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[02/20/1998 - 08/08/2000]: 24194021-20060474F-002-001-2023

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This is a White House email release covering February 1998 to August 2000. It is a set of Exchange mail records with attachments. One item is the President's February 19, 1998 remarks to a DNC dinner in West Orange, New Jersey, which includes a joke that young people think seeing a UFO is more likely than drawing Social Security. Other items are a joke 'Redneck Driver's License Application', an AP story about Chilca, Peru, where locals credit UFOs for the mud's powers, a Blair Witch Project article, and a Baltimore Sun article forwarded by the White House Situation Room about UFO FOIA requests to the NSA.

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really do more with it.
What do we have to do with our society if we want it to be a truly respo:
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The third thing we have to do is to continue to work until we have the fi
education system in the world. One reason Americans all over the count
One reason everybody is so excited about that is that no one in America
that we have the finest system of higher education in the world, and that
can access it, whether it's at a community college or an Ivy League scho
whether it's undergraduate or graduate school, that you will not only be
fulfilled and be a better citizen, but you'll have a better life. No one
questions that.
thrilled --1 could see it, I could feel it, when I was giving the State of th
Union and I was going through the list of things that the Congress has a
done: the $1,500 tax credit for the first two years of college; credits for i
junior and senior year and for graduate school; bigger Pell Grants; more
work-study positions; cheaper loans that are easier to repay; IRAs for
education.
times as fast as the developed world, we - the math is not difficult — wc
to sell more to other people. And so I hope we can continue to expand ti
By the same token, I don't think any of us can say with a straight face th
believe we have the best system of undergraduate education in the work
mean, elementary and secondary education in the world. You know that
the best system in the world. And you know that the quality varies
dramatically.
That's why I've been working for national standards. That's why I've bee
working to connect every classroom in the country to the Internet by the
2000. That's why we have a program now to lower class sizes in the firs
grades to an average of 18 students. If we can pass this program, it will
dramatically change the future of education.
So those are the things that I would like to work on in the economy. Giv
world-class system of elementary and secondary education. Give us an
economic
system where free enterprise can reach the areas that have been left behi
And
keep reaching out to the rest of the world - an economy based on oppor
All the educational research shows that children who come from difficu
backgrounds who have a chance to get personal attention from teachers
work
with their fellow students because the classes are small enough in those
grades have a big leg up in the rest of their learning careers. So I think a
of that is very, very important. And I hope you will support that. That's ;
to be a big part of what we're trying to do. We want to rehabilitate or bu
5,000 more schools and we have a program to do that.

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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 28 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.