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Remarks to a Joint Session of the Michigan 290 Mar. 6 / Administration of William J. Clinton, 1997 Remarks to a Joint Session of the Governor, you'll get mad at it. [Laughter] Michigan Legislature in Lansing, There were 95 Republicans and 5 Democrats Michigan in the House. And it was the aftermath of March 6, 1997 the Civil War. I say this because our two States have been Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. entwined in an interesting way over the Speaker, Governor. Thank you all for that course of time. We were allowed together wonderful welcome in this magnificent cap- into the Union because Michigan was a free itol. I'm delighted to be here today with so State and Arkansas was a Southern slave many of your State officialsÐLieutenant State, and Michigan became the partyÐad- Governor Binsfeld; your State board of edu- hering to the party of Abraham Lincoln, of cation president, Kathleen Strauss. I don't freedom, and the party of Theodore Roo- know if Frank Kelley met Theodore Roo- sevelt, which the Governor explained. And sevelt, but he did meet me when I became most of us Democrats are pretty proud of attorney general. [Laughter] And some days those folks, too. They represent the best in I feel about that old. I want to thank the America. mayor of Lansing, Mayor Hollister, for meet- Then, after the Great Depression, Michi- ing me at the airport, and all the other State gan basically became the home of tens of officials and dignitaries who are hereÐRep- thousands of people from my State who sim- resentative Sikkema, thank you, sir; and Sen- ply could not make a living anymore on the ator Cherry and Senator Posthumus. farm, and the factories of Michigan gave peo- I want to thank the Members of Congress ple from Arkansas, black and white together, and others who flew down here with me the chance to come up here and build a de- todayÐyour former Governor, Jim Blan- cent middle class life and educate their chil- chard and his wife, Janet; Congressman Din- dren and be a part of what was then Ameri- gell; your Congresswoman from here, Con- ca's future. So anybody from my roots must gressman Debbie Stabenow; Representative be exceedingly grateful to the people of Levin; Representative Kilpatrick; Represent- Michigan and the history and the heritage ative Conyers; Representative Stupak; Rep- of Michigan. resentative Camp; and Representative When Theodore Roosevelt was here, he Hoekstra and Representative Barcia. Did I was going to Michigan State to address the get them all? [Laughter] Nine, we only had graduates there, just as I did a couple of years nine here. I could only muster nine, but ago. And I might say the president of Michi- that's a quorumÐ[laughter]Ðeven in the gan State is here, and I told him today that State legislatureÐof the Michigan delega- he gave me a picture of Theodore Roosevelt's tion. I thank them for coming down. address to the graduates at Michigan State, Thank you, Wendell Anthony, for your in- and it now hangs on my office wall at the vocation, and thank you for making me feel White House at the entrance to my little pri- so welcome. vate office off the Oval Office, and I look When I came in, the Speaker and I were up there and see Teddy Roosevelt speaking looking up at this magnificent ceiling, and every day that I go to work. I noticed that the seal of the State of Michi- Before that, he came here, and when he gan was right next to the seal of my home spoke here I suppose the place looked about State of Arkansas. And maybe one reason for like it does now, thanks to your magnificent that is that the Congress approved us coming renovation, and I applaud you for doing this. into the Union at the same time. People all over America should remember I was reading also the account of Theodore it's worth investing a little money to protect Roosevelt coming here 90 years ago. I know your roots and your heritage, and the beauty you have partisan differences today. You and meaning of what we were, as well as what might be interested to know that 90 years we hope to be. ago there were 32 Republicans and no In 1907 when Teddy Roosevelt came here Democrats in the Senate. [Laughter] If you we were at the dawn of the industrial era. clap too much, I've got a great closing lineÐ This building had been wired for electricity Administration of William J. Clinton, 1997 / Mar. 6 291 only 2 years before he showed up. And when that set the framework for America's leader- President Roosevelt left here to go to the ship, growth, and prosperity, and the explo- college campus, he got in a newfangled con- sion of people into the middle class, which traption called a Reo automobile. I read the became the hallmark of Michigan's great- newspaper article from your local paper from ness. 1907 this morning, and it said that it was When I was a kid in Arkansas our per cap- something of a risk for him to get into the ita income was barely half the national aver- car, but it was probably the wave of the fu- age. We all knew if you could find your way ture, who knew what would turn out. [Laugh- up here and got a job, you could still make ter] a good living. That all began at the beginning Then, like a good politician, I read that of this century. It is a very rare thing for when he was at Michigan State, at the cam- a country to have peace and prosperity and pus, he learned that there were, in fact, two the possibility of shaping its own future. different car manufacturers competing with Abraham Lincoln said in the Civil War, ``My one another in Lansing, so he took the other policy is to have no policy. I'm controlled one back. [Laughter] He took a Reo out and by events.'' If I said that, I would be ridi- an Olds back. culed, rightly so. But he was controlled by That was a rare moment. Just think what events. He did have a policy; it was to keep happened from that moment to this one. the Union together and then to liberate us Think about the century that that moment from the scourge of slavery. But he was con- and this one spansÐall but 10 years of this trolled by events. centuryÐand why it became the American When the Depression came on and Presi- Century, what a big part of it Michigan was. dent Roosevelt called for an era of bold ex- Building a great middle class, offering a perimentation, he was controlled by events haven to people from all over America and to some extent. He couldn't say, the major to immigrants who would come here from issue in America is the climate or even edu- other lands to work, to make their way. cation or anything else. He was controlled Building an industrial power that could pre- by events, and the war did that. And to some vail in two World Wars and overcome a Great extent, the cold war did that for us. When Depression. Building an ethical power that Sputnik went up and we got into the space could live up to the meaning of its Constitu- race and wound up winning it, we were al- tion in the civil rights revolution and expand- most forced into it. Now we have peace and ing opportunities to young people to vote and prosperity on the edge of an era of unimagi- to women to fully participate in the life of nable possibility. America. Just think what has happened in We just finished 4 years where our coun- the 20th century. try, for the first time during one administra- When Roosevelt was here in 1907, it was tion, has produced 111¤2 million jobs. Michi- a rare moment. We were moving on to the gan, the unemployment rate has dropped, stage as a world power. Everyone recognized and the Governor said your welfare rolls are it. We had by then been a nation for more down 30 percent. You see this kind of than 100 years, and everybody knew there progress, this energy, this movement, this was something unique about America, a free possibility in AmericaÐdramatic new ad- democracy where people could vote and de- vances in science and technology occurring. cide and make their judgments. And it was This is a rare time. growing and being nourished. We were ex- What happens to people, usually, when ceedingly prosperous by the standards of the they are prosperous and unthreatened? Well, time. they usually get complacent, and then they And Roosevelt knew that you had to make normally find some reason to fall out with the most of peace and prosperity and leader- one another, usually over something incred- ship, and he did. And so did his successor, ibly petty, just in the nature of human events. Woodrow Wilson. And because of them to- And I come here to say to you today, we gether and the work they did with like-mind- here in America and you here especially in ed members of both parties, we built an era Michigan who have done so much for so 292 Mar. 6 / Administration of William J. Clinton, 1997 long, we cannot afford to do that. We owe not equipped for the new world of work.
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