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 9 of 11 http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd008/febl998/3512b34b.html 1/5/2010 The last thing I'd like to say is this: I have tried very hard to change the political culture of Washington with, you would have to charitably say, mixed results. (Laughter.) I don't even understand it half the time. I realize I'm afflicted by the fact that I had a real life for too long. The last thing I'd like to say is, Bill talked about research. Hillary gave i the idea of trying to have a part of our program this year be a gift to the millennium that would be part respecting the past and part imagining th< future. The respecting of the past part, we're going to try to restore the Constitu the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and the Star-Spangk Banner, and get people in every community in the country to do an inventory of they have. But I will say this: I think that the work we're doing in this Race Initiati1 the campaign for the employment non-discrimination act, the efforts to 1 America together across all the lines that divide us and to have everyboc judged based on their merit, and to give everybody a chance, and to build an America that basically is a stunning contrast to the racial and ethnic and religious conflicts that are beleaguering the world - how much of your time as President - because my time is really your has been spent in my presidency on the problems of my people in Northern Ireland — my people — still arguing over things that happened 600 years ago, or th But we also have to recognize that in the years we were running these hi deficits, we wound up under-investing in a lot of things we should have invested more in, principally research. So we've also offered the biggest research budget in the history of the country in this balanced budget. And I hope we can it and I hope all of you will help us pass it because it's a big part of our fut For example, there's a place called the Old Soldiers Home in Washingto D.C, that was built before the Civil War. And on the Old Soldiers Home then cabin which is almost totally dilapidated now, where Abraham Lincoln': family lived every summer — and other presidents. It wouldn't cost that much t( restore it. It's a Washington, D.C. facility. Every single community in th country has places in it that tell the part of America's story and they hav be preserved.
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