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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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7:36 P.M. (L) MRS. CLINTON: Thank you very much, Lord Mayo~. And thank all of you. (Applause.) Tonight is a night filled with hope and peace. And for those of us gathered here throughout Northern Ireland and around the world, often it is our children who 'offer us the clearest and purest reasons why peace and why this peace process is so important. In a national competition, asking students to share their hopes for a peaceful Northern Ireland in letters to my husband, two students whom you see here tonight, Cathy Harte and Mark Lennox won the top prize. We will be privilege to have them in America at summer camp this coming summer. Tonight it is my privilege to read excerpts from their letters. This is what Cathy said: "My name is Cathy Harte and I am a 12-year-old Catholic girl. I live in Belfast in Northern Ireland, and I love it here. It's green, it's beautiful, and, well, it's Ireland." (Applause.) "All my life; I have only known guns and bombs with people fighting. Now, it is different. There are no guns and bombs." Cathy continues: "My dreams for the future, well, I have '~ lot of them. Hopefully, the peace will be permanent; that one day Catholics and Protestants will be able to walk hand-in-hand and will be aqle to live in the same areas." (Applause.) "Catholics, Protestants, black or white, itis the person inside that counts." (Applause.) "What I hope," said Ca.thy, "is that when I have my own children that there will still be peace and that Belfast will be a peaceful place from now on." Thank you, Cathy. (Applause;) Mark Lennox is the same age as our daughter, 15. And he . -, ,. explains in his letter the simple hows of achieving peace. And this is what he says: ','I am a 15-year:-old schoolboy from Glengormley. High School. I am very pleased about the chance of permanent peace in Northern Ireland and the chances of living in a secure atmosphere. "If Northern Ireland is to have a future, then we' must all learn to live with each other in a more tolerant way. Also, we must all work hard for peace and make a.real effort. We will have to change our ideas and work for change. Change must mean changing our own understanding of each other. We must learn together and know more about our different traditions.
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