Documents / Official release
This release contains White House Exchange Mail records dated January 1998 to October 1999. Most of it is a transcript of a January 29, 1998 press briefing by Press Secretary Mike McCurry covering Iraq, Iran, the budget and the Lewinsky inquiry, plus a 1998 presidential speech. An October 19, 1999 email among Transnational Threats staff forwards a Florida Today article on how scientists expect alien contact would spark a media frenzy rather than a cover-up, describing the 1989 SETI detection protocol.
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Page 16 of 28 Q Well, not at all. MR. MCCURRY: Mike, despite the President's -- the controversy arour Q Mike, let me follow that if I could. MR. MCCURRY: I don't think --1 don't understand the question I guess http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd008/janl998/34edab55.html 1/5/2010 President, his poll ratings continue to rise to record levels. Why do you that's so? MR. MCCURRY: I know that they are very close friends and they talk 1 time to time, but the subject of their discussions I do not know. Q Well, do think — would you take the question of the President's — wh MR. MCCURRY: That's an entirely hypothetical question that I will no take. President will eventually be asked to give some testimony. In light of th has the President and Vernon Jordan continued to talk about this matter witl each other? Is it proper for them to do so? Q Mike, to what extent, following up on Susan's question, what extent a is your handling of this whole situation driven by poll numbers? MR. MCCURRY: I think in part because he gave a great speech Tuesda night and poll numbers, I think, are very elastic in responding to whatever stimuli come along. But I also think that the American people have thought very cleai about this and heard a lot about it in the last couple days and I think that they 1 the President deserves some opportunity to present his argument in the fashion that will allow the truth to prevail and to emerge.
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