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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.
·. city of Belfast has sponsored a Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony for more than 20 ye ars -- but this year, as you enter your second Christmas of peace, the occasion is e~pecially joyous. Across the ocean, the American people are rejoicing with you. The ties between Nort hem Ireland and the United .. . States are rich and varied -- from the hundreds of thousands [millions?] of American s of Northern Irish descent. .. to the warmth yo.u showed the AmericanArmy stationed here in the Second World War. Northern Ireland was the base from whiCh our forces began the long hard march to All . ied victory in Europe. . . Today it is my privilege to rededicate a plaque laid fifty years ago,when General D wight Eisenhower returned to . . Belfast to become an Honorary Burgess of the city. G~neral Eisenhower viewed the honor bestowed on him "as a token of our common purpos e to work together for . a better world." That mission endures today. We are partners in security, partners in prosperity, and, most important, partners in peace. Two years ago, at this very spot, tens of thousands of you took part in a community day for peace, which had been prompted by some ofthe worst violence in recent years. Across Northern'Irelan d, thousands of others joined their voices to the growing chorus for peace. The two morning newspapers, representing both traditions, sponsored a telephone poll . for peace that generated almost 160,000 calls. The equivalent figure for the United States would have been 2 5 million people. That poll . . ' It;ft no,doubt that the desire for peace was becoming a demand for peace -- that it w as deeply and equally felt throughout Northern Ireland, in Protestant and Catholic, urban and rural, working an d middle class communities ' , alike. 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 who have contributed mos t to peace and reconciiiation ,'" .. at the grassroots level. The honorees will be able to travel to the United States t o study issues [like???] that will be of relevance to them back home. I hope too that they will be able to share their ex periences with their peers in America. We all have much to learn from one another. The President's Prize will emphasize that, in spite of their political differences, the two traditions have a common interest in peace anq reconciliation. It will symbolize the long and deep connectio
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.