Bill Clinton: “Museum in Boston, Massachusetts October 29, 1993 Thank you very much, Senator Kennedy, for those moving words and for…”

“Museum in Boston, Massachusetts October 29, 1993 Thank you very much, Senator Kennedy, for those moving words and for your friendship and your leadership. Jackie and Caroline and John and all the members of the Kennedy family here assembled--Congressman Kennedy, I thank you for those fine remarks--distinguished Senators and Members of Congress and Governors here present and all of the rest of you who share a part of this historic day. I want you to know that I felt very much at home today when I got out of the car and the Harvard band was playing the Yale song. And it reminded me of the time when President Kennedy got a degree from Yale, and he said he had the best of all worlds, a Harvard education and a Yale degree. [Laughter] I had the Harvard band and the Yale song. Harvard has higher standards. They haven't offered me a degree yet. But for some of us, music is more important than degrees. [Laughter] The great champion of Irish mythology was the young warrior Cu Chulainn. According to legend, he was a hero without peer among mortals. One day a priest told him, ``You will be splendid and renowned but short-lived.'' Cu Chulainn replied, ``It is a wonderful thing if I am but one day and one night in the world, provided that my fame and deeds live after me.'' Like Cu Chulainn's legend, John Kennedy's fleeting time among us remains a singular story in the history of our great Nation.…”