Eleven years ago this afternoon in fact, on a similarly rainy day in October, President Clinton recorded his radio address to be broadcast on the morning of October 28, 2000, the day that he signed that groundbreaking legislation into law to fight what the President described that day as slavery, pure and simple.
CdeBaca recalls the signing of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act by President Clinton.
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