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Monday, October 30, 1995
 
Volume 31--Number 43
Pages 1893-1950
 
Contents

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Weekly Compilation of

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Addresses and Remarks

    Balkan peace process--1930
    Harry S Truman Library Institute dinner--1939
    Iowa
        Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Des Moines--1893
        National Czech and Slovak Museum in Cedar Rapids--1902
    National Italian-American Foundation dinner--1904
    New York
        AFL-CIO convention in New York City--1918
        United Nations in New York City
            General Assembly--1909
            Luncheon--1913
    Radio address--1900
    United Jewish Appeal reception--1937

Bill Signings

    Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and 
        Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996, statement--1946

Communications to Congress

    Drug traffickers of the Cali cartel, message on sanctions--1914
    Iraq, letter reporting on compliance with United Nations Security 
        Council resolutions--1928

Executive Orders

    Agency Procurement Protests--1943
    Blocking Assets and Prohibiting Transactions With Significant 
        Narcotics Traffickers--1907

Interviews With the News Media

    Exchanges with reporters
        New York City--1912, 1930, 1932
        West Wing Portico--1944
    News conferences
        October 23 (No. 104) with President Yeltsin of Russia--1915
        October 25 (No. 105)--1933

Joint Statements

    Nuclear Materials Security--1918

Meetings With Foreign Leaders

    Bosnia, President Izetbegovic--1930
    China, President Jiang--1932
    Croatia, President Tudjman--1930
    Indonesia, President Soeharto--1944
    Russia, President Yeltsin--1915, 1918
    South Africa, President Mandela--1912

Proclamations

    National Consumers Week--1927
    United Nations Day--1927
    Veterans Day--1932

Statements by the President

    See also Bill Signings
    AFL-CIO election--1937
    Gun-Free Schools Act--1944

Supplementary Materials

    Acts approved by the President--1950
    Checklist of White House press releases--1949
    Digest of other White House announcements--1947
    Nominations submitted to the Senate--1949




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Monday, October 30, 1995
 
Volume 31--Number 43
Pages 1893-1950
 
Week Ending Friday, October 27, 1995
 
Remarks at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa


October 20, 1995

    The President. I like to see a Democratic crowd just a little rowdy. 
I like to see a meeting in Iowa where we don't have to bus people in to 
raise a crowd.
    I want to thank your State chair, Mike Peterson, for inviting me 
here, and give my regards to your attorney general, Tom Miller, to 
Treasurer Mike Fitzgerald, to your Secretary of Agriculture Dale 
Cochran; the Senate President Leonard Boswell, the Majority Leader Wally 
Horn, your House Minority Leader Dave Schraeder. And to all the other 
Iowans who are here. And I want to say a special word of thanks to the 
Iowans who have been a part of our administration: Ruth Harkin, the 
President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation; Bonnie 
Campbell, who does a wonderful job running our violence against women 
office; Joel Hern at HUD, Rich Running and Dave O'Brien at Labor; John 
Miller at FEMA; all these Iowans are doing a great job to serve the 
United States in the National Government, and I thank them very much.
    You know, 4 years ago I was here in the middle of the beginning of 
the Presidential process. I made a courtesy call because I knew I 
wouldn't do very well in the Iowa caucuses. [Laughter] I hope that it 
works out differently this time. I had the great honor of coming here to 
speak to your legislature, and then to come back to Ames for the rural 
conference. And I was very glad to do that.
    I didn't exactly enjoy it, but I was deeply moved by what I saw when 
I came here during the floods. And I think there is something quite 
remarkable about this State. And you're going to have a very important 
role in the direction of the country for many, many years to come. I 
came here because I wanted to see the Democratic Party alive and well, 
and I wanted to speak to what I believe we have to stand for, clearly, 
unambiguously, and proudly, and how I believe we can reach out to others 
to broaden our ranks and deepen our resolve.
    I think we have to think first and foremost about the young people 
here. I'm glad to see all these students who are here. I just spoke to 
somewhere between 900 and 1,000 of them in the basement. As an old 
musician, let me tell you that even though I wasn't in the room, I very 
much enjoyed the Carroll High School Jazz Band, they did a great job. I 
thank them for that.
    I want to say a special word of thanks and admiration to Senator 
Harkin for his friendship, his leadership, and for what he said tonight. 
What he said was wise and good and true. I want you to keep him in the 
Senate; we need him. We need him. America needs him.
    You know, Tom Harkin was for balancing the budget when the other 
guys were still running up the debt. He was for doing it in a way that 
honors our values and our interests. He worked with me to reduce the 
deficit but to increase our investment in education, in technology, in 
research, especially in medical research. He fought for the proposition 
that we do have certain obligations to one another in this country. 
That's what the Americans with Disabilities Act is really all about, 
bringing out the best in everyone so that we'll all be stronger.
    He has always been a leader in our fight against crime. And the Vice 
President and the Attorney General will be coming into Iowa for a 
violence prevention conference on Monday morning. And I honor him for 
having led the fight to remind us that we not only have to be strong in 
dealing with crime, we have to be aggressive in preventing crime. That's 
one of the many lessons that the majority in Congress seems to have 
forgotten, that Tom Harkin has not.
    The last thing I wanted to say about the other guys in my 
introduction is that I was

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proud to see Senator Harkin invite independents and Republicans to our 
cause. If you think about the sharp differences in values being 
expressed in Washington today, we would be historically accurate to call 
this the Jefferson-Jackson-Abraham Lincoln-Theodore Roosevelt dinner. 
They were all on our side, compared to what is going on today in 
Washington, DC.
    My fellow Americans, I come to you tonight with a simple and 
straightforward message. You know we live in a very great country, on 
the edge of a new era, a new century, a new millennium, a time of great 
change. We are moving from an industrial age into an information and 
technology-driven age where even agriculture and industry will be driven 
by information and technology. We are moving from the cold war to a 
global village where all of us will be more closely in contact, more 
closely bound up. We'll have common possibilities and common 
vulnerabilities as we see every day with terrorism around the world and 
here at home.
    This is a time of enormous potential, and your country is on the 
move. There is no nation in the world remotely as well-positioned to 
enable its people to fulfill their dreams and to lead the world toward 
peace and freedom and prosperity as the United States. But we must be 
true to our values, and we must have a clear vision of that future.
    I ran for President in 1992 for the same reason Tom Harkin did. We 
thought our country was going in the wrong direction, without a clear 
sense of vision. I said that if I were honored by the American people 
with the Presidency, I would try to do the following things: I would try 
to restore the American dream for all our people and make sure we went 
into the next century as the most powerful country in the world, the 
greatest force for peace and freedom and prosperity by having an 
economic policy that produced jobs and growth, that expanded the middle 
class and shrinks the under class; by giving us a modern Government that 
is smaller, less bureaucratic, more entrepreneurial, but can still 
fulfill our fundamental responsibilities to one another; by making sure 
that America was still the leading nation in the world in a positive 
sense; and most important of all, by being true to old-fashioned 
American values in this very new age, of responsibility and opportunity 
for all, of valuing work, yes, but understanding that families count, 
too, and we have to help them to stay strong and be together, and of a 
sense of community which means that we are stronger when we work 
together. We're going forward or backward together, and that means we 
have obligations to one another. It isn't popular in Washington to talk 
about that today, but it is true. We have obligations to our parents 
when they need us and to our poor children when, through no fault of 
their own, they need a hand up in life. We have obligations to those who 
are disabled or who otherwise need a helping hand who are willing to do 
their part. We have obligations to take off our own blinders and the 
chains on our own spirit, which is why I was so proud to see all those 
people in Washington saying in that march, ``I intend to take greater 
responsibility for myself, for my family, and for my community, but I 
want to reach out to you to ask you to work with me to make America a 
better place.''
    And my message to you is very plain and simple: This country is in 
better shape than it was 2\1/2\ years ago because we have worked hard to 
do what we said we would do. We still have real and significant 
challenges that require us to keep going in the right direction, toward 
a better and brighter future. And we're in the midst of a struggle in 
Washington that is not about balancing the budget and is far more 
important than economics, that goes to the very heart of who we are as a 
people, what we believe and what we are willing to stand for, and what 
kind of America we want our children and our grandchildren to live in in 
the 21st century. That is what is going on.
    You know, in 1993, when we passed our economic program, in the most 
intense partisan environment in modern American political history, the 
other side said, ``Oh, the sky will fall.'' There were Chicken Littles 
everywhere. ``The world will come to an end if you pass this program. A 
recession is just around the corner.'' Well, 2\1/2\ years later we have 
7\1/2\ million more jobs, 2\1/2\ million more homeowners, a record 
number of new small businesses, the lowest combined rate of infla- 

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tion and unemployment in 25 years. They were wrong, and we were right.
    Do we have more to do? Of course, we do. In any time of great change 
like this, inequality is a danger because some people aren't very well 
suited to the world toward which we're leaving--toward which we're 
moving. And we've got to do more in the area of education and training. 
We've got to do more for rural areas and urban areas that have been left 
behind. We have got to do more to spread opportunity. But the answer is 
to build on the successes of the last 2\1/2\ years, not to turn around 
and do the wrong thing.
    In the area of Government, I heard the other side complain about 
Government year-in and year-out and how terrible it was. Well, we didn't 

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