Bill Clinton

Let me ask you a question. Do you believe that most non-Hispanics understand the real difference between Puerto Ricans and Mexican-Americans, for example? [Ms. Arroyo responded that people generally did not understand that each Hispanic…

Why do you think white people are more conservative than black people? [Mr. Beatty stated that economic differences, such as most whites dealing with banks and many blacks dealing with public assistance, resulted in different viewpoints…

Abigail. [Ms. Thernstrom stated that people opposed to racial preferences were often accused of being too optimistic and believing that racism had disappeared. She indicated that while America still had a long way to go, it should proceed…

I'd like to just start very briefly by giving the authors a chance to comment on how what they've heard from these students today meshes with what they heard when they were preparing their recent books. And David, maybe we ought to start…

So do you believe--let me ask you this--do you believe that having an integrated educational environment is the primary reason that young people have better attitudes, more open attitudes than older people--because they have been able to…

Christina Ibarra, what do you think about that? Do you believe that attitudes are better among young people? Do you think that there is still discrimination today? Is it worse for African- Americans than it is for other minority groups; is…

Do you think that's because of television crime shows, or because of your personal experience? Mr. Morgan. It would have nothing to do with my personal experience. Just from the media, television shows, and things that I have heard.

So, therefore, if you worked at a bank and a black person came in with a check you wouldn't necessarily think it ought to be held because you saw Bill Cosby, and he was a good role model? [Laughter] No, this is important. No, no, this is…

Do you think it's because of personal experiences, do you think it's because you've had more direct personal experience with people from different age groups? Or do you think it's because you grew up in a different time where the climate…

That makes it worse. Don't do that. [Laughter] [Mr. Morgan said he believed that his own generation had worked out their prejudices.]

Our second student, Jonathan Morgan. Jonathan, what do you think about what he said? Do you think there is still discrimination here at this school or in this community or in the country? And do you think that most people want to live in…

Independent Counsel December 2, 1997 The Attorney General made her decision based on a careful review of the law and the facts, and that's as it should be.

I've met with the Justice Department, as you know; I've answered them all. I don't have anything to add to what I've already said on that. Press Secretary Mike McCurry. Thank you, Mr. President.

No, no. No, he's an insider. I mean, he--and of course, there is the Justice Department division; there's a whole division of professionals who deal with these kinds of cases all the time. And I'm sure that--at least I assume that they've…

America is better off than it was 5 years ago.

The environment is cleaner than it was.

It was a Georgia case. And I think it was only a 5-4 decision. I think it was. But it's been a long time. It could have been--the years run together too easy, but it was several years ago.

Yes. But I expect that I'll be involved in it, too. I really care a lot about it, and I've been quite affected by what people have told me about it. Capital Punishment Ms. Enda. It sounds like it. You support the death penalty, but a lot…

Yes, I want to be involved in this. I want this talked about. Of course, there are laws about this. If somebody is actually--this kind of conduct can reach a point where it amounts to a violation of Federal civil rights laws. But what we…

Well, I think one of the things we need to do is to find a--we need to find, I think, a highly visible public forum to try to air this, as I said, in a nonthreatening way, where we just really get people to get the facts out and talk about…

Well, I think there are some things that can be done, although--you know, my position on affirmative action is that we should, as I said when I spoke at the National Archives, we should mend it, not end it. That's what the Court in Adarand…

I played twice, and I saw tons of movies. I had my whole, huge--my little extended family was there; both my nephews were there. We had lots of folks there. I liked it. We must have had 20 people at Thanksgiving dinner, and I liked it…

Let me say, they're not going to run away with this; we'll get daily reports, maybe several times a day, on what's going on. Don't worry about that. Assistance to the South Korean Economy

Because, for one thing, we need him to do other things over the next 6 days. Stu Eizenstat is a great negotiator. He's the perfect person to do this. The Vice President is going there to announce our policy and to be there and show how…

Yes, we grew a lot more. Frankly, I don't think we have--if you want to meet something with market mechanisms and technology and you don't favor taxes and regulation, then you have to have a more sophisticated system with more, sort of…