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.
Page 6 of28 V Q When do you expect the President to make a decision on this? Q Can we turn to the other matter? MR. MCCURRY: One more, Bill, and then we can. http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd008/janl998/34edab55.html 1/5/2010 Q Well, Mike, are you trying to give the impression that the President is searching for some diplomatic solution to avoid military conflict? other governments of a certain course of action, but it's certainly designt explore the kind of action that is necessary if we are going to achieve th objectives that we have. MR. MCCURRY: I think that it's clear the United States government is consulting on the utility of diplomacy at this point, and whether or not, through diplomacy, we can achieve the objectives that we have. I'm doing this on behalf of Larry Haas, probably his last official act at C before going to work for the Vice President. But just so we have on the record so that people will see it, since we have confusion about this every year, what to do on Monday if you're interested in getting a copy of the Federal Bu 0MB will provide one free copy of each of the five budget documents t we make available every year; in other words, one free copy per news organizatic MR. MCCURRY: I expect the President to continue to participate in the of diplomacy I've described to you and I expect him to await reports in the near future from his two Secretaries who will be consulting on this matt and perhaps from Ambassador Richardson who will pursue his conversation well. which diplomacy is increasingly running out of string, thus bringing the need f other options to at least be in focus as these consultations occur. I don't know I would describe the purpose of our diplomacy at this point to be to com 34EDAB55.FIN On Monday, 0MB will release the President's budget for the Fiscal Yea 1999. Distribution to members of the press will be only to those who display official press credentials, and that will occur between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.« Monday, February 2nd, at the Government Printing Office.
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 88 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.