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[01/29/1998 - 10/19/1999]: 24194021-20060474F-001-023-2023

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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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to provide a solid and dependable foundation of retirement security.
Thank you very much. (Applause.)
http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd009/aprl998/354980ed.html 1/5/2010
Fourth, Social Security must continue to provide financial security for
disabled
and low income beneficiaries. We can never forget the one in three Soci
Security beneficiaries who are not retirees.
Now, these are the principles that will guide me as we work to forge a
consensus. I hope they're ones that all of you can also embrace. This
national
effort will call on the best of our people. It will require us to rise above
partisanship. It will require us to plan for the future, to consider new ide
to engage in what President Roosevelt once called "bold, persistent
experimentation." It will remind us that there are some challenges that v
can
only meet as one nation acting through our national government, just as
there are
others we can better meet as individuals, families, communities.
And fifth, anything we do to strengthen Social Security now must
maintain our
hard-won fiscal discipline. It is the source of much of the prosperity we
enjoy
today.
This is also a challenge for every generation. To the older Americans he
today, let me say, you have nothing to worry about. For you Social
Security is
as strong as every. To the younger people here today who may believe t
you
will never see a Social Security check - indeed, I saw a poll which
purported to
be serious that said that Americans in their twenties thought it was more
likely
they would see a U.F.O. than that they would every draw Social Securit
(Laughter.) That skepticism may have been well founded in the past, bu
just as
we put our fiscal house in order, we can and must put Social Security in
order.
And above all, to my fellow baby boomers, let me say that none of us
wants our
own retirement to be a burden to our children and to their efforts to raise
our
grandchildren. It would be unconscionable if we failed to act, and act nc
as
one nation renewing the ties that bind us across the generations.
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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.