Bill Clinton: “Day Care Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma April 5, 1996 Thank you very much. Governor Keating, Senator Nickles, Mr.…”

“Day Care Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma April 5, 1996 Thank you very much. Governor Keating, Senator Nickles, Mr. Mayor, Lieutenant Governor Fallin, Congressman Brewster, Congressman Istook, to the families that are behind me and the children that just made the walk with us and their parents, I thank them. I was especially glad to see Brandon and Rebecca Denny, because they came to see Hillary and me in the White House and I thought they would be glad to see us again. But I asked them if they remembered meeting me; they said, ``Yes. How's Socks?'' [Laughter] So I thought to myself, things are maybe beginning to get back to normal in Oklahoma City; at least the children have their priorities in order. Hillary and I thought a lot about where we were last year when we came down here to be with you and with our friend James Lee Witt, the FEMA Director, who is also here today. And I wondered what I ought to say. Let me begin by noting that this is, after all, Good Friday. It is a day for those of us who are Christians that marks the passage from loss and despair to hope and redemption. And in a way that is the lesson of this little walk we just took with these children and their parents, from a place where we mourn lives cut so brutally short to this place where, thanks to you and all of those who the Lieutenant Governor mentioned, we can truly celebrate new beginnings.…”