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This Clinton Library FOIA release (case 2006-0476-F) comes from the White House email records file labeled "WHO (Roswell)" and covers December 1996 to September 1997. It includes withdrawal sheets and public emails sent to the President. One email is Nicholas Greene's December 1996 essay arguing that extraterrestrials exist, which cites Roswell, astronaut sightings and Michigan reports. Other emails forward a transcript of a Milton William Cooper speech and a Claude DiDomenica essay about Roswell and Corso.
ARMS Email System MR. WILL: The government usually is accused of knowing' less than it's saying. Can you tell me, after you've been through all of this' and you've dealt with the problem of trying to stamp'out what you may consider mass hysteria, what is your final analysis of the longevity of this' story and the difficulty the Air Force, has with killing it? Are these people caught up in mass delusion? MR. MCANDREW: Well, I'll just correct you. We didn't attempt to stamp anything out. We just wanted to lay the facts on the table and let people judge· for theirself. And I encourage people to get in touch with their local government printipg office or call here to Wa,shington, get a copy of the book, and judge it for theirself. MR. WILL: Well, aside from abstract intellectual interest, 'what was the supposed effect of this? What did you want to happen? MR. MCANDREW: To lay the facts on the table. MR. WILL: To what end? To kill something, right? To kill an idea? MR. MCANDREW: That's your opinion, sir I not mine.' No, we just --no, we had our scientific projects and dead and injured'being misrepresented. MR. WILL: How do you explain the fact that it takes such a thumping 9reat volume there to try and stop this belief that you think is false? MR. MCANDREW: I don't find it a thumping great volume. It's a comprehensive look at this - MR. DONALDSON: Mr. McAndrew" what do you make of what's going to happen in Roswell this week? Thousands are ,expected to come to that little town and I know it well, it's in my neck of the woods - to celebrate what they firmly believe is this Roswell incident. MR. MCANDREW: Well, my opinion is if you want to stand on the street corner and yell UFO, go do it,but don't indict another organization, in this case l the U.S. Air Force. It's not true. MR. DONALDSON: Not true. So all those people going there are just out there spending their money and the town's merchants are just out there taking it? MR. MCANDREW: WeIll I'll just'explain how I did the research, okay? Carl Saganl he advised in one of his books, when you have a situation like this, take out the "baloney detection kit. " And that's what we did. And what I, found that we had a kernel of truth, a lot of baloney peopled a pot of gold. (Laughter. ) , MR. DONALDSON: On that note -- we can't improve on that,\Mr. MCAndrew Captain McAndrew. Thank you very much for coming today. MR. MCANDREW: Thank you. MR. DONALDSON: And later still, David Brinkley. But next our weekly roundtable, with the rest of the week's news, with ABC News Analysts Bill Kristol and George Stephanopoulos. (Announcements.) MR. DONALDSON: I said'no aliens here. Here we are. MS. DOUGLASS: How do you know? MR. DONALDSON: Well, I don't. Do you want to confess? (Laughter. ) Bill Kristol and George Stephanopoulos, let's start with the Supreme Court. A number of ,important decisions this past week. And let's begin with one ~hich struck down a law to try to reduce pornography on the Internet, particularly when it had to do with children. The Supreme Court said there'S a community interest in trying to do that l but the wider interest is preserving the First Amendment. Who wants to take this? MR. KRISTOL: L: Well, child pornography remains illegal, a'ctually. The problem the Supreme Court found with this law was that it went beyond child pornography to try to strike down indecency on the Internet. All the editorial pages love this court decision and they think it's foolish of Congress to try to worry about this. I think out there in the' 'country, lots of parents appreciate -- that are worried about the Internet, don't think their children should be exposed to -- not just to hardcore pornography, but even to indecency, and would like the government to help them protect their Kids from the coarseness of the culture we've created. Now, how to do that responsibly is a tough question, but I don't think this issue is going to,go away. MR. WILL: One of ,the government's argument's for sustaining this apparatus of censorship was that, indeed, putting it in place will allow parents to happily have the Internet in their households, so censorship would spread the Internet, which spreads the free discussion of ideas. The court gave that argument short shrift. ' MR. KRISTOL: As they should have, in my view. Page 9 of 15 ARMS Email System Page 9 of 15
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