Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Monday, January 15, 2001 Volume 37ÐNumber 2 Pages 17±110 Contents Addresses and Remarks Communications to Congress AFL±CIO building, rededicationÐ36 ÐContinued Democratic National Committee staffÐ49 Protocol To Amend the 1949 Convention on Economic reportÐ101 the Establishment of an Inter-American Forests, action to preserve America'sÐ17 Tropical Tuna Commission with Foundry United Methodist ChurchÐ24 documentation, message transmittingÐ49 Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, statue unveilingÐ70 Executive Orders Illinois, Chicago Responsibilities of Federal Agencies To James Ward Elementary SchoolÐ57 Protect Migratory BirdsÐ77 Overflow crowdÐ67 The President's Disability Employment PeopleÐ63 Partnership BoardÐ76 Private partyÐ66 Massachusetts, Northeastern University in Interviews With the News Media BostonÐ88 Michigan, Michigan State University in East Exchange with reporters on the South LansingÐ52 GroundsÐ101 National Council of Negro Women, remarks Interviews honoring Dorothy HeightÐ75 Allison Payne of WGN±TV in ChicagoÐ68 New Hampshire, community in DoverÐ80 Steve Holland and Debbie Charles of New York City ReutersÐ93 Israel Policy Forum dinnerÐ28 Tribute to Senator Hillary ClintonÐ26 Statements by the President Presidential Citizens Medal, presentationÐ41 Family and Medical Leave ActÐ63 Radio addressÐ22 Senator Max Baucus, luncheonÐ72 Korean war No Gun Ri incidentÐ88 Virginia, Armed Forces tribute to the Supplementary Materials President in ArlingtonÐ19 Acts approved by the PresidentÐ110 Communications to Congress Checklist of White House press releasesÐ109 Iraq, letter transmitting reportÐ68 Digest of other White House Jordan-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, message announcementsÐ104 transmitting proposed legislation to Nominations submitted to the SenateÐ105 implementÐ23 Editor's Note: The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents is also available on the Inter- net on the GPO Access service at http://www.gpo.gov/nara/nara003.html. 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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. Week Ending Friday, January 12, 2001 Remarks on Action To Preserve achievement of this Congress this year, the America's Forests largest increase in funding for land conserva- January 5, 2001 tion in the history of the Republic, and I thank all those who were involved in that. Thank you very much. You guys are all Finally, I would like to thank Congressman cheating. You're just trying to warm up. I Mark Udall for being here with his bride, know what's going on. [Laughter] I was told Maggie. Thank you very much for being by an elderly conservationist from my home here. As you know, he comes from a family State of Arkansas that I had better do a good with fairly substantial environmental creden- job with America's natural resources when tials, and he came here, and the first thing I became President, on pain of feeling the he said was that we had done the right thing fire of Hades. I did not realize that our re- today. And we will need his voice in Congress ward is that we would be freezing to death this year, and we thank him for being here. here. [Laughter] For the first time ever, with the lands leg- I want to thank my good friend Senator acy initiative, we established a dedicated con- Gaylord Nelson for a lifetime of leadership tinuous fund for protecting and restoring in conservation. And I am profoundly grate- green and open spaces across America. ful to Secretary Glickman and to Chief Today we come to build on that record. Dombeck, a career public servant, who said In one way or another, all of us have come it all when he began by saying, ``This is not here, and I now have come to know many a political issue for those of us who believe of you in this audience. And I know we come in it.'' from different backgrounds and have trav- I thank Jim Lyons and the others at the eled different paths through life, but some- Department of Agriculture and the Forest how or another, we have in common our view Service. I want to thank our EPA Adminis- that nature is a priceless but fragile gift, an trator, Carol Browner, who's here with us important part of the fabric of our lives, and today. Just a few days ago, she announced her new rule to cut harmful emissions caused a major part of our responsibility to our chil- by the burning of diesel fuel. It will dramati- dren and our children's children. cally improve the quality of air in America, I grew up in a State where more than half and we thank her for that. the land is covered by forest. I grew up in I would like to also acknowledge the sub- a town surrounded by a national park. Most stantial contributions to this effort, particu- of the people who enjoy our public lands are larly in fading the heat. And believe it or not, like the people I grew up withÐhard-work- even today there was some heat involved in ing families who very often could afford no this. I want to thank John Podesta and other kind of vacation and can afford nature's George Frampton and the others at the bounty because our forebears made sure that White House for their strong support for the it belongs to them, and it belongs to us all. course we have followed. I am grateful that we can stand here today And I'd like to thank Dr. Tom Elias for because of the work done by Theodore hosting us again and for showing me my bon- Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, and John Muir. sai tree when I came up. [Laughter] We I am grateful for all those who have walked came here 2 years ago to launch the lands in their footsteps for a hundred years. I am legacy initiative, and I knew this was the grateful that for the last 8 years I had a Vice place to plant the seeds of success. And I President who spoke out strongly for these thank himÐthat is also another major values and these policies and helped us to 17 18 Jan. 5 / Administration of William J. Clinton, 2001 do what we have done to be good stewards On a beautiful fall afternoon more than of the land. a year ago now, Secretary Glickman and We have saved and restored some of our many of you joined me at Virginia's most glorious natural wonders, from Flor- Washington and Jefferson National Forest to ida's Everglades to Hawaii's coral reefs, from launch a process to safeguard these lands. the redwoods of California to the red rock As Secretary Glickman just described, we canyons of Utah. We have helped hundreds reached out to the American people to help of communities, under the Vice President's us develop the plan. More than a million and leadership, to protect parks and farms and a half responded. other green spaces. We've built new partner- I'm told that more Americans were in- ships with landowners to restore and pre- volved in shaping this policy than any land serve the natural values of our private land. preservation initiative in the history of the We've modernized the management of our Republic. Thanks to their extraordinary sup- national forests to strengthen protections for port, the process is now complete. water quality, wildlife, and recreation, while Sometimes, progress comes by expanding ensuring a steady and sustainable supply of frontiers, but sometimes, it's measured by timber. We have greatly expanded our co- preserving frontiers for our children. Today operation with other nations to protect en- we preserve the final frontiers of America's dangered species and threatened areas, like national forests for our children. I am proud to announce that we will pro- tropical forests. tect nearly 60 million acres of pristine forest In a larger sense, I hope and believe we land for future generations. That is an area have helped to put to rest the old debate greater in size than all our national parks between economic growth and environ- combined. From the Appalachian Mountains mental protection. We have the strongest to the Sierra Nevada, forest land in 39 States economy in a generation and the cleanest en- will be preserved in all its splendor, off limits vironment in a generation. And I might say, to roadbuilding and logging that would de- parenthetically, that as we come to gripsÐ stroy its timeless beauty. as inevitably we mustÐwith the challenge of This will include protection for the last climate change, and even though it is hard great temperate rain forest in America, Alas- to believe on this day global warming is ka's Tongass National Forest.