George H.W. Bush: “Well, the answer is to get the economy moving so that the men and women coming out of the service get jobs in the…”

“Well, the answer is to get the economy moving so that the men and women coming out of the service get jobs in the private sector. I've addressed myself here to the things I think would help on that. The Defense Department is spending, it's either $6 billion or $7 billion in transformation as we move from defense to help people coming out of the military and also to help transfer some of our technology. Our labs, for example, that have been devoted to some of this highest tech--and we spend $90 billion a year on everything in the Government on research--those that are now being--they're loosening up that technology to go into the private sector. That will mean jobs. We've extended the GI bill for veterans, for people coming out so that they can then use those benefits for their own education. And as I say, it's $6 billion or $7 billion out of the Defense Department for this transformation. So that's what we're doing about it.”