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This Clinton Presidential Library release from NSC email records, filed under Roswell, covers April 19 to November 30, 1995. In an April 1995 email, NSC staffer William Leary says the NSC holds no records on the 1947 Roswell incident and that any records would most likely be at the Archives. Later emails circulate drafts of President Clinton's Belfast Christmas tree lighting remarks. The final transcript includes his answer to 13-year-old Ryan: as far as he knows, no alien spacecraft crashed at Roswell in 1947.
It is my pleasure and privilege to be among the people of Northern Ireland, who have given so much to America' , and the world. One in four of America's Presidents can trace his roots to Ireland's shores --,from Andrew Jackson, the son of immigrants from Carrickfergus, to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, whose forbears came from County Wexford. I may be the latest in this time'-honored tradition -- but I am the first to make it back to Belfast. ' ' Thank you for a wonderful homecoming. Around the world, the promise of peace is closer today than ever. The barriers and blocs of the Cold War are ' giving way to a global village, where communication and cooperation are the order of the day. Conflicts we long thought impossible to solve,are moving along the road to resolution. And once bitter foes are clasping hands and changing history. Ours is an era of miracles. And today in Northern Ireland, you are making one. Her , e in the land of the harp and fiddie, the fife and the lamdeg drum, two proud traditions are coming together in a glorious symphony of peace.' The cease-fire and the negotiations have sparked a powerful transformation. Mackie' s plant, where we meet today, is a symbol of Northern Ireland's rebirth. It lies on what is known as the" peace line!! -- the wall of steel and stone that separates Protestant from Catholic. But today, with Pat Dougan's lea dership, it is bridging the' . divide. Mackie's has turned,the page on a history of discrimination; fair employmen t and integration are the ' watchwords of the future. On the shop floor, men and women of both traditions are w orking together to achieve '. ' . common goals -- to provide a good life for the families they love and to help build a prosperous Belfast. " Peace has ,evolved from a distant dream to a difference in every day life. Soldiers have left the streets of Belfast ' ..' , and many have gone home. People can go to the pub or the store without the burden 0 f a search or the threat of . a bomb. As barriers disappear along the North-South border, families and parishes d ivided for decades are . ' becoming whole once more. , This year in Arn;agh'[ar-MAH] on S1. Patrick's Day, Protestant and Catholic children. I ' led the parade together for, the first time since "the troubles" began. A bystander's words marked the wonder of the occasion: "Even the normal is beginning. to seem normal."
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 43 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.