The President's Radio Address
09/29/2000
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
more than half the students in our Nation's city schools are failing to master the basics in reading, math, and science
we must continue to expand opportunity for all of our people
At that moment in our history, John Quincy Adams... was the embodiment of the Nation's opposition to slavery.
I believe that we had to take a new direction.