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Article: Remarks at the presentation of the Henry Ossawa Tanner painting. (Pres. Bill Clinton)(Transcript)
- Article from:
- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Article date:
- November 4, 1996
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October 29, 1996
Let me just say, very briefly, I want to thank Dr. Rae Alexander-Minter for her moving tribute and for making this possible. I want to thank her mother for taking good care of this picture.
Thank you, Edward Bell, for being a good American citizen and asking questions, which is what we need our citizens to do. Thank you, Rex Scouten; and thank you, David Driskell; thank you to the late Sylvia Williams. I'd also like to thank my wife for her insistence that we take up Mr. Bell's suggestion.
Tonight is a happy night for us, to be here, to be a part of this. Tonight reminds us, in all humility, that we are simply tenants here passing ...