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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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34FE6299.FIN Page 2 of 14 Q Is there anything you think we don't know about it already? MR. TOIV: Yes. Q What? And let's start with Gene. MR. SPERLING: Helen, thanks for the rousing reception, enthusiasm. Q There are a few other things on the plate. Q I grant you that. http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd008/febl998/34fe6299.html 1/5/2010 MR. TOIV: Good afternoon, everybody. We are going to start off today a briefing by Gene Sperling on the President's Social Security initiative. X MR. SPERLING: Thank you. The President in his State of the Union, essentially announced a three-part announcement which was, number one, that all c future surpluses should be reserved until there was a comprehensive Social Sei MR. SPERLING: Not that are important to more people's lives than Soc Security. solution, until we know how much of those surpluses might be needed t part of that Social Security long-term solution; that secondly, that the following months should be a period in which we elevate the Social Security challenge; ar that, sort of done this once, but nobody was able to pay attention to it, and so we're going to do it again. So Gene ought to be helpful to you on that. MR. TOIV: Well, Gene is going to let you know that. And after Gene g< we're going to have our three-headed monster sort of brief you in place of Mil who, as you all know, is in the Northeast today. And what we're going to try £ do is Ann, of course, will brief on foreign policy stuff; Joe will brief on sor the matters that he's been handling lately; and I'll sort of clean up the res And so we'll try to do the briefing in such a way that we don't keep wall back and forth here. We won't hold you all to that, but let's try and do it in soi sort of order that way.
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