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- Subject: CLINTON: President Instructs Staff to Follow Strict Ethics Rules
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- Posted by: The White House
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- President Instructs Staff to Follow Strict Ethics Rules
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- Jan. 21, 1993 -- President Bill Clinton today called on his White
- House staff to uphold the highest possible ethical standards and to
- put the needs of the American people ahead of personal ambitions.
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- "We just have to be dominated by high standards and clear vision and
- we ought to have a good time doing it," the president said at his
- first meeting with senior White House staff members.
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- The meeting, held in the historic Roosevelt Room in the White House's
- West Wing, came one day after Clinton, in his first official act as
- President, signed an executive order establishing the most stringent
- ethical requirements of any administration ever.
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- Executive Order No. 1 requires all senior appointees to pledge that
- they will refrain from:
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- * Lobbying during the five years after they leave government any
- agency where they have served or which they have had any
- responsibility for as a member of the White House staff;
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- * Engaging in any activity on behalf of any foreign government
- at any time after they leave government service;
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- * Representing any foreign government or foreign corporation in
- any way within five years of being involved in a trade negotiation
- on behalf of the U.S. government.
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- "The ethics rules that we have put forward," said the president,
- "will guarantee that the members of this administration will be
- looking out for the American people and not for themselves."
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