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forward.’’ Will you help me in Arizona to me still for this election. I want to thank the build that bridge? Will you be there on Tues- mayor for always being so kind to her. And day? Will you talk to your friends? [Applause] I want to say a special word of thanks, too, God bless you. Let’s do it. Your best days to Governor Bob Miller for being there with are ahead. Thank you. me in good times and bad—always there, al- ways supporting us, always standing up for NOTE: The President spoke at 10:23 a.m. on the what was right and standing up for Nevada. lawn at Grady Gammage Auditorium. In his re- And I want to tell you that something I marks, he referred to Jeff Goodman, who sang the national anthem; Vice Mayor Joe Lewis of have said in the Oval Office of the White Tempe; Arizona State University football player, House many times—I’d like to say here in Juan Roque; Rose Mofford, former Governor of public: I believe in Washington, DC, the Arizona; and Representative Pastor’s wife, Verma. most underappreciated public servant in the United States Senate is Harry Reid of Ne- vada. He is a remarkable, remarkable Sen- Remarks in Las Vegas, Nevada ator. You should be very proud of him. You October 31, 1996 should be very proud of him. You know, be- cause he’s a gentleman and he’s low-key and The President. Thank you. I think the he just says what he has to say in a town first thing I should say is, happy birthday, where hot air and hot rhetoric and divisive Nevada. I am so glad to be here today, so actions take precedent, very often the people delighted to see all of you here in not only who really make a difference are not appre- large numbers but with genuine enthusiasm. ciated. Harry Reid should be appreciated You should feel good about your country and here, and every day he’s more appreciated good about our future. back there in Washington. I want to thank the Green Valley High School Band for playing the national anthem, And thank you, Nell Justice, for having the thank you; the Las Vegas Academy of Inter- courage to get up here and give a speech national Studies, Performing Visual Arts, in front of all these people and for embody- thank you. I want to thank the saxophonists ing, to me, what my job, this campaign, and who played here earlier from the musicians our common destiny is all about. We are union and the mariachi band. about to choose the last President of the 20th Thank you, Madam Mayor. Thank you, century and the first President of the 21st County Commission Vice Chair Paul century. I believe more strongly than I can Christianson. You arranged a beautiful day say that the greatest days of this country lie for us here today. I’d also like to say a special before us; that if we make the right decisions, word of appreciation to a person who is not if we do what we have always done in the here with us today, the county commission past at critical times, if we meet our chal- chair, Yvonne Atkinson-Gates. We’re think- lenges and do it in a way that enables us ing about her, and we miss her. Senator Dina to live more closely toward our values, our Titus, Assembly Leader Richard Perkins. young people here will live in the age of Thank you, Gladys Knight, for coming and greatest possibility the world has ever known. speaking. Thank you, Andre Agassi, for com- We are dramatically changing the way we ing. Thank you. Thank you, Attorney General work and live, the way we relate to each other Frankie Sue Del Papa. And thank you, my and the rest of the world. A lot of these good friend Harry Reid. changes are very good, but some of them Ladies and gentlemen, I owe a lot to a pose very stiff challenges to families. I’ll give lot of people. I’m on the verge of finishing you one example of the changes that are the last campaign I’ll ever be in unless I run going on. for the school board someday. And I want When I became President there were to say that every time I come here to Las about 3 million people working in their Vegas, I think of my wonderful mother who homes and making a living. The other day loved this community so much and loved to I was in Atlanta at a rally, and I was intro- come here. And I wish she were here with duced by a young woman. She and her hus-

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band were from Georgia. They were living to stop the bloody war in Bosnia or kick the in New York. They both had jobs there. He dictators out in Haiti or stand up for the got a job in Atlanta; they moved back to At- cause of peace in Northern Ireland or try lanta. She’s still working for her company in to deal with the problems of our neighbors New York, in Atlanta, because of the com- to the south in Mexico. But America is puter. There were 3 million people doing stronger today than it was 4 years ago. No that in 1992. There are 12 million people Russian missiles are pointed at our children doing that in 1996. There will be 30 million today, for the first time since the dawn of people doing that in the year 2000. That is the nuclear age, and we’re moving in the just one example. right direction there. And I want our country The frontiers of knowledge are being to be coming together around our basic val- pushed back dramatically. The life expect- ues. I want us to be able to celebrate, laugh ancy for people with HIV and AIDS is more about, cherish our diversity, and say, we’re than twice what it was just 4 years ago. We bound together by our belief in the values have uncovered—we have discovered, medi- that have made America great, but otherwise cal researchers, the first real treatment for we don’t discriminate against anybody. We stroke victims that offers promise. Two of the want to go forward in an American commu- genes which cause breast cancer were just nity in which everybody has a place and a uncovered. And I allocated another $30 mil- role to play. lion to that research just a week ago. It is Five days before this election, I want you really within our reach not only to cure but to be upbeat about America, optimistic about prevent that disease in the future. your future, and determined to make the For the first time, a few weeks ago a lab- choice that will guarantee that that vision can oratory animal with its spine completely sev- be made real in your lives and the lives of ered had movement in its lower limbs be- your friends and neighbors. That is the cause of nerve transplants to the spine from choice. other parts of the body. These are unbeliev- For me, it is best expressed in this idea able things. We just signed a contract, the of a bridge to the 21st century. I believe that United States Government did, with IBM to there’s a real difference here between Sen- build jointly a supercomputer over the next ator Dole and me, between Senator Coffin couple of years that will do as many calcula- and Congressman Ensign. And I believe it’s tions in one second as you can do at home an honest difference. I don’t like all this on your calculator in 30,000 years. harsh rhetoric and personal attacks and at- This world is changing. And America is tempts to convince people that your oppo- faced with the question of what to do about nent is no good. I don’t think there is very the changes. When I ran for President 4 much to that. years ago I had a vision of what I wanted I’m about to end my last campaign. I can our country to be like in the 21st century. tell you this—I’ve been working at this for And I’m so glad there are so many young over 20 years now. Most of the people I’ve people here today because that will be your met in both parties, from all points on the century. For me, it’s pretty straightforward. political spectrum, have loved our country, I want every child in America, without regard have wanted what was best for it, worked to race or gender or where you start out in hard and were honest, contrary to the image life, to have the same chance to live up to that is often portrayed. There are honest dif- your God-given abilities and the same chance ferences here, and you should be exuberant to live out your dreams that I and the mem- that you have a choice to make between hon- bers of my generation had. You deserve it, est differences. and I am determined to see that you get it. I don’t believe that we should go into I want our great country to continue to this—I know that there will be more individ- be the world’s strongest force for peace and ual choices than ever before. I know people freedom and prosperity. And I know that can do things on their computers and will makes me do things from time to time that be able to do more. Pretty soon you can do aren’t especially popular, whether it’s trying all your shopping by computers. People won’t

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even have to go out the door if they don’t believed what they were doing was right. But want to. I know that there will be more op- I think they were wrong. And that’s what you portunities for us to do things as individuals. have to decide. Are we going to build a But I still believe that our country will only bridge to the future or a bridge to the past? be great if we are determined to build a Are we going to go forward together or be bridge to the future that we’re all going to told we’re on our own? These are big, big be able to walk across together, if we give decisions. everybody the tools to make the most of his Now, 4 years ago when the people in Ne- or her own life. That’s what I believe. vada voted for Al Gore and Bill Clinton, you And that’s the choice. Would we be better took us on faith. You don’t have to do that off being told, ‘‘You’re on your own, and we anymore. There is a record. And our friends hope you do well,’’ or as a person I’m reason- have to face the fact that there is a record. ably close to once said, do we believe it takes We do have 101⁄2 million more jobs than we a village to raise a child, to build a future, had 4 years ago. We do have incomes rising to build a country? That is the choice. for the first time in a decade, about $1,600 That was the choice we faced starkly about over the last 2 years for the typical family. a year ago when Senator Dole and Congress- We do have the largest drop in child poverty man Gingrich and Congressman Ensign in 20 years, the largest drop in income in- voted for a budget that would have cut edu- equality among working people in 27 years, cation for the first time in modern history, the lowest rates of unemployment, inflation, would have reduced the number of children and home mortgages combined in 27 years. in Head Start, eliminated the AmeriCorps Those are facts. That’s where we are. We’re national service program, cut college loans, going in the right direction. terribly, terribly, terribly weakened the abil- We do have a 15-year high in homeowner- ity of the United States to protect our envi- ship. We do have 4 years now of declining ronment and to continue to enhance it. crime rates, which is why every major law It would have repealed for the first time enforcement organization in America has en- in 30 years our guarantee of health care to dorsed the Clinton-Gore ticket for reelec- elderly people in nursing homes, to the very tion, because we have proved we can lower standards of care we have in nursing homes. the crime rate. It would repeal the guarantee of care to our We do have 4 years of declining welfare poorest children and the middle class fami- rolls, 1.9 million fewer people on the welfare lies who have family members with disabil- rolls. We do have cleaner air, safer drinking ities who can maintain a middle class lifestyle water, higher standards for food safety. We because we try to provide decent health care. do have vast new protections for our natural It would have done all that. It would have resources; the biggest national park network allowed employers to raid their employees’ ever created south of Alaska in the Mojave pension funds and actually raise taxes on the Desert in California, 1.7 million acres of wil- hardest pressed working families in America. derness in southern Utah, the Grand Stair- And I vetoed it because I thought it was case-Escalante National Monument. We’re wrong. cleaning up the Florida Everglades. We’re And they thought it was so right for Amer- moving this country forward, and we have ica, they shut the Government down. And proved, yes, you can grow the economy and they thought that we were such Government preserve the environment at the same time. lovers, because that’s the picture postcard We have proved that. cutout that’s always made of us, that all of Ten million people benefited from the in- us would just sort of cave in and let them crease in the minimum wage. Twelve million have their way. And I told them I’d a lot people took a little time off when a baby was rather see the American people hurt for 3 born or a family member was sick without weeks than for 30 years; no, thank you, we losing their jobs because of family leave. weren’t going to have that budget. Twenty-five million Americans may be able But I don’t believe that these people didn’t to keep their health insurance now because believe what they were doing. I think they we passed a law that says you cannot have

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your health insurance jerked from you be- in 100 years. I made up 80 years in just 2 cause you changed jobs or someone in your weeks. I think you ought to feel good. Now, family has been sick. back in February, Senator Dole in a more America is a better place because I signed candid and open and accurate moment, said a law that says mothers and their newborn we had the best economy in 30 years—the babies can’t be kicked out of the hospital in best economy. That’s when he was right. 24 hours, too. We’re a better place because That doesn’t mean we don’t have more to we’re trying to provide more insurance cov- do. And one of the things that I worry about erage for mental health problems that so all the time is—you know, life is about more many of our families face. We’re a better than economics. Most of us work so that we’ll place because finally, after so long, way too have the wherewithal to live in the way we long, we’re giving health care and disability want to live, to raise our children well, to benefits to Vietnam veterans who were ex- enjoy our lives, to find some personal fulfill- posed to Agent Orange whose children have ment, to have good lives. And on Halloween, spina bifida as a result of it. We’re a better even though it’s supposed to be Fright Night, place because we’re doing these things to- I always think that what I really want is a gether. We’re a better place because child safer Halloween for all of our children and support collections are up 50 percent, $4 bil- stronger families and safer neighborhoods. lion a year in the last 4 years. This is a better So I say to you, I want you to feel good place. about America, and I want you to make this So I say to you, my fellow Americans, you choice based on these two big ideas, because don’t just totally have to take it on faith any- we still have more work to do. If we want more. There is a record. The evidence is to strengthen our families, we have to help there. And the question now is what are we parents succeed at home and at work. I was going to do for the future? I know it’s Hal- for the family leave law; he was against it. loween, you know. And I understand why on We had an honest difference of opinion. He Halloween people like to scare other people. said it would hurt the economy, but we’ve But yesterday with new evidence, our econ- had 3 years of record starts of new small busi- omy is growing at about 3 percent a year, nesses and over 10 million jobs. You know better than any other industrial country. who was right and who was wrong. The evi- We’ve got a 5 percent increase in personal dence is there. income after inflation this year. We’ve got And I think we ought to extend family the highest rate of business investment since leave. I think people ought to be able to go John Kennedy was President. And we’ve see their children’s teachers twice a year and done the things I’ve described as they said, go to the doctor’s appointment with them having the smallest Federal Government without losing their jobs. since President Kennedy, and we abolished There is nothing more important than more Government programs, more Govern- helping parents succeed at home and at ment regulations and privatized more Gov- work. If the parents of America have to ernment operations than the Republicans did choose between their children or their job, in the 12 years they ran before our adminis- we are in trouble, whichever choice they tration. So I understand all that. have to make. Their most important job is So along comes my opponent yesterday raising our children, but we have to have a and says, we have the worst economy in 20 strong economy. If we have a strong economy years. Do you believe that? at the expense of raising our children, what Audience members. No-o-o! are we working for anyway? We have got to The President. Is this the worst economy work to create conditions in which everybody in Las Vegas in 20 years? believes, I can do my work and I can still Audience members. No-o-o! be a good parent. There is no more important The President. If you think it is, you agenda for America. ought to vote for him. But now, the interest- We have to help parents pass their values ing thing is, this being Halloween, is that 2 along to their children, and they should be weeks ago he said we had the worst economy reinforced. That’s why I fought for more edu-

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cational television. That’s why I fought for Here again my opponent voted against a V-chip in new TV’s and a rating system 100,000 police. Senator Coffin’s opponent so you can control what young children see. voted to eliminate it, even in the evidence— Every study shows that too much violence in the face of the evidence that the crime too young numbs children to the meaning rate was coming down, they voted to stop of violence and undermines their ability to doing it. I don’t understand it. But that’s one see other people with dignity and respect. reason, when I was in Arizona this morning We have to deal with that. before I came here, that Bill Bratton, the That’s why we fought for the safe and former commissioner of police in New York drug-free schools program, and we got more City and Boston—and in New York City, be- than double the number of children who now cause of community policing, because they see D.A.R.E. officers and others in their put more police on the street, they brought schools saying, ‘‘Don’t do drugs. They will the crime rate down 39 percent and the mur- kill you. They will ruin your lives. You de- der rate down 50 percent—and he endorsed serve a better chance.’’ We were right to fight Bill Clinton and Al Gore because he knows for that. That’s why I fought to stop the big we ought to finish the job of putting 100,000 tobacco companies from advertising and police on the street. And I want you to help marketing cigarettes to children illegally. It us do it. was wrong. I believe, as strongly as I can say, that we Now, in every single one of those in- need to do these things block by block, com- stances, Senator Dole disagreed with me. munity by community. We have to work to- That doesn’t make him a bad person, but I gether to make the American dream work. think I’m right, and I think he was wrong That’s why I wanted someone like Nell Jus- about that. And you have to decide who you tice to introduce me, someone who has taken think is right. responsibility for her children, someone I believe we’ve got to keep our streets safe. who’s active in her community. I know it was unpopular in Nevada when we I don’t believe that the President for a mo- passed the crime bill and the Brady bill. I ment can take full credit for any of the know a lot of people in the rural parts of achievements that I’ve talked to you about. this State were told, ‘‘There they go again, But it is the job of the President to do those those crazy Democrats and that awful Presi- things which we should do together as a dent. They’re going to take guns away from country. And it is the job of the President hunters and sports people.’’ Well, you know to imagine the future and to try to lead the something? I grew up in a State where more country into a better, brighter future in a way than half the people have a hunting or a fish- that is consistent with our values. ing license or both. I was shooting a .22 at What we have here in America today is old tin cans when I was 12. But we don’t an old-fashioned partnership. We’re out need assault weapons on our street. They’re working today to mobilize another million designed to kill people. They’re designed to volunteers to work with police officers in kill people. their neighborhoods because we know com- And that’s just like a lot of this stuff. That’s munity citizen groups can drive the crime what they said 2 years ago, but now we know. rate down. I’ve asked a million volunteers a We’ve got a record. Not a single Nevada year to join with us to make sure every 8- sportsman has lost a weapon, but 60,000 fel- year-old can read independently by the third ons, fugitives, and stalkers didn’t get hand- grade. These are things we have to do to- guns because of the Brady bill. gether. We’re putting more police on our streets— But how we do it, what we do in Washing- this is unbelievable—if we keep going until ton determines whether you can do it here. we get all 100,000 police on the street, in- So you have to decide, do we want to balance stead of 4 years of declining crime we’ll have the budget as I want to and still protect Med- 8 years of declining crime. We might actually icare, Medicaid, education, the environment, be able to feel safe again in every community technology, or do we want to do what they in this country. want to do, which is to promise you a big

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tax cut that will blow a hole in the deficit, One of the things that we did this year actually raise taxes on 9 million working peo- I’m very proud of is to allocate 200,000 more ple and will require bigger cuts in the envi- work-study slots to college students in the ronment, in education, in Medicare and years ahead than we’ve had. And I want Medicaid than the ones I vetoed? There’s a 100,000 of those—100,000, half of them, to big difference here. It’s just an honest dif- be given to college students who say, ‘‘If ference of opinion. I say balance the budget, you’ll give me work-study money, I’ll go protect our values, invest in our future. teach an 8-year-old to read.’’ And I want you Do we want to keep reforming health care to help me do that. step by step? We’ve made a good start. My I want us to hook up every classroom and balanced budget plan—which cannot be library in every school in America to the in- funded by them—my balanced budget plan formation superhighway, to the Internet, to will help families that are between jobs keep the World Wide Web. I want every child for their health insurance for 6 months, add an- the first time in the history of this country, other million children to the rolls of those whether in a poor district, a remote rural dis- with health insurance, provide free mammo- trict, a middle class or a wealthy one, every grams to women on Medicare and for the child for the first time to have access to the over 11⁄2 million families that are coura- same information in the same way at the geously out there caring for a loved one with same time. It will revolutionize education in Alzheimer’s, it will give them some respite America. care. That is hard duty, and that’s important, And I want to open the doors of college and we can do it. I think we ought to do education to every single American. I want it. Will you help us do that? [Applause] you to help me make community college, at And let me say this, especially to the young least 2 years of education after high school, people: The two biggest differences, the two as universal as a high school diploma is today. biggest choices you have to make, the first And it will be easy to do. It will be easy to is about education. I am telling you I would do. Just let people deduct dollar for dollar not be here today, no way in the world would from their tax bill the cost of the typical com- I be here today—I was born to a widowed munity college tuition. I want to let people mother in a little town in Arkansas; she mar- save in an IRA and withdraw from it without ried my stepfather, who did not have a high any tax penalty if the money’s used for edu- school diploma—if it hadn’t been for my cation or health care or homebuying. And family drumming into me the importance of I believe we should give families a tax deduc- education and for the opportunities I was tion of up to $10,000 a year for the cost of given, I wouldn’t be here today. I know every any college tuition, undergraduate, graduate, politician stands up, loves to give speeches at any school, for people of any age. And I about self-reliance. Well, the woman who in- can pay for it. troduced me is self-reliant. But we all need Now, they believe that—their education a hand, too. agenda is to abolish the Department of Edu- Every politician would like you to believe cation. that he or she was born in a log cabin they Audience members. Boo-o-o! built by themselves. [Laughter] But that’s The President. You think about this: Two just not true, folks. Educational opportunity cents on the dollar at the Department of is the gift we give not only to our children, Education goes to administration, or bu- but to ourselves. To give us a country that reaucracy; if you want to use the disparaging can be free and strong and that can grow term, 98 cents of it goes to help educate our and go forward together. And we have a lot children. What would it say to the world if still to do. Here’s how we’re going to teach America, the greatest democracy in the every 8-year-old to read, and 40 percent of world, were to start the 21st century with them can’t do it. We’re going to mobilize no one at the President’s Cabinet to speak 30,000 AmeriCorps volunteers and reading up for the education of our children? I say, specialists to go across this country and get no. Let’s build a bridge to the 21st century a million others. with the best education system in the world.

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Finally—this may be the most important build a bridge together. We’re going to walk thing of all—I have spent so much time, across it together. And our best days are still heartbreaking time, as your President dealing ahead. with the difficulties of other countries who Will you help me build that bridge? [Ap- are consumed by racial, religious, ethnic, and plause] Will you be there and vote? [Ap- tribal hatreds: In Bosnia, people killing one plause] If you’ve voted already, will you bring another’s children because they were Mus- someone else? [Applause] You can go in the lims or Croats or Serbs, even though, bio- courthouse and do it right now. Be there, logically, they are literally indistinguishable; and we’ll have a great celebration for Amer- in Northern Ireland, violence continuing, ica Tuesday night. people fighting over battles they fought 3 and Thank you. God bless you. And bear down. 600 years ago—I can say that; they’re my Thank you. people; but it’s crazy—the kids over there just want to get on with their lives; in the NOTE: The President spoke at 1:30 p.m. at the Middle East, the Holy Land for the three Clark County Government Center. In his remarks, he referred to Mayor Jan Laverty Jones of Las great monotheistic religions of the world, Vegas; State Senator Dina Titus; entertainer Glad- people still unable to lay down their hatreds ys Knight; tennis player Andre Agassi; Gov. Bob of one another, rooted in religious dif- Miller of Nevada; State Senator Bob Coffin and ferences so old. Representative John Ensign, Nevada senatorial All over the world—in Rwanda we sent candidates; and Nell Justice, who introduced the American forces to be with the French to President. save hundreds of thousands of lives when the Tutsis and the Hutus were killing each other, and neither one of them had enough money to get along on, neither one of them could Digest of Other provide for their children. And instead of working together to build a prosperous fu- White House Announcements ture, they preferred to slaughter one another. That is why I was so upset when hatred The following list includes the President’s public of the Federal Government led to the trag- schedule and other items of general interest an- edy of Oklahoma City. That is why, when nounced by the Office of the Press Secretary and the churches were being burned, the syna- not included elsewhere in this issue. gogues defaced, the Muslim centers being defaced, I said that is not my America. We October 27 must stand against it strong and hard. In the morning, the President had tele- When the First Lady and our daughter and phone conversations with Chairman Yasser I went to open the Olympics for the United Arafat of the Palestinian Authority and Prime States in Atlanta, it was one of the great mo- Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of Israel con- ments of the last 4 years for us, and I was cerning issues in the Middle East. filled with pride as I looked at those people In the afternoon, the President traveled to from 197 different national groups walking Springfield, VA. Later, he had a telephone around the Olympic Stadium and thinking, conversation with New York Yankees man- you know, we’ve got folks from all those ager Joe Torre to congratulate him on the places here in America; we’ve got people team’s victory in the World Series. from everywhere here. In the late afternoon, the President trav- So I say to you, this is important, too— eled to Nashville, TN. While en route, we cannot say you’re on your own. We have aboard Air Force One, he had a telephone to say that if you believe in the Constitution, conversation with Atlanta Braves owner Ted the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Inde- Turner and manager Bobby Cox to congratu- pendence, if you’re willing to show up for late them on the team’s performance this work or school tomorrow and be a good citi- season. zen, we need to know nothing else about you; In the evening, the President traveled to you are part of our America. We’re going to St. Louis, MO.

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