[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: WILLIAM J. CLINTON (2000-2001, Book III)]
[October 12, 2000]
[Pages i-viii]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]




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PUBLIC PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES

                     PUBLIC PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS
                                 OF THE
                              UNITED STATES
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                     PUBLIC PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS
                                 OF THE
                              UNITED STATES


                           WILLIAM J. CLINTON



                                   2000-2001

                               (IN THREE BOOKS)

                 BOOK III--OCTOBER 12, 2000 TO JANUARY 20, 2001


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                                Foreword

    As my term drew to a close, I was optimistic about the future of our 
country and grateful for the good fortune of this productive and 
historic time.

    Never before had our nation enjoyed so much prosperity and social 
progress with no deep domestic crisis or overwhelming foreign threat to 
darken the prospect of progress. A spirit of possibility pervaded the 
Washington atmosphere and brought significant legislative 
accomplishments, which was remarkable in an election season.

    The Congress passed our Lands Legacy initiative to provide long term 
funding to purchase precious lands from wilderness areas to urban 
greenspaces; increased funding for childcare and breast and cervical 
cancer treatment; doubled support for after-school programs, enough to 
serve 1.6 million children; enacted the largest increase in Head Start 
ever and the funds necessary to hire 35,000 new teachers; and passed the 
New Markets legislation, the last major bill I signed, designed to give 
Americans the same financial incentives to invest in poor neighborhoods 
and rural and Native American communities as they have to invest in 
Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

    Congress also passed our plans to increase trade with Africa and our 
Caribbean neighbors; extended normal trade relations with China, paving 
the way for its entry into the World Trade Organization; enacted the 
historic Debt Relief Initiative, to forgive the foreign debts of the 
world's poorest nations, but only if they invest all the savings in 
education, health care, and economic development; and provided funding 
for Plan Colombia, to help Latin America's oldest democracy and her 
neighbors fight drug trafficking.

    The Administration took a number of groundbreaking executive 
actions, including setting aside over 40 million roadless acres in our 
national forests, a decision characterized by the Audubon Society as the 
most important conservation move in forty years; establishing several 
more national monuments in environmentally sensitive areas; raising the 
standards for arsenic in water; providing $300 million to feed 9 million 
poor children in the poorest nations if they come to school to get the 
meal; concluding trade agreements with Vietnam and Jordan, with the 
Jordanian agreement being the first ever to include environmental and 
labor standards; and laying the foundation for ending North Korea's 
dangerous missile program.

    Of course, there were disappointments. I was unsuccessful in 
persuading Congress to pass a meaningful Patient's Bill of Rights; 
prescription drug coverage under the Medicare program for senior 
citizens; and a Hate Crimes bill, making a federal offense of violent 
crimes motivated by the victim's gender, disability, or sexual 
orientation. I am optimistic that all these bills will eventually pass.

    My greatest disappointment was our failure to make a comprehensive 
peace agreement in the Middle East, notwithstanding arduous talks at 
Camp David and afterward in the region. I believe if a peace agreement 
is ever reached it will have to include the essential elements in the 
last American proposal, which brought the parties so close to peace at 
Taba.

    I was honored to be the first President in forty years to visit 
Okinawa for the G-8 Summit and to make a second trip to Africa, this 
time to Tanzania, to work with President Mandela on the Burundi Peace 
Talks, and to Nigeria to support President Obasanjo's effort to reform 
Africa's largest nation and to intensify the struggle against AIDS.

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    In September I joined more than 160 heads of government at the 
United Nations Millennium Summit to discuss the great challenges facing 
us at the dawn of the new century: the fights against poverty, 
infectious diseases, lack of education, global warming, terrorism, and 
weapons of mass destruction.

    We have traveled a long good road these last eight years, with 22.5 
million jobs and the largest economic expansion in history; a thirty-
two-year low in welfare rolls, a twenty-six-year low in crime, and a 
twenty-year low in poverty; a cleaner environment; and over 200,000 
young citizens having given at least a year of their lives in community 
service through Americorps. Most importantly, we are closer to truly 
becoming One America, a society in which we embrace our diversity, 
respect our differences, and unite around our common humanity and our 
shared dreams and values.

                          


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                                 Preface

    This book contains the papers and speeches of the 42d President of 
the United States that were issued by the Office of the Press Secretary 
during the period October 12, 2000-January 20, 2001. The material has 
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unless indicated. The times noted are local times. All materials that 
are printed full-text in the book have been indexed in the subject and 
name indexes, and listed in the document categories list.

    The Public Papers of the Presidents series was begun in 1957 in 
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                                Contents

                    Foreword . . . v

                    Preface . . . vii

                    Cabinet . . . xi

                    Public Papers of William J. Clinton,
                    October 12, 2000-January 20, 2001 . . . 2165

                    Appendix A
                    Digest of Other White House Announcements . . . 2967

                    Appendix B
                    Nominations Submitted to the Senate . . . 2979

                    Appendix C
                    Checklist of White House Press Releases . . . 2985

                    Appendix D
                    Presidential Documents Published in the Federal 
Register . . . 2991

                Subject Index . . . A-1

                Name Index . . . B-1

                Document Categories List . . . C-1


                                Cabinet

        Secretary of State .............  Madeleine K. Albright

        Secretary of the Treasury ......  Lawrence H. Summers

        Secretary of Defense ...........  William S. Cohen

        Attorney General ................ Janet Reno

        Secretary of the Interior ....... Bruce Babbitt

        Secretary of Agriculture .......  Dan Glickman

        Secretary of Commerce ..........  Norman Y. Mineta

        Secretary of Labor .............  Alexis M. Herman

        Secretary of Health and Human 
        Services .......................  Donna E. Shalala

        Secretary of Housing and Urban 
        Development ...................   Andrew M. Cuomo

        Secretary of Transportation ...   Rodney E. Slater

        Secretary of Energy ...........   Bill Richardson

        Secretary of Education ........   Richard W. Riley

        Secretary of Veterans Affairs .   Hershel W. Gober, Acting

        United States Representative to 
        the United Nations .............  Richard C. Holbrooke

        Administrator of the Environmental
        Protection Agency ..............  Carol M. Browner

        United States Trade 
        Representative .................  Charlene Barshefsky

        Director of the Office of 
        Management and Budget ..........  Jacob J. Lew

        Chief of Staff .................  John D. Podesta

        Chair of the Council of Economic 
        Advisers .......................  Martin N. Baily

        Director of National Drug Control 
        Policy .........................  Barry R. McCaffrey

        Administrator of the Small 
        Business Administration ........  Aida Alvarez

        Director of Central 
        Intelligence ...................  George J. Tenet

        Director of the Federal Emergency 
        Management Agency ..............  James Lee Witt



                  Administration of William J. Clinton

                                2000-2001