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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 9 of 14 http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd008/febl998/34fe6299.html 1/5/2010 counting on the younger people in generating the momentum or someth significant momentum over all of this? Q Gene, the President made his speech today in front of college student: opposed to a traditional Social Security lobby like AARP or something. We've also always at the same time argued that you need more public investment in areas like education and training. And if you could do that in a fiscall responsible way in which you paid for that, that was the right strategy. 1 that you had to have an economic strategy that increased both public investment and private investment. You increased private investment by reducing tl debt, increasing more savings and, therefore, lower interest rates that spur pri sector investment. the strategy we've had in every single budget. And so what we're saying what the President said at this State of the Union, was that for anybody ’ has new priorities — him or anyone else — they should continue to do it und< that discipline. And that discipline being that the discipline of the budget nil the pay as you go budget rules - that if you're going to spend a dollar, y paid for that dollar somewhere else. That's the discipline what we're livi in. What we can have now is a separate question of additional money comii - not money that somebody got from a budget cut or new revenue increase, bi money coming in because the strategy has been working and because we've hac stronger economy. And what we wanted to say there is let's not break our fiscal discipline and essentially treat that as free money that you now break th< budget rules and start spending that for everyone's priorities. Let's realize that v still have a major commitment on Social Security and reserve the funds we know how much of that may or may not be required to fix long-term So Security. MR. SPERLING: I think it's more that he wants to make clear what he t to say in the speech in the State of the Union when he said whether you're 50, or just starting to put money in Social Security trust fund. I think he wai make sure that when people hear him talking about Social Security that
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