Bill Clinton

You're terrific; our country's in good hands, all of you. I feel good about our future just listening to you. Mr. Jennings. Have a good weekend, everybody. Thank you very much, and goodbye from the East Room at the White House.

No. [Laughter] Thank you. Mr. Jennings. Well, Mr. President, you know as well as I do it's a rare treat for any of us to be able to come in here and to see you. Thank you very much for having us. Thank you all.

That's right. Mr. Jennings. ----because she has quite a reputation in Florida on that particular subject. We could go on. You've been very gracious to stay the extra half- hour. Did you enjoy yourselves this morning? Was he good? Yes? He…

If he's not willing, we can have much tougher child support enforcement. I feel very strongly about it, and I've got a good program to strengthen it. If he's not able and the mother is working and taking care of the kids, I think the tax…

You've asked me a question I don't know the answer to. But I'll tell you what I'll do. If you make sure--I guess Peter's got your address--I will put somebody to work on it the first of the week and I'll try to figure out if there is…

No, I don't feel uneasy about it at all. I think it's a good thing. She is a very able person. This is the first time since we've been married that she hasn't had a full-time job in addition to everything else, that she's got a lot of…

Well, we were talking about that before, you know, with the spotted owl. There is a law which requires us to protect endangered species and I support the law. I don't want to see it repealed, but I want to see it administered in a way that…

I'm sure doing my best. The most important thing I can do, I think, is to try to give these young people a future by creating these jobs and dealing with their educational issues, and try to do all the things that I talked about in the…

Sure, they could. If you think I'm wrong, write me and tell me that. Mr. Jennings. Now, a couple of kids who aren't here today but asked me before, which I think is on these kids' mind, are you going to keep your promises?

Let me tell you what the Government does and can do. The Government can require the people who sell this food to publish on a fairly large sign like the cereals do now what the real nutritional content of the food is and how much stuff…

Usually I pay. I have--in my neighborhood McDonald's at home when I would go running every morning, they would often give me a cup of coffee. But if I go into McDonald's and buy food, I try to pay. I try not to have anybody give me food…

Actually, after I leave you today I'm going to go discuss it with our aides and consider that as one option. There are a lot of children in Bosnia who now can't get food and medicine because, I don't know if you've been seeing it on the…

Yes, I'd like for you--will you come and bring your parents when we do it? AIDS Mr. Jennings. Mr. President, I know you feel the weight of problems in the country in this room, and there's one other person here I'd like to introduce you to…

No. Did you all see this, all the yellow names here highlighted? Does anybody else here know what she's talking about, the spotted owl controversy? David, do you understand it?

Yes. I'm sorry, that's the second point I made: that in the places where we have a lot of boarded-up and vacant buildings, I think what we should do is to try to provide some funds to local communities to fix those up first because that's…

No, you take him. Mr. Jennings. You're really nice to come by, Chelsea. Thanks very much. Chelsea Clinton. Thank you very much. Mr. Jennings. Isn't that nice to have her come by? All right, now let's get back to you, sir. You got off the…

Chelsea's a pretty good girl. We don't have much of that. Sometimes we have to--the number one thing we have to do is to make her go to bed earlier. She has a fault that her father has, which is that she would stay up too late at night if…

Never. She's very good about that. She does her homework pretty well. Mr. Jennings. Christine in Fulton, Mississippi, has a question for you.

Who knows--guess? Why did we call him ``Socks''? Hold him up, Chelsea. Why did we call him ``Socks''? Because he has white paws. He's a black cat with white paws, that's right. Good for you. Mr. Jennings. And he's very restless, right…

Do you want to say anything about Venus before I answer the question? Mr. Jennings. Yes, I do. I do. It's a tough question for Venus, and we told the President before that Venus had come to us from the west coast, and I think it would help…

That's right. I have to act within 10 days of getting it, and I can sign it or veto it. I think I'd better sign, don't you? Mr. Jennings. I think you'd better. Do you think he should sign it? Okay. Let's go back to questions. Venus, you…

That's good. That's right. We use a lot of recycled paper. Mr. Jennings. So you have a chance now to sign that bill or you can veto that bill, right?

That was great. Mr. Jennings. I have a present for you, Mr. President, the Urkel clean air act of 1993, like all Government bills today, on recycled paper.

I'd like to know that. [Laughter] Mr. Jennings. Well, we've enlisted the help of Steven Urkel, who's a great, great pal, I guess, of all yours, to tell us how you actually get a bill through the Congress. Let's watch. [A short film was…

A real tough time. Mr. Jennings. Right. How many of you would like to know how to get a bill through Congress? Do you think that would be useful in order to find out how you get it done?