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OCR Page 1 of 105Tabacco
17 May 1996
MEMORANDUM FOR LEON PANETTA
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS
MIKE MCCURRY
EVELYN LIEBERMAN
DON BAER
DOUG SOSNIK
MARCIA HALE
KEVIN O'KEEFE
LORRIE MCHUGH
GINNY TERZANO
MARY ELLEN GLYNN
BARRY TOIV
JENNIFER O'CONNOR
FROM:
HAROLD ICKES
SUBJECT:
Tobacco Reports
As you may have seen in articles this morning, reporters have
interpreted, through a combination of both the President's
remarks yesterday and from comments from White House staff, that
the President is willing to negotiate with tobacco companies on
tobacco legislation.
In actuality, his remarks, and Leon's conversations as described
in the article, are consistent with our message since last
August - that we won't negotiate, but if they agreed to
legislation that accomplishes what the proposed rule
accomplishes, the President would sign the legislation. It's not
a negotiation because we won't budge from what we said in August.
All of us need to be particularly sensitive to reporters'
inclination to view our willingness to sign the right bill to be
willingness to "negotiate."