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that individual in the booth with his conscience or her conscience. When you enter 

that voting booth, please ask yourself three commonsense questions: Who has the right 

vision for Americas future to help especidly 

the young people? Who can lead us through 

this global transition? And which candidate 

has the character? Who would you trust with 

your family? Who would you trust with your 

country in a moment of crisis?

Ideas, action, character, I believe I have 

demonstrated. I certainly have tried to demonstrate all three. And so I ask you, go to 

the polls on November 3d, give me your vote, 

and let us lead America to new heights of 

prosperity.

Thank you, and God bless our great country. May God bless the United States. And 

don't let them say we're a nation in decline. 

We're a nation on the move. Thank you all. 

Thank you very much. Thank you for this 

great day.

Note: The President spoke at 1:12 p.m. at

the Maryville Center Executive Park. In his

remarks, he referred to Gov. William Donald

Schaefer o f Maryland and CBS announcer

Jack Buck. This item was not received in time

for publication in the appropriate issue.

Memorandum of Disapproval for the Military Health Care Initiatives Act o f1992

October 30,1992

I am withholding my approval of S. 3144, 

the “Military Health Care Initiatives Act of 

1992." This legislation would substantially 

change Federal policy with respect to abortion.

S. 3144 would provide that any eligible 

member of the Armed Forces or dependent 

“is entitled" to obtain an abortion “in the 

same manner as any other type of medical 

care" at U.S. military facilities overseas. It 

would thus require these Federal facilities to 

provide abortion on demand, even as a method of birth control, at least through the sixth 

month of pregnancy.

Contrary to the claims made by some supporters of this legislation, S. 3144 would establish a rule on the availability of abortions 

at military facilities overseas more radically pro-abortion than the laws in most parts of 

the United States. The bill is also broader 

than the pre-fiscal year 1989 practices of the 

Armed Services, which had been to provide 

elective abortions at military facilities with 

limitations, including restrictions on lateterm abortions.

Current DOD policy is to perform abortions only if the life of the mother is threatened. I have repeatedly voiced my strong 

support for that policy and made clear that 

any attempt to weaken it would warrant disapproval. Accordingly, I am withholding my 

approval of S. 3144.

George Bush

The White House,

October 30,1992.

Note: This memorandum follows the text as

released by the Office o f the Press Secretary

at the White House on October 30. This item

was not received in time fo r publication in

the appropriate issue.

Statement on Signing the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992

October 30,1992

Today I am signing into law H.R. 429, the 

“Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992."

The Act will make a major contribution 

to the development and reform of water resources in States throughout the West. It is 

the product of years of debate and compromise in the Congress. This bill will provide substantial economic and environmental 

benefits throughout the West.

H.R. 429 authorizes numerous water 

projects in the western States that the Administration has supported. Included among 

the projects in the bill are the Buffalo Bill 

Dam and Reservoir in Wyoming; the Central 

Utah Project; South Dakota water planning 

studies; the Cedar Bluff Unit in Kansas; the Vermejo and Elephant Butte Projects in New 

Mexico; the Glen Canyon Dam affecting the