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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.
century, Americans can put their children to bed knowing that the nuclear weapons of the former Soviet Union . are no longer pointing in our direction. In South Africa, the long night of aparthe id has given way to a.new day of . freedom. In the Middle East, Arabs and Israelis are stepping beyond the bounds of c onvention and embracing a future of peace. In Haiti,a brutal dictatorship has been replaced by a fragile dem ocracy -- with human rights its . purpose, not its disgrace. Here in Europe, the dream of a stable, undivided contine nt is finally within our reach. . [And the people of Bosnia have the first real hope for peace since the terrible figh ting began four years ago. more ...] The lessons of peace and reconciliation are passed from hand to hand: President Ari stide returned to , . Port-au-Prince inspired by the message of President Mandela: "The time for the heal ing of the wounds has come... The time to build is upon us." And the tragic loss of our friend Yitzhak Ra . bin has mobilized all who . shared his dreams to finish the work he began. I know that when leaders stand up for peace, they place their fortunes and fates on the line. For just as peace has its .pioneers, it also has its rivals. On every side, there are forces of hatred who seek a return to the past. And this is as true in Northern Ireland as it is in the Middle East. Over the last three years, I have met with unionists and I have met with nationalist s from Northern Ireland. And I believe the greatest struggle you face is not between the parties at opposite ends 0 f the table, but the struggle between the peacemakers and the enemies of peace ... between those who are in the shi p of peace, and those who are trying to sink it. Every citizen of Northern Ireland has a stake in the outcome ofthat struggle. Ever y human being who wants to . . . . build a better world has a stake in the outcome of that struggle. For as President Rabin reminded us only weeks' .' before he died, "·We all love the same children, weep the same tears, hate the same e nmity, and pray for reconciliation." We must not allow the ship of peace to founder on the rocks of ext remism. Those who heed the call for peace must take a firm stand against terror. I say to t hose who would use violence for political objectives: You are the past. Your day is over. You have no place a
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.