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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 10 of 14 So I think he very much wants to make sure - and I think he said this to would be hard for them to support their own children. http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd008/febl998/34fe6299.html 1/5/2010 So I think you'll see a conscious effort to have a Social Security fix that fair in terms of generational equity, and that as his message goes out, he making sure that he's trying to talk to different age groups and give then very much the same message as to why we should all care about this kind of intergenerational justice. that his message is an intergenerational message and that he speaks to b‘ the young people, to baby boomers, and to older people. And I thought he s eloquently today about the fact that people his age who are looking at th retirement want to make sure Social Security is there for them, but not i) way that would make their children face such high tax burdens in the future 1 Q Gene, it's not clear to me why you think the — or why the President th the American people need a year to understand what the problem is witl Social Security. What is it you're trying to prepare the American people for dui this year? Why not just call in the congressional leaders now and start w on this and not wait a year? don't think that this is just about the temporary battles that people have seen g on back and forth over the last 5-10 years on Medicare, Medicaid, or otl issues, but that this is truly about long-term reform and wants to make s’ that younger people understand that he — that this effort is about helping the and that somebody who is 33 today will turn 65 in 2029 and that they shouk very deeply about this, and that they should not feel that Social Security is as likely to occur for them as seeing a UFO. MR. SPERLING: Look, you have to make your best judgment. I consul I personally consulted with virtually every major group on this issue, and of them felt - the people surveying this, spending a lot of money, people tl thought had good political judgment - that if you went into an issue like and you tried to go forward immediately with reform before the Americ people fully understood the nature of the problem, before they had a chance to i look at that, that if you rushed into that in the middle of a political year, that
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