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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Monday, May 29, 1995 Volume 31ÐNumber 21 Pages 867±914 1 VerDate 28-OCT-97 08:34 Jan 25, 1998 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\P21MY4.000 p21my4 Contents Addresses and Remarks Executive Orders See also Bill Signings Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Democratic congressional dinnerÐ893 Veterans' IllnessesÐ911 Radio addressÐ871 Interviews With the News Media Surgeon General-designate Henry FosterÐ Exchanges with reporters 900, 910 Oval OfficeÐ910 White House Conference on Character Rose GardenÐ900 Building for a Civil and Democratic News conference, May 23 (No. 96)Ð889 SocietyÐ872 White House Conference on Trade and Letters and Messages Investment in IrelandÐ901, 909 National Missing Children's DayÐ897 White House Photographers Association Proclamations dinnerÐ882 Women's Bureau receptionÐ867 National Maritime DayÐ870 To Modify Duty-Free Treatment Under the Bill Signings Generalized System of Preferences and for Other PurposesÐ886 Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, remarksÐ World Trade WeekÐ887 884 Statements by the President Communications to Congress Les AspinÐ882, 884 National Voter Registration Act of 1993, Aeronautics and space, message transmitting anniversaryÐ882 reportÐ897 U.N./NATO decision to launch airstrikes in Bosnia, letter reportingÐ898 BosniaÐ905 Romania, message transmitting report on Supplementary Materials tradeÐ889 Small business, message reportingÐ905 Acts approved by the PresidentÐ914 Checklist of White House press releasesÐ914 Communications to Federal Agencies Digest of other White House announcementsÐ913 Romania, memorandum on tradeÐ888 Nominations submitted to the SenateÐ913 WEEKLY COMPILATION OF regulations prescribed by the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register, approved by the President (37 FR 23607; 1 CFR Part 10). 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The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents is pub- There are no restrictions on the republication of material lished pursuant to the authority contained in the Federal Reg- appearing in the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Docu- ister Act (49 Stat. 500, as amended; 44 U.S.C. Ch. 15), under ments. 2 VerDate 28-OCT-97 08:34 Jan 25, 1998 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\P21MY4.000 p21my4 Week Ending Friday, May 26, 1995 Remarks at the Women's Bureau to talk her out of it because I thought it Reception would be bad for her career. But it's worked May 19, 1995 out all right for her, I think. [Laughter] You know, 75 years ago a reception like Thank you very much. I was sitting here this would not have taken place. In 1920, listening to my marvelous wife speak, and I women had less than one in five jobs in this was thinking, you know, I've been seeing her economy and, as Hillary said, were only then lately long distance, on Oprah Winfrey and gaining the right to vote. When she said, ``In on the ``Morning Show'' this morning, and 25 years from now, the President and her I thought, boy, I'm glad she lives here. husband would open the time capsule,'' I [Laughter] looked at Karen and Bob and said, ``If the I want to thank Secretary Reich and the demographic trends continue, the percent- Women's Bureau Director, Karen Nuss- ages will almost mandate a woman Presi- baum. She has done a wonderful job. I am dent.'' [Laughter] Karen said, ``Yes, if they very grateful to her and to him. I want to vote their own interests.'' [Laughter] To say a special word of appreciation to the peo- which I replied, ``We should give them every ple who sponsored this event today: from opportunity.'' [Laughter] American Home Products, the senior vice When the Women's Bureau was born, it president, Fred Hassan, and the corporate was designed then to improve the lot of secretary, Carol Emerling. Let's give them women in the work force by fighting for fair a hand for what they did. [Applause] There wages and expanding opportunities for edu- are many distinguished women leaders here cation and training and protecting women today, but I do want to recognize one person physically at work. who has been a friend of mine for more than Those folks 75 years ago, I think, would 20 years now, Congresswoman Eddie Ber- be surprised at how far we've come. Hun- nice Johnson, from Texas. We're glad to see dreds of women here celebrate the progress you. Thank you very much for being here. that we have made in all walks of American You know, the concerns of working women life. I'm proud that in this administration we are one of the few subjects that I didn't have have six women Cabinet Secretaries, twice to be educated aboutÐ[laughter]Ðbecause as many as has ever served in any Cabinet I grew up with them. I lived with my grand- of the President before. Over 40 percent of parents till I was 4, and my grandmother was our appointees have been women, and a far a working woman from the 1930's on. In the higher percentage of women have been ap- little town where I was born, an awful lot pointed to the bench and to major Federal of the women, both white and black, who positions than previous administrations. Two lived in poor families or near-poor families of these appointees are former Directors of worked as a matter of course. No one gave the Women's Bureau: Esther Peterson, the much thought to it one way or the other. U.S. Representative to the U.N. General As- My mother was a working woman from the sembly, and the Assistant to the President 1940's on, beginning shortly after I was old for Public Liaison, Alexis Herman, who is enough to at least crawl around on my own. here with six other Directors of the Women's And it certainly never occurred to me from Bureau. Let's give them all a hand here. [Ap- the first day that I met Hillary that she would plause] do anything other than pursue her career. All of you represent women across this [Laughter] As a matter of fact, I spent the country who work long hours, do your best first 2 or 3 years of our relationship trying to raise your families, and contribute to your 867 VerDate 28-OCT-97 09:00 Jan 25, 1998 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 1244 Sfmt 1244 W:\DISC\P21MY4.022 p21my4 868 May 19 / Administration of William J. Clinton, 1995 communities. Extraordinary working women matically expand and make more affordable today are doing their best to hold our country loans to go to college. together, our communities together, and But there is much, much more to be done. frankly, our hard-pressed middle class to- I am proud of the fact that last year the Small gether. They deserve our admiration, our re- Business Administration cut its budget but spect, and most importantly, our support. expanded loans to women entrepreneurs by I ran for office in large measure because 85 percent in one yearÐI might add, without I was afraid that having won the cold war, reducing loans to qualified males. [Laughter] we might squander the peace and the victory; We expanded for everybody. that having struggled so hard to make the But I think it's important that we recognize American dream available to other people that women in the workplace are caught in around the world, we might lose it for large a lot of cross-currents today, because all numbers of our people here at home as we American workers, or at least more than half move into the 21st century and the global of us, are working longer hours for the same economy, the technological revolution open- or lower pay that we were making 10 years ing all of us to unbelievable pressures and ago. And therefore, more and more parents changes which can be good or difficult. are working harder for the same or less and I believe that my job is, first, to provide spending less time with their children. for the security of the American people; sec- Women feel this pressure very deeply insofar ondly, to give people the tools they need to as they have either sole, primary, or even just help themselves live up to their God-given half of the responsibility for taking care of potential; and thirdly, to try to create as many their children as well as earning a living. Be- opportunities as I possibly can. cause male workers over the age of 45, on In a way, the first major piece of legislation average, have lost 14 percent of their earning I signed as President, which had been bounc- power in the last 10 years, women in the ing around here for 7 years and had suffered work force and in the home feel the anxiety through two vetoes, was emblematic of all of their husband's sense of loss and insecurity three of those objectives.