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Clinton Presidential Records
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Speechwriting
Series/Staff Member:
Michael Waldman
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13657
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Trade: MFN - China
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�M Y 20 '94' 12:02AM SEATTLE P I
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Seattle PosMnteillgencer, Friday, M y 20. 1994
a
China trade will go on, Foley predicts
stands the severe economic and
political consequences of not doing so.
WASHINGTON - House
Some China experts have sugSpeaker Toir Foley predicted yes- gested Clinton might compromise
terday President Clinton will find with a partial extension of the
a way to extend moit-favored- trade status, with higher tariffs on
nation trade eta tun with China, goods produced in China's state:
thereby preserving jjood economic run factories. Others have said he
ties with the wor d's most popumight scrap the linkage between
lous nation.
trade and human rights. Others
The comment came oh a day have surmised he might say, citing
when Clinton was revcalinf little recent human rights gestures, that
on China but making a spirited China has done enough to warrant
defense of his foreign policy over- extension of the trade status.
all. Critics say tl has boon weak
Clinand inconsistent, from Bosnia to ton In extending MFN status, "say
would probably have to
Haiti.
the Chinese have done
Foley, at a breakfast, with things, not done others, not asome
total
reporters, questioned if anyone
could do a better job, given post- rejection of improvement," Foley
Cold War uncertainties: "I think said.
He aaid it was clear that
he's been unfairly criticised in
. . . that there is an assumption cutting off MFN status, far from
somebody else could do this with helping with human rights, would
actually hurt. At the same time, it
wonderful skili and panache."
would cause economic pain in
The Spokane Democrat has
personally lobbied Clinton to end China, Hong Kong, the United
ti policy Lhat has linked extending States and elsewhere.
"If we were to withdraw MFN,
MFN status - the liberal tariff
category that most nations get - (the Chinese) will be doing some
with improvement in Chine's hu- retaliation on trade. . . . (They)
man rights record. Clinton must are not going to say, .'What do you
decide by June 3 whether to think we ought to do?' , . . They
would say, 'Don't talk to us.' They
extend MFN status.
Businesses - including The certainly are not going to become
Boeing Co, which has billions of more responsive."
Foley conceded Clinton may
dollars in potential plane orders
at stake - and more than 100 have gone overboard with camHouse members led by Rep. Jim paign rhetoric in 1992. Clinton
McDermott, D-W»sh., have blasted then-President Bush for
weighed in with a similar mes- not using trade as a human rights
sage: China trade is important to tool. But Foley said yesterday that
staying consistent with past rhetothe economy.
A year ago Clinton aaid ex- ric can be extremely unwise.
"Few people would applaud a
tending MFN status in 1994 would
president who said, 'What I'm
be dependent on China making
human rights progress. Most Chi- doing is not right, and it will set
na-watchers agree Beijing has our country back, and it will harm
failed to do so, having made only a our citizens. . . \ But I said last
year, 'By golly, I was going to do
few gestures.
" think the president is going this', and I'm going to do it now,
1
cvep though it's
. to find a way not to interrupt MFN even If it's stupid,how much confiwrong.'. . . Now
when the deadline comes up on dence would you have in a public
June 3," Foley said.
official
He stressed the importance of .aaked. who . . . aaid that?" Foley
finding other ways to press China
Foley took pains to put Clinto ease up on dissidents and to ton's foreign policy problems in
liberalize its political system.
perspective. He
the
The speaker has said it is his current period tocompared two
the first
strong impression, based on disthe
cussions with Clinton and his top years afterpolicy World War II,
of containing
aides, that the White House wants when the gradually developed.
Communism
' to extend MFN status and under"It didn't just come out of the
By Christopher Hansen
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brow of Jove. . . . It wasn't instant," he said. "In 1946-47 there
was a certain period of readjustment and real gnment. That's go- ing on now."
Foley said some of the biggest
foreign policy problems facing
Clinton posed dilemmas that
would bedevil nny leader and that
Clinton's critics did not have
workable substitute policies:
• On Bosnia, many members
of Congress are calling for the
United States to lift a U.N. cmbar; on arms shipments to Muslims
o
•ghting to prevent their areas
from being overrun by Serbs.
But Foley aaid British officials
had told him that if the embargo
were lifted. British and French
peacekeeping troops would immediately be pulled out of Bosnia by
their respective governments.
"That will lead to the tote!
collapse of any continued humanitarian efforts and arguably more
suffering for people in Bosnia."
Foley said.
• On Haiti, some of Clinton's
critics are calling for an invasion
to oust the military-dominated
government that has refused to
give up power to a democratically
elected one.
But a president who took their
advice could soon find himself in
a heap of trouble, Foley said.
"The problem is withdrawal.
We went into Haiti in 1915 after a
president of Haiti was torn to
pieces in front of a hotel, and we
got out in 1934,19 years later," he
, aaid.
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Michael Waldman
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<p>Michael Waldman was Assistant to the President and Director of Speechwriting from 1995-1999. His responsibilities were writing and editing nearly 2,000 speeches, which included four State of the Union speeches and two Inaugural Addresses. From 1993 -1995 he served as Special Assistant to the President for Policy Coordination.</p>
<p>The collection generally consists of copies of speeches and speech drafts, talking points, memoranda, background material, correspondence, reports, handwritten notes, articles, clippings, and presidential schedules. A large volume of this collection was for the State of the Union speeches. Many of the speech drafts are heavily annotated with additions or deletions. There are a lot of articles and clippings in this collection.</p>
<p>Due to the size of this collection it has been divided into two segments. Use links below for access to the individual segments:<br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2006-0469-F+Segment+1">Segment One</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2006-0469-F+Segment+2">Segment Two</a></p>
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1993-1999
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Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files
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