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Volume 30--Number 17
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Contents
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Weekly Compilation of
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Addresses and Remarks
Bosnia--903
Death of President Richard Nixon--896, 917
National Conference of Black Mayors--927
National Council on Aging--918
National Volunteer Action Awards recipients--893
Presidential Awards for Design Excellence--926
Radio address--898
South African elections--915
``Take Our Daughters to Work'' luncheon--926
Victim Service Award recipients--905
Victims of the Iraq helicopter tragedy, memorial service at Fort
Myer, VA--903
White House Correspondents dinner--900
Appointments and Nominations
Federal Labor Relations Authority, member--935
U.S. District Court, judges--918
Communications to Congress
Death of President Richard Nixon, message--897
Fishing vessels agreement, message transmitting--910
Haiti, message--910
Communications to Federal Agencies
Distribution of Eagle Feathers for Native American Religious
Purposes, memorandum--935
Environmentally beneficial landscaping, memorandum--916
Government-to-Government Relations With Native American Tribal
Governments, memorandum--936
Executive Orders
Order of Succession of Officers To Act as Secretary of the Air
Force--895
Order of Succession of Officers To Act as Secretary of the Army--894
Providing for the Closing of Government Departments and Agencies on
April 27, 1994--898
Seal for the Office of National Drug Control Policy--909
Interviews With the News Media
Exchanges with reporters
Cabinet Room--915
Rose Garden--896, 905
South Lawn--903
Washington Hilton Hotel--925
Interview with Larry King--933
Proclamations
Death of Richard Milhous Nixon--897
National Crime Victims' Rights Week--908
Statements by the President
See also Appointments and Nominations
Presidential Awards for Design Excellence--927
South African elections--894, 915
Supplementary Materials
Acts approved by the President--939
Checklist of White House press releases--938
Digest of other White House announcements--937
Nominations submitted to the Senate--938
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Remarks Honoring the National Volunteer Action Awards Recipients
April 22, 1994
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I'm sorry we're starting a
little bit late, but there are worse places to spend an extra half an
hour on a beautiful spring day than here in the Rose Garden. We're
delighted to see all of you here.
I'm proud to celebrate the close of National Volunteer Week, 1994,
with you and with the individuals and organizations we honor today for
their extraordinary service, from among the more than 95 million
Americans who give of themselves to help other people every year.
This afternoon we'll hear stories of ordinary Americans doing
extraordinary things all over our country, ranging from little children
to noted doctors, from small neighborhood organizations to one of our
Nation's largest corporations, from a refugee who barely escaped the
fall of Saigon to men and women whose families have belonged to the
American middle class for generations. Our honorees have confronted
gangs and comforted the sick. They've tutored children, fed families,
planted trees, and built homes. As they have helped to rebuild their
communities, they've shown each of us what can be done when all of us
join together.
We know that communities have never been built with brick and mortar
alone. Our communities are a product of common effort and common
connections to neighbors with whom we share a city block or country
road.
Community service is neither a program nor a panacea; it really is a
way we live our lives. It stems from a refusal to accept things as they
are, a personal commitment to make them better and to help our fellow
men and women, boys and girls live up to their God-given potential.
Service, like life, is a series of challenges. Thirty-three years
ago, almost exactly on this day, President Kennedy spoke of this
challenge when he announced the first Peace Corps project. His challenge
in that example inspired many, many members of my generation. In just a
few months our Nation's and our generation's answer to history's
challenge will begin working in communities all across America. They'll
be members of AmeriCorps, our new national service initiative. They
won't replace the efforts we honor today, but they will expand them.
Working mainly through local nonprofit groups, AmeriCorps will provide
the kind of commitment and energy and daring that makes heroes and
communities and that makes a difference.
Robert Kennedy perhaps said it best 28 years ago in Cape Town, South
Africa. He said, ``Each time someone,'' and I quote, ``stands up for an
ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against
injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other
from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples
build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls.''
To those we honor today, thank you for your courage and your daring.
To paraphrase Robert Frost, you took the road less traveled. And it has
made all the difference. I ask that each of you stay on the road to
public service and voluntarism, because you can continue to make a
difference.
Here in Washington we are working as hard as we know how to move
this country in the right direction and to pull the American people
together, to reach across the many divides that separate us from one
another so that once again we can become one people and one community
burning with a common desire to move into the next century still the
greatest nation on Earth, still the greatest hope for children here at
home and around the world.
Eli Segal, the Director of our national service program, and my good
friend Edward
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James Olmos, in their different ways exemplify that ideal. I thank them
for being here today and for leading this endeavor. I thank all of you
for what you have done. And I ask that today we rededicate ourselves to
the principle that the Government cannot solve all the problems in
America and that in the end, the Government is just another organization
of the rest of us. And we have to do it in whatever way we can wherever
we live.
Thank you very much.
Note: The President spoke at 4:35 p.m. in the Rose Garden at the White
House. This item was not received in time for publication in the
appropriate issue.
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Week Ending Friday, April 29, 1994
Statement on the South African Elections
April 22, 1994
The world is elated at the prospect of these elections. They are the
next step in South Africa's historic path from apartheid to nonracial
democracy. Americans have stood by South Africans in their struggle, and
we will be steadfast in our commitment to work with all South Africans
to build the prosperous, stable, and just society that can come in its
place.
Note: This statement was included in a White House press release
announcing the President's naming of Reverend Jesse Jackson, president
of the Rainbow Coalition, to head the official delegation to observe the
South African elections. Other members of the delegation were listed as
follows: Dr. George Moose, Assistant Secretary of State for African
Affairs; Reverend Dr. Charles Stith, president, National Organization
for New Equality; Dr. Arthur Thomas, president of Central State (Ohio)
University; Dr. Pauline Baker of the Aspen Institute; Mr. Dick J.
Batchelor, chairman, Florida Environmental Regulation Commission; and
Colonel MacArthur DeShazer, Director for African Affairs, National
Security Council. This item was not received in time for publication in
the appropriate issue.
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Executive Order 12908--Order of Succession of Officers To Act as
Secretary of the Army
April 22, 1994
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States of America, including section 3347 of
title 5, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Succession to Act as the Secretary of the Army. (a) In
the event of the death, permanent disability, or resignation of the
Secretary of the Army, the incumbents holding the positions designated
below, in the order indicated, shall act for and exercise the powers of
the Secretary of the Army:
(1) The Under Secretary of the Army.
(2) The Assistant Secretaries and General Counsel of the Army, in
the order fixed by their length of service as permanent appointees
in such positions.
(3) The Chief of Staff of the Army.
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