04/04/2000
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"Thanks to you, the world is safer, and America stands taller."
"Today we free the lands so that they will remain unspoiled by bulldozers, undisturbed by chainsaws, and untouched for our children."
"There is no greater honor in being President than to be Commander in Chief of these magnificent people."
"None of us should ever forget that."