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Monday, June 18, 2001
Volume 37--Number 24
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Contents
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Weekly Compilation of
Presidential
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Addresses and Remarks
See also Meetings With Foreign Leaders
Belgium, North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting in Brussels--891
Execution of Timothy McVeigh--876
Global climate change--876
Poland
State dinner in Warsaw--919
Warsaw University--914
Radio address--875
Sweden, departure from Goteborg--908
Communications to Congress
National Endowment for Democracy, message transmitting report--891
Russia, messages on continuation of national emergency--880, 890
Communications to Federal Agencies
Suspension of Limitations Under the Jerusalem Embassy Act,
memorandum--880
Interviews With the News Media
Exchanges with reporters
Brussels, Belgium--896
Goteborg, Sweden--898, 908
News conferences
Interviews With the News Media--Continued
June 12 (No. 7) with President Aznar of Spain in Madrid--880
June 13 (No. 8) with NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson in
Brussels, Belgium--891
June 14 (No. 9) with European Union leaders in Goteborg,
Sweden--899
June 15 (No. 10) with President Kwasniewski of Poland in
Warsaw--908
Joint Statements
Goteborg Statement: Summit of the United States of America and the
European Union--904
Poland, President Aleksander Kwasniewski--913
Spain, President Jose Maria Aznar--888
Meetings With Foreign Leaders
European Union
Commission President Prodi--899
Council President Persson--899
NATO, Secretary General Lord Robertson--891
Poland
President Kwasniewski--908, 913, 919
Prime Minister Buzek--914, 919
Spain, President Aznar--880, 888
(Continued on the inside of the back cover.)
Editor's Note: The President was in Warsaw, Poland, on June 15, 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
Notices
Continuation of Emergency With Respect to Property of the Russian
Federation Relating to the Disposition of Highly Enriched
Uranium Extracted From Nuclear Weapons--889
Proclamations
Father's Day--918
Great Outdoors Week--879
Statements by the President
Senate passage of education reform legislation--907
Supplementary Materials
Acts approved by the President--924
Checklist of White House press releases--923
Digest of other White House announcements--920
Nominations submitted to the Senate--922
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Week Ending Friday, June 15, 2001
The President's Radio Address
June 9, 2001
Good morning. This week I marked National Homeownership Week by
volunteering with a local Habitat for Humanity work crew in Tampa,
Florida. I was privileged to work with local volunteers to help build a
home for Johana Rodriguez and her family.
Like all Habitat families, Ms. Rodriguez contributed her own hard
work to her home's construction. And she takes great pride in the fact
that she'll soon fulfill the American Dream of being a homeowner.
More Americans than ever before are experiencing that dream. But it
still eludes too many people. For instance, while the rate of
homeownership amongst all Americans is nearly 68 percent, the rate among
African-American and Hispanic families is under 50 percent. These
numbers are troubling because homeownership lies at the heart of the
American Dream. It is a key to upward mobility for low and middle income
Americans. It is an anchor for families and a source of stability for
communities. It serves as the foundation of many people's financial
security. And it is a source of pride for people who have worked hard to
provide for their families. We need to do more to promote homeownership
in America. And my administration is proposing a number of ways to do
just that.
Our 2002 budget dedicates more than $30 billion to the Department of
Housing and Urban Development. This is an increase of almost $2 billion
over current funding levels. We are working in a variety of ways to
build and sustain neighborhoods in inner cities and rural communities
across America.
One particular program, the American Dream Downpayment Fund, will
provide $200 million in downpayment assistance to help 130,000 low
income families buy homes. In addition, my administration announced
earlier this week a program to allow people who receive low income
rental assistance to bundle a year's worth of payments and use the money
for a downpayment or to make monthly payments on a new mortgage.
We're also proposing a $1.7 billion tax credit to support the
rehabilitation or new construction of up to 100,000 homes over a 5 year
period. And this week I was proud to sign a bipartisan tax relief bill
that will let Americans keep more of their hard earned money, money they
can use to help purchase a new home or pay the mortgage of an existing
home.
Government can play a helpful role but so must many others. My
administration is dedicated to helping the private sector organizations,
like Habitat for Humanity, that build homes and lift lives. HUD's Self-
Help Ownership Opportunity Program provides seed money to groups like
Habitat to purchase land for homes and build streets and utilities in
local neighborhoods. Next year's budget will propose tripling the
program's funds to expand its reach.
If you have an opportunity to help Habitat for Humanity or other
organizations working to make the American Dream a reality for more
families, I hope you do so. Government funding can help. But Habitat
relies on volunteers to accomplish the bulk of its mission. And I can
tell you from personal experience, there's no better way to feel like
you're making a difference than to put hammer to nail and help people
realize their dreams.
Thank you for listening.
Note: The address was recorded at 2:10 p.m. on June 7 in the Cabinet
Room at the White House for broadcast at 10:06 a.m. on June 9. The
transcript was made available by the Office of the Press Secretary on
June 8 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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Week Ending Friday, June 15, 2001
Remarks on the Execution of Timothy McVeigh
June 11, 2001
This morning the United States of America carried out the severest
sentence for the gravest of crimes. The victims of the Oklahoma City
bombing have been given not vengeance but justice. And one young man met
the fate he chose for himself 6 years ago.
For the survivors of the crime and for the families of the dead, the
pain goes on. Final punishment of the guilty cannot alone bring peace to
the innocent. It cannot recover the loss or balance the scales, and it
is not meant to do so. Today every living person who was hurt by the
evil done in Oklahoma City can rest in the knowledge that there has been
a reckoning.
At every point, from the morning of April 19, 1995, to this hour, we
have seen the good that overcomes evil. We saw it in the rescuers who
saved and suffered with the victims. We have seen it in a community that
has grieved and held close the memory of the lost. We have seen it in
the work of detectives, marshal, and police, and we've seen it in the
courts. Due process ruled: The case was proved; the verdict was calmly
reached; and the rights of the accused were protected and observed to
the full and to the end. Under the laws of our country, the matter is
concluded.
Life and history bring tragedies, and often they cannot be
explained. But they can be redeemed. They are redeemed by dispensing
justice, though eternal justice is not ours to deliver. By remembering
those who grieve, including Timothy McVeigh's mother, father, and
sisters, and by trusting in purposes greater than our own, may God in
his mercy grant peace to all--to the lives that were taken 6 years ago,
to the lives that go on, and to the life that ended today.
Note: The President spoke at 9:44 a.m. in the James S. Brady Briefing
Room at the White House. Timothy McVeigh was tried, found guilty, and
sentenced to death for the murder of 168 people in the April 19, 1995,
bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK.
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