Keywords: Business, Communications, Computers, Crime, Culture, Disaster, Document-Id: PDI://OMA.EOP.GOV.US/                             THE WHITE HOUSE                      Office of the Press Secretary                          (St. Louis, Missouri) ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release                                 September 10, 1996                             REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT                              AT DNC DINNER                              Hyatt Hotel                           St. Louis, Missouri             8:25 P.M. CDT              THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you so very much.  Thank you, Jeff, for that wonderful statement and for the way that you have handled this terribly difficult and painful situation and for the way that you have led your very great company.              Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for giving me a great time in St. Louis, for getting those 18,000 people there today at that absolutely wonderful educational complex that I think would be the envy of any community in the entire nation.  St. Louis can be very, very proud of that.  It was extremely beautiful and, obviously, extremely effective. (Applause.)  Thank you.              Thank you, Mr. Gephardt.  I want to say a little more about him later.  Thank you, Governor, for your friendship.  We were sitting at the table tonight reminiscing about how Mel Carnahan, when he was trying to become governor of Missouri in 1992, and should have been paying attention to his own business and the primary, endorsed me for President at a time when only my mother thought I could win. (Laughter.)  I was worried about his political health.  But he seems to have weathered that burden quite nicely, and I thank him for it. (Applause.)              Mel and Jean and their children have been a real credit to the people of Missouri.  And we were over in Kansas City earlier today with Mayor Cleaver and with Alan Wheat