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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354F3A35.FIN Page 2 of 12 1 http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd009/aprl998/354f3a35.html 1/5/2010 There's actually a phenomenon now known as airport malaria, where pe going It's a good time for America, it's an interesting time for America. But it': quite important that all of us understand, as I said in my State of the Uni address, that these are not the kind of good times that should make our c want to sit on its lead, if you will, or just relax and enjoy the fact that wc have the lowest unemployment rate and the lowest crime rate in 24 year lowest welfare rolls in 27 years, the lowest inflation in 30 years, the higl homeownership in the history of our country — almost two-thirds of Am now live in homes that they own. That's a good thing. But the world is still changing very, very rapidly. You know the revolut that technology has wrought in your own work. The sheer volume of knowledge is doubling now every five years. I had the Nobel Prize winning head of tf National Institute of Health, Dr. Harold Varmus, in here yesterday; the 1 Lady asked him over. We were talking to him about health developmem Africa, getting ready for my trip there, and especially emphasizing our concern the 21st century one of our security challenges which will affect all of y be the greater potential for global spread of disease, because of the flow food across national borders more and more of us have — America expo to the rest of the world, and more and more people export food to us, and I we're traveling more. I am delighted to have you here again. And I’m glad you've had a good t know the Attorney General has already spoken with you. I don't know il anyone else from the administration has. But I always am glad when you come 1 because I think you represent the heartbeat of America. And in so many the major task of my presidency has been to take these historic, sweeping, g changes that are going on - literally dramatically changing the way peo work and live and relate to each other and the rest of the world - and to try to sure they have a positive impact neighborhood by neighborhood, comm by community, family by family all across the country. So in that sense what you do means a very great deal to me. I still read e day the newspaper from the community I lived in before I came to Wasl and it's very interesting to see the difference in the front page of the commui newspaper and the front page of the political newspapers here. (Laughte say most of you come out pretty well in the comparison. (Laughter.) Bu to do more with the prism through which you view the world.
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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.