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Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
Clinton Library
DOCUMENT NO.
SUBJECT/TITLE
DATE
RESTRICTION
AND TYPE
001. email
[email protected] to David B. Sandalow at 09:34:16.51.
12/22/1994
Personal Misfile
Subject: Re: Ahem. (5 pages)
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
Automated Records Management System [Email]
OPD ([Don't Ask, Don't Tell])
OA/Box Number: 250000
FOLDER TITLE:
[08/11/1993 - 06/25/1996]
2015-0017-F
ab1567
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - |44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA|
b(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
an agency |(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate 8 Federal statute l(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRAI
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRAJ
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy |(a)(6) of the PRA]
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
of gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
2201(3).
concerning wells |(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (RECONSTRUCTED EMAIL)
CREATOR: Paul Meyer
(MEYER_P) (WHO)
CREATION DATE/TIME:11-AUG-1993 07:28:00.00
SUBJECT: News Calendar 8/11
TO: Carter Wilkie
(WILKIE_C) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Dawn A. Alexander
(ALEXANDER_DA) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: S. Collier Andress
(ANDRESS_S) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: John C. Angell
(ANGELL_J) (OMB)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Joan Baggett
(BAGGETT_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Lavora R. Barnes
(BARNES_L) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Heather Beckel
(BECKEL_H) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Eric Berman
(BERMAN_E) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Elizabeth A. Bernstein
(BERNSTEIN_E) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Robert O. Boorstin
(BOORSTIN_R) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Ken Chitester
(CHITESTER_K) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Nestor M. Davidson
(DAVIDSON_N) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jeffrey L. Eller
(ELLER_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Rahm Emanuel
(EMANUEL_R) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Deborah L. Fine
(FINE_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: William Galston
(GALSTON_W) (OPD)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Mark Gearan
(GEARAN_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Ernest D. Gibble
(GIBBLE_E) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jonathan P. Gill
(GILL_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Marcia L. Hale
(HALE_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Alexis Herman
(HERMAN_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Steven M. Hilton
(HILTON_S) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Dwight Holton
(HOLTON_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Julie Hopper
(HOPPER_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Kimberly S. Hopper
(HOPPER_K) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Sharon Kennedy
(KENNEDY_SM) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: FAX (2560,Kristie Kenney)
(TLXA1MAIL_\F:2560\C:KRIStie Kenney\\) (DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: David Leavy
(LEAVY_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Carola McGiffert
(MCGIFFERT_C) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Regina T. Montoya
(MONTOYA_R) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Lisa Mortman
(MORTMAN_L) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Dee Dee Myers
(MYERS_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Kathleen L. O'Neill
(ONEILL_K) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: R. Paul Richard
(RICHARD_R) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: John Podesta
(PODESTA_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Meeghan E. Prunty
(PRUNTY_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Bruce Reed
(REED_B) (OPD)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Marla Romash
(ROMASH_M) (VPO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Ricki Seidman
(SEIDMAN_R) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: David Seldin
(SELDIN_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Stephen B. Silverman
(SILVERMAN_S) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Patti Solis
(SOLIS_P) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jason M. Solomon
(SOLOMON_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Gene Sperling
(SPERLING_G) (DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Todd Stern
(STERN_T) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Richard Strauss
(STRAUSS_R) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Stephanie Streett
(STREETT_S) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Kimberly Tilley
(TILLEY_K) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Maria M. Tio
(TIO_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Stuart E. Trevelyan
(TREVELYAN_S) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Christine A. Varney
(VARNEY_C) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: A. Victoria Rivas-Vazquez
(RIVASVAZQU_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Lorraine A. Voles
(VOLES_L) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Michael Waldman
(WALDMAN_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Ann F. Walker
(WALKER_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Anne Walley
(WALLEY_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Carter Wilkie
(WILKIE_C) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Marilyn Yager
(YAGER_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Kathy McKiernan
(MCKIERNAN_K) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: David B. Anderson
(ANDERSON_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jess Sarmiento
(SARMIENTO_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Andre C. Oliver
(OLIVER_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Kelly A. Crawford
(CRAWFORD_K) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Deborah L. Coyle
(COYLE_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Betty W Currie
(CURRIE_B) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Erich Vaden
(VADEN_E) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Payne, Julia M
(JULIA M.PAYnE@EOP_OVP@CCGATE@EOPMRX)(DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Carver, Holly D
(HOLLY D.CARVeR@EOP_OVP@CCGATE@EOPMRX)(DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Alpert, Dennis W
(DENNISW.ALPErT@EOP_OVP@CCGATE@EOPMRX)(DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Wilson, Anthony T
(ANTHONy T. WILSoN@EOP_OVP@CCGATE@EOPMRX)(DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jack Quinn
(QUINN_J) (VPO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Harris, Skila S
(SKILA S. HARRiS@EOP_OVP@CCGATE@EOPMRX) (DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Gire, Cynthia L
(CYNThiA L. GlrE@EOP_OVP@CCGATE@EOPMRX)(DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Aman, Sally J
(SALLy J. AMaN@EOP_OVP@CCGATE@EOPMRX)(DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Amanda Crumley
(CRUMLEY_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jonathan M. Prince
(PRINCE_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jennifer A. Allan
(ALLAN_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Cathy R. Mays
(MAYS_C) (OPD)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Carol H. Rasco
(RASCO_C) (OPD)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Mark D. Gearan
(GEARAN_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: George Stephanopoulos
(STEPHANOPO_G) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: David M. Kusnet
(KUSNET_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: David Dreyer
(DREYER_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Andre C. Oliver
(OLIVER_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Alan J. Stone
(STONE_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Carolyn Curiel
(CURIEL_C) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Anne M. Edwards
(EDWARDS_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: David B. Anderson
(ANDERSON_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: FAX (6947, Tom O'Donnell)
(TLXA1MAIL_\F:6947\C:TOM O'Donnell\\) (DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Julie A. Nash
(NASH_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Ilizabeth S. Gonchar
(GONCHAR_I) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Amanda Crumley
(CRUMLEY_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Andre C. Oliver
(OLIVER_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Kathleen M. Neugold
(NEUGOLD_K) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Linda L. Moore
(MOORE_L) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Thomas S. Epstein
(EPSTEIN_T) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Ronald D. Lewis at PROFS
(PR_U=RLEWIS@PR_L=CPUB@MRP@EOPMRX)(DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Gloria P. Johnson
(JOHNSON_GP) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Dianna A. Pierce
(PIERCE_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: David R. Gergen
(GERGEN_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Mitchell S. Warren
(WARREN_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jason S. Goldberg
(GOLDBERG_JS) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Joshua A. King
(KING_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Elizabeth C. Bowyer
(BOWYER_E) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: John B. Emerson
(EMERSON_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TEXT:
PRINTER FONT 12_POINT_COURIER
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
NEWS CALENDAR
Morning Edition
August 11, 1993
PRINTER FONT 12_POINT_COURIER_OBLIQUE
The information below is tentative and is intended for internal
planning purposes only. Readers are encouraged to submit
additions, corrections, and suggestions. Please contact the
Office of Communications Research in OEOB 197; PHONE 456-7845,
FAX: 456-2239 or 2539, if you have questions about the calendar.
PRINTER FONT 12_POINT_COURIER
WED
8/11 POTUS: Crime Bill
V.P.: REGO w/ Reno, Christopher
ADMINISTRATION
Espy: Briefing on August Crop Rroduction report.
Babbitt: Alaska (thru 9/1)
Shalala: Nat'l Rural Letter Carriers, Philadelphia
L Brown: Latin America
OTHER
Nat'l Gay & Lesbian Task Force: briefing to oppose possible
nomination of Gen. Josepf Hoar as new JCS Chair.
Michael Boskin & Will. Niskanen: panel discussion on Budget.
Federation of Amer. Immigration Reform: Briefing on Clinton
immigration plan.
THU
8/12 POTUS: St. Louis; Denver with Pope; Oakland, CA RON
V.P.: REGO w/ Shalala, Bowles
ADMINISTRATION
J Brown: Tucson, Dedication of SW Blind Rehab Cen.
O'Leary: USA Today Int'l Newsmakers Discussion.
Riley: Minority Leadership Fellows speech
OTHER
World Youth Congress (Pope attends), Denver (thru 8/15)
Econ Stat: Labor's July producer prices; Commerce's July
retail sales.
FRI
8/13 POTUS: Alamed, CA Defense Conversion; Romer Fundraiser in CO
V.P.: REGO w/ FEMA
ADMINISTRATION
Albright: Israeli Foreign Minister
J Brown: VA Medical Center, Takoma, WA
OTHER
World Youth Congress, Denver (thru 8/15)
Econ Stat: Labor's July consumer prices and real earnings;
Commerce' July business inventories
SAT
8/14 POTUS: Vail, CO
V.P.: REGO w/ Aspin
ADMINISTRATION
J Brown: Disabled Vets Nat'l Convention, San Francisco
OTHER
World Youth Congress, Denver (thru 8/15)
SUN
8/15 POTUS: Vail, CO; Springdale, AR RON
V.P.: NGA in Tulsa, Pope in Denver
ADMINISTRATION
J Brown: DAV Convention, S.F.
OTHER
Paraguayan Presidential Innauguration
World Youth Congress, Denver
MON
8/16 POTUS: NGA in Tulsa
V.P.: Commerce Reinventing Govt Town Hall
ADMINISTRATION
O'Leary: Black Human Resources Network 5th Annual.
Riley: Oklahoma, NGA Task Force an education speech.
OTHER
Wilhelm: National Governors Association, Tulsa, OK.
Econ Stat: Fed's July industrial production.
TUES
8/17 POTUS: Springdale, AR
ADMINISTRATION
Christopher: NAFTA, L.A. World Affairs Council
OTHER
Econ Stat: Commerce's July housing starts
WED
8/18 POTUS: Springdale, AR
OTHER
Blacks in Government Nat'l Convention, LA
THUR
8/19 POTUS: Birthday; Springdale, AR
V.P.: DOD Reinventing Government Town Hall
Mrs. Gore: Birthday
CONGRESS
Sen. Durenberger: Pretrial hearing on Condo charges, MN
OTHER
Econ Stat: Commerce's June merchandise trade.
FRI
8/20 POTUS: Vacation thru 8/27
ADMINISTRATION
J Brown: Marine Corps League, Orlando, FL
OTHER
Wilhelm: Seattle, WA
Econ Stat: Treasury's monthly budget statement for July.
SAT
8/21 Mrs. Gore: TN JJ Dinner.
ADMINISTRATION
J Brown: Purple Hearts Banquet, New Orleans
OTHER
Wilhelm: Seattle, WA
MON
8/23 ADMINISTRATION
J Brown: VFW Natl. Conv., Dallas
OTHER
Amer. Soc. for Industrial Security Convention (thru 8/25).
TUES
8/24 OTHER
Forest symposium in Portland, OR
Mars observer spacecraft reaches Mars
WED
8/25 OTHER
World Court opens hearings on Bosnia's appeal for court-
ordered protection from Serbia.
Econ Stat: Commerce's July durable goods.
FRI
8/27 POTUS:
ADMINISTRATION
Shalala: Utah
OTHER
Wilhelm: Boston
SAT
8/28
Shalala: Utah.
Cisneros: ACORN Meeting.
OTHER
30th Anniversary of the 1963 Civil Rights March on DC
Wilhelm: Boston.
Nat'l Guard: First combat unit deactivated, Bourne, MA
MON
8/30 OTHER
Econ Stat: Commerce's 2nd Qtr. balance of payments and July
new home sales
TUES
8/31 OTHER
Econ Stat: Commerce report on 2nd Qtr. GDP and corp. profits
September is Hispanic Heritage Month
WED
9/1 U.S. Conference of Mayors holds National Unfunded Mandates
Day.
THUR
9/2 .Brown: Jewish War Veterans Conv.
SAT
9/4 J. Brown: United Spanish War Vets. Conv.
MON
9/6 Labor Day.
TUE Deadline for Reinventing Gov't Report
9/7
TUEDecision deadline on trade embargo of Vietnam
9/14 New York election.
SAT
9/18 Browner: Vermont Nat. Resources Council.
SUN
9/19 Southern Governors Conference (thru 9/21)
MON
9/20 Southern Governors Conference (thru 9/21)
TUE
9/21 Boston mayoral primary
U.N. General Assembly thru 12/23.
Southern Governors Conference
THU
9/30 Deadline for extension of UNPROFOR mandate, Balkans
Gen. Colin Powell retires, ends term as Chairman of JCS.
SAT
10/1 Gays in the Military Policy takes effect.
NAFTA: President's report on the Carribbean Basin Econ.
Recovery Act.
SUN
10/3 Argentina: Congressional Elections.
TUES
10/5 October Term, United States Supreme Court.
FRI
10/8 POTUS: Yale Law School Reunion
MON
10/11 President and Mrs. Clinton's Anniversary
TUES
10/12 POTUS: UNC Bicentennial, Chapell Hill, NC
THUR
10/14 Rio Group Presidential Summit, Santiago
MON
10/25 Anniv: Tenth of U.S. Invasion of Greneda.
TUES
10/26 First Lady: Birthday
MON
11/1 Christopher: President of Phillipines
November is American Indian Heritage Month
Deadline for imposition of Title VII.
WED
11/3 Honduras, Presidential Elections.
MON
11/22 30th Anniversary of President Kennedy's Assassination
THURS
11/25 Thanksgiving
WED
12/1 Rwanda, Tenative Elections
SUN
12/5 Venezula, Elections
MON
12/13 Chile, Elections
WED
12/15 GATT: New Deadline for Fast Track Auth. Uruguay Round
FRI
12/30 Florio: U.S. Conf. Mayors report on welfare reform.
Distribution:
TO: Carter Wilkie
TO: Dawn A. Alexander
TO: S. Collier Andress
TO: John C. Angell
TO: Joan Baggett
TO: Lavora R. Barnes
TO: Heather Beckel
TO: Eric Berman
TO: Elizabeth A. Bernstein
TO: Robert O. Boorstin
TO: Liz Bowyer
TO: Ken Chitester
TO: Nestor M. Davidson
TO: Jeffrey L. Eller
TO: Rahm Emanuel
TO: Deborah L. Fine
TO: William Galston
TO: Mark Gearan
TO: Ernest D. Gibble
TO: Jonathan P. Gill
TO: Marcia L. Hale
TO: Alexis Herman
TO: Steven M. Hilton
TO: Dwight Holton
TO: Julie Hopper
TO: Kimberly S. Hopper
TO: Sharon Kennedy
TO: FAX (2560, Kristie Kenney)
TO: David Leavy
TO: Carola McGiffert
TO: Regina T. Montoya
TO: Lisa Mortman
TO: Dee Dee Myers
TO: Kathleen L. O'Neill
TO: R. Paul Richard
TO: John Podesta
TO: Meeghan E. Prunty
TO: Bruce Reed
TO: Marla Romash
TO: Ricki Seidman
TO: David Seldin
TO: Stephen B. Silverman
TO: Patti Solis
TO: Jason M. Solomon
TO: Gene Sperling
TO: Todd Stern
TO: Richard Strauss
TO: Stephanie Streett
TO: Kimberly Tilley
TO: Maria M. Tio
TO: Stuart E. Trevelyan
TO: Christine A. Varney
TO: A. Victoria Rivas
-Vazquez
TO: Lorraine A. Voles
TO: Michael Waldman
TO: Ann F. Walker
TO: Anne Walley
TO: Carter Wilkie
TO: Marilyn Yager
TO: Kathy McKiernan
TO: David B. Anderson
TO: Jess Sarmiento
TO: Andre C. Oliver
TO: Kelly A. Crawford
TO: Deborah L. Coyle
TO: Betty W Currie
TO: Erich Vaden
TO: Payne, Julia M
TO: Carver, Holly D
TO: Alpert, Dennis W
TO: Wilson, Anthony T
TO: Jack Quinn
TO: Harris, Skila S
TO: Gire, Cynthia L
TO: Aman, Sally J
TO: Amanda Crumley
TO: Jonathan M. Prince
TO: Jennifer A. Allan
TO: Cathy R. Mays
TO: Carol H. Rasco
TO: Mark D. Gearan
TO: George Stephanopoulos
TO: David M. Kusnet
TO: David Dreyer
TO: Andre C. Oliver
TO: Alan J. Stone
TO: Carolyn Curiel
TO: Anne M. Edwards
TO: David B. Anderson
TO: FAX (6947, Tom O'Donnell)
TO: Julie A. Nash
TO: Ilizabeth S. Gonchar
TO: Amanda Crumley
TO: Andre C. Oliver
TO: Kathleen M. Neugold
TO: Linda L. Moore
TO: Thomas S. Epstein
TO: Ronald D. Lewis at PROFS
TO: Gloria P. Johnson
TO: Dianna A. Pierce
TO: David R. Gergen
TO: Mitchell S. Warren
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (RECONSTRUCTED EMAIL)
CREATOR: Paul Meyer
(MEYER_P) (WHO)
CREATION DATE/TIME:02-SEP-1993 19:44:00.00
SUBJECT: News Calendar 9/3/93
TO: Carter Wilkie
(WILKIE_C) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Dawn A. Alexander
(ALEXANDER_DA) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: S. Collier Andress
(ANDRESS_S) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: John C. Angell
(ANGELL_J) (OMB)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Joan Baggett
(BAGGETT_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Lavora R. Barnes
(BARNES_L) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Heather Beckel
(BECKEL_H) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Eric Berman
(BERMAN_E) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Elizabeth A. Bernstein
(BERNSTEIN_E) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Robert O. Boorstin
(BOORSTIN_R) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Ken Chitester
( CHITESTER_K) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Nestor M. Davidson
(DAVIDSON_N) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jeffrey L. Eller
(ELLER_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Rahm Emanuel
(EMANUEL_R) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Deborah L. Fine
(FINE_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: William Galston
(GALSTON_W) (OPD)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Mark Gearan
(GEARAN_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Ernest D. Gibble
(GIBBLE_E) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jonathan P. Gill
(GILL_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Marcia L. Hale
(HALE_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Alexis Herman
(HERMAN_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Steven M. Hilton
(HILTON_S) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Dwight Holton
(HOLTON_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Julie Hopper
(HOPPER_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Kimberly S. Hopper
(HOPPER_K) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Sharon Kennedy
(KENNEDY_SM) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: FAX (2560,Kristie Kenney)
(TLXA1MAIL_\F:2560\C:KRIStie Kenney\\) (DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: David Leavy
(LEAVY_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Carola McGiffert
(MCGIFFERT_C) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Regina T. Montoya
(MONTOYA_R) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Lisa Mortman
(MORTMAN_L) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Dee Dee Myers
(MYERS_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Kathleen L. O'Neill
(ONEILL_K) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: R. Paul Richard
(RICHARD_R) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: John Podesta
(PODESTA_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Meeghan E. Prunty
(PRUNTY_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Bruce Reed
(REED_B) (OPD)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Marla Romash
(ROMASH_M) (VPO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Ricki Seidman
(SEIDMAN_R) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: David Seldin
(SELDIN_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Stephen B. Silverman
(SILVERMAN_S) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Patti Solis
(SOLIS_P) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jason M. Solomon
(SOLOMON_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Gene Sperling
(SPERLING_G) (DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Todd Stern
(STERN_T) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Richard Strauss
(STRAUSS_R) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Stephanie Streett
(STREETT_S) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Kimberly Tilley
(TILLEY_K) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Maria M. Tio
(TIO_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Stuart E. Trevelyan
(TREVELYAN_S) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Christine A. Varney
(VARNEY_C) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: A. Victoria Rivas-Vazquez
(RIVASVAZQU_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Lorraine A. Voles
(VOLES_L) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Michael Waldman
(WALDMAN_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Ann F. Walker
(WALKER_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Anne Walley
(WALLEY_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Carter Wilkie
(WILKIE_C) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Marilyn Yager
(YAGER_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Kathy McKiernan
(MCKIERNAN_K) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: David B. Anderson
(ANDERSON_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jess Sarmiento
(SARMIENTO_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Andre C. Oliver
(OLIVER_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Kelly A. Crawford
(CRAWFORD_K) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Deborah L. Coyle
(COYLE_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Betty W Currie
(CURRIE_B) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Erich Vaden
(VADEN_E) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Payne, Julia M
(JULIA M. .PAYnE@EOP_OVP@CCGATE@EOPMRX)(DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Carver, Holly D
(HOLLY D.CARVeR@EOP_OVP@CCGATE@EOPMRX)(DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Alpert, Dennis W
(DENNIS W.ALPErT@EOP_OVP@CCGATE@EOPMRX) (DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Wilson, Anthony T
( ANTHONy T. WILSoN@EOP_OVP@CCGATE@EOPMRX)(DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jack Quinn
(QUINN_J) (VPO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Harris, Skila S
(SKILA S.HARRiS@EOP_OVP@CCGATE@EOPMRX)(DEFAULT]
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Gire, Cynthia L
(CYNThiA L. GlrE@EOP_OVP@CCGATE@EOPMRX)(DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Aman, Sally J
(SALLy J.AMaN@EOP_OVP@CCGATE@EOPMRX)(DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Amanda Crumley
(CRUMLEY_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jonathan M. Prince
(PRINCE_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jennifer A. Allan
(ALLAN_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Cathy R. Mays
(MAYS_C) (OPD)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Carol H. Rasco
(RASCO_C) (OPD)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Mark D. Gearan
(GEARAN_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: George Stephanopoulos
(STEPHANOPO_G) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: David M. Kusnet
(KUSNET_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: David Dreyer
(DREYER_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Andre C. Oliver
(OLIVER_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Alan J. Stone
(STONE_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Carolyn Curiel
(CURIEL_C) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Anne M. Edwards
(EDWARDS_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: David B. Anderson
(ANDERSON_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: FAX (6947, Tom O'Donnell)
(TLXA1MAIL_\F:6947\C:TOM O'Donnell\\) (DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Julie A. Nash
(NASH_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Ilizabeth S. Gonchar
(GONCHAR_I) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Amanda Crumley
(CRUMLEY_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Andre C. Oliver
(OLIVER_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Kathleen M. Neugold
(NEUGOLD_K) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Linda L. Moore
(MOORE_L) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Thomas S. Epstein
(EPSTEIN_T) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Ronald D. Lewis at PROFS
(PR_U=RLEWIS@PR_L=CPUB@MRP@EOPMRX)(DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Gloria P. Johnson
(JOHNSON_GP) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Dianna A. Pierce
(PIERCE_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: David R. Gergen
(GERGEN_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Mitchell S. Warren
(WARREN_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jason S. Goldberg
(GOLDBERG_JS) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Joshua A. King
(KING_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Elizabeth C. Bowyer
(BOWYER_E) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: John B. Emerson
(EMERSON_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Daniel P. Meyer
(MEYER_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Sara Morris
(MORRIS_S) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Alison Muscatine
(MUSCATINE_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TEXT:
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PRINTER FONT 10_POINT_COURIER
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
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PRINTER FONT 12_POINT_COURIER
NEWS CALENDAR
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PRINTER FONT 12_POINT_ROMAN
Morning Edition
September 3, 1993
PRINTER FONT 12_POINT_ROMAN_ITALIC
The information below is tentative and is intended for internal planning purposes only.
Readers are encouraged to submit additions, corrections, and suggestions. Please contact
the Office of Communications Research in OEOB 197; PHONE 456-7845, FAX: 456-2239 or
2539, if you have questions about the calendar.
PRINTER FONT 12_POINT_ROMAN
FRI
9/3 POTUS School to Work event, Georgetown, DE
ADMINISTRATION
Shalala: ASPA Conference
Browner: Boston
Cisneros: St. Louis
Aspin: Speech on DOD bottom-up review, Georgetown U
WORLD
Russian-Ukranian summit in the Crimea
OTHER
6th U.S. Court of Appeals hearing on DOJ handling of Demjanuk extradition
ECON STATS: August unemployment (4cast 6.9%); July leading indicators
index (4cast down 0.2%).
SAT
9/4 POTUS : Hurricane damage event, North Carolina; Florida
ADMINISTRATION
J. Brown: United Spanish War Vets. Conv., Orlando
Cisneros: St. Louis
WORLD
Pope visits Baltics (in former USSR through 9/10)
HISTORY
British declare war against Germany, 1939
SUN
9/5 POTUS: Florida
ADMINISTRATION
Reich: Morning shows
Cisneros: St. Louis
Babbit: CITES convention, Brussels, Amsterdam
WORLD
Ferdinand Marcos' body returned from Hawaii to Philippines
Israeli ambassador speaks about Middle East peace talks
OTHER
ECON STATS: August unemp; July's index of leading econ. indicators
HISTORY
First Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia, 1774
USSR restructured as CIS, 1991
MON
9/6 Labor Day
POTUS : Rebuilding After Hurricane Andrew event, Homestead, Florida;
Labor Day event, Ft. Lauderdale
ADMINISTRATION
Cisneros: St. Louis
Babbit: CITES convention, Brussels, Amsterdam
Reich: Labor Day event, Kenosha, WI
TUE Deadline for Reinventing Gov't Report
9/7 POTUS : REGO announcement
VPOTUS: REGO announcement; press interviews
ADMINISTRATION
Babbit: CITES convention, Brussels, Amsterdam
J. Brown: American Legion Conv., Pittsburgh
Reich: GMA "Day in the Life"
R. Brown: TPCC Finance Mtg., NYC
CONGRESS
Senate back in session
TV
Ross Perot on "Larry King Live"
WED
9/8 POTUS : REGO Event; CEO Lunch
VPOTUS: NBC Today Show; REGO event; "Letterman" in NYC
ADMINISTRATION
Babbit: CITES convention, Brussels, Amsterdam
Browner: Clean Air Marketplace Speech
Riley: Press Conference (Nat'l Literacy Day)
Shalala: NPR Retreat
J. Brown: Boat Ride w/VAMC Aspin Wall Patients, PA
L. Brown: Interim Drug Control Strategy Release
CONGRESS
House back in session
OTHER
ECON STAT: July wholesale trade
THUR
9/9 POTUS : Dallas?
VPOTUS: Chicago, Dallas
ADMINISTRATION
Babbit: Netherlands
Pena: MIT World Economic Forum
Cisneros: MTV News
L. Brown: DARE Amer. Ceremony in Rose Garden, Police Chiefs Conf., Omaha
Reich, Riley: Education Ministers Working Lunch, Speech w/NE Midwest
Congress Coaltion, Nat'l Conf. of Ed. Writers (Reich)
Shalala: Press - Health US 1992
Browner: Kennedy/Waxman Food Safety Hearings
R. Brown: Tech Conf. at MIT, Boston
OTHER
Ross Perot on "Larry King" (radio)
ECON STAT: 2nd qtr plant & equip spending; Labor's 2nd qtr productivity
FRI
9/10 POTUS :
VPOTUS: L.A.
ADMINISTRATION
L. Brown: John McLaughlin's "One On One"
O'Leary: Spech at Comm. Action Cmt., Erie, PA
Babbit, CITES convention, Brussels, Amsterdam
R. Brown: Texas
Reno: Reg. Police Chiefs Conv., Omaha
Pena: MIT World Economic Forum
Riley: Chicago
Browner: 4H speech, Chevy Chase, MD
Shalala: New Jersey
Browner: Speech to 4-H, Chevey Chase, MD
WORLD
Pope ends visit to former USSR
OTHER
Christian Coalition annual conference, Washington Hilton (Wilhelm, Barbour,
Robertson, Gingrich, Gramm, Dole, , Ollie North and others to speak)
Discovery Shuttle scheduled launch
ECON STAT: August producer prices
SAT
9/11 POTUS :
VPOTUS: Builder's event
ADMINISTRATION
L. Brown: SE Regional Addiction Conference
Cisneros: ACORN Meeting
R. Brown: Texas
Reno: Nat'l Conf. of Editorial Writers, Philadelphia
O'Leary: PA
SUN
9/12 POTUS :
VPOTUS: Morning shows
ADMINISTRATION
Albright: Canada
O'Leary: Tucson, AZ
OTHER
MON
9/13-POTUS : Drug Free Schools Event; PM Keating (Australia)
VPOTUS: REGO event
ADMINISTRATION
Albright: Canada
Reno: 1st Circuit Judicial Conf., Boston, New Jersey
L. Brown: Atlanta
O'Leary: Washigton State
TUEDecision deadline on trade embargo of Vietnam
9/14
POTUS : NAFTA address?
VPOTUS:: REGO event
ADMINISTRATION
Cisneros: Meeting w/Mayor of Dayton, OH
Shalala: Merrill Lynch, New York
Riley: Meeting w/Amb. Helmut Tuerk (Austria)
Pena: Meeting w/British Minister of Aviation
Reno: Newspaper Assoc. of America Board
Browner: Baucus/Clean Air Hearing
Albright: Canada
O'Leary: Washington State
OTHER:
Mayoral primary elections: New York, Detroit, Minneapolis
UAW big-three contracts expire 12:01 am.
ECON STATS: 2nd quarter int'l trade; Augustretail sales, consumer prices &
real earnings
WED
9/15 POTUS : CEO Lunch
ADMINISTRATION
J. Brown: VA Nat'l Assc state dirs, Bismark, ND
L. Brown: VOA News & Current Affairs
Riley: Nat'l Reading Assesment Conference
O'Leary: Washington State
Browner: Chesapeake Bay Exec Cnc, Newpot News, VA
Pena: CEO speech, Hispanic Engineers Reception
OTHER:
DOJ releases WACO report
Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown
ECON STATS: July business inventories
Wilhelm: Louisville, KT and Charlotte, NC
THURS
9/16
POTUS :
ADMINISTRATION
J. Brown: Dallas, VA OPA Conference
Pena: Congressional Hispanic Caucus Gala
Shalala: Denver
Riley: Meet w/Amb Tuerk (Austria)
Browner: Speak at Hispanic Heritage Month Observance
Wilhelm: Unity Rally, NYC
WORLD:
Mexican independence day
ECON STATS: Fed's August industrial production
FRI
9/17
POTUS : PM Ciampi (Italy)
ADMINISTRATION
Shalala: Denver
Pena: Naval Arch Speech, New York City
Riley: Governor's Conference on Education, Georgia
L. Brown: Congressional Black Caucus Forum
Reno: Tallahassee, FL
OTHER
Wilhelm: DNC Retreat (thru 9/18)
SAT
9/18 POTUS :
ADMINISTRATION
Browner: Vermont Nat. Resources Council.
Shalala: Denver
Cisneros: Municipal Dinner, Hartford, CT
OTHER
Anti-
NAFTA rally w/Ross Perot and Sen. Riegle, Lansing, MI
HISTORY
U.S. Air Force established as separate military service, 1947
SUN
9/19 POTUS :
ADMINISTRATION
Cisneros: Richmond, VA
O'Leary: Miliken Seminar: Spartensburg, SC
OTHER:
Southern Governors Conference (thru 9/21)
MON
9/20
POTUS :
ADMINISTRATION
Riley: Fortune Mag. Ed. Summit Speech
O'Leary: Miliken Seminar, Spartensbur, SC
L. Brown: Nashville, Int'l City Council Managment
Reno: Adress Women's Legislator's Lobby
Pena: Mtg. w/Argentinian Sec. of Transportation
WORLD
UN Conference on Trade & Development, Geneva (thru 10/1)
OTHER
Southern Governors Conference discuss trade w/ African heads of state
TUE
9/21 POTUS :
ADMINISTRATION
Cisneros: Meet w/Mayor of Knoxville, TN
Shalala: Israeli ministirial meeting
Riley: Channel 1 speech
O'Leary: NYC
OTHER:
Boston mayoral primary
U.N. General Assembly thru 12/23.
Southern Governors Conference ends
HISTORY
3rd anniversary of Hurricane Hugo
ECON STATS: August housing starts
WED
9/22 POTUS : Address to Congress on health care
ADMINISTRATION
Babbitt: CA
Pena: Women's Transportation Seminar reception
Reno: Conf. of the Office of General Counsel, GSA
O'Leary: Enviro. Energy Study Inst. lunch
OTHER
ECON STATS: Treasury issues federal budget statement for August
THURS
9/23 POTUS :
ADMINISTRATION
Riley: Institute for Education Leadership Speech
L. Brown: Joint Center for Political & Econ. Stud; Charlie Rose Show
O'Leary: Nat'l Coal Assn.
Pena: Railroad Safety Anniversary speech
OTHER
Wilhelm: West Coast (thru 9/28)
FRI
9/24 POTUS : Cabinet Meeting
ADMINISTRATION
Babbitt, Pena: Natural Resources Cluster mtg (EPA)
O'Leary, Browner: Nat. Resources Cluster lunch
OTHER
Yom Kippur begins
ECON STATS: August durable goods
SUN
9/26 POTUS : Dinkins Event, NYC
ADMINISTRATION
Reno: Casey Journalism Center
MON
9/27 POTUS : Address UN General Assembly
VPOTUS: San Francisco? L.A.?
ADMINISTRATION
J Brown: Chicago
Shalala: Kentucky
O'Leary: Int'l Atomic Energy Agency Conference, Vienna
TUES
9/28 POTUS :
VPOTUS: New Orleans?
ADMINISTRATION
Riley: Red Cross town mtg.
Reno: Int'l Conf. of Prosecutors
Cisneror: Mtg w/ Mayor, Cinncinati
OTHER
IMF/World Bank Annual Meeting opens
WED
9/29 ADMINISTRATION
Riley: Amer Assn of School Administration speech
OTHER
ECON STATS: 2nd quarter GDP and corporate profits
Wilhelm: Texas
THU
9/30 POTUS : Cabinet Meeting
VPOTUS: Enviro speech at IMF/IBRD conference
ADMINISTRATION:
OTHER: Deadline for extension of UNPROFOR mandate, Balkans
Gen. Colin Powell retires
Chanute AFB (IL) closes.
ECON STATS: August new home sales and personal income
Wilhelm: West Coast, Athens, OH
SAT
10/1
Gays in the Military Policy takes effect.
Trade: President's report on the Carribbean Basin Econ. Recovery Act
SUN
10/3 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
Argentina: Congressional Elections.
MON
10/4 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
6th session of START Compliance & Inspection Comm., Geneva
TUES
10/5 POTUS : DSCC Dinner?
VPOTUS: DSCC Dinner?
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
United States Supreme Court October term begins
WED
10/6 POTUS: CEO Lunch
FRI
10/8
POTUS: Yale Law School Reunion
SAT
10/9 POTUS: Yale Law School Reunion
SUN
10/10 POTUS: Yale Law School Reunion
MON
10/11 POTUS: President and Mrs. Clinton's Anniversary
TUES
10/12 POTUS: UNC Bicentennial, Chapell Hill, NC
THUR
10/14 WORLD
Rio Group Presidential Summit, Santiago
FRI
10/15
POTUS: PM Ciller (Turkey)
WED
10/20
POTUS: CEO Lunch
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
NATO Defense Ministers mtg., Germany (thru 10/21)
FRI
10/22
POTUS : Cabinet Meeting?; PM Gonzales (Spain)
ADMINISTRATION
SUN
10/24 POTUS :
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
NH GOP honors Gov's, Sens and Reps (Dole, Chaney, Quayle, Kemp, Gramm,
and
other '96 hopefuls to attend)
MON
10/25 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
HISTORY
U.S. invasion of Grenada, 1983
TUES
10/26 POTUS: PM Mitsotakis (Greece)
VPOTUS:
FIRST LADY: Birthday
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
Great City Schools Conference, Houston (through 10/31)
FRI
10/29
POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
T.V.
Dan Rather moderates town meeting on School Safety and Violence (Great
City Schools Fall Conference)
SAT
10/30 POTUS:
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
President Aristide returns to Haiti
MON
11/1 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
Christopher: President of Phillipines
SUN
11/7 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
Quincentennial commeration of discovery of Puerto Rico (thru 11/8)
WED
11/10
POTUS :
VPOTUS: University of Colorado
THURS
11/11 Veterans Day
Deadline: Clinton promise to release POW/MIA records
WED
11/17
POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation mtg, Seattle (thru 11/19)
THURS
11/18
WORLD
APEC
FRI
11/19
WORLD
APEC
MON
11/22 30th Anniversary of President Kennedy's Assassination
THURS
11/25 Thanksgiving
WED
12/1 WORLD
Rwanda, Tenative Elections
THURS
12/2 POTUS
ADMINSTRATION
Christopher: NAC/NACC Ministerials, Brussels
OTHER
Democratic Leadership Council annual conference (thru 12/4)
FRI
12/3 OTHER
DLC Conference
SAT
12/4 OTHER
DLC Conference
SUN
12/5 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
First round of Presidential election in Gabon
Presidential, Congressional & State Assembly elections, Venezula
MON
12/13 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
Presidential & Congressional elections, Chile
WED
12/15 WORLD
GATT: New Deadline for Fast Track Auth. Uruguay Round
FRI
12/30 Florio: U.S. Conf. Mayors report on welfare reform.
Distribution:
TO: Carter Wilkie
TO: Dawn A. Alexander
TO: S. Collier Andress
TO: John C. Angell
TO: Joan Baggett
TO: Lavora R. Barnes
TO: Heather Beckel
TO: Eric Berman
TO: Elizabeth A. Bernstein
TO: Robert O. Boorstin
TO: Liz Bowyer
TO: Ken Chitester
TO: Nestor M. Davidson
TO: Jeffrey L. Eller
TO: Rahm Emanuel
TO: Deborah L. Fine
TO: William Galston
TO: Mark Gearan
TO: Ernest D. Gibble
TO: Jonathan P. Gill
TO: Marcia L. Hale
TO: Alexis Herman
TO: Steven M. Hilton
TO: Dwight Holton
TO: Julie Hopper
TO: Kimberly S. Hopper
TO: Sharon Kennedy
TO: FAX (2560, Kristie Kenney)
TO: David Leavy
TO: Carola McGiffert
TO: Regina T. Montoya
TO: Lisa Mortman
TO: Dee Dee Myers
TO: Kathleen L. O'Neill
TO: R. Paul Richard
TO: John Podesta
TO: Meeghan E. Prunty
TO: Bruce Reed
TO: Marla Romash
TO: Ricki Seidman
TO: David Seldin
TO: Stephen B. Silverman
TO: Patti Solis
TO: Jason M. Solomon
TO: Gene Sperling
TO: Todd Stern
TO: Richard Strauss
TO: Stephanie Streett
TO: Kimberly Tilley
TO: Maria M. Tio
TO: Stuart E. Trevelyan
TO: Christine A. Varney
TO: A. Victoria Rivas
-Vazquez
TO: Lorraine A. Voles
TO: Michael Waldman
TO: Ann F. Walker
TO: Anne Walley
TO: Carter Wilkie
TO: Marilyn Yager
TO: Kathy McKiernan
TO: David B. Anderson
TO: Jess Sarmiento
TO: Andre C. Oliver
TO: Kelly A. Crawford
TO: Deborah L. Coyle
TO: Betty W Currie
TO: Erich Vaden
TO: Payne, Julia M
TO: Carver, Holly D
TO: Alpert, Dennis W
TO: Wilson, Anthony T
TO: Jack Quinn
TO: Harris, Skila S
TO: Gire, Cynthia L
TO: Aman, Sally J
TO: Amanda Crumley
TO: Jonathan M. Prince
TO: Jennifer A. Allan
TO: Cathy R. Mays
TO: Carol H. Rasco
TO: Mark D. Gearan
TO: George Stephanopoulos
TO: David M. Kusnet
TO: David Dreyer
TO: Andre C. Oliver
TO: Alan J. Stone
TO: Carolyn Curiel
TO: Anne M. Edwards
TO: David B. Anderson
TO: FAX (6947, Tom O'Donnell)
TO: Julie A. Nash
TO: Ilizabeth S. Gonchar
TO: Amanda Crumley
TO: Andre C. Oliver
TO: Kathleen M. Neugold
TO: Linda L. Moore
TO: Thomas S. Epstein
TO: Ronald D. Lewis at PROFS
TO: Gloria P. Johnson
TO: Dianna A. Pierce
TO: David R. Gergen
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (RECONSTRUCTED EMAIL)
CREATOR: Paul Meyer
(MEYER_P) (WHO)
CREATION DATE/TIME:08-SEP-1993 18:36:00.00
SUBJECT: News Calendar 9/9
TO: Carter Wilkie
(WILKIE_C) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Dawn A. Alexander
(ALEXANDER_DA) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: S. Collier Andress
(ANDRESS_S) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: John C. Angell
(ANGELL_J) (OMB)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Joan Baggett
(BAGGETT_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Lavora R. Barnes
(BARNES_L) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Heather Beckel
(BECKEL_H) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Eric Berman
(BERMAN_E) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Elizabeth A. Bernstein
(BERNSTEIN_E) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Robert O. Boorstin
(BOORSTIN_R) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Ken Chitester
(CHITESTER_K) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Nestor M. Davidson
(DAVIDSON_N) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jeffrey L. Eller
(ELLER_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Rahm Emanuel
(EMANUEL_R) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Deborah L. Fine
(FINE_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: William Galston
(GALSTON_W) (OPD)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Mark Gearan
(GEARAN_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Ernest D. Gibble
(GIBBLE_E) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jonathan P. Gill
(GILL_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Marcia L. Hale
(HALE_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Alexis Herman
(HERMAN_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Steven M. Hilton
(HILTON_S) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Dwight Holton
(HOLTON_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Julie Hopper
(HOPPER_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Kimberly S. Hopper
(HOPPER_K) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Sharon Kennedy
(KENNEDY_SM) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: FAX (2560,Kristie Kenney)
(TLXA1MAIL_\F:2560\C:KRIStie Kenney\\) (DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: David Leavy
(LEAVY_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Carola McGiffert
(MCGIFFERT_C) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Regina T. Montoya
(MONTOYA_R) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Lisa Mortman
(MORTMAN_L) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Dee Dee Myers
(MYERS_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Kathleen L. O'Neill
(ONEILL_K) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: R. Paul Richard
(RICHARD_R) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: John Podesta
(PODESTA_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Meeghan E. Prunty
(PRUNTY_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Bruce Reed
(REED_B) (OPD)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Marla Romash
(ROMASH_M) (VPO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Ricki Seidman
(SEIDMAN_R) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: David Seldin
(SELDIN_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Stephen B. Silverman
(SILVERMAN_S) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Patti Solis
(SOLIS_P) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jason M. Solomon
(SOLOMON_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Gene Sperling
(SPERLING_G) (DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Todd Stern
(STERN_T) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Richard Strauss
(STRAUSS_R) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Stephanie Streett
(STREETT_S) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Kimberly Tilley
(TILLEY_K) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Maria M. Tio
(TIO_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Stuart E. Trevelyan
(TREVELYAN_S) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Christine A. Varney
(VARNEY_C) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: A. Victoria Rivas-Vazquez
(RIVASVAZQU_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Lorraine A. Voles
(VOLES_L) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Michael Waldman
(WALDMAN_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Ann F. Walker
(WALKER_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Anne Walley
(WALLEY_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Carter Wilkie
(WILKIE_C) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Marilyn Yager
(YAGER_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Kathy McKiernan
(MCKIERNAN_K) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: David B. Anderson
(ANDERSON_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jess Sarmiento
(SARMIENTO_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Andre C. Oliver
(OLIVER_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Kelly A. Crawford
(CRAWFORD_K) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Deborah L. Coyle
(COYLE_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Betty W Currie
(CURRIE_B) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Erich Vaden
(VADEN_E) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Payne, Julia M
(JULIA M.PAYnE@EOP_OVP@CCGATE@EOPMRX)(DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Carver, Holly D
(HOLLY D.CARVeR@EOP_OVP@CCGATE@EOPMRX)(DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Alpert, Dennis W
(DENNIS W.ALPErT@EOP_OVP@CCGATE@EOPMRX) (DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Wilson, Anthony T
( ANTHONy T. WILSoN@EOP_OVP@CCGATE@EOPMRX)(DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jack Quinn
(QUINN_J) (VPO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Harris, Skila S
(SKILA S.HARRiS@EOP_OVP@CCGATE@EOPMRX)(DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Gire, Cynthia L
(CYNThiA L. GIrE@EOP_OVP@CCGATE@EOPMRX) (DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Aman, Sally J
(SALLy J. AMaN@EOP_OVP@CCGATE@EOPMRX)(DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Amanda Crumley
(CRUMLEY_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jonathan M. Prince
(PRINCE_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jennifer A. Allan
(ALLAN_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Cathy R. Mays
(MAYS_C) (OPD)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Carol H. Rasco
(RASCO_C) (OPD)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Mark D. Gearan
(GEARAN_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: George Stephanopoulos
(STEPHANOPO_G) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: David M. Kusnet
(KUSNET_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: David Dreyer
(DREYER_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Andre C. Oliver
(OLIVER_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Alan J. Stone
(STONE_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Carolyn Curiel
(CURIEL_C) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Anne M. Edwards
(EDWARDS_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: David B. Anderson
(ANDERSON_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: FAX (6947, Tom O'Donnell)
(TLXAIMAIL_\F:6947\C:TOM O'Donnell\\) (DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Julie A. Nash
(NASH_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Ilizabeth S. Gonchar
(GONCHAR_I) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Amanda Crumley
(CRUMLEY_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Andre C. Oliver
(OLIVER_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Kathleen M. Neugold
(NEUGOLD_K) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Linda L. Moore
(MOORE_L) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Thomas S. Epstein
(EPSTEIN_T) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Ronald D. Lewis at PROFS
(PR_U=RLEWIS@PR_L=CPUB@MRP@EOPMRX) (DEFAULT)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Gloria P. Johnson
(JOHNSON_GP) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Dianna A. Pierce
(PIERCE_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: David R. Gergen
(GERGEN_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Mitchell S. Warren
(WARREN_M) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jason S. Goldberg
(GOLDBERG_JS) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Joshua A. King
(KING_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Elizabeth C. Bowyer
(BOWYER_E) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: John B. Emerson
(EMERSON_J) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Daniel P. Meyer
(MEYER_D) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Sara Morris
(MORRIS_S) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Alison Muscatine
(MUSCATINE_A) (WHO)
READ: UNKNOWN
TEXT:
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
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NEWS CALENDAR
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Morning Edition
September 9, 1993
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The information below is tentative and is intended for internal planning purposes only.
Readers are encouraged to submit additions, corrections, and suggestions. Please contact
the Office of Communications Research in OEOB 197; PHONE 456-7845, FAX: 456-2239 or
2539, if you have questions about the calendar.
PRINTER FONT 12_POINT_ROMAN
THUR
9/9 POTUS Cleveland
VPOTUS: Cleveland
ADMINISTRATION
Babbit: CITES convention, Brussels, Amsterdam
Pena: MIT World Economic Forum
Cisneros: Chicago
Reno: Press avail; Nat'l Council on Crime and Delinquincy symposium
L. Brown: DARE Amer. Ceremony in Rose Garden, Police Chiefs Conf., Omaha
Reich, Riley: Education Ministers Working Lunch, Speech w/NE Midwest
Congress Coaltion, Nat'l Conf. of Ed. Writers (Reich)
Shalala: Press - health US 1992; Speech at Women's Nat'l Dem. Club; C-SPAN
special on 1968
Browner: Kennedy/Waxman Food Safety Hearings
R. Brown: Tech Conf. at MIT, Boston
Espy: speech to American Frozen Food Institute
J. Brown: VFW Nat'l Cmdr, Chicago
CONGRESS
H Floor; FY94 Defense Authorization Act
H Gov. Ops. Employment Subcomm: NAFTA labor side agreements
Sen. Hollings news conference to introduce "Common Market" alternative to
NAFTA
OTHER
Ross Perot on "Larry King" (radio)
Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic tours Holocaust Museum, press avail
follows
Campaign for Reproductive Equity briefing on Medicaid-funded abortions
Nat'l Assn. of Towns & Townships annual conference (thru 9/19)
Heritage Foundation: Sen. Grassley on REGO
Christian Coalition news conference on "pornographic" video art funded by
NEA
ECON STAT: 2nd qtr plant & equip spending; Labor's 2nd qtr productivity;
Jobless claims
FRI
9/10 POTUS : Sunnyvale, CA; Houston, TX
VPOTUS: Sunnyvale, CA; Houston, TX
ADMINISTRATION
L. Brown: John McLaughlin's "One On One"
O'Leary: Spech at Comm. Action Cmt., Erie, PA
Babbit, CITES convention, Brussels, Amsterdam
R. Brown: Texas
Reno: Reg. Police Chiefs Conv., Omaha
Pena: MIT World Economic Forum
Riley: Chicago
Browner: 4H speech, Chevy Chase, MD
Shalala: New Jersey
J. Brown: VFW Nat'l Cmdr, Chicago
Espy: Tour farms, meet w/farmers, Albany, NY
WORLD
Pope finishes visit to former USSR
OTHER
Christian Coalition annual conference, Washington Hilton (Wilhelm, Barbour,
Robertson, Gingrich, Gramm, Dole, Ollie North and others to speak)
Nat'l Assn. of Towns & Townships annual conference
Discovery Shuttle scheduled launch
ECON STAT: August producer prices
SAT
9/11 POTUS : Houston REGO Event; Radio Address
VPOTUS: Houston
ADMINISTRATION
L. Brown: SE Regional Addiction Conference, Atlanta
Cisneros: ACORN Meeting
R. Brown: Texas
Reno: Nat'l Conf. of Editorial Writers, Philadelphia
O'Leary: PA
J. Brown: VFW Nat'l Cmdr, Chicago
Browner: Bingham event, New Mexico
SUN
9/12 POTUS :
VPOTUS: Morning shows
ADMINISTRATION
Albright: Canada
J. Brown: VFW Nat'l Cmdr, Chicago
Riley: Back to School Goals 2000, Louisville, KY
O'Leary: Tucson, AZ
OTHER
MON
9/13 POTUS : Drug Free Schools Event; PM Keating (Australia)
VPOTUS: REGO event
ADMINISTRATION
Albright: Canada
Reno: 1st Circuit Judicial Conf., Boston, New Jersey
L. Brown: Annual AI/D School, Atlanta
Espy: Speech to NASDA Conf., New Hampshire
Bentsen: Nat'l Rest Assoc. Speech
Riley: Back to school Goals 2000, Louisville, KT
O'Leary: Washigton State
WORLD
Tentative: Israeli/Palestinian Peace Treaty Signing
TUEDecision deadline on trade embargo of Vietnam
9/14
POTUS : NAFTA address
VPOTUS:: REGO event
ADMINISTRATION
Cisneros: Meeting w/Mayor of Dayton, OH
Shalala: Merrill Lynch, New York
Riley: Drug Free School Award, GU
Espy: Mtg w/Ambass. Designate Holbrooke (Germany)
Pena: Meeting w/British Minister of Aviation
Reno: Newspaper Assoc. of America Board
Browner: Baucus/Clean Air Hearing
Albright: Canada
O'Leary: Washington State
CONGRESS
H Ways & Means: NAFTA supplemental agreements
H Science, Space & Tech: Babbitt on Biological Survey
OTHER:
Mayoral primary elections: New York, Detroit, Minneapolis
UAW big-three contracts expire 12:01 am.
ECON STATS: 2nd quarter int'l trade; Augustretail sales, consumer prices &
real earnings
WED
9/15 POTUS : CEO Lunch
ADMINISTRATION
J. Brown: VA Nat'l Assc state dirs, Bismark, ND
L. Brown: VOA News & Current Affairs
Riley: Nat'l Reading Assesment Conference
O'Leary: Washington State
Cisneros: Baltimore
Browner: Chesapeake Bay Exec Cnc, Newpot News, VA
Pena: CEO speech, Hispanic Engineers Reception
OTHER:
DOJ releases WACO report
Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown
ECON STATS: July business inventories
Wilhelm: Louisville, KT and Charlotte, NC
THURS
9/16
POTUS :
ADMINISTRATION
J. Brown: Dallas, VA OPA Conference
Pena: Congressional Hispanic Caucus Gala
Shalala: Denver
Riley: C-SPAN interview; mtg w/ Ambassador Tuerk (Austria
Browner: Speak at Hispanic Heritage Month Observance
Wilhelm: Unity Rally, NYC
WORLD:
Mexican independence day
ECON STATS: Fed's August industrial production
FRI
9/17
POTUS : PM Ciampi (Italy)
ADMINISTRATION
Shalala: Denver
Pena: Naval Arch Speech, New York City
Browner: Mtg w/Ambassador Kantor; Nat. Res. Council, Vermont
Riley: Governor's Conference on Education, Atlanta
L. Brown: Congressional Black Caucus Forum
Reno: Dedication ceremony w/Gov. Collins, Tallahassee, FL
OTHER
Wilhelm: DNC Retreat (thru 9/18)
SAT
9/18 POTUS :
ADMINISTRATION
Browner: Nat. Resources Council, Vermont
Shalala: Denver
Espy: Stenholm fundraiser, Stamford, TX
Cisneros: Municipal Dinner, Hartford, CT
OTHER
Anti-
NAFTA rally w/Ross Perot and Sen. Riegle, Lansing, MI
HISTORY
U.S. Air Force established as separate military service, 1947
SUN
9/19 POTUS :
ADMINISTRATION
Cisneros: Richmond, VA
O'Leary: Miliken Seminar: Spartensburg, SC
OTHER:
Southern Governors Conference (thru 9/21)
MON
9/20
POTUS :
ADMINISTRATION
Riley: Fortune Mag. Ed. Summit Speech
O'Leary: Miliken Seminar, Spartensbur, SC
L. Brown: Nashville, Int'l City Council Managment
Reno: Adress Women's Legislator's Lobby
Pena: Mtg. w/Argentinian Sec. of Transportation
WORLD
UN Conference on Trade & Development, Geneva (thru 10/1)
OTHER
Southern Governors Conference discuss trade w/ African heads of state
TUE
9/21 POTUS :
ADMINISTRATION
Cisneros: Meet w/Mayor of Knoxville, TN
Shalala: Israeli ministirial meeting
Riley: Channel 1 speech
O'Leary: NYC
OTHER:
Boston mayoral primary
U.N. General Assembly thru 12/23.
Southern Governors Conference ends
HISTORY
3rd anniversary of Hurricane Hugo
ECON STATS: August housing starts
WED
9/22 POTUS : Address to Congress on health care
ADMINISTRATION
Babbitt: CA
Pena: Women's Transportation Seminar reception
Reno: Conf. of the Office of General Counsel, GSA
O'Leary: Enviro. Energy Study Inst. lunch
OTHER
ECON STATS: Treasury issues federal budget statement for August
THURS
9/23 POTUS :
ADMINISTRATION
Riley: Institute for Education Leadership Speech
L. Brown: Joint Center for Political & Econ. Stud; Charlie Rose Show
O'Leary: Nat'l Coal Assn.
Pena: Railroad Safety Anniversary speech
OTHER
Wilhelm: West Coast (thru 9/28)
FRI
9/24 POTUS : Cabinet Meeting
ADMINISTRATION
Babbitt, Pena: Natural Resources Cluster mtg (EPA)
O'Leary, Browner: Nat. Resources Cluster lunch
OTHER
Yom Kippur begins
ECON STATS: August durable goods
SUN
9/26 POTUS : Dinkins Event, NYC
ADMINISTRATION
Reno: Casey Journalism Center
MON
9/27 POTUS : Address UN General Assembly
VPOTUS: San Francisco? L.A.?
ADMINISTRATION
J Brown: Chicago
Shalala: Kentucky
O'Leary: Int'l Atomic Energy Agency Conference, Vienna
TUES
9/28 POTUS :
VPOTUS: New Orleans?
ADMINISTRATION
Riley: Red Cross town mtg.
Reno: Int'l Conf. of Prosecutors
Cisneror: Mtg w/ Mayor, Cinncinati
OTHER
IMF/World Bank Annual Meeting opens
WED
9/29 ADMINISTRATION
Riley: Amer Assn of School Administration speech
OTHER
ECON STATS: 2nd quarter GDP and corporate profits
Wilhelm: Texas
THU
9/30 POTUS : Cabinet Meeting
VPOTUS: Enviro speech at IMF/IBRD conference
ADMINISTRATION:
OTHER: Deadline for extension of UNPROFOR mandate, Balkans
Gen. Colin Powell retires
Chanute AFB (IL) closes.
ECON STATS: August new home sales and personal income
Wilhelm: West Coast, Athens, OH
SAT
10/1 Gays in the Military Policy takes effect.
Trade: President's report on the Carribbean Basin Econ. Recovery Act
SUN
10/3 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
Argentina: Congressional Elections.
MON
10/4 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
6th session of START Compliance & Inspection Comm., Geneva
TUES
10/5 POTUS : DSCC Dinner?
VPOTUS: DSCC Dinner?
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
United States Supreme Court October term begins
WED
10/6 POTUS: CEO Lunch
FRI
10/8
POTUS: Yale Law School Reunion
SAT
10/9 POTUS: Yale Law School Reunion
SUN
10/10 POTUS: Yale Law School Reunion
MON
10/11 POTUS: President and Mrs. Clinton's Anniversary
TUES
10/12 POTUS: UNC Bicentennial, Chapell Hill, NC
THUR
10/14 WORLD
Rio Group Presidential Summit, Santiago
FRI
10/15
POTUS: PM Ciller (Turkey)
WED
10/20
POTUS: CEO Lunch
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
NATO Defense Ministers mtg., Germany (thru 10/21)
FRI
10/22
POTUS : Cabinet Meeting?; PM Gonzales (Spain)
ADMINISTRATION
SUN
10/24
POTUS :
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
NH GOP honors Gov's, Sens and Reps (Dole, Chaney, Quayle, Kemp, Gramm,
and
other '96 hopefuls to attend)
MON
10/25 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
HISTORY
U.S. invasion of Grenada, 1983
TUES
10/26 POTUS: PM Mitsotakis (Greece)
VPOTUS:
FIRST LADY: Birthday
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
Great City Schools Conference, Houston (through 10/31)
FRI
10/29
POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
T.V.
Dan Rather moderates town meeting on School Safety and Violence (Great
City Schools Fall Conference)
SAT
10/30 POTUS:
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
President Aristide returns to Haiti
MON
11/1 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
Christopher: President of Phillipines
SUN
11/7 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
Quincentennial commeration of discovery of Puerto Rico (thru 11/8)
WED
11/10
POTUS :
VPOTUS: University of Colorado
THURS
11/11 Veterans Day
Deadline: Clinton promise to release POW/MIA records
WED
11/17
POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation mtg, Seattle (thru 11/19)
THURS
11/18
WORLD
APEC
FRI
11/19
WORLD
APEC
MON
11/22 30th Anniversary of President Kennedy's Assassination
THURS
11/25 Thanksgiving
WED
12/1 WORLD
Rwanda, Tenative Elections
THURS
12/2 POTUS
ADMINSTRATION
Christopher: NAC/NACC Ministerials, Brussels
OTHER
Democratic Leadership Council annual conference (thru 12/4)
FRI
12/3 OTHER
DLC Conference
SAT
12/4 OTHER
DLC Conference
SUN
12/5 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
First round of Presidential election in Gabon
Presidential, Congressional & State Assembly elections, Venezula
MON
12/13 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
Presidential & Congressional elections, Chile
WED
12/15 WORLD
GATT: New Deadline for Fast Track Authority Uruguay Round
FRI
12/30 Florio: U.S. Conf. Mayors report on welfare reform.
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (RECONSTRUCTED EMAIL)
CREATOR: Cathy R. Mays
(MAYS_C) (OPD)
CREATION DATE/TIME:15-SEP-1993 15:55:00.00
SUBJECT: Calendar
TO: Jose Cerda, III
(CERDA_J) (OPD)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Paul J. Weinstein, Jr
(WEINSTEIN_P) (OPD)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Kathryn J. Way
(WAY_K) (OPD)
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Brian E. Burke
(BURKE_B) (OPD)
READ: UNKNOWN
TEXT:
ATTACHMENT 1
ATT CREATOR: Paul Meyer
(MEYER_P)
ATT CREATION DATE/TIME:15-SEP-1993 00:29:00.00
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WED
9/15 POTUS : New Orleans NAFTA Event; Meeting w/ Civil Rights Leaders
VPOTUS: Nat'l Information Infrastructure announcement; Capitol Hill
First Lady: unveiling new health care antitrust policy w/ Reno; receives
Families USA report.
ADMINISTRATION
Bentsen, Christopher, Kantor: Senate Finance NAFTA hearing
Babbit: San Francisco NAFTA Travel
Cisneros: Baltimore NAFTA Travel
Pena: Miami NAFTA travel
Reno: unveiling new health care antitrust policy w/ First Lady
R Brown: Nat'l Information Infrastructure announcement w/ VPOTUS
Aspin: Air Force Assn Nat'l convention
J. Brown: VA Nat'l Assc state dirs, Bismark, ND
Riley: Nat'l Assesment of Educational Progress 1992; Drug-Free School Awards
Shalala: Releases report: "Health, United States, 1992" statistical report.
Browner: Chesapeake Bay Exec Cnc, Newpot News, VA
CONGRESS
House Repub Leaders' Task Force on Health Care intruduces alternative plan.
Senate Republicans unveil their health plan 1 lam S-
207
Joint Econ Committee: Health Care Reform - witnesses: Families USA; AARP
S Finance: NAFTA Hearing w/ Kantor, Bentsen, Christopher
H Ways & Means Trade Subcomm: NAFTA
Cong. Black Caucus Legislative Weekend opening.
OTHER
DOJ releases WACO report
AFL-CIO VP William Bywater announces launching of anti-NAFTA campaign.
Hispanic Roundtable - Speakers: Sen. Dole, Erskine Bowles
Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown
ECON STATS: July business inventories
THURS
9/16
POTUS : Health Care events; Health Care briefing for state & local officials;
Conference of Black Mayors All-American Cities Ceremony; Congressional Hispanic
Caucus Dinner
VPOTUS: Health Care
ADMINISTRATION
R Brown: Pittsburgh NAFTA Travel
Babbit: California NAFTA travel
Bentsen: Chicago NAFTA travel
Browner: Jacksonville, FLA NAFTA Travel
Tyson: Boston NAFTA Travel
Altman: Atlanta NAFTA Travel
Yerxa (Deputy USTR): Detroit NAFTA Travel
J. Brown: Dallas, VA OPA Conference
L. Brown: Economist interview
Cisneros: Larry King radio
Shalala: Denver
Riley: C-SPAN interview
WORLD:
Mexican independence day
OTHER
Wilhelm: Democratic Unity Rally, NYC
ECON STATS: Fed's August industrial production; Commerce's July
merchandise trade; Labor'sweekly jobless
FRI
9/17
POTUS : Health Care/small business event; Italian PM Ciampi; Airline
Commission report; Congressional Black Caucus Reception
First Lady: Minnesota
ADMINISTRATION
Shalala: Denver
Pena: Naval Arch Speech, New York City
Bentsen: Dallas Morning News interview
Browner: Mtg w/Ambassador Kantor; Nat. Res. Council, Vermont
Riley: Governor's Conference on Education, Atlanta
L. Brown: Congressional Black Caucus Forum
Reno: Tallahassee, FL
OTHER
Wilhelm: DNC Retreat (thru 9/18)
SAT
9/18 POTUS : Congressional Black Caucus Dinner
ADMINISTRATION
Browner: Nat. Resources Council, Vermont
Shalala: Denver
Espy: Stenholm fundraiser, Stamford, TX
Cisneros: Municipal Dinner, Hartford, CT
OTHER
Anti-
NAFTA rally w/Ross Perot and Sen. Riegle, Lansing, MI
HISTORY
U.S. Air Force established as separate military service, 1947
SUN
9/19 POTUS :
ADMINISTRATION
Cisneros: Richmond, VA
O'Leary: Miliken Seminar: Spartensburg, SC
WORLD
Polish Elections
Cairo: Arab League Foreign Ministers meet
OTHER:
Southern Governors Conference (thru 9/21)
MON
9/20
POTUS : Health Care Breakfast
ADMINISTRATION
Riley: Fortune Mag. Ed. Summit Speech
O'Leary: Miliken Seminar, Spartensbur, SC
L. Brown: Nashville, Int'l City Council Managment
Reno: Adress Women's Legislator's Lobby
Pena: Mtg. w/Argentinian Sec. of Transportation
WORLD
UN Conference on Trade & Development, Geneva (thru 10/1)
OTHER
Southern Governors Conference discuss trade w/ African heads of state
TUE
9/21 POTUS : National Service Bill Signing
ADMINISTRATION
Cisneros: Meet w/Mayor of Knoxville, TN
Shalala: Israeli ministirial meeting
Riley: Channel 1 speech
O'Leary: NYC
OTHER:
Boston mayoral primary
U.N. General Assembly thru 12/23.
Southern Governors Conference ends
HISTORY
3rd anniversary of Hurricane Hugo
ECON STATS: August housing starts
WED
9/22 POTUS : Anchors lunch; Address to Congress on health care
ADMINISTRATION
Babbitt: CA
Pena: Women's Transportation Seminar reception
Reno: Conf. of the Office of General Counsel, GSA
O'Leary: Enviro. Energy Study Inst. lunch
OTHER
ECON STATS: Treasury issues federal budget statement for August
THURS
9/23 POTUS : Tampa
ADMINISTRATION
Riley: Institute for Education Leadership Speech
L. Brown: Joint Center for Political & Econ. Stud; Charlie Rose Show
O'Leary: Nat'l Coal Assn.
Pena: Railroad Safety Anniversary speech
OTHER
Wilhelm: West Coast (thru 9/28)
FRI
9/24 POTUS : Tampa; Cabinet Meeting?
ADMINISTRATION
Babbitt, Pena: Natural Resources Cluster mtg (EPA)
O'Leary, Browner: Nat. Resources Cluster lunch
OTHER
Yom Kippur begins
ECON STATS: August durable goods
SUN
9/26 POTUS : Dinkins Event, NYC
VPOTUS: San Francisco
ADMINISTRATION
Reno: Casey Journalism Center
MON
9/27 POTUS : Address UN General Assembly
VPOTUS: San Francisco; L.A.
ADMINISTRATION
J Brown: Chicago
Shalala: Kentucky
O'Leary: Int'l Atomic Energy Agency Conference, Vienna
TUES
9/28 POTUS :
VPOTUS: Orange County, CA; D.C.
ADMINISTRATION
Riley: Red Cross town mtg.
Reno: Int'l Conf. of Prosecutors
Cisneror: Mtg w/ Mayor, Cinncinati
OTHER
IMF/World Bank Annual Meeting opens
WED
9/29 ADMINISTRATION
Riley: Amer Assn of School Administration speech
OTHER
ECON STATS: 2nd quarter GDP and corporate profits
Wilhelm: Texas
THU
9/30 POTUS : Cabinet Meeting
VPOTUS: Enviro speech at IMF/IBRD conference
ADMINISTRATION:
OTHER: Deadline for extension of UNPROFOR mandate, Balkans
Gen. Colin Powell retires
Chanute AFB (IL) closes.
ECON STATS: August new home sales and personal income
Wilhelm: West Coast, Athens, OH
SAT
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Trade: President's report on the Carribbean Basin Econ. Recovery Act
DGA Conference, Jackson Hole, WY
SUN
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ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
Argentina: Congressional Elections.
MON
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ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
6th session of START Compliance & Inspection Comm., Geneva
TUES
10/5 POTUS : DSCC Dinner?
VPOTUS: DSCC Dinner?
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
United States Supreme Court October term begins
WED
10/6 POTUS: CEO Lunch
FRI
10/8
POTUS: Yale Law School Reunion
SAT
10/9 POTUS: Yale Law School Reunion
SUN
10/10 POTUS: Yale Law School Reunion
MON
10/11 POTUS: President and Mrs. Clinton's Anniversary
TUES
10/12 POTUS: UNC Bicentennial, Chapell Hill, NC
THUR
10/14 WORLD
Rio Group Presidential Summit, Santiago
FRI
10/15
POTUS: PM Ciller (Turkey)
WED
10/20
POTUS: CEO Lunch
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
NATO Defense Ministers mtg., Germany (thru 10/21)
FRI
10/22
POTUS : Cabinet Meeting?; PM Gonzales (Spain)
ADMINISTRATION
SUN
10/24
POTUS :
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
NH GOP honors Gov's, Sens and Reps (Dole, Chaney, Quayle, Kemp, Gramm,
and
other '96 hopefuls to attend)
MON
10/25 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
HISTORY
U.S. invasion of Grenada, 1983
TUES
10/26 POTUS: PM Mitsotakis (Greece)
VPOTUS:
FIRST LADY: Birthday
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
Great City Schools Conference, Houston (through 10/31)
FRI
10/29
POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
T.V.
Dan Rather moderates town meeting on School Safety and Violence (Great
City Schools Fall Conference)
SAT
10/30
POTUS:
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
President Aristide returns to Haiti
MON
11/1 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
Christopher: President of Phillipines
SUN
11/7 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
Quincentennial commeration of discovery of Puerto Rico (thru 11/8)
WED
11/10
POTUS :
VPOTUS: University of Colorado
THURS
11/11 Veterans Day
Deadline: Clinton promise to release POW/MIA records
WED
11/17
POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation mtg, Seattle (thru 11/19)
THURS
11/18
WORLD
APEC
FRI
11/19
WORLD
APEC
MON
11/22 30th Anniversary of President Kennedy's Assassination
THURS
11/25 Thanksgiving
WED
12/1 WORLD
Rwanda, Tenative Elections
THURS
12/2 POTUS
ADMINSTRATION
Christopher: NAC/NACC Ministerials, Brussels
OTHER
Democratic Leadership Council annual conference (thru 12/4)
FRI
12/3 OTHER
DLC Conference
SAT
12/4 OTHER
DLC Conference
SUN
12/5 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
First round of Presidential election in Gabon
Presidential, Congressional & State Assembly elections, Venezula
MON
12/13 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
Presidential & Congressional elections, Chile
WED
12/15 WORLD
GATT: New Deadline for Fast Track Authority Uruguay Round
FRI
12/30 Florio: U.S. Conf. Mayors report on welfare reform.
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Readers are encouraged to submit additions, corrections, and suggestions. Please contact
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2539, if you have questions about the calendar.
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TUE
9/21 POTUS : National Service Bill Signing; Health Care Lunch
ADMINISTRATION
Shalala: Israeli ministerial meeting
Riley: Channel 1 speech; Conf. on Math and Science; Satellite Town Meeting
O'Leary: NYC
Babbitt: Meet w/Governor Waihee
Panetta: Address Natl' Assoc. of Manufacturers
Espy: Rural Development Forum; Senate Ag Comm on NAFTA
Kantor: Senate Ag Comm on NAFTA
J Brown: Hispanic Heritage Month speech
Shalala: Israeli Minister Meeting
Bentsen: Speech to Econ Club of NY
Reno: Boys and Girls Club Board; Women Legislators' Lobby
Browner: Kennedy/Waxman Food Safety Hearing
Anthony Lake: Foreign Policy speech, SAIS
CONGRESS:
Rep. Gephardt speech on NAFTA, 1pm Nat'l Press Club
S Agriculture: NAFTA Hearing: Kantor, Espy
H Ways & Means Trade Subcomm: NAFTA hearing
Rep. McDermott holds health care reform seminar for Members and staff.
WORLD:
U.N. General Assembly convenes thru 12/23.
IAEA Board meet in Vienna on North Korea
OTHER:
Boston mayoral primary
Southern Governors Conference ends
3rd anniversary of Hurricane Hugo
ECON STATS: August housing starts
WED
First Day of Autumn
9/22 POTUS : Anchors lunch; Address Joint Session of Congress on Health Care
ADMINISTRATION
Reich: Speech-Business Week symposium
Panetta: Address American Business Conf
Pena: Women's Transportation Seminar reception
Reno: Conf. of the Office of General Counsel, GSA
O'Leary: Enviro. Energy Study Inst. lunch
Riley: Voc Ed Teleconference
Espy: Rural Development Forum
Browner: House Ag Comm Hearing on pesticide policies.
Bentsen, R Browm, Kantor: Speech to Amer Business Conf
Bowles: House Small Business Comm on minority business development.
CONGRESS:
Rep. Bonilla speaks on NAFTA at Heritage, 12pm.
WORLD:
IMF releases World Economic Outlook
OTHER
Amer. Business Conf. annual meeting: Kantor, R Brown, Bentsen, Rep. Matsui
ECON STATS: Treasury issues federal budget statement for August
BIRTHDAY: Tim Wirth
THURS
9/23 POTUS : WH Health Care Rally; Tampa Health Care TV Town Meeting
ADMINISTRATION
Riley: Testimony re: ESEA Reauthorization; Institute for Education
Leadership Speech
L. Brown: Charlie Rose Show
O'Leary: Nat'l Coal Assn.
Pena: Railroad Safety Anniversary speech
Reich: Breakfast w/Amer business Conf CEOs
Espy: Boston - Agri/Business Conference
CONGRESS
Congressional Sunbelt Caucus debate on NAFTA
Speaker Foley speaks on congressional reform at Nat'l Press Club lunch
OTHER
NFIB Pres Jack Faris news conference on health care plan, 10 am.
Pharmaceutical Maunfacturers Anns response to health plan, 2pm.
Int'l Olympic Comm. selects host of 2000 summer games
Wilhelm: West Coast (thru 9/28)
FRI Yom Kippur
9/24 POTUS : Tampa/St. Pete Crime Event
Mrs Gore: Nashville
ADMINISTRATION
Babbitt, Pena: Natural Resources Cluster mtg (EPA)
O'Leary, Browner: Nat. Resources Cluster lunch
Aspin: Nat'l Press Club lunch
Riley: CIC Conference Speech
L. Brown: Natl' League of Cities Conf
OTHER
Nelson Mandela speaks World Economic Development Congress in DC
ECON STATS: August durable goods
SAT
9/25 POTUS:
ADMINISTRATION
Cisneros: NYC - Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
O'Leary: Vienna - IAEA Conf
Espy: White Sulphur Springs, WV - NACA
SUN
9/26 POTUS : Dinkins Event, NYC
VPOTUS: San Francisco
ADMINISTRATION
Reno: Casey Journalism Center for Child and Fam
O'Leary: Vienna - IAEA Conf
Espy: White Sulphur Springs, WV - NACA
Reich: Michigan - Detroit Econ Club
MON
9/27 POTUS : Address UN General Assembly
VPOTUS: San Francisco; L.A.
ADMINISTRATION
Shalala: Kentucky
Espy: White Sulphur Springs, WV - NACA
Reich: Michigan - Detroit Econ Club
Cisneros: New Orleans
Browner: Ohio - Superfund
TUES
9/28 POTUS :
VPOTUS: Orange County, CA; New Orleans; D.C.
First Lady: Congressional Testimony on Health Care
ADMINISTRATION
Riley: Red Cross town mtg.
Reno: Int'l Conf. of Prosecutors
Cisneros: Mtg w/ Mayor, Cincinnati
Espy: Meet w/Japanese Sec. of Ag
OTHER
IMF/World Bank Annual Meeting opens
BIRTHDAY: Madeline Kunin
WED
9/29 First Lady: Congressional Testimony on Health Care
ADMINISTRATION
Riley: Amer Assn of School Administration speech
Panetta & Shalala: Disability Issues Mtg
Espy: Jackson, MS - Health Care Symposium
OTHER
ECON STATS: 2nd quarter GDP and corporate profits
Wilhelm: Texas
THU
9/30 POTUS : Cabinet Meeting
VPOTUS: Enviro speech at IMF/IBRD conference
ADMINISTRATION:
Shalala: Intl' Women's Forum
Shalala, Cisneros, Browner: Lead Poisoning Mtg
Espy: Crop report
Pena: Saudi Arabia
Bentsen: Speech to Amer Bankers Assoc.
O'Leary: Moscow
Reno: Address Sponsor A Child Ceremony
OTHER: Deadline for extension of UNPROFOR mandate, Balkans
Gen. Colin Powell retires
Chanute AFB (IL) closes.
ECON STATS: August new home sales and personal income
Wilhelm: West Coast, Athens, OH
SAT
10/1 Gays in the Military Policy takes effect.
Trade: President's report on the Caribbean Basin Econ. Recovery Act
DGA Conference, Jackson Hole, WY
BIRTHDAY: President Carter, Chief Justice Rehnquist
SUN
10/3 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
Argentina: Congressional Elections.
MON
10/4 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
6th session of START Compliance & Inspection Comm., Geneva
TUES
10/5 POTUS : DSCC Dinner?
VPOTUS: DSCC Dinner?
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
United States Supreme Court October term begins
WED
10/6 POTUS: CEO Lunch
SAT
10/9 POTUS: Yale Law School Reunion
MON
10/11 POTUS: President and Mrs. Clinton's Anniversary
TUES
10/12 POTUS: UNC Bicentennial, Chapell Hill, NC
THUR
10/14 WORLD
Rio Group Presidential Summit, Santiago
FRI
10/15
POTUS: PM Ciller (Turkey)
WED
10/20
POTUS: CEO Lunch
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
NATO Defense Ministers mtg., Germany (thru 10/21)
FRI
10/22
POTUS : Cabinet Meeting?; PM Gonzales (Spain)
ADMINISTRATION
SUN
10/24
POTUS :
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
NH GOP honors Gov's, Sens and Reps (Dole, Chaney, Quayle, Kemp, Gramm,
and
other '96 hopefuls to attend)
MON
10/25 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
HISTORY
U.S. invasion of Grenada, 1983
TUES
10/26 POTUS: PM Mitsotakis (Greece)
VPOTUS:
FIRST LADY: Birthday
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
Great City Schools Conference, Houston (through 10/31)
FRI
10/29
POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
T.V.
Dan Rather moderates town meeting on School Safety and Violence (Great
City Schools Fall Conference)
SAT
10/30 POTUS:
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
President Aristide returns to Haiti
MON
11/1 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
Christopher: President of Philippines
SUN
11/7 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
Quincentennial commemoration of discovery of Puerto Rico (thru 11/8)
WED
11/10
POTUS :
VPOTUS: University of Colorado
THURS
11/11 Veterans Day
Deadline: Clinton promise to release POW/MIA records
WED
11/17
POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation mtg, Seattle (thru 11/19)
THURS
11/18
WORLD
APEC
FRI
11/19
WORLD
APEC
MON
11/22 30th Anniversary of President Kennedy's Assassination
THURS
11/25 Thanksgiving
WED
12/1 WORLD
Rwanda, Tentative Elections
THURS
12/2 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
Christopher: NAC/NACC Ministerial, Brussels
OTHER
Democratic Leadership Council annual conference (thru 12/4)
FRI
12/3 OTHER
DC Conference
SAT
12/4 OTHER
DC Conference
SUN
12/5 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
First round of Presidential election in Gabon
Presidential, Congressional & State Assembly elections, Venezuela
MON
12/13 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
Presidential & Congressional elections, Chile
WED
12/15 WORLD
GATT: New Deadline for Fast Track Authority Uruguay Round
FRI
12/30 Florio: U.S. Conf. Mayors report on welfare reform.
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Morning Edition
September 21, 1993
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The information below is tentative and is intended for internal planning purposes only.
Readers are encouraged to submit additions, corrections, and suggestions. Please contact
the Office of Communications Research in OEOB 197; PHONE 456-7845, FAX: 456-2239 or
2539, if you have questions about the calendar.
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WED
First Day of Autumn
9/22 POTUS : Anchors lunch; Address Joint Session of Congress on Health Care
VPOTUS: Mezvinsky event; Joint Session
ADMINISTRATION:
Bentsen, R Browm, Kantor: Speech to Amer Business Conf
Reich: Speech-Business Week symposium
Panetta: Address American Business Conf
Pena: Women's Transportation Seminar reception
Reno: Speech to Board of Nat'l Boys and Girls Club
Riley: Voc Ed Teleconference
Espy: Rural Development Forum
Browner: House Ag Comm Hearing on pesticide policies.
Bowles: House Small Business Comm on minority business development
CONGRESS:
Sen. Graham (Fl) Health Care press avail after POTUS speech
Rep. Bonilla speaks on NAFTA at Heritage, 12pm
H Energy and Power Subcommittee Hearing on NAFTA
H Vets' Hosps & Health Care Subcomm hearing on DVA health care services.
H Armed Services hearing on Gen. Shalikashvili
H Floor: Defense Authorization
WORLD:
IMF releases World Economic Outlook
OTHER
HEALTH CARE: Republican Response: Rep. Nancy Johnson, Sen. Mack, Gov.
Carroll Campbell
Amer. Business Conf. annual meeting: Kantor, R Brown, Bentsen, Rep. Matsui
ECON STATS: Treasury issues federal budget statement for August
Birthdays: Ernest Green; Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.; Tim Wirth
THURS
9/23 POTUS : WH Health Care Rally; Tampa Health Care TV Town Meeting
VPOTUS: Enviro. breakfast; Health Care Rally
ADMINISTRATION
Riley: Testimony re: ESEA Reauthorization; Institute for Education
Leadership Speech
L. Brown: Charlie Rose Show
O'Leary: Nat'l Coal Assn.
Pena: Railroad Safety Anniversary speech
Reich: Breakfast w/Amer business Conf CEOs
Espy: Boston - Agri/Business Conference
CONGRESS
Congressional Sunbelt Caucus debate on NAFTA
Speaker Foley speaks on congressional reform at Nat'l Press Club lunch
OTHER
NFIB Pres Jack Faris news conference on health care plan, 10 am.
Pharmaceutical Maunfacturers Anns response to health plan, 2pm.
Int'l Olympic Comm. selects host of 2000 summer games
Wilhelm: West Coast (thru 9/28)
FRI Yom Kippur
9/24 POTUS : Tampa/St. Pete Crime Event
Mrs Gore: Nashville
ADMINISTRATION
Babbitt, Pena: Natural Resources Cluster mtg (EPA)
O'Leary, Browner: Nat. Resources Cluster lunch
Aspin: Nat'l Press Club lunch
Riley: CIC Conference Speech
L. Brown: Natl' League of Cities Conf
OTHER
Nelson Mandela speaks World Economic Development Congress in DC
ECON STATS: August durable goods
SAT
9/25 POTUS:
VPOTUS: Nat'l Student Leadership Meeting
ADMINISTRATION
Cisneros: NYC - Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
O'Leary: Vienna - IAEA Conf
Espy: White Sulphur Springs, WV - NACA
SUN
9/26 POTUS : Dinkins Event, NYC
VPOTUS: San Francisco
ADMINISTRATION
Reno: Casey Journalism Center for Child and Fam
O'Leary: Vienna - IAEA Conf
Espy: White Sulphur Springs, WV - NACA
Reich: Michigan - Detroit Econ Club
MON
9/27 POTUS : Address UN General Assembly
VPOTUS: San Francisco; L.A.
ADMINISTRATION
Shalala: Kentucky
Espy: White Sulphur Springs, WV - NACA
Reich: Michigan - Detroit Econ Club
Cisneros: New Orleans
Browner: Ohio - Superfund
TUES
9/28 POTUS :
VPOTUS: Orange County, CA; New Orleans; D.C.
First Lady: Congressional Testimony on Health Care
ADMINISTRATION
Riley: Red Cross town mtg.
Reno: Int'l Conf. of Prosecutors
Cisneros: Mtg w/ Mayor, Cincinnati
Espy: Meet w/Japanese Sec. of Ag
OTHER
IMF/World Bank Annual Meeting opens
BIRTHDAY: Madeline Kunin
WED
9/29 VPOTUS: Regulatory Reform Event
First Lady: Congressional Testimony on Health Care
ADMINISTRATION
Riley: Amer Assn of School Administration speech
Panetta & Shalala: Disability Issues Mtg
Espy: Jackson, MS - Health Care Symposium
OTHER
ECON STATS: 2nd quarter GDP and corporate profits
Wilhelm: Texas
THU
9/30 POTUS : Cabinet Meeting
VPOTUS: Enviro speech at IMF/IBRD conference; Gen. Powell reception
ADMINISTRATION
Shalala: Intl' Women's Forum
Shalala, Cisneros, Browner: Lead Poisoning Mtg
Espy: Crop report
Pena: Saudi Arabia
Bentsen: Speech to Amer Bankers Assoc.
O'Leary: Moscow
Reno: Address Sponsor A Child Ceremony
OTHER: Deadline for extension of UNPROFOR mandate, Balkans
Gen. Colin Powell retires
Chanute AFB (IL) closes.
ECON STATS: August new home sales and personal income
Wilhelm: West Coast, Athens, OH
SAT
10/1 Gays in the Military Policy takes effect.
Trade: President's report on the Caribbean Basin Econ. Recovery Act
DGA Conference, Jackson Hole, WY
BIRTHDAY: President Carter, Chief Justice Rehnquist
SUN
10/3 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
Argentina: Congressional Elections.
MON
10/4 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
6th session of START Compliance & Inspection Comm., Geneva
TUES
10/5 POTUS : DSCC Dinner?
VPOTUS: DSCC Dinner?
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
United States Supreme Court October term begins
WED
10/6 POTUS: CEO Lunch
SAT
10/9 POTUS: Yale Law School Reunion
MON
10/11 POTUS: President and Mrs. Clinton's Anniversary
TUES
10/12 POTUS: UNC Bicentennial, Chapell Hill, NC
THUR
10/14 WORLD
Rio Group Presidential Summit, Santiago
FRI
10/15
POTUS: PM Ciller (Turkey)
WED
10/20
POTUS: CEO Lunch
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
NATO Defense Ministers mtg., Germany (thru 10/21)
FRI
10/22
POTUS : Cabinet Meeting?; PM Gonzales (Spain)
ADMINISTRATION
SUN
10/24
POTUS :
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
NH GOP honors Gov's, Sens and Reps (Dole, Chaney, Quayle, Kemp, Gramm,
and
other '96 hopefuls to attend)
MON
10/25 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
HISTORY
U.S. invasion of Grenada, 1983
TUES
10/26 POTUS: PM Mitsotakis (Greece)
VPOTUS:
FIRST LADY: Birthday
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
Great City Schools Conference, Houston (through 10/31)
FRI
10/29
POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
T.V.
Dan Rather moderates town meeting on School Safety and Violence (Great
City Schools Fall Conference)
SAT
10/30
POTUS:
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
President Aristide returns to Haiti
MON
11/1 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
Christopher: President of Philippines
SUN
11/7 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
Quincentennial commemoration of discovery of Puerto Rico (thru 11/8)
WED
11/10
POTUS :
VPOTUS: University of Colorado
THURS
11/11 Veterans Day
Deadline: Clinton promise to release POW/MIA records
WED
11/17
POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation mtg, Seattle (thru 11/19)
THURS
11/18
WORLD
APEC
FRI
11/19
WORLD
APEC
MON
11/22 30th Anniversary of President Kennedy's Assassination
THURS
11/25 Thanksgiving
WED
12/1 WORLD
Rwanda, Tentative Elections
THURS
12/2 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
Christopher: NAC/NACC Ministerial, Brussels
OTHER
Democratic Leadership Council annual conference (thru 12/4)
FRI
12/3 OTHER
DC Conference
SAT
12/4 OTHER
DC Conference
SUN
12/5 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
First round of Presidential election in Gabon
Presidential, Congressional & State Assembly elections, Venezuela
MON
12/6 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
OTHER
American Enterprise Institute Annual Policy Conference thru 12/8
12/13 POTUS
ADMINISTRATION
WORLD
Presidential & Congressional elections, Chile
WED
12/15 WORLD
GATT: New Deadline for Fast Track Authority Uruguay Round
FRI
12/30 Florio: U.S. Conf. Mayors report on welfare reform.
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CREATOR: Christa T. Robinson (ROBINSON_C) (WHO)
CREATION DATE/TIME:28-SEP-1994 10:10:29.09
SUBJECT: Proposed events
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Date: 09/26/94 Time: 08:39
In Sandoval, Reservoir of Good Will for Clinton Is Drier But Not
SANDOVAL, III. (AP) To read some newspapers, watch some
television shows or listen to certain radio hosts, you could get
the idea that there are people across America who hate President
Clinton.
And there are. You'd just be hard pressed to find them here.
At first blush, little Sandoval 1,535 people huddled against a
sea of corn stalks would seem a good place to tap into the
groundswell of anti-Clinton feeling that seemed to rumble around
the country this summer.
It's poor. People here hold to traditional values. They're
Democrats, but conservative, in a small town, Harry Truman kind of
way.
A lot of them lined the highway in 1992 when the Democratic
campaign bus tour breezed through so many, in fact, that Clinton
ordered the buses to stop so he could get out and speak.
He promised change. People believed him.
Do they feel betrayed now?
It seems a reasonable question to ask because there are people
elsewhere who clearly feel a deep, personal loathing for the
president a sense of betrayal if they voted for him, just plain
anger if they didn't.
Oh, there are plenty of people who support him the president's
approval ratings have stayed pretty close to the 43 percent of the
electorate that voted him into office. But you don't have to go far
to hear the others.
Every once in a while, a president comes along who, if he was a
piece of gym equipment, would be the heavy bag. Franklin Roosevelt
was one, if you were conservative. Richard Nixon was one, if you
were liberal.
And Bill Clinton is one, if you believe what you hear and read.
Just not in Sandoval.
Not at the Double D Hair Salon, where either Darrena or Darlene
it isn't clear which, she wouldn't say looks up from washing
hair clips and says, ``I just think he's great."
Not at the Sandoval House Restaurant, where waitress Doris Lyons
looks a bit dreamy when she describes how the president talks:
"He's got a nice, soft voice. He's easy to listen to."
Not at Whitie's Barber Shop, where proprietor Steve Gregory
whips out two Clinton-Gore campaign buttons from the wooden cabinet
where he stores the combs and hair goop. ``I think he's doing a
great job," Gregory says.
The mayor, Gary Deadmond, likes Clinton. "Bill Clinton said he
stood for change, and he is trying to change things," Deadmond
says. "With all the problems in Congress, he's having a hard
time."
In Sandoval, you will find people who are disappointed in
Clinton, who strongly disagree with him. Who even dislike him.
But the sort of person who would believe Jerry Falwell when he
all but accuses the president of murder? The sort of person who
would own a popular bumper sticker that says: "Smoke dope, dodge
draft, cheat wife, become President. The new American Way!"
Not here.
Bill Resch owns the local video store, a little cottage with
white aluminum siding and a gravel parking lot. He voted for
Clinton and has lived to regret it. ``I've joined forces with those
who think he's turned out to be a weak president. He's real
wishy-washy."
Resch leans on the counter, a small, muscular man with sweptback
bristles of red hair shading to gray. And he voices some complaints
about Clinton that are common here, even among the president's most
ardent supporters.
"After all the things he said he was going to do, the first
thing he came out with was gay rights," Resch says, referring to
Clinton's gays-in-the-military policy. "With all the problems we
have, that just really turned me off. And his foreign policy he
doesn't have a foreign policy."
But Resch expresses something else that's common here. He trusts
Clinton, he says, and believes he means well. He isn't bothered in
the least by Clinton's Whitewater investments or by the stories
about the president's supposed extramarital affairs.
"I'm down on the press for that," he says. ``It just seems
like any subject, they go to extremes. It seems like once they
got a guy down, they just keep stomping on him."
A customer comes in. Scott Magnus is a big, dark-bearded,
6
34-year-old grain farmer who voted for Bush, likes Rush Limbaugh
and doesn't think much of Clinton's politics.
Still, he says, ``I really, truly believe that in most of what
he does, Clinton means well."
So he doesn't hate Clinton? ``I don't hate anybody," Magnus
says.
It's a friendly place, Sandoval.
On the evening of July 21, 1992, the Clinton campaign came
rolling up Highway 51, the road that nicks the edge of Sandoval on
its way from Centralia to Vandalia. Those are the big towns around
here, where many people in Sandoval drive to work. There aren't a
lot of jobs in Sandoval. In fact, there's not a lot of very much.
What there were a lot of, at least on that night, were
supporters of Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
The estimates range from 300 to 1,000 it doesn't much matter
which is right. The point is that what seemed like the entire town
was stretched out along the highway, everybody waving American
flags and Clinton-Gore banners, singing patriotic songs, cheering
in the warm Midwest night.
Clinton ordered the bus to stop. He and Gore and their wives got
out, hopped onto the roof of a limousine and spoke. It turned out
to be a magical moment, one of the most memorable of the campaign.
"When we are old men, Al Gore and I, we will say, you should
have seen the crowd in Sandoval," Clinton declared.
For Sandoval, it was the most memorable moment since ever.
Carolyn Hensen, Democratic committeewoman, had organized the
rally. ``It was something Sandoval will never forget," she says
now. "Because that day we were somebody. We meant something to
somebody."
Clinton went on to beat George Bush here by better than 3-to-1.
This town is almost all white, mostly Democratic and largely fed
up with the whole lollygagging, tax-sucking, gossip-mongering
Washington establishment.
They are people who didn't dodge the draft during the Vietnam
War, whose children fought in Desert Storm. They are
anti-immigration, anti-welfare, pro-gun, pro-flag. And despite it
all, many are pro-Clinton.
Then there's Dave Schilling. Schilling owns a woodworking shop
on North Main Street. He's gangly, 50 years old, with a long,
droopy mustache. He wears suspenders hooked to his blue jeans. He
is a registered Republican who voted for Ross Perot. And he doesn't
like Bill Clinton.
"Him?" he says, his voice rising when the subject of the
president is broached. "You mean her! President Clinton that's
Hillary. He's just a figurehead. And they both ought to be
impeached."
Schilling is standing outside his shop. He beckons a visitor
inside, saying, "I'm probably the only person in Sandoval who
doesn't like Bill Clinton."
"This town carried Bill Clinton," he goes on, his voice
turning sharp with sarcasm. ``Everybody in this town voted for him.
He could have said he would have doubled the income tax and
everything else, and they still would have voted for him. Because,
hell, he stopped to talk to them."
Schilling missed the bus tour, quite intentionally. "I wouldn't
walk across the street to see him if he came today."
He hates Clinton's health care plan. He hates his foreign
policy. He hates Mrs. Clinton's role in the administration.
But hate Bill Clinton? ``I hate nobody," Schilling says.
``Well, I got a few people who owe me money I kinda dislike.
No, hating's for young people. I'm too old to hate anybody."
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PRINTER FONT 12_POINT_COURIER
WHITE HOUSE TV NEWS ANALYSIS
Monday, March 13, 1995
Produced by the Office of News Analysis, OEOB 161 (ext. 6-
5694)
ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
1. Detective Fuhrman cross-examined in O.J. Simpson trial.
2. Death toll at 12 after five days of California flooding.
3. National Weather Service says a dozen states are flood risks.
4. Former Mexican President Salinas reportedly in the U.S.
5. Postcard rate will increase to twenty-one cents.
6. Dow Jones down 10pts., closes at 4025; NASDAQ no change.
7. Tampa hospital mistakes and damage cap legislation.
8. Legislation introduced to use vouchers for education.
9. Muslim moderates riot against Turkish fundamental officials.
10. U.N. Security Council continues Iraqi sanctions until May.
11. Russian military pilot misses nuclear plant with missile.
12. Fidel Castro visits French President Francois Mitterand.
13. Your Money: Republicans protecting their pork too.
CBS EVENING NEWS
1. Defense grills LAPD detective in Simpson case.
2. Storms continue to batter northern California.
3. Draft NASA report recommends private sector Space Shuttle.
4. First American on board Russian rocket to lift off tonight.
5. Janet Reno undecided about independent counsel for Cisneros.
6. U.N. votes to continue sanctions against Iraq.
7. Dow Jones closed down 10.38 to close at 4025.
8. "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy taken to court.
9. Islamic moderates riot in Istanbul.
10. Secretary of State Christopher meets with Syria's Assad.
11. Cuban president Fidel Castro visits Paris.
12. Eye on America: Doctor's treatment not Gvnt. sanctioned.
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS
1. Detective Fuhrman is cross-examined by Simpson defense team.
2. Flood warning remain in effect in Northern California.
3. New York federal court to rule on gays in the military.
4. Gov. Wilson of California overturns homosexual adoption law.
5. Senate Republicans unveil plan to cut federal budget.
6. President and Speaker Gingrich argue over welfare reform.
7. Wisconsin experiments with programs for welfare reform.
8. Independent council decision delayed in case of Cisneros.
9. Michael Jordan practices with the Chicago Bulls.
10. Dow Jones down 10.38 points to close at 4025.
11. Limited withdrawal of U.N. forces to take place in Croatia.
12. Former Mexican Pres. Salinas in New York on academic agenda.
13. Homocysteine could be new risk factor for heart failure.
14. Study shows low college enrollment for minorities.
15. Bootleg American products still plentiful in China.
ABC:
Bill Blankman reported on legislation to provide school vouchers
for low income children. He said Secretary of Education Richard
Riley opposes the plan. [Clip of Secretary Riley at a Committee
meeting. He later told Blankman the plan will be a "gigantic
drain on public education" and said parents "should have choices
within the public school system like pilot schools."]
In a story about Fidel Castro's state visit to France, his first
to a western democracy, Peter Jennings said French President
Francois Mitterand called the U.S. embargo against Cuba "stupid."
CBS:
Anchor Dan Rather reported Attorney General Janet Reno "has yet
to decide whether to launch an independent counsel investigation
of Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros." Correspondent Rita Braver
reported the issue clouding Cisneros is "an allegation that he
lied to the FBI during a background check about thousands of
dollars he had paid to his former mistress." Braver said the
White House refused "to speculate on whether Cisneros will step
down if an independent counsel is named." She continued by
highlighting other troubled or ended nominations.
Braver reported retired General Michael Carns withdrew his
nomination to become the next CIA chief over discrepancies
regarding a domestic worker.
Braver reported Dr. Henry Foster's nomination remains unclear due
to "misstatements" Foster made about the number of abortions he
performed. She reported Senator Phil Gramm has threatened a
filibuster in the Senate to block Foster's confirmation. She went
on to highlight the problems faced by Commerce Secretary Ron
Brown and former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy. "Some
Republicans charge that the Clinton administration has done a
poor job of choosing political appointees," said Braver. [Clip
of Leon Panetta on Face the Nation: "It is unfortunate that we're
living in a kind of tabloid atmosphere these days and the
unfortunate thing is this kind of thing can really hurt people in
the nomination process."] Braver closed by stating that "some
Democrats are having regrets over giving some Republican
appointees difficult confirmation hearings."
Rather reported that the "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding
gays in the military is being challenged in court. Correspondent
David Martin continued with the story saying "the always
controversial issue of gays in the military, which both the
Pentagon and the White House wish would just go away, resurfaced
today in a federal court..." Martin said the argument against the
policy is that it discriminates against gays and therefore is
unconstitutional. He also reported this is the first challenge of
the policy, which "is supposed to be more lenient than the old
ban on homosexuals but the Pentagon acknowledges gays are being
kicked out at the same rate as before." Assistant Secretary of
Defense Fred Pang said, "basically, we are separating at the same
rates we have in the past." Martin said this issue "will continue
to dog President Clinton. He touched off the controversy by
trying to totally lift the ban on gays over the objections of the
Joint Chiefs." Martin ended by speculating the case will
probably reach the Supreme Court at the same time as the '96
presidential campaign gets under way.
Rather reported Secretary of State Warren Christopher met with
Syria's President Hafez El-Assad for five hours. "Christopher is
trying to broker a peace agreement between Israel and Syria..."
Rather added President Clinton has offered the use of U.S.
military personnel as peacekeepers in the Golan Heights.
NBC:
Anchor Tom Browkaw reported "the Pentagon's don't ask, don't tell
policy" regarding gays in the military is on trial today in New
York federal court. Ed Rable, reporting from the Pentagon, said
that four Army reservists and two Navy enlisted men are suing the
federal government over the current policy. The plaintiffs,
reported Rable, claim the policy discriminates because it
"demands that they hide their homosexuality." He added that the
Pentagon "threw out 500 people they said violated this policy."
Experts testified that gay and lesbian soldiers that were
evaluated did not threaten morale or reduce fighting spirit,
continued Rable. Rable closed with "the Pentagon is standing by
its current policy." [Clip of Secretary of Defense William
Perry: "We are satisfied with the regulation that we are now
following."]
Brokaw reported that today President Clinton and Speaker of the
House Newt Gingrich traded "political punches" over welfare
reform. Speaking before the National League of Cities
Conference, the President said that Republicans are "pandering to
those who want to get rid of government at the expense of the
poor" reported Brokaw. He added that Gingrich claimed the White
House is running a "disinformation campaign" on welfare.
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TO: ALL CONCERNED
FROM: DAWN ALEXANDER
DATE: MARCH 30, 1995
RE: UPDATE ON WEEKEND SHOWS
Friday, April 1
McLaughlin One on One
Guest: Kasich
Re: budget
Saturday, April 1
Evans & Novak (CNN)
(live on Saturday
Guest: Senator Packwood
Re: taxes and welfare
Newsmaker Saturday (CNN)
Guests: Senators Simspon and Kerry
Re: social security/entitlements
Capitol Gang (CNN)
(Live Saturday)
Guest/Request: Rep. Bonior
Re: term limits, Alan Specter's chances, Haiti maybe, "don't ask
don't tell" (topics not really set yet)
Gang: Novak, Shields, Mona Charen, Margaret Carlson
Sunday, April 2
Face the Nation (CBS)
Guest: Christopher
Re: Russia, Iraq, United Nations, et. al.
Second guest: Senator Specter
Re: campaign announcement
Meet the Press (NBC)
Guest/Request: No Administration request (not making it public
yet)
Re: focus on Congress
This Week with Brinkley (ABC)
Guest: Gingrich
Re: Hill action
Late Edition (CNN)
Guest/Request: (?)
Re: Struggling with getting two republicans: one for cutting
taxes and one against cutting taxes in favor of deficit reduction.
Their second thought is to throw an administration official in
(Reich) to defend doing both: cutting taxes AND cutting the
deficit. Reich is not a firm request yet.
FYI ONLY
Larry King Live is looking at doing a show on affirmative action
mid
-April.
MacNeil
-Lehrer is looking at doing something on Guatemala.
"Nightline" is requesting scheduling information on POTUS, VPOTUS
and administration officials. They are looking at covering the
Contract 100 days in their "day in the life" format, switching
back and forth between Gingrich/Republicans and POTUS/VPOTUS and
administration officials countering the republicans.
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CBS "FACE THE NATION"
WITH HOST: BOB SCHIEFFER
JOINED BY: GLORIA BORGER
GUEST:
REPRESENTATIVE NEWT GINGRICH (R-GA),
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 1995
PLEASE CREDIT ANY QUOTES OR EXCERPTS FROM THIS CBS
PROGRAM TO "CBS'S FACE THE NATION."
MR. SCHIEFFER: With us now from Atlanta, Georgia: the
speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich. Joining in the questioning
this morning: Gloria Borger of U.S. News & World Report.
Mr. Speaker, thank you very much for joining us this
morning.
SPEAKER GINGRICH: Bob, it's good to be with you.
MR. SCHIEFFER: Well, it is -- it was an extraordinary
three months by any standard, but yesterday the president
came out pretty hard against a lot of what you did. He
said a lot of the Republican proposals amounted to nothing
more than an attack on government. He threatened to veto
the tax cut as it's now written. He threatened to veto
the welfare package as you all wrote it in the House if it
gets to him in that form. What are you going to do if he
does veto those major planks in this?
SPEAKER GINGRICH: Well, let me say two things, Bob.
First of all, I don't think he quite gets it. Yes, it is
an attack on government. Yes, that's what the American
people are saying. That's what they said in 1992 when he
promised a middle-class tax cut. That's what they said in
'88 when they defeated Dukakis and elected Bush. That's
what they said in '84 when they gave Mondale one state by
a very narrow margin and gave 49 states to Reagan. Our
proposals which will come out in May to shrink the federal
government, to shrink the bureaucracy, to eliminate some
departments, to save the taxpayers money, to move to a
balanced budget, that's what the voters want, and
I don't think the president should let himself get trapped
into being a defender of an obsolete, out-of-touch,
old-fashioned, bureaucratic, centralized government.
But, second, he has every right to veto. He is the
president of the United States. We have every right to
try to override. We have every right to attach it to
bills he wants. And I think once it gets through the
Senate and gets through conference committee he'll see the
standard negotiations. I lived through 12 years of
Reagan and Bush presidencies in which the Democrats
negotiated, maneuvered, put things on bills the president
had to sign, tried to override. This is part of the
American constitutional system. I don't see anything
wrong with the idea that there's a creative tension
between the House and the Senate, between the legislative
and the executive, and the Supreme Court is there watching
all of us and protecting constitutional liberties. This
is the American system, and the president's exercising his
role in it to try to defend the liberal democratic values
of the party that he represents.
MR. SCHIEFFER: Well, let me just ask you about
something you just said. You said that you may just
simply attach some of these bills to bills that he wants
rather than bringing them back to the floor because it
would take -- what -- two-thirds of both houses to
override a veto. So is what you just said is that, rather
than do that, you'll just attach to something else and try
to get it passed by simple majority?
SPEAKER GINGRICH: We may well do it that way. And,
frankly, Senator Dole and I have not talked much about
this. Senator Dole will play the leading role in
designing it. He's more experienced than I am at this
level. He has a better sense of what works and what
doesn't. He was the majority leader before. And I think
I'd want to know what Senator Dole and Senator Lott want
to do, and we have not had that meeting. Congressman Armey
and I have not sat down, because frankly that's still, I
think, five or six months down the road overall. I think
we still are in phase one, where a lot of the contract has
to get through the Senate, where we have to move to a
balanced budget by 2002, which Senator Domenici will take
the lead on. The Senate will actually have the lead on the
budget, and the House will be following the Senate
leadership.
So I think we've got a couple of months yet to sort out
what we will do, but I can assure the American people that
the values they want, the kind of, for example, pro-work
welfare reforms they want, we're going to fight for.
We're not just going to get rolled over by the president.
But he has every right as a president to veto things, and
I respect that right.
MS. BORGER: Mr. Speaker, well, let's get a little
specific about -- if you say there's a give and take in
government, you know, the president has said that he
doesn't like your welfare proposal because it takes away
benefits from young unwed mothers who have another child
while they're on welfare. Would you be willing to give up
that portion of your welfare bill in order to get a bill
out of the Congress?
SPEAKER GINGRICH: Well, Gloria, the question I've
asked the president is what's his plan? I heard him two
years ago give a terrific State of the Union, where he
talked about the importance of family, he talked about the
importance of prayer, he talked about all sorts of values I
identified with. And I thought in January of '93 --
or '94 rather -- that this -- you know, he really is on
to something. And then nothing happened. What does he
propose to do to lower the number of children being born
outside wedlock?
MS. BORGER: Well, but would you give up on that item?
SPEAKER GINGRICH: We're not going to give up on it,
but we might be willing to look for a better solution. I
mean, does he have an idea? Does he have some proposal
that would lower the number of children being born to 12-
and 13- and 14-year-olds? When you have a 24-year-old
grandmother, there's something wrong.
MS. BORGER: Well, let's -- but let's shift to the tax
issue. In the Senate, and it wouldn't necessarily be the
president, there's talk that in the Senate, for example,
that there's a lot of support for lowering the amount of
families who earn $200,000 a year who say they would now --
under one bill they would get that proposal. Under --
some Democrats say it should be lowered to $95,000 a year.
Some Republicans say it should be lowered to $95,000 a
year. Would you accept that?
SPEAKER GINGRICH: Well, I think we have to go to
Congress and negotiate over it. I do think it's important
to note that 77 percent of the county favors a tax credit
for children and that the Senate has moved from "that
doesn't have a chance" to "that might pass" to "let's argue
over what thresh of cap is."
MS. BORGER: So the threshold --
SPEAKER GINGRICH: I like that argument.
MS. BORGER: Would you lower the threshold from 200,000
to 95,000?
SPEAKER GINGRICH: We're certainly going to have to go
into a conference and negotiate. Whether that's something
we negotiate over or not, I don't want to preclude for
Congressman Archer and the Ways & Means Committee what
they're going to do. But that's -- I mean, I think that we
have to wait and see what the Senate bill looks like and
how much of it we can agree with. But a lot of -- look, I
think the Senate has to do the best they can, given the
rules of their body and the fact that it's a different
system than the House is. Then we have to go to
conference. And Senator Dole and I and Senator Lott and
Congressman Armey have to work together to find a way to
get the best for the country we can get and then go
downtown and see what we can get out of the White House.
I don't want to prejudge anything at this stage. I
personally favor not engaging in class warfare. I think
parents ought to have an incentive to keep the money they
earn instead of giving it to a bureaucrat, and that's what
the argument's over.
MR. SCHIEFFER: Mr. Speaker, you said something I
thought was rather interesting the other night in your
interview with Connie Chung after the speech that you
made. And you said that sometimes you're able to get
along with the president and get in touch with the
president more easily than you do with Democratic
congressional leaders. Do you envision some sort of
arrangement in the future where you and the president
might be on one side and the Democratic congressional
leaders would be on the other? And how would that work?
SPEAKER GINGRICH: Well, as you know, Senator Dole and
I were both helping the president on NAFTA at a time when
the Democratic leadership was opposed to NAFTA. So in a
very real sense, even when we were in the minority, we
provided the biggest block votes on behalf of something the
president said was a national problem and a national
priority. There are occasions where we've sided with the
president in
a way that his own leadership has opposed.
I was very surprised this week -- and there was a big
page-one story in The Washington Post about a bunch of
Democrats going down to see the president from the House,
asking him to veto the bill which extended tax
deductibility for buying insurance to self-employed
people, family farms, small businesses. A very popular
bill that helped people buy insurance who are
self-employed and family farmers. And the president was
being asked by about 20 hard-core, bitter Democrats to
veto a bill that he knew was very popular. And at least
The Post story said he blew up at them and said they were
being partisan and irresponsible and factually false.
And I think that when these folks go off the deep end
and all they're interested in is being opposition and
opposing everything we do, it puts the president in a
difficult position. He indicated clearly in his speech in
Dallas on Friday he doesn't want to get into
a veto strategy if we can find the common ground to
compromise. Not that he's not willing to veto, but he
doesn't want to automatically be forced into a veto. I
respect that. As I said earlier, I served in the minority
with President Reagan and President Bush. I watched them
negotiate with a Democratic Congress. I know that it's
possible to work together and to cross partisan lines if
you can find a common ground for getting something done.
So, you know, I think you'll Senator Dole and I work
with the president when we can find common ground. We'll
oppose him when we think he's wrong. And we expect him to
do the same. We don't think he's going to be a patsy and
automatically sign things we send to him.
MR. SCHIEFFER: Well, do you think he's more in touch
with the American people than congressional Democrats?
SPEAKER GINGRICH: Without question. The biggest
surprise to me since the election is that the
congressional Democrats, having lost control of the House
for the first time in 40 years, have rejected every
information coming from the American people. I have been
truly surprised and frankly saddened at the level of
bitterness and the
level of nastiness that they've resorted to and the
absence -- now, I'm only -- I'm talking about their
leadership now and the left wing of their caucus. We've
gotten a lot of votes from moderate Democrats and a lot of
votes from Democrats who wanted to be helpful, but we've
had a bitter, oh, 90 or 100 members, including their
leadership, who have just again and again and again
opposed us for no good reason except that they were
opposed.
MS. BORGER: Mr. Speaker, you have talked about
transforming Medicare. How do you think the Democrats are
going to respond to what you have in mind? And tell us
what you've got in mind.
SPEAKER GINGRICH: Well, Gloria, first of all, it is a
fact that the trustees reported this week that Medicare is
going to go broke. Now, that's a fact. And the trustees,
who are not Republicans, have said the money isn't going
to be there after 2002. Now, my question for AARP, which
had a press conference on Friday and had no answer for
this, and my question for the president and the Democrats
is: What is their solution to make sure that we save
Medicare? Because the trustees tell us it will run out of
money.
MS. BORGER: What is your solution?
SPEAKER GINGRICH: Our solution is very
straightforward. We believe you can remake the system to
have a better Medicare, where people have choices
including health maintenance organizations -- HMOs --
including professional plans, including health savings
accounts or medical savings accounts rather, including the
traditional system. Anything that the House Republicans
offer will start by preserving the current Medicare
structure, and we will say to -- as I said Friday night --
my mother and father, my mother-in-law, who are on
Medicare, will say to Medicare recipients: If you want
the current system, we're going to keep it for you; we're
not taking it away. But we're going to find five or six
or seven better alternatives.
In the private sector, health care costs are going
down. Medicare right now is going up by over 10 percent a
year. That compounds -- we double the cost of Medicare
every seven years. It is not sustainable. And I'd like
to know from our critics what's their plan to save
Medicare. We're going to have what? We're going to talk
with our senior citizens. We're going to talk with their
children and grandchildren. We're going to be honest about
where America's at financially, and we're going to provide
a better Medicare system with more choices.
I'll give you one other example. I believe senior
citizens ought to be allowed to look at their bills --
hospital, doctor, et cetera -- if they find there's a
mistake, they ought to get 10 percent of the money for
helping us save it. And I think you'd suddenly find
senior citizens very interested in what were they charged
when they went to the hospital, which doctor did they go
to, how much does their doctor charge, why do they charge
it, what procedures were used. I believe in empowering
and strengthening senior citizens. And every seniors
group I've talked to likes the idea that if they review
their bills and they save us $1,000, they ought to get $100
of that as a finders fee, because they are helping
America.
MR. SCHIEFFER: All right, well, Mr. Speaker, let us
have a chance here to pay our bills.
SPEAKER GINGRICH: All right.
MR. SCHIEFFER: And we'll take a break, we'll be back
in just a second.
(Announcements.)
MR. SCHIEFFER: And we're back again with the Speaker
of the House Newt Gingrich, who is in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mr. Speaker, when the president spoke yesterday, while he
was -- took great issue with the Republicans on some
things, on one area, affirmative action, he seemed in
general agreement with some of the things that Republicans
have been saying, and in one sense he warned Democrats
that they must be ready to abandon some affirmative action
programs that do not seem to be working. Bob Dole has
said words to that effect. Phil Gramm has said that on
Day One, if he is elected president, that he would wipe
out all affirmative action things that are on the books
that he could eliminate by executive order. I would like
to ask you which programs do you think are not working,
and which ones you would eliminate?
SPEAKER GINGRICH: Well, I draw a real distinction,
Bob, between helping individuals, which I think we should
do -- if you come out of
a background of poverty, if you come out of a background of
cultural deprivation, and you're working hard, you're
trying to improve yourself, we ought to find ways to make
it possible for you to rise, for you to succeed, for you
to have a better future. But I think anything which is
based on a genetic code, where there is an automatic
set-aside, an automatic quota, where we are not dealing
with you as an individual, but we are now dealing with you
as some kind of class structure, I think is frankly
un-American. I think America is a country where we are
endowed by our creator as individuals with certain
inalienable rights. It's not a question of us being
endowed as a block grant, where we have to find out who
was your grandmother, who was your great-grandmother, how
do you fill out the forms. And I think that that's been a
big mistake. I don't think that millionaires who happen to
belong to so-called protected group ought to be part of
a quota, and poor people who belong to an unprotected group
ought to be discriminated against by their own government.
So I want to have individual help. I want to help
people who work hard, who come out of poor neighborhoods,
who come out of poor backgrounds, who go to schools in
poor counties -- I want to see us find ways to reach out
and help individuals, but I am against any kind of quota
structure or set-aside structure that is based purely and
simply on some kind of background, genetic definition.
MR. SCHIEFFER: Well, did Senator Gramm go too far,
when he said just eliminate all of them, that a president
is legally able to eliminate?
SPEAKER GINGRICH: Well, I don't know, because I'm not
exactly sure what Senator Gramm has in mind. But my view
would be that what you want to do is replace them with
strong outreach to help people rise. You know, I
yesterday spent part of the day working on a Habitat for
Housing project where they screen families, and the family
has to spend 300 hours helping to build their own house,
they have to spend 100 hours helping somebody else build a
house. They have to
take a 20-hour course on how to be a homeowner. And you
are really involved as volunteers in helping that family
rise. Now, the government doesn't do that. The
government doesn't -- it can't train people. The
government can't try to change people in terms of their
lives at that level. And so I think you have got to find
better ways to reach out to help individuals, but I -- So
I'd rather talk about how do we replace group affirmative
action with effective help for individuals, rather than
just talk about wiping out affirmative action by itself.
MR. SCHIEFFER: Then I take it the basis of your
preference programs, if that's what you want to call them,
would be based on economic need?
SPEAKER GINGRICH: Yes. I think any American who is
poor -- whether they are white, or black, or Hispanic, or
American Indian or Asian -- if you are poor we need to
help you, because we want all Americans to be in the
middle class.
MS. BORGER: Mr. Speaker, can I change the subject a
little bit --
SPEAKER GINGRICH: Sure.
MS. BORGER: -- to some of the social issues that we
really haven't been talking about a lot in Congress these
days? You have mentioned that there might be something
called a religious freedom bill that you would bring up in
the Congress. Can you tell us a little bit about what
would be in that? Would school prayer be in that -- and
when you would bring it up?
SPEAKER GINGRICH: Well, Gloria, I think it probably
will be started to be talked about in May and June. There
will probably be hearings on it all summer. It might come
up as early as this fall. But let me draw the distinction,
because we got a little confused with this. I am opposed
to any organized school prayer. I am opposed to the
teacher having a prayer. I am opposed to an official
prayer. On the other hand, when you read cases where
children were told they couldn't pray over lunch
themselves, you have to wonder what's going on. When you
are told that a student who is told to draw a drawing, and
they decide to draw their church or synagogue, they are
told that's an inappropriate drawing. There's something
wrong with that. When you are told about people who are
told they can't wear a crucifix or a Star of David,
because it would be an expression of religious preference
in their workplace --
MR. SCHIEFFER: Well, you are not --
SPEAKER GINGRICH: -- sick about that.
MR. SCHIEFFER: You are not for any kind of a
constitutional amendment on that sort of thing, then I
take it?
SPEAKER GINGRICH: I am told it is not necessary. I am
told that we can create a legal framework that allows us
to recognize that this is a profoundly religious country,
but there is no state church. There's a difference between
driving God out of public life and making sure that no
individual church or sect is subsidized by the state. But
then --
MS. BORGER: Are you having problems writing this bill
then, because there --
SPEAKER GINGRICH: I haven't even tried it.
MS. BORGER: -- is disagreement within the Republican
Party?
SPEAKER GINGRICH: No. I think Congressman Hyde,
Congressman Istook, others, will be writing it. That's --
you know, as the speaker I sort of preside over a large
orchestra, and a lot of different people play their own
instruments. I don't try to go out and do solos on
everything.
MS. BORGER: What
SPEAKER GINGRICH: But there will be a team writing it,
and I think it can be written in a way that is very
sophisticated.
MS. BORGER: What about the abortion issue? There are
people in your Republican conference, and Republican
presidential candidates, who believe there should be no
federal funding at all, even in the cases of rape or
incest. Do you agree with that?
SPEAKER GINGRICH: No. First of all, I think you
should have funding in the case of rape or incest or life
of the mother, which is the first step. But, again, it
often gets misreported. The Clinton administration has
instructed states that they must pay for abortion in cases
they don't agree with. Thirty states in effect have been
told by the Clinton administration that the federal
government will tell them what they have to spend their
money on. All Istook's amendment did was allow each of the
states to make their own decision. He did not enforce on
them not paying for it; nor did he enforce on them paying
for it. He allowed each state to decide. And I think
that this is an issue you are going to see, frankly,
argued over more and more at the state level with things
like the Pennsylvania rules that require counseling, that
require 24 hours for people to think it over, that require
that 12- and 13-year-olds have an adult who knows what is
going on before they can get an abortion on their own
that sort of thing. And I think that reasonable people
can disagree about how you structure those things. And my
personal view is that this is
a country which is pro-choice but anti-abortion. There are
remarkably few Americans who favor abortion as a
contraception or who think of abortion as a trivial
matter. And so I think we can have a pretty large area of
civil discussion without it breaking down into automatic
hostility.
MS. BORGER: What about the issue of gays in the
military? You have been sort of unclear on that issue.
Is it your final position now that the Republicans in
Congress should not bring up this issue?
SPEAKER GINGRICH: Well, what happened was I frankly
misunderstood a question on Brinkley last weekend, and so
I think it's my fault for having created the confusion.
Currently there have been several different District Court
decisions. None of them have gone all the way to the
Supreme Court. I was answering a hypothetical, which was,
What would happen if the Supreme Court threw out the
current proposal? And my answer was that I thought that
people like Congressman Floyd Spence, who is the chairman
of the Armed Services Committee, would be more inclined to
listen to the uniform military, and not automatically take
the president's position. But that was a judgmental call
about the future.
I've since checked with the Armed Services Committee.
Their current position is, frankly, to do nothing until
they see what the Supreme Court decides, which may well
take another year. And so I think for the moment the
president's policy stands. It's already written into law.
I voted for it. It's a compromise Senator Nunn developed
in the Senate. And I think for the moment that's not
going to be revisited by the Armed Services Committee
until we see what the Supreme Court does.
MR. SCHIEFFER: Now, let's talk a little politics, if
we will. There is talk this morning that perhaps the Perot
people are thinking about going ahead with a third party.
Do you think that's a good idea, and who does that hurt?
SPEAKER GINGRICH: Well, I think it's a bad idea from
the standpoint that the only person helped by a third
party is President Clinton and the liberal Democrats. If
all of the pro-term-limits, anti-tax-increase,
decentralize-government, shrink-the-bureaucracy folks stay
together as one party, we will win a smashing victory in
'96, and it will be a victory for those values. If we
split into two factions, then you can imagine a
circumstance where President Clinton could get reelected,
and the Democrats might do even fairly well in the
congressional races.
As long as all of the people who are sick of a big
centralized welfare state in Washington stay together, we
are going to win, I think, a decisive victory in '96. And
so I would urge all of the Perot folks -- in fact, I'm
going to be on Ross Perot's radio call-in show tonight --
and I would urge all the Perot folks to stick together,
and in '96 I think we can move this country a long way
down the road.
MR. SCHIEFFER: About 30 seconds left. Give me your
take on Colin Powell. What do you think he is going to
do? What would you like him to do?
SPEAKER GINGRICH: Well, I mean, I think he's going to
write a best-seller. I think he's fabulously popular. I
hope he will decide to be considered for the vice
presidential nomination. He may well decide to run for
president. He certainly would be very formidable in either
slot.
MR. SCHIEFFER: All right. Mr. Speaker, thank you very
much for being with us.
SPEAKER GINGRICH: Thank you.
MR. SCHIEFFER: And enjoy the Easter recess.
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Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate
Release
June 8, 1995
PRESS BRIEFING
BY MIKE MCCURRY
The Briefing Room
1:25 P.M. EDT
MR. MCCURRY: Many questions probably, but nothing more to say.
Q
Has the President talked to O'Grady?
MR. MCCURRY: Not yet, Helen. Our understanding is that Captain
O'Grady is still resting, and a well
-deserved rest that it is. My guess is that
he'll talk to the President at some appropriate time later in the day.
Q
Has he been debriefed at all? Has the President gotten any
reports on all of the mission?
MR. MCCURRY: We will as it's available, but I'd prefer to have the
Pentagon talk about that for operational reasons. They should be in the best
position to provide information at the proper time.
Q
Did the President at any point make a decision to send this
rescue mission in, or was he just kept apprised of the developments? Did he say
yes or no at some point?
MR. MCCURRY: Well, he was fully briefed by General Shalikashvili
and others about the parameters of any possible rescue mission. This is going back
several days. He had a very good idea as Commander in Chief how his forces in the
region would respond if there was successful work done on search and rescue. And
as that was underway, they were reviewing plans on how they would proceed. So the
President was very comfortable with the plans, was apprised several times when it
looked like they would be in a position to possibly undertake some activity, and
had several opportunities along the way to --
Q
Did he have to give a --
MR. MCCURRY: He was not -- the way the missions were structured
since time would be of the essence, the President didn't need to give a go or no
go, but he was apprised the minute the mission was underway, and obviously could
have taken action if he felt it was not warranted. But to the contrary, I think
the President, as he indicated earlier, felt that the judgments of the commanders
were correct, and they went ahead even though there were certain risks associated.
The President has spoken publicly about that, as you know.
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Are those patrols continuing?
MR. MCCURRY: The deny flight patrols? They have been
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Since the incident?
MR. MCCURRY: Yes. I believe the Pentagon has indicated
that.
Q
There were conflicting reports whether the pilot
was alive or not from previous days. When did the White House really
know that he was alive and emitting signals?
MR. MCCURRY: I think with a higher percent certainty
that Captain O'Grady was alive was probably not confirmed to our
satisfaction until last evening. But there were indications during
the day on Tuesday that were encouraging.
Q
Mike, Senator Kerry was outside, suggesting that
retaliation would be appropriate in the form of taking out SAM
missile sites. I know you probably don't want to telegraph anything,
but have the Bosnian Serbs heard the last of this?
MR. MCCURRY: Well, U.S. senators are free to speculate
on military action, but White House spokespeople are not.
Q
Well, have the Bosnian Serbs heard the last of it?
MR. MCCURRY: I'm not going to answer that question.
Q
Mike, is there any thought to having the United
States Marines who rescued this Captain to the White House for any
kind of ceremony?
MR. MCCURRY: Look, our first and most urgent concern
are to allow Captain O'Grady to get some rest. He deserves it. Our
second priority is to get him back to his family. I think his family
is very anxious to see Captain O'Grady, and the President certainly
thinks those are the right priorities. The President is very
grateful to the splendid work done by the U.S. Marine Corps, to all
of our services, their well
-coordinated activity here, good
coordination and support from our NATO allies on this U.S. mission.
And I think there will be plenty of time for all those who are
involved to be properly honored for their good work.
Q
In addition to the radio signals, didn't the other
plane, or the wing -- I don't know exactly how they -- the formation,
there was another plane in the area -- did they see the pilot eject?
MR. MCCURRY: That's a detail of the mission that I
would really refer to the Pentagon. I haven't heard anything in any
of the briefings I've seen the Pentagon do that indicates that that's
the case. But that really is a better question to direct over there,
and they've got some folks who have been briefing today, as you know.
At any time during the six
-day period was there
ever a sense that the Bosnian Serbs were cooperating in any way or
being helpful?
MR. MCCURRY: There was never a sense in which the
Bosnian Serbs were providing information that we consider reliable as
to the fate of Captain O'Grady.
Q
Would you say that's deliberate?
MR. MCCURRY: I would say that it's consistent with
their thoroughly outrageous behavior during the conflict in Bosnia.
Q
But were there trying to find him, too? Was there
any sign of that?
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MR. MCCURRY: I think there's ample evidence that they
were interested in finding him, too.
Q
Mike, did Captain O'Grady ever seen any Serbs in
the six days that --
MR. MCCURRY: I will refer to the Pentagon on that.
They'll be in the best position to provide information on what
Captain O'Grady has said during his debrief.
Q
Some people, in looking back on a mission like
this, were thinking, unfortunately, of a failed mission back in 1979
by President Carter. And did that concern ever come up or did the
President ever voice the concern that a rescue mission could fall
apart?
MR. MCCURRY: The Commander in Chief asked appropriate
questions as to the nature of the threat that would exist, how they
would work to suppress that threat and how they would configure the
missions. But I think he gave a lot of latitude to the military
commanders who know best what would be required in the circumstances
involving a rescue. But the President was satisfied that they would
undertake the missions and do it appropriately structured to maximize
the chance for success. And that's the best you can do.
Q
Mike, might we take it from what you have said that
from the start that it was assumed that a rescue would be attempted
if he could be found, and that it never required an order or no order
release was ever given by the President to go in and try to find him?
MR. MCCURRY: It was assumed from the beginning that if
U.S. forces were in a position to conduct a rescue, that they should
do so. And the President gave his indication that he would certainly
want and expect them to proceed, understanding that there would be
risk entailed in such a mission, but that the risk, if it was judged
by the commanders to be an appropriate risk, is one that was
acceptable in his view.
I think the commanders understood that they were
proceeding with their planning and with the full support of the
Commander in Chief. And I think the President is delighted with the
way they planned and successfully supervised the mission.
Q
Mike, this guy was flying on behalf of NATO. From
the point he went down, did it then become an American problem to try
and get him out, or was this a NATO effort? It sounds like
everybody's pretty much talking about just an American chain of
command.
MR. MCCURRY: We appreciate very much the support we've
had from our NATO allies on various aspects of the operation in
Bosnia, but I think it's significant that the President last night
addressed his note of congratulations to General Joulwan in his
capacity as commander in chief of the European Command.
Q
Was this a combined effort to find him, or simply a
MR. MCCURRY: This was a U.S.
Q
-- a U.S. effort? And was that a deliberate
decision, or is that the way it is structured?
MR. MCCURRY: This is a U.S. mission undertaken by the
U.S. to rescue one of our
Q
Is there some reason why it was a U.S. mission and
not a NATO mission?
MR. MCCURRY: It just was the judgment of the
Commander in Chief that this was the best way to proceed, and also
consistent with the recommendations of military commanders in the
theater, most of whom, as you know, wear dual hats.
Q
Other jets have gone down. Do we have a regular
role in rescuing any NATO pilot, or did we take this on simply
because it was our boy?
MR. MCCURRY: We have certain capacities under NATO that
would be available and have been available, and as you know, we have
some contingencies available for emergency extractions as they exist
now, consistent with the President's policy.
Q
Weren't there some NATO planes that were used in
this recovery?
MR. MCCURRY: There may very well be. I'd really defer
-- they may have had some coordinated effort, particularly in the
air, and I think it would be more appropriate for folks in Naples to
brief on that. Lieutenant General Mike Ryan, who is the air
commander for NATO European Command was the overall coordinator of
the search and rescue mission, and he obviously is also very closely
linked to our NATO allies.
Q
You said there was ample evidence that the Serbs
were trying to find them. What evidence?
MR. MCCURRY: Well, among other things, the television
pictures many of you have seen they clearly have a number of
people out looking for them and were displaying evidence about the
crash site.
Q
Was this a case where the pilot tried to elude
potential captors and get away from populated areas, and is that the
reason why he waited, in effect, five days to give location signals?
MR. MCCURRY: Leo, I'm sure it is going to be an
outstandingly fascinating tale, but it really is Captain O'Grady's to
tell, and it's really up to those who are conducting the debrief with
him to appropriately tell that story. I don't have any details that
would suggest the answer to that question one way or another, but I
am certain they will want to provide them at the appropriate time.
Q
Just for clarification you said it was
significant that General Joulwan directed the undertaking. Isn't he
a NATO commander?
MR. MCCURRY: He wears a dual hat. He is CINCEUR,
Commander of the European Command, and also SACCEUR of the Supreme
Allied Commander for NATO.
Q
Does that tell -- then why is it significant?
MR. MCCURRY: Because he was -- the President directed
the message to him in his capacity as Commander in Chief of the
European Command, i.e., wearing his U.S. hat because it was a U.S.
operation.
Q
Directed what to him to do what?
MR. MCCURRY: that was done last night.
Q
So, in other words, it was done in that role.
Well, is there something we are missing here? I mean, did somebody
decide along the way that this was to be U.S. only and who did that
and --
MR. MCCURRY: No, no, no.
Q
You said that that was a way the Commander in Chief
wanted it to be done. Are you talking about the Commander in Chief,
Europe or what?
MR. MCCURRY: We have a lot of -- I mean, there is very
good and very sophisticated integrated planning within NATO so that
they can undertake missions specifically in Bosnia, and then they do
general planning of that nature all the time. And there is
coordinated activity with the allies when it comes to missions of
this nature. But the United States undertook this one, and they
undertook it quickly and at the recommendation of the commanders who
structured the mission.
Q
Are you looking at this as an example of future
rescue missions that could be undertaken under the parameters of the
President has been talking about in general?
MR. MCCURRY: I wouldn't want to suggest that because
obviously we would hope there wouldn't be a need for rescues of this
nature in the future.
Q
But this has been described? I mean, this is one
of the ways that U.S. troops could be used specifically in emergency
rescue operations.
MR. MCCURRY: Look, each and every mission has to --
acquires its own specifics and its own structure and this might be a
useful model. It might provide information that is useful to those
who would have to plan any such missions, but it wouldn't be right to
speculate on the type of missions that might be undertaken in the
future. I believe Secretary Perry has indicated well, this is -- it
demonstrates a capacity to go in, do a job quickly and get out
quickly. But that, I think, is fairly obvious.
Q
Mike, this is a crass commercial question, but what
are the rules if the Captain decides to write a book or entertains
movie rights? Serious -- I mean this is obviously going to come up.
MR. MCCURRY: You know, I don't know the answer to that.
I know that there are restrictions -- my own experience at the State
Department, there are some restrictions on your ability to use
classified materials or information that relates to an ongoing
operation. But I really don't think we need to speculate on that at
this moment.
Q
This is another way of asking Jill's question, but
is this one of the things the President means when he says there are
some roles the U.S. is uniquely suited for?
MR. MCCURRY: Well, it is -- I think it pretty clearly
demonstrates that we have a capacity to do some incredible things,
but it also demonstrates that there are integrated capabilities
within NATO. And certainly, in search and rescue, the United States
has some of the most sophisticated equipment and expertise. That
clearly was demonstrated last night, early this morning.
Q
Can you draw from that an inference that because of
our unique abilities in this area, that would be why it was a
unilateral U.S. --
MR. MCCURRY: No, I think it just -- I mean, I would
really prefer to put that question in the province of those who
directed and structured the mission. They know best why they
structured it this way as the fact that that is the way it was put
together. And I think that they are in the best position to explain
really how they structured the mission that way.
Q
If I could follow that with another question --
from this podium, you never did give much credence -- any credence --
to the Bosnian claims or the Serb claims that they had captured him.
Were there indications as early as Monday that they were lying then?
Because you say it wasn't until Tuesday you began getting some sign
that Captain O'Grady --
MR. MCCURRY: No, I believe what I said here throughout
this period is that there was nothing upon which we would feel
comfortable saying we had information that we could share with the
public that was -- or we were 100 percent certain about. And that
applied certainly to some of the conflicting statements that were
made by General Mladic as to the suggestion that they had access to
Captain O'Grady and that they were holding him captive.
There wasn't a lot about those statements that we
believed at the time, based on what we knew. But on the other hand,
what we -- consistent with what I was telling you, we didn't have
enough to know for certain ourselves what his fate was at that point.
So we couldn't -- we could discount it, but we had to work under the
assumption that a variety of things might be true.
Mike, can we change the subject here?
Q
Before you do that, why do you think General Mladic
was making up those stories?
MR. MCCURRY: It's anybody's guess --
Horrible. (Laughter.)
MR. MCCURRY: -- but is consistent with his behavior and
consistent with his conduct as an alleged military officer.
Ohhhh.
Mike, you said that the President in the briefings
leading up to the rescue mission was given various risk assessments
-- how hazardous the mission might be, and so on.
MR. MCCURRY: I wouldn't -- I want to correct that. I
don't know that implies something formal. I think he had general
discussions with the commanders about the nature of the risk. I
don't know if there was specific assessment levels.
Q
My question goes to what the President knew before
the rescue mission in terms of a risk. Was he told, for instance,
that while there were obvious risks, they were not very, very high
because the pilot was in an isolated area?
MR. MCCURRY: He was told a considerable amount about
the nature of the risk. In fact, as he spoke publicly just a short
while ago, he indicated one aspect of that, which was the concern
that with daylight the mission might become riskier. And he
indicated that -- his own feeling and the feeling certainly of the
commanders that that was a risk worth accepting, given the nature of
the mission. But there were other aspects like that. I'm not going
to get into all of the calculations, but certainly generally he
understood what the risk would be like. And there was some
considerable risk.
Q
Mike, was it the President's decision to make this
a U.S. operation or was it a commander's decision?
MR. MCCURRY: I think it was a recommendation that was
quickly accepted by the Commander in Chief.
Q
-- to pass a resolution to lift the arms embargo.
I know they've done this sort of thing before, but is the
administration concerned that this whole incident will increase
pressure on Congress to do something like that? And what's your
reaction to that?
MR. MCCURRY: I don't want to suggest that the
successful rescue of this pilot has any policy implications. I mean,
our concerns about lifting the arms embargo are exactly those that we
have stated in the past. And they are unchanged as a result of
today's incident.
Our concerns are that lifting the arms embargo in effect
Americanizes this war because it would have to be done unilaterally.
It would require the United States unilaterally to train and equip
the Muslims or to give that responsibility presumably to some third
party, which might be an unsavory third party. If we took on that
responsibility ourselves, which it would be hard to see how you
wouldn't morally be compelled to take on that responsibility, telling
them that they can now have a fair fight, and then not giving them
the equipment necessary to have that fair fight, then not holding the
Bosnian Serbs at bay while they were trained and equip so they could
have a fair fight would seem to be a fairly repugnant thing to do.
Now, if you proceed on that assumption, and I would
think that well
-intentioned members of Congress would proceed on that
assumption, the United State, a, incurs heavy, heavy financial costs.
The U.S. taxpayer incurs heavy financial costs as they equip up the
Bosnia Muslims. We also presumably have got a resource requirement
to put a lot of trainers and those to protect trainers on the ground
in Bosnia so that they can carry out the mission. And we've got a
very significant air power calculation with the risk that we've seen
very dramatically indicated in recent days as we fly air sorties over
Bosnia to presumably bomb Bosnian Serb targets and keep them at bay.
That, it seems to me, is a pretty complicated piece of business. And
I assume those who are advocating this approach in the Congress are
being forthcoming with all of you in explaining how they would do all
these things.
Q
The President, he approved the policy that General
Shali announced yesterday, that if the reaction -- what do they call
it --
Ready reaction force --
Q
-- ready reaction force isn't able to the do the
job that they're supposed to do that there will be a pullout in the
fall?
MR. MCCURRY: The questions and answers that were
delivered by General Shalikashvili and Secretary Perry yesterday went
pretty much along the lines that we had anticipated and that had been
thoroughly reviewed here at the White House prior to the testimony.
Q
Does the President have any plan to have a
telephone conversation with Captain O'Grady?
MR. MCCURRY: We've suggested that might happen, but we
don't have any guarantee that that's going to happen.
Mike are all of the hostages out now, or are some
still being held?
MR. MCCURRY: I believe there are just under 150 U.N.
personnel that are still being detained in some fashion by the
Bosnian Serbs. In some cases, their movements are restricted; in
other cases, they're actually being detained in specific compounds.
Q
Mike, could the President veto a bill lifting an
arts embargo?
MR. MCCURRY: A bill -- it depends on in what fashion it
came to him. The current amendment is coming to him on a bill that
for other reasons we've indicated we might likely veto.
Q
Could you say what the President was saying on the
South Lawn today about Captain O'Grady? He seemed to be saying that
Captain O'Grady's training helped make his case for activist
government. Is that what he had to say?
MR. MCCURRY: I think that's a bit of a stretch.
Q
Well, wait a minute. It was the President doing
the stretching.
MR. MCCURRY: The question --
No, that's precisely what he said.
Q
He cited O'Grady and his training as an example of
the kind of thing he said illustrates what government needs to be
able to do --
MR. MCCURRY: I think the President's general point is
that the effective conduct of this mission, the kind of training that
went into it, the kind of expertise and skill and courage shown by
Captain O'Grady is something that we need a lot more of in
government. I think that's a well
-taken point.
Q
Well, does he detect that someone in the Republican
ranks up there trying to cut the Pentagon training budget to balance
the budget?
MR. MCCURRY: I don't believe that's the point he was
addressing. I think he was making a general point about the type of
thing that
I asked. How about that for getting an answer?
MR. MCCURRY: I'll check into it.
Q
Mike, he made an analogy though. He said, his
personal responsibility and bravery, coupled with the best training
in the world that he got, and then he said it matters if all of you
get proper training. I mean, he seemed to definitely be making the
analogy that John has suggested.
MR. MCCURRY: I think he was suggesting that good
training and good backup and good support from management and having
the resources available is something that can make the conduct of the
government more efficient and effective. That's, in fact, exactly
what we've been trying to do with reinventing government.
(Laughter.)
Q
That's a stretch, too.
MR. MCCURRY: I think that answer, the elasticity of
that answer matched the elasticity of the question.
Q
Reno today said they would file a brief in the
Colorado gay rights case. There had been discussions going on here
at the White House on that issue as well. How involved did the White
House ultimately get in that decision?
MR. MCCURRY: Well, it was the Attorney General's
decision based on her reasoning, her examination of the law and the
President understands her reasoning and her thinking, and is fully
supportive of her determination that they should not file in this
case.
Q
Did the President actually play a role in any of
the discussions? Was he briefed on this issue? Did he have any say
on --
MR. MCCURRY: Well, he was aware of it. It's a very
prominent case and was aware of the case. I think he generally was
aware of some of the issues involved with the discretion that the
Justice Department would have to file an amicus brief, but in this
case he awaited for the recommendation of the Attorney General prior
to
Q
Isn't that a reversal? That's a reversal --
Q
-- nobody in the White House weighed in?
MR. MCCURRY: No, he has spoken against the Connecticut
referendum itself, and has very strong feelings -- I mean, sorry, the
Colorado referendum -- and has strong feelings on it, as you know;
he's addressed that publicly.
He continues his opposition
?
MR. MCCURRY: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. But that's
not the matter that was addressed by the Attorney General in looking
at whether or not you file an amicus brief. That's a very separate
set of issues, and in this case, there was no underlying federal
question arising from a federal statute which was, as the Attorney
General indicated, a fairly significant point.
Q
So nobody in the White House had weighed in at any
level with Justice?
MR. MCCURRY: I didn't say that. I didn't say that.
Q
Well, could you sort of elaborate then on --
MR. MCCURRY: Well, as there often are in these matters,
there's discussions back and forth.
Q
Is it fair to say that if he objected to this
decision would not have been made?
MR. MCCURRY: That's not necessarily fair to say.
I
mean, if he had made his views clear to the Attorney General one way
or another, as is sometimes the case, that might have had some impact
on the thinking, but I am not aware that he did that.
Q
Well, Mike, the rationale that is being given here
is that this was not a federal case, that this did not involve
federal laws. However, this does deal with an issue that is coming
up all across the nation in a number of states and a number of cities
and it does have some national impact. Why then is it not
appropriate for the federal government to step in and file a brief?
MR. MCCURRY: Well, for all the reasons that the
Attorney General indicated today.
Q
Mike, can I just ask this question? President Li
of Taiwan is either in or about to come into the United States. Does
the Clinton administration have any regrets about this decision given
the very negative reaction coming from China?
MR. MCCURRY: The President is confident that this was
the right decision. It honors a very cherished principle of
democracy here in the United States which is freedom of association.
In this case we're letting a individual travel to his alma mater. He
is traveling in an unofficial capacity and in a private capacity.
And that represents something that we value and cherish in this
democracy.
So you won't be seeing him here?
MR. MCCURRY: There is no plan consistent with our
policy. As we've articulated it often, there are no plans to have
any contact at that level because that would run contrary to our
policy.
Q
Any official contact?
MR. MCCURRY: No, he's not having any official contact
because he is on an unofficial private visit.
Q
It's not only at that level, it's at all levels.
Correct?
MR. MCCURRY: On this visit, that's correct.
Q
I mean, I'm not sure if there is a fine nuance
here. I just want to make sure -- is he not going to meet with any
U.S. government official?
MR. MCCURRY: If I'm -- my understanding is he will not
meet with any representatives of the United States government. I
have heard that there are individual members of Congress that plan to
see him at some point. I'm not sure what their arrangements are, but
that would be outside the purview of the executive branch obviously.
Q
Mike, is the White House troubled by the
demonstration by Cuban exiles out in Lafayette Park, and is there any
chance they might succeed in getting the administration to reverse
its policy on the forced repatriation of Cuban refugees?
MR. MCCURRY: Well, we feel strongly about the direction
that the President has articulated in our policy. It has been
working. It has made a difference and it will provide for safe,
legal and orderly migration from Cuba. And we are aware that there
are those who dissent from that policy. We're also aware that even
within the Cuban
-American community, there are those who support it.
But that's the right to demonstrate in Lafayette Park is one that is
a fairly cherished right.
Q
-- somebody from the White House spoke to them?
MR. MCCURRY: Yes.
Q
Can you explain the action that the President took
with the House action on the War Powers Act? Even though he
officially opposes it, he did not technically -- I'm not quite sure
exactly what is going on. Can you explain?
MR. MCCURRY: Well, they had a vote and dispensed with
the amendment last night. And we -- our views on the War Powers Act,
as are consistent with those of previous Presidents, previous
administrations. We would like to see, in particular, elimination of
the 60
-day withdrawal period. We'd like to see modifications made in
the War Powers Act. But at the same time, that doesn't change this
President's determination to continue consulting with Congress.
I think he's made -- throughout the two and half years
of his Presidency, President Clinton has made close consultation with
Congress on matters that arise under the War Powers Act a matter of
fact. And we do that type of coordinated consultations because the
President understands the need of members of Congress to be fully
apprised of decisions on the use of force. At the same time, he
retains his constitutional authority, as the executive branch has
often seen it, in matters related to the War Powers Act.
Q
There is a report that the North Koreans are now
demanding as much as a billion dollars in what you might call
accessories for their power plants. Will the President make any more
concessions to get them to live up to their agreement, or is he
simply talking about implementing what they've already agreed to?
MR. MCCURRY: We have a structured, agreed framework
that dates back to October 21st, last year, and there have been a
variety of discussions between the DPRK and the United States on that
agreed framework. They have been underway in Kuala Lumpur, as you
know, and they've been fully discussed over at the State Department.
So I don't know of any different posture than the one that's been
indicated in many of the briefings that they've been given.
I do know that Ambassador Galucci and Assistant
Secretary Lord will be going to Seoul to consult closely with the
Republic of Korea. The President talked to President Kim last night,
I think as you know, and had a good review of some of the issues
underlying that discussion. And our view -- the central issue, is
the role that the ROK would play as a participant in the organization
providing the lightwater reactor technology to the North. And there
have been no change in our view that that role ought to be central.
Q
Nothing for them --
MR. MCCURRY: I am not aware of anything of that nature
and they have briefed at great detail over at the State Department on
it, so I'd check back through the briefings they've done. And I
assume they'll continue to be talking about it.
Q
Mike, back on the Colorado case just for a second.
Just to be clear, are you telling us that the administration took no
position one way or the other the White House took no position
-
-the President one way or the other on the case and that you
agree with the decision that the Attorney General has made?
MR. MCCURRY: I'm saying that the President understands
the reasoning of the Attorney General as she articulated it today and
he fully supports her reasoning and her determination that the
government not file on this case.
Q
Political question on that. Gay rights issues have
dogged this administration from the beginning. You had problems with
the gays in the military questions, with which the gay community was
in an uproar over. You're have -- the gay community is again, at
least in terms of current comments, seems to be angered by this
recent decision. How do you deal with this constituency group that
helped the President is 1992 with money and with votes, looking ahead
to the reelection?
MR. MCCURRY: Well, there was a long question there, and
I don't -- without accepting any of the premise of the question, I'll
say, as we do with a variety of -- any group of Americans that are
organized and seek the administration's viewpoints and talk to them.
We try to help them understand the direction and thrust of our
policy. And if I'm not mistaken there's a group of leaders from
various gay organizations that will be here as early as next week
sometime. So we continue to keep a close dialogue underway.
Q
For what?
MR. MCCURRY: As they do from time to time, briefings on
various aspects of administration's policy. We've done an awful lot
that the gay community is rightfully pleased about, that range
through, you know, combatting discrimination and making sure that
gays are not denied access to certain opportunities within the
federal government. And I -- you know, the opportunity to talk about
that type of issue is something that the White House will take that
opportunity.
Q
Do you think that as Republicans are dealing with
moral issues in a campaign way and also in Congress, that issues that
deal with gay rights become political thorny for this administration?
MR. MCCURRY: I have no way of judging that. It depends
on the issue. I don't think -- this is not a case that involved a
lot of political judgments in the eyes of the Attorney General. She
was looking at the law.
Q
One more burning question from me. Did Tony
actually join the President on the balcony for the smoke
-in? What
kind of cigars -- what kinds of cigars?
MR. MCCURRY: They were legal, if that's what you're
question is. (Laughter.) They were most likely not done under the
watchful eye of the First Lady, if that's your second question. And
I think it was -- it's not the President's practice to smoke cigars,
but I think on this occasion he thought that might be a very nice
thing to do.
What time did this happen?
Q
Did Lake, in fact, join him?
MR. MCCURRY: This would have been just after one in the
morning.
Q
Did Lake in fact join him?
MR. MCCURRY: Yes, he went over. They went -- I was
telling some people earlier --
Q
Who had the cigars?
MR. MCCURRY: -- when the President got the good news
last night that Captain O'Grady had been rescued, he was not at that
point of the Kearsarge. Mr. Lake, who had phoned him with that news
-- Tony was monitoring the developments over here in the West Wing.
He went over to the Residence because he needed -- the President was
drafting his congratulatory message to General Joulwan. And Tony
asked permission of the -- no, actually he didn't ask -- he said,
"With or without permission, Mr. President, I'm going to smoke a
cigar." And the President indicated that since he was doing
likewise, that Tony should come on over to the Truman Balcony --
Q
How long were they out there?
MR. MCCURRY: -- have a puff together.
Q
Do you know how long they sat out there?
MR. MCCURRY: Not long, because Tony was busy getting
other things -- he had to get the message out to General Joulwan and
do some other things.
Q
What kind of cigar -- Cuban cigar? (Laughter.)
MR. MCCURRY: I didn't ask. (Laughter.) I already
indicated it was a legal, though somewhat frowned
-upon, product.
Q
In the Colorado case, you indicated the President
agrees with Reno's view that there's no underlying federal issue.
But obviously the lawyers for the gay rights people feel this is a
federal issue or else they wouldn't be going to the Supreme Court.
The President is a legal and constitutional scholar in his right. If
you go back to the early civil rights movement, they were exactly
these same debates and discussions as to whether what was happening
in the South was a state issue or a federal issue. Isn't he taking a
rather cramped view of federal enforcement of civil rights by saying
there's no federal issue?
MR. MCCURRY: I haven't had an opportunity to review the
constitutional issues with the President, so, I'm not in a position
to answer that.
Q
Is the President leaning toward outlining his
balanced budget alternative all in one fell swoop rather than putting
it out in dribs and drabs?
MR. MCCURRY: As he indicated the other night, he'll
make that determination himself and make his intervention into this
ongoing debate about the budget at a time that he feels is
appropriate.
Q
What does the President mean today and some earlier
speeches this week when he talks about people who argue that all of
the country's problems are cultural and not political and economic?
I've not heard anybody say that. It sounds like he's saying people
who aren't as aggressive as he is on -- who are more aggressive than
he is on the budget deficit think somehow that the problems of the
country are all cultural.
MR. MCCURRY: I'll think about the question and ask him.
Q
Does the White House agree with the statement
yesterday from Chairman Greenspan about the state of the economy?
MR. MCCURRY: I think we had a pretty good assessment of
what our view of the long
-range fundamentals of the economy are in
the statement that two of the members of the CEA released last week
when they looked at the unemployment numbers for May. I think we see
prospects although we understand that we're into perhaps what some
call the bumpy landing, we think we see some prospects for
long
-sustained growth with low rates of inflation. And the
fundamentals are there and, you know, a lot of work that the
President has been doing is aimed at making sure we protect those
fundamentals so we can enjoy the kind of economic growth and rising
incomes that have been one of the central focuses of his work as
President.
Q
This is the second day in a row that he's talked
about Roger's drug problem in a speech. And I'm just wondering why
he's started to do that?
MR. MCCURRY: I'll have to ask him. I don't know if
there is any particular reason.
Q
It wasn't clear to me in your answer earlier to
Jill's question. Was a deliberate decision made by the White House
not to push for the repeal of the War Powers Act?
MR. MCCURRY: Was a -- well, there is an amendment --
that's an issue that will be around for a long time. And we have
worked closely with Congress to address concerns about the War Powers
Act that we have. This was not necessarily the right vehicle or the
right place to make that type of intervention, but it's surely an
issue that will continue to be subject to dispute between the
executive and legislative branch.
Q
Well, would this administration advocate the repeal
of the War Powers Act?
MR. MCCURRY: We have advocated and would advocate, as
have every recent administration, modifications in the War Powers
Act, particularly as it relates to the 60
-day period.
THE PRESS: Thank you.
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Presidential Candidates Settling a New Neighborhood on the
WASHINGTON (AP) Thanks to a booming new neighborhood on the
Internet, Americans can bypass bug-infested campaign picnics or
rhetoric-filled rallies and dive into presidential politics from
home.
Voters who want more than TV sound bites are taking part in
on-line chat sessions with the 1996 presidential candidates.
They're reading speeches delivered hundreds of miles away and
calling up campaign schedules to see who's coming to town.
Since 1992, the Internet has moved beyond circles of
computer-literati into the home computers of millions of voters.
The candidates' computer sites seem to reflect their
personalities. Unassuming Sen. Dick Lugar, R-Ind., asks visitors,
"Who is Dick Lugar?" while hard-driving Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas,
wants browsers to know they're part of something bigger. Before
signing off his site, a recent visitor is informed she is ``the
147,889th visitor to this page."
In his "Issues" section, Pat Buchanan's views on border
politics spill forth in a lengthy introductory essay: ``Illegal
immigration must be halted and no illegal alien given welfare. The
presidency must become a bully pulpit for traditional values. Not
gays in the military."
Viewers can return to the campaigns' on-line sites as they are
updated with daily quotes from political pundits, augmented trip
schedules and candidate responses to incoming mail.
"You don't even have to wait for sound bites anymore. You have
Interbites," said Paul Unger, a specialist in telecommunications
and vice president of Chicago-based A.T. Kearney Executive Search.
Unger said the Internet also may protect candidates from "foot
in mouth" disease. "You at least may avoid some of the mistakes
that are made in the heat of the moment," he said.
Let the browser beware, though. Mischievous Net users already
have launched fake home pages that can put a candidate's foot
securely in his mouth.
Experts estimate that one quarter of all U.S. homes will be on
line in the next five years. Already, there are more than 25
million Americans hooked up.
Most presidential hopefuls have set up their own "home page"
the first screen image viewed by a browser who stops at their site.
The candidates also are holding on-line chat sessions and town hall
meetings the Internet's version of the teleconference.
For candidates such as Rep. Robert Dornan, R-Calif., who haven't
set up their own home page, browsers can check up on them through
unofficial sites, such as the GOP Presidential Candidates account
launched by Project Vote Smart, a non-profit service that compiles
voting records of politicians.
The political parties are making themselves known on the
Internet as well.
Every Friday, for example, the Democratic National Committee
releases ``The NewtGram" on line and on faxes to give voters a
Democratic spin on the activities of House Speaker Newt Gingrich,
R-Ga.
Martha Baer, features editor for "Wired" magazine, said the
Internet allows voters to participate in campaigning without
leaving home or office.
"You're bringing individuals together to speak to one
another," she said. ``They may be from far ends of the spectrum,
but that's the wonder of the Net it's one to one," Baer said.
Part of the allure of the Net to politicians is its price and
reach. For about $20 a month, a candidate can open and maintain an
account that reaches increasing numbers of readers. For a few
thousand dollars more, candidates can spruce up their home pages
with snazzy graphic designs.
But there is still a significant population both statistically
and strategically that is not even grazed by the computerized
political handshake.
"It's effective, but to a certain extent," said Charlie
Mahtesian, writer at Governing Magazine, a publication covering
state politics. ``Sure, it will get to black and Latino voters, but
what blacks and Latinos? Yuppie voters."
According to Southern Soho Design, an Internet site that
contains user information, 35 percent of U.S. households have a
useable personal computer. Of those homes, 65 percent have incomes
of more than $100,000.
Experts say the impact of the Internet on the presidential
campaign will be revealed by surveys taken after the election, but
they suspect voters will mostly be drawn to the cyber-sites of
candidates they already like.
"You can get all the information you want, as long as you want
to look at it," said Alfredo Cruz, communications director of the
San Antonio-based Southwest Voter Research Institute. ``It's not as
valuable a sway tool as more of an information mechanism."
Unger agreed, saying, ``I don't know if it will necessarily
revolutionize the '96 electoral process, but it becomes one more
tool in the communications arsenal."
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NBC MEET THE PRESS
JANUARY 28, 1996
SPEAKERS LIST: TIM RUSSERT, NBC
U.S. SENATOR TOM DASCHLE (D
-SD),
SENATE MINORITY LEADER
U.S. SENATOR TRENT LOTT (R
-MS),
SENATE MAJORITY WHIP
U.S. SENATOR PHIL GRAMM (R
-TX)
U.S. SENATOR BILL BRADLEY (D
-NJ)
LAMAR ALEXANDER,
REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
RUSSERT: For the Republicans, Trent Lott; for the
Democrats, Tom Daschle. Senators, welcome.
LOTT: Thank you very much.
UNKNOWN: Glad to be here.
RUSSERT: Good morning, Senator Lott,?let?me start with
you. Will the Republican Congress allow the United States
government to default?
LOTT: No. Of course there are members of Congress
that are very concerned and upset that they would be asked
to vote to raise the national debt to over five trillion
dollars. A debt that they didn't create. The American
people don't want to us have without some guarantee that
there will be controls on the deficits and the debt in the
future.
But I believe we will take the necessary action to
avoid any real problems. I believe we will pass a debt
limit increase before there is a big problem with it.
RUSSERT: When will you do that?
LOTT: I presume it would be the week of the 26 of
February.
I conceivably it might could be earlier. But I think it
probably would be the week of the 26th.
RUSSERT: Will it be a clean bill, or will it have
different things on it like a tax cut or some budget cuts.
What are you going to put on it?
LOTT: Well, I think there will be something on it. It
may be necessary to get it passed through the Congress.
After all, you know, we do have co
-equal branches of
government. You have to get legislation passed through
the House, passed through the Senate and the President has
to sign it.
I believe, and I hope that we will -- hopefully we will
have
a budget agreement by the end that can be attached to the
debt ceiling and people who say yes, OK, I'm going to vote
to increase the debt limit.
But, here, are controls on the future size of
Washington government. Under those conditions it would
certainly pass.
RUSSERT: Do you think there is a chance for a budget
deal within the next month?
LOTT: You know Tim, I'm an incurable optimist. I
think there should be a budget agreement. And I'm going
to continue to hold out hope until the last minute. I do
think that there's
a growing support in the Senate in a bipartisan coalition
that's really come up with a very realistic budget. Good
numbers. We may wind up voting on something in the Senate
that would have broad bipartisan support to go the
President and say, Mr. President, sign this.
RUSSERT: Senator Daschle, you just heard Senator Lott
saying that the Republicans will in fact vote to increase
the debt ceiling, but there may be contingencies. There
may be tax cuts or budget reductions on that bill.
Is that acceptable?
DASCHLE: Tim, that's a big, big mistake. Just last
Friday we had a chance to vote on a clean debt limit every
single Republican in the Senate voted against it.
We'll have opportunities again in the near future. We
ought to stay in the Congress. We ought to work and we
ought to get the job done. But to encumber it, is to
endanger the real full faith and credit of this government
and the economy. It's wrong.
We shouldn't be playing games with something as
devastating and as destructive as this could be. So, to
load it up, to play games, to play high stake politics
with this is wrong and I think most Republicans understand
that.
RUSSERT: Senator Lott said around February 26th would
be an appropriate time. Is that the time table suit
you?
DASCHLE: You know what? We're getting a real bad
connection here. But let me just say, you asked about a
time table, I think that the time table ought to be
immediate. We really -- we're going to be facing this
situation, a crisis situation on March 1st.
We can't wait until the last minute. We've got to go
back in next week, the week after that, we've got to
resolve this matter. We've got to say as clearly as we
can, we're not going to be playing games with the economy.
We're not going to make our whole system subject the
kind of high stakes politics that some Republicans in the
leadership want to see us do.
RUSSERT: Senator Lott, you talked about a budget deal.
The Republicans had challenged President Clinton to come
forward with a seven year budget, certified by the
Congressional Budget Office. He did just that.
And the Republicans said, no, no. Sorry, not good
enough. We want more entitlement reductions. Why not
accept the President's budget, seven year balance, and
say, this is just the beginning, but we'll take it, hold
you to it and move on from there.
LOTT: Well, first of all I want to say, the reason why
we have this five trillion dollar deficit is because
Congress has been playing political games and increasing
the deficit year after year for 40 years. And that's why we're in
this problem and why we need to do something to control it in the
future. Now, as to what the President did, as a matter of fact,
you know, he's still playing games. They still have tricks and
gimmicks in there.
It's still back
-end loaded, which means that most of
the spending savings on the discretionary accounts don't
come until the last two years. I have to say a lot of the
Republican savings don't come until then either. But
here's the real key -- and you know this, and you've talked
about it on this show, Tim.
The real problem in terms of size of the Washington
government is in the entitlement spending area. If we
don't get real reforms there -- and there's where a
problem still exists -- the President has not -- we
question whether or not he's been negotiating in good
faith or not. He has used scare tactics and has refused
to be responsible in Medicare, Medicaid, welfare. He's
vetoed two welfare bills.
And also, we fear that he's still playing politics and
the numbers are not real. Having said that, some progress
has been made. I think we still need to try to find a way
to get this economy growing. I think there's too much
emphasis, as a matter of fact, on how can we reshape the
Washington pie?
What we need to be talking about is how can we create
opportunity and growth and savings in America? I think
we're close enough. We ought to continue to work to make
that actually come together and get an agreement.
RUSSERT: Some say you were surprised that Speaker Newt
Gingrich came forward and said, "Let's just do a modest
down payment."
LOTT: I was. I don't know that he consulted with or
conferred with others in the Senate. I take it maybe he
did talk to Bob Dole, but there weren't a lot of
discussions about it. I think that's too small. I think
we need to do more. We can do more. Again, the emphasis
there was in a limited area on discretionary spending.
Look, the problem is not the Washington government
spending too much on Interior and Transportation
infrastructure. The problem is in the entitlement
guarantee programs that need to be reformed -- welfare,
primarily, among those.
RUSSERT: Senator Daschle, Senator Lott is suggesting
that Republicans are going to work with moderate Democrats
and Republicans, fashion a compromise budget deal, and
send it to the President and say, ``Here, sign it. This
is bipartisan."
Any chance of that happening?
DASCHLE: Well, Tim, they missed a golden opportunity
to do that over the last several weeks. You know, we've
already agreed to about $711 billion in deficit reduction.
You take the minimal amount that we've agreed to on
either side in our similar budget proposals, and it totals
$711 billion. We can do that. We can lock that in. We
can claim victory on a balanced budget.
The problem is too many Republicans want to take too
much from Medicare and Medicaid to pay for a huge tax cut
we can't afford. So, if the issue is balancing a budget,
let's claim victory. Let's get our agreement.
But if it's to pay for that huge tax cut that we just
can't provide for wealthy Americans, especially, taking
from Medicare and Medicaid, that's wrong, and we won't
agree to it.
RUSSERT: But Senator Daschle, even liberal
commentators have said, one, the President has a tax cut
that would suddenly expire in the middle of a presidential
campaign in the year 2000 and that will never be repealed,
so there leaves a gaping hole in the budget.
Two, about 60 percent of all your budget reductions
occur in the last two years of the budget deal, way after
Bill Clinton would be leaving a second term, if he has
one, that this is pie in the sky.
DASCHLE: Tim, 61 percent of the Republican budget
takes place, deficit reduction takes place in the last two
years. Sixty
-one percent. So our budget
-cutting trend
goes exactly the same way as the Republican budget
-cutting
trend. And why -- in large measure because the Republicans
insist on having that huge tax cut up front. We don't
need to have the size of the tax cut the Republicans want.
We don't need to back
-load this thing the way the
Republicans are proposing.
Let's get a targeted tax cut as the President has
proposed, let's do it in a reasonable way, and let's not
take it from Medicare and Medicaid to pay for it.
RUSSERT: Senator Daschle, Senator Lott seemed
reasonably optimistic that perhaps a deal could be
achieved by February 26th. Do you share that optimism?
DASCHLE: Well, I think there is a possibility, and I
would hope we could work together. We really need a truce here.
We need bipartisanship.
Rather than having the down payment that the Speaker is
suggesting, however, I think Trent Lott is right. I think
we ought to have a full payment. Let's get this thing
done. Let's accomplish a meaningful balanced budget,
protecting our priorities in Medicare and Medicaid,
education and the environment, targeting the tax cut.
There's no reason why we can't do that, and I would hope
we'd keep at it.
But we're not going to do it if we go out for a month.
We've got to stay here, we've got to work, we've got to
put this debt limit behind us, we've got to agree to a
clean debt limit, not loaded up. If we do that, I think we
could get an agreement, we could get on and do some serious
governing here.
RUSSERT: Senator Lott, you let the Senate go away for
a month?
LOTT: No, and I don't know what he's talking about.
Tom knows that we are going to be in session and we're, in
fact, we're going to be in session next week, and I
believe and I hope, certainly, that we're going to have
votes on a telecommunications bill, which could be the
biggest jobs creation bill passed in a decade, and an
agriculture bill. And
I know that Senator Dole, Senator Daschle are working on an
agriculture bill. So we're going to be in and having
votes next week, maybe other votes.
But I want to emphasize one other thing
DASCHLE: But there was a lot of talk, Trent, as Trent
knows, that there was a lot of talk about adjourning for
the entire month of February, and we have emphasized to
the Republican leadership that we're not willing to accept
that, so I think that's the reason.
LOTT: Talk is cheap in Washington, we're going to be
here.
DASCHLE: Well, it's more than talk, and I'm glad we
are here.
RUSSERT: Let me turn to health care. It's a very
important issue in the minds of a lot of Americans.
President Clinton went before Congress and said, listen:
Senator Nancy Kassebaum, Republican, Senator Ted Kennedy,
Democrat, have a bipartisan bill which would say, if you
changed your jobs, you could keep your health insurance;
if you had a pre
-existing health condition, you could not
be denied. Will Congress adopt that bipartisan health
care insurance bill?
LOTT: I do think there's a possibility that we will do
something in that area. I doubt if it will be that bill
as it is presently structured. How you do what you're
saying there is very important.
It's easy to say, oh, yes, we all think that we should
deal with this portability question, how you have coverage
when you change jobs and so forth. But there are some
problems in this bill. As I understand it -- and I
haven't checked into it in detail, and I'm doing some work
to try to find out what those problems are -- that it
would drive up significantly the cost of people that are
healthy and wind up causing people to lose their coverage
because they can't afford the cost because the sick people
are out of the system when they don't need it and they get
in it when they do need it.
But we're looking at that, and I think that some sort
of compromise is possible, but I think there are real
problems with the Kassebaum
-Kennedy bill as it now stands,
at least as I understand it.
Now, I want to emphasize again on the tax cuts. We
have argued too much in Washington
DASCHLE: Let me just interject here. (OFF
-MIKE)
LOTT: Let me respond to what you said a minute ago,
Tom, and I'll stop.
DASCHLE: OK.
LOTT: On the taxes, since you raised it, you know, I
think in Washington we've gotten so caught up in fighting
over how we rearrange the chairs that we haven't talked
about having growth in the economy. I still believe we can
have more growth and savings and investment.
And at one point I want to ask, on the marriage
penalty, I got a 25
-year
-old daughter, when she gets
married -- and I hope she does soon -- why should she pay
more taxes just because she gets married. We should change
that. One of many examples of what we should change.
RUSSERT: Senator Daschle, if I could focus on health
care. Will Congress pass the Republican
-Democrat
bipartisan approach, Nancy Kassebaum, Ted Kennedy health
insurance reform bill?
DASCHLE: Tim, we've got to do it. You know, the
Republican leadership promised that last year when they
killed health reform entirely.
Now, we've got more uninsured people than we've ever
had before, the special interests are using the same scare
tactics we saw last year. We can't let that happen.
We've got to pass at least this minimalist bill.
People ought to have a right to health care, they ought
to have an opportunity to sign up for it and to keep it
once they've got it. There are some in the Republican side
that want to kill this, even this moderate bill. I think
it's wrong. We've got to do everything we can to pass it
soon.
RUSSERT: Senator Lott, you're the number two
Republican in the Senate. How did the number one man, Bob
Dole, do in response to the President, State of the Union
message?
LOTT: I think he did fine. I read what he actually
said. I listened to part of it, although I missed part of
it because of the activities of getting away from the
chamber, and he's got a great message in what he had to
say.
Look, when you deliver an eight, a ten
-minute response
to the President, when you're talking right into that
camera after the President's been talking for over an hour
in the House chamber, it's a very difficult job to do.
LOTT: But when you look at his message what he had to
say was very good.
RUSSERT: Would be comfortable with Steve Forbes as the
nominee of your party?
LOTT: Ah, look we've got some great candidates running
for president including some business men, a former
governor, senators. I believe we have an exciting
primary. I could live with any of them that are running.
RUSSERT: Even Steve Forbes?
LOTT: Sure.
RUSSERT: And, the whole idea that unearned income
would not be taxed would be something that would sell the
American people.
LOTT: He is proving once again that ideas are bigger
than the candidate themselves. He hit up on an idea that
people are talking about it, they're criticizing it, but
they are discussing the need for an overall tax change in
the system.
April 15 is coming soon. The American people are
disgusted with this multi
-million word tax code. They
want to get rid of Internal Revenue Service. He raised an
issue and it caught hold.
Phil Gramm has talked about this issue. Bob Dole and
Speaker Gingrich which appointed the commission to deal
with this. So I think that he has stirred up a lot of
interest. I give him credit for that, and I think it
should be the focus of the debate for the rest of the year.
RUSSERT: Senator Daschle, before we go, make some
friends, make some enemies, who do you like Steelers or
Cowboys?
DASCHLE: You know I, we've got a terrible connection
Tim. I'm sorry I can't comment on the last question.
(LAUGHTER)
RUSSERT: Steelers or Cowboys Senator?
DASCHLE: Ah, listen I predict elections a lot better
than I do football games.
(LAUGHTER)
LOTT: Red Favre (ph) of the Greenbay Packers, Buffalo
Bills but under these conditions I guess I'd have to go
with the Cowboys.
RUSSERT: Well, the South will rise again. I detect
that accent Senator.
Coming next the presidential race to the eyes of Lamar
Alexander. Phil Gramm, and Bill Bradley, coming up here on
MEET THE PRESS.
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RUSSERT: Back, and with us now are Lamar Alexander,
Republican candidate for president. Welcome.
ALEXANDER: Thank you, Tim.
RUSSERT: You hear our discussion with Senator Lott and
Daschle. The Republican has to make a big decision,
whether or not to allow the country to default and/or lift
the debt ceiling or allow the country to pay its debts.
What should they do?
ALEXANDER: They should find something -- actually I
didn't hear it, but they should find something that
President Clinton wants badly, not give it to him and
balance the budget. I think the country is sick of this
business of grown up men and women not being able to
balance the budget. They should do it. President Clinton
the culprit that they should do it, and then get on to
jobs, rebuilding families, creating better schools. That's
what the country wants to do, hear about.
RUSSERT: But the whole issue of default, should the
Republicans in Congress lift the debt ceiling, allow the
country to pay its debts, or should they try to blackmail
President Clinton by saying -- Look, we won't let you pay
the debts unless you give us capital gains tax, child tax
credit. Should it be a clean bill or not?
ALEXANDER: Tim, this is really, this is inside
baseball in Washington. I'm running for president. I
would sign the bill.
I think it is the job of the President and the Congress to
balance the budget. If all I'd every done as Governor was
balance the budget, we'd still be the third poor state.
Most people in this country think it's ridiculous that
they can't come to some agreement on balancing the budget.
We need to get off the budget and outside Washington and
the Presidential campaign.
RUSSERT: This is not inside Washington. This is
ALEXANDER: This is inside baseball. This is all you
guys talk about here is numbers and budgets and
subcommittees and it's time you start talking about
schools and neighborhoods.
RUSSERT: I've been out there for a year and a half
trying to get focused, this presidential campaign, on
what's going on in the whole country, and this is inside
baseball, the highest order, and people are sick of it.
ALEXANDER: Inside baseball -- the full faith and
credit of the United States for the first time in the
United States of America may go into default and you call
it inside baseball?
RUSSERT: These are grown men and women elected to
represent the people of the United States. There like Boy
Scouts coming in saying, give me a merit badge.
1 think what we would say to a son who said that is
that you're suppose to tell the truth, now go out and
learn to cook and we'll give you a merit badge. I mean,
this is the minimum that the Congress and the President
could do is balance the budget, we've got other problems
in the country that the presidential race is suppose to be
about.
So you're talking to Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and Bob Dole
-- start telling the truth?
ALEXANDER: I'm saying that the President and the
Congress should balance the budget, period. It's
absolutely imperative to do it. I would do it by signing
the Republican bill. I'm the only Republican running for
president who's ever balanced a government budget.
I reduced the state debt. It's the minimum you expect
of elected officials. It's one reason why people aren't
very happy with Washington today.
RUSSERT: Steve Forbes -- why is he doing so well?
ALEXANDER: Money, Dole's weakness. Those are the two.
And
a 30
-second flat tax idea, which takes thoroughly sensible
principles and turns it into a thoroughly goofy idea.
Steve Forbes is a good person. He recruited me to be
on Empower America, which I appreciate, but he's not
prepared to be president. And I think most Americans know
that or will soon find that out.
RUSSERT: Why is he not prepared to be president?
ALEXANDER: Well, the Forbes world isn't the real
world. Look at what he's doing with the tax proposal. I
mean, this idea of limiting deductions and reducing rates
is the right thing to do. But he's taking the Jerry Brown
version of it. He's telling people that it's going to cut
their taxes when, in fact, it's going to reduce the value
of their home, eliminate the charitable deduction,
jeopardize their health insurance, unbalance the budget,
and cut Mr. Forbes' taxes.
That's -- he ought to try the school board before he
tries the presidency.
RUSSERT: If Steve Forbes was the Republican nominee,
do you think his candidacy and his flat tax would be easy
pickings for Bill Clinton and the Democrats?
ALEXANDER: Easy pickings. I mean, Bill Clinton's just
sitting over there hoping that this nutty idea of Forbes
ends up on the Republican platform. We'd look like
buffaloes stampeding off a cliff.
I mean, how could we justify that? What we should be
for is cutting tax rates on income inheritance --
something like Ronald Reagan proposed in the '80s, two low
rates.
We could repeal the Clinton tax increase. We could
repeal the 1990 tax increase. We could cut the capital
gains tax. We could limit most deductions. We could
simplify the code.
Jack Kemp's principles are good. Steve Forbes' tax is
far out. It's very odd.
RUSSERT: You're suggesting, if Steve Forbes became the
Republican nominee, you'd lose the White House and perhaps
Republican control of Congress.
ALEXANDER: Well, that's the way it's going to work
this year. We're either going to go the Democratic way or
the Republican way, which is why we need to nominate a
Republican who can help re
-elect the Congress.
The people outside Washington are really fed up with
the bickering here. And I think people are going to say,
``We either going to give it to Clinton, or we're going to
give it to the Republicans," which is why Senator Dole's
performance Tuesday night, I think, caused so much
conversation in Iowa and New Hampshire. We got a preview
of what we hope we don't see in October.
RUSSERT: What was the conversation regarding Senator
Dole's response?
ALEXANDER: He's not the man to be in that debate with
Clinton in October.
RUSSERT: Why?
ALEXANDER: Clinton had -- Clinton was faking a
marvelous vision. Dole was too decent to fake a vision
that he obviously doesn't have. And in a vision contest
between Dole and Clinton, Clinton wins. And we lose the
Congress, and Gephardt is the Speaker.
RUSSERT: Senator -- excuse me, Mr. Forbes is on the
air with
a commercial attacking you, saying that you're receiving
$295,000 from a Washington law firm for basically doing
nothing.
What's your response?
ALEXANDER: Well, my response, first, is that Mr.
Forbes is spending 70 percent of his ad budget, which is a
very big ad budget, attacking me now. He's run out of
ugly things to say about Bob Dole, and I think that means
that I'm moving up, Dole's dropping, and Forbes isn't
prepared to be president. And that means I'm in pretty
good shape.
It's a misleading ad. I work for a living. I'm not in
government. I've been a part of a law firm. It's been
fully disclosed. I'm leaving the law firm this year.
I've leaving the law firm this year.
I've disclose my tax return since 1978, so everybody
would know the details of what I am doing. I've suggest
that Mr. Forbes do that as well, so we would know how much
his tax cutting proposals effect him as well as us. And I
think what most people would discover is his tax, which
says it will cut our taxes, cuts his and raises ours.
RUSSERT: What kind of work are you doing for the law
firm? That's what Mr. Forbes is suggesting. Are you doing
real work?
ALEXANDER: Of course I'm doing real work, and I'm
bringing in more money to the law firm than I'm taking
out. I made a decision in 1993 when I thought I might run
for President. I had to support myself. I'm different
than the other, some of the other candidates. I didn't
inherit well and I don't work for the government. And so,
I decided that I would, my principle occupation would be
as a lawyer, and when the primaries start I will drop that
profession which I'm dropping in February. So, I'm doing
it according to the book.
RUSSERT: And no problem making all your clients
public?
ALEXANDER: I have already made them all public. They
are all a part of the -- See, I have always done no
lobbying which he implies I've done. It's typical of his
misleading ads. I've never done any lobbying. I've
always disclosed my tax returns.
I think people have a right to know how our tax cutting
proposals effect them as well as us. It would help if we
knew that about Mr. Forbes, as well.
RUSSERT: Do you believe that Mr. Forbes will be able
to go through this entire campaign without releasing his
tax returns?
ALEXANDER: I think he shouldn't be. I mean if his
principle proposal is cutting taxes, and if he says it
cuts yours, then shouldn't we know how it cuts his.
RUSSERT: You have an issue also important to the
country, health care. The President challenged Congress
to pass the bipartisan, Nancy Kassebaum
-Ted Kennedy health
care bill which would allow people to have insurance even
if they left their job and not be denied insurance if they
had a pre
-existing health condition. Should Congress pass
that bill?
ALEXANDER: Congress should not. The states should.
That's a very important part of what we ought to be doing in
health in this country. But we saw what happened three
years ago when President Clinton tried to fix everything
from Washington. It doesn't work.
RUSSERT: Steelers versus Cowboys. Who do you like?
ALEXANDER: Steelers by three. It's a dark horse's
year.
RUSSERT: You're going for the Pennsylvania primary,
aren't you?
ALEXANDER: I'm going to win the election. Dole's
dropping, Forbes is going to fizzle, and I'm third with a
bullet.
RUSSERT: Lamar Alexander, we thank you for joining us
this morning. Coming next, the man from Texas, Phil Gramm
gets equal time. Then we'll talk with Bill Bradley and in
our MEET THE PRESS minute, Eleanor, Roosevelt.
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Phil Gramm, candidate for President, and of Texas. Go
ahead, get it in. Who do you want in the Super Bowl?
GRAMM: Cowboys.
RUSSERT: I knew it, how did I know? You're running
for re- election in the Senate, too, right?
GRAMM: Well, all I got to do is get eight men to put
my bumper sticker and tell me.
RUSSERT: 150 million people, right?
RUSSERT: Let me turn to the debt limit. You heard
Senator Lott, Senator Daschle. Will the Republicans in
Congress lift the debt ceiling in a clean way so the
country can pay its bills?
GRAMM: I think we're going to lift the debt ceiling.
I think it'd be a irresponsible not to, but I think we've
got to get a linkage between paying the bill collector.
And as families do, when the bill collector's at the door
they find a way to pay, but then they sit down around the
kitchen table, they get out their credit cards, they get
out the butcher knife; they cut up the credit cards, they
try to write out a budget, and I think we have got to take
some action as we raise the debt ceiling to try to deal
with this problem in the future.
One of the ways to do it would be to take this spending
cuts we agreed to, put them on the debt ceiling. Another
way would be to limit the growth of the debt ceiling to
the projection debt at least our joint budgets produce so
that we're forcing action in the future to deal with the
debt, the explosion of the debt and with the deficit.
I think just a clean debt ceiling is giving the
President another blank check as we have given him credit
cards now on four occasion without him ever agreeing to a
budget.
RUSSERT: But if the President insisted on a clean bill
would you go into a gridlock with him over it?
GRAMM: I think that the President is not the dictator
of the country. We have a constitutional system. And I think
when we say to the American people that if we going to pay
the bill collector, we want to cut up at least one of the
credit cards.
I think they're going to understand that, they're going to
support it. I'm not going to vote to simply expand the
debt limit by another trillion dollars unless we going to
do something about the problem.
RUSSERT: You'd claim that you single
-handedly stopped
the Clinton health care plan. The President has now
challenged Congress to do something much more modest,
much more incremental. The Nancy Kassebaum, Republican
from Kansas, Ted Kennedy, Democrat from Massachusetts, have
gotten together and said, listen, the issues people care
about out there are if you leave your job you take your
health care with you, or if you have a pre
-existing
condition you still get coverage. Would you support that
kind of bipartisan approach to insurance reform for health
care for America?
GRAMM: Well, let me say, Tim, I appreciate the plug
that I did to stop the Clinton health care bill
RUSSERT: I said you claimed.
GRAMM: when Bob Dole signed on to a big government
compromise to raise taxes and set up the National Health
Board in Washington. And I think it's instructive that
the President didn't reintroduce his bill, Bob Dole didn't
reintroduce his compromise, but I did reintroduce my bill,
it does deal with portability, it does deal with
permanence.
I think we need to make it easier for people to get and
keep good health insurance. I want to look very closely,
however, to be sure that we don't create a situation where
we, in essence, guarantee that we're going to sell people
fire and casualty after their house has burned down.
I think that we've got to look and see what kind of
incentives we're building into the program if we went with
a pure system that said, no matter what the circumstance
were, you could always walk into an insurance company and
buy a policy and impose cost on the other policyholders.
People would wait until they got sick to buy insurance.
And so, you often get unintended consequences in these
kind of programs. But we need to make it easier to get
and keep good private health insurance.
RUSSERT: Steve Forbes. Why is he doing so well?
GRAMM: I think Steve Forbes is doing well because he
has spent more money on television than any candidate has
ever spent in the primary process. I think that he has
awakened the public to the debate about the flat tax. The
flat tax goes back to the tithe in the Old Testament. John
Stuart Mill proposed it in the 1840s. It's been debated
for 50 years. But they didn't spend $18 million talking
about it.
I think, basically, what Steve has done is he has
raised the issue, but as people look at the fact -- you
raised it earlier in talking to Lamar his tax is a tax
on wages and salaries.
You can never justify to the American people that
people who earn wages and salaries and get a W
-2 form
should pay taxes and people who earn income on investments
shouldn't. Americans are not going to buy into taking the
home mortgage interest deduction away when it would raise
the taxes of an average family by $2100. And the last
time I looked, the Republican Party was the party of
strong families and weak government, and home ownership is
critical to families.
I also don't think we're going to eliminate charitable
deductions, contributions to our churches, at the very
time Republicans want churches, charitable organizations
to play a bigger role.
RUSSERT: So you think that Steve Forbes' flat tax idea
as constructed, allowing, in effect, tax free income from
interest in dividends, would make him easy pickings for
Bill Clinton?
GRAMM: Oh, I don't think there's any doubt about the
fact. You could spend a billion dollars trying to
convince people that we should tax wages and salaries, but
not investment income, that we should double the deficit,
that we should eliminate the deduction for mortgage
interest and charitable deductions.
Even with a billion dollars, even if you bought all the
ads on the Super Bowl today, you could never convince the
American people that that was a good idea. Not only would
you lose the election, but I think there's no doubt about
the fact, with that as the flagship of our campaign, we
would lose both houses of Congress.
RUSSERT: Let's take a look at a poll that Newsweek
magazine took which had a Clinton 52, Dole 43. And then
they compared Steve Forbes 49 to 42. Clinton
-Gramm,
58
-35. Steve Forbes is running better than Phil Gramm.
GRAMM: Yes, but the reason is people know absolutely
nothing about Steve Forbes except they've seen his name.
Bill Clinton is going to beat anybody that does not have
comparable name ID. But what people don't know is, number
one, Steve Forbes was for $1.50 increase in the tax on
gasoline. He was for giving away the Panama Canal. He is
for gays in the military.
As people get to know Forbes, as we went through a
campaign, look, it is inconceivable to me that people
would, in the end, believe that Steve Forbes is a viable
candidate against Bill Clinton. It would be Richie Rich
against Tom Sawyer. There's no way you could possibly win
that race. So, I'm not a bit surprised at those polls.
What I have decided to do is I was like a little boy
with a half a glass of water with the resources we had,
and I could either dip my finger in it and try to sprinkle
it to awaken a sleeping giant or wait until the end, throw
the whole cup in his face.
We have just gone on television heavily in the early
primary states. We're now competitive with Forbes and
Dole. Our message is stronger because my record's
stronger. And I believe, in the end, that I'm going to
win the nomination and beat Bill Clinton. And quite
frankly, Tim, I'm the only Republican who can appeal to
blue
-collar workers, conservative Democrats and
Independents, the very people we're going to have to have
to beat Bill Clinton.
RUSSERT: Do you agree with Governor Alexander that if
Forbes were the nominee you'd lose the White House and
Republican control of Congress?
GRAMM: I think that's right, but I'm not worried about
it because I don't think there is any scenario under which
Steve Forbes is going to be the nominee. I also
believe
RUSSERT: What about Bob Dole?
GRAMM: Well, look, the President's number
-one foreign
policy initiative is Bosnia. Bob Dole supported it. The
President's number- one domestic initiative was a
government
-run health care system. Bob Dole offered a
compromise to tax your private health insurance, set up a
national health board in Washington.
The issue we're talking about today, spending and
taxes, Bob Dole has said if those pesky House Republican
freshmen, who are standing on our principles, would get
out of the way, he could cut a deal with Bill Clinton.
What does he run against Bill Clinton on? We know he
can't match Bill Clinton for empty political rhetoric. We
saw that the other night. Bob Dole's problem is he wants
to be the quarterback of the Republican team in the Super
Bowl of American politics, but he's stuck in the locker
room because he's got no game plan.
Troy Aikman's got a game plan today.
RUSSERT: Vice President Gore made an appeal to
Republicans yesterday. I want to roll the tape and let
you respond to it.
(VIDEO CLIP BEGINS)
GORE: They hire these operatives to go out and go back
15 years to investigate the First Lady's law practice.
They ought to cut that out, and the Republican candidates
ought to tell them to cut it out.
(VIDEO CLIP ENDS)
RUSSERT: What's your response?
GRAMM: Democratic members of the House and Senate
voted to hold the Watergate (sic) hearings. They were in
the majority when the resolution was passed. Good
rhetoric, but it just doesn't fit with the facts.
RUSSERT: But here
GRAMM: I will say this, Tim. We're not going to beat
Bill Clinton on ethics. If we were going to do that,
George Bush would have been re
-elected. We're going to
beat Bill Clinton by defining a vision for the future of
how we balance the budget, how we reduce taxes, how we lift
the regulatory burden, how we create more jobs, how we
bring back the American dream and share it with the people
who missed it the first time around. If we do that, we're going
to beat Bill Clinton, we're going to gain strength in the House
and the Senate.
But if we try to match empty political rhetoric -- I
mean, if the best Bob Dole can say, Bill Clinton says I
feel your pain is -- he doesn't feel your pain. I think
what we got to explain is
I don't doubt Bill Clinton feels our pain. The problem is
his programs cause our pain. And when we talk about
substance and vision, we win.
RUSSERT: Do you think have or maybe piling on Hillary
Clinton a little too much and it could backfire politically?
GRAMM: I think it's something that people need to be
very, very careful about.
RUSSERT: Senator Phil Gramm, be careful in the
campaign trail and thanks for joining us.
Coming up, Bill Bradley and his new book, and Eleanor
Roosevelt on our MEET THE PRESS Minute.
(BREAK)
RUSSERT: Bill Bradley has a new book. We'll talk
about it and his future after this station break.
(BREAK)
RUSSERT: He's only 52, but he's retiring from the U.S.
Senate, the author of this new book, "Time Present, Time
Passed." Senator Bradley, welcome.
BRADLEY: Good to be with you, Tim.
RUSSERT: What is the most important thing a reader
could take from this book?
BRADLEY: That the future of America is in the hands of
individual Americans, and that we have to assume
individual responsibility.
Barbara Bush probably made the best statement in
politics in recent history when she said what happens in
your house is more important than what happens in the
White House, and that even at times of great economic
stress, with the middle class working harder and earning
less, that there are still a lot of people out there --
people of courage who are facing the future with fear,
people who've suffered personal loss but seek renewal and
get it, those who are working hard because they believe in
something bigger than themselves.
And that leadership in America is not something that is
done to people, like fixing their teeth. It is, rather,
what unlocks people's potential, calls them to task for
the lies they've told themselves, and really changes
national self
-perception, but that it requires both of
those two in order to make this country realize its
potential.
RUSSERT: The average guy out there who's working very
hard, maybe even two jobs, his wife is working, and yet
his income is not going up. But there's no quick
political fix to that, is there?
BRADLEY: There's no magic bullet that people can
provide. We got to get the economy growing again. I
think you got to help people under stress so that they can
at least have their health care for a year if they're laid
off, the pension should be portable.
But we're in a time where what's good -- you know, the
information revolution makes us more productive, makes us
more competitive is also having an effect on that
middle class worker.
In the first year of the Clinton Administration, for
example, they announced that 1.6 million jobs had been
created, to which
a TWA machinist replied, yeah, my wife and I have four of
them. And that's very true. If you look at the number,
almost half of those 1.6 million were part
-time jobs.
RUSSERT: You talk in the book about my profession, the
media, and you say that if you had to run now, for the
first time, you wouldn't do it, because of our behavior.
What's the case or the indictment of the media, as you see
it?
BRADLEY: Well, Tim, I think it's the extent of the
invasiveness of the media, and I think it is the mean
spiritedness of campaigns. It's a combination of the
politician plus the media.
I mean, if you're thinking of running for office today,
I mean, I think you have to be prepared for a massive
invasion of privacy on behalf of the media outlets that
are competing with each other to get air
-time, to get
viewership, to get sponsorship.
And I think, you know, among other things, if you've ever had
a speeding ticket, somebody's going to find it at the motor
vehicle department. If you've ever had a misdemeanor, they're
going to check the state or the county courthouse.
If you're ever a day or two late on your property
taxes, they'll know it because they'll check the county
clerk's office.
If you ever associate with a corporation, they'll check
the SEC or the state -- secretary of state's office.
If you -- and if that isn't bad enough -- I mean, if
you've ever been in a court case, where you've had to put
out your income tax returns or any -- all your financial
data, even brokerage firm receipts, they will find it --
it's on the public record.
And then, your opponent will enter the picture, hire a
deep research firm, sometimes a private detective agency
that doesn't always abide by the law. They could very
well not only get medical records, but they could also get
your telephone records.
They could get some of your other bank records.
There's even cases where they would look into your
garbage, and then when they would get that material, they
would then slip it to the media, which, of course, would
use it because they didn't find. They didn't -- they
weren't responsible, but here's the facts. Should they
use it, or should they not?
And in this circumstance, Tim, I mean, I get a feeling
that, you know, I'm living in a time where what I value
most, which is character, is endangered and what I admire
most, which is humanity, is devalued. And what I'm most
sensitive about, which is privacy, is denied.
And that is a reality. We're better than we have been
-- both the media and politicians because the politicians
frequently go to the lowest common denominator themselves,
the slash and burn tactics, negative ads, and the media
also contributes to that by sensationalism, by not putting
things in context, and by frequently simply putting on the
air what will sell.
And a publisher that puts in his papers that which will
sell and that's why he puts it in, I think, loses the
credibility to criticize politicians who pander to voters.
RUSSERT: You also talk about campaign finance --
restructuring radically the way we finance our campaigns.
If you had your way, Steve Forbes could not use his own
money to run for president, right?
BRADLEY: That's exactly right. I mean, I think one of
the unfairest elements of the current political situation
is that a rich man's wallet is the equivalent of a poor
man's soap box, according to the Supreme Court.
You know, you can't limit what individuals can spend on
themselves, and I personally think that that distorts the
democratic process.
RUSSERT: So, you'd give free TV time to the
candidates, no political action committees?
BRADLEY: Well, I'd say free TV time to the candidates.
Rich men would be limited, couldn't spend the money. A
hundred dollars in a primary, and that's it. And in the
general election, people could contribute -- people in a
state could contribute up to $5,000 per year to a fund that
would then be divided on Labor Day or the day after the
primary among Republican, Democrat, and/or qualified
independent. And that's all -- all the money in politics.
I mean, money in politics is a little bit like ants in
your kitchen. You either get it all out -- get them all
out, close all the holes, or they're going to find a way
in.
The American people know that.
RUSSERT: Thirteen senators have chosen not to seek
re
-election. Yourself, other pragmatists -- Republicans
Cohen, Kassebaum, Simpson. Democrats -- Nunn, Bradley.
Are pragmatists abandoning the Senate because they feel
the hard left and the hard right are setting the tone of
the debate?
BRADLEY: No, I think every individual senator has
individual reasons. I think the mean
-spiritedness of
campaign, the constant chase for money. I think those are
elements. But, no,
I don't think that it is because of the polarization,
although you are correct in saying that some of the people
who leave, even though they might be conservative or
reasonable, and people don't understand this about the
Senate.
Let me give you an example. Al Simpson, we're opposite points
of view on so many issues. I can remember one time we were on
the extended NIGHTLINE program. On the Anita Hill
-Clarence
Thomas debate. And we had really harsh words with each other.
We were very angry at each other on the air before 62
million people. Then the program's over. I'm sitting on
the stage, and I realize that I'm supposed to buy a quart of milk
for our daughter's breakfast. And I look in my pocket, I don't
have any money.
And the question comes, well, who am I going to ask to
borrow a couple of dollars so I can buy a quart of milk for our
daughter. So, I walk across the set, ask Simpson, would
you loan me $10 so I can buy some. Give me 10 dollars. I
go to all my grocery stores -- Buy a quart of milk and
then in memory of Al buy a box of Wheaties.
RUSSERT: But most important question, did "Dollar
Bill" pay him back?
BRADLEY; Of course. I paid him back the very next
day, or week, or month.
RUSSERT: Without interest? There's a full cut page
advertisement for your book in the Washington Post and it
says, if every American were to read this book, Bill
Bradley would be the next President of the United States.
Is that true?
BRADLEY: That's not what I wrote it. I mean I wrote
it because I want to take stock in where I was in
mid
-passage in my life. And I also wrote it because I
wanted people to feel and to sense here what it was to be
a public figure in America at this time.
And I wanted to meet Americans of courage that I've met
along the road who, you never hear about. These are the
people in our civil society that make it work.
RUSSERT: But you'd like to be President?
BRADLEY: I'm going to take a crack at that sometime,
yes. But you know there is an old proverb, you got to
plow the field before you reap the harvest.
RUSSERT: Is it too late to enter the race in '96 for
Bill Bradley?
BRADLEY: It would be very difficult. I think it would
be very difficult in terms of the money. I mean, you
know, I don't rule anything out. But I just think it
would be very difficult.
For 14 years and people ask me this question, I said, no
nobody would believe me. And so I just decided I'll never
say no again.
RUSSERT: But you'd have to run as an Independent.
It's too late to enter the party structure?
BRADLEY: Yes, way to late on the party structure.
Independent, the deck is stacked against any Independent.
Just take the money thing for example. I mean, remember,
Steve Forbes is from state. So, you know, as I thought
about Senate campaigns in 1990, I had to think, well what
if Steve Forbes jumped into the race. So, I had to raise
the money.
In this case, since you, the only person who could
begin to write the check I guess would be someone who was
independently wealthy, like a Perot, or someone.
Each party gets $72 million dollars. Twelve for the
convention, 60 for the general election, Independent gets
zero and has to raise it in $1,000 amounts. The most
money every raised in a $1,000 amounts was George Bush in
1992, and he raised about $20 million dollars. That's where
we are.
RUSSERT: It's unlikely you will run as an Independent
in '96. Will you support Bill Clinton?
BRADLEY: Well, I want to see the President speak out
more on racial issues. I believe that he has the bully
pulpit. He needs to remind people of our history. He
needs to educate people about how racial division
diminishes us as a people.
I'd also like to see him be much more specific about
using the power of government to balance private power,
public power to balance private power on behalf of middle
class
RUSSERT: But over Forbes or over Dole, you'd support
Bill Clinton?
BRADLEY: Well, a final question, do you consider
yourself a Democrat or an Independent now?
BRADLEY: I consider myself a Democrat. I believe in
terms of issues of pluralism, in terms of broader issues
of democracy, even in terms of getting the economy growing
again, that we have
a better shot to do that. We made some mistakes in the
past.
BRADLEY: I mean, you know, but we have, I think, a
better shot.
RUSSERT: Steelers, Cowboys -- who do you like?
BRADLEY: I'm a working
-class guy. I'm going to go
with the Steelers.
RUSSERT: And the book is "Time Present, Time Past".
Senator Bradley, good luck to you, and I think that
perhaps we'll see you again on MEET THE PRESS.
BRADLEY: I hope so.
RUSSERT: Coming next -- another controversial first
lady, Eleanor Roosevelt.
(BREAK)
RUSSERT: Like Hillary Clinton, Eleanor Roosevelt had
some very strong opinions about the role of women in
society and politics. Here's what she had to say 39 years
ago.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
(UNKNOWN): On this program last week, you were
suggested as
a possible candidate for president yourself.
ROOSEVELT: For what?
(UNKNOWN): For president -- for the nomination.
ROOSEVELT: I am 73 years old. Wake up.
(UNKNOWN): I didn't make the nomination. Do you think
we shall ever have a woman president?
ROOSEVELT: Yes, of course we will.
(UNKNOWN): How soon?
ROOSEVELT: Oh, I don't know how soon. That depends on
how many women do well in offices and how many women win
offices and are appointed. You can't tell, but someday it
will happen. When you get to the point where you look at
people in politics and in positions of political importance
as people and not as either women or men.
(UNKNOWN): Are there women today who could be
President of the United States, Mrs. Roosevelt?
ROOSEVELT: I've never given it much thought, but I'm
sure there probably are.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
RUSSERT: And in 1996, the presidential field is still
devoid of women. Tune in tomorrow for the TODAY program,
the NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH TOM BROKAW.
As for the Super Bowl, an ethnic blue
-collar city only
three hours by car from Buffalo. Go Steelers! Anybody
but those darned Dallas Cowboys.
That's all for today. We'll be back next week with
Sunday's MEET THE PRESS.
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May 3, 1996
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"Senate Sends AIDS Care Compromise to President"
"EPA Orders Water Systems to Monitor for Parasite"
"Mom's Privacy or Baby's Welfare?"
"Biogen Inc.: Decision Upheld in Dispute With SmithKline on Fees"
"Panels Challenge Clinton on Defense"
"Congress Expected to Reverse AIDS Cut"
"Stoffa to Stand Trial in Theft From AIDS Agency"
"Agency Opens City Office for AIDS Support Services"
"Adaptive Evolution of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Type 1 During
the Natural Course of Infection"
"RGP-160 Treatment Vaccine (VaxSyn): Canadian Study Finds No
Benefit"
"Senate Sends AIDS Care Compromise to President"
New York Times (05/03/96) P. A22
The Senate passed a bill on Thursday to extend federal AIDS
funding for five years and to urge voluntary HIV testing of
pregnant women. The measure calls for mandatory HIV testing of
newborns if the voluntary testing does not curb rates of
mother-to-child transmission. The bill has been sent to
President Clinton, who has expressed support for the measure.
The funding provision will guarantee that rural areas of the
United States see increases in their share of the $738 million
for the treatment and support services. The issue of mandatory
testing of newborns has been debated since July, with leaders in
the Senate opposing the measure. The bill provides $10 million
to help states implement guidelines for the voluntary HIV
counseling, testing, and treatment of pregnant women. By the
turn of the century, states would have to show a 50 percent
reduction in HIV-infected newborns, that 95 percent of pregnant
women are tested, or implement mandatory HIV testing of infants
whose mothers' HIV status is unknown. Related Story: Houston
Chronicle (05/02) P. 18A
"EPA Orders Water Systems to Monitor for Parasite"
Washington Post (05/03/96) P. A3
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ordered the
largest U.S. water systems to monitor and keep records on
cryptosporidium, a microbial parasite that can be deadly in
individuals with poor immunity, such as people with AIDS.
Currently, there are no federal standards related to
cryptosporidium in drinking water. The National Association of
People With AIDS said Thursday that its investigation of 31 water
systems revealed that many had inadequate cryptosporidium
surveillance and public notification programs. The advocacy group
named Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; Dallas; Minneapolis; Newark; and
St. Petersburg, FL, as areas of particular concern, though it said
that only in Seattle, Tampa, and Milwaukee are immunocompromised
individuals at risk. The new EPA ruling covers 300 large
metropolitan water systems, and the EPA said that about one-third
of them already check for the parasite.
"Mom's Privacy or Baby's Welfare?"
Washington Post (05/03/96) P. A20
In a Washington Post editorial, the authors argue that the
new congressional decision to urge voluntary HIV testing of
pregnant women does not go far enough to protect newborns. The
editors claim that a newborn's welfare should be more important
than a mother's privacy and that all infants should be tested at
birth, with results disclosed to both parents and primary care
givers. This would ensure that HIV-infected babies receive the
special care that they need. The editors also note that while
the compromise is a positive step, it does not help babies born
to mothers who object to the test and do not want to know their
own HIV status.
"Biogen Inc.: Decision Upheld in Dispute With SmithKline on Fees"
Wall Street Journal (05/03/96) P. B4
A U.S. District Court judge has upheld an arbitration
panel's decision in favor of Cambridge, Mass.-based Biogen in the
debate between it and Britain's SmithKline Beecham. The dispute
concerned the rate of royalties SmithKline was to pay to Biogen
from the U.S. sales of SmithKline's hepatitis B vaccine.
SmithKline had appealed a 1995 arbitration panel's decision in
favor of Biogen, but as it continued to pay the higher rate during
the arbitration and appeal process, the ruling will not result in
additional payments to the U.S. firm.
"Panels Challenge Clinton on Defense"
Washington Post (05/03/96) P. A6; Graham, Bradley
Congressional defense committees passed bills this week to
authorize an increase of $12.9 billion in military spending over
the $254.4 billion in the administration's request for 1997. House
Republicans included a range of conservative social policies in
their bill, including re-introduction of discharge of all military
members with HIV and a proposed ban on gays in the military. The
Senate committee did not include the more controversial social
issues, sponsored by Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R-Calif.) and other
conservatives, and they could fall away between congressional
deliberations.
"Congress Expected to Reverse AIDS Cut"
Boston Globe (05/02/96) P. 12; Black, Chris
As part of the Ryan White CARE Reauthorization Act, Congress
is expected to reverse a proposed cut of $600,000 in
Massachusetts AIDS funding and give the state a funding increase
of 30 percent. The state would receive $9.3 million, or $2.1
million more than last year, due to a higher overall
appropriation for AIDS funding and a change in the funding
formula. The money is spent on AIDS drugs, home care, and other
services for people with HIV. It had been thought that AIDS
funding would be cut by $600,000 because reauthorization of the
bill had been delayed. The funding formula was altered to
provide more money for areas hardest hit by AIDS, rather than
areas with high overall population.
"Stoffa to Stand Trial in Theft From AIDS Agency"
Philadelphia Inquirer (05/02/96) P. B2
A Common Pleas Court judge on Wednesday rejected Francis J.
Stoffa Jr.'s request that charges of stealing thousands of
dollars from a private Philadelphia AIDS agency be dismissed on
grounds of insufficient evidence. Stoffa, the former executive
director of Philadelphia Community Health Alternatives and its
AIDS Task Force, will stand trial charged with multiple counts of
theft, forgery, securing execution of documents by deception,
credit card fraud and tampering with public records. He
allegedly took cash from the agency's AIDS donations box, used an
agency credit card for personal expenses, wrote checks to himself
from AIDS funds, diverted cash for his own use, and used a credit
card forged in the name of another agency board member.
"Agency Opens City Office for AIDS Support Services"
Philadelphia Inquirer (05/03/96) P. B2
The Jewish Family and Children's Service of Greater
Philadelphia has opened an AIDS program to provide counseling,
support, referral, and educational services to people with AIDS
and their friends and family. Karen Landy, a student at
Reconstruction Rabbinical College who has worked with AIDS
patients since 1989, is the coordinator of the Center City
program. A similar program is operated out of the agency's
Melrose Park office.
"Adaptive Evolution of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Type 1 During
the Natural Course of Infection"
Science (04/26/96) Vol. 272, No. 5261, P. 537; Wolinsky, Steven
M.; Korber, Bette T. M.; Neumann, Avidan U.; et al.
The rates of disease development and the survival times of
different individuals with HIV vary widely. One theory thought
to explain the differences is that the loss of CD4 cells in
people with HIV-1 is primarily the result of increasing antigenic
diversity that exceeds the immune system's ability to regulate
the virus. Steven Wolinsky, of the Northwestern University
Medical School, and colleagues tested this theory by measuring
the levels of HIV-1 RNA and tracking the viral sequence changes
that occurred along with immune response in six HIV-1 infected
subjects. Blood samples from the patients were evaluated every
six months. While the researchers found no association between
humoral immune response and the rate of progression to AIDS, they
did find that a HIV-1 specific human leukocyte antigen
class-I-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response was
associated with slow rather than rapid rates of disease
development. This contradicts the theory that the
immunopathogenic effects of CTLs are responsible for the decline
in CD4 cells. The researchers also report that greater antigenic
diversity, an immunopathologic effect of CTLs, or dominance of a
viral strain, is not related to the rate of disease progression.
"RGP-160 Treatment Vaccine (VaxSyn): Canadian Study Finds No
Benefit"
AIDS Treatment News (04/19/96) No. 245, P.
A three-year, multi-center trial of recombinant GP-160 found
that the vaccine offered no clinical benefit in 278 volunteers
already infected with HIV. The Canadian study was completed last
November, but the results were withheld until a similar trial in
the United States was completed in March. A commentary in AIDS
Treatment News says the vaccine's failure shows that more
research into HIV pathogenesis is needed. The authors suggest
that studies of long-term nonprogressors and people who remain
uninfected even after repeated exposures to HIV may help to learn
what kinds of immune responses are protective.
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"Blood Bank Is Held Liable in AIDS Case"
"15 Years of AIDS: The Epidemic's Legacy of Change"
"As Mother Battles Court, a Child in Baltimore Suffers With AIDS"
"Addicts in HIV Study Won't Be Treated"
"Blood Inquiry 'Hijacked,' Lawyer Fears"
"Two AIDS Tests OK'd"
"Inmates to get Needle-Cleaning Kits"
"Living in the Shadow of AIDS: For Many Teens, the Disease Is
Ever-Present but Still Unreal"
"Breathe Deeply and Hold"
"About-Face"
"Blood Bank Is Held Liable in AIDS Case"
New York Times (06/05/96) P. B2; Hanley, Robert
In a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling Tuesday, the American
Association of Blood Banks was found negligent for not enacting
stricter screening tests for HIV in the early 1980s. The court
upheld a $405,000 jury award to a former state resident who
contracted HIV from blood he received during surgery in 1984.
The blood was a donation from a blood center that was part of the
national organization. The case could serve as a precedent for
other people infected with HIV through donated blood. The
association held that it was not at fault, noting that it would
not be able to afford the legal costs associated with such cases.
Furthermore, the organization threatened to end voluntary
inspections of blood centers, hospital blood banks, and
transfusion services. Such an action would force government
agencies to take over the inspections and enforce safety
standards.
"15 Years of AIDS: The Epidemic's Legacy of Change"
USA Today (06/05/96) P. 1D; Painter, Kim
In the past 15 years, since the first cases of AIDS were
identified, the disease has changed how blood banks and health
care workers deal with blood, and how Americans talk about sex.
Sex is discussed more openly, more graphically, and more often.
Studies show that while more teenagers are having sex, they also
use condoms more frequently. Public discussion of homosexuality
has also increased as a result of the AIDS epidemic. Moreover,
dentists now wear gloves to prevent transmission of HIV and other
viruses, and blood banks are more selective of their donors. AIDS
advocacy groups, meanwhile, have opened the door for other patient
advocacy groups for diseases that include breast cancer. Since
the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, the number of injection drug
users has not declined, and infections among members of this
group, their sex partners, and their children now represent a
large number of U.S. HIV infections, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention reports.
"As Mother Battles Court, a Child in Baltimore Suffers With AIDS"
Washington Post (06/05/96) P. DI; Lewis, Nancy
The mother of a 3-year-old Burtonsville, Md. girl dying of
AIDS is to blame for the child's grave condition, doctors say.
The woman refuses to believe that medical care would have helped
her daughter, and she has not been treated for her own infection
with HIV for at least the past 18 months. Health officials and
police had been looking for the girl since Jan. 30, when the
mother repeatedly failed to keep appointments at an AIDS clinic
and would not answer the door for home health care workers. When
the mother did take the girl to the University of Maryland's
pediatric AIDS clinic in Baltimore in April, it was too late to
slow the progression to AIDS. The woman, a suspected drug user
who was previously treated for drug abuse, then took her daughter
into hiding again. The girl's grandmother took her to the
hospital on May 10, and doctors now estimate that she has up to
three months to live.
"Addicts in HIV Study Won't Be Treated"
Toronto Globe and Mail (06/04/96) P. A10; Coutts, Jane
A Vancouver doctor has criticized a study to determine
whether intravenous drug users will contract HIV because, he
says, the study does not offer the subjects treatment to prevent
them from becoming infected. Stanley de Vlaming, who treats
addicts at the Gastown Medical Clinic, said the research,
conducted by the Vancouver Injection Drug Use Study, is unethical
because methadone treatment for drug addiction has been proven to
reduce the risk that drug users will contract HIV. Two ethics
panels have approved the study, saying that the researchers
should not have to provide treatment that is not provided by
society. Vlaming is also concerned about paying the volunteers
for their participation, fearing that the payment will only
enable their addiction. The ethics panels, however, said not
paying them would be discriminatory.
"Blood Inquiry 'Hijacked,' Lawyer Fears"
Toronto Globe and Mail (06/04/96) P. A4; Picard, Andre
A lawyer involved in the legal challenge to Canada's federal
inquiry into the tainted blood tragedy, told the Federal Court of
Canada Monday that the inquiry has been "hijacked" by the Red
Cross, governments, and pharmaceutical companies. Harvey
Strosberg, who is representing a group of people infected by HIV,
charged that the parties are using the legal challenge as a way
to control what will appear in the inquiry's final report.
Strosberg estimated that the legal challenge, involving 37
lawyers, including himself, is costing more than $6,000 an hour.
A lawyer for the Hepatitis C Survivors' Society said reform of
the blood system depends on the inquiry's complete examination
and recommendations.
"Two AIDS Tests OK'd"
Houston Chronicle (06/04/96) P. 6A
Two tests for HIV were approved by the Food and Drug
Administration on Monday. OraSure, the first oral test for HIV
antibodies, appears to be as accurate as the standard blood test
for the virus. Doctors hope the test will attract people who
would be wary of taking a blood test. The second test,
Hoffmann-La Roche's Amplicor assay, will help doctors predict how
fast patients will develop AIDS by measuring the amount of HIV in
the bloodstream.
"Inmates to get Needle-Cleaning Kits"
Toronto Globe and Mail (06/04/96) P. A4
Inmates in Canadian prisons will soon receive bleach kits
for cleaning needles, even though the Canadian Corrections
Service does not allow drug use. The kits will be offered as an
attempt to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. As of
March 1, there were 147 reported cases of HIV or AIDS in Canada's
federal prisons, up from 37 in 1991.
"Living in the Shadow of AIDS: For Many Teens, the Disease Is
Ever-Present but Still Unreal"
USA Today (06/05/96) P. 5D; Peterson, Karen S.
Today's teenagers grew up in the presence of AIDS and HIV;
however, some members of USA Today's Teen Panel say they still
feel like the disease cannot strike them. Others say they
believe that anyone is at risk for HIV, and some claim they are
tired of hearing about the disease. Aaron Benavidez, 16, of
Stockton, Calif., said he started volunteering at a local AIDS
organization as a result of learning about the disease through a
school assignment. He believes that teens are not well-educated
about AIDS.
"Breathe Deeply and Hold"
POZ (05/96) P. 64; Feehan, Amy
Although drug prophylaxis for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
(PCP) is the standard of care for AIDS patients, a debate
continues over the use of conventional versus alternative
treatment. Without drug prophylaxis, more than 80 percent of
people with AIDS would die of PCP. With it, PCP incidence has
decreased and survival has increased. Bactrim, the drug most
commonly used to prevent PCP in AIDS patients, has potential side
effects, however, and many patients are wary of its potential
long-term effects. Alternative therapies, meanwhile, including
nutritional supplements and herbs, do not have proven benefits
against PCP but are virtually free of side effects. Health
Education AIDS Liaison and Project AIDS International are two
organizations that oppose prophylaxis against PCP, claiming that
it increases a patient's chance of developing other health
problems, including cryptosporidiosis, tuberculosis, and wasting
syndrome. Prophylaxis advocates, however, say that such
arguments are exaggerated and detract from the proven,
recommended treatment. A compromise attractive to many patients
who could not otherwise tolerate prophylaxis drugs is to combine
them with alternative therapies to lessen their side effects.
"About-Face"
Advocate (05/28/96) No. 708, P. 20; Moss, J. Jennings
Rep. Robert Dornan (R-Calif.), who has seen his
controversial proposal to force the discharge of all HIV-positive
military members first passed and then repealed, was able to get
the national security subcommittee he chairs to approve a new
version of the ban in April. President Clinton signed the ban
into law in February, but also supported its repeal, which
Congress voted for on April 25. The repeal was seen as a great
victory for gay rights and AIDS activists, who credit Clinton and
the Pentagon for their support. A group of senators initiated
the repeal, which was approved as part of the 1996 spending bill.
Dornan reacted to the repeal with anger, sounding off against
Clinton. His new proposal adds full medical and disability
benefits for all discharged HIV-positive service members,
benefits he was against previously. He would also allow military
leaders to keep any HIV-positive personnel who had at least 15
years of service. Another proposal from Dornan seeks to repeal
the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Gay rights advocates say
they are certain that Congress will reject a second foray into
the issue of barring HIV-infected service members from the armed
services and will also avoid getting back into the fight over
gays in the military.
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JUNE 25, 1996
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT
FROM:
DOUG SOSNIK AND KAREN HANCOX
SUBJECT:
DAILY REPORT
PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS
POLL
AMERICAN VIEWPOINT (NATIONAL)
Their poll, conducted 6/19
-6/23 among 1,000 RVs, found
Clinton
-Gore leading Bob Dole by 12 percent. American Viewpoint
also found Democrats leading in a generic Congressional race, 46%
to 43%. The President's job approval was measured at 53%
approve/39% disapprove.
Now
5/96
4/96
3/96
Clinton
50%
50%
49%
51%
Dole
38
39
39
34
Clinton
46%
Dole
34
Perot
12
BIRMINGHAM NEWS
-HUNTSVILLE TIMES (ALABAMA)
This Southern Opinion Research poll found Bob Dole leading
President Clinton by only 3 points. The poll of 1,011 registered
voters was conducted June 14
-22. [Note: Dole visited the state
June 13
-14.] Another Alabama poll, reported yesterday, found
Dole leading Clinton
-Gore by 12 percent.
Now
6/1
4/96
Clinton
45%
44%
48%
Dole
48
50
48
Bob Dole
Dole met this morning with NY Cardinal John O'Connor at St.
Patrick's Cathedral in New York. O'Connor virtually endorsed
Dole's abortion record, and said "I think that Senator Dole has a
wonderful pro
-life position and I doubt very much that is going
to change in any significant way." When asked about the GOP
abortion plank, O'Connor responded, "It's not for me to determine
what political platforms should or shouldn't be."
In a luncheon speech to the World Affairs Council of
Philadelphia, Dole attacked the Administration as "would
-be
statesmen still suffering from a post
-Vietnam syndrome," and
blamed the President for a Communist resurgence in Russia. Dole:
"President Clinton has persistently deferred to our allies and to
Russians, subordinating American interests to the interests of a
dubious or ineffective consensus. That's not leadership. And
that has harmed the interests of all of us -- Russian, European,
and American alike." Dole also accused the Administration of
turning a blind eye on Russian violations of arms
-control
agreements, and charged, "By remaining passive in the face of
these and other troubling developments, President Clinton has
given a green light to the most dangerous tendencies in the New
Russia." He said President Clinton is suffering from "the
illusion that Communism merely fell instead of being pushed." On
Bosnia, Dole argued that the deployment of troops could have been
avoided if not for the "vacillating" policy on lifting the arms
embargo. Dole threatened that the U.S. could be trapped in an
"open
-ended commitment" unless the Administration "vigorously"
moves to train and arm Bosnians for self
-defense. "After
haphazardly getting into Bosnia, the President has no idea how to
get Americans out or how to accomplish the mission they went to
fulfill," said Dole.
Dole will attend a dinner honoring the fifth anniversary of
Slovenia's declaration of independence this evening in Cleveland.
The Dole campaign has agreed to the Free TV for Straight
Talk Coalition's proposal of free TV access to Presidential
candidates, with two caveats. The Coalition is offering to air
10 made
-for
-TV speeches which are 2? minutes in duration.
Dole's caveats: 1) President Clinton should not be able to make
his speeches from the Oval Office "where the President of the
United States addresses the nation in times of national
emergency," and 2) President Clinton must be a declared
candidate.
PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS/STATE
-BY
-STATE
California
A LA Times Field Poll conducted June 10 - 16 shows President
Clinton leading Governor Pete Wilson (R) in the job performance
category. The poll surveyed 719 registered voters statewide and
found:
JOB PERFORMANCE:
Very Good/Good
Fair
Poor/Very Poor
Clinton
38%
37%
23%
Wilson
26%
38%
30%
Feinstein
28%
29%
24%
Boxer
26%
27%
25%
Congress
15%
46%
37%
New Jersey
Elizabeth Dole toured a farmers market in Vineland yesterday
and delivered a 30
-minute address to a group of 200 local
Republicans. Mrs. Dole chose her usual format of public speaking
-- donning a wireless microphone that allows her to walk through
the room as she speaks. She told the crowd that Bob Dole grew up
on a family farm and has long been a champion of agricultural
issues. Mrs. Dole also said that her husband's call to crackdown
on movies, TV programs and music that advocate illegal and
immoral behavior is not censorship, but a "case for responsible
citizenship." When asked if she has a spiritual adviser, Mrs.
Dole responded, "my church."
Washington
The First Lady spoke yesterday to over 1,000 people at a
Mothers Against Violence in America (MAVA) luncheon in Seattle,
Washington. In her speech, the First Lady declared that
" .parents have the primary responsibility to teach children
values and protect them from the evils of society..." The First
Lady also called on the entertainment industry and the mass media
to do a better job of policing themselves. Later in the day,
Mrs. Clinton attended a fundraising dinner at the home of Totem
Resources' CEO, Stan Barer.
The Washington State Green Party held a meeting this past
weekend to initiate a signature
-gathering drive to get
consumer
-advocate Ralph Nader on the ballot this November. The
Green Party will need to submit at least 200,000 valid signatures
to the Secretary of State's office by July 26.
Misc.
Eager to court women's support at the ballot box and combat
the gender gap, Republicans are kicking off a campaign to bring
more than 1.5 million women into the GOP. The "Get Out the Vote
Campaign" which was unveiled today in a Capitol rally featured
Haley Barbour, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX), Rep. Jennifer
Dunn (WA),and others. The National Federation of Republican
Women is asking its 115,000 members to enlist more than 1.5
million women to vote Republican. Other groups include
"Hispanics for Dole," "Young Americans for Dole," and
"Republicans for Choice".
NON
-PRESIDENTIAL REPORT/STATE
-BY
-STATE
Alabama
The state is holding its runoff elections today. Officials
are expecting turnout numbers to hover between 10 and 15 percent.
If these predictions hold true, it would be a record low. The
runoff races include:
Senatorial
Democrat:
U.S. Rep. Glen Browder; state Sen. Roger Bedford
Republican:
Attorney General Jeff Session; Sid McDonald
Congressional
3rd District
Democrat:
Ted Little; Gerald Dial
Republican:
B.B. Comer; Bob Riley
4th District
Democrat:
Billy Joe Camp; Robert T. Wilson, Jr.
7th District
Republican:
Joe Powell; Cliff Walker
Arkansas
The $11.5 million Aerospace Education Center was shut down
Monday by federal investigators who sent employees home and then
began reviewing computer records. Ruth Remmel, a member of the
Aerospace Center Board, said Monday that she and the other board
members knew nothing about the investigation. Chip Welch, a
Little Rock attorney who represents the center's fired director
in a lawsuit, said the alleged misuse of federal grants could be
the motivation behind the search.
John Brummett, a columnist for the Arkansas Democrat
Gazette, wrote an article yesterday cautioning the Arkansas
Democratic Party to avoid a fight at the present time to oust
Byrum Gibson as chairman. There are a group of Democrats, mostly
from Palaski County, that would like to see Gibson removed as
chairman. Gibson has three things in his favor right now that
might allow him to keep his job. The state's highest ranking
Democrat, Attorney General Winston Bryant, has indicated that he
supports Gibson. Second, there are some savvy Democrats who
realize the folly of a Democratic leadership fight in the state
right now. Gibson can also argue that despite the occasional
setback, the Democratic Party has never had as much money as
under Gibson's leadership. Most of the money was raised at
dinners for the President and Senator David Pryor. Brummett
predicts despite the individuals who want to see Gibson gone, he
will survive this challenge.
Iowa
A National Republican Senate Committee poll of 500 likely
lowa voters conducted June 18
-20 by the Tarrance Group shows
Senator Tom Harkin (D) and Rep. Jim Ross Lightfoot (R) in a dead
heat, 45% - 45%.
Louisiana
The United States Supreme Court has let stand a Louisiana
Congressional redistricting plan that leaves just one
majority
-black district. This has prompted Attorney General
Richard leyoub to concede that legal challenges likely to end.
Governor Mike Foster (R) said during a news conference
yesterday that he will probably support the Republican nominee
for the U.S. Senate race, even if that individual is David Duke.
Duke, the former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, has said he
will run for Senate as a Republican. Foster said that a majority
of the Republican candidates in the Senate race endorsed him or
helped him win when he ran for Governor. "It would be bad for me
to pick sides," he said. "Whatever Republican is in the runoff,
I'm sure I'll be with." Duke said that he welcomes the
Governor's support.
Massachusetts
The Boston Globe reports Governor Bill Weld (R) may have
substantial support from the gay and lesbian community in his
race against Senator John Kerry (D) this fall. Weld had the
support of gays and lesbians in 1990 when he first ran for
Governor and has taken strides since then to maintain their
support. The article cites some actions taken by Weld as
Governor, including his formation of the 'Governor's Commission
of Gay and Lesbian Youth,' his signing of a gay student rights
bill, and his support of state funding to train human service
agencies to deal with gay youth. In addition, Weld has appointed
gays to high profile positions and has proposed that anti
-hate
crime laws apply to anti
-gay crimes. Weld's position as a
pro
-gay Governor has also won him the attention of national gay
and lesbian groups -- the Log Cabin Republicans recently hosted a
fundraiser for Weld in Washington which raised $25,000 for his
campaign. The Globe article reports that there is a perception
among some Massachusetts gays that although Kerry's votes are
good for gays roughly 90% of the time, he has not been an
advocate of gays and lesbians. Kerry has pushed for an
elimination of the ban on gays in the military and he has
co
-sponsored a bill to reauthorize federal funding for AIDS
treatment. Both candidates oppose same
-sex marriages.
Minnesota
Morgan Grams, son of Senator Rod Grams (R), has been charged
with third
-degree burglary for stealing his aunt's television,
which he then pawned for $40 at a pawn shop. This comes a week
after he was accused of charging $1,600 in phone sex calls on the
credit card of a woman who hired him as a full
-time babysitter.
Both Morgan Grams and the Senator declined comment. Morgan, age
18, is the youngest of Senator Grams' four children and lives
with his mother, who is currently in divorce proceedings with
Senator Grams after 30 years of marriage.
Mississippi
Attorney General Mike Moore (D) is flirting with the idea of
calling former President Jimmy Carter to testify in Mississippi's
tobacco lawsuit. A preliminary list of persons with knowledge of
the case's issues was filed May 20; the list gives a good
indication of who may testify as witnesses. The present list
includes the following possible witnesses: Jimmy Carter, former
U.S. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano of
New York and California Congressman Henry Waxman. A spokeswoman
for Carter would not say whether Carter would testify, but did
acknowledge Carter's strong anti
-tobacco stance. The list of
expert witnesses for the plaintiff will be due August 15.
Tobacco companies on June 14 asked Jackson County Chancery Judge
William Myers to put trial preparations on hold. The tobacco
companies want to wait for a ruling from the Mississippi Supreme
Court on Governor Kirk Fordice's (R) petition to block Moore's
lawsuit.
Montana
Republican Senate nominee Dennis Rehberg (R) on Saturday
challenged his opponents to sign a "clean campaign pledge" during
a debate sponsored by the Montana Newspaper Association. The
pledge asks all candidates to obey state laws and formal rules,
not to use surrogates in campaign commercials, and adhere to a
$1.5 million campaign spending limit. Democratic incumbent
Senator Max Baucus has previously accused Rehberg of tacitly
endorsing negative ads paid for by Washington D.C.
-based
Republican groups. Rehberg responded he has no control over the
independent ads. Baucus and Reform Party candidate Becky Shaw
both said during the debate they would have to study the pledge.
Nebraska
The Nebraska Republican Convention is this weekend. Three
prominent state Republicans have submitted petitions signed by
hundreds of registered Republicans calling for the state and
national platforms to avoid the topic of abortion. (The state
party will offer the state convention an anti
-choice platform
plank that mirrors the 1992 plank.) In a joint statement, the
three said "religious, political extremists are holding the
Republican Party and its Presidential candidate hostage by
insisting that a total ban on abortion be part of the Republican
platform."
New Jersey
Representative Dick Zimmer (R
-12) drew public praise
yesterday from members of the New Jersey chapter of United We
Stand, America. Although UWSA did not endorse Zimmer's candidacy
for the open U.S. Senate seat, they praised his position on
campaign finance reform. Last week, Representative Bob
Torricelli (D
-09) received praise from some members of New Jersey
UWSA for his position on NAFTA. Both candidates have their eyes
on New Jersey Perot voters since Ross Perot received 15% in NJ in
1992, and could be a determining factor in their Senate battle.
Zimmer has had support of Perot voters in his previous House
races - they supported him 2
-1 over his Democratic challenger in
1994. UWSA supports campaign finance reform measure that would
place a cap on House races at $600,000 and on Senate races at
$5.5 million. Both Zimmer and Torricelli are expected to exceed
this amount in their campaigns.
South Carolina
Today's South Carolina run
-off will establish candidates for
four state Senate seats and five House seats. The Department of
Justice will monitor four races for possible violations of the
Voting Rights Act since black voters have being given the wrong
information about how to vote.
Tennessee
Republican Representatives Van Hilleary (4th CD) and Ed
Bryant (5th CD) held a morning new conference yesterday to accuse
the President and his administration of pretending to be "Ozzie
and Harriet." The Republicans charge that the President only
gets interested in family values around election time. They
"urged Tennesseans not to be fooled by this late
-term pandering
to the voters to tell them what they think they want to hear."
The trip analysis for the trip to Nashville is attached.
Texas
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would consider
jointly two appeals of a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
decision that ruled that the University of Texas Law School could
not use race as a factor in its admission policy. The Circuit
Court ruled that UT Law School's policy was reverse
discrimination since it established lower test
-score standards
and used different review boards for African Americans and
Mexican Americans. The appeal was filed by Attorney General Dan
Morales and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, on behalf
of the Thurgood Marshall Legal Society and the Black Pre
-Law
Association. The Court's decision as to whether to hear the case
is expected to come before its summer recess Friday.
Utah
The Utah statewide primary will be held today. Three
Congressional offices, as well as Utah state elected officials
are on the ballot today. Utah election officials expect turnout
to be extremely low.
Wyoming
Kathy Karpan, who announced earlier this year she would run
for the seat held by GOP Senator Alan Simpson, formally announced
her candidacy on Monday. Karpan, a former Secretary of State and
'94 Democratic gubernatorial nominee, announced that she is
getting in this race to "fight for Wyoming's working families."
Karpan's campaign swing includes scheduled appearances in 12
cities around Wyoming.