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Addresses and Remarks
See also Appointments and Nominations; Meetings With Foreign Leaders
Council of the Americas conference--714
Electronic Industries Alliance dinner--719
Global fund to fight HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis--733
NCAA hockey champion Boston College Eagles--730
Radio address--713
Small Business Person of the Year--717
Virginia, Vienna-Madison Community Anti-Drug Coalition in Vienna--
729
Appointments and Nominations
Federal judiciary, remarks--724
White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Director,
remarks--726
Communications to Congress
International trade, letter transmitting outline of the 2001
legislative agenda--731
Iran, message transmitting report on national emergency--726
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, letter transmitting report on
burdensharing--716
Peacekeeping operations, letter--719
Communications to Federal Agencies
Cooperation by Vietnam in Accounting for U.S. Prisoners of War and
Missing in Action, memorandum--742
Interviews With the News Media
News conference, May 11 (No. 6)--736
Meetings With Foreign Leaders
Bahrain, Amir Khalifa--713
Nigeria, President Obasanjo--733, 735
United Nations, Secretary-General Annan--733
Proclamations
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month--715
Mother's Day--732
National Salvation Army Week--724
Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week--723
Statements by the President
Domestic preparedness against weapons of mass destruction--718
House of Representatives action
Budget--725
Education reform legislation--726
Supplementary Materials
Acts approved by the President--745
Checklist of White House press releases--745
Digest of other White House announcements--743
Nominations submitted to the Senate--744
Editor's Note: The President was at Camp David, MD, on May 11, the
closing date of this issue. Releases and announcements issued by the
Office of the Press Secretary but not received in time for inclusion in
this issue will be printed next week.
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Week Ending Friday, May 11, 2001
The President's Radio Address
May 5, 2001
Good morning. Today I want to offer a special greeting to everyone
celebrating Cinco de Mayo. This day marks the proud moment when Mexican
soldiers threw back an invading army at the Battle of Puebla. One
hundred and thirty-nine years later Cinco de Mayo pays tribute to the
strong and independent spirit of the Mexican people.
We celebrated a little early at the White House this year, on quatro
de Mayo, with a fiesta on the South Lawn, with the mariachi music,
folkloric dancing, and an ample supply of Mexican food. For a little
while, it was just like being in Texas again.
Growing up in Texas gave me many things I'm thankful for, and one of
them is an appreciation of the Hispanic culture. In Texas, it's in the
air you breath. Hispanic life, Hispanic culture, and Hispanic values are
inseparable from the life of our State and have been for many
generations. The history of Mexican-American relations has had its
troubled moments, but today our peoples enrich each other in trade and
culture and family ties.
To affirm that friendship, Laura and I have invited Mexican
President Vicente Fox to be the guest of honor at the very first state
dinner of my administration. President Fox is a fine man, a man of
powerful ideals and a great vision for his country. We have already met
three times this year. I consider him a friend. We are committed to
working together in common purpose for the good of both countries.
Whether the issue is free trade or energy production, environmental
protection or the control of illegal drugs, our interests are often the
same.
In the United States, I'm happy to say, we're putting old fears and
quarrels behind us. We know that we must protect the integrity of our
border, yet we understand how that border can be viewed from the other
side, as the gateway to better wages and a better life. I've often said
that family values don't stop at the Rio Grande. The best way to have a
stable border is better opportunity in both our nations, opportunity
built by trade and education and freedom.
And when immigrants come to America legally, their culture and
contribution must be treated with respect. They have an equal place in
the American story, a story written in many hands and told in many
languages. This welcoming spirit is the heritage of the immigrant Nation
and the commitment of my administration.
Cinco de Mayo is a day for special pride and remembrance for all of
Mexico. And for all Americans, it is a reminder of the heritage we share
with our neighbor to the south and the great promise of the future.
Thank you for listening.
Note: The address was recorded at 9 a.m. on May 4 in the Cabinet Room at
the White House for broadcast at 10:06 a.m. on May 5. The address was
also recorded in Spanish. Both transcripts were made available by the
Office of the Press Secretary on May 4 but were embargoed for release
until the broadcast.
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Week Ending Friday, May 11, 2001
Remarks Prior to Discussions With Amir Hamad Khalifa of Bahrain
May 7, 2001
President Bush. It's my honor to welcome His Highness to America.
Bahrain is a close friend of our country. It housed our 5th Fleet--
strong allies. He has made a big difference in his own country, been on
the leading edge of reform. He believes in human rights and believes in
the full participation of the people of his land. And we're really
grateful for your leadership. It's such an honor to welcome you here.
Amir Khalifa. Thank you. I am pleased to have this honor today to
meet with the President, who has been promising from the day he wanted
to be in this job. And I'm
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sure America will do a great thing and move forward in all fields, for
the stability and security, mainly, of my region, the Gulf region.
We have an old relationship that's lasted for more than a hundred-
and-something years. And I think we will keep that one. And that's why
I'm here, to consult on matters of security, on matters of trade, on
matters of development. And I thank the President for his invitation,
his kind invitation.
Thank you very much.
Note: The President spoke at 12:05 p.m. in the Colonnade at the White
House. A tape was not available for verification of the content of these
remarks.
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Week Ending Friday, May 11, 2001
Remarks to the Council of the Americas Conference
May 7, 2001
Thank you, Mr. Rhodes, I'm honored; and thank you for having me,
sir. It's an honor to be here with Senator Chuck Hagel. He's a man who's
got a good vision of the world. He's also a fine United States Senator,
I might add. Thank you for being here, Senator. It's good to see
Ambassadors from nations in our hemisphere. Mr. Rockefeller, thank you
very much for your support of trade in our hemisphere.
It's an honor to be here with the best pick I could have possibly
made to be the Secretary of State, and that's Colin Powell. He's doing a
really good job of making the case for our country in a strong and
humble way. When it's all said and done, his tenure is going to mean the
world is more peaceful and more prosperous.
I appreciate so very much, Peter Romero from the State Department,
who has been working side by side with those of us at the White House. I
appreciate Thomas McNamara and Bill Pryce, as well. And thank you all
for coming, and thank you for letting me talk about a subject near and
dear to my heart.
The Council of the Americas was formed 36 years ago, in a different
America. And it's certainly a different world. In 1965 international
trade and investment mattered much less to the U.S. economy. We traded
mostly with the countries of Europe. Interestingly enough, at that point
in time, Mexico was our fifth largest trading partner. Today, she's the
second largest trading partner, behind Canada.
In 1965 so few Americans traced their ancestry to Latin America
that the census didn't even bother to tabulate them. Today, some 35
million Americans are of Hispanic origin. In 1965 military and
authoritarian regimes ruled all too many of the countries of the
Americas. Today, with one sad, solitary exception, every nation in our
hemisphere has an elected government.
Our recent summit in Quebec symbolized the new reality in our
hemisphere, a unity of shared values, shared culture, and shared trade.
And together, we made good progress at that summit, the beginnings of a
really strong and fruitful relationship all throughout the hemisphere.
In 1980s and the early nineties, our Nation negotiated many
important trade agreements: the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement, the
North American Free Trade Agreement, and the Uruguay Round of
multilateral trade talks. Since then, efforts have stalled as U.S. trade
promotion authority was allowed to lapse. The inactivity of the American
Government has had real costs for the American people. The United States
has few better friends, for example, than the Republic of Chile, but the
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