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On the recordJanuary 16, 1997
Dr. King was a man of clear and powerful vision who offered an uncompromising message of brotherhood and hope at a time when violence and racial intolerance tore at the seams of our Nation.
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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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