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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.
354980ED.FIN Page 4 of 8 So Social Security is also a life insurance policy, and a disability policy. well as a rock-solid guarantee of support and old age. That is why we he http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd009/aprl998/354980ed.html 1/5/2010 million Americans depend upon Social Security, and for two-thirds of o senior citizens it is the main source of income. For 18 percent of our seniors it the only source of income. year. But on the Social Security calendar, we must resolve to make it an education year, when we come to grips with the problems of the system and come together to find the answers. This issues is complicated, so we need the best ideas - whatever their source. The issue is controversial, so we have to have a national consensus on both the nature of the problem and the direction we must take. Missouri's native son, Mark Twain, once said, "I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed a man can't prove anything without statistics." So I thou, we would begin today with a few statistics. Today, as the first chart shows, But Social Security is more than just a retirement program. Today you c see that more than one in three of the beneficiaries are not retirees. They are children and spouses of working people who die in their prime. They an men and women who become disabled, or their children. That's why I've asked all the members of Congress to also host town hal meetings in their own districts. I'll be talking with several of them by satellite later today. And we'll hold more additional forums like this one around the country. In December, there will be a White House Conferer on Social Security. In January, I intend to convene the leaders of Congress draft a plan to save it. With this effort we can forge a national consensus and we must. For 60 years, Social Security has meant more than an ID number on a ta form, more than even a monthly check in the mail. It reflects our deepest valui the duties we owe to our parents, to each other, to our children and grandchildren, to those who misfortune strikes, to our ideals as one America.
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