Bill Clinton: “I think some of it's justified. I think it took time to get the board--to get it organized, to get it staffed up, to get…”

“I think some of it's justified. I think it took time to get the board--to get it organized, to get it staffed up, to get started. And that's why I always left open the possibility of having this thing take more than a year. I mean, I may want to do some things-- I'm certain that I want to do some things after the year elapses, but we may be able to have the major report to the American people I want within a year's time. But I think some of that's justified. On the other hand, I think the board now is working very hard. Judy Winston and our staff are working very hard. We're beginning to get some of our specific policy initiatives out. The announcement I made for the scholarship program for people to teach in inner-city areas, the work that Secretary Cuomo is doing on discrimination in housing and trying to find community-based solutions so you won't just be dealing with individual acts of discrimination but you'll be changing the environment--we'll have a lot more of those coming up in civil rights enforcement, in education, in the economy, a lot of other things like that. So I think you'll see a lot more policy initiatives coming out. We will have--we'll be doing--the second thing we said we would do is to basically talk about what's working, put out--set the facts of racial life, if you will, in America today, put out promising practices, recruit leaders; I think you'll see a lot of that. And the dialog will become increasingly more public and pitched to a wider national audience, beginning with this townhall meeting. We've been spending a lot of time, and we'll continue to do that, meeting with small groups of people--I have here in the White House and, of course, the board has. But I want to notch up the public dialog, and I think this is a good time to be doing that. So, on balance, I'm quite pleased with the people that have been involved, with the efforts they're making, and with the number of people who want to be involved and who complain when they're not. I think that's a healthy thing, too. That shows that people are interested in talking about this and working on it and trying to get it right. So, on balance, I'm quite upbeat. We got off to a little bit of a slow start, but that partly was my fault because I announced it, and then we had to put it together. I mean, we knew what we wanted to do, but we had--it just takes time to put something together. And now I think we're running well now, and I think it will get better. Ms. Enda. What other kinds of policy initiatives are forthcoming?”