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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.
Page 4 of28 MR. MCCURRY: Sam, I'll come back. Let's do that after - Q Do you have something for this? Q What about Yeltsin? Does he anticipate talking to him? http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd008/janl998/34edab55.html 1/5/2010 Q Will you please tell us for purposes of the official transcript whether 1 White House can confirm these reports that Monica Lewinsky -- Q Did the President tape a Voice of America address to the people of In urging cultural exchanges? MR. MCCURRY: Have we given out that passage yet? I can tell you m< about it. He did. This is the President's annual statement on the occasion of the k which is, of course, the end of Ramadan. He did express to the people o Q Basically, he's accepting President Khatami's proposal for these kinds cultural exchanges? that more exchanges between our peoples will bring the day that we can enjoy again good relations with Iran and with its people. 34EDAB55.FIN f MR. MCCURRY: I've got a couple of other housekeeping items. Stay o Iraq, yes. MR. MCCURRY: I would not rule out that. I'm a little more certain thal will talk to President Chirac soon, but I wouldn't rule out that he will talk to President Yeltsin as well. his personal view that the United States regrets the estrangement of our peoples and our two nations. Iran is a country, the President believes, th has a rich and ancient heritage of which the people of Iran are justifiably pre We have got some real differences obviously with the government of In but the President believes that those differences are not insurmountable and he 1 MR. MCCURRY: The President recognizes and appreciates the new tor that President Khatami has set with some of his public comments. We have repeatedly noted - the U.S. government has noted and I think that the American pc have noted - that we do not have differences directly with the people of Iran, we do have differences with respect to the policies of Iran's government. I'n
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