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Mark Davis Subject Files
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Originally Processed With FOIA(s):
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This is not a textual record. This is used as an
administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential
Library Staff.
Record Group/Collection:
George H.W. Bush Presidential Records
Collection/Office of Origin:
Speechwriting, White House Office of
Series:
Davis, Mark, Files
Subseries:
Subject File, 1989-1991
OA/ID Number:
13875
Folder ID Number:
13875-003
Folder Title:
UCLA Hispanic Event, 4/25/89
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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE
UCLA INSERT
"SomE people SAY this
is A SE Ifish GENERATION. I
Don't believe this, not FOR
one minute. ThE young
PEoplE of this country
A MEASURE OF what AMERICA
hunger to REtuRn to AMER.
NAS given US All.
11 you CARE About CARE the
DISAOUANTAGED. you
About thE ENVIRONMENT.
AnD UNDER this ADmin.,
we ARE GoinG To WORK
TOGETHER to put OUR trans,
OSCARING into
com. for Action
UCLA
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: HISPANIC EVENT
LOS ANGELES, CA
APRIL 25, 1989
THANK YOU FOR THAT INTRODUCTION, AND FOR THIS
SPLENDID TURNOUT. I'M DELIGHTED To BE HERE IN Los
ANGELES, AND AMONG so MANY "VECINOS" [VE-CEE-NOZE:
Debate
SPANISH FOR "NEIGHBORS"].
In PARticular I AM DElighted to be At one
thE lAST time I WAS new WAS for A certain,
of AMERICA'S gREAtest Unluestities UCLA. you know
you MAY RecAll. I SORT of liken thE WAY the
even. went, AND I AM enjoying tonight Aswell,
- 2 -
I WANT TO EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE FOR YOUR WARM
RECEPTION. AND MY HEART-FELT THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT
IN THE PAST. AND I WANT TO SALUTE ALL OF YOU FOR
FIGHTING THE TRAFFIC To BE WITH US TONIGHT.
You KNOW, A HISPANIC PATRIOT OF OUR HEMISPHERE ONCE
SAID, "I AM AMERICA'S SON. To HER I BELONG." WELL,
AND LET ME SPEAK FOR BARBARA: TONIGHT, AMONG YOU, I
FEEL THAT WE BELONG.
- 3 -
FOR WE'VE SPENT MOST OF OUR ADULT LIVES IN TEXAS.
we're seen
THERE, ONE SEES CLOSE-UP, FIRST-HAND, THE STRENGTH OF
THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY.
IT WAS THERE THAT HISPANIC VALUES TOUCHED US --
DISCIPLINE AND CARING AND LOVE OF GOD. AND, OF COURSE,
BECAUSE OF JEB'S WIFE, COLUMBA, WE FEEL DOUBLY BLESSED.
THE HISPANIC CULTURE IS OUR CULTURE, TOO.
- 4 -
TOMORROW, I'M GOING TO MEET WITH ONE OF AMERICA'S
GREATEST PRESIDENTS. I'M TALKING ABOUT CALIFORNIA'S
ALWAYS-FAVORITE SON AND MY GOOD FRIEND, RONALD REAGAN.
AND I CAN'T HELP RECALLING SOME WORDS HE ONCE SAID
ABOUT HISPANIC AMERICANS:
"JUST AS THEIR FOREFATHERS SOUGHT A DREAM IN THE
NEW WORLD, HISPANIC AMERICANS HAVE REALIZED THEIR DREAM
IN OUR GREAT NATION AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO so.
- 5 -
THEIR DEDICATION TO HIGHER PURPOSES REFLECTS WHAT IS
BEST IN THE AMERICAN SPIRIT."
MY FRIENDS, THAT SPIRIT BROUGHT YOUR PARENTS, YOUR
GRANDPARENTS, AND SOME OF YOU TO AMERICA. THEY --
YOU -- CAME IN SEARCH OF A BETTER LIFE, AND YOU ARE
FINDING IT. You CAME TO BUILD A BETTER AMERICA, AND
YOU ARE BUILDING IT.
F
- 6 -
You ARE BUILDING IT THROUGH FAMILY, CHURCH, LOVE OF
COUNTRY, AND BELIEF IN THE VALUE OF HARD WORK.
A new SPIRTOPED PUBLIC SERVICES that is grows
BUILDING IT IN THE SCHOOLS, IN OUR POLICE FORCE, AND IN
AND AT SCHOOLS like UCLA.
SMALL AND LARGE BUSINESSES, BUILDING IT THROUGH
EXCELLENCE -- AND THROUGH SUCH LEADERS AS SECRETARIES
LUJAN AND CAVAZOS, WHO so ENRICH OUR ADMINISTRATION.
SOME SAY this is A selfish GENERATION.
we k now be HER, RETURN young
AMERICANS nunger chance to
OUR COUNTRY TO HELP THE NATION Dis- -
AQUANTRUED, of TO RETURN TO OUR
JUST A FRACT
- 7' -
YOU'RE CREATING NEW JOBS AND CUTTING UNEMPLOYMENT
-- HERE IN CALIFORNIA, AND ACROSS THE NATION. AND AS
AMERICA'S FASTEST-GROWING MINORITY IN THE 21st CENTURY,
YOU, MORE THAN EVER, WILL HELP TELL THE AMERICAN STORY.
IN 1980, WE BEGAN THE DECADE OF THE HISPANIC
TODAY, THAT DECADE IS BRIGHTER THAN WHEN IT BEGAN.
- 8 -
AND so IS THE PROMISE THAT OUR KIDS WILL INHERIT A
BETTER LAND THAN WE INHERITED -- YOUR KIDS
MY SON
JEB'S KIDS
AND MY GRANDKIDS ((PAUSE))
...
ALL
ELEVEN OF THEM.
LET US PLEDGE, THEN, NOT SIMPLY TO KNOCK AT THE
DOOR OF OPPORTUNITY. LET'S THROW THAT DOOR WIDE OPEN -
- AND KEEP IT OPEN. AND LET'S REMEMBER THAT WE ARE ONE
NATION UNDER GOD -- AND THAT WE HONOR HIM WITH THE
LIVES WE LEAD.
- 9 -
WE ARE RURAL AND URBAN, NATIVE-BORN AND FOREIGN-
BORN. HISPANIC AND NON-HISPANIC, BROWN, BLACK, AND
WHITE. BUT MOST OF ALL, WE ARE AMERICANS. So LET US
JOIN HANDS TOGETHER, FOR THE FUTURE IS OURS. AND AS WE
DO, PLEASE ACCEPT MY THANKS FOR THIS WONDERFUL
OCCASION. GOD BLESS YOU, THANK YOU ALL, AND GOD BLESS
AMERICA.
# # #
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This tree, a decedent of a tree planted by
John Quincy Adams on the grounds of the White
House, was presented to the people of the
State of North Dakota in commeration of their
states centernial anniversay of statehood by
President and Mrs. Bush.
April 24, 1989
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