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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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I am honored to announce today that those same two newspapers -- The News Letter and The Irish News -- have established the President's Prize, an annual award to those at the grassroots level' who have contributed, most to \ peace and reconciliation. The honorees will travel to.the United States to exchange . . expenences on Issues we .' . share -- such as community relations and conflict resolution. We all have much to 1 earn from one another: ' The President's Prize will underscore that Northern Ireland's two traditions have a common interest in peace. It will symbolize the bonds between Northern Ireland and the United States -- not least that fully one quarter of . America's presidents had roots in this soil. And I hope it will remind us that by c oming together .tonight, we have taken another step toward the peace that can and should be our legacy to the childre n of Northern Ireland and the world this Christmas. As many of you may know, I have received thousands of letters from schoolchildren fr om all over Northern Ireland, telling me what peace means to them. The letters poured in from villages a nd cities, from Catholic . communities and Protestant communities, from mixed schools, primary schools; and ~ " ools for children with speciarneeds. All of the letters were wonderful -- for their honesty, their simple wisdom, and their passion. . Many of the children showed tremendous pride in their homeland -- in its beauty; and in its true nature. Eleven year-old Keith from Carrickfergus wrote: "Please tell everyone in America that we a re not always fighting here and that it is only a small number of people who make trouble .... " Like many of the children, Keith did not· identify himself as Protestant or Catholic,and did not distinguish between violent forces on either side. So many children'told me of loved ones they had lost --oflives disrupted, opportun ities forsaken, and families .. forced to move. Yet they showed remarkable courage and strength -- and a commitmeri t to overcome the past. As 14 year-old Sharon of County Armagh [ar-MAH] wrote, "Both sides have been hurt, . b . oth sides must forgive." Despite the extraordinary hardships so many ,of these children have faced, their lett
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.