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Addresses and Remarks
See also Meetings With Foreign Leaders
American Society of Newspaper Editors, question-and-answer session--
807
Colorado
Gun safety rally in Denver--793
MSNBC's townhall meeting on guns in Denver--796
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee dinners--816, 817
Georgia
Education Writers Association, question-and-answer session in
Atlanta--819
Reception for Representative Cynthia A. McKinney in Atlanta--828
Louisiana
Democratic National Committee luncheon in New Orleans--775
``Messiah 2000,'' performance in Alexandria--784
Maryland, State bill signing ceremony in Annapolis--788
Middle East peace process--792
PBS' ``The American President,'' documentary screening--771
Radio address--774
Bill Signings
Joseph Ileto Post Office legislation, statement--833
Communications to Congress
Iraq, letter reporting on compliance with United Nations Security
Council resolutions--788
Interviews With the News Media
Exchange with reporters in the Rose Garden--792
Letters and Messages
Jubilee 2000, message--785
Meetings With Foreign Leaders
Israel, Prime Minister Barak--792
Proclamations
National Crime Victims' Rights Week--787
National D.A.R.E. Day--806
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day--783
National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week--834
National Park Week--835
Pan American Day and Pan American Week--782
(Continued on the inside of the back cover.)
Editor's Note: The President was in Atlanta, GA, on April 14, 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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Contents--Continued
Statements by the President
See also Bill Signings
America's Private Investment Companies initiative--806
China, permanent normal trade relations status--791
Elephant ivory and whale products, proposals to reopen trade--833
Greek legislative elections--786
Organ donation legislation--806
Prescription drug coverage, Department of Health and Human Services
report--785
Republican budget proposal--771
Statements by the President--Continued
South Korea and North Korea, summit meeting--786
START II Treaty, Russian State Duma action--833
V-22 aircraft tragedy--785
Supplementary Materials
Acts approved by the President--837
Checklist of White House press releases--836
Digest of other White House announcements--835
Nominations submitted to the Senate--836
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Statement on the Republican Budget Proposal
April 7, 2000
This new Republican budget combines bad fiscal policy and a flawed
economic strategy. It undermines our efforts to strengthen Social
Security and Medicare, makes it harder to pay off the debt, and rests on
dramatic cuts in education, law enforcement, the environment, and
efforts to promote peace in national security.
I remain committed to working with any Member of Congress from
either party on a budget that will strengthen Social Security and
Medicare, add a prescription drug benefit, eliminate the debt by 2013,
expand access to health coverage through Medicaid and the Children's
Health Insurance Program, and strengthen education and other key
investments. Let's put this empty political document aside and work
together to keep America on a responsible fiscal course that meets our
Nation's long-term challenges.
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Remarks at a Screening of PBS' ``The American President'' Documentary
Series
April 7, 2000
The President. Thank you very much, and welcome. I want to say a
special word of welcome to all the voices of the Presidents who are
here--and they were supposed to give me a list of them--I don't know
what happened, I just saw it. [Laughter] But I know we have Senator
Bumpers, Senator Glenn, Senator Simon, Representative Rostenkowski,
Governors Weicker and Weld. Bill Ferris, we welcome you here. And a
special word of thanks to Sy Sternberg and his family. We appreciate the
fact that New York Life has underwritten this.
I also want to thank the coproducers, Philip Kunhardt, Jr., and
Philip Kunhardt III and Peter Kunhardt. And there are some other voices
here from the series: Ben Bradlee, Walter Cronkite, James Roosevelt,
Charlie Rose--I don't know if he's here or not--and Tim Russert.
Tonight this is a fitting way for us to open the first in a series
of events celebrating the 200th anniversary of the White House. It is
clearly the right thing to do to begin by honoring the lives of
individuals who have roamed the halls and carried the burden of the
Presidency within the walls of the White House.
This room has not only witnessed historical events, it has played a
role in shaping them. It has hosted 42 administrations and 41 different
personalities, every President except George Washington. The East Room
began as a laundry room for Abigail Adams--an auspicious beginning--
[laughter]--reminding us that there are certain basic elements to this
job.
Thomas Jefferson and Meriwether Lewis laid maps and animal skins on
this floor where you're sitting and charted the Lewis and Clark
expedition. Later, in 1814, a banquet was being held here in this White
House and in this room when James Madison sent Dolley word that the Army
had miscalculated where the British were going to assault Washington,
and he told her to cut Gilbert Stuart's painting of George Washington
down and get out of the house as quickly as possible. She did, and they
had to leave the banquet here. The British came in, ate the food, and
then burned the White House. [Laughter]
Later, this house and this room was the headquarters for battle-worn
Union troops during the Civil War. President Roosevelt's children
roller-skated here. Over the years, this room and this house have
survived a
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major fire, two wars, a plane crash, and five weddings. And of course,
it has been a gallery for some priceless art which embodies the history
of this country.
Each President in his own time has survived unique challenges,
striving to fulfill the purpose of our Founders to form a more perfect
Union. Tonight we will have the opportunity to see two of these
selections from the ``American President'' series, the first documentary
series ever to profile all of our Chief Executives.
The first viewing is on the life of Thomas Jefferson. Every American
President has been inspired by Jefferson, affected by his decisions,
fascinated by his life story. He spent a lifetime shaping our new and
ever-evolving democracy. It would become, as he said, more developed,
more enlightened as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed,
manners and opinions change.
One hundred and fifty years later, our 35th President, John
Kennedy--whose sister, Eunice, is with us tonight, and we thank you for
coming--brought that same spirit of innovation and progress to the White
House. His fleeting time in this house remains a singular story in our
history. Our President for only a thousand days, he changed the way we
think about our country, our world, and our own obligations to the
future. The New Frontier inspired millions of Americans to take a
personal responsibility for making our country stronger and more united.
As he said, ``The New Frontier is not a set of promises. It is a set of
challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people
but what I intend to ask of them.''
Many great people have called this house home. All of them, so far,
have been white males of European descent. I am absolutely convinced
that in the not-too-distant future, there will be a woman President, and
a person of color will occupy the White House and the Oval Office. But
the Presidency was not built by one person. And in a fundamental way, it
has been carried forward by the American people since the beginning.
I have spent a lot of time reading the histories of various periods
in the White House and the biographies of some of my lesser known
predecessors. One of the things that I hope this series will do is to
give people a feel of the mixture of the personality and character and
skills of a President and his time, and also a sense of what personal
joys and tragedies surrounded Presidents.
Just for example, Franklin Pierce, one of the only other Presidents
who came from a small State and was a Governor, is generally accounted
not to have been a very good President. But when you consider the times
in which he served, I wonder whether Lincoln could have succeeded in
1853, instead of 1861. And almost never do I hear anyone talk about the
fact that when Franklin Pierce was on his way to be inaugurated, with
his wife and his only child, he took the train from New Hampshire to
Washington, and there was a minor accident in which 10 or 11 people
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