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Remarks at a Reception for Congresssional Candidate Gerrie Administration of William J. Clinton, 2000 / Nov. 2 2739 this audience. He understands the future, A portion of these remarks could not be verified how it will be shaped by the Internet, by because the tape was incomplete. the global economy, by the revolution in science and technology. He has accom- plished more for the American people as Remarks at a Reception for Vice President than any person who ever Congresssional Candidate held that job before. Gerrie Schipske in Los Angeles But most important, President Kennedy November 2, 2000 once said that the Presidency is preeminently a place of decisionmaking. You hired me for Thank you. You all sit down. Well, this is 8 years to make decisions that the President a pretty rowdy crowd. [Laughter] Nice signs. is supposed to make. Al Gore is a good man [Laughter] who makes good decisions, and with your I want to thankÐfirst of all, thanks to all help he will be a great President of the of you for coming, but I especially want to United States. thank Jeremy and Marc Nathanson; and my So here's what I want you to do. You've friend of more than 30 years now David got a few days now. Every day, when you see somebody you know wasn't here today, Mixner, who still has no gray hair practically. you tell them you want them to vote. You [Laughter] And thank you, Antonio tell them you want to vote for Al Gore, for Villaraigosa for being here and for your Joe Lieberman, and the Democrats. Why? friendship to me. Question number one, you want them to And I want to thank Gerrie Schipske for vote because you want to keep this prosperity having the guts to run and run again and be going. Number two, you want them to vote in here. I enjoyed visiting with Gerrie and because you want to keep building on the Flo and the kids back there. You know, I progress of the last 8 years. Number three, was listening to herÐshe tells a pretty good you want their vote because you want to keep jokeÐ[laughter]Ðsort of an essential criteria building one America; you kind of like it, if you want to be in Congress. [Laughter] thinking that the White House is your house, Better to tell one than be one, I always say. too. [Laughter] This is a close election. Every vote counts. You know, my mother was a nurse anes- There is a clear choice. I cannot thank you thetist. I never met anybody associated with enough for how good you've been to me. But health care who didn't have a sense of let me tell you something: If you want to humor. You need it in that line of work. But build on the prosperity, if you want to build she was kind of hung up about me being on on the progress, if you want to keep building page one of the Advocate; did you notice one America, you've got a clear choice and a clear responsibility, your only choice: Al that? [Laughter] She was on page 56. I've Gore, Joe Lieberman, and the Democrats. just got to say it. If we do our job, by less Thank you, and God bless you all. than a week from now, you'll be on page one of the Advocate, and I'll be lucky to be on NOTE: The President spoke at 4:20 p.m. in the page 56. [Laughter] parking lot at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza I think there ought to be more people as- Mall. In his remarks, he referred to musician sociated with health care in the Congress. Kenneth (Babyface) Edmonds; Art Torres, chair, California State Democratic Party; State Senators Lois Capps, who represents the district a lit- Hilda Solis and Kevin Murray; Genethia Hayes, tle north of here was a public school nurse member, Los Angeles Unified School District and a magnificent woman. And we have one Board of Education; State Assemblyman Herb or two other people in the Congress who did Wesson; Los Angeles City Council member Mark a stint in nursing or health care. One of the Ridley-Thomas; Art Pulaski, executive secretary- Republican physicians in the Congress, Greg treasurer, California Labor Federation, AFL± Ganske from Iowa, was one of the people CIO; Robert M. Hertzberg, speaker, California State Assembly; actresses Holly Robinson Peete that gave us the bipartisan majority we need- and Camryn Manheim; and musician Wyclef Jean. ed for a real Patients' Bill of Rights. 2740 Nov. 2 / Administration of William J. Clinton, 2000 When you think about the role that health time to digest it and enough experience care plays in our national life and all the com- against which to test it. And I say that be- plex issues that have to be faced, and how causeÐI do want to be just a little serious much money there is behind a lot of the orga- with you tonight. I think elections are tight. nized positions taken by the other party in I've been fooling with this a long time now. CongressÐI know a lot of you are here be- President Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey cause you support Gerrie on the human by a little over a percent. President Kennedy rights issues and all of that, but I'm telling defeated Richard Nixon by four-tenths of one you, we need more people who understand percent, 100,000 votes, in the whole coun- health care from the human point of view. tryÐless than a vote a precinct. President I can't tell youÐyou know, I could give Carter defeated President Ford by about a you, if we had all night to talk, I could give percent. you 50 examples that I have personally expe- So close races for President are not with- rienced in the last 8 years. So one of the out precedence. But now they're manifesting reasons that I'm here for her, apart from the themselves in these races for Congress. Now, fact that I like her and I support her and it's quite interesting because on all of the I agree with her, because we really do need major issues of the day except one or two, more people who've actually done things the people agree with the direction we've with their lives that could actually be valuable been taking the last 8 years. to people when they have to make laws. And Now, what does that lead you to say? What so that's it. conclusion can you draw from that? In so Now, I want to be brief here, because I many strange placesÐfor example, when I realize that I'm preaching to the saved. was trying to help James Byrd's children pass [Laughter] But let me tell you, I've been the hate crimes legislation in Texas, which doing this a long time. Now, this is the first as you know is no heart of flaming liberalism, time in 26 years I haven't been on the ballot a survey came out in Austin the day I was running for something. I was 27 years old there that showed that in Texas, two-thirds when I started, and I lost the race for the of the people, without regard to party, agreed House of RepresentativesÐthank goodness that Texas ought to have hate crimes legisla- IÐI wouldn't have made it here, I guess, if tion that included protection for gaysÐin I hadn't. [laughter]. And I've loved all these Texas. elections. On the other hand, a massive amount of I believe in the American political system. voting is always health care. You look around You know, I don't know how many years here, people tend to kind ofÐthey hang with David Mixner and I had to wait until we actu- their crowd, and they kind of vote and kind ally got to vote for somebody for President of go in one direction, and then they find who actually won. [Laughter] That's not true. it hard to turn around and go the other way. I voted for Jimmy Carter, and you did, too. And it takes a while for a different issue ap- But it was a pretty long time there, you know. proach to register. That's part of it. And I was beginning to think I would be on Part of it is, a lot of young people can't Social Security before I ever had a winning even remember when the economy wasn't election. [Laughter] this good. You know, they have no recollec- But I believe in the American political sys- tion of this, so they kind of take it for granted. tem, and I think, over time, the American And indeed, the nominee of the other party, people are an embodiment of Martin Luther I can't figure outÐsometimes he says noth- King's eloquent statement that the arc of his- ing good has happened in the last 8 years, tory is long but it bends toward justice. That's and then, once in a while reality will dawn, a very eloquent statement. And we have to and he'll say, ``Well whatever good hap- not grow weary. We have to just keep on pened, it was an accident. They didn't have working at it. anything to do with it''Ð[laughter]Ðwhich But most people are good people. And free is an interesting thing, because when they people generally tend to do the right thing were in, they took credit when the Sun came if they have enough information and enough up in the morning.
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