    RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL  (TRP NOTES MAIL)

    CREATOR: Elaine C. Kamarck ( CN=Elaine C. Kamarck/O=OVP [ OVP ] )

    CREATION DATE/TIME: 7-MAY-1996 12:35:28.00

    SUBJECT:  Re: I am planning to be in London and Oxford May 15, 16 &17..

    TO: Albert Gore ( CN=Albert Gore/O=OVP [ OVP ] )
    READ:UNKNOWN

    TEXT:
    The idea raised such a howl of protest from the rest of the staff who

    believe that there simply isn't enough time to do something like this

    before the election that I let it drop.  Then the NPR staff started to

    look at the period after the election and before Christmas whish isn't

    very long but which is still a possibility .  However, given our other

    discussions about what needs to be done immediately post election, I would

    think you wouldn't want to be distracted.  I guess I've come to think the

    optimum time would be early 1997.

    	The NPR is proceeding on the assumption that we will do this at

    some point.  That's why we spent time at the UN (a memo summarizing that

    conference will be in your lunch memo with the POTUS tommorrow) and why we

    continue to see international visitors, send NPR people to major

    international conferences (there's one coming in Brazil that I'll find

    someone to go to) and otherwise build our knowledge base for this.