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FLOTUS'STATEMENTS & SPEECHES
10/16/99-4/28/00
�FLOTUS Statements and Speeches
10116/99-4/28/00
Remarks by POTUS to the National Italian American Foundation Dinner,
Washington, DC
Remarks by POTUS. and FLOTUS at Americorps Fifth Anniversary
Celebration, South Lawn
Remarks by FLOTUS at National Tmst for Historic Preservation's
50 th Anniversary , Washington, DC
White House Conference on Philanthropy, The White House
Opening Remarks by POTUS and FLOTUS at White House Conference
on Philanthropy, The White House
Remarks by POTUS at FundraiseI' for Fl:0TUS, Washington, DC
Remarks by POTUS and FLOTUS at the Concert of the Century for
VH-1 Save the Music, The White House
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Remarks by POTUS and FLOTUS at "Broadway for Hillary" Event,
New York, NY
Remarks by POTUS and FLOTUS at Vogue Reception, The White House
Remarks by FLOTUS at Senior Executive Women's Forum, Chicago, IL 1
Remarks by FLOTUS at "Save America's Treasures" Visit to Robie House,
Chicago, IL
Remarks by FLOTUS at Prescription Thug Event,Washington, DC
Remarks by FLOTUS at Women's Leadership Forum 6 th Annual Issues
Forum,
Remarks by FLOTUS at Visit to Elem Youth Center, Kfar Saba, Israel
Remarks by FLOTUS at "From Violence to Dialogue" Conference,
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Remarks by FLOTUS at Rabin Annu~l Lecture: "Building a Secure Peace,"
Tel Aviv Perfonning Alts Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
FLOTUS Inaugurates USAID project to Improve the Health of Palestinian
Mothers and Babies (Transcripts of Remarks), Ramallah
Remarks by FLOTUS at Press COIiference, Petra, Jordan
Remarks by FLOTUS at "Fulfilling the'Promise: Prutnerships in
Eru'ly Childhood Development," Amman, Jordan
FLOTUS and Queen Al Hussein, Open Discussion with the Students
at the Jubilee School, Amman, Jordan
Remarks by FLOTUSat the Jubilee School, Amman, Jordan
Remarks by FLOTUS at the Jordan Mictoentrepreneurs Awards
Ceremony, Amman, Jordan
Remarks by FLOTUS on Cultural Preservation, Aspendos, Turkey
Remarks by FLOTUS at OSCE's "Combating Human Trafficking" Signing,
Istanbul, Turkey
Remru'ks by FLOTUS at Event in Greece
Keynote Address by FLOTUS at World AIDS Symposium: "The Children
Left Behind," New York, NY
Remarks by POTUS and FLOTUS at the Kennedy Center Honors Reception,
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Remarks by POTUS and FLOTUS at Foster Care Event, Washington, DC
Remarks by FLOTUS at National Adoption Campaign Launch,
12/20/99
The White House
Videotaped Remarks by POTUS and FLOTUS in Christmas Message
12/24/99
Remarks by FLOTUS at America's Millennium Gala, Lincoln Memorial
12/31/99
Remarks by POTUS and FLOTUS at "Millennium Around the World" Event,
12/31/99
Washington, DC
Remarks by POTUS and FLOTUS at Opening Ceremonies of Amelica's
12/31/99
Millennium Celebration, Washington, DC.
Remarks by POTUS at America's Millennium Gala, The Lincoln MemOlial
12/31/99
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Radio Address of the POTUS and FLOTUS to the Nation, The White House
Remarks by POTUS and FLOTUS at Chlistmas II: Holy Eucharist Services,
1/2/00
Washington, DC
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Remarks by POTUS and FLOTUS to the White House Traveling Press,
Chappaqua, New York
1/20/00
Remarks by POTUS and FLOTUS at College Affordability Event,
Washington, DC
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Remarks by FLOTUS at the Weizmann Institute of Science "Women of
1/26/00
Vision" Awards, Bal Harbour, FL
2/4/00
CNN World Today Interview with Lissa Muscatine
2/6/00
Hillary Rodham Clinton Formally Announces her US. Senate Candidacy
Irish-American Peace Prize Award Presentation, Ambassador Bagley
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Residence
2/15/00
Remarks by FLOTUS at Vital Voices Reception, The White House
2/23/00
Remarks by FLOTUS at Reception in Honor of the D.C. Campaign to
. Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Washington, DC
FLOTUS Interview with Barbara Carlson, Wellesley Magazine
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American Ireland Fund Dinner, Washington, DC
3/16/00
S1. Patrick's Day Reception
3/17/00
Remarks by FLOTUS at the Intemational Association of Fire Fighters
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Annual Conference, Washington, DC
3/20/00
Remarks by FLOTUS at Launch of New Public-Ptivate ~ffOlt to Improve the
Diagnosis and Treatment of Children with Emotional and Behavioral Conditions,
Roosevelt Room
Remarks by FLOTUS in Ladies Home Journal Interview
3/24/00
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Cedar Sinai Dinner (As prepared) Los Angeles CA
4/4/00·
Interview with FLOTUS for Working Woman Magazine,
The White House
Remarks by POTUS, VPOTUS, FLOTUS, and Mrs. GOl~e at DNC Dinner,
4/24/00
New York, NY
Remarks by POTUS and FLOTUS at Annual White House
4/24/00
Easter Egg Roll, South Lawn
CNN Town Hall Meeting with FLOTUS, Buffalo, NY
4/26/00
Statements by FLOTUS at Child Care and Crime Prevention Event,
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The White House
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PHOTOCOPY
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�THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary .
For Immediate Release
October 16, 1999
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO THE NATIONAL IT ALlAN AMERICAN FOUNDA nON DINNER
The Washington Hilton Hotel
Washington, D.C.
8:37 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you ladies and gentlemen. First of all, let me thank you for
your warm welcome to Hillary and me. Thank you, Frank Guarini, for being my fiiend for all
these years. Thank you President Joe:Cerrell. To all the distinguished guests here and the
honorees; the members of Congress, Gerry Ferrarro, Ambassador Foglietta, Ambassador
Rosepepe. To our distinguished Italian guests, Maria Bat10moli, Ambassador Salleo and,
especially, Foreign Minister Dini.
I would like to say a special word of appreciation at this point to the Plime Minister and
the government of Italy for standing with us and working with us for the cause of our common
humanity in Kosovo and, before that, in Bosnia. We could not have done it without Italy and I
am grateful. (Applause.)
Justice Scalia and Cardinal Hickey and all the others here -- you stole my line about 50
percent of my four Chiefs of Staff being Italian. The other two wish they were. (Laughter.) I
thank you for all the gifts from Campania, including the beautiful flowers for Hillary. We visited
there when the 1994 conference of the G-7 nations was held in Naples. And we have been very
blessed by our times there. I understand my friend, Dick Grasso, and the Barnes and Noble
CEO, Leonard Riggio, are both from that region ofItaly. I'm about to go back to Florence and
I'm only supposed to stay a day, so if I play hookey and stay an extra day I want 3,000 of you to
write an excuse for me, just like! used to get when I missed a day of school.
I guess I ought to say, since this is baseball season, that I'm sure of one perso.n who
would like to be here tonight who can't be is Joe Torre. (Applause.) Now, I'm not taking sides in
the baseball series; but the Yankees do have two Italian Americans on their team -- Joe and the
catcher, Joe Girardi. And no city in America has been better to me than Boston; but the Red Sox
haven't had an Italian since their pitcher, Frank Viola, retired. So I think we ought to get the Red
�Sox an Italian baseball player to balap.ce out our equal opportunity agenda throughout the
country. (Applause.)
You know, from the begInning of our country, Italian Americans have ma5ie invaluable
contributions. And I want to say a special word of thanks, not for all those which I could
litanize, and you know them, but for the National Italian American Foundation's leadership, for
our efforts to build one America.
I'm very grateful that this is a country in better shape than it was seven years ago when I
first came here. I am very grateful for the chance that I have had to serve. (Applause.) I'm
grateful for the Italian Americans who have helped to ensure the success of our administration.,
I'm glad that we have the lowest unemployment rate in 29 years and the lowest welfare rolls in
30 yearS and the lowest poverty rates ,in 20 years, the lowest crime rates in 26 years and the first
back-to-back surpluses in 42 years. (Applause.),
But I have to tell you that the most important thing we have to do to get ready for the 21st
century -- even more important than our efforts to continue to grow our economy, is to build one
country out of our diversity. Ifwe do, if the American people really can come to have that
wonderful balance which enables us to celebrate our diversity and our unique ethnic and
religious tradition -- which makes America a very interesting place to live -- and still say, our
common humanity is even more important, we'll figure out how to deal with all the other things.
Last year, one of only two years I've missed since l first came here seven years ago, I was '
up for nine:days and nights at the Wye Plantation trying to keepthe Middle East peace process '
. on track. If you look around the world at how I have spent my time as your President -- working
for peace in the Balkans, among Muslims and Croats and Serbs, among Albanian Muslim and
Serbian Orthodox Christians; for peace in the Middle East, among Arabs and Jews, among
Israelis, Palestinians, Syrians, Jordanians and Lebanese; for peace in Northern Ireland among
Catholics and Protestants; to set up protections against that kind of tribal slaughter we've seen in
Africa among people who shared the same land, in one case in Rwanda, for 500 years.
It is truly interesting that at the dawn of this new millennium, when we're exhilarated by
all these technological and scientific advance that are being made -- one man told me that when I
have grandchildren they may be born with ,a life expectancy of 100 years; we know that our kids
are using the Internet and talking to people allover the world and knowing things we couldn't
know -- isn't it interesting that in this quintessentially modem era our biggest problem is the most
primitive and ancient of human failings: the fear of the other, people who are different fi'om .us.
And what a short step it is fi·oIl). fearing people to hating them to dehumanizing them,
which legitimizes doing away withthem. And isn't it interesting that at a time when the crime
rate in America is at a 26 year low, we still have these vicious examples of a man shooting
children at aJewish community schoo~ and then going out and murdering a Filipino postman;
another man saying he belonged to a church that didn't believe in God, but did believe in white
supremacy, killing an African American basketball coach in Illinois and then murdering a young
Korean Christian as he walked out of his church.
�And all these other examples '-- the young gay man, Matthew Shepard, a year ago this
week being stretched out, literally, up,on a rack; James Byrd being pulled apart in Texas because
he was an African American. Not because all Americans are like that -- almost all of us aren't -
but because in each of us there is this fragile scale, like the scale of justice Mr. Scalia must try to
balance in his work. And in this scale we wake up every morning with some curious balance of .
light and dark, of hope and fear. And when the scale gets badly enough out of whack, the easiest
thing to do is to strike out against the other.
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Sol say again to you, Italian Americans have been subject to discrimination and bigotry
in times past in America. You still are subject to stereotypes that I think are unfair and
unrepresentative, to be kind about it. (Applause.) But it is because of the values you share with
other Americans that we have a prosperous economy and a healing society. And we just have to
remember that overall. Yes, I hope a lot of your children make hundreds of millions of dollars
by starting Internet companies; yes, I :hope that my plans to take care of the aging of America
and save Social Security and Medicare will prevail; I hope our plans to elevate the quality of all
of our schools will prevail; I hope I can convince both pruties in Congress to resist temptation
and save enough of this surplus to get us out of debt for the first time since 1835 over the next 15
years. I hope all of that. But remember this': the most important thing is to build one Amel1ca
out of this crazy quilt of all of us who'live here. (Applause.)
Last week, Hillary and I had the 8th of her Millennial Evenings at the White House, And
we had an :expert in the Internet, who helped to design the architecture of the Internet; and an
expert in genomics, who talked to us about the human genome project and the miracles it will
bring, He says one day the intersection of computers and gene studies will enable us to put
digital, microscopic digital pieces in all pruts of the human body to.do even the repair work on
shattered nerves to the spine, And we talked about all the miracles out there,
And the genomics experts said, but what I want you to understand is that of all the
possible pelmutations among people ~ith all many, many parts of every gene, 99.9 percent of us
is identical to that of every other human being" And the genetic differences among groups -- that
is, individuals among the Italian community, for example -- are more significant and greater than
the aggregate average genetic differences between Italians and Irish and Afi:icans and Latins, It's
important to remember, For people of faith, it reflects the wisdom of our Creator.
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So I say again, I'm indebted to~you for many things: your work ethic, your family ethic,
your creativity, your energy, your pas~ion -- it made America a much more interesting place and
it fueled this remarkable run we have had. But your commitment, the thing that neither Italians
nor any other human being are subject to degradation and prejudice because of who they are, that
we will learn to honestly and openly express our differences and enjoy our differences, but
reaffirm our common humanity, make no mistake about it -- just pick up the paper any day, look
at the perils of the present day. We are in a conflict between modern possibility and primitive
hatred. One America is the only answ'er, and you're leading the way.
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Thank you and God bless you. (Applause.)
END
8:50 P,M. EDT
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