FOIA Number: 2006-1734-F FOIA MARKER This is not a textual record. This is used as an administrative marker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff. Collection/Record Group: Clinton Presidential Records Subgroup/Office of Origin: Speechwriting Series/Staff Member: David Shipley Subseries: OA/ID Number: 10709 FolderlD: Folder Title: Pueblo [3] Stack: Row: Section: Shelf: Position: s 91 6 3 1 September 22,1995 MEMORANDUM TO INTERESTED PARTIES FROM: THE OFFICE OF MEDIA AFFAIRS SUBJECT: CLIPS FROM THE PRESIDENT'S TRIP TO COLORADO Attached are the clips from President Clinton's trip to Colorado on September 19-20. Extensive coverage has been compiled from the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News and Pueblo Chieftain. Segments df the President's address to the Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged were taken LIVE by the Denver market. Complete coverage of the President's speech at PCC was LIVE in Pueblo/Colorado Springs. THE DENVER POST SEPTEMBER 21,1995 Silpiill September 21,1995 BrAfUli/ M.- ^V**^ 'f " t ' TjiePeqyep/ost/KarlQehrlng YD B w 3 a N3 M < 0. H CLINTON from Page IA j • -.^ . 10,0.00 people outside., the student cen- small roundtable discussion that inr Clinton noted that students at the" eluded families and Denver Archbish^ University, of Southern Colorado wi: op Francis Stafford, and then speak­ be able to take advantage of lower- ing to a crowd of about 300 in a tent cost direct student loans this fall and on the lawn. that Pueblo Community College has, "A lot of {middle-class families;; applied to participate in the program:' , who hive thie security of knowing : But if the GOP gets its way; fa - that their parents are OK, can help said, "the application that you hav their children to f inance their college to give all your people here a betteil educatiori. If they Jose, that security, chance to go on and succeed will nevj- they may not be able to help their er see the light of day." kids go to college/' Clinton said. Proposals in Congress would freezes "This is a'huge Issue. We must Pelldo Grants for needy students a n this right. We must do it as a commu­- eliminate or .cut the direct studept By Fred Brown, nity, not as a crowej." , loan programiuWhiqh-{(lldws students and Steve Llpsher ' He said society must, recognize ;an to borrow money directly from the Denver Post StaH Writers "obligation; to faielp the middle class; governmen t instead' of banks. Other PresidPresidente Clinton stormed: '0)16rad6/y^t(^i^#tf free up tlielr income so they can-edu-slegislationvwould eliminate Ameri­ ColoradJoloradoo stormfed him back — is the presidehtr^alseacate^nelrtchlldren .while their,: par-rcorps , the national service program campaign dollars'and alarms' aboiit'the}^^U!i^n|Elp»-ents^ve In dignity." ", '. that lets young people'earn money for proach to budget-cutting/;'Vv, , {Q' I The:federal budget must be cut, he college. The nation has an obliga'titjn tb-educaite Itsiyoung afidsaid , but the Republican Congress v ; Clinton insisted that Congress can protect its elderly from' the: pain 'apd iridig^ty ofiinade^"di d it backwards." He charged that balance the budget, cut taxes for the quate health care, Clinton repeated, with aiast-dgyelop-,Republican s start by deciding how middle class and. ''still increase our ' ing wintry storm chasing the presidential pair ty. from much money needs to be cut rather investment-in education." T - Denver to Pueblo and back again; .vt-:-? l '. than looking at the programs that "Let us do this the right way and Clinton charged that Republican plans to, trim growth" i need to be preserved. • ^ advance what America really stands of .caid and Medicare spending would'make, 300,0()O - for/' he told the cheejring crowd; people ineligible for nursing home care and "tfirpwfaroh "We! (Democrats) asked how much . lies into abject insecurity." :- '^J&s^&ffiZl'?.--- can we take out without, hurting," he. < The president was introduced by In a later appearance at Pueiblo,: tlie;presidM;urged . said. "Let's squeeze it as hard as we Diana Gurule, a second-year commu­ support for a federal budget that .^Qri;t\increi^;^.sp?!t;. can. v.: We can slow the rate of nity college student earning; an asso­ of a; college education by; cutting graiit aid st^^oajd ,, growth of Medicaid without wrecking ciate's degree in physical theripy programs. •'••;r-"y ['yy^'^S^^M&SA the program." while working and caring for her two "It is not necessary and it is notright;':;,Q^pij);^d^ He said there has to. be consistency children.; It wouldn't be possible with- is not consistent with: basic Americany^u«/'V:. >,^;^ - ... of health care, from state to state to out financial aid, she said. ; : allow parents to live close to their Clinton Isihe first, president to visit • '. Clinton was Jbined by Vicp president'AllGore children, he said; If the states are giv­ Pueblo while in office since John F. evening fund-r&er'that raised \clpse ttpfMQiOM,; fpr thte ,| en free reinj there are likely.to be un­ Kennedy'In 1962.'/ pair's 1996 re-elettipn campaigri^:::; .^v^^^^f fair variations in quality. ^ " He told the crowd he was glad to be ,. The tripxdmbined'c^pl^^a ~ : "If we forget for a- mopient/what back in the southern- Colorado city, White House instefed were .is§ues-6riei we owe either to our parents.or.tQ-our where' he campaigned three years children, then we will be making a ,ago. " • . grave mistake," he said. ! "Any place where I can wear my : , At a sunny afternoon appearance cowboy boots, and feel comfortable " Clinton began the jday. at tbe U^tle Stetm ^ th^PoSt, at Pueblo Community College — and bas an Arkansas River is all •: nursiiig home in northwest; ipenVer^ where the foul weather had not yet right," he said. , reached. Clintoni snnkfl ' tn more than: i Following his 20-minute speech, 1 "audience 'President: CUritori'sePasidr time yesterday tovtalk with a feisty 10- -year-old boy who. was fulfilling a ^dream. • • Frankie Salazar, a. fifth-grader •from Leadville who was born with muscular dystrophy, had Jold his ^School principal that the ^president Qwas the person h^most'lwanted to •jtieet. ' ^ . : ^. 0: "Our responsibility Vb .to help stu; The Denver Post / Karl Gehring n I-H : dents achieve theirdreains," said Ru IN THE FLESH: President Clinton met with minutes yesterday and presented him with a pin -dy Malesich, principal of Lake Coun- Leadville fifth-grader Frankie Salazar for several «-h PI ^ty liitermediaite School. " bearing the presidential seal. As he waitecf with- Malesidh and his flown in on giant C-l 41. transport air­ So Frankie's wish came true in. a . presidential seal. \ "mother, Gloria Salazar, for the presi­ craft along with a couple of others to hanger at Buckley Air National "You must like school," Clinton 7 3 2 dent to return from Pueblo, Frankie get around Colorado. Guard Base, the field used for the saidid. "When I was a kid, I don'tt think '"was quizzed on what he planned to The pilots gave the pictures to hiiii,; president's high-tech Boeing 747, be­ I ever, could have gotten my principal jask the president < he said, but. the helicopters were sit­ cause the flight tb Pueblo, and back to come with me anywhere." r«. I'How likes to be president: How ting,'unused, in an adjacent hangar. was changed to use Air Force One. It took less than a week for Gov. Lhe likes to,, be rich. How he likes to The meeting with-the president had . Their meeting, at a brief airfield Roy Romer's office to arrange the' -riin the country-" the small, lively 10- originally been set for the abandoned reception for high-ranking Demo­ meeting once lie told thiem what Vear-old replied in quick order; Stapleton Airport, where the presi­ crats, was closed to all but two pho*- Frankie wanted to do, Malesich said. • ~ • Frankie, who uses .a wheelchair to dent's helicopter was due to land af­ tographers. "There's opportunities out there, get around,, brought with him a cou­ ter a trip to Pueblo. But lousy weath­ VO Q They said the president chatted and students have to know we'l! 01 ple of photographs of Marine One, the er scrapped plans to use the with Frankie fbr several minutes.and them reach those opportunities:" an presidential helicopter that had been helicopters. presented him with a pin bearing the — Fred Brown H the president waded into the crowd by Clinton were,Jtoppy ta see;a i(resi- a spirit of cooperatidi''and sa^ we: all ; care a lot about this program Jut ij and spent the next 25 minutes shakr dent in Pueblo. • • ' p ••' ••; want to help; but:M^(^d.^ora?a••lot's as. much about the program as we < 1 ing hands and talking with people. "Presidentsi don't come here very of good for the senior citiiensiif Ms having a $250 billion tax; cut in ajev-.,' A lot of Pueblo-area students were often .beicausie: we're just podunk couhtry. Medicaid enables this coun­ en-year time frame." - .333 excused f rom classes to see Clinton. PQebld^s^d^Ajiha^Marieii a try to be what it te^^v - •; :Cto late "My mom remembers when JFK IV-year^old junior at Centennial ffigh : Solutions must'ite rwcli^^'ak a : last night aboard Air Force One.'^SS came down here so it's pretty cool," ^SchobL "I think he's here just-to get1 team '. iri^ways that wiUiulBIl both; was headed for Calif ornia, where said 17-year-pld'Geoff Ekman, who is us young voters, but I still want to see pur objectives of balancjiig:thiE!;'bud- more fund-raisers —:and more {jutflfe the man who madei it to president" get apd honoring our bliligatibps to : appearances, — were schedi^l^'ffi planning to attend the University of : Southern Colorado next semester.