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【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 rk, whose pany built this building. I also want to say that I thank those of you who are continuing to help in the work of the library and the foundation. This library tells the story of America at the end of the 20th century, of a dramatically different time in the way we worked and lived. We moved out of the Cold War into an age of interdependence with new possibilities and new dangers. We moved out of an information I mean, an industrial economy into an informationage economy. We moved out of a period when we were obsessed with overing the legacy of slavery and discrimination against African Americans to a point where we were challenged to deal with an explosion of diversity, of people from all races and ethnic groups and religions from around the world, and we had to change the role of government to deal with that. That whole story is here, in 80 million documents, 21 million s two of them mine (laughter) 2 million photographs, and 80,000 artifacts. In the interests of openness and public access, we are asking more than 100,000 of these documents to be opened early before the law requires. I thank those who are working on the Clinton School of Public Service, because I want more young people to go into public service. I thank those who are working in Harlem and here on my foundation or who visit us on the Internet, as Hillary said, at , who help us to promote religious and racial reconciliation, to advance citizen service, to promote economic empowerment for poor people in poor munities, and to continue the fight against AIDS. In three years in Africa, the Caribbean, India and China, we have succeeded in cutting the price of the testing equipment and generic drugs by 70 percent, and we hope by 2006, and expect, to serve over 2 million people with medicine who were not getting it on the day I left office. Now this library, of course, is primarily about my presidency. I want to say a special word of thanks to Al Gore and to Tipper for the indispensable contribution that they made. And I told Al today that this library won an international environmental award, even though its got a lot of glass. Because of solar panels and a lot of other improvements, we cut the energy usage here by 34 percent. So Al, thanks for the inspiration, and Im still trying to measure up to the challenge you set for me so long ago. I believe the job of a president is to understand and explain the time in which he serves, to set forth a vision of where we need to go and a strategy of how to get there, and then to pursue it with all his mind and heart bending only in the face of error or new circumstances and the crises which are unforeseen, a problem that affects all of us. When I became president the world was a new and very different place, as I said. And I thought about how we ought to confront it. America has two great dominant strands of political thought。 were represented up here on this stage: conservatism, which at
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