
We've already got the longest peacetime expansion in history.
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We've already got the longest peacetime expansion in history.

The men and women of Ellsworth were a major force behind Allied Force.

In fact, the budget surplus for 1999 will be $99 billion, the largest as a share of our economy since 1951.

We must build a Europe with no frontline states, a Europe undivided, democratic, and at peace for the first time in history.

It is fitting that we are having this dinner here, almost 200 years later, to chart a new century and to explore our relationship with Ghana and with Africa.

Today's ceremony is about a moment in 1882 when our Government did not do all it could do to protect an individual American's freedom.

Each assumed the Presidency at a crucial moment in our nation's history.

I hope when the history books are written, it will look like a pretty good investment that was made in a young man from a modest family in a small town a long time ago.

I care a lot about this country's history.

At that moment in our history, John Quincy Adams... was the embodiment of the Nation's opposition to slavery.

Historically, use of the Antiquities Act has not been without controversy.

They were heroes in that day, as well.

You are going to live in the most exciting period of time in human history.

I believe we're at a unique moment in history.

The World War II Memorial will commemorate one of the great defining passages in our Nation's history.

When the history of our time is written, Bill Perry may well be recorded as the most productive, effective Secretary of Defense the United States ever had.

Those efforts and the stronger economy have led to the biggest reduction in welfare rolls in the history of this country.

I strongly believe in the central finding of this Act, that it is important to learn all we can about this terrible era so that we can prevent such a catastrophe from ever happening again.