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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.
34EDAB55.FIN Page 2 of28 MR. MCCURRY: Good Monday -- what is it? Thursday? Feels like Monday. I haven't been here in a while. When you're having fun, time flies. It feels a couple days away here. What are you going to do? Listen, let me start with a couple of housekeeping items. First, the Presi, placed a call to Prime Minister Jean Chretien of Canada a short while a� They had a conversation that lasted just over 1 0 minutes. It was an opportunit obviously, for the President to consult further with the Prime Minister o situation in Iraq. The President and the Prime Minister agreed that relev U.N. Security Council resolutions are very important and that they shou respected; that the government of Iraq's flaunting of those resolutions is acceptable. The Prime Minister also congratulated the President on the State of the Union address, which he apparently had either seen part of or had heard a grea1 about. Q When was this? MR. MCCURRY: Finished just a short while ago. I expect, as I told son you earlier today, I expect additional calls from the President to some of his counterparts in days ahead. Q On Iraq? :NIR. MCCURRY: On Iraq -- correct. Q So far, on Iraq, who has he called besides Chretien? MR. MCCURRY: He's talked to Chancellor Kohl, Prime Minister Blair indicated yesterday he anticipates speaking very soon to President Chirac; and of course, the call to Prime Minister Chretien today. Q Is he trying to build a case for unilateral action? MR. MCCURRY: He's consulting closely with friends, other members< Security Council as we consider next steps necessary to respond to wha1 been the unwillingness of the government of Iraq to meet its international obligations. Q Is he talking with anyone in the Middle East? http://classified/emai1/data_source/exchange/record/cd008/janl 998/34edab55.html 1/5/2010
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