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Article: Remarks on the anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel. (Pres. Bill Clinton speech)(Transcript)
- Article from:
- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Article date:
- October 28, 1996
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October 24, 1996
Today, the Yartziet candle, symbol of the anniversary of a death, burns for my friend Yitzhak Rabin. So often, we recognize the true measure of a person only in retrospect, when someone is gone, and his or her legacy becomes clear. But once in a long while, a figure of greatness stands. before our eyes, and we recognize it in an instant. Yitzhak Rabin was such a figure of greatness. And virtually all of us who knew him during his life saw that immediately.
He lived the history of his nation, from the heroic struggles of Israel's birth to the repeated defense of its existence, to the quest for peace and acceptance after decades of conflict and ...