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PARTICIPANTS IN ROUNDTABLE- CARL SANDBURG COMMUNITY COLLEGE
GALESBURG; ILLINOIS
(This list is arranged in order around the table. The first person is t'o your left.)
Walter Elrod- Medical Student
,
Wally is 34 years old and married with two children. Before enrolling at Carl Sandburg, he
was a firefighter for nine years. He obtained his fire science degree, was promoted at his job,
and then obtained a B.S. from Knox College in Galesburg. He is now a second-year medical
student at Illinois University.
Jesse WAyland- Computer Operator, Maytag
Jesse is 55 years old and married with two children. Jesse has been at Maytag for 29 years
where he is a Computer Operations Manager. Jesse learned computer skills while in the Air
Force, and then was hired by Maytag. He has continued to upgrade his skills by taking
courses at Carl Sandburg and has been promoted to a managerial position. As a manager, he
now works in partnership with Carl Sandburg by helping to design training courses.
Rick Politz - Vice President and General Manager, Maytag
Maytag recruits from the student population at Carl Sandburg and also uses the College to
train and retrain current employees. Maytag offers tuition reimbursement for its employees.
Keith Homer - Trauma Center Nurse
Keith is 39 years old and married with three children. He attended Western Illinois
University but was forced to drop out because of financial difficulties. He worked in local
factories for minimum wage and was laid off several times. As a displaced worker, Keith
enrolled at Carl Sandburg to obtain an Associate Degree in nursing. He is now a trauma
center nurse at St. Mary's Medical Center.
Tim Gray - Retail Bookstore Clerk
Tim is 33 years old and single. He is from Bettendorf, Iowa. He received an Associate
Degree from Carl Sandburg and then went on to Monmouth College where he received a B.A.
He now works at Palmer College in Rock Island.
Leon Campbell - Manager, Butler Manufacturing
Leon is married with two children. He has worked at Butler for 20 years and taken
advantage of the tuition reimbursement program there by continuing his education at Carl
Sandburg. He has received numerous promotions at work which he attributes to his Sandburg
training. In 1994, Leon received the College's "Most Improved Student" award.
Thomas Ngyyen ("New-Yen")- Registered Nurse
Thomas is 50 years old and married with two children. He is Vietnamese refugee and came
to the U.S. in 1975. In order to obtain a better paying job after receiving his G.E.D., he
enrolled at Carl Sandburg and received an Associate Degree in nursing. He is an RN at a
local hospital, and at 50, is working to get his B.S. from Graceland College.
�Mm Landon - Executive Director, Department of Tourism, City of Galesburg
Mary is 47 years old and divorced with two children. Before going to Carl Sandburg, she
was out of the workforce for 7 years. She took courses in accounting and marketing and
received an Associate Degree in management. Upon graduation, she worked as an
administrative assistant at the Chamber of Commerce, and then as an as~istant to the
Galesburg Director of Tourism for the city. She was promoted to Executive Director six
years ago.
Cynthia Pennington -Nursing Student, Carl Sandburg Community College
Cynthia is 41 years old and married with three children. Her husband's job at the Burlington
and Northern Railroad brought the family to Galesburg a year ago. Before coming to
Galesburg, she worked in a bank making $8/hour. She couldn't find a comparable position in
Galesburg and, because of her husband's frequent transfers, decided she needed marketable
skills that could apply in any community. She enrolled in the Sandburg nursing program.
Her daughter, Jaime (see below), is also in the program.
Jaime (Jaymee) Pennington - Nursing Student
Jaime is 20 years old and lives at home. She discovered the nursing program at Sandburg
through friends who had graduated from the program.
Cindy Allert - Emergency Room Nurse
Cindy is 43 years old and a single parent with two children. For many years she did clerical
work, but after her divorce, she needed a better paying job. Carl Sandburg was very
. affordable so she enrolled in the nursing program. After she obtained her degree, she went to
work as an RN and doubled her salary. She currently works in the Emergency Unit at a local
hospital.
Ray Stevens- General Superintendent, Burlington Northern Railroad
Ray is 36 years old and married. He recruits from Carl Sandburg for new hires. He is
working with the College to develop a new training program. for the railroad. Plans are
underway for a creating an Associate Degree in the railroad industry.
Rex Witt- Machine Operator, John Deere Company
Rex is 53 years old and is married with children. He lives in East Moline. He has worked at
John Deere for 32 years and is member of the UAW. He is a machine operator but lacked
basic reading and writing skills. He is currently attending Blackhawk Community College in
Moline in an effort to obtain his GED and upgrade his skills.
Chuck Unger, Jr. - Tool and Dye Apprentice, Maytag
' Chuck is 35 years old and married with two children. He is a member of the Machinists
Union and has at Maytag worked for 12 years. He earned $10-$11/hour when he started, but
after being accepted into the Apprentice Program has increased his wages to $12 - $15/hour.
Once he completes his training, his wages will increase to $18/hour. His training is paid for
by Maytag, Carl Sandburg and AFL-CIO.
�Ethel Bassett- Welder, John Deere Company
Ethel is 52 years old, has been married for 30 years and has nine children. She is a member
of the UAW and has worked at John Deere for 20 years. She was an assembly worker until
being laid off in 1983. In order to support her family, she took clerical courses at the
Blackhawk Community College and worked in clerical positions for 5 years. When she
learned about a welding program sponsored by the UAW,.she enrolled and, upon completion,
John Deere rehired her at double her previous salary.
Dr. Don Crist - President, Carl Sandburg Community College
Dr. Crist is 51 years old and is married with one child. He has been President of the College
for three and half years. Prior to that he held the positions of Vice President of Instruction,
Dean of Instruction, Division Chair and tenured faculty members. Dr. Crist received the
Doctor of Education from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and two Masters of Arts
degrees from Northeast Missouri State-Kirksville.
Carol Eiten- Instructor, Carl Sandburg Community College
Carol is 54 years old and is married with no children. She has been an instructor at Carl
Sandburg for 25 years. Carol directs the Academic Skills Center which assists students
needing developmental education in writing, reading and mathematics in order to prepare
them for vocational programs. Many of the participants in the roundtable were in her
program.
�1950 to 1978 --Growing Together
Real Family Income Growth By Quintile
...
160o/o
14.0o/o
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120%
100o/o
60o/o
40%
20o/o
Oo/o
Bottom 20%
Second 20%
Middle 20%
Fourth 20o/o
SOURCE: Census Bureau, DOL calculations. All data converted to 1993 dollars.
Top 20%
�·1979 to 1993 --Growing Apart
· Real Family Income Growth By Quintile
15°/o
10°/o
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Second 20°/o
Middle 20o/o
Fourth 20o/o
SOUHCE: Census Bureau, D\>L calculations. All data c:onvmt·ed to 1993 dollars.
Top 20o/o
�1979 to 1992 --Who Got the Growth?
Shares of Average Household Income Growth
Percent Accruing to htcome Group
100
80
Top5%
60
40
20
0
Top 20%
Everybody Else
Sl•urce: Uased on data ti-rtm the Census Bureau, Current Population Survey. Household inl:orne is in constant 1992 dollars,
and ~I(Uustcd hy CPJ..lJ.-X 1. and population is normalizc:d to a constant level.
�Skills Matter More
Average Annual Earnings of Men
by Educational Attainment
1993 Dollars (in thousands)
60
60
College Grads
50
Some College
40
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30
30
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20
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1979
1981
1983
1985
1987
1989
1991
1993
Note: Workers 25 years of age and older. working year round. full time. Data on educational attainment for
1991 througJ 1993 are not directly comparable to those from prior years. Numbers for 1993 used 1990
population weights, whereas data for other years used 1980 population weights.
Source: Bureau of the Census. Current Population Survey
�Capital Gains Tax Break: Who Gains?
Distribution of Benefits From the Republican Capital Gains Proposal in 1999
50°/o
Percent of Total Benefits
. 40°/o
30o/o
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$30,000
$30,000 to
$50,000
$50,000 to
$75,000
$75,000 to
$100,000
$100,000 to
$200,000
$200,000
and over
SOURCE: Joint Committee on Taxation, Publication D-94-25, "Distribution of the Change in Federal Tax Liability Resulting From a Fifty
Percent Exclusion and Indexation of Cost Basis", October 6, 1994.
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�Males Voting for Democrats,
by Education70
% of Males in Category
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50
40
.1992
~1994
30
20
10
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HS Grad
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data collected by Voter !'ic\:VS Service and rv1itofsky Jnternation.ai.
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by Education
70
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50
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•t994
40
30
20
10
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HS Grad
Some College
College+
199L data were collected by Voter Research and Surveys.
1994 is an average of data collected by Voter News Service and l\lfitofsky International.
�•Human kindness has never weakened the st.amina or softened the
fiber of a free people. A n~tion does not have to be eruel in
order to be tough . "
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Here is the latest draft. The bold face type reflects changes
since 8 a.m., most notably the concluding paragraphs.
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am ready to get together whenever it is convenient for you.
Thanks, {) __
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�Based on Matthew 5:14
"a city set on a hill cannot be hid"
"For we must consider we shall be a city upon a hill the eyes of
all people are. upon us so that if we deal falsely with our God
in this work we have undertaken so cause him to withdraw his
present help from us we shall be made a story and a by-word
through the world. "
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·OVERVIEW OF MINISTRY OUTREACH PROGRA/4S
The Full Oospel A.M.E. Zion Church, pastored by Dr. John A. Cherry, Is a community
It is a
congregation of more than 17,000 members and growing. Through the dynamic
leadership of Pastor and Mrs. Jobn A. Cherry, Full Gospel has become a famlly chUrch.
Some areas of emphasis include:
church with a worldwide outreach located in Temple Hills, MarylaDd.
Family Enrl~hment -As a church •. we provide enriclunent programs for the entire family
at every stage of life. We have singles' enrichment for the unmarried, pre-marital
counseling and enrichment for persons contcmplatinc marriage, and marriage enrichment
for persons already married who desire to fortify and enhance their family. These
enrichment opportunities focus upon the need of each person in the family to become
whole within themselves first through the Word of God. Every time an individual is
spiritually healed and made whole, they deposit into the lives of their family and· impact .
favorably upon their environment. The whole idea with spiritual eDrichment is to build
the family structure, thus strengthening the community and, uldmately. developing a
stronger nation.
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Save the Seed Mbdstry - Born out of a realization that the black male seed. in particular,
was badly missing their behavior due to an improper interpretation of who they are from
God's perspective. The Save the Seed Ministry imparts spiritual awareness in the male
seed, thus empowering them with the tools necessary. spiritually and mentally. to restore
their family life. This ministry brings men in from the streets and takes them through
natural and spiritual development that allows them to return as Godly examples to their
homes aud to lead a productive life ln society.
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Community Outreaeb Mbafstry • This · ministry is involved in street witnessing,
especially in the southeast community of the Nation•s Capital. COIDll'UlDity Outreach
involves actual door-to~oor and comer..to-corner witnessing. The outreach focuses not
only upnn ro:piritual renewal and nurturing, but also ministers to the natural needs in the
community by providing food and clothing.
Back to Buies Ministry • As the name implies, this ministry aims to touch the lives of
the homeless in our community. We meet them at their inunediate point of need by
providing food to sustain thoir natural life, then we provided the greater need, spirimal
enrichment, which will sustain them spirit, soul, 8Dd body.
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�GUESTS OF THE FIRST LADY FOR STATE OF THE UNION
PRESS BACKGROUND ONLY
THE LUCAS FAMILY
Jack Lucas, of Hatiesburg, MS, Veteran of Iwo Jima, youngest Marine ever and youngest m
in this century to be awarded Congressional Medal of Hono_r.
Jimmy Lucas, son, a veterinarian from North Carolina who served in Vietnam.
Matthew Lucas, grandson, high school student.
AMERICORPS MEMBERS
Cindy Perry, 31, mother of four, serving as tutor of 2nd graders in rural Kentucky.
Philip Wu, 28, serving with Habitat for Humanity in Miami.
f'olin
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nurses out to check kids for lead poisoning, teaching energy conservation.
Laron Field, 22, from Kansas City, serving in Blue Hills neighborhood helping community
and police work on anti-crime initiatives
Kansas City Police Chief Steven Bishop -- ·nationally recognized community policing expert
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!l!npporter of AmeriCnrp~.
SOLDIERS
Second Lt. Mary Kay McLean - 31, served in Air Force in Kuwait and has just recently
returned. Her parents are from Oklahoma.
Corporal Gregory Depestre, 24, served with Marines in Haiti in Operation Restore Hope and
Uphold Democracy. Born in Brooklyn, but raised in Port-au-Prince and parents are native
Haitians.
MINISTER
Rev. John Cherry and his wife Rev. Diana Cherry of A.M.E. Zion Church in Temple Hills,
Maryland. President addressed congregation last summer. Church is very active in community
with emphasis on personal responsibility. Congregation of 17,000 and growing by 200 a
month.
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�THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Galesburg, Illinois)
F9r Immediate Release
January 10, 1995
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO PEOPLE OF THE GALESBURG AREA
. Sandburg Community College
Galesburg, Illinois
12:44 ·P.M. CST
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you for that wonderful and warm welcome.
(Laughter.)
it is wonderful to be here. Thank you, Dr. Crist, for
making me feel so much at home. Thank you, Congressman Evans, for
coming down; and Congressman Poshard delighted to see you. And Mayor
Kimble, thank you for making me feel welcome here. The representatives
of Knox College and Blackhawk Community College, as well as Carl
Sandburg Community College, I'm glad to see all of you here.
I'm glad that Secretaries Reich and Riley came with me, and I
understand they have already spoken, which makes·anything I say perhaps
redundant.
(Laughter.)
I met a college president the other day; he looked at me and
said, "I've got ~ lot of sympathy with you. Being President is just
like running a cemetery -- you've got a lot of people under you and
nobodyis listening."
(Laughter and applause.)
I want to begin by saying how very, very happy and proud I am to
be here today.
I believe as strongly as I can state that community
colleges represent the very best of America in 1995, and where we need
to go as a country with all of our institutions -- community based,
flexible, committed to quality~ opportunity for everyone, with a real
sense of community.
I'm honored to be here, and I'm honored to have all
of you here.
I'd also l'ike to recognize the people who were with me just a
few moments ago who participated in our little roundtable, who have had
some experience with this institution.
I'd like to ask all of them to
stand up that· were in my private conversation -- (applause) -- because I
want to thank them.
(Applause.)
Thank you. They're employers of
people who came out of this community college; they're students; they're
former students; they're people who have taught here. · They are a
�picture of America.
I came here to talk about America, about where we are and where
we're going. And I don't think we could have picked a better place.
This place is so steeped in our national history, just as this community
college is so representative of the best of our present and our future.
The Underground Railroad came through Galesburg and, as all of you know
and as you saw just a few moments ago, over 135 years ago, Abraham
Lincoln and Stephen Douglas met here for one of thei.r famous debates.
How'd they do just a few minutes ago? (Applause.) Thank you. ·I met
them outside and they were still arguing about who really won.
(Laughter.)
I identified with what President Lincoln said. He performed so
brilliantly in those debates, but he lost the Senate race anyway. And
he said that it hurt too much to laugh and he was too old to cry. And
then he said something I have always kept with me -- in fact, I've got a
copy of· the exact quote on the wall in my private office_ in the White
House. He said after Douglas defeated him for the Sen~te, he was
walking home and it had been raining that day and the path·was muddy,
and one of his feet slippe~ and hit his other foot and knocked his
footing out from under him~ But just before he fell,· he righted himself
and he smiled and he said, "This is a slip and not a' fall."
(Applause.)
Well, 'I think we all ought to try to keep that in our own minds as we
deal with life's challenges and adversity.
The Lincoln-Douglas debates, as you just heard for a few
moments, were about the course of our country and the proper role of
government in a time of great change. In 1858, of course, the issue was
slavery. Lincoln believed that it was a national issue. Long before he
believed the government could abolish slavery, he at least believed the
government could stop it from expanding. Douglas believed it was not a
national :j.ssue; that it should just be up to the states or the
territories .. If they wanted to keep slavery, they could vote for it, and
then come on in to the Union.
The Republican Party was born out of a conviction that even
though we are a country deeply devoted to limited government, there are
some things that the times demand national action· on, and that at that
moment, the times demanded, first, national action to stop the spread of
slavery, and· then national action to stop .slav.ery.
About a half a century earlier, the Democratic Party was born in
the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, who passionately believed in limited
governq1ent. I was driving across the beaut·iful Illinois farmland,
feeling very much at home thinking about how Jefferson loved being on
his farm more than he liked being at the White House, anq how he wanted
to limit government. But when he became President, he knew there were
certain things that he had to use the power of the national government
to do because the times demanded it.
He bought the Louisiana Purchase, $15 million --peanuts, really,
to us for all that land. I like it because it included Arkansas. So if
he hadn't done it I could never have been an American, much-less
�president.
(Laughter.) But at the time it was a stunning, sweeping
thing. The price of Louisiana was the entire budget of the national
government for a year. Can you imagine what you!d think of me if I
wanted to spend that much on any piece of real estate? (Laughter.) But
he did.
·
Both believed in limited government. Both approved of action by
the national government .to meet the demands of the time, to do what t'he
people needed. Our founders established·this great country under a
Constitution that limits government. Mostly it limits what government
can do to private citizens and gives us a lot of elbow room to think
what we please and say,what we please and go where we please, and
worship God as we please. It also limits government in other ways,
dividing it at the state and local, as well a~'the national level -- the
president, the Congress, the courts. But it was set up to allow all of
us to pursue life, liberty and happiness. And it was set up with enough
flexibility so that over time we could have the kind of government that
we needed as a people -- not the kind of people that the government
needs, but the kind of government that we need as a people.
Now we're at another great sea-change period of American
history. Everyone knows we are moving from an information age -- I
mean, to an information age from an industrialized age in which all
organizations were bigger, more hierarchical, more bureaucratic, to a
time which is more flexible, more rapidly changing, more full of'
opportunity and uncertainty. And so we will have·to have some changes
in what we expect our government to do, but we have to be clear about
our purpose.
for all
~ure we
country
·at home
I think our purpose has to be to keep the American Dream alive
the people in this country into the 21st century; and to make
cross the threshold of the next century still the strongest
in the world, still a force for freedom and peace and democracy
and around the world.
Every American who works hard and obeys the law should be able
to get ahead in this new_world. It should not be a province of
opportunity for a few. To get that done we face enormous challenges.
Most of the people who are at a community college know better than I
that for the. last 10 or 15 years the majority of our people have worked
longer and longer work weeks for the same or lower wages; that in the
last year alone over a million American.in working families lost their
health insurance.
This is.quite a new phenomenon for us. From World War II until
·1978, the American economy grew, and all income groups grew at about the
same rate ~hat the American economy did. So we were rising together. ·
For the last 15 years, the top 20 percent of Americans had a dramatic
increase in their income; the next 20 percent, a modest increase; the
next 20 percent were stagnant; the bottom 40 percent had declines in
their incomes. We're talking now about working people, not people who
are on welfare.
So if a lot of Americans -- about half of us -- are working
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�harder for lower wages -- and.actually, we also know now, sleeping a
little less at night -- it's no wondet that there's a lot of stress· in
this cpuntry . . we also know that this is a time of great· change. It's
not just the workplace that's changing, the nature of our communities
are changing; our families are under great stress. Life seems to be too
' random and too insecure for too many people .. · And yet, we hav.e to admit
there is no country in· the world that has remotely an economy as strong
as ours, as full of opportunity, as full of hope.
So what'~ the trick to bridge the gap; to make sure that
everybody who wants to do the right thing has a chance to make that .leap
into the economy of the future and succeed? That must be the mission of
the United States in these last five years of this century.
(Applause.)
I told these folks.that were good enough to spend about 45
minutes visiting with me that I probably enjoyed it more than they did
because before I became President, when I was a governor, I did. this.
sort of thing all the time. I knew that my mission was to generate more
jobs and increase the education.and skills of our people. And I lived
in a place that was small enough wher~ it was more possible to talk
about political life in nice, calm terms, instead of what normally tends
to dominate the debate today. But I couldn't help being just overcome
almost in my admiration for their individual stories, which ~ouldn't be
all that much different from your individual stories.
I ran for.President because I wanted to do just what you clapped
for. I do not believe that we have to go into the future taking
advantage of all these opportunities for some and letting others fall
behind and becoming more divided. But I think, as I have said now for
more than three years, we must do three things. We've got to have a new
economic policy designed to help the American people compete and win in
a global economy in which the government is a partner with people in
their private lives and in private· business in expanding opportunity.
In the first two years, that meant that we had to cut the
deficit because we spent the 1980s dealing with our economic· problems,
trying to spend our o/ay out of them and exploding the deficit. Now, I
know that's not very popular; it's kind of like going to the dentist.
Everybody'.s for going to the dentist, in general. Did you ever see
anybody who wanted to· do it in particular whe·n it came their time to _,go
to the dentist? That's the way the deficit is. Everybody says -~ you
take a poll; people will say, yes, cut the deficit. But then we have to
do the things to·do it; it's not very popular. It's like going to the
dentist. So I had a drill in your tooth the.last two years. But we cut
the deficit by $700 billion, thanks to the help of these two ~entlemen.
(Applause.) And that's $11,000 a family; that's not a small piece of
change.
And we expanded trade, .and that was controversial. A lot of my
best supporters said, why are you trying to 'do all these trade deals;
the more we trade, the more·we have low-cost products from low-wage
countries coming into America, putting pressure on American wages.
That's true, but it's only half true. Now 1 if we don't do anything,
that's happening; that's been happening for years. And it is true that
�some of our people have either lost their jobs or can't get wage
increases because they're competing with products overseas, produced by .
people who work for wages-we can't live on; that's true.
It's also true that when we ~ell things to othe~ countries, on
balance the .people who make the things and the services we sell to other
countries make wages above the national average.
So if we don't do the
trade deals, we'll get the downside of the trade war. The reason I
fought for the trade agreements was so we could create more high-wage
jobs in America by selling more world-class American products around the
world. And it's working.
(Applause.)
So we ·need a new economic po1icy.
We've got to sell; we've got to produce; we've got to be productive; and
it has to be a partnership~
The second thing we need is what I called during my presidential
campaign a New Covenant, a new approach. to our society.
It was then, it
has been for two years and it will always remain my contract with you.
(Applause.)
But it's about more than a tax cut, although cutting taxes
are part of it.
I believe what this country needs on a natjonal basis
is what I see at the community college here. What those of us in the
position to do so ought to be doing is expanding opportunity, but only
for those who will exercise the p~rsonal responsibility to make the most
of those opportunities.
You build a community with opportunity and with responsibility;
with rights and responsibilities. You can't have one without the other
and last for a long time. You can't have people beirig re~ponsible all
the time.and never getting anything for it.
Pretty soon they get tired.
(ApplfiUSe. )
But neither can. you have people getting things all the· t.ime and
never giving anything back.
Pretty soon the well runs dry.
(Applause.)
,
So that's what we've been trying to do. That's what the crime
bill was all about. We cut the government bureaucracy over five years
by 270,000 people and gave all the· money back to local communities to
hire police, to build prisons, to drug treatment programs, to do things
that would lower the crime rate at the grass-roots level for people who
use the money right and were responsible.
That's what I hope this welfare reform debate that we~re ginning
up again after a year will be all about in Washington.
I do not believe
that most Americans really want simply to reduce welfare so that we can
. punish poor people.
I think what most Americans want is a welfare
system that puts an end to welfare, that puts people to work and lets
them be responsible parents instead of just having kids.
I think that's
what we want.
(Applause.)
And that's why we have invested so much in education because
education, by definition, is part ofa covenant. You cannot educate
somebody who will not be educated. All you can do is throw the life
line of opportunity out there and someone either does it or not. They
either exercise their owp responsibility or not.
�So we worked to expand Head Start and to set standards that are
great for our nation's schools and to have new partnerships for young
people that don't go to college to get further education. And we
reformed drastically the college loan program so we could cut the costs
and string out the repayments and make it.something that could really be
used by people instead of just another headache. And that's all made a
difference I think.
So a new economic policy, a new covenant, a new
social policy.
The third thing we've tried to do is to give you a different
kind of government, to have the government in Washington change the way
the economy is changing -- to have it be smaller, yes, but also more
effective.
To literally reinvent government -- to use the Vice
Prestdent's phrase-- by cutting the bureaucracy to its smallest size_in
30 years but increasing our ability to solve problems that the federal
government needs to solve. There are 100,000 fewer people working in
Washington, D.C., or. for the federal government today than there were on
the day I was inaugurated president, but we have solved a lot of
problems that were left too long. And I would just give you one or two
examples.
(Applause.)
Small business people used to have to fill out a multipage form
that took them hours to fill out to get an SBA loan. We've taken that
down to one page and you can get an answer in three days' now.
So that's
an.example of what we're trying to do to reinvent the government.
(Applause. )
I don't know if the Secretary of Labor mentioned this, but at
the end of last year; we reformed the Pension Benefit Guaranty
.
Corporation -- that's a mouthful -- that's the group in Washington
that's supposed to -keep your pension well._ And it's going to help save
the pensions of 8.5 million Americans whose retirement was at risk after
years and years and years of hard work.
There are problems the federal government still should be
solving. And when the floods were raging here -- the 500-year flood
up'and down Illinois and Iowa, after years in which the Federal
Emergency Management Agency was to go to the federal government 'and
everybody complained about it, I think you saw by the way they showed up
and the way they performed that it is working now, it is effective, it
is doing its job.
(Applause.)
So we're moving in these directions. But it is not enough. What
are the results of the first two years, not from our point of view in
what we did, but from your lives. Well, we have 5.6 million more jobs,
and that's a good thing. And the unemployment rate has dropped very low
~y historic standards, although not low enough to suit me, it's still
dropped quite a bit -- by more than 2 percent. And 5.6 million new jobs
is nothing to sneeze at.
And manufacturing jobs went up in every month in 1994 for the .
first time since 1978, which means that manufacturing is not
inconsistent with the· information age.
It helps our manufacturing come
back when we increase productivity and use computers and educate our
�workers. So that's good; that's all good. But most folks still haven't
gotten a pay raise out of this recovery. Many people are still worried
about losing their jobs. Another million Americans lost their health
insurance. Why is that? That is because the wages are still set in an
environment that is highly competitive because of technological changes
and foreign competition.
So if we want to raise incomes, the only way yo~ can do it is to
get more high-wage jobs in this country; take less out of working
people's pockets; or increase education and training.
There is no other
way to do it. And that's what we have to do.
(Applause.)
So what I
want to do now is -- we worked hard to get the fundamentals fixed for
two years -- I want to spend two years working on lifting incomes and
prospects and optimism and real hope for the future among people who are
carrying the load in this country. That's what we can do. And that's
what the Middle Class Bill Of Rights is all about.
I might as well have called it the Bill of Rights and
Responsibilities, because it doesn't do anything for anybody·who's not
.already doing something for hims.elf or herself. Anybody can give a tax
cut, but what I want to do is cut taxes in a way that strengthen
families and raise inco_mes. That's what we need to be doing in these
country --.we need to strengthen families, we need to raise incomes.
Fifty years ago, the GI Bill of Rights helped transform a
wartime economy into the most successful peacetime economy in history.·
It literally built the great American middle class, helping them get
houses and education and to raise their kids.· And now what I want to do
is to implement this Middle Class Bill Of Rights -- these ideas that
will help us move into the 21st century with the Ameiica:ri Dream alive
for everyone.
Now, if you agree with the analysis I just gave you, I hope you
will agree with the particulars. First of all, I think people ought to
be able to deduct the cost of education after high school from their
taxes.
(Applause.)
If you think about it, you can deduct the interest
on your home. Why? Because we want people to buy homes; we want people
to be homeowners. We think it's a good thing -- it's important to being
an American and having a sold life. Well, in the 21st century, and in
1995, and with all the people I just finished talking to, having a
decent education is also important to being in the middle class. And
you may not get to the home-ownership stage if you don't have an
education in the first place. So we ought to let people deduct the .cost
of an education.
(Applause.)
Secondly, we ought to try to support working families more, and
so I recommended a tax credit, or a tax reduction, of $500 a child for
every child under 13 in families with incomes of $75,000 a year or less.
In 1993, we cut taxes an average of $1,000 a year for working families
who were on really modest incomes and having a hard time making ends
meet.
It's now $26,000 a year or less will get an average of $1,000 tax
cut, will owe what the taxes were when I took office. But this will
help people raise their children.
�Third, I believe we ought to bring back the IRA, the Individual
Retirement Account, let people put $2,000 in it --(applause) --but
·under our proposal, you could t'ake the money out in any year, tax-free;
as long as you spent it on education, health insurance, buying a horne
for the first time or the care of an elderly parent. This would empower
people to solve their own problems.
It's something that government can
let you ·do for yourself.
It requires no bure'aucracy; it requires no
program.
It requires nothing -- just letting you withdraw money you
save, tax-free, to solve ~ problem for yourselves and for the United
States.
(Applause.)
Finally, finally,_ we propose to take the literally billions of
dollars the government now spends on dozens --literally dozens -- of
training programs and consolidate those programs and make that money
directly available to people who are now eligible for it.
That is, ·
today, people who are unemployed can get help from a government training
program. And people who are on. quite modest incomes who are eligible,
for example, to participate in a job training and partnership act,
training-programs, can get help through a training program.
But there are literally dozens of these programs. You've got to
figure out what you're eligible for, what the criteria are, what the
program is, are you going to be in it.
I mean, by the time you get
through fooling with it, it may seem like it's not worth the trouble.
We discovered that we could collapse 50 of these programs and just give
you the money if you're eligible for it and it would make people who are
eligible able to get a chit, a voucher for education only worth up to
$2,600 a year for two years.
Now, that's better than having a federal bureaucracy.
It's
better than giving the money to a state bureaucracy.
Everybody in
America, just about, is within driving distance of the community college
now. We do not need all these separate government programs telling
people what to do. We ought to just give you the money if you're
eligible for it and let you bring it here and get a good education.
That's the fourth element of our program.
(Applause.)
·
I like this Middle·Class Bill of Rights a lot because it
furthers all three objectives that I had when I ran for president.
It
helps us build a new economy. The more people we educate, ·the more
powerful our nation will be, the stronger our economy will be.
It helps
us build a new covenant. We offer more opportunity to people if they
exercise the responsibility to take it, they have the power to improve
their own lives. All of you do. You know that or you wouldn't be here
today.
And it changes the way government works. Government is still
being used t help expand opportunity, but in a less bureaucratic, less
mandatory, more empowering way.
I like it·, and I hope the Congress will
like it as well. And I hope you will help them like it by telling them
that you like it.
(Applause.)
Under this last proposal -- let me just give you one example.
If we want to set up centers where what the government does is make sure
�you have information on the jobs that are available in an area and the
educational opportunities that are available in one place.
You could show up at the local one-stop center and find out, for
example, here about jobs opening oup at Maytag because of the new $164
million retooling project they've got underway. Then you could figure
out whether you could get the skills needed to be a part of that project
in this place. And if you could, you qualified, you could simply take
your certificate, show up here, and start to school. Much better than
having to enroll in some sort of program.
Here at this community college -- and this is true all over the
country, maybe not quite this good, but this is typical -- there is an
extraordinary job placement rate of over 94 percent at an average wage
of nearly $12 an hour. And believe me, that's a lot better than a lot
of people are facing who have no education and training and who have
been left behind by the changes that are going on in our economy;
This is the kind of opportunity that I believe the Middle Cl~ss
Bi!l of Rights can help create. This will enable us to finish the job.
Yes, we have laid the foundations of a disciplined, responsible economic
policy. Yes, we have taken a strong stand against crime. Yes, we know
-- and I hope we'll have a bipartisan consensus on what to do about
problems like welfare. But until we know that we have done everything.
we can to use the power of this country to give every American the
opportunity to win in this global economy, the job will not be finished.
That, more than anything else, can keep the American dream alive in the
21st century.
So, as I go back to Washington, I ask all of you -- Repul:;>licans
and Democrats -- to tell the people who represent you in Washington to
adopt the same attitude about these challenges that you have.
If you
think about it, in every new time our country faces, there are new
problems that have no necessary partisan solution. And the problems
·fall over everybody and .the opportunities come to people without regard
to their party, their philosophy, their race, or their region today. We
should be united in tackling these problems. They are America's
problems and America's opportunities.
You have seen over and over and over again, probably enough to
make you scream, that people in Washington know how to stop things for
partisan gain; it's now time for us to join together and do things for
the people's gain. That's what you expect us to do; that's what we need
to do; that's what will take us into the next century with the American
dream alive and well, stronger than ever, and America stronger than
ever.
I am convinced -- I am convinced -- having traveled the world
now on your behalf, having seen what is going.on in ~urope, having seen
what is going on in Asia, having met with the leaders of all the Latin
American countries, having a feel fqr what is happening in this world, I
am convinced more·than ever in my life that the best days of this
country are still ahead of us -- (applause) -- if we remember that there
are no guarantees.
�.... ,,
..
The founders gave us the right to pursue life, liberty,
happiness. That's.what they gave us the right to do. Over 70 years
ago, your namesake here, Carl Sandburg, wrote a poem inspired by the
Washington Monument. And I want to close with the line from that poem
that meant the most to me:
"Nothing happens unless, first, a dream."
More than anything, more even thari our Constitution and laws, this
country is a dream. And it is our job to renew it.
Thank you very much, and God bless you all.
END1:16 P.M. CST
(Applause.)
�THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Galesburg, Illinois)
For Immediate Release
January 10, 1995
REMARKS BY THE PRES.IDENT
TO PEOPLE OF THE GALESBURG AREA
Sandburg Community College
Galesburg, Illinois
12:44 P.M. CST
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you for that wonderful and warm welcome.
(Laughter.)
it is wonderful to be here. Thank you, Dr. Crist, for
making me feel so much at home. Thank you, Congressman Evans, for
coming down; and Congressman Poshard delighted to see you. And Mayor
Kimble, thank you for making me feel welcome here. The representatives
of Knox College and Blackhawk .Community College, as well as Carl
Sandburg Community Colleg.e, I'm glad to see all of you here.
I'm glad that Secretaries Reich and Riley came with me, and I
understand they have already spoken, which makes anything I say perhaps
redundant.
(Laughter.)
I met a college president the other day; he' looked at me and
said, "I've got a lot of sympathy with you. Being President is·just
like running a cemetery -- you've got a lot of p~ople under you and
nobody is li,stening."
(Laughter and applause.)
·
I want to begin by saying how very, very happy and proud I am to
be here today.
I believe as strongly as I can state that community'
colleges represent the very best of America in 1995 1 and where we need
to go as a country with all'of our institutions·-- community based,
flexible, committed to quality, opportunity for everyone, with a real
sense of community.
I'm honored to be here, ·and I'm honored to have all
of you· here.
I'd also like to recognize the people who were with me just a
few moments ago who participated in our little roundtable, who have had
some experience with this institution.
I'd like to ask all of them to
stand up that were in my private conversation -- (applause) -- because I
want to thank them.
(Applause.)
Thank you. They're employers of
people, who came out of this community college; they're students; they're
former students; they're people who have taught here. They are a
�picture of America.
I came here to talk about America, about where we are and 'where
we're going. And I don't think we could have picked a better place.
This place is so steeped in our national history, just as this community
college is so represent~tive of the best of-our present and our future.
The Unde~groun~ Railroad came through Galesburg ·and, as all of you know
and as you saw just a few moments ago, over 135 years ago, Abraham
Lincoln and Stephen Douglas met here for one of thei~ famous debates.
How' d they do j'ust a few minutes ago?. (Applause.)
Thank you.
I met
them outside and they were still arguing about who really won.
(Laughter.)
·
I identified with what President Lincoln said. He performed so
brilliantly in those debates, but he lost the Senate race anyway. And
he said that it hurt too much to laugh and he was too old to cry. And
then he said something I have always kept with me -- in fact, I've got a
copy of the exact quote on the wall in my private office in the Whit.e
House. He said after Douglas defeated him for the Senate, he was
walking home. and it had been raining that day and the path was muddy,
.and one of his feet slipped and hit his other foot and knocked his
footing out from under him. But just before he fell, h~ righted hi~self
and he smiled and he ·said, nThis is a .slip a;nd not a fall."
(Applause.)
Well, I think we all ought to try to keep that in our own minds as we
deal with life's challenges and adversity.
The Lincoln-Douglas debates, as you just heard for a few
moments, were about the course of our country and the proper role of
government in a time of great change.
In 1858, of course, the issue was
slavery.
Lincoln believed that it was a.national issue.
Long before he
believed the government could abolish slavery, he at least believed the
government could stop it from expanding. Douglas believed it was not a
national issue; that it should just be up to the states or the
territories.
If they wanted to keep slavery, they could vote for it and
then come on in to the Union.
The Republican Party was born out of a conviction that even
though we are a country deeply devoted to limited government, there are
some things that the times demand national action on,' and that at that
moment, the.times demanded,,·first, national action to stop the spread of
slavery, and then national action to stop slavery.
About a half a century earlier, the Democratic Party was born in
the presidency of Thomas JefferSon, who passionately believed in limited
government.
I was driving across the beautiful Illinois farmland,
feeling very much at home thinking about how Jefferson loved being on
his farm more thanhe liked being at the White House, and how he wanted
to limit government. But when he became President, he knew there were
certain things that he had to use the power of the national government .
to do because the times demanded it.
He bought the Louisiana Purchase, $15 million --peanuts, really,
to us for all that land.
I like it because it included Arkansas.
So if
he hadn't done it I could never have been an American, much less
�president.
(Laughter.)
But at the time it was a stunning, sweeping
thing.
The price of Louisiana was the entire budget of the national
government for a year.
Can you imagine what you'd think of me if I
wanted to spend that much on any piece of real estate?
(Laughter.)
But
·he did.
Both believed in limited government. Both approved of action by
the national government to meet the demands of the time, to do what the
people tieeded. Our founders establish~d this great country under a
'
Constitution that limits government. Mostly it limits what·government
can do to private citizens and gives us a lot of elbow room to think
what we please and say what we please and g~ where we please, and
worship God as we please.
It also limits government in other ways,
dividing it at the state and local, as well as the national level -- the
president, the Congress, the courts. But it was set up to allow all of
us to pursue life, liberty and happiness. And it was set up with enough
flexib~lity so that over time w~ could have the kind. of government. that.
we needed as a people -- not the kind of people that the government'
needs, but the kind of government that we need as a people.
Now we're at another great.sea-change period of American
history.
Everyone knows we are moving from an information age -- I
mean, to an information age from an industrialized age in which ·all
organizations were bigger, more hierarchical, more bureaucratic, to a
time which is more flexible, more rapidly changing, more full of
opportunity and uncertainty. And so we will have to have some changes
·in what we expect our government to do, but we have to be clear about ·
our purpose.
for all
sure we
country
at.home
I think our purpose has to be to keep the American. Dream alive
the people in this country into the· 21st century; and to make
cross the threshold of the next cent~ry still the strongest
in the world, still a force for freedom and peace and democracy
and around the world.
Every American who works hard and obeys the law should be able
to get ahead in this new world.
It should not be a province of
opportunity for a few.
To get that done we face enormous challenges.
Most .of the people who are at a community college know better than I
that·for the last 10 or 15 years the majority of our people have worked
longer and longer work weeks for the same or lower wages; that in the
last year a:lone over a million American in working families lost their
health insurance.
This is quite a new phenqmenon for us.
From World War II until
1978, the American economy grew, and all income groups grew at about the
same rate that the American economy did.
So we were rising together. ·
For the last 15 years, the top 20 percent of Americans had a.dramatic
increase in their income; the next 20 percent, a modest incre~se; the
next 20 percent were stagnant; the bottom 40 percent had declines in
their incomes. We're talking now about working people, not people who
are on welfare.
So if a lot of Americans -- about half of us -- are,working
�harder for lower wages -~ and actually, we also know now, sleeping a
little less at night -- it's no wonder that there's a lot of stress in
this country. We also know that this is a time of great change.
It's
not just the workplace that's changing, the nature of our communities
are changing; our families are under great stress.
Life seems to be too
random and too inse_cure for too many people. And yet, we have to admit
there is no country in the world that has remotely an~ economy as strong
as ours, as full of opportunity, as full of hope.
So what's the trick to bridge -the gap; to make sure that
everybody who wants to do the right thing has a chance to make that leap
into the economy of the future and succeed? ·That must be the mission of
the United States in these last five years of this century.
(Applause.)
· I told these folks that were good enough to spend about 45
minutes visiting with me that I probably enjoyed it more than they did
because before I became .President, wheri I was a governor, I did this
sort of thing all the time.
I knew that my mission was to generate more
jobs a,nd increase the education and skills of our people. And I lived
in a place that was small enough where it was more possible to talk
~bout political life iri nice, calm terms, instead of what normally tends
to dominate the debate today. But I couldn't help being just overcome
almost in my admiration for their individual stories, which wouldn't be
all that much different from your individual stories.
I ran for President because I wanted to do just what you clapped
for.
I do not believe that we have to go into the future taking
advantage of all these opportunities for some and letting others fall
behind and becoming more divided.
But I think, as I have said now for
more than three years, we must do three things. We've got to have a new
economic policy designed to help the American people compete and win in
a global economy in which the government is a partner with people in
their private lives and in private business in expanding opportunity.
In the first two years, that meant that we had to cut the
deficit because we spent the 1980s dealing with our economic problems,
trying to spend our way out of them and exploding the deficit. Now, I
know that's not very popular~ it's kind of -like' going to the denti~t.
Everybody's :for going to the dentist, in general.
Did you ever see
anybody who wanted to do it in particular when it came their time to go
to the den'tist? That's the way the deficit is. Everybody says -- you
take a poll; people will say, yes, cut the deficit. But then we have to
do the things to do it; it's not very popular.
It's like going to the
dentist.
So I had a-drill in your tooth the last two years. But we cut
the deficit by $700 billion, thanks to the help of these two gentlemen.
(Applause.)
And that's $11,000 a family; that's not a small piece of
change.
And we expanded trade, and that was controversial. A lot of my
best supporters said, why_are you trying to do all these trade deals;
the more we trade, the more we have low-cost products from low-wage
countries coming into America, putting pressure on American wages.
That's true, but it's only half true. Now, if we don't do anything,
that's happening; that's been happening for years. And it is t:r:ue that
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increases because they're competing with products overseas,· produced by
people who work for wages we can't live on; that's true.
It's also true that when we sell things to other countries, on
balance the people who make the things and the services we- sell to other
countries make wages above the national ·average.
So if we don't do the
trade deals, we' 11 get the downside of the trade war. .The reason I
fought for the trade agree~ents was so we could create more high-wage
jobs in America by selling more world-class American products around the
world. And it's working.
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So' we need a new.economic policy.
We've got to sell; we've got to produce; we've got to be productive; and
it has to be a partnership.
The second thing we need is what I called during my presidential
campaign a New Covenant, a new approach to our society.
It was then, it
has been for two years and it will always remain my contract with you.
(Applause.)
But it's about more than a tax cut, although cutting taxes
are pa~t of it.
I believe what this country needs on a national bas~s
.is. what I see at the community college here. What those of us in the
position to do so ought to be doing is expanding opportunity, but only
for those who will exercise the personal responsibility to make the most
o'f those opportunities.
You build a community with opportunity and with responsibility;
with rights and responsibilities. You can't have one without the other
and last for a 16ng time. ·You can't have people being responsible all
the time and never getting anything for it.
Pretty soori they.get tired.
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never giving anything back.
Pretty soon the well runs dry.
(Applause.)
So that's what we've been trying to do. That's what the crime
bill was.all about. We cut the government bureaucracy over five years
by 270, 000 people and gave all the money back to local c·ommunities. to
hire police, to build prisons, to drug treatment programs, to do things
that would lower the crime rate at the grass-roots level for people who
use the money right and were responsible.
That's what I hope this welfare reform debate that we're ginning
up again after a year will be all about in Washington.
I do not believe
that most Americans really want simply to. reduce welfare so that we can
punish poor people.
I think what most Americans want is a welfare
system that puts an end to welfare, that puts people to work and lets
them be responsible parents instead of just having kids.
I think that's
what we want.
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And that's why·we have invested S9 much in education because
education, by definition, is part of a covenant. You cannot educate
somebody who.will not be educated. All you can do is throw the life
line of opportunity out there and someone either does it or not. They
either exercise their own responsibility or not.
�So we worked to expand Head Start and to set standards .that are
great for our nation's sthools and to h~ve riew partrierships for young
people that don't go to college to get further education. And we
reformed drastically the college loan program so we could cut the costs
and string out the repayments and make it something that could really be
used by people instead of just another headache. And that's all made a
difference I think.
S6 a new economic policy, a new covenant, a new
social policy.
The third thing we've tried to do is to give you a different
kind of government, to have the government in Washington change the way
the economy is changing -- to have it be smaller, yes, but also more
effective. To literally reinvent government -- to use the Vice
President's phrase -- by cutting the bureaucracy to its smallest size in
30 years but increasing our ability to.solve problems that the federal
government needs to solve. There are 100 1 000 fewer people working in
Washingtori, D.C., or for the federal government today than there were on
the day I was inaugurated president, but we have solved a lot of
problems that were left too long. And I would just give you one or two
examples.
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Small business people used to have to fill out a multipage form
that took them hours to fill out to get an SBA loan. We'Ve taken that
down to one page and you can get an answer in three days now.
So that's
an example of what we're trying to do to.reinvent the government.
(Applause.)
I don't know if the Secretary of Labor mentioned this, but at
the end of last year, we reformed the Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation -- that's a mouthful -- that's the group in Washington
that's supposed to keep your pension well'. And it's going to help save
the pens.ions of 8. 5 million Americans whose retirement was at risk after
years and years and years of·hard work.
There are problems the federal government still should be
solving. And when the floods were raging here _..: the 500-year flood
up and down Illinois and Iowa, .after years in which the Federal
Emergency Management Agency was to go to the federal government and
everybody complained about it, I think you saw by the way they showed up
and the way they performed that it is working now, it is effective, it
is doing its job.
(Applause.)
So we're moving in these directions. But it is not enough. What
are the results of the first 'two years, not from our point of view in
what we. did, but from your lives. Well, we have 5.6 million more jobs,
and that's a good thing. And the unemployment rate has dropped very low
by historic standards~ although not low enough to suit me, it's still
dropped quite a bit -- by more than 2 percent. And '5.6 million new jobs
is nothing to sneeze at.
And manufacturing jobs went up.in every month in 1994 for the
first time since 1978, which means that manufacturing is not
inconsistent with the information age.
It helps our manufacturing come
back when we increase productivity and use computers and educate our
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So .. that's good; that's all good. But most folks still haven't.
gotten a pay raise out of this recovery. Many people are still worried
about losing their jobs. Another million Americans lost their health
insurance. Why is.that? That is because the wages are still set in an
environment that is highly competitive because of technological changes
and foreign competition.
So if we want to raise. incomes, the only way you can dd it is to
get more h1gh-wage jobs in this country; take less out of working
··people's pockets; or increase education and training. There is no other
way to do it. And that's what we have to do.
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So what -I
want to do now is --' we worked hard to get the fundamentals fixed for
two years --.-I want to spend two years working on lifting incomes and
prospects and optimism and real ho~e for the future among peopl~ who are
carrying the load in this country. That's what we can do.· And that's
what the Middle Class Bill Of Rights is all about.
I might as well have called it the Bill of Rights and
Responsibilities, because it doesn't do anything for anybody who's not
already doing something for himself or herself. Anybody can give a tax
cut, but what I want to do is cut taxes in a way that strengthen
families and raise incomes. That's what we need to be doing in these
country -- we need to strengthen families, we need to raise incomes.
Fifty years ago, .the GI Bill of Rights helped transform a
wartime economy into the most successful peacetime economy in history.·
It literally built the great American:middle class, helpirig them get
houses and education and to raise their kids. And now what I want to do
is to implement this Middle Class Bill Of Rights -.- these ideas that
will he'lp us move into the 21st century with the Am~rican Dream alive
for everyone.
Now, if you agree with the an~lysis I just gave you, I hope you
will agree with the paiticulars. First of all, I think people ought to
be able to deduct the cost of education after high school from their
taxes.
(Applause.)
If you think about it'· you can deduct the interest
on your home. Why? Because we want people to buy homes; we want: people
to be homeowners. We think it's a good. thing~- it's important to being
an American and having a sold life. Well, in the 21st century, and in
1995, and with all the people I just finished talking to, having a
decent education is also import,ant'to being in the middle class. And
·you may not get to the home-ownership stage if you don't have an
education in the first place. So we ought to let people deduct the cost
of an education.
(Applause.)
Secondly, we ought to try to support working families more, and
so I recommended a tax credit, or a tax reduction, of $500 a child for
every child under 13 in famil-ies with incomes of $75, 000 a year or less.
In 1993, we cut taxes an average of $1, 000 a year for working famil-ies:
who were on really modest incomes and having a hard time making ends
meet.
It's now $26,000 a year or less will get an aveiage of $1,000 tax
cut, w111 owe what the taxes were when I took office. But this-will
help people raise their children.
�Third, I believe we ought to bring back the IRA, the Individual
Retirement Account, let people put $2,000 in it --(applause) --but
under ourproposal, you could take the money out in any year, tax-free;
as long as you spent it on educ?.tion, health insurance, buying a home
for the first time or the care of an elderly parent. This would empower
people to solve their own problems.
It's something that government can
let you do for yourself.
It 'requires no bureaucracy; it requires no ·
program.
It requires nothing -- just letting you withdraw money you
save~ tax-free, to solve a problem for yourselves and for the United_
States.
(Applause.)
Finally, finally, we propose to take the literally billions of
dollars the-government now spends on dozens --literally dozens -- of
training programs and consolidate ·those programs and make that money
directly available to people who are now eligible for it. That is,
today, people who are unemployed can get help from a government training
program. And people who are on quite modest incomes who are eligible,
, for example, to participate in a job training and partnership act,
training programs, can get help through a training program.
But there are literally dozens of these programs~ You've got to
figure out what you're eligible for, what the criteria are, what the
program is, are you going to be in it.
I mean, by the time you get
through fooling with it, it may seem like it's not worth the trouble.
We discovered that we could collapse 50 of these programs and just give
you the money if you're eligible for it and it would make people who are
eligible able to get a chit, a voucher for education only worth up to
$2,600 a year for two years.
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Now, that's better than'having a federal bureaucracy.
It's
better than giving the money to a state bureaucracy. Everybody in
America, just about, is within driving distance of the community college
now. We do not need all these separate government programs telling
people what to do. We ought to just give you the money if you're
eligible for it and let you bring it here and get a· good education.
That's the fourth element of our program.
(Applause:)
I like this Middle Class Bill of Rights a lot because it
furthers all three objectives that I had when I ran for president.
It
helps us build a new economy. The more people we educate, the more
powerful our nation will be, the stronger our economy will be: It ~elps
us build a new covenant. We offer more opportunity to people if they
exercise the responsibility.to take it, they have the power· to improve
their own lives. · All of you do. You know that or you wouldn't be here
today.
And it changes the way government works. Government is still
being used t help expand opportunity, but in a less bureaucratic, less
mandatory, more empowering way.
I like it, and I hope the Congress will
like it as well. And I hope you will help them-like it by telling them
that you like it.
(Applause.)
Under this last .proposal -- let me just give you one example.
If we want to set up centers where what the government does is make sure
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educational opportunities that are available in one place.
You could show up at the local orte-stop center and find out, for
example, here about jobs opening oup at Maytag because of the·new $164
million retooling project they've got underway. Then you could figure
out whether you could get the skills needed to be a part of that projec~
in this place. And if you could,- you qualified, you could·simply take·
your certificate, show up here, and start to sthool. Much better than
having to enroll in some sort of program.
Here at this community college -- and this is true all ov,er the
country, maybe not quite this good, but this is typical -:- there is an
extraordinary job placement rate of,over 94 percent at an average wage
of nearly $12 an -hour. And believe me, that's a lot better than a lot
of people are facing who have no'education and training and who have
been left behind by the changes that are going on in our economy.
This is the kind of opportunity that I believe t~e Middle Class
Bill of Rights can help create. This will enable us to finish the job.
Yes, we have laid the foundations of a disciplined, responsible ·economic
policy. Yes, we have taken a strong . stand against crime. Yes, we kno_w
-~ and I hope we'll have a bipartisan consensus on what to do about
problems like welfare. But until we know that we have done everything
we can to use the power of this country to give every American the
opportunity to win in this global economy, the job will not be finished ..
That, more than anything else, can keep the American dream alive in the
21st century.
So, as I go back to Washington, I ask all of you -- Republicans
and Democrats -- to tell the people who repre~ent you in Washington to
adopt the same attitude abotit these ·challenges that you have.
If you
think about it, in every new time our Country faces, there are new
problems that have no necessary partisan solution. And the problems
fall over everybody and the opportunities come to people without regard
to their party, their philosophy, their race, or their region today. We
should be united in tackling these problems. They are America's
problems and America's opportunities.
You have seen over and over and over again, probably enough to
make you scream, that people in Washington know how to stop things for
partisan g~in; it's now tim~ for us to join together and do things for
the people's. gain. That's what you expect us to do; that's what we need
to do; that's what'will take us into the next century with the American
dream alive and well, stronger than ever, and America stronger than
ever.
I am convinced
I am convinced -- having traveled the world
now on your behalf, having seen what is going .on in Europe, having seen
what is going on in Asia, having met with the leaders of all the Latin
American countries, having a feel for what is happening in this' world, I
am convinced more than ever in my life that the best days of this
country are still ahead of us -- (applause)
if we remembE:r that ther'e
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happiness. That's what they gave us the right to do. Over 70 years
ago, your namesake here, .Carl Sandburg., wrote a poem inspired by the
Washington Monument. And I want to close with the line from that poem
that meant the most to me: "Nothing happens unless, first, a dream."
More than anything, more even than our Constitution.and laws, this
country is a dream. And it is our job to renew it.
Thank you very much, and God bless you all.
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·REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
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REN~SSANCE CONVENTION DINNER.
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THE PRE~IDENT:. ·Thank you.
(Applause.). . Thank you very .
much. (Applause.) You know, t:lVery time I.hear .H,illary speak, I.
sit there and. I think·, .God, I was smart to.·marry h81'• ·.
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(Applause~) . If .I ~uld listen to· h~. mora,. and ~aap-'ra-raadiilg.
Debo~ah ·Tannen's books, I cou~d ,flnally. learn to cOJilJilunicata wit,h
t,he American people. (Laught81'.) ·
·I ·.am delighted to be hera and I appreciated ·that menu that
Dean ornish. (phonactia) planned· for us tonight •. (LBughtar.) I.
want to say. to all of you, : seriously, we ~oul~ have ~en .s~ sad
. to have missed Renaissance .W$~and this ¥aaJ:' •
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every American .when our soldier was, rel~sed from ·Ncrt;h xor~. (~-':"·
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I want to say ~gain .h'o~ pro~~undly grateflll I .~ to Phil and ,
to Linda·, who have enriched our lives so mueh over these 12 ·
years, and who now giva so .mucJl service to '~ur nation .in :so many
ways; soma of whieh are known and soma of whicb. are not known;
and. must be for them to riay now, or in later years.
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advice. you know; don't .waffle -~ compromise. (-.,.laughter--), kEtep. · ·
jogging -- don't ·show your -lags, .listen to· people mora but don't· .
go to Renaissance waeka!)d, .it'il a bunch of elitists. . ·. · ·
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are soma poign~t moments in -which it is utterly wonderful •.. r. ··.·. ·
h~d the opportunity. just to try to. speak .for. all of you( for .
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. tJnitad states ·~d, all the· .hope and energy. we represent; ·-in trying
to help other people.· And ,you know that basica~ly what you· .ar~
is not you, .but ov81' 250 ·million of us,' and what. we hav• .• .. . ·
represented for so long to.so many people •
. . When we persuaded· -the RilssiarUi to leave· the Baltics-.·in . '
. Eastern ~ope where there. are troops for the. first time .since .
world:war II,· or when I got to. go to the Middle East to. the peace
· signi~g, and to .speak for the first time every in both the . . · · ·
··.Parliament of Israel and the Parliament of Jordan· back· to back •..
And • to say proudly as an American tha_t we rElspact Islam ·8l\d. then ·
to be told by the American. Jaws on our .trip, when. they· went back
to the hotel in Amman .that 'the employees at; the hota.l in Jordan ·
had · tears in their ayes ba~usa they want to I;Haliava. that the ·
.United States understands that not every Mo.lam in the world is.a
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than any person. Thera -are down moments, too, I have to.· te~l you
-- and not the ones you would think about. : A,nd then there are
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�I was so sad when that.sad incident. occurred when the man
tried .to 'land his airplane in the back yard at the Whit.e House
and it would have been comic had he not died. He·was just a sadlittle man who'd ~ost control of his -life and remembered that · ·
once a young German· flew into R~d Square; so·he thought, well,
wouldn't this ;be interesting. And, I realize ~is is not me, I ~
. just the President -- I live here. He wan~s to bounce into. my.
back yard.
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Or when that terribly disturbed an who was angry at Die ·for·
·the· assault weapons ban, brought th~ assault weapon and sprayed
the· White House. . We were ·behind. bullet-proof ·windows-. He· was
living out ·his. agony and Iii's sense of loss and the anger ~d all .
the irresponsible rhetoric. surrounding that issue had somehow . . .
given.him'permission to do a bad thing in trying to deal with his.
difficulties. It didn't have 'muCh to do· 'fith me.
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· Sometimes it is personally painful in ways y~u wouldn'~
imagine. When I went to the M1ddle Bast with Hillary~ we ·were
literally ectatic. I mean; it was unbelievable to be :there and
.to realize .What ~s becomlJ:tq.· 'But the only personal thing I ·
wanted to do the ~hole .time was to get up early in the morning in
Jerusalem,. or. to stay up as late as I had .to, '·and to· visit: as a
person, .not as a. President, the ChUrch of the Holy Sepulcher:
(ph), and the w,ailing Wall aild: the DoJile of the Rock. ~d .I
thought surely this would. be posslble. After all,· we've got this
agreement between the PLO and the Isrl;leUs (--laughter-""), arid
they're not killinq each othe:t' any more, and we were trying. to· ·
work :thi.s deal out, but we -- yes, we hllven't' resolved. the status
.of J'erusalem, but they agreed ·to kick .that can down the road.
(Laughter.) · OJ::l,· but no,. there was thl's huge dispute 'over. Who
'l'ould escort me where., and how far they could go·~ And so the end·.
of it was, since the politics ~;>f. it aouldii'.t. be resolved; Bill
Clinton, a Christian from the united States, could not go to his
-own religious site, for his awn private purposes. so I g~;>t up·
the next morning before dawn, and got down· on my knees in the
King Dav~d Hotel, an4 watched the sun rise over the old city_ wall
in Jerusalem, and said, you fool, .you can'~ resen:t this --.this .
i~ your job and responsibility and you ~ve to give ~P things·.to
do this.· And if you. want to symbolize something good, you'-ve. qot
to be. willing to. deal with. the o~er stuff, to~. . . . .
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·.· · But I have 9o:tten great' ~dvice. · The be~:t advice I have
gotten. ·in trying to look. ~ead to this new and different. and·.
;ratha;- exciting time, .came in P•ople Mag~zine, ~ez:e t:bey said I·'
should pattern myself after Forrest Gump... (Laughter.) ·so I've .
·bean practicing.' (Laughter.). · And'he is· from .Al~ you kn~,·,
it's not the biggest s~etch in the.world. (Laughter.) so I'm .
Forrest, Forrest Gump •.. (Laughter and applause.) stupid is as ·
stu~id does.
(Laug;bter and. :appl.ause.) .My Mama always said, .l-ife._ .
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. is just like a box· of chocolates.-- you never-.Jcnow what you're
going to find until you bite lilto it • . (Laughter and applause.)
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ask you: to think. about .. on the ·. · '
eve of this ·Hew Year. · Por about 200 years. now, ~is cauntry has
represented the vision of our· Pounders, eXpressed simply ·.in the
powerful worc;is, ·life, liberty. 'and the pursuit of happinesiJ·· ·A
government was constituted not to guarantee ~t, but. to· give ·
people a chance to p'lirsue it. ~d there were ~ee·. great .
components of that . constitution: 1) the powex- to provi~Se for :the
common defense without ·which .we ·cannot dist·; 2) the ·power to. .
take measures necessary to gu~antee or expand those
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opport~ities; and 3) limitation~ on that pc:)wer so as to .
guarantee· the precious personal freedpm of ev~ry American. And·
that Constitution was written in a purposefully broad.and ,
flexible way· so that over time we could adapt. it,· and·preserve
the 'right to pursue life,. liberty, h~ppiness.· ·
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we sustdned a lot of blows in our first century. · over
soo,ooo of us died over the question o~ whether we would end this
Union,· and then'end the awful institution which made a moakery'of
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was full'i'biown in the United States, we came to<see that
governments had to do moreto.deal with theproblems and the
opportunities -- the great concentrations of economic activity
because of that revolution. Through the progressive ~ra of Teddy·
Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, .. and through the. Great Depression·
and then the great World War •. And then, after the Second World
War, we bad two new responsibilities, one at home
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advance. of coDIJIIunism, a~d. roll it back if possible, and to try to
promote an integrated world of freedom and prosperity in the Free
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went.beyond life, l~y and. the pursuit of happiness to include
·the idea. that if .you -worked hard, you would prosper.· And indeed,
year in and year out, you would grew· more prosperous. ·And i~'s
not surprifiiing 1;hat that would ha~pen. At the end of. the ·~ we
had six percent of.the world's population and 40 percent of. its
annual income.
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Now, on·· the verge· of a new century, everythbg is. ·chang!Jlg ·
·again. Indeed, it has· been changing for" some years, but now .we
are all clearly aware of it. ·The Cold War is.. over, but·. we have
even more responsibilities tp promote 'peace and· fre&dom and
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,prosperity in the world, and more apportunities to do so~. And we ·
are doing quite a 'good job of that a,s a cotin~ ·for a relatively· ·
modest investment; a decU,ning, but still substantial defense · · .·
budget, and frankly, a ·foreign assistance ·bu~get ·that· iS quite· .
· modest by any. standard.
And we have these ·incredible opportunities. People all, ·over
the world ·want .\is to hell) to bring pea~ and freedom; fr~
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Northern Ireland to So1,lthern ·,P.frioa; from the Middle East and the
Pe:rsian Gulf, to Ha.iti. ·.·Tiley look-to us to.see whether we will ·
adopt the GATT. treaty before they do ·'!"- 1:he ,biggel!lt eXpan!iion· of .
trade in the history of the ·world. They .look to us everywhere. to
see if whether we would embrace NAP'l'A. When we reached out .to ·
Asian countries, or .to the' Latin democracies, as ·we 'have. in the·
last year, people say, this .Ust be the riqht·.thlnii to do. ·Not
. because of Bill clinton, but; becauae the. United stat!'ls bas a . · · . .
vision of· the world in which people wi11 grown ·together and learn.
together and live· together •. And people will,be able to. raise.·.
their children in peace· instead of terror. and irrationality. ··
Oh to be sure, not all the. problems are filolved. We'll.bave.to !!Jtrenqthen .-international cQdperation in the years ahead, .
whether we like. it or not, anCf.. the ~vironment and ~;~o ·many other
areas. But we· are moving, fulfilling ·ow:.: .historic mission· tor . · ·
the 2_1st cent:urY•
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things, and a lot of ~di bad -things, .and .it's -confusing to ·
people. And our society is· moving ~er:y fast in.a way that .is
both exhilarating for those who ~e in a ·position to take
advantage of it, and terrifyin~ for those who are not. ·
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citizen, · and- as your President; ·whatever your party, or · · · ..
philosophy, I am convinced· that our· 'mission . on the dawn of .this :.
new century, is to make sure we. get to the .2111t century still the :
strongest country in the world, continuing .to lead'. the wor1d .·
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.toward peace, and freedom and. prosperity. An~ that here at home, . ·
·we seriously work together to keep the American dream alive, and '
to reconstitute a .sense of coDIDiunity in America based on·the · ·
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notion that we all have certain rights and we all,have certain
responsibilities as citizens. And the idea that we really are
all. in this together; that our diversity should be a source ~f
strength •. And that whenever we are divided, in artificial ways
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the 'verdict of the last ·~lecitic;n·, this ..
country is in better shape than it was two years ago. PUr
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economy is stronger. . After years- of ref~sing·. to contront our
fundamental economic problems, and just trying to. !SPend..ourselves·
out of it by quadrupling the national·~ebt ~bipartisan
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conspiracy, my party, with no help from the opposition'. has
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reduced the deficit by $700 bi~lion; $10,000 per American family.·
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is -- she gave up her seat ·in the Congress so that th~se chillh'en
would not·be·saddled with continu~ irresponsibility into'th•
'90's and the 21st Century •. (Applawie.) ·. . · ·
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And we had this historic expansion of. trade, arid 'we got ·.five
and half million new. jobs,· and that's not all bad. ·We have .8lso ··
begUn to, take. seriousli. as -~ nation our responsibilities in an· ·.
information age which . s s~ full of ~ge, ·which puts an . · . ·
enormous premium of education' to develop a·system of life-l(»ng. ·
learnlng; from .k~ds _in pre-kindergarten. programs to. people wbo . .
lose their jobs, and ·everybody in be.tween. And I'm very· proud of
that.
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We have tried to do things that. would ·bring ~e Aiteriean·
family _and the American c:sommunity back .into harmony; a.nd ..to make
.. it strorige;-. That~s what the family l~ave bi~l was·all atiout, or
immunizinq an the 'kids- in this countey under two, or the. ctime '
Bill tliat had punishment .and prevention and pol!Qe, and'. the
assault weapon's ban. That's what the welfare reform'.initiatives
were all about, and' the National seriice Bill~
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And I will· say again, people taik· ~-lot about making tough_
·choices, but let me tell you, there are about 21 iiembers. of the ·
House who gave .up their careers to. ta:ke assault weapons .. off •the
street, so at least people would have to re-load before they
could cut do~· police or ~nnocent children as bystanders.
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And they .deserve .credit ··for that..
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to reduce its size; there are 100,000 fewer people working for
your government .than there were two years ago .on th_is night.· ·
~oon·,. there·will be 300,000 fewer, and we'll .. have·the :smallest'
federa~ government since President Kennedy.was in office.
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they're doing different thingii! with less regulabion 1 ·and soon
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he is.one of 24 governors who've gotten permission· in.~e las~ .
two years to get rid of all the federal. ru~es: and- reg'ulatio~ .. ~
that keep .them from reforming the ~elfare system;_· to move·· people
from welfare.to work--. 24~ That's. more deregulation ancl_power ·
pushed' down· to the states in ~e area of welfare reform than.in
the previous 12 .years combined ,by far. We must .decentralize
authority, there is toe) .much r~lation at the national,. level on
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We also dici something that's n~t popular to taik about;
since most people think the government would mess up .a on~':"'car .
parade (-..:laughter--). We actually solved some problems that are
properly within the. public interests; tacked oil to the. trade bill
at the erid.of last year was·a reform'of the pension benefits ·
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system in ,America, . whiCh will reduce ~ two..thirds. the number of .. ·
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We reformed the. pro~ement system to end all ~e Jay ~no
jokes 1about $500 hammers ~nd $50 ashtrays. People can actually_
buy .for the government. just like you do' now.
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for years; between farmers and environmentalists over water
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old-qrowth forests in oregon; between environm~ntalists and
developers over the Everglades in Florida~ Thesf:l things ·matter.
But we have. a lot to do. The real problem in this country
is that no matter what the government does, there are.· still t'\'o .
huge things going on out there that we all have to address.as
citizens, and in government we're going to have to address.it in
a bipartisan way or·the people· won't believe .we're doing it.. one
is the phenomenon expr~ssed in the last.election and.what is now
popularly become known as·the angry white male. ~ow, let me tell
you, there is a very good reason for that. The average male
worker·in America who is over 25 and doesn't have .a college
deqree, is working longer work•hours for·a lowez; income than. he
was making 15 years ago; sleeping an average of anh.our a night
less, paying more for health care, housing a.nd education,
therefore, having muCh less. disposable ~ncome.
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You want to know why they ,voted against us? .Well, here·'·s
what the story they were told. The guy~ he's thinking, I'm
working harder, making less money, don't. have enough. money·· to ·
take my family on vacation, I'm dead tired~ all I see are rising
crime rates, the government is spending half my money on welfare. .
and foreign·aid, .the first thing clinton did was try to put. gays ·
in the military, and now they're trying to come get my g-Un •.· I ··
believe I'll. vote against them~ (Laughter .and applause.) Now
that's what's going on-- a perfectly.rational Choice.
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The. point I'm trying to make is this: most of us arewinners in this global economy,. mo,st of 'us . are winners .in the
!~formation age; most of us are winners .in .the ~omplete .·
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decentralization and the explosion of<different optionsacross
every area· of life.. But a lot 'of people tonight are going· to
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bring this New Year in with knots in their bellies.· And'they are
.good people. They are working,hard. ~ey are playing by the
rules. They have chil'dren that look like this~ They will be .at
church tomorrow morningwhen.the .doors open, .and they are scared
· to death.
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Another' million of your country-men and women~· in working'
families, lost thei1= health care last year -- 1~ 1. million of
them. And ·l; might say, parentbetically, anybody who ~ows the
firfilt thing ~out America~ history. --.modern ·Ame:i:ican history:-couldn't be too surprised at.the.reverse plastic surgery don~ on
1;.he health proposal I .made, and .its major proponents, my dear· .
wife and me. Harry Truman was at 80 percent in· the polls when he
dropped the bomb on l!ap~n,·and·two years later when he sent.
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health care to the conqress for the second time, was at 36. And
the trend:is definitely related to what he did in ~ealth care;
.for the same. reason that happened here. But I'm still not sorry.
You ought to . be worried about the fa:ct that your· country 'is the
· . only riCh country in the world where people under 65. are 'let;~s ..
likely to be insured today than they :were 10 years ·.ago .... ·That ·.
· ought to bother you. (Applause•) , It ought to bother you th•t
this is the. only country where people under 65 who work are less .
likely to be insured tlJ,an they were ten years ago.
So these folks. have problelils. ·we've got to address them•
And'yet, we can't afford to do things that mess up the
opportunities society-- that the rest of us are moving into.
What does that mean as we look to the future? It means that what
·we 'really need in .this country,· since we're moving into. a new
centUry with a new •et of .problems, is a new·Democratic party and.
a new RepUblican party. . It means that instead of trying to score
short-term political points, we should be worried about being .
faithful to the Founders. What can we do to. maximize the right
to pursue life, liberty and happiness?
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conditions-of community? Not a contract-- a covenant; a solemn
belief that there are certain responsibilities on all ·of us. and ·
that we are in this together. 'What c;:an: we do?
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read the Republican c~ntract, and I say tbe following: there's a
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Let's keep reducing the federal government and' devolving· .the ··, '
power to the states and the cities; we started it, but let's do
it in a sensible way. Let's give the middle class some tax
relief. They deserve a premium from the economic recovery. ~d
they never got a·break·from the end of·Cold War and the defense. ·
downsizing because the deficit. was so big •. So let's do it.'
· But let's don't get into a bi4ding war for tax .CUts, and. let
the deficit go up again.· Let's pay for everything we give them,
·dollar for dolla~. Let's don't play games. (Applause.)
. And let the main focus be. the future. That's why I believe
the deductibility for college education and ·other education
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expenses is the best way to cut ~xes •. Because just like we. ·let, .
pe~ple deduct home mo~ages because we-~ew home~ownership was a
part of the American dream ·at the end of World War II, I promise
you in the 21st Century, education will be more important than·
home-ownership to the American dream·-- far more. (Applause.-) ·
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Let's reform w~lfare, but let's don't have this notion that
we're we're going to punish poor people because they're ·welfare
cheats.; I've spent lots of time with peopie on· welfare; most .of. ;•
them want to get off• ·so let's have a bi~isan ··col\sensus. we· •
want to. move peop:Le from welfare to WQrk, . from dependent tp. .
independel\ce, from casual child-bearing to ~esponsible parenting.
That's what we want. to· do. And if Am~iCIUl$ can't agree on that ..
across party lines, they're going to have
liard time agreeiJig on
anything. · s.o let's. not play cheap political gqes. · Let's just
do it, and do it right.
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step at a time beca~ae:Americans really don't trust us.~·bave.
comprehensive solutions, even · to Qompreheilsive problems. so ·~et
people digest it as we go along: so no one thinks ~e government
is trying to do something it can't do. . .
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Most important c;»f all, let's aJlallenge the American peopie
to have their own commitments to edQcation, to citizenship, ~o· ·.
engagement in the woJ:ld and to community.· It•svery hard for
people to be citizens today, beca~se the work of citizenship is
different than it. used to be. · I ask all of you to think _about.
this. Everybody my age· and· up at least,. ·we were raised."andeducated in a certain way. Most of us were taught from early
chil,.dhoodi right from wrong, ~d then taugh~ .some ·reasoning. And
we learned to read, and then we got a --.I cUd anyWay -- got. my
fi-rst little Library Card, and I'd go to the library and I · · .
learned how to; ·before computers, learn bow to look through all
those cards in the card .catalogue, and I'd go get info~tion.·. ·
And that's ·still what a· lot of education is abOut: go 9et
informati~n --'with a certain value J;»ase and an'intm::na.l capacity
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What: is.,the wo~k 'of citizenship tOday? .. All t:hat.is turned ..
on its head. You g~t people, a lot• :Of whom don't ha~e an~ing
1lke the average education you see in this. room, but they're good
people and they. want. to do the right thing,· and they· want to, lliake ·
good decisions tor· themselves 8nd their· chil4ren~. · They're .. ·. ·
working harder,· sleeping less, full of. anxiety. . ~d how do they
get -their citizenship info~tion? .~t rains;down "on th~ l~e ·a·
hailstorm in ways .designed to raise thei:t" anxiety level', and· not
just on ta~ radio, in ways guaranteed to·make them more ·' ·:
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First, to tell truth from falsehood. Second, to tell whatfs ·
important 'from what's unimportant.· ~ird; to tell'. what's fair
from what is twisted. · It's hard work.
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decisions down to.the state and local level is, the closer these
problems are· to people; the harder it is . to.· sp!'ok them ·and run
them,up a tree, and have them vote against their own interests-.
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communities. It i's J10t easy to be a ,9'ood citizen as a voter . ·
today.·
The .second thing' I will ·say is, in your community, there is·
no way to end this increasing inequal~ty and. this increasing ..
·anxiety unless we give every single person access' to education .
fOJ:' a lifetime. . (Applause.). .There is nothing the President ·can
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Too much of the work· done in Alll4Jlrii:::a can be done .by: machines
or done overseas by people who live on wages .we can't. live on •. ·
·The only way we can .lift everyone's standard o~ l:i.ving is. if we
can literally can change·the habits of American people so .there
is a constant stream of education. It doesn't mean they have to
leave the.factory, that doesn't mean we can't compete in ·
producing anything in the world, it just means that we have to
have a continuous increase in productivity.
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The last two things I want to say. ~e.this: I'm going .to
.have a heck of.. a time in ·this c;:oming congress; preserving . ., ·· . .
America's contributions to world' peacekeeping --.. I understand one
of my advisors, this afternoon,· talked about. tlult~ People are·
!saying we ought to· qet out of Haiti quicker than we. need- to go.
Folks, that is a mh-acle, what's happened in .Haiti.· (Applause.)
And we did the riq'ht thing. · But it's still a desperately poor
place with no·infrastructure.· I would plEJad with you, witho~t
regard to· your party •-. because I have .a lot ~f RepUblicans ,
supp'Orting me on· ·i;his -- when 'you go. ~ome, talk to your f:i:'ien~ .
and neighbors'about ~ow if America doesn't_ldad·•- we can't solve
every problem. in the world. -- ·the Europeans. have taken the lead
.on Bosnia~ and.I'm not sure any~y could ~ave •olv~ it, but at
least it hasn't spread and tliere's some reason for hope that . this,
New Year is prime. _But ·we, have ·to stay involved. '
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·you is this: ~e have to hav_e a renewed sense o~ community in :
this country; a sense· Qf respect for one ano~er ~ a. sense· of . .
limits on p'Qblic c;iebate. -We have tO give each oth~ a. chance-~
· succeed and a change .to work together and qrow toge~er and learn.
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often.that 'the process of making ·these. decisions is'about.as .
important as·t.he.ultimate proc;iuctin the wo~ld_we're living_ in.
And people have to be required to take responsibility for. things
of common import-. We have. a lot of oapitd in this country; we ..
have. a lot ofphysical·capital ,in this country; we have a .lot of
human capital in .this oountry, ed~~tion and all. But we have to.
have more social capital, more networks,. more. things like the·
Cities and Schools· Proqram; or 'Habitat for Humanity, where. peopl,.e
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. But. we also ought to be able to make other decisiops with
the same ·sort of· spirit· and across the :sam.e sort of · iines as
people do when .they go build a· house;, . B.ecause make no mistake .·
about it, every day in _some way or another, "e are .building ·
America's house.for the future.: -And if we.·look ~or.ways·to be
divided, one from the other,: just so we can win the next··
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election, we may ch~ge the•peopie who ~e in power~ but -W~ wonl·t
build the hous.e. · :I believe. as. str~ngly a.s :I can ~a:y, that the
beSt c;iays. Of this country are befc;»re US.: :I think these kids .are .
going to have a future that· those of us who are over .40 literally·.
cannot .imagine ..;_ if we build ·a hou~e·, _and if we remember, after
all this long time~ it is still about life, liberty and the·
pursuit of happiness. By the qrace of God, Happy New Year.·
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
December 15, 1994
For Immediate Release
ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO THE NATION
The Oval Office
9:00P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. My fellow Americans, ours
is a great country with a lot to be proud of. But at this holiday
season, everybody knows that all is not well with Americai that
millions of Americans are hurting, frustrated, disappointed, even
angry.
.In this time of enormous change, our challenge is both
political and personal. It involves government~ all right, but it
goes way beyond government, to the very core of what matters most to
us. The question is, what are we going to do about it?
Let's start with the 1economic situation. I ran for
President to restore the American Dream·and to prepare the American
people to compete and win in· the new American economy. For too long,
too.many America~s have worked longer for stagnant'wages and less
security •. For two years, we pursued .and economic strategy that has
helped to .. produce over five million n~w jobs. But even though the
economic statistics are moving up, most of our living s~andards
aren't. It's almost as if some Americans are being punished for
their productivity in this new economy. We've got to change that.
More jobs .aren't enough. We have to raise incomes.
Fifty years ago, an American president proposed the G.I.
Bill of· Rights, to help returning veterans from World War II go to
college, buy a home, and raise their .children. That built this '
country. Tonight, I propose~ Middle Class Bill of·Rights.
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First, college tuition should be tax deductible. Just as we make
mortgage interest tax deductible because we want people to own their
own·homes, we should make college tuition deductible because we want
people to go to college.
Specifically, I propose that all tuition for college,
community college, graduate school, professional school, vocational
education or worker retraining after high school be fully deductible,
phased up to,$10,000 a year for families making up to $120,000 a
year. Education, after all, has a bigger impact on earnings and job
secu,rity than ever before •. So let;s invest the fruits of today's
recovery into tomorrow's opportunity·.
Second, bringing up a child is a tough job in this
economy. So we should help middle-class families raise their
children. We made a good start last year by passing .the Family Leave
Law., making college loans more affordable, and by giving $15 million
American families with incomes of $25,000 a year or less an average
tax cut of more than $1,000 a year.
Now, I want to cut taxes for each child under 13, phased
up to $500 per child. This tax cut would be available to any family
whose income is less than $75,000.
Third, we should help middle-income people save money by
allowing every American family earning under $100,000 to. put $2,000 a
year tax-free in an IRA,, an Individual Retirement Acc.ount.
But I
want you to be able to use the money to live on,-not just retire on.
You' 11 be able to withdraw frpm th.is fund, tax-free -- money for
education, ~edical expenses, the purchases of a first home, the care
of an elderly parent.
·Fourth, since every American needs the skills necessary
to prosper in the new economy -- and most of you will change jobs
from time to time -- we should take the billions o~ dollars the
government now spends on dozens of different training programs and
give it directly to you, to pay for training if you lose your j"ob or
want a better one.
We can pay for this Middle Class Bill of' Rights by
continuing to reduce government spending, including subsidies to
powerful interests based,more on influence than need. We can sell
,off entire operations the government no longer needs to run, and turn
dozens of programs over to states and communities that know best how
to solve their own problems.
My plan will save billions of dollars from the Energy
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Department, cut down the Transportation Department, and shrink 60
programs into four at the Department of Housing and Urban
Development. Our reinventing government initiative, led by Vice
President Gore, already has helped to shrink bureaucracy and free up
money to pay down the deficit and.invest in our people. Already,
we've passed budgets .to reduce the federal government to its smallest
size in 30 years, and to cut the deficit by $700 billion. That's
·over $10,000 for every American family.
In the next few days,· we'll unveil more of our
proposals. And I've instructed the Vice President to review every
single government department program for further reductions.
We've worked hard. to get control of this deficit after
the government debt increa:sed four times over in the 12 years before
I took office. That's a big burden of you. About five percent of
your income tax goes to pay for welfare and foreign aid, but 28
percent of it goes to pay for interest on the debt run up between
1981 and the day I was inaugurated president. I challenge the new
Congress to work with me to enact a Middle Class Bill of Rights
without adding to the deficit and wit,hout any n~w cuts in Social
Security or Medicare.
I know some people just want to cut the government
blindly, and I know that~s popular now. But I won't do it. I want a
leaner, not a meaner government, that's back on the side of hardworking Americans; a new government for the new economy -- creative,
.flexible, high quality, low cost, service oriented
just like our
most innovative private companies.
I'll work with the new Republican majority and my fellow
Democrats in Congress to build a new American economy and to restore
the American Dream. It won't be easy. Believe you me, the special
.interests have not gone into hiding just because there was an
election in November. As a matter.of fact, they're up here stronger
than e~er. And that's why, more than ever, we need lobby reform,
campaign finance r.eform and reform to make Congress live by the laws
.it puts on other people.
Together, we can pass welfare reform and health care
reform that work. I'll say more about what I'll do to work with the
new Congress in the State o.f the Union address in January.
But here's what I won't do. I won't support ideas that
sound good, but aren't paid for -- ideas that weaken the progress .
we've made in the previous two years for working families; ideas that
hur.t poor people who. are doing their dead-.level best to raise their
kids and work their way into the middle class;. ideas that undermine
our fight against crime, or for a clean environment, or for better
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schools, or .for the strength and well-being of our Armed Forces in
foreign policy. _In other words, we must be straight·with the
American people about the real consequences of all budgetary
decisions.
My test will ,be: Does an idea expand middle class
incomes and opportunities? ,Does it promote values like family, work
responsibility and community? Does it cont'ribute to strengthening
the new economy? If it does, I'll be for it, no matter who proposes
it. And I hope Congress will treat my ideas the same way. Let's
worry about making progress, _not taking credit.
But our work in Washington won't be enough. And that's
where you come in. This all starts with you. Oh, we can cut taxes
and expand opportunities, but governments can't raise your children,
go to school for you, give your employees who have earned it a raise,
or solve problems in your neighborhood that require your personal
commitment.. In short, government can't exercise your citizenship.
It works the other way·around.
The proplems of this new world_are complicated, and
we've all got a lot to learn. That means citizens have to listen as
well as talk. We need less hot rhetoric and more open conversation;
less malice., and more charity. We need to put aside the politics of
personal destruction and demonizatio~ that have dominated too much of
our debate. Most of us are good people trying tc;> do better. And' if
we all treated each other that way, we would do better. We have got
to be a community again.
- Yes, some people do take advantage of the rest of us
- by breaking the law, abusing the welfare system, and flaunting our
immigration laws. That's wrong, and I'm working to stop it. But the
truth is that most people in this country, without regard to their
race, their religion, their income, ~heir po,sition on divisive
issues, most Americans get up every day, go to work, obey the law,
pay their taxes and raise their kids the best they can. And most of
us share the same real challenges in this new economy. We'll do a
lot better job of meeting those challenges if we work together and
find unity and strength in our diversity.
We do have·more in common~ more uniting us than dividing
us. And if we start acting like it, we can face the future with
confidence. I still believe. deeply that there is nothing wrong with
America that can't be fixed by what's right with America. This' is
not about politics as· usual,. As I've said for years, it's not about
moving left or right, 'but- moving forward( not _about government being
bad or. good, but about what kind of government will best enable us to
fulfill our God-given potential. And it's not ·about the next
election, either. That's t'n your hands.
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rule for the next two years will be: Country first and politics as
usual dead last. I hope the new Congress will follow the same rule.
And I hope you will, too.
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This country works best when it works together. For
decades, after World War .II, we gave more and more Americans a chance
to live out their dreams. I know -- I'm blessed .to be one of them.
I was born to a widowed mother at a time when my state's income was
barely half the national average; the first person in my family to
finish college, thanks to money my parents couldn't really afford -scholarships, loans, and a half a dozen jobs. It breaks my heart to
see people with their own dreams for themselves and their children
shattered. And I ',m going to do all I can to turn it around. But I
need your help. We can do it.
I
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With all of our problem~, this is still the greatest
country in the world-- standing not.at the twilight, but at the dawn
of our greatest days. We still have'a lot to be·thankful for. Let's
all remember that.
Happy holidays, and God bless America.
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Fraudulent enlistment earns Medal of Hono1
Editar' S DOll: The lo&Wilills pan of I ClllldDuiDg series
CQIDJDttmoradDa \be SOda aDIIMr.iar)' or World War D.
tCpl. K.aith l<luwe
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MArine PPC. Jnc:klyn •Jack" l.IIClll. !he.
or Hcmot ..VU..In dto hiatol)' ot Dill' Corps.
Luc~ -.,m WI Medal tour da)l aflar his !11h birthday oa the
ISland oflwo 1in14 wl\lln N jumped o"*' his col2lri1Cb. oa 1ep
or 1'6'0 lapa&IE!N paada.
•f &IOW«lllll<'lY whtn! was 16," said Luc:Ol.~. •1 wasn't
dlinlo.'lnq ~borll ll~. tn filet, { uidn 't tYrn kilO"' wMI eM
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~\'1\~':li 111u.ltr lllm~l!. Lu.:lcily anly nrld rxploclcd.~:<>ntroll')'
,,, ,,,pular btlwf ould lhe hisc~ l.laoks.
":->o on~ a.'tkcd whcll\er or""' bolh weDt off." Sl\iu L.UC&S iD
~ rt~l!\11 Ullo=l"olt\lo' ·t jlltl&ped on bolft if~ but uuly one:
"'~ttt:.l't'. Wbtna COJ:teftlOI&lrU'IIllnouo ~pa5ition.l DCIUccd
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aiel be was 1'7. n.a l'wfilrinc c:acps clill:ovlftd Luca.s' ap wboo
miliwy ~1!11Scn rGW ~ Idler 1D his 15-year..,td piCrien.i,
Luc;~~wem AbMtlt Wid~Dut Leave (AWOL.l after t'bld1ng
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President Harry Truman presents the Medal of Honor to Marine PFC. Jac.ldyn •Jac:k" Lucas on
Ocn. &, 1MS at the White House. Lucas was one of three Marfnea who sui'Yived jumping on a
Japanese hand grenacle during World War fl.
II nlllbr '~~~~7 111 Uawall. OIJC¥ o.1n Hay,;Uj,i.aK:sa wu mVolftd dolllft 10 10 aAd uaJam II, 1'here ~ 1wa pnad.rl.b}'in& a1
In 17 R$hl$oJL 11 snlgtlllibenir:s. CD Ills 18thllberty,l.ucu my tees. so ( hoUaaf 'penadas!'
•t j\lmlllllll 0111 inlo lba voiCIIlic ash which r:ovlftel tt.
w:JS !in.'\lly thre'"11 tbc bris. fl!f nwre t!laa 10 ...111. ror
lalazld.IIIG JNibld ~be ollla ane buo lha hole aDd }wuplli oa
treatlns lip' MWic.
After M was r.l~ (cOB\ lhe ll.lflhad&aD Ilia penadtsCGIIlCillt\1 IMIZUICh.l•ollld !Qvc
bri&. Luc111 stole ;atNek to pic:k up ba\1 li~ 10 tbftJw tNII\out., bioi\ lberc W:t~~>'t UIUI:.
•Wbm il wcat d. ll blew me gQICI RlY bll<:k.. 1\Dd my
kep of bider In K0110lUiu. Ke IIIllS
Slopped by an MP Nld acnt back to ~ lboupl 1 was dt.ad. so !bey left "'"' 1hn 1111 klpl
a1tacking diG Japs," c:au:lr~ued Luc:11
"'Nobody QIDe back for me i111llltdi.'\~ly, bUII"fatUalLy :a
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caustd so. o'uch &rouble
beealllle I wanted lhon11u sbaD~MI MariDe ream IIISJ1ha lllllt cliacovr::tv\1 me Ulli o::\llcll for •
COrpiiiiiiAol WU C~icna lhroUJ.h lM wMlt (IVCnl. ''
lilt out 1nto bDttlt... be explained.
'1111 U!lle ragtd Oil wtalie LuCl\111~)' Ibm W~d ~
•Sui it dldn 't \lll)rk. ~
Lucas bad lo SIO"' ao~~ay oa a lldplaBIIIIII:IIhl!r auact _... made on his !X'sitiun.
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110op ship lb.11 "'llS baadtd 10 11110
Jinaa. By tate, hi& 11"'usln, Samuel
LIIQ;JSandliCvClt!J Clf'hb Cri~ncls Wen:
IJ:rn un boar«S ~1\1 nt.'UlD81td 10 saeak
rood to hlln
durills lhc 29·
day voy.1ge.
Thcda.r !Ntlh~
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"When It went oft, it blew me o.nto my
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dead, so they left me there ancl.kept at·
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(QrpulliiiL J WU CCIGIII;Io\ls Wollgh 1M Wl~e t!Y(IU."
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b.tlrlea 1r IIIIOihcr 1\Uick ..,_ nloiiCk oa Ills po:1nion.
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lima. B~ t~1e. hi$ .:1)115111. Santuel a~apainl: INo a laPMeaesoldltr who &ned 10 lhrow ~pam
"8111 ll didn :1 wurk. •
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Lva:u ;utd~~tvornl o(hi:l Crir.ulls 111m
al:.n 1111 boucJ ~tcJ m•ulliJed to sneak
Cooci 10 him
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"When it went off, it blew me onto my
back. and my buddies thought I was
dead, so they left D\1 there and kept at·
tacking the Japs."
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and spUtll open..
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oa Feb.''· J94S.
laa:a lpiRIIbDCISI I J lllOIIIAs in 1M bosplla.l I!CO"'::inf
l.uc:as* his fin: ICUIIII'CI'IIIell& hill llis IIIOIDit.
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avoid being enveloped. to withdraw successfully and to Bi"e otbor
forces coming up in suppon time to build a line Ylhich repelled the
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RGnlc Gild. orgGniltttloll: Pri,ate Flrst Class, U.S. Marine Corps
Rcser~e. 1st Battalion. 26th Marines, Sth Marine Division. PI~~ Gild
dGr•: two Jim a. Volcano Islands, 20 February 194S. E11r•r•d. s~rvict 41 •
Norfolk. Va. Bor11: 14 february 1928. Plymouth. N.C. Ciunion: f'o~
conspicuous aallanlry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and
beyond the call of duty whiJe senoing wlth the 1st Battalion, ZC!ith
Marines. Sth Marine Division. durin1 action apinst enemy Japanese
forces on two Jima, Volcano Islands. 20 February 1945. While creep.
ins throu1h a treacherous, twis'Cina ravine which ran in close proximity
to a fluid and uncertain frontline on D-plus·l day, Pfc. Lucas and 3
other men were suddenly ambushed by a hostile patrol which savaaely
anackc:d with ritle firo and srenades. Quick to act when the live, of
the smallaroup were endangered by 2 srenades which landed direttly
in front of them. Pf~. Lucas unhesiutingly hurled himself over his
comrades upon 1 grenade and pulled the other under him. absorbing
the whole blastin& forces of the explosions in his own body in order to
shield his companions from the concussion and murderous flying frag.
men.ts. By his inspiring action and valiant spirit of self·sa~riftce, he not
only protected his comrades from certain Injury or possible death but
also enabled them to rout the Japanese patrol and continue the advance. His exceptionally courageous initiative and loyalty reflect the
highest credit upon Pfc. Lucas and tha U.S. Naval Service.
•LUMMUS, JACK
RPic oNl orBGr&ir.tUior~: Firs'C Lleutenan'C. U.S. Marine Coil)• Reserve,
Sor11: 22 Octobar 191 S. Ennie, Tex. ApptJillttd from: Texas. CitAtion:
for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at· the risk or hls life above
and beyond the call of ducy u leader or a RiOe Platoon attached to
the 2d Battalion. 17th Marines. Sth Marine Di'lision. in action against
enemy Japanese forces on two Jima In the Volcano Islands. 8 March
1945. Resuming his assault tactics whh bold decision after fighting
'lllhhout respite for 2 days and nights. lst Lt. Lummus slowly advanced
his pla'Coon against an enemy deeply entrenched in a network of mu•
tually supponina positions. Suddenly halted by a terrific concentration
of hostile fire. he ~.&nhesitatinJ)y moved forward of his front lines in an
effort to neutrall"&e the Japanese position. Althoush knocked to the
ground when an enemy grenade e~ploded close by. he immediately
recovered himself and, again moving forward despite the intensified
barrage, quickly located, attacked, and destroyed the occupied emplacement. Instantly taken under fire by the sarrison of a supponina
pillbox and further assailed by 'Che slashing fl.lr)' of hostile rifle fire, he
fell under the impact of a second enemy grenade but. courageously
disrcgardins painful shoulder wounds, staunchly continued his heroic
l·man assauh and charged the second pUlbox, annihilating all the oc·
cupanu. Subsequently returning to his platoon position, he fearlessly
uavencd his lines under fire, encouraging his men to advance and
directing th
Japanese e•
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. al'ld killed t:
Jc.J his men
with hi& ca
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leudership 1
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solidation of
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TELBFAXNO.:
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�THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
December 19, 1994
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT,
AND THE VICE PRESIDENT,
OMB DIRECTOR ALICE RIVLIN,
SECRETARY OF HUD HENRY CISNEROS,
SECRETARY OR TRANSPORTATION FEDERICO PENA,
DEPUTY SECRETARY OF ENERGY BILL WHITE,
GSA DIRECTOR ROGER JOHNSON,
OPM DIRECTOR JIM KING
ON THE MIDDLE CLASS BILL OF RIGHTS
Room 450
Old Executive Office Building
12:13 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Last week I outlined my proposal for a Middle
Class Bill of Rights to help the American people restore the American
Dream. The G.I. Bill after World War II gave a generation of Americans
a chance to build their own lives and their own dreams. Now we can help
a new generation of hardworking people get the right education and
skills, raise their children, and keep their families strong so that
they can get ahead in the new American economy.
I want to take just a moment to remind you of the four features
in that Bill of Rights. First, for a family making less than $120,000,
the tuition they pay for post-secondary education, training and
retraining would be fully deductible from a taxable income, phased up to
$10,000 a year.
Second, for a family with an income of $75,000 a year or less, a
tax cut phased up to $500 a year for every child under the age of 13.
Third, for families with incomes under $100,000 a year, the ability to
put away $2,000 tax-free into an IRA, and then withdraw that money taxfree for a cost of education, health care, first-time home, or the care
of an elderly parent.
Finally, we will make billions of dollars available that the
�government normally spends itself through separate job-training programs
directly to workers, who can decide on how best to use the money to
learn new skills.
There is only one reason we can afford to do this at this time.
We have worked very hard to cut government spending and to bring the
deficit under control. The government debt increased by four times
during the 12 years before I took office. I want to remind you what
that burden means; it means that this April when people make out their
checks to the government, 28 cents of every dollar of federal income tax
will be necessary to pay interest on the debt accumulated between 1981
and the day I was inaugurated. It is our responsibility to turn that
around, and we have been working to fulfill it. We have already passed
budgets that cut the deficit by $700 billion, eliminate 100 government
programs and cut over 300 others.
A major part of this endeavor has been the Reinventing
Government Initiative, led by the Vice President. I have worked hard to
reduce and to redirect governments for many years, since my early days
as governor of my state, when we were one of the first states in the
country to adopt a statewide total quality management program, which
resulted in cutting regulation and paperwork, eliminating agencies and
departments and programs that were unnecessary. Now we are cutting
things that can be cut. We propose to stop doing things that government
doesn't do very well and that don't need to be done by government. And
we believe that we should increase our efforts where government can make
a real positive difference in the lives of ordinary Americans.
We have
to change yesterday's government and make it work for the America of
today and tomorrow.
In the last two years, we have made a good beginning. We have
begun to shrink the federal government's bureaucracy to its smallest
size in 30 years. The work force of the federal government is already
almost 100,000 below where it was on the day we were inaugurated. We
are on the way to a reduction of 272,000 positions -- cuts that are
freeing up money to invest in our people. For example, every dollar
that goes to fund the crime bill, which is a direct transfer of
investment to our local communities at the grass-roots level, comes from
the cuts we are making.
Later today, at the Justice Department, I will announce new
efforts under the crime bill to finish our commitment of putting 100,000
more police officers on the street, and stop the crime that punishes so
many American families.
We have to continue to meet our responsibilities to the next
generation. We must pay, therefore, for the Middle Class Bill of
Rights, with new reductions in government spending, dollar for dollar
spending cuts to pay for tax cuts, with no new cuts in Medicare and
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�Social Security. I call on Congress to meet that same responsibility in
their deliberations.
Our administration has just completed a review in which we have
identified $24 billion in cuts in bureaucracy, red tape, and outmoded
programs to help to do this. And we are committed to continuing the
freeze on discretionary spending, which will save another $52 billion in
the next five-year budget cycle.
We will do even more to shrink yesterday's government. I have
called on the Vice President to review every single government program
and department for further possible reductions. He's also going to
review the federal regulatory process, and we have spent a good deal of
time on that already, so that we can get better results for the public
with less interference in their lives.
Vice President Gore is here to discuss the details of our next
round of proposals in reinventing government, along with Director Alice
Rivlin and the heads or representatives of five agencies in which we are
proposing reductions now, including Secretary Cisneros, Secretary Pena,
Deputy Secretary White, General Services Administration Director Roger
Johnson, and Office of Personnel Management Director Jim King. I want
to thank them and our entire economic team for their hard work in the
last few weeks.
I also want to say a special word of thanks to people who often
get overlooked in this, and that is the employees of the United States
government. The work they have done in the last two years to help us to
reduce the size of the federal work force by 100,000 already; to
implement plans to take it down to a total of 212,000, and even more,
with the announcements we are making today -- that work is truly
exemplary. It would be envied by many of our biggest corporations in
this country. They have ro~led up their sleeves, they have been
creative, they have found ways for us to save taxpayer money and
redirect that into the Middle Class Bill of Rights and to investing in
our future.
This has been -- I want to emphasize -- a very disciplined,
well-organized process. We have not let rhetoric and recklessness
dominate it. This has been about reality. And, again, as we go into
the New Year, that ought to be our motto, as I said the other night:
country first, politics as usual dead last; focus on reality, not
rhetoric and not recklessness.
It is not enough to cut government just for the sake of cutting
it. Government is not inherently good or bad. In a new time, with a
new economy, with new demands on ordinary American families, we need a
leaner, but not a meaner, government. We need to put government back on
the side of hardworking Americans.
�That means I will oppose certain cuts if they undermine our
economic recovery, undermine middle-class living standards, undermine
our attempts to support poor people who are doing their best to raise
their children and want to work their way into the middle class,
undermine our attempts to improve education, protect our environment and
move us into the future with a high-wage, high-growth economy.
As I said last Thursday night, what we really need is a new
American government for this new American economy in the 21st century
one that is creative and flexible; that's a high-quality, low-cost
producer of services that the American people need and that can best be
provided at the national level. The best thing we can do in this
process is to follow the model that smart companies have done, which is
to develop a good plan, put good people in charge and pursue the goal
with vigor.
I am confident that I chose the right person to lead the
reinventing government effort. I want to thank the Vice President and
all of his team. They have done wonderful work. And I'd like now to
turn the podium over to Vice President Gore.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Michael Kharfen
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GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE SECTOR WORK TOGETHER
TO HELP MORE CBZLDREN GET PERMANENT BOMBS
Sixty-two awards totaling almost $7 million have been made for
demonstration projects to improve adoption practices, eliminate
barriers to adoption, and find permanent homes for children,
particularly those with special needs, HHS Secretary Donna E.
Shalala announced today.
Increased adoptions of minority children, parent groups for
adopted children with special needs, and recruitment of respite
providers for adoptive families of children with emotional or
physical disabilities are among the uses of new grant funds.
"Moving children from foster care to loving families is a
priority of the Administration for Children and Families," said Mary
Jo Bane, assistant secretary for children and families.
adoption works
"We know
for the children and the adoptive parents --
and
it is our goal to make these connections possible for as many
families and children as we can."
The demonstrations will include outreach through video, radio,
newspaper, and billboards to single parents and older couples; a
"buddy system" to link waiting families with those who have already
adopted; parent recruiters as well as religious, community,
professional and business groups assisting in outreach through
adoption articles in company publications, adoption fairs, and
gospelfests; individualized recruitment packages for each child
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which are_culturally and linguistically appropriate; teen-age
volunteers as respite caregivers for adopted children with severe
disabilities; handbooks for adoptive parents; and a children's
lending library of adoption literature.
currently, there are more than 452,000 children in foster care
in the United States and the numbers are growing.
It is estimated
that approximately half of the 50,000 children currently free for
adoption and awaiting placement are minority children.
Many of them
are older, some are in sibling groups, some have disabilities and
they may wait long periods of time before they are placed with
adoptive families.
"Helping state agencies and parent groups to promote and
support adoption is an important part of our efforts to make life
better for children in need of a home," said Olivia Golden,
commissioner for the administration for children, youth, and
families.
"Children legally available for adoption deserve the
opportunity to live with parents who love and care for them. We want
to do everything we can to increase the numbers of individuals able
to adopt these children and to support and strengthen these newly
created families."
A list of grant recipients is available.
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ADOPTIVB PARBIJT GROUP PROJBCTS
Hr.
William B. salinas
Executive Director
Indian Child and Pamily
services
43094 Via Dos Picoa, suite c
Temecula, Calif. 92590
. . • Kathryn •• Karp
Proqraa Director
JIY 'IURII BOW
2 Peachtree street
Atlanta, Ga. 30303
Mr. Joe Kroll,BKe. Dir.
Borth American council on
Adoptable Children
970 RaJilOnd #10,
st. Paul, KiDD. 5114-1149
xa. Sharon Wasson, be.Dir.
Michigan ~oater/adoptive
Pareat Association
4'01 w. saginaw Bway, suite
Lallaiag, Mich. 48917
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PIBLD IBITXATBD ADOPTION PROJECTS
xs. carolyn Johllaoa
Executive Director
Rational Adoption center
1500 Walnut street Suite 701
Philadelphia, Pa. 19102
xa. by Toran Adaiaiatrator
xs. carolyn Colvin
Secretary
Maryland Department of
Resources
311 w. saratoga street
Baltimore, Kd. 21201
11r.
HUman
Ks. Dixie van de Plier Davis
President
Adoption BKchanqe Association
925 South Hiaqara Street
suite 100
Denver, Colo. 80224
Childraa•a services Division
500 sumaer street
salea, ora. 97310
Joe Kroll be. Dir.
Borth beriCaD Council on
Adoptable Childrea
970 Ra~oad Aveaue suite 10'
st. Paul, Killll. 55114
xr.
Gerould A. ward, Jr.
BKecutive Director
United Methodist Paaily
services of Virginia
715 Baker Road suite 201
Virqinia Beach, Va. 234,2-1002
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ADOPTION PROJBCTS
xr.
Bill s. l'ife
Principal Chief
xusooqee (Creek) Nation
Div of Child ' l'amily serv
P.o. Boz 580
Okmulqee, Okla. 4447
Jlr.
Ks. Bl!:»a xontalvo
EXecutive Director
committee for Hispanic
Child;en-:>
C""and J'iiiilies
140 wast 22nd street
Bew York, N.Y. 10011
Jlr.
Hr. J'rederick B. Phillips
Jlr.
EXecutive Director
Proqressive Life Center, Ina.
Office of Child Placement
1123 11th street, •·•·
washinqton, D.c. 20001
Kr. Boward Garval
EXecutive Viae President
The Villaqe for J'amilies and
Children, Inc.
1680 Albany Avenue
Hartford, conn. 06105
UKAilfr~
llrDesto Loperena
Bzeoutive Director
B. Y. council on Uopta))le
Children, Xno.
666 Broadway suite 820
Bev York, B.Y. 10012
J're4 Cbaffee
BKeoutive Director
&risona Children'• Boae
Association
P.O. Boz 7277
~oaon, &ris. 85725-7277
Boward D. Deuon
President Board of Directors
Respond, Xno.
951 Jeanerette Drive
st. Louis, xo. 63130
. . • Judith Goodhalld
Bzeoutive Director
Adoption and Pera&Denoy
Pl&DDiDq
cuyahoqa Departllent of
Children and l'amily services
3955 Buolid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
�~BORITY
ADOPTIOB PROJBCTS COBTIHUBD
Ks. J. Toni Oliver
Executive Director
ROOTS
6600 014 Bational Highway
College Park, Ga. 30349
xr. John a. Koch
xs. Lin4a J. Bisele
Bzeoutive Director
Chil4ren Unltaite4, Inc.
P.O. Boz 11463
Columbia, s.c. 29211
Hr. JobD A. Wilson, Pres.
Hr. Robert G. Levis
Hr. Ricbar4 Collato Pres
Ks. Rachel oesterle
Bzeoutive Director
Ai4 To A4option of Special Ki4s
234 Borth central Avenue
Suite 127
Phoenix, Ariz. 85004
Ka. Verna Gallagher, Director
adoption Ministries of
Mississippi, Inc.
P.O. Boz 20346
Jackson, Kiss. 31281-0346
xr.
Ka. Wilma K&Dkiller,
Bzeoutive Director
Project IMPACT, IDe.
418 commonwealth Avenue
Boston, xass. 02215-2812
William G. Clark
President and CBO
Orban League of Rochester
Bew York, Inc.
265 Borth Clinton Avenue
Rochester, B.Y. 14605-1857
Director
cecil county Dept. soc
services
170 Bast MaiD street
Blkton, K4. 21121
RebaJ) IIUit Project star
1301 Borthuaberlan4 street
Pittsburgh, Pa. 15217
YXCA of san Diego county
~aaily stress center
571 '.rhir4 Avenue
Chula Vista, calif. 11110
Principal Chief
Cherokee Ration
Tribal services Department
P.O. Boz 148
Tahlequah, Okla. 74465
Ronal4 XOODI&Il
Bzeoutive Director
Child care Aasoo.Il
300 Bast Monroe suite 202
Springfiel4, Ill. 62701
Jlr.
�POST LBGAL ADOPTIOB SBRVXCBS
Mr. Richard R. O'Beil,Dir.
County of Santa Clara
Social Services Agency
1725 Technology Drive
San Jose, calif. 15110
xa. Sandra Lawrance Dir
Black &doption Consortiua,
Inc.
5010 central Highway suite 6
P8DD8aukan, B.J. 08101
xs.
Sharon D. Richardson
Executive Director
coordinators/2 Inc.
4206 Chamberlayne Avenue
Richmond, va. 23227
xr. lena "'. Oqlell))y, Jr.
Ks. ltay Toran
Administrator
Children's services Division
500 Summer street
Salam, ore. 17310
Jlr.
Dr. Arlene Goldsmith
Executive Director
Bew Alternatives for Children,
Inc.
37 West 26th Street
Hew York, B.Y. 10010
Jla.
Ms. Janice Goldwater
Executive Director
Adoptions Together, Inc.
3837 ~arraqut Avenue
Kensington, Kd. 20815
Dr. J •. Samuel Griswold
Director
Departaent of Social services
~aaily Preservation and Child
Welfare services
Post Office Boz 150
Columbia, s.c. 21202-1520
Bzecutive Director
Inatitute for Black Parenting
1120 La Cianeqa Boulevard
suite 806
Inglewood, calif. 10301
Peter salerno Pres.
Brightside, Inc.
2112 Riverdale street
West Springfield, Kass. 01081
Denise K. llaCJUire
Bzecutive Director
caabridge ~aaily and
Children•• Services
121 Massachusetts Avenue
caabridqe, Kass. 02131
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POST LEGAL ADOPTIOB SBRVXCBS COBTIBUBD
Dr. Uaa G. JaoobaJ Director
Bellefaira
22001 Pairaount Boulevard
Cleveland, Ohio 44118
xa. Beverly Jonas Director
xa. camilla D. swift
11r.
xa. Grace c. K. sua
. . • Joyce s. Lap8DD Pres
Grahaa-Windhaa aarvioaa to
Paailiaa an4 Children
33 IrvinCJ Place
••• York, B.Y. 10003
James c. Karquart, Ph. D.
Vice President
Inat for Child ' Paaily
services
10 0 Sandluul
Houston, Texas 77007
Jla.
Director of Adoptions
Little Plower Children's
Services
Borth Wading River Road
Wading River, B.Y. 11712
Executive Director
Pearl s. Buck Poundation, Inc.
P.o. Box 181, Green Billa Para
Perkasie, Pa. 18144-0181
Dapartaant of IIUII&D Services
P.O. Boz 1437
Little Rook, ark. 72203
Donald L. Taatad
Vice President
Lutheran Soc sarv of Wisconsin
and Upper JliohiCJ&n, Inc.
313' craiCJ Roa4
Bau Clara, Wia~. 54701
Janella Paterson
.Zaoutiva Director
LoviDq Boaaa, Inc.
240' Borth Grand Avenue
PUeblo, Colo. 81003-2484
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�SYKTHESIS OP POST LEGAL ADOPTIOB PROJECTS
Jolm "· McAteer
coor4iaator, university
Research
Illinoia State University
co. .unity aeaearah services
cuapua Boz 4t50
Bormal, Ill. 617t0-4tSO
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ADOPTIOB RBSPITB PROJBCTS
xr. Patrick J. Dailey CBO
xa. Peqqy Meyer Bze. Dir
Bev Haven ~oster ~aaily Agency
P.o. Boz 1111
Vista, calif. 12085-1199
RAP - Reaouraea for Adoptive
Parent•
4041 Brooltaide Avenue 8.
JliDDeapolia, JliDD. 55416
Hr.
James W. Saith
Acting Director
Departaent of HUaaD services
Div of Youth 6 ~aaily services
so Bast state Street
Trenton, B.J. 08625-0717
xr. John &arl»
Del'S Adailliatrator
Departaent of BuaaD Resouraea
Div of Child 6 ~aaily service•
3187 south Mocarran Boulevard
Reno, •ev. 81502
Ms. Margaret Mezera
Bzeautive Director
Adoptive Parent Group of South
Wisconsin, Ina.
16 •· carroll st., suite 630
Madison, Wis~. 53703
Mr. Jaaes CJ. LeCetter
Hr.
~!ice
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Bugene P. Wenninger
Provost and Dean,
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Kent state university
Research and Graduate studies
P.O. Box 5190 101 AUD
Kent, Ohio 44242-0001
Co.aissioner
Departaent of Human Resources
2 Peachtree Street
Atlanta, Ga. 30303
Mr. Williaa A. Dalton
co.aisaioner of Mental Health
and Mental Retardation
Departaent of Mental Baal th
and Mental Retardation
103 south MaiD Street
watarl»ury, vt. 05671-1601
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RBGXOHAL KIHORXTY ADOPTXOB COHPBRBBCB PROJECTS
Dixie van de Plier Davia, Dir~
The Rocky xountaiD AdoptioD
Bzcha.Dqe
925 s. Biaqara, suite 110
DeDver, Colo. 80224
Brian Anderson, Aaaoc. Dir.
Office of Reaearch Deve1opaent
B&atern Michigan UDiveraity
Ypsilanti, Mich. 48197
SuzaDDe TUrek
GraDta and CoDtracta Analyst
ODiveraity of Oklahoma
202 w. ath street
TUlsa, Okla. 74119-1419
Robert ll'Uimer be. Dir.
Borthveat Resources Associates
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Mr. Leon E. Panetta
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Dear DAa!. Panetta:
I wanted to let both you and President
Clinton know that my guest at the State of the
Union address will be Ken Davis, the Marylander
who tackled Francisco Duran while he was shooting
at the White House.
I hope that President Clinton will be able to
recognize Mr. Davis during the State of the Union
address. Should you need any further information,
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ne to time, appear necessary or requisite;
V. Whereas in all other Things, we relire the said General Assembly, as also the
id Council of State, to imitate and follow
,e Policy of the Form of GovernmentlWS, Customs, and Manner of Trial, and
her Administration of Justice, used in the
ealm of England, as near as may be, even
; ourselves, by his Majesty's Letters Patent,
:e required.
VI. Provided, that no Law or Ordinance,
tade in the said General Assembly, shall be
r continue in Force or Validity, unless the
1me shall be solemnly ratified and conrmed in a General Quarter Court of the
lid Company here in England and so ratied be returned to them under our Seal;
t being our Intent to afford the like Meas·
ere also unto the said Colony, that after
he Government of the said Colony shall
·nee have been well framed, and settled
.ccordingly, which is to be ?one ~Y Us, as
'Y Authority derived from hts MaJesty, and
he same shall have been so by Us declared,
1o Orders of Court afterwards shall bind
Lhe said Colony, unless they be ratified in
tike Manner in the General Assemblies. IN '
WITNESS whereof we have here unto set
our Common Seal, the 24th of ltdy 1621,
1 nd in the Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, JAMES, King of England, &c.,
the - - and of Scotland the - -
i AGREEMENT
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ns of Congregationalism, p. 89-90.)
sis of the New England Churches; H. M. Dexter,
Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundr~d
Years as Seen in its Literature, Lectures v-vu;
A. E. Dunning, Congregationalists in America,
ch. iii; G. Bancroft, in New York Hist.
CoUections Second Ser. Vol. III; D. P1ooij,
Pilgrim Faihers from a Dutch Point of View.
Seven Artikes which ye Church of
sent to ye Counsell of England to bee
sidered of in respeckt of their judlgernentts
occationed about theer going to
Anno 1618
1. To ye confession of fayth published
ye name of ye Church of England & to
artikell theerof wee do wth ye rpfnrnrted
THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT
churches wheer wee live & also els where
assent wholy.
2. As wee do acknolidg ye docktryne of
fayth theer tawght so do wee ye fruites and
effeckts of ye same docktryne to ye begetting of saving fayth in thousands in ye land
(conformistes and reformistesasye are called)
wth whom also as w1 h our bretheren wee
do desyer to keepe sperituall communion
in peace and will pracktis in our parts all
lawfull thinges.
3. The Kings Majesty wee acknoledge for
Supreame Governer in his Dominion in all
causes and over all parsons, and ye .none
maye decklyne or apeale from his authority
or judgement in any. cause whatsoever, byt
y in all thinges obedience is dewe unto him,
ether active, if ye thing commanded be
not agaynst God's woord, or passive yf itt
bee, except pardon can bee obtayned.
4. Wee judg itt lawfull for his Majesty to
apoynt bishops; civill overseers, or officers
in awthoryty onder hime, in ye severall provinces, dioses, congregations or parrishes to
oversee ye Churches and governe them civilly
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according to ye Lawes of ye Land, untto
whom ye ar in all thinges to give an account
& by· them to bee ordered according to
Godlynes.
.5. The authoryty of ye present bishops in
ye, Land wee do acknowlidg so far forth as
ye same is indeed derived from his Majesty
untto them and as ye proseed in his name,
whom we will also theerein honor in all
things and hime in them.
6. Wee beleeve yt no sinod, classes, convocation or assembly of Ecclesiasticall officers
hath any power or awthoryty att all but as
ye same by ye Majestraet geven unto
them.
7. And lastly, wee desyer to geve untto all
Superiors dew honnor to preserve ye untiy
of ye speritt wth all ye feare God, to have
peace wth all men what in us lyeth & wheerin
wee err to bee instructed by any.
Subscribed by
John Robinson
and
Willyam Bruster
11. THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT
November 11, 1620
(Poore, ed. The Federal and State Constitutions, Part I, p. 931.)
The Separatists living in Leyden, Holland, de·
sired for various reasons to transplant their colony to America. In 1619 they secured from the
Virginia Company a patent for a private plantation. The Pilgrims, reinforced by some seventy
persons from London, sailed from Plymouth in
September, 1620, and arrived off Cape Cod in
November. Some of the London recruits were an
"undesirable lot" and, Bradford tells us, boasted
that they were not under the jurisdiction of the
Virginia Company and "would use their owne
libertie". In order to establish some form of government, therefore, the Pilgrim leaders drew up
the famous Mayflower Compact. The Compact
was not intended as a constitution, but was an
extension of the customary church covenant to
civil circumstances. Inasmuch as the Plymouth
settlers were never able to secure a charter, the
Mayflower compact remained the only form of
constitution of the colony. See, W. Bradford,
History of the Plymouth Plantation, various
eds.; A. Young, Chronicles of the Pilgrim
Fathers, 1602-25; E. Arber, ed. Story of the Pilgrim Fathers, 1606-23; ]. Fiske, Beginnings of
Sew England,· ]. G. Palfrey, History of New
England, Vol. I; ]. A. Doyle, The English Colo-
nies in America, Vol. II, pt. I; E. Eggleston, The
Beginners of a Nation;]. T. Adams, The Founding of New England; C. M. Andrews, The
Fathers of New England; C. M. Andrews, The
Colonial Period of American History, Vol. I,
ch xili; L. G. Tyler, England in A me rica, ch. ix;
H. L. Osgood, American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. I; ]. A. Goodwin, The
Pilgrim Republic; A. Lord, "The Mayflower
Compact," Proceedings of the Am. Antiquarian
Soc., 1921; A. C. McLaughlin, Fo11ndations of
American Constitutionalism, ch. i; V. L. Parrington, The Colonial Mind, p. 16 ff.
IN The Name of God, Amen. We, whose
names are underwritten, the .Loyal Subjects
of our dread Sovereign Lord King James,
by the Grace of God, of Great Britain,
France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the
Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory
of God, and Advancement of the Christian
Faith, and the Honour of our King and
Country, a Voyage to plant the first colony
in the northern Parts of Virginia; Do by
these Presents, solemnly and mutually in the
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DOCUMENTS OF AMERICAN
Presence of God and one another, covenant
and coml>ine ourselves together into a civil
Body Politick, for our better Ordering and
Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends
aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof do enact,
constitute, and frame, such just and equal
Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and
Offices, from time to time, as shall be
thought most meet and convenient for the
general Good of the Colony; unto. which we
promise all due Submission and Obedience.
In WITNESS whereof we lave hereunto
subscribed our names at Cape Cod the
eleventh of November, in the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord King James of England,
France, and Ireland, the eighteenth and of
Scotland, the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini,
1620
Mr. John Carver
Mr. Stephen Hopkins
Mr. William Bradford Digery Priest
HISTORY
Mr. Edward Winslow
Mr. William Brewster
Isaac Allerton
Miles Standish
John Alden
John Turner
Francis Eaton
James Chilton
John Craxton
John Billington
J oses Fletcher
John Goodman
Mr. Samuel Fuller
Mr. Christopher
Martin
Mr. William Mullins
Mr. William White
Mr. Richard Warren
John Howland
Thomas Williams
Gilbert Winslow
Edmund Margesson
Peter Brown
Richard Bitteridge
George Soule
Edward Tilly
John Tilly
Francis Cooke
Thomas Rogers
Thomas Tinker
John Ridgate
Edward Fuller
Richard Clark
Richard Gardiner
Mr. John Allerton
Thomas English
Edward Doten
Edward Liester.
12. THE FIRST CHARTER OF MASSACHUSETTS
March 4, 1629
(F. N. Thorpe, ed. Federal and State Constitutions, Vol. III, p. 1846 ff.)
In 1620 the survivors of the Plymouth Company
applied to the crown for a charter for settlement
in New England, and were granted the land from
the 40th to the 48th parallel, under the name of
the Council for New England. It was from this
body tbat the Pilgrims secured their patent in
1621. In 1623 the "Dorchester Adventurers" had
established a fishing settlement at Cape Ann;
subsequently the Adventurers, under the leadership of the Rev. John White, secured from the
Council for New England a patent to this territory. This company was enlarged, and under the
name of the Governor and Company of the
Massachusetts Bay in New England secured the
royal charter of March 4, 1629. In as much as
this charter granted to the Massachusetts Bay
Company territory previously granted to the
Council for New England, there was some doubt
about its legality. The Massachusetts Bay Company had the support qf the powerful Earl of
Warwick, who was titular President of the Council for New England. "Probably no one," concludes Professor C. M. Andrews, "would deny
that the charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company was covertly and even 'surreptitiously' obtained". For the process by which the charter of
the Company became the constitution of a colony, see Doc. No. 13. On the Charter, see, ]. T.
Adams, The Founding of New England; C. M.
Andrews, Fathers of New England;]. Fiske, The
Beginnings of New England; A. P. Newton, Colonilini Activities of the English Puritans; S. E.
Morison, Builders of the Bay Colony; F. RoseTroup, The Massachusetts Bay Company and
its Predecessors; F. Rose-Troup, John White;
the charter and other related source material
is in The Founding of Massachusetts, Mass. Hist.
Society, Proceedings, Vol. LXII.
CHARLES, BY THE GRACE OF GOD
Kinge of England . . . [there follows a recital of the patent of 1620 and the grant to
Sir Henry Rosewell of 1628, which grant
is by this charter confirmed, and continues:]
AND FURTHER, know yee, . . . Wee . . .
doe . . . give and graunte vnto the saide
Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge,
Sir Richard Saltonstall, Thomas Southcott,
John Humfrey, John Endecott, Symon Whetcombe, Isaak Johnson, Samuell Aldersey,
John Ven, Mathewe Cradock, George Harwood, Increase Nowell, Richard Pery, Richard Bellingham, Nathaniel Wright, Samuell
Vassall, Theophilus Eaton, Thomas Goffe,
Thomas Adams, John Browne, Samuell
Browne, Thomas Hutchins, William Vassall,
William Pinchion, and George Foxcrofte,
their Heires and Assignes, all that Part of
Newe England in America, which !yes and
extendes betweene a great River there,
comonlie called Monomack River, alias Merrimack River, and a certen other River there,
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HEADLINE: Remarks on Arrival in Detroit, Michigan
BODY:
Thank you very, very much. Thank you for coming out on this cold day to make me feel
warmly welcome to Michigan. I want to say how grateful I am to be back here again. This
is my first trip out of the Nation's Capital as your President. The first time I've ever been on
Air Force One, I flew here to Michigan.
I want to say a. word of thanks to Chairman Dingelf and your wonderful Congressman from
this district, David Bonior, and all the Members of Congress who are here, and Senator Levin
and Senator Riegle. I want to thank .my good friend Governor Blanchard, who flew here with
me from Washington. I want to thank all of you who are here, .and I'd like to say a special
word of thanks to the .men and women in uniform who are here in this crowd who serve our
Nation every day. I know you're grateful to them. I want·to thank the people of Michigan,
without whom I might well not be· here as President today, for your support in November and
your support in March, and, more importantly, maybe, for all the. things that I learned here in
Michigan.
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When I was a boy, the first thing I ever knewcabout Michigan, growing up in Arkansas,
was it was sort of the land of opportunity for our people who couldn't make a living on the
farm anymore. They came here and became middle class citizens by working in the auto
plants or by other industries that_were successful. When I came here as a candidate for
President, I didn't know whether I could do very well. And after I came home the first time,
I called my wife. I said, "Every other. person I met was from Arkansas; we're going to do all.
· right up here." [Laughter]
People came here because Michigan was the American dream. When. I came back to
Michigan in this Presidential campaign I found a different picture, not all bad by any means
but much more mixed. I saw in Michigan .people who were developing new industries and
·new technologies and new hope for the future. I saw people working together across racial
lines. But I also saw industries dying on the vine and people who had worked all their lives
losing jobs and losing their health care. And I saw people divided by race, too.
I saw everything about America write large here in this State: all that is best, all that is
most troubling. But I saw an awful lot of hope, too. Today when I left the White House to
come here, we had a crowd of folks come out on the lawn to say goodbye, and when I knew
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that we'd bring i~ some folks just from the public who were there and some people who work
in the White House, many of whom had never met the President before. And. I had so many
people who work in correspondence who were telling me that the letters are coming in at
record rates here, massive numbers of letters for me, for my wife, for my daughter, people
writing us about their hopes, their dreams, their new ideas.
I'm going to do a town hall meeting tonight, a televised meeting connecting four cities, not
just Detroit but three others, too, and all across. the country. Y-ou know, betw~en June and
November I did nine of those. But I started a year ago in New Hampshire doing them,·
. because I believe that people like me shouldn't hide from the people who elected them. I
think we ought to be accountable.
re will be many difficult and challen 'ng days ahead. But if you'll stay in touch with
me, 1 you 1 let me ear e
o your feelings an your ideas, when you agree and when
you disagree, I think we can change this. country. And if you will give courage to your
elected officials and tell them that that's what you voted for, for a change, that as difficult as
it may be to change, staying whe.-e we are is ~e most expensive course of all, we can do it.
You know, shortly after you elected me to President, I was given my first piece of good
news and my first piece of bad news. The good news was the consumer confidence was up
and people were feeling better and peopJe thought we could change the economy; that
American companies, in a tough global environment, were becoming more productive; that
interest rates had come down some ·and people were financing their home loans. The bad
news was .that no new jobs were being created in our eoonomy and that incomes were not
going up and that after the election it was announced that the government deficit was going to
be'$ 50 billion higher next year and just about that high every year thereafter during my term
of office. And so I had to go back to the drawing board and figure out how we were going
to put the American people first, take on the special interests, invest in jobs and incomes and
deal with the health care crisis and still bring the deficit down, as I promised to do, and to do
it in a way that is fair to the middle class, people who've worked hard and paid the biUs for
12 years. It isn't easy, I'll tell you that. But I'm doing my best.
We. have spent literally hours and hours and hoUrs, the administration people and I, and I've
met with large numbers of ipeople iil Congress, many people many times, since I became
President just 3 weeks ago, doing almost nothing but focusing on this economy. And I am
· telling you I am confident that if we'll make some challenging decisions now and put this
country on the right path, we can lift this economy up, we can create jobs, we can deal with
the health care crisis and have a bnght future.
·
But remember: Everywhere I went in this election I said, "Do not vote for me if you're
going to quit on election day. Do not come. to the Inaugural and celebrate the victory un.Jess
you're going to help us make the victory good." I need your help. I didn't see a single soul
all those thousands of miles I traveled on those buses, stopping on the country roads and
go'ing to the big cities, I never did see a person holding up a sign saying, "Everything's just
fine. Leave well enough alone." [Laughter] Not the first sign. Even the people who honestly
disagreed with me on a whole range of issues never said they believed that we didn't have to
�have the courage to change. ' ~
And so tonight I ask you, watch what we do closely. If you think I'm wrong, call or write
and tell me. But continue to support me .with your prayers and your voice and your
conviction, and give the Members of Congress the courage to change. That is what the
election was all about. And we are going to try to make good on it.
Thank you, and God bless you all.
NOTE: The President spoke at 5:10p.m. at the Selfridge Air National Guard Base. In his
·remarks, he referred to John D. Dingell, chairman, House Energy and Commerce. Committee.
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
LOAD-DATE-MDC: March 12, 1993
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