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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Des Moines, Iowa)
For Immediate Release
October 20, 1995
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT IOWA JEFFERSON-JACKSON DINNER
Veterans Memorial Auditorium
Des Moines, Iowa
9:15 P.M. CDT
THE PRESIDENT:
I like to see a Democratic crowd
just a little rowdy.
(Applause.)
I like to see a meeting in
Iowa where we don't have to bus people in to raise a crowd.
(Applause. )
I want to thank your Chair Mike Peterson for
inviting me here, and give my regards to your Attorney General
Tom Miller; to Treasurer Mike Fitzgerald; to your Secretary of
Agriculture Dale Cochran; the Senate President Leonard Boswell;
the Majority Leader Wally Horn; your House Minority Leader Dave
Schraeder. And to all the other Iowans who are here. And I want
to say a special word of thanks to the Iowans who have been a
part of our administration -- Ruth Harkin, the President of the
Overseas Private Investment Corporation; Bonnie Campbell, who
does a wonderful job running our Violence Against Women Office.
(Applause.)
Joel Hood, Ricrr Running and Dave O'Brien at Labor;
John Miller at FEMA -- all these Iowans are doing a great job to
serve the United States in the national government, and I thank
them very much.
(Applause.)
You know, four years ago I was here in the middle of
the beginning of the presidential process.
I made a courtesy
call because I knew I wouldn't do very well in the Iowan
caucuses.
(Laughter.)
I hope that it works out differently this
time.
(Applause.)
I had the great honor of coming here to speak
to your legislature, and then to come back to Ames for the Rural
Conference.
(Applause.) And I was very glad to do that.
I didn't exactly enjoy it, but I was deeply moved by
what I saw when I came here during the floods. And I think there
is something quite remarkable about this state. And you're going
to have a very important role in the direction of the country for
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�many, many years to come.
I came here because I wanted to see
the Democratic Party alive and well, and I wanted to speak to
what I believe we have to stand for -- clearly, unambiguously,
and proudly -- and how I believe we can reach out to others to
broaden our ranks and deepen our r~solve.
I think we have to. think first and foremost about
the young people here.
I'm glad to see all these students who
are here.
I just spoke to somewhere between 900 and 1,000 of
them in the basement.
(Applause.) As an old musician, let me
tell you that even though I wasn't in the room, I very much
enjoyed the Carroll High School Jazz Band, they did a great job.
I thank them for that.
(Applause.)
I want to say a special word of thanks and
to Senator Harkin for his friendship, his leadership,
what he said tonight. What he said was wise and good
(Applause.)
I want you to keep him in the Senate; we
We need him. America needs him.
(Applause.)
admiration
and for
and true.
need him.
You know, Tom Harkin was for balancing the budget
when the other guys were still running up the debt.
(Laughter.)
He was for doing it in a way that honors our values and our
interests. He worked with me to reduce the deficit, but to
increase our investment in education, in technology, in research
-- especially in medical research. He fought for the
proposition that we do have certain obligations to one another
in this country; that's what the Americans with Disabilities Act
is really all about -- bringing out the best in everyone so that
we'll all be stronger.
(Applause.)
He has always been a leader in our fight against
crime. And the Vice President and the Attorney General will be
coming into Iowa for a violence prevention conference on Monday
morning. And I honor him for having led the fight to remind us
that we not only· have to be strong in dealing with crime, we
have to be aggressive in preventing crime. That's one of the
many lessons that the majority in Congress seems to have
forgotten, that Tom Harkin has not.
(Applause.)
The last thing I wanted to say about the other guys
in my introduction is that I was proud to see Senator Harkin
invite independents and Republicans to our cause.
If you think
about the sharp differences in values being expressed in
Washington today, we would be historically accurate to call this
the Jefferson-Jackson-Abraham Lincoln-Theodore Roosevelt dinner.
They were all on our side, compared to what is going on today in
Washington, D.C.
(Applause.)
My fellow Americans, I come to you tonight with a
simple and straightforward message. You know we live in a very
great country, on the edge of a new era, a new century, a new
millennium, a time of great change. We are moving from an
industrial age into an information and technology-driven age
where even agriculture and industry will be driven by
information and technology. We are moving from the Cold War to
a global village where all of us will be more closely in
�contact, more closely bound up. We'll have common possibilities
and common vulnerabilities as we see every day with terrorism
around the world and here at home.
This is a time of enormous potential, and your
country is on the move.
There is no nation in the world
remotely as well-positioned to enable its people to fulfill
their dreams and to lead the world toward peace and freedom and
prosperity as the United States. But we must be true to our
values, and we must have a clear vision of that future.
I ran for President in 1992 for the same reason Tom
Harkin did. We thought our country was going in the wrong
direction, without a clear sense of vision.
I said that if I
were honored by the American people with the presidency I would
try to do the following things:
I would try to restore the
American Dream for all our people and make sure we went into the
next century as the most powerful country in the world; the
greatest force for peace and freedom and prosperity by having an
economic policy that produced jobs and growth; that expanded the
middle class and shrinks the under class; by giving us a modern
government that is smaller, less bureaucratic, more
entrepreneurial, but can still fulfill our fundamental
responsibilities to one another; by making sure that America was
still the leading nation in the world in a positive sense; and,
most important of all, by being true to old-fashioned American
values in this very new age of responsibility and opportunity
for all, of valuing work, yes, but understanding that families
count, too; and we have to help them to stay strong and be
together -- (applause) -- and of a sense of community which
means that we are stronger when we work together.
We're going forward or backward together, and that
means we have obligations to one another.
It isn't popular in
Washington to talk about that today, but it is true. We have
obligations to our parents when they need us and to our poor
children when, through no fault their own, they need a hand up
in life.
We have obligations to those who are disabled or who
otherwise need a helping hand who are willing to do their part.
We have obligations to take off our own blinders and the chains
on our own spirit, which is why I was so proud to see all those
people in Washington saying in that march, I intend to take
greater responsibility for myself, for my family, and for my
community, but I want to reach out to you to ask you to work
with me to make America a better place.
(Applause.)
And my message to you is very plain and simple: This
country is in better shape than it was two and a half years ago
because we have worked hard to do what we said we would do.
(Applause.)
We still have real and significant challenges that
require us to keep going in the right direction, toward a better
and brighter future.
And we're in the midst of a struggle in
Washington that is not about balancing the budget and is far
more important than economics -- that goes to the very heart of
who we are as a people, what we believe and what we are willing
to stand for, and what kind of America we want our children and
our grandchildren to live in in the 21st century.
That is what
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is going on.
You· know, in 1993, when we passed our economic
program, in the most intense partisan environment in modern
American political history, the other side said, oh, the sky
will fall.
There were Chicken Littles everywhere. The world
will come to an end if you pass this program. A recession is
just around the corner. Well, two and a half years later we
have 7.5 million more jobs, 2.5 million more homeowners, a
record number of new small businesses, the lowest combined rate
of inflation and unemployment in 25 years.
(Applause.)
They
were wrong and we were right.
(Applause.)
Do we have more to do? Of course, we do.
In any
time of great change like this inequality is a danger because
some people aren't very well suited to the world toward which
were leaving -- toward which we're moving. And we've got to do
more in the area of education and training. We've got to do
more for rural areas and urban areas that have been left behind.
We have got to do more to spread opportunity. But the answer is
to build on the successes of the last two and a half years, not
to turn around and do the wrong thing.
In the area of government, I heard the other side
complain about government year in and year out and how terrible
it was. Well, we didn't do that. We did something about it.
I
put the Vice President in charge of a reinventing government
task force.
Two and a half years later, we didn't just rail
against the federal government. Two and a half years later
there are 163,000 fewer people working for the national
government. Next year it will be the smallest federal
government since President Kennedy was President. And as a
percentage of the fed~ral work force, we'll be the smallest
federal government since 1933. The big government myth is just
that -- it's a myth. And we brought it down, the Democrats
brought it down. We did it.
(Applause.)
There are 16,000 fewer pages of federal regulations,
hundreds of programs have been eliminated. But the most
important thing is performance has been increased. Take the
Small Business Administration -- a 40-percent cut in the budget,
but they doubled the loan volume. More loans to women, more
loans to minorities, no reduction in loans to men and, most
important, no watering down of the standards for eligibility.
Just a commitment to old-fashioned American entrepreneurialism.
That's the kind of government we're trying to give you.
(Applause.)
For the first time, we realized if we're in a global
economy fighting for opportunities, we need to give small
businesses a chance to sell their products and services around
the world. We need to get everybody involved in having a chance
to create jobs in America by relating to the rest of the world.
And so, Ruth Harkin and her organization, and the Export-Import
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Bank and the Commerce Department, and the State Department, for
the first time ever, are all working together to help create
jobs. And 2 million -- 2 million of our 7.5 million new jobs
came because of the expansion of the ability to sell American
products overseas in the last two and a half years. And we
should thank those people for the work they did on it.
(Applause. )
I am proud of the work the Federal Emergency
Management Agency did in Iowa and in the other states of the
Midwest when they had the 500-year flood.
That used to be the
most criticized agency in government.
I did a novel thing.
I
appointed a qualified person to head it, not a politician.
(Applause.)
And people are proud of it, and Iowans remember it.
And I'll tell you something that will surprise you.
Every year, Business Week -- Business Week Magazine, not an arm
of our party -- (laughter) -- gives awards for outstanding
performance in various areas of business. One of the awards
they give is for the best consumer service and customer service
over the telephone -- Federal Express, L.L. Bean -- you name it.
You know who won this year? The Social Security Administration
of the United States government.
(Applause.)
I want you to go out on the street and tell people
these things. We made big government a thing of the past. Are
there still stupid regulations? Of course, there are, but at
least we have a system for trying to do something about it. We
are trying to make this government more entrepreneurial. But
that's a lot different than turning our backs on the American
people. We are not about to do that.
(Applause.)
And I know we live in a time when people are more
preoccupied with their own problems. But we cannot run away
from the world, either. And America is safer tonight because we
didn't give up our leadership, because we are in a situation
where we're destroying nuclear missiles more rapidly. And for
the first time since the dawn of the nuclear age, there is not a
single, solitary nuclear missile pointed at an American child
tonight. Not one. Not one.
(Applause.)
Not a single one.
We got over 170 countries to agree to indefinitely
extend their commitment not to proliferate nuclear weapons. And
next year, God willing, we will have a comprehensive test ban on
all nuclear testing.
(Applause.)
The United States is stronger when these things
happen, when we work against terrorism, when we work against
drug-trafficking, when we help to make peace from Northern
Ireland to Haiti to Bosnia to the Middle East. We are stronger
in a more peaceful world where we are living by our values and
the power of our example.
But most important of all, this country is coming
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together around its values again.
In almost every state,
believe it or not, the crime rate is down, the murder rate is
down, the welfare rolls are down, the food stamp rolls are down.
The teen pregnancy has dropped for two years in a row, and the
poverty rate is down. America is coming back together and
moving forward together. And I believe -- I believe the
commitments that we have had to family-friendly policies, to
community-oriented solutions to our problems have made a
difference.
I think it matters that we pass the Family and
Medical Leave Act so people don't lose their jobs when their
children are sick.
(Applause.)
I think it matters that we're
collecting record amounts of child support.
I think it matters
that we gave working families in 1993 a tax cut so that we could
say, if you work 40 hours a week and you have children in your
house, you should not and you will not be in poverty. We want
to reward work and parenting.
I believe that matters.
I think
it's important.
(Applause.)
And, yes, I think it matters that we decided we had
to give all of our young people a chance to live up to the
fullest of their God-given abilities, whether it was helping
more poor, little kids go into a Head Start program, or helping
states that have difficulties that most Iowa school districts
don't have to have smaller classes and computers in the
classrooms, or making sure all the young people in this country
could go to college by giving them more affordable college
loans.
It was the right thing to do.
(Applause.)
And let me say this: What I have tried to do in this
time is to always think about how this is going to impact the
future -- the future of these children, the future of these
young people up here. You know, there are so many controversial
decisions a President has to make in a time like this.
There is
no way -- I'll bet you I've done four or five things that made
everybody in this room mad.
(Laughter). And I probably -- and
I doubtless have made some mistakes. But I do show up every day
-- (laughter) -- and I do work every day, and I do think about
your future every day.
(Applause.)
Every day. Every day.
(Applause. )
AUDIENCE:
Four more years.
Four more years.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.
I'll just give you some
examples.
I knew that when we passed the Brady Bill and the ban
on assault weapons that the NRA would be able to terrify a lot
of good, God-fearing, hard-working American gun owners into
thinking we were trying to take their guns away. And I knew it
would hurt a lot of people who stood up for what was right. And
don't kid yourself, it's one of the big reasons the Democrats
lost the House.
But, you know, last year 40,000 criminals that would
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40,000.
(Applause.)
And not a single American hunter or
sportsman has lost a gun. Not a single one. And there will not
be one. But there are some mean streets and some schools where
some thug can't show up with an Uzi and gun down a bunch of
innocent kids. And that's worth a little political heat I
think.
It's the right thing to do.
(Applause.)
When the Food and Drug Administration came to me and
they said, oh, Mr. President, we have completed our 14-year
study of children smoking -- 14-month study -- and we know, we
know, based on the records, that the big tobacco companies know
this is hazardous to the health of young people, that they
continue to advertise to young people, that 3,000 young people a
day start smoking, and 1,000 of them will die sooner because of
it, the conventional political advice was,. for goodness sakes,
you have made enough people mad, Mr. President, don't fool with
this because they will take all those good, hard-working,
God-fearing tobacco farmers and convince them that you want to
put them in the poor house, that you're trying to have the
government take over everybody's private decisions, and
everybody who's against you on that will be against you, and the
people that are for you will find some other reason to be
against you.
That was the conventional politics. But, folks,
1,000 kids a day taking up a habit that will end their lives
early. What is that worth? That's worth a lot of political
heat.
Think about 10, 20, 30 years from now.
I want those kids
to be alive in a great America of the 21st century, and I think
it was the right thing to do.
(Applause.)
When the First Lady went to Beijing to stand up for
the rights of women and children everywhere -- (applause)
thank you -- the conventional wisdom was, notwithstanding your
ovation, that that was a bad idea.
People said, well, now,
look, if she goes, just the act of her going will legitimize
human rights practices we don't agree with.
People on the other
side said, oh, oh, if she goes, and says what's true, it might
offend the Chinese and we'll mess up our trade relations and
will cost these few jobs.
But let me tell you something, folks.
We're going to
live in a world with all of these other countries.
In South
Asia alone, there are 77 million more -- 77 million more young
boys than young girls. Why? These little girls are being
killed.
They're not valued as people. Boys are still thought
of as more important economically and more important as human
beings than girls. We can't live in a world at peace and
harmony, consistent with our values, until we live in a world
where women everywhere, including women here, subject to
domestic violence and abuse on the street, can live in dignity
and freedom and equality. We cannot do that.
(Applause.)
And I just want to say one more thing. When I went
to the University of Texas Monday morning, some people said,
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this is a very dangerous thing for you to embrace the people
that are showing up in Washington and stand up for racial
reconciliation. You don't know what's going to happen there.
But I know one thing.
I didn't know what was going to happen
there -- I thought I did; I knew that march was about the people
that were showing up, not about the leaders.
I knew it was
about what was in people's heart on that day, not what some
people had said in political speeches.
(ll.pplause.)
I knew that· the same thread that's running through
America that's driving down the teen pregnancy rate and the
crime rate and all of these other things was running through the
spirit of those people there. And it seems to me that as
President, I have a responsibility to speak to that. You look
around this room, you've got a fair amount of diversity. You
look up in that crowd of young people you'll see a lot more.
Generationally, there will be more and more and more.
In a global village, old-fashioned American values,
the power of American free enterprise and technology, the power
of America's example, combined with the fact that we are so
diverse across racial and ethnic groups, is our meal ticket to
the future.
It is not only morally the right thing to do, it is
a gold mine for us if we will turn away from those who would
divide us. And that is why I said to -- (applause) -- that's
why I said to the American people last week, every American
needs to make a personal commitment that they're going to
establish some sort of a personal relationship with someone of a
different racial or ethnic group. And if you work with a lot of
people from different groups, a~k yourself if you've ever really
had an honest conversation; have you ever really told anybody
what you thought.
The most stunning thing to most Americans in the
aftermath of the Simpson trial was all that public research
saying that people from different races saw the same set of
facts in a completely different light. But most of us share the
same values. That's what the march proved.
People showed up
saying, we do have to take more responsibility for ourselves,
our families and our communities, and we are going to do it, and
we want to reach out to you. So we have to do that. All of you
do. We have to set an example. We have to be honest with one
another. We have to listen to one another. And we have got to
find a way to come together. Because, I'm telling you -- if you
solve this diversity problem, America, there is no stopping this
country in the 21st century; it is ours to lead and to enjoy,
and to profit from. (Applause.)
So that is the background. This country is on a
roll. We're moving in the right direction. We have prob~ems,
we'll always have problems. We know what to do. We need to
have a good economic policy, a government that works and doesn't
get in our way too much, but protects our fundamental interests.
We need to make sure we maintain our leadership in the world,
and we need to have a set of policies as a people consistent
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with our values.
Now, that is really what is going on in Washington.
That's what we're debating up there today. We are not debating
the balanced budget. That is.not the issue.
I have presented a
balanced budget that Mr. Greenspan -- who was appointed by my
predecessors and is a Republican -- and many others, and all the
market analysts say it is a perfectly credible balanced budget.
I have given them a balanced budget. This is not about
balancing the budget.
(Applause.)
What is at stake here is
what kind of people we are going to be in the 21st century; what
kind of future are we going to have. And I just want to ask you
a few questions.
You heard Senator Harkin talk about the Medicare cuts
and how they say they want to save money, but they've actually
made it harder for us to prosecute waste, fraud and abuse in
Medicare. We have set records in our administration for
collections of waste, fraud and abuse, and we haven't scratched
the surface. And now they want to stop us. They don't think
that's important.
Well, my idea of the future of America is not a
Medicare program where it's easier to commit waste, fraud and
abuse, but harder for a senior citizen to live from month to
month because their Medicare premiums have been doubled when
they can't afford to pay for it. That's not my idea of the
future I think we ought to have in America.
(Applause.)
The Medicaid program has not gotten as much coverage,
but my idea of the future of America is not living in a country
where we cut Medicaid so much we're·closing more rural
hospitals, we're closing inner city hospitals, we're putting
unbearable burdens on our teaching hospitals and our children's
hospitals, we're making it harder for poor little kids to get
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care.
And I'll tell you something else that's in this bill.
They want to take away the money that we presently give under
the Medicaid program to help the poor elderly pay their co-pays
and their deductibles, people living on $300 and $400 a month -so the people under this plan that are going to get hit the
hardest are not the wealthiest seniors, but the poorest seniors.
And a study has been put out that said as many as 1 million
seniors might drop out of the Medicare system.
I don't know about you, folks, but I don't want
somebody to give me a tax cut and put a million old people out
of the Medicare system. That's not the America that I want to
live in.
I don't think it is right, and I do not support it.
(Applause.)
Let me tell you -- I want to reiterate, I do support
the goal of balancing the budget.
I agree with them we have to
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save the Medicare Trust Fund. To do it, we have to slow the
rate of growth in medical inflation in Medicare and Medicaid.
We don't have to take $450 billion out of the health care system
to do it.
Do you know what else is in one of those plans? They
want to repeal the prohibition against spousal impoverishment.
Now, that's a government phrase. Let me tell you what that
means.
That means if a married couple are lucky enough to be 78
or 80 years old, they've been together 50 years and they've
saved their money and been frugal, one of them gets real sick
and has to go to a nursing home -- which is heartbreaking enough
as it is -- they want to go back to the dark, ol~ days when the
state can tell the spouse that doesn't have to go to the nursing
home, we'll give you help, but only after you sell your car,
your house and clean out your bank account. Now, then, we'll
take your spouse in the nursing home.
I don't know what you're
going to do.
That's not our problem.
I don't know about you,
folks, that is not the America that I want to live in in the
21st century.
I don't believe in that.
I don't believe in
that.
(Applause.)
Look at those young -- how many college students do
we have up there?
(Applause.)
How many of you get student aid?
(Applause.)
The only thing that has grown faster than the cost
of health care in the last 15 years is the cost of higher
education. And yet we know we need more and more and more young
people to be able to go to college and to be able to finish
college.
I pledged if elected President I would provide a more
efficient, more cost-effective student loan program that would
get the money out quicker, that would lower the cost to
students, and that would provide for easier repayment terms.
I
also promised to crack down on people that didn't repay their
loans. We have cut the loan default rate in half by cracking
down.
(Applause.)
But you know what else we've done? We're
getting those young people their money quicker at lower cost
with better repayment terms, so that young people who get out of
college and don't'get jobs making a lot of money can pay the
loan off as a percentage of their income. And there will never,
never, never, never be an incentive not to borrow the money to
go to college because you can't pay it back.
to do.
Now, that's what we did.
(Applause. )
And it's a good, good thing
Their budget limits or totally destroys, depending on
which House you look at, this direct loan program.
It goes back
to the old way where we just shove money to the private sector,
total government guarantees, no performance standards, no costs
-- nothing.
Raises the cost to the taxpayers and cuts out good
loans to them and, for go6d measure, eliminates somewhere
between 150,000 and 380,000 college scholarships, depending on
whether the Senate or the House version passes.
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I don't know about you, but the 21st century I want
to live in does not include kicking middle class kids out of
college, taking scholarships away from poor kids, and doing
things that will not help us to build the great American Dream
for all Americans.
I don't want that kind of 21st century.
That is not my idea of how we ought to be living.
(Applause.)
I don't believe we ought to go into the 21st century
gutting our budgets to protect clean air, clean water, pure
food, to preserve our natural heritage, and letting the
lobbyists for the biggest polluters in the country write the
clean water laws. That's not my idea of the 21st century that I
want.
(Applause.)
I don't believe we should walk away from our crime
bill, which is lowering the crime rate, and stop people from
putting these police on the street, and stop communities from
having prevention programs to give our children something to say
yes to.
I don't believe we should refuse to raise the minimum
wage.
That's their position. Next year it will get to a
40-year low in purchasing power if we do that.
I don't believe
that's right, either.
I don't believe, notwithstanding what one of your
senators believes, that we should abolish AmeriCorps.
It would
be a terrible mistake to get rid of the national service
program.
(Applause.)
The national service program involves
young people and working with other people to solve community
problems.
It has no bureaucracy.
It ought to be a Republican's
dream.
But because it involves the national government bringing
people together to do something positive and good and decent to
move people forward, they say, no, no, no.
That's not my idea of the 21st century. My idea of
the 21st century has all young people serving their communities,
working together, building this country from the grass roots up,
earning their way to college and moving forward.
(Applause.)
There is a provision in this budget that would allow
companies who have been in deep trouble to withdraw money from
their pension funds, even if it puts the retirement of their
workers in trouble. Now, last December, I signed a piece of
legislation that saved 8.5 million Americans' pensions, and
stabilized 40 million more Americans' pensions. Do you really
want me to sign a budget that would permit pension funds to be
looted and have people's pensions and retirements put at risk?
AUDIENCE:
Nooo.
THE PRESIDENT:
I don't think that's what we ought to
be doing in the 21st century.
And here's the last thing. This is the last of my
Top 10 list. There are $148 billion of new taxes, fees and
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costs imposed on middle-class America and poor America in this
budget, including a $42-billion tax increase on working people
with the most modest incomes in our country.
The Wall Street Journal -- again, this is not me,
hardly an arm of the Democratic Party -- The Wall Street Journal
yesterday reported -- The Wall Street Journal reported that if
this budget passes with all of its tax cuts in it, the group of
people making less than $30,000 a year, 51 percent of the
American people will have greater tax hikes than they have tax
cuts.
Can you believe it? Why? Ronald Reagan said that the
working family tax credit was the best antipoverty program the
country had ever devised. All we did was double it so people
could say, if I work 40 hours a week and I've got children in my
house, I will not be taxed into poverty, the tax system will
lift me out of poverty. My country values my work and values my
being a good parent.
I do not want to live in a country that throws people
out of the middle class and puts them back in the under class,
and I don't think you do, either.
I don't think you do, either.
(Applause.)
I don't think any of you want to live in that kind
of America.
(Applause.)
So, look -- I'm nearly done. You don't even have to
sit down.
(Laughter.)
I just want you to think about this.
This country is on a roll. We're coming back.
It's in better
shape than it was two and a half years ago. The American people
deserve the lion's share of the credit. But our economic
policies and our social policies, and our anticrime bill and our
welfare reform -- those. things have all played a role. We are
moving in the right direction.
And the choice now is 'whether we're going to be a
society in which everybody has a chance to win, or become a
winner-take-all country; a society where we're growing the
middle class and shrinking the under class, or one in which
we're kicking people out of the middle class and swelling the
under class; a society in which special interest and short-term
greed override the long-term concern for the welfare of all
Americans.
·
This is a very, very great country. We are a great
country. And you look at these children tonight. And when you
walk out of here, I want you to keep their faces in your mind,
and I want you to promise yourself that you will realize that
this could be a Jefferson-Jackson-Abraham Lincoln-Theodore
Roosevelt dinner. This is about American values, American
interests, America's future. And I want you to promise yourself
that when you walk out of this room tonight, for the next year
you are going to engage your fellow Americans in talking about
these fundamental values and the fundamental vision we have for
our future.
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The 21st century is
ours if we will simply be true
to our values and follow our vision and think about these
children and what kind of America we want for them.
Thank you, and God bless you all.
END
*
Some names spelled phonetically.
(Applause. )
9:55 P.M. CDT
�REMARKS BY PRESIDENT WILLIAM
JEFFERSON CLIN'fON
CLINTON/GORE FUNDRAISING LUNCH
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
NOVEMBER 6, 1995
�[Acknowledgements: Many thanks to the magnificent
seven -- the seven co-chairs of this luncheon: Chairman
Dingell; Mayor Archer; Ed MacNamara, Wayne County
Executive; Steve Yokich; Faylene and Larry Owen and
David Hermelin. I'd like to also recognize the members
of the delegation who are here: Senator Levin; and
Representatives Dave Bonior, John Conyers, Barbara
Rose Collins, Dale Kildee, Jim Barcia, Sandy Levin, and
Lynn Rivers.]
It's great to be back in Michigan. Earlier today, I joined
Chairman Dingell and others in the dedication of a new
City Hall in Taylor.
2
�But I cotildn' t leave the state without a visit to the Motor
City. Detroit and its auto industry have always been
important to the economic health of this country and the
world. That fact was confirmed during the highly
successful G-7 jobs conference that \Ve convened here
last year. That ground-breaking summit was so
successful that the French are convening a follow up
meeting this Spring.
The auto industry has taken off during the three years of
this Administration. Auto employment is up, not only in
Detroit and throughout Michigan, but in the parts plants
that supply this vital industry all over the Midwest.
3
�Sales are up. Profits are up. Exports are up since we
took office.
And on the trade side, Ambassador Kantor has done a
magnificent job in pressuring the Japanese to finally
begin opening theif market. So, Detroit is on the move
.
again.
I want to begin by congratulating Mayor Archer and the
people of Detroit for a truly remarkable display of civic
pride and citizen action that resulted in a dramatic
1
decline in arson fires during this year s infamous preHalloween "Devil Is Night."
4
�You mobilized some 35,000 volunteers who took to the
streets to protect the people, the buildings, and the
reputation of this great city.
But, more importantly, while you were preventing arson
fires you rekindled the fires of hope and personal
responsibility and community that have always made
Detroit a shining symbol of the American Dream. You
lit a beacon that is casting a light of hope across this
country. People all over America ;:tre saying,. if Detroit
can tackle a problem as big as Devil' s Night, then we
too can come together and create safer streets and safer
schools and a better quality of life for our children.
5
�11
11
That was the real message of Angel's Night, and I
want to thank you for it.
My fellow Americans, I come to you tonight with a
simple and straightforward message.
We live in a very great country, on the edge of a new
era, a new century, a new millennium, in a time of great
change. We are moving from an industrial age into an
information and technology-driven age. We are moving
from the Cold War to a global village where all of us
will be more closely in contact, more closely bound up.
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This is a time of enormous potential, and your country is
ready for it. No nation in the world is remotely as
well-positioned to enable its people to fulfill their dreams
as the United States. No other nation is better-able to
lead the world toward peace and freedom and prosperity
than the United States. But we must be true to our
values, and we must have a clear vision of that future, in
order to realize it.
I ran for President in 1992 to restore the American
Dream for all our people and make sQre we went into the
next century still the most powerful country in the world,
the greatest force for peace and freedom and prosperity.
7
�I said I would do it by having an economic policy that
produced jobs and growth, expanding the middle class
and shrinking the under class; by giving us a modern
government that is smaller, less bureaucratic, and more
entrepreneurial.
And most important, by being true to old-fashioned
American values: responsibility and opportunity for all,
the value of work, the understanding that we have to
help families stay strong and stick together; and a sense
of community: we are all stronger when we work
together, and we have obligations to each other.
8
�We have obligations to our parents when they need us
and we have obligations to our children. We have an
obligation to work together to make America a better
place.
This country is in better shape than it was two and a half
years ago. We still have real challenges, and we have to
keep going in the right direction, toward a better and
brighter future, but America is on the move.
In 1993, when we passed our economic program, the
other side said the world was going to come to an end; a
recession is just around the corner.
9
�Well, two and a half years later we have 7.5 million
more jobs, 2.5 million more homeowners, a record
number of new small businesses, the lowest combined
rate of inflation and unemployment in 25 years. They
w.ere wrong and we were right.
A child born today has a better chance of going to
college and getting a good job. It's a little easier for
people to be good parents and good workers. For the
first time in a very long time, we have seen health care
costs dip. Every day there are more and more
opportunities for Americans to tap into the information
economy and ride it to a prosperous future.
10
�Do we have more to do? Of course, we do. We've got
to do more in education and training so all Americans
can compete for the high-paying jobs of the information
age. We've got to do more for rural areas and urban
areas so that, no matter where you're born in America,
you have a chance to get a first -class, 21st century
education. We have to build on the successes of the last
two and a half years -- but we must not turn back the
clock.
The other side complains about government year in and
year out. Well, we did something about it.
11
�There are 163,000 fewer people working for the national
government then the day I took office. Next year it will
be the smallest federal government since President ·
Kennedy. The Federal Emergency Management Agency
~
used to be the
~ost
criticized agency in government.
But after the work they did in the Midwest during the
500-year flood, in the South after the hurricanes, in
California, in Oklahoma City, Americans know that
FEMA is on their side. We are making government
work better· for the first time in decades. Of course
there's a lot more for us to do, but we're not just .
complaining, we're changing things.
12
�America is safer and stronger today. For the first time
since the dawn of the nuclear age, there is not a single
nuclear missile pointed at an American child. From
Northern Ireland to the Middle East to Haiti to Bosnia,
the United States is leading the world to peace.
Here too, we have more to do. Even as the world comes
together, we see new threats from the forces of religious
and ethnic hatred, as they sow terror in an attempt to
divide people or keep them apart. The United States
must continue to lead the fight against terrorists,
wherever they come from, wherever they go. We must·
remain vigilant -- but we are succeeding.
13
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- - - - -
America is playing the kind of role in world affairs that
all Americans should be proud of, and we are all safer
because of it.
But most important of all, this country is coming
together around its values again. In almost every state,
the crime rate is down, the murder rate is down, the
welfare rolls are down, the food stamp rolls are down.
Teen pregnancy has dropped for two years in a row, and
the poverty rate is down. America is coming back
together and we are moving forward together.
14
�And I believe the commitments we have had to
family-friendly policies. and community-oriented
solutions have made a difference.
There are still some troubling problems. The overall
crime rate is down, but violent crime among young
people is on the rise. Overall drug use is down, but drug
use by teenagers is climbing. Too many children are
raising themselves. These young people are the face of
tomorrow. We all have a sacred responsibility to reach
out to them, to teach them right from wrong, and'help
them live up to their God-given potential.
15
�I try and make every decision by thinking about their
future, and doing what's right for Americans 10 or 20 or
30 years from now. I knew when we passed the Brady
Bill and the ban on assault weapons the NRA would
terrify a lot of good, honest, American gun owners into
thinking we were trying to take their guns away. Well,
40,000 criminals who would have been able to get guns
didn't because of the Brady Bill. We are taking deadly
assault weapons off our streets so thugs can't show up
with an Uzi anymore and gun down a bunch of innocent
kids. That's worth a little political heat I think. It's the
right thing to do.
16
�.·
The Food and Drug Administration came to me and told
me the records sh<?wed that the big tobacco companies
know smoking is hazardous and they are continuing to
advertize to young people. 3,000 young people a day
start smoking, and 1,000 of them will die because of it.
What is that worth? A lot of political heat. We're
fighting against teenage smoking because we want those
kids to be alive in a great America of the 21st century.
So that is the background. This country is on a roll.
We're moving in the right direction. Now we have to
make some decisions that keep us moving forward
together.
17
�That's what this budget debate is really about. It isn't
about dollars and cents. It goes to the heart of who we
are as a people, what we believe, what we stand for, and
what kind of America we want our children and our
grandchildren to live in in the 21st century.
I want to balance the budget. But we have to balance the
budget in a way that is consistent with our values.
I always want America to be a place where we honor our
obligations to our parents and grandparents.
18
�My idea of the future is not one where it's harder for a
senior citizen to live from month to n1onth because their
Medicare premiums have been doubled. And we can
balance the budget without doing that.
My idea of the future of America is not a country where
we've cut Medicaid so much we're closing rural
hospitals, we're closing inner city hospitals, we're
putting unbearable burdens on our teaching hospitals and
our children's hospitals, and we're making it harder for
poor little kids to get care.
19
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"
I don't want to take away the money we give through
Medicaid to help the poor elderly pay their co-pays and
their deductibles. Under the Republican plan, the
poorest seniors get hit the hardest. According to one
study, as many as 1 million seniors n1ight drop out of the
Medicare system. The America I want to live in doesn't
put a million old people out of the Medicare system. I
don't think that's right, and I will fight it.
Nothing we can do for the future is more important than
giving every American the chance for the, best possible
education.
20
�We reformed the student loan system so that college
loans cost less, and people get better repayment terms.
The Republicans limit or destroy this direct loan
program. And that's just for starters. They eliminate
somewhere between 150,000 and 380,000 college
scholarships.
The 21st century I want to live in does not include
kicking middle class kids out of college and taking
scholarships away from poor kids. I want a future where
every single young American who's. willing to work hard
has a chance to go to college and build a good life.
That's the kind of country I want to live in.
21
�1
I don t believe we ought to go into the 21st century
gutting our ability to protect clean air, clean water, and
safe food. I don It want a future where the lobbyists for
the biggest polluters in the country write our clean water
.,.
1
laws. I don t want our national parks shut down and
sold to the highest bidder. I want parents to know that
the water their children are drinking is safe. I want their
children to enjoy our rich national heritage.
1
I don t believe we should walk away from our crime
bill, and stop communities from putting police on the
street, and prevention programs in our schools to give
children something to say yes to.
22
�I want a future where kids walking to school recognize
the neighborhood policeman walking his beat.
The Wall Street Journal reported that if the Republican
budget passes, the group of people making less than
$30,000 a year -- 51 percent· of all Americans -- will
have greater tax hikes than tax cuts. Ronald Reagan said
the working family tax credit was the best antipoverty
program ever devised, but today's Republicans want to
shred it. I do not want to live in a country that throws
people out of the middle class and puts them back in the
underclass, and I don't think you do, either.
23
�I want to live in a country that says to people, if you
work 40 hours a week and have children at home, you
will not be taxed into poverty.
I don't believe we should refuse to raise the minimum
wage. It will be at a 40-year low in purchasing power
next year if we do that. I want America to always be a
country where work pays.
I don't believe we should abolish AmeriCorps, our
national service program. Young people working with
other people to solve community problems, and earning
money for college. That's a great thing.
24
�We should not eliminate it, and we don't have to. My
idea of the 21st century is one where all young people
serve their communities and work together, building this
country from the grass roots up, earning their way to
college and moving forward.
Their budget violates those values. Let me be clear: I
will veto any budget that destroys Medicare, turns our
back on the future by. cutting education, hamstrings our
ability to protect the environment, or raises taxes on
middle-class Americans.
America is on a roll. We're coming back.
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We are in better shape than we were two and a half
years ago, and the American people deserve the lion's
share of the credit. We are moving in the right
direction.
We know what we have to do. We need a vision and
policies that prepare our children for the vast challenges
and opportunities of the 21st century; that promote lifelong learning so our workers can meet the demands of
change; that empower communities to solve their own
problems; that ensure the safety of our citizens on our
streets, in our schools and in our homes; that help us
come together as a community.
26
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That's the vision we share for America.
Old-fashioned American values, the power of American
free enterprise, technology, and ingenuity, along with
our extraordinary diversity, .make us the single bestpositioned nation to lead the world in the 21st century.
Bar none. All we have to do is come together, and we
will lead the way.
And our common ground is closer then some might
think. Beyond race and religion, beyond all our
differences, most of us share the same values. That's
what the march in Washington a few weeks ago proved.
27
�People showed up saying, we do have to take more
responsibility for ourselves, our families and our
communities, and we are going to do it, and we want to
reach out to you.
We all have to do that. We have to be honest with one
another. We have to listen to one another. And we have
got to find a way to come together. Because, if we do,
there is no stopping this country in the 21st century. It is
ours to lead. It is ours to enjoy. It is ours to make.
This is a very, very great country. This is about
American values, American interests, America's future.
28
�I want you to promise yourself that when you walk out
of this room tonight, and for the next year, you are
going to engage your fellow Americans in talking about
these fundamental values and the fundamental vision we
have for our future.
The 21st century is ours if we will simply be true to our
values and follow our vision, if we will think about our
children and what kind of America we want for them.
Thank you and God bless you all.
29
�Budget Working Group Plam'ling Calendar
Monday, 11 December 1995 - Friday, 15 December 1995
· Cong~ession~l· mtg (t)
· PM Peres of Israel
·Holiday receptions ·
.::-·
-
Alexander@KY;
.Puchanan@AZ;
Dole@NJ;
Forbes@NH;
·Gram@GA;
Lugar@~H
TUES
-12/12
. Budget meeting .
'Briefing & lntervie~
Holiday reception .
Page 1
VP: Budget mtg ·
9-11:15 am: Kaiser Family
Foundation holds '
·
background briefing for
reporters on "Medicare,
Medicaid and the Budget:
Key Issues in.·the Search
for a Compromise.''.
1:30pm: Rep. Thos Bliley
0~-Va) holds news conf to
respond to POTUS's threat
this morning to shutdown
the government again over
the issue of Medicaid
l..om~RNC Chair B~rbour·
holds news conf to
·
ann·ounce new RNC. ·
initiative relevant to the
current policy debate
from companies
·participating in Family
Involvement Initiative &
participate irr an "on-line"
discussion with
.
. approximately 200,000
high school students on
the Scholastic Network; .
DOl: AG will address the
Office·of National Drug
Control Polic:Y .
Conference in Miami..
HUD:. Sec. addresses the
WH Conference on HIV.
HHS: Sec. will
partiCipates in press
interviews with Dayton, ·
OH media regarding the
federal budget.
SBA: Adm, Lader ~ill
give a speech at the
Small Business Legislative
Conference, the DELTA
opening, and at the
. Chamber of Commerce
in S~n Diego, CA; Reg.
Admin .. Barca
USDA: ·Sec. will discuss
the Farm Bill before the
Farmland Industries in ·
Kansas City.
HHS: Sec. Shalala gives.
a speech to the American·
Nurses Assn
Mondav,-11 becember1995 - 11:02
�Budget meeting·
.
Briefing & Interview
w/NYT
.
.
Holiday rece·ptions
Depart. for Paris
·.·:
.
Several Cabinet ~ffici~ls'
will participate in
regional conference calls
with mayors to discuss
the President's sevenyear-b~dget and the
impact of a poten~ial
government shutdown
today.··
·
DOl: Sec. Babbitt will
give a Newsmakers
speech at the National
Press <:;.lub. He will
highlight the Clinton
Administration's
successful batle against
Congressional attempts to
rollback the .
environmental progress.of
the last 25 years:
HUD: Sec. Cisneros
·travels to Allentown,PA ·
to participate in a
Community Action
Conference,
:~.
..
.
Monday, 1~ December 1995 - ·11:02
�-Several Cabinet officials
will participate in
regional· conference calls
with mayors to discuss
the President's sevenyear-budget and the ·
impact of a potential .
- government shutdown
today.
HUD: Sec. Cisneros
hosts breakfast with Sec.
Shalala and Peter
Edelman regarding: FY
97 youthintiatives.
_ FRI
12/15
c
Down time
Diplomatic medal
DNC event
·
Holiday dinner-
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BUDGET- CR
DEADLINE
COM: Sec. Brown will
travel to New York to
open a distriCt Export
Assistan-ce Center. He
will convey the
importance of
Administration budget
priorities to the local
economy.
. _
DoEd: Sec Riley keynotes
Am Vocationai_Edu
Assn's annual mtg atiended by 15,000
people
-
Monday, 11 December 1~l95 - _11:02 ·
�!'·;'
.. l.
.
.
StatuS
·
·· r
Appropriations
House
Floor
Bill
.
of Appropriations Bills
(Dec. 7)
Senate.·
Floor
Conference
Agriculture.
X
X
X
X
C/J/S
X
x·
X
X
x
X
X,
X
DC
X
X
Energy & Water
X
X
X
X
Foreign Ops
X
X
X
X
Interior
X
X
X
.Labor/H
X
Defense
cliDton
Final
X
.Not signed
bill became ·
law.
.
X (signed)
· ,x (defeated)
Leg Branch.
X
X
X
X
x (signed)
Mil Con
X
X
X
X
X (signed)
Transportation
X
X
X
X
X (signed)
·Treasury/Postal
X
X
X
X
X (signed)·
VA/HUD
X
. . .\
.,
X
.,
·
�.
',·,I
.
Budget Working Group Planning Calendar
.
Monday; 11 December 1995 - Friday, 15 December 1995
.Candidates:
Alexander@KY;
· Puchanim@AZ;
Dole@N);
Forbes@NH;
.·cram@GA;
Lug.ar@NH.
Congressional mtg (t).
PM Peres of Israel
Holi,day receptions
·ruES
f2/l2
Budget meeting
Briefing & Interview
Holiday rece.ption
Page 1
VP: Budget mtg
9-11:15 am: Kaiser Family
·
Foundation holds
background briefing for ·
reporters on "Medicare,
Medicaid and the Budget:
Key Issues in. the Search
for a Compromise."
1:30 pm: Rep. Thos Bli.ley
(R-Va) holds news conf to
respond to POTUS's'threat
-this morning to shutdown
the government again over·
the issue of Medicaid
-2 pm: RNC Chair Barbour
holds news conf to
announce new RNC
initiative relevanfto the
current policy debate
· fr()m companies. ·
participating in Family
Involvement Initiative &
participate in an "on-line"
discussion with
approximately 200,000
high school students on
the Scholastic NetWork.
D.OI: AG.will address the.
Office of National Drug
Coritrol Policy
Conference in Miami.
HUD: Sec. addresses the
WH Conference on HIV.
HHS: Sec. will
participates in press
interviews with Dayton,
OH media regarding tlie
federal budget.
SBA: Adm. Lader will
give a speech at the
Small Business Legislative
Co~ference,"the DELTA
opening; and ai the·
Chamber of Commerce
in San Diego, CA; Reg.
Admin. Barca
USDA: Sec. will discuss
the Farm Bill before the
Farmland Industries in
·Kansas City.
HHS: Sec. Shalala gives
a speech to the American .
N u rse.s Assn ,
Monday, 11 December· 1995
11:02.
�WED
12/13
Budget meeting
.Briefing & Interview
w/NYT
. .
..
Holiday rece·ptions
Depart for Paris .
'.
VP: Budget mtg;
Prayer bfast
Several Cabinet officials
will participate in
regional conference calls
with mayors to discu~s
the President's seven- ·
year-budget and _the
impact of a potential
government shutdown
tOday.
DOl: Sec. Babbittwill
give·a Newsmakers
speech at the National
Press Club. He will · ·
highlight the Clinton
Administration's
successful batle against
Congressional :attempts to
rollback the
·
~nvironmental p-rogress of
the last 25 years.
·HUD: Sec. Cisneros
travels to Allentown, PA
to participate in a
·Community Action
.Conference.·
Page 2.
Monday, 11 December 1995 -'-11:02
�-Several Cabinet officials _
will participate in
regional conference calls
with mayors to 'discuss
the President's sevenyear-budget and the
impact of a potential
government shutdown
today._
HUD: ·Sec. Cisneros
hosts breakfast with Sec.
Shalala and Peter
Edelman regarding: FY
97 youth.
Down~time
FRI
12/15
Diplomatic medal
DNc" event -Holiday dinner -
BUDGET- CR
-DEADliNE
COM: Sec. Brown will
travel to New York to
open a district Export
Assistance Center: He
will convey the
importance of
Administration budget
prioritie~ to the local_
economy.
DoEd: Sec Riley keynotes_
Am Vocatio'nal Edu
Assn's annual mtg
attended by 15,000
people ..
.
Page 3
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Monday, 11 December 1995 - -11:02
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.
Status of Appropriations Bills
·
(Dec. 7) ·'
. . . Appropriations ·
.. Bill
House·
Floor
Senate
Floor
ConferenCe
Final
··Clinton
X
Agriculture .
X
X
x,·
X
C/J/S
X
X
X
X
· ··.Defense
X
X
X
X
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Dublin Core
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Title
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Terry Edmonds
Creator
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Office of Speechwriting
James (Terry) Edmonds
Date
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1995-2001
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<a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/show/36090" target="_blank">Collection Finding Aid</a>
<a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7763294" target="_blank">National Archives Catalog Description</a>
Identifier
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2006-0462-F
Description
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Terry Edmonds worked as a speechwriter from 1995-2001. He became the Assistant to the President and Director of Speechwriting in 1999. His speechwriting focused on domestic topics such as race relations, veterans issues, education, paralympics, gun control, youth, and senior citizens. He also contributed to the President’s State of the Union speeches, radio addresses, commencement speeches, and special dinners and events. The records include speeches, letters, memorandum, schedules, reports, articles, and clippings.
Provenance
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Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files
Publisher
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
Extent
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635 folders in 52 boxes
Text
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Original Format
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Paper
Dublin Core
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Title
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12-10-95 Florida Dem Convention (Satellite Feed) [3]
Creator
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Office of Speechwriting
James (Terry) Edmonds
Identifier
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2006-0462-F
Is Part Of
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Box 17
<a href="http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/assets/Documents/Finding-Aids/2006/2006-0462-F.pdf" target="_blank">Collection Finding Aid</a>
<a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7763294" target="_blank">National Archives Catalog Description</a>
Provenance
A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource.
Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files
Publisher
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
Format
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Adobe Acrobat Document
Medium
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Reproduction-Reference
Date Created
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12/9/2014
Source
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42-t-7763294-20060462F-017-006-2014
7763294