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Subject: EMBARGOED TRANSCRIPT: Radio Address 6/7
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
Embargoed For Release
Until 10:06 A.M. EDT
Saturday, June 7, 1997
RADIO ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO THE NATION
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This morning I want to
talk about one of America's greatest challenges and greatest
opportunities - conquering the forces of hatred and division that
still exist in our society so that we can move forward into the 21st
century as one America.
We are clearly the world's most diverse democracy, bound
together across all of our differences by a belief in the basic
dignity of every human being's life and liberty and the right of
every American who lives by our laws and lives up to his or her
responsibilities to share in the full promise of the greatest nation
on Earth.
Especially as we move into a new century with its global
economic and its global society, our rich diversity is a powerful
strength, if we respect it. We are clearly stronger as a nation when
we use the full talents of all of our people, regardless of race or
religious faith, national origin or sexual orientation, gender or
disability. Much of America's story is really the stories of wave
after wave of citizens struggling over our full history for full
equality of opportunity and dignified treatment.
We stand today in sharp contrast to the racial, ethnic,