Background Briefing by Senior Administration Officials
08/21/1998
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Forty years later, we know, notwithstanding some cynics, that all our children can learn, and this school proves it.
Think what it was like for those nine kids to show up and face a jeering mob, armed only with their notebooks and their schoolbooks.
It was Little Rock that made racial equality a driving obsession in my life.
Our military promotes equality by rewarding merit without regard to race or gender and sets an example for every American.