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Subject: CLINTON: Remarks by the President 1/25/93
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:58:15 GMT
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                           THE WHITE HOUSE

                    Office of the Press Secretary

             
________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release                           January 25, 1993     

             
                      REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
                      DURING PHOTO OPPORTUNITY 
                       WITH ECONOMIC ADVISERS
                   AND SIGNING OF EXECUTIVE ORDER
             
             
                         The Roosevelt Room
                  
11:30 A.M. EST
             
                  
             THE PRESIDENT:  This is the executive order which
establishes the National Economic Council and which brings into the
economic policy-making of the federal government not just the
traditional secretaries of Treasury, OMB, the Council of Economic
Advisers, but also the Departments of Commerce, Labor, Agriculture,
HUD, Transportation, Energy, EPA, as well as the Trade Office, State,
so that we can all work together.  I want to thank all of the people
around this table for all the work they've done on this and
especially Mr. Rubin, for the work that he's done to try to reconcile
all these things.  I believe that this will enable us to make
economic policy in a much more specific, clear and effective way than
the federal government has in quite a long while.  

             (The document is signed.)
             
             Q    If the Joint Chiefs oppose this lifting of the ban
on gays in the military, are you still going to go ahead with that?
             
             THE PRESIDENT:  I'm going to meet with them and discuss
it this afternoon.  But I intend to keep my commitment.  I want their
input on how we should do it, however.  I think they're entitled to
really be listened to on a lot of the practical issues.
             
             Q    Is this part of what you said in your Inaugural
Address, that it will require sacrifice?
             
             THE PRESIDENT:  I think everybody wants to make a
contribution to solving these problems, and we're going to give
everyone the opportunity to do that.
             
             Q    How quickly will you lift this ban, Mr. President?
             
             THE PRESIDENT:  I don't have anything else to say about
it right now.  We're going to have a meeting --
             
             Q    Are you going to have a meeting on it?
             
             THE PRESIDENT:  I want to talk to the Joint Chiefs about
that and then I'll have a statement to make later.  
             
             Q    Today?
             
             THE PRESIDENT:  I don't know.  We've got a lot of other
things to do today.  Maybe, I don't know.
             
             Q    Mr. President, can you say anything about the
consumption tax that Senator Bentsen addressed yesterday?
             
             THE PRESIDENT:  No.  I thought he did a very good job on
television.  I wasn't sure that I was reading about the same
interview in the press this morning.  He said that no decision had
been made, and no decision has been made.  We have a lot of options
under consideration, but no decision has been made. 
             
             THE PRESS:Thank you, Mr. President.
             
             

                                 END                   11:34 A.M. EST