【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 oks and heard the statements in which not each other39。s ideas are challenged, but each other39。s our great parties have too often been far apart and untrusting of each has been this way since war cleaves us , friends, that war began in earnest a quarter of a century ago。and surely the statute of limitations has been is a fact: The final lesson of Vietnam is that no great nation can long afford to be sundered by a new breeze is blowing, and the old bipartisanship must be made new my friends—and yes, I do mean friends—in the loyal opposition—and yes, I mean loyal: I put out my am putting out my hand to you, am putting out my hand to you, this is the thing: This is the age of the offered can39。t turn back clocks, and I don39。t want when our fathers were young, , our differences ended at the water39。s we don39。t wish to turn back time, but when our mothers were young, Leader, the Congress and the Executive were capable of working together to produce a budget on which this nation could us negotiate soon and in the end, let us American people await didn39。t send us here to ask us to rise above the merely partisan.“In crucial things, unity”—and this, my friends, is the world, too, we offer new engagement and a renewed vow: We will stay strong to protect the “offered hand” is a reluctant fist。but once made, strong, and can be used with great are today Americans who are held against their will in foreign lands, and Americans who are unaccounted can be shown here, and will be long will begets good faith can be a spiral that endlessly moves nations like great men must keep their America says something, America means it, whether a treaty or an agreement or a vow made on marble will always try to speak clearly, for candor is a pliment, but subtlety, too, is good and has its keeping our alliances and friendships around the world strong, ever strong, we will continue the new closeness with the Soviet Union, consistent both with our security and with might say that our new relationship in part reflects the triumph of hope and strength over hope is good, and so are strength and today are tens of thousands of our citizens who feel the understandable satisfaction of those who have taken part in democracy and seen their hopes my thoughts have been turning the past few days to those who would be watching at home, to an older fellow who will throw a salute by himself when the flag goes by, and the women who will tell her sons the words of the battle don39。t mean this to be mean that on days like this, we remember that we are all part of a continuum, inescapably connected by the ties that children are watching in schools throughout our great to them I say, thank you for watching democracy39。s big democracy belongs to us all, and freedom is like a beautiful kite that can go higher and higher with the to all I say: No matter what your circumstances or where you are, you are part of this day, you are part of the life of our great President is neither prince nor pope, and I don39。t seek a window on men39。s fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easygoingness about each other39。s attitudes and way of are few clear areas in which we as a society must rise up united and express our most obvious now is when that first cocaine was smuggled in on a ship, it may as well have been a deadly bacteria, so much has it hurt the body, the soul of our there is much to be done and to be said, but take my