I found this on rec.sport.hockey, and thought it should be shared with
the list. I find the report distressing in that none of the press
asked about hockey after the president's short speech.
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> From: "nigel allen" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Remarks by President Clinton to NCAA Division I Champion Hockey Team
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> Date: 19 Apr 93 20:08:00 EST
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> Here is a press release from the White House.
>
> Remarks by President Clinton to NCAA Division I Champion Hockey Team
> April 19; Q&A Following
> To: National Desk
> Contact: White House Office of the Press Secretary, 202-456-2100
>
> WASHINGTON, April 19 -- Following is a transcript
> of remarks by President Clinton to the University of Maine "Black
> Bears" NCAA Division I hockey champions:
>
> The Rose Garden
>
> 9:58 A.M. EDT
>
> THE PRESIDENT: Good morning ladies and gentlemen. It's
> an honor for me to welcome the University of Maine Black Bears, the
> winner of the NCAA Division I hockey national championship to the
> Rose Garden and the White House. I understand from Senator Mitchell
> that this is the first team from the University of Maine every to win
> a national championship. And we're glad to have them here.
>
> I'm inspired not only by how the team pulled together to
> win the championship, but how the entire state pulled together to
> cheer them onto victory.
>
> Coming from a state that is also relatively small in
> size, but also filled with pride and tradition and community, I can
> understand how the people of Maine must feel about the Black Bears.
> In our state people are still talking about the time we won the
> Orange Bowl over the number one ranked football team, and that was
> back in 1978. I'm sure that 15 years from now, the people of Maine
> will as proud of this team as they are today.
>
> You know, in my state football is a slightly more
> popular sport than hockey. We don't have a lot of ice. (Laughter.)
> But after spending three months getting banged around in this town, I
> can understand a little more about hockey than I did before I came
> here. Hockey is a tough game. It's a hard-hitting sport. It does
> have one virtue though, there's a penalty for delay of game. I wish
> we had that rule in the Senate. (Laughter.)
>
> In government as in hockey, leadership is important. In
> the United States Senate, our team has a great captain, the Majority
> Leader and the senior Senator from Maine, George Mitchell; junior
> Senator -- Cohen looks so young, I can't imagine. (Laughter.) I'm
> actually bitter about Senator Cohen because he looks so much younger
> than me.
>
> On your hockey team, the captain Jim Montgomery has done
> a great job. He scored the winning goal late in the championship
> game, leading you to a come-from-behind victory -- something else I
> know a little bit about.
>
> Sport brings out the best in individuals and in teams
> and in communities. I share the pride that Senator Mitchell and
> Senator Cohen and Congressman Andrews and all the people of Maine
> must feel for the Black Bears who have shown us all how to play as a
> team, how to bring out the best in one another, and how to come from
> behind.
>
> I think it's important, as I ask young people from
> around America who have achieved outstanding things in working
> together, to come here to the White House to be recognized and
> appreciated by their country, to remember that those kinds of values
> and those kinds of virtues need to be ingrained in all of us for all
> of our lives.
>
> We now have another role model, and I'm glad to have
> them here today. (Applause.)
>
> (The President is presented with team jersey.)
> (Applause.)
>
> THE PRESIDENT: That's great. I love it. It's beautiful.
> (Applause.)
>
> (The President is presented with an autographed stick.)
>
> THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. That's great. (Applause.)
>
> * * * * * *
>
> Q Mr. President, did you authorize the move on Waco
> this morning, sir?
>
> THE PRESIDENT: I was aware of it. I think the Attorney
> General made the decision. And I think I should refer all questions
> to her and to the FBI.
>
> Q Did you have any instructions for her as to how it
> should be executed?
>
> THE PRESIDENT: No, they made the tactical decisions.
> That was their judgment, the FBI.
>
> Q Is this a raid?
>
> THE PRESIDENT: And I will -- I want to refer you to --
> talk to the Attorney General and the FBI. I knew it was going to be
> done, but the decisions were entirely theirs, all the tactical
> decisions.
>
> Q What did you and Senator Mitchell talk about this
> morning?
>
> Q Any chance for that stimulus package?
>
> THE PRESIDENT: Senator Mitchell ought to pay my
> quarter. (Laughter.) I was in there -- (laughter).
>
> SENATOR MITCHELL: You have to pay that quarter.
>
> THE PRESIDENT: I was ready. (Laughter.) Senator
> Mitchell, he's worth a quarter any day.
>
> Q Any chance for your bill, sir?
>
> THE PRESIDENT: We talked about what was going to happen
> this week in the Senate and about what other meetings we're going to
> have for the rest of the week. We only had about five minutes to
> talk. And we agreed we'd get back together later, around noon, and
> talk some more.
>
> Q Senator Dole said over the weekend that your
> compromise is no compromise.
>
> THE PRESIDENT: Well, I know he did, but, look, Senator
> Dole and a lot of the other Republicans now in the Senate voted for
> the same kind of thing for Ronald Reagan in 1983; and our research
> indicates that a majority of them over time voted for a total of 28
> emergency spending measures totalling over $100 billion when Reagan
> and Bush were President, in those administrations. And many of those
> purposes were not nearly as worthy as putting the American people
> back to work. I don't want to go back and revisit every one, but you
> can do it. You can look at the research there. So this position
> they're taking is not credible. We have a very tough five-year
> deficit reduction plan. All these costs are covered during that time
> and then some. And the very people that are saying this has all got
> to be paid for don't have much of a history on which to base their
> position. They've got 12 years of vote for stimulus measures of this
> kind that had very little to with putting the American people back to
> work. So I think we've got a chance to work it out, and I'm hopeful.
> We'll see what happens today and tomorrow. I'm feeling pretty good
> about it.
>
> THE PRESS: Thank you
>
> END 10:10 A.M. EDT
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