From @lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu:jcma@REAGAN.AI.MIT.EDU Wed Jun 2 18:21:10 1993 Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 17:07-0400 From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com> To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org Subject: President's Remarks at Photo Op with Brian Mulroney 6.2.93 THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _____________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release June 2, 1993 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER BRIAN MULRONEY OF CANADA IN PHOTO OPPORTUNITY The Oval Office 8:49 A.M. EDT Q Is this a hail and farewell visit? PRIME MINISTER MULRONEY: I came down to see the President about NAFTA and some trade matters and Bosnia, where we have troops on the ground, and to work with him -- we agree with prudent and thoughtful course he's been pursuing there. And I'd like to talk to him about further engagement at the United Nations. And also to say good-bye -- and to you, Helen. After a decade I thought I owed you a trip. Q Are you going to miss it? PRIME MINISTER MULRONEY: Pardon? Q Going to miss it, aren't you? PRIME MINISTER MULRONEY: Yeah. All politicians suffer from decompression when they leave office. Q Do you agree with the Bosnia policy? PRIME MINISTER MULRONEY: Yes, I do. I agree that -- Q You don't think it should have been more aggressive on the allied part? PRIME MINISTER MULRONEY: Well, I've been astonished by some American commentators and observers asking for an American solution in Bosnia. There's no such thing. There is only a common solution, for all of us have to get into this together and accept our responsibilities. It's unfair to say that, oh, why don't we have an American solution to this intractable problem that's gone on for hundreds of years. It's not available. But there is, perhaps, a better, as the President's pointed out, a better common approach that we can develop at the United Nations Security Council with everybody pulling his weight or her weight. And that's what we're going to talk about today. Q Mr. President, Senator Boren says now that there can be no BTU tax -- no longer a compromise, it's now none. THE PRESIDENT: I don't have any comment on that. I had a good visit with him. He called me the other day, said he was encouraged by where we were going, and he thought we would reach agreement. I'm not going to get into a verbal war of words. The Congress is out this week and we're going to meet next week and try to work it out. Q Have you decided to push a health care plan? Have you decided to push a health care plan? Q Are you going to pull the nomination of Guinier? THE PRESIDENT: No, there's been -- we're working ahead. As a matter of fact, I've got another meeting, a big meeting on the health care issue this week. We are, you know, trying to -- we're trying to do two things. We're trying to, first of all, to get as many of the kinks work out as we can before we go forward. It's an enormously complicated issue. And then we want to make sure that we have, you know, discussed it with as many people as possible -- many groups and everything -- after we've reached some final conclusions; and that when we present it to the Congress, it's presented at a time and in a way that both the Congress and the American people can focus on it. But there's been no decision for a sustained delay here. I'm focusing right now on passing the budget when the Senate comes back next week. Q Will it be released this month? THE PRESIDENT: I don't want to get -- I'm not in a time -- I don't want to get -- Q How about Guinier? Are you pulling out the nomination of Guinier? PRIME MINISTER MULRONEY: Bye, Helen. (Laughter.) On behalf of all Canadians, Helen, good-bye. Q Nothing ventured -- (laughter). END9:05 A.M. EDT