European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday november 16, 1992 election 92 the stars and stripes Pago 7 dear Bill letters Praise plead chide by David Maraniss the Washington Post Little Rock Aik. A the Secretary from Indianapolis a did no to mean to be a smart Aleck about it a but she had some advice for the president elect of the United states a with All due respect you Haven to any dealings with madmen a she wrote in her letter on Rose embroidered stationery to a Man she greeted As a your Man from a i have some experience in that department in my own family. And let me Tell you you be got to be nails. Remember that when you think about the retired teacher from suburban Detroit had a burst of inspiration that she wanted to pass along to her new found Friend. A dear Bill a she wrote. Quot just a suggestion for your image people. President Kennedy endeared himself to the Public by showing himself playing with John and Caroline and holding Jackie a hand. Remember that. Also with Hillary a show her making some food for you a snack or something. Men love everyone seems to have something they want to say to the president elect of the United states these Days. Since the it allowing nov. 3, the mail has been flooding into Little Rock at 30,000 letters a Day three times the flow to the White House. The missives evoke american democracy in All of its dimensions the wit poetry humor emotion zaniness and touching naivete of people who feel a need to communicate directly with Clinton even if the Odds that their words will actually be read by the next Leader of the free world Are slim to none. Walt Whitman would hear America singing in these letters though not always on key. They Are from Harvard University psychologists on neatly typed College stationery and from inmates in their desperate scrawl on rumpled scraps of Loose Leaf paper. They Are from bar owners in Philadelphia who suffered heart attacks working 16-hour Days and say they want to believe in their country again and from language pathologists in Minneapolis who wince every time they hear Clinton a Raspy voice and claim to have the answer to his Tonsillar dilemma. There is a sudden intimacy to Many of the letters. A dear Bill and Hillary excuse my informality but y All have touched me so profoundly that i would feel awkward addressing you As or. And mrs.,�?� wrote a Man from Kansas City echoing the sentiments of thousands of correspondents a strangers who opted for the familiar touch. The salutation a dear Bill a a and even a dear or. Bill a seemed More common than a dear or. often the correspondents began with apologies for intruding As though their letters might be delivered to Clinton at the governors mansion just As he was sitting Down in the East conference room to pick his Cabinet with transition director Warren m. Christopher and vice president elect a1 Gore. A i hate to Bug you but a began the letter from a woman in Colorado. An insurance Salesman from Dover n.h., began his by writing Clinton to examine Foley s Compromise Over line item veto Little Rock Ark. Apr president elect Clinton who wants the Power to veto Bills line by line As a Way to limit spending said saturday a Compromise version proposed by House speaker Thomas s. Foley could prove acceptable. A a it a got a possibility Quot Clinton said. A til take a look at it a Congress has walked until now at the notion of giving the president line item veto authority because it would Force lawmakers to relinquish a Good measure of their own Power. But Clinton plans to ask Congress for the Une item veto All the same. It would permit him As president to delete individual items within spending Bills. Lawmakers could reinstate them but it would take a two thirds vote. Foley has proposed instead an a enhanced decision authority Quot that would allow Clinton to delete individual items but enable Congress to reinstate them with a simple majority vote a rather than a two thirds vote. Such a measure was passed by the House in the last Congress but failed to emerge from the Senate. A a a a. A. Clinton suffers Bob Schlfar Tell and Paul Meyer review boxes of submitted of suits at the president elects transition Headquarters in Little Rock Ark. A nonnally i would not try to give advice to an incoming president but since we Are of the same generation i feel it necessary to say a few in one Box of 200 letters More than 40 writers noted an emotional connection Between Clinton and the Kennedy Brothers. A naval officer in Annapolis md., wrote that a not since John f. Kennedy Nave i been so sincerely embraced with a consultant in Spokane,wash., said he Felt a genuine concern for the ideals my generation Clung to for the first time since my College Days when i supported not All the envelopes contained love letters of course. One couple from Honolulu noting that they were writing on election night their passions still aroused by the defeat of their hero president Bush warned Clinton a you scare us with your grandiose a woman from Colorado Springs colo., wrote in Large Block letters a a you la never be our president. Never. America is in Shock. Your daughter is uglier than Amy but that Nasty insult was softened by a writer from Prospect conn., a 62-year-old woman who told a my dear Bill that a i know How Many insults and hurts you and your wife Hillary and daughter have endured. Forgive us a we Are not All mean spirited and Ana then there was the letter from an 81-year-old Man from Denver who inquired of Clinton a May i Tell you that i love you a the letter boxes have their share of crass commercialism and eager solicitation. About 2,000 letters a Day contain re sums from Job seekers including a fellow from the Brooklyn democratic club who in old style tradition said a the Hierarchy had urged him to Send in his Bio and another from a woman in Minnesota who wrote to Hillary Clinton asking a do you know if your husband has any jobs for a dynamite attorney in the twin cities Call any time ill be Home cleaning others Are from housing agents in Washington tenors and Ballet performers who want to sing or dance at the inaugural state senators who would like to be part of the economic Summit lawyers who want to sign up for the new administration collectors who want their ballot stubs autographed. But it would be hard for any of those to top the fellow who wrote from Paris tenn., with the reminder a a in a the Guy that asked to borrow $1,000,000 from you three yrs. Ago. Well a i still want cities states eager to Start projects Clinton vows to fund by the Baltimore Sun Washington a cities and states across the nation can to wait to get their hands on the sort of accelerated spending on infrastructure that president elect Clinton has promised in his administration s first year. The . Conference of mayors has drawn up a list of 7,252 projects in 506 cities that would create 418,415 jobs at a first year Cost of $12.9 billion. A it s something we eagerly look Forward to Quot said George g. Balog Baltimore s director of Public works citing $300 million Worth of City Highway and water projects waiting for funding. Clinton at his first press conference As president elect said wednesday that he wanted to accelerate funding for Public projects a already on line and ready to go in the first it will by the Centrepiece of his Effort to kick Start the Economy. One route Clinton could take is to fully fund existing Highway and transit legislation. Such legislation authorized $20.5 billion for fiscal 1993 for the National Highway program but Congress limited the spending to $18 billion. The same legislation also authorized $5.2 billion for transit systems but Congress made available Only $3.8 billion. The problem for Clinton will not be finding worthwhile work to do on highways transport systems and water projects but paying for it. The first year Cost of an infrastructure program is estimated at Between $20 billion and $60 billion depending on its scope. Most economists think he will have to borrow some of the Cash forcing him to increase the deficit he has promised to halve in four years. This could spook the financial markets pushing Long term interest rates higher which would counteract the economic expansion Clinton will try to produce. A if it ends up being an honest >20 billion or so increase in the deficit the markets have that pretty Well discounted now a said David Wyss economist with Dri Mcgraw hid. A but if it ends up being $50 billion we Are going to end up having some higher Bond the trick for Clinton will be to convince the markets that any initial increase in the deficit will bring Lon term economic growth enabling him to reduce the deficit in the following three years of his administration
