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 6 of 11 thing I want to say. http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd008/feb 1998/3512b34b.html 1/5/2010 Medicare system, all this is going to change everything substantially. And we owe it - and I don't know anybody - and most of the people I [ up with are middle class people, more than half of them don't have college educations, the people I went to high school with. And I was with a bun them not very long ago and we all sat around the table and every one of is haunted by the idea that when we retire we would have to impose an unwarranted financial burden on our children and on their ability to raise our grandchildren in order to take care of us. Nobody wants that. And we have an opportm now, by acting now, to make relatively modest steps that will have relatively impacts in the years to come if we do it. So that's the first and very impc It's literally true today that if you're willing to work for it, you can go to college. And community college is virtually free now. For people who g community colleges, that $1,500 tax deduction covers all the tuition for about 80 percent of the community colleges in the country. And there's a great se of achievement there. Why? Because people know it really means somethi have higher education in America. And they know we have the best system o higher education in the world. The second point I'd like to make is that we have a lot of work to do in t country on education. And many of you have helped us in our goal of hooking up every classroom and library to the Internet by the year 2000. We're mak good progress on that. But consider the anomaly in the United States -- one ol things that I could just feel during the State of the Union resonating witl people at home was when I went through all the things we'd done to inc: aid to people who go on to college. Basically, now most Americans qualify $1,500 tax credit, tax reduction for the first two years of college and a U credit for junior and senior year in graduate school. And there are more Grant scholarships at higher income levels. There are education IRAs, y can deduct the interest on the student loan. The people that are in our direct program can get cheaper college loans with better repayment terms. The are 300,000 more work study slots out there.
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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.