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And you heard Gary talking about it—De- it’s more important than ever before for— cember of ’91, or October of ’91, I appeared the Governors shape how we cover children before the Democratic chairs who were here. and health insurance; the Governors shape David Wilhelm from Chicago became my how we implement welfare reform; the Gov- campaign manager, went to become chair- ernors shape how we pursue the economic man of our party. Many people from Illinois and educational initiatives that I’m trying to have come in and out of our administration. lead the country toward. It’s a big deal. So A lot of them are here today—Minyon I want you to be for whomever you choose, Moore from Chicago, here with me today, but when it’s over, unite behind the one who who set up our race townhall meeting in wins and give Illinois a Democratic Governor Akron; and of course, Secretary Daley, our in this next election year. Secretary of Commerce, who is doing a ter- Lastly, let me say, I know that I will not rific job; and Rahm Emanuel and my old be on the ballot again, but I will be working friends Kevin O’Keefe and Avis Lavelle and for our party and our candidates and, more others who were in the administration who importantly, for our ideas and our values, till are here. Illinois has been very special to me. the last minute of the last day of my Presi- What Chicago did for Hillary on her 50th dency and beyond. We have done a lot in birthday almost made her forget her age. the last 5 years, but we have 3 years more [Laughter] It was an act of uncommon kind- to go, and I believe we can get more done ness and generosity. And I want you to know in the next 3 years than we have in the last that we’re looking to you; we’re looking to 5 if we will stay together, walk hand in hand, you. remember who sent us there, and keep work- Illinois is better than it was 5 years ago. ing to make America what it ought to be— And all the fights we had and all the com- a land of opportunity for every single citizen. promise we made that were principled re- Thank you, and God bless you. flected the values, the ideas, and the future of the Democratic Party. When we passed NOTE: The President spoke at 7:35 p.m. in Fes- this balanced budget last year, which party tival Hall at Navy Pier at a combined Illinois State Democratic Party and Democratic Congressional do you think it was that was arguing the hard- Campaign Committee reception. est to target our tax cuts to education and kids, rather than to those of us who were doing well already? When we passed that bal- Remarks to the Democratic Business anced budget last year, we guaranteed a Council in Chicago $1,500 a year—a year—tax credit for the first December 3, 1997 2 years of college, tax deductions for the last 2 years of college for graduate school and Thank you very much. Lew, that was so for working people that have to go back and nice I felt almost like it was a eulogy. [Laugh- further training. We opened the doors of col- ter] I started to say, I’m not done yet; I’m lege to all Americans, the biggest increase not done yet. since the GI bill 50 years ago. Who do you I want to thank Lew and Susan for their think was doing that? It was the Democrats role in this tonight. And, thank you, Phil, and that were fighting for that, and I’m proud thanks to all of the people here at this table of that. When we agreed over the next few and all the rest of you who helped to put years to add 5 million more children in work- together this wonderfully successful evening ing families to the ranks of those with health for our party. insurance, who was really fighting for that? Lew and Susan, we go back a long time Our Democratic Party was fighting for that. in this, and I can’t help but—just listening So I say to you, you’ve got most of the to them reminisce, I’d like to say something Democratic candidates for Governor here. I I said when Gary LaPaille and I were down know there’s a lot of them, but you’ve got at the other event with Senator Moseley- to patient with them. I had that job for 12 Braun and Senator Durbin, and I don’t know years; that’s a good job. [Laughter] I don’t if Congressmen Davis and Rush are here, but blame them for running. It’s a good job. And they were with us at the other event.

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I’ll never forget the first conversation I had none of you can every know, what knowing with Al Gore after I became a candidate for that Illinois would always be there for us has President. Now, this was when I was the meant to us—to Al Gore and to Hillary and fifth-best known candidate in New Hamp- to me, in two Presidential campaigns and the shire. [Laughter] And only my mother really administrations and the times when we were thought I had a chance to win. [Laughter] down as well as when we were up, and how And I was over in Tennessee with my friend it changed the entire landscape of electoral the then-Governor of Tennessee, Ned Ray politics of the last several years, knowing that McWherter, who is a marvelous old-fash- it would always be there. I cannot thank you ioned political leader and was a great Gov- enough. ernor. And he wanted to get me and Al Gore I also want to say a special word of thanks together. And Al had run for President in to Gary LaPaille as he ends 8 years as head ’88 and decided not to run in ’92. And so of the Democratic Party here. That’s a hard we were sitting alone in this room. job. I can’t imagine anybody doing that job And he said, ‘‘You know what happened for 8 years; that’s what people say to me. to me? I did real well in the South on Super [Laughter] If I weren’t term-limited, I’d Tuesday, but,’’ he said, ‘‘I didn’t do so well probably run again. [Laughter] But Gary’s after that.’’ He said, ‘‘What’s your theory done a great job, and I thank him for what about how you’re going to become the nomi- he’s done and also for his leadership as the nee of the Democratic Party?’’ And I looked head of all the State party chairs in the coun- at him and I gave him a one-word answer. try. I said ‘‘Illinois.’’ And he said, ‘‘Why?’’ And I want to thank Steve Grossman, who I said, ‘‘Well, because of Hillary, because southern Illinois is south of Richmond and spoke so beautifully here earlier, for his lead- looks just like north Arkansas.’’ [Laughter] ership. This was—he was not exactly buying ‘‘And I’ve been there, and it feels just like high when he agreed to become chairman north Arkansas.’’ [Laughter] And I said, ‘‘and of the Democratic Party in America. And he’s besides that, half the people who live in Chi- done a superb job. And his friend and our cago are from Arkansas’’—[laughter]— good friend, Alan Solomont, for being our ‘‘Danne Davis, John Stroger, John Johnson— finance director. And I want to thank Senator need I go on—Scottie Pippen, yeah.’’ Durbin for many things, but especially—all [Laughter] I’m not sure he was in the picture of you know this, but I want to reiterate it— in the same way there as he is now. [Laugh- I hope and believe that next year, even ter] though it’s an election year, we will pass leg- But anyway—and, you know, I came here islation which will embody the best parts of in October of ’91, and spoke. Gary hosted that settlement in the tobacco case and do the chairs of the Democratic Party, and I some other things which will go beyond what spoke. And then we went to Navy Pier and the settlement does to dramatically reduce announced that David Wilhelm was going to the exposure of young children to tobacco, be my campaign manager. And then I just which is still our number one public health kept getting people from Chicago in my op- problem. And if we are successful in that, eration—Kevin O’Keefe, Rahm Emanuel, it will be in no small measure due to the Laura and Bridgette Hardigan, Minyon year-in and year-out, dogged determination Moore—there’s a lot of other people—Avis of Dick Durbin. And I really appreciate that. Lavelle, Dave and Deegee both worked for I’d also like to say a special word, put in me—Bill Daley’s now the Secretary of Com- a special plug for Carol Moseley-Bruan. I ex- merce. pect to be back here campaigning for her And of course, when Chicago turned out on several occasions in this next year. But for Hillary’s 50th birthday the other day, it I could say many things, but I’d like to ask almost made it bearable for her. [Laughter] you to think of three things when you think No one here will every know what it meant of this election—two in the past and one in to her, what was done. the future—that are very important. But I want to say, before I get into any- One is, all the good fortune that has come thing substantive at all, you will never know, to our administration because the American

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people are better off than they were 5 years have the lowest crime rate this country has ago had at its root the announcement we had in 24 years. And that’s something that made after the election and before I took I think is worth remembering. office that we were going to dramatically re- At some point, you know, we all have to duce the deficit. We were not going—Amer- take responsibility when we’re wrong. And ica had quadrupled the debt in 12 years. We I’ve made some mistakes, and I’ve tried to were choking on debt. Interest rates were assume responsibility for them—you take the too high. Investment was to low. The econ- consequences. But when someone is right, omy was stagnant. And we were going to turn it ought to be noticed. On those two great it around. issues, which had a great deal to do with And when we presented a plan to do it, shaping where America is today, Carol we could not get a single person from the Moseley-Braun was not only right, her vote other party to vote for it. They said it was was decisive. And the people of Illinois going to be a terrible thing for the economy; should remember and reward, I believe, at it would bring on a recession. We passed the election time. bill by one vote in both Houses. If it hadn’t The third thing I’d like to say is about the been for Carol Moseley-Bruan’s vote, I don’t future. Carol was the first Member of Con- think we’d have the lowest unemployment gress who came to me and said that she rate in 24 years and 131⁄2 million new jobs. thought we ought to reconsider the historic And I hope you’ll all remember that. reluctance of the Federal Government to Lew mentioned the crime issue. Maybe it support any sort of capital expenditures for was because I was out there living in the our public schools, any kind of fiscal expendi- country and not in Washington; I never knew tures. There is a good reason for that. We crime was a Republican issue. [Laughter] I only provide about 7 percent of the total never knew a policeman who asked a victim funding for our schools in America. Most of of a crime for their party I.D. before they it comes from State and local level, and so filled out a report. I was unaware of this until most of the building has been done from I got to Washington, and I realized that talk local funds. Most States don’t contribute to too often supplemented for action, and if you school buildings either. Most States just do talk long enough, you got credit for some- it locally. thing whether you did anything or not. But she made a case, and I looked into What we did was to try to give the Amer- it. And I discovered, for example, in the city ican people a crime bill that was written, in of Philadelphia the average school building effect, by police officers, prosecutors, and is 65 years old. And in many of our cities community leaders that worked with kids to the percentage of people living in the city try to keep them out of trouble in the first and paying taxes in the school district, with place and that was based on the experiences children, has gone down dramatically so that that I’d seen in places that, even before I the tax base, the effective tax base for main- became President, where the crime rate was taining these physical facilities has shrunk. already going down because of community I was in a little town called Jupiter, Flor- policing and a better distribution in the num- ida, the other day where I counted—I be- ber of police officers and more work at pre- lieve there were 12—12 trailers full of kids vention. in classrooms, supplemental classrooms on So we came up with this crime bill. We the outside of the school building because were afraid we couldn’t pass it because there of the growth of the student population. was a bitter Republican filibuster in the Sen- Now, I want to say a little more about Chi- ate, and we didn’t have a vote to spare. When cago’s reforms in a moment, but it was be- the Republicans filibuster, you have to get cause of that that I made a proposal to Con- 60 votes. And thank goodness there were gress, which did not pass last time, but I think enough brave Republican Senators to give us we still have to keep working on this, because one more vote than we needed. But if we if you want these schools to work right, they hadn’t had the Democrats we had, including don’t have to be modern. They can be old Carol Moseley-Braun, I don’t think we’d buildings, but the windows don’t need to be

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broken, and the kids don’t need to be in dan- cipline, we could turn the country around, ger. And they at least need to be clean and not because I would be President—because fixed up and shiny and adequate so that you the President is only one actor in a very big send a message to our children that they mat- system—but because this country has enor- ter, that they’re important, that they’re not mous capacity to solve any problem before some second-rate ancillary concern to us. So it if the people make up their mind to go I think there’s quite a good chance that we’ll in the right direction and actually do it. be able to do something to support local ef- So I took to the people a new direction. forts on school construction in a way that also And we said it was a new Democratic ap- furthers school reform. And I want to say proach not because we were running from a little more about that in a minute. the Democratic Party’s values in history but But you just remember, when that comes because at every time when there’s change up on the national screen—today, I was in you have to change your approach to be rel- Akron, as Steve Grossman said, at our first evant to the times. You can’t stick with an big national townhall meeting on race rela- approach that no longer works. So what we tions and building one America for the 21st said was we want new ideas and old-fash- century. Three of the people of the 65 people ioned values, opportunity for everybody, re- in the audience brought it up to me and said, sponsibility from everybody, a community ‘‘I wish you would do something to help get that includes everybody in America. We want our broken-down or overcrowded schools in a different kind of Government. We don’t a position where they can do the job for the pretend that the Government can solve all kids without regard to their race.’’ Carol the problems, but we don’t think it should Moseley-Braun made that a national issue for sit on the sidelines. We think we ought to the first time in the history of the Republic. have a Government that’s primary focus is And she deserves a lot of credit for it, and to create the conditions and give people the we ought to keep fighting to make our tools to solve their own problems and build schools better. And I hope the people of Illi- strong careers, strong families, and strong nois will back her up in this coming year on that issue, because it’s very important. And communities. And that’s what we’ve done. I thank her for it. Five years later there are 300,000 people Now, let me go back to the beginning of fewer working for the Federal Government. this. Six years ago, when I came to Illinois It’s the smallest it was—your Federal Gov- for the first time, I was convinced that our ernment today is the same size it was when country had its best days in front of it if, but John Kennedy was President. And this is a only if, we actually tried to prepare for the much bigger country. future. I did not think we could simply stum- The percentage of the economy being ble into the 21st century. Nor did I think taken by the Federal Government is smaller we could get very far by denying the signifi- than it was 5 years ago. Of all the advanced cant challenges we faced. economies in the world, the percentage of By 1992, it had been nearly 20 years since our wealth that goes to taxes at the State, the bottom 60 percent of the work force had national, and local level is lower than every had an increase in their real wages, because other one except Japan; we’re about even of global competition and because of the pre- with Japan. And yet, we have still been able mium that had been put on higher skills in to invest more in things that are critical to the global economy and the growth of tech- our future, like education and environmental nology. Unemployment was high, growth was technology and cleanup and medical re- low, interest rates were high. And like I said, search and the expansion of health care cov- we had quadrupled the debt. Crime was erage, things that bring us together and make going up every year. The welfare roles were us all stronger. rising. And most people didn’t think that this And the consequence of that is that we’ve country worked very well anymore. not only reduced the debt by 92 percent— I believed very strongly that if we had new the deficit—by 92 percent, before the bal- ideas and we implemented them with dis- anced budget law triggered in, because of

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the 1993 vote, but we’re now going to bal- quality, safe child care to working families— ance the budget, and at the same time, have because I think that the most important job the biggest increased investment in health any of us will ever have—and I guess I’m care for kids since ’65, in public schools since more mindful of that now because our ’65, and in helping people go to college since daughter just went off to college, and I don’t 1945, since the GI bill. sense it every day like I used to—but raising We are seeing the crime rate drop to a kids is the most important work of any soci- 24-year low, and the biggest drop in welfare ety, ever, in all history, it’s always the same. rolls in history—3.8 million fewer people on There is nothing more important. welfare than when I took office—with a pro- So we cannot ask our people to choose be- gram that is tough in the sense that it re- tween success in the emerging economy and quires able-bodied people to go to work but success at home. What we have to do is to compassionate for children because it guar- find a way for us to achieve both. And that’s antees medical care and nutrition for the kids something that we have to keep working on, and child care for the mothers if they go to but I’m proud of the progress we’ve made. work. So you don’t ask people to choose be- I’m proud of the fact that the environment tween their children and their jobs. is cleaner than it was; the air is cleaner; the And if I might say, I think that’s one of water is cleaner; there are fewer toxic waste the largest questions still facing the United dumps; and the food supply is safer than it States. Even upper income people I know was 5 years ago. Do we still have new chal- who have school-aged kids, almost every one lenges? We do. But we proved that those of them can cite one example in the last few who said we should break down environ- weeks when they felt torn between their obli- mental regulations and weaken our commit- gations to their children and their obligations ment to a clean environment so we could at work. And I think one of the single grow the economy—I think we have proved achievements the Democratic Party should conclusively that they were wrong and that make to 21st century America is helping to our idea is right, that you can protect the reconcile the conflict between work and fam- environment and grow the economy, and we ily so that people who do work do not feel need to keep on doing it. that they have to sacrifice being good parents And as you look to the future, that means, to do it. among other things, taking on the challenge What does that mean? That’s what the of global warming and climate change. The family and medical leave law was about. Vice President is going to Kyoto, Japan, to When we doubled the earned-income tax present our position there, and it’s somewhat credit—I’ll tell you what that means; nobody controversial now because a lot of people be- knows what this is, the earned-income tax lieve that there is no way to reduce our credit—it means that if you make less than amount of greenhouse gas emissions caused $30,000 a year and you have one or two chil- primarily from burning coal and oil without dren, you get a lower income tax as a result. hurting the economy. I do not believe that. It’s worth about $1,000 a family, over and I think the evidence is all to the contrary. above the children’s tax credit and the other And we’re determined to find a way to con- cuts that we’ve done in taxes. tinue to clean the environment while growing We raised the minimum wage because of the economy. it. We increased child support collection by Let me just remind you that in the last 50 percent. We reformed the adoption laws few years we have taken the chlorofluorocar- and gave a tax credit for people who would bons out of the air—the spray, the stuff that’s adopt children, all trying to strengthen fami- in the spray cans—to stop the thinning of lies and help people balance the demands the ozone layer. Everybody said it was going of work and family. And then Hillary and I to be a big problem for our economy. It all sponsored the first White House conference happened while we were having this unprec- ever on child care, and we’re looking at what edented boom. We have dramatically re- our options are within the budget limitations duced sulphur dioxide emissions primarily to try to expand the availability of affordable, from powerplants. We were told it was going

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to cost a fortune and take forever. We’re now accountability, no more social promotion— running 40 percent ahead of schedule at less the kinds of things you’re doing here ought than half the predicted cost, in the midst of to be done everywhere in America. We be- this economic boom, cleaning up our air, be- lieve that. That’s part of our policy. We’ve cause we did it in a way that supported busi- got to have somebody sticking up for us and ness, supported free markets, gave people giving us the wherewithal to get that message the incentives to do the right thing, but said, out there. That’s what you’re doing. And you in the end we’ve got to give our children a ought to be proud of that and feel good about cleaner environment. it. We still have—there are lots of cities in Today at this townhall meeting on race, this country where asthma is the number one the one substantive announcement I made public health problem for young children be- was that we were going to create 25 to 30 cause of air pollution. So we’re doing the education opportunity zones to give 25 to 30 right things, and we need to keep on doing other communities—to give a chance to do it. what Chicago’s trying to do, to put account- In health care, we need to find ways to ability and high standards and high expecta- continue to expand health coverage and with- tions and real, effective commitment to ex- out sacrificing quality in the name of control- cellence into the schools. This is important. ling costs. Our side has embraced a health And the last thing I’ll say is this. One of care bill of rights that has been endorsed by the reasons that I’m very proud to be a Dem- health care providers, by medical profes- ocrat is we still believe that we don’t have sionals not in the business end of it, by sig- a person to waste; we believe that people that nificant portions of the business and labor don’t have as many material resources as we community. We may have a big argument do are as good as we are in the eyes of God about it between the parties next year, but I think the Democratic Party should be on and that we need them to develop to the the side of quality health care as well as af- fullest of their abilities. And we want every- fordable health care. And I think that’s what body to be part of our American future. people want us to do. I know that’s what That’s what we want, and that’s what that Susan wants me to do. She was almost clap- townhall meeting in Akron was all about. ping there. [Laughter] I’ll just leave you with that thought. A lot So these are things that I want you to think of Americans have thought about what the about. There are honest differences. I regret 21st century will be like in terms of, oh, bio- sometimes that all the political stories seem medical research in 30 years. A lot of Ameri- to be about, you know—Lew made some re- cans have thought about what’s going to hap- mark about the fundraising—you have to un- pen in terms of the communications tech- derstand, when you contribute to a party, if nology in 30 years. A lot of Americans have that party advances things that you believe thought about will there be relatively more in and there is a difference, especially if there people riding on airplanes or more people is a difference between your party’s position doing video conferences transatlantic when and the other one, you are doing something all the telephones have video screens. But that is not only all right, it is a good thing what we have not thought enough about is because if you don’t, then your side won’t what’s it going to be like when there’s no be heard. majority race in America in 50 years? It will And there is a direct line that will run from happen within the decade in California, our this dinner tonight to the actions that we will biggest State, where 13 percent of the people take and the fights we will be able to make live. How are we going to continue to prove to defend what we do when we try to raise that, no matter what happens in Bosnia or school standards in every city in the country, Northern Ireland or the Middle East or all like you’re trying to do here in Chicago, when these places where we’re trying to help them we try to get every school system to do what make progress toward peace, that we’re you say here—more homework, more paren- going to stay on the side of reconciling our- tal involvement, more responsibility, more selves to one another across our racial and

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religious and ethnic differences so that we years; the lowest crime rate in 24 years; the will be richer by it? biggest drop in welfare in history; the family How are we going to prove that we under- leave law; dramatic overhaul of the adoption stand that the ethnic diversity that you see laws; a dramatic overhaul of the food and in Cook County is our meal ticket to the 21st drug law so we can move drugs into the work- century, and we are not going to let old-fash- place more quickly and people can get cures ioned hatreds and newfound fears get in the for terrible problems. way of that? I want our party—I want this The kinds of things we’re doing will to be a nonpartisan issue, but I want our change the future of America for the better. party to be in the forefront of getting the And I want you to stay with us. I want you American people to solve this problem com- to stay with Carol Moseley-Braun. I want you munity by community as well as the national to stay with your other candidates here in level. Illinois. But most of all, I want you to stay So these are the things that we have stood with the notion that you have the right and for. I don’t think there’s any question that the responsibility to support those things that America is better off than it was 5 years ago. reflect what you believe are right for Amer- I don’t think there’s any question that I could ica. And because you and people like you not have done this if it hadn’t been for the Democratic Members of the Congress and all over this country have done it, we’re in the voices in the mayors’ offices and the Gov- better shape than we were 5 years ago. And ernorships around the country who stuck up when we go into the 21st century and I ride for what we were trying to do. I could not off into the sunset, we’ll be in better shape have done this alone. We did this together. still. It is an achievement of our party. Thank you, and God bless you. Do we have some differences of opinion? We sure do. We still have a big difference NOTE: The President spoke at 9:40 p.m. at Lino’s over trade, and I think I’m right, and I think Restaurant. In his remarks, he referred to Lewis that the people that think that we don’t have Manilow, who introduced the President, and his to expand trade are not right. On the other wife, Susan, cochairs of the dinner; Steve Gross- hand, I believe that one of the things that man, national chair, and Alan D. Solomont, na- all Democrats believe that is right is that no tional finance chair, Democratic National Com- country has yet solved the problem—no rich mittee; John Stroger, president, Cook County country—of how do you get the benefits of board of commissioners; NBA Chicago Bulls for- the global economy, trade, technology, and ward Scottie Pippen; and David Wilhelm, former investment, and still help the people that will chair, Democratic National Committee, and his wife, Deegee. get displaced from the global economy in an adequate and rapid way, so that they can im- mediately return to the winner’s circle? No country has solved that problem. Letter to Congressional Leaders And I think you should see the debate Reporting on the Federal Republic within our party on trade in those terms. That of Yugoslavia (Serbia and is the positive way to see it, because all of Montenegro) us care about that. And I believe we’ll get it worked out in a way that will enable us December 3, 1997 to continue to expand the frontiers of trade and prove that we can do a better job of re- Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:) turning hardworking Americans to the win- On May 30, 1992, by Executive Order ner’s circle. 12808, President Bush declared a national Apart from that, I think we’re completely emergency to deal with the unusual and ex- at one on things that really have made a dif- traordinary threat to the national security, ference to America. So you go home tonight, foreign policy, and economy of the United and you think about that. You think about States constituted by the actions and policies that. The lowest unemployment rate in 24 of the Governments of Serbia and

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