05/04/1999
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"I believe what the Vice President did and what I did was legal."
"The Treaty creates an absolute prohibition against the conduct of nuclear weapon test explosions or any other nuclear explosion anywhere."
"I believed then and I believe now what we did was legal."
"I hope future historians will look back and say this was a time when the high principles that led to the founding of the United Nations at last were realized."