The First 100 Days
Administration of President Bill Clinton
January 20 - April 30, 1993
INTRODUCTION
This is the season of America's renewal.
Already, in the first few months of his new Administration, President Bill Clinton has restored an active purpose to the Presidency, and renewed America's commitment to change and progress.
We now have a President dedicated to investment and economic growth; a President determined to help Americans weather the winds of change; a President committed to restoring responsibility; a President devoted to returning the government back to the American people.
After twelve years of national drift and economic decline, President Clinton has charted a clear path to growth with his New Directions economic plan designed to create jobs, boost incomes, move our economy from consumption to investment, and reduce our deficit, substantially and dramatically.
The investments in the Clinton economic plan embrace priorities that will raise the living standards and profits of workers and businesses for the long-term: rebuilding America's infrastructure; committing resources and attention to the education and training needs of our students and workers; and restoring vital incentives that reward productivity, profits, innovation and investment.
The Clinton budget -- the outline of his economic plan for New Directions -- passed the Congress in record setting time. It reduces deficit spending by over $500 billion; a plan so credible that the markets continue to reduce interest rates on the American people. These interest rate reductions, coupled with imaginative steps taken by the Clinton Administration to deal with the credit crunch, means American businesses, farms, and consumers have money to save, spend, invest and grow.
We now have a President who helps the American people make the choice for change.
Enormous changes are sweeping our economy. Inevitable defense cutbacks are forcing military bases to close?they're causing defense manufacturers to lose markets and cut jobs. Problems in the airline industry have caused massive lay-offs in aerospace firms and among the domestic carriers. America's economic partners abroad are beating American companies in the race for markets in the former Soviet Union.
That's why President Clinton's economic program will help the American people take advantage of these changes. He has offered a $20 billion, five-year initiative to reinvest in workers, communities and companies harmed by cuts in military spending. He has formed a task force to recommend real changes in Federal policy to help restart our aviation and aerospace industry. And he has provided an enterpriseoriented aid initiative to save the Russian Democracy and spur American economic growth.
Beyond growth, Americans want a return to responsibility in our schools, our communities, and our economy. And in that spirit, President Clinton is leading the way. By reforming welfare to make it a second chance, not a way of life; by reforming the health care system to provide health security to every American and bring rising costs under control; by making national service opportunities available to students so that they can exchange opportunities for education with community service.
Finally, President Clinton is working to give the government back to the American people. At the beginning of his Administration he announced his decision to cut the White House staff by 25%, and to eliminate the kinds of perks and privileges which isolate federal workers from the people they are supposed to serve.
He has cut billions from the budgets of Federal Agencies and Departments, telling them they must do more with less. He is committed to reinventing government and bringing his Presidency directly to the people through town meetings, electronic mail with the White House, and ideas like the Forest Conference?which enabled the environmental and economic problems of the Pacific Northwest to be discussed by average people with the President, Vice-President Gore and Members of the Cabinet.
Most important, he is committed to enacting tough campaign finance and lobbying reform legislation to drive special interest dealing out of politics.
What follows is a chronology from the first 100 days of the most action oriented Administration in our memory. But it is more than a listing of accomplishments, because now is not the time to be satisfied. Instead, it is indicative of a change in direction.
What will come from what we accomplished here -- more economic growth, comprehensive health and welfare reform, a new system of national service, and the like -- is new opportunities for achievement, empowerment and progress for middle-class Americans, and a new direction for us all. It is indeed America's season of renewal.
HISTORICAL FOOTNOTE
The "hundred days" period was applied by journalists to the special session of the 73rd Congress, which granted newly inaugurated President Franklin D. Roosevelt extraordinary powers to combat the national crisis of the Great Depression in 1933.
Less well-known than the hundred days of 1933, is how Woodrow Wilson set a modern precedent in 1913, when one month after taking office, he became the first President in a century to deliver an address to Congress. That speech initiated the sweeping economic reforms enacted later that year -- tariff reform, the first income tax and the Federal Reserve. With that early speech, Wilson had closed the book on the Gilded Age and had shifted Government to the side of average, hard working Americans.
Day 1: January 20, 1993
Inaugurated as 42nd President of the United States.
Delivers Inaugural Address from the steps of the
Capitol.
Issues Executive Order on Executive Appointee
Ethics; order restricts or limits ways in which
senior executive appointees may profit in the future
from their experience while serving the President.
Proclaims a National Day of Fellowship and Hope.
"Our Democracy must be not only the envy of the
world but the engine of our own renewal. There is
nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by
what is right with America.
This beautiful Capital, like every capital
since the dawn of civilization, is often a place of
intrigue and calculation. Powerful people maneuver
for position and worry about who is out, who is up,
who is down, forgetting those people whose toil and
sweat sends us here and pays our way. Americans
deserve better. ... Let us resolve to make our
Government a place for what Franklin Roosevelt
called 'bold, persistent experimentation,' a
Government for our tomorrows, not our yesterdays.
Let us give this Capital back to the people to whom
it belongs.
Yes, you, my fellow Americans, have forced the
spring. Now we must do the work the season
demands."
Inaugural Address
Day 2: January 21, 1993
Abolishes Council on Competitiveness, criticized as
a back door for polluters who circumvented U.S.
laws.
Meets with senior White House staff.
Day 3: January 22, 1993
Swearing-in of Cabinet members.
First Cabinet Meeting.
Issues memorandum to revoke Reagan and Bush
Administration restrictions on fetal tissue research
in the development of treatments for individuals
afflicted with serious diseases and disorders such
as Alzheimer?s disease, Parkinson?s disease,
diabetes and leukemia.
Issues memorandum to revoke Reagan and Bush
Administration restrictions ("Gag Rule") that
prohibited abortion counseling in clinics that
receive Title X funds to provide family planning
services for low-income patients.
Issues memorandum to revoke Reagan and Bush
Administration restrictions ("Mexico City Policy")
that prohibited Family Planning Grants to be awarded
to certain nongovernmental organizations from the
Agency for International Development.
Issues memorandum to revoke Reagan and Bush
Administration restrictions on a woman?s legal right
to privately- funded abortion services in military
hospitals.
Issues memorandum to revoke previous Administration
restrictions on the importation of the drug commonly
known as RU-486.
Day 4: January 23, 1993
Telephone conversations with President Boris Yeltsin
of Russia and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of
Israel.
Day 5: January 24, 1993
Issues Proclamation and statement on the death of
Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Day 6: January 25, 1993
Establishes National Economic Council to coordinate
economic policymaking among all relevant departments
and offices of the federal government; holds
economic policy meeting.
Meets with Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Establishes Task Force on National Health Reform,
chaired by the First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton;
Task Force is charged with formulating legislation
that would take strong action to control health care
costs while providing Americans with the security of
knowing that their fundamental health care needs
will be met.
Day 7: January 26, 1993
Meets with bipartisan Congressional leadership.
Nominates U.S. Foreign Service Ambassador Pickering
to be Ambassador to Russia.
Day 8: January 27, 1993
Meets with Democratic Congressional leaders.
Day 9: January 28, 1993
Meets with Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan,
Secretary Bentsen and NEC Chairman Rubin.
Day 10: January 29, 1993
Teleconference with citizens concerned about Family
and Medical Leave Act.
Issues memorandum on ending discrimination on the
basis of sexual orientation in determining who may
serve in the Armed Forces; memorandum directs
Secretary of Defense Aspin to consult with others to
study how revisions in current policy could be
implemented in a manner that is practical, realistic
and consistent with the high standards of combat
effectiveness and unit cohesion maintained by the
Armed Forces; memorandum directs the Secretary to
submit recommendations prior to July 15, 1993.
First news conference.
Day 11: January 30, 1993
Weekend working meeting at Camp David with Cabinet
and senior White House staff.
Day 12: January 31, 1993
Hosts first state dinner, attended by the Nation?s
Governors.
Day 13: February 1, 1993
Meets with Nation?s Governors about health care and
other policy issues.
Revokes Bush Administration Executive Orders on
federal contracting, thereby reducing Government
intrusion into workplace relations.
Addresses Democratic Governors? Association Dinner.
Day 14: February 2, 1993
Addresses National Governors? Association on
initiatives to make welfare a second chance, not a
way of life; declares intent to form working group
on welfare reform; outlines principles and goals to
guide policy reform, ensure that people who work are
rewarded, toughen child support enforcement, and
encourage policy experimentation to achieve these
goals in the states.
Declares storm-afflicted areas of Louisiana a
Federal Disaster Area, authorizing emergency relief
assistance.
Day 15: February 3, 1993
Addresses employees of Office of Management and
Budget; pledges cooperation with, and asks for help
from, federal employees in cutting waste and
reinventing government.
Discusses campaign finance and lobbying reform with
Democratic Congressional leaders.
Declares storm-damaged and flood-affected areas of
California a Federal Disaster Area, authorizing
emergency relief assistance.
Day 16: February 4, 1993
Addresses National Prayer Breakfast.
Announces Secretary of State Christopher will travel
to Middle East to advance the peace process.
Meets with German Foreign Minister Kinkel.
Day 17: February 5, 1993
Signs Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.
Meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mulroney of
Canada.
Holds news conference (number 2) with Prime Minister
Mulroney.
Addresses U.S. Conference of Mayors.
"I am very proud that the first bill I am to
sign as President truly puts people first. ...it
took eight years and two vetoes to make this
legislation the law of the land. Now millions of
our people will no longer have to choose between
their jobs and their families."
? Remarks on signing Family and Medical
Leave Act of 1993.
Day 18: February 6, 1993
First Saturday radio address; focuses on the economy
and principles to guide economic plan to be unveiled
later this month
Day 20: February 8, 1993
Creates White House Office on Environmental Policy,
a new office that will have broader influence and a
more effective and focused mandate to coordinate
environmental policy, one that recognizes the
connection between environmental protection and
economic growth and the responsibility to provide
real leadership on global environmental issues;
reaffirms support of legislation to make
Environmental Protection Agency part of the Cabinet.
Designates Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary
Building.
Meets with Turkish President Ozal.
Day 21: February 9, 1993
As part of new effort to cut waste and reinvent
government, announces reduction and reorganization
of the White House staff; Executive Office of the
President staff to be reduced by 25%, or 350
positions, in the next fiscal year.
Day 22: February 10, 1993
Cabinet meeting (number 2).
Signs Executive Orders on greater efficiency and
fiscal responsibility in government: 14% reduction
in administrative costs by FY97, a savings of $16
billion in taxpayers? dollars; elimination of
wasteful advisory committees; reduction of federal
bureaucracy by 100,000 positions through attrition;
elimination or limitation of perks and privileges in
executive branch offices, including the use of
executive dining rooms, government aircraft, and
government vehicles.
Conducts first town meeting with citizens in
Detroit, linked via satellite with citizens in
Seattle, Miami, and Atlanta.
Day 23: February 11, 1993
Addresses business leaders on the economy and the
budget.
Meets with Japanese Foreign Minister Watanabe.
News conference (number 3), nominates Janet Reno to
be Attorney General.
Telephone conversation with Philippine President
Ramos.
Day 24: February 12, 1993
Announces child immunization initiative at Fenwick
Clinic, Arlington, Virginia; proposal provides more
vaccines for children, saving taxpayers $10 in
avoidable health care costs for every $1 invested in
vaccinations; directs the Secretary of Health and
Human Services to enter into negotiations with drug
manufacturers to see that states can buy vaccines at
affordable prices, reversing the trend of
skyrocketing costs of vaccines to U.S. consumers.
Day 25: February 13, 1993
Saturday radio address on the economic plan.
Day 27: February 15, 1993
Address from the Oval Office on the economic plan.
"All during this last 12 years the federal
deficit has roared out of control. Look at this:
the big tax cuts for the wealthy, the growth in
Government spending, and soaring health care costs
all caused the federal deficit to explode... Now if
all that debt had been invested in strengthening our
economy, we?d at least have something to show for
our money: more jobs, better educated people, a
health care system that works. But as you can see,
while the deficit went up, investments in the things
that make us stronger and smarter, richer and safer,
were neglected: less invested in education, less in
our children?s future, less in transportation, less
in local law enforcement. ...The price of doing the
same old thing is far higher than the price of
change."
? First televised address to the Nation from
the Oval Office.
Day 28: February 16, 1993
Addresses California Economic Conference via
teleconference.
Visits construction site, Washington, D.C., to
discuss jobs and infrastructure.
Day 29: February 17, 1993
Delivers address to Joint Session of Congress on the
economic plan.
Meets with bipartisan Congressional leaders prior to
address.
"Our Nation needs a new direction. Tonight
I present to you a comprehensive plan to set our
Nation on that new course."
"I know this economic plan is ambitious, but I
honestly believe it is necessary for the continued
greatness of the United States. And I think it is
paid for fairly, first by cutting Government, then
by asking the most of those who benefited the most
in the past, and by asking more Americans to
contribute today so that all of us can prosper
tomorrow."
"The test of this plan cannot be 'What is in it for
me?' It has got to be 'What is in it for us?' If
we work hard and if we work together, if we
rededicate ourselves to creating jobs, to rewarding
work, to strengthening our families, to reinventing
our Government, we can lift our country?s fortunes
again."
? Address before a Joint Session of Congress
Day 30: February 18, 1993
Delivers speech on the economic plan, St. Louis,
Missouri.
Day 31: February 19, 1993
Delivers speech on the economic plan and
participates in a town meeting, Chillicothe, Ohio.
Delivers speech on the economic plan, Hyde Park, New
York.
Day 32: February 20, 1993
Saturday radio address on the economic plan.
Participates in a "Children?s Town Meeting" at the
White House.
Day 33: February 21, 1993
Delivers speech on the economic plan, Santa Monica,
California.
Meets with California business leaders.
Day 34: February 22, 1993
Announces national technology policy and conducts
question-and-answer session with Vice President Gore
and employees of Silicon Graphics, Mountain View,
California; policy focuses on high-skill, high-wage
jobs in the technology sectors, research and
development and experimentation, education for
America?s workforce, information infrastructure, and
U.S. competitiveness in basic science, mathematics
and engineering.
Talks by phone from Air Force One with Larry
Villella, a 14-year-old entrepreneur who donated
$1,000 to reduce the federal budget deficit.
Addresses Boeing employees, Everett, Washington, on
legislation in Congress to establish a commission to
examine the U.S. airline industry, efforts by U.S.
Trade Representative Kantor to monitor agreements on
European Airbus subsidies and their impact on
American workers, and the economic plan.
Day 35: February 23, 1993
Delivers speech on the economy, the economic plan
and other economic proposals to the National
Business Action Rally of the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce.
Meets with U.N. Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali.
Day 36: February 24, 1993
Meets with Prime Minister Major of the United
Kingdom.
News conference (number 4) with Prime Minister
Major.
Day 37: February 25, 1993
Delivers speech on the economic plan to business and
labor leaders.
Announces airdrops of humanitarian aid in Bosnia-
Herzegovina.
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton accepts invitation
to attend "Conversations on Health," a series of
four public hearings on the health care crisis, held
in Florida, Michigan, Iowa and D.C.
Day 38: February 26, 1993
Delivers first major foreign policy address, on the
subject of American leadership in the global
economy, at American University, Washington, D.C.
"For years our leaders have failed to take
the steps that would harness the global economy to
the benefit
of all our people, steps such as investing in our
people and their skills, enforcing our trade laws,
helping communities hurt by change; in short,
putting the American people first without
withdrawing from the world and people beyond our
borders.
The truth of our age is this and must be this: Open
and competitive commerce will enrich us as a nation.
It spurs us to innovate. It forces us to compete.
It connects us with new customers. It promotes
global growth without which no rich country can hope
to grow wealthier. It enables our producers who are
themselves consumers of services and raw materials
to prosper. And so I say to you in the face of all
the pressures to do the reverse, we must compete,
not retreat."
? Address on "The imperative of American
leadership in the face of global change," American
University
Day 39: February 27, 1993
Saturday radio address on the economic plan.
Day 40: February 28, 1993
Publishes column, on principles behind the National
Service proposal, in the New York Times.
"Our new initiative will embody the same
principles as the old G.I. Bill. It will challenge
our people to serve our country and do the work that
should ? and must ? be done. It will invest in the
future of the quiet heroes who invest in the future
of others."
? "National Service Now," New York Times
Day 41: March 1, 1993
Issues statement on community service and
participates in a question-and-answer session at
Adult Learning Center, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Outlines National Service proposal in an address at
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Day 42: March 2, 1993
Meets with Republican House leaders at the Capitol.
Lunch meeting with Senate Republicans.
Meets with NATO Secretary General Woerner.
Meets with Democratic Congressional leaders.
Day 43: March 3, 1993
Announces initiative to reinvent government; names
Vice President Gore as head of national performance
review to cut spending and increase efficiency
throughout government, agency by agency.
Receives one millionth piece of mail after six weeks
in office, as much as the previous President
received in six months.
Day 44: March 4, 1993
Signs Emergency Unemployment Compensation Amendments
of 1993.
Declares certain storm-damaged areas of the State of
Washington a Federal Disaster Area and declares
major disaster in Georgia, authorizing emergency
relief assistance.
Meets with former President Carter.
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton discusses health
care concerns with steelworkers, New Orleans,
Louisiana.
Day 45: March 5, 1993
Delivers speech to Mayors on the economic plan.
Announces April 3-4 summit with Russian President
Yeltsin.
Day 46: March 6, 1993
Saturday radio address on the economic plan.
Revokes Bush Administration Proclamation that
suspended Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 within areas
struck by Hurricanes Andrew and Iniki.
Day 48: March 8, 1993
Delivers speech on the jobs package to the
Legislative Conference of the National League of
Cities.
Telephone conversation with former President Bush to
discuss the situation in Russia.
Meets with members of the House Budget Committee.
Meets with former President Nixon.
Day 49: March 9, 1993
Meets with President Mitterrand of France.
News conference (number 5) with President
Mitterrand.
Signs Executive Order to extend U.S. Cooperation
with the European Atomic Energy Community.
Meets with Senate Budget Committee.
Day 50: March 10, 1993
Announces initiative to alleviate the credit crunch,
to open up credit to creditworthy loans, to generate
jobs in the private sector, and to assist small
businesses on fair lending, equal opportunity and
credit availability.
Meets with California State legislators.
Announces Forest Conference to be convened in
Portland, Oregon, on April 2.
Secretary Christopher announces the President?s plan
on Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Day 51: March 11, 1993
Outlines plan for defense conversion and
reinvestment to Westinghouse employees, Linthicum,
Maryland; plan confronts issues raised by cutbacks
made in defense spending since 1985; major
components include: worker training and adjustment,
investing in hard-hit communities, dual-use
technology and commercial-military integration, and
conversion opportunities in new civilian technology
investment.
Delivers speech on children and family policies to
Children?s Defense Fund conference.
Meets with National Conference of State
Legislatures.
Issues statement on murder of Dr. David Gunn,
Pensacola, Florida.
Discusses campaign finance reform with Democratic
Senators.
Day 52: March 12, 1993
Attorney General Reno assumes office.
Visits and addresses the crew of the U.S.S. Theodore
Roosevelt.
Radio address to the Armed Forces.
"I pledge to you that as long as I am
President, you and the other men and women in
uniform of this country will continue to be the best
trained, the
best prepared, the best equipped, and the strongest
supported fighting force in the world."
? Remarks to the crew of the U.S.S. Theodore
Roosevelt
Day 53: March 13, 1993
Radio address on plans for defense conversion and
reinvestment.
Declares storm-afflicted areas of Florida Federal
Disaster Areas, authorizing emergency relief
assistance.
Day 55: March 15, 1993
Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Rabin.
News conference (number 6) with Prime Minister
Rabin.
At the direction of the President, U.S. begins
negotiations with Canada and Mexico to seek side
agreements to the North American Free Trade
Agreement; side agreements would seek greater
protections for American workers, farmers and the
environment.
Day 56: March 16, 1993
Meets with bipartisan Congressional leaders.
Meets with exiled Haitian President Aristide.
Day 57: March 17, 1993
Meets with Irish Prime Minister Reynolds; attends
Friends of Ireland luncheon at the Capitol.
Signs Aircraft Equipment Settlement Leases Act of
1993.
Day 58: March 18, 1993
House of Representatives passes Budget Resolution,
basic outline of the economic plan.
Addresses employees of the U.S. Treasury Department
on the economic plan.
Meets with National Newspaper Publishers
Association.
Meets with Commission of European Communities
President Delors.
Addresses Radio and Television Correspondents
Association Dinner.
"I want to thank all of you for the work
that you do. I think you have a difficult job.
Each of us sees the world in different ways and the
whole complex interplay of the press and people in
public life is designed somehow to give the American
people a kaleidoscope of opinion, a mountain of
facts organized in ways that will enable them to
grasp it, so that somehow they ? not you or me ?
they can be the main actors in the great American
democracy."
"I ask that in the months and years ahead you stay
faithful to yourselves and to your cause. Never
lose your sense of humor. And remember that most of
us who do this on both sides do it because we love
our country and prefer to believe that an effort
made today can make it better tomorrow. It?s a good
way to live a life."
? Remarks to the Radio and Television
Correspondents Association Dinner
Day 59: March 19, 1993
Meets with members of the House of Representatives
who supported the economic plan.
Issues statement praising career and service of
Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White; thanks Justice
White for time to deliberate on the choice of a
successor and still have nominee considered and
confirmed by the Senate well in advance of the
Court?s next term, which begins in October.
Delivers speech on the economic plan and health care
at Downtown Child Development Center, Atlanta,
Georgia.
Delivers speech on the economic plan, the jobs
package and reinventing government to local business
leaders, Atlanta, Georgia.
"I think that there are few decisions the
President makes which are more weighty, more
significant, or can have a greater impact on more
Americans than an appointment to the Supreme Court.
And I?m going to try to pick a person that has a
fine mind, good judgment, wide experience in the law
and in the problems of real people, and someone with
a big heart."
? Exchange with reporters at the Downtown
Child Development Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
Day 60: March 20, 1993
Saturday radio address on the economic plan.
Issues statement on the situation in Russia in
support of Russian President Yeltsin.
Day 63: March 23, 1993
News conference (number 7) on the economic plan and
aid to Russia.
Addresses to Democratic Governors? Association,
state officials and business leaders.
Day 64: March 24, 1993
Meets with Russian Foreign Minister Kozyrev.
Meets with Governor Pedro J. Rossello of Puerto
Rico.
Day 65: March 25, 1993
Senate passes Budget Resolution, basic outline of
the economic plan.
Meets with Foreign Minister Zlenko of Ukraine.
Working dinner with Members of the House of
Representatives on the Administration?s policy
toward Russia.
Day 66: March 26, 1993
Meets with German Chancellor Kohl.
News conference (number 8) with Chancellor Kohl.
Meets with Bosnian President Izetbegovic.
Working dinner with Senators on the Administration?s
policy toward Russia.
Names Commerce Secretary Brown to lead Cabinet-wide
effort on the economy in California.
Day 67: March 27, 1993
Radio address on the economic plan and the jobs
package.
Signs into law an Act to extend the Export
Administration Act of 1979 and authorize
appropriations under the Act for fiscal years 1993
and 1994.
Addresses Gridiron Club Dinner.
Day 69: March 29, 1993
Issues Executive Order on International Development
Law Institute.
Day 70: March 30, 1993
Makes available emergency appropriations for the
Departments of Agriculture and Education to provide
assistance for victims of recent natural disasters.
Day 71: March 31, 1993
Cabinet meeting (number 3).
Signs Memorandum on Certification of Major Narcotics
Producing and Transit Countries.
Day 72: April 1, 1993
Congress passes basic outline of the economic plan
just six weeks after the President?s State of the
Union Address; for the first time in 17 years,
Budget Resolution conference report is passed before
the legal deadline.
Meets with bipartisan Congressional leadership.
Transmits to Congress the proposed Comprehensive
Child Immunization Act of 1993.
Signs into law an act to extend the suspended
implementation of certain requirements of the food
stamp program on Indian reservations and for other
purposes.
Addresses Naval Academy Midshipmen, Annapolis,
Maryland.
Outlines aid to Russia in address to the American
Society of Newspaper Editors, Annapolis, Maryland.
"Just today, the Congress passed the heart
of my economic program, a long term plan to
drastically reduce the deficit and increase
investment in our nation?s future. After years of
policies that have diminished our future, Washington
has finally realized that the best social program is
a good job, and the best route to deficit reduction
is a growing economy founded on a bold plan of
change that will both cut spending and increase
investment to empower the working people of our
country."
? Address to the American Society of
Newspaper Editors, Annapolis, Maryland
"Decisions command attention. Crises drive
action. But it is only with an overriding sense of
purpose, drawn from their history and their
cultures, that great nations can rise above the
daily tyranny of the urgent to construct their
security, to build their prosperity, to advance
their interests, and to reaffirm their values."
"Like a wise homeowner who recognizes that you
cannot stop investing in your house once you buy it,
we cannot stop investing in the peace now that we
have obtained it. ...vision must drive our
investment and our engagement in this new world."
"Nowhere is that engagement more important than in
our policies toward Russia and the newly independent
states of the former Soviet Union. Their struggle
to build free societies is one of the great human
dramas of our day."
? Address to the American Society of
Newspaper Editors, Annapolis, Maryland
Day 73: April 2, 1993
Holds Forest Conference, Portland, Oregon;
conference convenes interests at odds over
management of the Nation?s forests in the Pacific
Northwest.
Declares major disaster in the State of New York due
to effects of the bombing of the World Trade Center
and in the State of Nebraska as a result of severe
March flooding and ice jams, authorizing emergency
relief assistance.
Day 74: April 3, 1993
Summit with Russian President Yeltsin, Vancouver,
BC.
Meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mulroney,
Vancouver, BC.
Lunch meeting with Prime Minister Mulroney and
President Yeltsin.
Radio address on the economic plan and aid to Russia
package.
Working dinner with President Yeltsin.
Day 75: April 4, 1993
Summit with Russian President Yeltsin, Vancouver,
BC.
News conference (number 9) with President Yeltsin.
Issues Vancouver Declaration: Joint Statement of the
Presidents of the United States and the Russian
Federation.
Day 76: April 5, 1993
Throws out first pitch at opening day, baseball game
between the Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers,
Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore, Maryland.
Day 77: April 6, 1993
Meets with Egyptian President Mubarak.
News conference (number 10) with President Mubarak.
Signs act providing for temporary increase in the
public debt limit.
Day 78: April 7, 1993
Signs enabling legislation providing for the
"National Commission to Ensure a Strong Competitive
Airline Industry".
Day 79: April 8, 1993
Submits budget to Congress.
Meets with Defense Secretary Aspin and Joint Chiefs
of Staff at the Pentagon.
Day 80: April 9, 1993
Announces the White House will send to Congress
proposed legislation to extend fast track for the
Uruguay Round of the GATT negotiations.
Day 83: April 12, 1993
Addresses the first Technology Reinvestment Project
Conference via satellite.
Issues statement on jobs package and immunization of
children.
Announces that General Vessey will travel to Vietnam
as the President?s Special Emissary for POW/MIA
Affairs.
In first engagement outside of NATO territory, NATO
forces begin enforcement of no-fly zone in Bosnia, a
policy urged by the President and adopted by the
United Nations.
Day 84: April 13, 1993
Hosts town meeting to discuss summer jobs proposal
and school-to-work training for young Americans,
with Secretaries Riley of Education and Reich of
Labor and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, via
satellite.
Delivers speech at Ceremony honoring 250th
anniversary of Thomas Jefferson?s birth, Jefferson
Memorial.
"The genius of Thomas Jefferson was his
ability to
get the most out of today while never taking his eye
off tomorrow, to think big while enjoying the little
things of daily life. Perhaps most important, he
understood that in order for us to preserve our
timeless values, people have to change. And free
people need to devise means by which they can change
profoundly and still peacefully."
o Remarks at Ceremony honoring the 250th
anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson,
Jefferson Memorial
Day 85: April 14, 1993
Addresses at Summer Jobs conference on jobs package,
Crystal City, Virginia.
Releases letter to Congressional leaders consistent
with War Powers Resolution, advising of actions in
support of United Nations efforts in Bosnia-
Herzegovina.
Day 86: April 15, 1993
Addresses speech to law enforcement organizations on
jobs package provision for hiring police officers.
Day 87: April 16, 1993
Announces jobs package revisions to break gridlock
in the Senate; reduces size of package by 25%, but
reduces jobs created by only 18%; maintains original
full funding for unemployment benefits, highway
improvements, summer jobs, childhood immunization,
Ryan White program for AIDS victims, wastewater
treatment, food safety, and assistance to small
businesses; new provision includes $200 million for
new police hiring.
Meets with Japanese Prime Minister Miyazawa.
News conference (number 11) with Prime Minister
Miyazawa.
Day 88: April 17, 1993
Delivers speech on the jobs package, Pittsburgh
Airport, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Radio address on the jobs package, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
Day 90: April 19, 1993
Delivers speech on the jobs package to the Building
and Construction Trades Union of the AFL-CIO.
Issues statement on federal operations in Waco,
Texas.
Issues statement on death of Turkish President Ozal.
Day 91: April 20, 1993
Issues statement and conducts news conference
(number 12) on Federal Operations in Waco, Texas.
Meets with Czech President Havel.
Day 92: April 21, 1993
Delivers speech on the eve of Earth Day; announces
U.S. will sign international treaty to protect
biodiversity; commits U.S. to specific targets and
timetables to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases;
outlines long term strategy to protect the
environment while promoting economic growth and
creating millions of new high-skill, high-wage jobs.
Issues Executive Order to increase the use of
alternative fuel vehicles in the federal fleet.
Issues Executive Order to reduce government use of
ozone-depleting substances.
Issues Executive Order requiring federal agencies to
use energy efficient equipment.
Meets with President Walesa of Poland, Prime
Minister Meksi of Albania, President Havel of Czech
Republic, President Zhelev of Bulgaria, President
Tudjman of Croatia, President Herzog of Israel,
President Soares of Portuguese Republic, President
Iliescu of Romania, President Goncz of Hungary,
President Kucan of Slovenia, President Kovac of
Slovak Republic, and Prime Minister Sangheli of
Moldova.
Republican filibuster prevents vote on jobs package
in the Senate.
Submits sweeping education reform legislation,
"Goals 2000," to Congress.
"For all our differences, I think there is
an overwhelming determination to change our course,
to offer more opportunity, to assume more
responsibility, to restore the larger community, and
to achieve things that are larger than ourselves and
more lasting than the present moment.
All across this country, there is a deep
understanding rooted in our religious heritage and
renewed in the spirit of this time that the bounty
of nature is not ours to waste. It is a gift from
God that we hold in trust for future generations."
Earth Day address
Day 93: April 22, 1993
Delivers address at the dedication ceremony of the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Day 94: April 23, 1993
News conference (number 13)
Day 96: April 25, 1993
Addresses the Newspaper Association of America,
Boston.
Day 98: April 27, 1993
Announces proposal for campaign finance reform to
limit campaign spending, curb the influence of
special interests and open greater access to
communication with voters.
April 30, 1993
Outlines legislation to enact a National Service
plan.
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