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Grant/Grossman
November 16, 1990
9:00 a.m.
A:BILLSIGN
BRIEF REMARKS: ENVIRONMENTAL BILLS SIGNING CEREMONY
THE SOUTH LAWN
NOVEMBER 16, 1990
10:15 A.M.
Good morning. Good to see Secretary Lujan here today; as
well as EPA Administrator Bill Reilly; Mike DeLand of the Council
on Environmental Quality; and John Knauss, the head of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Welcome to the White House. We are here beside Lady Bird
Johnson's tree -- a willow oak, I'm told -- planted in 1964.
Lady Bird once said she wants to be remembered as one who planted
trees. And when I look out the Oval Office window at this
magnificent oak on beautiful fall days such as this, I understand
Lady Bird and her advice to "know and enjoy the world around
you.
Yesterday, I signed into law the Clean Air Act of 1990, the
centerpiece of our commitment to preserve and protect our
environment. It makes our air pollution laws, already the
world's toughest, even tougher. This year's Clean Air Act is the
most significant air pollution legislation in American history -
- and it restores America's place as the global leader in
environmental protection.
Our agenda for the environment is broad and ambitious, one
that encompasses not just the air we breathe -- but also verdant
forests and grassy meadows, majestic rivers and lakes, and
2
pristine coastal shorelines. Clearly, all of us must work
together to preserve America's natural beauty.
Several bills I'm signing this morning will protect some of
the most precious expanses of America -- from the sands of the
Mojave Desert, to the undersea landscapes off the "Purple Isles"
of the Florida Keys, to the broad waters of the Great Lakes and
Lake Champlain.
One of the bills creates the National Forest Foundation,
establishes two new wildlife refuges, and strengthens marine
research programs and environmental law enforcement. And we've
not neglected our global responsibilities. Today I will sign
legislation -- enhancing the preservation of Antarctica's vast
and unique ecosystem, and I will sign legislation confirming our
commitment to build a sound research base regarding global
climate change. Finally, there's environmental awareness --
giving teachers the tools to teach our kids about the importance
of conservation, through the National Environmental Education
Act.
Early in this century, the original "environmental
President,' Theodore Roosevelt, said that children should be
taught to read and enjoy what he called the "wonder-book of
nature," because he believed that our environment belongs not
only to today's generation, but to the next generation as well.
You're never too young or too old to learn about the wonders
of Nature. Those of us "long in the tooth" never tire of that
sense of splendor one feels in the outdoors. And we love to see
3
the wide eyes of a child at the moment they first see a cascading
waterfall, a bottomless Western canyon, or even a real, live,
dangerous animal (-- like that dangerous Thanksgiving turkey we
had here the other day.))
These bills I'm about to sign are about what the future will
hold for our kids. That's why our environmental agenda is
forward-looking -- to the next generation, and the generations
that will follow. And so it is with them in mind -- those who
will inherit this stewardship -- that I am delighted to sign
these eight bills into law.
# # #
E176
2
H4
WH
KS BY Diana Dixon Healy
erica's First Ladies
1988
America's
fica's Vice-Presidents
1984
First Ladies
PRIVATE LIVES OF
THE PRESIDENTIAL WIVES
Diana Dixon Healy
ATHENEUM New York 1988
Claudia "Lady Bird"
Alta Taylor Johnson
1912-
"SHE PLANTED A TREE"
Lyndon B. Johnson Administration 1963-69
Lady Bird Johnson once summed up her role as the
president's wife thusly: "A First Lady should be a
showman and a salesman, a clotheshorse and a publicity
sounding board, with a good heart and a real interest in
the folks in 'Rising Star' and 'Rosebud,' as well as
Newport and whatever the other fancy places are.
Well, the last-real interest-I do have."
She came to the White House as the result of the
Kennedy assassination rather than an election, but she
rose to the challenge of being First Lady and filled that
nebulous position as few women have done since Eleanor
Roosevelt. Those who knew her were not surprised. A
CLAUDIA "LADY BIRD TAYLOR JOHNSON
214
Copyright © 1988 Macmillan Publishing Company, a division of Macmillan, Inc
"She Planted a Tree"
determined, intelligent woman married to the volcanic
Lyndon Johnson for thirty years would have had to
know something about adapting.
Claudia Alta Taylor was born in 1912 near the tiny
town of Karnack, Texas, to Thomas Jefferson Taylor,
one of the area's most wealthy men, and ethereal, slightly
eccentric Minnie, who died when Claudia was just five
years old. She was a shy young girl whose timidity was
surely not helped by having to live with the nickname
"Lady Bird," given to her by a family nurse who
exclaimed that the baby, Claudia, was "as purty as a
Lady Bird."
Attending the University of Texas in Austin brought
her out of her shell somewhat and awakened the desire to
lead an exciting life. After receiving her B.A. degree in
1933, she stayed on for another year to obtain a degree in
journalism. A newspaperwoman's life seemed to her to
have great potential for adventure, but before she could
discover what her own adventure might be, she was
caught up in the whirlwind career of Lyndon Johnson.
Lady Bird did not take full advantage of her petite,
dark-eyed, brunette good looks. Her nose was longer
than average, leading her to remark later in life that if she
had known she would be in the White House, she would
have changed her name and her nose. But Lyndon was
smitten with her; on their first date, a breakfast, he
proposed. She, naturally, was hesitant but had "a queer
sort of moth-and-the-flame feeling about what a remark-
able man he was." Her father liked Lyndon and told her
that this time she had "brought home a man" instead of a
boy, and Lyndon bombarded her with letters and phone
calls from Washington, where he was then secretary to
217
CLAUDIA "LADY BIRD" TAYLOR JOHNSON
"She Planted a Tree"
Texas congressman Richard M. Kleberg. Two months
Lynda Bird and Luci Baines, while she traveled with her
later, Lady Bird was convinced-or overwhelmed-and
demanding husband. One part of being a politician's wife
they were married.
she did like was meeting "the people behind the statis-
Once in their little apartment in the capital, Lady Bird
tics," and she went into the White House with many
discovered she had a lot to learn. She knew nothing
friends behind her-some of them in spite of her
about the kitchen, and had to learn to cook in order to
husband.
feed all the people Lyndon would bring home at the last
So when she said that becoming First Lady was like
minute. He also had very definite ideas about how she
being "suddenly on stage for a part I never rehearsed," it
should wear her hair and makeup and how she should
was not quite accurate. She entered the White House
dress-in bright colors and high heels instead of her
with the realization that there was a time limitation and
comfortable, but to him "muley-lookin', flats.
that it "will never happen again, and you can drum up
In 1937, she borrowed $10,000 on her future inheri-
the energy from somewhere within you to go more, do
tance to finance Lyndon's successful campaign for Con-
more, learn more." Lady Bird took the job of First Lady
gress, and they were on their way. It was while Con-
very seriously. She studied her guest lists to learn
gressman Johnson was serving in the South Pacific for
something about the people visiting the mansion, and
seven months in 1942 that his wife discovered she had a
before entertaining diplomats and heads of state, spent
real interest in and aptitude for politics. She ran his
time studying maps and briefing papers.
congressional office with the same thoroughness and
Because of her training, Lady Bird was naturally
determination to learn that she did everything else, and
sympathetic to the needs of the nearly eighty-five report-
after a few months felt that "if it was ever necessary, I
ers who covered her activities. She appointed Liz
could make my own living." Lyndon admitted later that
Carpenter, a reporter, to be her press secretary-
"the tenth district would happily have elected her over
previous First Ladies had assigned public relations types
me, if she had run."
to this job. It was Liz who described her friend and boss
Her business acumen (and to some extent, her journal-
as having "a touch of velvet, with the stamina of steel."
istic ability) was brought out in 1942, when she took the
Lady Bird felt that as a public figure, her job was "to
rest of her inheritance from her mother and bought radio
help my husband do his job" and to carry out his plans
station KTBC in Texas. She spent seven months in
and purposes. She once said that if she left "any foot-
Austin turning around a losing business.
prints in the sands of time, it will be because he has been
During the years with Lyndon as congressman, sena-
able to achieve something." In this too humble way, she
tor, and vice president, Lady Bird found that she could
became involved in those projects that most interested
do many things she didn't like to do, such as flying and
her-supporting the War on Poverty and the Headstart
giving speeches and leaving her two young daughters,
Program, continuing Jacqueline Kennedy's work on
218
219
CLAUDIA "LADY BIRD" TAYLOR JOHNSON
"She Planted a Tree"
restoring the White House, encouraging people to dis-
cover America, and, most important, working for the
cartoon showing a road lined with signs, one of which
beautification of the capital and the nation. "She Planted
read, "Impeach Lady Bird." Eventually, thanks in part
to her husband's legendary ability to twist arms, Con-
a Tree" was the epitaph she wanted.
gress did pass the Highway Beautification Act.
In President Johnson's State of the Union Address in
January 1965, he emphasized preserving America's
In her efforts to interest Americans in the beauty of
beauty, "the green legacy for tomorrow," and Lady Bird
their country, Lady Bird made forty-seven trips, travel-
knew that she had found her cause. She hated it when
ing more than 200,000 miles, from Cape Canaveral,
people referred to beautification as her gimmick, because
Florida, to San Simeon, California, from New England
to Texas. She climbed mountains, rode the Snake River
she really did feel strongly that making public areas
attractive improved the quality of people's lives. And the
rapids, and rafted on the Rio Grande. It was not always a
popular crusade; a veterans' group once objected to the
term "beautification" bothered her; she felt it did not
color of the tulips planted around an army memorial;
encompass all that her project meant.
yellow seemed to be a slur on their courage, so they were
She wanted to "make a showcase of beauty on the
changed to red for the next spring. The term "not fit for
Mall," but there was more to it than that. She and her
pigs," used in one antilitter campaign, did not go over
committees wanted to interest volunteers from neighbor-
well with hog farmers.
hoods and businesses in improving the scruffy little
Lady Bird was politically savvy enough to push for her
triangles and squares that abound in the capital and to
own programs and also to advise the president, in her
persuade the people living in the areas to become in-
gentle, diplomatic way. When one of his speeches
volved. Money was raised to improve schoolyards and
seemed to be going on too long, she might send him a
parks with new equipment and plants, so that city
note saying, "Great speech but time to stop." And, of
children would care more for their surroundings.
She took people on bus tours of areas that needed work
course, he could choose to ignore it. Her greatest coup on
the political scene was probably the whistle-stop tour she
or had already been planted, often with donations she
had convinced someone to give. Usually, there was at
made through the Southern states during the 1964
campaign, the first such trip by a First Lady. It was
least one stop where she could get out and plant a
crucial to win the South for the Democrats at a time
dogwood or daffodil bulb herself. She also met with
when they were pushing for new Civil Rights legislation,
several mayors to learn what the problems were in their
cities and to discuss solutions.
and Lady Bird traveled seventeen hundred miles, making
180 stops to speak from the back of the train.
One of her main goals was to get rid of billboards along
One of the grandest social functions to take place
highways. So many commercial interests opposed her
during the Johnson years was the wedding ceremony in
that Bill Mauldin of the Chicago Sun-Times once drew a
the East Room uniting Lynda Bird and marine captain
220
221
CLAUDIA "LADY BIRD" TAYLOR JOHNSON
Charles Robb, who later became governor of Virginia.
Luci Baines, who had married Patrick Nugent eighteen
months earlier in a Catholic ceremony, brought the first
Johnson grandchild to the White House.
By 1968, fighting the war in Vietnam and the war's
Patricia I
protesters at home had become too much for Lyndon,
and he announced he would not run for another term in
19
office. He and Lady Bird retired to their ranch in Texas
where he died in 1973.
Lady Bird's account of her busy years as First Lady,
"A GOO
White House Diary, was published in 1970, and in 1981 a
Richard M. Nixon A
documentary film, The First Lady, A Portrait of Lady Bird
Johnson, was made. Her interest in the natural beauty of
the country remained strong; she founded the National
Wildflower Research Center in 1982 and became a
member of the Board of Trustees of the National
Geographic Society.
Her Beautification Committee had helped to make
"I am a good sport," Pat
cleaning up and making better use of natural resources a
indeed an amazingly good si
popular issue in the sixties, and Columbia Island in the
determination, she made t]
Potomac River, which is now alive with dogwoods and
and disappointments that
flowers, was renamed Lady Bird Johnson Park.
weaker women. Through
impenetrable outer shell 1
women who knew her best,
they saw as the real Pat N
image of Plastic Pat, Tricia
ing, vivacious, talented and
was "the most independent
know
a woman of dig
Thelma Catherine Ryan
the day before St. Patrick's
"St. Patrick's Babe in the
222
2
Document No. 191213
90 OCT 16 A9: 03
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
11/15/90
DATE:
8:30 a.m. 11/16
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENVIRONMENTAL BILLS SIGNING CEREMONY
(11/15 7:00 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
DEMAREST
PINKERTON
FITZWATER
DELAND
GRAY
WINSTON
HAGIN
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 8:30 a.m., 11/16, with a copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
see comments. Thanks,
Holls Williamson
11-16-90
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Grant/Grossman
90 NOV 15 PH 9: 17
November 15, 1990
7:00 p.m.
A:BILLSIGN
BRIEF REMARKS: ENVIRONMENTAL BILLS SIGNING CEREMONY
THE SOUTH LAWN
NOVEMBER 16, 1990
10:15 A.M.
Good morning. Good to see Secretary Lujan here today; as
well as EPA Administrator Bill Reilly; Mike DeLand of the Council
on Environmental Quality; and John Knauss, the head of the
National Oceanics and Atmospherics Administration (NOAA).
COCA)
Welcome to the White House. We are here beside Lady Bird
Johnson's tree -- a willow oak I'm told -- planted in 1964.
Lady Bird once said she wants to be remembered as one who planted
trees. And when I look out the Oval Office window at this
magnificent oak on beautiful fall days such as this, I understand
Lady Bird and her advice to "know and enjoy the world around
you."
Yesterday, I signed into law the Clean Air Act of 1990, the
centerpiece of our commitment to preserve and protect our
environment. It makes our air pollution laws, already the
world's toughest, even tougher. This year's Clean Air Act is the
most significant air pollution legislation in American history -
reaffirms
- and it restores America's place as the global leader in
COCA
environmental protection.
Our agenda for the environment is broad and ambitious, one
that encompasses not just the air we breathe -- but also verdant
forests and grassy meadows, majestic rivers and lakes, and
restores implis we lost it - should we
conceede that ? (P know wesaid reston yesterday.)
2.
pristine coastal shorelines. Clearly, all of us must work
together to preserve America's natural beauty.
The bills I'm signing this morning will help protect some of
the most precious expanses of America -- from the sands of the
Mojave Desert, to the undersea landscapes off the Purple isles of
the Florida Keys, to the broad waters of the Great Lakes and Lake
Champlain.
V(EPA)
Another bill creates the National Forest Foundation A
to promote our
national
goal
to
establishes two new wildlife refuges, and strengthens marine plant abillion
trees,
research programs and environmental law enforcement. And we've
not neglected our global responsiblity as I will sign legislation
to endorse the preservation of Antarctica's vast and unique
ecosystem. Finally, there's environmental awareness -- giving
(EPA)
and indeed allow citizens
teachers the tools to teach our kids^about the importance of
conservation, through the National Environmental Education Act.
Early in this century, the original "environmental
President," Theodore Roosevelt, said that children should be
taught to read and enjoy what he called the "wonder-book of
nature," because he believed that our environment belongs not
only to today's generation, but to the next generation as well.
You're never too young or too old to learn about the wonders
of Nature. Those of us "long in the tooth" never tire of that
sense of splendor one feels in the outdoors. And we love to see
the wide eyes of a child at the moment they first see a cascading
waterfall, a bottomless Western canyon, or even a real, live,
3
dangerous animal ( ( -- like that dangerous Thanksgiving turkey we
had here the other day. ))
These bills I'm about to sign are about what the future will
hold for our kids. That's why our environmental agenda is
forward-looking -- to the next generation, and the generations
that will follow. And so it is with them in mind -- those who
benefit fromour
today
willAinhorit this stewardship^- that I am delighted to sign
these seven bills into law.
eight
# # #
Document No. 191213
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
11/15/90
8:30 a.m. 11/16
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENVIRONMENTAL BILLS SIGNING CEREMONY
(11/15 7:00 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
A
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
DEMAREST
PINKERTON
FITZWATER
DELAND
GRAY
WINSTON
HAGIN
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 8:30 a.m., 11/16, with a copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Grant/Grossman
90 NOV 15 PM 9: 17
November 15, 1990
7:00 p.m.
A:BILLSIGN
BRIEF REMARKS: ENVIRONMENTAL BILLS SIGNING CEREMONY
THE SOUTH LAWN
NOVEMBER 16, 1990
10:15 A.M.
Good morning. Good to see Secretary Lujan here today; as
well as EPA Administrator Bill Reilly; Mike DeLand of the Council
on Environmental Quality; and John Knauss, the head of the
National Oceanics and Atmospherics Administration (NOAA).
Welcome to the White House. We are here beside Lady Bird
Johnson's tree -- a willow oak, I'm told -- planted in 1964.
Lady Bird once said she wants to be remembered as one who planted
trees. And when I look out the Oval Office window at this
magnificent oak on beautiful fall days such as this, I understand
Lady Bird and her advice to "know and enjoy the world around
you."
Yesterday, I signed into law the Clean Air Act of 1990, the
centerpiece of our commitment to preserve and protect our
environment. It makes our air pollution laws, already the
world's toughest, even tougher. This year's Clean Air Act is the
most significant air pollution legislation in American history -
- and it restores America's place as the global leader in
environmental protection.
Our agenda for the environment is broad and ambitious, one
that encompasses not just the air we breathe -- but also verdant
forests and grassy meadows, majestic rivers and lakes, and
2
pristine coastal shorelines. Clearly, all of us must work
together to preserve America's natural beauty.
Several The bills I'm signing this morning will help protect some of
the most precious expanses of America -- from the sands of the
Mojave Desert, to the undersea landscapes off the Purple isles of
the Florida Keys, to the broad waters of the Great Lakes and Lake
Champlain.
One of the Another bill creates the National Forest Foundation,
establishes two new wildlife refuges, and strengthens marine
research programs and environmental law enforcement. And we've
enhancing not neglected our global responsiblit. as Today ^ I will sign legislation
ACONFIRMING
to endorse the preservation of Antarctica's vast and unique
and filfilling our commitment to bridd a sound
ecosystem, Finally, there's environmental awareness p giving change.
teachers the tools to teach our kids about the importance of
global
Furll
conservation, through the National Environmental Education Act.
Early in this century, the original "environmental
President," Theodore Roosevelt, said that children should be
taught to read and enjoy what he called the "wonder-book of
nature," because he believed that our environment belongs not
only to today's generation, but to the next generation as well.
You're never too young or too old to learn about the wonders
of Nature. Those of us "long in the tooth" never tire of that
sense of splendor one feels in the outdoors. And we love to see
the wide eyes of a child at the moment they first see a cascading
waterfall, a bottomless Western canyon, or even a real, live,
3
dangerous animal ( ( - - like that dangerous Thanksgiving turkey we
had here the other day. ))
These bills I'm about to sign are about what the future will
hold for our kids. That's why our environmental agenda is
forward-looking -- to the next generation, and the generations
that will follow. And so it is with them in mind -- those who
will inherit this stewardship -- that I am delighted to sign
these seven eight bills into law.
# # #
Document No. 191213
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
90 OCT 16 A8: 42
11/15/90
8:30 a.m. 11/16
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENVIRONMENTAL BILLS SIGNING CEREMONY
(11/15 7:00 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
N/C
DEMAREST
PINKERTON
FITZWATER
DELAND
GRAY
WINSTON
HAGIN
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 8:30 a.m., 11/16, with a copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Grant/Grossman
90 NOV 15 PM 9: 17
November 15, 1990
7:00 p.m.
A:BILLSIGN
BRIEF REMARKS: ENVIRONMENTAL BILLS SIGNING CEREMONY
THE SOUTH LAWN
NOVEMBER 16, 1990
10:15 A.M.
Good morning. Good to see Secretary Lujan here today; as
well as EPA Administrator Bill Reilly; Mike DeLand of the Council
on Environmental Quality; and John Knauss, the head of the
National Oceanics and Atmospherics Administration (NOAA).
Welcome to the White House. We are here beside Lady Bird
Johnson's tree -- a willow oak, I'm told -- planted in 1964.
Lady Bird once said she wants to be remembered as one who planted
trees. And when I look out the Oval Office window at this
magnificent oak on beautiful fall days such as this, I understand
Lady Bird and her advice to "know and enjoy the world around
you."
Yesterday, I signed into law the Clean Air Act of 1990, the
centerpiece of our commitment to preserve and protect our
environment. It makes our air pollution laws, already the
world's toughest, even tougher. This year's Clean Air Act is the
most significant air pollution legislation in American history -
- and it restores America's place as the global leader in
environmental protection.
Our agenda for the environment is broad and ambitious, one
that encompasses not just the air we breathe -- but also verdant
forests and grassy meadows, majestic rivers and lakes, and
2
pristine coastal shorelines. Clearly, all of us must work
together to preserve America's natural beauty.
The bills I'm signing this morning will help protect some of
the most precious expanses of America -- from the sands of the
Mojave Desert, to the undersea landscapes off the Purple isles of
the Florida Keys, to the broad waters of the Great Lakes and Lake
Champlain.
Another bill creates the National Forest Foundation,
establishes two new wildlife refuges, and strengthens marine
research programs and environmental law enforcement. And we've
not neglected our global responsiblity as I will sign legislation
to endorse the preservation of Antarctica's vast and unique
ecosystem. Finally, there's environmental awareness -- giving
teachers the tools to teach our kids about the importance of
conservation, through the National Environmental Education Act.
Early in this century, the original "environmental
President," Theodore Roosevelt, said that children should be
taught to read and enjoy what he called the "wonder-book of
nature," because he believed that our environment belongs not
only to today's generation, but to the next generation as well.
You're never too young or too old to learn about the wonders
of Nature. Those of us "long in the tooth" never tire of that
sense of splendor one feels in the outdoors. And we love to see
the wide eyes of a child at the moment they first see a cascading
waterfall, a bottomless Western canyon, or even a real, live,
the
3
dangerous animal ( ( -- like that dangerous Thanksgiving turkey we
had here the other day. ))
These bills I'm about to sign are about what the future will
hold for our kids. That's why our environmental agenda is
forward-looking -- to the next generation, and the generations
that will follow. And so it is with them in mind -- those who
will inherit this stewardship -- that I am delighted to sign
these seven bills into law.
# # #
SENT BY:Xerox Telecopier 7020 11-15-90 16:16
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The Antarotic Protection Act of 1990 (H.R. 3977) prohibits United
stress other
States entities from engaging in mineral resource activities in
Antarctica, a pristine wilderness area abounding in unique
statecting
wildlife, until a new international minerals agreement for
not mining
Antarctica has been approved by Congress.
&
The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and Protection Act
Point at
(H.R. 5909) establishes long-term protection to the unique
natural resources found in the coastal waters off the Florida
Keys by designating that area our Nation's ninth national marine
sanctuary.
The Omnibus Natural Resources and Wildlife Program (H.R. 3338)
it.
nome
provides for a number of high-priority natural resource
protection program, including the establishment of two new
National Wildlife Refuges, re-authorization of the National Fish
and Wildlife Foundation, creation of the National Forest
Foundation, authorization of enhanced marine research programs,
increased environmental law enforcement by EPA, and additional
funding for fish restoration programs on New England tributaries.
The Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area Establishment many Act in
how
spectors?
of 1990 (H.R. 4559) designates 83,100 acres in Nevada's Mojave
Desert, an area rich in geologic, cultural, wildlife, and
recreational resources, as the Red Rock Canyon National
Conservation Area to be managed by the Department of the
Interior.
The Coastal Barrier Improvement Act of 1990 (H.R. 2840) almost
triples the size of the Coastal Barrier Resource System. It
limits Federal expenditures and assistance for development within
the System, thereby helping both to protect the Nation's coastal
barrier resources and constrain Federal spending.
Senteme on how valuable bawier islands due.
The National Environmental Education Act (H.R. 3176) makes a
significant step forward in improving this Nation's environmental
literacy by enhancing the education community's ability to teach
our youth the importance of preserving the environment for
today's generation and generations of future Americans.
/Shat provisions
The Global Change Research Act of 1990 (S. 169) codifies an
existing, $1 billion research program and an interagency
coordinating committee to reduce the significant scientific
uncertainty associated with addressing pressing global
//-ushaskad
environmental issues.
The Great Lakes Critical Programs Act of 1990 (H.R. 4323) helps
inglobA research A
the Nation restore the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, America's
largest sources of freshwater, to the point where their long-
renowned scenic beauty, fisheries, and recreational opportunities
can once again be fully enjoyed by all Americans.
(Jood
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8:00 p.m.
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THE SOUTH LAWN
NOVEMBER 16, 1990
10:15 A.M.
( (Acknowledgements))
Welcome to the White House. I am standing today before Lady
Bird Johnson's tree -- a willow oak, I'm told -- planted in 1964.
Lady Bird says she wants to be remembered as one who planted
trees. And when I look out the Oval Office window at this
magnificent oak on beautiful fall days such as this, I understand
Lady Bird's advice to "know and enjoy the world around you."
Yesterday I signed into law the centerpiece of our agenda
for the environment -- the Clean Air Act of 1990, which
strengthened our air pollution laws, already the world's
toughest. This year's Clean Air Act is the most significant air
pollution legislation in American history -- and it restores
America's place as the global leader in environmental protection.
Our agenda for the environment is broad and ambitious, one
that encompasses not just clean air -- but clean untouched
beaches, green forests and meadows alive with wildlife, majestic
rivers and lakes teeming with fish -- because I believe America's
wilderness is too precious for us to destroy it; // America's
future too bright for us to cloud it.
These bills I'm signing this morning will protect some of
the most precious expanses of America, areas from Alaska to the
2
Antarctic, from the Florida Keys to (()) 's Red Rock Canyon.
( (Insert Grady) )
Early in this century, the original "environmental
President," Theodore Roosevelt, thought it imperative that
children be taught to read and enjoy what he called the "wonder-
book of nature," for our environment belongs not only to the
present generation, but to the next generation as well.
You're never too young or too old to learn about the wonders
of Nature. Those of us "long in the tooth" like myself never
tire of that sense of the sublime one feels in the outdoors. And
we love to see amazement in the eyes of young grandchildren when
they first catch sight of a cascading waterfall, a bottomless
canyon out West, or even a real, live, dangerous animal ( ( -- like
we did when that dangerous Thanksgiving turkey was here. ))
Out of deference to the former First Lady, I will not say
how many years ago, but Lady Bird once said, "When I got to be 70
I thought, I'm going to take time to do what I really yearn to
do, and that is work with native plants, wildflowers and trees,
and encourage their use in the nation's landscape so they won't
just be something of the past -- but will be passed on to our
grandchildren."
Our environmental agenda is forward-looking -- to the next
generation, to the future of America. And it is in that spirit
-- in the spirit of those who will follow us -- that I am
delighted to sign these ((number) ) bills into law.
# # #
Clearles,
2
is precious and all of us must work together to preserve
America's natural beauty.
help
The bills I'm signing this morning will, protect some of the
'D Red ROCK Comyon
most precious expanses of America -- the Mojave Desert, the Great
acch
the
Lakes and Lake Champlain and on the coasts, our precious barrier
Other
will help
pristine
islands. There's exen a. bills to safeguard the wilderness of the
Antarctick and work to restore the Great Champlain holesond Joke
Insurance
In addition, one of these bills ensures that the U.S. will
The Ommbers natural Resources and wildlife Program
remain a leader in global change research; another creater the will
National Forest Foundation, and establishes two new wildlife
assistic
refuges There one bill that I proposed a long time ago
es
wellnowbecome
establishing the waters off the Florida Keys as America's ninth
Streng marine program
national marine sanctuary. And finally, we're taking a
significant step toward improving America's environmental
literacy by giving teachers the tools they need to teach our kids
and law enforcement
about the importance of conservation.
through the na timal
Environmental Education
by EPA.
act.
Early in this century, the original "environmental
President," Theodore Roosevelt, thought it imperative that
children be taught to read and enjoy what he called the "wonder-
book of nature," for our environment belongs not only to the
present generation, but to the next generation as well.
You're never too young or too old to learn about the wonders
of Nature. Those of us "long in the tooth" never tire of that
sense of peace one feels in the outdoors. And we love to see
amazement in the eyes of children when they first catch sight of
a cascading waterfall, a bottomless canyon out West, or even a
3
real, live, dangerous animal ( ( -- like that dangerous
Thanksgiving turkey we had here the other day. ))
Lady Bird once said that she wanted to work with native
plants, wildflowers and trees, and encourage their use in the
nation's landscape so they won't just be something of the past -
- but will be passed on to our grandchildren."
Our environmental agenda is forward-looking -- to the next
generation, to the future of America. And SO it is with them in
mind -- those who will follow us -- that I am delighted to sign
these eight bills into law.
# # #
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7:00 p.m.
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THE SOUTH LAWN
NOVEMBER 16, 1990
10:15 A.M.
Good morning. It's a pleasure to see Secretary Lujan here
today; as well as EPA Administrator Bill Reilly; Mike DeLand of
the Council on Environmental Quality; and John Knauff, the head
of the National Oceanics and Atmospherics Administration.
Welcome to the White House. I am standing today before Lady
Bird Johnson's tree -- a willow oak, I'm told -- planted in 1964.
Lady Bird once said she wants to be remembered as one who planted
trees. And when I look out the Oval Office window at this
magnificent oak on beautiful fall days such as this, I understand
Lady Bird and her advice to "know and enjoy the world around
you."
Yesterday, I signed into law the centerpiece of our agenda
for the environment -- the Clean Air Act of 1990, which made our
air pollution laws, already the world's toughest, even toughter.
This year's Clean Air Act is the most significant air pollution
legislation in American history -- and it restores America's
place as the global leader in environmental protection.
But our agenda for the environment is broad and ambitious,
one that encompasses not just clean air -- but clean beaches,
green forests and meadows alive with wildlife, majestic rivers
and lakes teeming with fish, because - believe America environment
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Environment
Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93
percent of the oxides of nitrogen.
Ronald Reagan
Put the president of the Sierra Club in a sealed garage with a tree.
Put Ronald Reagan in a sealed garage with a running automobile.
Wait to see which one of them yells to get out first.
San Jose Mercury News editorial
The need for development of natural resources does not justify
writing off the environment.
Felix G. Rohatyn
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything
else.
Barry Commoner
Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.
Revelation 7:3
America's lands may be ravaged as a result of the actions of the
environmentalists.
James Watt
Western civilization is a man running with increased speed through
an air-sealed tunnel in search of additional oxygen.
ENVIRONMENT
69
Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.
Ralph Nader
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding.
Jacob Bronowski
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody's crew.
Marshall McLuhan
No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new
life.
The people have done it themselves.
Rachel Carson
If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.
Ronald Reagan
European countries
treat timber as a crop. We treat timber
resources as if they were a mine.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they
could, they would still be destroyed-chased and hunted down as
long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their dark hides.
John Muir
I have found that the brown bears are under the jurisdiction of the
Secretary of Agriculture, the grizzly bears under the care of the
Secretary of Interior, and the polar bears under my protection as
Secretary of Commerce.
Herbert Hoover
The greatest domestic problem facing our country is saving our soil
and water. Our soil belongs also to unborn generations.
Sam Rayburn
The "control of nature" is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of
the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
Rachel Carson
70 ENVIRONMENT
Children alive today may live to see the first man on Mars and the
last elm tree in the United States.
Buffalo News
Man shapes himself through the decisions that shape his envi-
ronment.
René Dubos
Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.
Buckminster Fuller
About 14,000 lives were saved in 1978 as a result of improvements
in air quality since 1970.
President's Council on Environmental Quality, 1980
We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things
from it, buried things in it. That does not fit my definition of a
good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would
have been evicted long ago.
Rose Elizabeth Bird
As cruel a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has
been hurled against the fabric of life.
Rachel Carson
Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as
the earth! We are safe on that side for the present.
Henry David Thoreau
Man is demolishing nature.
We are killing things that keep us
alive.
Thor Heyerdahl
The only means of conservation is innovation.
Peter Drucker
We are locked into a system of "fouling our own nest" so long as we
behave only as independent, rational free-enterprisers.
Garret Hardin
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and, in any
case, are rarely invoked.
Ralph Nader
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is
the contamination of air, earth, rivers and sea.
This pollution is
for the most part irrecoverable.
Rachel Carson
In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David Thoreau
Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the conse-
quence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.
Aldous Huxley
It becomes increasingly obvious to all countries that the uneven
distribution and consumption of resources is morally, ethically
and practically unacceptable.
Moshe Safdie
Many people live in ugly wastelands, but in the absence of imagina-
tive standards, most of them do not even know it.
C. Wright Mills
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to
us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may
begin to use it with love and respect.
Aldo Leopold
The day, water, sun, moon, night-I do not have to purchase these
things with money.
Plautus
Water and politics don't mix.
William Mulholland
We will use the budget system to be the excuse to make major
[environmental] policy decisions.
James Watt
We have not inherited the earth from our fathers; we are borrowing
it from our children.
Lester Brown
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ciety projects, but she also began focusing on measures to clean up and
beautify the country. Under her prodding, Congress passed the High-
way Beautification Act (popularly called the "Lady Bird Act") in Octo-
ber 1965, designed to limit billboards on Federal highways and encour-
age better planning of the nation's roads. To dramatize her program
for preserving and reclaiming the nation's scenic beauty, Lady Bird
sponsored a White House Conference on Natural Beauty, gave speeches
emphasizing the close connection between ugliness and crime, enlisted
the help of architects, conservationists, and philanthropists in the cause,
attended ceremonial tree and flower plantings, and dedicated new parks
and gardens in various parts of the country. She gave special attention
to Washington itself, heading the First Lady's Committee for a More
Beautiful Capital and riding around town in an unmarked car, to hunt
out places that needed cleaning up. "HER NAME IS CLAUDIA," pro-
claimed a Chicago Tribune headline, "AND BEAUTY IS HER AIM."
When she was praised for her beautification efforts, she said modestly,
"I only stepped on a moving train." She said she wanted her epitaph
to announce: "SHE PLANTED THREE TREES."⁷ To her surprise,
one day Robert F. Kennedy, no friend of her husband, said to her:
"You're doing a wonderful job. Everybody says so." Then, after a pause,
he added: "and so is your husband."⁷²
Approval of the job LBJ was doing turned out to be short-lived. The
Vietnam War soon killed the Johnson administration's plans for social
betterment. With increasing involvement in the Vietnam War after the
1964 election came mounting opposition to LBJ's foreign policy in
Congress and in the nation at large, and the time came when the First
Lady as well as the President was the target of anti-war protesters. When
Lady Bird went to Williams College for a speech in October 1967, pick-
eters greeted her with signs reading, "Confront the War Makers in
Washington," and some of the students walked out on her as she deliv-
ered her speech. 73 The following month, when she persuaded LBJ to
attend an Episcopal church in Virginia with her, the minister harshly
criticized the administration's Vietnam policy in his sermon, and after-
ward LBJ told her, with a wry smile, "Greater love hath no man than
that he goes to the Episcopal Church with his wife."74 Like her hus-
band, Lady Bird felt bitter about the "whiners, self-doubters, gloom
spreaders," as she called LBJ's critics, and when Arkansas Senator J.
William Fulbright, a Johnson friend, joined the anti-war opposition in
Congress, she wrote indignantly in her diary: "It will be sheer luxury
someday to talk instead of to act."75
On March 31, 1968, LBJ went on television to announce he would
not seek another term in the White House and Lady Bird fully sup-
ported his decision to retire. "It was a poignant moment, yes," she said
of his announcement, "but a relieving one for me. 76 When reporters
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519
Yes! where is he, the champion and the
Better one suffer, than a nation grieve.
I am the things that are, and those that
child
DRYDEN. Absalom and Achitophel. Pt.
are to be, and those that have been. No
To-morrow to fresh woods, and pas-
of all that's great or little, wise or wild?
one ever lifted my skirts: the fruit which
tures new.
416.
Whose game was empires, and whose
I bore was the sun.
MILTON. Lycidas. Concluding line.
stakes were thrones,
England is a paradise for women and
PROCLUS. On Plato's Timxus. (Inscrip-
Whose table earth-whose dice were
hell for horses Italy a paradise for
tion in the temple of Neith, at Sais,
With thee conversing I forget all time,
Egypt.)
human bones?
horses and hell for women, as the pro-
All seasons, and their change, all
verb goes.
See one promontory (said Socrates of
please alike:
BYRON. The Age of Bronze. St. 3.
BURTON. Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. iii.
old); one mountain, one sea, one river,
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising
On a lone barren isle, where the wild
Sec. 3. Memb. 1. Subsec. 2.
and see all.
sweet,
roaring billows
BURTON. Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. i.
It is a goodly sight to see
Sec. 2. Memb. 4. Subsec. 7.
With charm of earliest birds; pleasant
Assail the stern rock, and the loud
the sun
What Heaven hath done for this deli
Out of the book of Natur's learned
tempests rave,
cious land !1
When first on this delightful land he
The hero lies still, while the dew-droop-
brest.
What fruits of fragrance blush on every
spreads
Du BARTAS. Divine Weekes and Dayes.
ing willows,
tree!
Second week. Fourth day. Bk. ii.
His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and
Like fond weeping mourners, lean
What goodly prospects o'er the hills
(JOHN SYLVESTER, trans.)
flower,
over his grave.
expand I
Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord.
Glist' with dew ; fragrant the fertile
The lightnings may flash and the loud
BYRON. Childe Harold. Canto i. St. 15.
CHAUCER. Parlement of Foules. 1. 379.
earth
thunders rattle;
Nature, the Handmaid of God Almighty.
After soft showers; and sweet the com.
He heeds not, he hears not, he's free
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich
HOWELL. Familiar Letters. Bk. if. Let-
ing on
from all pain;
Richter is little known out of Germany.
ter. To Dr. T. P.
Of grateful ning mild then silent
He sleeps his last sleep, he has fought
The only thing connected with him, we
What more felicitie can fall to creature
night
his last battle;
think, that has reached this country is
Than to enjoy delight with libertie,
With this her solemn bird and this fair
No sound can awake him to glory
his saying,-imported by Madame de
And to be lord of all the workes of
moon,
again !
Staël, and thankfully pocketed by most
Nature,
And these the gems of heaven, her starry
LEONARD HEATH. The Grave of Bona-
newspaper critics,- Providence has
To raine in th' aire from earth to highest
train.
parte.
given to the French the empire of the
skie,
1bid. Paradise Lost. Bk. iv. 1. 639.
To the very last, he [Napoleon] had
land to the English that of the sea to
To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious
a kind of idea that, namely, of la
the Germans that of-the air I
"Tis sweet to be awaken'd by the lark,
feature,
Or lull'd by falling waters sweet the hum
carrière ouverte aux talents-the tools to
CARLYLE. Essays. Richter (Edinburgh
Review, 1827).
To take whatever thing doth please the
Of bees, the voice of girls, the song of birds,
him that can handle them.
eie ?
The lisp of children, and their earliest
words.
CARLYLE. Essays: Sir Walter Scott.
A nation's right to speak a nation's
SPENSER. Muiopotmos: or, The Fate of
BYRON. Don Juan. 1-123.
voice.
the Butterflie. 1. 209.
'Angleterre prit l'aigle et l'Autriche
Betwixt them lawns or level downs and
l'aiglon.
And own no power but of the nation's
Duke. And this our life, exempt from
flocks
choice I
public haunt,
England took the eagle and Austria
Grazing the tender herb were interposed,
MOORE. Fudge Family in Paris. Letter
Finds longues in trees, books in the
the eaglet.
xi. 1.3.
Or palmy hillock or the flowery lap
running brooks,
Ofsomeirriguous valley spread her store.
VICTOR HUGO.
Men, upon the whole,
Sermons in stones, and good in every-
L'Aiglon means the Eaglet," and there-
Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the
Are what they can be-nations, what
thing.
fore is a proper description of the son of the
rose.
SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It. Act ii.
Eagle Aigle), i. e., Napoleon himself, who
they would.
Sc. 1. 1. 15.
Another side, umbrageous grots and
transferred the imperial eagles of Rome to
E. B. BROWNING. Casa Guidi Windows.
caves
his own standard. It was Victor Hugo in
Pt. i.
On every thorn delightful wisdom grows;
this famous line who first applied the re-
In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling
spective terms to father and son.]
A people is but the attempt of many
EDWARD YOUNG. Love of Fame. Satire
vine
i.1.249.
To rise to the completer life of one;
Lays forth her purple grape and gently
NATION.
And those who live as models for the
And live like Nature's bastards, not
creeps
And hath made of one blood all
her sons.
mass
Luxuriant; meanwhile murmuring
nations of men.
MILTON. Comus. 1. 727.
Are singly of more value than they all.
waters fall
New Testament. Acts xvii. 26.
ROBERT BROWNING. Luria. Act Y,
If Nature be a phantasm, as thou say'st,
Down the slope hills dispersed, or in a
A splendid fiction and prodigious
lake,
It hath been an opinion that the
NATURE.
dream,
That to the fringed bank with myrtle
French are wiser than they seem, and
To reach the real and true I'll make no
crowned
the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
I am whatever was, or is, or will be
haste,
Her crystal mirror holds, unite their
But howsoever it be between nations,
and my veil no mortal ever took up.
More than content with worlds that
streams.
certainly it is so between man and man.
PLUTARCH. Of Isis and Osiris.
only seem.
The birds their quire apply airs, vernal
BACON. Essays. of Seeming Wise.
'Portugal.
WM. WATSON. Epigrams.
airs,
520
NATURE.
NATURE.
521
Breathing the smell of field and grove,
You cannot bar my constant feet to trace
attune
The woods and lawns, by living stream,
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
I have learned
The trembling leaves.
Exhilarate the spirit, and restore
To look on Nature, not as in the hour
at eve:
MILTON. Paradise Lost. Bk. iv. 1. 252.
Let health my nerves and finer fibres
The tone of languid Nature.
Of thoughtless youth, but hearing often-
COWPER. The Task. Bk. i. 1.187. The
times
The perfections of Nature show that
brace,
Sofa.
The still, sad music of humanity,
she is the image of God; her defects
And I their toys to the great children
show that she is only his image.
And recognizes ever and anon
Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample
leave:
PASCAL. Thoughts. Ch. xii.
Of fancy, reason, virtue, naught can me
The breeze of Nature stirring in hissoul.
power
WORDSWORTH. The Excursion. Bk. iv.
To chasten and subdue. And I have
Nature, so far as in her lies,
bereave.
1. 591.
felt
Imitates God.
LONGFELLOW. Castle of Indolence. Canto
TENNYSON. On a Mourner.
ii. St. 3.
As in the eye of Nature he has lived,
A presence that disturbs me with the
So in the eye of Nature let him die
joy
But who can paint
The course of Nature is the art of God.
Ibid. The Old Cumberland Beggar. Last
Of elevated thoughts a sense sublime
Like Nature? Can Imagination boast,
YOUNG. Night Thoughts. Nightix 1267.
lines.
Of something far more deeply inter-
Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
(See under ART.)
Vain is the glory of the sky,
fused,
Or can it mix them with that matchless
skill,
All are but parts of one stupendous
The beauty vain of field and grove,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting
whole,
Unless, while with admiring eye
suns,
And lose them in each other, as appears
In every bud that blows?
Whose body Nature is, and God the
We gaze, we also learn to love.
And the round ocean, and the living
soul.
Itid. Poems of the Fancy. xxiii.
air,
THOMSON. The Seasons. Spring. 1. 466.
POPE. Essay on Man. Epistle i. 1. 267.
And the blue sky, and in the mind of
Oh, what a glory doth this world put on
One impulse from a vernal wood
man;
For him who, with a fervent heart, goes
Slave to no sect, who takes no private
May teach you more of man,
A motion and a spirit, that impels
forth
road,
Of moral evil and of good,
All thinking things, all objects of all
Under the bright and glorious sky, and
But looks through nature up to nature's
Than all the sages can.
Ibid. The Tables Turned. St. 6.
thought,
looks
God.
And rolls through all things. There-
On duties well performed and days well
Ibid. Essay on Man. Epistle iv. 1. 331.
The soft blue sky did never melt
fore am I still
spent !'
Ever charming, ever new,
Into his heart ; he never felt
A lover of the meadows and the woods,
For him the wind, ay, and the yellow
When will the landscape tire the view
The witchery of the soft blue sky
And mountains; and of all that we
leaves,
JOHN DYER. Grongar Hill. 1. 102.
Ibid. Peter Bell. Pt. i. St. 15.
behold
Shall have a voice, and give him elo-
From this green earth; of all the mighty
quent teachings.
My banks they are furnish'd with bees,
On a fair prospect some have looked,
world
He shall so hear the solemn hymn that
Whose murmur invites one to sleep;
And felt, as I have heard them say,
Of eye and ear, both what they half
death
My grottoes are shaded with trees,
As if the moving time had been
create,
Has lifted up for all, that he shall go
And my hills are white over with
A thing as steadfast as the scene
And what they perceive; well pleased
To his long resting-place without a tear.
sheep.
On which they gazed themselvesaway.
to recognize
SHENSTONE. Is Pastoral Ballad. Pt. ii.
Ibid. Peter Bell. Pt. i. St. 16.
LONGFELLOW. lines. Autumn. Concluding
In nature and the language of the sense,
Hope.
As if the man had fixed his face,
The anchor of my purest thoughts, the
Nature great parent ! whose unceasing
The throssil whusslit in the wood,
In many a solitary place,
nurse,
hand
The burn sang to the trees,
Against the wind and open sky !
The guide, the guardian of my heart,
Rolls round the seasons of the changeful
And we with Nature's heart in tune,
Ibid. Peter Bell. Pt. i. St. 26.
and soul
year;
Concerted harmonies;
Of all my moral being.
How mighty, how majestic are thy
And on the knowe abune the burn,
The sounding cataract
WORDSWORTH. Lines on Tintern Abbey. 1.
Haunted me like a passion: the tall
88.
works !
For hours thegither sat
With what a pleasing dread they swell
In the silentness o' joy, till baith
rock,
the soul
Wi' very gladness grat.
The mountain, and the deep and gloomy
To him who in the love of Nature
That sees astonish'd, and astonish'd
WILLIAM MOTHERWELL. Jeanie Morrison.
wood,
holds
St. 8.
Their colours and their forms, were then
Communion with her visible forms, she
sings
THOMSON. The Seasons. Winter. 1. 106.
Nature, exerting an unwearied power,
to me
speaks
Forms, opens, and gives scent to every
An appetite; a feeling and a love,
A various language for his gayer hours
I care not, Fortune, what you me deny:
That had no need of a remoter charm,
You cannot rob me of free Nature's
flower;
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
Spreads the fresh verdure of the field.
By thought supplied, nor any interest
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
grace;
and leads
Unborrowed from the eye.-That time
Into his darker musings, with a mild
You cannot shut the windows of the sky
Through which Aurora shows her
The dancing Naiads through the dewy
is past,
And healing sympathy that steals away
meads.
And all its aching joys are now no more,
Their sharpness ere he is aware.
brightening face;
And all its dizzy raptures.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. Thanatopsis.
COWPER. Table Talk. Bk. i. 1. 690.
Ibid. Lines on Tintern Abbey. 1. 76.
1.1.
522
NAVY.
523
NATURE, HUMAN.
For alt that Nature by her mother-wit¹
Leontes. How sometimes Nature will
Go forth under the open sky, and list
The never idle workshop of Nature.
To Nature's teachings.
Could frame in earth.
betray its folly,
MATTHEW ARNOLD. Elegiac Poems. Epi-
SPENSER. Faerie Queene. Bk. iv. Canto
Its tenderness, and make itself a pas-
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. Thanatopsis.
logue.
1. 14.
X. St. 21.
time
The hills
I strove with none, for none was worth
To harder bosoms!
Rocked-ribbed and ancient as the sun,-
my strife;
To man the earth seems altogether
SHAKESPEARE. Winter's Tale. Act i. Sc.
the vales
Nature I loved; and next to Nature,
No more a mother, but a step-dame
2. 1. 151.
Stretching in pensive quietness between
Art.
rather.
Soothsayer. In Nature's infinite book
I warm'd both hands against the fire of
Du BARTAS. Divine Weekes and Workes.
The venerable woods-rivers that move
life;
First week, third day.
of secrecy
In majesty, and the complaining brooks
A little I can read.
That make the meadows green ; and,
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
It is far from easy to determine whether
Ibid. Antony and Cleopatra. Act i. Sc.
LANDOR. Dying Speech of an Old Philos-
she [Nature] has proved to him a kind par-
2. 1. 8.
poured round all,
opher.
ent or a merciless stepmother.
Old Ocean's gray and melancholy
PLINY THE ELDER. Natural History. Bk.
Accuse not Nature, she hath done her
waste,-
NATURE, HUMAN.
vii. Sec. 1.
part;
Are but the solemn decorations all
Do thou but thine!
Of the great tomb of man.
Let us a little permit Nature to take
her own way; she better understands
Ulysses. One touch of Nature makes
MILTON. Paradise Lost. Bk. viii. 1. 561.
Ibid. Thanatopsis. 37.
the whole world kin,
Art may err, but nature cannot miss.
her own affairs than we.
But on and up, where Nature's heart
MONTAIGNE. Essays. Bk. iii. Ch. xiii.
That all, with one consent, praise new-
DRYDEN. The Cock and Fox. 1. 452.
Beats strong amid the hills.
Of Experience.
born gawds,
To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES (Lord Hough-
ton). Tragedy of the Lac de Gaube. St. 2.
The book of Nature is that which the
Though they are made and moulded
One native charm, than all the gloss of
physician must read; and to do so he must
of things past,
art.
Nature which is the time-vesture of
walk over the leaves.
And give to dust, that is a little gilt,
GOLDSMITH. Deserted Village. 1. 253.
God, and reveals Him to the wise, hides
PARACELSUS.
(See Encyclopædia Britannica, ninth edi-
More laud than gilt o'er-dusted;
(See under ART.)
Him from the foolish.
tion, vol. xviii., p. 234.)
The present eye praises the present
Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,
CARLYLE. Sartor Resartus. Bk. iii. Ch.
That's a' the learning I desire.
viii.
Let them learn to be wise by easier means,
SHAKESPEARE. object. Troilus and Cressida. Act
BURNS. Epistle to L. J. Sapraik. Epistle
let them observe the hind of the forest and
1. St. 13.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is
the linnet of the grove, let them consider
iii. Sc. 3. 1. 175.
always and never the same.
the life of animals, whose motions are reg-
Nothing in nature, much, less conscious
[The first line is constantly misinterpreted.
EMERSON. Essays. First Series. History.
ulated by instinct: they obey their guide
and are happy. Let us, therefore, at length,
As the context shows, it does not mean that
being,
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave
cease to dispute and learn to live;
and
common sympathy is stirred by a revela-
Was e'er created solely for itself.
One scent to hyssop and to wall-flower,
carry with us this simple and intelligible
tion of a common humanity, but that one
YOUNG. Night Thoughts. Night ix. 1. 711.
One sound to pine-groves and to water
maxim, that deviation from Nature is de-
passion (i. e., one touch of nature) common
One aspect to the desert and the lake.
viation from happiness.
to everybody is love of novelty.]
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is
It was her stern necessity; all things
DR. JOHNSON. Rasselas. Ch. xxii.
not physically impossible.
Are flower. of one pattern made; bird, beast, and
All argument will vanish before one touch
R. B. SHERIDAN. The Critic. Act ii.
So Wordsworth says of the birds:
of nature.
Sc. 1.
Song, picture, form, space, thought, and
With Nature never do they wage
COLMAN. The Poor Gentleman. Act V.
character
A foolish strife they see
Sc. 1.
Nature dusin aheavenly mould.
Deceive us, seeming to be many things,
A happy youth, and their old age
CAMPBELL. Pleasures of Hope. Pt. i. 1.
And are but one.
Is beautiful and free
Some touch of Nature's genial glow.
498.
Ibid. Xenophones.
The Fountain. St. 11.
SCOTT. Lord of the Isles. Canto iii. St.
Nature never did betray
I thought the sparrow's note from
Nunquam aliud Natura aliud Sapien-
14.
The heart that loved her.
heaven,
tia dicit.
Wolsey. And Nature does require
WORDSWORTH. Lines composed a few
Singing at dawn on the alder bough;
miles above Tintern Abbey. 1. 123.
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom
Her times of preservation, which per-
I brought him home, in his nest, at
another.
force
True fiction hath an higher end, and
even:
JUVENAL. Satiræ. xiv. 321.
I, her frail son, amongst my brethren
scope
He sings the song, but it cheers not now,
Naturam expellas furcâ, tamen usque
mortal,
Wider than fact; it is nature's possible,
For I did not bring home the river and
recurret.
Must give my tendance to.
Contrasted with life's actual mean.
sky;
He sang to my ear,-they sang to my
You may turn Nature out of doors
SHAKESPEARE. Henry VIII. Act Sc.
P. J. BAILEY. Festus. Proem.
2. 1. 147.
eye.
with a pitchfork, but she will still re-
NAVY.
Ibid. Each and All. 1. 13.
turn.
Belarius. How hard it is to hide the
Ships,
HORACE. Epistolæ. Bk. i. Ep. 10. 1. 24.
For what are they all in their high
[Destouches imitates this line in his Glo-
sparks of Nature!
Fraught with the ministers and instru-
conceit,
rieux, 3, 5:
Ibid. Cymbeline. Act iii. Sc. 3. 1. 79.
ments
When man in the bush with God may
Je ne le sais que trop:
Chassez le naturel, il revient au galop.
From jigging veins of rhyming mother-
Of cruel war.
meet
wits.
SHAKESPEARE. Troilus and Cressida.
Ibid. Good-bye. Concluding lines.
I know it only too well: drive out the
MARLOWE. Prologue to Tumberlane.
Prologue. 1.3.
natural, it returns in a gallop.]
bankers, lovers: one by one, each steps forward to
formation the characters would not normally give
deliver his or her load of fear, shame or arrogance.
themselves or one another. Nevertheless, the writ-
They scorn, excuse or revile themselves and one
ing bears the stamp of one of the most genuinely
only
another. Some are weak, some are vain, some unin-
high-minded men of letters this century has
produced, and the words spoken on those terraces
L.B.
telligent; all are greedy.
Most unnerving to an American reader today
above the Rhine remain memorable long after the
are the elements of identity that form Boll's char-
book has been laid down.
hav
ha
First Lady of the Highways
Mrs. Johnso
in judging tl
friends - notably Mary Lasker, Brooke Astor,
fication Act
LADY BIRD JOHNSON
Laurance Rockefeller and Stephen Currier, who
compromise
AND THE ENVIRONMENT
was married to a member of the Mellon family.
nificant le
There were no impact laws to quantify local en-
By Lewis L. Gould.
ment" havin
vironmental quality, or its absence. The Federal in-
more was to
Illustrated. 312 pp. Lawrence:
frastructure that today permeates environmental
University Press of Kansas. $29.95.
ing to Texas
affairs was still to come. Mrs. Johnson's early ob-
National W
servations were criticized as personal; her impres-
Center near
By Grady Clay
sions and anecdotal evidence were to be listened to
In the Whit
politely. of course, but were not to be seriously con-
son had ben
sidered. Even within the Johnson White House it-
out attempti
ADY BIRD JOHNSON, the wife of one of the
L
self, chauvinism prevailed.
ample set by
most intensely and personally political of
The placement of the Hirshhorn Museum on
the first g
our Presidents, spent much of her married
the Mall in Washington is и case in point. During the
Lady. Con
life in a national capital city still dominated
early 1960's, the wealthy art collector Joseph Hirsh-
glamorous R
by a white male power structure where "policy
horn's efforts to find a home for his collection in Los
line Kenned
matters were appropriately a preeminently male
Angeles, London and New York had stalled. S. Dil-
legislatively
preserve." Not until after the Johnson Administra-
lon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institu-
later accor
tion did custom, law and practice begin to trans-
tion, saw a chance to entice Hirshhorn and his mu-
Nixon, Ford
form the role of women high and low, in and out of
seum to the Mall in Washington through Mrs. John-
White hou
power, in and out of Washington.
son's access to the President. There followed an ex-
broadened f
The politics of the environment, as Mrs. John-
tended sociopolitical courtship: overtures through
tial role of F
son began to practice it in the White House In 1964
friends, invitations to the White House ("a little
In a blog
and 1965, though restricted by the umbrella label
time to ourselves just to see the paintings of the
traditional y
"Natural Beauty," was still a highly personal mut-
White House," wrote Mrs. Johnson, "before the
is no Grand
ter. As Lewis L. Gould, a historian at the University
other luncheon guests arrived"). The President as-
new interp
of Texas, Austin, says in "Lady Bird Johnson and
sured Hirshhorn, "you don't need a contract. Just
speculations
the Environment," success, if it was to come in her
turn the collection over to the Smithsonian and I'll
mountainou
long-term campaign, would depend heavily on her
take care of the rest."
which the au
own persistence and personal contacts as well as
But Hirshhorn, not taken In, specified that the
It is an adr
contributions to her ventures from private funds.
museum must "bear my name in perpetuity."
serious his
There were her own monies, enlarged from the
There should be 11 contract - an act of Congress.
scholars and
early inheritance that had financed the Johnsons'
Mrs. Johnson visited the Hirshhorns at home and
footing for (
ownership of KTBC-TV in Austin, Tex., an im-
performed an act of contrition: "I really know noth-
tions.
mensely profitable venture. And there were rich
ing about art. I'm prepared to learn." As Mr. Gould
If the Pr
comments, she kept well polished her "understand-
role-model
Grady Clay, the author of "Right Before Your
Ing. gained first in East Texas, that men became
come an Of
Eyes: Interpreting the Urban Environment," edited
uncomfortable with women whose intelligence and
stitutional 9
Landscape Architecture magazine during the
learning equaled or exceeded their own." Congress
companying
Johnson Adminis:ration and was a panel chairman
acted in 1966, the ground-breaking for the Hirsh-
will have
at the 1965 White House Conference on Natural
horn Museum took place in 1969 just before the
smoothing t
leday
Beauty.
Johnsons vacated the White House, the dedication
lectual
In Short
"Why
Schwa
town I
and pr
the setting, a town called Beacon, is actually Berkeley.
sights
The French influences are there, among others. In fact,
benefe
THE CORMORANT. By Stephen
the novel is very much a lesson in the conflict between
Bachr
Gregory. (St. Martin's, $13.95.) It
would be very easy and very
la raison and la passion, and the basic situation that of
"The Plague" and "Man's Fate" - a small band of ordi-
wrong to simplify the horror
Stephen Gregory creates in this
nary folks fighting a probably losing battle against
strong first novel. "The
overwhelming evil. Beacon's officials are psychopathic
totalitarians masquerading as idealists. They want to
longings that compel
EVERYONE'S R
a lawyer and a
class, is in love with
came five years later.
ommunist. They have
CHARLES MCCARR
Mr. Gould details in similar
refuses to marry
fashion Mrs. Johnson's struggles
her son to inherit
to improve the visible environ-
his father, the Count,
ment in the man's world of
that occupies the
"Extraordinary
Washington. During her hus-
is Eva Plint, Karl's
band's years as congressman,
long soliloquy pro-
senator, Vice President and
in the church any
President - 1943-68 - beauty
"Gripping" "Glowing
the loss of its heal-
religion and aristo-
was tolerated if not denigrated
he characters to an
by powerful congressmen and
"THE BRIDE OF THE WILDERNESS is a won-
make "Women in a
the mostly male Federal estab-
derful novel-rich and romantic, exciting and
novel of the 1930's. It
lishment. It was "probably the
enlightening. I didn't want it to end."
might be drawing on
only subject that LBJ would
-Peter Benchley
men still talk about
have let her [Mrs. Johnson] han-
suffer romantically
dle without jealousy," observed a
longtime associate, Nancy Dick-
"A book of extraordinary brilliance which
erson.
Charles McCarry seems to have brought forth,
ecialty of Böll's. He is
as the ultimate wit-
For Mrs. Johnson, beautifica-
fully grown, alive and powerful, from the 18th
century itself."
-John Gardner
- but this is, in
tion slowly acquired the broader
environmental overtones that
sentiment, not a con-
conform entirely to
fully emerged from the back-
"McCarry's new novel is astonishing
As
his
ground in the 1970's. She contin-
are creatures of
espionage novels have so amply demonstrated,
he men of pride and
ued her skillful appearances at
he is one of the great storytellers alive today
to not know any more
ground-breakings, courted the
THE BRIDE OF THE WILDERNESS brings the
do not command
press, gave women reporters a
smell, breath, textures and light of 17th cen-
newsworthy beat to cover. Her
tury England and 18th century America as viv-
cape" is burdened by
biographer agrees with many of
idly alive as if one had encountered them only
moments before
in dialogue. The
It is engrossing. enthralling
and real."
-Roderick MacLeish
ugh, but the prose is
must be given in-
not normally give
Beauty was the
"A gripping and unusual adventure story-as
vertheless, the writ-
his spy novels are His characters are splen-
the most genuinely
only subject
didly and convincingly original."
this century has
-Santha Rama Rau
on those terraces
L.B.J. would
orable long after the
have let her
handle.
Mrs. Johnson's contemporaries
Brooke Astor,
in judging the Highway Beauti-
fication Act of 1965, with all its
tephen Currier, who
Mellon family.
compromises, as "the most sig-
nificant legislative achieve-
to quantify local en-
The Federal in-
ment" having her support. But
more was to come: after return-
environmental
ing to Texas, she established the
Johnson's early ob-
National Wildflower Research
personal; her impres-
Center near Austin.
were to be listened to
to be seriously con-
In the White House, Mrs. John-
White House it-
son had benefited from - with-
B
out attempting to copy - the ex-
rshhorn Museum on
ample set by Eleanor Roosevelt,
the first great activist First
in point. During the
llector Joseph Hirsh-
Lady. Compared with her
CHARLES
his collection in Los
glamorous predecessor, Jacque-
had stalled. S. Dil-
line Kennedy, and with the less
Smithsonian Institu-
legislatively astute wives who
irshhorn and his mu-
later accompanied Presidents
through Mrs. John-
Nixon, Ford and Reagan into the
There followed an ex-
White house, Mrs. Johnson
overtures through
broadened for all time the poten-
House ("a little
tial role of First Lady.
the paintings of the
In a biography such as this
ohnson, "before the
traditional values prevail. There
The President no.
is no Grand Theme, no soaring
ey do not command
press, gave women reporters a
smell, breath, textures and light of 17th cen-
newsworthy beat to cover. Her
tury England and 18th century America as viv-
cape">is burdened by
biographer agrees with many of
idly alive as if one had encountered them only
moments before
ovel in dialogue. The
It is engrossing. enthralling
and real."
-Roderick MacLeish
ugh, but the prose is
er must be given in-
Id not normally give
Beauty was the
"A gripping and unusual adventure story-as
vertheless, the writ-
his spy novels are
His characters are splen-
the most genuinely
only subject
didly and convincingly original."
this century has
-Santha Rama Rau
en on those terraces
L.B.J. would
orable long after the
have let her
handle.
ays
BRID
Mrs. Johnson's contemporaries
in judging the Highway Beauti-
sker, Brooke Astor,
fication Act of 1965, with all its
tephen Currier, who
he Mellon family.
compromises, as "the most sig-
nificant legislative achieve-
'S to quantify local en-
.ence. The Federal in-
ment" having her support. But
more was to come: after return-
eates environmental
ing to Texas, she established the
i. Johnson's early ob-
National Wildflower Research
WILDEI
personal; her impres-
Center near Austin.
were to be listened to
In the White House, Mrs. John-
" to be seriously con-
son had benefited from - with-
nson White House it-
BY
out attempting to copy - the ex-
rshhorn Museum on
ample set by Eleanor Roosevelt,
the first great activist First
se in point. During the
Lady. Compared with her
illector Joseph Hirsh-
CHARLES
ir his collection in Los
glamorous predecessor, Jacque-
rk had stalled. S. Dil-
line Kennedy, and with the less
Smithsonian Institu-
legislatively astute wives who
irshhorn and his mu-
later accompanied Presidents
in through Mrs. John-
Nixon, Ford and Reagan into the
White house, Mrs. Johnson
There followed an ex-
p: overtures through
broadened for all time the poten-
hite House ("a little
tial role of First Lady.
the paintings of the
In a blography such as this
fohnson, "before the
traditional values prevail. There
"). The President as-
is no Grand Theme, no soaring
need a contract. Just
new interpretation and few
Smithsonian and I'll
speculations distilled from the
mountainous documentation to
which the author had access. Yet
in, specified that the
it is an admirable venture into
ame in perpetuity."
an act of Congress.
serious history, giving future
hhorns at home and
scholars and First Ladies a firm
"I really know noth-
footing for their own interpreta-
tions.
learn." As Mr. Gould
hed her "understand-
If the Presidential spouse as
role-model should In time be-
IS, that men became
come an Office Holder, with con-
hose Intelligence and
their own." Congress
stitutional or other powers ac-
aking for the Hirsh-
companying, Lady Bird Johnson
1969 just before the
will have played her part in
louse, the dedication
smoothing the way.
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lectual who suffers from alcoholism and depression.
"Why Is There Salt in the Sea?" is best when Ms.
Schwalger is describing the claustrophobia of small-
town Roman Catholic Austria, with its rigid customs
Awake and Sculpt
and prohibitions. At rare but glowing moments, her in-
actually Berkeley.
It is difficult to envision a
sights can even match the standards set by her literary
others In
stranger scenario for the
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LADIES
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In a unique joint
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coincide with a major
conference on Women
and the Constitution,
Lady Bird Johnson,
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animatedly about their
own experiences as
women-and their
hopes and dreams
for the rest of us
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t Good Housekeep-
ing's request (and
Mrs. Johnson's gracious invi-
tation), the interview took
place at the LBJ Ranch, near
Austin, Texas, in the sunny,
pleasant room that used to be
Lyndon Johnson's office.
There, moderator Sarah Wed-
dington met with Mrs. Carter,
Mrs. Ford, and Mrs. Johnson
for an informal preview of the
continued on page 168
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intimate personal conduct of
candidates for public office.
As First Lady you
Just what do you consider
criticized for sitt
"fair game" in reporting on
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a candidate's private life?
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Betty Ford: My first reaction was,
BF: Well, you'll never be out of work!
continued from page 112
"Who are we going to talk about, Betsy
RC: And at The Carter Center we have
Ross?" There were not that many wom-
all kinds of things going on. For in-
conference to be held in Atlanta on
en involved in the Constitution. But
stance, we study the causes of unneces-
February 10-12-and for a catch-up on
being interested in women's issues, I
their own lives.
sary sickness. We developed a health-
was immediately attracted to it. We
risk appraisal with the Centers for
The conference, entitled "Women
should certainly be looking at the place
and the Constitution: A Bicentennial
Disease Control, which a person can
of women within the Constitution.
Perspective," is in the form of a sympo-
take to learn to extend one's life. By the
sium open to anyone interested in the
SW: And Mrs. Johnson?
way, anyone can get a copy of the
subject, as well as to scholars and
Lady Bird Johnson: I thought, "This is a
appraisal by just writing to the Carter
place to learn a lot!"
Presidential Center or The Carter Cen-
policy makers and is co-convened by
the four former First Ladies and spon-
RC: Sarah, I wanted to be sure the
ter, Atlanta, Ga. We hope people will
sored by The Carter Center of Emory
conference did not turn into just a
write for it because we're trying to
University, Georgia State University,
protest because women were not in the
encourage preventive health.
and The Jimmy Carter Library.
Constitution. We named it "Women
Sarah Weddington: We are all so
and the Constitution" because the sub-
SW: Mrs. Ford, you've spoken out on
pleased to be here, Mrs. Johnson, and
ject of constitutional rights is so broad.
several major issues and have become
a heroine to many people. What
to have been taken on the tour of what
SW: I think of Abigail Adams who,
are the issues that you're speaking out
you call your "own Serengeti"-the
before the Constitution was written,
on now?
750 acres of the LBJ Ranch. Now, Mrs
said to her husband, John, "Please
BF: Today the majority of my time is
Carter, tell us about the conference
remember the ladies.' He didn t-and I
spent as a director and president of the
coming up at The Carter Center
hope he got in trouble when he got
Betty Ford Center, a treatment center
Rosalynn Carter: It's really exciting.
home! But she began a tradition of First
for people addicted to alcohol or drugs.
We are looking at the influence of wom
Ladies who have spoken out on issues
This, of course, came about through a
en on the Constitution and the impact of
they deeply care about. What are your
lot of fund-raising, plus my own recov-
the Constitution on women. Justice
interests now?
ery from a dependency on drugs and
Sandra Day 'Connor is going to be our
RC: I'm very involved in preparation
alcohol.
keynote speaker; and Coretta King,
for this conference. My other interests
I'm also working with the American
Barbara Jordan, and Geraldine Ferraro
include mental-health issues and Habi-
Cancer Society on cancer prevention
are all going to speak. The material we
tat for Humanity, a program to build
and early detection of breast cancer.
collect is going to the National Archives
houses for poor people in need.
And an issue I think will always be
and will be available to the public.
primary in my interests is the passage of
SW: I always see the President pictured
SW: Mrs. Ford, when Mrs. Carter
the Equal Rights Amendment. I do not
with his hammer. Do you and he really
called and invited you, what was your
build?
believe we will have true equality for
reaction to the idea?
women until that amendment is in the
RC: Of course: I'm a good carpenter!
Constitution:
168
SW: Mrs. Johnson, what comes to mind in talking about
things you're involved in is the environment and the
preservation of wildflowers.
LBJ: Yes. My heart has always responded to the environ-
ment. When I got to be 701 thought, I'm going to take time
to do what I really yearn to do, and that is work with native
plants, wildflowers, and trees, and encourage their use in
the nation's landscape so they won't just be something of
the past but will be passed on to our grandchildren.
SW: I am grateful to you almost every day when I walk the
hike and bike trail in Austin because it reminds me of all
you've done. And when I see women joggers there it
reminds me of the real life-style changes that have
happened for women since the times of the Constitution.
What evidence do you see of that change in the expecta-
tions of your daughters and your granddaughters?
LBJ: My daughter, Lynda, certainly, is passionately
interested in women's rights; to her it's a fighting cause.
I will tell you one funny little story about Lynda. When
Goodn
Chuck, her husband, started law school, she applied for a
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charge account at a department store and was told she
needed her husband's signature-even though she had a
job and he didn't!
But I think the granddaughters just take their rights
more as a matter of course and think they can do anything
or enter any profession that they qualify for. They're very
much at home in a new world.
You know, young folks just think, "The world began
with me." For instance, when we were putting up the
exhibit on civil rights in the LBJ Library, I wanted to put
up some of those signs from the old southern depots and
water fountains that said, WHITES ONLY. Nobody remem-
bers that!
RC: I do think the current generation now takes for
granted certain rights that we have and are not particularly
interested in the women's movement.
SW: Mrs. Carter, when your daughter, Amy, was inter-
viewed for Good Housekeeping last fall, she said, "My
[feminist] philosophy is probably similar to my Mom's; it
just manifests itself in different ways." Is that true?
RC: Ever since Amy's been in the world, I've been
campaigning, working on women's issues, so I think that
What
our values would be the same. She's a little more ad-
vanced in her feminism, maybe-and I don't mean she's
more for women's rights; I mean she knows more about it
because she's had courses in women's studies at college.
She told somebody the other day that her women's studies
helped her with the men in her life. I want to talk to her
about that and see how it helps!
SW: Just think, not so long after the Constitution passed,
women were told by the Supreme Court they had no
business being lawyers. Today we have a woman on the
Supreme Court. What do you see as the forces that have
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caused these changes?
RC: I think they evolved sometimes out of necessity.
Don't you think the war caused a lot of it? Men went off to
war and women had to work.
LBJ: They needed us, and so we went to work.
RC: That's right. I think it also evolved out of the need to
have two incomes in the family. And, with seeing that it is
possible to raise a family and to carry on outside activities,
women just began to realize their potential.
When I got married, I never dreamed I would work.
Then, when we came home to Plains from the Navy, I
went down to the peanut warehouse to answer the
telephone for Jimmy, and it evolved into a full-time job.
LBJ: Remember, too, that technology has freed us from a
lot of things.
SW: Mrs. Johnson, you've already alluded to the civil-
rights movement. The Johnson administration, because of
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the civil-rights administration. You've said a train ride you
took as First Lady "was the most dramatic four days in
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LBJ: It was a "whistle-stop train" ride through the South.
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Southern senator for ajoke to say it would apply to women
as well) has been the foundation for law and cases that
have benefited women.
President Johnson, though, was sometimes thought of
as a macho personality and you yourself, I think, have said
it was sometimes difficult to get him to listen to women.
And yet he backed the ERA.
LBJ: No, it wasn't really difficult for him to listen to
women, because he had a deep respect for them, probably
stemming from his mother, who was a very smart woman.
But, on appointing women back then, it wasn't easy to get
women to shift into government when it might be for just a
four-year term.
SW: Do you think that the influence women have as
mothers is one of the key things that will lead to future
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come to share in the lives of their children in such
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tending to them when they're sick. 1 must say that none of
our friends nor certainly Lyndon did that.
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RC: I did have that cooperation from Jimmy because we
were in the Navy, away from home, when I had our first
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leave and spent the first two weeks I was at home taking
new taste appeal. We've put the crisp
care of the baby-bathing him, fixing formula.
in oatmeal, that's what we've done.
SW: Mrs. Carter, as First Lady you were widely criticized
for sitting in on Cabinet meetings and generally going
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SW: There must have been times you
then obviously select a job in a place
thing
in
our
minds
had some conflicts on issues, though.
that we see for
where day care is provided.
BF: Quite often
There
young people unlimited opportunities
was
the
appointment of the Supreme Court Jus-
and that they not have a struggle be-
SW: When I think of women going into
tice. I was very adamant that the time
cause of gender.
that world of business, I also think
was right for a woman to be appointed.
about the recent unanimous Supreme
But I was told the points didn't add up
SW: One of those struggles was for the
Court decision that said men do not
quite the right way and, of course,
right to vote, which culminated in the
have the right to associate with other
Justice Stevens was appointed. And
19th Amendment. What difference has
men exclusively in clubs where busi-
the women's vote meant?
when my husband was selecting a Vice
ness is transacted. What was your reac-
President, I thought the time [for a
RC: I think women have realized the
tion to that?
woman] was right then.
potential of that vote by organizing
BF: Well, I certainly thought the Court
around issues that are important to
made the right decision. There are pri-
SW: It turned out to be President Rea-
them. Women are running for office
vate social organizations that can limit
gan who appointed the first woman-
now. And women have banded together
themselves to either gender, male or
Sandra Day O'Connor-to the Su-
female, but when it's a civic or business
to put people out of office that they
preme Court. How far do you think
didn't think were doing a good job.
organization, there's no question that it
affirmative action should go there?
BF: On the national level there are more
should be open to both sexes.
RC: I think we have a long way to go.
women voting or registered to vote than
RC: I agree, because social clubs like
The Supreme Court has such an impact
there are men. Women now are also
Kiwanis are not social clubs solely.
on the lives of people, and I think it
participating through the power of the
They turn into business clubs, and
should more closely represent the peo-
pocketbook.
when women can't participate, they are
ple of the United States. In a choice
denied access to influential leaders.
between a well-qualified woman or a
SW: When we think of the Constitution,
LBJ: You've all said it well: If it's civic,
well-qualified minority and a well-quali-
another important area is the issue of
if it's business, women have a place
fied white man, I think that the woman
freedom of press. Lately we've seen the
there. If it's just a "for fun" thing, I
or minority should be put on the Court.
press reveal details about the intimate
think we each have a right to get togeth-
personal conduct of candidates for pub-
er as women or as men.
SW: When President Carter said he
lic office. Just what do you consider
would put a woman on the Court, was
"fair game" in reporting on a candi-
SW: To all of you: In these last 200
that your urging in part?
date's private life?
years, lots of things have happened for
RC: I don't know. Jimmy's been pretty
LBJ: The person's ability to fill the job
women-but what new rights and op-
liberal on women's issues for a long
he aspires to. We don't elect paragons.
portunities would you like to see them
time. He didn't have much choice, sur-
If they have lived 50 or 60 years, there is
obtain?
rounded by his mother, me, and Amy! I
likely to be something in their back-
RC: I think we need an Equal Rights
think a lot of men today are thinking
grounds if you probe deeply. I think to
Amendment-that's the most impor-
about opportunities for their daughters
just hunt and hunt for that incident is
tant thing we need to add to the Consti-
and that influences them a lot. I think it
tution now.
going to run a lot of good people away
did Jimmy.
from seeking office.
BF: Yes, I have lobbied and cam-
RC: I think there has to be a very
SW: Mrs. Carter, you've always said
paigned to pass the Equal Rights
Amendment.
careful balance between what the press
that you would reject an abortion for
reports about somebody and what
yourself, but that the choice ought to be
shouldn't be reported, because certain
available for others. How did you come
SW: If women had had a voice in the the
things tell a good bit about character.
to that position?
Constitution, might there have been
But then, where do you stop? The press
RC: I really believe [abortion] should be
provisions similar to the ERA?
needs to impose some voluntary stan-
a religious issue. I couldn't do it be-
LBJ: I feel sure that if women had been
dards. In the Gary Hart situation, there
cause of my religious beliefs, but who
involved, what is now embodied in the
was as much written about how the
am I to impose my feelings on someone
ERA would be in the Constitution. And
press handled that as there was about
else? Some religions are not that strict
you're right-it needs to be not just in
the incident. So they're searching.
about it. Also, the Constitution calls for
the habits of the country, but in the the
separation of church and state. How
Constitution so we won't backslide.
BF: Anyone in public office, however,
is always going to be judged on their
can you impose through law a religious
BF: Here we are, all grandmothers with
actions. And that is a part of their moral
belief on all people?
granddaughters, and I think that's a big
characteristics. If you run for public
SW: Mrs. Ford, you are perhaps the
office, I think you have to be prepared
only First Lady who supported herself
to know that the press is going to
investigate.
before she got married.
BF: I had worked, supported myself.
I've also enjoyed my role as homemak-
SW: I wonder if you all have a final few
words-a wish for the women of the
er. The career of homemaker is proba-
country?
bly one of the most fascinating and
varied careers a woman can have, as
RC: Well, my wish, as I've said, is for
hope in the future we will have both
Stephen Green-Armytage
an Equal Rights Amendment.
well as one of the most demanding. I
BF: My wish is that women will be able
male and female homemakers.
to advance into fields they never
dreamed of. They've just got to keep
SW: When we think about working
working at it.
women, we think about maternity leave
Lawyer and writer Sarah Wedding-
LBJ: Look around you-at your home-
and day care. What are your thoughts
ton, here with the three former First
town-see what you would like to
on those issues?
Ladies, was only 26 when she argued
change, enhance. And be part of it.
BF: Well, I think that pregnancy leave
the landmark Roe V. Wade case
should be allowed and the woman's job
before the U.S. Supreme Court. Lat-
SW: Mrs. Carter, the whole country
held so that she's able to come back to
er she held several important gov-
will join in learning more about these
the same job, if she's capable.
ernmental posts, including that of
issues at the Carter symposium,
But I don't think you can legislate
special assistant to President Car-
"Women and the Constitution.' Our
day care. I believe that has to be the
ter. A native Texan, she now prac-
thanks to all of you for all you have
172 choice of the individual, and she must
tices law in Austin.
done. It's really been a pleasure to be
with you.
Memorial Trees
Willow Oak (Quercus phellos)
Location,
1967 : South grounds, outside W. graden
Planted by: President Lyndon Johnson
Date: Oct , 1964
22
Comments: Planted by President Johnson. The trees
were planted for posterity.
Mrs. Johnson's family
card (from the left):
Rebekah, Nicole, Lyn
Nugent, Luci and Ian
Turpin; Chuck,
Lynda, Cindy and
Cathy Robb, Stuart
Turpin, Claudia
Nugent, Lady Bird
Johnson, Jennifer
Robb.
CATCHING UP
WITH THE
Though long out
of the spotlight,
JOHNSON
Lady Bird Johnson,
at 75, is still fighting
WOMEN
for her causes
as daughters
Lynda Bird and Luci follow in her footsteps
By Liz Carpenter
Seventy-five years of life:/Two
gled-both in the hubbub and the
grown children, two sons-in-law,/
headiness of national life (I
Four grown grandchildren and/
worked for both LBJ and Lady
Four little ones later-IChristmas
is a time for counting/Blessings of
Bird Johnson and her
a family and friends-/Bring on
the adding machines!!Merry
daughters, Luci and
Photographs from: C. Curtis (3); Frank Wolfe (1); LBJ Library (1).
И
A loving portrait-Lady
fa
Lynda Bird.
Christmas! Lady Bird
Johnson
V
So read the card that
former First Lady,
Lady Bird Johnson,
The
sent last Christmas,
Friends and family join in
and it came from her
take
caroling at the LBJ ranch.
heart.
can
I have known Lady
Bird Johnson), and in
the
Bird since 1942, and I
the private moments
have known her "two
(the girls' school gradua-
grown children,"
tions, their romances,
inne
daughters Lynda Bird
parties, their White
thei
and Luci, since they
House weddings-follow-
were born in Washing-
ed by their young hus-
so f
ton, D.C. Lyndon
bands' service in Viet-
Baines Johnson-
nam). We were still
loac
"Daddy"-was a con-
close when, in January of
gressman, at the time,
1969, the Johnsons said
Sup
my congressman. For
good-bye to Washing-
rics
nearly half a century my
ton and headed home
Pres
life has touched the
to Texas. By then the
Johnson family. More
teenage girls who had
than touched-intermin-
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THE JOHNSON WOMEN
that life has given me so much, I want to
Lynda continues the tradition of cam-
give something back."
life,
continued
paigning she began for her father.
Rea
And she smiles as her daughters echo
lived in the White House were women
"When I was four, Daddy put me up on
with babies of their own.
the sentiment. "To whom much is giv-
boo
a table and I said 'Vote for LBJ because
W
en, much is expected," says Luci. "We
Yes, the Johnson women were-and
he's the best man, she remembers.
have inherited this work ethic from our
Nug
are-one of the cornerstones of my life.
The Robbs have three daughters, two
parents," says Lynda.
Hou
Where are they now?
of whom, Lucinda and Catherine, are
Lady Bird is such an active volunteer
divo
Well, they are still active, still going
for her five-year-old National Wild-
now in college. "I relish their friendship
rem
strong. If I had to define the essence of
and their company," Lynda says. The
flower Research Center-to preserve
a So
these three women, I'd say it is love,
Robbs' third daughter, 10-year-old Jen-
the native beauty of all regions, to make
to, V
combined with a determined commit-
nifer, may be the most political of them
barren places bloom-she once startled
tion
ment to take on new adventures and
all. "She knew how to walk through
gest
translate them into public good. It is
Reb
also intense loyalty.
Whe Lady Bird is at the LBJ Ranch,
child
Lyndon Johnson made his mark on
Nug
all of us, whether you were on his staff,
which is now a National Historic Site,
vers
as I was, or in his family. He has been
vers
dead now for 15 years, but his legacy
she poses for tourists' pictures.
who
remains strong in each of the Johnson
Lu
women. They are still deeply involved
a farmer on a tractor by stopping her car
of th
in public works. To protect and im-
shopping malls, handing out ROBB-FOR-
and calling to him from his fenceline
cour
prove the environment, Lady Bird
GOVERNOR stickers when she was
that she wanted to rent his pasture of
som
started the National Wildflower Re-
four," Lynda recalls.
pink primroses from which she later
H
search Center; Lynda is a member of
harvested seed for the center.
As I mentioned, one of Lynda's main
on h
the congressional commission working
causes is infant mortality. "Few Ameri-
Her two daughters are members of
a ch
to reduce the high infant-mortality rates
cans realize we rank eighteenth in the
the wildflower committee and disciples
hom
in the U.S.; and Luci, as a member of
of their mother's admonition "to know
world in the rate of infant deaths,"
nurs
Covenant House, helps the troubled
Lynda says. "And we have the same
and enjoy the world around you."
a me
kids on the streets of Toronto.
percentage of low-weight babies as we
Over the years Lynda's time general-
Nati
"I was inoculated by Lyndon to be a
did 20 years ago."
ly has revolved around campaigning for
healt
participant, a contributor to the exciting
her husband Charles Robb, the former
To win support for this cause, she
Sh
world around me," Lady Bird says. "I
uses her influence on TV, in Congress,
governor of Virginia now running for
Hous
feel I have been so strongly fortunate,
and at the United Nations. In addition
the U.S. Senate. In this the 44-year-old
youn
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felt I was being called," Luci says.
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books for children who own none.
Luci also still takes to the political
Lady Bird's 75th year was celebrated
cause
When Luci, now 40, married Patrick
stump, campaigning for friends who are
throughout 1988 with special events in
bers.
Nugent in 1966, she was the first White
in politics. And she participates in the
Washington, D.C., one more hurrah for
two
House bride in 50 years. She and Pat
Johnson family business, specifically in
the woman who put the environment on
are
divorced 13 years later, and both have
the banking operations, serving as a
the agenda of presidents, governors,
remarried. Luci, the wife of Ian Turpin,
board member of one bank and chair-
mayors, highway departments, and on
The
a Scottish-born banker, lives in Toron-
man of the board of another.
the conscience of the country.
Jen-
to, where her husband heads an interna-
In the course of Luci's 18 visits to
"It is wonderful to be in on the
them
tional investment firm. The two youn-
Austin over the past year, she helped
creation of something, see it used, and
rough
gest of her children, Claudia and
her mother move to a new house over-
then walk away and smile at it,'' she
Rebekah, are in school there. Her older
looking Lake Austin. Lady Bird's new
says. And she is increasingly aware that
children are also in school-Lyndon
home is a gem, with a spectacular view
directing priorities gets more demand-
Nugent at Southwest Texas State Uni-
of the sunrise. On weekends Lady Bird
ing as the time dwindles.
versity, and Nicole Nugent at the Uni-
still goes to the LBJ Ranch, 67 miles
"You must start doing the things that
versity of Georgia. Ian also has a son,
away. It is now a National Historical
matter most to you and to those who are
who lives in the Cayman Islands.
Site on which she has a life estate.
dear to you," she says. So she has be-
Luci's first priority is the mothering
Tourist buses pass by, and she waves at
gun to search for more occasions to trav-
of the five children, who live in three
el with her grandchildren, or do other
-FOR-
countries, "and that in itself is an awe-
CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS
things that please her-such as watch-
was
some responsibility," she says.
Do you have a special way of cele-
ing the whales near Baja California.
Her interests have always centered
brating Christmas and the holiday
Though more and more often she
main
on health, education, and the needy. As
season that has become a tradition in
threads her conversation with a line of
meri-
a child she was the one who brought
your family? If so, please write and
poetry that has some special meaning
the
home the stray dogs and cats and
briefly describe it. We may later get
for her, "I seek to celebrate my glad
ths,"
nursed them back to health. She is also
in touch with you for a mention in
release, the tents of silence and the
same
a member of the Daughters of Charity
one of our 1989 holiday issues. Send
camp of peace," it is doubtful that she
we
National Health System, the largest
your letter to:
really means it. As 1989 dawns and the
health-care system in America.
Christmas Traditions
family again gathers to spend the holi-
she
She is a board member of Covenant
Good Housekeeping
days together at the LBJ Ranch, Lady
House, where she works to help get
959 Eighth Ave. Room 543
Bird and all the Johnson women remain
young prostitutes and drug addicts off
New York, N.Y. 10019
joyously happy at-and committed to-
of
her
the streets and off drugs. "When I first
what life has allowed them to do.
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Statement on Signing the Bill Ensuring
Remarks on Signing Environmental
the Applicability of Patent Law to
Protection, Research, and Education
ial
vast and unique eco
Activities in Outer Space
Bills
legislation confirmin
November 15, 1990
November 16, 1990
build a sound res
global climate chang
Today I am signing S. 459, legislation that
First, a warm welcome to the Members of
And finally, the
will ensure the applicability of U.S. patent
Congress who are with us today. And I am
awareness, giving
laws to our activities in outer space. This
delighted to see Secretary Lujan and our
teach our kids about
important and necessary legislation will
Administrator, Bill Reilly, with us; Mike
servation through
remedy the current uncertainty in patent
Deland of the Council; John Knauss, the
law as to the jurisdiction that applies to ac-
mental Education Ac
head of NOAA; and other distinguished
tivities in outer space. This uncertainty
Early in this cen!
guests. I want to just say, What a beautiful
arises primarily because the existing patent
ronmental Presiden
day, and a warm welcome to the White
laws of most countries generally have no
said that children sl
House.
extraterritorial effect.
and enjoy what he
S. 459 will specifically ensure that U.S.
We're here beside Lady Bird Johnson's
of nature because he
patent laws apply to inventions made, used,
tree, a willow oak planted in 1964. And
ronment belongs no
or sold in space on vehicles under the juris-
Lady Bird once said she wants to be re-
tion but to the next
diction or control of the United States. The
membered as one who planted trees. And
You're never to
Act is consistent with the purpose of our
when I look out at the oak from the Oval
learn about the won
patent laws-to promote the progress of sci-
Office window right here, at this magnifi-
us long in the tooth
ence and useful arts. With the enactment of
cent oak on a beautiful fall day such as this,
I understand Lady Bird and her advice to
of splendor one fee
this legislation, U.S. commercial entities will
"know and enjoy the world around you."
we love to see the
know that their activities in space will re-
the moment they I
ceive the same patent protection that they
Yesterday I signed into law the clean air
terfall or a botton
would receive if conducted on Earth. The
act of 1990, the centerpiece of our commit-
certainty that inventions that advance space
ment to preserve and protect our environ-
real, live, dangerou
technology will be recognized under our
ment. It makes our air pollution laws, al-
we had here yester
ready the world's toughest, even tougher.
These bills I'm
patent laws will further encourage the pri-
vate sector to undertake commercial space
This year's clean air act is the most signifi-
what the future wi'
ventures, which is one of the important ob-
cant air pollution legislation in American
that is why our
jectives of our National Space Policy.
history, and it restores America's place as
forward-looking-t
This legislation is also important because
the global leader in environmental protec-
and the generation
it represents the final step required in im-
tion.
it is with them it
plementation of the Intergovernmental
Our agenda for the environment is broad
inherit this steward
Agreement on Space Station Cooperation
and ambitious, one that encompasses not
to sign these eight
between the United States and our interna-
just the air we breathe but also verdant
And I would like
tional partners-Canada, Japan, and the Eu-
forests and grassy meadows, majestic rivers
bers of Congress "
ropean Space Agency. The Act provides the
and lakes, and pristine coastal shorelines.
would come up he
flexibility required to carry out commit-
Clearly, all of us must work together to pre-
Secretaries come 0
ments regarding the applicability of U.S.
serve America's natural beauty.
you guys come her
patent laws under the Agreement for the
Several bills that I am signing this morn-
over with. And the
development, operation, and utilization of
ing will protect some of the most precious
the White House
Space Station Freedom.
expanses of America, from the sands of the
spectacularly beaut
George Bush
Mojave Desert to the undersea landscapes
of the Purple Isles of the Florida Keys to
Note: The Presider
The White House,
the broad waters of the Great Lakes and
the South Lawn
November 15, 1990.
Lake Champlain. One of the bills creates
remarks, he referr
the National Forest Foundation, establishes
terior Manuel Luje
Note: S. 459, approved November 15, was
two new wildlife refuges, and strengthens
Administrator of
assigned Public Law No. 101-580. The
marine research programs and environmen-
tion Agency; Mich
statement was released by the Office of the
tal law enforcement.
a
of the Council of
Press Secretary on November 16. The origi-
And we've not neglected our global re-n on,
and John A. Kn.
nal was not available for verification of the
sponsibilities. Today I will sign legislation ired
on Commerce for On
content of this statement.
enhancing the preservation of Antarctica's
of Administrator of
mospheric Admin
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Administration of George Bush, 1990 / Nov. 16
ental
cation
vast and unique ecosystem, and I will sign
Statement on Signing the Bill
1959
legislation confirming our commitment to
Designating Florida Keys Coastal
Anybuild a sound research base regarding
Waters'a a National Marine Sanctuary
embers of
global climate change.
November 16, 1990
And I am
And finally, there is environmental
and our
On Earth Day of this year, I stated that
awareness, giving teachers the tools to
"the Florida coral reefs are one of the most
us; Mike
teach our kids about the importance of con-
THISS, the
diverse ecosystems in the world and a
servation through the National Environ-
inguished
unique national treasure. Protecting the
mental Education Act.
beautiful
reefs from damage, both from vessel
he White
Early in this century, the original envi-
groundings and pollution, is imperative."
ronmental President, Theodore Roosevelt,
Today I take great pleasure in signing H.R.
said that children should be taught to read
5909-a bill that designates 2,600 square
Johnson's
)6-1. And
and enjoy what he called the wonder book
nautical miles of coastal waters off the Flori-
to be re-
of nature because he believed that our envi-
da Keys as our Nation's ninth national
ronment belongs not only to today's genera-
marine sanctuary. The new Florida Keys
ees. And
the Oval
tion but to the next generation as well.
National Marine Sanctuary covers the entire
You're never too young or too old to
Florida reef tract, as well as part of one of
magnifi-
learn about the wonders of nature. Those of
America's favorite fishing areas, the Florida
h as this,
advice to
us long in the tooth never tire of that sense
Bay "backcountry."
nd you."
of splendor one feels in the outdoors, and
National marine sanctuaries should only
we love to see the wide eyes of a child at
be designated after adherence to the com-
clean air
the moment they first see a cascading wa-
prehensive evaluation and designation pro-
commit-
terfall or a bottomless canyon or even a
cedures set forth in the Marine Protection,
environ-
laws, al-
real, live, dangerous animal, like the turkey
Research, and Sanctuaries Act (the "Act") of
tougher.
we had here yesterday. [Laughter]
1972. Department of Commerce studies
.t signifi-
These bills I'm about to sign are about
supporting designation of a Florida Keys
National Marine Sanctuary, however, justify
merican
In swhat the future will hold for our kids. And
place as
hat +'that is why our environmental agenda is
bypassing part of the usual process in this
instance.
I protec-
forward-looking-to the next generation
and the generations that will follow. And so,
My approval of the legislation demon-
strates this Nation's resolve to preserve eco-
is broad
it is with them in mind, those who will
logically unique ocean areas. Next year,
sses not
inherit this stewardship, that I am delighted
through the process set forth in the Act, we
verdant
to sign these eight bills into law.
intend to designate several other national
ic rivers
And I would like to ask the seven Mem-
marine sanctuaries including the Flower
orelines.
bers of Congress who are with us if you all
Garden Banks in the Gulf of Mexico; Mon-
r to pre-
would come up here, and I'd ask that the
terey Bay, California; and the Olympic
Secretaries come over here behind me. And
Coast off the State of Washington.
is morn-
you guys come here, and we'll just get this
I am pleased that the bill makes the De-
precious
over with. And thank you all for coming to
partment of Commerce's National Oceanic
IS of the
the White House on this very special and
and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
dscapes
spectacularly beautiful day.
responsible for developing and implement-
Keys to
ing the management plan for the Sanctu-
kes and
Note: The President spoke at 10:18 a.m. on
ary. NOAA has managed our other national
creates
the South Lawn of the White House. In his
marine sanctuaries well and, in cooperation
ablishes
remarks, he referred to Secretary of the In-
with the Florida Department of Natural Re-
ngthens
terior Manuel Lujan, Jr.; William K. Reilly,
sources, has had great success in managing
onmen-
Administrator of the Environmental Protec-
the existing Key Largo and Looe Key Na-
tion Agency; Michael R. Deland, Chairman
tional Marine Sanctuaries off Florida. Those
bal re-n
of the Council on Environmental Quality;
two Sanctuaries eventually will become part
islation
and John A. Knauss, Under Secretary of
of the new Sanctuary.
retica's
the
Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and
Designation of the Florida Keys National
Administrator of the National Oceanic At-
Marine Sanctuary will complement and
mospheric Administration.
augment existing Federal Government,
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