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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.
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34FE5F7E.FIN Page 2 of 12 to achieve that and why it is so important. http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd008/febl998/34fe5f7e.html 1/5/2010 about. Weren't you proud of her? She did a great job I think. Thank you much. (Applause.) THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Special thanks to those of yc who had to wait all night to get in. (Laughter.) Hope you won't be disappointed. (Laughter.) There is no better example of that principle for the strength of America the opportunity and the duty all of us as Americans have now to save Sc Security for the 21st century. So today I return to discuss what we have Mr. Vice President, Father O'Donovan, to all the groups here who are concerned with Social Security, especially to Congressman Penny and the Concorc Coalition, and John Rother and the AARP, I thank you all for being here. I thank Senator Bob Kerrey, who when he cast the decisive vote for our budget in 1993 said that he would do so only if I were also committed to dealing c the long-term structural problems of Social Security, to heal the deficit then well. I thank Gene Sperling and the members of my staff who worked v* us on this. And thank you, Mannone Butler, for embodying what this struggle Often in the years since I have come back here to discuss our nation's m demanding challenges. And on many occasions, but none more relevant today, I have recalled the assertion of my freshman professor in the history of civilizations course, Carroll Quigley, that the distinguishing characterist Western civilization in general and the United States of America in part is what he called future preference - the idea that the future can be better 1 the present or the past; that each of us has a personal, moral responsibili work to make it so, to plan for it, to work for it, to invest for it. You know, there was a recent poll which said that young people in the generation of the students here felt it was far more likely that they would see a UF( than that they would draw Social Security. (Laughter.) And others may think When I first ran for President six and a half years ago now, I came to thi hall to set out my vision for 21st century America, and a strategy for achievi
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 88 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.