Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Monday, November 4, 1996 Volume 32ÐNumber 44 Pages 2181±2264 1 VerDate 28-OCT-97 14:53 Nov 05, 1997 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\P44OC4.000 p44oc4 Contents Addresses and Remarks Addresses and RemarksÐContinued Anti-cancer initiatives, announcementÐ2193 Tennessee, Vanderbilt University in Arizona, Arizona State University in TempeÐ NashvilleÐ2200 2251 Virginia, SpringfieldÐ2195 Colorado Bill Signings Community in DenverÐ2246 National Invasive Species Act of 1996, Democrats in DenverÐ2241 statementÐ2193 Democratic National Committee Saxophone Presidential and Executive Office Club Presidential victory concertÐ2234 Accountability Act, statementÐ2192 Georgia MaconÐ2185 Proclamations Religious and community leaders, telephone National Adoption MonthÐ2230 remarks in AtlantaÐ2181 National American Indian Heritage MonthÐ Henry Ossawa Tanner painting, 2234 presentationÐ2233 To Modify Provisions on Upland Cotton and Illinois, ChicagoÐ2217 for Other PurposesÐ2231 Michigan, Eastern Michigan University in Statements by the President YpsilantiÐ2235 See Bill Signings Minnesota, MinneapolisÐ2211 Missouri, University CityÐ2207 Supplementary Materials Nevada, Las VegasÐ2256 Acts approved by the PresidentÐ2264 Ohio, Ohio State University in ColumbusÐ Checklist of White House press releasesÐ 2220 2263 Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania in Digest of other White House PhiladelphiaÐ2225 announcementsÐ2262 Radio addressÐ2191 Nominations submitted to the SenateÐ2263 Editor's Note: The President was in Las Cruces, NM, on November 1, the closing date of this issue. 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Ch. 15), under ments. 2 VerDate 28-OCT-97 14:53 Nov 05, 1997 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\P44OC4.000 p44oc4 Week Ending Friday, November 1, 1996 Telephone Remarks With Religious God and Christ, from my home State of Ar- and Community Leaders in Atlanta, kansas, passed away the day before yesterday, Georgia Elder Famous Smith, and I want to extend October 25, 1996 my sympathies to all of you who knew him. We just have a few days to go in this elec- Thank you very much, my good and long- tion. We just had a great rally in Atlanta, and time friend Andrew Young. And I want to we had several thousand people there, and thank all of those who are gathered here at we focused on young people and their future. Paschal's in Atlanta. We have a good crowd I talked about my plans to open the doors of folks here. I know we've got about 300 of college education to all Americans. I also ministers and 600 elected officials from challenged these young people to take some across the country. We've got people in time to serve in their communities, especially homes and churches and church con- to teach young children to read. ferences. And I guess that I'd like to begin by saying I'm glad to be joined here by two of my I ran for President not only to enact certain good friends and associates, Alexis Herman, policies that I think are important for the 21st who is the Special Assistant to the President centuryÐto give us a strong economy, a for Public Liaison at the White House; and clean environment, the world's best edu- Carol Willis, who is with the Democratic Na- cational system, a way of dealing with the tional Committee, who helped to put this problems abroad to make America safer and phone call together. more secure and a way of driving down the I know that Mayor Cleaver is on the crime rate and the violence rate here at phone; Congressman Donald Payne, the home. I had certain policies I wanted to im- chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus; plement, but I also wanted to change the way Congressman and Reverend Floyd Flake, my our country was working. longtime friend and one on my earliest sup- porters; our campaign cochairs, Alma Brown Politics for so long in America has been and Congressman John Lewis, who was just about dividing people. And at the national with me at this rally in Atlanta. And I under- level, especially, the whole rhetoric, the lan- stand that Reverend Henry Lyons, the presi- guage that you use, the labels that are put dent of the National Baptist Convention, is on people, always about dividing us one from on the phone, and I want to thank you, Rev- another, whereas that's not the way we run erend Lyons, for your efforts to restore calm anything else. Those of you that are listening in the aftermath of last night's unfortunate to me, you couldn't run a church that way. events in St. Petersburg. We all have a re- Atlanta couldn't have put on the Olympics sponsibility to foster a climate of reconcili- that way. ation and peace and to address the underly- We're having a brilliant Major League ing causes of this outbreak of violence as World Series; if all of a sudden one of the well, and I thank you for what you're doing teams starts calling their own team members there in St. Petersburg; it's important to all names in public, they're not going to win. of us in America. I tell you, whichever team does that, the And I want to say a word of recognition other team is going to win. And so our na- to Bishop Chandler Owens of the Church tional politics had gotten to the point where of God and Christ and to others in that con- we were running it the way we wouldn't run gregation. Let me say one of the oldest and our families, our businesses, our churches, most distinguished pastors of the Church of our common community endeavors. 2181 VerDate 28-OCT-97 07:52 Nov 06, 1997 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 1244 Sfmt 1244 W:\DISC\P44OC4.028 p44oc4 2182 Oct. 25 / Administration of William J. Clinton, 1996 Yesterday I was in the town of Lake working hard, trying to move this country to- Charles, LouisianaÐhas a very dynamic gether and move this country forward. young woman mayor named Willie Mount. I'm sure most of you on this phone call And she got the community, which is a very know, we have appointed more African- biracial and increasingly multiethnic commu- Americans to important positions in the Cab- nity, to adopt the slogan of ``moving forward inet and the White House, in the administra- together.'' Atlanta now, I think, is one of the, tion, on the Federal bench than any other literally, the urban centers of the world, be- administration in history by a good long ways. cause 40 years ago it became the city too And yet, I'm proud of the fact that my Fed- busy to hate. And yet, national politics was eral judges, even though there have been dominated essentially by negative political more women and minority appointments by ads and name-calling. And we changed all far than any previous administration, the that. American Bar Association has given higher I wanted to have an administration that ratings to my Federal judges than any other looked like America and an administration President since the rating system began, that worked more like the other things that which proves that we can have excellence worked in America. And one of the reasons and diversity, which proves you can have af- I spend so much time on community colleges firmative action and equal opportunity and and one reason I try to open the doors of high standards. college to every American, to make sure When we were fighting for the battle over every person would be guaranteed at least affirmative action, the battle which still rages 2 years of education after high school is that in our country, and it became all the rage I think our country ought to work more the to just say, ``Let's get rid of it,'' I said, ``No, way these community colleges do. If you go we ought to mend it, not end it.'' And I be- to one, they're not bureaucratic; they're flexi- lieve my view is beginning to prevail in the ble; they're changing all the time. They have world and in the United States. to meet high standards of performance or I was in Houston the other day, which is they go broke. Everybody that graduates hardly a bastion of strength for the Demo- from them gets hired.