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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.
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. the high white cliffs .are a magical backdrop to your greatest asset: the warmth and wit of your people. Visitors . are coming in record numbers. Today the air-route· between Belfast and London is the second busiest.in Europe. I want to honor those whose courage and vision have brought us to this point. Prime .... Minister Major, Prime ' Minister Bruton, and before him Prime Minister Reynolds, laid the basis for an era 0 f reconciliation. From the Downing Street Declaration to the Joint Framework Document, they altered the course of history with the simple stroke of a pen. Foreign Minister Spring, Sir Patrick Mayhew, David Trimble, and Jo hn Burne have also labored to realize the promise of peace. And· Gerry Adams, along with loyalist leaders such as David Ervine and Gary McMichael, helped t6 silence the guns on the streets. But most of all, America salutes the people of Northern Ireland, who have shown the world that here the will for peace is stronger than the weapons of war. Throughout Northern Ireland, civic and c ommunity'leaders are· , working on the front lines of change. Even before the troubles began, the Corrymeel a Community --: headquartered here in Belfast -- has been building bridges of understanding among pe opleof different traditions. In various counties, inixed_sporting events are encouraging competition on the playil)g field, not the battlefield., Women's support groups, literacy programs, and job training. center s that 'serve both communities are helping people to pull together as they struggle to lift their lives. These and countless other initiatives bolster the foundations of peace. Last year's cease-fire of the Irish Republican Army; joined by the Combined Loyalist Military Command, marked a turning point in Northern Ireland's history. Now is the time to sustain the moment urn and lock in the gains of peace. Neither community wants to go back to the violent days of the past. Both th e parties must do their part to move the process forward. The search for common ground demands the courage of an op~n mind. Only by getting t o know one another can . differences be resolved. [I hope the parties in Northern Ireland can soon sit down together.] Engaging in honest dialogue is not an act of sunender, but of strength. [There also must be progress away from the negotiating table. Violence h'.ls lessened
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.