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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 4 of 14 gave a speech where he laid out in detail a coming entitlement challenge http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd008/febl998/34fe6299.html 1/5/2010 That was one of the charts that the President showed, ad that explains w the poverty rate for elderly Americans has gone from 35.2 percent to 15.2 percent in 1979. It was 12.9 percent in 1992, and is now at 10.8 percent. Today, the President also went through a few of the main issues. I think today, in my memory, was the first time a President of the United States MR. SPERLING: It would actually be -- he'd be doing that from satellit from here, which is where the linkage is for the 10 cities. Social Security, and laid out very specifically what the nature of the challenge is. I think that is significant and I think, obviously, in speaking to a colk campus, trying to send the message that this is not about simply the non politics of entitlements that we have seen often over the last decade, but about a real effort at generational equity, at fixing this problem in a way that supports the retirement security of people in the future, but does so in a preventative way so that it's not dealt with in a crisis at a later time in w it may require significant burdens on people trying to both raise their children and support the Social Security system at a later point. Let me mention something I don't know if the President did mention, bu think it shows the power of Social Security. The elderly poverty rate is 10.8 percent. If you were to simply subtract Social Security the elderly poverty rate w jump to 48 percent. So, but for Social Security, the poverty rate of elder Let me just quickly note the things that he mentioned. Social Security ir 1959, one of the charts he had, was at — I'm sorry -- in 1959, the poverty rate 1 elderly Americans in our country was at 35.2 percent. That was largely because Social Security had not really spread to the public in a general way. Not enough people were fully - had fully worked enough to get the benefits, nor hat had the disability protections that we have now. So from 1955, when there v 7.5 million people in Social Security, to 25 million in 1970, there are now 4 million, including 7 million who get help from the disability part of Soc Security.
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