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Handwritten notes of Secure Presidential Phone Calls Camp
02/22/[92]
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David with Brent [Scowcroft] (2 pp.)
03. Letter
From Colin Powell to President Bush (1 pp.)
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
SIGNAL SWITCHBOARD
February 22 , 1992
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THE WHITE HOUSE
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February 22 . 19 92
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THE WHITE HOUSE
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TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
FEBRUARY 22nd
92
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PRESIDENT BUSH
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PRESIDENTIAL MOVEMENTS
LOCATION Camp David, Maryland
DATE 22 February 1992
TIME
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WHCA FORM 15, OCTOBER 15, 1980
PRESIDENTIAL MOVEMENTS
LOCATION
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DATE February 22, 1992
TIME
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0910
Laurel
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Tour Camp David with guests
1235
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WHCA FORM 15, OCTOBER '74. ALL PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF THIS FORM ARE OBSOLETE.
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DATE: 2-22
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Japan -
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George Bush Handwriting
CAMP DAVID
February 22, 1992
Dear Colin,
Thanks for that update on
Jamaica. You left out the
part of your trial by
helicopter. Did the whole
rotor blade actually fall
off?
I am glad our respected
friend Michael Manley is
doing well. I have been
worried about his health.
I hope we can help
Jamaica through its
'short term' problems.
On another subject-
wasn't Mrs. Angelou
sensational the other
evening?
Best Regards,
GB/
HOW "bout my
computer typing??
FROM THE PRESIDENT
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daily
CAMP DAVID
Reval
February 22, 1992
To:
Bob Teeter, CC Ron Kaufman, Sam
The attached from Lubbock (of all places ) is inmteresting re:
the radical right in Texas and the buchanan numbers in N>H>
Bob Blake tells me that the people mentioned are real extremists,
but we must not let this get out of hand.
GB
FROM THE PRESIDENT
FFB-21-92 FRI 17:02 TAPPRCOMPANY
1112 First National Bank Bldg.
Phone (806) 762-8044
Robert W. Blake
Box 2584
Bubbock, Texas 79408
FAX TRANSMITTAL SHEET
TO: President George Bush
FROM: Bah Blake
FAX NUMBER 806-745-5066
DATE:
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Mr. President, this is really embarrassing
Coming out of Subback through the
Ft. Worth Stor Teleyram.
Mikel Words' group are real. rachicals,
Bob
P.S. most of the for Right" one
Staying with you,
Losing Lubbock
Discontent for Bush grows in favored Texas town
BY JUHN GONZALEZ
2/21/72
WIRE
LUBBOCK- He's listened to
LUDDOCK
New Hampshire. Now it's Time
du is send him [Bush] 1 message, hut
again for President Bush to hear
NEW
1 can assure you the president has
what his belover Lubbock has to
Marks
Fort 0
gotten the messuge," said oilman
Worth
Bob Blake 1 Rush confident since
say. The South Plains hub, which
TEXAS
1951.
Bush considers In hea window to the
"It's tough times when the conso-
soul of the American Heartland. is
my is like this. The president takes
about with speculation after his
responsibility for it, hut Congress
laskluster victor) nthe New Hamp-
has 50t to share the blame," Blake
shire primary. Many publicans in
said,
Lubbock are confident that Rush
But others lay inc problems at
Fort Which - There
will prevail, hast some staunch con-
Bush's foot
servatives are suddenly scrutinizing
"Here in Lubbock. the majority
Pat Buchanes and David Duke as
Texasiyk advice
"They would burt the president's
of folks are will Thish people, but
chances later on if they keep going
there's A 101 of people who aren't
alternatives The signation emubles the Lub-
over to Buchanon. All they want to
More on BUSH of Page 71
hock man whom Bush often calls for
PAGE ONE BOTTOM
because a vute for bim could nudge
ness'college and helped Ward orga-
are ready for # change, she said.
Bush
nize the Smith Plains Area Rest-
"I mean totell you I'm 50 excited
Buth into the right lane.
dents Taxpayers Action Network.
I can't tell you" said Consino. who
Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan
"Some of us wast less govern-
operates 80 investment and insur-
member and Nasi supporter, has
From Page 1
friends In Lubbock. too, she said.
ment, and others are raying Don't
ance company.
"Penple are looking for some an-
make waves) be sold,
"We're 50 exclled" about Bu
going to vote for bim." Adid County
CES, and there's A grain of truth In
Williams is among those critical
chanan's showing she sain. -1;
Commissioner Bandel Carpenter
what he says, Ward said, referring
of Bush's handling of the economy.
gained X great amount of moinen-
Requalican heard one say lot
to Duke's criticism of domes puli.
He said Bush didn't hold the line
him, hut it did more than that. 11
vote for a Democrat before be voted
against lat increases as promised
made us think we can with
cy.
for Bush."
She said 8 loose confined of Bush
But what really isked him wes
"Pat Buchasan is one of the tiest
The president adupted Lubbock
foes Is emerging in the Besh strong
Bush's approval of the extension of
conservatives to come forward who
as his American sounding board in
hold
unemployment benefits.
will stand on principle." she said
1989. And in this area of the state,
All you've got to do people
"I'm the 11 pe of businessmany
adding that Birth let her down h,
where door-to-door campaigning is
to arms and they come out of she
will have to pay fur il," he said.
woodwork," she said.
Withamsadid Bush Islikely :0 win
becoking his "no more LEACS
A must and promises are seated with
bandshakes, there are strong doubts
On the honzon of the otherwise
in Lubback County anyway. OUT be
piedge
that Buckarran and Dute could
Batlandscapois mountain- may-
added: "I think you'll be surprised.
"That's a me issue. I don't think
make the last minute Inroads need.
be 1 vokano of discontent over
Lubbock is pretty conservative."
he had to cave in on that And his.
Bush's domestic policies. If Bush
*new world order that's why
ed to shock Rush in his adapted
That conservative streak is one
home main
had tuped in the coffee shop conver-
people. Anybody who under-
reason that Duke, whohas no visible
If nothing else, some Republicans
sations that followed his New
stands the Tritateral Commission
organization in Lubbock. missched.
hope the March 10 Texas showdown
Hampshire disappointment. he
understands that, ghr said.
would have heard references to his
uled & stop here next week.
will serve to put Bush In touch with
Buchanan have disclosed plon.
Buchanan, too, has # sinall buil
conservative ideals.
"caving In" 10 Congress UD tax in.
to tap his new lound strength II
"He's gnt to more back into the
creates and the extension of uners-
growing following that in recent
West Texas by visiting the region
playment benefits, and suggestions
hasswellen with Bush loyalists.
mainstream," said Mike] Ward, a
Nor is a TV compaign alluz exped
resalter who leads B group that
that he bad sunchow "batrayod"
Former OOP County Chairwoman
ed. Instead, his organization mailer.
helped defeat & city In-
those who verwbelminaly supports
lone Cansing, vice chairwomen of
protutype advertnement to sup
ed him in 1990. and President
Huchroan's First effort, said her
crease last month.
porters like Consine and then.
"Peuple are just trying to get him
Reagan before that.
telephone began ringing in carriest
to raise money to publish the ads.
back on track," Ward said. adding
There " a big split in the GOP,"
the maming after the New Hamp-
But money doesn't grow on tree
that Buchanan has growing appeal
⑇
said Kirk Williams, who runs 4 busin
shire primary- a sign that people
here the way 001100 and other STUP
cover the fertile farmland. Although
it is not playinal with the factor;
layons and furloughs it endured
decade ago, Lubbock's economy 1.
far from booming and economi.
development efforts have tern "I
mied.
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GV. (SONNY) MONTGOMERY, MISSISSIPPI
BOB STUMP. ARIZONA
DON EDWARDS, CALIFORNIA
DOUGLAS EXPLEGATE OHIO
JOHN PAUL HAMMERSCHMIDT, ARKANSAS
CHALMERS P. WYLIE, OHIO
LANE EVANS
TIMOTHY J. PENNY, MINNESOTA
ONE HUNDRED SECOND CONGRESS
CHRISTOPHER R. SMITH, NEW JERSEY
DAN BURTON, INDIANA
HARLEY O. STAGGERS. JR., WEST VIRGINIA
MICHAEL BILIRAKIS, FLORIDA
J. ROY ROWLAND GEORGIA
JIM SLATTERY, KANSAS
G.V. (SONNY) MONTGOMERY
THOMAS J. RIDGE PENNSYLVANIA
CRAIG T. JAMES. FLORIDA
CLAUDE HARRIS, ALABAMA
CHAIRMAN
CLIFF STEARNS, FLORIDA
JOSEPH P. KENNEDY II. MASSACHUSETTS
BILL PAXON. NEW YORK
ELIZABETH J. PATTERSON, SOUTH CAROLINA
FLOYD SPENCE. SOUTH CAROLINA
GEORGE E SANGMEISTER ILLINOIS
BEN JONES. GEORGIA
U.S. Douse of Representatives
JILL L LONG. INDIANA
RICHARD JOHN SANTORUM, PENNSYLVANIA
DOUGLAS "PETE" PETERSON, FLORIDA
CHET EDWARDS, TEXAS
COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS
MAXINE WATERS, CALIFORNIA
BILL K BREWSTER, OKLAHOMA
335 CANNON HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING
OWEN 3. PICKETT, VIRGINIA
PETE GEREN, TEXAS
Washington, DC 20515-6335
MACK FLEMING
STAFF DIRECTOR AND CHIEF COUNSEL
February 18, 1992
Derman DICK NICHOLS. KANSAS
Pal
Honorable Dick Cheney
LA
Dich
Secretary of Defense
Room 3E880, The Pentagon
Washington, DC 20301
Dear Mr. Secretary:
It is my understanding that you have implemented sonny
From
&
programs to relieve the hardship for those individuals leaving
service due to the pending drawdown in military personnel. These
programs include the Voluntary Separation Incentive (VSI) and the
Special Separation Benefit (SSB).
While in Mississippi last week, an individual eligible for
one of these incentives told me that it would be extremely
helpful to him if the Department of Defense would permit him to
enroll in the Montgomery GI Bill and deduct the $1200 necessary
to establish entitlement to that program from his severance pay.
He feels strongly that the education package would help him
tremendously in making the transition to civilian life. I
believe Congress would support this kind of provision and, if a
legislative initiative were submitted by DOD, I would do
everything I can to move it quickly in the House.
I want to point out that since the new GI Bill was initiated
in 1985, over $1.3 billion have reverted to the U.S. Treasury as
a result of the basic pay reduction required for GI Bill
eligibility. Additionally, because the Federal Government did
not have to borrow this amount, at least $91 million in interest
payments have been saved. Thus far, the country has paid out
only $600 million in GI Bill-Active Duty benefits so, as of this
date, the GI Bill has not cost the Federal Government any money
at all.
I hope the Administration will support and initiate a
proposal which would permit individuals accepting voluntary
separation incentives to enroll in the GI Bill. We must do
Honorable Dick Cheney
February 18, 1992
Page 2
everything we can to help these individuals who are willing to
leave the Armed Forces under these circumstances. Because of the
disturbing unemployment rate and uncertain economic conditions,
many separatees will find it difficult, if not impossible, to
find a good civilian job, and the possibility of hundreds of
thousands of separated military personnel and their dependents on
unemployment and welfare is unthinkable and unacceptable. We
should provide them the opportunity to continue their education
and improve their skills, thus assuring them of jobs in the
future.
Sincerely,
G. V. (SONNY) MONTGOMERY
Chairman
GVM:cls
CC: President George Bush
Secretary Michael P.W. Stone
Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III
Secretary Donald B. Rice
CAMP DAVID LUNCHEON GUESTS:
Mr
Marvin Bush - - (tentative)
Doro LeBlond
Bobby Koch
Sam LeBlond
Ellie LeBlond
George and Helen Koch
Jorie Koch
Lawton Koch (baby)
Danny and Tricia Koch
Reilly (2 years)
K.C. (baby)
Bush Presidential Library Photocopy
P.C. and Denise Koch
George (7 years)
Patrick (5 years)
Lucy Koch and Steve Ambrosi
Monte Koch and Sandi Nutton
Bush Library Photocopy
George Bush Handwriting
February 21, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT AND MRS. BUSH
SUBJECT: CAMP DAVID
FEBRUARY 21 - 23, 1992
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21
7:35 p.m.
The President arrives Camp David
11:30 p.m.
The First Lady arrives Camp David
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22
11:30 a.m.
Doro, Sam, and Ellie LeBlond arrive Camp David
The Koch family arrives Camp David
(See attached list)
note:
Marvin Bush may attend the noon luncheon
(Margaret, Marshall and Walker are out of town)
12:00 noon
LUNCHEON WITH THE KOCH FAMILY
to be
The Koch family departs Camp David
determined
OVERNIGHT
GUESTS:
To be determined
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23
Chapel
3:30 p.m.
The President and Mrs. Bush depart Camp David by
helicopter.
4:00 p.m.
The President and Mrs. Bush arrive South Lawn, The
White House
STAFF:
(Don Rhodes will be in Houston this weekend)
Paula Rendon
Ariel Deguzman
Major John Wissler
Dr. Larry Mohr
Major Kim Siniscalchi
Michael Busch
Larry Sperl
MOVIES: (Background attached)
RADIO FLYER
BLAME IT ON THE BELLBOY
MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN
Patty Presock
2 Young Brothers Hoping for Happiness
found happiness that they can't bring
"Radio Flyer," which takes its title
themselves to tell her the truth about
from the little red wagon that is the
the man she marries on impulse
heart of the flying machine, is both
Richard Donner's "Radio Flyer" is
(Adam Baldwin), who likes to be
too literal and too fanciful. There may
one of those infrequent and embar-
called the King.
have been a good film in David Mick-
rassing efforts of a perfectly ade-
The King pleasures Mary but when
ey Evans's screenplay, but it's unre-
quate Hollywood director to make the
she's out of the house, putting in her
alized by Mr. Donner, whose best
kind of offbeat movie for which he has
double shifts as a waitress, he terror-
work to date has been as the director
no aptitude at all. That's the only way
izes the boys, especially the small
of the two cynically funny and brutal
to explain why this tale of childhood
stoic Bobby. Coming home from
"Lethal Weapon" movies.
magic winds up being so bleak and
work, the King likes nothing better
Dealing with this delicate material,
gross.
than to sit in front of the television
he is like someone trying to thread a
"Radio Flyer" is a memory film, a
set, get drunk and then beat Bobby.
needle while wearing boxing gloves.
story told on a sunny afternoon to two
Most of "Radio Flyer" is photo-
small boys to illustrate why it's im-
Mike and Bobby retreat from the
graphed as if from the point of view of
real-life monster at home into their
portant that promises be kept. By the
the two boys. The King is never seen
end, though, the story can just as
shared fantasies. Overlooking a small
in full face. Yet it doesn't seem as if
easily be read as a metaphor about a
airport, not far from their suburban
the boys are unable to look directly at
child's suicide, which doesn't seem to
house, there is a rocky promontory
him, but only as if he has just turned
have been anybody's intention.
they call "the wishing spot," a secret
away from the camera when a scene
The main part of the film is set in
place of refuge and hope. It was very
begins.
the faraway 1960's, in California,
high, says Mr. Hanks on the sound
where Mike (Elijah Wood), who is
track, "but just a little too far from
Because the boys would probably
heaven for God to hear all our wish-
about 11 years old, and his younger
be able to read every expression on
es."
brother, Bobby (Joseph Mazzello),
the King's face, the decision not to
have moved from the East with their
When Bobby dreams of escape by
show him to the audience appears to
recently divorced mother, Mary
actual flight, Mike works to make
be an ill-chosen conceit imposed on
(Lorraine Bracco).
that dream come true. The boys set
the movie by the adults in charge.
about to build a flying machine, a
A certain amount of idealization is
As narrated by the adult Mike,
great, complex, gasoline-powered
inevitable in a memory work, but the
played by an unbilled Tom Hanks,
Rube Goldberg contraption, the pur-
quality of the imagination here sim-
young Mike and Bobby so adore their
pose of which is to loft Bobby into the
ply isn't good enough to support the
mother and SO treasure her new-
air and, apparently, freedom eternal.
film's poetic aspirations. Even the
Radio Flyer
Directed by Richard Donner; written by Da-
vid Mickey Evans; director of photography,
Laszlo Kovacs; edited by Stuart Baird and
Dallas Puett: music by Hans Zimmer; pro-
duction designer, J. Michael Riva; produced
by Lauren Shuler-Donner; released by Co-
lumbia Pictures. Running time: 120 minutes.
This film is rated PG-13.
Mary
Lorraine Bracco
Daugherty
John Heard
The King
Adam Baldwin
Mike
Elljah Wood
Bobby
Joseph Mazzello
Geronimo Bill
Ben Johnson
Fisher
Sean Baca
Older Fisher
Robert Munic
narrative line is murky. One walks
out of the film at the end not with
lifted spirits but asking what, really,
was supposed to have happened.
In addition to narrating the film,
Mr. Hanks appears briefly in the
framing sequences. John Heard, who
receives star billing after Miss
Bracco, comes on several times as a
benign sheriff. Miss Bracco and Mr.
Baldwin are little more than figures
in a landscape. The two child actors
are adequate.
"Radio Flyer," which has been
rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cau-
tioned), has several scenes of child
and animal (pet dog) abuse that
could frighten small children.
Blame It on
hotel.
Thanks to a bellboy who can t-a-
the Bellboy
speak-a de Ingleesh. their mail gets
Britisht-C.S.-Comedy-Culor)
mixed up. Realtor Dudley Moore
gets a letter for hit man Bryan
A Buena Vista (U.S.)/Warner Bros.
Brown, who gets a letter for blind-
(U.K.) release of a Hollywood Pictures
presentation. in association with Silver
dater Richard Griffiths. who gets a
Screen Partners IV. of a Steve Abbott/
letter for Moore.
Jennie Howarth production. Produced
Moore is soon wired up to a gen-
by Howarth. Abbott. Directed. written
by Mark Herman. Camera (Techni-
erator by local mobster Andreas
color). Andrew Dunn: editor. Michael
Katsoulis: Brown thinks his target
Ellis: music, Trevor Jones (solo guitar.
is lonely blind-dater Penelope Wil-
John Williams): production design.
ton; and Griffiths schmoozes with
Gemma Jackson: art direction. Peter
sexy Patsy Kensit, who's into a real
Russell: costume design. Lindy Hem-
ming: sound (Dolby). Peter Glossop:
estate scam rather than a roll in the
casting. Irene Lamb. Reviewed at Can-
hay.
non Oxford Street Theater. London.
Half an hour of mistaken-iden-
Jan. 28. 1992. Running time: 77 min.
tity shtick later. everyone realizes
Melvyn Orton
Dudley Moore
the truth. Meanwhile. Griffith's
Mike Lawton, Charlton
Black
Bryan Brown
wife (Alison Steadman) flies in on
Maurice Horton
Richard Griffiths
a surprise visit. and Katsoulis and
Bettino Scarpa
Andreas Katsoulis
his hoods run amok in the Lido
Caroline Wright
Patsy Kensit
with a suitcase bomb.
Rosemary Horton
Alison Steadman
Patricia
Penelope Wilton
That's where the pic's problems
Bellboy
Bronson Pinchot
start. First-time director-scripter
Mr. Marshall
Lindsay Anderson
Mark Herman can't make up his
mind whether to play the material
L
ONDON British farce
as breakneck farce or goofy com-
meets the ghost of the "Carry
edy. Best that can be said is the
On" series in "Blame It on
National Film School grad turns in
the Bellboy," a lightweight en-
a competent, good-looking job
semble comedy that should check
that should have been much fun-
out fast from most hospices. Inge-
nier than it is.
nious plotting is let down by weak
The Brit actors mostly phone in
dialogue and stop-go direction
their performaces. Griffiths rolls
that largely squanders the talent
his eyes with every double enten-
involved. A second 'Wanda" this
dre. Moore looks cute and helpless,
ain't.
and Steadman has some fun with a
Plot gets off to a promising start
Huddersfield accent.
with three similarly named charac-
Kensit is decorative and Katsou-
ters-Orton, Lawton and Horton
lis a by-the-numbers gonzo ma-
-checking into a Venice, Italy,
fioso. Best of the bunch is Brown as
a hit man who's way past his sell-by
date, plus a witty voice cameo by
vet helmer Linday Anderson, for-
ever harassing Moore over the
phone from Blighty.
Tech credits are pro, with attrac-
tive lensing of the Venice locations
by Andrew Dunn and a bouncy Vi-
valdiesque score by Trevor Jones.
Pic's molto brief 77 minutes in-
clude conspicuous padding of hu-
morous end captions tracing the
fortunes of the eight principals.
Hotel interiors were shot at Lee
Intl. Studios, London.
-Derek Elley
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Years have been spent trying to start pro-
duction on this latest variation on the H.G.
Wells classic. This one is a comedy starring
Chevy Chase as a Wall Street analyst who
loses himself following a lab accident and
becomes the target for some bad guys who
want to put his invisibility to ill-use. Daryl
Hannah and Sam Neill co-star for director
John Carpenter, who may finally make the
major leagues after years in the sci-fi minors.
William Goldman ("Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid") wrote the screenplay.
(Warner Bros., 2/7)
CAMP DAVID
February 22, 1992
To: Sam Skinner
I signed a letter to Trefry today re his resignation.
I want to to discuss what follows. I remember you said something
about Tim. Will he be running this office. Tim is first class but
we need someone under him who is very good, very sensitive to the
way I operate etc.
Please discuss.
gb .
by
FROM THE PRESIDENT
MATERIALS FORWARDED TO THE PRESIDENT
February 22, 1992
(to Camp David)
ACTION
1. USA Weekend Questionnaire
CLASSIFIED
1. DRAFT Briefing Book from NSC on the San Antonio Summit
2. Reply to President Gaviria's letter on drug trafficking and
evidence sharing
INFORMATION
1. Cabinet Report for the week of 02/23-02/29
2. Block schedule
3. Weekly Legislative Report for 02/17-02/21
REMARKS
1. U.S. Chamber of Commerce
February 23, 1992
(to Residence)
SCHEDULE
1. And accompanying briefing papers for Monday, 02/24
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
February 22, 1992
Dear Judge ship Morse:
ship
Thank you for your letter and for the terrific
photograph of John Tower. It was thoughtful of
you to share the picture and the story that goes
with it. I thoroughly enjoyed both.
I also appreciate your campaign suggestion, and
I'll be sure to pass it along to my staff for
consideration. The train seems to have produced
good results.
Best wishes.
Sincerely,
by Bl
Plean muthin your 'train'
The Honorable Robert F. B. Morse
Judge
County Court at Law 2
Suite 4
Williamson County Courthouse Annex
Georgetown, 405 suggestion South Martin Texas Luther 78626 to King Jim 4 oberwetter,
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CAMP DAVID
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GB,
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Dear Judge ship Morse:
Thank you for your letter and for the terrific
photograph of John Tower. It was thoughtful of
you to share the picture and the story that goes
with it. I thoroughly enjoyed both.
I also appreciate your campaign suggestion, and
I'll be sure to pass it along to my staff for
consideration. The train seems to have produced
good results.
Best wishes.
Sincerely,
Gg Bl
Please mustion you 'train'
The Honorable Robert F. B. Morse
Judge
County Court at Law 2
Suite 4
Williamson Georgetown, 405 suggestion South Martin County Texas Luther Courthouse 78626 to King Jim Annex 4 oberwetter,
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ROBT. F.B. (SKIP) MORSE
JUDGE, COUNTY COURT AT LAW # 2
WILLIAMSON COUNTY COURTHOUSE ANNEX
405 S. MARTIN LUTHER KING, # 4
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS 78626
512/869-3303
255-7084, EXT. 3303
February 6, 1992
The President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, D. C. 20501
Dear Mr. President,
I enclose a photo of our mutual friend, Senator John Tower, that I
thought you would get some pleasure from.
In the summer of 1990, John campaigned for me. We, and about 100
supporters, rode a train that was made up of several restored railroad
cars owned by a friend and supporter of yours and mine that included the
observation car that President Truman campaigned from in 1948. There is
a track very near my county home, so we rode to my home, and had a good
crowd there, too. I was introducing the Senator from a raised yard in
my backyard, and relating some humorous story about him, when he struck
this pose, and was captured by an alert, young photographer.
I told John he should have used this photo on the dust cover of his
book, and he said if he did, it would get more publicity than his
Superman costume.
I regret the photographer, in his haste, printed this photo backward.
Mine, signed by John, is correct. Were it not personally signed and
addressed to me, I would have sent it. Please overlook the error. I'd
have it corrected, but the photographer is now in Florida with the negative.
It'd be a great media event were you to come to Texas, and take a
short train ride, and use that Truman car, too. It worked for Harry and me.
My best wishes in the coming campaign and during your next term.
Sincerely,
Robt. F. B. (Skip) Morse
Judge, County Court at Law #2
RM/dp
Enclosure
PRF UNITED THE WELL PRESIDES
CAMP DAVID
THE
Feb 22, 1992
Dear Edua,
Just today did we
learn of Elmore's passing
away. I am so very sad
and so very sorry.
We love you, and
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
Mrs. Elmore P. Drown
Box 981, Arundel Road
Kennebunkport, Maine 04046
cc: (Rose Zamania
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FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Mr. Prescott S. Bush, Jr.
International Business Development
Consultants, Incorporated
Suite 1300
110 East 42nd Street
New York, New York 10017
PRESCOTT SHELDON BUSH, JR.
110 EAST 42ND STREET, SUITE 1300
NEW YORK, N.Y. 10017
FAX: 212-599-2235
TEL: 212-599-1409
February 18, 1992
The Honorable George Bush
President of the United States
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear George:
Thank you for your letter of February 13th which I
received when I got into the office today for the first
time since November. I am not totally mended as I am
still on crutches, but I'm hoping to be totally mended
within the next ten days. I see the doctor tomorrow.
I just spoke with Bill Manger and have sent him your
Comprehensive Health Reform Program. He, and the three
other doctors who composed their paper for you, will
prepare a written critique as you requested. Would you
please ask your secretary to send three more copies of
"The President's Comprehensive Health Reform Program"
directly to Dr. William Manger at this address:
William Manger, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.C.
324 East 30th Street
New York, NY 10016.
I'm glad that New Hampshire's about over and sorry that
you have to put up with all that nonsense from totally
un-presidential types of contenders.
All the best,
Devotedly,
the
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
Embargoed For Release
February 22, 1992
At 9:00 A.M. EST
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
IN RADIO ADDRESS TO THE NATION
THE PRESIDENT: Today, I want to talk to you about
getting our economy moving. I know there's a lot of debate about how
to create jobs and build economic strength -- but in the end, it all
boils down to common sense.
To strengthen an economy, you encourage investment. You
support industries that pull nations out of recessions. You
encourage success.
In my State of the Union address, I proposed a short-
term economic plan that does these things. I challenged Congress to
set aside partisan politics for just a few weeks and pass my plan by
March 20.
Unfortunately, Democratic leaders refused to submit my
plan for a quick, clean vote. They chose politics over duty. They
huddled behind closed doors and played games with the tax code. They
put out one plan one day, another plan the next. Finally, they
settled on a scheme that makes no economic sense.
Their proposal won't help homebuyers. Their proposal
will increase the deficit. It borrows $30 billion to pay for a tiny
temporary tax cut. For each person in the average family of four, it
hands out about a quarter a day -- but only for two years. This
turns out to be a very costly quarter. After the temporary cut
expires, Americans would shoulder the burden of a huge permanent tax
increase. In other words, these congressional leaders want to give
you two years of pocket change in exchange for a lifetime of higher
taxes. And that is a very bad deal -- for us and for our children,
who must pay the bill.
And now my plan. My plan will create jobs. The real
estate incentives alone will generate 415,000 new jobs this year. My
plan offers the hope of home ownership to first-time homebuyers.
Some people have begun buying homes already, expecting Congress to
pass a plan that encourages real estate investment -- my plan.
Congress shouldn't let those people down.
My plan will not increase the deficit. It makes some
tough choices on federal spending -- because I refuse to mortgage our
children's future for short-term political gain.
My plan will not raise tax rates. I want to raise the
child deduction on federal income taxes by $500, and I want Congress
to pass this permanent, long-term, profamily tax cut this year.
Put the plans side by side, and here's the bottom line:
My plan works; their's doesn't.
So today, join me in telling Congress: Stop fooling
around with our future. Tell them to pass my plan now. If
politicians hem and haw and offer up excuses, remind them your job is
more important than any politician's job.
Our recovery will get a huge boost the moment Congress
basses my plan. But I need your help.
Thank you. And may God bless you and the United States
America.
END
daily
THE WHITE HOUSE
MRS. BUSH'S PRESS OFFICE
DAILY PRESS CLIPPINGS
Saturday, Sunday, Monday February 22,23,24, 1992
Mrs. Bush
(in folder)
Secretary Skinner
West Wing
Marlin Fitzwater
West Wing
Constance Horner
West Wing
Carol Powers
West Wing
Patty Presock
Residence
First Lady Detail
Staircase
Karen Connell
Room 58 OEOB
Shirley Green
Room 94 OEOB
Anne Griffith
Room 98 OEOB
Diana Kellogg
Room 157 OEOB
Gregg Petersmeyer Room 100 OEOB
Marguerite Sullivan
Room
268
OEOB
Carolyn Washington
Room 268 OEOB
Benita Somerfield
hold one copy
Ann Brock
Julie Cooke
Joan DeCain
Laurie Firestone
Jane Moore
Susan Porter Rose
Sally Runion
Peggy Swift
Anna Perez
Sondra Haley
Jean Becker
Jay Suchan
(plus originals)
Sat 22-Feb-92 15:46 EST
Driver rams cars in frantic trip to see first lady
TAMPA, Fla. (UPI) A St. Louis man who rammed cars off an interstate
highway in his hurry to see the first lady was being held in jail
Saturday, police said.
The driver, Daniel Hendricks, ran an unknown number of cars off the
road and left a van overturned in his wake. Police said he told
authorites he needed to talk with Barbara Bush, who visited the Tampa
area Friday.
He never got to see her.
State troopers and Tampa police said six cars were rammed between
Plant City and Tampa during the midmorning mayhem Friday. There were no
serious injuries, police said.
Hendricks, 34, was charged with five felony counts of aggravated
battery, a Hillsborough County jail official said. He was being held on
$25,000 bail.
"He's telling us that he was trying to get to Clearwater to talk to
Barbara Bush because Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was going to invade
us, Tampa police spokesman Scott Guffey said.
"He said he was driving fine in the slow lane but when traffic
wasn't going fast enough, he'd move to the fast lane and flash his
lights," Guffey said. "Then, he said, if people didn't get out of his
way, he'd push them off the road."
Because of his purported attempt to reach Mrs. Bush, who made three
appearances Friday in Tampa and Pinellas County, he also was being
questioned by the Secret Service, Guffey said.
Sun 23-Feb-92 12:08 EST
Japanese ponder New Hampshire results
By MICHAEL NOL
TOKYO (UPI) The evening news is filled with scenes of reporters
fighting for a chance to grill a candidate on his views on foreign
relations and trade. Newspapers' front pages trumpet early poll returns.
Political commentators explain the nuances.
It's an election year in Japan but it's U.S. politicians who are
getting the attention.
Japan was tuned into New Hampshire last week, where conservative
columnist Patrick Buchanan's "America First" rhetoric earned him 37
percent of the final vote and Democratic front-runner Paul Tsongas vowed
to play hard ball with Japan on trade.
"The election of the president of the United States affects Japan
for the next four years," says Taro Kimura, a television anchorman who
has covered J.S.-Japan relations for nearly 20 years.
The New Hampshire primary results were the top of the news on all the
major Japanese networks. NHK, Japan's public television network,
canceled a special news feature to devote a full 30 minutes to the
primary's outcome.
"For the first time in a presidential election, the 'Japan problem'
was an issue, so it was natural for Japanese journalists to cover (New
Hampshire), Kimura said.
Since President Bush's four-day trade mission to Tokyo last month,
tensions between the two countries have escalated, climaxing when
Japanese officials, including Prime Minster Kiichi Miyazawa, criticized
the U.S. work force.
The prospect of Buchanan as president is cause for more concern.
Miyazawa took time after the primaries to make a prediction - later
retracted amid crtitcism from within his own party - that the former
Nixon speech writer is not electable.
A high-ranking official in the powerful Ministry of International
Industry and Trade told reporters the government would be "closely
watching the developments leading up to 'Super Tuesday" I on March 10,
when eight states conduct primaries.
Few expect Buchanan to win, but some wonder if the challenge from the
right will spur Bush, a staunch free-trader, to toughen his campaign
platform and policies.
Bush appears to be the sentimental favorite among the Japanese. Just
over a month has passed since he vomited in Miyazawa's lap at a dinner
party. First lady Barbara Bush charmed the Japanese public with her
stiff upper lip and humor while aides led her ailing husband away.
Government officials have dealt with Bush for years and appreciate
his free-trade policies.
"Since he is best known here, and the Democrats are not so well
known, naturally many would like to go with the status quo," says
Takashi Inoguchi, a professor of political science at Tokyo University.
But much of the interest within Japan stems from worries about anti-
Japanese sentiment growing in the United States.
Scenes of angry Americans demolishing Toyotas and Hondas are regular
stock for Japanese news programs. Debates about why Americans reacted so
badly to Miyazawa's recent comments on a declining American "work
ethic" flourish.
"There is concern about friction because Buchanan and the other
politicians seem be a bit alarming to the Japanese," says Seigen
Miyasato, a political scientist at Kokusai University.
But as far as news anchor Kimura is concerned, what the United States
needs is a president who can put the floundering U.S. economy back on
its feet, someone who can "manage the economy, and won't bash Japan for
its economic ills."
"We have no right of vote, so we just cross our fingers and pray
such a candidate will be elected all the way to the White House, " he
said. "If Buchanan could manage the U.S. economy, then we wouldn't have
any problems with him."
The idea of American entrenchment and a return to the isolationist
policies of the 1930s understandably worries a country that for nearly a
half-century has benefited from Washington's global policies and open
markets. "We all knew that in the U.S., trade issues and the Japan issue
would be in the election, but we are sensing some kind of change in
American politics, and therefore we are watching much more closely than
in the past," Miyasato said.
Tuesday, February 11, 1992
The Clarion-Ledger
7A
Winona schools join Barbara Bush's league
Her visit symbolizes the state's
by the year 2000.
goals. He also proposes allowing parents to
America 2000's six goals were drafted in 1989
entry in America 2000.
choose their children's schools and creating 535
duringa meeting between the president and the
break-the-mold "New American" schools that
By Cathy Hayden
50 governors.
would be centers of innovation.
Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer
A crowd of about 700 jammed Winona Ele-
"There is not a cookie-cutter approach. Let
WINONA - First lady Barbara Bush de-
mentary's auditorium, adjoining cafeteria and
the local areas come up with the ideas," Kearns
clared Monday that Winona and Mississippi
hall to hear the first lady and Deputy U.S. Sec-
said.
can be powerful partners in her husband's
retary of Education David Kearns announce
Earlier in the day, the first lady read Alexan-
America 2000 campaign to invigorate U.S. edu-
Winona as an America 2000 community.
der and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very
cation.
"You are joining a national crusade," Kearns
Bad Day by Judith Viorst to a class of Winona
"I've come to cheer. I'm here to cheer for Su-
said. "We've got to change our attitudes about
Elementary fourth-graders. She played com-
perintendent (Doris) Smith. I'm here to cheer
education and take ownership."
puter games with Chris Green and Jeffery Mal-
for the school board," Bush said at Winona El-
Winona leads the state in drafting a plan to
cou, both 9. "They said not to be nervous. I
ementary School. "I'm here to cheer your Gov.
achieve the six national goals, Kearns said.
was," Jeffery said.
(Kirk) Fordice.
The six goals, although lofty, are achievable,
She also signed a bookmark for Chris. He
With her visit, Mississippi became the 32nd
Fordice said. "We've got to set our sights high if
had first asked her to sign a $2 bill.
state to join America 2000, which strives to en-
we're going to get anywhere," he said.
"She said she doesn't sign money," said
sure students start school ready to learn and
Part of the president's strategy calls for local
Chris.
become world-competitive in math and science
communities to create plans for meeting the
"I'm going to keep the bookmark."
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Rick Guy/The Clarion-Ledger
Barbara Bush celebrates answering a question correctly on a comput- (left) and Chris Green during a visit Monday to Winona Elementary,
er exercise as she plays along with fourth-graders Jeffery Malcou where she kicked off the America 2000 program in Mississippi.
THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL
MEMPHIS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1992
Mrs. Bush touts plan
for '2000' in Winona
tricts. The Winona School Dis-
By Jerry Huston
trict, with its 1,459 students,
The Commercial Appeal
ranks among the poorest 10 per-
cent of school districts in the
WINONA, Miss. - First Lady
state.
Barbara Bush visited this small,
"I have come to cheer. I have
north-central Mississippi out-
come to cheer Mississippi," Mrs.
post Monday to kick off the
Bush told a crowd of about 350
state's participation in President
local and state educators and
Bush's America 2000 schools pro-
public officials.
gram.
"You here in Winona are set-
In a whirlwind two-hour tour
ting an example for the state of
the first lady read to a fourth:
Mississippi and the entire
The first lady
grade class, helped students
country, she said.
read to a
with a. computer-based quiz,
Joining Mrs. Bush on the visit
fourth-grade
spoke briefly to a packed high-
were Gov. Kirk Fordice and Dep-
class and
school auditorium and joined
uty Education Secretary David
helped
state and local officials in an
Kearns.
America 2000 ceremony.
The Winona School District,
students with a
Mrs. Bush received a warm
with its three schools, is the first
computer-
welcome during the brief stop-
district in Mississippi and
based quiz
over here, especially from stu-
among the first in the nation to
during her
dents, who stood five deep along
adopt the President's six nation-
visit.
the pathways between her class-
al education goals contained in
room visits, waved flags,
America 2000.
ing students test as competent in
child's life from age 0-to-18 is
cheered and shouted greetings.
The goals include better pre-
core curriculum subjects and
spent outside the school."
The first lady's visit to Win-
paring all children to enter
ridding schools of drugs and vio-
"Parents are really teachers.
ona, a town of 6,177 about 120
school, eliminating adult illiter-
lence.
Home is the first school," Mrs.
miles south of Memphis, capped
acy, increasing the high school
In lauding the district, Mrs.
Bush said.
a yearlong effort by local offi-
graduation rate to at least 90 per-
Bush also urged parents and
"What you do in your house is
cials to institute President
cent, making American students
community members to take a
more important than what we do
Bush's education goals in one of
internationally superior in
greater role in children's educa-
the state's neediest school dis-
math and science skills, ensur-
tion, adding that "91 percent of a
in the White House," she added.
The first lady also praised Mis-
sissippi leaders for rticipating
in America 2000 and its efforts to
improve education, saying "in
the last 25 years, Mississippi
made more progress than the
rest of the nation in improving
education." However, among the
50 states, Mississippi still ranks
among the bottom by many edu-
cation measures, including 48th
in teacher's pay and 46th in per-
pupil spending.
Mississippi is the 33rd school
to join the America 2000 pro-
gram.
Earlier in her address, Mrs.
Bush drew chuckles and titters
from the large crowd when, in
hailing some of Mississippi's
most famous son's, she threw a
barb at Memphis.
In reference to Elvis Presley,
who was born in Tupelo, Mrs.
Bush said, "He did move to Mem-
phis, but that was his first mis-
take. But when we next see him,
I'll bet he'll be back here."
"We had the day off school and
just wanted to see the first lady
I mean, how often do you get
to see the first lady out here?"
said Laura Mason, 22, who stood
in line outside the high school to
meet Mrs. Bush.
Education Secretary Lamar
Alexander missed the Mississip-
pi 2000 announcement because
he was asked to campaign for
President Bush in New Hamp-
shire Monday. It was the first
time that Alexander, who has
vowed to keep the education re-
form drive nonpartisan, had par-
ticipated directly in the Presi-
dent's campaign.
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MONDAY. FEBRUARY 24. 1992
LOS ANGELES TIMES/WASHINGTON EDITION
Letters to The Times
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Barbara Bush
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Bush's Family Policy
In response to "Personal Responsibility
Won't Buy Child Care or Insurance," by
Ellen Goodman, Commentary, Feb. 17:
In true feminist fervor. Goodman holds
Barbara Bush as an exemplar of woman-
hood and feminism but wails pitifully that
Mrs. Bush is "sleeping with the enemy,"
her husband, a Republican. Goodman. it
seems, doesn't like Republican principles.
Were Goodman not so blinded by her
primary agenda and prevailing motives.
she might be able to see Barbara's "your
success as a family, our success as a
society, depends not on what happens in
the White House but what happens inside
your house" as an expression of the
Republican credo.
To: help lift the veil over Goodman's
eyes, let me interpret the quote: Don't look
to the Administration to cure your ills and
problems. Reduce government. Get gov-
ernment off our backs. We're not a social
welfare state; cut back as many social
programs as the voters will allow. Let the
strong and the powerful dominate.
Barbara Bush may be sleeping with
Ellen Goodman's enemy and. perhaps, with
the enemy of the middle and lower class,
but. she's surely not sleeping with her
enemy.
Now, Ms. Goodman, do you get it?
JAKE ANGELIN
Los Angeles
Thank you. Ellen Goodman.
I would like to see her article blazoned
on the front page of your newspaper. It is a
comfort to read what you've been feeling
so clearly illuminated. The clincher para-
graph:
"As for Barbara, well, I'll quote the
words another 'political philosopher' found
on a placard in New Hampshire: 'We like
you, Barbara. But you're sleeping with the
enemy.'
LORETTA CHULJIAN
Los Angeles
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BUCHANAN'S
MESSAGE SERVICE
BUCHANAN'S
SERVICE
!!!!!!!!!!!
"Barbara, honey, you
know anyone who
would send us a ticking
package?"
LURIE
TERRY EASTLAND
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ROBERT M. JOHNSON
Newsday
Publisher and C.E.O.
ANTIIONY MARRO, Editor
JAMES M. KLURFELD, Editor of Editorial Pages
DONALD FORST, New York Editor
ERNEST TOLLERSON, Editor, New York Editorial Pages
ROBERT F. BRANDT, Managing Editor
CAROL R. RICHARDS, Deputy Editor of Editorial Pages
VIEWPOINTS
EDITORIALS
HOWARD SCHNEIDER, Managing Editor
JAMES S. TOEDTMAN, New York Managing Editor
A Shot From the Right
Stunned by Buchanan's showing, Bush must wake up and shape up his program.
There's no doubt about it: George Bush de-
rebuke to the president much more than as
out any plans to do something about it.. Bush
served a swift kick in the pants. And that's just
real support for this lace-curtain David Duke.
can gloat all he wants about how he kicked
what New Hampshire's voters gave to him
The message from New Hampshire voters
Saddam Hussein's ass, but the voters don't
Tuesday. The startling near-40 percent vote
to Bush is that he has abdicated his responsi-
give a damn. It's yesterday's news.
that columnist-turned-politician Patrick Bu-
bility: He has allowed the nation to drift. into
The problem for President Bush is that 1..-
chanan received should be interpreted as a
recession without seeming to care and with-
did not preempt the New Hampshire revolt
with any message of his own. What does he
stand for? What is at the core of Bush's think-
ing about domestic policy? He ran for office
MARLETTE'S VIEW
in 1988 carrying the banner of Ronald Reagan
and a slogan, "kinder and gentler." But there
seems to be nothing beyond that. The pre-
MARLETE©1992
pared statement Bush released Tuesday
NEWSDAY
night shows that he still doesn't gel. it.
OF
BARBARA!
"I have the right answers and 1 will take 111,
case to the voters in the next eight-and-a-hali
months. The goal of my campaign is 1.0 win
re-election in November," it read.
INITID
The "goal" is to win in November? What
about conveying to the American people a
sense of his priorities and beliefs? Whit
about making a start at ending the recession
and, more important, getting at the funda-
mental problem undermining the American
BUCHAHAN
economy - too much consumption, not
enough production? Or is it all campaign bac-
tics? Is it all just a rich boy's game? Is there
no center to George Herbert Walker Bush?
Luckily for Bush, most voters recognize
that Buchanan isn't a realistic atternative.
Half who voted for the macho-mouthed me
dia star said they meant it as a protest. His
America-first, racist, anti Semitic posturings
are out of the mainstream of serious politics.
Bush is a president in trouble If Bachana
can't get him, then maybe one of the Demo
crats will. Bush sans Reagan must now stand
and identify himself. We wait.
[ULSA WORLD
Tulsa, Oklahoma, Saturday, February 15. 1992
First Lady
To Campaign
In State
By Rob Martindale
World Senior Writer
First Lady Barbara Bush
will come to Oklahoma on a
fund-raising trip for the presi-
dent on March 25 and attend
events in Tulsa and Oklahoma
City.
I Tulsan Ed Lawson, state fl-
nance chairman for the Bush-
Quavie campaign and a family
friend of the Bushes, said he was
told of Mrs. Bush's plans for an
Oklahoma trip during a recent
at the White House.
Mrs. Bush, he said, would at-
tend two private Republican
fund-raising events in Oklahoma
on March 25 - one a lunch in
Oklahoma City and the other a
dinner in Tulsa that evening.
Further details have not been
finalized by the White House, he
said.
Lawson and his wife, Jay, will
be official hosts for Mrs. Bush
during the Oklahoma visit.
"For her husband, the presi-
dent." Lawson answered when
asked who Mrs. Bush will be cam-
paigning and raising money for
when she comes to Oklahoma.
"I think it will help everybody
on the Republican ticket in Okla-
homa," Lawson added.
There has been speculation that
President Bush might visit Okla-
homa. especially if U.S. Sen. Don
Nickles. R-Okla., believes Bush's
help is needed In Nickles' re-elect-
Ion race this year.
Lawson said he couldn't specu-
late on that. but said, "We are still
hopeful that the president will
come 10 Oklahoma."
According to a recent poll, Bush
has a favorable rating of over 65
percent in Oklahoma.
State Republicans also are very
fond of Mrs. Bush and will benefit
from the visit of the First Lady,
Lawson said.
"Mrs. Bush is a charming, gra-
clous lady much loved by the
American public," Lawson said.
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SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 15. 1992
TULSA/OKLAHOMA
Mrs. Bush to visit Tulsa
First lady Barbara Bush will
attend fund-raisers in Tulsa and
Oklahoma City next month, a Bush campaign
official says.
Ed Lawson, finance chairman in Oklahoma
for the Bush-Quayle campaign, said Friday
that Mrs. Bush will attend two private Ro-
publican fund-raisers in the state March 25.
Lawson said Mrs. Bush would have lunch in
Oklahoma City and dinner in Tulsa.
There has been no word from the White
House whether Mrs. Bush will make any public
appearances while in Oklahoma, Lawson
said.
3/2/92 PEOPLE 50
year: First Daughter Doro-
thy "Doro" Bush LeBlond. 32.
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has become engaged to
Robert Koch. 31. a top aide
to Rep. Richard Gephardt.
the Missouri Democrat
who is the House Majority
Leader. Doro. the Bushes
voungest child and only
daughter. was divorced
from contractor William
LeBlond in 1990. No wed-
ding date has been set.
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Helping to launch the Bush/Quayle campaign headquarters in Boston yester-
day are (from left) state Treasurer Joe Malone, Lt. Gov. Paul Celluci, Nancy EI-
Ils, President Bush's sister, and Gov. Weld, state campaign chairman.
Bush Boston campaign opens!
Declaring the New Hampshire prima-
economic conditions here are improving.
ry the "Valley Forge" of George Bush's
"Massachusetts is quite different be-
reelection campaign, the president's
cause of the progress you're making,"
us
Massachusetts political team, including
Bush told Weld over the conference call.
Gov. Weld and Lt. Gov. Paul Cellucci,
The governor is the president's Mass-
yesterday opened up the Boston Bush-
achusetts campaign chairman.
/Quayle campaign headquarters.
The event included a brief telephone
Cellucci, a longtime Bush supporter
hookup from the Oval Office with Bush,
who is the president's regional campaign
who told supporters he expects to do bet-
coordinator, vowed to battle any efforts
2
ter in Massachusetts against Patrick Bu-
that Buchanan mounts in Massachusetts.
ml
chanan than in New Hampshire because
FRANK PHILLIPS THE
8 USA WEEKEND
February 28-March 1, 1992
books
video
This month: Marilyn Quayle's thriller and a 'Mommy Track' sequel
T
alk about starting off with a bang: By Para-
Today show or along their 11-city book tour,
graph 4, Fidel Castro has dropped dead, and
from Denver to Nashville to hometown India-
the latest political thriller by a Washington, D.C.,
napolis. Serpent is a Doubleday and Literary Guild
insider is off and running. And this particular writ-
featured alternative.
er comes with an impressive dossier: lawyer, Sen-
ate spouse
second lady.
A new work order for women
"I think people will be surprised," says Marilyn
Quayle of Embrace the Serpent (CROWN, $20), the novel
of Washington intrigue she has hatched with her sis-
F
elice Schwartz is at it again.
The woman who ignited the
ter, former schoolteacher Nancy Northcott. The
national "Mommy Track" de-
publisher is confident the book will sell well: Seven-
bate now calls for a "second rev-
ty-five thousand copies are rolling off the press.
olution" in the workplace. This
The appropriately serpentine plot involves Rus-
week, Schwartz - the founder
WOMEN
AND
sians, a cabal of Persian Gulf sheiks, the president
of Catalyst, a 30-year-old con-
WORK
EMBRACE
sulting and research firm fo-
THE
of the United States (vain, foolish - and Demo-
NEW
cratic, naturally) and a power-mad newspaper edi-
cused on women and employ-
INCIS
DI
THE
tor who sleeps with a senator's wife. And there's
ment - lays out her blueprint
tiff
the good guy, a black Georgia senator.
for a new work order in Break-
FELICE N. SCHWARTZ
SERPENT
Serpent has its moments - sort of like a
Ing with Tradition: Women
William F. Buckley Jr. spy novel without the sex
and Work, The New Facts of Life (WARNER,
scenes. Like many Washington novels, it has its
$21.95). Successful companies must learn "to manage
The sisters, their publisher says, "work incredibly
share of clichés. Must be something in that
maternity," Schwartz argues, and respond to wom-
fast and have already finished the manuscript for a
Potomac water supply.
en's unique needs. If someone wants to call that
second thriller. They see writing as a second career."
Catch the sisters later this month on NBC's
anti-feminist, at least she's already used to hearing it.
GOOD
CWISS
besting
hust
William E. Sauro/ The New York Times
Felice Schwartz's model for working women was dubbed the "mommy track" - but not by her.
At Work
Round Two on the Mommy Track
Ms. Schwartz, the founder of Catalyst, a
dedicate to household chores, a dispropor-
nonprofit education and research group
tionate responsibility for their care.
Vision for an
based in New York, soon found that if people
But the apparent binary schematic of the
were reluctant to talk about women, work
original - the career-driven VS. career-and-
egalitarian corporation
and babies, they were not reluctant to talk
family woman - has yielded to an analysis
about her. For a few months she rode uncom-
of corporate structure and its driving force,
or a gender-based
fortably in the wash of the notorious
ambition.
"mommy track" controversy, accused of
Her own paradigm is not the pyramid, that
proposing a gender-based caste system de-
bottom-heavy structure the corporate world
caste system?
signed to keep women barefoot, pregnant and
uses to represent itself. "Women bump their
at the edge of the fast track. Now, she may
heads early against the sides of the pyra-
be able to put the issue to rest. She has
mid," she said. citing the early results of a
By BARBARA PRESLEY NOBLE
written a book, "Breaking With Tradition:
Catalyst study that demonstrates the diffi-
Women and Work, the New Facts of Life,"
culty women have jumping from "staff"
ELICE SCHWARTZ has been out talk-
which reflects on her months as a feminist
positions in areas like human resources to
ing to corporations about women's is-
anti-Christ and expands on her vision of the
"line" - read "fast track" - positions in:
sues since 1962, and has felt herself to be
egalitarian corporation.
say, finance. Her chosen image is of a jungle
on very sure ground for a long time. So when
"I was the one of the first victims of
gym, on which everyone, men included, can
she decided to speak out on a forbidden
political correctness," she said in a recent
move laterally as well as up.
corporate topic - the biological fact that
interview. "I dared to violate the party line
women have babies and the social fact that
that women are not different from men." a
EVERAL members of her own nonprofit
they work and have careers - she chose to
reference to especially bitter criticism from
community thought the original article
do it in an influential and widely read forum.
feminist activists who accused her of under-
put a huge burden on women and fo-
"The cost of employing women in manage-
mining 20 years of legal gains for women and
cused too much on massaging the current
ment is greater than the cost of employing
making discrimination easier.
corporate system rather than transforming
men." she wrote in the opening sentence of
On certain issues, Ms. Schwartz is resolute.
it. Dana Friedman, co-president of the Fam-
an article published three years ago in the
She still believes family issues are spoken of
ilies and Work Institute, a nonprofit research
august Harvard Business Review. "This is a
in whispers because male executives fear
group based in Manhattan. wrote a letter to
jarring statement," she continued, "partly
litigation and being seen as tyrannosauric.
the review's editor commending the article
because it is true, but mostly because it is
And, she says, it is still a fundamental fact of
"for bringing motherhood out of the closet:"
something people are reluctant to talk
life that women have babies and with them,
The article, she said recently, was hereticak
about."
despite increases in the amount of time men
"It was bold and it was in the Harvard
Business Review." But while acknowledging
the cost of pregnancy leaves and other spe-
cial arrangements, she argues now that is
The 'Women's Issues' That Aren't
misleading to look only at women's behavior-
al patterns. "There are several intriguing
studies of men's life cycles, of how they pull
in and out - but at different stages than
MONG advocates for work-family is-
Demographic trends may make the ques-
women," she said.
sues. one issue IS agreed upon: Corpo-
tion moot. Baby-boomers, who had children
Critics may again find Ms. Schwartz too
rations that hope to attract and keep
relatively late, will soon have frail older rela-
inclined to burden women with the sins of
the best employees cannot afford to slight
tives to care for. And though the burden is
corporations. She suggests. for example, that
women and their concerns. "Women are the
likely to fall disproportionately on women, as
women be prepared to discuss family plans
largest underutilized resource in the coun-
it does with child care, the double whammy
in job interviews - a level of honesty and
try," said Felice Schwartz, head of Catalyst.
of caringfo the young and old is likely to in-
self-knowledge that seems above and beyond
But must companies. as Ms. Schwartz con-
crease demands from both men and women
the call of integrity. But on the basic issues,
tends, pay more to employ women? Dana
for accommodation from corporations.
there is little disagreement. "The United
Friedman. of the Families and Work Insti-
Ms. Friedman and Ms. Schwartz agree
States is more dependent than ever on wom-
tute. IS dubious: "Compare a maternity
that what many executives think of as wom-
en in the work force," said Steven Clayton.
leave. which can be planned for, with the cost
en's issues - flexibility and time for family
vice president at Work/Family Directions.,
of a stressed-out senior male executive hav-
aren't. "Many people are willing to trade a
consulting group in Boston. "More and more
.ng a heart attack with no warning. Even sev-
day's salary for more flexibility and time
companies see an ability to attract and retain
eral women out doesn't compare with the
off," Ms. Friedman said. People want a bet-
women as central to their future competitive
cost of one senior man gone for a year."
ter quality of life."
ness."
Cokie Roberts
One Woman in Nine
No one should ever have to go to two
women lost the battle with breast can-
But in 1989 the catastrophic law was
people stricken with other forms of
funeral masses in one day, except per-
cer just last year. And any witness to
repealed, and mammogram coverage
cancer. My own sister died of melano-
haps priests and altar boys. It's clearly
the contest knows that "battle" is a
with it. The women in Congress stub-
ma when she was even younger than
not women's work. But recently in
tame word to describe the struggle
bornly insisted on restoring the benefit,
my two friends, and one of my favorite
.
Washington that's exactly what a num-
the diagnoses and drugs, tests and
by raising the issue constantly, until
men in the family was younger yet
ber of women and some of their spous-
treatments that usually require years of
mammograms made their way into the
when he died of liver cancer on Christ-
es did, as we said goodbye to two more
superhuman determination and forti-
budget agreement of 1990, although it
mas morning.
Posten
friends in their fifties snatched away by
tude to withstand. But prying research
had to be done at the expense of a
But breast cancer's toll on women,
that master of misogyny, breast cancer.
dollars out of the federal budget for
White House proposal for serving pre-
along with its mysteriously increasing
As we comforted each other, statis-
breast cancer, or extending Medicare
schoolers. Medicare now covers up to
incidence, puts it in a special category.
tics on breast cancer rates were not
coverage to mammograms requires al-
$55 for mammograms every two years,
The latest attempt at combat comes
foremost in our minds. We murmured
most as much muscle as battling the
considerably less than the high-tech
from Rep. Mary Rose Oakar, who- is
instead of the husbands left behind, of
disease itself. Had it not been for the
X-rays cost in many areas.
preparing legislation calling for "full
the nine handsome children these two
women in Congress, and forays into the
Money for breast cancer research
funding of the National Cancer Insti-
good women had between them, of the
field from top brass such as Marilyn
has been equally hard to come by. As
tute's research request to the president
not-yet-born grandchildren our friends
Quayle, plus phalanxes of female staff-
women in Congress watched-and in
of $220 million and establishment of a
would never hold. We mourned the
ers and lobbyists, what little money
most cases applauded-the increases
national breast cancer center aimed, at
waste, the decades of productive life
there is would not be there.
in funds for AIDS research and pre-
encouraging researchers to get into the
denied them.
As the breast cancer statistics
vention, they also cautioned their col-
field.
But the reality SO stunned us as we
stood on the eve of the services in the
mounted in recent years the congress-
leagues that AIDS money now outpaces
But as long as SO few women make it
funeral home, with one friend in a room
women intensified their efforts, first
all cancer dollars combined. The con-
to Congress, the success of any drive
to the left, another in a room to the
working to get mammograms covered
gresswomen fought for funds for the
for more research money must rely on
right, that we found ourselves calculat-
under the 1988 catastrophic health in-
greater killer, and they succeeded in
the kindness of congressmen. They
ing the casualties, tabulating the toll of
surance bill. Women of both parties
getting a significant increase for this
cannot leave the country's concerns
women we knew killed by breast can-
guided the measure through their own
year: $133 million for breast cancer.
about breast cancer to the distaff side.
cer. Grimly we recited the numbers
committees, but one key subcommittee
That's up more than $40 million from
If fears for their mothers, sisters, wives
that fill us with fear: Breast cancer now
remained an all-male bastion. A female
last year, but still only a small percent-
and daughters don't spur them to act,
strikes one in nine women in this coun-
lobbyist who regularly worked that pan-
age of the total funding for the National
then the effect of the disease on the
try. Thirty years ago it was one in 20.
el volunteered to ask a friendly con-
Cancer Institute, which is almost $2
work force, on productivity, on health
Those startling figures have moved
gressman to introduce the mammo-
billion.
care costs should. Otherwise many
women in Congress to push for action
gram language. "I can't do that," he
Though some congresswomen grum-
more of us will be joining the mourners
as they see females falling to an enemy
protested, "I did the last women's
ble that the breast cancer dollars would
at two funeral masses in one day.
more deadly than in any recent war.
thing, the guys will think I'm soft on
be greater if men got the disease, they
In contrast to the 47,356 U.S. com-
women." "Fear not," the lobbyist re-
carefully add that they do not want to
The writer is a news analyst for
bat deaths in all the years of the
plied, "Just tell them you're a breast
set up a competition among cancers.
National Public Radio and ABC
Vietnam War an estimated 44 500
man." He did and it worked.
No woman dnes. We all know too many
News
Son.Teb.23.1992
WASHINGTON POST
Redford Journal
A Woman, a Storefront Library and a Fight for a Better Future
By ROBERTO SURO
Bill the distance in madel 1.,
Special to The New York Times
Mrs. Madrid's library and this new
able in this impoverished farming
structure is far greater than the real
REDFORD,
community of about 200 that lies
distance. The two buildings are inon-
Tex. - At one end
along the Rio Grande some 40 miles
innents 10 how combating rural pav.
of this West Texas
village sits the old
from Big Bend National Park.
crty has changed in the last 25 years
Mrs. Madrid, 79 years old, gets
The goat cheese cooperative was
Madrid Store,
around slowly now because of arthri-
formed through the efforts of the Rev.
which has served as a window on the
tis. And few children come to her 11-
Melvin W. aFolictic, 61, who has
rest of the world for many young peo-
brary any more because there are
been an Episcopal missionary in the
ple, offering them an escape from the
heat and the dust and from back-
hardly any left in Redford. Young
Big Bend region since 1983. With a
breaking work in the fields.
people find plenty of reasons to leave.
deeply creased face, long sideburns
The town lies in a small valley sur-
and a handlebar mustache, "Padre
The shelves are stocked with books
rounded by steep volcanic ridges.
Mel" looks more like a farmer than
instead of blue jeans or canned food
When Mexican farmers were recruit-
the published poet and former univer-
because Lucia Rede Madrid decided
ed to settle here in the 1860's, the little
sity professor that he is.
that "all children deserve books, even
land available was divided in strips
The idea of the goat cheese
if they live in the middle of nowhere."
that started with the rich bottom land
project," he said, "is to make it possi-
Starting with just 25 volumes of her
near the river and stretched up to the
ble for some farmers 10 make enough
own in 1979, she has collected more
rocky hillsides. The land has been
money that they can keep their fam-
than 15,000 and has created a private
subdivided so often since then that
ilies intact instead of having to send
lending library that is unusual for its
some families are now trying to sur-
the young people off 10 some faraway
size, location and purpose.
vive on plots 40 feet wide and a mile
place to find work."
In the children's section is a bulle-
long.
With private grants, pi imarily
tin board that functions as the Ii-
brary's hall of fame. It sits just a few
Mrs. Madrid began teaching at the
from the Episcopal church, the 19
feet off the ground SO it will be at eye
Redford Elementary School in 1962.
families in the cooperative plan 16
level for the impressionable, and it is
"The school system didn't care much
produce the cheese and use the mys
covered mostly with photographs of
about the children here," she said.
tique of the Big Bend region to sell it
"We are mostly poor and Mexican-
to better restaurants across Texas
young people in caps and gowns. Edu-
cation has transported them from
Americans in Redford. But then we
and northern Mexico.
started getting all these wonderful
Studies show that with 30 mill:
Redford to careers that are unavail-
programs from Washington - Head
goats, each family can expect to
Start and bilingual education and re-
$15,000 a year. Father LaFollo the said
medial reading and others."
that "for some families that would be
Miles
100
Mrs. Madrid enthusiastically
a 1,000 percent increase in income."
NEW
taught in many of those programs. In
MEXICO
Under the aegis of two strong
Head Start sessions, when the school
OKLAHOMA
Steve Berman for The New York
willed people, Redford has swing,
was short of materials, she used tur-
Lucia Rede Madrid in the private lending library she created in her
from President Lyndon B. Johnson's
the shells, pig bones and stones from
El Paso
Dallas
the river bank to teach counting and
store in Redford, Tex., because she decided that "all children deserve
"Great Society" programs to the 90's
TEXAS
imperative of self-help. The future is
the days of the week.
books, even if they live in the middle of nowhere."
uncertain at best.
Redford
Her message was simple. "I'd take
Jimmy Peña, 33, learned the alpha
the children outside," she said, "and
San Antonio
bet from Mrs. Madrid and is lear nmg
A/o
show them their parents bent over in
the fields, and I'd say, 'You don't have
"I am a beggar and 1 love to beg,"
forts with the library.
to make goat cheese from Father La-
to do that when you grow up.
she said. Soon merchandise on the
Follette. Three of his siblings has
shelves of the store her husband
left Rediord, and now his mother and
By 1975 the flow of Federal aid to
MEXICO
Redford had slowed, and Mrs. Madrid
owned was being crowded by donated
At the far end of Redford, only a
youngest sister are planning to BO
grew disenchanted and quit teaching.
books. Her husband, Enrique, died
few hundred yards from the Madrid
"They say I'm crazy to stay here
Eventually she decided to create a li-
last year.
Store, farmers are putting up a small
alone," he said, "So, I may starve the
The New York Times
A private library in Redford has
brary for Redford's children because,
In April 1990 Mrs. Madrid went to
building made of cinder blocks. They
first month or the firs year, but now,
despite her lobbying, government had
the White House to receive two Presi-
have formed a cooperative and hope
maybe, we are going to have a
served as a window on the world.
never done it.
dential medals for her volunteer ef-
to make goat cheese there soon.
to stay I have 10 trv."
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
Embargoed For Release
February 22, 1992
At 9:00 A.M. EST
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
IN RADIO ADDRESS TO THE NATION
THE PRESIDENT: Today, I want to talk to you about
getting our economy moving. I know there's a lot of debate about how
to create jobs and build economic strength -- but in the end, it all
boils down to common sense.
To strengthen an economy, you encourage investment. You
support industries that pull nations out of recessions. You
encourage success.
In my State of the Union address, I proposed a short-
term economic plan that does these things. I challenged Congress to
set aside partisan politics for just a few weeks and pass my plan by
March 20.
Unfortunately, Democratic leaders refused to submit my
plan for a quick, clean vote. They chose politics over duty. They
huddled behind closed doors and played games with the tax code. They
put out one plan one day, another plan the next. Finally, they
settled on a scheme that makes no economic sense.
Their proposal won't help homebuyers. Their proposal
will increase the deficit. It borrows $30 billion to pay for a tiny
temporary tax cut. For each person in the average family of four, it
hands out about a quarter a day -- but only for two years. This
turns out to be a very costly quarter. After the temporary cut
expires, Americans would shoulder the burden of a huge permanent tax
increase. In other words, these congressional leaders want to give
you two years of pocket change in exchange for a lifetime of higher
taxes. And that is a very bad deal -- for us and for our children,
who must pay the bill.
And now my plan. My plan will create jobs. The real
estate incentives alone will generate 415,000 new jobs this year. My
plan offers the hope of home ownership to first-time homebuyers.
Some people have begun buying homes already, expecting Congress to
pass a plan that encourages real estate investment -- my plan.
Congress shouldn't let those people down.
My plan will not increase the deficit. It makes some
tough choices on federal spending -- because I refuse to mortgage our
children's future for short-term political gain.
My plan will not raise tax rates. I want to raise the
child deduction on federal income taxes by $500, and I want Congress
to pass this permanent, long-term, profamily tax cut this year.
Put the plans side by side, and here's the bottom line:
My plan works; their's doesn't.
So today, join me in telling Congress: Stop fooling
around with our future. Tell them to pass my plan now. If
politicians hem and haw and offer up excuses, remind them your job is
more important than any politician's job.
Our recovery will get a huge boost the moment Congress
basses my plan. But I need your help.
Thank you. And may God bless you and the United States
America.
END