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Carol
Marshall
From Mike Pacowta, President Chamber of Commerce
203-735-7863
Smith
Is fed-exing valley history book
6510
Town settled in the late 1600's. Always been working class, mill
town; brass.
Ansonia Copper and Brass still in existence
BF Goodrich used to be in Shelton; in 1975, an arsonist blew it
up (largest arson case the FBI has ever investigated). The
valley's economy went with it.
August 22nd -- dance being held in Warsaw Park; probably adults.
call Tony RAJ-in-ell at 203-734-1447 for details
(He does NOT know POTUS is coming, though)
From David Rifkin, Chamber of Commerce
Warsaw Park is run by St. Joseph's Church. It is home to bingo
games, square dancing contects, ballroom dancing contests,
wedding receptions, and carnivals on the surrounding lawn
outdoors. There is something going on a few days prior to
POTUS visit -- find out what it is!
President will be addressing a crowd from "the Valley", not just
Ansonia. Used to be just a mill-town. Now corporate
buildings are springing up slowly but surely, insurance
companies have located there, as have industrial parks.
30% of Ansonia residents have lived there less than 5 years --
used to be just 2%.
Derby High School Red Raiders vs. the Ansonia H.S. Chargers;
local football rivalry
National sports: Yankees, Mets, Red Sox; Giants.
If at all possible, tout the SBA who has saved a number of
businesses (for anecdote about saving his business, call Jay
Sheehy)
Although the numbers for personal income are way down, and
numbers for unemployment are up, new car registrations for
this year are up 49%.
School starts August 31 -- one week from POTUS visit.
Any deregulation language would be successful here. A local
factory that makes cables is thinking of relocating to the
Carolinas because of CT's red tape. The local community
hospital is having trouble expanding due to regulations.
From Marshall Smith; x6510; Office of Political Affairs
Blue-collar town
population: approx. 20,000
town area: 6.2 square miles
Used to be brass and copper products producer
Industry fell in the 60s and 70s -- doing better, but not like
before
Minor rebound in local economy; some industrial parks and places
of technology
Democrat Mayor Tom Clifford
Large Polish community (2d largest in cT, next to New Britain)
Large Italian community
High minority population
Many areas of low-income housing
Recently, federal funds allowed for upgrade of passenger train
line (goes into NYC), so they may look favorably at POTUS
because of that.
Monday, August 17, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR STEVE PROVOST
DAN MCGROARTY
FROM:
CAROL AARHUS
SUBJECT:
CONNECTICUT COLOR, PART ONE
It is my understanding that the speech will be delivered to
Chamber of Commerce types from Ansonia and surrounding
communities, which lumped together, is more commonly referred to
as "The Valley". Below are some "color" points:
Warsaw Park
-- The speech will take place in a hall called Warsaw Park,
which is run by St. Joseph's Church. Warsaw Park has
hosted bingo games, square dancing contests, ballroom
dancing, wedding receptions, and the like. There have
also been carnivals held on the lawn surrounding the
building. Two days before the speech (on the 22nd),
Warsaw Park will be hosting a dance. Warsaw Park is in
a residential area of town.
-- A picnic lunch is expected to be the bill of fare for the
day. The Chamber of Commerce is looking at a fried
chicken box lunch, or some kind of sandwich combo.
Sports
-- The two big rivals in the area are the Derby High School
Red Raiders and the Ansonia High School Chargers.
(School starts August 31) As for national teams,
loyalty is pretty much divided between the Yankees,
Mets, and Red Sox. As for football, overwhelming
support goes to the Giants.
Ansonia Town History
-- The town of Ansonia was founded in the latter part of the
1600s. It was formerly a mill town, working-class,
specializing in brass and copper products. Much of
that has gone the way of the dinosaur, although Ansonia
Copper and Brass is still in business.
Industry/Companies/Businesses
-- B.F. Goodrich was a pretty big employer in Shelton, until
1975, when an arsonist blew it sky-high, and blew up
the area's economy with it. Things haven't been quite
the same ever since.
-- United Technologies' various subsidiaries made Air Force
jets and the Army's Sikorsky helicopters. General
Dynamic's Electric Boat Shipyard in New London made the
Navy's nuclear submarines. Textron-Lycoming (in the
Valley) makes the M-1 tank engine.
Ansonia Town Makeup
-- Working-class
-- Large Polish population (2d largest in CT, next to New
Britain, CT)
-- Large Italian population
Connecticut State Points of Interest
-- Pez candy is manufactured in Orange, CT
-- Pepperidge Farm bread is made in Norwalk, CT
-- The famous Wiffle Ball is made in Shelton, CT
-- Eli Whitney (a Yalie) invented not only the cotton gin,
but also rifles with interchangeable parts.
-- P.T. Barnum is from Bridgeport, CT
Connecticut politics
-- POTUS's father was a Connecticut Senator
-- The audience will be from the 3d and 5th Congressional
Districts
-- The Third District is represented by Rosa DeLauro (D)
-- The Fifth District is represented by Gary Franks (R), a
free-market conservative. The Almanac of American
Politics reports that of the 25 black voting members of
Congress, Franks was the only one to vote for the Gulf
War resolution.
NOTE: Unfortunately, this trip has not yet been officially
approved, so I was not able to contact other key people (i.e.
head of VFW, head of Warsaw Park, Polish leaders, church
leaders). Once I have been given the go-ahead to do so, you will
receive another memo -- probably Tuesday afternoon.
August 18, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR STEVEN PROVOST
DAN MCGROARTY
FROM:
CAROL AARHUS
SUBJECT:
CONNECTICUT COLOR, PART TWO
Below are more "color" points for the Connecticut speech:
-- POTUS will arrive Nolan Field for an open arrival, where
they are planning to have the local high school
marching band and cheerleaders, etc. pumping up the
crowd. There will also be a people-lined motorcade
route.
-- POTUS will arrive Warsaw Park, eat, then talk. I think
they want him to speak from his table, which is in the
center of the room. I'm not sure how this will work
logistically, but we'll see.
-- At Warsaw park, bingo is the first Saturday of every
month.
-- At the Ansonia V. Derby football games, some 10,000
people show up -- major community event.
-- Fire service is all-volunteer
-- Local hangout in downtown Ansonia is Vonete's (vah-NET-
eez). It's a coffee shop/diner where people go for
their morning cup of coffee and discuss the previous
night's football game, etc.
-- Major thing is issue of transformation from working-
class mill town to corporate HQ/industrial parks, etc.
From Glen Flood, DODPA 703-695-0192
CT is the 8th Irgest in terms of defense contracts.
Top ten, in order -- CA, TX, MA, NY, VA, MO, FL, CT, OH, MD.
Main mill river in Valley -- Naugatuck River
Largest employers in Valley -- Griffin Hospital
Pitney Bowes
Largest employer in Ansonia -- The Farrell Corporation (remnant
of the old steel works)
Largest exporter in Valley -- Pop-Fasteners (div. of Emhart)
203-924-9341; George Zonas (exports)
They export pop rivets to all over
the world -- far east, europe,
pacific rim
From Mike Pacowta, President Chamber of Commerce
203-735-7863
Is fed-exing valley history book
Town settled in the late 1600's. Always been working class, mill
town; brass.
Ansonia Copper and Brass still in existence
BF Goodrich used to be in Shelton; in 1975, an arsonist blew it
up (largest arson case the FBI has ever investigated). The
valley's economy went with it.
August 22nd -- dance being held in Warsaw Park; probably adults.
call Tony RAJ-in-ell at 203-734-1447 for details
(He does NOT know POTUS is coming, though)
From David Rifkin, Chamber of Commerce
Warsaw Park is run by St. Joseph's Church. It is home to bingo
games, square dancing contects, ballroom dancing contests,
wedding receptions, and carnivals on the surrounding lawn
outdoors. There is something going on a few days prior to
POTUS visit -- find out what it is!
President will be addressing a crowd from "the Valley", not just
Ansonia. Used to be just a mill-town. Now corporate
buildings are springing up slowly but surely, insurance
companies have located there, as have industrial parks.
30% of Ansonia residents have lived there less than 5 years --
used to be just 2%.
Derby High School Red Raiders VS. the Ansonia H.S. Chargers;
local football rivalry
National sports: Yankees, Mets, Red Sox; Giants.
If at all possible, tout the SBA who has saved a number of
businesses (for anecdote about saving his business, call Jay
Sheehy)
Although the numbers for personal income are way down, and
numbers for unemployment are up, new car registrations for
this year are up 49%.
School starts August 31 -- one week from POTUS visit.
Any deregulation language would be successful here. A local
factory that makes cables is thinking of relocating to the
Carolinas because of CT's red tape. The local community
hospital is having trouble expanding due to regulations.
From Marshall Smith; x6510; Office of Political Affairs
Blue-collar town
population: approx. 20,000
town area: 6.2 square miles
Used to be brass and copper products producer
Industry fell in the 60s and 70s -- doing better, but not like
before
Minor rebound in local economy; some industrial parks and places
of technology
Democrat Mayor Tom Clifford
Large Polish community (2d largest in CT, next to New Britain)
Large Italian community
High minority population
Many areas of low-income housing
Recently, federal funds allowed for upgrade of passenger train
line (goes into NYC), so they may look favorably at POTUS
because of that.
Monday, August 17, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR STEVE PROVOST
DAN MCGROARTY
FROM:
CAROL AARHUS
SUBJECT:
CONNECTICUT COLOR, PART ONE
It is my understanding that the speech will be delivered to
Chamber of Commerce types from Ansonia and surrounding
communities, which lumped together, is more commonly referred to
as "The Valley". Below are some "color" points:
Warsaw Park
-- The speech will take place in a hall called Warsaw Park,
which is run by St. Joseph's Church. Warsaw Park has
hosted bingo games, square dancing contests, ballroom
dancing, wedding receptions, and the like. There have
also been carnivals held on the lawn surrounding the
building. Two days before the speech (on the 22nd),
Warsaw Park will be hosting a dance. Warsaw Park is in
a residential area of town.
-- A picnic lunch is expected to be the bill of fare for the
day. The Chamber of Commerce is looking at a fried
chicken box lunch, or some kind of sandwich combo.
Sports
-- The two big rivals in the area are the Derby High School
Red Raiders and the Ansonia High School Chargers.
(School starts August 31) As for national teams,
loyalty is pretty much divided between the Yankees,
Mets, and Red Sox. As for football, overwhelming
support goes to the Giants.
Ansonia Town History
-- The town of Ansonia was founded in the latter part of the
1600s. It was formerly a mill town, working-class,
specializing in brass and copper products. Much of
that has gone the way of the dinosaur, although Ansonia
Copper and Brass is still in business.
Industry/Companies/Businesses
-- B.F. Goodrich was a pretty big employer in Shelton, until
1975, when an arsonist blew it sky-high, and blew up
the area's economy with it. Things haven't been quite
the same ever since.
-- United Technologies' various subsidiaries made Air Force
jets and the Army's Sikorsky helicopters. General
Dynamic's Electric Boat Shipyard in New London made the
Navy's nuclear submarines. Textron-Lycoming (in the
Valley) makes the M-1 tank engine.
Ansonia Town Makeup
-- Working-class
-- Large Polish population (2d largest in CT, next to New
Britain, CT)
-- Large Italian population
Connecticut State Points of Interest
-- Pez candy is manufactured in Orange, CT
-- Pepperidge Farm bread is made in Norwalk, CT
-- The famous Wiffle Ball is made in Shelton, CT
-- Eli Whitney (a Yalie) invented not only the cotton gin,
but also rifles with interchangeable parts.
-- P.T. Barnum is from Bridgeport, CT
Connecticut politics
-- POTUS's father was a Connecticut Senator
-- The audience will be from the 3d and 5th Congressional
Districts
-- The Third District is represented by Rosa DeLauro (D)
-- The Fifth District is represented by Gary Franks (R), a
free-market conservative. The Almanac of American
Politics reports that of the 25 black voting members of
Congress, Franks was the only one to vote for the Gulf
War resolution.
NOTE: Unfortunately, this trip has not yet been officially
approved, so I was not able to contact other key people (i.e.
head of VFW, head of Warsaw Park, Polish leaders, church
leaders). Once I have been given the go-ahead to do so, you will
receive another memo -- probably Tuesday afternoon.
August 18, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR STEVEN PROVOST
DAN MCGROARTY
FROM:
CAROL AARHUS
SUBJECT:
CONNECTICUT COLOR, PART TWO
Below are more "color" points for the Connecticut speech:
-- POTUS will arrive Nolan Field for an open arrival, where
they are planning to have the local high school
marching band and cheerleaders, etc. pumping up the
crowd. There will also be a people-lined motorcade
route.
-- POTUS will arrive Warsaw Park, eat, then talk. I think
they want him to speak from his table, which is in the
center of the room. I'm not sure how this will work
logistically, but we'll see.
-- At Warsaw park, bingo is the first Saturday of every
month.
-- At the Ansonia V. Derby football games, some 10,000
people show up -- major community event.
-- Fire service is all-volunteer
-- Local hangout in downtown Ansonia is Vonete's (vah-NET-
eez). It's a coffee shop/diner where people go for
their morning cup of coffee and discuss the previous
night's football game, etc.
-- Major thing is issue of transformation from working-
class mill town to corporate HQ/industrial parks, etc.
From Glen Flood, DODPA 703-695-0192
CT is the 8th lrgest in terms of defense contracts.
Top ten, in order -- CA, TX, MA, NY, VA, MO, FL, cT, OH, MD.
Main mill river in Valley -- Naugatuck River
Largest employers in Valley -- Griffin Hospital
Pitney Bowes
Largest employer in Ansonia -- The Farrell Corporation (remnant
of the old steel works)
Largest exporter in Valley -- Pop-Fasteners (div. of Emhart)
203-924-9341; George Zonas (exports)
They export pop rivets to all over
the world -- far east, europe,
pacific rim
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
one Seaworf (p.6)
D 144,000 to 141,000
state and local
A 235,000 to 242, 000
manufacturing not
private industry
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contracts. He knew I'd made a tough decision -- a decision,
quite frankly, that one would cost Connecticut -- to bring down the
deficit by cutting two Seawolf submarines. So when Bill Clinton
came to town, on the ave of the Connecticut primary, he told
citizens of this state exactly what he thought you'd want to
hear. He swore to save the Seawolf.
Now, while he was here -- did he tell you about his plans to
put our nation security on the line by carving out another $60
billion dollars in defensa cuts?
Did he tell you those cuts would throw another one million
defense-industry employees -- thousands from right here in
Connecticut -- out of work and onto welfare?
or did be just smile. wave goodbve, and get back on the bus?
So there you have it: Bill Clinton will sink the Navy --
but somehow. he'll spare the Seavolf. //
I can't tell you what to think -- but I can tell you what I
think. I owe you the straight story. I stake my claim on a
simple philosophy: To lead a great nation ... you must first
trust the people you lead.
This year, the choice is clear. It's a choice between two
fundamentally different philosophies: or the government. by the
government, for the government" versus "of the people, by the
people, for the people."
I trust parents -- not the government -- to make the
decisions that matter in life. 11
DELIVER TO SR. STAFF OFFICE NOW!!
FAX TO: CHRISTINA MARTIN
8-417-336-6832
FROM: CAROL AARHUS
WARSAW PARK/CONNECTICUT
SPEECH CHANGES !
92 AUG AUG 21 P7: 46
M
9 pages
GET SOME SLEEP !!
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August 20, 1992
32 AUG 21 P3: 05
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
DAN MC GROARTY muh
SUBJECT:
ANSONIA, CT. EVENT
On Monday, August 24, you will travel to Ansonia,
Connecticut, where you will deliver luncheon remarks at the
Warsaw Park Hall. Ansonia is a blue-collar town, with a good
number of Polish-Americans.
The remarks focus on the economy, with a short reprise of
the job training announcement you make earlier in the day in New
Jersey.
The remarks also include a section on defense - Clinton's
promise on the Seawolf, contrasted with his plans to gut defense.
Connacticut ranks 8th in the nation in defense contracts.
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Aarhus
McGroarty/Bunton
August 20, 1992
1:30 p.m.
[CT]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WARSAW PARK LUNCHEON
ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT
AUGUST 24, 1992
7:00 P.M.?? 1:25 P.M.
Thank you,
, for those kind words. [Acknowledgements.)
I want to ask you today to look ahead with me to the great
contest that takes place this fall. No ... I'm not talking about
the Red Raiders vs. the Chargers at Nolan Field.
Ansonia versus Derby an (xxxx) Stadium. I'm talking about the
contest on November 3rd -- and the new course we'll set for the
next four years and the new century beyond.
We've witnessed a world of change. From Managua to Moscow,
millions of men and women now celebrate a new birth of freedom.
For the people here today -- people who came to America from the
Old Country -- who prayed for this day to come, the change we've
witnessed, this change we've worked for is a miracle come true.
There are those -- to quote the poet -- who will say that
the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is
nothing but a dream.
And they are right. It is the American Dream.
Today, our challenge is to bring that spirit home -- home
from Warsaw, Poland to Warsaw Park. To focus this great nation
on the new mission at hand. America has changed the world -- now
we will change America. 11
That's what November 3rd is all about. This election is
about the big issues. About the issues that shape the world --
about the values close to home: I'm talking about family and
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faith -- about neighborhoods free from crime ... about a world
free from fear. 11
But we all know the number one worry today is the economy,
it's jobs. Just as you can't drive a nail without a hammer, you
can't build a dream without a job.
If you want to talk to the most productive workers in the
world -- you don't have to brush up on your German, or take a
crash course in Japanese. You can start right here in the U.S.A.
-- because the American worker is the most productive worker in
the world. 11
That simple fact is worth pointing out because it can help
us keep our economic problems in perspective. That's important -
- because we're hearing an awful lot these days from folks who've
got a vested interest in talking this economy down, feeding
fears, treating what's temporary as terminal.
You know as well as I do, we want to bring unemployment
down. For any worker without a job, the unemployment rate is
100%. But the economy is on the move. Inflation -- the stealth
tax that once upon a time in the 70s ravaged your paycheck --
inflation is under control. Interest rates are at 20 year lows.
Inventories are down -- a sure sign that production lines will be
gearing up to meet new demand. The signs point to recovery. The
question to ask yourselves between now and November 3rd is this:
Which candidate knows how to keep the economy up on its feet --
and which one would drive it to its knees. 11
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The simple fact is, there is only one candidate for
President who has lived a life beyond government ...
who has
known a call above political ambition. Once Bill Clinton got
into office, the only way they got him out
was when the
voters kicked him out. 11
My opponent's idea about creating jobs is to put people on
the public payroll. There are 144, 000 government employees in
state and local
Arkansas, and 235,000 in private manufacturing Industry
That's the kind of
ratio ye'd expect to see in the old U.S.S.R. -- not the U.S.A.
//
I come at things a different way. Long before I came to
public service, I built a company ... I met a payroll took
the risks
made it work. And I happen to think that's not a
bad qualification for being President. //
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it if we want to compete. Think of the economic
changes you've seen right here in Ansonia, from the brass and
copper age, and the mills along the Naugatuck River to the new
corporate headquarters and industrial parks across the Valley.
Right now, 1 in every 6 American manufacturing jobs are tied
directly to exports and that doesn't count the economic ripple
effect created when those workers pay the mortgage, buy a car or
feed their kids. Since 1988, three-fifths of all our economic
growth has come from people in other countries buying what's Made
in America.
we can say "more than one- half"
because half of 5 is 2.5 and
3is greater than 2.5
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We don't need more studies or statistics to prove that free
trade is our future. America's real wealth isn't something we
dig up from the ground -- it's the sweat and the smarts of the
American worker. Yes, the world's coming our way -- but I know:
we can play the game. 11
As President, I've worked to create the new American markets
from Mexico City to Moscow that mean new American jobs here in
Ansonia and all across America. I'm convinced the answer is not
to build a wall around our economy, not to put the government in
charge -- but to use the government to help you -- literally --
go to work.
initiative for
Earlier today in Union, New Jersey, I announced a dramatic
new - job training,
the
To help young people find that first job, a
program I call Youth Training Corps -- will get at-risk youth off
the mean streets, and give Deb them a second chance to build the
x5178 Scully
skills they need to succeed. For older workers who've lost their
jobs -- or worry that next pay anvelope may contain a pink slip:
we've developed a new concept called Skills Grants -- vouchers
worth $3000 dollars to be used toward the training program of
their choice.
That's our approach to job training: Meaningful work -- not
make-work. Real-world help ... for real jobs. //
That's an approach the other side can't match. The other
side sees job training as just another reason to raise taxes. We
see it as a way to raise self-esteem -- restore productivity and
generate economic growth. //
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You see, it's all part of a larger philosophy. Look at
every big issue we face. You'll see a choice -- a choice between
those who put their faith in averyday Americans, and those who
put their faith in government.
Bill Clinton says he's all for free enterprise -- then he
proposes the largest tax hike in history, much of it on the back
of small business.
Bill Clinton says he wants smaller government -- but of all
the thousands of government programs, he can find only one he's
willing to cut: The honey bee subsidy.
[[And they could still get stung on that one.]]
Bill Clinton says he's for fiscal responsibility -- and then
he comes out against the Balanced Budget Amendment.
That's what Bill Clinton says ... now let me tell you what a
former Democratic candidate -- more recently, a Connecticut
country innkeeper -- says about Bill Clinton. He save this
year's Democratic ticket is a Trojan Horse -- and I quote:
"They're much more liberal underneath -- and will prove it
when they're elected."
That's not me using the "L" word -- that's George McGovern.
There's a temptation some find hard to resist, to be all
things to all people. Remember the old movie, Zelig? The one
about the guy who could slip on a new personality as easily as he
could change his shirt? In a word, Zelig was slick.
Now, I think Bill Clinton has seen the movie. He knows
Connecticut ranks 8th of all 50 states in terms of defense
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I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private or religious. 11
I trust the people -- not the government -- to choose their
own health care.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. 11 When the other side says, "government
knows best" -- I say: Parents know better. Parents know better
than some bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. 11
What we need now is someone who sees the new horizon --
someone who understands America's place in the world is never to
be the patron of the past -- but the architect of the future.
I intend to spend the last 71 days of this campaign winning
a mandate for the first 100 days of the next Congress. Send me a
Congress I can work with ... a responsible Congress -- ready to
do the will of the American people. Send me a Congress ready to
do the will of the American people -- and we will get the job
done. //
I will take my message to the American people -- and
together we will do what's right for America. 11
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
# # #
News
United States
Department
of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Washington, D.C. 20212
Technical information:
USDL 92-529
Unemployment
(202) 606-6392
Employment
606-6559
Media contact:
523-1913
FOR RELEASE: IMMEDIATE
(After Aug. 28)
606-5902
TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1992
STATE AND METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT: JUNE 1992
Unemployment rates increased from May to June in 37 states, the Bureau
of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. The
national unemployment rate rose from 7.5 to 7.8 percent over the same time
period.
Employment on nonfarm payrolls was higher in June than a year earlier
in 28 states. Nationally, employment increased by about 235,000 over the
year.
Unemployment data for all states and the District of Columbia are
available on a seasonally adjusted basis, thus permitting over-the-month
comparisons. Nonfarm payroll employment data for states, as well as
unemployment data for metropolitan areas, are only available on a not-
seasonally-adjusted basis; therefore, comparisons of these data should be
limited to the same month in earlier years. Over-the-month comparisons of
not-seasonally-adjusted data may be affected by seasonal changes and thus
could present a misleading picture of underlying economic trends.
State Unemployment (Seasonally Adjusted)
Oklahoma had the largest increase in its unemployment rate over the
month--1.5 percentage points--and three East Coast states (Delaware, Maine,
and New York) each had increases of 1.3 percentage points. Thirteen other
states had increases between 0.5 and 0.9 percentage point. Only Virginia
and Iowa had decreases as large as 0.5 point, and no state showed a decline
of as much as 1 percentage point. (See table 1.)
Eleven states had June unemployment rates of 8.5 percent or higher.
West Virginia again had the highest jobless rate--11.4 percent. Next were
Rhode Island (9.7 percent), Alaska (9.6 percent), and California (9.5
percent). Nebraska and South Dakota had the lowest unemployment rates--
both at 3.5 percent. Kansas (4.3 percent), Hawaii (4.6 percent), and Utah
(4.8 percent) were the only other states with jobless rates below 5.0
percent. (See the map.)
Much of the nation's unemployment in June was concentrated in just a
few large states. Eight of the 11 most populous states had unemployment
rates that were higher than the national average. (See the bottom portion
of table 1.) These eight states accounted for about half (51 percent) of
total U.S. unemployment.
- 2 -
Metropolitan Area Unemployment (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
Of the 271 metropolitan areas for which June data are available, 79
areas had unemployment rates of 8.5 percent and higher, while 33 areas had
rates below 5.0 percent. The highest rate was in Modesto, Calif. (17.9
percent), followed closely by McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Tex. (17.5
percent), and then by Stockton and Bakersfield, Calif. (15.9 and 15.3
percent, respectively). The lowest rates were in Iowa City, Iowa (2.2
percent), Sioux Falls, S. Dak. (2.4 percent), and Madison, Wis. (2.8
percent). (See table 4.)
Nonfarm Payroll Employment (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
Nonfarm payroll employment, as measured by the monthly survey of
nonfarm establishments, rose by 2 percent or more between June of 1991 and
1992 in four states--Arkansas (3.0 percent), Utah (2.5 percent), Idaho (2.4
percent), and Kansas (2.2 percent). Texas led all the states in terms of
absolute increases with an over-the-year gain of 75,000 jobs.
Over-the-year employment declines were reported in 22 states and the
District of Columbia. The largest on a percentage basis were in
Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode
Island; these six East Coast states accounted for 460,000 lost jobs. (See
table 3.)
Employment declines in the goods-producing sector continued to be
widespread. Two-thirds of the states reported over-the-year job losses in
manufacturing, and over half had losses in construction. Job gains in the
service-producing sector were concentrated in the services industry, where
more than four-fifths of the states reported job growth, and in government,
with gains in two-thirds of the states. Two-thirds of the states had
employment decreases in transportation and public utilities, and over half
had declines in trade.
The State and Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment release
for July 1992 will be issued on Wednesday, September 16, 1992.
242,000
Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and selected industry division, not seasonally adjusted
(In thousands)
Transportation
Total¹
Construction
Manufacturing
and public utilities
State
May
June
May
June
May
June
May
June
1991
1992
1991
1992p
1991
1992
1991
1992p
1991
1992
1991
1992p
1991
1992
1991
1992p
Alabama
1,644.3
1,652.0
1,644.3
1,646.5
79.4
74.6
81.4
75.4
379.9
381.2
382.8
383.5
84.0
81.3
84.2
81.9
19.6
18.3
21.0
20.8
22.0
22.4
23.5
23.8
Alaska
245.8
247.6
253.6
255.4
10.3
10.7
12.1
12.2
Arizona
1,504.4
1,508.7
1,477.7
1,476.3
76.9
80.0
78.2
81.7
176.2
168.4
176.4
168.3
81.0
79.0
81.4
79.2
Arkansas
936.6
966.3
941.7
969.6
35.0
38.5
36.8
40.0
233.2
238.5
235.2
241.5
55.7
55.9
56.0
56.4
12,330.9
12,564.6
12,335.7
552.4
518.9
562.0
519.4
2,026.2
1,940.9
2,025.1
1,938.3
627.5
618.6
629.0
621.1
California
12,531.1
Colorado
1,534.6
1,559.8
1,555.4
1,577.0
65.7
76.5
69.3
80.3
184.2
181.4
185.9
182.4
97.5
97.4
97.8
97.6
Connecticut
1,566.7
1,514.5
1,576.9
1,522.7
52.9
46.7
55.3
48.9
323.6
311.8
324.8
313.2
71.4
68.5
71.9
68.7
Delaware
345.8
339.1
348.7
343.0
18.9
16.8
18.2
17.1
71.2
68.1
71.5
68.2
14.9
14.8
15.2
14.8
14.6
23.6
22.8
23.6
22.8
District of Columbia
678.6
670.1
685.2
676.1
11.2
9.3
11.2
9.3
14.9
14.6
15.0
Florida
5,315.6
5,284.4
5,286.5
5,255.5
278.1
253.9
278.1
255.0
492.8
485.4
491.6
484.5
274.1
268.3
274.0
269.2
Georgia
2,945.0
2,953.4
2,962.7
2,962.9
126.2
114.4
127.3
115.3
540.5
543.0
544.2
545.5
193.2
198.8
194.0
199.5
33.7
31.9
33.9
31.8
20.3
20.0
20.5
20.6
42.9
43.3
43.6
43.4
Hawaii
537.2
542.0
539.1
541.7
Idaho
396.0
408.9
403.7
413.4
19.9
20.5
21.7
21.7
61.7
63.5
63.7
65.1
19.9
20.2
20.1
20.3
Illinois
5,251.3
5,224.1
5,266.6
5,240.1
203.3
204.3
207.6
211.9
948.5
940.6
950.8
944.5
304.3
298.4
303.3
298.7
Indiana
2,512.6
2,547.6
2,512.6
2,549.1
118.4
116.3
122.7
120.2
614.2
620.4
621.2
626.7
132.6
131.8
132.8
132.3
55.9
55.4
Iowa
1,252.0
1,256.2
1,254.6
1,255.6
47.5
46.3
50.8
48.9
234.0
228.9
235.0
231.5
55.5
55.2
Kansas
1,102.6
1,125.5
1,101.7
1,125.8
42.3
46.7
44.3
48.3
184.1
183.0
185.1
183.8
65.0
64.4
65.4
64.9
Kentucky
1,480.3
1,492.5
1,477.4
1,491.2
64.1
64.5
66.2
65.9
280.2
282.5
280.6
284.7
80.2
83.2
81.3
83.8
97.7
186.2
186.2
187.9
187.4
109.9
108.3
110.9
109.4
Louisiana
1,624.8
1,622.9
1,625.9
1,626.3
97.4
97.7
97.6
Maine
513.4
512.0
525.2
521.3
22.3
20.4
24.2
22.2
94.0
94.2
96.3
95.4
21.8
22.4
22.3
22.8
Maryland
2,113.0
2,061.9
2,125.9
2,071.7
133.1
124.6
136.1
126.4
192.4
184.7
193.8
186.4
100.5
98.2
101.5
99.0
2,834.1
2,778.1
2,859.9
2,793.8
80.6
72.2
84.3
74.6
487.2
465.8
488.5
464.2
124.9
123.0
126.0
123.7
Massachusetts
3,905.3
3,887.1
3,898.4
3,893.9
132.4
129.1
137.9
134.5
904.3
906.0
904.5
907.9
156.9
157.0
158.3
158.9
Michigan
2,150.9
2,175.5
2,167.3
2,188.0
77.3
77.8
84.3
84.1
394.9
393.4
401.0
398.7
110.6
111.6
110.9
111.5
Minnesota
Mississippi
935.4
943.7
937.5
941.0
34.6
36.0
35.3
37.4
243.1
247.2
248.2
249.4
44.8
43.5
45.0
43.8
416.5
411.0
152.5
150.9
151.9
150.4
Missouri
2,310.0
2,304.7
2,306.2
2,303.2
88.8
88.6
93.0
92.6
416.1
411.0
Montana
303.8
308.9
310.1
316.0
11.2
12.0
12.5
12.9
21.3
21.4
22.1
22.1
20.4
20.5
20.5
20.7
Nebraska
741.1
745.2
742.5
746.7
28.1
28.6
29.5
29.6
98.8
99.3
99.3
100.3
47.6
48.1
47.8
48.2
Nevada
632.2
648.3
635.0
645.3
41.2
42.5
41.8
43.6
25.8
26.0
26.1
26.3
33.0
33.1
33.2
33.2
New Hampshire
477.9
473.1
486.8
478.4
17.7
16.1
18.4
16.7
98.3
97.2
98.8
97.8
17.1
16.8
17.0
16.9
New Jersey
3,514.4
3,406.7
3,551.6
3,454.3
125.5
105.5
128.1
108.2
563.0
534.0
567.8
537.8
231.5
226.3
233.4
228.3
New Mexico
586.8
590.5
585.2
589.5
28.2
28.6
29.0
29.2
41.5
40.7
41.7
40.7
29.2
28.6
28.5
28.1
401.7
426.6
406.2
New York
7,944.7
7,758.0
8,000.1
7,817.5
283.1
255.9
293.1
267.3
1,063.1
1,021.3
1,072.4
1,028.5
421.7
North Carolina
3,072.8
3,089.4
3,086.4
3,104.0
149.9
141.0
151.5
141.9
819.0
830.0
823.9
834.3
153.7
154.0
154.3
155.0
North Dakota
272.3
277.6
273.3
277.9
10.6
11.3
11.8
12.1
17.4
17.7
17.7
18.0
17.1
17.3
17.0
17.4
185.7
180.7
1,066.3
1,052.5
1,076.7
1,056.8
210.8
206.0
211.5
207.0
Ohio.
4,836.6
4,809.2
4,857.3
4,825.6
177.4
171.7
Oklahoma
1,205.6
1,205.0
1,208.9
1,201.4
38.2
37.9
40.0
37.9
168.1
164.4
168.9
165.0
69.0
68.1
69.9
68.3
1,249.1
1,271.1
1,264.4
1,280.5
51.2
50.2
53.0
52.4
207.7
208.1
212.9
214.1
64.8
64.5
65.1
64.8
Oregon
Pennsylvania
5,105.6
5,048.5
5,120.3
5,051.7
209.1
196.1
216.3
201.6
971.9
952.0
980.4
956.4
264.0
261.9
263.3
260.7
Rhode Island
426.7
418.0
428.5
418.0
13.6
11.6
14.2
12.1
91.6
86.7
92.0
87.1
14.5
14.3
14.8
14.7
South Carolina
1,526.8
1,504.6
1,528.5
1,502.0
91.3
78.9
89.7
78.4
366.8
366.1
369.2
366.6
65.4
63.9
65.5
64.5
South Dakota
299.0
305.6
304.1
309.1
12.2
12.3
13.2
13.7
34.7
36.8
35.1
37.0
13.7
13.8
13.6
13.6
Tennessee
2,185.1
2,189.6
2,184.3
2,182.2
89.1
84.9
90.6
86.0
500.9
502.2
501.1
503.6
116.9
114.4
117.4
114.8
Texas
7,173.8
7,259.1
7,190.3
7,266.1
346.7
350.2
351.1
353.5
984.1
983.0
989.5
987.5
431.7
434.8
435.2
435.8
Utah
743.3
762.7
750.7
769.1
32.1
33.2
34.1
35.1
104.8
104.1
105.3
104.7
42.2
42.9
42.7
43.2
249.4
244.9
12.2
9.8
13.2
10.0
43.9
42.9
44.3
43.1
10.8
10.8
11.1
11.0
Vermont
246.5
244.2
Virginia
2,838.8
2,825.8
2,861.5
2,841.0
155.7
144.4
158.3
146.1
408.3
402.1
412.0
405.5
147.7
146.2
148.9
146.5
Washington
2,178.9
2,197.8
2,192.5
2,208.0
117.7
117.7
119.0
119.2
350.2
345.5
353.1
346.5
110.7
112.5
112.1
114.0
West Virginia
632.5
648.5
633.7
639.8
27.2
28.8
28.3
30.0
83.5
82.1
84.3
82.6
37.7
38.0
38.1
38.3
108.3
108.1
109.0
107.2
Wisconsin
2,298.2
2,328.2
2,323.0
2,357.3
85.8
88.2
89.9
92.3
541.3
546.7
552.6
556.2
Wyoming
206.0
207.2
213.4
214.9
12.8
13.0
13.9
14.0
9.2
9.0
9.4
9.2
14.6
14.4
14.8
14.6
Puerto Rico
830.9
846.7
855.6
862.4
44.7
44.4
44.9
45.1
151.2
150.7
151.0
150.1
20.0
19.4
19.8
19.5
See footnotes at end of table.
Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and selected industry division, not seasonally adjunted-Continued
(In thousands)
Finance, insurance,
Trade
and real estate
Services
Government
State
May
June
May
June
May
June
May
June
1991
1992
1991
1992p
1991
1992
1991
1992p
1991
1992
1991
1992p
1991
1992
1991
1992p
Alabama
355.5
356.0
356.2
356.5
72.7
72.1
73.3
72.5
322.7
332.6
323.9
332.9
337.8
342.8
330.1
332.5
Alaska
47.1
47.9
48.8
49.8
10.7
10.9
10.8
11.1
52.3
52.8
54.6
54.8
71.8
74.0
70.4
72.1
Arizona
373.5
372.3
371.0
369.4
93.2
91.9
93.2
92.0
410.7
417.3
410.6
417.3
279.5
285.5
253.3
254.1
Arkansas
207.2
212.4
209.5
214.5
38.3
39.1
38.6
39.6
197.4
208.5
200.2
210.0
165.8
169.5
161.3
163.7
California
2,899.5
2,837.3
2,913.5
2,847.0
822.7
809.0
822.7
808.8
3,444.7
3,454.4
3,455.1
3,452.6
2,119.1
2,115.1
2,117.8
2,111.4
Colorado
369.3
376.3
376.9
382.4
95.7
98.2
97.5
99.4
413.5
418.6
425.3
430.0
289.9
294.6
283.8
288.1
Connecticut
340.6
321.1
343.8
323.7
147.6
144.0
149.1
144.7
416.4
410.3
419.9
413.4
213.3
211.4
211.2
209.3
Delaware
74.5
73.3
77.0
75.5
32.6
32.4
33.0
32.9
84.4
85.0
85.5
85.8
49.2
48.6
48.2
48.6
District of Columbia.
58.0
55.9
58.8
56.1
35.0
33.0
34.8
33.1
256.1
253.7
255.9
253.0
279.7
280.7
285.8
287.1
Florida
1,402.3
1,361.3
1,392.2
1,351.1
359.1
347.6
359.2
347.7
1,620.2
1,660.1
1,620.5
1,658.9
881.0
900.4
862.9
881.8
Georgia
731.9
731.8
734.8
732.8
163.7
162.6
164.7
163.2
637.6
649.8
645.2
653.9
544.3
545.6
544.8
545.3
Hawaii
134.7
135.1
136.3
135.4
37.4
37.8
37.7
37.9
156.3
159.0
157.4
159.7
111.9
114.9
109.7
112.9
Idaho
100.2
103.0
101.6
104.1
20.6
21.7
20.8
21.6
84.4
87.4
87.2
89.1
86.1
89.6
85.5
88.5
Illinois
1,251.8
1,245.6
1,261.4
1,252.1
378.4
377.3
382.3
380.2
1,360.5
1,364.9
1,376.8
1,380.9
785.3
774.5
764.7
753.1
Indiana
595.7
602.7
598.1
606.6
124.8
126.1
126.9
127.8
533.5
557.6
535.7
562.2
385.5
385.2
367.0
365.8
Iowa
314.7
318.0
317.2
319.5
71.6
73.1
72.8
74.2
299.5
304.9
297.3
301.1
227.0
227.6
223.4
222.6
Kansas
269.6
271.6
271.8
274.6
58.7
58.2
59.4
58.6
247.7
258.5
249.8
259.2
225.4
233.5
216.0
226.8
Kentucky
350.8
355.2
353.4
357.5
62.2
62.6
62.9
63.0
336.8
342.6
340.5
343.6
273.6
271.8
260.3
262.7
Louisiana
372.0
370.8
375.0
371.6
79.4
79.3
79.8
79.3
382.9
386.7
383.1
387.2
339.9
341.2
334.4
341.7
Maine
125.7
125.8
131.3
129.5
25.0
25.8
25.3
26.2
125.7
125.2
128.9
128.7
98.7
98.1
96.7
96.4
Maryland
510.1
494.2
517.0
500.1
130.7
126.7
132.2
127.4
621.3
613.2
628.6
620.8
423.2
418.9
415.1
410.1
Massachusetts
648.3
632.3
661.3
641.8
204.3
198.2
205.4
200.1
893.8
901.7
899.5
906.8
393.6
383.6
393.6
381.3
Michigan
931.4
916.7
936.8
919.8
189.1
188.7
191.5
190.6
937.9
943.0
943.0
951.1
644.0
637.5
616.9
621.7
Minnesota
518.3
517.6
524.7
523.9
127.1
128.0
128.7
129.3
560.5
578.0
562.2
579.1
354.1
361.1
347.1
353.4
Mississippi
196.7
199.2
198.0
200.8
38.9
38.9
39.2
39.4
165.6
166.1
169.4
164.9
206.1
207.7
196.8
200.2
Missouri
548.3
546.1
554.7
551.5
137.0
135.2
138.2
136.9
582.0
587.8
584.2
592.5
380.5
380.4
362.9
363.6
Montana
80.7
82.6
83.4
84.8
13.7
14.0
14.1
14.3
76.2
79.3
79.1
81.5
74.4
73.2
72.3
73.7
Nebraska
187.0
184.4
187.6
184.1
48.4
48.8
48.8
49.1
181.3
181.0
181.6
183.1
148.3
153.4
146.3
150.7
Nevada
127.6
130.8
129.1
131.1
29.0
29.3
29.3
29.5
279.4
287.0
281.6
288.6
82.7
86.3
80.2
79.4,
New Hampshire
116.4
112.5
121.0
115.5
30.7
30.4
31.0
31.0
123.4
126.3
128.6
129.7
73.9
73.4
71.6
70.4
New Jersey
818.7
782.6
833.7
796.9
229.8
225.0
230.8
228.4
969.9
960.1
982.5
976.0
574.0
571.3
573.3
576.7
New Mexico
138.7
139.0
140.1
140.4
26.0
26.2
26.3
26.5
151.6
155.2
154.1
157.9
154.9
157.2
148.7
151.6
New York
1,606.0
1,553.6
1,627.8
1,575.5
757.2
738.4
762.7
746.0
2,330.9
2,330.2
2,341.5
2,339.9
1,477.4
1,451.7
1,470.5
1,448.9
North Carolina
704.5
696.5
708.4
700.3
135.1
136.2
136.2
137.9
596.7
613.9
602.9
621.5
508.9
512.9
504.1
508.1
North Dakota
72.5
74.0
72.8
74.2
12.7
13.0
12.9
13.0
70.4
73.1
71.0
73.5
67.4
67.4
65.6
65.7
Ohio
1,156.5
1,140.0
1,166.4
1,150.1
257.4
256.7
260.2
259.5
1,206.2
1,214.4
1,218.6
1,226.1
745.7
752.5
721.8
729.5
Oklahoma
284.6
286.5
287.7
287.7
60.3
60.4
60.9
61.0
272.3
276.0
275.6
279.0
270.3
273.6
262.8
265.8
Oregon
312.4
314.9
316.5
318.7
82.4
85.7
83.4
86.6
296.7
307.7
297.3
304.7
232.3
238.5
234.6
237.6
Pennsylvania
1,156.2
1,141.1
1,167.1
1,145.3
301.2
301.4
304.5
303.5
1,459.8
1,466.2
1,460.9
1,466.6
717.8
705.5
702.1
693.0
Rhode Island
89.8
87.5
91.2
88.2
26.5
25.1
26.7
25.1
129.2
131.1
127.7
129.0
61.4
61.6
61.8
61.6
South Carolina
344.7
335.9
349.1
338.4
66.5
65.4
66.9
65.8
299.0
304.6
303.0
304.9
291.2
288.1
283.2
281.7
South Dakota
79.2
80.3
80.8
81.6
16.5
16.7
16.7
16.9
74.8
76.0
77.2
77.8
65.3
66.9
64.7
65.7
Tennessee
509.8
512.7
512.1
515.8
104.1
103.6
104.9
104.3
501.7
512.8
509.9
518.0
356.9
353.6
342.7
334.4
Texas
1,733.7
1,743.9
1,745.8
1,751.2
426.9
430.1
428.7
431.7
1,766.7
1,823.4
1,784.7
1,832.5
1,297.1
1,319.2
1,267.5
1,300.5
Utah
177.2
182.0
180.3
184.6
35.5
37.7
35.9
38.0
185.0
192.0
188.6
195.9
158.1
162.4
155.2
159:2
Vermont
56.4
57.2
57.9
58.0
12.2
11.8
12.3
11.8
65.4
66.9
66.9
67.9
45.1
44.3
43.2
42.6
Virginia
637.6
630.7
642.6
636.7
152.4
152.6
154.7
154.7
736.0
741.3
747.8
749.5
586.9
594.4
582.9
588.0
Washington
524.9
522.8
530.9
530.4
116.6
114.8
117.4
115.4
534.6
548.2
536.9
551.6
420.5
432.5
419.3
427.1
West Virginia
144.3
145.7
145.3
146.4
25.0
25.0
25.2
25.2
150.9
156.3
151.6
157.3
130.0
140.8
126.8
128.0
Wisconsin
540.0
536.8
548.7
544.8
124.1
125.7
125.4
127.3
542.0
559.2
549.1
572.1
354.3
361,1
345.9
355.0
Wyoming
45.6
46.2
47.8
48.5
7.1
7.0
7.3
7.2
40.4
40.9
44.3
45.1
57.9
58.2
57.0
57.3.
Puerto Rico
154.6
157.2
153.5
156.6
36,8
36.2
37.1
36.4
136.8
143.1
133.4
140.1
285.9
294.8
314.9
313.8
1
Includes mining, not shown separately.
adjusted to March 1991 benchmark levels. Estimates subsequent to the JOH --1
P = preliminary.
current benchmark month are provisional and will be revised when new
NOTE: Data are counts of jobs by place of work. Data have been
benchmark information becomes available.
8/24/92
Employment Paul Chester, BLS
Arkansas
State + lacal Arkansas
June 1992
The
June
1991
p
arkamas S&l 140.7
138.2
Fed 23.0
23.1
State 48.8
48.4
local 91.9
89.8
In Job Strength, Manufacturing Eclipsed
By Barbara Vobejda
Washington Post Staff Writer
GROWTH IN GOVERNMENT JOBS
To some, the numbers carry ominous signals-a
dangerous slide in the American industrial base and
25
in millions
an exploding demand for public services. To others,
they merely reflect what we should already know:
20
that the economy is undergoing a fundamental re-
structuring.
Whatever the implications, the figures are there in
15
black and white: For the first time in history, the
number of manufacturing jobs in this country has
dropped below the number of government jobs.
10
Those numbers, and the changes they represent,
Manufacturing jobs
resonate a bit louder in a campaign season, when the
All government jobs
presidential contenders are arguing over how to re-
5
store the nation's manufacturing sector, decrying the
evils of bloated government and pledging to eliminate
federal jobs.
0
"The trends are very, very significant," said Larry
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
Chimerine, a senior adviser at the economic forecast-
NOTE: Data for August of each year.
ing firm DRI/McGraw Hill. He argues that the figures
reflect both a loss of competitiveness for the nation
B
oth presidential candidates have pledged that if elected they would cut federal government workers
and its failure to create new employment opportuni-
create jobs by reviving the nation's industrial base. During their tenures, the total number of govern
ties outside of government.
workers has risen, about 20 percent in Arkansas since Gou Bill Clinton first took office there in 1979 0
"The real serious question this country has to deal
5 percent nationally since President Bush was inaugurated in 1989. Manufacturing jobs have declined
with is how to build up private-sector jobs," he said.
percent nationally during the Bush administration. In Arkansas, manufacturing jobs have increased at
In its monthly release of employment figures, the
percent since Clinton was first sworn in. Experts caution about comparing state and national employm
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that in Oc-
figures because each is subject to a different set of variables.
tober last year, the number of government jobs—
federal, state and local-grew to 18,410,000, sur-
Clinton
passing manufacturing jobs, which had fallen to
Bush
18,388,000.
ARKANSAS
UNITED STATES
The most recent statistics, which are preliminary,
Manufacturing
Manufacturing
show an even greater gap, with government employ-
ees growing to 18.6 million in July, partly as a result
Jan. 1979
212,400
Jan. 1989
19,391,000
of summer jobs programs, while manufacturing jobs
Jan. 1992
235,300
Jan. 1992
fell to 18.2 million.
18,131,000
The issues raised by these numbers landed front
June data
241.5
JDFOSTER
and center this summer as the political parties fought re
Total government (federal, state, local)
eased
LINDA
Total government (federal, state, local)
over platform planks and the candidates competed
for
Jan. 1979
138,800
REILLY
Jan. 1989
17,574,000
over how to best put people back to work and cut gov-
Jan. 1992
CEA
ernment waste.
166,300
Jan. 1992
18,423,000
Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton has said he would elim
inate 100,000 federal jobs over the next eight years,
State and local government
Federal government
relying primarily on attrition rather than layoffs. The
Bush administration has said it plans to cut 162,095
Jan. 1979
119,000
Jan. 1989
2,960,000
civilian jobs in the next fiscal year alone.
Jan. 1992
143,900
Jan. 1992
2,959,000
While federal jobs have been placed on the chop June
dnta
ping block by the candidates, they are the single com-
SOURCE
Bureau
14/2000
141,000
ponent of government employment that has not
THE
grown. Since Bush took office in January 1989, the
The Bush tenure has seen manufacturing jobs de-
many states and communities, which mad-
number of federal employees has dropped slightly, by
cline nationally and total government jobs increase.
to hire additional teachers, health care и
about 1,000, to 2,959,000. In that same period, the
State and national figures are not directly compa-
lice officers and prison guards.
number of state and local government employees
rable because of the variables involved.
"It was partly just normal growth in nor
across the country has grown by nearly 1 million, to
In both manufacturing and government, the nation-
sibilities, but they had revenue to finance
15.4 million.
al trends have been gradual. Total government em-
economy growing," Chimerine said. "Now
Both presidential candidates have said they would
ployees in the mid-1950s numbered just under 7 mil-
Still, government employment continu
revitalize the nation's manufacturing base as a way of
lion, growing to about 10 million a decade later and 15
during the recession, even as manufacturir
creating high-wage jobs.
million by the late 1970s.
BLS officials say. And even if the number
Since Clinton was first elected governor in 1978,
Some of the government job growth in the past dec-
turing employees rebounds in healthier
manufacturing jobs in Arkansas have risen by about
ade is the result of a shift of federal responsibilities to
times, the continued growth of governme
11 percent; at the same time, government jobs there
state and local governments, where employees have
unlikely that manufacturing will again take
have risen nearly twice that much.
been added. It also coincided with economic growth in
job expansion.
Poles -Italians I
some hispanies
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tough times, etc.
cultural strength
Now we're in tough times
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pull through
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will be
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Ch. of COC DavidRifkin
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The 1980 # was & decade of change for the Valley Community that includes
the towns of Assonia, Dericy, Shalten, Saymour, address and Boncon Falls.
The transformation of the Valley from & manufacturing, reillition comunity
to a more affluent bedroom community with a more diverse population and
employer base began with the completion of the dual highway Route 8 in the
early 1980 S. The new highway out through the heart of the Valley to connect
Interstate 95 in the south with Interstate 84 in the center of the state
providing & north, south transportation link
Prier to 1980, the Valley had seen little change for more than 40 years.
The primarily Italian, Irish Polish and Russian/Ukrenien families that had
endorated and located in the Valley early in the century were non-moicile with
mest members of thair large nuclear Samilies living their entire lives in the
community. Residents to lived in the Valley worked in the Valley, shopped in
the Valley and used Valley services.
The commities wage were employed in several large
metals, subber and heavy merafiacturing firm. Many of the fines were locally
amed. Valley residents userned the highest factory worker incomes in the
state. The culture WILD fiscally and philisophically conservative And, even
though reughly equidistant Parm three of the states largest cities, Reldgepent,
New Haven and Recessary - all 12 miles - less away - and less than 60 miles
from Name York City - the community remained insular and sheltered as if in 4
cocoon.
The communities economic crimis began in the 1970' S as the manufacturing
firms, experiencing the pressures of decreased demand and foreing and domastic
competition, began an accelemated process of restructuring thair product lines
and downsising thair workforce. By 1990, some would be out of business and
most others would be one-quarter to one third their size at their peak In
1975, the nation $ Largent area fixe destroyed Sheltow's Spange Rubber
products plant putting almost 2,000 out of work overnight.
The communities unseployment rate zeached 180 and the two decade
designation of the comunity as econcedically depressed sexched its peak in the
late 1970/ B. The sconomic depression was compounded by a community image
problem fueled by a community lack of self-esteem and inferiority complex.
The construction of Route 8, started in the lake 70' a and completed in the
early 1980' # credied the OCCORD that had shielded the Valley and began 4 paried
of unprecedented change, development and growth Slow at first, the pace of
change increased explosively as the 80' $ progressed.
In the mid 1980' 14, the comunity underwank a regid and dransition
metemomphosis matched by Few comunities across the nation The centrumity
which for decedes here provided jobs primarily for its residents emerged as a
bedroom community with as many people living in the community and working
alsowhere as the number living and working in the comunity.
The new highway had hand the advantages of the region to both communicial
and residential prospectors. Available and inexpensive 18ml coupled with rural
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living in a pasteral setting and a close commute to meder consotieut cities as
will as all of Fairfield County and New York City acted as a magnet.
A new comunity emarged. The Valley became a haven for young, upwardly
mobile professionals seaking value and homes and & comunity and life.
In A period of a few years in the mid 1980/ B, the influx of new better educated
moze affluent residents resulted in the Valley separating into two disparate
groups that condisted with little contact and no bridge between them One
population group was made-up of the traditional Valleyite, basically
blue-coller and confortable with the comunity and cultural status-quo The
other group, better educated and philisophically progressive, best described as
representative of the classic yuppie culture of the 1980' As the 1980' B draw
to a close, this group rede UP as much as one-third of the population
The influx of DEW companies, beinging with them new service and high-tech
jobs, changed the color of the Valley a working color Excm blue, to white, to
gold The Valley had become a land of golden opportunity with the DEW high
paying jobs added to the remedning high paying manufacturing Jobs.
The complexion of the community changed. Population growth exceeded the
state average by almost 50%. Almost half of the households reported incomes of
$50,000 or more. Home values doubled in less than seven years. Retail sales
by Valley businesses more than doubled in the 1980' = reaching almost 81 billion
a year. The comunity retained its cultural values and as a result
remained a vary safe suburber community with only one of every Sexty residents
hit by a curims each year EUB compared to one in seven in the unban cities
surrounding the Valley and ODD in ten nationally.
The ability to medicain a safe community with a low crime rate will be
enhanced by a three year federal grant awarded to a new regional drug
coordinating agency. The Office for Substance Abuse Prevention Community
Partnership grant of about $900,000 awarded in Outober 1991, is exe of enly 251
awarded nationally under the demonstration grant program The grant was
awarded to the Valley Substance Abuse Action Council to mobilise the community
in A prevention effort with specific objectives of youth invelvement and
reducing aubstance above by at least 13 percent in & three-year paried
M the recession affected the nation a econemy and staggered the Northeast
as the 1990' # began, the Valley community held its own with the economic
picture reflecting a flat to a slightly declining economy. The Valley a
geographic location the qualities and characteristics that rade the Valley the
location of choice in its early history and more recently for corporate
development, residential construction and the place to live and work will
produce repid recovery as the economy rebounds and result in the Valley again
leading the state in meet economic and demographic indicators into the next
century.
Maximising the Valley I potential will not be without challenges. As
residents turn away from the under cities that surround the Valley becume of
their image, crime and accerate problems, the Valley must be positioned to meet
their needs and expectations locally. These needs and expectations will
include a high quality of 11fe, employment opportunities, & variety of quality
retail stores and services and quality human, health and social service
providers. To fully achieve the opportunity available as WB move to the year
2000, a number of comunity agenda issues require attention
the need for developing 0 regional comunity vision and plan that focuses on
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future and where the community should be positiened
the need for a. regional, comprehensive economic development strategy and
approach.
the need for a structured and coordinated community planning process that
addresses both economic and human and social service planning.
others. the need to improve the community $ percedved image internally and with
the need to insure that the community zetains its suburban complexion and the
attributes and characteristics that have made it the location of choice to
live and work.
the need to maintain the community 8 safe environment and low crime rate.
the need to integrate the DMV bedroom community residents with the Valley .
traditional residents - and to invite and encourage them to become an
integral part of our community, to volunteer here, to become active in local
government, to participate in community activities and to shop here and use
community services.
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Prescott Bush addressed the city
Bush echoed a promise made in
"We met him on Main Street
Naugatuck Valley Bureau Chief
GOP caucus at Ansonia High
the Republican national platform
and had dinner with him and a
ANSONIA - When people
School in 1952.
that the party would fight to help
couple other Republicans,'
crowd into Warsaw Park and No-
Former Mayor William J:
people retain the social and eco-
Pepe said. "We had a discussion
lan Field Monday, it'll mark the
Menna, à a Republican, said the
nomic gains they had won.
about politics and his running for
second time area residents have
president has the same quality his
Much the same way that Presi-
the office of U.S. senator. He was
gathered to hear. a Bush address.
father had: charisma.
dent Bush is pointing to foreign
impressive, and his son certainly is
The first was on Sept. 15, 1952,
As a 23-year-old vice chairman
policy accomplishments and
a gentleman, too."
and the speaker was Prescott Bush,
of the Young Republicans for the
pledging a continued effort to work
Prescott Bush served as a U.S.
known then as a U.S. Senate nomi-
New England Council, Menna,
for peace, Prescott Bush promised
senator from Connecticut from
nee, but better known now as the
now 69, heard Prescott Bush's
"prosperity based on peace, not on
1952 to 1963.
president's late father.
speech. He recalled it as "very
war; prosperity based on a peaceful
Pepe said he is looking forward
TO
President Bush is expected to
exciting."
growing America, not bought with
to George Bush's visit Monday,
speak at Valley. Chamber of
"I had the opportunity of meet-
the blood of American boys in Ko-
and said it will be a chance for the
Commerce picnic lunch at 1 p.m.
ing him," Menna said. "I also
rea."
president to bring his message
Monday at Warsaw Park, and to
worked on his campaign. Prescott
Pasquale "Pat" Pepe recalled
about restoring economic well-be-
greet the public at 2 p.m. at Nolan
Bush was a gentleman, a fantastic
Prescott Bush as "a very courtly
ing to the area and country.
Field.
senator His son has charisma just
gentleman, a fine man" with
"He realizes we're going to have
According to records and the
like his father."
whom he and a few others had
to compete in a global economy.
Prescott Bush
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recollections of city Republicans.
In his address in 1952, Prescott
dinner that evening.
He's looking toward the future."
In 1967
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6. Ms. Terri Guidone - Board of Directors, Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce
7. The Honorable Nancy Johnson, House of Representatives
8. Mr. Mike Pacowta - President & CEO. Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce
9, Mr. David Rifkin - Chairman, Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce
10. The Honorable Gary Franks, House of Representatives
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Thank you,
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for those kind words. [Acknowledgements.)
[Local color: Saturday night dance at Warsaw Park
]
We've witnessed a world of change. From Managua to Moscow,
millions of men and women now celebrate a new birth of freedom.
For the people here today -- people who came to America from the
old Country -- who prayed for this day to come, the change we've
witnessed, this change we've worked for is a miracle come true.
There are those -- to quote the poet -- who will say that
the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is
nothing but a dream.
And they are right. It is the American Dream.
Today, our challenge is to bring that spirit home -- home
from Warsaw, Poland to Warsaw Park. To focus this great nation
on the new mission at hand. America has changed the world -- now
we will change America. //
That's what November 3rd is all about. This election is
about the big issues. About the issues that shape the world --
about the values close to home: I'm talking about family and
faith -- about neighborhoods free from crime
about a world
free from fear. //
about schools that work,
that help educate our
children
(c. Kolb)
2
But we all know the number-one worry today is the economy,
it's jobs. Just as you can't drive a nail without a hammer, you
can't build a dream without a job.
If you want to talk to the most productive workers in the
world, you don't have to brush up on your German, or take a crash
course in Japanese. You can start right here in the U.S.A. --
because the American worker is the most productive worker in the
world. //
That simple fact is worth pointing out because it can help
us keep our economic problems in perspective. That's important -
- because we're hearing an awful lot these days from folks who've
got a vested interest in talking this economy down, feeding
fears, treating what's temporary as terminal.
You know as well as I do, we want to bring unemployment
down. For any worker without a job, the unemployment rate is
100%. But the economy is on the move. Inflation -- the stealth
tax that once upon a time in the 70s ravaged your paycheck --
bracket
inflation is under control.
Interest rates are at a 20-year low
perJD Foster
low (J.D.FostericeA)
Inventories are down - a sure sign that production lines will be
CE
gearing up to meet new demand. The signs point to recovery. The
question to ask yourselves between now and November 3rd is this:
put (JD Foster, CEA)
Which candidate knows how to keep the economy up on its feet --
and which one would drive it to its knees. //
The simple fact is, there is only one candidate for
outside (C. Kolb)
President who has lived a life beyond government ... who has
known a call above political ambition. Since the day he left law
3
see last pg.
school, every paycheck Bill Clinton has earned has come out of
the taxpayer' pocket. He's put plenty of people on the public
payroll -- but he's never created a single job. //
I come at things a different way. Long before I came to
public service, I built a company
I met a payroll
took
the risks
made it work. And I happen to think that's not a
bad qualification for being President. //
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it if we want to compete. Think of the economic
changes you've seen right here in Ansonia, from the brass and
copper age, and the mills along the Naugatuck River -- to the new
corporate headquarters and industrial parks across the valley.
more than 1 in 6
manufacturing jobs are
per
Right now, 1 in every 14 Americans works in a job tied
NJ speech
directly to foreign exports trade -- and that doesn't count the economic
ripple effect created when those workers pay the mortgage, buy a
car or feed their kids. [Reference to the Valley's largest
Since 1988 (NJ speech)
one-half (JDFoster)
export company.] In the past [three] years Xmore than half
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of all our economic growth has come from people in other
commented inNJ
speech that we
countries buying what's Made in America.
should use 3/5 -
which is more
We don't need more studies or statistics to prove that free than half".
It's your
trade is our future. America's real wealth isn't something we
call.
dig up from the ground -- it's the sweat and the smarts of the
American worker. Yes, the world's coming our way -- but I know:
we can play the game. //
As President, I've worked to create the new American markets
S
in that mean, new American jobs in Ansonia and all across
Europe and the
PacificRim:
Valley's lgst. is United Technologies (Sikorsky helicapter)
4
the Valley. I'm convinced the answer is not to build a wall
around our economy, not to put the government in charge -- but to
use the government to help you -- literally -- go to work.
[[JOB TRAINING REPRISE -- TWO PARAGRAPHS DRAWN FROM FINAL
NEW JERSEY LANGUAGE. ]]
You see, it's all part of a larger philosophy. Look at
every big issue we face. You'll see a choice -- a choice between
those who put their faith in everyday Americans, and those who
put their faith in government.
Bill Clinton says he's all for free enterprise -- then he
proposes the largest tax hike in history, much of it on the back
of small business.
Bill Clinton says he wants smaller government -- but of all
the thousands of government programs, he can find only one he's
willing to cut: The honey bee subsidy.
[[And he could still get stung on that one.]]
Bill Clinton says he's for fiscal responsibility -- and then
he comes out against the Balanced Budget Amendment.
That's what Bill Clinton says now let me tell you what a
former Democratic candidate -- more recently, a Connecticut
country innkeeper -- says that this year's Democratic ticket is a
Trojan Horse. He said, "They're much more liberal underneath --
fact-check change and they will 11 prove it when they're elected."
That's not me using the "L" word -- that's George McGovern.
There's a temptation some find hard to resist, to be all
things to all people. Remember the old Woody Allen movie, Zelig?
delete name
due to public perception
(OCA, Counsel,
5
The one about the guy who could slip on a new personality as
easily as he could change his shirt? In a word, Zelig was slick.
Now, I think Bill Clinton has seen the movie. He knows
Connecticut ranks 8th of all 50 states in terms of defense
contracts. He knew I'd made a tough decision -- a decision,
quite frankly, that would cost Connecticut -- to bring down the
deficit by cutting two Seawolf submarines. So when Bill Clinton
came to town, on the eve of the Connecticut primary, he told
citizens of this state exactly what he thought you'd want to
hear. He swore to save the Seawolf.
Now, while he was here -- did he tell you about his plans to
put our national security on the line by carving out another nearly $60
per speech NJ
billion dollars in defense cuts?
as many as
Did he tell you those cuts would throw another one million
per NJ
possibly
speech
defense-industry employees thousands from right here in
Connecticut -- out of work and onto welfare?
or did he just smile, wave goodbye, and get back on the bus?
So there you have it: Bill Clinton will sink the Navy --
but somehow, he'll spare the Seawolf. // I've got defense aplan in conversion. place on (OCA)
I can't tell you what to think -- but I can tell you what I
think. I owe you the straight story. I stake my claim on a
simple philosophy: To lead a great nation
you must first
trust the people you lead.
This year, the choice is clear. It's a choice between two
fundamentally different philosophies: of the government, by the
or,
"It doesn't add up.
(C. Kolb)
6
government, for the government" versus "of the people, by the
people, for the people.'
I trust parents -- not the government -- to make the important (OCF
decisions that matter in life. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private or religious. //
I trust the people -- not the government -- to choose their
own health care.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. // When the other side says, "government
knows best" -- I say: Parents know better. Parents know better
than some bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. 11
What we need now is someone who sees the new horizon --
someone who understands America's place in the world is never to
(Counsel)
(counsel)
be the patrons of the past -- but the architects of the future.
I intend to spend the last 71 days of this campaign winning
a mandate for the first 100 days of the next Congress. Send me a
Congress I can work with
...
a responsible Congress -- ready to
do the will of the American people. Send me a Congress ready to
do the will of the American people -- and we will get the job
done. //
I will take my message to the American people -- and
together we will do what's right for America. //
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
# # #
TO:DAN
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
19-Aug-1992 04:17PM
TO:
CHRISTINA M. MARTIN
FROM:
CAROL B. AARHUS
OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS
SUBJECT: SPEECH INSERT/CORRECTION
FAX TO CHRISTINA MARTIN: HOUSTON STAFF OFFICE: 713-688-0173
CHRISTINA -- DAN ASKED ME TO FAX THIS TO YOU.
IN ANY SPEECH WHERE WE TALK ABOUT CLINTON NEVER RECEIEVING A
PAYCHECK OTHER THAN FROM THE TAXPAYER'S POCKET -- THAT IS WRONG.
IT IS ALSO INCORRECT TO STATE THAT HE'S NEVER CREATED ANY JOBS.
HE MAY HAVE DONE THAT WHILE HE SERVED ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OR
WHEN HE WAS WITH A LAW FIRM.
DAVID TELL SUGGESTED WE USE THE FOLLOWING LANGUAGE:
"ONCE BILL CLINTON GOT INTO PUBLIC OFFICE, THE ONLY WAY HE
GOT OUT WAS WHEN THE VOTERS KICKED HIM OUT."
CALL WITH ANY QUESTIONS. DAVID TELL IS IN HOUSTON, IN CASE YOU
NEED TO SPEAK WITH HIM FURTHER, REGARDING THIS.
FROM ALL IN ONE CENTER
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Speech Suggestions for Piresident Bush's acceptance
By Jonathan Novak 609 782-0832
Somerdale NJ 08083
Please Frauguration forward speech. to Acceptance writers, President speech Bush's
Dan-
This country is in grave danger because of the budget deficit which must be
corrected. which party do you think is motivated to correct the budget deficit?
some
Countries worldwide are struggling with the impact or the new global marketplace;
light
The Japanese stock market has been under extensive pressure, The Soviet system
has been financially pressured into change, the former east block IS struggling to
form
cope even as we speak, Eastern Europe is totally reorganizing, The only way help
America's economy Is to solve worldwide economic distress with worldwide
edconomic cooperation. And we are the party to do it, and I am the man to do it.
America's economic problems have come from world economic thoubles. Which
party and which presidential candidate do you think can better cause world
economic compromise, cooperation, and growth, The republicans or the Democrats?
I ask uou to choose. I ask you to choose rightly and thoughtfully, not emotiuonally.
For at this critical time In world history, the decisions you make at the ballot box
will affict your children and grandchildren, worldwide In a greater way than ever
before. And not just the Presidential races. The Congressional races are also more
important than ever before. I ask you to study the candidates very carefully and
choose the candidate best suited to the job, Discuss politely your reasons with
your friends and neighbors and listen to them. (This activates the concerned
vote. Citizens) Debate and discuss. America needs you. Elections have been won by one
America's Biggest problem. America's biggest threat, is the budget deficit, and
this Democratic congress isn't gonna flx it. Do you seriously think this
Democratically controlled congress will flx the budget deficit? Do you think they
will author major bills for lower government spending. pound fist at sign)
*This *budget #deficit #must *be *controlled it *must be #reduced. And the
present congress Isn't going to do it. With Bill Clinton or without bill Clinton
Cause they won't owe him, He;'ll owe them. And If world financial stability
collapses, There are a lot of weapons In formserly hostile states which still exist.
This Budget deficit cannot be ignored. America and the world-are relatively
peaceful now, but until we get the deficit under controll the Job's not done, we're
not home yet. But with a new republican congress I can take you home. But It's
gonna take us four more years. It's gonna mean hard work., but It's gonna mean
victory. Yes we have relatively world peace, but we have had to borrow to buy
the victory. And until the bill's paid they can still take back the truck. We have
bought freedom, Democracy, and Christianity for the world. Now let.s pay the bill
SO we can watch those stars of freedom and those stripes of righteousness forever.
The Stars and Stripes Forever." (Cue the Band:
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WARSAW PARK LUNCHEON
ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT
AUGUST 24, 1992
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Thank you,
/
for those kind words. [Acknowledgements.]
[Local color: Saturday night dance at Warsaw Park
]
We've witnessed a world of change. From Managua to Moscow,
millions of men and women now celebrate a new birth of freedom.
For the people here today -- people who came to America from the
Old Country -- who prayed for this day to come, the change we've
witnessed, this change we've worked for is (Macleish) a miracle come true.
There are those -- to quote the poet -- who will say that
the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is
nothing but a dream.
And they are right. It is the American Dream.
Today, our challenge is to bring that spirit home -- home
from Warsaw, Poland to Warsaw Park. To focus this great nation
on the new mission at hand. America has changed the world -- now
we will change America. //
That's what November 3rd is all about. This election is
about the big issues. About the issues that shape the world --
about the values close to home: I'm talking about family and
faith -- about neighborhoods free from crime ... about a world
free from fear. //
2
But we all know the number-one worry today is the economy,
it's jobs. Just as you can't drive a nail without a hammer, you
can't build a dream without a job.
If you want to talk to the most productive workers in the
world, you don't have to brush up on your German, or take a crash
course in Japanese. You can start right here in the U.S.A. --
because the American worker is the most productive worker in the
world. //
That simple fact is worth pointing out because it can help
us keep our economic problems in perspective. That's important -
- because we're hearing an awful lot these days from folks who've
got a vested interest in talking this economy down, feeding
fears, treating what's temporary as terminal.
You know as well as I do, we want to bring unemployment
down. For any worker without a job, the unemployment rate is
100%. But the economy is on the move. Inflation -- the stealth
tax that once upon a time in the 70s ravaged your paycheck --
inflation is under control.
Interest rates are at a 20-year low
JDFoster
Inventories are down -- a sure sign that production lines will be
x5084
gearing up to meet new demand. The signs point to recovery. The
question to ask yourselves between now and November 3rd is this:
Which candidate knows how to keep the economy up on its feet --
and which one would drive it to its knees. //
The simple fact is, there is only one candidate for
President who has lived a life beyond government
...
who has
known a call above political ambition. Since the day he left law
3
school, every paycheck Bill Clinton has earned has come out of
the taxpayer's pocket. He's put plenty of people on the public
payroll -- but he's never created a single job. //
I come at things a different way. Long before I came to
public service, I built a company
I met a payroll
took
the risks made it work. And I happen to think that's not a
bad qualification for being President. //
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it if we want to compete. Think of the economic
changes you've seen right here in Ansonia, from the brass and
copper age, and the mills along the Naugatuck River -- to the new
corporate headquarters and industrial parks across the valley.
morethan 1in6
manufacturing jobs are
Right now, 1 in every 14 Americans works in a job tied
exports.
directly to foreign trade -- and that doesn't count the economic
David Watters
ripple effect created when those workers pay the mortgage, buy a
car or feed their kids. [Reference to the Valley's largest
Since 1988, MANAGAM
export company.] In the past [three] years -- more than half?
Ahmad Sammarries
of all our economic growth has come from people in other
OMB
countries buying what's Made in America.
We don't need more studies or statistics to prove that free
trade is our future. America's real wealth isn't something we
dig up from the ground -- it's the sweat and the smarts of the
American worker. Yes, the world's coming our way -- but I know:
we can play the game. //
As President, I've worked to create the new American markets
in
[....] that meanSnew American jobs in Ansonia and all across
Europe and
the PacificRim :
David W.
X3583
4
the Valley. I'm convinced the answer is not to build a wall
around our economy, not to put the government in charge -- but to
use the government to help you -- literally -- go to work.
[[JOB TRAINING REPRISE -- TWO PARAGRAPHS DRAWN FROM FINAL
NEW JERSEY LANGUAGE. ]]
You see, it's all part of a larger philosophy. Look at
every big issue we face. You'll see a choice -- a choice between
those who put their faith in everyday Americans, and those who
put their faith in government.
Bill Clinton says he's all for free enterprise -- then he
proposes the largest tax hike in history, much of it on the back
of small business.
Bill Clinton says he wants smaller government -- but of all
the thousands of government programs, he can find only one he's
willing to cut: The honey bee subsidy.
[[And he could still get stung on that one.]]
Bill Clinton says he's for fiscal responsibility -- and then
he comes out against the Balanced Budget Amendment.
That's what Bill Clinton says
...
now let me tell you what a
former Democratic candidate -- more recently, a Connecticut
country innkeeper -- says that this year's Democratic ticket is a
Trojan Horse. He said, "They're much more liberal underneath --
will
and they'll prove it when they're elected."
That's not me using the "L" word -- that's George McGovern.
There's a temptation some find hard to resist, to be all
things to all people. Remember the old Woody Allen movie, Zelig?
5
The one about the guy who could slip on a new personality as
easily as he could change his shirt? In a word, Zelig was slick.
Now, I think Bill Clinton has seen the movie. He knows
Connecticut ranks 8th of all 50 states in terms of defense
contracts. He knew I'd made a tough decision -- a decision,
quite frankly, that would cost Connecticut -- to bring down the
deficit by cutting two Seawolf submarines. So when Bill Clinton
came to town, on the eve of the Connecticut primary, he told
citizens of this state exactly what he thought you'd want to
hear. He swore to save the Seawolf.
Now, while he was here -- did he tell you about his plans to
put our national security on the line by carving out another nearly $60
billion dollars in defense cuts?
as manyas
Did he tell you those cuts would throw another one million
defense-industry employees possibly thousands from right here in
Connecticut -- out of work and onto welfare?
or did he just smile, wave goodbye, and get back on the bus?
So there you have it: Bill Clinton will sink the Navy --
but somehow, he'll spare the Seawolf.
//
I can't tell you what to think -- but I can tell you what I
think. I owe you the straight story. I stake my claim on a
simple philosophy: To lead a great nation
you must first
trust the people you lead.
This year, the choice is clear. It's a choice between two
fundamentally different philosophies: of the government, by the
6
government, for the government" versus "of the people, by the
people, for the people."
I trust parents -- not the government -- to make the
decisions that matter in life. / /
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private or religious. //
I trust the people -- not the government -- to choose their
own health care.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. // When the other side says, "government
knows best" -- I say: Parents know better. Parents know better
than some bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. //
What we need now is someone who sees the new horizon --
someone who understands America's place in the world is never to
be the patrons of the past -- but the architects of the future.
I intend to spend the last 71 days of this campaign winning
a mandate for the first 100 days of the next Congress. Send me a
Congress I can work with
a responsible Congress -- ready to
do the will of the American people. Send me a Congress ready to
do the will of the American people -- and we will get the job
done. //
I will take my message to the American people -- and
together we will do what's right for America. //
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
# # #
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HEADLINE: Democrats' Shame on Seawolf
SERIES: Occasional
BYLINE: MARY McGRORY
BODY:
Reporters traveling to south-central Los Angeles last week with President
Bush were told by high school girls that they didn't have enough textbooks. An
elderly woman told the president with tears in her eyes that she could not take
her grandchildren to the park near where she lived - it's too dangerous.
Why isn't there money for these amenities? One reason is that 50 much of the
national treasure continues to go to weapons we don't need anymore. It used to
be the Republicans who were the big spenders for the big-ticket items in the
Pentagon's arsenal. But lately, the Democrats have become just as extravagant.
Nothing quite so epitomizes the state of affairs that leads to shorter hours
for public libraries and cuts in after-school and feeding programs as the recent
Senate vote on the Seawolf submarine, which Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who
tried to stop it, calls a "historic relic of the Cold War."
Democrats dedicated to local projects say "hang the expense" when it comes to
a question of their reelection. They put off the day they criticize Bush for
postponing: the moment when they face squarely the problems of conversion and of
retraining workers who made tanks to make subway cars.
In other words, military spending is treated as public works, pork for all.
The Seawolf is the most egregious case lately; even Bush was willing to
cancel it. But only 10 Senate Democrats had the courage to vote their belief
that the Cold War is over. They included thoughtful types such as Lloyd Bentsen
(Tex.), Bill Bradley (N.J.), Budget Chairman Jim Sasser (Tenn.) and new-wave
star Harris Wofford (Pa.). But 45 Democrats voted full speed ahead on two more
subs. The vote was 52 to 46.
Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-Ark.) says it was "an act of love for Chris Dodd."
Democratic Sen. Dodd is from Connecticut, where the Seawolf is built. He is in a
tough reelection fight, being opposed by a veteran of the Persian Gulf War.
Cancellation could cost 22,000 jobs in his state. He told colleagues that
canceling the subs would cost almost as much as making them. Knowing how
cunningly these contracts are drawn by Navy experts wanting to lock in
fainthearts, senators believed him.
Sasser says "the Seawolf 15 a measure of Dodd's popularity; they should call
it the 'Doddwolf.' It hurt me to vote against Chris, but we can't vote for
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these weapon systems to save jobs -- the military budget is not the WPA."
"It doesn't make sense," mourns party elder Bentsen. "We ought to be
investing in infrastructure, in the education of children, keeping families
together. What happened is that the two senators, [Connecticut Democrat Joseph
I.] Lieberman and Dodd, made extraordinary efforts to appeal to their colleagues
in personal contacts. When they came to me, I said, 'I disagree. =
The Seawolf was a campaign issue in the Connecticut Democratic primary in
March. Bill Clinton endorsed it, and his rival Paul E. Tsongas, the only
candidate to address seriously the industrial conversion problem, attacked him
as a "pander bear."
Clinton, who presented himself as the agent of change, gave a familiar
Pentagon rationalization: The next class of submarine should be the smaller,
faster boat, the need for which he never addressed. Nor did he say why a sub is
named after a Roman infantryman with a pressing need to keep his feet dry. The
Seawolf assembly line had to be kept going for the Centurion. He lost the
primary.
The saddest thing about the Seawolf story is that even if the forces of logic
and common sense had prevailed, and the boat had been canceled, the money saved
would not have gone to desperately needy social programs.
That is because with Democratic complicity, the Senate, in March, voted to
keep the "firewall" between military and domestic spending. Any funds saved by
cancellation or cutbacks in Pentagon gadgets must, per the budget agreement of
1990, go to deficit reduction. Ten Democrats joined the Republicans to make sure
that no undeserving poor got anything.
Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), who voted against the Seawolf funding, thinks the
Republicans keep the wall in hopes that Democrats will lose their enthusiasm for
cutting weapons if no peace dividends could result.
Bentsen hopes the wall will be eliminated.
"We ought to recognize the realities," he says. "We are looking at economic
confrontation, not military confrontation."
Maybe the Democrats will eventually vote for a Cold War museum where they can
display the pricey behemoths they voted to keep on building long after the
Russians ran out of money and the determination to bury us.
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SUBJECT: SUBMARINES; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; POVERTY; U.S. SENATE; POLITICAL ISSUES AND
PHILOSOPHY; POLITICAL PARTIES
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HEADLINE: Submarine Funding Battle Zeros In on Skills, Tradition
SERIES: STANDING DOWN: AMERICA'S MILITARY IN TRANSITION, Occasional
BYLINE: Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post Staff Writer
DATELINE: GROTON, Conn.
BODY:
For the last 14 years, Albert Lamke has been welding together sections of
submarine hulls to exacting specifications half an inch at a time.
Co-worker Jim O'Brien splices miles of pipe that snake through a submarine.
He holds a high-tech blow torch in one hand, a mirror in the other so he can
reach the hard-to-get places between the pipes and the submarine's hull.
Charlie Aldrich, who heads a group of 1,400 engineers working on advanced
submarine designs, can call on 37 years of submarine-building experience every
day he comes to work.
The skills of Lamke, O'Brien and Aldrich - veteran employees of General
Dynamics Corp.'s Electric Boat Division have become the central part of a
debate that unfolds this week as the Senate and House of Representatives take up
a Bush administration proposal to cut funding from this year's federal budget
for two nuclear-powered Seawolf attack submarines.
Some defense analysts say the art of building advanced submarines could be
lost if the cuts are made and skilled workers eventually lose their jobs. Other
analysts claim, however, that there are less expensive ways to keep alive the
submarine-building tradition.
The idea that Electric Boat might have a limited future shows how times have
changed. In the heyday of the Cold War, the American submarine was part of an
elite force with a technological mystique, and Electric Boat, which sent dozens
of submarines out to sea, had an enviable position in the U.S. defense industry.
While other American companies faltered, workers at Electric Boat took as much
pride in the quality and reliability of their submarines as did the admirals and
sailors who manned them.
Lamke, O'Brien and Aldrich speak of their crafts not just as good-paying
jobs, but also in terms of the satisfaction they take in having been part of the
team effort that helped win the Cold War.
The Seawolf has surfaced as this budget season's most hotly contested weapons
battle, pitting the administration against Congress and the Pentagon against the
Navy. The fight has stoked a bitter rivalry between the nation's two submarine
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builders, Electric Boat and Tenneco Corp.'s shipyard at Newport News, Va.
The Seawolf also became a partisan issue in the presidential campaign when
Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, speaking earlier this year to a crowd of metal
workers at Gap and Carmella's Luncheonette here, declared himself a Seawolf
supporter.
The fight over the Seawolf is the first of many that Congress is expected to
confront as it tries to cut the Pentagon budget without jeopardizing vital
defense firms and military technologies.
The Seawolf is the latest in submarine design and construction. The
Senate and House appropriations commit-STANDING DOWNAMERICA'S MILITARY IN
TRANSITIONtees oppose President Bush's plan to cut funding for the two Seawolf
submarines, which each cost about $ 2 billion. The Senate would protect
funding for both submarines while the House endorses funding for one.
Committee members cited the $ 1.5 billion spent on parts and subsystems for
the two submarines and the additional costs for canceling the orders as reasons
to fund the project. But they also stressed the requirement for keeping alive
the submarine industrial base.
A number of present and former Navy officials and defense analysts, however,
have argued that there are better ways to sustain the submarine industry than
unnecessarily buying two high-tech submarines that were designed for a Cold War
era of relatively high production and significant Soviet threat.
"It's true that our ability to make the world's best submarines will go away
if we don't continue to design and build them," said Gordon Adams, director of
the Defense Budget Project in Washington. "What's not clear is that buying two
Seawolfs is the way to preserve that capability."
To Adams and other analysts, the Seawolf has become a blatant political ploy
to save the Electric Boat Division, which might have to close its doors later
this decade after it completes work on the 12 submarines of various classes. In
the short term, Seawolf funding would preserve several thousand jobs in
depressed southern New England.
Buying two submarines is an expensive way to preserve jobs. Based on data
supplied by Electric Boat, it would cost an extra $ 2 billion to complete
construction of the two submarines rather than close down the Seawolf
program. That works out to at least $ 65,000 a year for every job saved at
Electric Boat or its nationwide network of suppliers.
And even with the two Seawolf submarines, Electric Boat estimates that its
employment levels would drop to 7,000 in 1997 from 19,000 today as the yard
completes work already on its order book: six Trident submarines, five Los
Angeles-class attack submarines and the first Seawolf, which has not been
challenged.
Others analysts point out that money spent on Seawolf submarines would be
money not spent other weapons, resulting in job losses elsewhere.
Seawolf supporters, however, argue that jobs are not the only issue.
Seawolf is crucial to preserving the submarine -building tradition until
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1998, when the Navy plans to build a new generation of smaller, cheaper
Centurion attack submarines.
Unlike many defense firms, they argue, Electric Boat cannot easily find other
work while it waits for the Centurion project. The commercial shipbuilding
industry, an obvious alternative, died in the United States a decade ago, a
victim of foreign competition. Navy contractors, with their large engineering
staffs and production facilities set up for low-volume, high-tech work, are
ill-suited to compete in the high-volume, lower-cost world of commercial
manufacturing.
This dilemma for Electric Boat is shared by a number of its key suppliers.
"Most of the firms engaged in this work have virtually no civilian markets to
sustain them," said Adm. Bruce DeMars, the Navy's director of nuclear
propulsion.
In a recent report, Demars said that without "continuous submarine
construction," many suppliers would go out of business.
Another view is voiced by Virginia's Newport News shipyard, the Navy's second
supplier of submarines.
"By building aircraft carriers, we maintain skills associated with
fabrication of steel, installation of piping, high-quality welding, the unique
process of casting and fitting various types of shielding common to all nuclear
ships," William R. Phillips, chief executive at the Newport News shipyard, said
last week. "Even today, we move dozens of people back and forth between subs and
carriers."
George Wade, the head of submarine construction at Newport News, used to
supervise carrier and cruiser construction at the facility. Between surface
ships and submarines, "there's a lot more commonality in manufacturing processes
than there are differences, he said.
Such talk is heresy to the Navy submarine command and the specialists at
Electric Boat, which has been building only submarines since it launched the
Holland in 1897. They cite in particular Electric Boat's design shop, as well as
its new modular construction facility at Quonset, R.I., where entire hull
sections are welded by automated machines and filled with many of the boat's
inner workings before they are shipped by barge to Groton, where the submarine
is completed.
Retired Adm. Carlisle Trost, a former chief of naval operations and now
chairman of the Naval Submarine League, recently said the Quonset facility has
revolutionized the way submarines are built.
But a number of analysts, while conceding Electric Boat is the superior yard,
wonder if it is a luxury the nation can no longer afford. They argue that a
single, multipurpose shipyard, such as Newport News, is probably the most
cost-effective facility to satisfy the Navy's shipbuilding needs in an era
characterized by decommissioning and upgrading old ships, not building new ones.
Retired Vice Adm. William Rowden, who oversaw Navy shipbuilding before
becoming a consultant to the Center for Naval Analyses in Alexandria, said the
Newport News solution is attractive. He said Electric Boat's Quonset facility,
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which requires 8,000 to 1,000 workers, was designed for a period of relatively
high and stable submarine production.
"By preserving it, we would be preserving the wrong capability," Rowden said.
Others warn that building two unneeded Seawolf submarines at Electric Boat
would be an insufficient way to span the production gap from now to the time a
new class of attack submarines would be required.
Although plans call for Centurion construction to begin in 1998, top Navy
officials said privately that with so many new boats under construction at
Groton and Newport News, the Navy's shrinking force won't need any new
submarines before the year 2005. In that case, it would take more than two
Seawolf submarines to keep Electric Boat from closing.
"My problem with these two Seawolfs is that they represent a $ 2 billion
bridge that doesn't quite make it to the other shore," a senior member of the
Senate Armed Services Committee staff said.
The Navy conceded it has yet to come up with a definite plan for keeping its
submarine industrial base alive in the decade. Any plan, however, would be a
political minefield.
Navy officials said the shrinking budget would require either Electric Boat
Division or the Newport News shipyard to leave the submarine-building business.
The Navy would then send to the surviving yard any overhaul work now performed
by at least two of the Navy's own shipyards, which receive congressional
support.
Even then, however, most analysts said that once its current orders are
filled, the Navy would have to build a new submarine every two or three years --
even if not needed - just to keep alive the craft of building submarines.
John Welch, general manager of Electric Boat, said such a plan would require
designing and building submarines in new ways better suited to low-rate
production, much as European countries have done. Even with new procedures, he
conceded, the process would be inefficient by today's standards and the cost
would likely surpass the $ 2 billion price tag on a Seawolf today.
The Defense Budget Project's Adams suggested that, in the future, policy
makers won't ask how much each submarine costs, but rather how much it costs
each year to keep a single submarine builder open and working. That cost, he
said, could run to $ 1 billion a year.
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SUBJECT: SUBMARINES; BUDGET; U.S. CONGRESS; CONNECTICUT; DEFENSE INDUSTRY; SHIP
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ORGANIZATION: GROTON; NEWPORT NEWS; GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP.; COLD WAR; DEFENSE
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Copyright 1992 The Hartford Courant Company
The Hartford Courant
March 26, 1992, A Edition
SECTION: A; Pg. A1
LENGTH: 1535 words
HEADLINE: Coolness to Clinton even at EB;
Many mistrusted Clinton despite Seawolf support
BYLINE: JACK EWING; Courant Staff Writer
DATELINE: GROTON
BODY:
When Bill Clinton stood outside the gates of Electric Boat early Monday
morning, squeezing hands and trying to win support among the people who build
submarines, the Arkansas governor made a big impression on an electronics
mechanic named Ralph Covino.
Unfortunately, it was the wrong impression. "He blocked traffic. He delayed
me getting in," Covino said.
Covino was unimpressed with Clinton's support of the Seawolf submarine
program, on which thousands of EB jobs ride. For that matter, the Moosup
resident was generally unimpressed with the field of candidates.
"They're all losers," Covino griped Wednesday morning, stamping his feet in
the crisp air a few minutes before beginning his shift at 7 a.m.. "Brown, he's a
flake. Who you gonna vote for?" he asked sarcastically, "Buchanan?" Republican
candidate Pat Buchanan is the only other major candidate to declare support for
the Seawolf.
Clinton's inability to win over people such as Covino - who lost an
earlier job to Pentagon budget cuts and expects to lose the one he has within a
few months -- may help explain the surprising strength of former California Gov.
Jerry Brown in this defense-dependent region.
Clinton won Groton and several other communities that have high
concentrations of Electric Boat employees, including New London, Stonington and
Waterford. But Clinton lost the Second Congressional District to Brown, and
lost in Ledyard, which borders Groton and is home to many Electric Boat workers
and Navy submariners assigned to the nearby base.
That happened even though Clinton was the only candidate to visit the area
and the only Democrat outspokenly in favor of continuing to build Seawolf
attack submarines, which President Bush wants to stop. of about a dozen workers
interviewed before the 7 a.m. shift change, only two expressed strong support
for Clinton. Several said they mistrusted the Arkansas governor's promises.
"I think he's saying what people want him to say," said Bill Brotherhood, a
tugboat crewman at the shipyard who shook Clinton's hand during the
candidate's appearance Monday.
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"It seemed to me he just jumped on the bandwagon," said Dennis Chappelle, a
welder who has been at Electric Boat 13 years. "I voted for Brown. It seems he
has a better outlook on the economy."
Michael Civardi, a painter, said he supported Clinton, but offered one
explanation of why his co-workers may have been less enthusiastic: Many of the
workers at the plant are Vietnam veterans or former members of the military.
During Clinton's visit, Civardi heard someone make a reference to the
candidate's perceived efforts to avoid serving in Vietnam.
"I heard somebody yell, 'What about '68?' = Civardi said. "I'm surprised it
wasn't more than just that guy."
Glenn Arthur, a state representative from the Gales Ferry section of Ledyard
and a Republican candidate for Congress, heard two female constituents
complaining about comments by Clinton's wife, Hillary, that were interpreted
as derogatory to housewives. Otherwise, Arthur and other political and community
leaders seemed baffled by the results.
"I don't know where the votes came from for Brown," Arthur said.
Connecticut Rep. Sam Gejdenson, D-2nd District, said that although there is
consuming interest in the fate of the Seawolf, local voters may not have
connected that issue to the presidential campaign.
"There are a lot of other issues on people's plates," Gejdenson said. "I
think [voters] recognized that the Seawolf will have been resolved before the
next president is in office."
Others suggested that because turnout was generally low, the vote may be an
incomplete expression of public sentiment. "A lot of people didn't bother
because it didn't mean a whole lot," Ledyard Mayor Joseph A. Lozier said. "They
just didn't think it mattered."
Robert Lee Burrows, an electrician who has been at Electric Boat 35 years,
offered another possible explanation. Burrows, looking up from a newspaper as he
stood on Thames Street, said he is "slowly becoming a Clinton supporter"
because he likes Clinton's experience and background.
And the Seawolf? "Doesn't affect me," Burrows said. "I think the Seawolf
is gone anyway."
"I don't think the shipyard is going to close. But there will be 5,000 or
6,000 people working here." That is about one-third of the current work force.
"And I love EB," Burrows said, looking across the street as his fellow
workers streamed through the entrance toward the huge, pale-green plant. "EB has
been a good place to be employed. I'll be sorry to see a lot of these people
go."
GROTON When Bill Clinton stood outside the gates of Electric Boat early
Monday morning, squeezing hands and trying to win support among the people who
build submarines, the Arkansas governor made a big impression on an electronics
mechanic named Ralph Covino.
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Unfortunately, it was the wrong impression. "He blocked traffic. He delayed
me getting in," Covino said.
Covino was unimpressed with Clinton's support of the Seawolf submarine
program, on which thousands of EB jobs ride. For that matter, the Moosup
resident was generally unimpressed with the field of candidates.
"They're all losers," Covino griped Wednesday morning, stamping his feet in
the crisp air a few minutes before beginning his shift at 7 a.m.. "Brown, he's a
flake. Who you gonna vote for?" he asked sarcastically, "Buchanan?" Republican
candidate Pat Buchanan is the only other major candidate to declare support for
the Seawolf.
Clinton's inability to win over people such as Covino -- who lost an
earlier job to Pentagon budget cuts and expects to lose the one he has within a
few months -- may help explain the surprising strength of former California Gov.
Jerry Brown in this defense-dependent region.
Clinton won Groton and several other communities that have high
concentrations of Electric Boat employees, including New London, Stonington and
Waterford. But Clinton lost the Second Congressional District to Brown, and
lost in Ledyard, which borders Groton and is home to many Electric Boat workers
and Navy submariners assigned to the nearby base.
That happened even though Clinton was the only candidate to visit the area
and the only Democrat outspokenly in favor of continuing to build Seawolf
attack submarines, which President Bush wants to stop. Of about a dozen workers
interviewed before the 7 a.m. shift change, only two expressed strong support
for Clinton. Several said they mistrusted the Arkansas governor's promises.
"I think he's saying what people want him to say," said Bill Brotherhood, a
tugboat crewman at the shipyard who shook Clinton's hand during the
candidate's appearance Monday.
"It seemed to me he just jumped on the bandwagon," said Dennis Chappelle, a
welder who has been at Electric Boat 13 years. "I voted for Brown. It seems he
has a better outlook on the economy."
Michael Civardi, a painter, said he supported Clinton, but offered one
explanation of why his co-workers may have been less enthusiastic: Many of the
workers at the plant are Vietnam veterans or former members of the military.
During Clinton's visit, Civardi heard someone make a reference to the
candidate's perceived efforts to avoid serving in Vietnam.
"I heard somebody yell, 'What about '68?' " Civardi said. "I'm surprised it
wasn't more than just that guy."
Glenn Arthur, a state representative from the Gales Ferry section of Ledyard
and a Republican candidate for Congress, heard two female constituents
complaining about comments by Clinton's wife, Hillary, that were interpreted
as derogatory to housewives. Otherwise, Arthur and other political and community
leaders seemed baffled by the results.
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"I don't know where the votes came from for Brown," Arthur said.
Connecticut Rep. Sam Gejdenson, D-2nd District, said that although there is
consuming interest in the fate of the Seawolf, local voters may not have
connected that issue to the presidential campaign.
"There are a lot of other issues on people's plates," Gejdenson said. "I
think [voters] recognized that the Seawolf will have been resolved before the
next president is in office."
Others suggested that because turnout was generally low, the vote may be an
incomplete expression of public sentiment. "A lot of people didn't bother
because it didn't mean a whole lot," Ledyard Mayor Joseph A. Lozier said. "They
just didn't think it mattered."
Robert Lee Burrows, an electrician who has been at Electric Boat 35 years,
offered another possible explanation. Burrows, looking up from a newspaper as he
stood on Thames Street, said he is "slowly becoming a Clinton supporter"
because he likes Clinton's experience and background.
And the Seawolf? "Doesn't affect me," Burrows said. "I think the Seawolf
is gone anyway."
"I don't think the shipyard is going to close. But there will be 5,000 or
6,000 6, people working here." That is about one-third of the current work force.
"And I love EB," Burrows said, looking across the street as his fellow
workers streamed through the entrance toward the huge, pale-green plant. "EB has
been a good place to be employed. I'll be sorry to see a lot of these people
go."
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June 1, 1992
Transcript # 658 - - 5
TYPE: Analysis
SECTION: Business
LENGTH: 423 words
HEADLINE: Liberal Politician Sobered by Small Business Venture
BYLINE: Myron Kandel
KEYWORD: Business & Commerce; Political Leaders (U.S.)
HIGHLIGHT:
Analyst Myron Kandel looks at George McGovern's failure in private business
sector in the Northeast; McGovern's experience has caused him tore-think his
stand on government regulation of small businesses.
BODY:
LOU DOBBS, Anchor: Vice President Dan Quayle, the administration's chief
red-tape-cutter, picked up an ally today in George McGovern. Yes, the very
same McGovern, the liberal Democrat who was roundly defeated by Richard Nixon in
1972, the same McGovern who now says too much government regulation may be
hampering business.
Myron Kandel now takes a look at this ideological flip-flop and new union,
really.
MYRON KANDEL, Business News Analyst: Lou, in 1972 George McGovern was
perceived as more an ally of big government than big or small business. But
when he left the senate 11 years ago, McGovern entered the private sector.
He built up a nest egg from lecture fees, and in the classic American
entrepreneurial spirit invested it four years ago in something he could own, a
combination restaurant, inn and conference center in Stratford, Conn.
Unfortunately, he ran smack into a recession that hit the Northeast particularly
hard, and the enterprise went belly-up.
That experience has led McGovern to re-examine some of his previous views. In a
piece in today's Wall Street Journal he says he wishes during his years of
public office he had this first-hand experience with the difficulties business
people face every day, such things as all the red tape and increased costs
involved in federal, state and local regulations.
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He's not backing away from helping workers, protecting the environment,
supporting schools and safeguarding consumers, but he says legislators often
ignore the costs involved. That sounds much like Vice President Day Quayle.
But when I spoke to McGovern a little while ago, he says he's not joining
Quayle's de-regulation crusade. But he did concede he believes that government
regulations have become too onerous for small businesses to deal with.
It's remarkable how the private sector can give politicians, even liberal ones,
a dose of reality.
Lou?
DOBBS: That is a striking turnabout for George McGovern. When you talked to
him, did he explain why he isn't an ally of Vice President Quayle, if he feels
this way about red tape and regulations? It makes sense.
KANDEL: He says he's primarily concerned about small businesses, of which he was
one, than big businesses. He sort of suggests that big businesses can handle
all that government regulation, but small guys cannot.
DOBBS: So is he considering, then, sort of joining in with the vice president,
then, on the small business angle or non-partisan effort here?
KANDEL: I think he'd go along with that.
DOBBS: Okay. I'm sorry to put you in the position of - you've just become
George McGovern's spokesman, Myron. Thank you.
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SHOW: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
March 23, 1992, Monday
LENGTH: 754 words
HEADLINE: SEA WOLF SUBMARINES HAVE LOST USEFULNESS
BODY:
Linda Wertheimer, host:
When Connecticut votes in its primary election tomorrow, one of the issues on
voters' minds will be future defense spending for submarines. The next
generation of US Navy submarines is already being built at the Electric Boat
shipyard in Groton, Connecticut. It's an expensive nuclear-powered attack
submarine called the Seawolf. Three Seawolf subs were ordered, but then the
Soviet Union collapsed. Now President Bush says he wants Congress to cancel two
of the subs. Democratic candidate Bill Clinton has made the politically
popular suggestion that the continued building of the Seawolf would save
thousands of jobs at the Groton shipyard. Gordon Adams directs the Defense
Budget Project, a non-partisan research organization here in Washington. He
says there is a future in developing certain submarines.
Gordon Adams (Defense Budget Project): Well, it makes sense for the yard to
continue building submarines. It may not make sense for the yard to continue
building the Seawolf submarine. What
Wertheimer: Well
Adams:
is left out of the equation is the fact that the Electric Boat Yard
has roughly six Los Angeles-class submarines that it has obligated to build
still and another six Trident submarines that it is in the process of building.
So, in fact, there is a workload at Electric Boat that carries it well into the
rest of the 1990s whether or not it does the Seawolf submarine. Wertheimer:
What about the Seawolf?
Adams: Well, in strictly military terms, there is very little justification for
continuing the Seawolf. It's one of those classic systems designed to fit the
conditions of the Cold War. It's designed to track and kill Soviet attack
submarines and Soviet nuclear missile submarines. Those aren't being built and
they're not sailing very much these days, according to the Central Intelligence
Agency. So really the threat around which the Seawolf was designed has
disappeared. And is-that is part of the logic behind which the administration
made its decision not to proceed with the second and third Seawolf boats.
Wertheimer: And do you think that's a sound decision?
Adams: Yeah, I think that's essentially a sound decision. The critical issue
for Electric Boat isn't whether or not it builds the Seawolf. The critical
issue for Electric Boat is whether or not we're going to maintain, in the long
term, the capacity to build submarines and design submarines in the United
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States. Now what's important there is that right now, the administration
doesn't have any policy for the long-term industrial base in submarines, which
means once you get past the current Los Angeles boats and the Trident boats and
the one Seawolf they're now building, there isn't much for that yard to do.
Clearly, if we want to be able to build submarines in the future, we need to
start now with design work on a follow-on boat that we build at a very low level
in the next century.
Wertheimer: Well, before I ask you what that follow-on boat should be, let me
ask you what do you think about the argument that the United States should have
the capacity to build submarines?
Adams: From our judgment, that's an important thing to retain. One of the
things the Defense Department has not done to date and seems not to not want to
do--they have a kind of an industrial Darwinist approach to this problem in the
Pentagon--they haven't defined what critical capacities we want to maintain, and
there are some areas like tank construction, like submarine design and
construction, where you don't really want to lose the capacity to do it. And I
would describe that, if you will, as a necessary inefficiency. You don't want
to build a lot. You don't want to design a lot, but it takes you a lot of time
and a lot of money to reconstitute that capacity if you need it at some point
out in the future.
Wertheimer: If Groton were to keep working, what should it be building?
Adams: Well, Groton should be building the next-generation submarine. They
should have a design team. They should do something like the Centurion or
expensive follow-on to the Seawolf or a cheaper follow-on to the Seawolf or a
diesel submarine, but there clearly is a future for submarines, and we need to
continue to modernize our submarines in the next century.
Wertheimer: Gordon Adams is the director of the Defense Budget Project here in
Washington.
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MEMORANDUM FOR GARY FOSTER
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RE:
SURVEY REPORT FOR CONNECTICUT
MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1992
EVENT SCENARIO:
The President will travel from New Jersey to Hartford, Connecticut.
He will arrive at Bradley International Airport and helicopter to
Ansonia, Connecticut, where he will have a public arrival. The
President will then motorcade through a crowd-lined Main Street to
a
hall in Ansonia and give an economic address to a chamber of
Commerce luncheon. After the luncheon speech, the President will
motorcade back to the landing zone and helicopter to Bradley
International Airport.
NOTE: The state has requested a Victory '92 fundraiser to be held
prior to or immediately following the luncheon in Ansonia.
PURPOSE OF VISIT:
The purpose of the event in Connecticut is to solidify the
political base in the area and, more importantly, persuade
undecided Reagan - Bush Democrats to come back on board.
Connecticut has not voted for a Democrat since 1968, but it is
being heavily targeted by the Clinton-Gore campaign. Further,
Connecticut posts early returning on election day. Even though the
state is considered one of the President's home bases, it should
not be one taken for granted.
Throughout the state there is a general feeling of discontent with
the status quo. Connecticut has been hit severely by the recession
due to the loss of jobs primarily in the insurance and defense
industries. (Aetna recently had a 4,000 person reduction).
Despite this discontent, the President could bring his economic
message directly to the people. At the luncheon he could emphasize
that the real burden of Clinton's tax proposals will be felt
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For the President's luncheon event, I propose a hall called Warsaw
Park located in Ansonia, Connecticut. Ansonia has a population of
roughly 19,000. It has a predominantly blue collar, ethnic
(Italian, Polish) and older constituency. Ansonia has a large
Veteran population and is in the heart of Reagan-Bush Democrats.
The event will be billed as a luncheon sponsored by the Nangatuck
Valley Chamber of Commerce. The towns which constitute the
Chamber's membership are: Ansonia, Derby, Shelton, Seymour, Beacon
Falls, and Oxford. Other cities and chambers of commerce will lso
be welcome. The lunch will be comprised of area small businessmen,
families, community residents and local party faithful. This crowd
would be most receptive to a speech on jobs and economic growth, as
well as things like family values, urban renewal, and enterprise
zones.
The Valley Chamber has a membership of 300. By opening the event
up to families and other business employees, we could make more
than half of the audience business-oriented. Bill Rifkin, the
President of the Chamber of Commerce, was not originally excited
about hosting the President at Warsaw Park because many people
consider it a "dive" and it is not the most accessible site for a
luncheon. However a location of Warsaw Park's size does not exist
throughout the valley or the greater Hartford area. Besides,
Warsaw Park has a lot of ethnic, blue collar flavor (Bingo games,
Policemen's Balls, and dances are held here).
Warsaw Park is an indoor hall which could seat a luncheon crowd of
approximately 1300. The event would have a "community picnic"
style setting with picnic tables, fried chicken, etc. It would not
be a traditional Chamber of Commerce speech in a hotel ballroom.
I propose that the President takes a seat in the center of the
hall, surrounded by veterans, families, and local businessmen.
Flags and ethnic banners on walls would serve as backdrops.
The media could use the existing stage and a 2' riser could be
built to create another tier. A press pool area could be created
to get a closer view of the President eating lunch and speaking.
The President would speak from a 12 - 18" rise. Since he is
speaking in the center of a seated crowd, the President does not
need to be elevated too much. Moreover the rafters in the hall do
not allow for much room to maneuver (about 13 feet from floor to
rafters).
This lunch would provide an opportunity for the President to take
his campaign directly to the people of Connecticut and America.
The campaign could not be criticized for campaigning only in areas
of GOP strength. We do run the risk of being criticized for
Connecticut's loss of jobs, but the President can capitalize on his
Convention speech and provide an economic vision of another term.
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BACKGROUND:
Governor Clinton campaigned in Connecticut in March of 1992. More
recently, Al Gore campaigned in Hartford and Waterbury on August
10. Paul Tsongas is expected to address the Middlesex County
Chamber of Commerce on August 26th in Cromwell, Connecticut.
Middlesex invited the President to address its Chamber, but there
was no site in the county which would allow a sit-down luncheon
+1,000, other than in a hotel ballroom.
For the landing zone, I propose Nolan Field in Ansonia. Nolan has
a football and baseball field which would provide ample room for
several helicopters. It is also a good site for a public arrival
since there is existing parking. A crowd line could be placed in
front of portable bleachers. The President would be welcomed to
Ansonia by a crowd of several thousand. The President could speak
from his limo and shake hands along the crowd line before boarding.
The drive is only four miles to Warsaw Park. If the motorcade is
able to slow down to a crowd lined Main Street, I estimate a ten
minute drive time. The drive also gives a flavor of the "mom &
pop" business and residential areas of the valley.
Highs
Warsaw Park is located in the residential section of Ansonia.
There are no buildings nearby that are suitable for a press filing
center. There are several tables outdoors which could be tented.
Power could be drawn from the hall to provide an adequate filing
center close to the event.
CONTACT:
John Roland, Victory '92 Chair (Event chair)
office: 203-598-3272
home:
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David Rifkin, Chamber of Commerce President
(O-Rifkin travel) 203-735-9574
Chris Dudley - Bush-Quayle
203-829-1992
Tony Roginel - Warsaw Park
203-734-1447
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The New York Times
July 12, 1992, Sunday, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section 13CN; Page 9; Column 1; Connecticut Weekly Desk
LENGTH: 1093 words
HEADLINE: A Cold War Chapter Closes in State
BYLINE: By DIETER STANKO
BODY:
WHEN the Army announced in the middle of the 1950's that it was building Nike
antiaircraft missile bases in a dozen Connecticut communities, residents in many
towns reacted with outrage and disbelief that the Army would install such
weaponry in their suburban neighborhoods. Despite protests from residents, the
missile-launching centers were constructed. Now, nearly 40 years later, the Army
Corps of Engineers is in the process of cleaning up the remnants of the bases,
which were decommissioned by 1964.
The furor surrounding the Nike missile bases in Connecticut became the
subject of Max Shulman's popular 1957 book "Rally Round the Flag, Boys!" The
novel humorously depicted the arrival of a Nike missile base in a place called
Putnam's Landing, where residents' fears concerning safety, property values and
having 100 soldiers stationed in the town clashed with their sense of
patriotism. Later, the book became a movie starring Paul Newman and Joanne
Woodward who moved to Westport, where Mr. Shulman lived and worked, and where
one of the Nike missile sites was situated.
No Set Schedule
The cleanup of the Nike missile base in Westport began in early April and is
nearly finished. In four other towns -- Cromwell, East Windsor, Milford and
Ansonia --- similar cleanup projects have been completed on bases. The Corps of
Engineers has approved the cleanup of bases in Manchester, Fairfield and
Farmington, and it is investigating Nike complexes in Portland, West Haven,
Shelton and Simsbury to determine the extent of cleanup work necessary.
According to a spokeswoman for the New England division of the Army Corps of
Engineers, Sue Douglas, the Corps does not have a definite schedule for cleanup
of the Nike missile bases. "The plan is to take each of them in course, along
with all of the other former military installations that we are working on
within the entire region," Mrs. Douglas said.
As part of the cleanup of the Westport site, steel parts were removed from
the three underground missile-launch silos and the concrete silos were
demolished. The silos were filled in with concrete chunks and gravel. According
to the contractor working at the site and to the Corps, there was no toxic waste
or hazardous material contamination on the town-owned property.
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Before demolition began, an estimated 800,000 gallons of water that had
collected inside the silos had to be pumped out in accordance with State
Department of Environmental Protection guidelines. To avoid overloading the
local sewer system, the State Department of Environmental Protection has
permitted only 48,000 gallons of water to be pumped out of the silos each day.
At the Westport Nike battery's radar-control center, a 30-foot radar tower and a
fuel tank were removed. The cleanup of the Westport Nike missile battery cost
the Army Corps of Engineers $256,775.
Nike missile batteries were situated in defensive rings around cities and
other places deemed strategic nationwide, and were intended to protect targets
from enemy aircraft. The 12 Nike missile batteries in Connecticut were close to
Bridgeport and Hartford, two cities important to the defense industry. In New
England, 35 batteries were constructed; more than 300 were built nationwide.
Each battery consisted of a separate launching site and radar-control center,
usually situated on high ground within a mile of one another. Housing units and
working quarters for the battery's eight officers and 100 enlisted men were also
built in each town.
The first Nike missile, the Nike-Ajax, was the first surface-to-air guided
missile to enter production and operational use in the United States. Named
after the Greek goddess of victory and the Trojan War hero, the missile became
operational in 1953 and was installed in the Connecticut bases. The missile,
which was 21 feet high and 12 inches wide, could reach supersonic speeds, had a
range of 25 miles and could attain an altitude of 12 miles.
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The Nike-Ajax missile's successor was the larger Nike-Hercules missile,
which carried a nuclear warhead and had more than triple the range and altitude
capabilities of the Nike-Ajax. Approximately 10 Nike sites in New England, none
of them said to be in Connecticut, were converted to accommodate the more
powerful missile. Both generations of the Nike missile became obsolete by the
middle of the 1960's, when the threat of air attacks shifted from aircraft to
intercontinental ballistic missiles. The Army decommissioned the Nike missile
bases between 1960 and 1964. Most of the bases were turned over to the towns.
According to a Connecticut Historical Commission staff archeologist, David
Poirier, the state's Nike batteries have historical value because the Nike
missiles were an important part of the national defense system in the post-World
War II era. From an architectural standpoint, Mr. Poirier said, the structures
at the various missile installations, including silos and housing units, are not
important because they are unattractive and were designed solely for functional
reasons.
Symbol of Cold War Era
"The Nike defense system was an important part of our nation's history
during the cold war," Mr. Poirier said, "despite the fact that the missiles were
obsolete after only a few years. They are certainly representative of an
important part of our history."
He also said that Army officials have agreed to survey all the remaining Nike
bases in New England and compile a written and photographic documentation of the
best remaining complex for the State Historical Commission.
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The operation of a Nike missile launch site can be seen in a 20-minute
amateur videotape that is in the special collections department of the Homer
Babbidge Library at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. The videotape
obtained by the Corps shows a Nike missile being moved into launching position
from its underground storage site within the silo. "This tape is not
propaganda," Mr. Poirier said. "It was not deliberately produced, it is more
like someone's home movie."
In Westport, some controversy remains regarding the Nike missile launching
area. The town administration wants to operate a leaf-composting center on the
site, but neighbors strongly oppose that plan and have filed a lawsuit against
the town. Other Nike base buildings have been put to good use by the town.
Former Army barracks are now used as offices by the Health Department and also
as living quarters for a high school security guard.
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The Reuter Library Report
June 23, 1992, Tuesday, BC cycle
LENGTH: 660 words
HEADLINE: CATHOLIC FAITHFUL DEFY WAR TO VISIT BOSNIAN SHRINE
BYLINE: By Richard Meares
DATELINE: MEDJUGORJE, Bosnia-Herzegovina, June 23
KEYWORD:
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BODY:
Pilgrims from around the world are coming back to a Roman Catholic shrine in
former Yugoslavia, defying war in the hope of a spiritual revelation.
''God gave me a beautiful message - you will go in good health and come back
in good health, said Lucille Insalaco, an American who trekked to the village
of Medjugorje in the breakaway republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
''I'm not the least bit afraid even though I hear the shots,' said Insalaco,
from Ansonia, Connecticut.
U.S. and Irish groups have come for the 11th anniversary on Wednesday of the
day the Madonna is said to have shown herself to six local children. The six
have been designated as her messengers on earth ever since.
On the 10th anniversary last year the crowds were bigger than ever with over
10,000 foreign pilgrims, according to parish priest Ivan Landeka.
Some came for spiritual revelation, others to heal mental or physical ills.
But they vanished when war erupted two days later in what was then Yugoslavia's
northern republic of Slovenia.
Times got steadily worse for Medjugorje, isolated on a bush- and rock-covered
plateau in the staunchly Roman Catholic mountainous area of western Herzegovina,
above the Adriatic coast. The people are mostly Croatians.
Ethnic fighting linked to Yugoslavia's break-up spread to Bosnia. Serb forces
bombed and rocketed Medjugorje three times.
One shell landed just 300 metres (yards) from the church, Landeka said.
Mass had to be moved underground into shelters near the modern church
building.
'We have prayed constantly for peace, but if you accept God's will, you
accept the war, said Vicka, one of the original children, now 27, who says the
Virgin Mary still talks to her.
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She says Mary, who first appeared to the children on a rocky hilltop, told
her recently: ''Only by prayer and fasting can the war be stopped, so pray my
dear little children.
Croatian forces have advanced just in time for the anniversary, pushing the
Serbs, who are Eastern Orthodox Christians, out of firing range but not hearing
range. Soldiers mill around the village bars.
''I got a call two weeks ago to get word to the prayer groups to come, and
here we are,'' Insalaco said.
Travel to Medjugorje is awkward but now safe. The village is near the border
with Croatia, where fighting has died down.
Sister Cecilija, of the Franciscan Order which runs Medjugorje, said she
thought God had spared the village from destruction in the fighting.
'Something special happened, we all felt it,'' she said.
But Franciscan churches and monasteries in Mostar, the nearby regional
capital, have been destroyed by Serb shelling.
Some Serbs accuse the Franciscans, who have been in Bosnia for over 750
years, of stoking Croat nationalism and plotting the destruction of the Eastern
Orthodox church in order to spread the Vatican's power.
Locals for whom pilgrimage has become a major industry are praying that more
of the faithful from Italy, Belgium, Austria and France will arrive by
Wednesday.
We expect about 1,500 people,'' said Ivica Colak, whose shop sells Madonna
statuettes and rosaries of every colour.
As Medjugorje's fame grew in the late 1980s, ugly concrete pizzerias,
souvenir shops, supermarkets and guest houses sprang up around the church.
It will be a long time before the paved piazzas around the church are again
full of overflow crowds listening to Mass over the loudspeakers.
But the devoted are optimistic.
'Everyone who comes returns with new people. This is my favourite place on
earth. I feel the presence of Our Lady and see many supernatural things, said
Insalaco, 58, who frequently visits iother shrines in Fatima and Lourdes.
'Medjugorje is my life,' said Mary Marchand of the Immaculata prayer group
from Windham, Connecticut. 'One day my home will be a Medjugorje centre.
Marchand has visited five times in three years. This time she and her husband
brought $2,000 worth of medical aid with them.
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WARSAW PARK LUNCHEON
ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT
AUGUST 24, 1992
1:25 P.M.
Now we've witnessed, as I pointed out down there, a world of
change from Managua to Moscow. Millions of men and women now
turn towards freedom. They're celebrating a new birth of
freedom. And I believe people right here in the valley, many of
whom came here form other countries, many of whom family came
here, understand what I'm talking about when I say this nation
can take pride in the freedom of others.
And so now the challenge for this country is to bring that
spirit home -- home from Warsaw, Poland to Warsaw Park and to
focus this great nation on the mission at hand. We have
literally changed the world with the help of the taxpayer.
Presidents who preceded me, fighting men and women that have
served this great country with distinction -- we've changed the
world. And now we must change America for the better. //
And our challenge quite simply is to win the global economic
challenge, to win the peace. Be a military superpower, an
economic superpower, an export superpower. And in this election,
you're going to hear two very different visions of how to do
this. Theirs is to turn inward and protect; and ours is to look
outward and open new markets and prepare our people to compete.
To save and invest. And when I'm talking about investment, I
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don't mean more taxpayer money going into government investment.
I mean more private investment, small business investment.
I don't want to get too personal in this wonderful area that
I understand has some wonderfully smart Democrats because I need
you guys in the fall. But let me say this, that my opponent has
spent most of his adult life in government, and that's pretty
much all he knows about. But his idea about creating jobs is to
have government jobs -- public payroll jobs. And I come at
things a different way. I spent -- I computed it the other day -
-half of my life in government service, one kind or another; and
half in the private sector. And long before I was in the public
sector I worked for a living our in the oil fields of West Texas,
built a company, and did what many here has in small of larger
operations -- I met a payroll, I took the risks, and I made it
work. And I happen to think having held a job is not a bad
qualification even for President of the United States of America.
//
Look, the world economy is changing. And we've got to be in
lead of that change. Think of the economic changes you've seen
right here in Ansonia from moving from that brass and copper age,
in the mills along the Naugatuck, to the new corporate
headquarters in the industrial parks across the Valley. Right
now, one in every six American manufacturing jobs is tied
directly to exports. And that doesn't count the economic ripple
effect created when those workers paid the mortgages or buy a car
or feed the kids.
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Since '88, since '88, three-fifths of the economic growth
has come from people in other countries buying what we do best -
- the products we make right here in America. We are the best
manufacturers in the world, and don't let anybody tell you --
don't let that gloomy opposition tell you we can't compete or say
that we're a nation in decline. We are not.
And as President I'm working now to create jobs, new markets
--markets in Moscow, markets in Mexico City that mean new
American jobs. And I am convinced that the answer is not to
build a wall around our economy, not to put the government in
charge -- but to use the government to help you literally go back
to work in this country. And that's what I want to tell you how
I'm going to do it.
Here are some of what we stand for: Open markets for
American products. Here's one we have a big difference on --
lower government spending and tax relief. Not spend and tax, tax
relief, and less federal government spending. And the other one
is opportunities for small business. We've got to do better
getting the regulatory burden off the back of these Mom and Pop,
these small operators. And we;re going to keep doing it until we
get that job done.
You know my feeling about how -- too many lawsuits in this
country. I've been fighting to change that, blocked by this
gridlocked Congress. We sue each other too much. We care for
each other too little. And we've got to break the back of those
that are breaking this country with these damn lawsuits.
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AUDIENCE: Clean House.
I'll get to that. And new schools -- and I know we've got
some teachers here, and God bless them. But I'll tell you
something. We need new schools to back up these teachers, new
ideas. Our whole program, America 2000 , is a good program, to
literally revolutionize how we bring our kids into the next
century. It's an exciting program. And I might say, we've got
to win this fight on narcotics. Teenage use of cocaine is down,
but we've just begun to fight. We've go to win it. Clean out
these schoolyards.
You know, a big difference is -- a big one -- I do believe
that we -- they're too big, government, and spend too much. And
last week I offered an idea to get the deficit down. We'll give
you a special box -- I believe people should have it -- a special
box on that tax return to check so that up to 10 percent of your
income tax can go for one purpose, and that is to reduce the
budget deficit. If Congress doesn't like it -- all these
editorials that you read around here on some of these
sophisticated journals don't like it -- but the congress has
failed to do it. So let's give the people a chance to check that
box, and then we have to live with it.
And then there's something that's very important to the
valley that I talked about today in Union, New Jersey -- a
dramatic new approach to job training, to help young people find
that first job -- a program we call the Youth Training Corps; to
get inner-city kids off the mean streets and give them a second
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chance to build the skills they need to succeed. For older
workers who have lost their jobs -- or worry that the next pay
envelope may bring a pink slip, we've developed a new concept
called Skill Grants -- vouchers worth $3,000 dollars to be used
toward the training program of their choice. And our plan is
based on empowering people to get the training they want, not
empowering bureaucracies to hire more people. And that is a very
different approach than the others are talking.
The Governor of Arkansas says he's all for free enterprise.
Then he proposes right out of the box the largest tax hike in
history -- much of it on the back of small business. I learned
the hard way -- holding out my hand to that gridlocked Congress
and they bit it off. Once you make one mistake you don't make it
again. I am not going to go forward and go with these programs
of spending and taxing.
We've literally proposed -- and it's before Congress right
now -- eliminating over 200 programs and 4,000 projects. It's
there, it's put down in detail. It's before this gridlocked
congress. And we've got to do something about changing the
Congress. If we had more people like Gary Franks, we wouldn't
have a gridlock problem. But the Congress has been controlled -
- they have been controlled by the same party for 38 years.
Everything else has changed in the country -- not the House of
Representatives. Help me change the House. Clean it clean the
House.
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My opponent says he's for fiscal responsibility. He's
against a balanced budget amendment. Says he's for a line-item
veto, but the gridlocked Congress refuses to give it to the
President. And I stand for something different. I want to see
us cut that federal spending with the help of a new Congress, get
the taxes down so we can get this economy stimulated and let
people keep a little more of what they earn. It's a big
philosophical differences between the Bush-Quayle ticket on the
one hand and Clinton-Gore on the other. Look at it, it is
fundamentally different.
Now, in this campaign, we've got to call it as we see it.
And this year I believe the choice is very clear. We've got two
different -- fundamentally different approaches I believe in
the government. You get all this talk -- government, government
-- of the government, by the government, for the government.
That's not going to get the job done. We are fighting against
that because we happen to believe still that the power should
flow from the people. So it's of the people, by the people and
for the people. And really, what's at stake here is the future
of this country.
And we're in choppy waters. I heard the Reverend. I know
it. People that are hurting and can't find jobs when they need
it. I'll tell you another area we've for a big difference -- on
the defense spending. I have cut defense, but we're not going to
cut into the muscle of the defense. The other side want to take
$60 billion more than Colin Powell and Cheney tell me is the
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right level. We still have a tough world out there. We must
still be strong. And while you're thinking about it, we don't
needlessly need to throw another million defense workers out of
work by cutting back on defense below the levels needed for
national security.
Let me just tell you, I wish Barbara Bush were here. This
would be great for their morale -- this would be great for her
spirits.
But you sense something else out there along the highway.
You sense this community feeling and this feeling of family. And
I want to tell you something. The cynics, the liberal
theoreticians, they can ridicule me all they want when I talk
about family values. But this one transcends Democrat. It
transcends Republican. And it gets to the heart of what our
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community is about. And the community has been diminished by the
decimation and sometimes the decline of the American family.
I saw it today, that family spirit is still strong. And I
just want to pledge to you, I am not going to get off talking
about that because we must find ways -- whether it's welfare
reform, whether it's helping, as Barbara does, hold someone in
the arms to demonstrate the compassion and love we feel for our
fellow man -- we've got to find ways to strengthen the American
family. It is not demagoguery -- it's fundamental to America.
And she and I will continue to try to do our level best to
set a level of decency ad honor and hopefully, trust there in the
Oval Office and there in the White House.
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Thank you very much for this wonderful reception. And may
God bless the Naugatuck Valley. And may God bless the United
States of America.
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Prescribed by GSA
*U.S.GPO:1987-0-196-343/79063
FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6