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United States Military Academy Commencement
June 1, 2002
Draft #14#16
General Lennox, Mr. Secretary, Governor Pataki Academy staff and
faculty, distinguished guests, families, and graduates: Thank you for your
welcome. I am especially honored to visit this great institution in your
bicentennial year.
In every corner of America, the words "West Point" command
immediate respect. This place where the Hudson River bends is more than
a fine institution of learning. The United States Military Academy is the
guardian of values that have shaped the soldiers who have shaped the
history of the world.
A few of you followhave followed in the path of the perfect West Point
graduate, Robert E. Lee, who never received a single demerit in four years;
some of you followed in the path of the imperfect graduate, Ulysses S.
Grant, who had his fair share of demerits, and said the happiest event of
his life was "the day I left West Point." When I graduated fromwent to
college, I guess you'd have to say I was a Grant man.
You walk in the tradition of Eisenhower, MacArthur, Patton, and
Bradley - the commanders who saved a civilization - and of second
lieutenants who did the same, by fighting and dying on distant battlefields.
Graduates of this Academy have brought creativity and courage to
every field of endeavor. West Point produced the chief engineer of the
Panama Canal the mind behind the Manhattan Project and the first
manAmerican to walk in space.
This fine institution gave us the man they say invented baseball, and
other young men who over the years perfected the game of football.
General George C. Marshall, a VMI graduate, is said to have given this
order: "I havewant an officer for a secret and dangerous mission. Send
mel want a West Point football player."
As you leave here today, I know there is one thing you will never miss
about this place: Being a plebe. But even a plebe at West Point is made to
feel he or she has some standing in the world. I'ml am told that plebes,
1
when asked whom they outrank, are required to answer: "Sir, the
Superintendent's dog, the Commandant's cat and all the Admirals in the
whole damn Navy." I don't think I'm going to share thatone with the
Secretary of the Navy.
West Point is guided by tradition, and in honor of the "Golden
Children of the Corps," I will observe one of the traditions you cherish most.
As Commander-in-Chief, I hereby direct the Secretary of the Army and the
superintendent of West Point to remit all existing confinements and cadet
punishments.
Every West Point class is commissioned to the Army. Some West
Point classes are also commissioned by history, to take part in a great new
calling for their country.
Speaking here to the class of 1942 - six months after Pearl Harbor -
General Marshall said: "We are determined that before the sun sets on this
terrible struggle, our flag will be recognized throughout the world as a
symbol of freedom on one hand, and of overwhelming power on the other."
Officers graduating that year helped to fulfill that mission, defeating Japan
and Germany, and reconstructing those nations as allies. West Point
graduates of the 1940s saw the rise of a deadly new challenge - the
challenge of imperial communism - and opposed it from Korea, to Berlin, to
Vietnam, in the Cold War from beginning to end. And as the sun set on
their struggle, many of these West Point officers lived to see a world
transformed.
History has also issued its call to your generation. In your last year,
America was attacked by a ruthless and resourceful enemy. You graduate
from this Academy in a time of war, taking your place in an American
military that is honorable and powerful. Our war on terror is only begun, but
in Afghanistan it is well begun. I am proud of the men and women who
have fought on my orders. America is profoundly grateful for all who serve
the cause of freedom - and for all who have given their lives in its defense.
This Nation respects and trusts our military, and we are confident of your
victories to come.
This war will take many turns we cannot predict. Yet I am certain of
this: Wherever we carry it, the American flag will stand not only for power
but for freedom. Our Nation's cause has always been larger than our
2
Nation's defense. We fight, as we always fight, for a just peace a peace
that favors human liberty. We will defend the peace against threats from
terrorists and tyrants. We will preserve the peace by building good
relations among the great powers. And we will extend the peace by
encouraging free and open societies on every continent.
Building this just peace is America's opportunity, and America's duty.
From this day forward, it is your challenge as well - and we will meet this
challenge together. You will wear the uniform of a great and unique
country. America has no empire to extend or utopia to establish. We wish
for others only what we wish for ourselves: safety from violence the
rewards of liberty and the hope of a better life.
In defending the peace, we face a threat with no precedent. Enemies
in the past needed great armies and great industrial capabilities to
endanger the American people and our friends. The attacks of September
11th required a little over 300,000 dollars in the hands of a few dozen evil
and deluded men. All of the chaos and suffering they caused came at
much less than the cost ofless than a single tank. The dangers have not
passed. This government and the American people are on watch, because
we know the terrorists have more money, more men, and more plans.
The gravest danger to freedom lies at the perilous crossroads of
radicalism and technology. With the spread of chemical, biological, and
nuclear weapons, along with ballistic missile technology, even weak states
and small groups could gain a catastrophic power to strike great nations.
Our enemies have declared this very intention, and have been caught in
the attempt to carry it out. They seek the capability to blackmail us, or to
harm our friends, or to strike our people - and we will oppose them with all
our power.
For much of the last century, America's defense relied on the Cold
War doctrines of deterrence and containment. In some cases those
strategies still apply, but new threats also require new thinking. Deterrence
- the promise of massive retaliation against nations - means nothing
against shadowy terrorist networks with no nation or citizens to defend.
Containment is not possible when unbalanced dictators with weapons of
mass destruction can deliver those weapons on missiles, or secretly
provide them to terrorist allies. We cannot defend America and our friends
by hoping for the best. We cannot put our faith in the word of tyrants, who
3
solemnly sign non-proliferation treaties, and then systemically break them.
If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long.
Homeland defense and missile defense are part of stronger security,
yetand essential priorities for America. Yet the war on terror will not be won
on the defensive. We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans,
and confront the worst threats before they emerge. In the new world we
have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this Nation
will act.
Our security will require the best intelligence, to reveal threats hidden
in caves and growing in laboratories. Our security will require modernizing
domestic agencies such as the FBI, so they are prepared to act, and act
quickly, against danger. Our security will require transforming the military
you will lead - a military that must be ready to strike at a moment's notice
in any dark corner of the world. And our security will require all Americans
to be forward-looking and resolute - to be ready for preemptive action
when necessary to defend our liberty and our lives.
The work ahead is difficult. The choices we will face are complex.
We must uncover terror cells in sixty or more countries, using every tool of
finance, intelligence, and law enforcement. Along with our friends and
allies, we must oppose proliferation and confront regimes that sponsor
terror, as each case requires. Some nations need military training to fight
terror, and we will provide it. Other nations oppose terror, but tolerate the
hatred that leads to terror - and that must change. We will send diplomats
where they are needed, and we will send you, our soldiers, where you are
needed.
All nations that decide for aggression and terror will pay a price. We
will not leave the safety of America and the peace of the planet at the
mercy of a few mad terrorists and tyrants. We will lift this dark threat from
our country and from the world.
Because the war on terror will require resolve and patience, it will
also require firm moral purpose. In this way our struggle is similar to the
Cold War. Now, as then, our enemies are totalitarians, holding a creed of
power with no place for human dignity. Now, as then, they seek to impose
a joyless conformity, to control every life and all of life. America confronted
imperial communism in many different ways - diplomatic, economic, and
4
military. Yet moral clarity was essential to our victory in the Cold War.
When leaders like John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan refused to gloss
over the brutality of tyrants, they gave hope to prisoners, and dissidents,
and exiles, and rallied free nations to a great cause.
Some worry that it is somehow undiplomatic or impolite to speak the
language of right and wrong. I disagree. Different circumstances require
different methods, but not different moralities. Moral truth is the same in
every culture, in every time, and in every place. Targeting innocent
civilians for murder is always and everywhere wrong. Brutality against
women is always and everywhere wrong. There can be no neutrality
between justice and cruelty, between the innocent and the guilty. We are
in a conflict between good and evil, and America will call evil by its name.
By confronting evil and lawless regimes, we do not create a problem, we
reveal a problem - and we will lead the world in opposing it.
As we defend the peace, we also have an historic opportunity to
preserve the peace, We have our best chance since the rise of the nation-
state in the 17th century to build a world where the great powers compete in
peace instead of prepare for war.
The history of the last century in particular was dominated by a series
of destructive national rivalries that left battlefields and graveyards across
the earth. Germany fought France, and the Axis fought the Allies, and then
the East fought the West, in proxy wars and tense standoffs, against a
backdrop of nuclear Armageddon.
Competition between great nations is inevitable, but armed conflict, in
our world, is not. More and more, civilized nations find ourselves on the
same side - united by common dangers of terrorist violence and chaos.
America has - and intends to keep - military advantages beyond
challenge, making the destabilizing arms races of other eras pointless, and
limiting rivalries to trade and other pursuits of peace.
Today the great powers are also increasingly united by common
values, instead of divided by conflicting ideologies. The United States,
Japan and our Pacific friends, and now all of Europe, share a deep
commitment to human freedom, embodied in strong alliances such as
NATO. And the tide of liberty is rising in many other nations. Generations
of West Point officers planned and practiced for battles with Soviet Russia.
5
I have just returned from a new Russia, now a country reaching toward
democracy, and our partner in the war against terror. Even in China,
leaders are discovering that economic freedom is the only lasting source of
national wealth. In time, they will find that social and political freedom is
the only true source of national greatness.
When the great powers share common values, we are better able to
confront serious regional conflicts together - better able to cooperate in
preventing the spread of violence or economic chaos. In the past, great
power rivals took sides in difficult regional problems, making divisions
deeper and more complicated. Today, from the Middle East to South Asia,
we are gathering broad international coalitions to increase the pressure for
peace. We must build strong, great power relationships when times are
good, to help manage crisis when times are bad. America needs partners
to preserve the peace, and we will work with every nation that shares this
noble goal.
Finally, weAmerica stands for more than the absence of war. We
have a great opportunity to extend a just peace, by replacing poverty,
repression, and resentment around the world with the hope of a better day.
Through most of history, poverty was persistent, inescapable, and
almost universal. In the last few decades, we have seen nations from Chile
to South Korea build modern economies and freer societies, lifting millions
out of despair and want. There is no mystery to this achievement. The
twentieth century ended with a single surviving model of human progress,
based on non-negotiable demands of human dignity - the rule of law
limits on the power of the state respect for women private
property
free speech equal justice and religious tolerance.
America cannot impose this vision yet we can encouragesupport
and reward governments that make the right choices for their own people.
In our development aid, in our diplomatic efforts, in our international
broadcasting, and in our educational assistance, the United States will
promote moderation, tolerance, and human rights. And we will defend the
peace that makes all progress possible.
When it comes to the common rights and needs of men and women,
there is no clash of civilizations. The requirements of freedom apply in full
to Africa, and Latin America, and the entire Islamic world Islamic culture
6
has a great history of learning tolerance, and achievement. Its people
today - mothers, fathers, and children across many countries - share the
fears and aspirations of all humanity. In poverty, they struggle. In tyranny,
they suffer. And as we saw in Afghanistan, in liberation they celebrate.
The peoples ofthe Islamic worldnations want and deserve the same
freedoms and opportunities of people throughout the world in every nation.
And their governments should listen to their hopes. A truly strong nation
will permit legal avenues of dissent for all groups that pursue their
aspirations without violence. An advancing nation will pursue economic
reform, to unleash the great entrepreneurial energy of Islamic peoples. A
thriving nation will respect the rights of women, because no society can
prosper while denying opportunity to half its citizens.
Mothers, fathers, and children across the Islamic world share the
fears and aspirations of all humanity. In poverty, they struggle. In tyranny,
they suffer. And as we saw in Afghanistan, in liberation they celebrate.
America has a greater objective than controlling threats and
containing resentment. We will work for a just and peaceful world beyond
the war on terror.
The bicentennial class of West Point now enters this drama. With all
in the United States Army, you will stand between your fellow citizens and
grave danger. You will help establish a peace that allows millions around
the world to live in liberty and grow in prosperity. You will face times of
calm, and times of crisis. And every test will find you prepared - because
you are the men and women of West Point. You leave here marked by the
character of this academy, carrying with you the highest ideals of our
Nation.
Toward the end of his life, Dwight Eisenhower recalled the first day
he stood on the plain at West Point. "The feeling came over me," he said,
"that the expression 'The United States of America' would now and
henceforth mean something different than it had ever before. From here
on, it would be the Nation I would be serving, not myself."
Today, your last day at West Point, you begin a life of service, in a
career unlike any other. You have answered a calling to hardship and
purpose, to risk and honor. At the end of every day you will know that you
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have faithfully done your duty. May you always bring to that duty the high
standards of this great American institution. May you always be worthy of
the long gray line that stretches two centuries behind you. On behalf of the
Nation, I congratulate each one of you for the commission you have earned
and the credit you bring to the United States of America.
Thank you.
Drafted by: Mike Gerson, John Gibson, Matthew Scully and John McConnell,
Office of Speechwriting
Office: 202/456-0168, 202/456-9378, Cell:
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United States Military Academy Commencement
June 1, 2002
Draft #15
Pataki
General Lennox, Mr. Secretary, 760v. Academy staff and faculty,
Gov.
distinguished guests, families, and graduates: Thank you for your welcome.
I am especially honored to visit this great institution in your bicentennial
year.
In every corner of America, the words "West Point" command
immediate respect. This place where the Hudson River bends is more than
a fine institution of learning. The United States Military Academy is the
guardian of values that have shaped the soldiers who have shaped the
history of the world.
A few of you have followed in the path of the perfect West Point
graduate, Robert E. Lee, who never received a single demerit in four years;
some of you followed in the path of the imperfect graduate, Ulysses S.
Grant, who had his fair share of demerits, and said the happiest event of
his life was "the day I left West Point." When I went to college, I guess
you'd have to say I was a Grant man.
You walk in the tradition of Eisenhower, MacArthur, Patton, and
Bradley - the commanders who saved a civilization - and of second
lieutenants who did the same, by fighting and dying on distant battlefields.
Graduates of this Academy have brought creativity and courage to
every field of endeavor. West Point produced the chief engineer of the
Panama Canal the mind behind the Manhattan Project and the first
American to walk in space.
This fine institution gave us the man they say invented baseball, and
other young men who over the years perfected the game of football.
General George C. Marshall, a VMI graduate, is said to have given this
order: "I want on officer for a secret and dangerous mission. I want a West
Point football player.' "an
As you leave here today, I know there is one thing you will never miss
about this place: Being a plebe. But even a plebe at West Point is made to
feel he or she has some standing in the world. I'm told that plebes, when
I am
1
asked whom they outrank, are required to answer: "Sir, the
Superintendent's dog, the Commandant's cat and all the Admirals in the
whole damn Navy." I don't think I'm going to share that with the Secretary
of the Navy.
West Point is guided by tradition, and in honor of the "Golden
Children of the Corps," I will observe one of the traditions you cherish most.
As Commander-in-Chief, I hereby direct the Secretary of the Army and the
superintendent of West Point to remit all existing confinements and cadet
punishments.
Every West Point class is commissioned to the Army. Some West
Point classes are also commissioned by history, to take part in a great new
calling for their country.
Speaking here to the class of 1942 - six months after Pearl Harbor -
General Marshall said: / "We are determined that before the sun sets on this
terrible struggle, our flag will be recognized throughout the world as a
symbol of freedom on one hand, and of overwhelming power on the other."
Officers graduating that year helped to fulfill that mission, defeating Japan
and Germany, and reconstructing those nations as allies. West Point
graduates of the 1940s saw the rise of a deadly new challenge - the
challenge of imperial communism - and opposed it from Korea, to Berlin, to
Vietnam, in the Cold War from beginning to end. And as the sun set on
their struggle, many of these West Point officers lived to see a world
transformed.
History has also issued its call to your generation. In your last year,
America was attacked by a ruthless and resourceful enemy. You graduate
from this Academy in a time of war, taking your place in an American
military that is honorable and powerful. Our war on terror is only begun, but
in Afghanistan it is well begun. I am proud of the men and women who
have fought on my orders. America is profoundly grateful for all who serve
the cause of freedom - and for all who have given their lives in its defense.
This Nation respects and trusts our military, and we are confident of your
victories to come.
This war will take many turns we cannot predict. Yet I am certain of
this:
Wherever we carry it, the American flag will stand not only for power
but for freedom. Our Nation's cause has always been larger than our
2
Nation's defense. We fight, as we always fight, for a just peace a peace
that favors human liberty. We will defend the peace against threats from
terrorists and tyrants. We will preserve the peace by building good
relations among the great powers. And we will extend the peace by
encouraging free and open societies on every continent.
Building this just peace is America's opportunity, and America's duty.
From this day forward, it is your challenge as well - and we will meet this
challenge together. You will wear the uniform of a great and unique
country. America has no empire to extend or utopia to establish. We wish
for others only what we wish for ourselves: safety from violence the
rewards of liberty and the hope of a better life.
In defending the peace, we face a threat with no precedent. Enemies
in the past needed great armies and great industrial capabilities to
endanger the American people and our friends. The attacks of September
11ᵗʰ required a little over 300,000 dollars in the hands of a few dozen evil
and deluded men. All of the chaos and suffering they caused came at
much less than the cost of a single tank. The dangers have not passed.
This government and the American people are on watch, because we know
the terrorists have more money, more men, and more plans.
The gravest danger to freedom lies at the perilous crossroads of
radicalism and technology. With the spread of chemical, biological, and
nuclear weapons, along with ballistic missile technology, even weak states
and small groups could gain a catastrophic power to strike great nations.
Our enemies have declared this very intention, and have been caught in
the attempt to carry it out. They seek the capability to blackmail us, or to
harm our friends, or to strike our people - and we will oppose them with all
our power.
For much of the last century, America's defense relied on the Cold
War doctrines of deterrence and containment. In some cases those
strategies still apply, but new threats also require new thinking. Deterrence
- the promise of massive retaliation against nations - means nothing
against shadowy terrorist networks with no nation or citizensi to defend.
Containment is not possible when unbalanced dictators with weapons of
mass destruction can deliver those weapons on missiles, or secretly
provide them to terrorist allies. We cannot defend America and our friends
by hoping for the best. We cannot put our faith in the word of tyrants, who
3
solemnly sign non-proliferation treaties, and then systemically break them.
If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long.
Homeland defense and missile defense are part of stronger security,
and essential priorities for America. Yet the war on terror will not be won on
the defensive. We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and
confront the worst threats before they emerge. In the new world we have
entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this Nation will
act.
Our security will require the best intelligence, to reveal threats hidden
in caves and growing in laboratories. Our security will require modernizing
domestic agencies such as the FBI, so they are prepared to act, and act
quickly, against danger. Our security will require transforming the military
you will lead - a military that must be ready to strike at a moment's notice
in any dark corner of the world. And our security will require all Americans
to be forward-looking and resolute - to be ready for preemptive action
when necessary to defend our liberty and our lives.
The work ahead is difficult. The choices we will face are complex.
We must uncover terror cells in sixty or more countries, using every tool of
finance, intelligence, and law enforcement. Along with our friends and
allies, we must oppose proliferation and confront regimes that sponsor
terror, as each case requires. Some nations need military training to fight
terror, and we will provide it. Other nations oppose terror, but tolerate the
hatred that leads to terror - and that must change. We will send diplomats
where they are needed, and we will send you, our soldiers, where you are
needed.
All nations that decide for aggression and terror will pay a price. We
will not leave the safety of America and the peace of the planet at the
mercy of a few mad terrorists and tyrants. We will lift this dark threat from
our country and from the world.
Because the war on terror will require resolve and patience, it will
also require firm moral purpose. In this way our struggle is similar to the
Cold War. Now, as then, our enemies are totalitarians, holding a creed of
power with no place for human dignity. Now, as then, they seek to impose
a joyless conformity, to control every life and all of life. America confronted
imperial communism in many different ways - diplomatic, economic, and
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military. Yet moral clarity was essential to our victory in the Cold War.
When leaders like John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan refused to gloss
over the brutality of tyrants, they gave hope to prisoners, and dissidents,
and exiles, and rallied free nations to a great cause.
Some worry that it is somehow undiplomatic or impolite to speak the
language of right and wrong. I disagree. Different circumstances require
different methods, but not different moralities. Moral truth is the same in
every culture, in every time, and in every place. Targeting innocent
civilians for murder is always and everywhere wrong. Brutality against
women is always and everywhere wrong. There can be no neutrality
between justice and cruelty, between the innocent and the guilty. We are
in a conflict between good and evil, and America will call evil by its name.
By confronting evil and lawless regimes, we do not create a problem, we
reveal a problem - and we will lead the world in opposing it.
As we defend the peace, we also have an historic opportunity to
preserve the peace. We have our best chance since the rise of the nation-
state in the 17th century to build a world where the great powers compete in
peace instead of prepare for war.
The history of the last century in particular was dominated by a series
of destructive national rivalries that left battlefields and graveyards across
the earth. Germany fought France, and the Axis fought the Allies, and then
the East fought the West, in proxy wars and tense standoffs, against a
backdrop of nuclear Armageddon.
Competition between great nations is inevitable, but armed conflict, in
our world, is not. More and more, civilized nations find ourselves on the
same side - united by common dangers of terrorist violence and chaos.
America has - and intends to keep - military advantages beyond
challenge, making the destabilizing arms races of other eras pointless, and
limiting rivalries to trade and other pursuits of peace.
Today the great powers are also increasingly united by common
values, instead of divided by conflicting ideologies. The United States,
Japamand our Pacific friends, and now all of Europe, share a deep
commitment to human freedom, embodied in strong alliances such as
NATO. And the tide of liberty is rising in many other nations. Generations
of West Point officers planned and practiced for battles with Soviet Russia.
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I have just returned from a new Russia, now a country reaching toward
democracy, and our partner in the war against terror. Even in China,
leaders are discovering that economic freedom is the only lasting source of
national wealth. In time, they will find that social and political freedom is
the only true source of national greatness.
When the great powers share common values, we are better able to
confront serious regional conflicts together - better able to cooperate in
preventing the spread of violence or economic chaos. In the past, great
power rivals took sides in difficult regional problems, making divisions
deeper and more complicated. Today, from the Middle East to South Asia,
we are gathering broad international coalitions to increase the pressure for
peace. We must build strong, great power relationships when times are
good, to help manage crisis when times are bad. America needs partners
to preserve the peace, and we will work with every nation that shares this
noble goal.
Finally, America stands for more than the absence of war. We have a
great opportunity to extend a just peace, by replacing poverty, repression,
and resentment around the world with the hope of a better day.
Through most of history, poverty was persistent, inescapable, and
almost universal. In the last few decades, we have seen nations from Chile
to South Korea build modern economies and freer societies, lifting millions
out of despair and want. There is no mystery to this achievement. The
twentieth century ended with a single surviving model of human progress,
based on non-negotiable demands of human dignity - the rule of law
limits on the power of the state respect for women private property
free speech equal justice and religious tolerance.
America cannot impose this vision - yet we can support and reward
governments that make the right choices for their own people. In our
development aid, in our diplomatic efforts, in our international broadcasting,
and in our educational assistance, the United States will promote
moderation, tolerance, and human rights. And we will defend the peace
that makes all progress possible.
When it comes to the common rights and needs of men and women,
there is no clash of civilizations. The requirements of freedom apply in full
to Africa, and Latin America, and the entire Islamic world. The peoples of
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Islamic nations want and deserve the same freedoms and opportunities of
people in every nation. And their governments should listen to their hopes.
A truly strong nation will permit legal avenues of dissent for all groups that
pursue their aspirations without violence. An advancing nation will pursue
economic reform, to unleash the great entrepreneurial energy of Islamic
peoples. A thriving nation will respect the rights of women, because no
society can prosper while denying opportunity to half its citizens.
Mothers, fathers, and children across the Islamic world share the
fears and aspirations of all humanity. In poverty, they struggle. In tyranny,
they suffer. And as we saw in Afghanistan, in liberation they celebrate.
America has a greater objective than controlling threats and
containing resentment. We will work for a just and peaceful world beyond
the war on terror.
The bicentennial class of West Point now enters this drama. With all
in the United States Army, you will stand between your fellow citizens and
grave danger. You will help establish a peace that allows millions around
the world to live in liberty and grow in prosperity. You will face times of
calm, and times of crisis. And every test will find you prepared - because
you are the men and women of West Point. You leave here marked by the
character of this academy, carrying with you the highest ideals of our
Nation.
Toward the end of his life, Dwight Eisenhower recalled the first day
he stood on the plain at West Point. "The feeling came over me," he said,
"that the expression 'The United States of America' would now and
henceforth mean something different than it had ever before. From here
on, it would be the Nation I would be serving, not myself."
Today, your last day at West Point, you begin a life of service, in a
career unlike any other. You have answered a calling to hardship and
purpose, to risk and honor. At the end of every day you will know that you
have faithfully done your duty. May you always bring to that duty the high
standards of this great American institution. May you always be worthy of
the long gray line that stretches two centuries behind you. On behalf of the
Nation, I congratulate each one of you for the commission you have earned
and the credit you bring to the United States of America.
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Thank you.
Drafted by: Mike Gerson, John Gibson, Matthew Scully and John McConnell,
Office of Speechwriting
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Here's a somewhat cleaned-up version. Krista told me to send it to Dan as well. Karen is in Europe, and
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KARL ROVE
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DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
FOR APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULING
SUBJECT:
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EVENT:
West Point Military Academy Commencement
DATE:
Saturday, June 1, 2002
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West Point Military Academy
West Point, New York
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Address
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DATE:
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Domestic Policy Council
First Lady's Office
National Economic Council
National Security Council
Office of Public Liaison
Oval Office Ops
Office of the Vice President
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Project Officer Worksheet
(to be submitted with Project Request)
Project Officer (s)
Event West Point 2002 Rove Spring Commencement / Coremony 3/20/02
Preferred
Proposed
Actual
(if > Pref)
Schedule approval -Video request
-6 wks
-Mtg w/ Head of State
-Official
-1 mo
-Consultative
-10days
-Domestic travel
14days 3/20/02
5/31/02
-Appearance in DC
-w/ address
-14days
-w/ speech
- 10days
-w/talking pts.
-5 days
-w/o comments
-5 days
-Photo Ops in Oval
-1 wk
-Mtg in WH (ex OLA)
-4 days
-Phone calls (ex OLA)
-4 days
Speechwriting request
-Address
-14days
5/31/02
(w/ policy input)
-Speech
-10days
-Talk Pts
-5 days
Logistics
Advance (if > Complex)
-out-of-town-7 days 5/25/02
5/31/02
-in-town
-5 days
Venue, program, optics
Secret Service
Press, media, photo
Military, if applicable
POTUS aide
Communications (if < Complex, w/ press) -3 days
Venue/participant info to Vetting
-3 days
Info to Press/Media Affairs
-3 days
Final Address/Speech to POTUS
-3days/2 days
Briefing papers to Staff Secy
-2 days
EVENT DATE
Friday, May 31,2002
Follow-up info to Staff Secy
+1 day
Info to Diarist
+5 days