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- Subject: CLINTON: Remarks by the President 1/25/93
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- THE WHITE HOUSE
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- Office of the Press Secretary
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- ________________________________________________________________
- For Immediate Release January 25, 1993
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- REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
- DURING PHOTO OPPORTUNITY
- WITH ECONOMIC ADVISERS
- AND SIGNING OF EXECUTIVE ORDER
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- The Roosevelt Room
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- 11:30 A.M. EST
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- THE PRESIDENT: This is the executive order which
- establishes the National Economic Council and which brings into the
- economic policy-making of the federal government not just the
- traditional secretaries of Treasury, OMB, the Council of Economic
- Advisers, but also the Departments of Commerce, Labor, Agriculture,
- HUD, Transportation, Energy, EPA, as well as the Trade Office, State,
- so that we can all work together. I want to thank all of the people
- around this table for all the work they've done on this and
- especially Mr. Rubin, for the work that he's done to try to reconcile
- all these things. I believe that this will enable us to make
- economic policy in a much more specific, clear and effective way than
- the federal government has in quite a long while.
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- (The document is signed.)
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- Q If the Joint Chiefs oppose this lifting of the ban
- on gays in the military, are you still going to go ahead with that?
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- THE PRESIDENT: I'm going to meet with them and discuss
- it this afternoon. But I intend to keep my commitment. I want their
- input on how we should do it, however. I think they're entitled to
- really be listened to on a lot of the practical issues.
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- Q Is this part of what you said in your Inaugural
- Address, that it will require sacrifice?
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- THE PRESIDENT: I think everybody wants to make a
- contribution to solving these problems, and we're going to give
- everyone the opportunity to do that.
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- Q How quickly will you lift this ban, Mr. President?
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- THE PRESIDENT: I don't have anything else to say about
- it right now. We're going to have a meeting --
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- Q Are you going to have a meeting on it?
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- THE PRESIDENT: I want to talk to the Joint Chiefs about
- that and then I'll have a statement to make later.
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- Q Today?
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- THE PRESIDENT: I don't know. We've got a lot of other
- things to do today. Maybe, I don't know.
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- Q Mr. President, can you say anything about the
- consumption tax that Senator Bentsen addressed yesterday?
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- THE PRESIDENT: No. I thought he did a very good job on
- television. I wasn't sure that I was reading about the same
- interview in the press this morning. He said that no decision had
- been made, and no decision has been made. We have a lot of options
- under consideration, but no decision has been made.
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- THE PRESS:Thank you, Mr. President.
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- END 11:34 A.M. EST
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