He (Zedillo) leaves office with the admiration of the people of Mexico. The president told him that he should be proud of what he has accomplished there.

California might be the exception to every rule. The president will spend time in California. He will be in California because it's a state where he has a lot of friends and a lot of people he'd like to help. . . . There are a lot of close races and the president will be there between now and election day.

It's essentially the first organizing meeting of this council to prepare for a smooth transition.

They're the worst wildfires in 50 years and the president very much wanted to go out there and see the people working on them.

The timing of it absolutely reeks, but given the past conduct and record of that office is not surprising.

We will not determine the timing of the vote.

We'll have to examine the details. But it is not clear that the provisions will actually help American farmers and others who want to sell food to Cuba.

The president made the decision on the merits.

We think this bill is critical to meet a national priority and the president is prepared to sign it into law because it is narrowly tailored to deal with litigation dealing with the Y2K problem.

We will do what we can to be helpful. We will be talking to all the various campaigns. The president wants to play a role in the final two weeks of the election -- helping Democratic candidates around the country, from the vice president to the first lady to various congressional members.