NBC Nightly News - 1993-05-17
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[0:00] field [music] of excess.
[0:03] This is NBC nightly news with Tom
[0:06] [music] Brokaw.
[0:08] Good evening. President Clinton,
[0:10] dropping in the polls, is persuaded the
[0:12] American people will back his tax and
[0:14] economic program if he can just explain
[0:16] it to them outside the confines of
[0:18] Washington, D.C. And so today he was
[0:20] back in campaign gear, pushing defense
[0:23] cuts, budget plans, and tax programs.
[0:25] NBC's Jim Miklaszewski, traveling with
[0:27] the president.
[0:28] To refocus like a laser on the economy,
[0:31] President Clinton came to Los Alamos,
[0:33] New Mexico, home of the atomic bomb. He
[0:36] marveled at how Star Wars technology is
[0:38] now used to produce hardened steel for
[0:40] tools and car bodies, literally beating
[0:43] high-tech swords into plowshares. That
[0:46] makes a dramatically lower cost and
[0:47] increased output for American
[0:49] manufacturing in a whole huge array of
[0:52] areas.
[0:54] He was promoting his plan to spend $20
[0:56] billion to convert military technology
[0:58] to civilian use to try to save jobs lost
[1:02] in cutbacks in military spending.
[1:04] We must change our priorities, no matter
[1:08] how difficult it is. That is the
[1:10] challenge of this day, and we must meet
[1:12] it.
[1:13] But Clinton's also out here pitching his
[1:15] economic and tax plan, which is already
[1:17] in trouble. The primary target of his
[1:20] opponents is the energy tax. Special
[1:23] interest groups like agriculture claim
[1:25] the energy tax would actually cost jobs,
[1:27] not create them. This is a tax that is
[1:31] is harmful not just for agriculture, but
[1:33] for the total economy. Although the tax
[1:36] plan passed several House committees,
[1:38] key Democrats in t