09/12/1997
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"I have today signed into law H.R. 2016, the 'Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1998.'"
"Without the President's authority to act quickly, many of America's grandest places would never have been protected and preserved for future generations."
"I'll miss a lot of things about Shali, but perhaps most of all I'll miss the integrity he always displayed in being my closest military adviser."
"The admission of up to 83,000 refugees to the United States during FY 1998 is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest."