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Monday, June 19, 1995
 
Volume 31--Number 24
Pages 1013-1066
 
Contents

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Weekly Compilation of

Presidential

Documents



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Addresses to the Nation

    Plan to balance the budget--1051

Addresses and Remarks

    Capt. Scott O'Grady, ceremony honoring--1042
    Les Aspin, memorial service--1049
    Maryland, departure for the Group of Seven summit at Andrews Air 
        Force Base--1062
    Massachusetts, fundraising dinner for Senator John Kerry in Boston--
        1033
    New Hampshire
        Dartmouth College commencement ceremony in Hanover--1015
        Town meeting with Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich in 
            Claremont--1019
    Plan to balance the budget--1052
    Radio address--1014
    United Auto Workers convention--1043
    White House Conference on Small Business--1037

Communications to Congress

    Housing and Urban Development Department, message transmitting 
        report--1051

Executive Orders

    Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS--1061

Interviews With the News Media

    Exchanges with reporters in the Oval Office--1052, 1053
    News conference with European Union leaders, June 15 (No. 97)--1054

Meetings With Foreign Leaders

    European Union
        President Chirac of the European Council--1053, 1054
        President Santer of the European Commission--1053, 1054

Proclamations

    Father's Day--1048
    Flag Day and National Flag Week--1013

Resignations and Retirements

    Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, statement--1063

Statements by the President

    See also Resignations and Retirements
    Affirmative action--1050
    Lane Kirkland, retirement--1048
    North Korea, nuclear agreement--1050

Supplementary Materials

    Acts approved by the President--1066
    Checklist of White House press releases--1066
    Digest of other White House announcements--1063
    Nominations submitted to the Senate--1065

Editor's Note: The President was in Halifax, Canada, on June 16, 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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Monday, June 19, 1995
 
Volume 31--Number 24
Pages 1013-1066
 
Week Ending Friday, June 16, 1995
 
Proclamation 6808--Flag Day and National Flag Week, 1995


June 9, 1995

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    This week, Americans celebrate the Flag of the United States, which 
for more than two centuries has brought our people together in a common 
bond of citizenship. We reaffirm our allegiance to freedom's banner--
``Old Glory''--and to the proud history it has inspired. We honor the 
valor and sacrifices of all who have defended it--in public service and 
on battlegrounds around the world. And we rededicate ourselves to the 
democratic ideals stitched forever into the fabric of America.
    In towns and cities across the country, public buildings fly the 
Stars and Stripes as a symbol of our Nation's spirit of community. That 
spirit was never more evident than this past April in Oklahoma, where 
the flag appeared on the sleeves of rescue workers, emergency personnel, 
and volunteers from throughout the land. A shining badge of honor, it 
reminded all who mourned that we Americans have seen countless trials 
and have emerged from each one stronger than ever.
    Earlier this year, in expressing our gratitude to the men and women 
who served in uniform during the Second World War, the Nation observed 
the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima. We recalled the day, 
immortalized in sculpture, when a team of brave Americans beat all odds 
and hoisted aloft the American flag. May we, the heirs of the freedom 
they fought to defend, always remember their courage and serve as loyal 
standard-bearers for the cause of liberty.
    To commemorate the adoption of our flag, the Congress, by a joint 
resolution approved August 3, 1949 (63 Stat. 492), designated June 14 of 
each year as ``Flag Day'' and requested the President to issue an annual 
Proclamation calling for its observance and for the display of the Flag 
of the United States on all Government buildings. The Congress also 
requested the President, by joint resolution approved June 9, 1966 (80 
Stat. 194), to issue annually a Proclamation designating the week in 
which June 14 occurs as ``National Flag Week,'' and calling upon all 
citizens of the United States to display the flag during that week.
    Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United 
States of America, do hereby proclaim June 14, 1995, as Flag Day and the 
week beginning June 11, 1995, as National Flag Week. I direct the 
appropriate officials of the Government to display the Flag of the 
United States on all Government buildings during that week. I urge 
Americans to observe Flag Day, June 14, and Flag Week by flying the 
Stars and Stripes from their homes and other suitable places.
    I also call upon the American people to observe with pride and all 
due ceremony those days from Flag Day through Independence Day, also set 
aside by the Congress (89 Stat. 211), as a time to honor America and to 
celebrate our heritage in public gatherings and activities and to 
publicly recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United 
States of America.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this ninth day of 
June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-five, and of 
the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and 
nineteenth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 3:12 p.m., June 12, 
1995]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on June 
14. This item was not received in time for publication in the 
appropriate issue.

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Monday, June 19, 1995
 
Volume 31--Number 24
Pages 1013-1066
 
Week Ending Friday, June 16, 1995
 
The President's Radio Address

June 10, 1995

    Good morning. I know all Americans share my deep pride and joy in 
the safety of Captain Scott O'Grady. We're proud of his courage and his 
tenacity. And we are very grateful to our armed forces for his swift and 
brilliant rescue. I'm glad we have him back safe and secure.
    Today I want to talk about a very real threat to the safety and 
security of young Americans here at home: drunk driving. Drunk driving, 
especially by young people, is one of the most serious and one of the 
most avoidable threats to public health in America. I'm joined in the 
White House by members of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Students 
Against Drunk Driving, AAA, and the National Safety Council. In no small 
measure because of the determined work of private organizations like 
these, we have taken some very important steps over the last decade to 
reduce drunk driving.
    Most of us who were Governors of our States during that period 
strengthened our own laws against drunk driving. In 1984, President 
Reagan signed a bill giving States a strong incentive to raise their 
drinking age to 21. Today that is the law of the land in every State. As 
a result, teenagers can no longer drive to neighboring States with lower 
drinking ages. This happened all the time before we had a uniform 
drinking age, and all too often with tragic consequences.
    The crime bill I signed into law last year puts tough new penalties 
on the books for people who drive drunk with children in their cars. It 
also makes it easier for States to prosecute anybody who drives under 
the influence of drugs or alcohol. And deaths due to drinking and 
driving have dropped as a result of the progress we've made, 30 percent 
in the last 12 years. The number of people under 21 killed because of 
drunk driving has dropped 50 percent since 1984.
    This is good progress, and I expect the new penalties in the crime 
bill will help to improve things even more. But it's not good enough. 
Some 18,000 people will die this year because someone sat down at the 
wheel after sitting down at a bar. That's about one every 30 minutes. 
Well over a million people will be injured, one every 26 seconds.
    This may sound unbelievable; it's certainly unacceptable. But over 
40 percent of all Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related crash 
at some time in their lives. Twenty-two hundred people were killed last 
year because of young drivers who were drinking and driving. Of that 
group, 1,600 were young people themselves. There's something wrong in 
America when hundreds and hundreds of our young people are dying because 
hundreds and hundreds of our young people are drinking and driving.
    In most States, drunk driving is defined as a blood alcohol content 
of .1 percent. When underage drinkers become underage drunk drivers, I 
believe we should go further. I want Congress to call on the States to 
adopt zero tolerance laws for teenage drinking and driving. A blood 
alcohol content of .02 percent, the equivalent of one beer, one wine 
cooler, or one shot of alcohol, should be enough to trigger the drunk 
driving penalties for people under 21. After all, if it's illegal for 
people under 21 to drink at all, it should certainly be illegal for them 
to drink and drive. That's a no-brainer.
    Zero tolerance will save lives. It's already saving lives in 24 
States, including my home State. Alcohol-related crashes are down 10 to 
20 percent in those States overall. And in some States like Maine and 
New Mexico, all fatal crashes at night involving young people actually 
dropped by one-third after they adopted a zero tolerance law. 
Unfortunately, there are still 26 States, including large States like 
New York, Texas, and Florida, that draw thousands of vacationing 
teenagers every year, without these zero tolerance laws. It's time to 
have zero tolerance for underage drunk driving all across America, not 
just in some States.
    As we redefine the relationships between States and the Federal 
Government, it is clear there are many things the States can do better 
than we can do in Washington. And I've done as much as I could to push 
more authority and decisionmaking back down to the States, to encourage 
innovation in important areas like welfare and health care reform. But 

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