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Article: Remarks at a dinner honoring Senator Robert Byrd. (Pres. Bill Clinton speech) (Transcript)
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- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Article date:
- July 25, 1994
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July 17, 1994
Thank you very much. Thank you. Senator and Mrs. Byrd, Senator Rockefeller, Congressmen Mollohan, Rahall and Wise and Governor Caperton and friends, I am glad to be here with all you folks from West Virginia, a small State with a lot of mountains. I identify with it.
I'm mostly glad to be here to speak for Senator Byrd tonight. You know, one of the first things I did on coming to Washington as President was to go by Senator Byrd's office and pay a visit. And on that visit, he gave me a copy of his "History of the Senate," which I actually proceeded to read, fearing he would one day give me an examination on it. [Laughter] Now, in this book, among ...