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Statement by Press Secretary Fitzwater on Creation of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary ID 4456 Date 06/18/1992 As outlined in his FY 1993 budget, the President authorized the creation of the Nation's largest marine sanctuary off Monterey, CA, and approved a strict management regime including a permanent ban on oil and gas development for the area, which includes a wide variety of pristine habitats. The 5,312 square mile area proposed by the President was the largest option studied. With …
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Message to the Senate Transmitting a Protocol to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ID 4461 Date 06/19/1992 To the Senate of the United States: I am transmitting herewith, for the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, the Protocol to the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (the Protocol) signed at Lisbon, Portugal, on May 23, 1992. The Protocol is an integral part of the Treaty …
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Statement on Signing Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Legislation ID 4469 Date 06/22/1992 Today I have signed into law H.R. 5132, an Act that provides supplemental appropriations for disaster assistance to meet urgent needs resulting from calamities such as those that occurred in Los Angeles and Chicago. This Act provides emergency funding for disaster programs of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Small Business Administration (SBA). FEMA funds will be used to provide …
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Remarks Prior to a Meeting With the House Republican Health Care Task Force ID 4470 Date 06/22/1992 The President. Now, let me just say at the outset, what we are here to talk about is health care reform. We have some ideas up there that we feel make a great deal of sense. I know that some of you all have a program. I keep reading that the Democrats say they want to make a political statement before the convention. Far more important than a political statement, it seems to me, is getting something done …
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Nomination of Christopher H. Phillips To Be a Member of the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace ID 4477 Date 06/23/1992 The President today announced his intention to nominate Christopher H. Phillips, of the District of Columbia, to be a member of the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace for the remainder of the term expiring January 19, 1993. He would succeed Evron M. Kirkpatrick. Since 1991 Ambassador Phillips has served as a consultant to the U.S. Department …
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Appointment of Douglas Alan Brook as Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management ID 4485 Date 06/24/1992 The President today announced that Douglas Alan Brook, of Virginia, will serve as Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management, effective July 1, 1992. Currently Mr. Brook serves as Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management. From 1982 to 1990, he served as president of Brook Associates, Inc., in Washington, DC. Mr. Brook also served with Libbey-Owens-Ford Co. in …
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Remarks at a Roundtable Discussion on Education Reform ID 4487 Date 06/25/1992 The President. Good morning, everyone, and welcome. Excuse me for keeping you all waiting. But what we want to do here is talk about choice in education. I remember the GI bill working so well. It did nothing but make the colleges better. It's our theory that choice, at the level that we're going to talk about it today, can do nothing but make things better. But here's the firing line; here are people from the Governor on down …
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Remarks on the Railroad Strike and an Exchange With Reporters ID 4490 Date 06/25/1992 The President. Let me just simply say that we're now in the second day of a national rail strike. And Secretary Card and his associates and others have worked all night, working with a bipartisan group on Capitol Hill to get the legislation to stop this strike. The trains are not moving as of this minute, however. Clearly the national interest is at stake here. We now face a complete halt of passenger and commuter rail …
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Nomination of Kathryn D. Sullivan To Be Chief Scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ID 4493 Date 06/25/1992 The President today announced his intention to nominate Kathryn D. Sullivan, of California, to be Chief Scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce. She would succeed Sylvia Alice Earle. Since 1990, Dr. Sullivan has served as NASA Mission Specialist at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. Dr. Sullivan graduated from the …
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Remarks to Town Hall of California in Los Angeles ID 4363 Date 05/29/1992 Thank you, Lod, for that very warm and very generous introduction and welcome back to Los Angeles. May I greet our Mayor, Tom Bradley, Governor Pete Wilson, and single out two of your former Governors, one sitting on the left and the other on the right of mine, read nothing into that politically -- [laughter] -- George Deukmejian and Pat Brown. It's a great pleasure to see both of them. And may I single out Pat Saiki, our head of …
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Remarks to Goddard Space Flight Center Employees in Greenbelt, Maryland ID 4372 Date 06/01/1992 Thank you very, very much. Thank you for this welcome to Goddard. And Dan Goldin, thank you, sir, for the introduction, the leadership you're giving the Agency. With me is Bill Reilly. We've been talking today about the upcoming summit in Brazil, the environmental meeting down there. And this visit is very timely for both of us, I think, seeing what magnificent contribution Goddard makes to a better …
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Nomination of Alison Podell Rosenberg To Be an Assistant Administrator of the Agency for International Development ID 4373 Date 06/01/1992 The President today announced his intention to nominate Alison Podell Rosenberg, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator of the Agency for International Development, U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency, for the Bureau of Africa. She would succeed Scott M. Spangler. Since 1988, Ms. Rosenberg has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for …
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Message to the Congress Transmitting the Report of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
Message to the Congress Transmitting the Report of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation ID 4378 Date 06/02/1992 To the Congress of the United States: I transmit herewith the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation's Annual Report for fiscal year 1991. This report has been prepared in accordance with section 10 of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Act of May 13, 1954 (33 U.S.C. 989(a)), and covers the period October 1, 1990, through September 30, 1991. George Bush The White House, June 2, …
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Appointment of the 1992 - 1993 White House Fellows ID 4382 Date 06/02/1992 The President today announced the appointments of the 1992 - 93 White House fellows. This is the 28th class of fellows since the program was established in 1964. Fifteen fellows were chosen from nearly 700 applicants who were screened by 11 regional panels. The President's Commission on White House Fellowships, chaired by Ronna Romney, interviewed the 33 national finalists prior to recommending the 15 persons to the President. Their …
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Statement by Press Secretary Fitzwater on Space-Based Global Change Observation ID 4398 Date 06/05/1992 President Bush last week approved a National Space Policy Directive establishing a focused national effort to improve the world's ability to detect and document changes in the Earth, especially the global climate. This policy directive, which was developed by the National Space Council chaired by Vice President Quayle: Establishes a comprehensive, multi-agency effort to collect, analyze, and archive …
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Remarks at the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Ceremony ID 4315 Date 05/15/1992 Thank you, Cyndi, very much. Thank you all. Cyndi, thank you. And may I salute our Attorney General who is doing an outstanding job for law enforcement, Bill Barr; the Members of Congress who are with us today; Adolph South; an old friend, Dewey Stokes; John Walsh; Suzie Sawyer; Barbara Dodge; Dave Derevere. Ten years ago the FOP auxiliary began this nationally recognized service for law enforcement officers who gave their …
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Appointment of John A. Cline as Special Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs ID 4323 Date 05/18/1992 The President today announced the appointment of John A. Cline as Special Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs. Since January 1991, Mr. Cline has served as Director of the Office of Congressional Affairs at the Department of Transportation. Prior to this, Mr. Cline served as the Associate Administrator for Budget and Policy at the Federal Transit Administration, an …
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Message to the Senate Transmitting the North Pacific Fish Conservation Convention ID 4328 Date 05/19/1992 To the Senate of the United States: With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith the Convention for the Conservation of Anadromous Stocks in the North Pacific Ocean, with Annex, which was signed by the United States of America on February 11, 1992, in Moscow. I transmit also, for the information of the Senate, the report of the Department of State …
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Nomination of William Arthur Rugh To Be United States Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates ID 4331 Date 05/19/1992 The President today announced his intention to nominate William Arthur Rugh, of Maryland, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Career Minister, to be Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates. He would succeed Edward S. Walker, Jr. Since 1989, Ambassador Rugh has served as Director of the Near East and South Asia Bureau at the U.S. Information Agency. Prior to this he served …
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Nomination of James E. Gilleran To Be Comptroller of the Currency ID 4337 Date 05/21/1992 The President today announced his intention to nominate James E. Gilleran, of California, to be Comptroller of the Currency, Department of the Treasury, for a term of 5 years. He would succeed Robert Logan Clarke. Since 1989, Mr. Gilleran has served as superintendent of the California State Banking Department in San Francisco, CA. Prior to this, he served as president of the Commonwealth Group, 1987 - 89; managing …
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Remarks at the Ohio Freedom Day Celebration in Parma, Ohio ID 4339 Date 05/21/1992 Thank you so much. Thank you, Governor Voinovich. I think the people in Parma probably understand this, but let me just say it: You've got a great Governor of this State, and I'm proud to be with him. May I salute two members of my Cabinet, the President's Cabinet, with me here today: Secretary Jack Kemp, who runs HUD, doing a great job; he's out there working to help through enterprise zones and homeownership, doing a great …
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Remarks in a Roundtable Discussion With the Mount Paran Christian School Community in Marietta, Georgia ID 4347 Date 05/27/1992 The President. Thank you, Dr. Walker, and all of you for taking your time. But what I wanted to do is just say a couple of brief remarks and then listen to you. Tomorrow there's a report coming out on the schools. It's an NAEP report. I think it will be announced by the Education Department. And it's got some troubling statistics in it, conclusions in it about kids: too much …
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Remarks at a Bush-Quayle Fundraising Dinner in Atlanta, Georgia ID 4351 Date 05/27/1992 Thank you all so very much. And Jim, thank you for sharing this highly successful dinner. I'm deeply appreciative. Thank you also for the introduction. May I thank Kathleen Bertram, who rendered the national anthem with such beauty and such feeling. Thank you very much. To Dr. Tomlinson, thank you, sir, for the invocation. A Congressman from here, but I believe from this particular district, Newt Gingrich, is up -- the …
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Remarks and an Exchange With Reporters on Departure for Camp David, Maryland ID 4539 Date 07/02/1992 The President. I have two subjects I want to address very briefly before we leave here. First, on the unemployment extension bill. This afternoon the House passed an unemployment bill, and the Senate is expected to act shortly; it may have already moved. But the bill that came out of the House-Senate conference is a good one. It took the best of the House and Senate positions. It's paid for, and it does not …
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Remarks Following Discussions With President Lech Walesa of Poland in Warsaw ID 4547 Date 07/05/1992 President Walesa. I'd like to state once again that we owe a great deal to America. We'd like to pay tribute to the President and try to do everything to retain the interest of the States and of Mr. President, and at the same time making it as good as possible for America. American involvement in leading towards democracy was great. And in Poland, American involvement is necessary for Europe. We simply …
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Exchange With Reporters Prior to Discussions With Prime Minister Jozsef Antall of Hungary in Helsinki, Finland ID 4557 Date 07/10/1992 Refugees Q. -- -- give U.S. money for Bosnian refugees being in Hungary? The President. Well, we're going to discuss a lot of questions here with my esteemed friend, and I'll have a better feeling for that after I discuss these matters. But it's a great honor and pleasure to see him. He has our full confidence, I can tell you that. Eastern Europe Q. Do you think the changes …
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Statement on Nuclear Nonproliferation Efforts ID 4563 Date 07/13/1992 A few weeks ago, President Boris Yeltsin and I agreed to the most far-reaching reductions in nuclear weaponry since the dawn of the atomic age. Yet even as our own arsenals diminish, the spread of the capability to produce or acquire weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them constitutes a growing threat to U.S. national security interests and world peace. In a world in which regional tensions may unpredictably erupt into …
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Nomination of Walter Scott Light To Be United States Ambassador to Ecuador ID 4565 Date 07/13/1992 The President today announced his intention to nominate Walter Scott Light, of Texas, to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of Ecuador. He would succeed Paul C. Lambert. Since 1957, Mr. Light has served as president and chief executive officer of the Lighting Oil Co. in San Antonio, TX. Mr. Light graduated from New Mexico Military Institute, Junior College Division (1951) and …
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Nomination of Linton F. Brooks To Be Assistant Director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency ID 4566 Date 07/13/1992 The President today announced his intention to nominate Linton F. Brooks, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency at the Bureau of Strategic and Nuclear Affairs. He would succeed Susan Jane Koch. Ambassador Brooks has served as head of the U.S. delegation on Nuclear and Space Talks and Chief Strategic Arms …
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Nomination of David P. Prosperi To Be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ID 4567 Date 07/13/1992 The President today announced his intention to nominate David P. Prosperi, of Illinois, to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for a term expiring March 26, 1997. He would succeed Marshall Turner, Jr. Since 1990, Mr. Prosperi has served as vice president of communications at the Chicago Board of Trade. He has also served as …