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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34FE5F7E.FIN Page 4 of 12 the real problems. http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd008/febl998/34fe5f7e.html 1/5/2010 And it got so bad in the 1980s that between 1981 and 1992 the total deb the country was quadrupled — quadrupled — in a 12-year period, over and a the previous 200 years. That raised interest rates. It took more and more tax money away from investments in education, for example, or the environment tc interest on the debt. It slowed economic growth and it definitely compromised your future. they're changing the way we live and work. And the scope and pace of change, it may seem commonplace to those of you who have grown up with it, bul people my age it is still truly astonishing. And I can tell you, it is without historical precedent. Five years ago I determined that we had to set a different course, to mo\ past the debate that was then paralyzing Washington and, frankly, didn't haw much to do with the real world, between those who said government was the ene those who said government was the solution and as long as you can fight aboi something, then you don't have to get down to the nitty-gritty of dealing For a long time our country failed to come to grips with those changes a we paid the price in a stagnant economy and increasing inequality among o working families, in higher child poverty, in record welfare rolls, higher crime ra other deepening social problems. Before the present era we had only rur budget deficits, and the deficit I think came to symbolize what was amiss with 1 way we were dealing with the changes in the world. We had only run budget deficits for sound economic reasons — either because there were some overwhel need to invest or because there was a recession that required stimulation of the economy, or because there was a national emergency like war. The idea that we w just simply have a structural deficit and run one year in and year out was uni of. But that is exactly what has happened throughout your lifetime.
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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.