THE WHITE HOUSE

                  Office of the Press Secretary
                        (Cleveland, Ohio)
_________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release                               July 30, 1994

                     REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
                           UPON ARRIVAL

             Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport
                         Cleveland, Ohio



7:11 P.M. EDT

             THE PRESIDENT:  Well, first, let me thank all of you
for coming out to see Hillary and me.  We are delighted to be
back in Ohio and glad to be back in Cleveland.  And I know I
started the baseball season here, so I know you're all really
thrilled at how well the Indians are doing.  (Applause.)  And I
-- (inaudible) -- hope there won't be a strike.

             Is it working now?

             Let me just say a -- (inaudible).  It keeps dying.
Can you hear it now?  All right, we'll try again.

             As you know, I'm here on behalf of Joel Hyatt's
campaign.  I'm proud to be here helping him.  (Applause.)  I also
want to say how delighted I am to be here with Congressman Louis
Stokes, Sherrod Brown, and Eric Fingerhut.  (Applause.)

             And I want to make just a couple of points.  When I
came here seeking the presidency, and Ohio gave me the votes
first to be nominated -- (applause) -- and then to be elected, I
knew that this was a state which was really the heartland of
America, where people were more or less evenly divided by party,
but where everybody wanted this country to work again for
ordinary Americans.  And I made some commitments to you, that I'd
work on restoring the economy, bringing the American people
together instead of dividing us, making the government work for
ordinary people again, and strengthening our communities and our
families at the grass roots.

             And let me just say that if you look at what has
happened, we have worked very hard, often against bitter, bitter
opposition, to make this country work.  We adopted a plan to
reduce the deficit, after the other party had the White House for
12 years and quadrupled the debt, without a single solitary vote
from the other side, we passed the biggest deficit reduction plan
in history -- reduced spending by $255 billion; gave tax cuts to
500,000 working families in the state of Ohio alone; asked
47,000, who can afford it, to pay higher taxes to pay the debt
down.

             Now, what has happened?  We, the Democrats alone,
without any help unfortunately from Congress from the other party
and reduced the federal government to its lowest size since
Kennedy was President.  (Applause.)

             We have taken $700 billion off the national debt
that would have been there before we came in and passed our
economic plan.  And what has been the result -- 3.8 million new
jobs; a 1.5 percent drop in the unemployment rate; the largest
number of new businesses in any year since the end of World War
II.  This plan is working and we need to keep Sherrod and Eric
and Lou in the Congress and elect Joel Hyatt to keep America's
economy going.  (Applause.)

             The other party, they always talked about how tough
they were on crime.  But for six years under two administrations
there is no crime bill.  Last week, the members of the Senate and
the House voted for -- to put on the floor of this Congress this
week the toughest anti-crime bill in the history of the United
States.  (Applause.)  So those are two reasons that I ran for
President on -- restoring the economy, helping to deal with
crime.

             I just want to say one last thing.  This last week
was a great week for America.  The King of Jordan and the Prime
Minister of Israel came to Washington to end their war and to
pledge to work for peace.  (Applause.)  And we've been working
hard on that.  (Applause.)  Peace for our children --(inaudible).

             After working hard on it for a year and a half, the
President of Russia called me and told me that Russian troops
would get out of Central and Eastern Europe for the first time
since World War II, making the world more peaceful for these
children here.  (Applause.)

             But I'm telling you, what we owe these kids is not
just peace in the world, but peace on our streets and peace of
mind.  That means we need to pass the crime bill.  We need to
provide health care for all Americans.  And we need to do it now.
(Applause.)

             Let me say to you, I went to Washington hoping
against hope and against all the evidence that I could work with
people of both parties to make this country a better place.  And
I have done everything I could to overcome the kind of inertia
and opposition we have faced.  And I just want you to know, if
you like the fact that the American economy's recovering; if you
like the fact that we're going to finally do something serious
about crime; if you like the fact that after years we voted
family leave, we voted for the Brady Bill, we voted to make the
American people safer, then you ought to keep these people in
Congress and send Joel Hyatt to the Senate so we can do things,
not stop things.  This is a country that's can-do.  And we're
going to do if you put people in the Congress who believe in
making America a better place.

             Thank you, and God bless you.  (Applause.)

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