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Remarks at the Republican Party Labor Day Picnic in Waukesha, Wisconsin ID 4766 Date 09/07/1992 Thank you so much. What a marvelous turnout. Waukesha knows how to do it. Thank you all very much. Barbara and I are delighted to be here. May I thank our great United States Senator Bob Kasten and say how lucky we are to have him and Eva in Washington, DC, two of the best. Please get out there and work hard in November. We've got to get more like him in the Senate. Of course, you heard from one of the great …
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White House Statement on Proposed Disaster Relief Legislation ID 4770 Date 09/08/1992 Today the President submitted to the Congress emergency supplemental requests to cover the incremental costs arising from the consequences of Hurricane Andrew and Typhoon Omar. The requests are for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Small Business Administration (SBA), and most of the Cabinet Departments. The requested funds represent a Federal financial response to address the effects of Hurricane Andrew …
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Statement on Virginia Welfare Reform ID 4772 Date 09/08/1992 Today, as millions of American schoolchildren return to school, I am pleased that we are approving Virginia's request for welfare waivers. These waivers will allow Virginia to test a program that encourages children of welfare recipients to attend school. Under Virginia's program, children in grades 6 through 8 in a limited number of schools will be required to attend school, or their families would lose the higher welfare payments and other …
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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Employees of Uniform Tubes in Collegeville, Pennsylvania ID 4777 Date 09/09/1992 The President. Listen, it's a pleasure to be here. Thank you all very much. Welcome to the Phil Donahue Show. [Laughter] I feel like that, sitting out here. But let me just thank Bruce, all that greeted us, all of you involved in this wonderful company, and all who, particularly, have participated in this education approach. As I look at the country and look at the problems facing …
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Remarks at Missouri Southern State College in Joplin, Missouri ID 4785 Date 09/11/1992 The President. Thank you so very much. Audience members. Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! The President. Thank you all so much. What a welcome. What a great welcome to Southwest Missouri. Thank you all. First let me salute your -- our -- great Governor, John Ashcroft. You are lucky to have this man, and what a job he's done for this State. Thank you, John, for that introduction. May I salute another …
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Remarks to the Christian Coalition Road to Victory Conference in Virginia Beach, Virginia ID 4788 Date 09/11/1992 The President. Thank you, Dr. Pat Robertson. Thank you. Thank you very, very much for that welcome. I'm delighted to be here. Thank you. I am just delighted to be here. Pat, thank you for this rousing welcome and this warm introduction and the friendship. I tell you, it's a joy to be here with you. I want to salute the leadership. My respects, of course, to Dede Robertson, who's made us feel so …
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Remarks on Disaster Assistance for Hawaii Following Hurricane Iniki ID 4791 Date 09/13/1992 The President. This weekend, as you know, Hurricane Iniki, one of the most powerful storms in this century, struck the island of Hawaii. Reportedly, some lives have been lost. I talked to the Governor last night, and he told me that the latest estimate was two lives, but nobody is absolutely certain at this point. There have been a lot of injuries, and there's been considerable physical damage. On the island of …
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Remarks to Sandia National Laboratories Employees in Albuquerque, New Mexico ID 4798 Date 09/15/1992 Thank you for that welcome. Thank you so very much. And it's a joy to be introduced by your great Senator, Pete Domenici, steadfast, loyal supporter of the people that sent him to Washington. He knows how he got elected, and he hasn't forgotten. And he does something unique. He votes the way in Washington that he talks in New Mexico, making him quite different than many Members of the United States Senate. …
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Statement on the Death of Millicent Fenwick ID 4805 Date 09/16/1992 I was saddened to learn of the death of former Representative Millicent Fenwick of New Jersey. Mrs. Fenwick represented the highest ideals of public service: integrity, devotion to principle, and commitment to the public interest. I knew and admired her. Mrs. Fenwick dedicated herself to New Jersey and to the United States. Mrs. Fenwick's service as town council member, State assemblywoman, consumer affairs director, and U.S. …
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Remarks to the Pepsi 400 Drivers and Owners in Daytona Beach, Florida ID 4544 Date 07/04/1992 Thank you all very much. Thank you guys for the welcome, appreciate it. Thank you very, very much. First off, let me just pay my respects to the France family. Bill's late dad was a friend, and we mourn his passing, a great guy, great for racing, a great American, the values always intact. So I wanted to mention that at the beginning of these very brief remarks. I salute the spirit of NASCAR, the spirit of racing. …
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Munich Economic Summit Declaration ID 4551 Date 07/07/1992 1. We, the Heads of State and Government of seven major industrial nations and the President of the Commission of the European Community, have met in Munich for our eighteenth annual Summit. 2. The international community is at the threshold of a new era, freed from the burden of the East-West conflict. Rarely have conditions been so favourable for shaping a permanent peace, guaranteeing respect for human rights, carrying through the principles of …
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Letter to Congressional Leaders Reporting on the National Emergency With Respect to Libya ID 4552 Date 07/07/1992 Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:) I hereby report to the Congress on the developments since my last report of January 10, 1992, concerning the national emergency with respect to Libya that was declared in Executive Order No. 12543 of January 7, 1986. This report is submitted pursuant to section 401(c) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1641(c); section 204(c) of the International …
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Statement by Press Secretary Fitzwater on the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ID 4559 Date 07/10/1992 Today at the Helsinki summit, President Bush, along with the leaders of 28 other European nations, agreed that the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) will be applied provisionally on July 17, 1992, to enter into force this fall with the full participation by the original signatories and the eight new states of the former Soviet Union with territory in CFE's zone of …
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Statement on the Sentencing of Manuel Noriega ID 4561 Date 07/10/1992 The sentence imposed today on Manuel Noriega is a fitting punishment for drug crimes that have harmed all Americans. It demonstrates that international drug felons are not above the law, no matter how great their wealth, their status, or their armed might. Illegal drugs inflict great suffering throughout our Nation and the world. Anyone who trafficks in them should be brought to justice. Operation Just Cause freed the people of Panama …
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The President's News Conference With President Carlos Salinas of Mexico in San Diego, California ID 4571 Date 07/14/1992 President Bush. President Salinas and I had a very good discussion. I think it was extremely constructive. We talked about the status of negotiation among our two countries and Canada to create this North American free trade area, NAFTA. We reaffirmed our commitment to reaching this sound NAFTA agreement just as soon as possible. Let me just say a word about the importance of this …
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Remarks in Boulder, Wyoming, on Ross Perot's Withdrawal From the Presidential Campaign ID 4575 Date 07/16/1992 This is the President. I just called Ross Perot. On a very personal basis, I congratulated him. I told him I understood how difficult a decision it must have been. I told him that he had really and truly energized an awful lot of people. Obviously, I told him I would welcome his support and the support of all those who have been out there working for him. I congratulated him on the excitement that …
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Remarks at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah ID 4581 Date 07/18/1992 Thank you very much. Thank you all for that warm welcome. And may I just single out your President. Mr. President -- it sounds pretty good, doesn't it, for Rex -- but to say to Rex Lee that I am delighted to have been introduced by him, a man who has served, first, his Government with such great distinction, integrity, and honor and now serves this wonderful university in a position of extraordinary leadership. Allow me for a moment …
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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With the American Legion Boys Nation ID 4582 Date 07/20/1992 The President. Thanks for the welcome. Hey, listen, I came out here to welcome you guys to the White House. Well, thank you very much. Please be seated, and let's get underway here. But I want to salute the national commander of the American Legion, who's done a great job, Dom DiFrancesco, and an old friend. I am a legionnaire and have been for a long, long time, lifetime member. And I have great respect …
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Remarks to the Community in Jonesboro, Georgia ID 4810 Date 09/17/1992 The President. What a fantastic welcome. Thank you very, very much. Thank you all very much for that warm welcome. I am delighted to be here, and I'm especially glad to be with the residents of Avery of Walnut Creek and thank them for this impromptu block party. You really know how to make a guy feel at home here. May I salute Jerry Kopp, not only our chairman but a man whose vision is bringing this place alive, thank him for his …
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Nomination of United States Ambassadors to Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia ID 4815 Date 09/17/1992 The President today announced his intention to nominate Victor Jackovich, Mara M. Letica, and E. Allan Wendt as Ambassadors to Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia, respectively. The naming of Ambassadors will complete the establishment of full diplomatic relations with these nations. Their mandate is to foster a viable political, economic, and trading partnership between the United States and …
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Address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City ID 4820 Date 09/21/1992 Thank you, Mr. President, to you, sir, and Mr. Secretary-General and distinguished guests. Forty-seven years ago, I was a young man of 21, and like thousands of others of my generation, I'd gone off to war to help keep freedom alive. But 47 years ago this month, the war was finally over, and I was looking forward to peace and the chance to begin my life in earnest. Nineteen forty-five, it marked a moment of promise, not …
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Remarks on Arrival in Shreveport, Louisiana ID 4829 Date 09/22/1992 The President. Thank you so very much for this great welcome back to Louisiana. First-class, first-class all the way. Thank you very much. May I thank Sheriff Larry Deens for that wonderful introduction and thank him and the other law enforcement officers who are here to back me up. We back up the law enforcement officers of this country, and we ought to continue to back up the law enforcement officers of this country that are giving their …
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Remarks to the Bush-Quayle Independent Business Coalition in Greensboro, North Carolina ID 4833 Date 09/23/1992 Let me just, at the outset, thank Miller Hicks and Pat Harrison for serving as the cochairmen on our Independent Business Coalition. And also to Jack Laughery who -- I'm not sure the statistics anymore qualify him as what we say is a small-business man or small-business person because of the success he's had. But he does know what it means to start a business from scratch and to fight the …
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Letter to Congressional Leaders Reporting on the Cyprus Conflict ID 4842 Date 09/25/1992 Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. Chairman:) In accordance with Public Law 95 - 384 (22 U.S.C. 2373(c)), I am submitting to you this bimonthly report on progress toward a negotiated settlement of the Cyprus question. This report covers the months of May and June 1992. Representatives of the U.N. Secretary General returned to the Eastern Mediterranean area and met separately with President Vassiliou and Mr. Denktash in Cyprus …
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Notice on Continuation of Emergency Regarding Export Control Regulations ID 4844 Date 09/25/1992 On September 30, 1990, consistent with the authority provided me under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701, et seq.), I issued Executive Order No. 12730. In that order, I declared a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States in light of the expiration of the Export Administration …
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Message to the Congress Transmitting Proposed Legislation on Federal Pay Reduction ID 4847 Date 09/25/1992 To the Congress of the United States: I am pleased to transmit today for your immediate consideration and enactment the ``Federal Pay Reduction Act of 1992.'' This legislation is part of my Agenda for American Renewal. The proposal is an important step toward ``rightsizing'' our Government -- making it more fiscally responsible and reducing its size and structure. Also transmitted is a …
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Remarks on Beginning a Whistlestop Tour in Columbus, Ohio ID 4851 Date 09/26/1992 What a great day in Ohio. Barbara and I are delighted to be here. May I salute our longstanding friends, George and Janet Voinovich, and say you are very lucky in this State to have this man as your Governor. Also I want to single out another one, and that's Chalmers Wylie. He and I went to Congress on the same day, and he served Columbus with great distinction. If we had more like him they wouldn't be yelling all the time, …
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Statement by Press Secretary Fitzwater on America's International Broadcasters ID 4677 Date 08/15/1992 President Bush believes that one of the most effective weapons in the defeat of communism in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and elsewhere has been the power of truth broadcast by America's international broadcasters: Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and Radio and TV Marti. As democracy's victory is consolidated in the months and years to come, we will continue to need these …
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Statement on Signing the Thomas Jefferson Commemoration Commission Act ID 4679 Date 08/17/1992 Today I am signing into law S. 959, the ``Thomas Jefferson Commemoration Commission Act.'' This bill would establish the Thomas Jefferson Commemoration Commission, which would be responsible for planning and developing programs to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Jefferson's birth. In doing so, it is my understanding that in light of the constitutional requirement that all executive functions be exercised by …
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Remarks at the Bush-Quayle Welcoming Rally at the Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas ID 4687 Date 08/17/1992 The President. Thank you all very much. What a wonderful welcome home. Audience members. Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! The President. You got it. Audience members. Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! The President. Thank you all very much. Thank you so much. Let me just thank a couple of people at the beginning. First, let me thank Craig Fuller, …