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103 STAT. 838
PUBLIC LAW 101-143-NOV. 8, 1989
Public Law 101-143
101st Congress
Joint Resolution
Nov. 8, 1989
To designate May 25, 1989, as "National Tap Dance Day".
[H.J. Res. 131]
Whereas the multifaceted art form of tap dancing is a manifestation
of the cultural heritage of our Nation, reflecting the fusion of
African and European cultures into an exemplification of the
American spirit, that should be, through documentation, and
archival and performance support, transmitted to succeeding
generations;
Whereas tap dancing has had a historic and continuing influence on
other genres of American art, including music, vaudeville, Broad-
way musical theater, and film, as well as other dance forms;
Whereas tap dancing is perceived by the world as a uniquely
American art form;
Whereas tap dancing is a joyful and powerful aesthetic force provid-
ing a source of enjoyment and an outlet for creativity and self-
expression for Americans on both the professional and amateur
level;
Whereas it is in the best interest of the people of our Nation to
preserve, promote, and celebrate this uniquely American art form;
Whereas Bill "Bojangles" Robinson made an outstanding contribu-
tion to the art of tap dancing on both stage and film through the
unification of diverse stylistic and racial elements; and
Whereas May 25, as the anniversary of the birth of Bill "Bojangles"
Robinson, is an appropriate day on which to refocus the attention
of the Nation on American tap dancing: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That May 25, 1989, is
designated "National Tap Dance Day". The President is authorized
and requested to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the
United States to observe such a day with appropriate ceremonies
and activities.
Approved November 8, 1989.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY-H.J. Res. 131:
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 135 (1989):
May 25, considered and passed House.
Oct. 27, considered and passed Senate.
39-139 0 - 89 - 2 (143)
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS AT OLD HOUSE CHAMBER
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1992
Thank you for that kind introduction. [ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS]
Today, I would rather be in Philadelphia. Old Congress Hall is
home to great ideas and great debate. In this very room, pivotal
and profound discussions occurred - setting in motion a grand
experiment in man's ability to chart his own future.
The vision of our Founding Fathers is still our vision
today. They wanted their new country to prosper. They knew that
prosperity and freedom are inextricably linked. They were
determined to preserve the inherent strength of faith and the
nurturing haven of the family. The were committed to ensuring
that the citizens of our young nation could live in peace -- safe
and secure from threats at home and abroad. It took a revolution
to achieve their vision, but that vision still stands.
Today, we face a revolution no less significant for being
internal rather than external. Today, we face a choice between
the old national order -- the status quo -- and changes that will
position our nation for world leadership in the new century.
2
When British General Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown in
1781, he had his band play "The World Turned Upside Down," as his
troops marched before Washington's Continental Army. The song
was profoundly symbolic of an old world order coming to a close
and the beginning of a new world order.
Now, more than two hundred years later, we face a monumental
choice. In recent months, democracy and freedom have -- once
again -- turned our world upside down. During the turmoil,
America stood firmly on principles and moved to the forefront of
a great movement that changed the world.
Those changes have placed our nation at a new threshold.
During the 20th Century, there was no question that it was the
American Century. Now, as we approach the year 2000 the question
we must answer is -- will the 21st Century be a New American
Century?
I think this audience and all of American would give a
resounding "Yes" to that question. But, if we are to stay at the
forefront in world leadership, we must meet six great challenges
here at home.
3
First, our nation must help strengthen the nation's
families, give people a sense of well-being about their
children, and establish a social climate in which our
young can mature into productive adults.
Second, we must guarantee Americans access to the
finest health care system in the world, and make that
care more affordable.
Third, our people must be educated, literate --
motivated to make learning a lifelong pursuit. We must
reform our education system -- literally revolutionize
it -- top to bottom.
Fourth, our civil justice system must do what it was
designed to do: dispense justice for all. Eighteen
million lawsuits a year are choking us -- costing
individuals and businesses billions of dollars -- and
putting a tremendous drag on our civility as well as
our economy.
Fifth, during the next century, our economic
competition and opportunity will come from beyond our
borders.
4
We must utilize more foreign markets for American goods
and export more services to other countries. Our
workers and our companies must become more competitive
in order to sustain and create American jobs.
And finally, we come to the topic that is our focus
today -- reform of our government.
During the past decade, one institution after another
has been challenged to take a hard look within itself.
We must make needed improvements and go back to basic
principles to renew our nation's institutions. In
short, we must initiate widespread reform.
I've been amused recently to see the television ads for a
local kitchen modernization business. A housewife dressed in
1960's apparel and surrounded by 1960's appliances is magically
updated through TV technology to the 1990s. What a
transformation!
Most Americans have forgotten how dramatic those changes
have been. Today, American products are quantifiably better than
they were only a few years ago. In the private sector, we have
focused on crusades of excellence -- quality products and quality
services. It's not often flashy -- sometimes it's a return to
old values and standards like "built to last a lifetime," " "the
customer's always right," or "service with a smile."
5
At other times, it's measuring and evaluating performance to
improve output. In many ways, competition has been the driving
force in improving quality and performance. Not surprisingly, it
has worked.
Our nation's emphasis on reform has also gone beyond the
private sector. Healthy competition has spread across-the-
board. For example, the military. In the face of budget cuts,
the military has had to get leaner and smarter. In Desert Storm,
we proved it worked. Other institutions -- state and local
government, unions, trade association, charitable groups -- all
organizations that serve the public -- have been influenced by
this drive for excellence.
There has been one glaring hold-out -- the federal
government. Our government has resisted reform and protected the
status quo -- even in the face of overwhelming evidence that
change was necessary.
The changes that are sweeping the rest of the country have
stopped cold at the Capital Beltway. This entrenched status-quo
attitude can be laid squarely at the doorstep of the United
States Congress.
6
We know that government is too big and spends too much. We
know that too often the government spends the American taxpayer's
money like there will be no tomorrow -- inefficiently,
ineffectively, without accountability, and frankly, without
compassion. If this keeps up -- tomorrow will be no bright new
day. Congress is simply not up to the job of reforming
government; they are too firmly entrenched in the status quo.
We've got some very tough problems ahead and Congress has not led
the way in solving those problems. Even worse, they have stood
in the way of every solution we have proposed.
Let me tell you why that is the case and how we must change
things.
Political scientist Morris Fiorina paints a disturbing
picture of how Washington really behaves. His picture is all too
familiar. Fiorina says that the growth of big government has
changed the role of Congress from policymaking to pork-barreling
-- changed the Congressional office to a campaign and constituent
office. He argues that Congress has set in motion a self-
perpetuating cycle of support for unnecessary spending --
creating bigger bureaucracies. Fiorina says that Congress has
become lethargic and unresponsive to the needs of the American
people.
7
We have seen Congressional members and their powerful staffs
increasingly become the ombudsmen between constituents and the
bureaucracy -- where they expedite benefits and procure more
pork. These self-serving actions ensure re-election and a
continuation of the status quo.
Our Founding Fathers warned us about this. Madison, in
Federalist Paper #52, argued that permanent majorities are
dangerously undemocratic.
Can you imagine how appalled he would be to hear that
98% of Congressmen who seek re-election are, in fact,
re-elected.
Can you imagine how astonished he would be to learn
that one party -- the Democrats -- have controlled the
Congress 58 out of the last 62 years.
Can you imagine how dismayed he would be to discover
that not one Republican member of the house -- and some
of them have over 30 years of service -- has ever been
in the majority. Yet, all but five Democrats have
never been in the minority.
One-party rule in Congress is a big part of the problem, but
that is not the whole story.
8
We have had divided government before in our history --
sometimes during periods of great crisis -- and we pulled
together as a nation to meet the challenge that threatened our
security or national well-being. No, the larger issue is a
systemic problem. Congress is a sticky web -- made up of 284
Congressional Committees, 34 thousand Capitol Hill employees and
staff, 2 billion dollars of taxpayer financing, and an overlay of
a 117 million dollar re-election war chest in special-interest
campaign contributions, and millions more in special-interest
influence.
Such a system cannot promote reform and change. Instead, it
aggressively protects the status quo. Talk to retiring members
and you will hear the frustration.
Talk to Senator Warren Rudman of New Hampshire who has given
up on trying to break through the log jams. Senator Rudman was
asked about the continuing specter of huge budget deficits. He
indicted the system, "the fact is that we are unable --
institutionally -- to do what has to be done. We are not just
watching the fiddler fiddle while Rome burns, we are watching the
entire orchestra. If
Let me give you one example of the misplaced priorities on
Capital Hill -- the rash of proclamations that Congress spends an
inordinate amount of time in passing.
9
Do you know that nearly one third of all the legislation
that passes my desk is made up of these items. Three times a
week proclamations come across my desk for action -- and these
proclamations are passed by a joint resolution of Congress. They
might designate a particular day as "National Tap Dance Day" --
true story. Or, they might proclaim a month as "National
Digestive Disease Awareness Month. " Literally, hundreds of
proclamations come to the White House for Presidential action
each year.
Now, there is nothing wrong with Congress passing a
proclamation heralding "National Crime Victims Week." But there
is something wrong when Congress spends its time on that
proclamation instead of passing a comprehensive crime bill that
would actually make people safer in their homes and communities.
"National Asparagus Month" may be good constituent
relations, but the problems of American agriculture have to do
with our national vitality, not our national vegetable.
For every one of these bills, there are legions of staff
churning out public-relations campaigns to accompany them -- both
on Capital Hill and in the executive branch. There are
constituents contacted, newsletters written, paper -- reams of
paper -- produced. Is this a big ticket item in the federal
budget? Probably not.
10
But, it is more evidence of a Congress that chooses to spend
its time and effort on the easy constituent pleasing activities
rather than on the difficult, often controversial issues that
determine the future of our country. Maybe it's small potatoes,
but the public knows PR when it sees it. For each letter a
member receives, 12 thousand go out -- free. That adds up to
real money -- taxpayer money, and we must put a stop to it.
These actions undermine the people's confidence in their
government the same way as outrageous pork-barrel spending does.
[[Just as I sent to Congress ten days ago my anti-pork line-item
rescissions, I am telling Congress today that the Executive
Branch will not spend taxpayer dollars to fund publicity
campaigns for special interests -- so don't send me any more of
these pork-barrel proclamations. ]]
The American people are a compassionate people -- we are
willing to foot the bill to make this country better. But, when
taxpayer money goes for special-interest publicity campaigns and
pork-barrel projects, people get angry -- they don't trust
government to use their hard-earned tax dollars wisely. In
dollar terms, one quarter of everything we produce, build, or
grow as a nation, is devoured by the central government. There
is no bigger appetite on earth.
11
Today, our government is a trillion and a half dollar
business that too often forgets that the taxpayer is original
investor, customer, shareholder, and board member all rolled into
one.
Because government has forgotten the customer, it has
issued counterproductive regulations -- ones that
increase the cost of doing business, but worse, ones
that don't really solve the problems they were designed
to solve.
Because government has forgotten the shareholder, it
shelters perpetual programs that have outlived their
function, but not their funding.
Because the government has forgotten who is really the
boss -- the American taxpayer -- it has become
insulated, unresponsive and resists reform.
It is almost impossible to adequately reward success,
much less punish failure.
Let me make it clear, these comments are not meant for the
four million hardworking people in our government offices. Talk
to them and most will say the same thing -- they are frustrated,
too. But the system, which was good for its time, must now
change, and it won't be easy.
12
Congress has created these giant centralized bureaucracies.
It has laid down mandates and funded programs -- then, Congress
has protected them, harassed them, investigated them, micro-
managed them. With a Congressional subcommittee Chairman as
godparent, the bureaucracy has become Congress's coddled pet.
A few examples will show what I'm talking about. The
Department of Defense has no less than some thirty different
Congressional committees and 77 subcommittees who claim some
oversight responsibility. And, some 74 committees and
subcommittees compete to exercise jurisdiction over the War on
Drugs. Then we wonder why it takes so long to get something done
in government.
Think of the time and resources spent by the Executive
Branch to fulfill Congressional demands for testimony. Think of
the thousands of required reports that must be researched,
written and delivered to Capitol Hill. Sixty reports from HUD.
Six hundred from the Defense Department -- and so on -- through
all the Cabinet departments.
Congress has legitimate oversight responsibilities. And, I
know that the federal government cannot be run just like IBM or
the local convenience store. But, we can improve government's
performance. We must improve its performance.
13
What merely hampered us in the past, will stall us out in
the new century. Congress can no longer ignore our proposed
reforms. The federal bureaucracy must be reformed; I have
proposed reforms in the past and I am proposing additional steps
today. These actions will give clarity to the mission of
America's government and return our people's confidence in
government.
First, we must have universal application of the laws of the
land. Federalist paper #57 asserts that elected officials, "can
make no law which will not have in full operation on themselves
and their friends, as well as the great mass of society." In
other words, Congress must govern itself by the laws it imposes
on the public -- across the board. No more exceptions. Like
civil rights laws. Age discrimination laws. The Americans with
Disabilities Act and the Freedom of Information Act.
Congress should also submit to the laws it imposes on the
Executive Branch -- the Privacy Act, or Title VI of the Ethics in
Government Act of 1978, the independent counsel law. [[ To those
ends, today I am sending to Congress [name of Administration
bill] which will force Congress to be covered by the same laws
which govern everyone else. Further, I will veto any new
legislation that does not also apply to Congress. 11 But that is
only a first step toward rebuilding public confidence in our laws
and our lawmakers.
14
Second, we must reform the Congressional committee system.
I advocate efforts to trim the overgrown thicket of committees
and subcommittees which now paralyze the Congress. Democratic
Senator Boren said it best when he described the Congress as
"inefficient, unresponsive, wasteful, and compromised by the way
it finances its campaigns." The number of Congressional
reformers is growing, but they need the support of the American
people now more than ever.
Third, we must endorse sweeping campaign finance reform.
Three years ago -- in 1989 -- I proposed the total
elimination of Political Action Committees and limits
on so-called "leadership PACs.' "
I proposed increasing the support that the parties can
provide to federal campaigns to reduce the influence of
special interests.
I proposed increasing the time candidates and
incumbents spend fund-raising.
I proposed increasing the legitimate role of our
political parties.
15
I proposed that we reduce allowable contributions by
"independent" PACs to federal campaigns.
I proposed laws to ensure that PACs stay truly
independent and unaffiliated -- in other words, clean.
Finally, I asked the Congress to join me in stopping
the abuse that results from spreading around what's
called "soft money" -- I asked for full disclosure of
"soft money" expenditures by all organizations as the
only way to clean up the system.
Fourth, we must enforce spending reforms. I have already
proposed to freeze domestic discretionary spending in federal
employment next year. I have also proposed to curb the growth of
mandatory programs without touching Social Security. I call
again for the American people to demand that the Congress pass
the same measure that 43 governors have: the line-item veto.
In the absence of that important tool, I will continue to
use whatever means are legally at my disposal, including the
line-item-rescission, to protect the taxpayer from the spending
excesses of Congress.
16
I will resist any attempt by the Congress to dismantle the
only defense the taxpayer has against Congressional overspending
-- budget caps implemented in the 2990 Budget Act. Finally, I
again call for a Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment.
Fifth, we must enforce regulatory reform. I have put a
ninety-day moratorium on new government regulations. We are
revising and eliminating regulations that impede our ability to
compete, and we are accelerating regulations that enhance our
competitive edge. We have cut back XXX of regulations, pages in
the Federal Register by xx% just in the last XX months/years.
[[Today, I am announcing an extension/new review process. ]]
Next, we must have a new communications policy between the
Congress and the Executive Branch. [[Logging reform -- decision
memo result. Reform of the nomination process. ]]
Finally, we must limit Congressional terms. The cycle of
virtually guaranteed re-election through the built-in advantages
of incumbency must be broken. [[So today, to truly fix the
system, I have sent to Congress legislation to limit terms of
United States Senators to two, and Representatives, six terms. ]]
After all, as President, my terms are limited, the same should
apply to members of Congress.
17
Change is sweeping America, just as it is sweeping the
world. Just as our nation faced challenges when it was newly
formed, today, we face the challenge of change as we prepare for
a new century. The choice is clear. On one side stand the
defenders of the status quo. On the other -- the forces of
change. The American people must make a choice. That choice
must be worthy of those who began the world's only permanent
revolution. Back then, that revolution changed the world.
Today, we must prepare America for a new century. The reforms I
propose will restore the principles of our Founders, guarantee
continued freedom for our children, and provide our people with a
government worthy of their trust and faith.
We must make the choice for change.
We must make the choice for a revitalized America that is
fit and ready for leadership in the new American Century.
Thank you, and may God bless the United States of America.
######
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
23-Mar-1992 11:32am
TO:
Daniel B. McGroarty
A general
FROM:
Jean M. Bunton
Office of Communications
memo JB did.
Cong. research
SUBJECT: Congress
for DMCG
I have been told I was on the road to Hell, but I had no idea that
it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
Abraham Lincoln.
A few random notes on our Congress here in Washington, D.C. the
district of confusion:
CONGRESS: BANK AND POST OFFICE
From Newt Gingrich transcript to the NBC Today Show on
March 16, 1992:
"So the Speaker [Tom Foley] on behalf of the institutional
Democratic party, I think has to take responsibility for a whole
series of scandals. Not just what's going on with the House bank,
but the cocaine selling in the Post Office, theft in the post
offfice, a member from Texas who took a $65,000 loan for a
millionaire on whose behalf he was getting a $6 million
appropriation, a whole series of those kind of steps, where I
think that the Speaker, not Tom Foley as a person, but the leader
of the Democratic Party in the House has to take responsibility
for how they run the House."
"Let me make it clear what he [Tom Foley] did not do. First of
all, apparently his staff stopped the Capitol police from
investigating to such a degree that the chief of the Capitol
Police resigned last July. Second, the Speaker did not inform
anyone, they were informed last September by the postal service
that they had allegations of cocaine selling going on, that they
had allegations of theft going on, they were short $35,000 in one
day. The Speaker did not bring in any Republicans, as I said, he
did not bring in any Democratic leadership. His office did not
share any of this information."
"They [Democrats] have been in charge of the House five years
longer than Castro's been in charge of Cuba."
SIZE OF CONGRESS: STAFFLATION
From Government Executive, Jan. 1991, "Our Myopic
Legislature"
94th Congress [1975-76]
100th Congress [1987-88]
385 committees and subcommittees
295 such panels
4,265 Senate hearings
2,493 Senate hearings
7,896 House hearings
5,388 House hearings
"Still the inability of Congress to catch fraud and abuse among
the Pentagon's contractors, in the S&L industry and at HUD in
recent years has prompted some experts to suggest that the
legislature rexamine its priorities."
"There is some sense that Congress is fiddling while Rome is
burning," says Louis Fisher, senior specialist in American
Government at the Congressional Research Service."
A November report by the HUD investigation Subcomittee of the
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affiars affirmed
that Congress tends to concentrate on new policies and programs,
often at the expense of caring about the degree to which existing
progrmas are effectlvely and efficiently meeting congressional
goals."
With more that 31,000 people toiling on the Hill, Congress is the
most heavily staffed legislature in the world. By comparison,
Canada, in second place, has fewer than 3,500 employees. In fact,
Congress employs more people than many federal departments,
including Education, Energy, HUD, Labor and State.
Member's personal staffs have risen fivefold in the House and
sixfold in the Senate between 1947 and 1987.
The Defense Department alone received nearly 60,000 phone calls
from Members and their staffs in 1984, the last year for which
data is available.
Fewer committees in Congress have not reduced the level of
micromanagenment. Though there may be fewer panels, there are
more Chairmen as a result of 70s reforms aht spread opportunities
for leadership among more legislators.
A 1988 Congressional Research Service report found that 74
committees and subcommittees claimed jurisdiction over the war on
drugs.
In 1988, 14 full committees and 43 subcomittees held hearings on
Pentagon issues, while some 30 committees and 77 subcommittees
claim oversight responsibiity.
THE FIRST CONGRESS
Vol. 1 of the "Documentary History of the First Federal
Congress"
"The First Congress confronted in one form or another, almost
every problem that would rise to plague or threaten the Union of
the Sates inthe future: secession
State's rights,
constitutional amendment, admission of new states, threat of war,
military preparedness, inflation, depression, unfavorable trade
balalnce and tariffs, reforestation, speculation, sectionalism,
slavery, Indian affairs, verteran's pensions, congressional
salaries, election irregularities, government support of science,
government patronage of the arts, administration of public lands,
an many others. Some of the problems it solved -- some it merely
postponed."
Senator William Maclay of Pennsylvania was one, if not the first,
to fume against big government. In April 1790, he noted "in full
blast against the burgeoning of the national government."
The Father of our Country's [George Washington] liquor bill for
1790 amounted to $2,000.
Geo. Washington's first visit to the Senate was his last --- and
established the precedent of presidential communications by
message, he went seeking congressional approval on two Indian
treaties -- though he would awe them with his majesty -- they blew
him off -- referrred the treaties to committee, didn't give him a
chance to speak, he was deeply insulted.
MORE STAGGERING INFO ON INDUSTRIALIZATION OF CONGRESS
From Washington Times, 4/11/88, Lance Gay article "A growth
industry beneath the dome"
1957 Congressional buget $120.7 million
1946 Congressional budget $54 million
1988 Congressional budget $1.9 billion
In the last 30 years -- size of Congress staff tripled from 3,500
in 1957 to 11,200 last year. Including congressional support
agencies LOC (5,000) GAO (4,800) some 31,700 people worked for
Congress last year [1987].
The cost of Congress is increasing - despite evidence that it is
doing less: Statistics show lawmakers are meeting fewer days,
casting fewer votes, hodling fewer meetings than a decade ago.
Vital Staticis on Congress by Norman J. Ornstein state:
94th Congress [1975-76]
100th Congress [1985-86]
House:
House:
in session 311 days
in session 281 days
6,975 committee meetings
4,222 committee meetings
16,982 bills introduced
6,975 bills introduced
1,273 recorded votes
890 recorded votes
968 bills passed
973 bills passed
Senate:
Senate:
320 days in session
313 days in session
4,265 committee hearings
2,597 committee hearings
4,114 bills introduced
3,386 bills introduced
1,290 recorded votes
740 recorded votes
1,038 bills passed
940 bills passed
72 doorkeeprs on payroll
at end of 1985 there were 6,369 staffers serving 100 senators,
including 4,097 personal staff aides, 1,178 committee staff aides,
118 staffers working for the Democratic and Republican leaders and
976 "oficersof the Senate". In the House, persoanl staff in 1985
totalled 7,528 with an additional 2,146 working for members on
various committees, 144 working in Republican and Democratic
leaderhsip offices and 1,818 employed as "officers of the House".
"the House Administration Committee, has grown from 4 employeess
in 1960 to 275 last year [87].
The House and Senate budget committees, both created in 1974 as
part of a reform of congresional budget procedures, now boasts so
many staff adies that at some joint meetings last year the public
couldn't get in to see what the lawmakers were doing because the
staff filled the room."
Capitol Hill police force totals 1,227.
From the Power Game, Hedrick Smith
For eight successive presidencies -- starting with Eisenhower in
1954 and then under Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan
and Bush -- the Democrats have had a majority in the House. That
is by far the longest span of control in American politics since
the Civil War.
The budget deficit epitomizes the main effect of divided
government: the "double veto". Presidents have a constitutional
veto power to block anything that does not command a two-thirds
majority in both houses of Congress. But either house of Congress
has the power to veto or block what a president wants. Divided
government makes for stalemates on the budget -- and for big
deficits. Since WW II, the federal government has had ten budget
deficits larger than three percent of the GNP -- one under Truman
in 1948, two under Ford in 1975 and 1976, and seven under Reagan,
each year from 1982 through 1987. All ten came during periods of
divided government.
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January 14, 1991
MEMORANDUM FOR TONY SNOW
FROM:
CAROL AARHUS
SUBJECT:
PORK BARREL
Below is a summary of the pork barrel research Jeannie and I
have this far uncovered.
FROM 1992 APPROPRIATION BILLS; Margaret Hill, CAGW
Department of Interior Appropriation:
-- Bureau of Land Management: $200,000 for fertility control
for the wild horse and burro program in Nevada;
$500,000 in cultural resources management, including
implementation of prehistoric trackway studies.
-- Construction and Access: $370,000 for the La Cueva picnic
area, Organ Mountains, New Mexico.
-- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: $500,000 for the Lower
Snake Compensation Fund; $200,000 for Aquatic nuisance
control.
-- National Park Service: $500,000 to Hot Springs, Arkansas;
$1,950,000 for the Wheeling Park Commission.
-- Planning and Construction: $3,738,000 for the Harpers
Ferry National Historical Park, West Virginia;
$3,266,000 for the Sleeping Bear Dunes National
Lakeshore, Michigan.
National Forest System: $5,000,000 for activities related
to the "Salmon Summit".
-- The Department of the Interior was also given unusual
instructions in the wake of last year's budget summit.
Congress instructed the Department to give $150,000 to
the town of Matewan, WV. The money is being used by
the local community to interpret the Hatfield/McCoy
feud, which began in 1880 when a member of the Hatfield
clan was accused of stealing a semi-wild hog belonging
to Randolph McCoy. One hundred years later, the
federal government is spending money to look into the
matter.
Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriation:
-- Department of Education: $23,000,000 earmarked for
construction at Howard University ($21,000,000 over the
Senate's request);
-- Energy Assistance Programs: $80,000,000 for Congressional
Emergencies (added in conference).
Department of Defense Appropriation:
-- Medical Programs: $3,000,000 for the World University
Games; $2,000,000 earmarked for the 1996 Summer
Olympics.
Energy and Water Appropriation:
-- Corps of Engineers -- Operation and Maintenance:
$4,825,000 to monitor the operations of the fish lift
at the Cooper River, Charleston Harbor rediversion
project in South Carolina (added by the Senate).
Agriculture Appropriation:
-- Agriculture Research Service: $1,800,000 for the National
Pork Research Facility in Iowa
-- Competitive Research Grants: $3,500,000 for shrimp
aquaculture in Hawaii and Mississippi.
-- Last year, Congress also appropriated $37,000 to study
the "handling of animal manure and the development of
resolution techniques to address conflict between
producers and the general public".
Housing and Urban Development Appropriation:
-- $1,000,000 for a parking garage in Ashland, Kentucky.
Commerce, Justice, and State Appropriation:
-- Ocean and Great Lakes Programs: $980,000 for zebra mussel
research.
-- Sea Grants: $2,960,000 for the zebra mussel
FROM HERITAGE, Scott Hodge
Agriculture
-- $34 million for screwworm research
-- $10 million to examine potatoes
-- $200,000 to examine Turkey Osteomyelitis Complex
Commerce
-- $542,000 for an Arkansas fish farm
Interior
-- $2.1 million for noxious weed control
-- $1.8 million to "preserve" the Jaite Paper Mill, Cuyahoga
Valley, Ohio
--- $200,000 to study non-routine decision-making behavior in
coal mines
Education and Related Agencies
-- $9.3 million for Senator Robert C. Byrd Scholarships
-- $8.4 million for the U.S. Institute of Peace
Transportation
-- $5 million to Amtrak for "a more aggressive marketing
campaign"
*
From 1991 budget bill, in general: $320,000 to purchase President
William McKinley's in-law's home and donate it to the state
of Ohio; $942,000 to produce refined fish oil, which is then
donated to NIH for research; $25,000 to study the location
for the new House staff gymnasium.
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The Washington Times
June 7, 1991, Friday, Final Edition
SECTION: Part A; Pg. A1
LENGTH: 879 words
HEADLINE: Bush WOWS Baptists, backs school prayer
BYLINE: Larry Witham; THE WASHINGTON TIMES
DATELINE: ATLANTA
BODY:
ATLANTA - President Bush reached for the minds of 20,000 Southern Baptists
here yesterday by calling for a school prayer amendment - and won their hearts
with a tearful confession that he had wept in church while praying for American
troops on the eve of the Persian Gulf war.
"I call on the United States Congress to pass a constitutional amendment
permitting voluntary prayer back into our nation's schools," he told delegates
to the annual gathering of the conservative 15-million-member church, the
nation's largest Protestant denomination.
The president drew warm applause when he deviated from his prepared speech
and, with voice breaking and tears glistening on his cheeks, told a clearly
enthusiastic audience about praying with his wife, Barbara, in the chapel at
Camp David just before the war started.
"For me, prayer has always been important but quite personal - you know us
Episcopalians, Mr. Bush said. "And like a lot of people I've worried a
little bit about shedding tears in public, or the emotion of it.
"But as Barbara and I prayed at Camp David before the air war began, we were
thinking about those young men and women overseas. I had the tears start down
the cheeks. And our minister smiled back. And I no longer worried how I looked
to others."
The president's voice cracked at this point and he brushed away tears and
said, "Here we go." The audience stood and applauded, and Mr. Bush went on.
"I think that like a lot of others who had positions of responsibility in
sending someone else's kid to war, we realized that in prayer what mattered was
how it might have seemed to God," he said.
Mr. Bush has long been an advocate of a school prayer amendment. He
proposed such a measure during the 1988 presidential campaign and unsuccessfully
co-sponsored one while a congressman in the late 1960s.
As president, he has said often that he favored such an amendment, but until
yesterday he made no public call for action. His view of the issue as expressed
in 1988 was that students should not be forced to pray but should have the right
to "a momentary reflection, meditation or prayer."
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In his speech yesterday Mr. Bush cited the case of fifth-grader Monette
Rethford of Norman, Okla. School officials barred her from meeting with friends
at recess to read the Bible.
"The day a child's quiet prayer group during recess becomes an unlawful
assembly, something's really wrong," he said.
School prayer has been a major goal of religious and social conservatives,
including many Southern Baptists, since the early 1980s. But many of them have
said the problem was solved by the Equal Access Act of 1984, which allows Bible
and prayer clubs to meet at schools after hours like other clubs. The law,
upheld by the Supreme Court, does not cover elementary schools.
The Southern Baptist Convention's social issues wing, the Christian Life
Commission, says "prayer at commencements and voluntary private prayer in public
schools is not wrong," said its spokesman, the Rev. Louis Moore. Church
members are "divided on the issue," he said, and the last resolution supporting
voluntary school prayer was in 1981.
Mr. Bush spoke to the Southern Baptist Convention in a year when
conservative forces have consolidated control of its leadership, finances and
educational arms. Last year he canceled plans to address the convention because
of Baptist leaders' hostile reaction when homosexual leaders were invited to a
bill-signing at the White House.
"As I see it, he's reaching an understanding with evangelicals in America,"
said the Rev. Russ Lievers of Horse Cave, Ky., before the president's speech.
America's white evangelicals have made up a key voting bloc in national
elections since Jimmy Carter's election in 1976.
Mr. Bush also touted a social agenda dear to conservative Baptists' hearts
yesterday. He said American parents should have a choice in both child care and
schools. Under the nation's new child care law, vouchers are being made
available for church-based child care, he noted.
In conversation with reporters on Air Force One returning to Washington, Mr.
Bush was asked if he was embarrassed by his tearful confession about weeping at
Camp David.
"No," he replied. "I do that in church. I'm not embarrassed." Then he
added:
"Maybe in public it's kind of a first, or maybe a third, but no, I feel very
emotionally about the war and about having to send other people's sons and
daughters halfway across the world and commit our troops to battle. So I was
trying to speak to them from the heart.
"Maybe I'm not too proud of myself, but I felt strongly. I'll never forget
that day. I knew what was over the horizon in terms of our air war, and I sat
there with the tears coming down my face, and that's the way it was. So why not
say it?"
Looking ahead to the memorial service tomorrow morning at Arlington National
Cemetery, Mr. Bush said: "I hope it doesn't get too emotional at the service
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in Arlington. I still feel it. I feel very strongly about those kids that gave
their lives for this country. So, if I show some emotion, that's just the way I
am. "
* Frank J. Murray contributed to this story in Washington.
GRAPHIC: Photo, President Bush replaces glasses after wiping away tears
yesterday., By Reuters
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February 18, 1992
SECTION: Sec 1; Pg 23
LENGTH: 1000 words
HEADLINE: One Big Cricket: New Grocery. Union Head Marks Takes His Cue From
Jiminy
BYLINE: Jim McKay
DATELINE: Pittsburgh; PA; US
BODY:
Peter Marks has decorated his office walls with photographs of his family,
Democratic heroes John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey and mementos from more
than 20 years as a union leader and attorney.
And on his desk, the new president of United Food and Commercial Workers
Local 23 has a likeness of Jiminy Cricket. In fact, he has three statues of the
Walt Disney character in his Penn Avenue office, Downtown.
They remind him, says the beefy 49-year old father of eight, of the 1940
movie "Pinochio," in which Jiminy Cricket tries to convince the wooden puppet
with the nose that grows to do the right thing.
" Let your conscience be your guide, 11 Marks sang during a recent
interview, imitating in less-than-lilting tones the late radio star Cliff
"Ukulele Ike" Edwards. It was Edwards who was the voice of Jiminy Cricket in the
movie.
"It's here to remind me, in the pressures of the day, why I'm here," said
Marks.
Marks, a Philadelphia native, was elected unopposed last month by the local's
executive board to fill the unexpired term of Carl C. Huber, who left Local 23
to become director of the international union's 750,000-member retail food
division in Washington, D.C.
Mark's office wall also bears a poster- a gift from his mother that offers
guidance of another kind. In glaring letters, it says-, "Play to Win."
It's the latter ethic that may be the harder one to live up to for a union
leader in an era of economic recession, declining expectations and lagging
blue-collar compensation.
Mark's next opportunity to test those two approaches in contract negotiations
will come within weeks, when the local opens talks with its second-largest
employer, Riverside Markets of DuBois.
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Local 23's largest employer, Giant Eagle, was struck for six weeks last year
in a contract dispute.
"All they want is to be treated faily. It's like beauty; it's in the eyes of
the beholder, what is fairness,' he said. "We have to have a living, saving
wage, 50 they can support a family, if they're blessed with children, and be
able to do better in life."
Marks brings old labor values to his new job as head of the area's largest
local union. One aim, admittedly an uphill climb, is to organize the thousands
of supermarket workers who don't belong to the UF CW. Failing that, Marks said
he'll agitate for higher wages for for grocery workers in general.
"We have to do what employers want to do, and that is gain market
penetration," he said. "We've got to make sure we organize everybody we can, SO
we can help the people WE have under agreement get more money, have better
benefits and more security.
"We've got an awful lot of non-union competition moving into Western
Pennsylvania. "We're going to have to do battle with them."
Marks began working as a teen-ager at an A&P supermarket in Philadelphia that
had five cash registers and about 10,000 square feet. There was no bakery, or
delicatessen. The produce and meat departments were small.
"You weighed everything in the produce department. When the bananas came in
you had to wear combat boots because you were worried about the tarantulas
coming out of the boxes," he said.
Giant Eagles's newest stores, by comparison, occupy 40,000 square feet. They
feature hot food, large meat and seafood departments, pharmacies and video and
floral shops.
"They are big factory stores today, less personal and in some ways less
personable," said Marks, the product of a union household.
His father was the first secretary-treasurer of the Transport Workers Union
Local 234 in Philadelphia. His mother was treasurer of a local lodge of the
American Federation of Government Employees.
Marks met his wife, Virginia a meat wrapper and member of the former
Amalgamated Meat Cutters union, in 1963 at the store where they both worked.
They married the next year.
He joined the former Retail Clerks International Association, now part of the
UF CW, in 1959, and was later elected union steward. In 1965, he joined the
union's staff as an organizer.
Wendell Young, president of UF CW Local 1776 in Philadelphia, said Marks was
part of a slate that in 1962 overturned incumbents who had led the local for 25
years.
"He worked his way up in the ranks to become one of the chief contract
negotiators for the local," Young said yesterday. Marks kept that job with Local
1776 while studying for a law degree.
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His career with the local included recorder, business agent, legislative
representative, and director of the organization, education, collective
bargaining and fringe benefits departments.
He graduated in 1972 from LaSalle University, in Philadelphia, with a
bachelor's degree in personnel and labor relations, and earned a law degree from
Widener University in 1977.
Young said Marks left the local to go into private practice, where he
represented the UF CW and other unions, and helped supervise recent Teamster
elections in Philadelphia.
"Now, he'll see the other side of the fence," Young said.
Several times during the interview, Marks mentioned a LaSalle labor relations
professor, Charles Halpin, who he said was a big influence on his career.
Halpin, he said, called unions a management-checking device.
"We prevent the abuses of management and it doesn't mean management is evil.
I don't believe that," he said. "But their motives are different. What they want
to do is different from what we want to do."
Being a lawyer and a labor leader, it's not surprising that Marks has strong
views regarding labor law reform. He thinks laws governing organizing campaigns
should be loosened and penalties increased for employers who violate the law.
And he railed against last month's Supreme Court decision written by Clarence
Thomas that gives employers the right to bar non-employee union organizers from
their property, including shopping center parking lots.
"That's going to change our emphasis on how we do picketing," he said. "But
we've got to get the message across to the public about why people should
organize."
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PHILIPPIANS 2
186
Rejoice in the Lord
The Philippians' Gift
187
soldier, and your messenger and min-
ister to my need, 26 for he has been
13 Brethren, I do not consider that I
things. 9 What you have learned and ship with me i.
longing for you all, and has been dis-
have made it my own; but one thing I
received and heard and seen in me,
except you onl
tressed because you heard that he was
do, forgetting what lies behind and
do; and the God of peace will be with
såló-ni'ca you
ill. Indeed he was ill, near to death.
straining forward to what lies ahead,
you.
again. 17 Not th
But God had mercy on him, and not
14 I press on toward the goal for the
IO I rejoice in the Lord greatly that
I seek the fru
only on him but on me also, lest I
prize of the upward call of God in
now at length you have revived your
your credit. 18
should have sorrow upon sorrow. 28 I
Christ Jesus. 13 Let those of us who
concern for me; you were indeed con-
payment, and 1
am the more eager to send him, there-
are mature be thus minded; and if in
cerned for me, but you had no oppor-
ing received f
fore, that you may rejoice at seeing
anything you are otherwise minded,
tunity. 11 Not that I complain of
the gifts you se:
him again, and that I may be less
God will reveal that also to you.
want; for I have learned, in whatever
a sacrifice acce
anxious. 29 So receive him in the Lord
16 Only let us hold true to what we
state I am, to be content. 12 I know
God. 19And my
have attained.
how to be abased, and I know how to
need of yours ac
with all joy; and honor such men,
30 for he nearly died for the work of
17 Brethren, join in imitating me,
abound; in any and all circumstances
glory in Christ
Christ, risking his life to complete
and mark those who so live as you
I have learned the secret of facing
and Father be g.
your service to me.
have an example in us. 18 For many, of
plenty and hunger, abundance and
Amen.
whom I have often told you and now
want. 13 I can do all things in him
3
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in
tell: you even with tears, live as ene-
who strengthens me.
21 Greet ever
the Lord. To write the same things
mies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their
I4 Yet it was kind of you to share
The brethren W
to you is not irksome to me, and is
end is destruction, their god is the
my trouble. 15And you Philip'pi-ans
you. 22All the Si
safe for you.
belly, and they glory in their shame,
yourselves know that in the beginning
cially those of
2 Look out for the dogs, look out
with minds set on earthly things.
of the gospel, when I left Mac-é-dō'-
23 The grace
for the evil-workers, look out for those
20 But our commonwealth is in
ni-à, no church entered into partner-
Christ be with
who mutilate the flesh. 3 For we are
heaven, and from it we await a Savior,
the true circumcision, who worship
the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will
God in spirit,e and glory in Christ
change our lowly body to be like his
Jesus, and put no confidence in the
glorious body, by the power which
THE LETTER OF PAUL TO
flesh. 4 Though I myself have reason
enables him even to subject all things
to himself.
for confidence in the flesh also. If any
other man thinks he has reason for
4
Therefore, my brethren, whom
confidence in the flesh, I have more:
I love and long for, my joy and
COLOSSIANS
5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the
crown, stand firm thus in the Lord,
my beloved.
people of Israel, of the tribe of Benja-
min, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to
2 I entreat Eû-õ'di-à and I entreat
the law a Pharisee, 6 as to zeal a perse-
Syn'ty-che to agree in the Lord. 3And
I ask you also, true yokefellow, help
1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus
faithful minister
cutor of the church, as to righteous-
by the will of God, and Timothy
half 8 and has m.
ness under the law blameless. 7 But
these women, for they have labored
our brother,
love in the Spirit
whatever gain I had, I counted as loss
side by side with me in the gospel to-
2 To the saints and faithful breth-
9 And so, from
for the sake of Christ. 8 Indeed I count
gether with Clement and the rest of
ren in Christ at Có-los'sae:
it, we have not ce
everything as loss because of the sur-
my fellow workers, whose names are
Grace to you and peace from God
asking that you r
in the book of life.
passing worth of knowing Christ Jesus
our Father.
knowledge of hi:
my Lord. For his sake. I have suffered
4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again
wisdom and und
the loss of all things, and count them
I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let all men know
3 We always thank God, the Father
a life worthy of 1
as refuse, in order that I may gain
your forbearance. The Lord is at
of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we
ing to him, bearir
Christ 9 and be found in him, not
hand. 6 Have no anxiety about any-
pray for you, 4 because we have heard
work and increas
having a righteousness of my own,
thing, but in everything by prayer and
of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the
of God. 11 May
based on law, but that which is
supplication with thanksgiving let
love which you have for all the saints,
with all power, a
through faith in Christ, the righteous-
your requests be made known to God.
5 because of the hope laid up for you
ous might, for al
ness from God that depends on faith;
And the peace of God, which passes
in heaven. Of this you have heard be-
tience with joy, 1:
10 that I may know him and the power
all understanding, will keep your
fore in the word of the truth, the
Father, who has
of his resurrection, and may share his
hearts Jesus. and your minds in Christ
gospel 6 which has come to you, as
in the inheritance
sufferings, becoming like him in his
indeed in the whole world it is bearing
13 He has deliver
death, 11 that if possible I may attain
fruit and growing-so among your-
minion of darkne:
the resurrection from the dead.
8 Finally, brethren, whatever is
selves, from the day you heard and
to the kingdom
I2 Not that I have already ob-
true, whatever is honorable, whatever
understood the grace of God in truth,
14 in whom we ha
tained this or am already perfect; but
is just, whatever is pure, whatever is
7 as you learned it from Ep'à-phras
forgiveness of sins
I press on to make it my own, because
lovely, whatever is gracious, if there
our beloved fellow servant. He is a
I5 He is the in
Christ Jesus has made me his own.
is any excellence, if there is anything
worthy of praise, think about these
1 Other ancient authorities read money for my needs a Other ancient authori.
e Other ancient authorities read worship by the Spirit of God
b Other ancient authorities read you
3.3: 3.17: Rom 1 2.28-29; Gal 6.14-15. 3.4-7: Acts 8.3; 22.3-21; 23.6; 26.4-23; Rom 11.1; 2 Cor 11.18-31.
4.9: Rom 15.33. 4.10: 2 Cor 11.9. 4.13: 2 Cor 12.9. 4.16: Acts 17.1-9; 1
Cor 4.15-17. 3.21: 1 Cor 15.35-58; Col 3.4. 4.3: Lk 10.20. 4.6: Mt 6.25-34.
4.23: Gal 6.18; Philem 25. 1.2: Rom 1.7. 1.3: Eph 1.16. 1.7: Col 4.12; Pl
1.9: Eph 1.15-17. 1.13: Eph 1.21; 2.2. 1.15: 2 Cor 4.4.
Commers, please
Midele
Curd August 13, 1992
(Smith/Nix)
Draft Two
GIFTS
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: PRAYER BREAKFAST
HOUSTON, TEXAS
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1992
8:00 A.M.
Mary Lou Retton, thank you for that introduction. Let me
c
repeat what I said last week to the 1992 Summer olympis 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 of the United States. /
Fellow Texans / Americans / most of all, 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
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50-piece orchestra. 100 singers from the Houston Children's
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. )) /
A couple nights ago, working on my speech, I got up to
stretch my legs. Went to the TV. Started switching channels.
2
As usual, drove Bar crazy with the zapper. / Then, suddenly, on
cable, there he was. Jack Webb, as Sergeant Joe Friday, saying
"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
most religious Nation on earth. //
Listen. According to the Gallup Poll, seven in ten
Americans believe in life after death. Eight in ten believe that
God works miracles. Nine in ten pray. / Listen. More than 90
percent believe in God. To which I say: Thank God -- 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
Bush d
economy / a world at peace. But we will meet and master them as
know
Americans always have. Not -- as some choose -- by running
America down. / But by spending our time / the next four years
how liff
/
asking God how best to lift America up. //
America
We will start by recalling why the Pilgrims sought a New
needs
Jerusalem / why immigrants flocked to Ellis Island / why to an
ups
entire world, America is less place than ideal. The reason was
to find a better life -- the life that led my friend Ronald
help.to
Reagan to call America "that shining city on the hill. " /
dos
so
food's
That life rests on moral values -- for we can change America
"fulfilling
only as God changes lives. I speak not of values with the depth
word Norof.Am lift.
of a thimble -- and the half-life of a Soundbite? thirty second ad. But
values -- God's gifts to us -- that make all progress possible.
Values are that are tried / that are tested / that are true. //
He'll Head help. w/God's
3
The first gift is life itself. / I believe God put us here
not to hate but to help one another -- to lend a hand / tend a
wound / lift the weak and lonely. / That is why political costs
don't count to me. What does -- as the Bible says -- is "to
divine Thy conscience, and let Thy conscience be Thy guide.' " /
Let others explain why they prefer abortion to adoption. / I
revere the sanctity of life. //
Jefferson said, "The God who gave us life also gave us
liberty." Today, that second gift -- God's gift of liberty -- is
remaking an entire globe. / In Berlin, like Jericho, the walls
came?
come tumbling down. / In Barcelona -- ask Mary Lou -- the Summer
Games were held without boycotts / without terrorism / without
This
politics. And that's as it should be. /
((All of us have Olympic heroes. Mine is Pablo Morales.
You know him. The swimmer who missed out in 1984, didn't make
when whed
the team in '88, then came back this year to earn a gold medal -
- at the ripe of old age of 27. Let that be a lesson: Youth and
used to
inexperience are no match for maturity and determination. )) //
usagain?
Over the past three and a half years bayonets and barbed
wire have been no match for the rightousness of God. / Look at
Panama -- where those enslaved now are free. / Look to Bulgaria
-- where people finally wish Merry Christmas to each other
without fear of being labeled religious. / In Russia, a cathedral
was once called the All Union Museum of Religion and Atheism.
Now each Sunday it's filled with God's apostles. / In the former
East Germany, Bible Studies are like bluebonnets in spring:
4
They're busting out all over. / In a season of Thanksgiving, the
world says grace: The Cold War is over -- and America won. //
I remember when, six years ago, one of God's great soldiers
of this or any age went to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
Returning to America, the Reverend Billy Graham predicted that
religious freedom would outlast tyranny. / The doubters said
he'd been tricked -- but Billy knew something they didn't. / He
Good
knew the chains of oppression forged by men were no match for the
line!
keys to Salvation forged by God. //
I recall talking about this with Billy one year ago January,
when I asked him to stay at the White House the night before we
started Desert Storm. / I thought a lot that night. About the
thousands of people praying at churches like Second Baptist here
in Houston. / About my home church -- St. Martin's. Its daily
prayers. Its prayer books, crosses, and hand-made Christmas
cards made in Sunday school for our men and women in the Gulf. /
I thought about the troops themselves. Let me tell you:
They are the finest sons and daughters any Nation could ever
have. / I thought of how blessed Barbara and I were to have
Billy and Ruth as friends for many years. I was counting
Billy's ahead of mehere with
recently: Between us, we have 10 kids, 32 grandkids, and 4
great-grandchildren. ( (Now, that's the kind of expansion that
As
makes even the Federal bureaucracy jealous. )) / Like Billy
Graham, I know how a third gift of God's -- family -- can lift
writter
America. I can no more imagine a life without family than I can
a universe without love. //
has great
5
Our Administration has acted boldly to protect the family.
Through supporting home-based schools. Backing religious choice
in education. Drafting pro-family policies from health care to
child care to welfare reform. / ( (I still don't know why my
opponent opposes this as he travels around the country. Maybe
H's the
he's inhaled too many bus fumes
)) - I // guess he inhaled this time .)//
I'll let my best friend tell why we support these policies.
You saw her last night on television. Here's how she puts it.
"At the end of your life, 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. //
say not only
Barbara knows that kids, quoting Art Linkletter, just don't
but also
say the funniest things They say the most insightful things --
especially about religion. / ( (Once a a Sunday school teacher
started talking about the story on 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 asks God daily to make lives well. We act
through the greatest of God's gifts -- yes, prayer. /
Something's wrong when kids can get condoms at school but can't
say a prayer. / That's why I was incensed by the recent Supreme
Court ruling outlawing voluntary prayer at school events -- and
why today I say: If the Supreme Court won't act to reverse this
travesty --- Congress must and I will. /
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If Congress can raise its pay in a midnight session / if
Congress can establish National Tap Dance Day / if Congress can
spend time debating Vanna White's appearance on the Home Shopping
Network -- then, surely, Congress can allow our kids to thank
Almighty God. / So I throw down the gauntlet. I call on
Congress to pass a Constitutional Amendment allowing voluntary
prayer in classroom -- and I challenge my opponent to support me.
/ 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
-- you know us Episcopalians. / -Yet it has sustained me at every
point of my life. / As a boy, when religious reading was part of
our home life. Each morning, as we gathered at the breakfast
table, mother or Dad read a Bible lesson. / Then, later, as a
teenager, when I memorized the Navy Hymn. / Or how, fifty years
ago, aboard the submarine Finback after being shot down in the
War, I went on deck at night, stood watch 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
things are possible? I can't. I won't. / That's why the 1988
my son,
morning after Election Day George W. said a prayer -- we held
Not
him
in
know
as
even IX.
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a worship service at St. Martin's. / God's therapy 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 as well as peace.
/ Like a lot of people I've always worried about showing tears
in public -- the emotion. That 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 -- Claude Payne -- 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 life, family, and liberty --
prayer can help achieve peace among Nations. Creating a world
where we say to every child: "Someone loves you, and knows your
name. " //
This month, I got a letter from a little girl, age . Joy
Vaughn -- lives in Mesa, Arizona. Her brother is a missionary. /
She wrote: "I just have to tell you that I am proud of you. " /
Sounds
Be stout of heart, she added. "God is in charge. " //
like
Joy -- what truth from the mouths of babes: As we begin
in
this great crusade, God is charge. We know that while God can
n
live without man -- man cannot live without God. / So pray not
for me alone -- but for the Family called America. Thank you for
this occasion, ^ God bless you, and God bless the most wondrous, wondrous blessed
for your prayers
land on earth -- the United States of America.
03/25/92
PROCLAMATION NOT ISSUED DESPITE REQUEST OF BILL OR JOINT RESOLUTION
01/20/89 - 03/25/92
RESOLUTION
RECEIVED
SUBJECT
/BILL
DATE
OBSERVANCE
National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving
S.J.Res. 83
03/21/91
(No Date Specified, 1991)
American Indian Heritage Month -
S.J.Res. 172
10/01/91
November
November 1992 (see comments)
Freedom of Information Day - March 16,
H.J.Res. 167
03/22/89
03/16/89
1989
National Tap Dance Day - May 25, 1989
H.J.Res. 131
11/01/89
05/25/89
(this is the most tardy request for a
proclamation on record -- 5 months after
the observance)
National D-Day Remembrance Day, 1989
S.Res. 139
06/02/89
06/06/89
(the Staff Secretary's Office decided
that the proclamation would not be
issued since it was not requested by a
joint resolution of the Congress)
National Morgan Horse Week - beginning
S.Res. 191
10/06/89
10/09/89-
October 9, 1989 (the Staff Secretary's
10/15/89
Office decided that the proclamation
would not be issued since is was not
requested by a joint resolution of the
Congress)
Patient Account Management Day - October
H.J.Res. 380
10/20/89
10/18/89
18, 1989
National Hostage Awareness Day - October
H.J.Res. 400
10/13/89
10/27/89
27, 1989 (although the joint resolution
designates an observance it did not
specifically request the President to
issue a proclamation; the President
decided not to issue one on the
recommendation of staff)
Interstitial Cystitis Awareness Day -
H.J.Res. 291
11/19/89
11/16/89
November 16, 1989
National Prevent - A - Litter Month --
S.J.Res. 229
03/21/90
April
April 1990 (Dogs, Cats, Pet
Overpopulation; NOT ISSUED, SEE
COMMENTS)
Education Day, U.S.A. (USA) - April 6,
H.J.Res. 500
04/03/90
04/06/90
1990 (See Comments)
Infant Mortality Awareness Day - May 13,
H.J.Res. 546
05/02/90
05/13/90
1990 (See Comments)
Tennessee Territorial Bicentennial
H.J.Res. 555
06/26/90
05/26/90
Commemorative May 26, 1990
National Sarcoidosis Awareness Day -
H.J.Res. 519
10/24/90
08/29/90
August 29, 1990
National Humanities Week - October 21 -
H.J.Res. 562
11/09/90
10/21/90-
27, 1990
10/27/90
National Senior Nutrition Week - May 13
H.J.Res. 141
05/20/91
05/13/91-
- 19, 1991
05/19/91
National Women and Girls in Sports Day - H.J.Res. 395
03/04/92
02/06/92
February 6, 1992
didn't make it.
Congressional
pmounce
March 22, 1992
The critique in the President's 3/20 speech is that the Congress
is out of touch with the people and no longer accountable. Thus
it is blocking needed short term and long term changes."
In a follow-up speech we could move the ball forward by providing
some more detail and also some explanatory theories of how we got
into this mess.
The following outline is divided into seven sections:
I. Change and Reform
II. The Vision of the Founders, and what happened
III. Incumbency Protection and the Permanent Majority
IV. Abuse of the System
V. Policy Failure
VI. What it all means to you, the citizen
VII. Solutions
I. Change and Reform
If we can change the world, we can change America. Here at home,
all the things we want -- economic growth, kinder and gentler,
repair of the social fabric -- require more than just government
as usual. We need profound change.
Here at home, as I warned in my State of the Union, the battle
has been joined
There's a sickness in the system -- status quo Congress
Unfortunately, while we came to Washington to solve problems, not
to bicker, we face obstacles. so, more in sorrow than in anger
I am disappointed in Congress. In fairness, some Democrats
didn't want to put a tax increase in the bill, and I salute them
for courageously standing up against more taxes. But politics
prevailed. A slim majority passed the bill in the face of a
certain veto. But they aren't blocking my economic recovery plan
because they're afraid it won't work, they're blocking it because
they're afraid it will work.
I don't take this step lightly. No President has vetoed a major
tax bill since Harry Truman did it in 1948.
In response, the Democratic Congress has returned to form. It
has produced a bill that will not strengthen the economy -- it
will weaken it. It has produced a bill that will not stimulate
growth, it will stifle it. As if by reflex, the Democrats in
Congress could not resist their natural impulse to raise taxes.
But I assure you of this: I will not let them do it.
Passing a tax increase is bad enough. But here's what really
troubles me:
The irresponsibility of Congress on this plan is part of a
pattern. It reflects a more serious problem, a deeper systemic
problem that is gnawing at the strength of our nation. It is no
wonder that of several years, it must be said: our Congressional
system is broken.
Congress is the key to the rise of an entrenched incumbent
status-quo oriented Washington establishment opposed to change.
As political scientist Morris Fiorina argues [Congress: Keystone
of the Washington Establishment), the growth of the bureaucratic
welfare state has changed the mxi of congressional activities
away from policymaking and toward pork barreling and constituent
service. Congress votes more spending and new bureaucracies,
which are increasingly lethargic and unresponsive. Then Members
act as ombudsman, expediting benefits and procuring more pork,
clinching their re-election. That's how we get 98% re-election
rates
Dangerous new phenomenon: appropriations earmarks (aren't the 68
rescissions all targeted at appropriations earmarks?)
All this is ominous for prospects for effective, problem-solving
government in the 90s: "No government, any more than an
individual, will long be respected, without being truly
reespectable; nor be truly respectable without possessing a
certain portion of order and stability." Madison, writing in
Federalist #63.
II. The Vision of the Founders, and what happened
Madison, in Federalist #56, opined that the House should be the
people's house. "It is a sound and important principle that the
representative ought to be acquainted with the interests and
circumstances of his constituents."
Madison would have been appalled that 98% of the House Members
have been re-elected in the last three election cycles.
Madison went on to argue that permanent majorities are
dangerously undemocratic: "As it is essential to liberty that
the government in general should have a common interest with the
people, so it is particularly essential that the branch of it
under consideration [the Congress] should have an immediate
dependence on, and an intimate sympathy with the people.
Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which
this dependency and sympathy can be effectually secured."
(Federalist #52)
The second idea of Madison was that Congress was a legislature,
making general laws that would apply to everyone (since then
Congress has exempted itself from a host of legislation. Here is
Madison again: " they can make no law which will not have its
full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the
great mass of the society. This has always been deemed one of
the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers
and the people together. It creates between them that communion
of interests and sympathy of sentiments
without which every
government degenerates into tyranny. (Fed. #57)
Madison and the Founders believed that the legislature should
deliberate about questions of common good, or as we would say
now, the national interest. Instead, what has happened is that
we have a legislature full of hustlers, with their own
independent constituencies, not beholden to any party or
platform. Unfortunately, what might be advertised as
"independence" is more often gridlock.
III. Incumbency protection and the permanent majority
Although some polls show that almost half of Americans believe
that Republicans control Congress, the fact is that one paty has
held the White House for 58 of the last 62 years and for 38 years
consecutively. This "streak" is the longest by far in American
history. The second longest is just 16 years.
Democrats have controlled the House longer than most Americans
have been alive. Some younger Republicans weren't even born when
Joe Martin was the Speaker.
Not one GOPer has ever been in the minority, and all but 5 Demos
have never been in the minority.
How did this happen?
In the 1990 elections, special interest political action
committees -- "PACs" -- gave almost 117 million dollars to
incumbent Congressmen and Senators. Only about 15 million
dollars were donated to challengers. With about 8-to-1 spending
advantage, obvious voter discontent were buried in a wave of PAC-
financed television advertising. so, nearly every incumbent won.
How they've insulated themselves
-- Jerrymandering -- cite/describe some of the new districts
in North Carolina, Texas, etc.
-- Abuse of the frank -- 12000 to 1 ratio of letters out to
letters in
-- dramatic increase in personal staff
-- travel budgets, and Congressional budget overall
-- campaign finance laws -- the wimpy PAC phenomenon -- PACs
are essentially shaken down by chairmen
-- proliferation of committees and subcommittees -- every
third House Demo is a Chairman -- every MC is either chair or
close to being chair of a little mini-fiefdom -- make a name for
himself (Need to ck Bob Schieffer claim on "Face the Nation"
yesterday that there were more committees when George Bush was a
Congressman than there are today.)
Congress has become consumed with its internal politics and
bureaucracy -- meanwhile, Americans are effectively
disenfranchisedand the system gets worse and worse
Some Members will have to learn that the great institution of the
House will survive, even if they lose.
IV. Abuse of the System
Above laws that they impose on others
The decentralization of the Congress has weakened the Party
leadership adn the Parties themselves and strengthened individual
Member-- independetn, individualist members of Vongress., each
guy is his own party
I served in the House, and I have great respect for its proper
place in our Constitutional structure and great admiration and
friendship for many
We have a long tradition in this country of pulling together when
national need demands that we do so. Over the years, many
accomplishments, large and small, have been truly bipartisan.
But Congress today is different. It is more partisan. Its
campaigns are financed by special interests. It has grown out of
control. It has lost the ability to police itself. And, perhaps
most importantly, it is no longer accountable to individual
American citizens and voters. This must change.
One party has controlled the House of Representatives for almost
four decades. Staff has become institutionalized. In 1950,
there were about 2,000 personal staff in Congress. Today, there
are almost 12,000 staff for Members of Congress. Today, there
are almost 40,000 if you include the entire legislative branch.
This number of committees and subcommittees have quadrupled.
When I was on the W&M committee, there were no subcommittees (ck)
So the couple dozen committee chairmen could go on to the floor
In the early 70s -- reforms allegedly aimed at making Congress
more democratic have in fact made it more Democratic
These reforms at best yielded unintended consequences and at
worst were hypocritical.
Fiefdoms = iron triangles -- every Member in the majority has
some lobbyist desperately interesested in currying favor
Congress less able to solve real problems
How have the Democrats responded to this -- more authoritarian
use of the Rules Committee -- e.g. "closed rules." Most pieces
of legislation have to have a rule from the Rules Committee --
length of debate, number of Amendments possible. But the
increasing use of closed rules means that most legislation say,
to an hour of debate and limiting amendments (denies minority the
opportunity for Republican amendments)
To make matters worse, the Democratic leadership has set the
ratio of the Rules Committee at 9:4 (ck to see if this is new),
so that the majority can have a quorum, even if the minority
never shows up!
Stacking the committees, changing ratios of Ds and Rs
But, the decentralization to subcommittee government has
increased the probability of co-optation by special interest
groups, which was harder to do to large broad-based committee
While opening it up at one end, (decentralized into
subcommittees) they've closed it at the other end (closed rules)
So they offer only the illusion of reform -- hypocrisy
Also:
-- Marble floors
-- House bank, restaurant, post office
(-- Midnight pay raise)
V. Policy Failure
And for this -- we get a Congress incapable of passing the simple
plan I presented almost two months ago -- a Congress controlled
by the Democratic caucus which cannot manage a tiny bank or a
tiny post office. Call it the arrogance of power.
You all saw the degradation of the confirmation process look at
the sorry spectacle of Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas -- the idea that completely apart from who you
thought was telling the truth, the country as a whole was
disgusted by the way that the Senate Judiciary Committee top 5
Biden, Kennedy, Deconcini, Leahy, bounced from Metzenbaum
$250,000 Jack Danforth -- this isn't advise and consent -- this
is slash and burn.
Turn to Federalist #71 (Hamilton) for guidance. "The
representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem
sometime to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray
strong symptoms of impatience and disgust at the least sign of
opposition from any other quarter: as if the exercise of its
rights, by either the executive or judiciary, were a breach of
their privilege and an outrage to their dignity."
House voted to investigate decade-old "Oct Surprise" on the same
day as they voted not to investigate House Post Office
Clearly Congress has gotten much more involved in MICROMANAGEMENT
of the Executive Branch -- everything from app. earmarks, to the
struggle over PAS appointments to inquisitorial oversight
hearings (Dingell and the E&C committee) to legislating by
committee report (1986 tax reform bill transition language) and
criminalizing foreign policy. Not a new Mitchell President
not above the law, but Congress is not above the Constitution
Also:
-- Kemp getting slamdunked on HOPE
-- Pentagon spending. Reiterating desire to kill the
Seawolf sub (good whack at Clinton) i and the V-22 Osprey, a
favorite of Penn. and Tex. delegations
-- S&Ls (Freddy St. Germain, Coelho and Wright)
-- BCCI (David Paul, former Fin. Chmn of DSCC)
Iron triangle maintenance of the status quo -- helps explain why
we spend $400 billion on education and yet test scores are
falling -- the current education bill is a perfect example of the
"iron triangles" at work. The Ed and Labor cmte. has stripped
away choice and accountability.
So that's why I have to veto this bill
In the meantime, I will take additional actions on my own, with
every legal means at my disposal, to keep the economy moving up.
I will do so in spite of the hopelessly tangled Congressional web
of PACS, perks, [add: pork] privilege, partisanship and
paralysis.
There is, of course, a serious limit on what a President can do
without Congress. But I am determined to do all I can to effect
change.
VI. What it Means to You, the Citizen
What does it mean when the Congress is no longer in touch with
the American people? When too many elected officials see their
constituents as sources of votes and cash and seekers of favors,
and not as fellow citizens mutually engaged in our democratic
experiment? When too many Members see interest groups as special
interests, not as Tocquevillean joiners and doers.
No economic growth package -- jobs, future, real estate prices,
business investment
No improvement in education, cost to our long term
competitiveness, standard of living
No crime bill -- less safe streets
We even had to wait a year for the transportation bill
VII. Solutions
The time has come for change, because when the system is broken,
you do have to fix it. I have proposed to eliminate the PACs
which are poisoning our system. The time has come to eliminate
these Political Action committees in their entirely.
We should apply to Congress the same laws -- from employment
practices to civil rights to the Freedom of Information Act --
which it imposes on everyone else.
Madison "If the legislatures shall pass a law not applicable to
itself as well as to the public, the people will be prepared
to accept anything but liberty." [Federalist #55]
I believe the time has come to limit the terms of Congressmen.
The terms of Presidents are limited. It is time for the terms of
Congressmen to be limited.
I realize that these are only modest steps. But they reflect a
fundamental attitude.
Here are some ideas, but I'm not sure we want to get specific
-- Reduce the # of committees and subcommittees --
-- Cut committee staff (one of the few good ideas Bob Kerrey
had) oversized
-- Limit the number of days Members cand spend in session
-- Make sure that all federal laws apply to Congress
It may be better to stay on the high road, and let the Congress
worry about the details of cleaning up their own House. What
we're talking about here is balance. Madison warned us against
imbalance in Federalist #47: "No political truth is certainly of
greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more
enlightened patrons of liberty the accumulation of all powerd,
legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether
of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed,
or elective, may justly be pronouncedthe very definition of
tyranny."
If the Democratic leadership that runs the status quo Congress
will not help us change America, we will have to change it
without them. If the Democratic leadership that runs the status
quo Congress will not help us reform government, we must reform
it without them.
You see, change is nothing to fear. For more than two centuries,
America has been a force for change. Our restlessness is
legendary. Our energy boundless.
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TALKING POINTS FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT
GREATER ORLANDO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
ORLANDO, FLORIDA
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1991
9:35 A.M.
Acknowledgements:
Phil Handy and Jacob Stewart [Chamber President], both
of whom I saw at the Term Limits Roundtable four months
ago.
Friends and members of "Citizens for Limited Terms."
Members of the Chamber of Commerce -- and let me
commend the Chamber for your early endorsement of term
limits.
Term limits --
O
One of my favorite issues.
An idea whose time has come.
In my travels around the country, I've seen this movement
pick up steam.
All of you know the facts here in Florida behind your grass-
roots movement.
Here, as in states like California, Oklahoma, and Colorado,
people are turning to the idea of limited terms as a way of
strengthening the people's control of the government, both
state and federal.
Let me share with you some facts about the Congress of the
United States.
Incumbents have a massive advantage in money -- the mother's
milk of politics.
O
1990: Only 6% of House races were financially
competitive.
House incumbents raised 6 times as much as their
competitors. In the Senate, it was three to one.
These figures don't take into account advantages like
mass mailings under the franking privilege.
O
1989: Congress sent 600 million pieces of mail
(Cost: $90 million)
Re-election rates are astronomical
O
1990: 98.3% House incumbents re-elected
O
In the 100th Congress (1987-89), more House members
left office through death (7) than by defeat at the
polls (6).
Of those six, five were tainted one way or another with
an ethics issue. So one member was defeated through
the competition of ideas.
Rates of re-election haven't always been this high.
In the 1800's, rates were between 40% and 70%.
They've gone higher since World War I:
1946-1966: average was 88%
1966-1988: average was 94%
In the so-called "anti-incumbent" election of
1990, it was still 96.2%.
Let me make the case for limiting Congressional terms.
O,
First: Equality. The Executive and the Legislature are
co-equal branches. But right now the Constitution
practices discrimination.
Did you know that the House of Representatives has been
controlled by one party for 37 straight years?
When it comes to one-party legislative dominance in
major countries of the world, only Japan, Mexico, South
Africa and -- until recently -- the Soviet Union show
comparable rates.
I hasten to add that this is not a partisan issue.
Many Democrats in Congress support the idea, as did
Presidents Harry Truman and John Kennedy -- and, for
that matter, Lincoln, Eisenhower, and Bush.
Term limits may produce a Congress that will be more serious
about the business of legislating. Now, the institution
focuses too heavily on itself, and on re-election.
(The Speaker of the House doesn't like it when I say that,
but it's true!)
Now, it might be said that it's easy for me to talk about
reforming Congress -- but I've felt this way for a long
time.
O
Maiden speech in 1977 -- Term limits amendment.
In the Senate: Majority Leader Baker appointed me Chairman
of the Select Committee on Committee Reorganization.
It opened my eyes.
Some senators are on no less than 17 committees and
2
subcommittees.
I wanted to reduce that number -- but I learned that
some committees are tailored to interest groups.
The problem is aggravated by endless Congressional careers.
The longer you stay, the more staff and committees you get.
O
1970: Staff = 10,000
Today: 20,000 -- and growing!
Another feature of the system: Institutional arrogance.
Congress is exempt from:
- Equal Employment Opportunity Act
- National Labor Relations Act
- Freedom of Information Act
- Privacy Act
- Ethics in Government Act
Increasingly, there's two classes of Americans: those
who make the laws, and those who must obey them.
And, of course, financing the federal government, a central
responsibility of the Congress, is being handled poorly --
year in, and year out.
That's why I'm not surprised by what I've called the "Voter
Revolt" to limit terms. People are cynical, frustrated,
and, in too many cases, not voting.
At least in part, we see low voter turnout because too many
legislative races pose no real contest: in effect, no choice
for the voters.
The bottom line: Americans are denied competition in the
electoral process.
I'm familiar with the arguments against terms limits.
First: that good people will be forced out of office
before their time.
of course that will happen; but it's not true that
there aren't enough good potential members of Congress
out there.
Believe me: with term limits, we'd still have able and
talented members of Congress.
Also, the seniority system would fade in importance.
Another argument: that special interests will gain power.
To that, I respond with a question: who has the power right
3
now?
Today there's an iron triangle -- committees,
bureaucrats, special interest groups.
Some argue Congressional staff will take over.
Well, with a typical senator serving on 17 committees
and subcommittees, the influence of staff is already
enormous.
And don't forget: Who has more power than the very
senior staffer of a very senior member?
Strongest argument for the status quo: that the voters will
be denied choice. But, practically speaking, choice is
already being denied today.
The Framers of the Constitution didn't specifically provide
for term limits.
Many thought it was too small a detail to write into
law;
Others wanted to leave the decision to voters.
But it was certainly understood that there would be
rotation in office -- for the President, and for
Congress.
That's why, in the modern age of career politicians, PACs,
and countless special interest groups, the Framers might
well have supported limited terms as a matter of law.
If we can do it in the states by referendum -- provided the
federal courts agree -- then so be it.
But if it takes a Constitutional Amendment, that's fine.
And, of course, when it comes to a state legislature, the
decision is thoroughly up to the citizens of the states --
and that's what's going on here in Florida.
This is a great movement for change in a nation born in
revolution -- and I'll say it again: This is an idea whose
time has come.
Good luck, and keep up the great work.
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4
03/25/92
11:27AM
PROCLAMATIONS BY JOINT RESOLUTION
01/20/89 03/25/92
PROCLAMATION RESOLUTION
OFFICIAL TITLE
NUMBER DATE RECEIVED
OBSERVANCE
Federal Employees Recognition Week,
5941 03/08/89 H.J.Res. 22
03/06/89-
1989
03/07/89
03/12/89
National Agriculture Day, 1989
5943 03/18/89 H.J.Res. 117
03/20/89
03/22/89
Greek Independence Day: A National Day
5944
03/21/89
S.J.Res.
64
03/25/89
of Celebration of Greek and American
03/16/89
Democracy,
Women's History Month, 1989 and 1990
5945 03/24/89 H.J.Res. 148
March
03/17/89
Actors' Fund of America Appreciation
5946 03/24/89 H.J.Res. 650
April
Month, 1989
11/10/88
National Earthquake Awareness Week,
5947 03/27/89 H.J.Res. 564
04/02/89-
1989
11/10/88
04/08/89
National Child Care Awareness Week,
5948 04/02/89
S.J.Res. 50
1989
04/02/89-
03/28/89
04/08/89
National Former Prisoners of War
5951 04/07/89 S.J.Res. 43
Recognition Day, 1989
04/09/89
04/06/89
Education Day, U.S.A., 1989 and 1990
5956 04/14/89 H.J.Res. 173
04/16/89,
04/11/89
04/06/90
National Recycling Month, 1989
5957 04/19/89 H.J.Res. 102
April
04/11/89
National Organ and Tissue Donor
5958 04/20/89 H.J.Res. 112
Awareness Week, 1989 and 1990
04/29/89,
04/11/89
04/23/90-
04/29/90
04/11/90
Bicentennial Celebration of the
5963 04/28/89 S.J.Res. 92
Inauguration of George Washington
04/30/89
04/27/89
National Drinking Water Week, 1989
5964 04/28/89 S.J.Res. 60
05/01/89-
05/01/89
05/07/89
National Society of the Sons of the
5965 04/28/89 S.J.Res. 84
American Revolution Centennial Day,
04/30/89
04/27/89
1989
Jewish Heritage Week, 1989
5966 05/01/89 S.J.Res. 25
05/07/89-
04/27/89
05/14/89
Smith-Lever Act 75th Anniversary, 1989 5969 05/03/89 H.J.Res. 124
05/08/89
04/28/89
Older Americans Month, 1989
5970 05/04/89 S.J.Res. 45
May
04/19/89
National Stroke Awareness Month, 1989
5975
05/11/89
S.J.Res. 62
May
05/03/89
National Correctional Officers Week,
1989
5976 05/11/89 H.J.Res. 135
05/07/89-
05/11/89
05/14/89
Trauma Awareness Month, 1989
5979 05/15/89 S.J.Res. 68
May
05/11/89
National Osteoporosis Prevention Week, 5981 05/17/89 S.J.Res. 37
1989 and 1990
05/14/89-
05/15/89
05/20/89,
05/13/90-
05/19/90
PROCLAMATION RESOLUTION
OFFICIAL TITLE
NUMBER DATE RECEIVED
OBSERVANCE
High School Reserve Officer Training
5982 05/17/89 S.J.Res. 58
Corps Recognition Day, 1989
05/17/89
05/17/89
National Digestive Disease Awareness
5984 05/22/89 H.J.Res. 170
Month, 1989
May
05/18/89
National Day of Remembrance for the
5986 05/24/89 H.J.Res. 247
Victims of the USS IOWA
05/29/89
05/16/89
Baltic Freedom Day, 1989
5990 06/14/89 S.J.Res. 63
06/14/89
06/14/89
National Grasslands Weeks, 1989
5991 06/15/89 S.J.Res. 386
06/18/89-
11/08/88
06/24/89
National Scleroderma Awareness Week,
5992 06/16/89 H.J.Res. 274
1989
06/11/89-
06/16/89
06/17/89
National Lighthouse Day, 1989
5993 06/19/89 S.J.Res. 306
08/07/89
10/28/88
United States Coast Guard Auxiliary
5994 06/23/89 H.J.Res. 111
Day, 1989
06/23/89
06/23/89
National Literacy Day
5995 06/30/89 S.J.Res. 96
07/02/89
06/30/89
National Day to Commemorate the
5998 07/07/89 H.J.Res. 298
Bicentennial of Bastille Day, the
07/14/89
06/28/89
French Revo
Lyme Disease Awareness Week, 1989
6000 07/26/89 S.J.Res. 142
07/23/89-
07/24/89
07/29/89
National Week of Recognition and
6001 07/26/89 S.J.Res. 85
Remembrance for Those Who Served in the
07/24/89-
Korean War, 1989
07/24/89
07/30/89
National POW/MIA Recognition Day, 1989
6002
07/28/89
S.J.Res. 129
09/15/89
07/20/89
United States Customs Service 200th
Anniversary Year, 1989
6004 07/31/89 H.J.Res. 363
1989
08/04/89
Helsinki Human Rights Day, 1989
6005 08/01/89 S.J.Res. 150
08/01/89
08/01/89
National 1989 Neighborhood Crime Watch Day, 6006 08/07/89 S.J.Res. 136 08/08/89
08/07/89
National Senior Citizens Day, 1989
6007 08/14/89 H.J.Res. 225
08/20/89
08/11/89
National 1989 Library Card Sign-Up Month,
6008 08/14/89 H.J.Res. 231
September
08/11/89
National Wilderness Week, 1989
6009 08/14/89 S.J.Res. 67
09/03/89-
08/07/89
09/09/89
National Drive for Life Weekend, 1989
6011
08/15/89
S.J.Res. 127
09/02/89-
08/07/89
09/04/89
National Pledge of Allegiance Day, 1989 6012 08/15/89 H.J.Res. 253
09/09/89
08/11/89
The Bicentennial Anniversary of the
First U.S. Patent and Copyright Laws,
6013 08/15/89 S.J.Res. 169
1990
10/16/86
1990
World War II Remembrance Week, 1989
6014 08/29/89 H.J.Res. 221
09/01/89-
08/07/89
09/07/89
National Check-Up Week, 1989
6015 09/05/89 S.J.Res. 95
09/10/89-
07/13/89
09/16/89
PROCLAMATION RESOLUTION
OFFICIAL TITLE
NUMBER DATE RECEIVED
OBSERVANCE
Uncle Sam Day, 1989
6016 09/05/89 H.J.Res. 626 09/13/89
11/01/88
United States Coast Guard Bicentennial
6017
09/12/89
S.J.Res. 126
1989-
(August 4, 1989 - August 4, 1990)
08/04/89
1990
National Alcohol and Drug Treatment
6018 09/12/89 S.J.Res. 132
Month, 1989
September
09/11/89
National Historically Black Colleges
6019
09/13/89
S.J.Res. 109
Week, 1989
09/11/89-
09/13/89
09/15/89
National D.A.R.E. Day, 1989
6020 09/13/89 H.J.Res. 276
09/14/89
06/28/89
United States Marshals Bicentennial
6024
09/21/89
S.J.Res. 352
Day, 1989
09/24/89
11/08/88
Emergency Medical Services Week, 1989
6026
09/21/89
H.J.Res. 133
09/17/89-
09/21/89
09/23/89
Commendation of the Citizens of the
6027 09/22/89 H.J.Res. 379
Sioux city, Iowa, Tri-State Area
08/11/89
Religious Freedom Week, 1989
6029 09/27/89 S.J.Res. 146
09/24/89-
09/21/89
09/30/89
National Quality Month, 1989
6031 09/29/89 H.J.Res. 204
October
09/22/89
Mental Illness Awareness Week, 1989
6032 09/29/89 S.J.Res. 55
10/01/89-
08/07/89
10/07/89
National 1989 Health Care Food Service Week, 6035 10/03/89 S.J.Res. 81
10/01/89-
10/02/89
10/07/89
Raoul Wallenberg Day, 1989
6036 10/04/89 S.J.Res. 110
10/05/89
07/20/89
German-American Day, 1989
6037 10/05/89 S.J.Res. 118
10/06/89
09/21/89
National Children's Day, 1989
6039 10/05/89 H.J.Res. 132
10/08/89
06/28/89
National Domestic Violence Awareness
Month, 1989
6043 10/11/89 S.J.Res. 133
October
10/02/89
National Job Skills Week, 1989
6044
10/11/89
S.J.Res. 148
10/08/89-
10/02/89
10/14/89
Italian-American Heritage and Culture
Month, 1989
6045 10/12/89 H.J.Res. 392
October
10/13/89
World Food Day, 1989 and 1990
6048 10/16/89 S.J.Res. 138
10/16/89,
10/02/89
10/16/90
National Down Syndrome Month, 1989
6049 10/16/89 S.J.Res. 122
October
10/05/89
National Red Ribbon Week for a
6053
Drug-Free America, 1989
10/24/89
S.J.Res. 213
10/22/89-
10/16/89
10/29/89
Polish American Heritage Month, 1989
6054 10/25/89 S.J.Res. 93
October
07/20/89
Country Music Month, 1989
6055 10/25/89 H.J.Res. 401
October
10/13/89
National Arab-American Day, 1989
6056 10/25/89 H.J.Res. 241
10/25/89
10/30/89
PROCLAMATION
RESOLUTION
OFFICIAL TITLE
NUMBER DATE
RECEIVED
OBSERVANCE
Fire Safety at Home Day, 1989
6057 10/27/89 S.J.Res. 177
10/29/89
10/25/89
Gaucher's Disease Awareness Week, 1989
6059
11/01/89
S.J.Res. 73
10/29/89-
11/02/89
11/04/89
National Hospice Month, 1989 and 1990
6061
11/07/89
S.J.Res. 78
November
08/07/89
National Glaucoma Awareness Week, 1989 6062 11/07/89 S.J.Res. 194
11/12/89-
11/02/89
11/18/89
Montana Centennial Day, 1989
6063 11/08/89
S.J.Res. 19
11/08/89
11/08/89
National Women Veterans Recognition
6064 11/09/89 H.J.Res. 35
11/05/89-
Week, 1989
11/06/89
11/11/89
Washington Centennial Day, 1989
6065 11/09/89 S.J.Res. 209 11/11/89
11/02/89
Geography Awareness Week, 1989
6066 11/09/89 S.J.Res. 120 11/12/89-
10/27/89
11/18/89
National Diabetes Month, 1989
6068 11/15/89 S.J.Res. 131
November
11/02/89
Community Foundation Week, 1989
6069 11/15/89 H.J.Res. 425
11/12/89-
11/09/89
11/18/89
National Philanthropy Day, 1989
6071 11/15/89
S.J.Res. 86
11/17/89
10/25/89
Hunger Education Month, 1989
6072 11/16/89 S.J.Res. 198
November
11/06/89
National Military Families Recognition
6074
11/20/89
S.J.Res. 215
Day, 1989
11/20/89
11/09/89
National Family Week, 1989 and 1990
6075 11/21/89 S.J.Res. 117
11/19/89-
10/02/89
11/25/89,
11/18/90-
11/24/90
National Adoption Week, 1989
6076 11/21/89 H.J.Res. 278
11/20/89-
11/15/89
11/26/89
National Family Caregivers Week, 1989
6077
11/22/89
H.J.Res. 282
11/19/89-
11/20/89
11/25/89
National Alzheimer's Disease Month,
1989 and 1990
6078 11/27/89 S.J.Res. 16
November
11/28/89
National Home Care Week, 1989 and 1990 6079 11/27/89 S.J.Res. 184
11/26/89-
11/20/89
12/02/89,
11/25/90-
12/01/90
National 1989 American Indian Heritage Week, 6080 12/05/89 S.J.Res. 218
12/03/89-
11/20/89
12/09/89
National Cities Fight Back Against
Drugs Week, 1989
6081 12/05/89 S.J.Res. 205
12/03/89-
11/30/89
12/09/89
National Drunk and Drugged Driving
Awareness Week, 1989
6083 12/11/89 H.J.Res. 429
12/10/89-
12/01/89
12/16/89
Earth Day, 1990
6085 01/03/90 S.J.Res. 159
04/22/90
11/20/89
Law Enforcement Training Week, 1990
6086 01/03/90 S.J.Res. 137
01/07/90-
07/13/89
01/13/90
PROCLAMATION RESOLUTION
OFFICIAL TITLE
NUMBER DATE RECEIVED
OBSERVANCE
National Women and Girls in Sports Day, 6091 02/08/90 H.J.Res. 82
02/08/90
1990
02/07/90
National Burn Awareness Week, 1990 and 6092 02/08/90 S.J.Res. 217
02/04/90-
1991
02/08/90
02/10/90,
02/03/91-
02/09/91
Vocation-Technical Education Week, 1990 6094 02/12/90 S.J.Res. 130
02/11/90-
02/05/90
02/17/90
National Visiting Nurse Association
6096 02/16/90 S.J.Res. 103
Week, 1990
02/18/90-
02/08/90
02/24/90
Lithuanian Independence Day, 1990
6098 02/16/90 H.J.Res. 149
02/16/90
02/05/90
International Year of Bible Reading,
6100 02/22/90 S.J.Res. 164 1990
1990
11/30/89
National Quarter Horse Week, 1990
6102 02/27/90 S.J.Res. 186
03/01/90-
02/26/90
03/07/90
Harriet Tubman Day, 1990
6107 03/09/90 S.J.Res. 257 03/10/90
03/08/90
Deaf Awareness Week, 1990
6108 03/13/90 S.J.Res. 227
03/11/90-
03/08/90
03/17/90
Greek Independence Day: A National Day 6109 03/20/90 S.J.Res. 243 03/25/90
of Celebration of Greek and American
03/15/90
Democracy,
United States Naval Reserve Month, 1990 6111 03/30/90 S.J.Res. 266
March
03/29/90
National Former Prisoners of War
Recognition Day, 1990
6113 04/06/90 S.J.Res. 190 04/09/90
03/26/90
National Recycling Month, 1990
6117 04/20/90 S.J.Res. 250 April
03/29/90
National Crime Victims' Rights Week,
6121
04/25/90
S.J.Res. 242
1990
04/22/90-
04/20/90
04/28/90
National Arbor Day, 1990
6122 04/26/90 S.J.Res. 258
04/27/90
04/26/90
National Physical Fitness and Sports
Month, 1990
6124 05/01/90 S.J.Res. 267 May
05/25/90
Be Kind to Animals and National Pet
6126
Week, 1990
05/02/90
S.J.Res. 236
05/06/90-
05/03/90
05/12/90
Jewish Heritage Week, 1990
6127 05/03/90 S.J.Res. 241 05/06/90-
05/02/90
05/13/90
National Drinking Water Week, 1990
6128 05/03/90 S.J.Res. 230
05/06/90-
05/02/90
05/12/90
National Tourism Week, 1990
6129 05/03/90 S.J.Res. 153
05/13/90-
05/02/90
05/19/90
Asian/Pacific 1990 American Heritage Month,
6130
05/07/90
H.R. 3802
May
05/07/90
National Digestive Disease Awareness
Month, 1990
6132 05/10/90 H.J.Res. 453
May
05/11/90
Human National Day in Support of Freedom and 6134 05/12/90 S.J.Res. 275 05/13/90
Rights
05/11/90
PROCLAMATION RESOLUTION
OFFICIAL TITLE
NUMBER DATE RECEIVED
OBSERVANCE
National Trauma Awareness Month, 1990 6136 05/17/90 S.J.Res. 224
May
05/02/90
25th Anniversary of Head Start, 1990
6140 05/24/90 H.J.Res. 490
05/18/90
05/10/90
State-Supported Homes for Veterans
6144 06/11/90 S.J.Res. 231 06/10/90-
Week, 1990
05/25/90
06/16/90
Baltic Freedom Day, 1990
6146 06/14/90 S.J.Res. 251
06/14/90
06/13/90
National Scleroderma Awareness Week,
6148 06/15/90 H.J.Res. 516
1990
06/10/90-
06/13/90
06/16/90
National Sheriff's Week, 1990
6149 06/21/90 S.J.Res. 264
06/24/90-
06/26/90
06/30/90
Korean War Remembrance Day, 1990
6150 06/22/90 H.J.Res. 575
06/25/90
06/26/90
National Literacy Day, 1990
6153 06/29/90 S.J.Res. 320 07/02/90
06/26/90
National Ducks and Wetlands Day, 1990
6154
06/29/90
H.J.Res. 599
07/01/90
07/03/90
Idaho Centennial Day, 1990
6155 07/03/90 S.J.Res. 245
07/03/90
06/20/90
Wyoming Centennial Day, 1990
6156 07/09/90 S.J.Res. 271 07/10/90
06/29/90
Flight Attendant Safety Professionals' 6157 07/13/90 S.J.Res. 278 07/19/90
Day, 1990
06/29/90
Decade of the Brain - Beginning January 6158 07/17/90 H.J.Res. 174 1990-
1, 1990
07/18/89
1999
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Family
6159 07/18/90 S.J.Res. 315
Appreciation Day, 1990
07/22/90
06/26/90
Lyme Disease Awareness Week, 1990
6161 07/19/90 S.J.Res. 276 07/22/90-
07/20/90
07/28/90
Helsinki Human Rights Day, 1990
6163 07/31/90 S.J.Res. 339
08/01/90
07/30/90
National Agricultural Research Week,
1990
6164 08/06/90 H.J.Res. 548
08/19/90-
08/03/90
08/25/90
Voting Rights Celebrations Day, 1990
6165 08/06/90 H.J.Res. 625
08/06/90
08/03/90
National 1990 Neighborhood Crime Watch Day, 6166 08/06/90 S.J.Res. 296
08/07/90
08/09/90
Home Health Aide Week, 1990
6168 08/14/90 S.J.Res. 343
08/13/90-
08/09/90
08/19/90
National Senior Citizens Day, 1990
6169 08/14/90 H.J.Res. 591
08/19/90
07/27/90
National Drive for Life Weekend, 1990
6171 08/20/90 H.J.Res. 627
09/01/90-
08/09/90
09/03/90
International Visitors' Month, 1990
6172 08/22/90 S.J.Res. 248
September
08/09/90
National D.A.R.E. Day, 1990
6174 09/04/90 S.J.Res. 281 09/13/90
07/20/90
PROCLAMATION RESOLUTION
OFFICIAL TITLE
NUMBER DATE RECEIVED
OBSERVANCE
National Rehabilitation Week, 1990
6176 09/11/90 S.J.Res. 279
09/16/90-
09/12/90
09/22/90
National Give the Kids A Fighting
6177 09/11/90 H.J.Res. 515
Chance Week, 1990
09/16/90-
08/09/90
09/23/90
National Historically Black Colleges
6178 09/12/90 S.J.Res. 285
Week, 1990
09/09/90-
09/12/90
09/15/90
National POW/MIA Recognition Day, 1990 6180 09/14/90 H.J.Res. 467 09/21/90
08/09/90
Religious Freedom Week, 1990
6181 09/20/90 S.J.Res. 331
09/23/90-
09/19/90
09/29/90
National Teacher Appreciation Day, 1990 6182 09/20/90 S.J.Res. 313
10/03/90
09/19/90
Emergency Medical Services Week, 1990
6184
09/20/90
H.J.Res. 568
09/16/90-
09/19/90
09/22/90
National Job Skills Week, 1990
6188 09/28/90 S.J.Res. 333
09/30/90-
09/19/90
10/06/90
German-American Day, 1990
6194 10/03/90 H.J.Res. 469
10/06/90
10/03/90
Mental Illness Awareness Week, 1990
6196 10/09/90 S.J.Res. 256
10/07/90-
08/03/90
10/13/90
National Children's Day, 1990
6197 10/09/90 S.J.Res. 316
10/14/90
08/03/90
Dwight D. Eisenhower Day, 1990
6199 10/10/90 S.J.Res. 237
10/14/90
03/26/90
National 1990 Breast Cancer Awareness Month, 6202 10/11/90 S.J.Res. 301
October
10/02/90
Country Music Month, 1990
6205 10/12/90 H.J.Res. 603
October
10/03/90
National Drug-Free Schools and
Communities Education and Awareness
6206 10/17/90 S.J.Res. 304
10/17/90
10/17/90
Day, 1990
Crime Prevention Month, 1990
6208 10/18/90 S.J.Res. 309
October
09/12/90
National Radon Action Week, 1990
6209 10/19/90 S.J.Res. 317
10/14/90-
10/17/90
10/20/90
National Red Ribbon Week for a
Drug-Free America, 1990
6210 10/19/90 S.J.Res. 346
10/20/90-
10/20/90
10/28/90
American Textile Industry Bicentennial
6211
Week, 1990
10/20/90
H.J.Res.
518
10/13/90-
10/24/90
10/20/90
Polish American Heritage Month, 1990
6212 10/23/90 S.J.Res. 289
October
09/12/90
National Domestic Violence Awareness
Month, 1990
6213 10/24/90 H.J.Res. 602
October
10/12/90
World Population Awareness Week, 1990
6214
10/24/90
S.J.Res. 158
10/21/90-
10/24/90
10/27/90
Eating Disorders Awareness Week, 1990
6215
10/24/90
H.J.Res. 214
10/22/90-
10/24/90
10/28/90
Yosemite National Park Centennial Year, 6216 10/25/90 H.J.Res. 398
1990) 1990 - 1991 - (beginning October 1,
1990-
10/03/90
1991
PROCLAMATION RESOLUTION
OFFICIAL TITLE
NUMBER DATE RECEIVED
OBSERVANCE
Ending Hunger Month, 1990
6217 10/25/90 S.J.Res. 342 October
10/17/90
Italian-American Heritage and Culture
6218 10/26/90 S.J.Res. 349
October
Month, 1990
10/17/90
Refugee Day, 1990
6219 10/30/90 S.J.Res. 375 10/30/90
11/08/90
For a National Day of Prayer, November
6221
11/02/90
H.J.Res.
673
2, 1990
11/02/90
11/06/90
National Week to Commemorate the
6222 11/03/90 S.J.Res. 329
11/03/90-
Victims of the Famine in Ukraine,
11/20/90
1932-1933
11/10/90
National Women Veterans Recognition
6224 11/09/90 S.J.Res. 307
Week, 1990
11/11/90-
10/24/90
11/17/90
National Philanthropy Day, 1990
6225 11/09/90 S.J.Res. 293
11/16/90
10/24/90
Geography Awareness Week, 1990
6227 11/13/90 S.J.Res. 323
11/11/90-
10/22/90
11/17/90
National American Indian Heritage
6230 11/14/90 H.J.Res. 577
November
Month, 1990
07/27/90
National Federation of the Blind Day,
6232
11/15/90
H.J.Res. 667
1990
11/16/90
10/30/90
National Military Families Recognition 6233 11/16/90 H.J.Res. 566 11/19/90
Day, 1990
10/24/90
National Adoption Week, 1990
6234 11/20/90 S.J.Res. 362
11/18/90-
10/22/90
11/24/90
National Family Caregivers Week, 1990 6235 11/20/90 H.J.Res. 525
11/18/90-
10/30/90
11/24/90
National 1991 Law Enforcement Training Week, 6240 12/18/90 H.J.Res. 554
01/06/91-
08/09/90
01/12/91
National Visiting Nurse Associations
6246
02/05/91
S.J.Res. 270
Week, 1991
02/17/91-
10/22/90
02/23/91
National 1991 Women and Girls in Sports Day, 6248 02/07/91 H.J.Res. 30
02/07/91
02/07/91
Lithuanian Independence Day, 1991
6250 02/14/91 H.J.Res. 606
02/16/91
11/09/90
National Parents and Teachers
Association Week, 1991
6251 02/21/91 S.J.Res. 364
02/17/91-
11/20/90
02/23/91
Commemoration of the Bicenntennial of
6252
U.S.-Portugal Relations
02/21/91
S.J.Res. 55
02/21/91
02/28/91
National Doctors Day, 1991
6253 02/21/91 S.J.Res. 366
03/30/91
10/22/90
In Commemoration of the 30th
Anniversary of the United States Peace
6254 03/01/91 S.J.Res. 76
03/01/91
02/27/91
Corps
Federal 1991 Employees Recognition Week,
6255 03/01/91 S.J.Res. 51
03/04/91-
02/28/91
03/10/91
Vermont Bicentennial Day, 1991
6256 03/04/91 S.J.Res. 58
03/04/91
02/28/91
National School Breakfast Week, 1991
6258 03/08/91 H.J.Res. 98
03/04/91-
03/11/91
03/10/91
PROCLAMATION RESOLUTION
OFFICIAL TITLE
NUMBER DATE RECEIVED
OBSERVANCE
Irish-American Heritage Month, 1991
6259 03/12/91 H.J.Res. 482 March
10/04/90
National Employ the Older Worker Week, 6260 03/15/91 H.J.Res. 133
03/10/91-
1991
03/20/91
03/16/91
National County Government Week, 1991 6261 03/19/91 S.J.Res. 347
04/07/91-
10/22/90
04/13/91
Education Day, U.S.A., 1991
6262 03/20/91 H.J.Res. 104
03/26/91
03/14/91
National Medal of Honor Day, 1991
6263 03/21/91 H.J.Res. 652
03/25/91
11/09/90
Greek Independence Day: National Day of 6264 03/25/91 S.J.Res. 59
03/25/91
Celebration of Greek and American
03/22/91
Democracy,
Women's History Month, 1991
6265 03/25/91 H.J.Res. 149
March
07/01/91
National Former Prisoner of War
6267 04/03/91 S.J.Res. 53
04/09/91,
Recognition Day, 1991 and 1992
03/21/91
04/09/92
Jewish Heritage Week, 1991 and 1992
6272 04/17/91 H.J.Res. 134
04/14/91-
04/12/91
04/21/91,
05/03/92-
05/10/92
National Education First Week, 1991
6273 04/18/91 H.J.Res. 197
04/15/91-
04/12/91
04/21/91
Earth Day, 1991
6274 04/22/91 S.J.Res. 119
04/22/91
04/18/91
National Crime Victims' Week, 1991
6275 04/22/91 S.J.Res. 16
04/21/91-
04/18/91
04/27/91
National Arbor Day, 1991
6276 04/22/91 S.J.Res. 64
04/26/91
04/23/91
National Trauma Awareness Month, 1991
6277 04/22/91 S.J.Res. 351
May
10/22/90
National Organ and Tissue Donor
6281 04/25/91 H.J.Res. 218
Awareness Week, 1991 and 1992
04/21/91-
04/24/91
04/27/91,
04/19/92-
04/25/92
National Day to Commemorate the 200th
6286 05/01/91 H.J.Res. 669
Anniversary of the Adoption of the
05/03/91
10/26/90
Polish Cons
National Tourism Week, 1991
6287 05/03/91 S.J.Res. 102
05/05/91-
04/26/91
05/11/91
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, 6288 05/06/91 H.J.Res. 173
1991 and 1992
May
05/06/91
Infant Mortality Awareness Day, 1991
6290 05/10/91 H.J.Res. 194
05/12/91
05/09/91
Emergency Medical Services Week, 1991
6293
and 1992
05/15/91
H.J.Res.
109
05/12/91-
05/13/91
05/18/91,
05/10/92-
05/16/92
Month, 1991
National Huntington's Disease Awareness 6295 05/17/91 S.J.Res. 127
May
05/20/91
National Foster Care Month, 1991
6297 05/20/91 H.J.Res. 154 May
05/10/91
PROCLAMATION
RESOLUTION
OFFICIAL TITLE
NUMBER DATE RECEIVED
OBSERVANCE
National Desert Storm Reservists Day,
6298
05/21/91
S.J.Res. 134
05/22/91
1991
05/20/91
Week for the National Observance of the 6299 05/23/91 S.J.Res. 324
06/02/91-
50th Anniversary of World War II
10/24/90
06/08/91
National Scleroderma Awareness Week,
6303
06/11/91
H.J.Res. 219
06/09/91-
1991
06/12/91
06/15/91
Pediatric AIDS Awareness Week, 1991
6305 06/12/91 H.J.Res. 91
06/10/91-
06/13/91
06/16/91
Baltic Freedom Day, 1991 and 1992
6306 06/13/91 H.J.Res. 167
06/14/91,
03/14/91
06/14/92
National Forest System Month, 1991
6311 06/28/91 S.J.Res. 159
June
06/27/91
National Literacy Day, 1991
6312 07/02/91 H.J.Res. 259
07/02/91
07/01/91
Lyme Disease Awareness Week, 1991
6314 07/10/91 H.J.Res. 138
07/21/91-
07/01/91
07/27/91
Korean War Veterans Remembrance Week,
6316 07/23/91 H.J.Res. 255
07/21/91-
1991
07/19/91
07/28/91
National Juvenile Arthritis Awareness
6318
07/25/91
S.J.Res. 142
07/28/91-
Week, 1991
07/25/91
08/03/91
Helsinki Human Rights Day, 1991
6319 07/31/91 H.J.Res. 264 08/01/91
08/02/91
National Senior Citizens Day, 1991
6321 08/12/91 H.J.Res. 181
08/18/91
07/26/91
National Sarcoidosis Awareness Day,
6322 08/15/91 H.J.Res. 309
08/29/91
1991
08/07/91
National Rice Month, 1991
6323 08/20/91 S.J.Res. 353
September
10/22/90
National Park Week, 1991
6325 08/21/91 S.J.Res. 179
08/25/91-
08/02/91
08/31/91
National Rehabilitation Week, 1991
6327 08/23/91 S.J.Res. 72
09/15/91-
08/06/91
09/21/91
Commodore John Barry Day, 1991
6328 08/26/91 H.J.Res. 166
09/13/91
08/08/91
National Historically Black Colleges
6332 09/09/91 S.J.Res. 40
Week, 1991 and 1992
09/08/91-
08/01/91
09/14/91-
09/06/92-
09/12/92
National POW/MIA Recognition Day, 1991 6334 09/12/91 H.J.Res. 233
09/20/91
09/25/91
National D.A.R.E. Day, 1991
6335 09/12/91 S.J.Res. 121
09/12/91
07/25/91
National Domestic Violence Awareness
6340
09/27/91
S.J.Res. 73
October
Month, 1991
09/26/91
German-American Day, 1991 and 1992
6346 10/03/91 S.J.Res. 151
10/06/91,
09/25/91
10/06/92
National Radon Action Week, 1991
6347 10/04/91 S.J.Res. 132
10/13/91-
10/04/91
10/19/91
PROCLAMATION RESOLUTION
OFFICIAL TITLE
NUMBER DATE RECEIVED
OBSERVANCE
National Firefighters Day, 1991
6349 10/07/91 H.J.Res. 189
10/08/91
10/09/91
Mental Illness Awareness Week, 1991
6351 10/08/91 S.J.Res. 156
10/06/91-
10/01/91
10/12/91
Polish-American Heritage Month, 1991
6353 10/09/91 S.J.Res. 125
October
09/26/91
National Children's Day, 1991
6355 10/11/91 S.J.Res. 126
10/13/91
09/25/91
World Food Day, 1991 and 1992
6356 10/11/91 H.J.Res. 230
10/16/91,
10/16/91
10/16/92
National Law Enforcement Memorial
6357 10/15/91 S.J.Res. 107
Dedication Day, 1991
10/15/91
10/17/91
Country Music Month, 1991
6358 10/15/91 H.J.Res. 305
October
10/04/91
Crime Prevention Month, 1991
6359 10/17/91 H.J.Res. 303
October
10/16/91
National Down Syndrome Awareness Month, 6361 10/21/91 S.J.Res. 131
October
1991
10/22/91
Community Center Month, 1991
6363 10/23/91 S.J.Res. 357
October
11/09/90
National 1991 Breast Cancer Awareness Month, 6364 10/24/91 S.J.Res. 95
October
09/26/91
National Red Ribbon Week for a
6365 10/25/91 H.J.Res. 340
Drug-Free America, 1991
10/19/91-
10/25/91
10/27/91
World Population Awareness Week, 1991
6366
10/25/91
S.J.Res. 160
10/20/91-
10/25/91
10/26/91
Refugee Day, 1991
6367 10/28/91 S.J.Res. 192
10/30/91
10/25/91
National American Indian Heritage
Month, 1991
6368 10/30/91 S.J.Res. 172
November
10/01/91
National Hospice Month, 1991 and 1992
6369
11/05/91
S.J.Res. 78
November
10/03/91
National Women Veterans Recognition
Week, 1991
6371 11/12/91 S.J.Res. 145
11/10/91-
11/08/91
11/16/91
National Alzheimer's Disease Month,
1991 and 1992
6372 11/12/91 S.J.Res. 36
November
11/08/91
Hire a Veteran Week, 1991
6373 11/12/91 H.J.Res. 280
11/10/91-
11/08/91
11/16/91
National Red Ribbon Month, 1991
6374 11/13/91 S.J.Res. 188
November
11/08/91
Dutch-American Heritage Day, 1991
6375 11/14/91 H.J.Res. 177
11/16/91
11/08/91
National Philanthropy Day, 1991
6376 11/15/91 H.J.Res. 140
11/19/91
11/08/91
National Family Week, 1991 and 1992
6378 11/20/91 H.J.Res. 23
11/24/91-
09/27/91
11/30/91,
11/22/92-
11/28/92
PROCLAMATION RESOLUTION
OFFICIAL TITLE
NUMBER DATE RECEIVED
OBSERVANCE
National Military Families Recognition 6379 11/22/91 H.J.Res. 215 11/25/91
Day, 1991
11/22/91
National Accessible Housing Month, 1991 6381 11/25/91 S.J.Res. 184
November
11/25/91
National Family Caregivers Week, 1991 6382 11/25/91 H.J.Res. 125 11/24/91-
and 1992
11/25/91
11/30/91,
11/22/92-
11/28/92
National Adoption Week, 1991
6383 11/27/91 S.J.Res. 207
11/24/91-
11/25/91
11/30/91
11/22/92-
11/28/92
National 1991 Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, 6386 11/29/91 H.J.Res. 72
12/07/91
07/01/91
Geography Awareness Week, 1991 and 1992 6384 12/02/91 H.J.Res. 201
12/01/91-
12/03/91
12/06/91,
11/15/92-
11/20/92
National Home Care Week, 1991 and 1992 6385 12/02/91 H.J.Res. 175
12/01/91-
11/08/91
12/07/91,
11/29/92-
12/05/92
Bicentennial of the District of
6392 12/13/91 H.J.Res. 356
December
Columbia Month, 1991
12/03/91
Year of Clean Water, 1992 - Clean Water 6393 12/13/91 S.J.Res. 181 1992
Month - October 1992
10/04/90
Year of Thanksgiving for the Blessings 6394 12/16/91 S.J.Res. 369
of Liberty, 1991
1991
11/06/90
Basketball Centennial Day, 1991
6395 12/17/91 H.J.Res. 372
12/21/91
12/03/91
National 1992 Law Enforcement Training Week, 6396 12/20/91 H.J.Res. 191
01/05/92-
12/03/91
01/11/92
National Ellis Island Day
6398 12/23/91 H.J.Res. 130
01/01/92
11/22/91
Year of the Gulf of Mexico - 1992
6399 01/10/92 H.J.Res. 327 1992
11/22/91
Women's History Month, 1992
6400 01/16/92 H.J.Res. 149 March
07/01/91
National Visiting Nurse Associations
Week, 1992
6404 02/14/92 H.J.Res. 212
02/16/92-
12/03/91
02/22/92
Year of the American Indian - 1992
6407 03/02/92 S.J.Res. 217
1992
11/25/91
Irish-American Heritage Month, 1992
6408 03/04/92 H.J.Res. 350
March
03/04/92
Girl Scouts of the United States of
America 80th Anniversary Day
6410 03/10/92 H.J.Res. 343
03/12/92
03/04/92
National Women in Agriculture Day, 1992 6412 03/17/92 S.J.Res. 176
03/19/92
03/16/92
National Public Safety
Telecommunicators Week, 1992
03/18/92 H.J.Res. 284
04/12/92-
03/19/92
04/18/92
Curt
More Prayer Breakfast --
I did a NEXIS search for a reference to the Camp David
chapel experience. Here's an article and speech text from
early June that makes reference to it. Thought this might
help until we can get the transcript for the Dobson
interview.
The Vice President is going to recite a prayer. I called
his office to see if anyone knew if it was a standard prayer
or something his office was writing for him. No one knew
anything. They're checking it out for me and will let me
know.
Per Advance: As yet, they have heard nothing about Billy
Graham attending the event. An invitation has not been
extended and they have not heard if he's planning to
accompany the President.
More on the choir -- The adult choir is made up of
approximately 1,000 singers from various churches,
synagogues around Houston; (they have no official name as
yet -- other than Adult Choir). The children's choir is not
an international choir. It's official name is the Houston
Children's Choir.
The two scripture readings are:
Harold Wiesenthal will read from the Hebrew Bible -- 1
Chronicles 29: 10-13.
Judge Al Green (ALSO IS PRESIDENT OF THE HOUSTON
CHAPTER OF THE NAACP) will read from Philippians 4: 4-
9.
I've included a copy of these verses; their recitations may
not be identical verbatim, but should at least give you a
sense of what these gentlemen will be reciting.
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a North Korean take-
I pointed out that as a candidate, I was expected to tell voters
something about my qualifications. She thought about that a mo-
ecticut was geared to de-
ment, then reluctantly conceded. "Well, I understand that," she
to the Democrats'
said, "but try to restrain yourself."
ocratic Senate incumbent
Even after I became Vice President, Mother called to set me
by 1,000 votes out of
straight on my appearance during one of the President's televised
candidate. When
State of the Union messages. She said it didn't look right for me to
McMahon, died two years
be reading something while President Reagan was speaking. When
special election to fill the
I explained that House Speaker "Tip" O'Neill and I were given
leering him on from Texas,
advance copies of the speech in order to follow the President's
seat, and in 1956 was
remarks, she was less than persuaded. "I really can't see why that's
like Ribicoff, eventually
necessary," she said. "Just listen and you'll find out what he has to
full decade in the Senate,
say."
political career in Harris
Sometimes Mother is more subtle in her suggestions about my
deportment as Vice President. "George, I've noticed how thought-
ful President Reagan is to Nancy," she once called to say. "I've
never seen him climb off a plane ahead of her or walk ahead of her.
in Greenwich, Connect-
He's so thoughtful!" I got the message.
and me-our father had a
But Mother's criticism of her children, like Dad's, was always
look at the world. But the
constructive, not negative. They were our biggest boosters, always
single greatest influence"
there when we needed them. They believed in an old-fashioned
nother's influence and ex-
way of bringing up a family-generous measures of both love and
about duty and service.
discipline. Religious teaching was also part of our home life. Each
on a personal basis, relat-
morning, as we gathered at the breakfast table, Mother or Dad read
a Bible lesson to us. Our family is Episcopalian, and we regularly
was a first-rate athlete.
attended Sunday services at Christ Church in Greenwich.
or anyone in tennis, golf,
We were a close, happy family, and never closer or happier
don't recall a footrace
than when we crammed into the station wagon each summer-five
in first. Even when her
kids, two dogs, with Mother driving-to visit Walker's Point in
us down to size when-
Kennebunkport, Maine. It was named after my grandfather,
George Herbert Walker, and his father, David, who had bought it
on the alert for anything
jointly as a family vacation home.
from one of her children.
Grandfather Walker was born into a devout Catholic family in
George," she told me
St. Louis and named after the seventeenth-century religious poet
of my campaign speeches.
George Herbert. He was a midwestern businessman, but more of a
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1ST STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format.
Copyright 1991 News World Communications, Inc.
The Washington Times
June 7, 1991, Friday, Final Edition
SECTION: Part A; Pg. A1
LENGTH: 879 words
HEADLINE: Bush WOWS Baptists, backs school prayer
BYLINE: Larry Witham; THE WASHINGTON TIMES
DATELINE: ATLANTA
BODY:
ATLANTA - President Bush reached for the minds of 20,000 Southern Baptists
here yesterday by calling for a school prayer amendment - and won their hearts
with a tearful confession that he had wept in church while praying for American
troops on the eve of the Persian Gulf war.
"I call on the United States Congress to pass a constitutional amendment
permitting voluntary prayer back into our nation's schools," he told delegates
to the annual gathering of the conservative 15-million-member church, the
nation's largest Protestant denomination.
The president drew warm applause when he deviated from his prepared speech
and, with voice breaking and tears glistening on his cheeks, told a clearly
enthusiastic audience about praying with his wife, Barbara, in the chapel at
Camp David just before the war started.
"For me, prayer has always been important but quite personal - you know us
Episcopalians, Mr. Bush said. "And like a lot of people I've worried a
little bit about shedding tears in public, or the emotion of it.
"But as Barbara and I prayed at Camp David before the air war began, we were
thinking about those young men and women overseas. I had the tears start down
the cheeks. And our minister smiled back. And I no longer worried how I looked
to others."
The president's voice cracked at this point and he brushed away tears and
said, "Here we go." The audience stood and applauded, and Mr. Bush went on.
"I think that like a lot of others who had positions of responsibility in
sending someone else's kid to war, we realized that in prayer what mattered was
how it might have seemed to God," he said.
Mr. Bush has long been an advocate of a school prayer amendment. He
proposed such a measure during the 1988 presidential campaign and unsuccessfully
co-sponsored one while a congressman in the late 1960s.
As president, he has said often that he favored such an amendment, but until
yesterday he made no public call for action. His view of the issue as expressed
in 1988 was that students should not be forced to pray but should have the right
to "a momentary reflection, meditation or prayer."
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In his speech yesterday Mr. Bush cited the case of fifth-grader Monette
Rethford of Norman, Okla. School officials barred her from meeting with friends
at recess to read the Bible.
"The day a child's quiet prayer group during recess becomes an unlawful
assembly, something's really wrong," he said.
School prayer has been a major goal of religious and social conservatives,
including many Southern Baptists, since the early 1980s. But many of them have
said the problem was solved by the Equal Access Act of 1984, which allows Bible
and prayer clubs to meet at schools after hours like other clubs. The law,
upheld by the Supreme Court, does not cover elementary schools.
The Southern Baptist Convention's social issues wing, the Christian Life
Commission, says "prayer at commencements and voluntary private prayer in public
schools is not wrong," said its spokesman, the Rev. Louis Moore. Church
members are "divided on the issue," he said, and the last resolution supporting
voluntary school prayer was in 1981.
Mr. Bush spoke to the Southern Baptist Convention in a year when
conservative forces have consolidated control of its leadership, finances and
educational arms. Last year he canceled plans to address the convention because
of Baptist leaders' hostile reaction when homosexual leaders were invited to a
bill-signing at the White House.
"As I see it, he's reaching an understanding with evangelicals in America,"
said the Rev. Russ Lievers of Horse Cave, Ky., before the president's speech.
America's white evangelicals have made up a key voting bloc in national
elections since Jimmy Carter's election in 1976.
Mr. Bush also touted a social agenda dear to conservative Baptists' hearts
yesterday. He said American parents should have a choice in both child care and
schools. Under the nation's new child care law, vouchers are being made
available for church-based child care, he noted.
In conversation with reporters on Air Force One returning to Washington, Mr
Bush was asked if he was embarrassed by his tearful confession about weeping at
Camp David.
"No," he replied. "I do that in church. I'm not embarrassed." Then he
added:
"Maybe in public it's kind of a first, or maybe a third, but no, I feel very
emotionally about the war and about having to send other people's sons and
daughters halfway across the world and commit our troops to battle. So I was
trying to speak to them from the heart.
"Maybe I'm not too proud of myself, but I felt strongly. I'll never forget
that day. I knew what was over the horizon in terms of our air war, and I sat
there with the tears coming down my face, and that's the way it was. So why not
say it?"
Looking ahead to the memorial service tomorrow morning at Arlington National
Cemetery, Mr. Bush said: "I hope it doesn't get too emotional at the service
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GRAPHIC: Photo, President Bush replaces glasses after wiping away tears
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Remarks at the Annual Southern
Baptist Convention in Atlanta, Georgia
flower of faith can bloom anywhere-that
no matter how hard the journey, no matter
In this Bicen
June 6, 1991
provides. how or humble a surroundings, God's love
Rights, we wou
flect on religior
Thank you all very, very much. Thank all
During the Gulf crisis, Barbara and I, and
our society's roo
of you. And Dr. Chapman, Morris, a fellow
Texan, pride of Wichita Falls and the rest of
much of this nation-I think, in this in-
fathers thought
the country. And Dr. Bennett, I salute you,
stance, most of this nation-found guidance
role of religion
sir. You came down today with one who's
and comfort in prayer. And throughout the
ety. And it's no
the freedoms
serving well our principles overseas, and
struggle, your prayers sustained us. And so,
Amendment-fr
that is a son of Atlanta, Paul Coverdell, Di-
I want to thank you all and ask that you
rector of the Peace Corps, who's with us-
keep-as Morris generously said-those in
press, of assemb
the freedom of
one of Georgia's favorite sons. I salute him.
the decision-making process, keep us in
story of a little
The last time-and we were talking about
your prayers.
ford, out in Nor
this on the long way up the stairs over here;
You know, I've confessed this to Dr.
ting national att
this is a tremendous auditorium-the last
Chapman and a few others-leaders in the
A fifth-grade
time I attended a Southern Baptist Conven-
Southern Baptist movement-and for me,
school, Monette
tion was in 1982. Too long ago. But never
prayer has always been important, but quite
under a shade t
so long that I'd lose touch with the rock-
personal. You know us Episcopalians.
ers involved, no
solid values of this community-qualities
[Laughter] And like a lot of people, I've
tivities-just Mc
that make it uniquely American. Strong but
worried a little bit about shedding tears in
to time, a handf
compassionate, proud but not boastful,
public or the emotion of it. But as Barbara
voluntarily, to S
decent and giving-and as Morris said, be-
and I prayed at Camp David before the air
how it touched
lieving strongly in family, bearing an endur-
war began, we were thinking about
Yet school off
ing belief in freedom, an abiding faith in
young men and women overseas. And
the love of God and, yes, in the power of
prayer group W
the tears start down the cheeks, and
ty-an "unlawf
prayer.
minister smiled back. And I no longer wor-
that the First
Everywhere you turn, it seems, American
ried how it looked to others. Here we go
values are ascendant around the world.
protect people
[Applause]
by the State-n
Look at Eastern Europe and the Soviet
And I think that, like a lot of others who
Union: there, places of worship long stood
voluntary religio
had positions or responsibility in sending
someone else's kid to war, we realize that in
Potus
I would add
silent and subdued, forced underground by
the iron fist of the state. But now, the
prayer what mattered is how it might have
starts
quiet, voluntary
comes an "unla
churches, the synagogues and the mosques
seemed to God.
buzz with life: reclaimed by the people, joy-
Above all, after all the months of praying
choking
wrong.
fully emerging to proclaim their faith anew.
In that spirit
In Africa and Asia and Latin America,
and asking for God's guidance-I thought it
up
United States C
important to thank God for sustaining our
tional Amendm
your ministries flourish and spread the
word of God around the world.
nation through this crisis. And that led to 3
National Days of Thanksgiving and Prayer,
here
prayer back int
see, let's put pe
And even in the heat of the Persian Gulf,
which I really believed strengthened our
the freedom to f
nearly 200 Southern Baptist chaplains re-
wonderful nation.
ported that well over 1,000 conversions
Putting peopl
among the service men and women of Op-
You know, for too long, too many have
sure governmer
worried that we Americans have weakened
their own decisi
eration Desert Storm had taken place-and
the two fundamental pillars supporting our
parents and fam
some solemnified with poncho-lined holes
in the sand serving as makeshift baptistries.
society-our families, and our faith.
kind of child ca
But while the cynics may sense some
kids. Choice in C
Southern Baptists have been doing quiet
but crucial work-engaging in countless
kind of "religious resurgence" over the last
Just today we
acts of kindness and compassion, spreading
2 or 3 years, they've always been a lagging
that will provide
the word of God, demonstrating the pro-
indicator of American life. Most of us have
care. And finall
found power of religious freedom.
never had to get our faith in God back,
have the chance
And you've held to faith where others
because we never lost it. In a recent survey,
get child care-
may have lost it-gained in numbers where
40 percent of Americans named "Faith in
and with religio
others haven't-and made a difference
God" the most important part of their lives.
way over here t
where others couldn't. You prove that the
Only 2 percent selected, "A job that pays
ta, I visited a
well."
center where
care-regardless
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Administration of George Bush, 1991 / June 6
1 anywhere that
In this Bicentennial year of the Bill of
background, or income. We fought a long
Rights, we would do well to pause and re-
burney, no matter
time to preserve choice for parents. And
adings, God's love
flect on religion's roots in our society, and
today, it truly becomes a reality-at least in
our society's roots in religion. The founding
child care.
fathers thought long and carefully about the
Barbara and I, and
We want to extend the concept of choice
think, in this in-
role of religion and government in our soci-
to include schools. Every family should
ety. And it's no accident that among all of
-found guidance
have the freedom to choose a school for a
d throughout the
the freedoms guaranteed by the First
child. Our efforts for choice in schools seek
Amendment-freedoms of speech, of the
tained us. And so,
to put power in parents' hands. We trust
press, of assembly, of petition-the first was
and ask that you
them to make the right decisions for their
the freedom of religion. And that's why the
sly said-those in
kids. And some argue that choice will make
story of a little girl named Monette Reth-
cess, keep us in
bad schools worse. Our new Secretary of
ford, out in Norman, Oklahoma, is now get-
Education doesn't agree with that, and I
ting national attention.
ssed this to Dr.
don't agree with that. I am confident that
A fifth-grader in public elementary
rs-leaders in the
choice will make even the bad schools
school, Monette liked to read her Bible
ent-and for me,
under a shade tree during recess. No teach-
better. They'll have to compete.
portant, but quite
ers involved, no disruption of the school ac-
And something more-one of our national
IS Episcopalians.
tivities-just Monette and then, from time
education goals-we believe that kids
it of people, I've
to time, a handful of friends who joined her,
should be safe to walk the streets-any
shedding tears in
voluntarily, to share their faith and discuss
streets. Schools should also be free from the
it. But as Barbara
how it touched their daily lives.
fear of crime and the despair of drugs. And
vid before the air
Yet school officials told Monette that her
if you detect a note of frustration in what
iking about th
prayer group was illegal on school proper-
I'm about to say, you're a good psychiatrist,
verseas. And
ty-an "unlawful assembly." They forgot
because it's true.
cheeks, and
that the First Amendment was written to
Back on March 6th, I challenged the Con-
1 I no longer wor-
protect people against religious intrusions
gress of the United States to pass a tough
hers. Here we go.
by the State-not to protect the State from
crime bill in 100 days-to keep our streets
voluntary religious activities by the people.
safe. And yet, the leadership has failed to
lot of others who
I would add this: that the day a child's
make crime a priority issue. We submitted
ibility in sending
quiet, voluntary group during recess be-
our first crime bill more than 2 years ago-
we realize that in
comes an "unlawful assembly," something's
and nothing has happened. Surely the
how it might have
wrong.
United States Congress can pass a crime bill
In that spirit, once again I call on the
in what's left of that 100 days.
months of praying
United States Congress to pass a Constitu-
There's another issue before the Con-
ince-I thought it
tional Amendment permitting voluntary
gress-that's the question of human life, the
for sustaining our
prayer back into our nation's schools. You
question of abortion-a difficult and a
And that led to 3
see, let's put people first-and allow them
deeply emotional decision for all Americans.
tiving and Prayer,
the freedom to follow their faith.
The question-and we've faced it before-is
strengthened our
Putting people first also means making
whether the American taxpayer should pay
sure government allows people to make
for abortions. And honest people of good-
J, too many have
their own decisions-and that means giving
will, I'm sure, differ on this question, but I
as have weakened
parents and families the right to choose the
firmly oppose Federal funding of abortions,
rs supporting our
kind of child care that they want for their
except where the life of the mother is en-
our faith.
kids. Choice in child care.
dangered. Since 1981 the Federal Govern-
may sense some
Just today we are publishing regulations
ment has determined that taxpayer funds
nce" over the last
that will provide the first vouchers for child
should be used for abortion only in this
ys been a lagging
care. And finally, low-income parents will
most narrow of circumstances.
Most of us have
have the chance to choose where their kids
And whatever we've learned over the last
ith in God back,
get child care-including religious settings
few decades, it's clear that America is a
n a recent survey,
and with religious instruction. Just on my
nation that no longer lacks a moral vocabu-
named "Faith in
way over here this morning, here in Atlan-
lary. Ideals like decency and virtue are no
part of their lives.
ta, I visited a church-based child care
longer subject to scorn.
"A job that pays
center where children receive first-class
And I'd ask that you hold fast to the
care-regardless of their parents' religion,
Southern Baptist ideal of "a free church in a
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free State." Hold fast to protect-and,
Gilawish arrived in America Tuesday
Morris, once again, in his generous intro-
or who's
night-where years of sorrow were washed
duction, spoke of this-to protect all faiths
away with tears of joy.
meeting a
in freedom, and hold fast to protect our
is on the $
What a testament to the power of faith
most essential unit of life-the family.
Q. What
and hope and love-all of which God pro-
As I look at our social agenda, and as
The Pre
vides in abundance. In war and peace, as
Barbara and I talk about it and worry about
technical
I've mentioned above, faith provides our
it in the wonderful setting of the White
greatest
solace, our shield and our shelter. I under-
House, we keep saying: "What can we do?"
stand what Lincoln talked about when he
counting.
Privileged as we are to serve this great
that are hi.
said many times he went to his knees as
country, what can we do to strengthen
President of the United States. And as the
important,
family life in America? It is essential to our
some rema
Psalmist wrote, "God is our refuge and
well-being.
work has
strength, a very present help in trouble."
Let me close with a story-well, let me
We're goin
God's light leads us forward. And today, as
just make a couple of other remarks.
Q. Will S
always, let us pray for His continued guid-
[Laughter] Not many. I mentioned family,
date for the
ance and His grace.
so let's ask ourselves in child care and edu-
row, do you
Thank all of you for your commitment,
cation and crime legislation: Are we doing
The Pres.
all we can to preserve faith and family?
your leadership, your love, and your pray-
what we de
ers. And may God continue to bless this
And, if not, we've got to do more. Only
ideas are T
when we protect and preserve our most
land with freedom and peace.
and on wh
cherished ideals and institutions, does gov-
Thank you all very, very much.
mean, it's a
ernment by the people serve the people.
sides are de
We are, as ever, "One nation under
Note: The President spoke at 11:44 a.m. in
point. And
God." No nation better reconciles diversity
the Georgia World Congress Center. In his
summit, ano
of faith with unity of purpose. And as new
remarks, he referred to Morris Chapman
and Harold C. Bennett, president and exec-
get a strateg
challenges confront us we must draw on
given at this
that strength and work to build a nation
utive president of the Southern Baptist Con-
the case nec
united in its commitment to decency and
vention; and Secretary of Education Lamar
that. I mean,
opportunity, to freedom, to family, and to
Alexander. Prior to attending the concen-
then we'd lik
faith.
tion, the President toured the Child Devel-
Now to this story about a Kurdish
opment Center at Central in Atlanta.
Civil Rights
family-Mikail and Safiya Dosky-who es-
Q. What C.
caped from Iraq over a decade ago. During
forth's prop
their perilous journey across the Iranian
rights?
border, they became separated from their
The Presid
Exchange With Reporters
2-year-old daughter, Gilawish. Mikail and
and our peop
his wife made it; the child left behind.
June 6, 1991
them. What
Their daughter did not make it out.
where along 1
After settling in America, Mikail, the
Soviet-U.S. Relations
a look at our I
father, kept trying to get his daughter out
The
President.
-a couple of experts to
it is strong ir
of Iraq, even traveling there himself, but to
crimination in
answer your questions.
no avail. And just a few weeks ago, the dad,
Q. What's going on in Geneva tomorrow?
quota problen
Mikail, got a phone call from an American
The President. Well, I assume they'll be
Congress. I'd
helicopter pilot in Turkey-one of our
talking about a possible summit meeting. As
our legislation
heroes. This pilot had been flying supplies
we've said before, we want to move START
"theirs" legisla
to save the lives of these Kurdish refugees
further along. So, they'll be talking sub-
ly for 2 years
when he got a note from Gilawish-now,
stance. I am going to having a meeting
And I think a
this child, now 18 years old-asking him to
with-back this afternoon-a rather impor-
agree with me,
call her parents in America. He did-and
tant meeting. That will help Secretary
keep saying I
Mikail's friends at the First Baptist Church
Baker-if I can get a hold of him.
will bar discri
in Alexandria, Virginia, helped him get to
Q. Who will be at that meeting this after-
and I think We
Turkey and bring his daugher back. And
noon?
lieve any of you
after thousands of miles, thousands of days,
The President. It's an NSC meeting.
sis of our bill.
and thousands of dollars, Mikail and
don't know exactly what-the participants
always playing
of music.
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August 12, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR CURT SMITH
FROM:
MICHELE NIX
SUBJECT:
PRAYER BREAKFAST
The Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast is scheduled for next
Thursday, POTUS arrival at 8:00 a.m. Expected audience: 10,000
people -- delegates, community leaders, other registered GOPers.
The event is being held at Hofheinz Pavilion at the University of
Texas Campus. (Hofheinz is where the Houston Cougars basketball
team plays.)
POTUS first will attend a private reception 50 people.
With an off-stage announce, he'll go up on stage and the program
will begin.
Ken Lay, the host chairman, will call everyone to order.
Judge Jon Lindsay will lead everyone in the Pledge of
Allegiance.
Susan Baker will do the invocation.
Mayor Bob Lanier will do a welcome speech.
Scripture reading by Harold Wiesenthal (owns "Harold's,"
clothing stores in Houston
Adult choir enters singing "America"
International Children's Choir sings "I Have Returned"
Scripture reading by Judge Al Green
VP makes remarks (introduced by Ninfa Lorenzo -- popular
owner of Mexican restaurant chain, "Ninfa's")
Adult choir sings "Amazing Grace"
Solo by choir member of "I Bowed on my Knees"
POTUS remarks (introduced by Mary Lou Retton; Advance is
slating 15 minutes for his remarks)
Choirs (probably both) will sing "Battle Hymn of the
Republic"
Bob Springer, astronaut, gives closing remarks
The VP, Mrs. Quayle and FLOTUS will are all slated to
attend.
I've included:
:
Copy of the invitation sent out by the Host Committee
Several past prayer breakfast remarks, including two
from Reagan.
Your speech for the National Religious Broadcasters
Recent Knights of Columbus remarks -- our most recent
moral/family values language
Here's some quotes, anecdotal material that might be useful.
A little boy's account of the Bible story about David and
Goliath (from Kids Say the Darndest Things) :
"David went to the brook and got seven pebbles, and he
put one in his slingshot. Then you know what? He whirled
it around and around his head and threw it and hit this
great big giant right between the eyes -- and the giant fell
down dead!"
When asked what that story teaches us, the little boy
sat and thought for a moment, and then said, "Duck!"
(Could be good, subtle segue for POTUS mention of
impending campaign fight)
(Also from Kids Say the Darndest Things) : Seven-year-old
Sally had her own ideas about what heaven was like. She
gave the following very succinct definition:
"It's a great big round gold dome with three lines of
people waiting to get in -- Catholics, Lutherans and
Americans."
Excerpts from children's letters to POTUS:
Dear President Bush,
"
I hear you are a Christian. I am a Christian, too.
I just wanted to tell you I am praying for you. God is in
charge. " (from a little girl, Joy Vaughn)
"
I am praying for you and my 3rd grade class is too.
I want to be President when I grow up. I hope the next
President is just like you. " (JOKE: "I hope he's just like
me, too, Leslie. As a matter of fact, I hope he is me!")
(from little girl, Leslie Jean Wickham)
"
All of us have been praying for you
...
We are very
blessed that you help us in the world
...
God can be with
you on your decisions. All you have to do is just ask him
to help you in your life. I bet God is really pleased with
you. " (from 9-year-old Lisa)
"
I show full enthusiasm for your campaign. I know I
am not a voter but I try to spread support among the older
population
As a fellow Christian I wish you the best.
I'll be praying for you, Mr. President." (from 11-year-old
Jonathan Large)
"
I think that you're a pretty neat president because
you're a Christian, that's what I heard and I hope that's
true. " (from 11-year-old Sarah Bale)
"
I am writing to you because me and my family are
studying about American presidents this week during my
summer vacation and I asked my mom if I could write to you
I pray for you every night at bed. God bless you and
your family. " (from 7-year-old David Majewski)
"
I hope you win the election by a landslide or
whatever
I think your wife is intelligent because she
sounds like she cares about the community. P.S. Please
don't raise the taxes. We'll pray for you. " (from 9-year-
old Elena Hutcheson)
POTUS, excerpt from Looking Forward: "Religious teaching
was also part of our home life. Each morning, as we
gathered at the breakfast table, Mother or Dad read a Bible
lesson to us."
Woodrow Wilson:
"When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the
word of God, because you will have found it the key to
your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty." "
"The sum of the whole matter is this, that our
civilization cannot survive materially unless it is
redeemed spiritually."
Eisenhower:
"Without God there could be no American form of
government, nor an American way of life
Thus the
founding fathers of America saw it, and thus, with
God's help, it will continue to be.
Re new world order, "Religion nurtures men of faith,
men of hope, men of love; such men are needed in the
building of a new world reflecting the glory of God.' "
"We know that the Lord will give strength to all of us
as we strive tirelessly, confidently, for peace."
"The more vigorous our religious institutions, the
greater possibility that the voice of morality will be
heard in widening areas of public life and in the
consideration of national and international problems."
"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.' "
(from the Old Testament: Psalms, 69:105)
"The world in which we live is geographically one. The
challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of
brotherhood
"
(from Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Re President's fondness for criticizing Dems as gloom and
doomsayers: "Skepticism has not founded empires,
established principles, or changed the world's heart. The
great doers of history have always been men of faith."
(Edwin Hubbell Chapin)
"God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at
home. " (Joseph Roux)
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Administration of G
Congress. I ask for your continued support
know him and consider him a friend, as I
on all the challeng
in this critical endeavor.
do. May I salute our other guests from over-
pray that we W.
seas. And though sometimes you might feel
hat this great land
George Bush
like it, we don't consider you overseas, those
will reverse any thr
The White House,
who serve in the State legislatures, and we're
that we will dedica
January 29, 1992.
glad you all are here. [Laughter]
of service, being wh
Four principles, four ideas really, inspire
to someone else, SOI
America. And I think they're all here this
And in this work,
morning reflected in one way or another:
ration. We need le
Appointment of Daniel B. McGroarty
Freedom, family, and faith, that Dan Quayle
handful of men who
as Special Assistant to the President
talked about, and to that I would add fellow-
courage, their strer
and Deputy Director of
ship. So many people brought together by
faith-last of whom
Speechwriting
a shared spirit, the simple joy of praying to
I'm talking about ou
January 29, 1992
God.
izing conditions, as
Slava, that was a tremendously moving
they prayed togethe
The President today announced the ap-
story and one of the most dramatic moments
the "church of t
pointment of Daniel B. McGroarty as Special
in recent history. And if sound-you referred
unwove floor mats
Assistant to the President and Deputy Direc-
to sound-if sound has anything to do with
These men, who E
tor of Speechwriting.
entry into heaven, I believe you can choose
of Job, treasured tl
Mr. McGroarty has served as speechwriter
the fluffiest, most generous cloud in the fir-
When Terry Ander
to the President since 1989 and Deputy Di-
mament up there when you get there.
the first things he (
rector of Speechwriting since 1991. Prior to
[Laughter] And thank you for your inspiring
across the world W
coming to the White House, he held the posi-
message.
set free. "Your F
tions of senior speechwriter to Secretary of
But I think you reminded us all of the pow-
ference," said this I
Defense Frank C. Carlucci III, speechwriter
erful role that prayer has played in the un-
rediscovered the
to Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Wein-
precedented events of the past year. Since
men free.
berger, and editorial writer at the Voice of
we last met, nations have been reshaped, and
There's another
America.
the lives have been restored throughout the
that tells of the trar
Mr. McGroarty graduated from Kenyon
land and throughout the entire world. And
it's a story familiar
College (B.A., 1979) and is currently a Ph.D.
the force that unites them, as we've heard
personal to Barba
candidate at Boston College. He was born
here today from the Vice President to Gen-
in this room. We
August 23, 1957, in Cleveland, OH. He re-
eral Powell, is faith in God. The link they
March, Lee Atwat
sides with his wife and two children in An-
share is prayer.
en, fun-loving good
nandale, VA.
And when I last stood here, as Colin re-
lina who rode life
minded us, we were at war. Compelled by
could. But he als
a deep need for God's wisdom, we began
because his illne
to pray. And we prayed for God's protection
something he'd pu
Remarks at the National Prayer
in what we undertook, for God's love to fill
in his last month
Breakfast
hearts, and for God's peace to be the moral
come to grips wi
January 30, 1992
North Star that guided us. Abraham Lincoln
reading the Bible
said, and we remember it, everyone in this
learned that, as he
Thank you, Senator Heflin, for such a love-
room would remember it, "I've been driven
in society was wha.
ly introduction. To Dan and Marilyn, the
many times to my knees by the overwhelm-
heart and a lot of
Vice and Mrs. Quayle; to the members of
ing conviction that I have nowhere else to
He was so righ
my Cabinet here; to the Members of Con-
go." And in his example, we came together
only in the life O.
gress, all, so many here in faith; to General
for a special National Day of Prayer. And
in the life of our
Powell; especially to our host Ted Stevens;
Americans of every creed turned to our
one Nation under
to our dear friend Billy Graham; and to all
greatest power to bring us peace, "peace
May God bless
gathered.
which passeth all understanding." And at the
For those of you
Let me first just say a special greeting to
end of the war, we prayed as one during our
seas, for those of
Prime Minister Ratu Mara of Fiji. This is not
National Days of Thanksgiving.
for those of you
his first time here; I'm sure it won't be his
Let us pray that as a people we will con-
Capital, thank yo
last. But he's an inspiration to all of us that
tinue to bring the power of prayer to bear
celebration of fait
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Administration of George Bush, 1992 / Jan. 30
179
him a friend, as I
on all the challenges we confront. And let
Thank you very much.
guests from over-
IS pray that we will strengthen the values
es you might feel
hat this great land was founded on, that we
Note: The President spoke at 9:10 a.m. at
ou overseas, those
will reverse any threat of moral decline, and
the Washington Hilton Hotel. In his remarks,
slatures, and we're
that we will dedicate ourselves to the ethic
he referred to Senator Ted Stevens; evangelist
ghter]
of service, being what I call a Point of Light
Billy Graham; Prime Minister Kamisese
leas really, inspire
to someone else, someone in need.
Mara of Fiji; and National Symphony Or-
ey're all here this
And in this work, we are not without inspi-
chestra director Mstislav Rostropovich.
way or another:
ration. We need look no further than the
1, that Dan Quayle
handful of men who became heroes by their
would add fellow-
courage, their strength, and above all their
ought together by
faith-last of whom returned in December.
Remarks to the Greater Philadelphia
joy of praying to
I'm talking about our hostages. And in brutal-
Chamber of Commerce
izing conditions, as we've heard this morning,
January 30, 1992
nendously moving
they prayed together daily in what they called
dramatic moments
the "church of the locked door." They
Thank you all very, very much for that wel-
und-you referred
unwove floor mats in order to make rosaries.
come back. Please be seated, and thank you.
nything to do with
These men, who every day lived the story
Please be seated. I don't want to keep Boris
ve you can choose
of Job, treasured their first book, the Bible.
Yeltsin waiting later on. [Laughter] Thank
IS cloud in the fir-
When Terry Anderson was released, one of
you, Joe. Senator Specter and Joan, laboring
1 you get there.
the first things he did was to thank strangers
in the vineyards of the city council here,
for your inspiring
across the world who had prayed that he be
we're delighted to be with you. And coming
set free. "Your prayers made a big dif-
up with us from Washington were two of our
d us all of the pow-
ference," said this man who, imprisoned, had
great Congressmen from this area, Larry
played in the un-
rediscovered the faith that sets and keeps
Coughlin and Kurt Weldon, over here.
e past year. Since
men free.
And may I, too, salute the mayor. I asked
en reshaped, and
There's another story from last year's news
Joe earlier on how was it going, realizing that,
ed throughout the
that tells of the transformation of faith. While
as in Washington, things have been tough,
entire world. And
it's a story familiar to all of you, it's intensely
and across the country in many ways. But
n, as we've heard
personal to Barbara and me and to others
I said, knowing a little bit about history in
President to Gen-
in this room. We lost a dear friend last
Philadelphia, I asked this question, "How's
od. The link they
March, Lee Atwater, a restless, fiercely driv-
the mayor doing?" And Joe and everybody
en, fun-loving good ol' boy from South Caro-
else I've spoken to has said he's really hit
here, as Colin re-
lina who rode life as hard and fast as he
the ground in a wonderful way, going for-
ar. Compelled by
could. But he also lived a kind of miracle
ward, bringing out the best in this city. So,
visdom, we began
because his illness reintroduced him to
I want to salute Ed Rendell and his wife,
r God's protection
something he'd put aside, his own faith. And
Midge.
r God's love to fill
in his last months, he worked intensely to
Joe Paquette, who introduced me, is the
ce to be the moral
come to grips with his faith. And through
chairman of the Greater Philadelphia Cham-
Abraham Lincoln
reading the Bible and through prayer, he
ber. That was a very enthusiastic presentation
t, everyone in this
learned that, as he put it, "What was missing
he made about how things were going, so
"I've been driven
in society was what was missing in me, a little
much so that maybe he can make a little loan
by the overwhelm-
heart and a lot of brotherhood."
to those of us in Washington, DC, who can-
nowhere else to
He was so right. Prayer has a place not
not have quite that optimistic a report.
we came together
only in the life of every American but also
[Laughter] But I like that can-do spirit of
ay of Prayer. And
in the life of our Nation, for we are truly
this chamber, and I'm grateful to Charlie, to
ed turned to our
one Nation under God.
Charlie Pizzi, and to Joe and all the rest of
peace, "peace
May God bless this very special gathering.
you that have put together this opportunity
nding." And at the
For those of you who have come from over-
for me, all of you at the chamber.
as one during our
seas, for those of you from across our land,
And so, thank you very much. I am happy
ving.
for those of you right here in the Nation's
to be here in Philadelphia. As you can imag-
eople we will con-
Capital, thank you for participating in this
ine, these last few weeks in Washington have
of prayer to bear
celebration of faith.
been pretty high pressure, high pressure time
Jan. 30 / Administration of George Bush, 1991
Appointment of Edward O. Vetter as a
clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
This is a divers
Member of the Competitiveness Policy
District of Columbia Circuit, 1982-1983:
anything quite li
Council
a staff assistant in the Office of the
thing else. But и
January 30, 1991
Attorney General in the Criminal
common: We stan
at the Justice Department, 1978-1979; and
me just share a I
The President today announced his inten-
as a research assistant for the Council on
ceived here from
tion to appoint Edward O. Vetter, of Texas,
Wage and Price Stability in the Executive
story about her
to be a member of the Competitiveness
Office of the President, 1975-1976.
prayers. As he kr
Policy Council for a term of 2 years. This is
Mr. Zoellick graduated from Swarthmore
was kneeling in p
a new position.
College (B.A., 1975), Harvard University's
plained that they
Since 1978 Mr. Vetter has served as presi-
Kennedy School of Government (M.P.P.,
gether for Preside
dent of Edward O. Vetter and Associates,
have the wisdom
1981), and Harvard Law School (J.D., 1981).
and serves as a director of the Texas De-
He was born July 25, 1953, in Evergreen
Iraq. And after a
partment of Commerce in Dallas, TX. In
Park, IL. Mr. Zoellick is married and resides
the little boy saic
addition, Mr. Vetter served as Under Secre-
in Washington, DC.
going to get the p
tary of Commerce at the Department of
how did they get
Commerce in Washington, DC, 1976-1977.
Well, the mother
Mr. Vetter graduated from the Massachu-
letter, said that i
setts Institute of Technology (B.S., 1942).
Lord knew what
He was born October 20, 1920, in Roches-
Remarks at the National Prayer
because he sure di
ter, NY. Mr. Vetter served in the U.S.
Breakfast
know, the hostag
Army, 1942-1946. Mr. Vetter is married,
[Laughter]
January 31, 1991
has three children, and resides in Dallas,
So, I believe the
TX.
Thank you very much for that warm wel-
ers. Joe put it very
come. And let me just greet our-Prime
our country is pray
this nation the ch
Minister Henry here and Prime Minister
the mosques are
Ratu Mara and President Gonez over here
ance at services. Ir
Nomination of Robert B. Zoellick To
and all the other visitors from overseas.
egan, Dr. Grah
Be an Under Secretary of State
And I want to pay my special respects
House. And he sp
the members of the Senate and House
January 30, 1991
portance of turnin
Prayer Group. I would also like to single out
faith, turning to Hi
The President today announced his inten-
Doug Coe, who has been such a guiding
next morning, Dr.
tion to nominate Robert B. Zoellick, of the
light in all of this. And, of course, our spe-
Fort Myer where
District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary
cial thanks to Joe Gibbs and to Governor
leading our nation
of State for Economic and Agricultural Af-
Buddy Roemer for sharing in such a person-
service there, with
fairs. He would succeed Richard Thomas
al way their faith.
troops overseas.
McCormack. Mr. Zoellick will continue to
My heartfelt thanks goes out to everyone
So, I expect wh
serve as Counselor of the Department of
involved in this marvelous event. Dr.
there at that praye
State in Washington, DC.
Graham was reminding Barbara and me
doing what ever
Since 1989 Mr. Zoellick has served as
when we came over here of its genesis and
doing-praying for
Counselor of the Department of State in
how President Eisenhower, he felt, seemed
You know, Ame
Washington, DC. Prior to this Mr. Zoellick
very nervous about whether this would be
under God. And fr
served on the State Department transition,
the right thing to do and whether it would
we have relied upo
1988-1989. Mr. Zoellick also has served in
be a fulfilling experience for the people
ance in war and in
several capacities at the Department of the
that attended. And I expect Ike would-if
thing we must ne
Treasury in Washington, DC: Counselor to
he could have attended this one-would
day-you're going t
the Secretary of the Treasury and Execu-
have had no doubts whatsoever.
read the mail-[la
tive Secretary, 1988; Executive Secretary
I want to thank everyone for their con-
day I got a letter fi
and Special Adviser to the Secretary, 1986-
cern and prayers about Barbara's recent ac-
out to me that d
1987; Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary
cident. In these days of environmental ter-
Union Message th
and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Finan-
rorism-[laughter]-[ can happily report
make any mention
cial Institutions Policy, 1985-1986; and Spe-
that the tree is very well and so is Barba-
what defensive ab
cial Assistant to the Deputy Secretary, 1985.
Bush, doing very well, I might say.
vent back and I C
In addition, Mr. Zoellick has served as a law
say that with considerable pride.
may God bless Ar
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t of Appeals for the
This is a diverse group. I've never seen
realizing that this man was correct. I have
rcuit, 1982-1222
anything quite like it-politically or any-
learned what I suppose every President has
ffice of the
thing else. But we do have one thing in
learned, and that is that one cannot be
e Criminal
common: We stand together in prayer. Let
President of our country without faith in
ent, 1978-1979; and
me just share a letter-a true letter I re-
God-and without knowing with certainty
for the Council on
ceived here from a mother who told me a
that we are one nation under God. So, I
ty in the Executive
story about her 5-year-old son's evening
think I should have made that clear-more
1975-1976.
prayers. As he knelt by his bed-this kid
clear that God is our rock and salvation, and
d from Swarthmore
was kneeling in prayer, and his parents ex-
we must trust Him and keep faith in Him.
Harvard University's
plained that they were going to pray to-
And so, we ask His blessings upon us and
gether for President Bush so that he would
overnment (M.P.P.,
upon every member, not just of our Armed
V School (J.D., 1981).
have the wisdom to get the hostages out of
Forces but of our coalition armed forces,
Iraq. And after a minute of deep thinking,
1953, in Evergreen
with respect for the religious diversity that
the little boy said, "Mom, how is a bush
married and resides
is represented as these 28 countries stand
going to get the people out of the rock, and
up against aggression.
how did they get there in the first place?"
Well, the mother, in her wrap-up of the
Today I'm asking and designating that
letter, said that it was a good thing the
Sunday, February 3d, be a national day of
Lord knew what the boy was praying for,
prayer. And I encourage all people of faith
nal Prayer
because he sure didn't. [Laughter] But, you
to say a special prayer on that day-a
know, the hostages came out of Iraq.
prayer for peace, a prayer for the safety of
[Laughter]
our troops, a prayer for their families, a
So, I believe the Lord does hear our pray-
prayer for the innocents caught up in this
1 for that warm wel-
ers. Joe put it very beautifully here. I know
war, and a prayer that God will continue to
bless the United States of America.
our country is praying for peace. And across
st greet our-Prime
and Prime Minister
this nation the churches, the synagogues,
the mosques are packed—record attend-
Note: The President spoke at 9:50 a.m. in
nt Goncz over here
ance at services. In fact, the night the war
the International Ballroom at the Washing-
S from overseas.
egan, Dr. Graham was at the White
ton Hilton Hotel. In his opening remarks,
y special respects
House. And he spoke to us then of the im-
he referred to Prime Minister Geoffrey
Senate and House
portance of turning to God as a people of
Henry of the Cook Islands; Prime Minister
also like to single out
faith, turning to Him in hope. And then the
Ratu Mara of Fiji; President Arpad Goncz
een such a guiding
next morning, Dr. Graham went over to
of Hungary; Douglas Coe, event coordinator
of course, our spe-
Fort Myer where we had a lovely service
of the National Prayer Breakfast; Joe Gibbs,
bs and to Governor
leading our nation in a beautiful prayer
coach of the Washington Redskins football
ing in such a person-
service there, with special emphasis on the
team; Gov. Buddy Roemer of Louisiana;
troops overseas.
and evangelist Dr. Billy Graham.
goes out to everyone
So, I expect when Barbara and I were
rvelous event. Dr.
there at that prayer service, we were only
g Barbara and me
doing what everyone in America was
re of its genesis and
doing-praying for peace.
Remarks at a White House Briefing on
wer, he felt, seemed
You know, America is a nation founded
the National Drug Control Strategy
ether this would be
under God. And from our very beginnings
nd whether it would
January 31, 1991
we have relied upon His strength and guid-
nce for the people
ance in war and in peace. And this is some-
Thank you all very much. Please be
xpect Ike would-if
thing we must never forget. Just yester-
seated. I wanted to come over here first to
ed this one-would
day-you're going to think I do nothing but
thank many people in this room, so many of
atsoever.
read the mail-[laughter]-but just yester-
you having in one way or another-directly,
ryone for their con-
day I got a letter from a man who pointed
some indirectly-helping us formulate and
Barbara's recent ac-
out to me that during the State of the
now put into effect the National Drug Con-
f environmental ter-
Union Message that I had neglected to
trol Strategy. I know that many of you have
can happily report
make any mention of God-and I was some-
been instrumental in the development and
ell and so is Barba
what defensive about that, SO I quickly
the implementation of it. And I really am
I might say.
ent back and I did see at the very end
very, very grateful to each and every one of
ole pride.
may God bless America." But then I got
you.
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Administration of George Bush, 1990 / Feb. 1
S; and even the
White House Fact Sheet on the President's Conventional Armed
-and God bless
n addicted to
Forces in Europe Initiative
J with problems
January 31, 1990
But you know,
nd the future,
After initial discussions with NATO allies,
after CFE reductions are completed. The
of dreams, ready
the President concluded that changes
proposal responds to rapid changes in East-
special, because
which have taken place in Europe over the
ern Europe and is designed to help propel
reedom. And to
last 3 months have made it possible to pro-
the CFE negotiations to an early conclusion
orld I've been
pose lower levels in the area of greatest
in 1990.
concentration of forces: Central and East-
The President's initiative would super-
g to ask some-
ern Europe. However, the United States
sede an earlier proposal establishing a level
ow, let me start
will maintain significant military forces in
of 275,000 each of U.S. and Soviet ground
e grandparents
Europe as long as our allies desire our pres-
and air force manpower stationed outside of
ing link to the
ence as part of a common security effort.
their respective national territories in the
en the story of
Therefore, in his State of the Union Ad-
Atlantic to the Urals region.
] abroad, of sac-
dress to Congress on January 31, President
The President has concluded that this
tom's sake. And
Bush proposed to revise NATO's current
proposal reflects the minimum level of U.S.
S well, because
position in the Conventional Armed Forces
0 tell.
forces needed in Europe to protect Ameri-
in Europe (CFE) negotiations to lower sub-
en look to you
can interests and to sustain NATO's strategy
stantially the levels of U.S. and Soviet
Tell them of
of forward defense and flexible response.
ground and air force manpower in Central
Even if-as we expect-Soviet forces in this
n we are one
hem that of all
and Eastern Europe to 195,000 on each
region are reduced even further, the
side. Forces withdrawn will be demobilized.
United States does not envision the further
ceive liberty is
and of all the
There would be approximately 225,000 U.S.
reduction of its forces in Europe below this
ground and air force personnel in Europe
new level.
atest is helping
young people
rests our hope,
n the years and
Remarks at the Annual National Prayer Breakfast
ision on a new
February 1, 1990
n dreams we
hat is yours and
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank
Billy Graham. [Laughter] A lot of Presi-
icans-all of us
you all. Thank you very, very much. Vice
dents out here, Senators and Congressmen.
er, the symbol-
President and Mrs. Quayle, and Chuck
He was magnificent. [Laughter] Magnifi-
ffirm our alle-
Grassley, Sam Nunn, and my dear friend
cent music.
merica. And let
Billy Graham, and Ruth. Jim Baker, that
It's often said in my line of work that a
e of the Union
was a very inspiring testament of faith. I
candidate or a proposal hasn't got a prayer.
one of us.
also want to salute our very special guests
Well, I'm pleased to be with an audience
may God bless
who have traveled far to join us in a prayer
about whom that will never be said.
ited States of
for peace and understanding: President Moi
[Laughter] And this breakfast is the result
of Kenya; President Ershad of Bangladesh;
of years of quiet diplomacy-I wouldn't say
Major Buyoya, the marvelous head of Bu-
secret diplomacy-quiet diplomacy by an
it 9:05 p.m. in
rundi; President Cristiani, a longtime
ambassador of faith, Doug Coe. And I salute
Capitol. He was
friend; the Prime Minister Kisekka. And I
him.
ley, Speaker of
just express for all of us a very hearty wel-
And I was moved once again by what
PS. The address
come, and to President Ershad, a happy
Sam and Liz told us of Members and staff-
wide radio and
birthday greeting to go with Bev Shea's.
ers on the Hill who like to regularly meet
S, the President
We're delighted you're here.
to share a few quiet moments of prayer and
Speaker's Con-
And I want to thank Bev Shea and Billy.
Bible reading. The values that spring from
congressional
It'll probably read: prayer breakfast, Bev
our faith certainly tell us a lot about our
Shea; supporting cast: secretary of state
country. And consider that for more than
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two centuries Americans have endorsed,
in jail-a third of his entire life in prison.
Remarks OI
and properly so, the separation of church
And in fact, it was while in prison for op-
and state. But we've also shown how both
posing the Government that he found God.
Legislation
religion and government can strengthen a
And once released, he risked his freedom
February 1,
society. After all, our Founding Fathers'
by preaching a series of Lenten sermons.
documents begin with these words: All men
And for that, he was imprisoned again and
Well, today
are endowed by their Creator with certain
tortured beyond belief. And yet Father
an important
unalienable rights. And Americans are reli-
Calciu had faith, and he refused to break.
last night in the
gious people, but a truly religious nation is a
He was sentenced to death. And as he stood
the Savings a
tolerant nation. We cherish dissent, we
in the corner of the prison yard, praying for
1990. And thi
cherish the fact that we have many, many
his wife and son, awaiting death, it was then
crease nation
faiths, and we protect even the right to
that something remarkable occurred. His
disbelieve.
two executioners called to him. And surely,
capital, creat
tional compe
A truly religious nation is also a giving
he thought, well, this was the end. But in-
standard of liv
nation. A close friend of mine sent me a
stead they said, "Father,"-a that was the
There are
poem recently which eloquently embodies
first time they had called him that-"we
have decided not to kill you." And 3 weeks
family savings
this spirit of giving. "I sought my soul, but
my soul I could not see. I sought my God,
later, he received permission to celebrate
reduction, an
but my God eluded me. I sought my broth-
the Divine Liturgy. And when he did, he
tiative.
saw these same two guys-the same two
First, the f.
er and found all three."
Thousands of Americans are finding their
guards-approach, and to his astonishment,
Americans a:
his would-be executioners got on their
for their fut
soul, finding their God, by reaching out to
their brothers and sisters in need. You've
knees and joined him in prayer. This is one
save more if
heard me talk about a Thousand Points of
man's story, a humble priest.
doing so, the
Light across the country. Americans are
And today the times are on the side of
investment \
working through their places of worship,
peace because more and more brave men
Second, th
through community programs, or on their
and women are on the side of God. And so,
for long-terr
own to help the hungry or the homeless, to
that is the end of these few words. That is
cost of capit:
teach the unskilled, to bring the words of
my prayer: that we will continue to recog-
long-term in
men and the Word of God to those who
nize the power of faith. Thank you all, and
jobs and m
cannot even read.
God bless you.
And so, I believe that this democracy of
ours is once again proving, as it has
Note: The President spoke at 9:25 a.m. in
throughout our history, that when people
the International Ballroom at the Washing-
ton Hilton Hotel. In his remarks, he re-
Message
are free they use that freedom to serve the
greater good and, indeed, a higher truth. As
ferred to Senators Charles E. Grassley and
Economi
freedom blossoms in Eastern Europe-and
Sam Nunn; Representative Elizabeth J. Pat-
February
Jim was talking eloquently about that-I am
terson; Secretary of State James A. Baker III;
convinced that the 1990's will be the
evangelist Rev. Billy Graham and his wife,
To the Cong
decade of the rebirth that he so beautifully
Ruth; President Alfredo Cristiani Buckard
I am plea
spoke about, a rebirth of faith and hope.
of El Salvador; Prime Minister Samson Ki-
ation and
And one example: I met this week Father
sekka of Uganda; religious singer George
nomic Grow
Calciu, a Romanian Orthodox minister.
Beverly Shea; and Doug Coe, a participant
proposal W
Father Calciu had spent 21 of his 64 years
in the prayer breakfast.
tion in the
new family
penalty-fre
(IRA) with
buyers.
This pro
investment
by creating
nomic ben
A perma
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with a commitment to lasting harmony be-
Month 1989, and in sending you our best
Lord works in
tween the races and a bright future for
wishes.
nothing mysterio
orities. I'm the C
Americans of every background.
GEORGE BUSH
Barbara joins me in commending all of
Sandy Patti is th
with that magn
you for your observance of Black History
finest crystal. И
the Lord works
but I wonder wh
Nomination of Kenneth Winston Starr To Be Solicitor General of
col sense of thir
my friend Al Sin
the United States
Let us all th
February 1, 1989
granted us this
us to spend
clerk to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of
Graham, my de
The President today announced his inten-
he was a boy
tion to nominate Kenneth Winston Starr to
the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington,
Carolina one of
be Solicitor General of the United States,
DC, 1975-1977. From 1974 to 1975, Judge
And one day he
Department of Justice. He would succeed
Starr was an associate with Gibson, Dunn &
their cows na
Charles Fried.
Crutcher in Los Angeles, CA.
never milked b
Since 1983 Judge Starr has been a judge
Judge Starr graduated from George
it was a gentle
of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District
Washington University (B.A., 1968), Brown
cooperative. W
of Columbia. Prior to this he was Counselor
University (M.A., 1969), and Duke Universi-
to milk the C
to the Attorney General at the Department
ty (J.D., 1973). He was born July 21, 1946,
slapped him in
of Justice, 1981-1983. He was an associate
in Vernon, TX. He is married and has two
out, a few min
partner with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in
children.
all the way acr
Washington, DC, 1977-1981, and a law
to kick him. Ai
wonder if the
kind and gen
next to her in
Continuation of John W. Vessey, Jr., as Special Presidential Emissary
thought of th
to Hanoi for POW/MIA Affairs
request for A
and gentler na
February 1, 1989
it, and it's an
happen. And
The President has asked General John W.
August 1987, General Vessey's efforts have
cynics, are th
Vessey, Jr., USA, Ret., to continue in his
resulted in substantial progress in resolving
Washington W
role as Special Presidential Emissary to
this pressing humanitarian issue and ending
stop kicking. [
Hanoi for POW/MIA Affairs. General
the uncertainty for the families of our miss-
But we're t
Vessey has served in this capacity since
ing in Southeast Asia. The President is
ties and som
being named to the position by President
pleased that General Vessey has agreed to
country-toug
Reagan in February 1987.
continue to serve his country in this posi-
tunities. And
Beginning with his initial visit to Hanoi in
tion of great importance to all of us.
source in dea
just prayer fo
what is in th
ually and as
Remarks at the Annual National Prayer Breakfast
remember,
grateful for,
February 2, 1989
prayer of tha
My special thanks to Bob Stump and
There is no greater peace than that
Doug Coe, to our honored guests through-
which comes from prayer and no greater
out this country and from our foreign lands,
fellowship than to join in prayer with
and it is a pleasure for Barbara and me to
others. And coming to the prayer breakfast
be here once again.
is, for us at least, like coming home. The
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Administration of George Bush, 1989 / Feb. 2
.ig you our best
Lord works in mysterious ways. There is
attempt to fulfill the responsibilities we now
nothing mysterious, however, about His pri-
have without prayer and a strong faith in
GEORGE BUSH
orities. I'm the one with the laryngitis, and
God. Abraham Lincoln said: "I've been
Sandy Patti is the one that lifted our spirits
driven many times to my knees by the
with that magnificent voice, clear as the
overwhelming conviction that I have no-
finest crystal. We're grateful to her. And
where else to go." Surely he was not the
the Lord works in very mysterious ways,
first President, certainly not the last, to re-
but I wonder why it is that under the proto-
alize that.
eneral of
col sense of things I always have to follow
It's not just Presidents. I heard about a
my friend Al Simpson. [Laughter]
little boy whose elderly grandmother came
Let us all thank the Lord for having
to live with them for the winter. And the
granted us this day, making it possible for
first day the little boy played hard inside
us to spend this time together. Billy
the house, and he wanted to turn the heat
en E. Burger of
Graham, my dear friend, tells me that when
down. But grandmother insisted on keeping
in Washington,
he was a boy living on a farm in North
it high. And when he opened the windows,
1 to 1975, Judge
Carolina one of his jobs was milking cows.
she closed them. And for several days it
Gibson, Dunn &
And one day he was sent out to milk one of
went on like this, up and down, back and
their cows named Brindle, a cow he'd
forth, with the little boy too hot and the
from George
never milked before. And he was told that
grandmother too cold. After about a week,
L., 1968), Brown
it was a gentle cow, that it would be very
the little boy knelt beside his bed one night
1 Duke Universi-
cooperative. When he sat down on the stool
and prayed, "Lord, bless mother and daddy,
to milk the cow, she switched her tail,
n July 21, 1946,
and make it hot for grandmother." [Laugh-
ied and has two
slapped him in the face, nearly put his eye
out, a few minutes later kicked the bucket
ter]
all the way across the barn, and then tried
Well, I suppose there may be some
to kick him. And at that point, he began to
people in Washington, around the country,
wonder if the person who described this
who have already begun to pray, "Make it
kind and gentle cow had ever sat down
hot for George." [Laughter] Those prayers
ial Emissary
next to her in the barn. [Laughter] And I've
will be answered over time. Be patient.
thought of that story in the light of my
[Laughter] But I can also tell you from my
request for America to become a kinder
heart that I freely acknowledge my need to
and gentler nation. It's one thing to request
hear and to heed the voice of Almighty
it, and it's another thing to see it actually
God. I began my Inaugural Address with a
ey's efforts have
happen. And maybe a lot of folks out there,
prayer out of a deep sense of need and
ress in resolving
cynics, are thinking, well, if you people in
desire of God's wisdom in the decisions we
ssue and ending
Washington will stop trying to milk us, we'll
face. And if we're to walk together toward
stop kicking. [Laughter]
a more caring, more generous America, let
ilies of our miss-
ne President is
But we're facing some serious opportuni-
us all share in paving the way with prayer.
ties and some great opportunities in our
Thank you all, and God bless you.
y has agreed to
country-tough problems and great oppor-
try in this posi-
tunities. And I believe that a wonderful re-
Note: The President spoke at 9:18 a.m. in
all of us.
source in dealing with them is prayer-not
the International Crystal Ballroom at the
just prayer for what we want but prayer for
Washington Hilton Hotel. In his remarks,
what is in the heart of God for us individ-
he referred to Representative Bob Stump;
ually and as a nation. And shouldn't we also
Doug Coe, an associate of the National
remember, with all that we have to be
Prayer Breakfast Movement; gospel singer
grateful for, to pause each day to offer a
Sandy Patti; Senator Alan K. Simpson; and
prayer of thanksgiving. All of us should not
evangelist Billy Graham.
eace than that
and no greater
in prayer with
prayer breakfast
ning home. The
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Administration of Ronald Reagan, 1988 / Feb. 4
prospects for democracy in Central Amer-
Note: Identical letters were sent to Senate
ica.
Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, Senate Mi-
the name of that one man. I have long been
though: I'm glad that I've learned to
unable to understand the atheist in this
know You.
Sincerely,
nority Leader Robert Dole, House Majority
world of so much beauty. And I've had an
At midnight we're scheduled to attack.
RONALD REAGAN
Leader Thomas S. Foley, House Minority
Leader Robert H. Michel, and other Mem-
unholy desire to invite some atheists to a
But You are looking on, and I am not
dinner and then serve the most fabulous
afraid.
bers of Congress.
gourmet dinner that has ever been concoct-
The signal. Well, I guess I must be
ed and, after dinner, ask them if they be-
going. I have been happy with You.
lieve there was a cook. [Laughter]
This more I want to say. As You well
Announcement of the Establishment of the Council of Health
But I want to thank each of you for being
know, the fighting will be cruel, and
Promotion and Disease Prevention
here today and for sharing with us the spir-
even tonight I may come knocking at
itual message that God has placed in your
Your door. Although I have not been
February 3, 1988
hearts. God's love shines through every
a friend to You before, still, will You
word. His truth is the ultimate power
let me enter now, when I do come?
The President announced today that he
source, and it's always there. It's available
Why, I'm crying, oh God, my Lord. You
Prevention of disease and pursuit of good
has asked the Secretary of Health and
to ministers of the Gospel, Presidents, and
see what happens to me: Tonight my
health is a relatively untapped field of
Human Services to establish a Council of
the local grocery clerk. His comforting
eyes were opened.
study. The Council's work on health promo-
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
hand-well, I could never carry the respon-
Farewell my God, I'm going, and I'm
tion and disease prevention should prove
This Council will bring experts together to
sibilities of this high office without it.
not likely to come back. Strange, is it
particularly valuable in controlling the in-
Our forefathers drew on the wisdom and
assess current health promotion and disease
not, but death I fear no longer.
creasing costs of health care. The adminis-
prevention activities. The Council also will
strength of God when they turned a vast
tration appreciates the leadership of Con-
And he did not come back. This prayer
make recommendations for better use of re-
wilderness into a blessed land of plenty
gressman Don Ritter of Pennsylvania, who
was found on the body of a young Russian
sources and for innovative methods to en-
called the United States of America. God
initiated the proposal to establish the Coun-
soldier killed in action in 1944. I also re-
courage healthy lifestyles.
cil.
has truly blessed this country, but we never
ceived some letters-five letters, in fact-
should fall into the trap that would detract
from Russian soldiers in Afghanistan who
from the universality of God's gift. It is for
had deserted their government and their
all mankind. God's love is the hope and the
army. Each one of them wrote a letter to
Statement by Assistant to the President for Press Relations
light of the world.
me and in that letter revealed their belief
Recently a letter found its way to my
Fitzwater on the House of Representatives Failure to Approve Aid
in God and that they had deserted not out
desk, I'm pleased to say, and in that letter
for the Nicaraguan Democratic Resistance
of fear of battle but because they could not
was a copy of a prayer. It was sent to me by
carry out the unholy orders that had been
February 3, 1988
a woman who had lost her husband in
given them.
World War II. This prayer had been written
And just last week, one of those five-we
and delivered in a shellhole during World
We are disappointed that the House of
this issue. We will continue consultations
did get them out. Their plea was for sanctu-
War II. It read:
Representatives did not vote to keep pres-
with these congressional supporters and
ary. One of those five was in my office, a
sure on the Sandinistas during the peace
others concerning the future of the resist-
Hear me, oh God; never in the whole
handsome young man in his early twenties.
process. We thank our many supporters in
ance and the peace process.
of my lifetime have I spoken to You,
And it was evident-and not only from his
Congress who worked so hard on behalf of
but just now I feel like sending You
letter but from his words-when he was
my greetings.
thanking me for what we had done, that he
You know, from childhood on, they've
believed in God. And I asked him how
always told me You are not. I, like a
much religion did he believe there was in
Remarks at the Annual National Prayer Breakfast
fool, believed them.
his own country. And he said, well, among
I've never contemplated your creation,
young people like myself, it is spreading
February 4, 1988
and yet tonight, gazing up out of my
fast.
shell hole, I marveled at the shim-
So, I know with all of us here, brought
You know, hearing these wonderful
asked me-it ended in a tie game. [Laugh-
mering stars above me and suddenly
together, as we've been told so often this
young men from Wheaton College here
ter]
knew the cruelty of the lie.
morning, in His name-I just thank you,
took me down memory lane a little bit, be-
At the risk of sounding facetious, I just
Will You, my God, reach your hand out
and God bless you all.
cause some years ago, before they were
want to say here in this room-and as has
to me, I wonder? But I will tell You,
born, and possibly before some of their fa-
been so eloquently stated by the people
and You will understand. Is it not
Note: The President spoke at 9:30 a.m. in
thers were born-[laughter]-[ played foot-
who've spoken already-about the unique-
strange that light should come upon
the International Ballroom at the Washing-
ball against Wheaton College. And it's kind
ness of how all of us, from so many differ-
me and I see You amid this night of
ton Hilton Hotel. Prior to his remarks, the
of nice that I can say here-if one of them
hell?
ent heritages, have come together here in
Wheaton College Men's Glee Club of Whea-
There's nothing else I have to say. This,
ton, IL, sang two hymns.
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Remarks at the Annual National Prayer Breakfast
already today.
Note: The President spoke at 9:20 a.m. in
Well, thank you all. God bless you all.
the International Ballroom at the Washing-
February 5, 1987
ton Hilton Hotel.
Distinguished clergy and Senators and
morning you could find several hundred
Congressmen, guests, all our good friends:
cadets in the chapel beginning their day
Nancy and I are delighted to be here with
with prayer. Hardly a day goes by that I'm
Message on the Observance of National Afro-American (Black)
you today. It gives one a very good feeling
not told-sometimes in letters and some-
History Month, February 1987
to see so many of our national leaders here,
times by people I meet-that they're pray-
and so many representatives of other coun-
ing for me. It's a warm but humbling feel-
February 5, 1987
tries, gathering together in a community of
ing. Sometimes I answer when someone
faith. Two hundred years ago another group
says that; I feel I have to say something.
This month marks the 61st celebration of
to see fulfilled for themselves and for their
of statesmen gathered together in Philadel-
And I tell them that if they ever get a busy
National Black History Month, an event of
children the promise and the dream of
phia to revise the Articles of Confederation
signal, it's because I'm in there ahead of
importance to all Americans. The celebra-
America. It is a story whose final chapters
and bring forth our Constitution. They
them. [Laughter]
tion takes on special meaning this year be-
have not yet been written.
often found themselves at odds, their pur-
I grew up in a home where I was taught
cause of its theme, "The Afro-American and
Without an understanding of America's
pose lost in acrimony and self-interest, until
to believe in intercessory prayer. I know it's
the Constitution: Colonial Times to the
past, we will not find the way to a future of
Benjamin Franklin stood up and said: "I
those prayers, and millions like them, that
Present."
opportunity for all. Black History Month af-
have lived a long time, and the longer I
are building high and strong this cathedral
As Americans prepare to celebrate the
fords every American the chance to study
live, the more convincing proofs I see of
of freedom that we call America; those
Bicentennial of the Constitution, we have
and to learn more about the contributions
this truth-that God governs in the affairs
prayers, and millions like them, that will
an opportunity to explore once again the
of Black Americans to our Nation's progress,
of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the
always keep our country secure and make
richness of our founding document and the
from great figures like Dr. Martin Luther
ground without His notice, is it probable
her a force for good in these too troubled
changes it has undergone throughout its
King, Jr., to the unsung, everyday heroes
that an empire can rise without His aid?"
times. And that's why as a nation we must
two centuries of existence. The experience
who helped build, lead, and defend a land
And then he called upon the convention to
embrace our faith, for as long as we endeav-
of Black Americans is a critical part of that
that for so long asked more of them than it
open each day with prayer.
or to do good-and we must believe that
history, holding enduring lessons for all of
offered to them.
How, with so much against them, could
will be always-we will find our strength,
us about the true meaning of liberty. Black
May this traditional observance lead all of
our Founding Fathers have dared so much,
our hope, and our true happiness in prayer
Americans fought in the Revolution which
us to work still harder for the day when no
to declare for all the world and all future
and in the Lord's will.
gave birth to this Nation, but it took the
trace of prejudice or injustice remains to
Civil War, several amendments to the Con-
generations the rights of man, the dignity of
I'd like to conclude with a story that is
undercut the Constitutional rights accorded
the individual, the hopes of all humanity?
stitution, and a series of actions by the Su-
told by Dr. Paul Brand, the noted leprosy
preme Court, the Congress, and the Execu-
every American. To this goal, in February
Was it because they believed that God was
specialist, in his book "Fearfully and Won-
on their side? Or was it because they
tive to secure true equality of rights for
1987, let us pledge anew our unswerving
derfully Made." Dr. Brand tells us of how,
commitment.
prayed to discover how they might be on
Black Americans. The story of Black Ameri-
after World War II, a group of German stu-
cans is the story of their continuing struggle
RONALD REAGAN
God's side? Our Founding Fathers knew
dents-young people-volunteered to help
that their hope was in prayer. And that's
rebuild a cathedral in England that had
why our Declaration of Independence
been a casualty of the Luftwaffe bombings.
begins with an affirmation of faith and why
And as the work progressed, debate broke
our Congress opens every day with prayer.
out on how best to restore a large statue of
Message on the Observance of Brotherhood/Sisterhood Week,
It is why the First Congress of the fledgling
Jesus with his arms outstretched and bear-
February 15-21, 1987
United States in the Northwest Ordinance
ing the familiar inscription: Come Unto Me.
provided for schools that would teach "reli-
February 5, 1987
Careful patching could repair all damage to
gion, morality, and knowledge"-because
the statue except for Christ's hands, which
they knew that no man, no nation, could
had been destroyed by bomb fragments.
This year marks the 53rd annual Brother-
nial year is a singularly appropriate time to
grow in freedom without divine guidance.
Should they attempt the delicate task of
hood/Sisterhood Week, sponsored by the
reflect on its importance to each of us.
If I might be allowed a personal note
reshaping those hands? And finally the
National Conference of Christians and Jews.
Although the Founding Fathers could
here. When I attended the commencement
young workers reached a decision that still
I am pleased to note that the theme of
scarcely have imagined the society we have
ceremonies at the Air Force Academy, I
stands today. The statue of Jesus has no
1987's celebration is: "This is my Constitu-
become 200 years after they hammered out
was surprised at how many of the graduat-
hands, but the inscription now reads: Christ
tion. I'm putting my name on the line."
the Constitution, this magnificent document
ing cadets came up to me, hand extended—
Has No Hands But Ours. Isn't that really
The Constitution is the anchor of our Re-
remains as relevant and timely as the day
930 in all-and told me they were praying
what he was always trying to tell us? Trying
public. Through it, we are all equal under
the final draft was signed. The principles it
for me. When I mentioned this to the com-
to tell us that we must be the hands, as
the law, just as we are brothers and sisters
embodies are timeless: protection of the in-
manding general, he told me that every
we've heard so eloquently here by so many
in the sight of the Almighty. This bicenten-
dividual against the state, the separation of
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your armed forces rushed up; by
tims and all my compatriots I address
the simple, the g
their utmost exertions, toiling day
myself to you and, in doing so, to the
a nice life."
and night on the inundated lands at
American people to express what can
Once in a whi
the risk of their own lives under the
hardly be expressed in words: our
history. Let us
most unfavourable weather condi-
heart-felt thanks for everything you
tions, they saved victims and their
did when the sea-our faithful friend
ing of this Nation
cattle and helped in plugging the in-
and eternal enemy-held our coun-
It is not mere
numerable breaches in the dykes.
try in its crushing grip.
War. All of the
All those who did their utmost to
I seize this opportunity to convey
to solve were as d
help us have earned our deep-felt
to you, Mr. President, my sincere
to think, for exar
gratitude because they have proved
wishes both for the prosperity of the
in order that we
that human solidarity does not stop
Republic and for your personal
at frontiers. On behalf of the vic-
well-being.
zens, not to be ind
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there was no stru
make people und
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Remarks at the Dedicatory Prayer Breakfast
you can understan
So when we ca:
of the International Christian Leadership.
our forefathers ha
February 5, 1953
was probably as gr
the Declaration t.
Mr. Chairman, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen:
opinion. They sa
This has been a wholly enjoyable occasion for me except for
and they went on
the one second when I opened the little blue slip and found that
them to declare th
it said there would be an address by the President. I assure you,
realized that the g
both for your sakes and for mine, there will not be.
if this venture was
There are a few thoughts, though, that crowd into my mind.
standing of this ven
With your permission I will attempt to utter them in a very in-
They went on to
formal and homely way.
very basis of our go
First, there is a need we all have in these days and times for
dowed by their Crea
some help which comes from outside ourselves as we face the
When we came
multitude of problems that are part of this confusing situation.
intended to establis
I do not mean merely help for your leaders or the people in
tion and Constituti
Congress, in the Cabinet and others in authority, because these
system we had to S
problems are part of all of us. They face each one of us because
their Creator."
we are a free country. Each of us realizes that he has responsi-
In one sentence
bilities that are equal to his privileges and to his rights.
imbedded soundly i
So, as he approaches them at times, he says: "If we only had
sense. Today if W
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ly compatriots I address
the simple, the good old days, how easy all this would be. What
and, in doing so, to the
a nice life."
ople to express what can
Once in a while it might be a good thing for us to turn back to
:pressed in words: our
history. Let us study a little bit of what happened at the found-
inks for everything you
sea-our faithful friend
ing of this Nation.
enemy-held our coun-
It is not merely the events that led up to the Revolutionary
hing grip.
War. All of the confused problems that we were then called upon
S opportunity to convey
to solve were as difficult as those we face now. Did you ever stop
President, my sincere
to think, for example, that the first year of that war was fought
for the prosperity of the
in order that we might establish our right to be free British citi-
nd for your personal
zens, not to be independent. From April 1775 until July 4, 1776,
JULIANA
there was no struggle for independence. It was a struggle to
make people understand that we were free British citizens. So
'rayer Breakfast
you can understand the confusion of thought that was going on.
So when we came down to the Declaration of Independence,
ership.
our forefathers had difficulty in meeting their problems which
was probably as great for them as we feel our problems today. In
the Declaration they acknowledged the need to respect public
and gentlemen:
opinion. They said, "When in the course of human events"-
ion for me except for
and they went on to say a decent respect for mankind impelled
ue slip and found that
them to declare the decisions which led to the separation. They
esident. I assure you,
realized that the good opinion of the whole world was necessary
lot be.
if this venture was to succeed. At least they felt that an under-
crowd into my mind.
standing of this venture should be abroad in the world.
ter them in a very in-
They went on to try to explain it. What did they say? The
very basis of our government is: "We hold that all men are en-
ese days and times for
dowed by their Creator" with certain rights.
rselves as we face the
When we came to that turning point in history, when we
his confusing situation.
intended to establish a government for free men and a Declara-
aders or the people in
tion and Constitution to make it last, in order to explain such a
uthority, because these
system we had to say: "We hold that all men are endowed by
each one of us because
their Creator."
es that he has responsi-
In one sentence we established that every free government is
I to his rights.
imbedded soundly in a deeply-felt religious faith or it makes no
e says: "If we only had
sense. Today if we recall those things and if, in that sense, we
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can back off from our problems and depend upon a power greater
than ourselves, I believe that we begin to draw these problems intc
focus.
As Benjamin Franklin said at one time during the course of the
stormy consultation at the Constitutional Convention, because he
sensed that the convention was on the point of breaking up:
"Gentlemen, I suggest that we have a word of prayer." And
strangely enough, after a bit of prayer the problems began tc
smooth out and the convention moved to the great triumph that
we enjoy today-the writing of our Constitution.
Today I think that prayer is just simply a necessity, because
by prayer I believe we mean an effort to get in touch with the
Infinite. We know that even our prayers are imperfect. Even
our supplications are imperfect. Of course they are. We are
imperfect human beings. But if we can back off from those
problems and make the effort, then there is something that ties
us all together. We have begun in our grasp of that basis of
understanding, which is that all free government is firmly founded
in a deeply-felt religious faith.
As we sympathize with our great friends in Holland and Britain
today in this distressing disaster that has overtaken them, it is
good to know that the American soldiers, the American Navy,
the American airmen, are sharing those disasters and are moving
in as units and as individuals to help. I have had messages from
both of those countries expressing their great thanks to America
for the work they are doing. They, to my mind, are part of this
understanding that a government such as ours hopes to produce
people who are moved by sympathy, by all of those wonderful
qualities that are implicit in a deeply-felt religious faith. They
are living up to what we hope for our government, both as units
and as individuals.
I think my little message this morning is merely this: I have
the profound belief that if we remind ourselves once in a while
of this simple basic truth that our forefathers in 1776 understood
so well, we can hold up our heads and be certain that we in our
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d upon a power greater
time are going to be able to preserve the essentials, to preserve
raw these problems into
as a free government and pass it on, in our turn, as sound, as
strong, as good as ever. That, it seems to me, is the prayer that
during the course of the
all of us have today.
Convention, because he
It has been very wonderful to meet you. Until I started over
point of breaking up:
I had the picture, which Frank Carlson gave me last summer,
word of prayer." And
of a small Congressional group of Congressmen and Senators who
the problems began to
met on a morning each week. I had an idea of coming over to
the great triumph that
see 20 or 25 or maybe 50 people. I had no idea that our host had
titution.
such a party as this. I do hope I may speak for all of you in
ply a necessity, because
thanking him for such a breakfast, the like of which I have not
O get in touch with the
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QUICK REPORT:
S.J. Res. 83 by Sen. Daniel R. Coats (R-IN)
National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving, Designation (Pub. L. 102-24, approved
3/28/91)
Title, Overview, Outlook:
S.J. Res. 83 by Sen. Daniel R. Coats (R-IN)
National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving, Designation (Pub. L. 102-24, approved
3/28/91)
Official Title (Caption):
Joint resolution entitled "National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving".
Introduced on Thursday, February 28, 1991
OVERVIEW
Copyright (c) 1992 Legi-Slate, Inc.
The resolution [S.J.Res.83] would urge the president to declare a
national day of prayer and thanksgiving for the efforts of the U.S. troops in
the Persian Gulf.
OUTLOOK
Copyright (c) 1992 Legi-Slate, Inc.
The president signed the resolution on March 28, 1991, and it became
Public Law 102-24.
Narrative Description:
Description and status of S.J. Res. 83,
National Day of Prayer and Thankegiving, Designation (Pub. L. 102-24, approved
3/28/91),
as of Thursday, August 13, 1992
The resolution was introduced in the Senate on Thursday, February 28, 1991
by Sen. Daniel R. Coats (R-IN). At the present time there are 26 cosponsors
of this resolution, 8 Democrats and 18 Republicans.
The resolution's official title stated its purpose as follows:
"Joint resolution entitled "National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving"."
The Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress has summar-
ized the resolution as follows:
"Urges the President to declare a national day of prayer and thanksgiving
for the efforts of U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf."
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The resolution has not been referred to any committee for consideration.
The most recent action on the resolution was on Thursday, March 28, 1991:
Became Public Law No. 102-24.
There is currently no committee action scheduled on this resolution.
Also, one other bill has been located that is identical, similar or
closely related to S.J.R.83:
H.J.R.206 by STENHOLM (D-TX) -- National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving,
Designation
CRS Abstract and Digest:
Abstract
(from Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress)
Urges the President to declare a national day of prayer and
thanksgiving for the efforts of U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf.
Digest
(from Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress)
Calls for the President to declare a national day of prayer and
thanksgiving to express gratitude for the heroic efforts of our troops
during the Persian Gulf crisis.
Cosponsors:
S.J.R.83 BY COATS (R-IN) -- National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving,
Designation (Pub. L. 102-24, approved 3/28/91)
CURRENTLY: 8 Democrate
18 Republicans
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26 Cosponsors
BOND (R-MO)
As Introduced 02/28/91
BOREN (D-OK)
As Introduced 02/28/91
BROWN (R-CO)
As Introduced 02/28/91
BURDICK (D-ND)
As Introduced 02/28/91
BURNS (R-MT)
As Introduced 02/28/91
BYRD, ROBERT (D-WV)
As Introduced 02/28/91
CRAIG (R-ID)
As Introduced 02/28/91
DOLE (R-KS)
As Introduced 02/28/91
DURENBERGER (R-MN)
As Introduced 02/28/91
FORD, WENDELL (D-KY)
As Introduced 02/28/91
GRAHAM, BOB (D-FL)
As Introduced 02/28/91
HELMS (R-NC)
As Introduced 02/28/91
JEFFORDS (R-VT)
As Introduced 02/28/91
KASSEBAUM (R-KS)
As Introduced 02/28/91
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KERRY, JOHN (D-MA)
As Introduced 02/28/91
LOTT (R-MS)
As Introduced 02/28/91
LUGAR (R-IN)
As Introduced 02/28/91
MACK (R-FL)
As Introduced 02/28/91
MCCAIN (R-AZ)
As Introduced 02/28/91
MURKOWSKI (R-AK)
As Introduced 02/28/91
REID (D-NV)
As Introduced 02/28/91
SIMON (D-IL)
As Introduced 02/28/91
SIMPSON (R-WY)
As Introduced 02/28/91
SMITH, ROBERT C. (R-NH)
As Introduced 02/28/91
THURMOND (R-SC)
As Introduced 02/28/91
WALLOP (R-WY)
As Introduced 02/28/91
Major Actions on Bill:
02/28/91 -- In The SENATE
Introduced by COATS (R-IN)
No committee referral on introduction
Considered (debated) in the Senate (CR Page S-2497)
Passed (agreed to) (by Voice Vote) with preamble
Full text of measure printed in "Congressional Record" (CR Page S-2497)
03/05/91 -- In The HOUSE
Received in the House, after passage in the Senate
03/20/91 -- In The HOUSE
Discharged from HOUSE COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICE AND CIVIL SERVICE
Considered (debated) in the House (CR Page H-1874)
Passed (agreed to) (by Voice Vote)
Full text of measure printed in "Congressional Record" (CR Page H-1875)
03/21/91 -- In The HOUSE
Signed in the House
03/21/91 -- In The SENATE
Returned to the Senate from the House, without amendments
Signed in the Senate
Presented to the President
03/28/91 -- In The SENATE
signed by the President
Became Public Law No. 102-24
Counterpart or Companion Bills:
H.J.Res. 206 by Rep. Charles W. Stenholm (D-TX) -- National Day of Prayer and
Thanksgiving, Designation
Recorded Votes:
Currently, no recorded votes for S.J. Res. 83
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Remarks by Members:
02/28/91 -- In The SENATE
Remarks by COATS (R-IN) in "Congressional Record" (CR Page S-2448)
Washington Post Articles:
Currently, no articles found with reference to S.J. Res. 83
National Journal Articles:
Currently, no articles found with reference to S.J. Res. 83
CQ Weekly Report Articles:
Currently, no articles found with reference to S.J. Res. 83
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S.J.Ree.83
One Hundred Second Congress of the United States of America
AT THE FIRST SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, the third day of
January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-one
Joint Resolution
Entitled "National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving".
Whereas the United States responded decisively to the crisis in the
Middle East created by the invasion of Iraqi troops into Kuwait and the
unlawful annexation of that sovereign state by Iraq;
Whereas a worldwide coalition was forged to preserve international order
and stop Iraqi aggression;
Whereas President Bush pursued his strategy against Iraq with foresight
and purpose from the moment Kuwait was invaded,
Whereas our military leaders planned their campaign on air, land and sea,
with innovation and precision;
Whereas American troops have served bravely in the Middle East at great
personal risk in the defense of freedom;
Whereas we have seen a stunning triumph of American leadership, military
strength and technology,
Whereas the families of American military personnel stationed in the
Middle East or held captive by the Iraqi government have faced great anxiety;
Whereas the families and friends of those who have fallen bear the
greatest, most tragic loss of all,
Whereas Americane have traditionally recognized the importance and
strength derived from prayer at such a difficult time,
Whereas our Nation has always trusted in a Providence which vindicates
the oppressed and defends the right: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States
declare a national day of prayer and thanksgiving to express our gratitude
for the heroic efforts of our troops and to offer our thanks to God, the
ruler of men and nations, the source of justice, and the author of true
peace.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
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HEADLINE: AMERICA'S CRUSADER;
After a triumphant Central Park rally, Billy Graham is slowing down -- sort of
BYLINE: by Joe Treen
BODY:
BILLY GRAHAM, THE COUNTRY'S best-known evangelist, says he is cutting back.
Here's how: On Sunday he delivered a fiery sermon to 250,000 people in New York
City's Central Park --- his largest audience ever in North America. The sermon
was a 45-minute spellbinder on the healing power of love. "God has not abandoned
us. We have abandoned Him," Graham told the crowd, a true mosaic of every faith
and ethnic group the city could muster. "God loves you!" he thundered, pointing
to different sections of the audience. "God loves you!"
Then on Monday, still taking it easy by his own peculiar standard of leisure,
the 72-year-old minister rose before dawn for a live appearance on CBS This
Morning. Later he videotaped an insert for a telecast of his Central Park rally
and flew to Chattanooga, Tenn., to help dedicate a gymnasium. On Tuesday he
awoke early and headed for an undisclosed European hideaway to work on his
memoirs. Next month he goes to Buenos Aires to launch a 21-nation Latin American
crusade, the most ambitious of his 41-year career.
This is what is known as cutting back, Billy Graham -style. "I'm not going
to retire like other people think of retiring,' " says Graham. "The Lord's work
doesn't stop until the very end." On the other hand, Graham says, don't expect
to see him on the another-night, another-arena evangelist circuit anymore.
Starting with his Central Park rally, he says, he is going to be like a baseball
player in an old-timers' game; the job will be basically the same, but the pace
won't be as quick. "Mentally, my desire and my zeal are strong," he says. "But
my body is slowing me down."
Graham has counseled Presidents and other heads of state, opened his ministry
to people of all faiths -- even Catholics and Jews -- and has energetically
taken his interpretation of the Gospel to more than 110 million people in 84
countries, more than any other preacher in history. But today his gait is slow
and stiff. His hair is graying, and his rich North Carolina baritone seems reedy
until he delivers one of his famous firebrand sermons. Even so, he no longer
paces a mile or two when at the podium. His health is fine, he insists, although
he admits to "some problems that come with a man my age" -- including high blood
pressure -- but nothing "serious or life threatening."
At the same time, he frequently talks of death without seeming to fear it. "I
wish I could go to heaven right now," he told Paula Zahn of CBS. "My greatest
fear is that I'll do something or say something that will bring disrepute on the
Gospel of Christ before I go."
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Such cautious humility has helped Graham avoid the same pitfalls that sullied
television evangelists Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker. William Martin, whose
authoritative biography on Graham, A Prophet with Honor, is to be published in
November, says that in 1948 Graham set up rules for himself and his staff so
they wouldn't get embroiled in any scandal over sex or money. Among other
things, Martin says, no male on the Graham staff is ever alone in a room with a
female unless the door is kept open. Graham never enters a hotel room until it
has been checked by an aide. And he never opens his hotel-room door unless he
knows for sure who is on the other side.
On the financial end, Graham receives little of the $80 million raised
annually by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. He draws an
$80, 000-a-year salary and tries hard to avoid any appearance of wealth. He
usually wears rubber-sole shoes, for example, and a simple blue blazer. Graham
and his wife, Ruth, 71, live comfortably but without ostentation in western
North Carolina. She says they bought their 150-acre spread near Montreat for $15
an acre a few years after they were married in 1943 and built their home using
recycled materials from old log cabins and demolished houses. She still does
much of the housework herself. "The place is decorated in cobwebs," she says
with a smile.
To insulate him from temptation, Graham's nonprofit organization is
independently audited, publishes an annual report and is run by an executive
committee that does not include the evangelist. "He couldn't build a theme park
if he wanted to," says Martin, a sociology professor at Rice University in
Houston. Another writer, Marshall Frady, whose highly critical - and critically
acclaimed - 1979 biography of Graham is being updated, says he tried to find
criminal wrongdoing among other things but failed. "He has an absolutely
indefatigable good nature," Frady says. "He is a man without shadows."
Graham was born in 1918 in Charlotte, N.C., the oldest of four children,
and raised on a dairy farm. When he was 15, he heard a traveling evangelist
named Mordecai Ham at a series of revival meetings and became what would be
known today as a born-again Christian. After high school, Graham became a Fuller
Brush salesman, traveling the back roads of the Carolinas. He then entered the
Florida Bible Institute in Clearwater, now Trinity College, where he learned to
be a Baptist minister. He was ordained in 1940.
From there he went to Wheaton College near Chicago, where he met fellow
student Ruth McCue Bell. They were married Aug. 13, 1943, and today have two
sons (both ministers), three daughters, 19 grandchildren and three
great- grandchildren, with a fourth on the way. "I have never had sex with
another person except my wife," Graham says. "My wife was the first one and that
was after we were married.
I have to say that it wasn't just my goodness.
I think it was God watching over me."
In 1949 he got his big break. Media baron William Randolph Hearst heard
Graham deliver a vigorous anticommunist sermon during a revival series in Los
Angeles and sent a two-word telegram to the editors of each of his publications:
"Puff Graham." The next day a horde of reporters showed up, and Graham went onto
front pages around the world.
To this day, Graham continues to command the sympathetic attention of much of
the media (Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, Diane Sawyer, Paul Harvey, Hugh Downs and
Kathie Lee Gifford all showed up for a recent New York City luncheon where his
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new book, Hope for the Troubled Heart, was plugged), and his White House
connections -- Democrat, or Republican -- are legendary. He has visited the
executive mansion so often that he is sometimes referred to as the unofficial
White House chaplain.
On Jan. 16, for example, George Bush asked him to come to Washington, D.C.,
but did not say why. "They put me in the Lincoln Room," Graham recalls, "and all
of a sudden there came a knock at the door. There was Mrs. Bush in a wheelchair
[following a knee injury from a sledding accident at Camp David]. She said, 'How
about rolling me up to the Blue Room to watch some TV?' = They turned on CNN and
watched the beginning of the air war against Iraq. "Then the President came in,
and we had prayer together," Graham says. At dinner the three of them prayed
again. And then, Graham says, just before Bush spoke to the nation, they prayed
a third time "that God would help him say the right thing and give him wisdom."
Graham says his friendship with Bush does not extend into offering advice as
it did when Richard Nixon was in the White House. The reason is Watergate, he
readily admits today. "Watergate was hard for me," he says. "Because I never
really dreamed he [Nixon] would use language like that. That was the thing that
shook me. I never heard him use a swear word. I never heard him say 'damn' or
'hell.' And when all that stuff came out, I just felt it was a Nixon I didn't
know. But we're still very good friends. In fact, I just talked to him last
week."
Graham's travels put him in touch regularly with other world leaders. In July
he met with both Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. "We talked about religion
the entire time," he says of his meeting with Yeltsin. "He said he was very
happy that his grandchildren were wearing crosses." The changes in the Soviet
Union, Graham says, are good for the church - especially the evangelical wing,
which he says is growing rapidly worldwide. "I think people have come to the
point that they want to hear the true Gospel," he says. "They want the Bible
told just as it is." Which is why he is only cutting back, he says. Not stepping
down.
GRAPHIC: Picture 1, Graham addresses the Central Park faithful. When he first
came to New York City, in 1957, he compared it with Sodom and Gomorrah. "God
loves New York," he now says. "He has not given up on the people." descBlack and
white: Two photographs: Billy Graham; Billy Graham preaching to crowd at
Central Park rally., Photographs by Ken Regan/Camera 5; Picture 2, Graham met
with Dwight Eisenhower in 1957. Critics such as Marshall Frady contend Graham
consciously developed strong ties to a string of Presidents in order to
"validate" his ministry. descBlack and white: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Billy
Graham. , PAUL SCHUTZER/LIFE; Picture 3, Graham's friendship with Lyndon
Johnson bolstered both men's public images. "I told him he was the greatest
religious leader in the world," Johnson said, "and he said I was the greatest
political leader." descBlack and white: Lyndon B. Johnson, Billy Graham. AP;
Picture 4, Even though Graham was shocked by Watergate, he remains close friends
with Richard Nixon. "I'm a pastor and a minister," Graham explains. "When a
person needs you, that's when the call is strongest." descBlack and white:
Richard M. Nixon, Billy Graham. RUSS BUSBY; Picture 5, Graham's friendship
with George Bush has meant visits to Kennebunkport. "I've known him for so
long," Graham says. "I used to play golf with his father a lot. And his mother
is a very close friend of my wife's. So is Barbara." descBlack and white: George
Bush, Billy Graham. DOUG MILLS/AP; Picture 6, Ruth and Billy meet with
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granddaughter Jerusha, 13, in Graham's trailer before the Central Park rally.
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The Washington Times
April 8, 1991, Monday, Final Edition
SECTION: Part A; NATION; Pg. A3
LENGTH: 700 words
HEADLINE: Bush prayer ends 48-hour show-biz tour
BYLINE: Frank J. Murray; THE WASHINGTON TIMES
DATELINE: HOUSTON
BODY:
HOUSTON - Breaking from a string of yellow-ribbon TV shows, President Bush
led the nation in prayer yesterday, saying, "It is the time to give thanks to
God, not for winning the war, but for helping us to do what was right."
His five-minute homily from the pulpit of St. Martin's Episcopal Church -
packed with nearly 1,000 persons - ended with the words "We are not an arrogant
nation, a gloating nation, for we know 'Blessed are the meek, for they shall
inherit the earth.' "
But during a frantic 48 hours of TV appearances, White House officials
failed in their efforts to insulate the president from the show-biz aura.
From the start of his administration, Mr. Bush ordered that he not be put
in the position of endorsing commercial activity or appearing to commercialize
the presidency.
"The president feels very strongly about it," a White House official said,
adding that it is easier to set a general tone with producers than to enforce
specifics.
All three networks bused in squads of Persian Gulf veterans as props, then
outflanked Mr. Bush and the troops with commercials inserted for broadcast but
not seen on studio monitors where the president appeared.
"You can't go to the networks and say the president will appear but you
can't sell commercials," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
White House officials said they never had overall program control as Mr.
Bush was drafted into one show after another by such friends as Bob Hope and
campaign media adviser Roger Ailes.
All three were entertainment shows with multiple sponsors. At one point on
CBS' "All-Star Salute to Our Troops," produced by Mr. Ailes, a roll call of
American war dead was immediately followed by a roll call of advertisers - seven
commercials in a row.
"Salute" was broadcast live from Hangar 3 of Andrews Air Force Base. On
that show Mr. Bush told viewers: "America rediscovered itself during Desert
Storm.
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America's special decency, courage, compassion and devotion to principle."
"We've tried to show my interest, Barbara's interest, in welcoming them [the
troops] back here," President Bush said in Houston Saturday as "Bob Hope's
Yellow Ribbon Party" aired on NBC.
"I love it. I thought it was great," said first lady Barbara Bush.
The third spectacular, "Welcome Home America," was taped Friday in Los
Angeles for broadcast next Sunday on ABC, ostensibly to mark the 50th
anniversary of the USO. Mr. Bush's father, former Sen. Prescott Bush,
reportedly helped start the United Service Organization in 1941 by raising $32
million.
Throughout the string of appearances Mr. Bush was surrounded by megastars,
Democrat-bashing comedians and entertainment lawyers.
There were Frank Sinatra, Tom Selleck, Arnold Schwarzenegger and 1960s draft
evader Muhammad Ali. There were Brooke Shields and the Pointer Sisters. There
were Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Colin Powell and Richard Cheney, who did a
retake when he flubbed his lines.
Mr. Bush presented Mr. Hope, a veteran troop entertainer, a lifetime award
for USO work.
Mr. Hope recalled globe-trotting with sex symbols like Raquel Welch and
cracked, "I'd do it again for my country."
Chilling the celebratory mood at one point, Mr. Reagan said, "There's no
such thing as a good war."
Tony Orlando sang his trademark "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak
Tree," as did country singer Clint Black. And, as he had countless times in the
Bush campaign, Lee Greenwood sang "I'm Proud to Be An American."
The spectacular shows marked a reversal for Mr. Bush, who restrained
himself from even meeting homecoming troops in early March and finally did so at
military or civic settings.
Mr. Bush indicated he has given up his earlier plan to "salute the troops
on the ground" in a personal visit to the Middle East. "Time is maybe making
that more difficult."
He has said the nation should celebrate in a massive party on the Fourth of
July but first should observe the three-day weekend of thanksgiving that ended
with yesterday's 3 p.m. bell-ringing across the country.
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CHEMICAL WEAPONS/JORDANIANS (Amman/Reuter) -- Jordanian Moslem
militants urged Saddam Hussein Friday to turn his chemical weapons
on U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf. "Chemicals, chemicals, O
Saddam," about 1,000 people screamed. They also set U.S. and
British flags ablaze at a pro-Iraq rally in Amman
The crowd
urged King Hussein to arm them against Western forces.
IRA/TERRORISM CONFERENCE (London/Reuter) -- The Irish Republican
Army claimed responsibility Friday for planting a bomb made of
plastic explosives at a London conference on combatting terrorism.
The IRA said in a statement issued in Dublin the incident showed
its ability to "strike at will."
SUDANESE BOMBINGS (AP) -- The State Department said Friday the
Sudanese government is threatening an international relief effort
by bombing towns in rebel-held areas where assistance programs are
in operation. U.S. Ambassador James Cheek has raised the issue
with Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir but has received no
assurance that the bombings will stop, said deputy spokesman
Boucher.
ARMENIAN RELIEF (UPI) -- The U.S. made its first grant for
development assistance to the Soviet Union Friday with the
commitment of $9.8 million in humanitarian aid for survivors of the
December 1988 Armenian earthquake
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Ter-Petrosyan expressed concern at a State Department signing
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Friday, September 28, 1990 -- 4
BUDGET/DE FAZIO (UPI) -- Americans don't have to face a "bloody
Monday" if President Bush backs off from his "tax break for the
rich" budget demand, Rep. De Fazio said Friday on "The Fox Morning
News.' De Fazio was challenged by Rep. Walker, who said "if the
Democrats have a better plan" the GOP would like to see it.
PAY CUT/HOUSE (UPI) -- The House Friday blocked a Senate move to
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week
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basic figure in the bill, the total amount, because it exceeds a
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TO: CHRISTINA MARTIN
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NAT. PTAYER BREAKFAST (Curt Smith)
BREAKFAST SPEECHES ARE ALWAYS MY FAVORITE. I FIGURE IT'S THE MEAL
WHERE BROCCOLI IS LEAST LIKELY TO BE SERVED.
I DON'T KNOW IF THIS BREAKFAST WAS FASHIONED FROM JUST SEVEN LOAVES
AND FISHES, BUT IF so, I'M GLAD YOU DIDN'T COUNT ON ME TO CATCH THE
MISH.
I TRIED OUT MY ACCEPTANCE SPEECH ON BARBARA LAST NIGHT. SHE SAID
"NOT BAD, BUT MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T REFER TO YOUR REELECTION AS 'THE
SECOND COMING'.
IF 1 CATCH FIRE IN MY SPEECH TONIGHT, IT MIGHT GIVE A WHOLE NEW MEANING
TO THE STORY OF THE BURNING BUSH.
WHEN MOSES DELIVERED HIS SERMON FROM THE MOUNT, HE HAD AN ADVANTAGE
OVER ME AND THE SPEECH I'M GIVING TONIGHT. HIS DIDN'T HAVE AS BIG
A BUILD-UP IN ADVANCE.
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TO: CHRISTINA MARTIN - PRAYER BKFST (CONT'D)
I RECEIVED A LETTER RECENTLY FROM A MEMBER OF A TAX REFORM GROUP.
HE SAID THAT IF MOSES HAD TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN, MAYBE HE'D COME
DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN WITH THE 10 DEDUCTIONS.
(CHOIR) AS SOMEONE WHO
INSURANCE
WORKS IN THE FRACTIOUS WORLD OF
POLITICS, IT'S A WONDERFUL CHANGE TO HEAR A THOUSAND VOICES RAISED
IN UNISON.
FOR ALL THE OTHER PARTY'S SUPPOSED INCLUSIVENESS, I NOTICED SOMETHING
WAS CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT FROM THEIR CONVENTION -- ANY MENTION OF
GOD IN THE PLATFORM. MIND YOU, EVEN IF THEY INVITED HIM PERSONALLY,
HE MIGHT HAVE HAD SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT SHOWING UP IN NEW YORK CITY.
BARBARA AND I HAVE BEEN FRIENDS WITH BILLY AND (wife) GRAHAM FOR MANY
YEARS, AND BETWEEN US WE HAVE (#) CHILDREN AND (#) GRANDCHILDREN.
NOW THAT'S THE KIND OF EXPANSION THAT MAKES EVEN THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY
JEALOUS.
1 REMEMBER BILLY GRAHAM BEING CRITICIZED FOR SAYING THAT FREEDOM WAS
COMING TO EASTERN EUROPE. THE DOUBTERS SAID HE'D BEEN TRICKED AND
CALLED HIM NAIVE. BUT BILLY KNEW SOMETHING THAT THEY DIDN'T. HE
KNEW THAT THE CHAINS OF OPPRESSION FORGED BY MAN ARE NO MATCH FOR
THE FORCES OF LIBERATION GUIDED BY GOD.
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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. //
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
50-piece orchestra. 100 singers from the Houston Children's
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. )) /
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
"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
most religious Nation on earth. //
According to the Gallup Poll, 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. //
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 Thy conscience be Thy guide." That is why I
don't care about the cost to me: I revere the sanctity of life. /
Jefferson said, "The God who gave us life also gave us
liberty." Today, that second gift -- 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
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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
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. //
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
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
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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
32 grandkids. ((Now, that's the kind of expansion that makes
even the Federal bureaucracy jealous.) )) / I know how a third
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
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 asks God daily to make lives well. We act
through the greatest of God's gifts -- yes, prayer. /
Something's wrong when kids can get condoms at school but can't
say a prayer. / That's why I oppose the recent Supreme Court
ruling outlawing voluntary prayer at school events --- and why I
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 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
-- you know us Episcopalians. / Yet it has sustained me at every
point of my life. / As a boy, when religious reading was part of
our home life. / As a teenager, when I memorized the Navy Hymn.
/ Or how, fifty years ago, aboard the submarine Finback after
being shot down in the War, I went on deck at night, stood watch
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
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. //
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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
Air War began -- we thought about those young men and women
overseas. I felt the tears streaming down my cheeks. Our
minister -- Claude Payne -- 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 life, family, and liberty --
prayer can build peace among Nations. Creating a world where we
say to each child: "Someone loves you, and knows your name. II
This month, I got a letter from a little girl, age . Joy
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Vaughn -- lives in Mesa, Arizona. Her brother is a missionary. /
She wrote: "I just have to tell you that I am proud of you. " /
Be stout of heart, she added. "God is in charge. " //
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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