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Clinton Presidential Records
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Speechwriting
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Terry Edmonds
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Harvard Commencement- NIH [National Institute Of Health] Director [2]
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�Religion & Values
in Public Life
THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF VALUES IN Puauc LIFE AT HARVARD DIVINITY ScHooL
Winter/Spring 1997
Vol. 5, No. 2/3
Student uniform: Aldo Tsukuda ( 13 at the time) was engaged in fire prevention work about BOO meters (rom the hypocenter.
His (ather found his school uniform hanging on a branch o( a tree on August 8, 1945. His body was not found.
The Future of Hope
Observations on the subject of hope from Hiroshima,
"a city where we cannot help thinking about death."
by Vaclav Havel
any timt:s in my life-and not just
when I was in prison-! found
myself in a situation in which every-
M
thing seemed w conspire against
me, when nothing I had wished for
From the book "The Art oftbc Impossible: Politics as
Morality in Practice" by Vdclav !lave/, to be puhlisbed in
May by Alfred A. Knopf Tramlated by Aiexarulra 8mbcava and Paul Wilmn. Copyright 1997 by Vdclav Havel
ar1d Paul Wilson. Reprinted with pennission of Alfred A.
Knopf, Inc. Photograph by Hiromi Tucbida. Hiroshima
Collection, 7be Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
Courte~y Tepper Takayama Fine Arts.
or worked for seemed likely to succeed, when I had
no visible evidence that anything 1 was doing had
any meaning whatsoever. This is a situation we all
know well, a situation that appears to promise nothing good, either for ourselves or for the world. It is
a situation we describe as hopeless.
Whenever I found myself immersed in such
mdancholy thoughts, I would ask a very simple question over and over again: why don't you just give up
on everything? Or, more radically, why do you
endure, when your life is so clearly pointless? What
use is a life in which you must look at the suffering of
others as well as your own, hclp\es..'i to prevent either?
Each time, I would eventually realize that hope,
in the deepest sense of the word, does not come
from the outside, that hope is not something to be
found in external indications simply when· a course
of action may turn out well, nor is il something I
have no reason to feel when it is obvious that nothing will turn out well. Again and again, I would realize that hope is above all a state of mind, and that
as such either we have it or we don't, quite independently of the state of affairs immediately around
us. Hope is simply an existential phenomenon that
has nothing to do with predicting the future. Everything may appear to us in its darkest Colors, and
yet-for some mysterious reason-we do not los17
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�HARVARD
DIVINITY
BULLETIN
Harvard University • The Divinity School
1997 • Volume 26 • No. 2/3
"Reading without meditation will be useless; meditation without reading will be barren," wrote the seventeenth-century New England minister Thomas
Shepard II to a son who was newly enrolled at Harvard College. See David Hall's essay on literary culture in early New Engla~CI on page 4.
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Terry Edmonds
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Office of Speechwriting
James (Terry) Edmonds
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1995-2001
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<a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7763294" target="_blank">National Archives Catalog Description</a>
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2006-0462-F
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Terry Edmonds worked as a speechwriter from 1995-2001. He became the Assistant to the President and Director of Speechwriting in 1999. His speechwriting focused on domestic topics such as race relations, veterans issues, education, paralympics, gun control, youth, and senior citizens. He also contributed to the President’s State of the Union speeches, radio addresses, commencement speeches, and special dinners and events. The records include speeches, letters, memorandum, schedules, reports, articles, and clippings.
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Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
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635 folders in 52 boxes
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Harvard Commencement – NIH [National Institute of Health] Director [2]
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Office of Speechwriting
James (Terry) Edmonds
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2006-0462-F
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Box 35
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Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
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12/9/2014
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