revise his
observation. I'd point him to the example of the Knights of
Columbus. You live true to difficult ideals. You stand firm for
vital principles. You see what's good in America; you see the
potential in our families and our kids. Your efforts in charity,
in education, for tolerance and peace are helping to renew this
country. And when I think of all the work that lies ahead, your
presence gives me hope.
Thank you. May God bless you and our beloved country.
#
#
NH
92
Jan. 14 / Administration of George Bush, 1992
Administration of George Bush, 1992 / Jan. 15
93
Statement by Press Secretary
Excerpted Remarks With
of year, every 4 years, from political oppo-
And let me take the heat on whether it's a
Fitzwater on the Resignation of
Community Leaders in Portsmouth,
vents. But that's the way life is.
tax cut for the rich or not. But help me when
Richard J. Kerr as Deputy Director
New Hampshire
And I've done my part for the economy.
I come out with this yet again in the State
of Central Intelligence
January 15, 1992
We've brought 300 press up here. [Laughter]
of the Union.
January 14, 1992
My answer to you is, if you can take it, so
Deborah, you talked about, "Hope that the
The President. First, let me just say
can I. [Laughter] So go ahead. I don't know
light at the end of the tunnel is not a train."
President Bush accepted with regret today
thanks to the Governor for providing this
what the order is, but Judd, fire away.
1 would remind you of another country-west-
the resignation of Richard J. Kerr, who has
cold wenther-[laughter]-but warm wel-
[At this point, remarks were made by partici-
ern song by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, "If
served as Deputy Director of Central Intel-
come. And I will make a couple of comments
pants.]
you want to see a rainbow, you've got to stand
ligence since March 1989. Mr. Kerr will re-
at the end, but I do want to do what Judd
a little rain." And New Hampshire has stood
turn to private life after serving 32 years as
said, to listen.
The President. Let me just comment on
more than a little rain. It's had a flood of
a professional intelligence officer. His res-
I want to single out, of course, Senator Bob
these, and then I want to hear from as many
bad news. And again, I understand it, but
ignation will become effective March 2,
Smith, who came up on the plane with us;
people as possible. First, on Doug, one of
I think the answer: less in the regulations.
1992.
and Bill Zeliff, your able Congressman who
the things this trip was about was trying to
We're trying to do better on regulations.
Mr. Kerr has served the country and CIA
came with us. I don't think Warren is here,
expand markets abroad. And I get hit by
I do believe that the Fed interest rates that
with dedication and creativity for more than
Warren Rudman. But Judd Gregg-and
some saying this is managed trade. I am for
are down-and interest rates are at a won-
three decades. He played a critical role in
thank them for their support and being with
free and fair trade, not managed trade. And
derful level, I'd like to see them down further
the recent transition at CIA, serving with dis-
us in this campaign. I also see Bonnie New-
what we did is go over there and get access,
frankly, but at a wonderful level-will kick
tinction as the Acting DCI, and he provided
man over here, who is well-known to every
not everything I wanted, but get access to
in and will stimulate investment. There is no
critical leadership at a time when CIA and
businessperson in this State, and who's been
markets.
other side to that coin. It will help. And it
the intelligence community were confronted
a great addition to our administration, now
Doug mentioned high tech. One of the
will help the real estate business.
with profound changes in the world. He was
back in the private sector.
things we did do, and we've been supported
Frankly, I think that the talks we've had
an important member of the intelligence
The only point I want to make at the be-
100 percent by the computer industry, is get
with the regulators, so that the good loans
team during Desert Shield and Desert
ginning is, look, I have not just discovered
access to the Government computer Indus-
are not marked up, is going to help. I hope
Storm, for which he was awarded the Presi-
New Hampshire. When a storm hits the sea
ry. Forty percent of the computers in Japan
it will. I think we have had some excesses
dential Citizen's Medal. He also made an ex-
coast here, it hits ine. [Laughter] And I Cu
we American; in the Government .04 per-
of regulation. And yet some of the people
traordinary contribution to the NSC Depu-
give you some vivid examples of that. And
cent are. Now we've broken that barrier
running around this State are the very ones
ties Committee during his tenure as DDCI.
we've been here over and over again, not only
down.
in their hearings that are trying to say that
The President has great respect for Dick and
New Hampshire but 48 States. And I care.
We can help the Governor on his trade
forbearance, they call it, forbearance is bad.
is grateful for his counsel and support
And I hope I understand, but I know I'll un-
missions by this kind of initiative. And I am
By that they mean you need more regulation.
throughout this administration.
derstand better after I hear the depth of con-
not going to stop trying to open these mar-
We need less regulation. And I think the
cerns that the people in this group have to
kets because somebody said I ought to stay
Vice President is trying very hard on this
offer me.
home. We've got a global economy. And he
Competitive Council. We've got a better job
So, I will listen, and I'll be glad to take
put his hands on it when he talked about
to do there, but I just wanted you to know
Statement on the Death of WUSA-
any questions. And I'll be glad to tell you
the high-tech factor. We are good in this
I think you're on to something on that.
TV Sportscaster Glenn Brenner
what I think would help the economy of this
area; we need to do better.
And I won't comment on all the others,
State. And what helps the economy of the
You mentioned financing and venture cap-
January 14, 1992
but in terms of bank funding and bank-the
whole Nation clearly will help, so I'll give
ital. Please help me and Bob Smith and Bill
only good news out of all this dreary news
Barbara and I are greatly saddened by the
you a little preview of coming attractions for
Zeliff and Warren Rudman get a capital gains
in terms of the financial institutions is that
untimely death of Glenn Brenner, a man
the State of the Union because we've got to
tax cut. This is not a tax break for the rich;
the depositor, thank heavens, and again, I sa-
whose wit and ability has endeared him to
do something there.
it is a creation of small jobs.
lute the Members of the Senate and Con-
so many Washingtonians. The suddenness of
Incidentally, I omitted a former Senator
And we are In a demagogic year. A lot of
gress that are here today, has not lost a dime.
his death and the warmth of his personality
sitting over here, Gordon Humphrey. And
people that have discovered New Hampshire
The depositors haven't. But the financial in-
leave all of us with a painful emptiness.
I'm just thrilled to have his leadership and
for the first time, they've never been to this
stitutions-I still feel good banks should
Sometimes we think we know television per-
his support involved. And if I start clicking
State before, never heard of it, don't know
make good loans. And as this interest rate
sonalities better than we really do. But Glenn
it off and leaving out people sitting next to
the heartbeat of the State. And I think I do.
goes down I think, inevitably, that is going
Brenner's life and his many friends dem-
me-I'm already in trouble with Ruth
Went to school across the line here, have a
to happen.
onstrate that the man we saw was real, a man
[Laughter] But I really am very pleased.
house down the road here, can see it almost,
But real estate has been hurt. And I will
who loved his work, his family, and the com-
feel nothing but warmth here. And I know
what's left of it, when we landed at Pease—
have proposals in the State of the Union
munity he served. We will remember him
I've got big problems, but we're going to take
[laughter]-and come in here all the time.
Message that I think will put value back, and
for those qualities that made him so special.
care of those by demonstrating what I feel
And I think I understand.
capital gains is a part of this, in the asset
Barbara and I offer our prayers and sympathy
in my heart and answering some of the out-
And I think that this State would prosper
people care about the most; that's their
to his family and friends.
rageous allegations that we hear at this time
by getting the kind of capital gains reduction.
homes. And part of the fear that I think exists
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is because people wonder, "Hey, what's hap-
appeal; what is the thing that's going to help
been stiffed by a hostile Congress for pure
were doing over there. In my lifetime, when-
pened to my home, my house?"
the most? There was u proposal made by ong
olitical reasons, I need the help of the peo-
ever I've watched the State of the Union Ad-
And again, I might say that I haven't di-
of Bob Smith's colleagues a while back, las,
ple in this State. And that's one reason I'm
dress I've agreed with a lot of things any nd-
verged one inch from my commitment to
fall, of a massive tax cut, and the long-term
just delighted to be here. But again, when
ministration has said, but as the weeks go
what I think are New Hampshire values; I
interest rates shot up the very next day. I
it rains before you see that rainbow, the
on it loses some of its interest, some of its
know they're Bush family values, in terms of,
will not go for a quick fix.
President has to take his share of his blame.
impact. I would suggest to you that during
Bush values, in terms of family and neighbor-
What we will be proposing and have pro-
And I'm here to do just exactly that. But we
the State of the Union Address you tell the
hood and community and child care that can
posed and have been stiffed by a Democratic
will stay involved internationally, and I will
American public that once a week, for the
be done at the local level, and all of this.
Congress are things that would do what
press for those kinds of sound investment-
next 4, 6, 8, 10 weeks, you're going to come
Last point, Dan, yes, I remember talks
you're talking about. Capital gains is part of
you mentioned depreciation schedules or
on prime time and update us on the status
long ago here. And this helps me. I think
it; IRA's that affect the first-time home-
ITC, that's sound.
of your proposals that you make in the State
I've known, look, this economy is in free-fall.
buyers, another part of it; extension of the
And please stay tuned for the State of the
of the Union Address.
I hope I've known it. Maybe I haven't con-
R&D tax credit is another part of it. And
Union.
The President. It's an interesting sugges-
veyed it as well as I should have, but I do
these are aimed at what you're talking about,
[At this point, remarks were made by a par-
tion. Here are the people you want to talk
understand it. And your comments make that
real growth. And to those I would add an
to about giving me the prime time out here
even clearer. But I do think that on high tech,
education and retraining program that is ab-
ticipant.]
because we're in an election year and you'll
which does offer a partial and hopefully opti-
solutely fundamental to be able to compete.
The President. That might well be, the
have every jackleg jumping up demanding
mistic part of the answer to the problem:
I would add a necessity for this President
double declining balance of the depreciation
equal time with some screwy scheme.
R&D, capital gains, a new education program
and for Governors to do what we're trying
and some of these things taken out SO that
[Laughter]
that literally revolutionizes schools, but one
to do, and that is torget access, fair access,
there could be an overall tax cut. It worked
But I believe that you've got something.
of which its goals is proficiency in math and
to others' markets.
for a while, but I think now anything we do
I have to keep it before the American people.
science for young people. Little longer-
I would avoid the siren's call of protection
with the Tax Code should be to stimulate
I have not done a good job in getting people
range, incidentally, but it is absolutely fun-
that suggests the way for us to get strong
real investment, some degree real savings,
to understand we've had a growth agenda.
damental to the innate well-being of a State
is to put quotas on and to start managing
because we're not saving enough as a nation
I have proposed in three State of the Union
like New Hampshire.
trade. We'd be right back where we went
and thus the banks don't have enough of the
Messages some of the various things I'm
And in the meantime, we can go forward
in the Smoot-Hawley days of the thirties, and
Capital that they would have otherwise to
hearing around here we should do. And I
with job training to take the work force
there are one or two other people around
loan out, and through education and R&D
don't believe there's a working guy in New
you're talking about and try to equip them
here that are old enough to remember what
and all of this keep our technological edge.
Hampshire that understands that. That's my
for jobs that will be there as this economy
it was like when we shrunk the foreign mar-
We've still got it, but we need to keep it and
fault. We've got to do better on it, and I think
turns around.
kets.
build it and strengthen it.
you've got a pretty good idea.
I've got a couple of other specific things,
So, I agree with what you say. This is what
So, that's the approach we're going to be
I'd like to take the same kind of energy
the R&D that you mentioned, and Doug
we've been trying to do. And I know this is
taking in terms of real investment. And I am
and leadership that we had in Desert Storm
mentioned also. Somebody mentioned man-
a political trip, and the campaign has to pay
going to resist, I don't care what it costs in
and use it to help the working men and
dated benefits. We are going to continue to
for it, so give me more Congressmen like
terms of votes, some of these siren's calls that
women in the State of New Hampshire and
fight against the mandated benefits, telling
Senator Smith and Bill Zeliff and Gordon
go out to simply take across-the-board tax
across this country. There is one significant
the communities that if they want "Federal
Humphrey and this Governor, and I believe
cuts that have a good sound to them but do
difference. When I moved 500,000 troops
money," they've got to do it by some Federal
we can get the kind of investment-oriented
not do what you're talking about. The way
about 14 months ago, I didn't have to ask
formula. And I think that has been a problem
programs through the Congress. I am going
to create jobs is through what you're talking
permission from a Democratically controlled
on health care containment and a lot of other
to try again. And I would like to save one
about, and that's what I have tried to do, and
Congress. When I said, a year ago to this
things.
or two additions to what I've told you for
I'm going to be more effective doing it in
very day, we may have to go into battle, and
So, I'll stop there, but R&D, we will con-
the State of the Union, but I hope you'll
the future because I'm going to take my case
I don't like sending any mother's son into
tinue to press for the R&D credits that I do
agree that what we're proposing is not a
right to the American people and say, "Look,
battle, or daughter either, but we did it.
think will have a big difference in creating
quick political fix that will get you votes
here's what I've tried to do; now I need your
Didn't have to get permission. Didn't have
the kind of job opportunities that you appro-
through " series of southern primaries after
help." New Hampshire's hurting, these other
to go to subcommittee chairmen that Bill
priately mentioned. There are many more.
the New Hampshire primary, but something
States are hurting. And this is the approach
Zeliff has to wrestle with, or Bob Smith,
But again, these comments were helpful, and
that will take the Government role and use
we're going to take. And I hope it makes
every day to have a debate on what's going
I welcome any more. Or comments.
it in partnership with private industry and
sense.
to happen the minute I finish this State of
Q. Would you like to comment on the de-
State governments to get this sick econom]
Q. During the Persian Gulf war, one thing
the Union. They've already prepared their
preciation or investment tax credits?
moving.
that I thought was very obvious was the fact
response. We just did it.
The President. Yes, I would because
And I don't want to try to be up here to
that we had daily updates on where the war
I'm the Commander in Chief. I have the
we're getting to a funny season here politi-
assert blame; I'll take my share of it. But
was going. People knew what was going on
responsibility for the national security of this
cally where everybody's running around say-
when you look at what we've tried to do in
on a daily basis. It created a lot of interest,
country. And we led, and we lifted the Amer-
ing, what's going to have the most populist
terms of growth incentives and the way we've
and it created a lot of support for what you
ican spirit. And now you see some of these
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only back the quickest. And a strong manu-
gree we've made progress, but obviously we
magazines coming out with the revision of
much overrated types of bias that come out
all that, trying to take It away from the Amer-
from someone that does not get elected.
facturing base is part of it.
haven't made enough.
ican people.
The President. Dave mentioned that, and
But again, let me make this pitch to you
[At this point, remarks were made by a par-
I talked to one of our leading generals
sometimes you're enight between II rock and
all because I do think of New Hampshire
ticipant.]
about it yesterday, and he's just sick about
a hard place. I think we've got a good envi-
as resisting from the left or from the extreme
The President. And after you get through
that kind of revisionistic reporting. The
ronmental record. I think it's important
right the siren's call of protection. We are
talking to us, and I hope that we can help
American people know what they saw. They
we've got a good environmental record. But
in a global economy now. You can't separate
as an administration, save a little time to talk
saw leadership. They took pride in their
I think, in some cases, we should be erring
it out. It is exports that have saved the na-
to some of those who don't think we've got
young men and women. And we can do the
on the side of jobs and employment.
tional economy to the degree it's even been
enough regulation on Congress. And we'll
same thing domestically, I believe.
And I look out on-I'll give you a problem
saved, and it hasn't been saved, but I mean,
hold up the name of a very good man for
I'm not arguing about your suggestion, I'm
out on the Northwest. All across the country
put it this way, it would be a lot worse if
the OCC because they think he's been too
simply arguing about the modalities because,
we have a spotted owl problem. And yes, we
we weren't exporting to these foreign coun-
lenient on regulation, and he gets stiffed in
one, political year; two, getting access to the
want to see that little furry-feathery guy pro-
tries.
these Senate politics. Bob Smith knows this
airwaves for the kind of update is pretty com-
tected and all of that. But I don't want to
And we can compete in a manufacturing
very well, indeed. We've got to sell the other
plicated and quite expensive.
see 40,000 loggers thrown out of work. And
way with these foreign countries if we get
side that you've got a point here, and you
We will try very, very hard again. And I
so, we have to work it out properly. Bill Zeliff
the proper access, fair access to markets, and
do have a point here.
think I can be more effective, and I'm going
and Bob were telling me that they've had
if we protect our competitiveness through
I don't want to sound like an expert, be-
to say, "Look, let's do it this way. Let's lay
good cooperation from Bill Reilly on some
the kinds of taxing that we've heard here
cause I've been out of meeting a payroll for
aside the politics. Let's do it this way." And
of these very difficult environmental matters.
today that I think you probably favor. So, I'll
a long time. When I was in the drilling busi-
then if they don't like it, fine. Keep hammer-
I think of this State as good conservation.
try to keep that in focus as we go forward
ness, if I went into loan on a drilling rig, I
ing that away to the American people. So,
You've got a lot to conserve. You've got beau-
here.
had to have a contract from a major oil com-
I realize that we need a followup, but I just
ty. But we've got to find the proper balance
[At this point, remarks were made by a par-
pany or some good credit, or they wouldn't
argue whether we can get that nice, crisp,
between the excesses of the regulatory move-
loan me a dine. They wouldn't loan unless
clean air time that I'd like to have.
ment, which is the conservation movement
(icipant.)
I had that to pay out.
And it was available, in a sense, to our nu-
and the excesses on the rape, pillage,
The President. What you ask for is, as 1
In the go-go years that followed, there got
tional purpose. Remember on Desert Storm,
plunder on the business side.
thought at the opening of your remarks, an
to be a lot of competition for loans for drilling
though, the criticism of the President, it goes
The State has always been able to sort that
opportunity to take some specifies and to
platforms, and you didn't have to have a con-
with my job, didn't sell it, American people
out pretty well. So I take your criticism. And
take this New Hampshire view and be heard
tract. And the lending institutions started
don't understand what we're doing, Ainer-
we will endeavor to bring home to the re-
on it. And that is easily arranged. And I
making loans that they wouldn't have made
ican people don't know, let's wait, let's wait,
gional bureaucrats the need for the balance
mean, I'd be delighted to have set up at what-
in more normal times or more conservative
this man will get out, these sanctions will take
that-I think you're calling for balance In
ever level you want to take these specifies
times.
this. And I think we can do better there.
care of it, body bags. It wasn't all as clear
and make clear to the regulators, or higher
In real estate, you had to have a contract
on the international front as it seemed after
[At this point, remarks were made by a par-
if you want to go, as to what the mechanics
to pay out x percent of your building, if not
these young men and women did that job.
ticipant.]
are that are holding back this recovery.
the entire building. And then in the go-go
But we can do it here. And again, this
The President. The national figures on
So, I accept your offer, and we'll be glad
days, through the S&L's and some degree
meeting helps sensitize me to the fact that
manufacturing are not all discouraging even
to set it up. But be specific, bring the specif-
in the banks trying to compete, understand-
we must do it.
in rough economic times. What I think we
ics because there is some feeling that some
ably so, thinking there will be no tomorrow,
were talking about here probably would have
of these problems have been resolved. And
and the consumer and the loaners thinking
Q. You can't mention this, but I can, and
the most stimulative effect, short and long
to the degree that they are still out there,
the same thing, they made loans that
I do recall there was some criticism; in fact,
there were some people that openly opposed
run If you add B&D and education Into It,
and It's something other than the judgment
shouldn't have been made In the first place.
the idea of standing "P to Saddam Husseln
of manufacturing. But the concept that we
of the londing Institution who got burned for
We got carl away by the excessos.
in Kuwait, and one of them is running for
loaning in ways they shouldn't have loaned
Now, I know that from personal expert-
need a strong manufacturing base Is very,
before and are saying, "Hey, I've got to pro-
once, not from some textbook, not from lis-
President in the Republican Party. [Laugh-
very important. And I hope I can emphasize
ter]
that.
tect my stockholders," we can do something
tening to some handler in the campaign just
Q. As a corollary to Desert Storm I'm not
about it. If it's the judgment of a financial
discovering New Hampshire. So, we have
You get into a political debate, you get into
a political kind of pledging debate, who Is
man, lending officer, then I don't know that
been recovering from some of the excesses.
at all certain that you might not have been
the Government has a role. But if it's the
It is my point that in some of this regulation
in a position than we are in trying to stimulate
going to cut the taxes the most to get the
new business if you had to Justify some of
most votes. And I think I have to resist that.
Government regulator that's putting this
we've gone too far, that we've swung too far
the actions with the OSHA's and the EPA's.
I have the responsibility now, accept the re-
dampener on the londing community of a
back. And the lender is snying to himself,
And I think that one of the things that is
sponsibility for good things and the bad
small New Hampshire town, I'd like to have
"Walt a minute. I've been through all that
very important is to put some type of a stop
things, and I have to propose what I think
our people listen to that and try to be sen-
once. Don't ask me to make the same mistake
will create the most jobs and bring the econ-
sitive to it and try to change it. To some de-
twice."
to the burgeoning and, in some cases, very
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A lot of what you're talking about is psy-
chological between the lender and the bor-
economy is going to pull out of this. You look
Note: The President spoke at 8:52 a.m. at
These are leaders in the Congress. And they
rower, But to the degree the Government
back in history of this country; it always has
Peaso Air National Guard Base. In his
talk about pledges and all of this. Let me
and it will.
is being inhibiting, not for sound economic
remarks, he referred to J. Bonnie Newman,
tell you something. I took " pledge when I
reason but just kind of resetion to the CX-
So, my message without, ON I my, first
member of the Governor's Council, and Buth
WAY sworn In, the onth of office, and what
cesses of the past, we can help, and we
being euphorically optimistic, Is that in place
L. Griffin, former Assistant to the President
I need a pledge about is to get more Con-
should help. And we should try to lighten
there are some fundamentals that we haven't
for Management and Administration. The
gressmen and Senators like Senator Smith
up on the regulations, and I know Judd feels
talked about today. Somebody ought to-the
text of these excerpted remarks follows the
and Gordon Humphrey, who was in the Sen-
that way at the State level.
market's seeing them, incidentally. What are
release as issued by the Office of the Press
ate and is supporting me, and your Con-
So, I think something good can come of
they? They are: Interest rates are down. In-
flation, the cruelest tax of all, is down. Unfor-
Secretary.
gressman here, Bill Zeliff, and Warren Rud-
this, and we will set it up at whatever level
man. And then we would be able to control
you want.
tunately, part of the reason is economic
this Federal spending better, and then we
Q. Thank you, Mr. President. We've got
growth is so slow. But nevertheless, that is
would be able to see that we get these tax
a very busy day for you, so I guess we've
down. Inventories are in fair shape. And I
Remarks and a Question-and-Answer
improvements that I've been asking for.
got to sort of wrap this up. I didn't know
think most people here understand that. We
Session at a Town Hall Meeting in
So that's the pledge I want, is the pledge
if you wanted to make any additional com-
are making progress ())) access to foreign
Exeter, New Hampshire
from the people to give us more. And you're
ments, or we can move on and say hello to
markets. The exports are vibrant.
going to have to use your influence out of
some of the folks out there.
Couple those with the bad news, and we
January 15, 1992
the State because you've done pretty darn
The President. Well, I'd rather say hello,
all know what that is, of unemployment and,
The President. I am very, very pleased
well in the State in the United States Con-
but I-for busy people, working hard in a
somebody put their finger on it, confidence.
to be back. Mike, how are you? This guy
gress.
struggling economy, to take the time to come
The confidence factor. I mean, we had na-
meets me at Pease every time I come in
So, that was one point I wanted to make.
here has been extraordinarily helpful to me.
tional unemployment at 10.7 percent in
there. [Laughter] Exeter rose-grower.
The other one is that people say, "Well,
And I just want to end where I started.
about 1981 or 1982, and confidence was
Let me just say how really pleased I am
you're in trouble in New Hampshire." Well,
I don't know what I have to do to convince
higher then than it is now, People were say-
to be here and to thank you for turning out.
that may be. But I'm here to listen. I'm here
people here that I really care about this; 1
ing, "Hey, tomorrow is going to be better
I
want to make a couple of comments, and
to take the questions. I'm here to say, "Hey,
do. I probably have made mistakes in assess-
So, I don't want to be the cheerleader say
en it's mainly questions. Isn't it, Judd?
there's a lot to do in partnership, the Federal
ing the fact that the economy would recover.
ing tomorrow is going to be better. I do think
irst, I want to thank the Governor for being
Government, the State government where
Last year at this time, 49 out of the 50 blue-
the economy is going to come out of it. But
at my side. You know my and Barbara's affec-
you've got superb leadership, and the people
chip economists thought that by now we'd
I need the help of sound-thinking people to
tion for Governor Judd Gregg and for Hugh
themselves."
be in recovery. They were wrong; I was
resist the siren call of protection, to resist
and Kay, old longtime friends who stay in
And of course, we care. And somebody
wrong. Maybe one or two of you around the
some of these quick political appeal taxing
touch and who have kept me informed of
gave me the analogy of a country-western
table would admit he or even she was wrong.
schemes that may get you a vote or two, but
this State-both of them, both Greggs-of
song about a train, hoping they'd see the light
Sorry, Bonnie. I don't know.
will do nothing to stimulate jobs, investment,
the problems that we face in this State. And
at the end of the tunnel is not a train coming
So, it's not a question of blame; I will ac-
and economic growth.
I'm not talking political; I'm talking about
through. And I trumped it with saying, well,
cept that. But what I want to do is convince
And so, I came here to ask for support
hardship for people that are hurting.
remember the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band one,
the people here, one, that I understand the
in this very important field, as well as to listen
And one of the things I'm pleased to be
if you've got any country music people here,
problem-I think I do; two, that I need help
to the heartbeat of this State that I do feel
able to do here is to at least let the people
"If you're going to see a rainbow, you've got
in solving the problem, and that means sup-
Barbara and I both know. Somebody men-
of this State know that even though I am
to stand a little rain."
port for the growth initiatives, some of which
tioned her, and I am very proud of what she
President and do have two or three other
Well, New Hampshire has stood more
I've tried and failed on because of a stiff by
responsibilities, that when people are hurt-
than its share of rain, job-hurting and the
is doing, not just because she knows how to
a partisan Congress. And some of which we
handle her husband when he throws up-
Ing. we care. We get the message there. We
families wondering how they're going to
will try again, and add to that additional ones
read the mall; we can understand. And I just
make their ends meet. But there is going to
that I've been listening to around this table.
[laughter]-but she is expressing something
that I think the people of New Hampshire
wanted to get that out loud and clear because
be a rainbow out there. There's some fun-
So, we're going to go, and go forth in this
we're in a political year, and you hear a lot
damentals that are pretty darn good. And yet,
State of the Union.
understand. And that is love of family, faith,
determination, helping kids-taking an AIDS
of people that have discovered New Hamp-
we've got to do better.
And then I also took on board this com-
baby and holding it in her arms and say,
shire for the first time ruming around trying
And the last point I want to make is I hope
ment about needing to follow that up. And
"Hey, we need a little compassion and under-
to say something different. Of course, we
that you will listen to the State of the Union
what we can get done in an election year,
Message. 1 have proposed, 3 straight years,
standing on all this." And I have a very
re.
I don't know. But I'll conclude this way:
Without having it sound like Mrs. Rose Sce-
fortable feeling that people here know that
Secondly, I am very grateful not only to
growth agenda programs. Not some fancy
we do feel a part of this State.
the Governor but to Senator Bob Smith, Sen-
quick fix that's going to have broad appeal
nario, this is New Hampshire. You've done
In any event, that's what I'd say in conclu-
ator Rudman, who couldn't be with us-Bob
in an election time, but things that would
a lot; you've accomplished a lot. And this
sion. And thank you all very, very much. I've
Smith here today-who are doing a superb
stimulate this economy. And now, we're put-
State is going to pull out of this. This national
learned a lot.
job, and then your Congressman, another
ting this all together again with new additions
dear friend, a man I respect, Bill Zeliff.
to it to take these proposals to the American
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ernment In deficit, most every State in the
people are out of work. And if you really
Health Care
people. And then what 1 hope we can do
is rully the American people and get the
Union in deficit, and most every municipali
e, pass this package. And then we can put
Q. On the national health plan, what do
economy moving by sound investment-orl-
in the country in deficit, never mind the
back into politics and debate it for the rest
you have planned as a help for the 35 million
ented beatment of the Tax Code
households, what do we have to doi' And I'm
of this political year. But Hell something done
people who don't have health Insurance?
And that is what's needed, and still hold
glad you brought a few, to get the Con-
that's going to get the people of this State
The President. The question In 11111 Inn h
the line on spending. One of the few benefits
gressmen and the Senators in this country
and of this country back to work." That's the
is a very important question. What are you
of that budget agreement was that we have
to realize when we have millions of people
approach I'm going to take.
going to do about the 35 million who don't
caps on the excesses of Federal spending,
without jobs, homeless, without health care,
Now, we had one here, and then I'll come
have health insurance? What we've done so
those things that can be controlled. And I
and these fellows have the gall to vote them-
far is emphasizing prevention, emphasizing
over there.
want to keep them there. I do not want to
selves a raise, what can we do other than
inoculations and this kind of thing. Now at
bust the one restraint that is on the spenders
vote out every incumbent? I hate to see that,
AIDS
the State of the Union, I will have what I
in the United States Congress.
but I mean, what do we have to do to get
Q. We had a wonderful Surgeon General
think is the proper, if you'll permit me to
So having said that, I hope you'll ask the
the message across to these people in Wash-
who led us in health care in the man of Dr.
hold back some of the details, but a com-
questions. We'll have a good health program
ington?
Chick Koop.
prehensive health care program that does not
The President. Yes.
increase the Federal mandates but does
that I think will have appeal to the voters
The President. Well, I think this kind of
here because it's family; it keeps things close
meeting helps. Fortunately, you have con-
Q. Can he help us with some of our health
bring protection to the numbers of people
that are uninsured. Therein lies the big prob-
to the people themselves rather than having
gressional delegations, the ones I mentioned
problems in the future?
The President. Yes, he can. He's a good
lem.
a lot of mandated benefits out of Washing-
from this State, that understand that. They
ton.
fight against the excesses of Congress.
man. I think he wants to, too. 1 saw him the
So, we will have a comprehensive-it's
And this is the last point. I'm just back
One of the things that I proposed or sec-
other day. And one of the things that Dr.
only 2 weeks away, so stay tuned, and I think
from a rather spectacular trip to Asia. I say
Koop, who came into office and people said,
it will be done with the values I think of as
onded the motion on were these proposals
spectacular-you try getting the flu at a din-
"Well, this guy's a little conservative for the
New Hampshire values in mind, without
that are there, and they're bipartisan, I might
national agenda." He wasn't; very sensitive
busting the budget. I ask you, when you hear
ner. [Laughter] I have a feeling the people
add, for Congress to reform itself in terms
One of the things that he has done-
all these people who have just discovered
in New England, and certainly having been
of proliferation of committees and needing
a neighbor of this State for so long, under-
reforms, Congress to adhere to the same law
this is a sensitive subject; it's on my mind
New Hampshire on the road map coming up
here with these health plans, ask them what
stand that even Presidents get the flu. I said
that the American people have to adhere to
gain because yesterday I met with Earvin
over there, even Democrats get it from time
One of the comments that I've made after
"Magic" Johnson-is to project the idea that
that is going to do to the people that pay
the taxes, as well as those who need the
to time. [Laughter] But you've got to admit
the Clarence Thomas hearings was that that
treating AIDS is a health problem.
I did it in a dramatic way.
needed to be done. They ought not to ex-
We are concerned about it. We care about
health care.
Having said that, exports account for a tre-
it. When Barbara holds an AIDS baby in her
So, 1 think we've got a good program, and
empt themselves from the laws you and I
have to honor. And this congressional delega-
arms, she's trying to express the compassion
I hope we can get the support from every-
mendous amount of the growth in this coun-
try. A lot of the jobs, I think it's estimated-
tion understands that; these people here do.
that both of us feel. When I go out to NIH
body in this room.
I was talking to Bob and Bill coming over
So, you've got to spill over and use your influ-
and meet with those people that are afflicted
Yes, in the back in the middle.
here-35,000 to 40,000 jobs in New Hamp-
with it-we have to do it on a health prob-
Q. If I can just comment, I think we have
ence across the border, two ways I might add,
shire related to exports. So please don't buy
lein: Prevention, research and development,
time for about two more questions. We'd like
Maine and Massachusetts, good places to
caring, making people understand this now
to have everybody come up and have a
this protection legislation that the Democrats
start. So, try that one.
chance to shake hands with the President.
and some others are putting out, this idea
But no, you've got a good point. Look, I'm
is a national health problem.
that we can shrink back inside. I want to put
not up here to assign blame. I'll take my
And Magic, who's on that Commission, fol-
The President. Anybody got a real con-
share of the blame. I don't take it for not
lowing in the footsteps of the education that
troversial one or want to make a statement?
America first in the sense of the values, in
I want some guy that really wants to be
the sense of getting this economy to be first
caring or not understanding. I do. Barbara
Chick Koop has put forward to the begin-
does. I hope we have projected the family
ning, is saying, "Look, lifestyle's important."
tough, some tough guy. Who is it? This guy
but not in the sense of some kind of protec-
tion legislation that is going to shrink markets
concerns that we feel. We've tried to do that
He said, "I've made some mistakes." And he
in the middle? Yes. Who are you for, first,
and then let's hear the question. [Laughter]
and throw the working people of New
in this job. But I'm not here to blaine.
did. He made some big ones. But now I want
to help, get this thing out for open debate,
Q. I don't think you want to know.
Hampshire further out of work. Let's expand
But I am here to remind the voters up
these markets.
here that in two previous State of the Unions
compassionate treatment as a disease, and
The President. No, but really, they
Now, fire away. Shoot. Any questions, even
I have proposed growth initiatives that woule'
ne what we can do. And then use our office,
shouldn't be softballs. Call it as you see it,
the tough ones. I know we've got a few fans
bully pulpit of the White House and
and you'll get it back.
have stimulated the economy. Now I'm going
in here for someone else. Bring them up.
to do it again, and this time I'm going to
Chick Koop and others, our new Surgeon
Q. I'm a registered Democrat.
look the American people in the eye, as 1
General, to educate people. We've got to
The President. All right, sir.
The Economy
did in the past, and say, "All right, people
treat with the health aspect through preven-
Education
Q. Mr. President, first let me say the con-
are hurting more now. I've just came back
tion and research. I think he will have-we'd
Q. I haven't made up my mind yet.
ditions in the country today, with our Cov-
from the State of New Hampshire, and a lot
love to have him involved.
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ful interdiction effort, is a part of it. But the
is not show business. I mean, when a guy
Four years ago you proclaimed yourself
And so, one of the concepts of this k
"the education President."
national drug strategy is working. And then
asked a very good question on education it
choice. Another one is doing better in mat
The President. Yes.
and science. Another Is to continue the In
there's another ingredient to this. It's the pri-
gave me a chance to say what I think, but
(). Well, I'm n student nt the University
creases that we've already started 00 Hoad
vote partnorship under the leadership of n
also it shows what concerns people. So I hope
of New Hampshire, and to the best of my
guy named Jim Burke. We're spending $1
you don't feel this even the guy nt the end
Start, ready to learn. Another one is, you're
never too old to learn. Even I, and it's not
million-they are, not Government-$1 mil-
of the table here feels It's just some kind of
knowledge New Hampshire is 51st out of 50
lion a day. I don't know whether you've seen
a useless exercise.
States. We're behind Puerto Rico as well, as
just show business, have a little computer
far as State funding for education. And I just
there, and I'm trying to learn it. And I'm
them, with advertisements, pro bono adver-
But the message: I care. We're trying. We
haven't seen very much evidence of your
doing something, and I hope it's an example
tisements trying to help educate children and
need help. We have had and will continue
being the education President.
that you're never too old to learn, although
parents that drugs are-you know, turn off
to have, I think, sound and sensible pro-
The President. The man asked a very im-
I'm having a few difficulties with the cursor.
of drugs.
grams.
portant and very fair question. In the first
We are making progress. We've made big
And let's not forget this: It was one year
[Laughter]
place, Federal spending, and I can under-
The thing that troubles me is I don't think
progress in marijuana, made big progress in
ago that I had to make a very fateful decision
that we've gotten that across. It is a good,
cocaine use. And yet, we've still got a long
that affected the lives of a lot of Americans.
stand why you might not sense this, is up
significantly in the Department of Education.
sensible program. It's really just starting, but
way to go. So, we'll keep fighting the prob-
And we saw instantly the return of American
As you know, Federal spending is 6 or 7 per-
it holds the answer, because we are not going
lem, but I just want to give a little hope out
pride. It doesn't matter about how you feel
cent of the total education budget for the
to be as competitive in this world if we don't
there that these figures are fairly encouraging
about when we should have gone to war, the
country. Educational spending, leave out
do better in math or science.
in terms of the age group that you asked
country came together. I want to use that
same kind of leadership to bring the country
Federal, is also up substantially.
Another part of it is voluntary testing at
about.
Here's the good news: We do have a good
Last pitch is this on it: I still think that
together now on the social problems that af-
the 4th, 8th, and high school level. And it's
program. I went to the 50 Governors. We
voluntary. But there's nothing wrong with
the people of New Hampshire, in spite of
fect us and on getting this economy going
put politics aside on this one, believe me.
testing. There's nothing wrong with stand-
the economic problems and being out of
and getting New Hampshire back to work.
We've got the national education goals, six
ards so a school knows whether it's keeping
work, still really epitomize for a lot of the
And I need your help.
goals now. They were agreed by Democrats
up with other schools. We've gotten away
rest of the country what Barbara and I talk
Thank you very, very much.
and Republicans alike. They are now encom-
from that sense of discipline. Then I wat
bout as family values. I worry about the dec-
Note: The President spoke at 10:50 a.m. at
passed in a program called America 2000,
the schools to be drug-free SO a kid can
nation of the American family. Everything
the Exeter Town Hall. In his remarks, he re-
which is a national education strategy. It lit-
and learn in a safe environment.
we do, like child care, we try to make it that
erally calls for revolutionizing the schools.
the family has a choice, or education, that
ferred to Michael Dagostino, a retired rose-
So, those are some of the ingredients of
grower in Exeter, and Hugh and Kay Gregg,
Yes, it requires some more Federal spend-
our program called America 2000.
the family does.
ing, but we're budgeting that. It requires
Barbara is out there, "Read to the kids."
parents of Governor Judd Gregg.
much more participation of parents and of
War on Drugs
So, I do think that family involvement is vital
communities. I addressed 11 national chamber
Q. Mr. President, it seems that as the
to the success. The Federal Government can-
meeting yesterday on it. Democrats, Repub-
economy gets worse and worse, that more
not get this drug thing done by itself. We've
licans, liberals, conservatives coming to-
and more people are turning to the sales of
got a program. We've got to keep the families
Remarks to Davidson Interior Trim
gether to say we've got to do it differently.
drugs and more and more people are using
together and the families involved in solving
Employees in Dover, New
And please take a look at that program.
drugs as they see the economy toughen and
this. That isn't a vote-getter, and that isn't
Hampshire
It is sensible. I'm determined to keep it out
their families suffering. What do you propose
going to outpromise some Democrat halfway
January 15, 1992
of the political cross-currents. 1 don't care
to do about this problem because it seems
across the State. But it is something I feel
about my personal label; I am committed to
to keep getting worse?
First, let me just say thanks for the warmth
very, very strongly about and will continue
education. This program, under the able
The President. Let me repeat the ques-
to try to help the American people under-
of this reception. And your chairman is just
leadership of Lannar Alexander, Is one of the
tion because I want to argue with the premise
back from a trip with me abroad. and the
stand.
things that is beginning to get to the Amer-
a little bit, not totally. The premise is, it
You've got to read to your kids. You've got
thing got a little caught "P In some of the
ican consciousness. You and I might differ
seems to be getting worse on narcotics,
to hug them. You've got to lift them up and
politics of the moment which is hard to avoid.
on this one; I still like the idea of parents
drugs, amongst young people, and what do
dust them off and put them back into the
But the concept was: Look, this isn't any time
being able to choose.
you propose to do about it?
game. And if you don't do that, they drift
to pull back; this is a time to try to expand
American markets. I am not in favor of pro-
When I came out of the military to the
We have IA national drug strategy. We are
off into some of this mire. In the inner city
tection in the sense of pulling away from our
G.I. bill a thousand years ago nobody said,
making significant if not dramatic progress
\hey need help on it, too.
"Hey, you've got to go to school A or school
amongst young people, for example, in the
export markets.
B, university A or B, or high school extension
use of cocaine, down by 10 percent. Where
this point, County Commissioner
So, we went over there and tried to hain-
program A, B, or C." The person could
we're hurting as a society is the 35 and older,
Maureen Barrows presented the President
mer away in getting our export market ex-
choose. And choice in the State of Min-
kind of the addicted crowd is not shaking it.
with a book.)
tended. And one of the things that saved us
nesota, formerly run by a Democratic Gov-
Education is a part of it. Treatment is a
The President. Listen, I apologize, but
in the extraordinarily difficult times that,
ernor, has resulted in educational excellence.
we're really almost just getting started. This
well, this State faces and the neighboring
part of it. Interdiction, a much more success-
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105
State of Maine, Massachusetts, and New
were with your emotions, your hearts, and
the reads to a child, what we're trying to do
But anyway, good luck to you. I didn't
England, and also some of the rest of the
everything-but we, almost a year ago to this
say we think the parents of this country,
mean to-he invited me, so it's his-[laugh-
country, is our exports. So, one pitch I'd
very minute, went into battle halfway around
leave out the politics for a minute, have to
ter] Thanks, and bless you all. Thanks a lot.
make is, no matter what your polities are,
the world. And the country demonstrated
stay Involved, whether It's on child Caro, and
[AI this point, Frank Bichl. manager of
is please resist this siren's call, this wonderful
something In support of the young men and
our child care gives the parents a choice,
human resources for Davidson Interior Trim,
call, "Well, we're going to protect." Because
women that fought there that we'd really lost
whether it's on health care, don't mandate
presented the President with a gift.]
when you protect, you shrink the markets
since World War II. We came together, came
it all; get a system. And we're going to be
abroad, and you throw people at home out
together in anticipation, came together in
proposing a good program that keeps the
Let me just say this: Your chairman was
of work.
war, and came together in victory. And it lift-
tough over there and took that case dramati-
strong families of this country strong.
So that's the theme that I-take you up
ed the country up; the country came to-
cally. You can compete. If we can get the
I say I know this State; I do. I know it
on your chance to say something. [Laughter]
gether.
markets open, you can sell. You workers are
enough to know that regardless of the poli-
And the other thing, and I guess, is that I
Well, even though we're in an election
better than they are. The competence you
tics, family is important. Pride in the country
expect it's difficult for somebody working in
year, and I'm A realist, I've been in politics
see out there is better than the next guy.
a plant here in New Hampshire to wonder,
one hell of a long time, if you'll excuse the
is important. And I want to try to do my job
I-get criticized on this trip, saying Bush
expression, and some things transcend the
in such a way to identify with that and to
to know if the President really cares about
is trying to manage trade-all the liberal col-
what's happening in the economy. And I
politics. And one of them is that what I want
lead this country.
umnists on this one. Normally get hit from
think I know this State-went to school a
to do, even though we're in an election year,
Somebody reminded me of a country-
the other side saying protect. But this one
thousand years ago across the border and go
is take the same spirit of leadership and the
western song over here at Pease. Inciden-
is saying, "Well, he's now giving away his one
up every summer of my life except 1944 to
same spirit that affected this country then,
tally, I want to see how the Federal Govern-
commitment to free trade." It's not doing
Maine, spending a fair amount of time, al-
"can-do" spirit, and say, "All right, now let's
ment can help in the económic redevelop-
that at all. It is simply saying I am for free
most you can see it practically coming in on
see if we can't do the same thing with our
ment of that area. It's a tremendous asset.
trade, but we need fair access to the other
the plane. So when you get clobbered on the
economy, through getting the incentives built
And yes, I'm having to cut back on defenses,
guy's market.
seacoast by a storm, I get clobbered on the
back into the system or keeping the lid on
and yes, thank God, your kids and my
And that's what Bev was trying to do, and
seacoast by a storm. It goes further than that.
the Federal spending or whatever it is."
grandkids are growing up in a world where
that's what I was trying to do. And we made
When you get hurting because you worry
And I just wanted you to know: One, L
ey don't need to worry quite as much about
some progress. Not as much as we wanted,
whether you're going to have a job or you
know you're hurting: two, 1 care about it!
Luclear weapons. I mean, that's a very impor-
but we're going to keep on. And for those
get thrown out, I do care about it. And I
three, I've been wrong about how fast this
tant thing. But with it comes some big prob-
that say, "stay home," I know what they're
just wanted to say that.
recovery would take; but, four, I am deter-
lems for jobs. So, we want to help on the
getting at. They're thinking. "Well, the Presi-
What we're trying to do from the Federal
mined to use the role as leader of the free
economic development.
dent is over there talking to Gorbachev or
level is to stimulate the economic growth of
world, leader of the United States, to make
This highway bill is going to help; it's going
Yeltsin or Middle East. I wonder if he really
this country. And I hope you'll stay tuned
things better. And I think we'll have a win-
to help New Hampshire a lot. Small business
knows that we're hurting in Dover, New
at the State of the Union. I've made some
dow in here, even though it's political, right
moves we've made are going to help. The
Hampshire?" I've got to say to the people,
proposals. I'm having difficulty, I think we
after the State of the Union to have some-
new visa center is going to help. So I want
yes, I know that. But the world is such you've
all know, getting them through the Congress.
thing happen in terms of stimulating the
to try to do the best we can. Somebody says,
got to stay involved. And it means jobs in
But I'm going to try again, look the American
growth of this economy.
"Hey, Bush is bragging about the highway
Dover, New Hampshire, if we stay involved
people in the eye, and say, "Now look, here's
So please, vote any way you want to-
bill helping New Hampshire." I've got to
and do it effectively.
what it's going to take to take a sick economy
that's your right and privilege-and say what
brag about something, and you're darn right
So we'll keep on trying. And now that's
and make it a well economy."
you feel, but please avoid the quick fix that
I'm going to brag about the highway bill-
the second speech, and thanks for my sneak-
Having said that, I'm convinced this econ-
might sound good. One of the charges: The
ers. I'm glad to have them.
omy is going to turn around. I've been wrong
President doesn't know where New Hamp-
[laughter]-and all the jobs that go with it.
shire is. Look-[laughter]-1 know where
So, we'll keep slugging it out on that basis.
about how fast it would be, and I think a
Note: The President spoke at 12:48 p.m. In
lot of other people, smarter than I. have been
New Hampshire is, and I know the heartbeat
In spite of the problems, I think this is prob-
his remarks, he referred to Beverly F. Dolan,
wrong about how fast 11 would be, the reono-
of this State. And I know the people, and
ably the most challenging and, in a sense,
chairman of Textron, parent company of Da-
mists and all that. But we me the United
I care about them, and so does Barbara Bush.
rewarding time since, well, In this whole con-
vidson Interior Trim.
States. We don't need to fear anything at all.
You can argue with me on the politics or
tury to be President of the United States.
We can turn this thing around, and we're
on what we might have done sooner, but I
Who would have thought that the changes
going to do it.
just wanted you to know we do care des-,
round the world that make the world more
And the last point is simply this, because
perately. We have tried in the White House
baceful would have happened so fast and
Remarks to Liberty Mutual
I want to eat this chili before it gets cold-
to project a certain commitment to family
happened, thank God, on my watch? So, I'll
Insurance Employees in Dover
[laughter]-and some of you guys have got
which, If you look at your kids and you worry,
take the hit for the bad stuff, and give me
January 15, 1992
to go to work. But the last part of it is that
as Bar and I do, about the decline of the
just a little bit of the credit for the fact that
a year ago, almost to the day-and maybe
American family, it is important. So when she
your kids and mine may have a chance for
I'd like to know what these people had for
some of you all were involved; I know you
lugs a baby that's sick with AIDS or when
a more peaceful world.
lunch over here. [Laughter] Let me first
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means more jobs for the people of New
thank, of course, Governor Gregg, who's
And I have not simply just discovered New
It's a weird year here. You've got crazy
heading up our campaign in this State. And
Hampshire. You ask some of these character
eople running all over, thinking that the way
Hampshire. And so, it isn't all gloom and doom. And
let me also single out Senator Bob Smith-
running around there with these scattor-
to put this country back to work is to stop
what 1 want to do is this: We've had growth
I don't know whether you all have been Intro-
brained Ideas and these quick fixes to somo-
exports. In other words, they call 11 this, they
call it protection. I'm going to protect an
agendas. They've been stymied by II Demo-
duced-Senator Bob Smith over here, Con-
thing as tough as this economy, "When were
gressman Bill Zeliff, both extraordinarily
you last in New Hampshire?" And you'll find
American job. Do not listen to the siren's
cratic Congress. And you ask these guys that
good friends, tremendous supporters for the
call of protection if it comes out of the far
come, where were you when the President
they've never been here at all. They wouldn't
know how to get here.
right or the far left. What that means is
proposed a capital gains cut to stimulate
values that you and I share; and then also
shrinking jobs, getting into trade wars, and
jobs? Where were you when he proposed
a former Senator, Gordon Humphrey, who
I know the heartbeat of this State. I know
IRA's to help the first-time homebuyer? He's
is also in my corner and working hard. And
the values, the family values of this State.
retaliation. What we're trying to do is to expand ex-
got a growth agenda.
I'm so proud to have these leaders and oth-
Barbara and I try to live those values in our
ers, Warren Rudman and others who
lives as President and First Lady of this coun-
ports by making that playing field level and
They didn't do it. So now I'm going to take
couldn't be here today, at my side.
getting access to foreign markets. So, when
my message on the State of the Union to
try. And I can identify with those who are
the American people, look them right in the
Somebody said, "Well, why do you want
hurting in this State. Please give me credit
someone says to me, some politician out of
for that, and do not listen to these guys that
some State that never heard of New Hamp-
eye and sny, "All right, let's do this. Let's
to go to Liberty?" And I was thinking back,
coming over, the last time I was here in an
want to take political opportunity, come up
shire before, comes up here and says, "The
lay aside these election-year politics for about
with a quick fix to something as complicated
President ought not to worry about world
2 weeks or 3, and let's pass this package."
earlier campaign effort, somebody in a park-
peace or the global economy," I'm going to
And it's going to have in it not quick fixes.
ing lot ran over Governor Hugh Gregg's foot.
as this economy, and then be gone and never
[Laughter] And I wanted to come back and
to return. I've been here, been here a lot.
say, "Let me run my business the way I think
It's going to resist some of the short-term
try to do better this time-[laughter]-and
And I will return, as President, and when
is best." I ain going to continue to work to
quick political briefs. But it's going to have
I get through being President, as neighbor.
open markets, to take this question of equal
the stimulation of jobs and investment and
thank everybody here for this welcome, Mr.
Laszewski, Mr. Countryman, and just say it
opportunity-that's all the American worker
savings to get this country moving again. And
So, you've got my pledge on that one.
needs-equal opportunity in the global mar-
that's what we need.
is a pleasure to be back in this State.
And I know times are tough. This State
We don't need a quick political promise
Let me deny a vicious rumor that's cir-
has gone through hell. It's gone through an
ketplace. And those workers I saw at Davidson and
out in a parking lot somewhere only to be
culating here. I have not come back to New
extraordinarily difficult time, coming off
Hampshire to personally renew my subscrip-
n pinnacle, you might say, of low unemploy
in this business are the most efficient
forgotten when the southern tier of primaries
ou there is. And you can compete with anybody.
roll around. We need sound economics, and
tion to the Union Leader. [Laughter] I did
ment. Now you're at about the national level.
this time I'm going to succeed because I be-
come back to talk about jobs. But I wanted
And yes, people are hurting. And I am deter-
And don't try to do it by shrinking world mar-
kets and going into some siren call of protec-
lieve 1 can get the American people for ine,
to start with something. I was just over at
mined to turn it around.
a cafeteria at Davidson, and this guy-1 don't
I told some of them over there-there's
tion that threw this country into a depression
in spite of the fact that we've got some con-
know what his politics were, really is indiffer-
back in the thirties. I'm talking 25 percent
gressional leaders down there that are op-
a big difference, you know. People say to me,
unemployment back in those days. Let's not
posed every step of the way.
ent-and he asked me what for some might
the difference between domestic and foreign
be an easy question. And he said, "If you
policy, "How could you lead the world"-
set the clock back. Let's continue to exercise
I might say, Bill Zeliff is up for election.
had to name one thing, what would your
and they gave me some credit for that in
world leadership. We are the United States
All the Congressmen are; Bob Smith, not.
But if we had more Senators like Bob Smith
message be today; why are you here?" We
Desert Storm, that the American people still
of America. And I am not about to give up
and Warren Rudinan, and Congressmen like
were sitting with our sleeves rolled up at the
feel very, very strongly about-"How can you
on world leadership.
And to those cynics out there, these politi-
Bill Zeliff, we would not be facing the spend-
table.
do that and then have such difficulties with
cal newcomers hitting this State for the first
ing out of control and the problem that we're
My thought process went this way: I think
this economy?" Well, let me tell you some-
I know this State. I know I know the prob-
thing. When I moved those forces I didn't
time, let me say this: I won't apologize one
having in stimulating the growth of this econ-
lems of this State. We live near this State.
have to ask Senator Kennedy or some liberal
minute for the fact that your kids and my
omy. So, my prayer for Christmas was give
me a Republican Congress while you're at
1 went to school across the border to Mas-
Democrat how, whether we were going to
grandkids might just have an opportunity, be-
do it. We did it. I didn't have to ask some
cause of the way we've conducted the foreign
it, and then watch what we can do. [Laugh-
sachusetts and have a feel for this New Eng-
affairs of this country, to grow up in a world
ter)
land where I grew up. I think I understand
smart-aleck columnist who was saying, "Bush
it. I understand the heartbeat; I understand
with a little less worry about nuclear war.
Let me just give you some standards if you
hasn't explained this to the American peo-
There has been dramatic change. And I'll
do watch that State of the Union, what we
the hardship. And I said to this guy, we've
ple." We did it.
take the hit. I'll take my share of the blaine
need. A real growth package must stimulate
got all of these issues: health care, which I'll
And the young men and women, the best
mention; we've got world peace; we have
fighting force we've ever had, stood up and
for the economy. and I'll dish out plenty to
investment that's needed to create jobs.
economic stimulation to get the economy.
to Congress on that, I might add. [Laughter]
We've got to encourage risk-taking. We've
lifted the spirits of this country. And now
to
One message, I want the people of this State
want to take that same leadership, bring this
But just give us a little credit for the fact
got to encourage business people to take
to know that I care. I care very much about
country together after the State of the Union,
that we now have a tremendous change in
risks. The second one: It's got to stop the slide
the people that are hurting in this State, and
and solve the domestic economic problems,
the world, old totalitarian systems now de-
mocracies, people in the south of our border
in real estate values. For most Americans,
I am determined to turn this State around.
and do it in a sound, sensible New Hamp-
shire way. And that is why I'm here.
now working for free markets. And that
their home is a large part of what they own,
And that is the message.
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So now, listen, here's the final word. Vote
a large part of their assets. And if those real
theme here in this State is get this country
child. I think they understand what we're say-
for ne. And listen, go listen politely. These
estate values go down, people have lack of
back to work again.
ing. And that is: family is important.
these executives, they've got to do their
confidence in the economy. We've got to find
And some guy over here nt the first stop
Everything 1 do in legislation I ask our
things, and I'll make some proposals in the
people, "Is this going to strengthen or Is this
guys, thing here and have fair play for all. But don't
at Pease-and I'm Interested in this eco-
vote for them. Vote for me, okay?
State of the Unton that's put underpluning
nomic development for Peaso Air Force
going to diminish family?" Our child care
Base. You can take a hit that comes from
bill-1 fought back the mandated benefits
Thanks " lot.
under that and says to a person: The Invest-
ment you made in your home is sacrosanct,
the results of-actually, having to peel back
from the liberals, and I fought it back be-
Note: The President spoke at 2:11 p.m. In
and we want to keep that value so you and
at Pease is the fact that we're succeeding in
cause it would weaken the family's chance
his remarks, he referred to Robert L.
your kids will have that value for the rest
terms of world peace and less defense spend-
to take care of the child care situation in the
Laszewski, executive vice president of group
of your lives.
ing and all of that. But there's hardship with
they think back. I want our school pro-
markets, and Gary L. Countryman, chair-
Thirdly, it's got to give people the con-
it. So, I want to see the success of the eco-
way gram to emphasize community and family.
man of the board, both with Liberty Mutual
fidence that the costs of health care-and
nomic development program at Pease, and
I worry about these families that are broken
ache for them, worry about them and
Insurance Group.
here's a specialty where your company has
I want to be a part of it. I understand the
been absolutely superb, leading in the health
people around there. I know a lot of people
up. want to do what we can, Barbara and 1, as
care field-that the cost of health care, the
around there. And we should help that area,
leaders in this country, to help strengthen
cost of education, the cost of raising a family
and this gets close to it, help them in eco-
family. And so 1 do understand New Hampshire
Remarks to Cabletron Systems
are affordable.
nomic redevelopment.
And then the last point: It's got to make
The guy over there at Pease-a woman,
because I have this wonderfully warm feeling
Employees in Rochester, New
America more competitive. And that leads
actually-she said something about a coun-
that New Hampshire feels exactly the way
Hampshire
you, of course, to a sensible and sound edu-
try-western song about the train, a light at
we do on these questions of family values
January 15, 1992
cation program, and we've got a very good
the end of the tunnel. I only hope it's not
and faith. Somebody said to me, we prayed
one in a program we call America 2000. And
for you over there. That was not just because
You guys are fired up. Thank you very
a train coming the other way. [Laughter]
much. What is it about the water around this
then I also think it's about time that the Con-
Well, I said to her, "Well, I'm a country
I threw up on the Prime Minister of Japan,
either. [Laughter] Where was he when I
place? You guys just standing out here for
gress get its house in order, that they live
music fan. I love it, always have." Doesn't
2 hours and being so darn nice. But thanks
by the same laws that you and me and other
fit the mold of some of the columnists,
needed him? [Laughter] I said, let me tell
for the welcome. I appreciate it. To Craig
Americans are asked to live by. And I'm
might add, but nevertheless-[laughter]--
you something. And I say this-I don't know
and Bob, let me phrase it this way: Who
going to be challenging them to do a little
what they think I ought to fit in, but I love
whether any ministers from the Episcopal
would have thought that I would be standing
it. You should have been with me at the CMA
reorganization in Congress itself.
Church are here-I hope so. But I said to
shoulder-to-shoulder with two guys who but
So I want to restore the faith of this coun-
awards at Nashville. But nevertheless, I said
him this: You're on to something here. You
a handful of years ago had a dream and who
try in the future. As I say, we lifted up the
to them there's another one that the Nitty
cannot be President of the United States if
And don't let the revisionists, don't let these
We've had a little rain. New Hampshire has
DONTOR
together, with some very able men and
spirits of this country with your help. And
Gritty Dirt Band, and it says if you want to
you don't have faith.
women I want to mention in just a minute,
some of you all probably served in the Storm.
see a rainbow you've got to stand a little rain.
Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in
times of trial and the Civil War and all that
made this happen.
I mean, this is America, and it's strong,
had too much rain. A lot of families are hurt-
stuff. You can't be. And we are blessed. So
smart alecks that opposed it from day one
and it's wonderful. And 1 am all fired up and
ing.
don't feel sorry for-don't cry for me, Argen-
come back a year later and try to take it away
The answer-Barbara cares, and I care-
tina. We've got problems out there, and I
pleased with the reception here but, more
from you, the American people. It was a
clear, solid victory. It reversed the Vietnam
to take that same sense of leadership and,
ARGENTING
am blessed by good health, strong health.
important, pleased to see the quality of the
the answer is we've got proposals that will
work and the pride in the work. It just rein-
help. They're not quick fixes; they're not
syndrome; it gave us pride. And now I want
Geez, you get the flu and they make it into
forces my view that we've got to resist this
things that are going to garner n political vote
a Federal case. [Laughter] Anyway that goes
siren's call of protection and continue to send
only to fall on your face a couple of weeks
with the territory. I'm not asking for sym-
again, solve the problems that have been
our quality goods wherever the market is, do-
later. Stay tuned to the State of the Union,
plaguing this Nation and the economy. I be-
pathy, I just wanted you to know that I never
felt more up for the charge. I wish I could
mestic or foreign. And I'm going to keep on
lieve I can do it.
and if you agree with me, spread the word.
Lastly, I need your help. I am here to ask
tuck each one of you for 10 minutes into that
trying to open these foreign markets to fair
We've got a lot of other programs out
there: antidrugs, proeducation, anticrime
car as you ride along and see the reception
play. And if we succeed in that, these goods
for your vote. I will take, as I say, my share
that Judd Gregg talked about that we're get-
are going to compete. They are quality goods. I'd
of the blame for the things that have gotten
legislation that's hung up. We need a good,
And I'll tell you, that's a strong lesson
off track in this country. But I understand.
new financial-we didn't get a chance to talk
ting as I return to this State that 1 do under-
take back to Washington, DC.
And I want to get them back on track. I'
about this-but financial reform legislation
stand. And it's been great. I'll go back to Wash-
1 had a chance to chat with some of you
like a little credit for the things that have
that's going to modernize our banking system
all's associates in there. And I will single out
gone right. I think of New Hampshire as
Ington all fired up for tomorrow and tackle
and make it far more competitive, which
the President or the Prime Minister of this
but two because I wrote down their names.
State that understands what we Bushes mean
means more loans, more affordability for
or the Governor of that coming in. But I'll
But Dominique MacDonald and Frank
when we talk about family and faith and fam-
MeWilliams-I don't know whether you have
people that are borrowing. There's a wide,
ily values. I think people understand when
have this heartbeat, vigorous and strong, be-
to have a "Mc" to work in the quality end
tremendous agenda. But the underlying
Barbara hugs an AIDS baby or reads to a
cause of what I've sensed here today.
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Thank you all very, very much. Good to
it is great to see so many friendly and familiar
year ago. And you think back to the criticism
And the second thing I'd any IN this: Thi
be with you. I hope we can-how long have
faces, neighbors, and friends that I've gotten
that goos with the Job from the media, the
nin't the easiest job In the world. But I didn
you been standing out there? An hour? Two?
to know over the years.
columnists, "The President basn't prepared
expect II would be. But I love II every single
Oh, not ^ thousand apologies. But really, It's
Captain Mark, you were very nico to men-
minute, the challenge of trying to work for
been a great day for the spirit. And 1 meant
tion Barbara Bush. who believes In your work
the American people." Look back at the very
people, some of whom are running today for
and hopefully improve the lot of the Amer-
what I said. I am terribly impressed. And
very much, has taken a leadership role in that
President, criticizing me for moving forces.
ican people.
please keep doing this. People are learning;
cause, that wonderful cause that she do the
Look back at them telling me what I could
And the longer I'm in this job, the more
people understand. We've got some prob-
Lord's work. And I'm very sorry that she's
not do as Commander in Chief. And we did
important I think are the values that I think
lems, but you're showing we also got some
not here. And if you really want to make my
it. You and I and those brilliant young men
of as New Hampshire values, your family val-
wonderful answers. Thanks a lot.
day, please don't ask why she didn't come.
Everybody is talking about where's Barbara,
and women did it. And we lifted the spirits
ues, I hope they're mine, of family, involve-
Note: The President spoke at 3:41 p.m. at
we miss her very, very much. [Laughter]
of America.
ment of parents in the lives of these kids,
And I want to take that same leadership
Cabletron Systems, Inc. In his remarks, he
And I told her I didn't need her, I was
the need to do better in education, the need
and lift the spirits of America in the econ-
for all of us to come together at the commu-
referred to Craig R. Benson, chairman of the
not going to throw up. [Laughter] You guys,
board of directors, chief operating officer,
you talk about-hey, look, it was the 24-hour
omy. And we can do it if I can get some
nity level or family level to knock out this
help in the United States Congress. That was
and treasurer; S. Robert Levine, president
flu. How many people here have had the flu?
scourge of drugs. And there's some good
and chief executive officer; Dominique R.
And I bet none of you have done it quite
the difference. They ask me what's the dif-
news on that in terms of the teenager use
ference. Well, let me tell you guys. Let me
of cocaine. There's some good things hap-
MacDonald, sales trainer, and Frank
so dramatically. [Laughter] And I'd like a
tell you 250 mournful pundits what the dif-
McWilliams, test manager, all with Cabletron
loan because it cost a lot to dryclean a suit
pening out there.
But it's family and yes, faith. Somebody
Systems, Inc.
over there in Japan. [Laughter] And the
ference was. I didn't have to go ask Senator
Prime Minister had n nice expensive one-
Kennedy if I could declare war or go on and
reminded me of Abraham Lincoln's com-
[laughter]-used to have a nice expensive
move the troops. I didn't have to.
ments about, during the Civil War, praying.
Listen, if I'd have listened to the leader
one. [Laughter] Sorry.
Of course, you feel that way. These are fun-
of the United States Senate, George Mitch-
Remarks and a Question-and-Answer
No, it's been a great day and an exciting
damental values. And we have tried to live
ell, Saddam Hussein would be in Saudi Ara-
Session at a Dinner Hosted by the
day. One horrible disappointment, I was not
them. We have tried to emulate them. Wes,
Portsmouth Rotary Club
able to stop by and see Evelyn Marconi at
bia, and you'd be paying 20 bucks a gallon
have tried to advocate them. Thank God
Geno's Coffee Shop. She is a longtime sup-
for gasoline. Now, try that one on for size.
Barbara Bush is out there hugging those kids
January 15, 1992
porter of flag and country, and I'm sorry we
I'm getting sick and tired, I am, every sin-
gle night hearing one of these carping little
and teaching people to read and serving, as
The President. Thank you all very much
missed her there. Glad that she's all decked
she should, as an example to a lot of people
for that welcome back. Thank you, Cliff.
out and here with us tonight. Bill, thank you
liberal Democrats jumping all over my you-
know-what. [Laughter] And I can't wait until
in this country of a caring person. No political
Thanks to you and Bill and Don Reeves and
again, sir, for arranging all this. And I'd say
this campaign. And if I decide to become
agenda, she just gives a darn.
so many others. Captain Mark, thank you,
to you and the committee, on relatively short
a candidate for President of the United
And so, I'll roll up my sleeves and get into
sir, for that lovely blessing. And you have a
notice, given—I think you heard about it
the arena when they decide who they want
States-[laughter]-why, I'm going to come
wonderful way here of making n person feel
probably the day before Christmas, and then
right back up here and ask for your help.
to have as their nominee. But in the mean-
at home. I can't pronounce the name of the
that period between then and New Year's,
Look, there's a lot of problems out here,
time, let me tell you this: I know how I got
river; I've been crossing it for 66 years. But
obviously, there's other pursuits, and then
a lot of things wrong with our country.
there. I know how I got this opportunity to
nevertheless-[laughter].
this thing has just been a wonderful, warm
serve as President of the United States. And
I would like to remind people that it's been
response here.
There's an awful lot of things that are right
about our country. Some people around here
I've tried to be a good President. And now
many, many times they've gone across that
May I salute the Governor, of course, Judd
that may have been old enough to remember
things aren't so good in some parts of this
river. And there's something about the air
Gregg, my campaign manager here, my
country. And we do care about It. But I be-
here. A hurricano that is designed to hill
friend of longstanding, a quality Governor,
the conflict of the Vietnam war. There are
some people around here that may have kids,
lieve there is a rainbow out there. And I need
Portsmouth knocks the hell out of my house
a decent guy, and I IIIII 50 proud to have
parents, maybe in the 10th, 12th grade, who
your help to prove it. So, I would appreciate
in Kennebunkport-[laughter]-and1 would
his support and the support, of course, of
-wonder, "Hey, is my kid going to have to
your support. But whatever you decide, keep
like to speak to the Rotarian meteorologist
my dear friend, Hugh Gregg, as well.
go off and do combat in a superpower war?";
up this work. This is the America's spirit,
as soon as this is over.
I'm glad that Bob Smith is at my side. Ile
who go to bed at night saying their prayers,
alive and well and flourishing. And may Cod
But thanks for the warm welcome. Hugh
came in and took over for another friend and
as most families do, wondering about the fear
bless our great country. And don't ever
Gregg asked me to deliver his speech tonight.
supporter, Gordon Humphrey, who is with
to
of nuclear war. That's been diminished.
apologize for it.
[Laughter] For those of you who will remem-
us tonight. He is doing a superb job for you
to
I'll take the blame for some things, but
Thank you very much.
ber 4 years ago, he delivered my speech 4
all, for this great State. Regardless of party,
please give us a little bit of credit for the
years ago. But you've heard once again the
he's in there strong for the principles you
[At this point, Cabletron Systems officers
fact that your kids and my grandkids have
story of my last visit here, and you wondered,
believe in, in the United States Senate. I'm
presented a gift to the President.]
a chance to grow up now in a world that's
well, was it the broccoli that did it? And I
glad he's here. And of course, Bill Zeliff, with
much more peaceful. And that is fun-
All right. Thank you all very much. That's
appreciate Harry out here working it out, and
whom I campaigned when he was first elect-
damental.
great. Thank you.
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ed, doing a superb job in the Congress. So,
force, not by force, but by history's most
ought to be very thankful for a world at
I vowed 1 would come over here tonight
you have a great delegation. And I might also
powerful Idea: The love of freedom.
and be calm, but I'll tell you something, I'm
poace." And I understand that.
mention two other New Hampshirites not
Today, the cold war is over and 11 great
And hard times have come to this State.
a little sick and tired of being the punching
with us, both leaders, one In the Senate now,
victory for this Nation, our principled United
And 11 guy III II Inneheon today 1 Not next
hag for n lot of lightwoights around this coun-
Warren Rudman, a strong supporter, and of
States of America, the Nation we cherish,
to some of the workers at one of the plants
try yelling at me day in and day out. And
course, my friend Governor John Sununu,
and a triumph to people everywhere who
and he asked me a question that you might
I'm sick of it. If they want a fight, they're
who served this country with great distinction
look to us and will continue to look to us
expect would be an easy one. And it wasn't,
going to have one. I mean it.
and this State with great distinction. So, I'm
as the land of liberty, the land-o the free.
it was a tough one really. But he said, "If
If they want to do something for the mid-
proud to have the support of these leaders.
And believe me, everywhere you go in the
you could leave one message from your visits
dle class, rich against poor and all that, pass
I think you've got to hand it to Yoken's.
world they see that it is only the United
here in New Hampshire today, what would
the incentives that I'm talking about. It will
And the incomparable Harry MacLeod. Who
States that is the leader for freedom and de-
it be?" And I thought about it. Should I tell
get this country and this State back to work.
would have held a reservation for 4 years?
mocracy and market economies and, indeed,
him it's for fighting crime, or should I tell
That's my challenge to them, and that's going
[Laughter] Hey, listen, I hope with this
to be the challenge to the entire Nation. I'm
for peace.
him about world peace, or should I tell him
crowd I don't have to tell you that I haven't
I can't help but note on this evening that
about our education program? And what I
going to try and work my heart out to do
just today discovered New Hampshire. This
one year ago, one year ago today, our com-
told him, and what I hope has happened
my level best. And I hope I've dispelled with
is, Judd reminds me, the fourth time that
today, is that I told him we care. We care.
the idea that we don't care because we cer-
I've had a meal at Yoken's. And that ain't
mitment to liberty, our commitment to inter-
discovery time. I mean, that's good eating
national law was put to the test. Saddam Hus-
Privileged as I ain to be President, Barbara
tainly do.
sein, who never in my view felt that we would
and I are not isolated from the feelings of
You hear a lot about the talk of the domes-
time. And I know it when I see it, and I
use force, I think he thought that the Viet-
people in this State that are hurting. And
tic agenda. We've got a good one. We've got
like it. And I'm glad to be back on the sea-
a child care bill, and it passed finally that
nam syndrome was with us forever. He mis-
that, I think, is an important message.
coast.
Friends have to know, and I think it's impor-
says hey, let the parents choose. Let's keep
calculated twice: One, he didn't think we'd
Cliff Taylor pointed it out, and he said,
tant to the people that are hurting that their
the families strong. Let's not mandate all
well, a lot has happened in those intervening
use force, and secondly, he felt if we did use
President knows and the President cares.
these benefits from Washington, DC, wheth-
force, he could have some kind of a standoff
4 years between the time I stood you up and
And in this case the President is going to
er it's a health program or a child care pro-
with the men and women of the U.S. mili-
the time I got invited back. Let me just put
tary. And he was wrong on both counts. He
do something about it.
gram. Let's strengthen the family by giving
it in a rather broad, ideological perspective.
Now, we're getting back into the swing of
them the opportunity to decide what's the
Our world was locked back then, less than
mistook a voice of protest and a handful of
best way to deal with these kids.
editorials and a couple of speeches in the
the political season. And you're hearing a lot
4 years ago, in an enormous struggle, in an
of people jumping all over me. I know where
We have a new education program, tran-
ideological struggle, in what you might call
Congress, for the United States lacking the
will. And he was dead wrong. Aggression was
New Hampshire is. I know what the values
scends party lines. We got together with the
a nuclear standoff between superpowers.
of the families are in New Hampshire, and
Democratic and Republican Governors; we
And I think about the problems we face in
set back, and our country came together with
I hope we're practicing them in the White
adopted the strategy, six education goals, not
this State, the problems we face in the Nation
a pride that we hadn't had since the end of
House as a family. I understand what joins
to be dictated from Washington, six edu-
about the economy.
World War II. And I am very grateful for
that.
the people of this State together.
cation goals. Starts from be ready to learn—
But let's not lose sight of our blessings.
And you're going to hear all kinds of cheap
that means Head Start, and that was one
I happen to think that it's a good thing that
I don't know a single American, regardless
promises coming out of deep left field, past
Washington can help-ends up with you're
my grandchildren and this little guy over here
of party or philosophy, liberal or conserv-
the running track, up against the fence in
never too old to learn. That means old guys
can grow up in a world with less fear of nu-
ative, who doesn't, in his heart of hearts, or
the left field, offering a quick fix to a troubled
like me learning to use a computer, and some
clear weapons. And I am very, very proud
her heart of hearts, celebrate the changes
economy. And my appeal to you today is re-
of you other old guys around here going over
of my predecessors in this great office for
that have taken place and really, the hope,
sist it. Do not listen to those that want to
to the library maybe and reading a book. It
President who have brought this about, and
the hope they bring to the entire world.
enlarge the deficit, and in the name of that
wouldn't hurt any of us. [Laughter]
I'm proud of the record of our administration
But I also know that it is very tough to
But it means you got math and science,
try to make this economy recover.
in help bringing about the changes that we
focus on what's happening thousands of miles
I have offered growth incentives, growth
volunteer tests to let your kids know how
enjoy in this world today. We have a lot to
away when things are tough here at home,
proposals for 3 straight years. And now we're
they' doing. It's a wonderful new program,
be grateful for. And world peace is one of
and when the company work force shut
going to take those, build on them, look into
and it revolutionizes the schools. And it does
them.
down. And Bill and I were talking about this
that lens, and tell the American people 2
it without setting a lot of mandates from
You know, 4 years ago the world was lit-
today, about the hardship for some of the
weeks from now this is what it's going to take
these subcommittee, tired subcommittee
erally under siege. And today, look anywhere;
families in this State. Something else, the
to get this economy going, how we're going
chairmen in Washington, DC, that haven't
look to our South; look over in Eastern Eu-
fear that some have: some that have jobs;
to stimulate investment, how we are going
had a new thought in the 50 years they've
rope; look at the Commonwealth, meaning
they lack the confidence they'll have them
to stimulate savings, how we are going to
been sitting there.
what used to be the Soviet Union, and you'll
tomorrow; the worry that families have on
keep this Federal deficit under control as
I'm getting a little tired of this. I hate to
see that freedom is on the march. And the
the economic front. It's very hard when you
best we can, and how we can do it without
unload on you again. Last time. [Laughter]
Berlin Wall and the Warsaw Pact and the
have these concerns and these worries to take
this tax and spend philosophy you're hearing
I heard two of the Democrats get up the
Soviet Union itself, all vanquished. Not by
a look at the big picture and say, "Well, we
about every single day in this State.
other day and they said, "Heck with holding
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And then we've got to be able to compete.
Q. Mr. President, I know you're a little
the line on the budget deficit. Forget about
And for those that want us to pull back
/hatever it is, whatever the fix is, it must
pressed for time, but we normally with
it. We're going to propose spending $50 bil-
into some isolationism n In the 1930's, take
nko 11A more competitive in the global econ-
a couple of questions.
11 look at world history. You don't have (i)
The President. Does that mean two?
tion more Federal money. If you haven't
omy. And nah and fually, and maybe the
discovered it, that's your money. Comes right
be a rocket scientist to see what that led to.
most important, you've got to control the
Q. If 1 Innit It to two.
out of your pocket whether you're working
The United States, as long as I am President,
The President. Sure.
most unproductive end of our society, and
or not around here. Federal money, $50 bil-
is going to stay involved and continue to lead
that is Government spending. We have got
Q. A couple of questions?
lion. Forget the one constraint we have and
around the world.
The President. Yes.
What I really want to do is try to take the
to keep the caps on and enforce them on
that is the caps on spending that are in that
wasteful Government spending. And I need
Q. We have a microphone set up some-
budget agreement, just forget it, and then
leadership that I think and hope we dem-
where up front here. Yes, right there. Step
onstrated in Desert Storm, that lifted the
more people like these Congressmen to help
we'll spend our way back to prosperity. That
right up to the microphone, Bob.
is not going to solve the economic problems
spirits of this country and brought this coun-
me do just exactly that.
Q. Mr. President, welcome to the south-
of this country.
try together unlike any time since the end
And in conclusion, let me say this, just a
side of the Piscataqua River. This question,
What is?
of World War II, brought it together, and
couple of confessions to friends. And this will
we are in a political year and a recession year.
Carefully defined incentives to increase in-
take that now and apply that to the domestic
go to the Democrats who may have been
How can we get both parties together to
vestment, to increase research, and develop-
economy to get the support from the Amer-
smart enough to join Rotary, too. [Laughter]
solve the recession problem?
ment, to build so we can be competitive in
No, but I really mean this one from the heart
The President. In the State of the Union
ican people for incentives that will give us
the educational field so that people can save,
that vibrance and that feeling of optimism
in the sense that some things, at least the
Message-frankly, it's tough. You put your
use some incentives to save, use incentives
that we, the American people, pride our-
way I look at this-and again, I'm concerned
finger on why. We're in a competitive politi-
to build some strength under a person's
selves on.
in this country about the decline family.
cal year. All kind of weird dances going on
home. A home is one's castle. And one of
And I believe we can do it. And one of
And I don't want to be preachy or lecturing,
out there. And that's the way it always has
the reasons there's lack of confidence, fami-
the reasons I do is I think there are some
but Barbara and I talk about this a great deal.
been, and probably always will be.
lies see the value of their homes going down.
sound things in place now. Yes, there are
In the first place, I'm pretty proud of her.
But I think the economic problems are se-
I saw mine blown away up here, but never-
some people hurting. Unemployment is too
When she hugs a baby or teaches somebody
rious enough, and I think the answers are
theless-[laughter]. No, they see the values
high. Inflation is pretty good. Interest rates
to read, why she's saying something. But
clear enough that what I will try to do as
going down, and there are things we can do
are down. Inventory is not bad. The market
that I will continue to try to do as President
President is say in the State of the Union
on that. And so, let's do what will help, not
is saying, hey, things are going to be looking
is to look at the legislation and say, "Does
Message: Look, here's what I think it will
do what sounds good for garnering votes in
better. And I'm always one who likes to see
this help, or does this diminish family?" The
take. Now, let's lay it aside for just long
a hotly contested primary on the Democratic
the glass balf full and not SO pessimistic and
longer I'm in this job, and I say this to you
enough to pass a program. And then if you
side of the agenda.
half empty. And that's the way I am.
as a friend, the more convinced I am, Cap,
guys got one you think is better, come on
No, I've listened to what the people of this
we'll talk about that and debate it and nego-
Then there's another point. Sorry I came
State have to say one way and another. And
maybe you understand this, that family and
tiate it. And-if I've got some additions that
to this one because I will get wound up. I'm
faith are terribly important ingredients for
talking about protection. I'm talking about
today it was an excellent visit back to this
I think would help but can't put into this
State that I believe I understand, whose
being President of the United States. I be-
first go-round and get done, why, we'll de-
the siren's call from the extreme right and
lieve it. I feel it very strongly.
the extreme left in the political spectrum say-
heartbeat I feel. And I would just encourage
bate all that. We'll go back to our political
you all to avoid the quick-fix bumpersticker
Obviously, I believe in the separation of
ing, "Look, people are hurting, and what
posturing and yelling at each other and mak-
church and State, but I understand from hav-
we're going to do about it is go back to iso-
slogan that tells you there is some easy way.
ing outrageous claims about each other.
lation and protection." You want a recipe for
There isn't an easy way, but there is a sound,
ing been tested by a little fire what Lincoln
But the American people deserve that pol-
disaster? That is it. We will shrink this econ-
sensible, economic approach. And I believe
meant when he talked about spending some
ities be put aside right after that State of the
only. We will throw 35,000 more people out
that what I have suggested and will continue
time on his knees. We are one Nation, under
Union Message to get something done that's
of work in New Hampshire, and we will be
to work for is the answer.
God. We are n strong. free Nation that be-
going to stimulate this economy and help the
cutting off our nose to spite our face.
You've got to stimulate investment to cre-
lieves in certain principles. Barbara and I
families in this country. And I'm going to try
The answer is to expand markets. And
ate jobs. You've got to stop that slide on real
have tried very hard to live up to those kinds
it. And I'll give it my level best shot, and
what our trip to Asia was about was not man-
estate values SO that you increase home sales.
of principles and those kinds of values.
I hope you'll find that there will be some
aging trade. You get a lot of egghead acad-
You've got to give Americans confidence that
Now, I need your help to continue in that
cooperation. Things can happen in the Con-
emicians, writing, "This guy's deserted the
the cost of health care, providing for the kids'
effort to help make things better for the peo-
gress if they make up their mind they want
free trade." That's not the case. All I'm saying
education, and raising a family are affordable.
ple of New Hampshire and the people all
to move. 1 know Bob Smith will tell you that.
is look, and I saw it today in the workers
And I will be unveiling a national health care
he way across this State. And whether you
And I know Warren would. And I know Bill
I saw, we can compete with anyone but we
program, but believe me, it is not going to
vote for me or not, may I thank you for this
Zeliff would tell you that.
need fair access to the other guy's market.
have a lot of mandates or turn to some for-
unforgettably warin reception. I'll never,
So, this idea that you have to have endless
And I am not going to stay home and keep
eign country for an example. We have the
subcommittee hearings and have to defer
never forget it.
best quality health care in the world, and I
May God bless you all. Thank you very
and bow to some other committee that has
from fighting to open these markets. I'm
going to keep on doing it until we are sue-
don't want to diminish that. What I want to
jurisdiction, the American people are a little
much.
cessful.
do is make it more affordable for everybody.
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119
bit tired of that. And they want congressional
And some of the bankers and some of
P
Yoken's Restaurant; Evelyn Marconi, owner
of Federal economic adjustment resources,
action, and I will do my level best to see
those savings and loan people are saying
deof Geno's Coffee Shop; and former Senator
prior to particular realignments;
that they get it.
"Wait a minute. These regulators come in
Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire. A
(c) Apply consistent policies, practices, and
Who's got the last one?
and scare the heck out of me and my loans,"
tape was not available for verification of the
procedures in the administration of Federal
Q. Mr. President, lower interest rates are
and they pull back. So, we're trying to do
content of these remarks.
programs that are used to assist Defense-af-
great to get the economy going again. If I
a better job on the regulation front. Not to
fected States, regions, metropolitan areas,
could refinance my home at 8 percent it
be reckless, not to be accused of going back
and communities;
would save me almost $300 a month: Unfor-
into some S&L crisis again but try to have
(d) Identify and strengthen existing agency
tunately, like many New Hampshire home-
reasonable balance. On the one hand pro-
Executive Order 12788-Defense
mechanisms to coordinate employment op-
owners our property values have dropped,
tecting the financial institutions, seeing that
and because of that banks won't approve our
Economic Adjustment Program
portunities for displaced agency personnel;
they're safely and prudently run, and sec-
refinancing because we don't have the 20
January 15, 1992
(c) Identify and strengthen existing agency
ondly, on protecting the rights or the well-
mechanisms to improve reemployment op-
percent equity that we need.
being of the borrower, the guy that needs
By the authority vested in me as President
portunities for dislocated Defense industry
Now, as a country we've given loan guaran-
to do what you're talking about, to refinance
tees to Israel, Russia, and other countries
by the Constitution and the laws of the Unit-
personnel;
or whatever it is.
around the world. What do you think about
ed States of America, including 10 U.S.C.
(f) Assure timely consultation and coopera-
So, we're making a little progress. I'm not
2391 and the Defense Economic Adjust-
tion with Federal, State, regional, metropoli-
the possibility of giving loan guarantees to
satisfied we've gone far enough. But where
middle-class Americans like inyself so that
ment, Diversification, Conversion, and Sta-
tan, and community officials concerning De-
I agree with you is let's get some value under
banks could then approve our loans, we could
bilization Act of 1990, enacted as Division
fense-related impacts on Defense-affected
a man and woman's major asset. And that
refinance at a lower rate, and then put that
D, section 4001 et seq., of the National De-
communities' problems;
major asset is a person's home. You talk
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991,
mortgage money back into the economy at
(g) Assure coordinated interagency and
about strengthening the family, homeowner-
little or no cost to the Government?
Public Law 101-510, and to provide coordi-
intergovernmental adjustment assistance
ship, that's one of the things we're working
The President. We have Government fi-
nated Federal economic adjustment assist-
concerning Defense impact problems;
hard to get through instead of these massive
nanced loans that I hope are of some help.
ance necessitated by changes in Department
(h) Prepare, facilitate, and implement cost-
Government projects, homeownership.
I will be making proposals in this State of
of Defense activities, it is hereby ordered as
That's a good way to strengthen it, and what
effective strategies and action plans to co-
the Union, again, that I hope will do what
follows:
ordinate interagency and intergovernmental
you're suggesting makes a good deal of sense
you're talking about, put some value under
Section 1. Function of the Secretary of De-
economic adjustment efforts;
in terms of strengthening the family and in
the person's largest asset, and that is the
strengthening the assets.
fense. The Secretary of Defense shall,
(i) Encourage effective Federal, State, re-
home. And there are ways to do that. One
So listen, that's two. I'm heading back to
through the Economic Adjustment Commit-
gional, metropolitan, and community co-
of them is through the IRA system, for exam-
DC to see my dog and my wife. Thank you
tee, design and establish a Defense Eco-
operation and concerted involvement of pub-
ple. So, listen carefully and see if what I pro-
all very, very much.
nomic Adjustment Program.
lic interest groups and private sector organi-
pose won't be a long step.
Sec. 2. Purpose of the Defense Economic
zations in Defense economic adjustment ac-
Whether we can do what you're asking or
[At this point, Don Reeves presented the
Adjustment Program. The Defense Eco-
tivities;
not, I've said I want to hold the line on
President with a gift.)
nomic Adjustment Program shall assist in the
(j) Serve as a clearinghouse to exchange
spending and keep it within the caps. I'd have
The President. Thanks SO much. May I
alleviation of serious community socio-
information among Federal, State, regional,
to, to be honest with you, know exactly what
make one correction here? First, thank you
economic effects that result from major De-
metropolitan, and community officials in-
the total cost that would be if that was ap-
very much for this picture of the Harbor
fense base closures, realignments, and De-
volved in the resolution of community eco-
plied nationwide. I think we're talking about
Light and Nubble Light, and that means a
fense contract-related adjustments, and the
nomic adjustment problems. Such informa-
jillions of dollars. But I think there are ways
lot. And I, as you know, love this coastline.
encroachment of the civilian community on
tion may include, for example, previous stud-
to put value under a person's major asset.
But I said, I was going home to see my dog
the mission of military installations.
ies, technical information, and sources of
And you're right, the decline and the pes-
and my wife. [Laughter] May I, with your
Sec. 3. Functions of the Defense Economic
public and private financing;
simism has come because real estate has
permission, may I change the order. I just
Adjustment Program. The Defense Eco-
(k) Assist in the diversification of local
been SO slow.
don't want to have any misunderstanding.
nomic Adjustment Program shall:
economies to lessen dependence on Defense
Now, if we're honest with each other, I
[Laughter]
(a) Identify problems of States, regions,
activities;
think you'd admit and I certainly will, that
Thank you very, very much.
metropolitan areas, or communities that re-
(1) Encourage and facilitate private sector
some of the lenders in the real estate busi-
sult from: major Defense base closure,
interim use of lands and buildings to gen-
ness, whether it's S&L's or banks, made loans
Note: The President spoke at 7:37 p.m. at
realignments, and Defense contract-related
erate jobs as military activities diminish; and,
that they might not ought to have made
Yoken's Restaurant. In his remarks, he re-
adjustments, and the encroachment of the
(m) Develop ways to streamline property
under more prudent, cautious times. And we
ferred to William Holt, president, and
civilian community on the mission of military
disposal procedures to enable Defense-im-
got away from our standards. So, I think that
Clifford Taylor and Don Reeves, members of
installations and that require Federal assist-
pacted communities to acquire base property
there's plenty of blame to go around on all
the Portsmouth Rotary Club; Capt. Mark
ance;
to generate jobs as inilitary activities dimin-
this, and one result of that has been some
Weaver of the Salvation Army, who led the
(b) Use and maintain a uniform socio-
ish.
excesses in the regulatory field.
dinner prayer; Harry MacLeod, owner of
economic impact malysis to justify the use
Sec. 1. Economic Adjustment Committee.
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION FOR PRESIDENTIAL VISIT TO
1992 CONVENTION
DATE:
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We. do not have an outside speaker every year at our convention.
However, in the recent past we have had:
1984
Vice President Bush
1985
Secretary of Education William J. Bennett
Attorney General Edwin Meese III
1986
President Reagan
1989
Vice President Quayle
Following are copies from the convention issues of Columbia of
the speeches give by Vice President Quayle and President Reagan.
President Bush's speech will be published in this year's
convention issue of Columbia.
Has any meeting been scheduled this week that I should be
attending?
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FEATURE
ByJ. Danforth
Quayle
The address of the Vice President
Dan Quayle calls for a family perspective
in public policy
Editor's Note: The U.S. vice president
for 13 years - a majority of our adult lives.
My children have virtually grown up
spoke at the afternoon open business
in Washington. They have had as 1 father
session Aug I during the 107th annual
d public official virtually since day one of
meeting.)
their lives.
Marilvn and I have certinly had some
A
$ von know. It would be impossible
challenging and exciting times during our
to appear and not say a few words
17 years of marriage, and now is no
if the outset about what weighs
exception We have the exhibration of
so heavily on all of US: the Middle East
public service and the challenge of seeking
The President and his senior advisors
to do the right thing for our nation.
are monitoring the situation affecting the
The most difficult aspect of our new
hostages as closely as possible. Needless
responsibility. from a family point of view.
to say, we are trying to confirm just hat
is the complete loss of privacy.
Our children are still young - 15. 12.
happened to Col. Higgins. And we are
trying to determine the exact situation of
and 10. But they have adapred to their new
the other hostages.
situation with great case.
You certainly will appreciate that I
Children are strong yet impressionable
cannot go into great detail about this.
They are on a sharp learning curve in
What I can say is that we strongly and
school and at home. Parents set the tone.
vigorously oppose the taking of hostages.
and hopefully. Marilyn and I have done the
And we call upon those who have hostages
right things in raising our children
10 release them. Furthermore, we will
Only time will tell.
continue to hold responsible any party
But I don't think the pressures of
Vice President Dan Quaryle
who takes an American citizen hostage.
public life necessarily burt a family. 33 a
We also call upon those who have the
marter of fact. the day-to-day pressures
ability to affect the fare of our innocent
acrually bring you closer What really hurts
hostages to do SO $0 that no harm will
bevond our individual advancement.
2 family - any family - with 2 Mom or Dad
come to them.
Bishop Carroll lived at d time when this
in public life is the widespread assumption
I know that you will join with me in
country's leaders - like his cousin. Charles
that politics is a dirty game.
our prayers and in our thoughts for the
Carroll of Carroliton. the only Catholic
Now we all know it can be. But we
family and relatives of Col. Higgins. You
signer of the Declaration of Independence
should all know it doesn't have to be.
will also join with me in your thoughts
- could pledge to a noble cause their lives.
1 have the tremendous powilege of
and pravers for the remaining hostages
their fortunes. and their sacred honor.
working with 2 mac. 1 leader. d friend, for
wherever they may be - and our prayers
As I was preparing for his speech. I
whom politics has been 2 lifetune of public
and thoughts for their relatives, their
told my staff that I wanted to speak on the
service. Service in the old sense of
families and their friends.
topic of loyalty and decency in politics.
pursuing the public good rather than the
It's a great honor to be invited to
One of my bright young staff members
private advantage.
address the Knights of Columbus. And it's
said I thought you wanted to give 2 speech
George Bush is I strong President. but
a special honor this year. 25 you gather
longer than 30 seconds.
he knows the difference between being
here in Baltimore.
Seriously, Ict me share with you some
tough and being mean.
Two hundred years ago. when John
thoughts about decency in politics and
In today's world of video retakes and
Carroll became the first bishop of the
about my job and my family And I also
teleprompters. you can take 2 lot of things
Catholic Church in the United States. his
want to talk about some of the problems
But you can't fake decency. And an
flock was small. scattered, and often
that confront this great nation of ours.
authentic. deep-down decency has been
scorned. But his extraordinary leadership
Many times. during an in-depth
George and Barbara's gift to their fellow
and impeccible character laid an enduring
interview. journalists will ask what impact
Americans.
foundation for the generations to come.
my job is having on the family.
Sure. that's important (s) me as bis. and
We can learn much from the example
My response is always the same.
your. Vice President. But it's even more
of leaders. whether in church or in state,
Marilyn and I are veterans when it comes
important to me as 3 parent. Because I
like John Carroll We can learn to look
to politics. We've gone through two
never want my children to be ashamed of
beyond ourselves, to see goals more
Congressional campaigns, two Senate
their father's occupation. My kids - and
important than our personal ambitions,
campaigns and one Vice Presidenrial
yours - should be equally proud if they
and to envision a future that will stretch
campaign. We've been in the public eye
can say: my dad's a plumber. a painter. a
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poet or 2 politician.
Let's make that a bipartisan position
Vice President Quayle stressed the printac
We can't overlook the ugly reality of
too.
of family saines in bes speech at the 34
political scandals, and that goes for both
I should mention that Senator Robert
preme council
parties. (Because, when it comes to
Byrd of West VIrginia. the President Pro
throwing stones, both parties live in glass
Tem of the Senate. is famous for the same
houses. But we can recognize excellence
kind of loyalty to his family. Although
when we see is We can hold up real
Senator Bvrd and 1 might not see eye-w-
heroes to our youngsters. We can try to
eye on many things. his devotion to Erma
rights of those very little ones. the least
teach chem by example about what really
after their half-century of marriage is an
of our breihren
matters in public life.
example for all of us to follow.
And on that point. I want to offer
I know personally most members of
Of course, when I come to the Knights
special congratulation to the Knights in
Congress. on both sides of the aisle. And
of Columbus to talk about family life and
the Philippines, who assisted President
most of them are just like you and me,
loyalty and public service. I'm preaching
Aquino's inclusion of 2 human life
family folks, trying to do their best.
to the choir. Any way you measure it - by
amendment in your new constitution.
pilgrims on the same journey that. we
tens of millions of dollars or by tens of
When you have led. may Be soon follow
hope. will end in the safest of destinations.
millions of working hours - the Knights
On another front too. the Knights of
And every once in awhile. one or another
represent volunteerism at its best.
Columbus have my admiration and
of them can teach us something about
When I get back to the White House
support. You stand foursquare against
greatness.
tonight, I can tell the President I have
bigotry and discrimination.
1 think of the late speaker of the House
seen his "thousand points of light" They
Your founders knew what
of Representatives, John McCormack of
were glinting from the swords of the
discrimination meant They, and perhaps
Massachusetts. Mr. McCormack was not a
Knights of Columbus.
some of you had been on the receiving
member of my political party. Indeed, he
For all you have done. and continue
end of it. But they offered 1 different VISIO
probably thought the Creator had an
doing to make this country the more
of the future: diversity within national
off-day when he made Republicans.
humane and decent land we want it to
unity. Pride in the things that make us
But all of US in government - or in
be. you have my heartfelt thanks. and the
different, and pride in those that bind as
other professions, for that matter - can
President's too.
together 23 one.
learn from his example as 2 family man.
Decades ago. you helped to secure the
In the early years of the Knights.
Every night, no matter how important 2
addition of the words "under God" to the
prejudice was crude and overt. The Klan
social event might be, no matter how lase
Piedge of Allegiance to the flag Now we
for example, was strong in my home stat
the Congress was in session, every night,
hope for your help in securing
of Indiana. And the response of many
John McCormack were home to have
Constitutional protection for that flag
decent Americans could be just 25 direct
dinner with his wife.
against descration.
When my grandfather was confronted by
And when. in old age, she was hospital-
For almost two decades, you have
the Klan with demands that he stop doir
ized It length. he went with her. living in
worked heroically to restore protection
business with certain Jewish colleagues
the room next to hers. For 25 those of you
of the law for children before birth. Now.
he went into the next room. got his gun
from the Bay State will recall, John
we count on you to help us follow through
and ran the Klan off the property.
McCormack respected life - from its very
on the Supreme Court's recent Webster
Unfortunately, prejudice is still with
beginning to its natural end.
decision, as we press on to secure the
us. though its tactics are different. And
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Vice President Quayle was presented with
of rediscovering sume fundamental truths
you might want to let your representatives
a Steuben glass American Engle and a
that were forgotten or set aside in the
in the Congress hear from you
framed copy of the Pleage of Allegiance
1960s and 1970s.
That's one way we can protect the
after his address.
Truths about the way we live, and the
rights of the family, and together were
consequences of our behavior. Truths
going to have to find many more. as part
about what makes us happy over the long
of our long-range effort to ger American
run, and what happens when we live for
society back on track and reach or the
we must continue to stand against
the short run.
future
prejudice in all its forms.
One of those truths, I believe, is the
The promise of the future is my
We must also reassert the fundamental
primacy of the family. On issue after issue,
constant concern these days. Early in this
relationship between our civic life and
government at all levels is trying to cope
administration. President Busb asked me
our moral standards. We have here in
with the consequences of the breakdown
to chair the National Space Council. to
Baltimore a symbol of that unity in one
in family life: in delinquency and drug
give direction and energy to America's
of the architectural treasures of the early
abuse. in welfare dependency and home-
space program. For he believes 1s I do.
republic: the Old Cathedral. the Basilica
lessness. in abandonment of the elderly
that our country has to get back into
of the Assumption, just 1 few blocks from
and abuse of children.
space. and in 2 hig way.
here.
The problems are staggering, but not
The research. the science. 2
The man who designed it, Benjamin
unsolvable. And if we want to do more
technology. the know-how of space
Latrobe, 725 the architect of the U.S.
than relieve the symptoms. we are going
exploration and development will be the
Capitol And in that day, no one thought
to have to deal with their one underlying
building blocks of our future here on
it unusual that the genius who fashioned
pathology. We are going to have to put
earth. They have the potential to
our seat of government would turn his
the family at the very center of public
revolutionize the way we live - the way
hand to crafting a place of prayer. For
policy and measure what government
we all can live - in an expanse. confident
Americans presumed 2 harmony between
does in terms of what it does to the family.
society. where economic growth and
religion and government, between their
That, 1 submit, is what one of the
scientific advance make opportunity
monuments to freedom and their houses
biggest battles of this Congress has been
possible for those who need if most.
of worship.
about. I'm referring to the child-care issue.
By the way, when I preside over the
Most of us. 1 think. still do. We believe
This is something President Bush and I
National Space Council in my office, there
that government is at its best when it
both feel strongly about: - we want to
is a pedestal behind my chair. And upon
translates into action the ethical
give families 1 choice in child care. - We
it resis a bust of Christopher Columbus,
commitments of the American people.
want to help all low-income families.
the "Admiral of the Ocean Sea
And that kind of action will be
including those whose mothers stay at
America's enterprise in space is the
absolutely necessary if we have any hope
home to raise the kids. - And we won't
Columbian voyage of our cra A sew world
of making a better future for our children.
tolerate discrimination against church-
awaits us, a world whose blessings we can
Tom Wolfe, the writer who coined the
related day care. America's religious insti-
earn for our children's chikdren if we
term, "the me decade." to describe the
tutions are doing 2 crucial job in providing
have the daring and determination to "sail
1970s. has called the present period in
safe and loving care for millions of
on."
American life, "the great re-learning." He
youngsters. We can't let their boys and
The 500th anniversary of Columbus'
means that our country is in the process
girls be shut out. If you feel the same way,
first voyage is less than three years away
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It is my hope that by then. the United
Commission on human rights. That is 2
States of America. that "Columbia. the Gem
humbling experience. It makes you
of the Ocean," will also be well un its any
wonder what you could ever do to serve
to being Columbia. pioneer of planets.
the cause of freedom as well 25 this man.
joiner of heavens to the earth.
whose lifet:me of torture only reaffirmed
The upcoming Columbian anniversary
his faith and emboldened his defense of
has another significance. an international
human life.
one. For it arti be observed by our
Yes. there are still heroes in the world.
neighbors throughout this hemisphere.
if we know where to icols for them. A
especially those whose faith and language
curate from Krakow can make the world
and culture bear the imprunt of the CTOSS
spin in new directions. A steel worker in
and CRUWN for which Columbus claimed
Gdansk can change the course of history
the Ven World
A housewife in the Philippines can give a
With them. we 215 heirs to 3 culture
whole new dynamic to democracy. The
whose human values have fustered both
hrave men and women of El Salvador.
faith and freedom.
peasants in the countryside and workers
Through Latin America in recent years,
in the city: can defy a communist reign of
there has been remarkable progress
terror to vote in tree elections. to reclaim
roward stability and democracy. But there
their country and their future.
are exceptions. and a'c must be realistic
It is an honor to stand with them. to
about them. In confronting evil - and let
stand with all. places high or lowly. atio
me say, without equivocation. that I
assert the imperative of justice and the
consider Marxism intrinsically. inherently
axiom of freedom.
all - good intentions are not enough.
There are heroes as well here at home.
Good intentions do nor avail against
in our own midst. in every household
the Cuban-Nicaraguan-hacked terrorists
where parents are trying to build 1 better
who gun down public officials in the
life for their children. often against
streets of El Salvador Good intentions
tremendous odds. But 1 need not tell this
cannot secure fair elections in Nicaragua
audience about that. You know that. if
or release the victims of Sandinista
Father McGivney were here today. he
oppression from its prisons.
would be awfully proud of his Knights
In this context. we admire and are
And I must say: I am roo.
thankful for the efforts of Cardinal Obando
Thank you
T Bravo. Raised up from obscunty like
one of me mages or ancient Israci. he has
sought to stueld his people from in alien
Dan Quayle. 42. is in his first term 25
:oe.
vice president of the United States.
: wish I could reit you that the future
Quayle. formerly is senator from
works bright in Central America It does
Indiana. has been married 10 his
not. The was IS dim. The path is uncertain.
wife Marilvn for 1- years. The couple
Mans in our country and our Congress
has three children.
look 1R35.
But change must come. AS surely as it
has come in Poland In Lithuaniz In
Hungary For there is a current in human
affairs. and It is sweeping in the direction
of liberty.
I realize that in mv official role. I am
but 2 small part of IL But each of us can
do something It has been my honor to
press for the rights. including the religious
rights. of the people of Timor. against the
Indonesian government: to speak out for
freedom of the press in Singapore. to visit
Cambodian refugees in the camps on the
Thai border. where Catholic Relief
Services IS doing 2 heroic job.
I have The 25 well with Armando
Valladares the Cuban poet who suffered
%) any If Castros heliholes and who now
represents the mted states 26 the
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838 F06
By President Ronald Reagan
Moral principles form the essence of civilization,
according to President Reagan, who stressed this
point in his telecast message via satellite to the
Supreme Council convention.
I WANT to tell you that I've had o place in my heart for the
Knights of Columbus since I was o boy. You see, my father was o
there by femy Arthur
Knight, and he never missed on opportunity to express his pride
in the K of C or jain in its efforts on behalf of charity and
tolerance.
campaign of 1984, and I know you must have been as gratified
1 can still remember when the silent picture, "Birth of o
as I was to hear both sides talking about values like neighbor-
Nation," opened in our hometown. Dod told US that the movie
hood and family. But it was the Knights who led the way,
partrayed the Ku Klux Klan in o favorable light, and that the
stressing the importance of fundamental values long before you
Reagans were one family that wouldn't be seeing it. Even os o
were loined by me or any other politician. For this 100 well, I
boy I sensed that in taking that stand my father had done
think you deserve to give yourselves o hand.
something strong and good, something noble. To this day, I
Today your concern for the basic and life-giving values
have never seen that famous movie.
remains ardent, and I know you feel deeply that nothing
Since becoming President, my appreciation for the Knights
offends fundamental morality more gravely than assaults upon
of Columbus has deepened, You can't sit where I'm sitting now
the sanctity of life itself. Your Church and the Knights of
and fail to understand the importance of Americans who give as
Columbus have been leaders in the fight against abortion from
much to our nation as you do. Loss year alone, the Knights
the first.
donoted over $66 million to good causes. provided more than
Recently Cardinals C'Connor and Low demonstrated the
20 million hours of volunteer community service, responded
Church's commitment to this cause anew. They announced that
generously to Operation Core and Shore, and contributed $1
any woman in their dioceses could go to the Church for help so
million to the restoration of the Statue of Liberty. And then there
that none not one - would feel forced to have on abortion
are the scores of neighborhoods throughout the country where
because she lacked the resources or guidance to deliver her
the Knights have provided o playground, a basketball court, a
child. Knights of Columbus, I know you join me in applouding
football field. Just the other day OUT secretary of education, Bill
that action as innovative and altogether courageous. The K of C
Bennett, remarked that when he was growing up in Brooklyn,
has long funded pro-life efforts, and now Supreme Knight
none of the kids used the words "swimming pool"; they just told
Dechant has announced a new initiative of your own. In his
their parents they'd be down at the K of C.
words, you've decided to "harness (your) dout" to restore legal
protection to the unbom.
Knights of Columbus, for all you've given America-for all
the countless acts of charity you've performed to make our land
As you put this new project into effect, you can be certain
kinder, friendlier, happier and more humane - I convey to you
you'll be accused of mixing religion and politics receive the
the thanks of your country.
same criticism myself for supporting pro-life legislation. Yet
virtually every law in America is predicated upon the value and
All that you do as Knights of Columbus arises from the
dignity of human life. Respect for human life belongs in the
fundamental values you hold 50 dear- your belief in a just and
public realm. Indeed it represents the very basis of civilization. I
loving God, in the validity of hard work, in the central
know you agree: H is not our heritage as Americans to turn our
importance of the family. When I talked about these fundo-
backs on massive, legalized abortion. Today we proclaim what
mental values myself during the compaign of 1980, there was a
our heritage has always maintained: that all human life is
certain amount of questioning, even criticism. Then came the
sacred.
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as the institution in which men and women receive thair
Ye despite communist brutality. the struggle for treacm
most basic instruction and nurturing, the family 13 likewise
in Nicaragua goes on. By the thousands, men and women nove
socred, something the Knights of Columbus have understood
moved into the countryside and Icken up oms. Today these
democratic resistance forcos number more than 20,000 over
from the 11:32.
four times the number of treops the Sandinistas had in the f.eid
My friends, don't you believe the Federal Government
when they themselves came 10 power. The members of the
should respect the family just as much as you do?
resistance have chosen to separate themselves from their
families and homes, to live in conditions of immerise hardship,
Since taking office, we're worked to bring government
interforence in family life to on end, rolling back intrusive rules
often with scant water and food. and to expose themselves to
and regulations. Indeed, later this year, our Domestic Policy
the dongers of bottle. They fight for freedom. And : know you
Council will report to me on ways Federal programs could be
agree: they deserve our help,
restructured to strengthen families and promote tamily values.
To support the freedom fighters and democracy through.
We're proposed on historic tox reform that will roise the
out Central America, I've urged Congress to enact 0 plan 10
exemption for dependents from just over $1,000 ail the way to
provide Costo Rico El Saivador, Honduros and Guatemala with
$2,000. Thanks to your help, this tax reform is nearing final
essential economic assistance and '0 extend $100 million in
passage by Congress,
urgently needed aid to the Nicaraguan resistance. Six weeks
And just yesterday I announced our most recent family
ago, the House approved that plan, Now the Senate must take
initiative - o dromatic undertaking intended to bring to on end
action. Let me state it clearly, The price of Congressional delay is
bae of the worst social evils besatting our country: drug abuse,
being paid in the lives of Nicaragúan patriots. We need that
Too many American families have been destroyed, too many
assistance now. For Congress to 80 home without providing the
parents' hearts broken, 100 many young lives lost. After
necessary support for the Contras would be to risk the
disucssing this problem with Supreme Knight Dechant just lost
permanent loss of Nicaragua from the Wast, the permanent
weak, I know you agree: It's time the United Stores took drug
relegation of Nicaragua to the Sovier bloc.
abuse head-on.
I must stress that neither the democratic resistance nor our
in mony areas abortion, crime, parnography, and
Administration seeks a purely military solution. Instead, the
others progress will take place when the Federal judiciary is
freedom fighters seek leverage to bring the communists to the
mode up of judges who believe in low and order and a strict
table and negatiate 0 political - and democratic - peace. So
interpretation of the Constitution. I'm pleased to be able to tell
far the communists have been intransigent because they
you that I have already appointed 284 Federal judges men
believed they could afford to be each doy the military
and women who share the fundamental values that you and I so
situation in Nicarogua has been twisting another degree in their
cherish — and that by the time we leave office. our Administra-
favor. But when the Senate opproves our aid package. the
tion will have appcinted some 45 percent of all Federal judges,
forces of freedom in Nicaragua will be given o chance - a
And I know you share my satisfaction in the Supreme Coun
good chance.
nominations of Justice William Rehnauist and Judge Antonin
Consider the historical contest. Just 10 years ago, less than
Scalia. I was especially delighted because as some of you may
one-third of the people of Latin America lived in democracies.
know, Judge Scalio is the first Italian-American to be nominated
Today, 90 percent live in democracies or in systems moving
to the Supreme Court in history.
toward democracy. As few as five years-ago, many considered
Permit me to turn now to the issue I most want to discuss with
Ei Salvador last 10 communism. Others claimed there was no
you today, o matter much on my mind. speak of the struggle for
hope for Honduras and Guatemaia. Today, those nations are
freedom in Nicaragua. There is 0 brave Nicaraguan who knows
democracies. Today, indeed democracy in Lotin America
all about this. Perhaps you've heard the story of Bishop Pablo
constitutes C swelling and life-giving tide. With our help. if can
Antonio Vega. During the Somota dictororship, Sishop Vega
still flood its powerful. deansing way into Nicaragua, sweeping
oside the communist wall that has been holding it out, enabling
was on undounted spokesman for the rights of his people. Last
the people to hold free elections and experience genuine
month he met in Nicarague with members of the press. Bishop
liberty.
Vega stood up for his people again, asserting that Nicoraguans
"have o right to defend themselves." Two days later, he was
With our help — and our prayers- my friends. I just have
exiled from his country. In his words, these days, "The only public
to believe that we're called to after both.
opinion in Nicarogua is silence."
The struggle for freedom in Nicaragua, the effort to
As Bishop Vega's case makes clear, the Communist regime
defend and strengthen the American family. and, yes, the fight
in Nicaragua has moved beyond the trampling of general civil
against abortion — all these find o common basis in our belief in
liberties to c brutal persecution of the Church. The Communists
a just and loving God, o God who created humankind in His
have silenced the Church's radio station, stopped its presses,
image. "Without the fostering and defense of these velues," the
and subjected priests to organized harassment. Churches have
Holy Father soid when 1 visited him in Rome, "all human
been attacked by Communist gongs in at least one case, a
advancement is stunted and the very dignity of the human
gong carrying mochetes and chains. Cardinal Obando y Bravo,
person is endangered." The pope expressed his ferrent hope
"that the entire structure of American life will rest ever more
who opposed the Samoza dictororship the Sandinistas over-
threw, now finds himself confronted with a new dictatorship. "In
securely on the strong foundation of moral and spiritual values."
my 18 years 02 a bishop," the cardinal soid recently, "I've never
Let us pray that this should come to poss. And let US do what
seen a situation as grave as this. This is the worst persecution the
the Knights of Columbus have always been especially good of:
Church has seen in Nicaragua."
Let us work to make If so!
COLUMBIA. OCTOBER 1586
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25:21 26. 02 The
Knights Give $95 Million, 42 Million Hours
Knights of Columbus
levels. These figures are con-
nated blood in 1991.
by the Order's 7,748 mem-
gave close to 42 million
tained in the Order's annual
$5,309,661;
Illinois,
The survey figures also
hours in volunteer service
bers in British Columbia
Survey of Fraternal Activity
$4,769,881; New York,
showed that the Knights of
$188.76.
to church, community and
for 1991.
$3,910,544; and California,
Columbus had activity ex-
youth programs last year
The largest sum given by
$3,780,012.
Ten-year cumulative fig-
penses
totaling
while also contributing over
Knights in a state or compa-
ures in the survey show that,
The Knights of Colum-
$63,089,930. At the state
$95 million to such causes.
rable jurisdiction was the
bus maintains over 1.5 mil-
since 1982, Knights of Co-
and local levels, the figure
Both figures are new
$7,523,281 contributed by
lion members in the United
lumbus at all levels have
was $50,399,013 for meet-
members in Ontario. The
record highs for the organi-
contributed a total of
States, Canada, Mexico, the
ings, functions, projects,
zation.
$740,839,038 to charitable
other jurisdictions in the top
Philippines and several other
publications, postage and
Of the $95,053,733 do-
five were Quebec,
countries.
causes. They also have
other costs. The fraternal
nated by Knights of Colum-
given an estimated
expenses of the Supreme
bus in 1991, almost $80 mil-
247,466,049 hours in vol-
Council, including national
lion was raised and contrib-
unteer service.
publications and support of
uted by local and state units to
Members of the Order
membership operations, to-
programs and institutions
gave another 5,858,112
taled $12,895,582.
within their own jurisdictions.
hours of their time to "fra-
The average per member
The remainder, a little
ternal service" of various
contribution by the Knights
over $15 million coming
sorts - meetings, functions
of Columbus in 1991 was
from earnings of the
and the internal activities of
$62.83. The highest per
Knights' insurance opera-
the Order. According to the
member figure was recorded
tions, was given by the
survey, Knights also made
organization's Supreme.
4,720,159 visits to the sick
Council to programs at the
and bereaved and 383,448
national and international
members of the Order do-
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Catholic Lay Organizations
Catholic lay organizations are potentially useful in Congressional campaigns because
they are often free of the encumbering regulations that limit the political involvement of
"official" Church bodies. This section will briefly describe some of the more prominent lay
Catholic organizations in the United States. The groups that would tend to be "friendly" to
GOP outreach, e.g., groups that include many "Platform Catholics," are listed first.
Subsequently, there are listed a few organizations of Catholics that are more inclined
toward the Democratic platform in philosophy.
Not all the groups listed are strong in all parts of the country, and each group has a
different "personality" that must be taken into account.
Sympathetic Groups
The Knights of Columbus
Founded in 1882, the Knights are without a doubt the best-known and largest Catholic
lay organization in the United States, and one of the largest in the world. In 1988, the
Knights, a fraternal society of Catholic men, claimed over 1,446,000 members in over 8,800
councils in the United States, Canada, the Phillipines, Guam, the Dominican Republic, and
the Virgin Islands.
Primarily a service organization, the Knights nevertheless have ventured into the
political arena on occasion to favor pro-life inititatives and support anti-pornography
efforts. The best description of the organization and its priorities comes from the 1989
Catholic Almanac (page 576):
Recent programs undertaken by the Knights include: promotion of vocations
to the priesthood and religious life; promotion of rosary devotion with free
distribution of more than 100,000 rosaries a year; securing aid for private
schools; efforts to halt the increased killing of the unborn [abortion];
assistance to the retarded and other disadvantaged people.
The Knights have formed an association with the Bishops in the United
States, Canada, and Mexico to help protect the lives of the unborn and to
disseminate information on responsible family planning. Assistance also has
been provided to the Eternal Word Television Network to help spread positive
values over the airwaves and to Morality in Media to assist that
organization in its battle to contain the spread of pornography.
In 1987, local units of the Knights contributed more than $68 million to
charitable abd benevolent causes, and gave more than 25 million hours of
community service.
As can be seen from this brief description, the Knights are conservative on a number of
social issues. Additionally, individual Knights, such as the Supreme Knight Vergil C.
Dechant, have occasionally taken other political action, such as Dechant's public support of
Robert Bork during his tumultuous confirmation battle. Most recently, pro-life leaders have
been pressuring the Knights to expel from its membership ranks several members of the
U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives who are in favor of legalized abortion
(see article, Appendix --).
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DEMOCRATS-PLATFORM July 14, 1992 (730 words)
DEMOCRATS' PLATFORM A MIXED PACKAGE FOR CATHOLIC INTERESTS
By Patricia Zapor
Cathollc News Service
NEW YORK (CNS) - The 1992 Democratic Party platform is a mixed package from the perspectives of various
Catholic Interests.
The party's "New Covenant" theme emphasizes increased cooperation among individuals, business, communities
and government. It advocates tax breaks for families and the middle class, stresses workers' rights - Including
prohibiting employers from hiring permanent replacements for strikers - and family and medical leave.
The platform also proposes full funding for Head Start, expanding apprenticeship programs, and providing funds
for college for all who are willing to pay it back either as a percentage of Income or through national service.
But it also calls for government funding of contraceptives and abortion and supports a national law guaranteeing
the right to abortion.
In addition, the platform explicitly opposes the Bush administration's education proposal, which would make funds
available to parents who may choose to spend the money on public or private schools.
Sister Catherine McNamee, a Sister of St. Joseph who is president of the National Catholic Educational
Association, said the Democratic Party "has distorted the Issue of full and fair school choice, with a platform that says
more about political opportunism than educational opportunity."
By suggesting the proposal would bankrupt the public school system by turning money over to private educators,
the platform "dismisses a promising legislative initiative," she said in a statement.
Michael Guerra, executive director for the Catholic educators' group's secondary schools department, said the
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platform dismissal of the Bush proposal comes from the influence of the two largest public school teachers' unions, the
National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.
While disagreeing with the plan the administration has dubbed a "GI Bill for Children," the Democrats proposed
their own "domestic GI bill," which would provide college loans for students of any income class who agree to pay it
back from future earnings or with national service. The platform suggested such national service in several fields,
including as part of a police corps to boost the manpower available for law enforcement.
The education plank also recommended expanding child health and nutrition programs, establishing "world-
class standards" in math, science and other core subjects.
In several other respects, the Democratic platform is closely aligned with the U.S. Catholic bishops' 1992 political
responsibility statement, released last October by the U.S. Catholic Conference Administrative Board.
Among the principles and issues cited by the bishops as important to the national debate this election year were
health care, education, human rights, immigration, family life, capital punishment, arms control and abortion.
The Democratic platform support of the right to have abortion freely available contrasts with the bishops'
insistence that neither public funding nor public policy should accommodate abortion.
But in other areas, the Democratic platform adopts ideas the bishops have backed.
Legislation supporting collective bargaining and making it illegal to permanently replace strikers has been backed
by the USCC. The Democratic platform includes both in its call for workers' rights.
The platform also includes:
- Universal access to affordable health care, emphasizing reform of the medical system to control costs and
Improve primary and preventative care.
- Civil and equal rights proposals such as protection of voting rights for racial and ethnic minorities; access to
voting in various languages; resistance to English-only discrimination; aggressive prosecution for hate crimes; civil rights
protection for homosexuals; and an end to discrimination within the Department of Defense.
- A national crackdown on parents who fail to provide child support; family and medical leave that would allow
people time off work to care for infants or ailing relatives; "fair and affordable child care opportunities for working
parents;" and pre-natal and well-baby care.
- Immigration policies "that support faimess, non-discrimination and family reunification.
- A refugee policy that would "promote the principle of sanctuary for politically oppressed people everywhere"
specifically Haitians, who have been returned to their homeland under Bush administration policy. "Forcible return of
anyone fleeing political repression is a betrayal of American values," it sald.
A minority effort within the party to include opposition to the death penalty on the platform wound up in court
just hours before the Democrats were to convene for platform discussions July 14.
Supporters of a plank opposing capital punishment led by Ohio delegate Robert Fitrakis filed sult against the
party alleging the platform committee failed to follow its own rules for consideration of minority planks.
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Knights of Columbus
STATE DEPUTY'S OFFICE
5025 PARKHURST DRIVE
BATON ROUGE. LA 70816
TELEPHONE (504) 293-7414
Touisiana State Council
Lemaid President George Bush
June 3, 1992
President of the United States
The White House
Washington D.C., 20510
Dear Mr. President:
Personally, and in the name of the Louisiana State Council, Knights of
Columbus, it is my honored privilege to bring you greetings and felicitations from our
87th annual Meeting conducted in New Orleans, Louisiana, May 22-24, 1992.
Our Knights this year have labored in quest of our administration theme, "We
Are Family: building brotherhood; living our Faith; promoting justice for all; and
respecting life." We prayerfully hope that this theme and our actions in its quest, will
adequately convey our expressions of filial devotion and fealty to Holy Mother Church.
That our convention was significantly successful, thoroughly enjoyable and
spiritually enriching is now historical fact.
Please be assured of our debt of profound gratitude for your leadership,
sacrifice, and devotion.
We look forward to the coming year with hopeful anticipation for continued
health and growth of the Order in the Louisiana Jurisdiction, particularly through the
development of new councils.
Respectfully,
Reo R.Segallo
Leo R. Segallá
State Deputy
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
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OUTLINE OF PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO
THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CONVENTION
DATE:
Wednesday, August 5, 1992
LOCATION:
Marriott Marquis Hotel
New York, New York
To continue outreach efforts to the Catholic population, the
President will address 2200 members of the Knights of Columbus at
their 110th Annual Supreme Council Convention. The focus of this
event will be on family values, right to life, and world peace.
The suggested participation for the President is as follows:
Tier I: Photo Opportunity with 25 Dais VIPs
This group will include Cardinal Law, Bishop Daley,
Supreme Directors and officers of the Knights of Columbus.
Directly following the photo-op this group will proceed to the
dais.
Time: 10 minutes.
Tier II: Private meeting - the President and Cardinal O'Conner
This will take place in a private hotel suite provided
by the Knights of Columbus.
Time: 20 minutes.
Tier III: Photo Opportunity with 50-60 Bishops - Hierarchy of
Church
The President will deliver brief remarks to this group
in which he will reaffirm his solid pro-life position and thank
the group for their contributions to world peace and their
support for his education initiatives.
Time: 20 minutes.
Tier IV: President's Address to the Knights of Columbus
11AM
Speech.
Time: 15 minutes.
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ADDRESS THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS 110TH ANNUAL
SUPREME COUNCIL CONVENTION
DATE:
August 5, 1992
TIME:
11:00 a.m.
LOCATION:
NEW YORK MARRIOTT MARQUIS
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
THROUGH:
DAVID DEMAREST
ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
FOR PUBLIC LIAISON AND
INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
FROM:
CECE KREMER
DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
AND DIRECTOR FOR PUBLIC LIAISON
LEIGH ANN METZGER
DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
FOR PUBLIC LIAISON
PROJECT OFFICER:
JANE E. BARNETT
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
OFFICE OF PUBLIC LIAISON
I. PURPOSE
To reaffirm your solid pro-life position and traditional
values platform.
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To thank the Knights of Columbus for their contributions to
world peace and their support for your educational
initiatives.
To rally the support of the conservative, Catholic
community.
II. BACKGROUND
1882
Founded in 1882) the Knights are without a doubt the best-
known Catholic lay organization in the United States. In
1492
1992, the Knights, a fraternal society of Catholic men claim
over 1.5 million members who have given 42 million volunteer
hours to church, community, and youth programs and $95
million to charitable causes.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Although primarily focused on service, the Knights have
politically supported pro-life and anti-pornography
initiatives. In the recent past some of their speakers have
included: Vice President Quayle (1989) i President Reagan
(1986) i Ed Meese (1985) ; William Bennett (1985). You
addressed this audience as Vice President in 1984.
DESCRIBE WHY INFO IN SPEECH IS IMPORTANT AND WHO IS BEHIND
HIM ON THE DAIS.
Catholics are the largest single religious denomination in
the country. They comprise 25% of the U.S. population and
over 28% of the voting electorate. In 1988 you won 48% of
the Catholic vote. Traditionally, Catholics are Democrats,
but they have moved to the Republican camp because of the
traditional values platform. of special interest to
Catholics are right to life, educational choice, and health
care. You have named more Catholics to your Cabinet than
any other President in history. Attorney General Barr, who
is Catholic, will also be addressing the convention
III. PARTICIPANTS
The President
John Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of New York
Edouard Cardinal Gagnon, former President of the Pontifical
Council for the Family
William Cardinal Baum, former Prefect of the Congregation
for Catholic Education and current Major Penitentiary of
the Apostolic Penitentiary
Archbishop John Foley, President of the Pontifical Council
for Social Communications
Attorney General Barr
Christobal Colon, Duke of Veraqua
31 American archbishops and bishops
2200 invited guests
IV. PRESS PLAN
Open press.
V. SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
See Advance Scenario.
VI. REMARKS
To be provided by Speechwriting.
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: JACKSONVILLE RALLY
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
AUGUST 3, 1992
12:30 P.M.
Senator Mack, thank you. What a fantastic job you are doing
for this great state.
Congressmen Cliff Stearns and Craig James, Minority Leader
Crenshaw, State Treasurer Gallagher, Councilwoman Fowler -- thank
you all.
I know the Americakids kept you entertained while you were
waiting. I want to give them a round of applause. I also want
to give special thanks to the Fletcher High School Marching Band
and the Fletcher High School cheerleaders.
Finally, Mayor Austin thanks for your hospitality in this
great city. Thanks even more for your support -- and for your
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open-mindedness toward the "other side." If I see the Democratic
leaders in Washington -- I will tell them you were here -- but I
will point out that you wore ear plugs. //
If you're like me, you're grabbing every spare moment you
can to keep up with the Games in Barcelona. My favorite events
have been swimming -- for three reasons.
First -- Martin Zubero. His backstroke was for Spain -- but
I bet his heart was with his hometown of Jacksonville.
Then there's Pablo Morales, the swimmer who missed out in
'84, didn't make the team in '88, then came back this year to
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take the Gold -- // at the ripe old age of 27. I don't know why,
but I kind of like a guy who proves youth and inexperience are no
match for maturity and determination. //
The other athlete who inspires me is Summer Sanders --
(how's that for the name of a swimmer!). Summer was trailing
-
halfway through the 200 meter butterfly -- then came on strong to
win at the finish. (I think there's a metaphor for something in
Summer's performance -- but I can't quite put my finger on it.) //
We've heard a lot of talk about change this year -- the
other side has put forth more heat than this Florida sunshine.
But don't worry, I'm getting ready to talk back -- and take my
case to the American people.
The other side talks about change -- but when you look at
their position on the most radical change of the year -- limiting
the tenure of members of Congress -- they quietly admit they are
against the idea.
That's change alright. Changing their tune!//
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That's unange a
The other side talks about change -- but in a certain 7,000
word speech at their convention -- they devote just 141 words to
defense and foreign policy. And when they finally get around to
it, they propose $60 billion in cuts beyond what we feel is
responsible. They don't mention that these reckless cuts will
cost a million jobs across America - some right here in
Jacksonville.
That's change alright. Changing the subject!
The other side talks about change -- but look at their first