Excerpts from Speech by President Bill Clinton, May 25, 2000

Excerpts from Speech by President Bill Clinton, May 25, 2000

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release May 25, 2000

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
DURING SONS OF ITALY GALA

National Building Museum
Washington, D.C.

10:20 P.M. EDT

How are we going to deal with the new security challenges, from terrorists and rogue states and narco-traffickers? Someone told me the Ambassador from Colombia is here tonight. The next big national security challenge we have is getting the Congress to pass America's share of helping to save the oldest democracy in Latin America, in Colombia, and I hope all of you will support that. We have got to prove that a free system of free people can defeat narco-traffickers and civil war and terrorists. We've got to prove that. (Applause.)

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