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Article: Remarks honoring the 1998 World Series champion New York Yankees: June 10, 1999.(Bill Clinton's speech)(Transcript)
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- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Article date:
- June 14, 1999
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I'm up - and we're not rained out yet. [Laughter]
Let me say to all of you how delighted I am to see Joe and George and the entire team here. As you might imagine, this has been a very happy day at the White House, because of the peace agreement in Kosovo. And it's a happy day in New York. One of our friends, who has a business in the Bronx, came through today and said that a lot of his customers are Albanians who have relatives and friends who will be able to go home now.
And I think, if you look at the composition of the Yankee team behind us, and you look at the composition of the city and State they represent, the United States should be proud that ...