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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 10510 ***
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+The following 1600 words comprise William Jefferson Clinton's
+Inaugural Presidential Address given from noon to 12:15 P.M.,
+January 20, 1993.
+
+[Capitals represent emphasis, extra commas represent pauses,
+long pauses are represented by ellipses (. . .).]
+
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+
+Bill Clinton's Inaugural Address
+
+
+My fellow citizens, today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal.
+This ceremony is held in the depth of winter, but by the words we speak
+and the faces we show the world, we force the spring.  A spring reborn in
+the world's oldest democracy, that brings forth the vision and courage
+to reinvent America.  When our founders boldly declared America's
+independence to the world, and our purposes to the Almighty, they knew
+that America, to endure, would have to change.  Not change for change
+sake, but change to preserve America's ideals:  life, liberty, the
+pursuit of happiness.
+
+Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.
+Each generation of American's must define what it means to be an American.
+On behalf of our nation, I salute my predecessor, President Bush, for his
+half-century of service to America . . . and I thank the millions of men
+and women whose steadfastness and sacrifice triumphed over depression,
+fascism and communism.
+
+Today, a generation raised in the shadows of the Cold War assumes new
+responsibilities in a world warmed by the sunshine of freedom, but
+threatened still by ancient hatreds and new plagues.  Raised in
+unrivalled prosperity, we inherit an economy that is still the world's
+strongest, but is weakened by business failures, stagnant wages,
+increasing inequality, and deep divisions among OUR OWN people.
+
+When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold,
+news travelled slowly across the land by horseback, and across the ocean
+by boat.  Now the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast
+instantaneously to billions around the world.  Communications and
+commerce are global.  Investment is mobile.  Technology is almost magical,
+and ambition for a better life is now universal.
+
+We earn our livelihood in America today in peaceful competition with
+people all across the Earth.  Profound and powerful forces are shaking
+and remaking our world, and the URGENT question of our time is whether
+we can make change our friend and not our enemy.  This new world has
+already enriched the lives of MILLIONS of Americans who are able to
+compete and win in it.  But when most people are working harder for less,
+when others cannot work at all, when the cost of health care devastates
+families and threatens to bankrupt our enterprises, great and small;
+when the fear of crime robs law abiding citizens of their freedom; and
+when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are
+calling them to lead, we have not made change our friend.
+
+We know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps,
+but we have not done so.  Instead we have drifted, and that
+drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy,
+and shaken our confidence.  Though our challenges are fearsome,
+so are our strengths.  Americans have ever been a restless, questing,
+hopeful people, and we must bring to our task today the vision
+and will of those who came before us.  From our Revolution to the
+Civil War, to the Great Depression, to the Civil Rights movement,
+our people have always mustered the determination to construct from
+these crises the pillars of our history.  Thomas Jefferson believed
+that to preserve the very foundations of our nation we would need
+dramatic change from time to time.  Well, my fellow Americans,
+this is OUR time.  Let us embrace it.
+
+Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of
+our OWN renewal.  There is nothing WRONG with America that cannot be
+cured by what is RIGHT with America.
+
+And so today we pledge an end to the era of deadlock and drift, and a
+new season of American renewal has begun.
+
+To renew America we must be bold.  We must do what no generation has had
+to do before.  We must invest more in our own people, in their jobs, and
+in their future, and at the same time cut our massive debt. . .and we
+must do so in a world in which we must compete for every opportunity.
+It will not be easy.  It will require sacrifice, but it can be done, and
+done fairly.  Not choosing sacrifice for its own sake, but for OUR own
+sake.  We must provide for our nation the way a family provides for its
+children.  Our founders saw themselves in the light of posterity.  We
+can do no less.  Anyone who has ever watched a child's eyes wander into
+sleep knows what posterity is.  Posterity is the world to come, the world
+for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and
+to whom we bear sacred responsibilities.  We must do what America does
+best, offer more opportunity TO all and demand more responsibility FROM
+all.
+
+It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing:
+from our government, or from each other.  Let us all take more
+responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families, but for our
+communities and our country.  To renew America we must revitalize
+our democracy.  This beautiful capitol, like every capitol since
+the dawn of civilization, is often a place of intrigue and calculation.
+Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is
+IN and who is OUT, who is UP and who is DOWN, forgetting those people
+whose toil and sweat sends us here and paves our way.
+
+Americans deserve better, and in this city today there are people
+who want to do better, and so I say to all of you here, let us resolve
+to reform our politics, so that power and privilege no longer shout down
+the voice of the people.  Let us put aside personal advantage, so that we
+can feel the pain and see the promise of America.  Let us resolve to make
+our government a place for what Franklin Roosevelt called "bold,
+persistent experimentation, a government for our tomorrows, not our
+yesterdays."  Let us give this capitol back to the people to whom it
+belongs.
+
+To renew America we must meet challenges abroad, as well as at home.
+There is no longer a clear division between what is foreign and what is
+domestic.  The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS
+crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.  Today as an old order
+passes, the new world is more free, but less stable.  Communism's
+collapse has called forth old animosities, and new dangers.  Clearly,
+America must continue to lead the world we did so much to make.  While
+America rebuilds at home, we will not shrink from the challenges nor
+fail to seize the opportunities of this new world.  Together with our
+friends and allies, we will work together to shape change, lest it
+engulf us.  When our vital interests are challenged, or the will and
+conscience of the international community is defied, we will act; with
+peaceful diplomacy whenever possible, with force when necessary.  The
+brave Americans serving our nation today in the Persian Gulf, in Somalia,
+and wherever else they stand, are testament to our resolve, but our
+greatest strength is the power of our ideas, which are still new in many
+lands.  Across the world, we see them embraced and we rejoice.  Our hopes,
+our hearts, our hands, are with those on every continent, who are building
+democracy and freedom.  Their cause is America's cause.  The American
+people have summoned the change we celebrate today.  You have raised your
+voices in an unmistakable chorus, you have cast your votes in historic
+numbers, you have changed the face of congress, the presidency, and the
+political process itself.  Yes, YOU, my fellow Americans, have forced the
+spring.  Now WE must do the work the season demands.  To that work I now
+turn with ALL the authority of my office.  I ask the congress to join
+with me; but no president, no congress, no government can undertake THIS
+mission alone.
+
+My fellow Americans, you, too, must play your part in our renewal.
+I challenge a new generation of YOUNG Americans to a season of service,
+to act on your idealism, by helping troubled children, keeping company
+with those in need, reconnecting our torn communities.  There is so much
+to be done.  Enough, indeed, for millions of others who are still young
+in spirit, to give of themselves in service, too.  In serving we recognize
+a simple, but powerful, truth:  we need each other, and we must care for
+one another.  Today we do more than celebrate America, we rededicate
+ourselves to the very idea of America, an idea born in revolution,
+and renewed through two centuries of challenge, an idea tempered by
+the knowledge that but for fate, we, the fortunate and the unfortunate,
+might have been each other; an idea ennobled by the faith that our nation
+can summon from its myriad diversity, the deepest measure of unity;
+an idea infused with the conviction that America's journey long, heroic
+journey must go forever upward.
+
+And so, my fellow Americans, as we stand at the edge of the 21st Century,
+let us begin anew, with energy and hope, with faith and discipline, and
+let us work until our work is done.  The Scripture says: "And let us not
+be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."
+From this joyful mountaintop of celebration we hear a call to service in
+the valley.  We have heard the trumpets, we have changed the guard, and
+now each in our own way, and with God's help, we must answer the call.
+
+Thank you, and God bless you all.
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+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Inaugural Presidential Address, by 
+William Jefferson Clinton
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+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 10510 ***