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On the recordJanuary 16, 1997
I ask each American to work with me to usher in a new era of hope, reconciliation, and fellowship among all our people—rich and poor, young and old, and men and women of every race.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Proclamation 6967—Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday, 1997

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