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      SUBJECT: Political Dialog

      Copied w/o permission from the NY Times, Monday 8/31/92, Page A15

      Imagine that a network morning show has assembled six political
      heavyweights for a call-in show.  A teacher phones to report that
      during a recent class tour of the White House, a student wanted a
      drink of water, only to discover that the fountain was out of order.
      The teacher asks the panel what message a broken fountain at the White
      House sends to the young people of America.  Let's listen to the
      answers.

      ROSS PEROT:  The question here is simple: how do we fix it.  I say,
      let's bring together the finest plumbing talent in America -- from
      outside the system.  Let them look at the fountain.  Turn it on.  Turn
      it off.  Measure the flow in it.  That sort of thing.  And you can be
      sure, the next time you take a White House tour, you're going to drink
      from a world-class fountain.

      JESSE JACKSON:  Let us not talk about this broken water fountain.
      Let us talk about the thousands of broken water fountains across
      America.  For they, too, are broken, like the broken dreams of
      America's forgotten children.  And whether you are black, white, brown
      or yellow, you cannot use them.  Why?  Because the Republican Party is
      more interested in _Perrier_ water and _Pellegrino_ water than it is
      in _public_ water.

      AL GORE:  I love my country.  And I love water.  And I love the
      children who drink from the water fountains in the country I love,
      and that my father loves.  And I believe in my heart that the time has
      come, now more than ever, for all of us to be inspired by the young
      people of America whose dreams for the future depend on our ability as
      a nation to provide them with the water that is the essence of their
      survival.

      DAN QUAYLE:  I am very, very sympathetic to the disappointment young
      people in America feel when they go to a water fountain in the single
      most important building in America and cannot drink from it.  Because
      I, too, would be very, very disappointed if I were to go to get a
      drink from a water fountain and discover that, because of the
      Democrats, the water does not come up.  Water is a terrible thing to
      waste, when there is thirst but no water, that is a terrible thing.

      BILL CLINTON:  I grew up in a home where public water fountains were
      very important to me and to my family.  And I have put forward a plan
      similar to the plan I introduced to Arkansas.  This plan is good for
      America. It takes the $4.25 million savings we realize when we
      eliminate the 10 percent reduction on the capital gains that exceed
      $30,000 in any given one-year period for Americans under the age of 31
      who graduated before 1984, and it allocates 18.5 percent of that sum
      to paying for 80 percent of the new fountain construction.

      GEORGE BUSH:  O.K.  Sure.  Fine.  There's something wrong with a water
      fountain in the White House?  I'm not denying it.  You have to be a
      fool to deny it.  But make no mistake about it.  There is a lot that
      is _right_ with it, too.  And that's one thing I want to focus on, you
      see, not what's bad about the water fountains in America by what's
      _good_ about them.  And with the help of the American people and a
      Republican Congress I can work with, I can make the water flow again
      in the water fountains of America.
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