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From: Clinton-HQ@Campaign92.Org (Clinton/Gore '92)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.reform,alt.politics.usa.misc,alt.activism
Subject: CLINTON: Mr. President, how difficult was the Zoe Baird decision?
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:44:03 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: life.ai.mit.edu




                            THE WHITE HOUSE

                     Office of the Press Secretary

                            January 22, 1993

                       REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
                        DURING PHOTO OPPORTUNITY
                           The Cabinet Room

 11:15 A.M. EST


  Q    Mr. President, how difficult was the Zoe Baird decision?  How
 agonizing was it for you?

  THE PRESIDENT:  I was -- I'm sad about it.  But it wasn't
 agonizing.  I'm just very -- I'm sad about it, and I take full
 responsibility, as I said in my statement, for the way the evaluation
 was done.  I still have a very high regard for her.  She is an
 extraordinary person.  And I feel very badly about it, but I'm
 responsible for it, and I'm going to start this afternoon looking for
 an attorney general.  And I have the process set up, and we're going
 to begin as soon as the lunch hour is over, working on the future.
 And that's what I intend to focus on.

 Q    Will it be a woman?

 THE PRESIDENT:  I have nothing else to say.  I'm going to start this
 afternoon.  Thanks.

                                  END                   11:16 A.M. EST
From: craven@cco.caltech.edu (William Arthur Craven)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.reform
Subject: Re: CLINTON: Gays in the military
Date: 26 Jan 1993 16:04:38 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: alumni.caltech.edu

byrd@lucerne.rice.edu (Marc J Byrd) writes:


>Let's get this right:  Clinton, who never served a day in the
>military, thinks he knows better than all of those advisors,
>joint chiefs, generals etc.... what's best for the military?

>One of the federal governments few legitimate duties is to
>" provide for the common defense ...".  A completely illegitimate
>aim is to use the military for social engineering, especially in a time 
>of such instability.

	Where's your healthy disregard for authority, Marc?   By a strict
construction of the Constitution, we know that the military was put under 
civilian control.  Which is a very good thing. And think of it less as social
engineering, and more of as a recognition and acceptance of the status quo
situation.  The day when you can prove to me that having gays and lesbians
in the military is detrimental to discipline by _what they are_ and not by 
what they do, then your argument and those of the joint chiefs might be valid.
But there is no such proof.  And if you think that after lifting the ban, the 
closet doors will come flying open, you're incredibly naive. And if they 
behave in an inappropriate way, then discipline them, ala Tailhook. 
	Oh, and last but not least, the military spends millions of dollars
ferreting out gays and lesbians with a witch-hunt type mentality.  I know those
poor criminal investigation guys don't have anything better to do with their
time, but if we lifted the ban, we probably could save some money.
	And, if I recall, the rest of the phrase is "...promote the general
welfare, secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity."  
You might argue that these phrases are vague and not well defined, but
nonethless they are included in that same list in the Preamble to the 
constitution.  In your zeal to reform the institutions of this country (which
I admit require reform) don't forget the ideas behind the whole enterprise.
That is our strength and our weakness both, but has allowed our union to 
get along pretty well for over 200 years.  

-- 
Bill Craven               Anything I say can and will be held against me.  
Fusion Research Center    Just don't hold it against anyone else.  
UT Austin                 Grad school *is* the ninth circle of hell. :)

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From: Clinton-HQ@Campaign92.Org (Clinton/Gore '92)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.reform,alt.politics.usa.misc,alt.activism
Subject: CLINTON: The Council on Competitiveness
Date: 25 Jan 1993 21:01:55 -0500
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: life.ai.mit.edu


                          THE WHITE HOUSE

                   OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT

      For Immediate Release                        January 22, 1993

                Statement of Vice President Al Gore

      Today, we are sending a clear message to the special interests
 who used the Council on Competitiveness as a back-door to avoid the
 law. That back door is closed. No longer will special interests
 receive special favors. No longer will our laws be ignored or
 undermined. No longer will decisions that should be made in public be
 made in private. In this Administration everyone will play by the
 rules and public decisions will be public information.

      The Council on Competitiveness was founded on a false choice;
 that the interests of workers, consumers, and the environment
 conflict with the goal of economic growth. And, rather than
 reconciling those objectives in public, the past Administration used
 the Council on Competitiveness as an excuse for special favors for
 narrow interests and back-room decisions. We are committing ourselves
 to a process that will serve the American people honestly, openly,
 and with respect for the law and their safety.

      President Clinton and I today reaffirm our strong support for
 policies that recognize we must ensure environmental protection to
 have strong economic growth.

                            ################


Newsgroups: alt.politics.reform
From: prs9k@brain.med.virginia.edu (Phil Scarr)
Subject: Re: CLINTON:  Gays in the military
Organization: Neuroclinical Trials Center, UVa
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:40:05 GMT

In article <C1GrxJ.2np@rice.edu> byrd@lucerne.rice.edu (Marc J Byrd) writes:
>
>Less than a week after taking office, Clinton is going against
>the advice of practically every one of his military advisors,
>including his secretary of defense, Les Aspin, and gulf war
>hero Collin Powell.
>
>Let's get this right:  Clinton, who never served a day in the
>military, thinks he knows better than all of those advisors,
>joint chiefs, generals etc.... what's best for the military?

This point is totally irrelevant.  The man is commander-in-chief of the
US armed services.  He achieved this by virtue of holding the office of
President of the United States.  Whether or not he served in those same
armed forces matters not one bit.

>
>One of the federal governments few legitimate duties is to
>" provide for the common defense ...".  A completely illegitimate
>aim is to use the military for social engineering, especially in a time 
>of such instability.

It isn't a matter of "social engineering" but rather of accepting an
inevitable outcome of the gay rights movement.  These exact same
arguments were used by racists in the late 40's to try and keep the
armed services segrigated.  They were wrong then and they're wrong now.


>
>
>-- 
>Marc J. Byrd - byrd@rice.edu       |  United We Stand. 
>Rice University                    |  Whether or not you accept it, you are 
>Dept of Elec & Comp Engr           |  responsible for the actions and 
>XUV Holographic Microscope Project |  inactions of your government. 

	-Phil
-- 
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From: byrd@lucerne.rice.edu (Marc J Byrd)
Subject: CLINTON:  127 (or 8) tax increases revisited
Organization: Rice University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:52:27 GMT

Anyone remember a few months ago when the Bush camp pointed out the
propensity of Clinton to add consumption taxes?  Remember when I
pointed out that he even raised taxes on groceries?  Well, he's
at it again ...

Despite his campaign promises, he will raise taxes on the middle class
and poor, not only the rich.  And what about those campaign promises?
No one seems to be holding his feet to the fire on the middle class
tax break.  Now he says he realizes they weren't realistic.  Are we
(you saps who voted for him) to believe that he didn't see the
fantasy of it back in October?  Perot and Bush pointed out that
it wasn't realistic, and look what happened to them.  The reason
they call him slick Willie is because people like those who
voted for him are letting him get away with totally going against
his campaign pledges, just about every one except gays in the
military!  Do you think Bush would get away with it?  Of course,
we know the answer:  He didn't. 

By electing this man and not holding him accountable for his promises,
we're encouraging future politicians to bold-faced lie to the public
to get elected, regardless of what they actually intend.

P.S.  I'd really like some economist(s) to explain to everyone here
how comsumption taxes are regressive, that is, the poorer someone is,
the bigger percentage of their income they pay in consumption tax.
The more any government comes to rely on consumption taxes, the lower
the percentage the rich will have to pay.
Old Republicans should love Clinton now!



-- 
Marc J. Byrd - byrd@rice.edu       |  United We Stand. 
Rice University                    |  Whether or not you accept it, you are 
Dept of Elec & Comp Engr           |  responsible for the actions and 
XUV Holographic Microscope Project |  inactions of your government. 
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From: Clinton-HQ@Campaign92.Org (Clinton/Gore '92)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.reform,alt.politics.usa.misc,alt.activism
Subject: CLINTON: Importation of RU-486
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:01:50 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: life.ai.mit.edu


                         THE WHITE HOUSE

                  Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release                           January 22, 1993


                        January 22, 1993


MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

SUBJECT:       Importation of RU-486


In Import Alert 66-47, the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") excluded the
drug Mifepristine -- commonly known as RU-486 -- from the list of drugs that
individuals can import into the United States for their "personal use,"
although the drugs have not yet been approved for distribution by the FDA.
(See FDA Regulatory Procedures Manual, Chapter 9-71.)  Import Alert 66-47
effectively bans the importation into this Nation of a drug that is used in
other nations as a nonsurgical means of abortion.

I am informed that in excluding RU-486 from the personal use importation
exemption, the FDA appears to have based its decision on factors other than an
assessment of the possible health and safety risks of the drug.  Accordingly, I
hereby direct that you promptly instruct the FDA to determine whether there is
sufficient evidence to warrant exclusion of RU-486 from the list of drugs that
qualify for the personal use importation exemption.  Furthermore, if the FDA
concludes that RU-486 meets the criteria for the personal use importation
exemption, I direct that you immediately take steps to rescind Import Alert
66-47.

In addition, I direct that you promptly assess initiatives by which the
Department of Health and Human Services can promote the testing, licensing, and
manufacturing in the United States of RU-486 or other antiprogestins.

You are hereby authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the
Federal Register.



                                   WILLIAM J. CLINTON


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From: Clinton-HQ@Campaign92.Org (Clinton/Gore '92)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.reform,alt.politics.usa.misc,alt.activism
Subject: CLINTON: DEATH OF THURGOOD MARSHALL
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:05:56 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: life.ai.mit.edu


                         THE WHITE HOUSE

                  Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release                          January 25, 1993


                   DEATH OF THURGOOD MARSHALL

                          - - - - - - -

        BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

                         A PROCLAMATION


     Thurgood Marshall, an African-American born and reared
in segregated America, was a fundamental force of change in this
Nation.  Perhaps no other American lawyer has had more impact on
the current meaning and content of the U.S. Constitution.  As the
leading attorney for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Education
Fund, Justice Marshall's twenty-nine victories before the
U.S. Supreme Court breathed life into the text of the Fourteenth
Amendment and guaranteed all Americans equality and liberty in
their individual choices concerning voting, housing, education,
and travel.  As an appeals court judge, the Solicitor General of
the United States and, finally, Supreme Court Justice, he worked
tirelessly to expand and protect his vision of justice for
America.  As our Nation begins to chart its course for the next
century, it is fitting that we pause to honor and remember the
courageous, purposeful life of Thurgood Marshall.

     As a mark of respect for the memory of Thurgood
Marshall, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
the United States, I hereby order by the authority vested in me
as President of the United States of America by section 175 of
title 36 of the United States Code, that the flag of the United
States shall be flown at half-staff upon all public buildings
and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on
all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of
Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories
and Possessions until his interment.  I also direct that the
flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same length of time
at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices,
and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities
and naval vessels and stations.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
this twenty-fourth day of January, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred and ninety-three, and of the Independence of
the United States of American the two hundred and seventeenth.

                                   WILLIAM J. CLINTON



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From: Clinton-HQ@Campaign92.Org (Clinton/Gore '92)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.reform,alt.politics.usa.misc,alt.activism
Subject: CLINTON: The Council on Competitiveness
Date: 27 Jan 1993 14:38:06 -0500
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: life.ai.mit.edu


                           THE WHITE HOUSE

                   Office of the Press Secretary

 For Immediate Release                          January 22, 1993


                         January 21, 1993



                   MEMORANDUM FOR THE ACTING DIRECTOR
                    OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

 The Council on Competitiveness, established March 31, 1989,
 terminated on January 20, 1993.

 Pending completion of a review, existing Executive orders on
 regulatory management will continue to apply.  You are directed to
 request the agencies described in section 1(d) of Executive Order
 12291 to assure that in publishing regulations, and subject to such
 exceptions as the Director or the Acting Director of the Office of
 Management and Budget determines to be appropriate, all regulations
 must first be approved by an agency head or the designee of an agency
 head who, in either case, is a person appointed by me and confirmed
 by the Senate.



                                    WILLIAM J. CLINTON



                               # # #


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From: Clinton-HQ@Campaign92.Org (Clinton/Gore '92)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.reform,alt.politics.usa.misc,alt.activism
Subject: CLINTON: President Instructs Staff to Follow Strict Ethics Rules
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:54:26 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: life.ai.mit.edu


 Posted by: The White House

 President Instructs Staff to Follow Strict Ethics Rules

 Jan. 21, 1993 -- President Bill Clinton today called on his White
 House staff to uphold the highest possible ethical standards and to
 put the needs of the American people ahead of personal ambitions.

 "We just have to be dominated by high standards and clear vision and
 we ought to have a good time doing it," the president said at his
 first meeting with senior White House staff members.

 The meeting, held in the historic Roosevelt Room in the White House's
 West Wing, came one day after Clinton, in his first official act as
 President, signed an executive order establishing the most stringent
 ethical requirements of any administration ever.

 Executive Order No. 1 requires all senior appointees to pledge that
 they will refrain from:

 * Lobbying during the five years after they leave government any
 agency where they have served or which they have had any
 responsibility for as a member of the White House staff;

 * Engaging in any activity on behalf of any foreign government
 at any time after they leave government service;

 * Representing any foreign government or foreign corporation in
 any way within five years of being involved in a trade negotiation
 on behalf of the U.S. government.

    "The ethics rules that we have put forward," said the president,
 "will guarantee that the members of this administration will be
 looking out for the American people and not for themselves."


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Newsgroups: alt.politics.reform
From: byrd@lucerne.rice.edu (Marc J Byrd)
Subject:  CLINTON:  Gays in the military
Organization: Rice University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:53:43 GMT


Less than a week after taking office, Clinton is going against
the advice of practically every one of his military advisors,
including his secretary of defense, Les Aspin, and gulf war
hero Collin Powell.

Let's get this right:  Clinton, who never served a day in the
military, thinks he knows better than all of those advisors,
joint chiefs, generals etc.... what's best for the military?

One of the federal governments few legitimate duties is to
" provide for the common defense ...".  A completely illegitimate
aim is to use the military for social engineering, especially in a time 
of such instability.


-- 
Marc J. Byrd - byrd@rice.edu       |  United We Stand. 
Rice University                    |  Whether or not you accept it, you are 
Dept of Elec & Comp Engr           |  responsible for the actions and 
XUV Holographic Microscope Project |  inactions of your government. 
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From: ricks@luke.nrl.navy.mil (Richard Schumeyer)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.reform,alt.politics.clinton,alt.president.clinton
Subject: Re: CLINTON:  127 (or 8) tax increases revisited
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:37:45 GMT
Organization: NRL

byrd@rice.edu says:

>P.S.  I'd really like some economist(s) to explain to everyone here
>how comsumption taxes are regressive, that is, the poorer someone is,
>the bigger percentage of their income they pay in consumption tax.
>The more any government comes to rely on consumption taxes, the lower
>the percentage the rich will have to pay.

Actually, depending on how a consumtion tax is implemented, it can be
progressive.  The income tax is progressive because of rate indexing, which
could be done with a consumption tax.  However, the tax would have to be
implemented similar to how the income tax is implemented now.  A "national
sales tax" would not achive this.

I don't think I would mind a consumption tax as a replacement for income tax.
But since the proposed gasoline tax is in addition to all other taxes, it is
not clear to me how this will stimulate the economy.  (Is improving the
economy a promise? goal? objective? dream? )

And people thought G. Bush was exaggerating when he said something like
"Mr. and Mrs. America, you better hold on to your wallet!"
--
------------------------
Rick Schumeyer          
Software Technology     
ricks@luke.nrl.navy.mil 
------------------------
Opinions mine only.
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From: Clinton-HQ@Campaign92.Org (Clinton/Gore '92)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.reform,alt.politics.usa.misc,alt.activism
Subject: CLINTON: FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON SCHEDULE
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:57:59 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: life.ai.mit.edu


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1993
 
FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON SCHEDULE FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1993.

WASHINGTON, DC -- FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON WILL VISIT "NEW YORK
CARES" TUTORING SESSION AND RECEIVE LEWIS HINE AWARD IN NEW YORK CITY ON
TUESDAY, JANUARY 26.

Mrs. Clinton will join "NEW YORK CARES" volunteers at a tutoring session
with several 4th, 5th and 6th graders.  "NEW YORK CARES," founded in 1987,
is a volunteer organization designed to place young working New Yorkers in
volunteer projects in which they work with people in need.  Working in
teams, "NEW YORK CARES" volunteers provide direct assistance to poor
children, homeless families, people with AIDS and the elderly.

DATE:               TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1993
PRESS CALL TIME:    9:30AM
LOCATION:           Alexander Humboldt School
                    PS 115
                    586 W. 177TH STREET
                    NEW YORK, NY

     Press Note:    Mrs. Clinton will be joined at the tutoring session by
     Maria Alvarez.  Ms. Alvarez, a "New York Cares" volunteer will receive
     a Lewis Hine Award that evening.


Mrs. Clinton will receive a special Lewis Hine Award for Distinguished
Service to children and youth.  The award will be presented by the National
Child Labor Committee (NCLC).  Ten individuals from communities across the
country will also be honored with a Lewis Hine award.

DATE:               TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1993
PRESS CALL TIME:    5:30PM
LOCATION:           THE CHEMICAL BANK BUILDING
PRESS ENTRANCE:     270 PARK AVENUE
                    BETWEEN 48TH AND PARK

     PRESS NOTE:  Press will be escorted to the 49th floor for the award
     ceremony. Press overflow space will be provided on the 2nd floor in
     the employee cafeteria.  Mult and video DA will be available in this
     area.
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