Documents / Official release
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 12 of 14 forum that you'd see the President or possibly Republican leaders go to. http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd008/febl998/34fe6299.html 1/5/2010 Q Can we do this one last question? Gingrich last week asked the administration for specific legislative language on how to handle the reserve. You seen be saying today that, you know, people can suggest that themselves if they Some have suggested that bonds could be — federal debt, rather than bei retired, could be transferred to the Social Security trust fund to help that, you're not going to do it. Why would you not back up your own proposal with legislation? You know, I should say that we will be working with many other group: the National Council of Aging, the Older Women's League, the National Cc of Seniors, the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medic; with Martha McSteen and Max Richtman - and certainly other groups that h focused more from the deficit reduction side like CSIS, which has been holding forums on this issue. But no, I think that having two groups that are seen to people as represe: different perspectives and who are committed to trying to make sure thii are balanced, I think that works. Certainly, we've gotten criticism from peoj who don't like the AARP and people who don’t like the Concord Coalition. E our argument is together they're an insurance policy that this will most likel; as balanced and fair as anything that you've probably seen recently in term MR. SPERLING: There's two questions -- let me just say - there's two issues on the surplus. One is if you have long-term Social Security reform, and th« surplus was going to be used as part of that reform — so, in other words, you had a comprehensive Social Security solution and part of the solution w using the surplus, how would the surplus be used. On that, you've already heai from several different people in the political spectrum, different ideas. I don’t think there's any shortage of ideas on how the surplus could be used.
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