Let us all, all of us Americans, spend this next week in gratitude, in reflection, and with resolve.

Thank you. We will support you in every way we can.

Chairman Rostenkowski has the right to contest the charges made against him and to have his day in court.

Chairman Rostenkowski and others have helped create real momentum for health care reform.

Ask yourselves what you can do to improve your own health, the health of your communities, and the availability of sporting and teamwork activities to kids.

I am confident that legislation will pass this year.

Let us remember them.

Today we honor them.

I urge the press, radio, television, and all other information media to cooperate in this observance.

Each reminds us that we are descendants, whatever our differences, of a common creed, unbeatable when we are united: one nation under God.

The children and grandchildren of that generation have not been taught enough about the meaning of Normandy or Anzio or Guadalcanal or Midway.

Over 400,000 Americans died in the service of our Nation.

Our Nation is in your debt.

World War II was an era of sacrifice unequalled in our own history.

I do hereby proclaim Memorial Day, May 30, 1994, as a day of prayer for permanent peace.

Now our generation honors them for what they did 50 years ago.

We're prepared to defend ourselves and our fundamental interests when they are threatened.

The cold war world has been traded for a new world yearning for stability and facing unimaginable chaos.