Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: WILLIAM J. CLINTON (2000-2001, Book III)

[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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photographic portfolio

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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
been compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register,
National Archives and Records Administration.

The material is presented in chronological order, and the dates
shown in the headings are the dates of the documents or events. In
instances when the release date differs from the date of the document
itself, that fact is shown in the textnote. Every effort has been made
to ensure accuracy: Remarks are checked against a tape recording, and
signed documents are checked against the original. Textnotes and cross
references have been provided by the editors for purposes of
identification or clarity. Speeches were delivered in Washington, DC,
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
response to a recommendation of the National Historical Publications
Commission. An extensive compilation of messages and papers of the
Presidents covering the period 1789 to 1897 was assembled by James D.
Richardson and published under congressional authority between 1896 and
1899. Since then, various private compilations have been issued, but
there was no uniform publication comparable to the Congressional Record
or the United States Supreme Court Reports. Many Presidential papers
could be found only in the form of mimeographed White House releases or
as reported in the press. The Commission therefore recommended the
establishment of an official series in which Presidential writings,
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The Commission's recommendation was incorporated in regulations of
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A companion publication to the Public Papers series, the Weekly
Compilation of Presidential Documents, was begun in 1965 to provide a
broader range of Presidential materials on a more timely basis to meet
the needs of the contemporary reader. Beginning with the administration
of Jimmy Carter, the Public Papers series expanded its coverage to
include additional material as printed in the Weekly Compilation. That
coverage provides a listing of the President's daily schedule and
meetings, when announced, and other items of general interest issued by
the Office of the Press Secretary. Also included are lists of the
President's nominations submitted to the Senate, materials released by
the Office of the Press Secretary that are not printed full-text in the
book, and proclamations, Executive orders, and other Presidential
documents released by the Office of the Press Secretary and published in
the Federal Register. This information appears in the appendixes at the
end of the book.

Volumes covering the administrations of Presidents Hoover, Truman,
Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush are
also included in the Public Papers series.

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The Public Papers of the Presidents publication program is under the
direction of Frances D. McDonald, Managing Editor, Office of the Federal
Register. The series is produced by the Presidential and Legislative
Publications Unit, Gwen H. Estep, Chief. The Chief Editors of this book
were Karen Howard Ashlin and Brad Brooks, assisted by Stephen J.
Frattini, Christopher Gushman, Margaret A. Hemmig, Maxine Hill, Alfred
Jones, Jennifer S. Mangum, Michael J. Sullivan, and Karen A. Thornton.

The frontispiece and photographs used in the portfolio were supplied
by the White House Photo Office and by the Clinton Presidential
Materials Project, National Archives and Records Administration. The
typography and design of the book were developed by the Government
Printing Office under the direction of Michael F. DiMario, Public
Printer.

Raymond A. Mosley
Director of the Federal Register

John W. Carlin
Archivist of the United States

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