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Monday, July 16, 2001
Volume 37--Number 28
Pages 1019-1041
Contents
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Addresses and Remarks
America's Promise, ceremony honoring--1019
Maryland, Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore--1033
Medical organization leaders, meeting--1026
Medicare reform--1029
NAACP convention, videotape remarks--1022
New York
Congressional Gold Medal, posthumous presentation to John
Cardinal O'Connor in New York City--1025
Immigration and Naturalization Service ceremony on Ellis
Island--1023
Patients' Bill of Rights--1022
Radio address--1019
Virginia, Inova Fair Oaks Hospital in Fairfax--1022
Communications to Congress
Iraq, compliance with U.N. Security Council resolutions--1037
Communications to Federal Agencies
Implementing Government Reform, memorandum--1028
Interviews With the News Media
Exchange with reporters in Fairfax, VA--1022
Proclamations
Captive Nations Week--1032
Statements by the President
Climate change review initiatives--1035
Cuba, toward a demoncratic--1036
House Ways and Means Committee, action on the Faith-Based and
Community Initiatives--1027
Supplementary Materials
Acts approved by the President--1041
Checklist of White House press releases--1040
Digest of other White House announcements--1037
Nominations submitted to the Senate--1039
Editor's Note: The President was at Camp David, MD, on July 13, 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, July 13, 2001
The President's Radio Address
July 7, 2001
Good morning. My second working day as President, I sent to Congress
the boldest plan to improve our public schools in a generation, a plan
to raise educational standards for every child and to require new
accountability from every school. This reform gives our public schools
greater resources and insists on proven results in return, not just for
some of our children but for all of them.
The plan has now passed both Houses of Congress with strong margins
and broad bipartisan support. We stand on the verge of dramatic
improvements for America's public schools. We're increasing funding for
public schools and insisting on results. We are maximizing local control
to give Governors, school boards, and local people more say in their
schools. And we are giving parents unprecedented new choices to help
their children get a quality education.
Yet, all of this will happen only when Congress joins with me to
take the final, crucial step of resolving differences between the House
and the Senate versions and sending an education reform bill to my desk.
Across America, Governors are waiting to work with their
legislatures to implement reform. Local school boards are eager to put
the new flexibility my plan offers into action. We are ready to provide
teachers with the best research on the science of reading this very
fall. We need to act quickly, because States and schools must make
decisions on how to use their new flexibility and live up to their new
responsibility.
We have come so far; we're almost there. And we must finish the job.
Completing the work of education reform is a final exam for Congress
before they go home in August for summer vacation and before America's
children go back to school.
The differences between the education reform bills that passed with
large majorities in both House and Senate are small. Both bills call for
strong accountability. The Senate bill gives States more flexibility.
The House bill is more fiscally responsible and focuses Federal dollars
where they will do the most good.
With prompt action this month, our public schools can begin to
implement the first of the education reforms this fall, with guidance to
help teachers use the latest research to teach all our children to read.
This is summer vacation for our children, and it can be a season of
accomplishment for our Nation's leaders. I urge the Congress to act
swiftly on my education reform plan.
Thank you for listening.
Note: The address was recorded at 11:40 a.m. on July 5 in the Cabinet
Room at the White House for broadcast at 10:06 a.m. on July 7. The
transcript was made available by the Office of the Press Secretary on
July 6 but was embargoed for release until the broadcast. The Office of
the Press Secretary also released a Spanish language transcript of this
address.
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Remarks at a Ceremony Honoring America's Promise
July 9, 2001
Thank you all very much. Marc. There is no more important goal for
America than to make sure every person realizes the promise of our great
land, and I want to thank the good folks of America's Promise for
working tirelessly to make sure that goal reaches throughout all our
country. My administration stands side by side with you.
And here in Washington, we can help. It's important for the Congress
to pass the education reform package to make sure no child gets left
behind. It's important for Congress to pass a good and meaningful
Patients' Bill of Rights to make sure all in America have got good
access to health care. And it's important for America for Congress to
pass my
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faith-based initiative so that Government can stand side by side with
the soldiers in the armies of compassion to make sure America's promise
is rich and real for every citizen.
I'm honored that the first chairman of America's Promise agreed to
be our Nation's Secretary of State. He's doing a fantastic job for our
country. Welcome, Mr. Secretary. Like me, he married well. [Laughter]
Thank you for being here, Alma.
I want to thank my friend Marc Racicot for being the chairman of the
board. I want to thank Peter Gallagher. I welcome my friend the Governor
of Maine, Angus King, for being here. I want to thank Ted Stevens and
Connie Morella, as well, for being here--Members of the United States
Congress. I want to thank the First Lady of Michigan, Michelle Engler,
for joining us, as well. It is my honor to welcome to the Rose Garden
Jackie Joyner-Kersee, as well as Bob. Thank you all, and thank you for
being such a great supporter for America's Promise.
I also want to thank the members of the board of directors, as well
as the members of the Youth Leadership Team, 15 of our best in America
who are here today. Please stand. [Applause]
Just as I was receiving the organization's annual report, I also had
an opportunity to say hello to the 15. And our country is in great hands
when you look in the eyes of these 15 fantastic leaders. The record has
been impressive, and the commitment has been deep. And I want to thank
you, Marc, for continuing to challenge corporate America and individuals
with the simple and urgent message: There's a need in every community,
and a responsible society meets those needs.
Today we're joined by several men and women from around the country
who represent the promise of America's Promise:
Mary Mahoney, the president and chief executive officer of Howard
Johnson's. Where's Mary? Hi, Mary. Thank you for coming. She's been a
mentor, and she's inspired employees at more than 500 hotels to serve as
mentors. I want to thank you very much for your dedication.
Leon Assael, the dean of College of Dentistry at the University of
Kentucky, is here. Mr. Dean, where are you? Thank you for coming, Dean.
They staffed a mobile dental van and asked volunteer faculty and
students to serve more than 12,500 disadvantaged students in Appalachia.
Thank you for your service to the country.
Reverend Clifford Barnett of Virginia's Brighton Rock AME Church.
Thank you for coming, Reverend. He set up a safe haven for children to
come to a place or worship, not only to find hot meals but to learn how
to serve one another.
Charlie Trotter of Trotter's Restaurant of Chicago. Hello, Charlie.
The man not only serves good food, but every Groundhog Day he opens his
kitchen to teach area youth and has sponsored some of his neighborhood
youth through scholarship programs. I want to thank you all for coming.
This is an example of the greatness of our country, where people ask
the question, ``What can I do to help?''--and then not wait for some
Government activity to take place but do it anyway in spite of
Government. I want to thank you all for serving as fantastic examples,
just like I want to thank Aisha Shaheen. Where is she? Aisha--there she
is. Thank you so much for coming. She understands that service is a part
of a successful life. Catch this: She teaches honors in advanced
placement English, biology, and calculus to inner-city youngsters in the
south central neighborhood of Los Angeles.
We know what children need to succeed. They need mentors and role
models like Aisha. They need to be healthy and educated and challenged
to serve and challenged to love a neighbor just like they'd like to be
loved themselves. And that's what America's Promise does.
In many neighborhoods, what a child needs is a caring adult.
Yesterday, flying down from Maine, Angus King, the Governor of that
State, told me about a program that he's starting to implement, where
this summer they're going to recruit 30,000 mentors in the State of
Maine, all aimed to surround the children of Maine with love, all aimed
at understanding there's nothing more powerful than an individual that
says to a child in need, ``Somebody cares for you. Somebody loves you.''
So Angus, I want to thank you for setting the example.
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My dream for America is for there to be mentors all over the
country, in every neighborhood, in every community, where adults are
able to say to a child, ``The America's Promise belongs to you, just as
much as it does to anybody else.''
The effort requires a broad-scaled strategy. That's why I was
pleased to see that America's Promise has drawn 500 national partners
and more than 550 State and local partners. And the effort really has
just begun.
So I want to thank America's Promise. I want to thank you for your
love and compassion. And I want to thank the thousands all across our
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