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Article: Interview with Paris Match Magazine.(Week Ending Friday, June 4, 2004)
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- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Article date:
- June 7, 2004
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May 28, 2004
France-U.S. Relations
Q. You'll be walking on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France. Does that mean that you're not angry at us anymore?
The President. I've never been angry at the French. France has been a long-time ally, and I--look, I made a difficult decision, and not everybody agreed with it. But I understand that. And now is the time to work together to promote the values we believe in, which is human rights and human dignity and rule of law and freedom and justice.
And Omaha Beach is a symbol of working together to uphold the values that unite us. It's an interesting time in history to be going to Omaha Beach.
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