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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3512B34B.FIN Page 5 of 11 http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd008/febl 998/3512b34b.html 1/5/2010 It is well not to underestimate the good these programs have done. In IS for the first time in the history of our country, the poverty rate among peopl over 65 was lower than the poverty rate of people under 65. When Social Sec was inaugurated, over 70 percent of the American people over 65 were livin; poverty. Many of them were living in abject poverty. This is a terrific achievement for our country. And while I have emphasized putting mon emphasis on the children in this country in poverty and more on their health care, education, their nutrition, their well being, we do not want to give up thi signal achievement that is really a mark of a decent society. And, yet, in order to avoid it we're going to have to plan for it and deal with the fact that rr generation, the baby boomers - and I'm the oldest of them - when everybody from my age to 18 years younger crowds into the Social Security system, the And, by the way, we have a simultaneous effort going on now with Medicare. We have more than a decade of life on the Medicare trust fund. But, again, t pure demographics of the baby boom retirements and the fact that we're livin longer and accessing more high tech medicine mean that we're going to have tc make some changes in Medicare if we expect it to sustain itself well into the next century. and not then will Social Security be enough for most Americans - the vast, majority of Americans - to maintain the standard of living they enjoy o they retire. Therefore, we also have to find ways for people to save more and prepare more for their own retirement. So we're going to be looking at a of interesting ideas in the Social Security system. And I hope all of you wi enter that debate. But as I said in the State of the Union address, it's literally true, there w< a public opinion survey done last year which showed that most people u 25 thought it was more likely that they would see a UFO than that they woi ever draw a penny of Social Security. I don't want to discourage young peopl from watching the X-Files — (laughter) — but I think we have to somehow re^ that perception. So that's the first thing I want to say.
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