10/11/1996
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"The United States will use its authority to protect and preserve sunken State craft of the United States and other nations."
"Nothing you have accomplished has been accomplished through violence and nothing will be."
"I do proclaim that there are hereby set apart and reserved as the Governors Island National Monument for the purpose of protecting the objects identified above."
"I declared a national emergency to deal with that threat and ordered that economic sanctions be imposed with respect to those governments."