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Article: Remarks to midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. (President Bill Clinton) (Transcript)
- Article from:
- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Article date:
- April 5, 1993
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April 1, 1993
Thank you very much, Admiral Lynch, men and women of the brigade. I'm delighted to be here. They say there's no such thing as a free lunch, but I thought as President I'd come here and test the theory. In a few moments I am going to deliver a speech, as Admiral Lynch has already said, to the newspaper editors of our country about our Nation's purposes in the world and specifically about what we should be doing now to promote democracy in Russia and in the other Republics of the former Soviet Union.
The struggle to build free societies in those new nations is probably the great security challenge of our age, one of the greatest opportunities the ...