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Article: Commencement at McGill. (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)(Charles Krauthammer's honorary degree acceptance speech Jun 14, 1993) (Transcript)
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- The Public Interest
- Article date:
- September 22, 1993
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LET ME BEGIN by saying how deeply honored I am by the honorary degree you have conferred upon me by the invitation to deliver the commencement address at a university for which I have such respect and affection. And let me apologize for speaking entirely in English, my French having suffered the disuse ofof living in a land so vast that bilingualism is considered, expect for the newest of immigrants, an exotic intellectual acquirement.
Antoine de Rivarol once said "Ce qui n'est pas clair n'est pas francais." I shall not be francais. But I hope to be clair. Even more important, given the fact that after long years of seat and study I am the last thing that ...