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Article: Remarks announcing Agent-Orange related disability benefits for Vietnam veterans and an exchange with reporters. (speech delivered by Pres. Bill Clinton)(Transcript)
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- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Article date:
- June 3, 1996
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May 28, 1996
Mr. Vice President, thank you very much for your very moving remarks and your support of this endeavor. Secretary Brown, thank you for your service to our country in so many ways, and especially for your work at the Veterans Administration, along with Deputy Secretary Hershel Gober and the others who are here. Senator Robb, Congressman Evans, and to Members of Congress who are not here, including Senator Daschle who worked so hard on this issue; to the Vietnam veterans who are here and all others who are concerned about this matter:
This is an important day for the United States to take further steps to ease the suffering our Nation ...