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Article: Remarks at a welcoming ceremony for President Arpad Goncz of Hungary: June 8, 1999.(Bill Clinton's speech)(Transcript)
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- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Article date:
- June 14, 1999
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President and Mrs. Goncz; ladies and gentlemen: In the early 1850's, the great Hungarian patriot Lajos Kossuth came to this country and to this house to seek support for restoring liberty to his nation. He said then, "To find the sunlight of freedom, we must come to America." Kossuth would be proud today that his statement no longer holds - that the sunlight of freedom shines in Hungary, and all across the world.
In the past year, I have had the privilege to welcome to the White House extraordinary leaders who risked their lives in the struggle for liberty, were imprisoned for their beliefs and activism, and now have emerged in freedom's sunlight as the ...