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Remarks to the National American Wholesale Grocers Association ID 4101 Date 03/24/1992 Boyd, thank you very much for the good news and for the introduction. And let me just say I am very pleased to be here. And I want to salute your leaders: first, Boyd, who did the honors here; Bill Eacho, who's with me; Richard Niemann; and T.C. Godwin. And also, before I get going here, I want to single out a former Cabinet member, Agricultural Secretary Jack Block, who's doing an outstanding job for the common interest …
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Remarks to Students at the Teton Science School in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming ID 527 Date 06/13/1989 Sorry, Manuel mentioned my birthday -- it's so nice to be in Wyoming. Nobody, not one person -- your Governor, the Senators, our new Congressman -- no one has said, And now you can ride the subway in Jackson Hole for half-fare. [Laughter] I'm delighted, and thank you for your tolerance. But, Manuel, thank you for that warm introduction. Secretary Lujan and I served in Congress. And I liked very much …
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Executive Order 12777 -- Implementation of Section 311 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of October 18, 1972, as Amended, and the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 ID 3522 Date 10/18/1991 By authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including Section 311 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, (``FWPCA'') (33 U.S.C. 1321), as amended by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (Public Law 101 - 380) (``OPA''), and by Section 301 of Title 3 of the United …
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Remarks to Representatives of Public Administration Groups on Public Service ID 3537 Date 10/24/1991 Thank you all very, very much for being here. I know it's nice to get off of work. [Laughter] But I'm talking about getting people this interested in public service to come together. I'm particularly pleased to see Tim Clark, who is president of the National Capital Area Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration; Ray Kline, over here, the president of the National Association of Public …
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… all. Eighteen million lawsuits a year are choking us, costing us billions of dollars, and putting a tremendous drag on our civility and our economy. If Congress passes my ``Access to Justice Act,'' this, too, can change. And in the next century, … all. Eighteen million lawsuits a year are choking us, costing us billions of dollars, and putting a tremendous drag on our civility and our economy. If Congress passes my ``Access to Justice Act,'' this, too, can change. And in the next century, …
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Remarks at the Annual National Convention of the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Chicago, Illinois ID 3411 Date 09/20/1991 @Thank you very much. And I really want to thank you for that warm reception here. First, may I salute two Secretaries of my Cabinet, Secretary Lujan, who many of you have known over the years, is with us today; and also Secretary Sam Skinner, who just came in with us from California, a son of Chicago in a sense, and doing a great job as Secretary of Transportation. May I …
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Letter Accepting the Resignation of John H. Sununu as Chief of Staff to the President ID 3697 Date 12/03/1991 Dear John, I now have your letter resigning as Chief of Staff effective December 15th. It is with reluctance, regret and a sense of personal loss that I accept your resignation as Chief of Staff. I am very pleased, however, that you have agreed to remain as a Counsellor to the President, with Cabinet rank, through March 1, 1992. During the period, December 15th to March 1, you will be an official …
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Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the National Medal of the Arts ID 4596 Date 07/22/1992 Welcome, everybody. Sorry for holding you up for a few minutes here. Welcome to the White House. May I salute Dr. Radice. I don't see Lamar. He was to be here, Lamar Alexander, our Secretary of Education. I think I just left him, and he'll be along. Dr. Lynne Cheney, Members of the Congress, and so many distinguished guests, welcome. Barbara and I are both delighted to be here and proud to be part of an America …
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Remarks to the Phillips Academy Board of Trustees in Andover, Massachusetts ID 1145 Date 11/05/1989 Thank you all. Excuse the slight delay. I was out there talking to the captain of Andover's victorious football team, Tony Pittman. I don't know whether he came in with us. Is he there? I want to show him off to you guys that came here with me. Small but fast -- [laughter] -- tough. I don't know where he went. Is he coming? Tony, get up here now. I need them to see my excuse for my being late. I don't want …
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The President's News Conference With Regional Reporters ID 2563 Date 12/18/1990 The President. Let me just make a quick comment, and then I'll be glad to take some questions. But I want to just comment once again on the situation in the Gulf, because you see, ever since August 2d, the world community has been virtually united in its condemnation and its rejection of Iraqi aggression. I've been talking about the Security Council resolutions, but the General Assembly of the United Nations, with only one vote …
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Remarks on Arrival in Chattanooga, Tennessee ID 4870 Date 09/29/1992 The President. Thank you very much. Audience members. Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! The President. Four more. Four more. That's what we need. What a great Tennessee welcome. Thank you all. Thank you so much. Audience members. We love you, George. The President. Thank you. Thanks for that Chattanooga welcome. Let me thank two special guests with us today: of course, an old friend of mine and Barbara's, Ricky Skaggs, …
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Remarks and an Exchange With Reporters on the Soviet-United States Summit ID 1932 Date 05/31/1990 The President. Well, I'll just say, at the end of a very interesting day, that the talks have gone reasonably well. The mood is very positive in the sense that I had a very good, and I mean genuinely -- not in a diplomatic sense -- very good, exchange for a couple hours this morning with President Gorbachev. I'm very well pleased with the ground we've covered. This afternoon's meeting -- the tone was positive. …
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Remarks on Arrival in Knoxville, Tennessee ID 4869 Date 09/29/1992 The President. Thank you. What a great Tennessee welcome. Audience members. Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! The President. This is fantastic. Thank you, Knoxville. Thank you very, very much. Thank you, Knoxville, Tennessee. This is fantastic. Let me thank Naomi Judd for being with us. I'm the guy who's honored. What a wonderful entertainer and a great personality and a wonderfully strong character we have standing here …
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Remarks to Mag Instrument Employees in Ontario, California ID 3712 Date 12/06/1991 Well, thank you, Tony and Claire, and thank all of you for the tour we just went on. It's nice to see both Tony and Claire. I saw them a couple of weeks ago back in Washington. The Maglicas are doing a great job. And I also am pleased to see Senator Seymour, one of California's two Senators with us here today, sitting up here with me. And we brought another person along, but I don't see her -- Pat Saiki over here, who is …
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Remarks on Signing the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act ID 2498 Date 11/28/1990 Well, thank you all very much for being here today. And of course, it's great to be with our enthusiastic and effective Secretary of HUD, Jack Kemp, who deserves great credit for what we're about to do here. And of course, I want to salute the Members of Congress -- they've been so helpful and instrumental in this -- who are with us today. I see Kit Bond, and Al D'Amato was to be -- they're sitting there. And I …
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Statement on the Bipartisan Accord on Central America ID 231 Date 03/24/1989 The President of a Central American democracy was asked recently what is the most important step the United States can take. He said: ``Speak with one voice.'' Today, for the first time in many years, the President and Congress, the Democratic and Republican leadership in the House and Senate, are speaking with one voice about Central America. In my Inaugural Address I reached out my hand to the leadership of Congress in both …
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Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters in Santiago, Chile ID 2532 Date 12/06/1990 Chilean Political Transition Q. President Bush, we would like to know your opinion of the political transition of Chile and on the behavior of the Armed Forces of Chile during this period of transition. We would like your comments. President Bush. Well, it seems to me that there is great enthusiasm in the United States for this transition, for this solidification of Chile's democracy. And I'm not an expert on how the army …
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Remarks at the Welcoming Ceremony for President Violeta Chamorro of Nicaragua ID 2883 Date 04/17/1991 President Bush. It gives me great pleasure to welcome to the United States a woman of courage, a leader of conviction, a person of morality and vision: Mrs. Violeta Chamorro, President of Nicaragua. We stand here at the White House almost a year to the day after the extraordinary moment when you stood at Managua's National Stadium to be sworn in as your nation's first freely elected President. What a …
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Remarks on Signing the Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday Proclamation ID 1413 Date 01/09/1990 Well, let me salute Dr. Hooks, the able head of the NAACP. And I see our Director, Bill Bennett, here, and many others. Connie Newman is here somewhere. I see Dorothy Height, Art Fletcher, and Josh Smith, and others. But I want to welcome you to the White House -- pardon the slight delay there -- and bemoan the fact that some of the young people that were to be here couldn't make it because of the bus …
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Remarks to the American Business Conference ID 4148 Date 04/07/1992 Thank you, Jim, very, very much. Thank you all, and I'm just delighted to be back with you. And Jim Jones, thank you, sir, for the introduction, for your leadership not just of this wonderful organization but of the exchange and for everything else you do for this economy. Some people think I've been traveling a little too much so today, as an example of my new policy, no trips further than one block away from the White House. [Laughter] …
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Statement on Signing the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 ID 1341 Date 12/15/1989 I am today approving H.R. 1, the ``Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989.'' This legislation is intended to help eliminate the systemic flaws that have allowed a number of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs to be abused for political purposes or personal gain at the expense of those in need. H.R. 1 will improve program management and financial accountability at …
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Toasts at the State Dinner for Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ID 2726 Date 02/20/1991 The President. Prince Henrik, and ladies and gentlemen, it is indeed a pleasure for Barbara and me to salute Queen Margrethe II, the heir to a thousand-year-old monarchy and the head of state of our very close friend and ally Denmark. We honor her tonight as a superb queen and ruler. And yet we also honor her as an artist, translator, and scholar whose work aptly reflects the civilized and humane qualities of the Danish …
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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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The President's News Conference With Greek Prime Minister Constantinos Mitsotakis in Athens, Greece ID 3204 Date 07/18/1991 Prime Minister Mitsotakis. First of all, I would like, on behalf of the Greek Government, and personally, to welcome the President of the United States and the American delegation to our country. This first visit of an American President to Greece after 32 years takes place at a very important period for our countries and at a critical period for our area. This is why it constitutes a …
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Remarks at the 25th Anniversary Celebration of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Inauguration ID 1735 Date 04/06/1990 Welcome. Well, what a wonderful reunion. And thanks, first, to the family, especially our esteemed friend, Lady Bird Johnson; as well as her daughters, Lynda and Luci; and the grandkids: Lynn, Nicole, Rebekah, Claudia, Catherine, and missing in action, Lucinda, who is finishing her thesis at Princeton University and, thus, cannot be with us on this special occasion -- sends her mother and dad, …
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Remarks Following Discussions With President Hassan Gouled Aptidon of Djibouti and an Exchange With Reporters ID 2913 Date 04/24/1991 President Bush. There comes a time when nations must decide whether to allow aggression to go unchallenged. And the decision is never easy for any country, large or small. But today I want to thank one small nation which took up a very large challenge in the Persian Gulf war -- the Republic of Djibouti. Tiny in size, lacking in resources, and vulnerable to retaliation, …
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Remarks to Participants in the International Appellate Judges Conference ID 2225 Date 09/14/1990 Welcome to the White House, everybody. I'm delighted that you all are here and very pleased to be sharing this platform, this stage, with two people for whom I have very high regard: Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Justice of our Supreme Court, and then my own legal counsel in whom I have great confidence, Boyden Gray. I wanted to single out for special commendation Judge Cynthia Hall, for all the work that you …
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Remarks at the Opening Session of the Universal Postal Union Congress ID 1185 Date 11/13/1989 Thank you, Tony Frank, our distinguished Postmaster General. Thank you all for that warm welcome. Thanks to the chairman of this Congress, Ed Horgan; and the dean, just introduced, Mr. Murthy; the director general, distinguished Mr. A.C. Botto de Barros. And also I want to single out -- but I don't see him up here -- our Ambassador to the United Nations, Tom Pickering, who I know is here someplace. But in any …
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Remarks at the Welcoming Ceremony for President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of the Congo ID 1542 Date 02/12/1990 President Bush. Well, Mr. President, it is a great pleasure to welcome you and Mrs. Sassou-Nguesso to the United States and to the White House. The last time you visited, 3 years ago, you and I met at the United States Capitol Building, and today we meet at the White House. In the 3 years since your last visit, southern Africa has seen significant progress towards peace and stability. Namibia is on the …
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Remarks on Presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom Awards ID 3642 Date 11/18/1991 Welcome. Welcome, and please be seated. Let me first single out President Ford and say how pleased we are to have him here. And of course, members of our Cabinet over here. And especially today, the families and friends of the recipients. It's a special honor to have the privilege of presenting the Nation's highest civilian award: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Since the first Presidential Medal, since those first …