Chief Executives and Bureaucracies - TCI
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From Government Alive! Power, Politics, <strong>and</strong> YouStudent H<strong>and</strong>out 13DTranscript of President Bush Audio ClipRemarks to the National Association of RealtorsDallas, TexasNovember 10, 1989Before going into my main remarks, let me just say a wordabout the momentous events in East Germany. I wasmoved, as you all were, by the pictures of Berliners fromEast <strong>and</strong> West st<strong>and</strong>ing atop the, the wall with chisels <strong>and</strong>hammers celebrating the opening of the most vivid symbolof the Iron Curtain. And then today, just on the planecoming down, I read a report where 18 new border crossingswould be made in the wall in the, in the near future.And to be honest with you, I doubted that this wouldhappen in the very first year of this administration.Twenty-eight years after the desperate days of 1961, whentanks faced off at Checkpoint Charlie <strong>and</strong> that terriblebarrier was built, now the East German government hasresponded to the wishes of its people. And while no one. . . [applause] And while no one really accurately predictedthe speed of the changes underway in Eastern Europe—<strong>and</strong> certainly I didn’t—but last May, right here in Texas,over at Texas A&M, I noted hopeful, indeed, remarkablesigns of a Soviet break with the cycles of the past. And Icalled upon the Soviet Union to support self-determinationfor the nations of Eastern <strong>and</strong> Central Europe <strong>and</strong>to tear down the Iron Curtain. And now we’re seeing ithappen. And when I visited Pol<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Hungary in July,I sensed that historically important events there held theseeds for even more dramatic change.And this played a big part in the decision last Julymade, really, at the G-7 meeting in Paris, <strong>and</strong> on the wayback, I proposed a face-to-face meeting with PresidentGorbachev [of the Soviet Union] before the next spring’ssummit. And the Malta meeting, given recent events, takeson, I think, even more importance than when I conceivedthe idea three <strong>and</strong> a half months ago.The changes in recent months make clear that theprocess of reform initiated by the Eastern Europeans <strong>and</strong>supported by Mr. Gorbachev <strong>and</strong> by America <strong>and</strong> by ourallies is real, offers us all much hope, <strong>and</strong> deserves ourcontinued encouragement. We’re living in fascinatingtimes, <strong>and</strong> we will seize every opportunity to contribute tolasting peace <strong>and</strong> to extend democracy. And in doing so,I will conduct the foreign policy of this great country withthe prudence that these fascinating times, times of change,dem<strong>and</strong>—<strong>and</strong> with the imagination. The 1980s has beenthe decade of American renewal. And I believe thataround the world, the 1990s will inevitably be the decadeof democracy.Source: The American Presidency Project.© Teachers’ Curriculum Institute 2, Inc. <strong>Chief</strong> <strong>Executives</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Bureaucracies</strong> 227(c) Teachers' Curriculum Institute www.teachtci.com info@teachtci.com