Bill Clinton: “To tell you the truth, Zack, I thought it was a pretty good speech when you stopped. [Laughter] Mayor and Mrs. Giuliani…”

“To tell you the truth, Zack, I thought it was a pretty good speech when you stopped. [Laughter] Mayor and Mrs. Giuliani and members of your family--and I especially want to acknowledge the fact that in the Second World War, the mayor's father-in-law served here on the Intrepid and was a Navy man for 25 years. He and his wife are here. Secretary and Mrs. Dalton, Paul Tudor Jones and Max Chapman, Admiral Johnson, Admiral Flanagan, Admiral Williamson; to all the distinguished friends of the Intrepid Sea-Air- Space Museum who are here and who share this podium with me; and members of our Armed Forces and our allied forces in Canada, Mexico, and Great Britain. And let me say, as an old musician, I want to especially thank the Royal Marine Band from the United Kingdom. I thought they were quite wonderful. Thank you. There was a time in my life when I had committed to memory almost every important piece of British band music in the last 50 years, and so I am delighted to hear it from the horse's mouth, so to speak. I thank the United States Marine Corps Honor Guard and the Joint Armed Color Team. And I want to thank all of you for being here today and for your support of the Intrepid and your support of our Armed Forces. I am honored to receive this 1996 Intrepid Freedom Award, especially pleased to receive it in the company of two of the best friends of freedom this country ever had, Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher. And I thank them more than I can say.…”