Remarks honoring academic decathlon winners and an exchange with reporters - President Bill Clinton - Transcript

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, June 28, 1993

Each of these young people represents our best future, our best hopes. They have proven how much people can do when they Put their minds to it, and I am very proud of them.

I'd like now to invite John Foley to say a few words, and then I'd like to have some pictures taken with the teams and say hello to them. But first, Mr. Foley, thank you for your work, and come up and have a platform.

[At this point, Mr. Foley thanked the President and explained the history of the program.]

The President. Thank you.

Super Collider

Q. Mr. President, the House has voted to kill the super collider program. Do you have any reaction, sir?

The President. They did last year. Maybe the Senate will save it, and we can save it in conference. I'm not surprised. You know, I'm grateful to them for saving the space station. That was headed for defeat, and we did a lot of work on it, and I'm glad we were able to save it. I always anticipated that if we were going to save the super collider, it would have to come in a conference after the Senate did it. So it's really up to the Senate now to decide on the super collider.

NOTE: The President spoke at 5:33 p.m. in the Rose Garden at the White House.