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Collection/Record Group:
Clinton Presidential Records
Subgroup/Office of Origin:
Speechwriting
Series/Staff Member:
Michael Waldman
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OA/ID Number:
14461
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Folder Title:
Convention '96: Hymns/Poetry
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When we share her wretched oust.
Ere her cause bring tame and profit
And 'tis prosperous to be just;
Thru it is the brave man chooee*.
While the coward stands aside
TD1 '-he multitude make virtae
Of the laith they had denied.
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'Jesus' bleeding feet 1 track.
Toilbg up new Calvaries ever
With the cross that turns not back;
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�PHILOCTETES
Forget them. You'll be safe.
NEOPTOLEMUS
But the country won't be.
PHILOCTETES
I'll be in your country.
NEOPTOLEMUS
And what good's that?
PHILOCTETES
Hercules's bow!
NEOPTOLEMUS
The bow. We have it still.
PHILOCTETES
Hercules's bow is miraculous
And will save us every time.
NEOPTOLEMUS
Then so be it.
This time your farewell is farewell for good.
rqjeats some part of his original rite of departure.
Perhaps he raises both arms, perhaps prostrates himself. A silence
then, music perhaps also. Then an eerie, soundless (at first) flash
and flame; mountain-rumble far off; an air of danger, settling
into a kind of threatened, pre-thunder stillness. Darker stage, a
kind of purpled twilight, CHORUS in spotlight, positioned as at
end of prologue.
PHILOCTETES
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CHORUS
Human beings suffer,
They torture one another,
They get hurt and get hard.
No poem or play or song
Can fully right a wrong
Inflicted and endured.
The innocent in gaols
Beat on their bars together.
A hunger-striker's father
Stands in the graveyard dumb.
The police widow in veils
Faints at the funeral home.
History says. Don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up.
And hope and history rhyme.
So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that a further shore
Is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
And cures and healing wells.
Call miracle self-healing:
The utter, self-revealing
Double-take of feeling.
If there's fire on the mountain
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�Or lightning and storm
And a god speaks from the sky
That means someone is hearing
The outcry and the birth-cry
Of new life at its term.
The full thunderclap and eruption-effects occur. Then a lingering,
wavering aftermath of half-light. Brilliant spots find
PHILOCTETES and CHORUS.
PHILOCTETES
(Crying out)
Hercules:
I saw him in the fire.
Hercules
was shining in the air.
I heard the voice of Hercules in my head.
CHORUS
(Ritually clamant, as HERCULES)
I have opened the closed road
Between the living and the dead
To make the right road clear to you.
This is the voice of Hercules now.
Here on earth my labours were
The stepping-stones to upper air:
Lives that suffer and come right
Are backlit by immortal light.
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So let my mind light up your mind.
You must see straight and turn around.
You must complete your oath-bound course.
You cannot yet return to Scyros.
Go, Philoctetes, with this boy,
Go and be cured and capture Troy.
Asclepius will make you whole.
Relieve your body and your soul.
Go, with your bow. Conclude the sore
And cruel stalemate of our war.
Win by fair combat. But know to shun
Reprisal killings when that's done.
Then take just spoils and sail at last
Out of the bad dream of your past.
Make sacrifice. Bum spoils to me.
Shoot arrows in my memory.
And, Neoptolemus, you must be
His twin in arms and archery.
Marauding lions on that shore,
Troy's nemesis and last nightmare.
But when the city's being sacked
Preserve the shrines. Show gods respect.
Reverence for the gods survives
Our individual mortal lives.
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Michael Waldman
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<p>Michael Waldman was Assistant to the President and Director of Speechwriting from 1995-1999. His responsibilities were writing and editing nearly 2,000 speeches, which included four State of the Union speeches and two Inaugural Addresses. From 1993 -1995 he served as Special Assistant to the President for Policy Coordination.</p>
<p>The collection generally consists of copies of speeches and speech drafts, talking points, memoranda, background material, correspondence, reports, handwritten notes, articles, clippings, and presidential schedules. A large volume of this collection was for the State of the Union speeches. Many of the speech drafts are heavily annotated with additions or deletions. There are a lot of articles and clippings in this collection.</p>
<p>Due to the size of this collection it has been divided into two segments. Use links below for access to the individual segments:<br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2006-0469-F+Segment+1">Segment One</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2006-0469-F+Segment+2">Segment Two</a></p>
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Michael Waldman
Office of Speechwriting
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1993-1999
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2006-0469-F
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Segment One contains 1071 folders in 72 boxes.
Segment Two contains 868 folders in 66 boxes.
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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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Adobe Acrobat Document
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Convention '96: Hymns/Poetry
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Office of Speechwriting
Michael Waldman
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Box 46
<a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/show/36404"> Collection Finding Aid</a>
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2006-0469-F Segment 2
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White House Staff and Office Files
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
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Adobe Acrobat Document
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6/3/2015
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7763296
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