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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 8 of 14 Q What's your answer to Republican criticism that if the President was i MR. SPERLING: I'm sorry, your question was? Q The question is, Republicans have been critical, saying that if the Pre: http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd008/febl998/34fe6299.html 1/5/2010 was very serious about saving Social Security first that money from the settlement would be devoted to the Social Security trust fund and not to various new programs that you delineated in the budget. very serious about saving Social Security first that money from the tax settlement would be going to Social Security and not to all the various programs that you've delineated in the budget. MR SPERLING: We are being consistent since the '92 campaign -- that believe I guess my answer is, under our projections we're hoping that will not b< necessary. But it is not inconsistent with our view, and if a surplus stark accumulate and people thought that was a reasonable idea, it would cert be something we would be willing to consider. But the important thing is tl under any of these scenarios we shouldn't spend the money. I think if a few bil of that simply goes to paying down the debt while we're solving this probk don't feel that's inconsistent with the President's proposal. But neither de think it's inconsistent if others down the road see a surplus accumulating while we're still debating Social Security reform and want to come up with soi form of legislative device for saving or protecting that. So, in other words, our budget - our hope is to have Social Security ref by the end of fiscal year '99. So it is our -- we are trying to get this done on timetable in which we do not believe - or we do not project that a surpl would have accumulated much at that time. Now, the question is what if, in this time period, prior to the end of fiset year '99 when we're trying to get Social Security reform, you're asking y happens if the surplus does emerge. What would happen if there's no legislation is it just buys down the debt. And the question is if there was a decent amount of a surplus is there some mechanism in which you would try to save th; keep those savings available for the Social Security trust fund.
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