7.0375 The US Vice President meets humanists (1/51)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 23 Dec 1993 14:15:49 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0375. Thursday, 23 Dec 1993.

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 93 11:25:16 EST
From: Peter Graham <psgraham@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Vice President meets humanists

I excerpt below the brief remarks by Al Gore made yesterday, taken from a CNI
distribution and available no doubt on the usual White House distribution
servers (the speech is 12-15 pages long). Some of the questions from the
audience were to be supplemented by some that came in over the Internet:
someone in charge picked one question, and it was ours. (The transcriber was
clearly uncomfortable in this environment and should be pardoned for taking
"artists and scholars" for what you see below.)
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> THE WHITE HOUSE
>
> Office of the Press Secretary
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> _____________________________________________________________________
> For Immediate Release December 21, 1993
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>
> REMARKS BY THE VICE PRESIDENT
> AT THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB NEWSMAKER LUNCHEON
>
> National Press Club
> Washington, DC
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>
>
> 1:12 P.M. EST
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>
[...]

Q One last question that came in from the Internet --
> this is from the University of Texas at Austin. Recently groups of
> artisan scholars on the Internet have been discussing the lack of
> input from people in the arts and humanities in policymaking for the
> national information infrastructure. What plans do you have to make
> sure that the needs of the arts and humanities are met by the science
> and business interests?
>
> THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, the arts and humanities
> communities have been very active users of the Internet. And we are
> keenly interested in the views of those in that community about the
> future of our national information infrastructure. During the
> hearing process that NTIA is carrying out and during the consultation
> process that our task force will be carrying out over the next few
> weeks and months, we will certainly seek out such views.
[...]
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That's all, folks; but it's on the scope now. --pg

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