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NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: I trust during our time in San Diego this summer we might have an opportunity to involve some of the youth groups in San…

On the recordMay 22, 1996
I trust during our time in San Diego this summer we might have an opportunity to involve some of the youth groups in San Diego to see what is transpiring in your city and again to reinforce this notion that we trust the American people, and it is not so much a case of being hostile toward Government but instead embracing that Jeffersonian ideal of a limited but effective Government, not as a partner, not as a mechanism to be reinvented, but simply as the fabric of our constitutional Republic that enables us and empowers us to provide for the common defense and in the classical true sense, to promote the general welfare of everyone. That is the challenge we confront as we face the next century, whether arm in arm with the Boy Scouts or other members of every generation in this country, to work together to trust one another, to understand it is our people who lead us and our Government which exists to help empower people, rather than partner with them or simply be reinvented to grow ever larger, to grow ever more intrusive, and to require ever more of the hard-earned money the people of the United States of America richly earn and richly deserve.
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New York

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