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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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354980ED.FIN Page 3 of 8 < But this sunlit moment is not a time to rest. Instead, it is a rare opportun http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd009/aprl998/354980ed.html 1/5/2010 For too long, politicians have called Social Security the "third rail" of American politics. That's Washington language for, it's above serious debate. This year we must prove them wrong. This conference, with its wide participation, is a good start. On the political calendar, 1998 is an electic Today we turn to the business at hand -- building public awareness of th nature and scope of the problem, and building public consensus for the best changes. Clearly, we will strengthen Social Security and reform it only if we reac across lines of party, philosophy, and generation. And that is one reason for the broad representation of age groups in this audience today. We have to have op minds and generous spirits. And we all have to be willing to listen and to learn to prepare our nation for the challenges and the opportunities of the 21 si century - or in the words of the old saying, to fix the roof while the sun shining. In the coming century, the aging of our society will present boti great challenges and great opportunities. I hope to live to be one of those peoj and so, to me, it's a high-class problem. hope. Our economy is the strongest in a generation. Many of our social proble are on the mend. Our leadership in the world is unrivalled. Within the next yea we will have a balanced budget. And where once there were deficits project as far as the eye can see, we now have projected surpluses as far as the eye cai see — a trillion dollars' worth over the next decade. But because a higher percentage of our people will be both older and retired, perhaps our greatest opportunity and our greatest obligation at this moment is to save Social Security. In the State of the Union address, I called on Congress to set aside every penny of any surplus until we had dealt with Social Security first. Both parties in both chambers of Congress have joined in this call. That is the good news.
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