From: tang@picone.math.purdue.edu (Puqi Tang)
Subject:  [FYI only] CLINTON: Statement of President-Elect Bill Clinton
Summary:  [FYI only] CLINTON: Statement of President-Elect Bill Clinton
Keywords: [FYI only] CLINTON: Statement of President-Elect Bill Clinton
Organization: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 03:36:26 GMT




Original From: News-Out@dc.Clinton-Gore.org
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 92 23:16:01 EST


 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
 Posted by Clinton/Gore Transition            
 November 4, 1992                                

                  Statement of President-Elect Bill Clinton
                               November 4, 1992

      Today, I want to affirm the essential continuity in American
 foreign policy and my desire to seek bi-partisan support for our role
 in the world.  During the transition that is about to begin, I urge
 America's friends and foes alike to recognize, as I do, that America
 has only one president at a time; that America's foreign policy
 remains solely in his hands; that even as America's administrations
 change, America's interests do not; that the greatest gesture of
 goodwill any nation can make toward me is to continue their full
 cooperation during this period with our one President, George Bush;
 and that the greatest mistake any adversary could make would be to
 doubt America's resolve during this period of transition.

      I look forward to working closely with President Bush during
 this period to ensure continuity on global matters of interest to all
 Americans -- from continued progress in the Mideast peace talks; to
 completing negotiation on the details of the START II arms control
 agreement; to making progress toward a good agreement on our world
 trade talks; to bolstering Russia's fledgling democracy; to working
 toward peaceful resolution of the conflict in the republics of the
 former Yugoslavia; to assisting the victims of famine in Somalia.

      I also look forward to getting to work on the hard and vital
 task of restoring our nation's economic strength.  Today I say to our
 financial and business leaders that, although change is on the
 horizon, we understand the need for stability as we pursue new
 growth.  The changes I seek will strengthen American's market
 systems, not weaken them.  And to the people of our great nation for
 whom we pledged to get up every morning and work hard to bring
 economic opportunity that was at the core of the Clinton-Gore
 campaign I say: that task has already begun.  It will not be easy but
 we will spare no effort to restore growth, jobs and income to the
 American people.

      Let me also stress the stakes and opportunities in the months
 and years that lie ahead.  We have won the Cold War; now we have the
 opportunity to build a new peace.  We have entered a global economy;
 now we have the opportunity to master its competitive challenges
 rather than let these changes undermine these strengths.  We have
 become a diverse people of many colors, languages, and beliefs; now
 we have the opportunity to ensure that diversity is a source of great
 strength and pride around the world.  We have become a nation of 250
 million Americans; now we have the opportunity, the duty, and the
 imperative, to see that we do not leave even one of those 250 million
 behind as we prepare for the next century.

            We have entered a period of great challenge and
 extraordinary opportunity for our nation.  I am confident we can make
 it a proud place in our history: proud for the families who are
 raising this nation's next generation; proud for the workers and
 businesses who are America's lifeblood; proud for the men and women
 who wear America's uniform; and proud for the peoples of other
 nations, living in freedom or in fear, who draw strength from
 America's ideals, and share our vision of a peaceful and more
 prosperous world.

      America has called on me to be our next president.  But our
 forebears call on us all at this moment to honor their effort, their
 sacrifice, their ideals, and their lives -- by working hard and
 working together, to improve this good and great nation as much for
 our children and our children's children as those who proceeded us
 did for us.  They call on us to take our dreams and our hopes and
 make them real.

                   Thank you, and God bless America.