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From @lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu:jcma@REAGAN.AI.MIT.EDU Wed Jun 2 18:21:10 1993
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 17:07-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org
Subject: President's Remarks at Photo Op with Brian Mulroney 6.2.93
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
_____________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release June 2, 1993
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AND PRIME MINISTER BRIAN MULRONEY OF CANADA
IN PHOTO OPPORTUNITY
The Oval Office
8:49 A.M. EDT
Q Is this a hail and farewell visit?
PRIME MINISTER MULRONEY: I came down to see the
President about NAFTA and some trade matters and Bosnia, where we
have troops on the ground, and to work with him -- we agree with
prudent and thoughtful course he's been pursuing there. And I'd like
to talk to him about further engagement at the United Nations. And
also to say good-bye -- and to you, Helen. After a decade I thought
I owed you a trip.
Q Are you going to miss it?
PRIME MINISTER MULRONEY: Pardon?
Q Going to miss it, aren't you?
PRIME MINISTER MULRONEY: Yeah. All politicians suffer
from decompression when they leave office.
Q Do you agree with the Bosnia policy?
PRIME MINISTER MULRONEY: Yes, I do. I agree that --
Q You don't think it should have been more aggressive
on the allied part?
PRIME MINISTER MULRONEY: Well, I've been astonished by
some American commentators and observers asking for an American
solution in Bosnia. There's no such thing. There is only a common
solution, for all of us have to get into this together and accept our
responsibilities. It's unfair to say that, oh, why don't we have an
American solution to this intractable problem that's gone on for
hundreds of years. It's not available. But there is, perhaps, a
better, as the President's pointed out, a better common approach that
we can develop at the United Nations Security Council with everybody
pulling his weight or her weight. And that's what we're going to
talk about today.
Q Mr. President, Senator Boren says now that there
can be no BTU tax -- no longer a compromise, it's now none.
THE PRESIDENT: I don't have any comment on that. I had
a good visit with him. He called me the other day, said he was
encouraged by where we were going, and he thought we would reach
agreement. I'm not going to get into a verbal war of words. The
Congress is out this week and we're going to meet next week and try
to work it out.
Q Have you decided to push a health care plan? Have
you decided to push a health care plan?
Q Are you going to pull the nomination of Guinier?
THE PRESIDENT: No, there's been -- we're working ahead.
As a matter of fact, I've got another meeting, a big meeting on the
health care issue this week. We are, you know, trying to -- we're
trying to do two things. We're trying to, first of all, to get as
many of the kinks work out as we can before we go forward. It's an
enormously complicated issue. And then we want to make sure that we
have, you know, discussed it with as many people as possible -- many
groups and everything -- after we've reached some final conclusions;
and that when we present it to the Congress, it's presented at a time
and in a way that both the Congress and the American people can focus
on it. But there's been no decision for a sustained delay here. I'm
focusing right now on passing the budget when the Senate comes back
next week.
Q Will it be released this month?
THE PRESIDENT: I don't want to get -- I'm not in a time
-- I don't want to get --
Q How about Guinier? Are you pulling out the
nomination of Guinier?
PRIME MINISTER MULRONEY: Bye, Helen. (Laughter.) On
behalf of all Canadians, Helen, good-bye.
Q Nothing ventured -- (laughter).
END9:05 A.M. EDT