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 10 of 12 just some of the things I wanted to mention to you. going to fix it. http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd009/aprl998/354f3 a35.html 1/5/2010 Finally, let me say that the First Lady came up with what I thought was wonderful idea, which is that we ought to try, as we move up on the nev century and a new millennium, to imagine what kind of gifts we'd like to give tc future. And we have a program called Honoring the Past and Imagining Future. In the past, what we're trying to do is to preserve our country's most imj heritage. It's going to cost us at least $13 million to preserve the Star Spangled Banner. It's in trouble. We have to redo how we keep and mai the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence Every one of you has in your community, one or two buildings, one or t monuments, an old cemetery, something, that is a very important part ol heritage. And just as we go crazy over the Internet and the future and all this looking at the future, we ought to think about marking the millennft saving the past for our children and our grandchildren. Then as we look to the future, I think the most important thing we can d invest in research so we that we can accelerate the beneficial impacts of this change. We're going to have to take the heat. It's going to be easier i make biological and chemical weapons and get airport malaria, but it wi more good than bad if we take advantage of it. So I propose to double the rest budget for the National Cancer Institute. The genetic research we are do now offers the prospect in the fairly near future of literally unlocking a genet code that will enable us to deal with most known forms of cancer; to dramatically increase the overall budget of the National Institute of Health and increg overall research, including research in space. I want to build a space stal at three football fields, in the sky. It's a good thing to do. We will learn < lot from doing it that will help us here on earth, and I hope you will sup] that. But let me end where I began. The world is becoming smaller. Technok revolutionizing everything. Knowledge is doubling every five years. Bu we really have to do is make all this work for us by preserving the integrity At the Old Soldier's Home about eight miles north of here, there's a littk cabin where Abraham Lincoln's family stayed every summer when it go hot here in the White House. And for years, the President's family would go up tl and spend the summer because there was no air conditioning. It's crumbling
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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.