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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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will double funding for the National Cancer Institute, have a huge incre;
funding for the National Institute of Health, have a big increase in fundi
the National Science Foundation, support the international space station
do a whole range of things that will help to prepare the future for our pe
child care more affordable to millions of Americans — and safer. And 11
that it's important that we pass this comprehensive tobacco settlement th
give us the tools we need to protect our children from tobacco. Every ye
still the biggest public health problem in America — every day, 3,000 ki
illegally start to smoke; a thousand of them will die sooner because of it
dwarfs the threat of cancer, it dwarfs the threat of alcoholism, it dwarfs
threat of getting killed in a car when you get your drivers license. It dwe
everything. It will cost more young people bigger parts of their future th
anything else. So we're going to try to pass that this year. And if we do,
will open up a whole new vista. That's very important.
The second biggest thing we can do, I think, and this leads to the last to]
wanted to mention. I've done everything I could in a world which is con
being torn apart by people's differences to build one community in Arne
have tried to take the venom out of political life — with mixed results.
(Laughter.) I have done my best to bring people together across racial ai
religious lines. And I've also tried to bring us together across generation
lines. And the most important proposal that we have on the table for this
is the proposal that we couldn't even have imagined even a year ago.
Now, the other thing I want to talk about a little on this is the future of
health care. Hillary had an idea that we should basically give a gift to th
country - that our generation should give a set of gifts to the country fo
millenium. And we thought basically of two things. One was that literal
millennial trust, which she helped to put together with all the rest of our
people with the theme of remembering the past and imagining the future
so
one of the things that we're trying to do is to put some of the money, if v
get a tobacco settlement, put a big chunk of the money into a research ft
In addition, we want to, with public and private money, save the Star-S[
Banner, which, by the way, is in tatters and needs $13 million to be save
our precious documents, all of which — the Bill of Rights, the Declaratk
Independence, and the Constitution — all of them need serious work. Th
very important part of building the kind of society we want. We have to
respect our past and always be investing in the future.
It looks like we're going to balance the budget this year if the economic
difficulties of Asia don't slow our growth too much. If it does, we'll still
balance the budget next year. And it is then projected that we will have .
structural surplus for quite a long time. That is, the economy will go up
down and some years we may have it and some years maybe not. But ot
multi-year period, if we stay with the discipline we have now, we're goi:
start running big surpluses.

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