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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD SENATE
January 29 1999
tect you. We will elevate your status in sporting event or some other program tive judgment on content What will
the legal system to must-carry.
on television But 1 do not think that be next? Will we, the U.S. Senate and
I think that is wrong. Thirteen co-
the Presiding Officer, or any other the House of Representatives, decide
sponsors of this legislation also think
Senator, should have the right to de- that religious programming should be
that it. is wrong. Senators BENTSEN,
termine what can or cannot be adver- banned from cable access? Will we
BIDEN, HEFLIN, DASCHLE, SHELBY, Wor-
tised.
want to take children's cartoons off
FORD, ROTH, SPECTER, KASTEN. SYMMS,
This amendment offered by the
the air? Or only certain kinds of car-
LOTT, BURNS, COATS, all agree that
junior Senator from the State of Lou-
toons?
these stations ought to have the right
islana makes a subjective judgment
Mr. President, I do not really think
to exist; they aught to have a right to
based on content. What will be next?
this is different than book burning-
broadcast their signals. But when you
This network does, in fact, spend &
maybe a little different. in degree, but
are requiring cable companies to carry
great deal of its time having people-
the same principle. We are saying.
ABC, and NBC, and CBS, and Public
Vanna White, for example, is one of
"We don't like this programming SO
Television, and other things that are
the stars of this network. She sells
nobody élse should watch it either."
covered by must-carry, there is a limit.
things on this program, and she has a
And that is wrong.
There is a limit. It should not be just
big audience.
I believe; contrary to what has been
carte blanche, that anybody that goes
I have been advised at one time she
put forward, that this amendment will
out and buys a station can get must-
was in and numerous phone calls came
jeopardize the constitutionality of
carry status.
in and said, Where is Vanna?" Now
must carry. Content regulation is a
It is clear in my mind that what is
what right do we have to-say that she
clear assault on the first amendment.
happening is that some of the foRks
cannot be on this program? And that
In fact, the amendment currently
who have these shopping stations,
is, in effect, what we are doing.
before US approaches a bill of attain-
who want to broadcast 24 hours a day,
Mr. BREAUX Will the Senator
der. We are taking away the right of
are now going out around the country
yield?
access from a legitimate business.
and buying basically low-powered sta-
Mr. REID. I am happy to yield.
This is a legitimate business. It may
tions just so they can stick their foot
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
be different than NBC or ABC or C-
in the door of this bill. So that once
Senator yields for a question from the
they grab that license, which is &
Senator from Louisiana
SPAN, but it is something that mil-
Mr. BREAUX. How does the Sena
lions and millions of people watch and
public item, that is a public airway,
tor interpret that anything in my
they like to watch. If they do not like
and once they pay money for it, now
amendment prohibits Vanna White
it, they can turn it off, switch chan-
they can say: You have to carry us,
cable company. There has to be a
from being on a breadeast TV station?
nels.
must-carry provision that applies to
She can go on a TV station and let
Cable operators are the gatekeepers
US. L think that is wrong, Mr. Presi-
them broadcast as many times as they
to America's living rooms. Cable is in
dent
want. I am net preventing Vanna
more than half of the households in
E know there will be others who
White-I never want to prevent Vanna
this country, and that percentage is
want to talk on this, and I certainly
from being on television
growing. If it is not on cable, more
have no difficulty in having this set
Mr. REID. Well, the Senator would
than half the people will not see E
aside, if the substitute is prepared to
unintentionally be doing that because
For example, TCI and Comcast, two
be offered or if other amendments
this television network that the Sena
very large cable operators, control
come in The chairman asked for
tor is, in effect, trying to ban from the
their own version of a home shopping
amendments to be brought to the
must carry provision is different than
type program called QVC. This puts
floor and offered, and I am doing that-
any other and exempting it from
these large cable companies in direct
now. This amendment will be consid-
must-carry would prevent her from
competition with the Home Shopping
ered at some point as an amendment
being on the cable systems. She could
Network. Of course, they do not want
to either-which it is now-the com-
still do her program. but it. would not
to carry it.
mittee substitute, or perhaps to the
be in keeping with the rest of the law
Channel 14, 2 black station right
substitute that will be offered. At the
that governs all other TV networks.
here in Washington, carries Home
appropriate time, I will ask for the
Mr. BREAUX If the Senator would
Shopping TCI will not carry channel
yeas and nays and would be prepared
further yield, we are not talking about
14 as a result. Therefore, this local sta-
to do that when there are more Mem-
only one network. Any network that
tion, predominantly owned by African-
bers on the floor. At the present time,
predominantly just broadcasts com-
Americans, can only reach less than
I yield the floor.
mercials would be prohibited from get-
half their audience. This is not right.
Mr. REID addressed the Chair.
ting must-carry.
Many local stations carry program-
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
The point I am making and asking
length advertising. For example, many
Senator from Nevada.
the Senator to respond to is, we are
real estate businesses have half-hour
Mr. REID. Mr. President, I have the
not telling anybody they cannot
shows to display the houses they have
greatest respect for my friend, the
broadcast commercials on TV stations
for sale They buy the time. That is
junior Senator from Louisiana We
24 hours a day. All the amendment
what the whole program is about
served together in the other body and
says is that a station that does pre-
Now I personally am not much into
have worked closely together here on
dominantly nothing but commercials
watching those kinds of programs. I
many different issues. But I have to
should. not be elevated to must-carry
am not really much into watching
say to my colleagues in the Senate,
status. They can still have their televi-
these home shopping programs. I do
and to my friend from Louisiana, that
sion station. They can still broadcast
not think I have ever watched one for
he is wrong on this issue. This amend-
24 hours a day.
more than a minute or two. But I can
ment is a clear case of content regula-
Mr. REID. But that, Mr. President,
turn the channel, as E do, or I can turn
tion.
is the whole point of my opposition to
off the TV set.
Mr. President, should Congress be
the amendment. Why should this net-
I should have the right. if-I. want to
determining what the public watches
work be treated any differently than
watch a real estate presentation for a
on television sets in the privacy of
any other? Why should there be this
half-hour, hour, or 15 minutes, or I
their living rooms? I do not think SO.
exemption? I mean, are: we going to de-
should be able, if I eare to Mr. Presi-
We here Inside the beltway should not
termine it. on the basis of how good
dent, to watch Home Shopping for as
become police officers for the rest. of
the advertisements are or how good
long as I want or as short & period of
the Nation for what they can or
the programming is to sell & product?
time as I. want. There should not be an
cannot watch.
Or what period of time is used during
exception to this one network because
There are lots of advertisements
a program to sell a product?
of the type of programming it is
that I think are pretty bad that I wish
The amendment offered by the Sen-
Who are we going to go after next?
were not on when I want to watch a
ator from Louisiana makes a subjec-
Local stations need this revenue to
January 29, 1992
AL RECORD-SENATE
S573
survive. The Home Shopping
twork They do not rep-
quire them to have space on that cable
employs-6,000 people natior
deast station. But they
system.
is affiliated with about 80
about the interests of
Mr. GRAHAM. Will the Senator
beyond the 12 they own. In tl
the American people.
yield for a question?
my, should we be legislating more
The Consumer Federation, in sup-
Mr. BREAUX I will be happy to.
people out of work? I think not. Home
port of what we are trying to do-and
Mr. GRAHAM. Reading the amend-
Shopping Network is a legitimate, 8
I will submit their letter for the
ment, it states:
viable, and a good business.
RECORD-SAYS they are very concerned
Nothing in this section shall require a
We should be creating jobs here in
that the scarce public resource that we
cable operator to carrying on any tier, or
Congress, according to what we were
are talking about, the public airways,
prohibit a cable operator from carrying on
told last night in the Chamber across
is being used for full-time home shop-
any tier, the signal of any commercial tele-
the Hall. And I agree with what Presi-
ping. "In exchange for the free use of
vision station or video programming service
dent Bush said. We should not be
this resource, broadcasters agree to
that is predominantly utilized for the trans-
eliminating jobs.
serve as 'public trustees,' and promise
mission of sales presentations or program-
The Home Shopping Network
to place the public's needs ahead of
length commercials.
should be treated like any other
their own."
Would that require the cable opera-
broadcaster. They meet all the FCC
That is what stations who get broad-
tor to apply a consistent standard?
criteria with regard to public service.
cast licenses are supposed to follow,
That is, if there were, let us say. three
They are a legitimate business, they
that type of standard, a public Interest
channels which came under the defini-
provide a service people want, and
standard, not Just their pocketbook
tion of "predominantly utilized for the
they deserve to be treated fairly.
standard.
transmission of sales presentations or
People have a right to choose what
And that is why you see the Con-
program-length commercials," they
they watch. If we do not provide must-
sumer Federation of America, which
would have to include all three? Or
carry for Home Shopping we will be
does not have an ax to grind, they do
could the cable operator say I will
limiting their choice without their
not have a dollar in this fight, they do
carry two but not all three? Or one
consent. This, I think, is unfair. It is
not have an economic interest in this
but not all three?
not right. And some would say it is un-
fight, but they do have an interest.
Mr. BREAUX. As long as the cable
conscionable.
That interest happens to be the Amer-
operator, under my amendment, has
This amendment, Mr. President,
ican consumer. That is why they sup-
the right to carry a station or a broad-
should be defeated.
port what we are trying to do along
cast signal that is predominantly a 24-
I yield the floor.
with other groups and organizations,
hour-a-day commercial broadeast sta-
Mr. PRESSLER addressed the
like the Media Access Project which
tion, that does nothing but broadcast
Chair.
watches what is coming out over the
commercials, that cable operator has
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
airways: National Cable Television As-
the right to decide to carry them or
Senator from South Dakota.
sociation, which does have an interest
not carry them.
Mr. PRESSLER. Mr. President, I
in this; Small Rural Cable TV Associa-
They would also, in my interpreta-
rise to say that I feel very strongly
tion-In support of this.
The only other point I would make
tion, have the right to decide which
that this amendment by my colleague
they would want to carry or which
from Louisiana would not be in the
is that we are not trying to keep these
best interests of broadcasting.
companies that have 24-hour commeri-
they would not want to carry.
Mr. GRAHAM. So the Senator is
What happens, I think we all know,
cal broadcasts, broadcasting one ad
is that when a cable company owns a
after the other, off the cable system.
saying. in my hypothetical, If there
were three stations that met the defi-
part of B shopping network, that net-
My amendment says nothing in the
work is allowed on the air-1 think
bill shall require or deny a station,
nition, the cable operator could decide
that is the case in the District of Co-
which does nothing but broadcast
that he would carry A and B but not
lumbia-but the other ones are not or
commercials, from being on a cable
C?
other competition. I think what we are
network.
Mr. BREAUX. He could carry none
doing here is that we are ensuring
What we are saying is let us be neu-
of them, he could carry one of them,
competition.
tral. Many cable systems already carry
or he could carry all of them."
Now. a cable company can own a
these shopping type of programs.
Mr. GRAHAM. If the theory is that
part of a shopping network and, If
Some of the cable systems carry more
there is something perverse about this
that is the case, then they will let that
than one. They do It because they
type of broadcasting that does not
one on the air but no other. And that
think it is the right thing to do. It
warrant it being given the status of
is really what we are talking about
serves the needs of the people.
must-carry, why should the cable op-
here in the baldest of terms.
My point is that we should not make
erator be able to make two decisions:
So by virtue of this legislation, the
them do It. We should not mandate
First, whether he wants to carry any
competition would also be on the air.
them doing it. They have the right to
or all of that type of programming;
And a network, if owned in part by the
negotiate with a cable company to get
and, then, second, the right to pick
cable TV, could not be favored. I think
on their system. If they do not, they
and choose among similar cable opera-
that is what It really boils down to.
can just broadcast, Just like any other
tors?
So we want that competition. I think
broadcast station that is not on a cable
Mr. BREAUX. I think the theory
the bill, as written, is very good in this
system.
behind the bill-and others may be
area, and I strongly oppose this
My amendment is supported by the
able to speak to that-requiring must-
amendment.
Consumer Federation of America and
carry for the networks, NBC, ABC,
Mr. BREAUX addressed the Chair.
other interest groups that do not have
CBS, public television, or what have
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
a dog in this fight, from an economic
you, is that these programs on those
Senator from Louisiana.
standpoint. The reason they support
stations meet the public interest, meet
Mr. BREAUX Mr. President, I Just
this amendment is because it does
the public necessity, meet the stand-
want to make a couple of comments. I
serve the public interests. After all, we
ards by which a normal station is
do not want to Interfere with anybody
are talking about communications. We
given a broadcast license: Serving the
else's desire to be recognized, and I
are talking about the public interest
public interest, local community's in-
will be happy to yield in just a
because we are talking about the
terest, with a diversity of program-
moment.
public airwaves.
ming which includes everything that
I want to put a statement in the
I think the bottom line is that noth-
occurs in the local community, news,
RECORD from the Consumer Federa-
ing in my amendment prohibits a
weather, sports, plus entertainment
tion of America. They do not have an
home shopping type of program from
programming. It is a diversity coming
ax to grind in this. They do not repre-
being on the cable system. It just says
from those type of networks and those
sent a cable company. They do not
the cable system does not have to re-
type of signals.
If Congress can install a $1.5 million Senate sound system so
they'll be better heard on TV
If Congress can install a new Senate sound system that costs more
than one at a U-2 concert
If Congress can install new marble floors in House elevators
If Congress can vote to spend $25,000 just to study where to put
a new House gymnasium
Billy Graham -- has 5 children (2 sons, 3 daughters) ; 19
grandkids; 4 great-grandkids
Re religious liberty flourishing in E. Europe:
All over E. Europe churches and synagogues are being
refurbished -- the churches are being repainted, their onion
domes gilded.
The Kazan, a cathedral in St. Petersburg, used to be called
the All Union Museum of Religion and Atheism. Now it has
been returned to a cathedral for thousands of worshippers.
In Lithuania -- The main Catholic cathedral had been
converted to a government archives building. Last fall, it
was reconsecrated by the Catholic cardinal and now
celebrates a new beginning as a popular place of worship.
In June 1991, Quayle spoke on the steps of the Alexander
Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria to celebrate its
reopening and reconsecration.
All over E. Europe -- particularly in Romania, Hungary, the
Ukraine -- young people were kept away from religion,
religious history and what the government called religious
propaganda. Now, young people are flocking to the churches
to learn all they can about religion and are one of the
largest groups enjoying their newfound religious liberty.
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Last night you saw Barbara on television. I'll let her
explain why family matters SO. "At the end of your life," she's
said, "you will never forget not having passed one more test, not
winning one more verdict, not closing one more deal. You will
regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend, or a
parent.' // No wonder America loves Barbara Bush. //
Barbara knows that kids, quoting Art Linkletter, say not
only the funniest but most insightful things -- especially about
religion. / ((Once a Sunday school teacher started talking about
the story of Jonah and the Whale. She asked what the story
showed. A small boy raised his hand. "I know, he said.
"People make whales sick. ")) //
Each of us turns to God daily to make lives well. We act
through the third and greatest of God's gifts -- yes, prayer. /
If Congress can raise its pay in a midnight session / if
Congress can install new lighting so their faces will be better
lit on TV / if Congress can spend time debating Vanna White's
appearance on the Home Shopping Network -- surely, Congress can
allow our kids to thank Almighty God. / So if I can disturb your
breakfast with one political observation, today I call on
Congress to pass a Constitutional Amendment allowing voluntary
prayer in our classrooms. Let's bring the Faith of our Fathers
back to our schools. //
I have been President for three and a half years now.
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Remarks at the Dedication Ceremony for the Zachary and
Elizabeth Fisher House in Bethesda, Maryland
27 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 834
June 24, 1991
LENGTH: 957 words
Thank you, Secretary. What a beautiful day out here at Bethesda. Please be
seated and thank you. Thank you, Secretary Garrett. And good morning, Admiral
Lichtman. Thank you and all your associates for this warm welcome. I want to,
of course, single out Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher for their generosity, not
just for this, but for others to follow.
I want to, with the risk of embarrassment, say that coming in I congratulated
Admiral Trost, our former CNO, for his vision in getting this program underway.
And everybody jumped all over me and said, it's not Carl, it's Pauline. So, we
salute her as well, and both of them for their vision.
It's a special day for Barbara and me, coming back here to Bethesda to see an
exceptional group of people. Glad we don't have to stay this time. [Laughter]
But it does give me an opportunity, seeing so many familiar faces -- with my
tiny, minor problem in mind -- to just say thank you. For those who have not
been inside this place as a patient, the care and the concern for everybody
all the patients that I visited with telling me this -- is just unbelievable.
And it's typical of hospitals, of course, all across this country, but we saw it
firsthand. And I extend you all my heartfelt thanks. No fibrillation, just
bringing it on out -- [Laughter] -- and would give you this report. Over the
weekend, I played three hard sets of tennis, ran 2 miles, hit some golf balls.
So, lest there be any doubts about the efficiency of Navy medicine, why,
Admiral, I'm back 100 percent.
And true story and perhaps of not much interest, but I got this letter from a
farmers' group during my recovery: "This wouldn't have happened if you'd eaten
your broccoli" [Laughter] I would rather risk refibrillation, but that's my
position. [Laughter] But there's -- a lot goes on at this medical center that's
inspiring. I again commend the dedication of the doctors and the nurses, the
corpsmen; all who make life so pleasant for people that are under stress and
strain -- some of whom are just back from the Gulf, I might add, some of the
professionals; and others who are still caring for some of the cases right here
at the main hospital for those who really suffered, really got hurt in Desert
Storm.
And so, today we celebrate something else that makes this place remarkable -
the opeining of this Elizabeth and Zachary Fisher House, the gift of two
longtime friends of ours. Barbara and I have known the Fishers for many, many
years. I think it dates back, Zach, to 1971 when I was Ambassador at the U.N.
But his building will provide lodging for military families who have come to
visit their seriously ill or injured loved ones.
With pride I tell you that Barbara Bush has been very helpful in
encouraging this kind of dwelling -- the Ronald McDonald Houses that so many
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of you know about that are connected with the many other hospitals - civilian
hospitals. And she shares my joy in celebrating this one here.
Because a concerned couple cared, this house will become a home to families
facing the triple blow of critical illness, financial pressures, and separation.
And we had the pleasure of meeting two such families inside - several such
families inside. And I must say, to hear them talk about what this means to
them says it all.
Listen to how the Fishers dedicate this house: "To our greatest national
treasure, our military men and women and their loved ones.' Millions were
touched by the sacrifice of our troops, but the Fishers did something. They
acted upon this. And I've spolen to a lot of people about our concept of Points
of Light - - those who have given themselves to help others. And Elizabeth and
Zach are brilliant Points of Light. They saw a need and then the moved in to
fill it. They didn't wait for Congress. They didn't wait for a study or a
committee hearing. They saw a problem, moved in and solved it.
This kind of dedication and ingenuity has made ours the strongest, and I
think the most caring, nation in the world. This comfort home is one of seven
furnished family retreats that the Fishers are donating to military hospitals
across the country. They were inspired by a simple wonderful truth: The most
important part of life is being with someone you love, helping someone you love,
sharing life with someone you love.
It was a little over a year ago that Barbara spoke up at Wellesley about our
philosophy -- I think our country's philosophy. So, let me - possibly risking
embarrassing her --- but let me share it with you again today. She said: "You
will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more
verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a
husband, a friend, a child, or a parent."
And on behalf of the families who will find peace in this home and the ill or
injured loved ones who will find comfort in their presence, I want to join the
rest of you in thanking the Fishers. You really reppresent this wonderful
concept in America. De Tocqueville noticed when he first came her, the
propensity of one American to help another. You represent our best. And may I
just say to our military men and women with us here today -- the Coast Guard,
represented by Admiral Kime, the Navy and other services as well - thank you
for your service to our nation. And may this house bring you comfort in your
time of need.
Thank you all very, very much.
Note: The President spoke at 9:25 a.m. outside the Fisher House. In his
remarks, he referred to Lawrence Garrett III, Secretary of the Navy; David M.
Lichtman, commander of the National Naval Medical Center; and J. William Kime,
Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard.
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The Associated Press
The materials in the AP file were compiled by The Associated Press. These
materials may not be republished without the express written consent of The
Associated Press.
January 27, 1992, Monday, PM cycle
SECTION: Washington Dateline
LENGTH: 675 words
HEADLINE: WASHINGTON TODAY: Foley Has Added Suites, Marble, Expensive Art to
Capitol
BYLINE: By STEVEN KOMAROW, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
KEYWORD: Master of the House
BODY:
When it comes to making the nation's laws, House Speaker Thomas S. Foley has
gained national recognition as a mild-mannered intellectual with a worldly, yet
cautious approach.
But when it comes to his stewardship of the Capitol, the Washington
Democrat's actions have been decidedly turf-conscious and aggressive as he's
surrounded himself with marble, expensive art and costly renovations.
"There is a sort of manifest destiny" to Foley's management, said one
critical colleague who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"His view of the Capitol is that this is not an office building," said
Jeff Biggs, Foley's press secretary. "It amounts to a national monument, and he
thinks it ought to reflect that trust. Current members are custodians for future
generations."
After taking over from Jim Wright as leader of the House in 1989, Foley
converted the existing speaker's offices and the adjacent hallways into a
unified suite, complete with a shower room to accommodate his exercise regimen.
The elegant Rayburn Room next door was annexed when Foley had doors built to
divide it from the public hallways.
Downstairs, a wall was built across the public room of the House restaurant,
eliminating about two dozen seats to create a second speaker's dining room.
Foley uses it for private meals and dispenses its use as a favor to colleagues.
Under Foley's direction, the restaurant also was redecorated - one room twice
- and features padded wall coverings of blue sheen, more than $ 40,000 in
carpeting, and refurbished lighting and other features.
On the wall, Foley had placed an enormous oil painting by American artist
Albert Bierstadt. Never mind that it's risky to keep the canvas - worth
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millions - in a dining room where it is subject to smoke, sweat and steam.
Back upstairs, Foley evicted the House Document Room from the Capitol to
create a new suite of staff offices a few yards from his office. Where once
lawmakers, journalists and others could get copies of bills only steps from the
House chamber, they must now summon them from half a mile away.
The new double-decker staff suite, still under construction, includes a
commodious full kitchen, which helped push the total cost to $ 314,000,
according to sources familiar with the bookkeeping.
Even now, colleagues are reticent to criticize the speaker. After all, many
of his predecessors customized things to their tastes.
But for some, Foley seems to have crossed a line somewhere.
"It is a living museum, I understand that," said one Republican. "But this
has been a little much."
Lawmakers on a commission that oversees historic preservation were appalled
to learn last year that, without consultation, the speaker bought a $ 72,500
Oriental rug for the Rayburn Room with money it intended for restoration and
public facilities. The commission changed its rules to prevent a reoccurrence.
Just last week, Capitol workers, at Foley's behest, finished installing new
marble floors in three elevators at a cost of $ 20,000 or more. That money came
from a contingent fund in the Architect of the Capitol's budget, and again was
never cleared with colleagues who thought they should be consulted.
$ Marble floors in our elevators, on top of bounced checks and unpaid
restaurant bills, only reinforce the public's negative perception of
Congress, = said California Rep. Jerry Lewis, senior Republican on the House
Appropriations subcommittee that deals with Congress' own budget.
Lewis promises action on the House floor to stop what he contends are abuses.
Some critics grumble privately about the role in all this of the speaker's
wife, Heather, who works unpaid as his chief of staff and personally oversees
the renovation work.
But Biggs said Foley very definitely supports all the changes.
Regardless, it appears that Foley is exercising tendencies he had long before
he became speaker. Members of the House Agriculture Committee can recall that
when he was chairman, Foley crunched staff into a former bathroom while his dog
Alice enjoyed her own room.
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The Hotline
April 1, 1992
SECTION: ON THE HOUSE
LENGTH: 1440 words
HEADLINE: PERKS: SUBCOMMITTEE GETS WHITE HOUSE HEISMAN
BODY:
In a "rare display of defiance toward a congressional
request, five presidential aides boycotted a hearing on President
Bush's travel" by the House Post Office and Civil Service subcmte
on Human Resources. WH spokesperson Judy Smith: "They're now,
of course, trying to shift the focus off their own abuse a
mismanagement." Smith added "that the subcommittee was 'engaging
in a fishing expedition' to embarrass the president." Subcmte
chair Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA): "These are not hearings about
(WH) perks, nor were they scheduled to deflect attention away
from the Congress." Kanjorski scheduled another hearing for next
week and "threatened to subpoena the president's aides if
necessary" (McDonald, HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 4/1). Kanjorski
"contended that he had not been able to secure any figures on the
cost of (WH) travel" beyond those in the proposed '93 budget.
That budget lists yearly WH travel expenses at $72M, and a single
listing of $29K for travel by Bush. Kanjorski "said that $29,000
would pay for about 40 minutes of flight time on Air Force One,
and that the actual cost of travel by Mr. Bush and the (WH) staff
was" closer to $130M. An anonymous WH official said Kanjorski's
$29,000 figure "actually represents per diem expenses for close
aides who travel with Mr. Bush, not the cost of aircraft and
limousines" (Wines, N.Y. TIME, 4/01).
POST OFFICE STILL PROBLEMATIC: A "surprise" audit of the
House Post Office last week found "several accounting problems."
House Administration Cmte chair Rep. Charlie Rose (D-NC): "This
is a great embarrassment to the House that this situation should
still exist." The 3/26-27 audit documented shortages of cash,
one of $600 and another of $218, "according to a summary of
preliminary audit findings obtained from a House Republican
source." Dem leaders proposed "that the House Post Office be
closed, with the postal service opening substations and the House
creating an interoffice mailroom in its place." Among the 12
findings cited in the two-page summary were 100 money orders
worth $75,000 "stacked 'in an open vault with the keys in it' and
personal funds commingled with postal money." A supervisor
was "found to hold a $580 voucher from a member's office with a
note attached indicating, 'Do Not Process.' An envelope
containing $395 was also found in the supervisor's office"
(Cooper/Pianin, W. POST, 4/1). Employees of the post office
"said in interviews that they took Federal Express packages to
Dulles International Airport in the evening at the request of
House members. In addition, employees of the House post office
picked up campaign contributions and other mail delivered to post
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office boxes" (Pear, N.Y. TIMES, 4/1).
TV: ABC's Cokie Roberts: "The new audit at the House Post
Office could not come at a worse time for House Democrats.
They've been trying to focus voter attention on the perks and
privileges enjoyed by the White House. Instead they keep getting
plagued with problems of their own that won't go away" (3/31).
NBC's John Cochran on GOP claims that Dems are trying "squirm the
hook" on the perk issue: "Heavens no, insisted the Democrats who
shrank from any mention of partisan politics" (3/31).
DEMS URGE HEATHER OUSTER: One of House Speaker Foley's (D-
WA) "staunchest congressional allies suggested yesterday that
Foley's wife, Heather, should step down from her job as his
unpaid chief of staff." The unidentified Dem said "several
senior Democrats, including powerful committee chairmen, agreed
with him, but declined to identify them. The suggestion
represents the first time that a member that close to Foley has
indicated that the speaker's wife's activities are becoming a
serious problem
This would be to placate the members. Her
role and judgment are being called into question.
It's always
more difficult when its a spouse." Foley: "There's no question
she's doing a splendid job,
I'm totally satisfied." Members
are questioning her judgment in ordering "costly marble floors in
House elevators in a time when voters are showing anger over
congressional spending and perks; in ordering that an office
where citizens could pick up copies of pending bills be moved to
a less convenient location; and in going to the offices of the
House physician unaccompanied on a Saturday, where police found
her after an alarm went off." Defenders contend she is facing
criticism because "she has ruffled the feathers" of senior
congressional Dems "who do not like a woman to have authority and
do not approve of her casual way of dressing, which some see as
'unladylike'' (Hanson, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, 4/1).
FOLEY: W. POST's Gugliotta interviews Foley and writes the
Speaker thought the House bank scandal "began as just a
housekeeping problem
a mess to be cleaned up and put in
order." Foley: "My focus
was on getting the problem
corrected" (4/01). Dem House leaders "proposed an extensive
package of changes in how the House conducts its nonlegislative
affairs in what amounts to an effort by (Foley) to move beyond
scandals in the House's bank and post office." The proposal
presented to a bipartisan task force "would create a director of
nonlegislative and financial services, abolish the postmaster,
turn the House Post Office over to the U.S. Postal Service and
end political patronage in some jobs." The plan adopts major
GOPers proposals and, "according to one Democratic leadership
aide," would give the Min Leader "veto power" in naming the new
director" (Cooper, W. POST, 4/1).
CONGRESS, NEVER HIGH ON THE PUBLICS LIST: USA TODAY's
director of polling Jim Norman: "Contrary to what you may think,
the American people have not lost all that much confidence in
Congress lately. They haven't had much confidence in years.
During the past two decades, poll after poll has consistently
confirmed people's low opinion of Congress.
Congress ranked
in the bottom third of institutions in Gallup polls taken in
1975, 1981 and 1991. In all three years, less than 20% of the
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people considered Congress' ethics above average. Fewer then
half gave Congress a positive job rating in every one of 15
Gallup polls from 1974 to 1990. Congressional leaders have
scored even lower than Congress itself. Fewer than one in five
people have expressed 'a lot of confidence' in the leaders,
according to more than a dozen polls conducted since Watergate's
fallout in 1974" (4/1).
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Copyright 1992 The Chronicle Publishing Co.
The San Francisco Chronicle
MAY 21, 1992, THURSDAY, FINAL EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. AZ
LENGTH: 746 words
HEADLINE: GOP Lawmakers Join Demos To Stymie Audit of 'Slush Fund'
BYLINE: Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
DATELINE: Washington
BODY:
An attempt by the Gang of Seven freshman Republicans to get outside audits
of what they call a $ 45 million House slush fund'' failed on a 262-to-149
House vote yesterday. Ten Republicans broke party ranks to vote with Democrats.
The freshmen, including Californians Frank Riggs of Sonoma and John Doolittle of
Roseville, charge the House Democratic leadership with using unspent funds
appropriated to run Congress for purposes other than those originally
intended.
Sacramento Democrat Vic Fazio, chairman of the legislative subcommittee of
the House, which oversees the funds, has called the charges groundless and
vigorously denied any inappropriate use of taxpayer money.
He acknowledged, however, that funds were used to renovate an office in the
Capitol for the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee at the request of the
architect of the Capitol. A report by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative
Washington think tank, said that Heather Foley, House Speaker Thomas Foley's
wife and top aide, had requested the $ 314,000 renovation, which includes a full
kitchen.
Space was obtained by moving the House document office, which distributes
copies of bills to the public, to an annex building.
MARBLE ELEVATORS
Other expenditures from the fund have paid for marble floors installed in
three Capitol elevators at a cost of at least $ 20,000, at Foley's request.
Foley also had the speaker's offices and adjacent hallways converted to a
unified suite, 'complete with a shower room to accommodate his exercise
regimen.
Riggs yesterday said Fazio wants to block an independent audit 'because he's
one of a handful of individuals who exert control over these funds. Riggs
called Fazio ''the consummate professional politician, who is trying to muddy
the waters in the hopes that this issue will go away.
Doolittle said, ''In so many words, that's basically what they said about the
House bank and House post office. Doolittle vowed to continue the battle,
perhaps by attempting to amend the upcoming appropriations bill for Congress.
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Democrats say the freshman Republicans are trying to drum up publicity to
further tarnish a Congress already plagued by the bank and post office
scandals. The Gang of Seven's hope, they speculate, is that voters will throw
even more incumbents out of office this November, most of them Democrats.
'NO-YEAR' ACCOUNT
The controversy involves a $ 45 million 'contingency fund'' that came into
being in 1991, when Congress changed a rule to allow unspent legislative
branch funds to be carried over indefinitely in a ''no year'' account. Another
change in 1989 allowed legislative operating funds to be transferred, or
'reprogrammed'' among different accounts.
Government agencies ordinarily have to return unspent funds to the Treasury.
Fazio said Tuesday that $ 20 million of the funds will probably be returned
and that the rest is needed to pay bills carried over into the next fiscal year.
He said some monies are needed for such contingencies as a leak in the Capitol
roof.
He said the ranking minority member on the legislative subcommittee, San
Bernardino Republican Jerry Lewis, the third-ranking Republican in the House,
gives his approval on all transfers.
Lewis said yesterday that he has agreed on most transfers, except those he
held up or took to House minority leader Robert Michel for comment. He added,
however, that he is ''very concerned'' about the 1991 changes ''in which
suddenly funds were left to accumulate to the amount in excess of $ 41
million.
Lewis introduced an amendment two weeks ago to return to the Treasury $ 41.7
million from the funds appropriated to run the House, but it was defeated in a
voice vote along party lines. He said he offered the amendment because,
'Institutionally, I feel that language which causes money that's not expended
to remain available ''does open the door to a classic speaker's slush fund.
Fazio emphasized that congressional finances are already audited by the
General Accounting Office and that the figures are publicly available. But
Steven Schwalm, author of the Heritage report, argues that the GAO audits show
only total amounts expended with no details about who requested the transfers or
what they paid for.
Schwalm and other analysts further contend that the GAO, which is financed
and supervised by Congress, is not sufficiently independent for the task.
SUBJECT:
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NAME:
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Copyright 1992 The Times Mirror Company
Los Angeles Times
April 19, 1992, Sunday, Home Edition
NAME: HEATHER FOLEY
SECTION: Part A; Page 4; Column 1; National Desk
LENGTH: 1414 words
HEADLINE: SCANDALS SHOVE SPEAKER'S WIFE INTO SPOTLIGHT;
CONGRESS: HEATHER FOLEY FOR YEARS HAS WIELDED CONSIDERABLE POWER BEHIND THE
SCENES WHILE FIERCELY PROTECTING HER OWN PRIVACY.
BYLINE: By WILLIAM J. EATON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
She is an intensely private person in a public maelstrom, feeling unjustly
accused but unwilling to strike back openly at her critics.
Much to her shock and surprise, Heather Foley has found herself caught up in
the increasingly nasty debate over who deserves the blame for the political
scandals surrounding the slipshod financial operations of the House bank and
post office.
As the wife of Speaker Thomas S. Foley (D-Wash.) and his unpaid chief of
staff for more than two decades, Heather Foley is familiar with the
congressional corridors of power. But this is her first experience in the center
of a raging controversy and she hates it.
"I don't expect to be patted on the back for working for nothing but I don't
expect to get beaten up, either," one associate quoted her as saying. She
refuses all interviews.
In a sense, the ordeal that Heather Foley is experiencing after 23 years of
service symbolizes the increasing acrimony infecting Congress, which largely
has abandoned what once were standards of comity that tended to prevent
political disputes from becoming personal attacks.
Her critics describe Heather Foley, 51, as a brusque baroness of Capitol
Hill, stifling embarrassing investigations and making unilateral decisions on
House decor and policy issues without being held accountable to anyone.
Her friends describe her as an intelligent and dedicated woman who has played
a key behind-the-scenes role in her husband's steady advance up the leadership
ladder to the top position of Speaker, which he assumed in June, 1989.
In any case, Heather Foley is certain to remain in the spotlight until a
federal grand jury and a bipartisan task force created by the House
Administration Committee complete separate investigations of the House bank and
post office scandals.
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Indeed, she has confided to close associates that she is "tortured" and
"bewildered" by the array of accusations against her, which include personal
criticism about her aversion to formal socializing and her preference for casual
attire and grooming.
The daughter of a diplomatic family who grew up overseas in Pakistan and
Greece, Heather Foley was graduated from Pembroke College in Providence, R.I.,
taught school in Cairo and was married to Foley in Sri Lanka. She received a law
degree before going to work on Capitol Hill. The Foleys, childless, have devoted
most of their adult lives to the House of Representatives.
While Foley won near-universal approval when he succeeded Jim Wright as
Speaker after months of turmoil over ethics charges against the Texas Democrat,
there has been muted grumbling about his wife's unusual role as his top staff
aide. How could her judgment be challenged, the critics wondered, without
offending the Speaker?
The muttering reached a crescendo in recent weeks as the bank and post office
scandals provided an outlet for pent-up partisan anger over Democratic rule of
the House for the last 38 years.
Without providing detailed supporting evidence, Republican Lawmakers have
charged that the Speaker's wife may have intervened to delay a police inquiry
into theft and drug sales at the House post office last summer. The Speaker has
called the accusation "outrageous." Even so, Heather Foley was called as a
witness before the federal grand jury that is looking into allegations of a
cover-up of post office crimes.
House Minority Leader Robert H. Michel (R-Ill.) has said that Heather Foley,
as early as 1989, presented him with a list of names of lawmakers from both
parties who had been running up frequent overdrafts at the House bank. Through
her, Michel urged the Speaker to cut off credit to those who wrote checks
without enough funds to cover them.
The advice was not taken, however, and the private bank continued the lenient
policies that culminated in a national furor. Last week, the House Ethics
Committee publicly identified more than 300 lawmakers who wrote one or more
overdrafts on their checking accounts in a 39-month period. The bank routinely
permitted House members to write checks that would not be covered until their
next paycheck was deposited.
The Speaker has acknowledged that he did not crack down soon enough -- or
hard enough --- on the bank or then-Sergeant-at-Arms Jack Russ for failing to
carry out reforms. But he has deplored efforts to make his wife a scapegoat.
"She's capable. She's hard working. She's honest
She has done nothing
wrong," he has said.
Long before the scandals broke, however, Heather Foley drew fire for
controversial decisions involving renovation projects that she initiated with
the cooperation of architect George M. White.
"Whatever Heather wants, Heather gets," has become a catch-phrase for critics
of the Capitol face-lifts.
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The recent installation of marble floors in three House elevators at an
estimated cost of $6,000 apiece is an example of her influence.
Heather Foley also was the driving force behind redecoration of the House
restaurant, relocation of the House documents room to a more distant site and
installation of an enlarged bathroom and shower next to the Speaker's office. At
her urging, the U.S. Capitol Preservation Commission, a privately funded group,
acquired a $72,000 Oriental rug for a ceremonial meeting room just off the House
floor.
"There's no disclosure, no bids, no accountability and it seems to happen
overnight," complained a Republican member of the House Administration
Committee.
In her defense, friends said that Heather Foley and her husband regard the
Capitol as a historical monument and defend the changes as appropriate to keep
up the appearance of the building, which receives more than a million visitors a
year.
The move of the House documents room, which provides copies of bills and
committee reports for the press and public, was defended on grounds that the
Senate had moved its documents room out of the Capitol to a nearby office
building without any outcry.
In addition, her friends have said that she took the lead in increasing
congressional staff contributions to a charitable fund drive, introduced a
system of drug and alcohol counseling for staff members and championed the
rights of women working in the Capitol.
Heather Foley's career started almost three decades ago when she arrived on
Capitol Hill to work for the late Sen. Henry M. (Scoop) Jackson of Washington.
The Foleys were married in 1968. After receiving her law degree from George
Washington University the next year, Heather Foley began working for her husband
as his office manager. She later was promoted to chief of staff.
Always something of a nonconformist, Heather Foley drew criticism for
preferring peasant skirts and sandals to conventional attire. Since recently
losing 50 pounds, however, she has begun wearing more fashionable clothes. Even
50, she still wears little makeup and finds high heels too uncomfortable to
tolerate. Her straight brown hair usually is brushed back.
"In some ways, she never got out of the '60s," said one woman colleague, who
reported nothing but positive dealings with her.
Many of Heather Foley's admirers think she is merely a lightning rod for
attacks on the Speaker's leadership during a time of intense partisanship and
second-guessing.
"It's political, first, and it's sexist, second," declared Marylouise Oates,
a novelist and former journalist who is a longtime friend of the Foleys. "This
is Republican fire-bombing."
Other Capitol Hill observers said that her strong-willed determination to get
things done and impatience with small talk has offended some Democrats as well
as Republicans. Washingtonian magazine, for example, recently included Heather
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Foley in a list of "women men are afraid of." She was listed by Roll Call
newspaper as one of the "Fabulous Fifty" staff aides who have the greatest
influence in Congress.
Despite the growing controversy about her role, Heather Foley has refused to
respond to her accusers, to grant interviews or to pose for photographs,
contending that as a staff assistant who is not on the public payroll she has no
obligation to do SO.
And whatever her virtues or flaws, she appears likely to retain her stature
as one of Capitol Hill's most powerful aides as long as the man that she calls
"Thomas" occupies the Speaker's chair.
"This is really a very sweet love story," said a close woman friend. "Tom and
Heather Foley love each other very much. You can see that and feel that when you
spend any amount of time with them."
GRAPHIC: Photo, Speaker of the House Thomas S. Foley and his wife, Heather.
TYPE: Profile
SUBJECT: FOLEY, THOMAS S; HOUSE POST OFFICE (U.S.); HOUSE BANK (U.S.);
CONGRESS (U.S.); POLITICAL AIDES; FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE; UNITED STATES -
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Associated Press.
December 7, 1991, Saturday, PM cycle
SECTION: Domestic News
LENGTH: 860 words
HEADLINE: Bush Calls Pearl Harbor Anniversary Emotional, Time of Healing
BYLINE: By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii
KEYWORD: Pearl Harbor-Bush
BODY:
President Bush today led the nation in a somber tribute to the U.S. dead of
World War II, recalling "the moment when the Pacific Ocean erupted in a storm of
fire and blood."
At a daybreak address to about 4,000 Pearl Harbor survivors and their
families, the president said, "We won the war and secured the peace because
American men and women responded bravely and instinctively to their nation's
call."
Bush, a World War II pilot shot down in the Pacific by Japanese artillery
fire, delivered an emotional tribute to those who fought that war.
"Some of my closest buddies never came home," Bush told the gathering of
Pearl Harbor survivors at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
"Perhaps because of this experience, I can better understand what you survivors
are feeling today."
"For the defenders of Pearl, heroism came as naturally as breath," the
president said later at a ceremony at the memorial to the sunken battleship
Arizona.
Bush asked his audience to look at the waters of Pearl Harbor.
His voice choking with emotion, Bush said, "One day in what now seems another
lifetime, it wrapped its arms around the finest sons that any nation could ever
have and carried them to another, better world."
Bush and his wife, Barbara, dropped flowers into the water from the Arizona
memorial. During a moment of silence, four F-15 fighters flew overhead in a
"missing man" formation as one of the planes pulled away from the group.
Bush was observing the 50th anniversary of the devastating attack on the U.S.
Pacific fleet in three separate speeches.
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The Associated Press, December 7, 1991
Speaking to a large gathering at a naval pier, Bush noted that Japanese
Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe this week expressed "deep remorse" over the
suffering caused by Japan's decision to start the war. The president said it was
"a thoughtful, a difficult expression, much appreciated by the people of the
United States of America."
The president offered the nation's apologies to the 120,000 Americans of
Japanese descent who were rounded up and put in camps during the war.
"Our cause was just and honorable, but not every American action was fully
fair," Bush said.
Bush said that "these and other natural-born American citizens faced wartime
internment. They committed no crime. They were sent to internment camps simply
because their ancestors were Japanese."
Previously, the president had said he would not apologize for the atomic
bombs that the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the war.
But he indicated that expressing regret for the wartime internment was another
matter.
In his speech at the cemetery, Bush said that U.S. soldiers who died in
battle from Valley Forge, Pa. in the American Revolution to this year's war in
Kuwait "have prepared the way for a world of unprecedented freedom and
cooperation."
"Thank God you Pearl Harbor survivors are here today to see this come to
pass," Bush said.
About 36,000 veterans and family members are buried in the hillside cemetery,
776 of them the victims of the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack.
Bush, who engaged in 58 combat missions during the war, was shot down on
Sept. 2, 1944, on a bombing run on the island of Chichi Jima. Bleeding from a
head wound, he drifted in a life raft for about four hours before being rescued
by the submarine USS Finback.
"During every passage of my life, I've often thought of those who never
returned,' Bush said.
However, the president said that positive developments grew out of the
greatest U.S. conflict of the century. "The American victors welcomed the new
leaders of Japan, Germany and Italy into alliances that won the Cold War and
helped prevent a third world war," Bush said.
The president participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the cemetery. As a
warm breeze tousled his hair and flapped two U.S. flags flying at half-staff,
the president said, "From this sacred ground
we remember the moment when the
Pacific Ocean erupted in a storm of fire and blood."
"We remember a morning when America where some thought isolation meant
security - awoke wounded and reeling, plunged into a desperate fight for world
freedom," Bush said.
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Among those who greeted the president and first lady Barbara Bush when they
arrived here Friday afternoon was Dale Nash, who served aboard the submarine
Finback, which rescued Bush from the Pacific in 1944.
Bush was a 17-year-old student at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., when
a classmate shouted that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. He enlisted on
June 12, 1942, his 18th birthday, and became one of the youngest pilots in the
Navy.
The Navy awarded him the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Bush has had a hard time living down his remark to an American Legion
convention in Louisville on Sept. 7, 1988, that it was Pearl Harbor Day - a
remark for which Bush apologized even before he stopped speaking.
When he was jokingly asked at a business lunch in Ontario, Calif., if he and
Barbara would accept an invitation to a couple's home for barbecue on the
wedding anniversary the two couples have in common, Bush replied:
"If I can remember it. I'm the guy who couldn't remember when Pearl Harbor
was."
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January 27, 1992
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religious than the United States of America. Seven in ten Americans
believe in life after death; 8 in 10, that God works miracles. Nine in ten
Americans pray. And more than 90 percent believe in God, to which i say,
thank God. I wish it were 100 percent.
Now, I know this is an election year. And I don't know about Damascus, but
this primary season we're seeing
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December 25, 1991, Metro Edition
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HEADLINE: Free at last, Bulgarians revive tradition
BYLINE: Svetla Bobeva
Christmas and Easter are the two most popular Christian holidays in
Bulgaria, a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country. During the long years of
Communist rule it was not safe to celebrate Christmas openly, and the young
generations gradually lost the sense of tradition. But it is coming back again
after the collapse of Communist
soul from material concerns.
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BUSH PICKS BAKER AS SHULTZ' SUCCESSOR
BYLINE: SHIRO YONEYAMA
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, NOV. 9
TOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE IN HOUSTON, TEXAS THAT HE TELEPHONED SHULTZ WHO HE
SAID 'ENTHUSIASTICALLY ENDORSED MY CHOICE.'
BUSH BEGAN HIS FIRST DAY AS PRESIDENT-ELECT BY ATTENDING A SERVICE AT ST.
MARTIN'S CHURCH WITH WIFE BARBARA AND HIS FAMILY.
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Congressional Record -- Senate
Wednesday, January 29, 1992;
(Legislative day of Friday, January 3, 1992)
102nd Cong. 2nd Sess.
138 Cong Rec S 561
REFERENCE: Vol. 138 No. 8
TITLE: CABLE TELEVISION CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT
SPEAKER: Mr. BREAUX; Mr. BURNS; Mr. DANFORTH; Mr. DOLE; Mr. FORD; Mr. GORE; Mr.
GORTON; Mr. GRAHAM; Mr. HELMS; Mr. INOUYE; Mr. LEAHY; Mr. LOTT; Mr. METZENBAUM;
Mr. PACKWOOD; Mr. PRESSLER; Mr. REID
TEXT-1:
[*S572] subjective judgment based on content. What will be next? This
network does, in fact, spend a great deal of its time having people -- Vanna
White, for example, is one of the stars of this network. She sells things on
138 Cong Rec 5 561, *S572
this program, and she has a big audience.
I have been advised at one time she was
...
[*S572] for a question from the Senator from Louisiana.
Mr. BREAUX. How does the Senator interpret that anything in my amendment
prohibits Vanna White from being on a broadcast TV station? She can go on a TV
station and let them broadcast as many times as they want. I am not preventing
Vanna White - I never want to prevent Vanna from being on television.
Mr. REID. Well, the Senator would unintentionally be doing that because this
television network that the
[*5572] will not see it.
For example, TCI and Comcast, two very large cable operators, control their
own version of a home shopping type program called QVC. This puts these large
cable companies in direct competition with the Home Shopping Network. Of
course, they do not want to carry it.
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Channel 14, a black station right here in Washington, carries Home
Shopping. TCI will not carry channel 14 as a result. Therefore, this local
station, predominantly owned by African-Americans,
[*5572] whole program is about.
Now I personally am not much into watching those kinds of programs. I am not
really much into watching these home shopping programs. I do not think I have
ever watched one for more than a minute or two. But I can
[*5572] presentation for a half-hour, hour, or 15 minutes, or I should
be able, if I care to, Mr. President, to watch Home Shopping for as long as I
want or as short a period of time as I want. There should not be an exception to
this one network because of the type of programming it is.
Who are we going to go after next? Local stations need this revenue to
[*5573] survive. The Home Shopping Network employs 6,000 people nationwide
and is affiliated with about 80 stations beyond the 12 they own. In this
economy, should WE be legislating more people out of work? I think not. Home
Shopping Network is a legitimate, a viable, and a good business.
138 Cong Rec S 561, *S573
We should be creating jobs here in Congress, according to what WE were told
last night in the Chamber across the Hall. And I agree with what President Bush
said. We should not be eliminating jobs.
The Home Shopping Network should be treated like any other broadcaster.
They meet all the FCC criteria with regard to public service. They are a
legitimate business, they provide
[*S573] people want, and they deserve to be treated fairly.
People have a right to choose what they watch. If we do not provide
must-carry for Home Shopping we will be limiting their choice without their
consent. This, I think, is unfair. It is not right. And some would say it is
unconscionable.
This amendment, Mr. President, should be
[*S573] Record -- says they are very concerned that the scarce public
resource that we are talking about, the public airways, is being used for
full-time home shopping. "In exchange for the free use of this resource,
broadcasters agree to serve as 'public trustees,' and promise to place the
public's needs
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[*5573] interest because we are talking about the public airwaves.
I think the bottom line is that nothing in my amendment prohibits a home
shopping type of program from being on the cable system. It just says the
cable system does not have to require them to have space on that cable system.
Mr.
[*S574] Florida one additional question. There is no dispute TCI and
Comcast are large cable operators and control their own version of a
home-shopping -type program with no limited hours. It is called QVC. Under this
amendment, they could do anything they want to do, but yet this network would be
discriminated
[*5575] by the FCC and meeting all the FCC qualifications. The argument
being made here today is that limited spectrum should not be taken up by home
shopping services.
I could ask the same question, whether the 1, 000th rerun of "Happy Days"
should take up spectrum space. The must-carry
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July 31, 1992, Friday
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HEADLINE: Actor auctions Oscar to pay for operation
... sightseeing in the Latvian capital. The queen visited neighbouring
Estonia earlier this week, and will go to Lithuania today.
The evangelist Billy Graham, who first preached in Moscow in 1982 when it
was still part of the Soviet Union, is returning in October for his first
revival in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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HEADLINE: Faith and Reason: The need to show God is a democrat; Believers will
turn away unless religious leaders can show that the implementation of their
faith leads to freedom and democracy, writes Rabbi Dr Sidney Brichto.
BYLINE: By RABBI DR SIDNEY BRICHTO
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can only be achieved in partnership with God. It will happen when human
beings take to heart the prophetic words of Micah: ' 'What does the Lord
require of you, but to be just, to love kindness and to walk humbly with
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July 29, 1992, Wednesday, AM cycle
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HEADLINE: People in the News
BYLINE: Williams and Helmsley
DATELINE: LONDON
KEYWORD: People
BODY:
Rock superstar Michael Jackson arrived here Wednesday with Mickey and Minnie
Mouse in tow.
He brought the Disney characters with him from France to accompany him on a
visit to Queen Elizabeth's Children's Hospital, a spokesman said.
The star met up with the cartoon characters at Euro Disney in France and
invited them to tag along to amuse the hospitalized children he planned to
visit, said the spokesman, who wasn't identified.
On Tuesday, Jackson, here for the British leg of a world concert tour, won a
High Court injunction to stop re-publication by the Daily Mirror of a photo
taken of him in Munich last month.
His lawsuit alleged that the newspaper and photographer Ken Lennox violated
an agreement not to sell any photographs taken during the performance and not to
publish any photograph more than once.
Jackson is also suing the Mirror for libel over its reports that he has been
left severely disfigured by plastic surgery.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A $ 6 million lawsuit against comedian and actor Robin
Williams, which accused him of giving herpes to a former lover, has been
settled, a legal newspaper reported.
The San Francisco Daily Journal reported Wednesday that a confidential
settlement was filed in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday, a week before
the case was to go to trial.
Michelle Tish Carter, a former cocktail waitress at the Improv comedy club in
Los Angeles, alleged that Williams gave her herpes before disclosing he had the
disease. Williams, 41, claimed in a cross-complaint against Carter that the
lawsuit was a ruse to extort money from him.
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Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
Attorneys for Williams and Carter didn't immediately return calls seeking
comment Wednesday.
NEW YORK (AP) - Jailed hotel queen Leona Helmsley could lose the crown jewel of
her empire, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
In a move that may force Leona and Harry Helmsley to sell the Helmsley Palace
Hotel, a court-appointed arbitration panel has named an outside receiver to
oversee management of the property, The New York Times reported.
A group that put $ 16.8 million into the hotel in 1981, accuse the Helmsleys
of fraud and mismanagement. The investors include actor Paul Newman.
Mrs. Helmsley, 72, was convicted of fraud and tax evasion in 1989 and began
serving a four-year sentence in April in a federal prison in Danbury, Conn.
"We want to sell it, and sell it quickly," Adam B. Gilbert, a lawyer for the
Helmsleys, said of the Palace. The receiver, who oversees but does not manage
the property, was appointed July 22, he said.
BRANSON, Mo. (AP) - Jerry Lewis says he plans to include five hours of country
music stars performing from this booming Ozarks tourist town in his annual Labor
Day Telethon.
The 1992 Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon, which is to air Sept. 6-7,
will feature live and taped performances from the Mel Tillis Theater.
Branson is a "hotbed of great talent," Lewis said Tuesday via a television
link from San Diego.
"When we advertise in 3,800 newspapers that we're going to have so many
country stars, we'll have the biggest audience ever," Lewis said.
The telethon, which is based in Las Vegas, also will include stars appearing
in Los Angeles and New York.
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Oral Roberts' ministry says it's canceling the daily
religious program by the televangelist's son Richard, but Oral Roberts' own
weekly show will continue with the son as a co-host.
Tuesday's cancellation follows a lawsuit claiming the ministry owes a
Christian satellite cable system in North Carolina nearly $ 300,000 for
broadcasting more than a year of "Richard Roberts" and the long-running
"Miracles Today."
The cancellation of Richard Roberts' show is effective immediately, the
ministry said.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Evangelist Billy Graham, who first preached in Moscow in
1982 when it was still part of the Soviet Union, is returning this fall for
his first revival in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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The Revival '92 crusade will take place Oct. 23-25 in Moscow's Olympic
Stadium, according to the Minneapolis-based Billy Graham Evangelistic
Association.
Nearly 200 clergy and lay leaders from across the former Soviet Union have
begun holding evangelistic missions and classes to train people in Christian
living, the association said Tuesday.
LONDON (AP) - The Prince and Princess of Wales celebrated their 11th anniversary
on Wednesday in private, Buckingham Palace said.
"Neither of them has any public engagements today and we really don't know
what their plans are," a palace spokeswoman said anonymously.
Charles, 43, spent the morning with his grandmother, the Queen Mother,
touring the Sandringham Flower Show, 90 miles northeast of London.
He later returned to London, where Diana, 31, was believed to be spending the
day at Kensington Palace, where they live, with their sons Prince William, 10
and Prince Harry, 7.
The marriage has been in the spotlight since publication of Andrew Morton's
book "Diana: Her True Story," which claims Charles and Diana are unhappy
together. Buckingham Palace has refused to comment on the book.
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August 12, 1992, Wednesday, Final Edition
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HEADLINE: GOP Platform Pushed to Right;
Plank on Tax-Hike 'Mistake' Softened
SERIES: Occasional
BYLINE: E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post Staff Writer
DATELINE: HOUSTON, Aug. 11, 1992
BODY:
Conservatives today pushed the Republican platform further to the right to
reflect their views on abortion and homosexuality.
The Republican Platform Committee ratified the party's strongly antiabortion
plank, which includes a call for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion. It
voted 84 to 16 against a motion to drop the abortion plank entirely. In a series
of voice votes, the panel also rejected amendments to the plank.
Abortion rights supporters appear to lack the votes to bring the matter
before the full convention here next week, but several of them said they still
hope for some acknowledgment by the party of divergent views on the issue.
President Bush added to the debate when, in Washington today, he answered a
television interviewer's hypothetical questions about how he would react to a
granddaughter's decision to have an abortion by saying he would "stand by my
child." Would the decision be hers, NBC interviewer Stone Phillips asked.
"Well," Bush said, "who else's could it be?" [Details, Page A12.]
Despite the platform's strong antiabortion language, a Washington Post-ABC
News survey of Republican delegates found that 55 percent of those questioned
oppose a constitutional ban on abortion, while 28 percent favor it.
Conservative Phyllis Schlafly, head of the National Republican Coalition for
Life, denounced delegate polls on abortion at a news conference here: "They all
offered options to find out where you stand, but none of them offered the option
of opposing abortion except to save the life of the mother." She said this is
the position consistent with the plank adopted today.
A platform subcommittee that apparently angered some in the White House on
Monday by labeling the 1990 tax increases signed by the president "a mistake"
pulled back today -- although only slightly.
A special meeting of the economics subcommittee, called after consultations
between its members and Bush campaign officials, agreed to strike the word
"mistake" and instead call the tax increases "recessionary."
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The subcommittee also softened a commitment to repeal the 1990 tax increases.
Instead of saying they "should be repealed," the panel said they "should
ultimately be repealed."
Conservatives claimed victory in sustaining the rebuke to the tax increase.
"I've gotten what I wanted here," said Rep. Robert S. Walker (Pa.). "The taxes
wrecked the economy."
Rep. Vin Weber (Minn.), sponsor of the original language, acknowledged that
some in the Bush campaign would have preferred to see the section dropped. It
was included on Monday with the acquiescence of Bush's platform representative
here, Charles Black, who believes Bush needs to step away from the 1990 tax
increase and thought he could soften the language. Officials here said top Bush
aides in Washington objected far more strongly to the language than Black did.
Weber said the tax-cutting philosophy embodied in the platform marked a major
departure from administration policies. "It would be a profound change in
economic policy," he said.
The shift of the platform toward the right was evident in amendments adopted
today and in changes made Monday by platform subcommittees.
For example, to make clear the party's view on homosexuality, the committee
today adopted an amendment expressing opposition to "any legislation or law that
recognizes same sex marriages."
Another change reflected the objections of some conservative Christians on
the committee to a passage that celebrated "our country's rich religious
pluralism." They said the platform failed to mention the country's religious
roots in Christianity and Judaism. So, on a 51 to 37 vote, the passage was
amended to celebrate "our country's Judeo-Christian heritage and rich religious
pluralism."
A subcommittee even substituted one quote from First Lady Barbara Bush for
another one, to move the message in a pro-family direction. "In order to grow,
you must choose a cause to serve larger than yourself" was dropped today for a
statement celebrating motherhood: "At the end of your life you will never regret
not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing
one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend
or a parent."
The platform planks adopted today also endorsed "home-based schools," a cause
dear to many religious conservatives, and echoed Vice President Quayle in
declaring that "elements within the media, the entertainment industry, academia
and the Democratic Party are waging a guerrilla war against American values."
Although the Bush campaign proposed some of the conservative language, the
changes in the document reflect the strength of the religious right in the
platform process. Ralph Reed, executive director of the Christian Coalition, the
political arm of television evangelist Pat Robertson, said his group had 20
members and eight allies on the 107-member platform committee, enough to allow
them to force a convention floor fight on any proposal they wished to push.
Reed argued that the conservative platform changes would help Bush by
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"The language on AIDS, education, abortion, homosexual rights, prayer in
schools and taxes is all being strengthened so we can telegraph a message to the
core constituency that this is their party and that WE want their votes in
November," Reed said.
But Tanya Melich, a delegate from New York and executive director of the New
York Republican Family Committee, a liberal group, expressed the displeasure of
a handful of dissenters here.
"I am appalled that no one on that platform committee got up and argued about
artistic freedom, about the freedom to create, about the freedom to hold one's
moral views or one's sexual preference," she said. "No one talked about the
entertainment industry or academia having the right to their own view of the
world. Certainly this stuff is worth discussion."
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GANNETT NEWS SERVICE
August 13, 1992, Thursday
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HEADLINE: ZIMMER, OTHERS MAY FACE ABORTION FIGHT IN HOUSTON
BYLINE: DAVID BAUMAN; Gannett News Service
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
KEYWORD: NJ-ABORTION
BODY:
Republican Rep. Dick Zimmer of Delaware Township may be walking into a
political fight when the GOP gathers for its national convention in Houston next
week.
A staunch supporter of abortion rights, Zimmer - and other pro-choice GOP
lawmakers from northern New Jersey - oppose a GOP platform plank that describes
abortion as murder.
''I'm afraid the Republican Party is on the wrong side of history on this
issue, Zimmer said. ''Public opinion is generally on the pro-choice side. It
certainly is opposed to a constitutional amendment banning abortion.
Earlier this week in Houston, the GOP platform committee approved a plank
that calls for a constitutional ban on abortion. It declares that ''the unborn
child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed.'
By contrast, the platform approved by the Democrats at their July convention
in New York City, endorses a woman's right to an abortion without exception and
calls for public financing of abortions for poor women who cannot afford them
otherwise.
Like Zimmer, Rep. Dean Gallo of Parsippany said President Bush's anti-
abortion stance will cost votes in the presidential election, as well as in
state and local races.
''I think it's a real mistake for him (Bush) to accept the platform line,''
said Gallo. ''That's not going to help him with the swing vote.'
The platform committee ''should have done what we did in New Jersey and left
abortion out of the platform,' he said.
Zimmer and Gallo belong to a group of Republicans who advocate the ''big
tent'' theory of accepting abortion-rights supporters into the party and the
platform. They contend, citing statistics from surveys and polls of the 1988
convention delegates, that Republicans favoring abortion rights comprise a
majority in the party.
Yet while they would like to see a change in the platform to a position more
supportive of a variety of opinions on abortion, both Zimmer and Gallo said
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they were undecided over the course of action to pursue at the convention.
Some Republicans who favor abortion rights have threatened a floor fight to
amend the platform. But Bush opposes abortion, and Zimmer noted: ''An incumbent
president gets the platform he wants.
In deference to that political reality, Zimmer said Bush should not change
his position. ''If he did, he'd be open to charges of flip-flopping,' he said.
'What we're asking is the party to allow other Republicans to follow their own
consciences and not insist that we run on a rigid anti-abortion platform.
But Rep. Christopher Smith of Hamilton Township, chairman of the House Pro-
Life Caucus, argued the party's stance against abortion is both morally and
politically right.
''If being pro-abortion is the political asset they (abortion-rights
advocates such as Zimmer and Gallo) say it is, then why have the Democrats lost
every presidential election since 1968, except the post-Watergate election of
Jimmy Carter?'' Smith said.
As for the ''big tent'' position, Smith noted the GOP plans to give speaking
roles at the convention to some prominent Republican supporters of abortion
rights, including Labor Secretary Lynn Martin and Massachusetts Gov. William
Weld.
In contrast, Smith recalled how Democratic Party leaders felt so strongly
about abortion rights they refused to permit a speech by Pennsylvania Gov.
Robert Casey, an outspoken abortion opponent.
''I don't want to see anyone run out of the party,' Smith said. ''But our
party does stand for the preciousness and sacredness of people's lives. We are
not going to try and be all things to all people.
Still another New Jersey Republican, Rep. Matthew Rinaldo of Union,
echoed Gallo, saying he would prefer to see the GOP platform silent on the
question of abortion. Rinaldo said he believes the issue will not determine the
votes of most Americans.
''I do not expect abortion to be a major factor in the election,' he said.
'The overriding concerns this year are jobs and the economy. The importance of
getting the economy moving again overshadows everything else.
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August 14, 1992
A:GIFTS
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: PRAYER BREAKFAST
HOUSTON, TEXAS
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1992
8:00 A.M.
Advance
Mary Lou Retton, thank you for that introduction. Let me
repeat what I said last week to the 1992 Summer Olympic team:
Whether you won a gold, silver, or bronze medal, or simply gave
your best, you're all heroes in the eyes of each American. //
My friend and running mate, Dan Quayle. What a wonderful
job you have done as Vice-President. / Fellow Texans / Americans
/ fellow believers in "One Nation Under God. //
I am delighted to address the Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast on
this great occasion. ( (Breakfast speeches are always my favorite.
/ I figure it's the one meal where broccoli is never served.) )
Let me first salute that marvelous choir. / Think of it. A
Marvelous 50-piece orchestra. 100 singers from the Houston Children's Advance
Our adult choir
Choir. Members of 40 area congregations. 1,000 voices.
Merle
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( (Believe me, as one who works in the divisive world of politics,
it's amazing to hear that many voices raised in unison. )) //
As you know, we meet on a special day. ( (Tonight I give my
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acceptance speech. If it catches fire, it might give a whole new
meaning to the story of the Burning Bush. )) /
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A couple nights ago, working on my speech, I got up to
stretch my legs. Went to the TV. Started switching channels.
As usual, drove Bar crazy with the zapper. / Then, suddenly, on
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cable, there he was. Jack Webb, as Sergeant Joe Friday, saying
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"Just the facts, ma'am." / I begin with a fact Joe Friday would
be proud of: Today, deep in the heart of Texas, we meet in the
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most religious Nation on earth. //
According to the Gallup Poll, seven in ten Americans believe
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in life after death -- eight in ten that God works miracles.
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Nine in ten pray -- and more than 90 percent believe in God. To
which I say: Thank God for the United States of America. //
Today, we Americans have much to thank God for. Yes,
challenges face us -- good schools / safe streets / a sound
economy / a world at peace. But we will meet and master them as
Americans always have. Not by running America down. But by
using God's gifts to lift America up. //
The first gift is life itself. / I believe God put us here
not to hate but help one another -- to lend a hand / tend a wound
/ lift the weak and lonely. / The Bible asks us: "Divine thy
conscience and let your Thy conscience be Thy guide." That is why I
don't care about the cost to me: I revere the sanctity of life. /
Biotor
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Jefferson said, "The God who gave us life also o gave us
at the same time.
liberty Today, that second gift -- God's gift of liberty -- is
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remaking an entire globe. / In Berlin, like Jericho, the walls
come tumbling down. / In Barcelona -- ask Mary Lou -- the Summer
Games were held without boycotts / without terrorism / without
politics. And that's as it should be. //
( (On that score, all of us have Olympic heroes. Mine is
Pablo Morales. He's the swimmer who missed out in '84, didn't
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make the team in '88, then came back this year to earn a gold
medal -- at the ripe old age of 27. Let that be a lesson: Youth
and inexperience are no match for maturity and determination.) ))
Over the past three and a half years bayonets have been no
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match for the righteousness of God. Look to Bulgaria -- where at
last people wish Merry Christmas to each other without fear of
being labeled religious. / Look to Russia -- where a cathedral
once called the All Union Museum of Religion and Atheism now
houses God's apostles. / Or the former East Germany -- where
Bible Studies are like bluebonnets in spring: They're busting
out all over. In a season of Thanksgiving, the world says grace:
By God's providence, the Cold War is over -- and America won. //
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I remember when, six years ago, one of God's great soldiers
went to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Returning to
America, Billy Graham predicted that freedom would outlast
tyranny. / The doubters said he'd been tricked -- but Billy knew
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something they didn't. He knew the chains of oppression forged
by men were no match for the keys to Salvation forged by God. //
I talked about this with Billy a year ago January, when I
asked him to stay at the White House the night before our troops
started Desert Storm. I thought a lot that night. About the
thousands of people praying at churches. About my home church -
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St. Martin's -- its prayer books, crosses, and hand-made
Christmas cards made in Sunday school for our troops in the Gulf.
I thought about the troops themselves - - the finest sons and
daughters any Nation could ever have. / And of how blessed
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Barbara and I were to have Billy and Ruth as friends for many
years.
I was counting recently: Between us, we have 10 kids and
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32 grandkids. ( (Now, that's the kind of expansion that makes
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even the Federal bureaucracy jealous.) ) / I know how a third
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gift of God's -- family -- can lift America. I can no more
imagine a life without family than I can a universe without love.
Last night you saw my best friend on television. I'll let
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her explain why family matters so. "At the end of your life,"
she's said, "you will never forget not having passed one more
test, not winning one more verdict, not closing one more deal.
You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend,
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or a parent.' // No wonder America loves Barbara Bush. //
Barbara knows that kids, quoting Art Linkletter, say not
only the funniest but most insightful things -- especially about
religion. / ((Once a Sunday school teacher started talking about
the story of Jonah and the Whale. She asked what the story
showed. A small boy raised his hand. "I know, " he said.
Kids
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Each of us asks God daily to make lives well. We act
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Something's wrong when kids can get condoms at school but can't
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say a prayer. / That's why I oppose the recent Supreme Court
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ruling outlawing voluntary prayer at school events -- and why I
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say: If the Supreme Court won't act to reverse this ruling --
Congress must and I will. /
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If Congress can raise its pay in a midnight session / if
Congress can designate create National Tap Dance Day / if Congress can
spend time debating Vanna White's appearance on the Home Shopping
Network -- surely, Congress can allow our kids to thank Almighty
God. / So today I call on Congress to pass a Constitutional
Amendment allowing voluntary prayer in our classrooms. Let's
bring the Faith of our Fathers back to our schools. //
I have been President for three and a half years now.
More than ever, I believe with all my heart that one cannot be
President of the United States without a belief in God -- without
the truth that comes on one's knees. /
For me, prayer has always been important but quite personal
point of my life. / As a boy, when religious reading was part of Forward
-- you know us Episcopalians. / Yet it has sustained me at every Looking
our home life. / As a teenager, when I memorized the Navy Hymn.
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/ or how, fifty years ago, aboard the submarine Finback after
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being shot down in the War, I went on deck at night, stood watch
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on the tower, and looked out at the dark. / The sky was clear.
The stars were brilliant -- like a blizzard of fireflies in the
night. There was calm, inner peace -- God's therapy. /
How, given that, could I forget the One through whom all
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Election Day -- my son, George W., said a prayer -- we held a
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worship service at St. Martin's. / God's peace sustained me then
-- as it has in every hour as your President. //
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I've tried to ask God, as the book of Micah says, "to [let
me] act just" -- to be worthy of America in war and peace. Like
a lot of people I've always worried about showing tears in public
-- the emotion. That's all faded in the past three and a half
years. I remember Barbara and I praying at Camp David before the
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overseas. I felt the tears streaming down my cheeks. Our
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minister -- Claude Payne -- smiled back. And I no longer worried
about how I looked to others. //
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What matters in prayer is not how it looks to others -- but
how it looks to God. How -- like life, family, and liberty --
prayer can build peace among Nations. Creating a world where we
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say to each child: "Someone loves you, and knows your name."
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Be stout of heart, she added. "God is in charge. //
Correspondence
Joy -- what truth from the mouths of babes: As we begin
this great crusade, God is in charge. / We know that while God
can live without man -- man cannot live without God. // So pray
not for me alone -- but for the Family called America. Thank
you, God bless you, and God bless the most wondrous land on earth
-- the United States of America.
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: PRAYER BREAKFAST
HOUSTON, TEXAS
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1992
8:00 A.M.
Mary Lou Retton, thank you for that introduction. Let me
repeat what I said last week to the 1992 Summer Olympic team:
Whether you won a gold, silver, or bronze medal, or simply gave
your best, you're all heroes in the eyes of each American. //
I also want to salute my friend and running mate, Vice-
President Dan Quayle. // Fellow Texans / Americans / fellow
believers in "One Nation Under God." // I am delighted to
address the Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast on this great occasion.
( (Breakfast speeches are always my favorite. / I figure it's the
one meal where broccoli is never served.) ))
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Let me first salute that marvelous choir. / Think of it. A
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50-piece orchestra. 100 singers 85 from the Houston Children's
Chorus Adultchoir
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Choir. Members of 40 area congregations. 1,000 voices.
((Believe me, as one who works in the divisive world of politics,
it's amazing to hear that many voices raised in unison. )) //
As you know, we meet on a special day. ( (Tonight I give my
acceptance speech. If it catches fire, it might give a whole new
meaning to the story of the Burning Bush.) /
Today, as we meet deep in the heart of Texas, we meet deep
in the heart of the most religious Nation on earth, too. / I'm
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usually not much for polls -- but here's a Gallup poll that makes
sense to me. According to this survey, seven in ten Americans
believe in life after death -- eight in ten that God works
miracles. Nine in ten pray -- and more than 90 percent believe
in God. To which I say: Thank God for the United States of
America. //
Today, we Americans have much to thank God for. Yes,
challenges face us -- good schools / safe streets / a sound
economy / a world at peace. But we will meet and master them as
Americans always have. Not by running America down. But by
using God's gifts to lift America up. //
Jefferson phrased the first gift best. "The God who gave us
life, he said, "gave us liberty at the same time. " Today, God's
gift of liberty is remaking an entire globe. / In Berlin, like
Jericho, the walls come tumbling down. / In Barcelona -- ask
Mary Lou the Summer Games were held without boycotts / without
terrorism / without politics. And that's as it should be. //
((On that score, all of us have Olympic heroes. Mine is
Pablo Morales. He's the swimmer who missed out in '84, didn't
make the team in '88, then came back this year to earn a gold
medal -- at the ripe old age of 27. Let that be a lesson: Youth
and inexperience are no match for maturity and determination. ))
Over the past three and a half years bayonets have been no
match for the righteousness of God. Look to Bulgaria -- where at
last people wish Merry Christmas to each other without fear of
being labeled religious. / Look to Russia -- where a cathedral
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once called the All Union Museum of Religion and Atheism now
houses God's apostles. / Or the former East Germany -- where
Bible Studies are like bluebonnets in spring: They're busting
out all over. In a season of Thanksgiving, the world says grace:
By God's providence, the Cold War is over -- and America won. //
I remember when ten years ago, one of God's great soldiers
went to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Returning to
America, Billy Graham predicted that freedom would outlast
tyranny. / The doubters said he'd been tricked -- but Billy knew
something they didn't. He knew the chains of oppression forged
by men were no match for the keys to Salvation forged by God. //
I talked about this with Billy a year ago January, when I
asked him to stay at the White House the night before our troops
started Desert Storm. I thought a lot that night. About the
thousands of people praying at churches. About my home church -
- St. Martin's -- its prayer books, crosses, and hand-made
Christmas cards made in Sunday school for our troops in the Gulf.
I thought about the troops themselves -- the finest sons and
daughters any Nation could ever have. / And of how blessed
Barbara and I were to have Billy and Ruth as friends for many
years. I was counting recently: Between us, we have 10 kids and
31 grandkids. ( (Now, that's the kind of expansion that makes
even the Federal bureaucracy jealous.) / I know how a second
gift of God's -- family -- can lift America. I can no more
imagine a life without family than I can a universe without love.
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Last night you saw Barbara on television. I'll let her
explain why family matters so. "At the end of your life," she's
said, "you will never forget not having passed one more test, not
winning one more verdict, not closing one more deal. You will
regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend, or a
parent. // No wonder America loves Barbara Bush. //
Barbara knows that kids, quoting Art Linkletter, say not
only the funniest but most insightful things - -- especially about
religion. / ((Once a Sunday school teacher started talking about
the story of Jonah and the Whale. She asked what the story
showed. A small boy raised his hand. "I know," he said.
"People make whales sick. ")) //
Each of us turns to God daily to make lives well. We act
through the third and greatest of God's gifts -- yes, prayer. /
If Congress can raise its pay in a midnight session / if
Congress can create National Tap Dance Day / if Congress can
spend time debating Vanna White's appearance on the Home Shopping
Network -- surely, Congress can allow our kids to thank Almighty
God. / So if I can disturb your breakfast with one political
observation, today I call on Congress to pass a Constitutional
Amendment allowing voluntary prayer in our classrooms. Let's
bring the Faith of our Fathers back to our schools. //
I have been President for three and a half years now.
More than ever, I believe with all my heart that one cannot be
President of the United States without a belief in God -- without
the truth that comes on one's knees. /
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For me, prayer has always been important but quite personal
-- you know us Episcopalians. / Yet it has sustained me at every
point of my life. / As a boy, when religious reading was part of
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our home life. / As a teenager, when I memorized the Navy Hymn.
/ Or how 48 years ago, aboard the submarine Finback after being
one night I went out ondeck,
shot down in the War, I went on deck at night, stood watch on the
tower
bridge, and looked out at the dark. / The sky was clear. The
stars were brilliant -- like a blizzard of fireflies in the
night. There was calm, inner peace -- God's therapy. /
Given that, how could I forget the One through whom all
things are possible? I can't. That's why the 1988 morning after
Election Day -- my son, George W., said a prayer -- we held a
worship service at St. Martin's. / God's peace sustained me then
-- as it has in every hour as your President. //
I've tried to ask God, as the book of Micah says, "to [let
me] act just" -- to be worthy of America in war and peace. Like
a lot of people I've always worried about showing tears in public
-- the emotion. That's all faded in the past three and a half
years. I remember Barbara and I praying at Camp David before the
Air War began -- we thought about those young men and women
overseas. I felt the tears streaming down my cheeks. Our
minister smiled back. And I no longer worried about how I looked
to others. //
What matters in prayer is not how it looks to others -- but
how it looks to God. How -- like the other gifts of family and
liberty -- prayer can build peace among Nations. Creating a
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world where we say to each child: "Someone loves you, and knows
your name."
This month, I got a letter from a little girl, age eleven.
Joy Vaughn -- lives in Mesa, Arizona. Her brother is a
missionary. / She wrote: "I just wanted to tell you that I am
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praying for you. / Then, she added. "God is in charge." //
Joy -- what truth from the mouths of babes: As we begin
line
this great crusade, God is in charge. / We know that while God
can live without man -- man cannot live without God. // So pray
not for me alone -- but for the Family called America. Thank
you, God bless you, and God bless the most wondrous land on earth
-- the United States of America.
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HOUSTON, TEXAS
University of Houston
Prayer Breakfast
Thursday, August 20, 1992
Audience
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1. Secretary Baker
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2. Mrs. Baker
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3. Harold Wierenthal
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4. Mayor Bob Lanier
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5. Ms. Ninfa Lorenzo
6, Judge Jon Lindsay
7. Vice President Quayle
8. Mrs. Quayle
Orchestra
9. Mrs. Bush
Orchestra
10. PRESIDENT BUSH
11. Mr. Ken Lay
12. Ms. Mary Lou Renon
13. Judge Al Green
14. Ms. Gigl Husing
15. Mr. Mare Shapho
16. Astronaut Bob Springer
17. USSS
Percussion
Persuasion
18. USSS
19. USSS
20. USSS
KEY:
THE PRESIDENT
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ECUMENICAL PRAYER BREAKFAST
Thursday, August 20, 1992
Hofheinz Pavillon
EVENT TIMELINE
As of August 14, 1992
7:45 a.m.
Organ music to begin
8:00 a.m.
Sacred Concert - Massed Choirs
"How Majestic is Your Name"
"He Is Worthy Praise"
"It is Well" (Solo) - Renee McLaurin
"Hine Ma Tov"
"Moses (Solo) - Beverly Terrell
"Hosanna" (Solo) - Eva Walters
"Almighty"
"He Never Failed Me Yet" (Solo) . Eva Walters
8:20
"Joshua Fits the Battle" (Solo) - Renee McLaurin
POTUS ARRIVAL"Great is the Lord"
8:38 Dias enters - remains standing
8:40 President and Mrs. Bush and Vice President and Mrs. Quayle enter to Hail to
the Chief
8:42 Call to order - Ken Lay
8:45 Pledge to the flag - Judge Jon Lindsay
8:46 Invocation - Susan Baker
8:49 Choir "America" - Audience
8:52 Welcome - Mayor Bob Lanier
8:54 Scripture reading from Hebrew Bible - Harold Wiesenthal
8:57 Choir "YIGDAL" ("We Praise the Living God")
Children's Choir to enter
8:59 Prayer - Marc Shapiro (Audience will please stand)
9:00 Introduction of the Houston Children's Choir - Gigi Huang
9:01 Special Music by the Houston Children's Choir
9:06 Scripture reading from the New Testament . Judge Al Green
9:08 Choir "Amazing Grace"
9:13 Introduction of Vice President Quayle M Ninfa Laurenzo
9:15 Prayer given by Vice President Quayle
9:18 "I Bowed on My Knees" Choir and Solo " Alan Green
9:23 Introduction of President Bush * Mary Lou Retton
9:26 Remarks by President Bush
9:41 Choir "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
9:46 Closing Prayer - Astronaut Bob Springer
9:48 Dismissal to "Give God the Glory" Solo . Alan Green
9:52 Conclusion
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
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SUBJECT:
HOUSTON PRAYER BREAKFAST
I. SUMMARY
On Thursday, August 20, at 8:00 a.m., you will deliver
remarks to approximately 10,000 people gathered for the Houston
Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast at Hofheinz Pavilion. You will be
introduced by Mary Lou Retton.
II. DISCUSSION
Your remarks (12 minutes, prompter) focus on the powerful
role religion plays in this country -- particularly, in your own
life. Additionally, you assert a commitment to conscience when
it comes to matters of life and support for voluntary prayer in
the classroom.
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